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Happy Valentine’s weekend to those who celebrated.
The past week has been a fairly quiet one. Saturday I started sneezing and wouldn’t you know it I caught a cold. Not like I couldn’t see this coming. In fact, looking back, I am now thinking that I wasn’t necessarily having a sudden allergic reaction to my eye cream, but rather the pain and watering was just the first symptom of a horrid head cold. Being the person I am and suffering presenteeism, I dragged myself into work on Monday and did all the vital stuff and then crawled my way home early and into bed. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent at home. Thursday I dragged myself back to work, as I was feeling well enough that if I stayed home I would start doing chores. Heehee.
And why was I not surprised – as I have mentioned often, I have been under A LOT of stress these past several months. It always happens to me that once I come off a lot of stress, my immune system just craps out. Work has slowed down to the point where I am actually finding time to catch up with the little things. The renos that HAD to be done by the end of January are done and whatever we do now doesn’t count towards the possible rebates. My dad’s big b-day (for which my brother and I forgot we were planning a party until about two weeks prior) was the previous Saturday (the day I started sneezing). Things just suddenly were… calmer. And so I got sick.
Now I am feeling mostly better and I have adjusted my attitude some more, so we’ll see how things go. Now, I am just tired. And I have had the most vivid dreams… with some interesting storylines and on-going, like over a couple of nights. It was actually nice to have some vivid dreams. Means my mind is working again on creating stuff. And I am reading again voraciously. So many books to catch up on. Teehee.
Of course, now all of those stresses are calmer, I am starting to look around my house and seeing an endless list of projects that need finishing. Sighhhh. I finished the bathroom curtains (which I think look really good), but not the living room ones. We painted the bathroom wall, but not the shelves (though the paint is bought). My desk is a mess in the office, but my floor is mostly cleaned. I tidied the gift area today – it made a difference. I know so many don’t get it, but when areas of my house are clean and organized, my mood just gets better. My mind expands and I feel like I can do anything. There is so much more to do, but just doing an occasional area makes me feel so accomplished.
Work has been interesting. The boss seems to finally be making an effort to perhaps keep me in my current role. There have been no other jobs for me to apply for which sucks. Beyotch has… haha, left the building. She has been soooo scatterbrained the past few months. I know it has partly to do with her medical issues (which is why she is currently off), but there has to be more to what’s going on with her. She hasn’t mentioned her S.O. lately and I am wondering if she is having relationship issues. She wouldn’t be the only one. Other than that, I think we are all getting over our stresses and starting to get along again. I think it is a sign of developing friendships though that despite all the tensions, we still hang out and talk and work through things. At my old location, there would cat fights and claws out, etc. It is kinda nice not being in that environment.
V-day weekend was quite quiet for me. D chose to do the regularly scheduled second Saturday of the month activity, so during the day I watched some shows and did some chores. Then a nice candlelit dinner (which I cooked), a romantic comedy and more shows and then off to bed. Today, D works most of the afternoon and evening, so I watched some shows, did some chores and am now wasting some time catching up on the computer while listening to the compilation cd I made as the V-day gift. D got me a movie that I loved the first time I saw it (PS I Love You). I would be watching it, but I didn’t feeling like being veklempt tonight. Plus, I watched Mama’s Boy during supper and needed something mind numbing to wash that movie out of my head. Yikes!
So, anyone watching Dollhouse? While the pilot wasn’t the best, I think the show has promise. Of course, with Eliza and Josh, what else could you expect? I like how they set it up that her contract in the show is for 5 shows… hmmm, foreshadowing for the number of seasons they would like to do, I wonder…
Anyone watching Fringe? O M G!!! I love this show. Joshua Jackson is amazing as is John Noble. I am so enjoying it and what did they do this week? The show is off now until April?!?!?! What the?!?!
I am still addicted to the Biggest Loser – it is an interesting dynamic this season as they balance the game play with being humans with feelings.
And Ghost Whisperer… this season is so hard. With the change in Jim (I don’t want to give away the plot), sometimes you feel so much for the central character, Melinda. It makes you really wonder how she did things when her and Jim first started going out.
Yes, I am addicted to my TV shows. Well, it is winter and most of my friends tend to do as I do and hunker down for the season. I live vicariously through the TV until the weather gets better and then off I go.
In case you are wondering, I am still doing the 100-day exercise thing. Day 46 today. I am so impressed with how well I am doing. Yes, I even did them while I was sick. I missed day 24, which I had to make up the next day and nearly died (hard to do 49 of everything when you have only worked yourself up to 24), so no missing unless I am completely physically unable to do it.
