November 1st - Must Finish!

• Vacuum and mop the kitchen and bathroom
• Vacuum!  Everywhere!
• 30 Day Shred
• Email Tiffany before she thinks I am a total flake and stops talking to me
• Write 1667 words for the first day of NANO (and then die)
• Crash until I have to go to work tomorrow

When Life Hands You Lemons...

...you chuck them right back at Life and say, "Fuck you!"

So, I am a little peeved, as you can obviously tell.

I am so tired of being the nice person, ya know?  The girl who always puts her work aside so she can do someone else's.  The one who cannot-fucking-say-no-to-save-her-soul-or-at-least-her-sanity.  The one who puts her life on hold for someone else.

I need a nice long vacation ALONE where there are no people.  Antarctica, perhaps?  I do love me some penguins.


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The Birthday Plan

I will begin the 30 Day Shred on Sunday, October 17, 2010.  I will complete each day through thick and thin, through rain and snow and sleet and hail, in sickness and in health 'til death do us part (or something to that effect) until Tuesday, November 16, 2010.

I am hoping to have lost at least 3 lbs., hopefully more.  I am also hoping to have more energy to gt things done around the house and my job.  I am hoping that I will not be so tired all the time.

I am also hoping that I will be a size smaller!  Perhaps less boobage?  Yes, please!  Oh, to have shirts fit correctly.  And pants!  That don't bulge with the bulginess of my tummy!

Pray to all the gods above that I can stick to this!  Finding 20 minutes a day can't be that hard, right?  I just need to cut out one half-hour show block of time.

Please don't let me fail at this like everything else!

A Rant in Bullet List Form

• There's something going on at work that is making me throw back my ice tea like it's a Long Island Iced Tea.  Except for the fact that I don't drink.  And I've never been drunk.  Or understood the fun of being drunk.  But right now?  Looking a little more attractive every hour.

•  The thing from work?  If it pans out tonight like I desperately hope it won't, you may hear my scream in the next galaxy.  No, universe.

• Cowlicks are popping up all over my head!  Obviously a sign that the top layers are getting too long and heavy and I need to hightail it to get my hair cut. 

• I've gone to the same salon since high school, which is now a twenty minute drive.  With the way my hair grows, I really need to get a small trim on my bangs every week two weeks and I can't really justify using up a 1/4 of a tank of gas to just get my hair trimmed.  Even though Mom would love it since salon + Mom = same town.

•  I need to find a new hairstylist who will not have any history with my very finicky hair.  This is very stressful!

• There are 5 million things that I have to do when I get home.  I mean IMPERATIVE FOR MY IMMEDIATE SURVIVAL or something like that, anyway.  All stuff that I have been putting off all week but now that I have plans for this weekend, I don't have time to get to them at my leisure (which is usually quite leisurely but not very timely).

• All I want to do is curl up on my couch and watch the rest of Persons Unknown.  MUST KNOW HOW THE SEASON ENDS!!!  Right now, my vote is aliens.  Which doesn't mean much because that's my answer for everything.  Or ghosts.  But if it is ghosts then damn.  These are some pretty techno-geeky Caspers.  And can I just say, Janet's mom?  Scary a la Joan Crawford.

• And I have Castle and Supernatural to watch, too.  Plus, umm, some more SGA.

• Wait, why am I going out this weekend?

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October = Love

I hope that everyone out there in internet-land is having the best October ever.

'Cause I sure am!

I absolutely love this time of year!  The weather has finally evened off into the 50-60 degree range which is wonderful as I will not die of heat stroke as I wear basically winter clothes all year round.  My office is an iceberg 364 days of the year with one day reserved for when you are bundled up for ARCTIC SURVIVAL and the furnace will malfunction and roast you to death.

True story.

In other October awesomeness, my landlord finally ripped out all the ugly bushes in front of the house!  I can see out of my kitchen window again! 

I came home from work on Tuesday night and pulled into the driveway and just sat there for a minute looking at the house.  I knew something was different but it didn't register until suddenly I figured out that I could see the whole house.  Amazing!  It suddenly looked a lot bigger (from the outside).

So while I am sad that the wildlife has been evicted from the front bushes, I am extremely pleased.  I will not be pleased if he tries to put anything back except for lilac bushes.  Can you imagine standing with your kitchen window open as you do the dishes while a gentle breeze brings in the wonderful lilac scent?  Bliss.

Going shopping this weekend!  So excited.  I'm hoping to get some new clothes or maybe some shoes or maybe a coat or maybe, well, you get the idea.

So shopping and then supper at Perkins.  Can't wait.

And I think I'll stop the rambling here.


