1-Awesome weekend, except for the Sunday headache I've been getting lately.

2-We got a new secretary, which means I now only have to do one job now, the one I'm paid for.

3-Chuck tonight, and leftover chicken enchiladas with lime and cilantro rice. Mmmmmmm.

1. My group's first-ever, stand-alone, real-live concert is this Friday. Aaaagh!!

2. Yesterday, I heard Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5 live for the first time. Had I known about that harpsichord solo, I would have heard it way before this.

3. Totally not understanding the riots in the supermarkets over bottled water. Do people not know how to boil their own water?

3a. I need this t-shirt. Also, there is an operatic tenor on TV right now singing U2's "With Or Without You". There are no words to describe how bad it is.

1. I have a daunting list of tasks to get through before hosting my family's Mother's Day celebration next weekend.

2. The men in my family really ought to take the family out to dinner for Mother's Day given that the women do all the shopping, cooking and cleaning etc. for the other five get-togethers the Swan family has a year.

3. I had a yummy lunch today: crab and swiss cheese quiche.

Congrats on the upcoming concert, Melismata! Break a leg!

1. Was awakened by a thunderstorm at 4:30 AM, and boy, can I feel the lack of sleep right about now.

2. Co-worker being needlessly stubborn while we're trying to solve a problem this morning. Not in the mood for this (see item #1).

3. Thinking of ditching the frozen entree I brought for lunch today and getting Chinese food instead. Yes, definitely going to do that.

1. Talked to someone at unemployment today about our church's former secretary. MY WORD WAS THAT UNPLEASANT.
2. I had a lovely day yesterday running around the city shopping and meeting-up, but I have all sorts of stuff to do at home and am feeling very behind!
3. FREE PIZZA LUNCH! Yahoo! This almost makes up for having to talk to that nasty woman at unemployment.

1. First day back at work after being hospitalized overnight last Wednesday for multiple, extremely painful things (ovarian cyst, UTI, reinjured back, possible kidney stone) and having trouble focusing. On the plus side, I am in waaaaay less pain than I was yesterday, which was way less than the day before, etc.

2. My mom was saying yesterday that Mother's Day is going to be very painful for her because it will be the first without her mother, and that we should be extra nice to her. I know it is terribly ungracious of me, but it pisses me off when she says stuff like that because her mother was 92 when she died. Both of my parents are obese and there is no way they are going to live that long and it makes me really angry. It takes everything I have not to say to her, "Well, at least you had your mom around a lot longer than I'm going to have mine." Seriously, do any obese people ever live that long?

3. I just want to go home and go to sleep.

1. My hair has reached that perfect post-haircut state (about 3 weeks) when all the layers fall beautifully and it has lots of body. The fact that it's all downhill from here (and will, next week, start to look positively shaggy!) makes today somewhat bittersweet.

2. The return of spring has left me with a lot of energy that I don't really know what to do with. This'll probably last a few weeks until it starts to get really hot, and I'll get lethargic again.

3. OUR NEW COFFEE IS TERRIBLE. I don't care if it's "Colombian" - it's still really bad.

1. Just finished laundry. Sweaty as hell.
2. Having a beer and some chips, then off to city for appt.
3. After 4 o'clock will adjourn to local bar for refreshments.

1. Am fairly pleased with myself for visiting my friend this weekend and then being able to get back into the swing of life easily. Also, I worked very hard on not screaming at my mother when I realized she was trying to bait me into fighting with her (likely as a way for her to take out her anger at my father being who he is) and instead just chose to leave instead of waiting for my brother to show up.

2. Still flipping between feeling confident and feeling stupid and useless. Especially since I just got an email from someone at the condo bitching at the old board (which I'm not on anymore and I never really talked to this person much AT ALL because I had zero power to do anything) complete with tons of swear words about how we're discriminating against her because the board president is a dipshit who sent her a violation notice for some motion sensor for the outside light that was installed before she even bought her unit back in 2004.

3. Really feeling agitated and sad and am not wanting to do anything but wanting to do everything at the same time and it's pissing me off.

1. Daughter found a room in a house in NE Portland with a couple of guys. She gets along with guys very well, so it's good news. She was "out on the street" for a week.

2. I have a lot of report writing to do and I keep procrastinating. Need to crank a lot of it out today!

2. Haircut over weekend, and it's perfect today!

1. This is my first Monday in a long time w/o class--I'm looking forward to getting to watch Monday night tv! (Though Saturday's Dr Who STILL isn't on demand and I don't know why!!!)

2. My cat seems to have a hairball (he's never had one before) and it's gross.

3. I have a whole stack of library books but probably will spend the afternoon reading books on my Kindle. I love reading on rainy afternoons.

1.) Beyond ready for this week to be over. I'm not too stressed about finals, but I'm looking forward to some downtime from class. I get 4-5 weeks off before MicroBio this Summer.

2.) Oil spill be damned, I'm still very much looking forward to visiting my sister in Florida in less than two weeks. It'll be my first vacation in over a year and my first paid time off since 2004. Definitely one of the downsides of being self-employed.

3.) There is no three. 1 & 2 are all I can think about right now.

1. Ran a 1/2 marathon yesterday without dying or drowning (it rained the whole race). Did great for 11 miles and then stumbled for the last two but finished.