Gaming has been going interestingly. It was almost a TPK. Two of the members were turned to stone, so two of us stayed behind while the other two went to get some magic to return them to flesh. I didn't want to stay behind, but the two who left, I couldn't see staying behind either. We really the two people we needed. So shortly after they left, Baulf and I got ambushed. And it was late and I, as the player, was tired and stupid and completely forgot I had healing that I could have done which might have only bought me another round, but I died (due to the other character being taken over by evil). I hate dying. I spend a lot of time creating backgrounds and motivations and such and to just die sucks! So we were going to play the next week and I told the Hat that I can't create a character in one week. I am hoping nobody took that as that I needed to be resurrected, but other said they weren't sure why they would continue with the game with the stats being as they were. I really just can't create a character in a week, especially with planning a b-day party and finishing renos, etc. Since I spend so much effort creating a background and personality, I need the time to do that. A week isn’t enough. So anyway, the Hat came up with an interesting twist and I am now alive, though without all of the treasure and my stuff. It wouldn’t be so bad, but it took me a long time to save up enough coin for my character to buy two expensive items that are now gone. Sighhhh. Baulf was replaced with a new character and so we play on, feeling like we are even more in the dark than before. While the uniqueness of the group makes for interesting play, it also makes it very hard to accomplish things in the game. I bet if we had a definitive fighter, cleric, paladin, magic user, etc, we would probably be a lot farther along, but hey, whatever. I think most of us play now to actually role-play, not necessarily just kill things and move along. At least, I hope. Heehee.
That is all that is on my mind tonight, so I am off to do some more mind numbing stuff. I am totally addicted to Funny Bubbles. So addicted, even though I am now doing it at top speed and on very hard and still doing pretty well, I just can’t stop. Ack!
The past week has been a fairly quiet one. Saturday I started sneezing and wouldn’t you know it I caught a cold. Not like I couldn’t see this coming. In fact, looking back, I am now thinking that I wasn’t necessarily having a sudden allergic reaction to my eye cream, but rather the pain and watering was just the first symptom of a horrid head cold. Being the person I am and suffering presenteeism, I dragged myself into work on Monday and did all the vital stuff and then crawled my way home early and into bed. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent at home. Thursday I dragged myself back to work, as I was feeling well enough that if I stayed home I would start doing chores. Heehee.
And why was I not surprised – as I have mentioned often, I have been under A LOT of stress these past several months. It always happens to me that once I come off a lot of stress, my immune system just craps out. Work has slowed down to the point where I am actually finding time to catch up with the little things. The renos that HAD to be done by the end of January are done and whatever we do now doesn’t count towards the possible rebates. My dad’s big b-day (for which my brother and I forgot we were planning a party until about two weeks prior) was the previous Saturday (the day I started sneezing). Things just suddenly were… calmer. And so I got sick.
Now I am feeling mostly better and I have adjusted my attitude some more, so we’ll see how things go. Now, I am just tired. And I have had the most vivid dreams… with some interesting storylines and on-going, like over a couple of nights. It was actually nice to have some vivid dreams. Means my mind is working again on creating stuff. And I am reading again voraciously. So many books to catch up on. Teehee.
Of course, now all of those stresses are calmer, I am starting to look around my house and seeing an endless list of projects that need finishing. Sighhhh. I finished the bathroom curtains (which I think look really good), but not the living room ones. We painted the bathroom wall, but not the shelves (though the paint is bought). My desk is a mess in the office, but my floor is mostly cleaned. I tidied the gift area today – it made a difference. I know so many don’t get it, but when areas of my house are clean and organized, my mood just gets better. My mind expands and I feel like I can do anything. There is so much more to do, but just doing an occasional area makes me feel so accomplished.
Work has been interesting. The boss seems to finally be making an effort to perhaps keep me in my current role. There have been no other jobs for me to apply for which sucks. Beyotch has… haha, left the building. She has been soooo scatterbrained the past few months. I know it has partly to do with her medical issues (which is why she is currently off), but there has to be more to what’s going on with her. She hasn’t mentioned her S.O. lately and I am wondering if she is having relationship issues. She wouldn’t be the only one. Other than that, I think we are all getting over our stresses and starting to get along again. I think it is a sign of developing friendships though that despite all the tensions, we still hang out and talk and work through things. At my old location, there would cat fights and claws out, etc. It is kinda nice not being in that environment.
V-day weekend was quite quiet for me. D chose to do the regularly scheduled second Saturday of the month activity, so during the day I watched some shows and did some chores. Then a nice candlelit dinner (which I cooked), a romantic comedy and more shows and then off to bed. Today, D works most of the afternoon and evening, so I watched some shows, did some chores and am now wasting some time catching up on the computer while listening to the compilation cd I made as the V-day gift. D got me a movie that I loved the first time I saw it (PS I Love You). I would be watching it, but I didn’t feeling like being veklempt tonight. Plus, I watched Mama’s Boy during supper and needed something mind numbing to wash that movie out of my head. Yikes!
