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--Stuck in the office where my job is extra-boring (at least at home I have a cat to entertain me, and have flash on my computer so I can play some games).
--But tonight I'm going out for margaritas and to see Superchunk so yay!
--My macbook battery icon was flashing an X yesterday and I'm thinking maybe I should make a genius bar appointment.
1. Just opened a Tumblr account. Not to post with, just to follow and comment on other stuff.
2. Making vodka sauce sometime this weekend! Haven't made it in far too long. Mmmmmmmm, vodka sauce.
3. This really needs to be the weekend I re-organize my house. The closets, particularly, could use some attention.
1. Super excited that I finally made it out to the fish truck and bought some fresh fish, which is in short supply in land locked Ithaca. This truck comes here every Friday morning. Got some halibut and some blue fish.
2. Meeting a friend for lunch / work-related talk. Think it will be fun.
3. Need to send an important email today. Obsessing over it. Must stop!
1. "Wilhelmina, This is Trey!"
2. "Oh Hai Trey, I couldn't possibly come in today, I'm not available for the shoot date."
3. Wilhelmina is just hosting this thing, normally they woulnd't have me darken their door, so I got a little kick talking to Trey.
1. I am wearing my purple dress that looks kind of like a maternity dress (such is life when you're a bit fat and wear something with an empire waist) and was asked three times when dropping the kid off at daycare if i was pregnant. She's nearly two, so all the other mothers of the kids in her class (all of whom are "first" kids) are knocked up or trying.
2. I'm not pregnant.
3. Finally ran a 5km in under 30 minutes (29:20, what?) this morning. I am slow but steady.
1) I think I can handle 2-day weeks. Now to figure out how to make ALL WORK WEEKS last two days only.
2) My brother's coming up tomorrow for a one night visit. It'll be good to see him.
3) I expect to be hung-over on Sunday.
Oh, man, leesh. I'm so jealous. That ought to be a great show!
1. After five days in a condo on the beach with family and their respective dogs, I'm thinking I'm just going to sit at home and enjoy the peace and quiet today, hanging with Coya, messing around online, doing laundry, etc. I think it'll be quite therapeutic.
2. Actually making a list(!) of stuff I need to pick up so I only have to leave the house once. I never do that kind of thing.
3. Eh, really, that's about it. And that's Just. Fine.
1. I'm going to buy a ladder today and I regret that the ladder will not be used to do something fun, such as eloping.
2. I'm on the verge of a long weekend but my weekend will be used to get a long list of household stuff done.
3. Adulthood really sucks sometimes.
1. Went to eye doctor this morning and got distressing news that my left eye changed a shitton with my glasses on. (From 20/20 to 20/60.) I get to order new specs and come back in 3 months to see if it's still being weird because they didn't see anything obviously wrong with it. :-/
2. Waiting on another doctor to return my phone call. *bites nails* Trying to distract myself by looking for new specs and Zenni does not have anything I like. :(
3. I have 3 more missions to complete today: making a lemon meringue pie for pops' birthday tomorrow (as a passive agressive play to see if it's my cooking or me that he hates), going to the gym, and getting a quote for blinds in the two bedrooms. I sure hope my pupils chill the fuck out soon.
1. Driving to Florida to visit family starting tomorrow.
2. Took my kitty to the boarding kennel ("Kitty Jail") and miss him already.
3. Have a job interview in Florida on Monday, so if I get it I have to make one of those awful decisions about whether to move or not.
1. It's my last day of work at my job! And the new one starts Monday! Most of the dread is gone and now I am just nervously excited.
2. Mexico city was fun, more organized and clean than I thought it would be, and the pyramids were amazing.
3. I have a packed weekend coming up which I kind of want to weasel out of since I want something of a break between jobs, but it is all family stuff that has been planned forever so I can't.
1. I am wearing my purple dress that looks kind of like a maternity dress
Ha, I'm wearing my purple makes-me-look-pregnant empire waist dress today too! It's so nice and hot today, I feel really summery in this dress.
Update on my status, sent off my scary email. Have to say that Metafilter was really an inspiration to do that today. Was reading through the awesome threads about saving the Russian women from sex trafficking and I really had tears in my eyes and felt rather ashamed that I was so scared of something so simple as sending an email to a professor. Now I'm just sitting around chewing my nails, but at least it's out of my hands.
1. So exhausted I can't really read sentences at this point.
2. Still getting nowhere with my stupid C++ assignment and the "turn it in or it's an F" date is tomorrow night. I've met with one tutor, contacted the professor with questions and will meet with another one today. I'm nervous about meeting the one today - if I can't even read sentences due to being tired, how will I explain what help I need and understand his answers?
3. The school year can't end soon enough for me. We'll see if I go back in the fall, right now I can't see doing it.
I am wearing my purple dress that looks kind of like a maternity dress
During a whippet-thin stage, I was asked that by a customer. That's when I realized it has nothing to do with the thickness of my [or your] waist but only with the thickness of the asker's head. I've been fat and I've been skinny, I've worn loose clothing and fitted, and the only thing that ever stopped people asking me that was having a full head of gray hair.