2. My legs really really hurt today

3. That's all.

1. muddgirl most excellently reminded me that baby powder is good for thigh chafing so my run this morning was a lot more comfortable.

2. Next week is vacation, woot! A wedding on Saturday then a drive to western Maryland to do nothing for several days (except for an excursion to Pittsburgh for a daytime baseball game).

3. Made spiced apple/oatmeal muffins (for the kid) and did the substitute half the apple for zucchini thing. She loves them. Yeah, we try to teach her that vegetables are delicious, and she's ok at eating them (sometimes) but any excuse to get more into her is fine by me.

1. Need to get motivated. Things to do. People to see. Calls to make. Sitting around drinking coffee and reading for five hours is fun, but not productive.

2. One of the things I read was the unfinished novel I wrote about 17 years ago. Left me feeling all confused and odd, happy and sad, all tritely choked up about how things change but yet (staggering!) they do not. Whoo. Also, turns out I am not a novelist. Had suspected as much for some time now.

3. Broke world land speed record for into and out of a relationship last month, with ending (ugly, but aren't they always) last Thursday. Spent a couple days stunned and bummed out; talked to guy for several hours yesterday, feel somewhat better. Still, shit. Oh well. Fuck love.

I'm glad it worked, gaspode!

1. Got rid of the debilitating nausea. Now I have to restart all the things I quit and figure out the culprit.
2. No doctors' appointments this week! The first whole week in ages.
3. After years of writing crap, I decided I will never sell a piece of fiction. This means more free time. Yay!
3a. This also means I won't be buying a new keyboard every six months. Double yay!

1. I have to be on a panel tonight on "The Asian-Canadian Play Canon". Oh god, I'm bored and I'm ON the panel. I hate panels. But the moderator is very organized and gave me the outline. So, I'll do some thinking and try to sound smart. Did I mention that panels make me want to poke my eyes out?

2. I am quite 'behind' on my writing. I am working on a new libretto, some of which is being read publicly on the 22nd. Not panicking yet, but you know, it stresses me out as I am not as far along as I would like to be.

3. Time-share cat who has been staying with me will probably go home in the next day or so. At first it was weird to have a cat around that wasn't my cat, but now I quite like her. She'll be back in 2 weeks for 4 weeks as her mommy goes to Amsterdam for work.

1. Boiling water and LOVING IT.

2. Reminding myself of the latter half of #1 as the need arises.

3. See above #3 by Melismata.

1. Still haven't gotten that important email I was waiting for on Friday. I missed a call from the person today and called back 20 min later and haven't heard again. Maybe they went home. It is very hard to be patient.

2. I am dyeing my hair again! This time I chose an ashy blondish brown so I won't have any more reddish surprises (I hope). The dye is on now and I am waiting and dizzy from the smelly chemicals.

3. Gearing up for Mexico City vacation, excited to get out of here and do something new. We planned generally what we wanted to see each day so it seems more real now.

1. I have made lots of stuff today, and that always feels good.

2. The dealership assures me that the fact that my mom's car doesn't get out of park without going to the manual screwdriver-assisted overdrive (as described in the manual) doesn't make the car unsafe to drive.

3. There's a frog lurking by the pond, but he's not letting me get close enough to identify him. He waits until I'm almost close enough to identify patterns, and then hies into the water. Amphibious jerk.

1. Totally sleepwalked through work today.

2. Feeling depressed, lonely, alienated.

3. Going to do a little shopping and then hit the
proverbial hay.

1. Sleeping way too much

2. Avoiding calling my mum to work out visit to dying aunt

3. Tired

1. New blog went up today! Hooray! People commented on posts! My writers are awesome!

2. My website guy didn't look at the things I asked him to look at. Considering I'm not paying him, I shouldn't be too upset. I'll give him a day or two, I think.

3. I've just realized that I'm in a long-distance relationship with someone who lives in the same city I do because he lives in the Bronx and I live in Brooklyn and with the public transit fuckery, it takes him 2 hours to get to my place.

And yet, a year ago, I couldn't commit to a similar distanced relationship (2 hours by NJ Transit train) with a younger guy who was also pretty rad. I'm not sure what it is about this guy that makes this relationship better than that one... maybe I should stop overthinking it.

1. I am in a good relationship.

2. I have a really good job.

3. I am in a weird headspace where I have to keep reminding myself of #1 and #2. But on the plus side, I'm balanced enough to recognize their value.

1. Money issues suck. Contacted Child Support Enforcement officers to TRY to find X Husband #1. It's been over a year and a half without child support. Things are REALLY tight right now. Sigh. Can't even afford a haircut.

2. Found out X Mr V is on Facebook (I did not see this. Found out from a family member who can't stand him) calling his latest victim "the love of his life". They've been dating for two months. She will learn eventually. He latches on to good hearted women who like to do good deeds (like myself). She works in social work somehow. Hope she wises up faster than I did.

3. Saw the first hummingbird of the season! That makes me happy. Plus, BlueEyes and I are having sushi for dinner tonight. That makes me happier!! Not the sushi, but being with the sweet guy he is. Our time together is limited due to jobs and locations, so any mid-week time is a bonus.