1. Back ache, lower left, back of my hip. A large cedar branch broke last week and got around to chainsawing it up Sunday. Still feeling it.

2. I am having 3 different large play structures installed this summer and work on the first one just started. I love this part of my job.

3. I have way too many podcasts on my ipod and add more every day, even though I do not have time for them.

1: I've eaten far too much again today
2: I'm insanely tired after not sleeping at all well for the last couple of nights
3: Booking meetings, lots of meetings

1. Bad
2. Really rotten
3. Worse, actually.

Anyone want to give me a cookie?

1. It's
2. Fucking
3. Hot

1. Better half's car is still in the shop; hoping it's a cheap fix.

2. So hot I can barely breathe outside.

3. It's that point in the summer when, outside of work, all I do is water plants and can vegetables - have made close to 30 pints of bread and butter pickles, over 20 of relish, and am just getting started on the salsa and hot peppers.

1. The heat and humidity are unbearable today.
2. I'm being harassed by an idiot guy who doesn't seem to understand the words "Don't call or text or email me ever again."
3. Need more tea.

3a. Hands crush a cookie, and whispers i made this over the weekend and loved it.

1. My project here at work is entering full-scale meltdown. My next two weeks are going to be hellish (and involve long hours).

2. I had to go to a meeting this morning instead of eating breakfast. HUNGRY!

3. Life outside of work is excellent, and that's all that really matters.

1. Manually changing 1300-odd portfolio LLR methodology entries to "straight rate to zero."

2. Wish I could change them all to "hot rails to hell."

3. Or maybe "short cut to dementia."

tr33hggr: i'm so glad! it really is nummy and nice on a hot summer night. i hope you are near good farmers market asparagus.

1. keeping all our hairy creatures cool. So far so good.

2. REALLY glad we live on the east side of the building.

3. made yummy roast beef last night, should last a couple of days.

4. (((((crush)))))

1. massive DSP programming project due at midnight, and then my semester is over
2. project has been refusing to behave for past 3 days
3. waaaaaah

1. In celebration of a temperate day, I'm making cookies for all y'all. Almond-chocolate biscotti okay with everyone?

2. Pain. I was released from physical therapy (yay!), but the only way to keep the pain tamped down below tooth-grinding level is to do my exhausting PT routine every single day.

3. Good things happen this week: a wedding Saturday, of one good friend to another; my sister visits with a tumble of babbling children who insist upon throwing me a birthday party complete with cake; several small projects turning out beautifully; an internet compliment that made me smile; The Fella surprised me last night with Thai take-out, plus a can of Mr. Brown iced coffee for this morning. Check out Mr. Brown's natty white suit. I can't be the only one thinking of Reservoir Dogs, can I?

1. Chest is sore from coughing.
2. Sun is shining, at last.
3. Need to speak to horrible neighbour about repairs to the building.

1. I've had a late start to the day. The entire family slept in.
2. I've got the swimsuit on, the cooler packed. We're heading to the beach as soon as my husband gets his stuff together.
3. I still can't find the coffee I bought the other day. Tea isn't cutting the brain fog.

1. Not sleeping as much as necessary
2. Can't concentrate at work
3. Tomatoes are coming in

1. Twitchy tired coffee eye.
2. My Boss is an idiotic fuckwit.
3. Feeling the Love for fellow metachatters. Wish I could make the world nicer for y'all.

1. Got my car fixed! All better now; I am especially happy with the air conditioning.

2. Fixed a large number of database records one by one. But thanks to our new library software, it was finished in no time flat.

3. Lunch: leftover chicken thighs, sandwiched between two pieces of toasted wholegrain bread, with brown mustard, lettuce and tomatoes.

1. Really tired and mildly hungover.
2. Feeling overwhelmed by life's details, and a little lonely.
3. Very grateful I can afford to get my teeth fixed.

1. While thinking about the mountain of work I was going to catch up on today, I locked myself and the dog out of my house, sans keys, phone & money. Walked over to church to use computer & phone. Still there now; Stynx is coming to rescue me. Yaay Stynx!
2. E-mailed Boss with SOS I HAVE TOO MUCH WORK I AM DROOOOOWNING. Which probably isn't even true but it's how I feel (especially here, locked out of my house).
3. Hungry. Will finish breakfast when I get home; and have a little Fage + real maple syrup in an attempt to redeem this ridiculous day.

1. Staying cool in the A/C today. May go for a walk at dusk. Need to move around more (moving my pillows from the bed to the couch doesn't count). Three weeks left until I go back to work. Starting to look forward to it (almost).
2. Planning to make mom's elbows later. Saute finely chopped onion in oil and butter, add two large cans Campbell's tomato soup, simmer for an hour or so; mix with a pound of cooked elbows. Delicious hot or cold. It's so yummy, and I haven't had it in such a long time. Can't wait.
3. Waiting for my new glasses to be ready, Thursday or Friday, hopefully. I'll be able to see again! As I suspected, I need glasses for both distance and reading, so they're gonna be bifocals, but no line. I went for the indestructible lenses, too, so I might not survive a blast, but the lenses will.

Extra report:

1. Spoke to neighbour all went well.
2. This lunchtime, whilst on my walk, I came across a flock of sheep.
3. Yes, SHEEP!