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Delurk?

So I was checking my stats and I see that I have people who have read my blog.

!!!

!!!

Cool!

I was wondering if everyone could leave me just a quick comment on where they are from ('cause I'm nosy like that) or maybe something they would like me to post about ('cause I'm running out of ideas) or maybe just how awesome you think I am ('cause I am needy and also delusional).

If you have a blog, I will totally visit and delurk as well!


Thanks a bunch, people!

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(Please let there be at least one comment or else I will feel like a dork.  T_T)

My Mind Is A Scary Place...

I've been reading a lot of Stargate Atlantis fan fiction lately and trying to catch up on the episodes that I missed somehow in the 5 seasons it was on.

(I just watched the series finale.)
(2 years after it aired.)
(I wasn't ready to let go.) 
(Umm, still not ready.  That was a poor excuse for a series finale.)
(Don't judge.)

Anyhoo, apparently reading SGA fic right before bed (okay, all day yesterday) causes one to have odd SG-1 related dreams.  Yeah.  Just go with me, okay?

I dreamed that I was going through the gate on my own after Kowalsky and Mitchell (I know, okay) went through to somewhere else.  Vala was going to another place after me.  So the guys went and then I did.  Only I came out in the Mountain right in front of the Gate.  So I went through again.

And gated out at the library I work at.

Who were totally okay with that.

I know!

And then, I figured out that I was in an alternate reality 'cause there was this person (no connection to work) that was like super nice to me.  Which freaked. me. the. fuck. out.  (There also might have been some really bad Courtney Love hair and electric blue eyeshadow going on.)

And someone else was rocking some long hair which also freaked me the fuck out.  Also, there was some way, way OOC-ness going on for this person.  Freakier than the hair.  Which was freaky!

And so I just sat there at the front desk and waited on people (totally screwing up giving out the password) and telling people "I'm from an alternate reality" every time they talked to me.

Who then nodded and were totally okay with.

Again, I know!

I'm wondering what reading some more SGA after work would do to me?


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Just...why?

So, I'm sitting here in my living room happily relaxing on the couch, trying to figure out whether to start the next DVD of Castle or Supernatural.

And then.

They appeared.

It was like some super evil time/space vortex dropped off all the children in my neighborhood into next door's back yard.

Where they immediatley began screaming at the top of their lungs.

I am not kidding.  They all sounded like they were being murdered.

Have I mentioned I don't like children?


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Nominated!!!!

One of my stories was totally nominated for a CoA award!!!   Woot!!!!


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Because It's Monday...

...you get a list.

• 3 hours of sleep is not enough
• Mondays are just no
• The kids come back next Monday  (Why God, why?)
• My hair feels greasy even though I showered this morning.  (Honest.)
• Garbage men came at 7:45 this morning.  WTF?  

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Movie Review: Friday the 13th (2009)

*Spoilers!!*





Okay, I'll be honest.  The only reason I really wanted to watch this movie was because Jared Padalecki was in it.  I was disappointed with Jensen Ackles in "My Bloody Valentine" so I was hoping that this would be better.

Well, only slightly since Jared managed to not be the bad guy.  A fact that was worrying me as 25 minutes into the show, everyone but Whitney was dead and there was no sign of Jared. 

Uh, excuse me, Jason?  Aren't you killing everyone off a little too soon?
P.S.  Jason?  Please don't be Jared.

Anyways, it was a typical slasher fic complete with naked girls having sex (not with each other, surprisingly) and guys getting drunk, high or both. 

The dialogue was cheesy (You've got perfect nipple placement).  Honestly, who says that?

It was gory, I'll give it that, but not anything extraordinary.  I would have preferred a little more back story (although most know the story) and there honestly was little to no plot beyond Clay trying to find his sister and Jason killing anyone he set his eyes on. 

I have to say, I was a little surprised that Jenna bit the dust (btw, if I had been Jenna, Trent would have been dead waaaay before Jason made his appearance.  Just sayin'  Also, was Jenna his girlfriend or Bree?  'Cause if it was Jenna and he was doing Bree?  Bastard.).  I was expecting Whitney to get killed just as soon as Clay found her.  But with the way it ended, it's possible no one made it.

All in all, I give it 2 stars.


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My rating system:

0 stars - Worst movie ever made.
1 star - I've definitely seen better
2 stars - It's okay but once is enough for me.
3 stars - I'll watch it again.
4 stars - I'll buy it.
5 stars - Not only will I buy it but I'll watch it every day!

Project Skinny Day #1

In an effort to lose some much needed poundage, I have been trolling YouTube for fitness/diet/healthy eating videos.  I made many notes of things to try and decided that this day, August 3, 2010, would be the beginning of Project Skinny.

