Subaru's tend to be decent vehicles if they've been kept up with. How often do cars have to be smogged? I know in MD it's every 2 years.

1. Still having good mental energy from the candle magick workshop on Sunday. Learned tons! And I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do about my current altar situation.

2. I've given up on my Lughnasadh paper. I have about 3 pages of stuff, but I'm afraid that if I keep messing with it to try and make it longer that I'm just going to make it worse. Now, onto my lithomancy project, which is due in 3 weeks. I need to glue together the board for that and start practicing with it. Which is going to be a shame when I go to the divination share next week because I just got 2 new tarot decks!

3. Made a delicious dinner this evening. I had some cut up chunks of pork tenderloin that I cooked in olive oil with some random 'roasted garlic and herb' spice mix from my pantry. Mixed those in with some brown rice and teriyaki sauce. OM NOM NOM. Should have had a vegetable, but was feeling lazy.

1. By the time this morning's nasty rain turned into a marvelous mid-afternoon snowfall, the day was too far gone to do anything productive outside.

2. Tried to read, but took a nap instead.

3. Cooking some barley with some previously braised flank steak. I will add some tomato chunks, onion slices and bell pepper sticks to the broth as it nears finishing.

(2.1) Cars need to be re-smogged in CA when they're resold if its been over 90 days. This one was smogged successfully 7 months ago (after neighbor spent some money to fix a Check Engine light - if it comes on, it's a fail, no matter how good the readings are). And she's been treating it very well, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

(1.1) Neighbor just got a call for the puppy ad... some guy who had two dogs, one died and the other is having 'separation anxiety'. He's bringing his dog over to see how Pepe gets along with it... very promising for a better home than I can provide.

1. I had a horrible night's sleep because, at the meetup on Sunday the weather was wet, windy and cold and we were outside a lot of the time. Where I was tensed up against the cold, I ended up with a really painful shoulder and I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep.

2. I took a few painkillers at work today and by 2pm I was a bit spaced out from lakc of sleep and ibuprofen. I'd been in the office since 7 anyway, so I left a little earlier.

3. The painkillers worked, and I had a really great evening at the theatre for the press night of Abigail's Party. It was great to see it live, and it stayed true to the TV play, which is one of the iconic TV moments of my life.

Awww, Pepe looks like sweetie. Hope he gets a good home soon.

1. The mister and I have been watching BSG and are almost done with season one. I have such a crush on Starbuck. *swoon*

2. We're eating way too much fast food, but neither one of us has the energy to make good food. I know this is going to bite us in the ass.

3. In other words, yes, more issues with the mister's health. I just don't feel like going into it and I'm sure you're all tired of it.

1. More snow this morning but it was gone by 5p. Perfect as I didn't have to leave the house this morning or shovel.

2. My little team had a meeting about The New Work. There is SQL involved which pleases me greatly (once a data nerd, always a data nerd). The unexpected part is we'll be doing this "for a bit" which I'm taking to mean 2-3 years based on when this stuff will go into production. Given my growing lack of enthusiasm to what I was hired to do, I'm more than okay with that.

3. I need to stop ordering stuff online. Three things arriving in one day is a bit much.

1. Ugh.

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Tuesday here, but.

1. Spent the morning on Manly beach, walked around to Shelly beach. Looked for lots of shells with the kids.

2. Night out tonight with best friend. Only night out of my whole vacation. Looking forward to it a lot.

3. Back to NYC tomorrow. One huge trip, just me and the 3 year old. Thank dog she's a great traveller.

1. Just finished revising a quiz on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man for my AP English class tomorrow. I had to reset our network to get my iPad to recognize my wireless printer again. This happens every couple weeks and I wish I knew why. Pain in the tuchus.

2. I'm laying in bed in the dark watching Dave, which is a repeat, but a comfort none-the-less. Jon's snorin' next to me. He just got up to pee.

3. I wish tomorrow was Friday.

1. Spent Monday in bed, in pain. Divirticu- Diviti- rumbly intestines decided to pay a visit. That hasn't happened since I had my gallbladder out.

2. Still tired today, but decided to come in. Probably a mistake.

3. Work is at least going well.

I missed Monday! Tuesday's been productive, though.

1. I did a bunch of small and large chores: repaired a tricky doorknob, returned bottles, picked up some jewelry findings, exchanged the chipped latte cups I bought yesterday, ordered checks, made an optometrist's appointment. Getting! Things! Done!

2. Inspired by a mention of them on AskMe, I've been incorporating lunges and squats into my physical therapy routine lately. Ever since, I've been feeling much more energetic and vigorous. Direct causation? Coincidence? Placebo effect? I don't care which it is, so long as it continues.

3. Around 4 pm, I found myself cursing at the groceries as I stuffed them into the fridge. That's a signal to stop and think: "Hey, did you ever have breakfast? Or lunch? YOU DID NOT. Stop everything, go sit down, and eat your lovely dish of Greek yogurt with macerated strawberries." Ahhhh, everything is much better now and I have stopped swearing at inanimate objects.

deborah, whenever you want to vent, go ahead --- though I completely understand that sometimes you just don't want to talk about it yourself.
lysdexic, that sounds rough. How are you doing now?