Co-worker took pictures of me with said sheep, will post them when they're sent to me.

1. I have hauled everything out of closets, drawers, basement, etc., but have not yet packed it in boxes for the move.
2. Hence, my apartment has reached the maximum possible imaginable degree of chaos and filth (the latter due to many dislodged dust bunnies).
3. The moving truck shows up TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY AAIIIEEEEE.

1. Tense.
2. Can't concentrate.
3. Drinking caffeinated beverages anyway. 'Cause I'm wild and crazy like that.

1. Finished all work

2. ON HOLIDAY

3. Going to play guitar all evening

1. Hot as hell here too. Am contemplating just moving into office until it cools off. No AC at home or in car.

2. Planning surprise party for best friends' 40th birthday Friday at our favorite crummy grungy dive bar. Looks like may work out! Yay! She will never suspect!
2a: Party would be better if I didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn on Saturday - but I have to do that in order to decorate a canoe like a plesiosaur and take it down the river, hee, sometimes my job is fun.

3. Broke, PMSy, mildly disgruntled. Otherwise fine.

1. Busy trying to get everything done before my trip
2. Knowing that's not possible
3. Still trying.

1. I crashed a wake today in East Sussex and showed them how to do it
(I am Irish;- so sue me)
2. It was fun especially as my severely autistic niece was so comfortable and happy no-one noticed she was autistic (which her mother tells me is a first. Yeah score!)
3. we had a wonderful family meal, they go back to Ireland tomorrow and I will miss them. But this is the first family holiday they have had since she was diagnosed (she's 5) and it was remarkably happy and harmonious.
My sister (who has the best voice in the family), sang to me for a whole hour last night. And if I ply her with enough whiskey tonight, maybe she'll sing me some more.
Score!!!!!!!!

1. Headache

2. Avoiding life

3. Unseasonably cool here today (17c/63f)

1. Just got back from a great new dentist and have no problems and surprisingly little tartar even after 5 years or more of not being in to a dentist. Was told i have good teeth. Thinking i shouldn't have coffee or whatever yet because my teeth are all clean. But eh.

2. The new therapist i was seeing recently (just because if nothing it's covered, and you gotta work it when you can) has just informed me she is leaving (because of gas and them paying nothing and so many intrinsic problems that have all to do with bad policies and bullshit and nothing important) just as i was thinking: wow, i really like her. The cool part is we can just talk and hang out now that she won't be my therapist. She's getting ready to go for her phd and just sweet and adorable besides having her shit together and feels the same way. This always happens. No big for me really except i don't think there's anyone decent left for me to see in the immediate locality. Still, no biggie.

3. Just had first contact with The Bees' dad and he STILL has not taken her to the doctor and this just pisses me off because apparently he won't let me take her and cannot be taking care of her properly. She needs those shots and treatment and hasn't grown much since i saw her, which ain't right.

It just started to pour outside and this area is in some level of drought, so i heard.

three extras:
1. People who don't answer their emails are starting to bug me, but not nearly as much as the socially remedial.
2.i think i'm the only one who'd be going to Bunnystock who hasn't met anyone else in real life yet, so that might be weird. Have much to sort out there anyway but i want to take a trip somewhere no matter. It will be around my birthday time and my favortie month anyway.
3. As much as some stuff sucks, some things are really okay. If only some sucky stuff were better so i could get on with the getting on and do good work.

It could be cocktail time.

1.I'm going through some stuff right now.
2.It's not good stuff.
3.It's bad stuff.

i think i'm the only one who'd be going to Bunnystock who hasn't met anyone else in real life yet, so that might be weird.

I wouldn't worry about it. Because on the flip-side, I don't think there's anyone going who has met everyone. So we'll all be meeting new people!

i'm wondering about calling the Ramada and seeing if we qualify for a deal or group rate or something.

Sorry about the bad stuff, jrossi, and everyone with the bad stuff.
i got the bad stuff, too, but hopefully this weird and rough year will be for something.

On an up note, food is good again and figs and peaches and blueberries-- i could never let food go to waste without feeling bad about it anyway so i think i have to gorge myself of berries, or possibly mail out desserts and treatie little gift bags--

i think people should come with me to siege Baltimore, as i've never been and i'm good at leading a siege--

heh

1. Finished the job I was on today a few hours early, so got to go home instead of back to the office.
2. Said job was on 22nd floor of ocean-side 5-star hotel, so have spent last two days gazing out window at wintery Pacific Ocean.
3. Not so wintery any more - every morning gets a tiny bit less dark when I go to work and every night is getting a tiny bit warmer - yay!

1) Ex-husband still hasn't paid the divorce settlement, so I am totally broke.

2) My sweetie gets back in nine days....he's been gone for three months!

3) Being a good friend is a lot of work, but it's good when you really manage to help someone you care about.

1) Second night back at work after a week's vacation.

2) My body is still on my normal internal schedule (sleep at 10:30 PM, up at 5:30 AM), rather than the one demanded by my job (sleep sometime between 1 and 2 AM, up around 9 or 10 AM).

3) Consequently, I feel like something the cat should have buried. Also, not enjoying the job so much.