During my Pre-Project Preperations, I decided to try just a few things.  I bought some water, cashews, dry-roasted peanuts, Cran-apple flavor sticks for the water ('cause plain water = ick), green tea sticks, a small vanilla soy milk and some orange sherbet push up pops.

The orange sherbet is delish by the way.  ^_^

Day One however, is not going as planned. 

I dragged myself in to work at 11am accompanied with a few of my new healthy items.  I brought a serving size of cashews, two waters, a green tea stick and a half bottle of lemonade just in case.  Oh, and a piece of leftover pizza for lunch.

What?  Rome wasn't built in a day, ya know.

So I scarfed down my cashews first thing and then I tried the green tea.  All the YouTubers had agreed that it was the best thing ever and soooo good for you and soooo delicious.

Y'all, I don't know what they were drinking but it sure wasn't what I was.

Let me break it down for you.

You take a bottle of water, take a few sips and then pour a packet of the green tea into it.  My first reaction was that well, shouldn't the powder be green instead of a weird taupey color?  Then I shook and shook and shook that bottle of water to dissolve the tea and ended up with a bottle whose color was now, in my opinion, pee.

Yum.

So I braved a taste of it.

I am not sure there are words to describe it.  It sorta tasted like honey and lemon and some unidentified flavor that I am not very sure of except ick.

I've drunk about half of the bottle and it has perhaps gotten a teensy tiny bit drinkable. 

But it is definitely going on the No list.


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My Weekend is Full

So, Saturday we're taking clothes to Mom's friend in the hospital in Sioux City, Sunday we're going to the Sorcerer's Apprentice and Monday (Mom's birthday!) we are back in Sioux City for Mom's appointment with the neurologist.

Can we say busy?

Today I am going to, or rather attempt, vacuuming the whole apartment, mopping the kitchen and bath, taking out the garbage, cleaning out the fridge (protective gear needed) and washing the dishes from the fridge.

Hopefully I can talk my mom out of staying over on Saturday so I can get the rest of the cleaning done that I may or may not have slacked off on this week. 

These include but are not limited to: sheets to be washed, towels to be washed, comforters to take to laundromat, bathroom cleaned, kitchen curtains need to be hemmed, washed, ironed and re-hung 4 inches higher (umm, learn how to iron), change the kitty litter(!) and rearranging some cabinets in the kitchen.

Lofty goals I'm afraid.


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It's all a little blurry right now...possibly a good thing

Last night I looked in the mirror after work and almost scared myself.

Apparently I do look like I feel.  How nice. 

I am also dying of sleep deprivation.  Between the cats and my inability to stay asleep for more than two hours at a time (and oh, hey, did I mention that I also seem to have insomnia on top of the inability to stay asleep longer than two hours?), I'm surprised no one has died yet in a fit of insomnia-induced rage. Because believe me, there is rage.

Btw, did I mention that it's THAT time of the month?

On the bright side, today is my last full day of work this week.   Praise Jesus.  Then all the students will go away and all will be right in the world.

I am also leaving tomorrow for Des Moines for two days for a conference.  Every time I think about it, I get an image of me, F. and M. peeling out of the parking lot shouting, "So long, suckers!" to the rest of the staff as we leave them to deal with the end of semester craziness.

You know, I think that no sleep thing is getting to me.  :P


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Excuses

So.  The 30 Day Shred.  Not happening today.

I know, I know.  I said no excuses but this is a crazy week for me at work with my co-worker being gone and one of our students just left and well, I don't handle change well, okay?

The plan is to start it on Friday which is my day off and take it from there.  I would really like to still be alive when I go see Alice in Wonderland on Saturday.



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Seriously?

Yesterday, while at Wal-mart getting the necessities in life (chocolate milk and peanut butter and fudge cookies), I stumbled upon a never before seen part of the store (mostly because the store is being remodeled and nothing, nothing is where it is supposed to be).  I found myself in the fitness aisle and they had exercise DVDs for $9 each.  $9.  I couldn't pass that up so I bought two, Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred and The Biggest Loser Workout Cardio Mix.

Yes, I'm fairly certain that I am sick.  Especially as I actually plan on trying them.

I've been thinking about exercising for awhile now but it really hit me in February.  February is when we get a physical for our health insurance at work.  They take your pulse, blood pressure, weigh, measure and bleed you to death take a vial or two of blood.  Then they give you a little glossy card with all the above information (including a wonderful BMI chart) and send your blood back to the vampires lab so they can run tests.