To sum up: people are silly and unobservant.
1. I'm working on a piece of fiction, and after a false start, it's starting to come very fluently! This is a big surprise and a great feeling. I'm much handier at non-fiction.
2. Most of my most fruitful ideas are coming to me in the hazy space between waking and sleep.
3. Accordingly, I am trying to spend long stretches of night not-quite falling asleep: I go to bed with a book and read until my eyes droop.
1. The house is a mess and I need to vacuum, and I know that picking up the mess won't actually take that long, but it's feeling overwhelming anyway, but I need to do it in the next 15 minutes or my day is kind of fucked.
2. I went to the flooring store yesterday to see if I could get wood chips of the floor we want to put in the new house, so that I could see what it looked like against some of the paint chips I liked. Rather than chips, they gave me, like, whole floors -- maybe 12"x18" samples of the wood. The cat has decided these are her new favorite things, and keeps walking from one to the other and posing prettily. I now feel pressure to pick the flooring that best complements the cat.
3. I left my To Do list in the car yesterday and I think not having it in front of me is making me feel like I simultaneously have nothing to do and have so much to do that I can't remember what I have to do. Argh.
1.My dad's here for the weekend. Started to get worried because he hadn't called me this morning and his hotel said he hadn't checked in---he called at 12:30
2. La Cage a Folles tonight.
3.Figuring out what to do Sunday; he doesn't want to see the condom exhibit.
"Bollocking shithead" is now my favorite cuss out (via jonathanstrange). However, being the US, it would probably be heard as "ball-licking shithead" which is just as good.
Newman's Own All Natural Limeaid is now my favorite beverage.
My cat Sookie has discovered that the keyboard is the best place to get immediate attention.
1. Was in the ER for five hours on Tuesday due to vomiting like it was going out of style. Wouldn't normally go to ER, but when blood showed up both the mister and I thought it time to go. Took them 2.5 hours to do anything for me. Doc had ordered meds for nausea and the migraine that caused the vomiting but someone dropped the ball and I didn't get anything until 4 hours in. My sides still hurt like someone beat me with a baseball bat.
2. Have a cold that started the day after my visit to the ER. I fucking hate colds. I fucking hate not being able to breathe. I fucking hate having diabetes so I can't take any fucking meds for not being able to breathe. I fucking hate not having any energy yet not being able to sleep because I CAN'T FUCKING BREATHE.
3. Sent email to Auntie w/cancer on the 13th. Still haven't heard from her so I'm quietly stressing out about that as well.
PS to ramix: big hugs and condolences for your loss and congrats for Baby! OMG!
oh ramix, I am so sorry.
(but also happy about the baby - I am always happy to hear that)
1. I am two sizes smaller! I haven't successfully done this in years and my road is long, but this is very encouraging. I am pawing through bins of clothes in my back room that in some cases still have tags on. I wore a dress last week that was at least five years old but still brand new :-)
2. so we had basically decided that we weren't going to even think about having another kid. too old, too tired, life is much more manageable now that the one we have is two, etc. then we met my cousin's baby girl, evidently the happiest and most relaxed 7-month-old ever. AUUUUGH.
3. 2nd to last playdate with friend and little boy today. This keeps happening, and my little guy is still asking after his last friend who moved away. Sad.
1. I've been doing my boss's job all week and will continue to do so till she gets back around the middle of next week. My own stress levels confirm that she is a SAINT.
2. The Ask/Guess book proposal is moving awfully slowly, which is also related to the above.
3. Looking forward to Boston at the end of next week.
1. Thinking this crush of mine is potentially one-sided. Body language and eyes suggested otherwise, but e-mail has dead-ended. I have an opportunity for a formal thank-you note, which I would rather not spoil with an unwanted request for a date. And then it's, well, see her around from time to time but probably not that often.
1a. I'm still too goddamn busy with crap (nursing home, bankruptcy, nephew messily breaking up with the mother of their 1-year-old child, etc.) to spend much time obsessing about this, so I'm OK with picking myself up off the floor sooner rather than later.
1b. I feel dumber than rocks for getting a small pile of books on dating at the library, which I will now refuse to read to avoid torturing myself.
1c. This is, I guess, normal and goes with the territory of making oneself vulnerable. I'm OK with that.
2. My whole Bike to Work Week activity is now done, fini, over for the year. I'm happy enough with how it turned out given the short lead time I had, though I know I could have done more if I weren't constantly beset by other priorities and occasionally paralyzed by the weight of it all. Still, it's been good to start getting myself out in the community and the hell with anything including my diabetes, my depression, or my dental.
3. Cat nipped my mom today. Playfully, but still broke skin. Jeez, here I was just thinking he was under control.
1. Got my hair cut, finally. Just above the shoulders, curly/wavy. It feels so much lighter.
2. Took an exhaustion day off on Friday. The sound of teenagers has rubbed my nerves raw. It hasn't been a bad year, and I'm grateful to have a job, but summer can't come fast enough.
3. Going to Connecticut to visit my mom today. Haven't seen her since passover. Yay, mom!
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