So, anyone watching Dollhouse? While the pilot wasn’t the best, I think the show has promise. Of course, with Eliza and Josh, what else could you expect? I like how they set it up that her contract in the show is for 5 shows… hmmm, foreshadowing for the number of seasons they would like to do, I wonder…
Anyone watching Fringe? O M G!!! I love this show. Joshua Jackson is amazing as is John Noble. I am so enjoying it and what did they do this week? The show is off now until April?!?!?! What the?!?!
I am still addicted to the Biggest Loser – it is an interesting dynamic this season as they balance the game play with being humans with feelings.
And Ghost Whisperer… this season is so hard. With the change in Jim (I don’t want to give away the plot), sometimes you feel so much for the central character, Melinda. It makes you really wonder how she did things when her and Jim first started going out.
Yes, I am addicted to my TV shows. Well, it is winter and most of my friends tend to do as I do and hunker down for the season. I live vicariously through the TV until the weather gets better and then off I go.
In case you are wondering, I am still doing the 100-day exercise thing. Day 46 today. I am so impressed with how well I am doing. Yes, I even did them while I was sick. I missed day 24, which I had to make up the next day and nearly died (hard to do 49 of everything when you have only worked yourself up to 24), so no missing unless I am completely physically unable to do it.
Gaming has been going interestingly. It was almost a TPK. Two of the members were turned to stone, so two of us stayed behind while the other two went to get some magic to return them to flesh. I didn't want to stay behind, but the two who left, I couldn't see staying behind either. We really the two people we needed. So shortly after they left, Baulf and I got ambushed. And it was late and I, as the player, was tired and stupid and completely forgot I had healing that I could have done which might have only bought me another round, but I died (due to the other character being taken over by evil). I hate dying. I spend a lot of time creating backgrounds and motivations and such and to just die sucks! So we were going to play the next week and I told the Hat that I can't create a character in one week. I am hoping nobody took that as that I needed to be resurrected, but other said they weren't sure why they would continue with the game with the stats being as they were. I really just can't create a character in a week, especially with planning a b-day party and finishing renos, etc. Since I spend so much effort creating a background and personality, I need the time to do that. A week isn’t enough. So anyway, the Hat came up with an interesting twist and I am now alive, though without all of the treasure and my stuff. It wouldn’t be so bad, but it took me a long time to save up enough coin for my character to buy two expensive items that are now gone. Sighhhh. Baulf was replaced with a new character and so we play on, feeling like we are even more in the dark than before. While the uniqueness of the group makes for interesting play, it also makes it very hard to accomplish things in the game. I bet if we had a definitive fighter, cleric, paladin, magic user, etc, we would probably be a lot farther along, but hey, whatever. I think most of us play now to actually role-play, not necessarily just kill things and move along. At least, I hope. Heehee.
That is all that is on my mind tonight, so I am off to do some more mind numbing stuff. I am totally addicted to Funny Bubbles. So addicted, even though I am now doing it at top speed and on very hard and still doing pretty well, I just can’t stop. Ack!
posted by Taryn at 9:02 pm
4 Comments:
I know what you mean about various areas of the house. I simply cannot create in the kitchen (or the studio) unless it is clean: the dishes have to be done, the counters clean, the stovetop scrubbed. Only then can I really get on with it, especially if I am making something new and not just throwing together something I've made a million times before.
And in the hobby room, well--the paintbrushes have to be clean, the paints stored away, the rinsing water fresh, the old garbage changed out. Then I can burn some incense and put on some music and settle down to do something, especially if I am starting a new project instead of continuing on with a current one.
Chaos must come out of order and thence back to order again. Yanno what I mean?
I totally get it. D is amazed at the cleanliness of my desk. And you should see my desk at work. I feel so accomplished and relaxed and really all I did today was some photocopying, mailing and filing. Plus I got my emails down to less that 1 screens worth! Tomorrow morning I am going to wipe it all down with a cleaning cloth and it will feel like spring has sprung. :)
Now why can't I make that work for losing weight... hmmmm... :)
Ok, what's this 100 day exercise thing? Must share!
I borrowed it from an article from the Journal. In the article, they just did pushups. So Day 1, you do 1 pushup. Day 2, do 2 pushups. Day 3, 3 pushups and so on, until day 100 when you do 100 pushups. (Not necessarily at the same time, just in a day.) Being me, I am doing pushups, squats and crunches. So by day 100, I will be doing 300 exercises in a day. Whew! April 10 is day 100. That will be an exhausting day as well as a celebration day. April 11, I finally get to rest. Yeah!
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