I hate that glossy little card.  For the past two years, I have been listed as obese.  Okay, I wear a size 12.  And I am obese. 

So, I have decided that I am going to exercise so that next year I can tell that little card where to go be friends with the little card.  I will be starting the 30 Day Shred tomorrow (Tomorrow?  Really?  Are you sure?  Yes, Kelly tomorrow.  No excuses.)

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.  If, ya know, I'm still alive.


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I'm tired and I wanna go home ...

Home...
Home...
Hooooooome.


(Don't worry if you don't get the reference. Although you are missing out on one awesome John Wayne movie.)

Lack of sleep combined with stupidly forgetting my allergy pill is making Kelly Lynn not a happy camper. I am grumpy and also, snotty.

I am ready to go home to my nice warm bed with my nice warm kitties and perhaps not wake up until oh, April? How does April sound to you?

Alas, I have to go home in the fog, which my weather alert tells me is not just fog but DENSE FOG. Which means snail speed all the way home. Yay!

And there will be no bed for me when I get home. I need to fix supper, clean off the table, put the dishes away from Monday, put the clothes away from Sunday and Monday, and OMG CLEAN THE CAT BOXES! Seriously, two kitties should not feel the need to poop and pee as much as they do.

Then and only then am I allowed into bed. Where I will be smothered by Emme and Kisa. Kisa will sprawl lengthwise down my body (of which she is almost half of me!) and be dead to the world while Emme will pin my legs down and bite me if I move and growl in ALL CAPS because OMG MOM! WE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!

Let me just say that it is not a fun time when the alarm goes off.




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Okay....

... not sure why my background has pulled a runner.

And now it's back.

Weird.

And now it's gone again.

And back.

:sigh:

Feeling a little sick ...

... that I wasted all that money.

I just paid back two credit cards at $404.76 and $419.96 respectively. I have not used either of these cards for almost 2 years because they were maxed out. And now, they have a balance of $0.

I feel like such a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. 




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The Results Are In ...

I HAZ MONEEZ!


I did my taxes and am getting a nice fat check from the government.  Life is sweet.

I will be using the money to pay off two credit cards (about $800 total) and using the leftovers to to pick up some much needed items (such as JEANS which I have not bought since COLLEGE) and I am trying very hard to make sure that I am not frivolously throwing my money away. 

Sooo, I'm not getting the kitties spayed.  And no, I don't think that spaying my cats is a frivolous thing.  It's just too cold!  I kept telling myself that just as soon as I got my refund, off to the vet we would go.  But I didn't figure that we would be in the middle of the Year of the Blizzard(s) and have 50 gazillion tons of snow dumped on us.  So the kittos and I are going to wait until Spring to venture out, probably by boat after all this snow melts.  If, ya know, we actually have Spring this year.

Anyhoo, I'm trying to make up a master list of stuff I NEED.  And trying to justify it, of course.  (I have a weird vision of myself as Rebecca from Confessions of a Shopaholic when she is justifying buying gloves because SHE HAS HANDS!)



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1001 Things Update

Here's a little update on some of the goals I'm trying to work on.


**Get Emme and Kisa spayed. Goodbye $175.  Debating on this.  I am hopeful that after my tax refund and subsequent repaying of two of my credit cards there will be enough left over to get the girls spayed.  Or buy me a freezer.  Decisions, decisions.

**Wash face everyday for a month.  Doing pretty good on this one.  If you don't count weekends.  I'm lucky if I can drag myself from bed to the couch.

**Save $1000-1500  Hoping that this is one is a little closer in the making.  After paying off my two credit cards, I should have about $100 more in my budget, of which $50/month is going straight into a piggy bank.

**Pay off 2 credit cards  As mentioned above, I am using my tax return to pay off my credit cards (Thank you, Jesus!  Amen.).  My first return I ... did something with(?) the second I bought a bed, the next a car so now I'm working on debt.  Really fun.  Can't I buy another bed.  Or something?

**Pay off smallest student loan  The other $50 (or maybe $25) is going on to my smallest student loan.  Only $950 left!  Whoohoo!  We will not mention my other student loan.  Unless you want to see me weep bitter, bitter tears of hate.

**Put up blind in guest bedroom  The blind has been in the bedroom for 6 months now.  Why is it so difficult to actually ATTACH it to the wall?  Why?

**Meal plan every week for a month.  I've stuck to my meal plan so far.  Granted it's only nine days in but hey, February is a short month, right?  I get points for that.

**Lose 25 pounds  Okay, that number may be slightly high.  I would settle for 2.5 pounds right now.

**Cut cable package to internet only  I have a phobia of calling my cable provider.  I always sound like an idiot and no one can understand what I'm trying to explain.  I mean, I use technical terms and everything like ya know, the green light thingy is blinking or the green light thingy isn't green anymore but orange or maybe yellow?

**Buy a freezer  I have wanted to buy a freezer for a long time.  Especially since my grocery store has been having great deals on their meat that I cannot participate in because my freezer is full.  'Cause it's dinky.  And mean.

**Learn how to bake bread  There is a possibility this will be attempted on Friday.  Stay tuned for further announcement.  Also, be afraid.  Very afraid.

**Decide on keeping desk or not  Probably leaning toward yes.  Right now it is holding my almost-as-old-as-I-am TV which is allowing me to watch Poirot before bed.  We do not mess with the Poirot watching.

**Start exercising  Umm, yeah.  No comment.

**Organize recipes  This will take me five hundred years.  But five hundred years from now I will be the most organized cook in the world.  Also, very old.

**Catch up on tv series  Right now, I'm through Season 1 of Torchwood, about halfway through Season 2 and dragging my heels for Children of Earth.  I'm not sure I can watch.  Also, watching Poirot and slugging through my Netflix queue (which I can watch on my new Blu-ray player!) of which there are 358 movies and/or tv series to get through.  Where's another blizzard when you need one?



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*Updated* 101 Things in 1001 Days

I'm totally stealing this from Simple Bliss. So my starting day is December 2, 2009 and my ending day is August 29, 2012. (If the world is still here. Just sayin'.)

I will be adding to this as I think of things. 'Cause trying to think of 101 things off the top of my head is owie.

My Goals for 2009-2012

1. Get Emme and Kisa spayed. Goodbye $175.
2. Get my oil changed every 3 months.
3. Brush teeth everyday for a month.
   
4. Wash face everyday for a month.
   
5. Save $1000-1500
6. Pay off 2 credit cards - DONE 2/18/10
   
7. Pay off smallest student loan
8. Put up blind in guest bedroom
9. Organize guest bedroom
10. Have bush in front of house trimmed
11. Meal plan every week for a month.
    
12. Keep up on laundry, dishes, vacuuming and kitty boxes for a month.
13. Crochet a Christmas afghan for mom
14. Finish Unexpected Bonds
15. Decorate bedroom
16. Buy large bookcase for bedroom - ABANDONED (I bought two small ones instead!)
    
17. Buy dvd/vcr for bedroom - DONE 1/30/10 (I bought a Blu-Ray player for the living room and put the old dvd/vcr player in the bedroom. ^_^)
18. Buy flat screen for bedroom
19. Shampoo carpets every 3 months
20. Go on vacation alone
21. Lose 25 pounds
22. Get washing machine fixed - DONE 12/7/09
    
23. Read the Bible
24. Start going to church
25. Learn some basic Japanese
26. Buy curtain rods for all rooms
27. Buy curtains for kitchen and guest bedroom
28. Deep clean the kitchen cabinets
29. Cut cable package to internet only
30. Buy a Roku - ABANDONED 1/30/10 (My Blu-Ray player plays Netflix!)
31. Buy a new computer. Give old one to mom
32. Look for new car for me, minivan for mom
33. Balance checkbook every week
    
34. Start looking for place closer to work
35. Buy a freezer
36. Learn how to bake bread
37. Learn how to make homemade mixes
38. Buy oven light! This is sad that it needs to be a goal. T_T DONE 1/2/10
    
39. Try out ten new recipes
40. Ask my landlord if I can paint
41. Inventory DVDs, VHS and music
42. Decide on keeping desk or not
43. Organize/decorate laundry room
44. Create emergency kits for car and house
45. Start exercising
46. Create a second account/savings
47. Try a no spend month 2x/year
48. Create a mail system
49. Paint Pantry and microwave cart
50. Paint dresser and armoire
51. Start using cloth napkins
52. Try OAMC
53. Stockpile some groceries like flour, sugar, etc.
54. Finish home journal
55. Organize recipes
56. Blog everyday for a month
57. Read 101 books
58. Watch 101 movies
59. No hitting snooze button for one week
60. Send Christmas cards every year - 2009 Fail
    
61. Drink a bottle of water everyday for a month
62. Get contacts
63. Buy a (cheap) violin and learn to play
64. Catch up on tv series

Memory Loss or WTF am I talking about?

Taking a quick break from ILL, reserves, student schedules and any of the other 5 million things I've been doing today.

Second semester started today and I am back to my old 3pm-midnight schedule.  (Thank you, God!  Btw, can you stop winter?  Just a little?  Hugs and kisses!  Me.)

Monday we had a mini blizzard.  If by mini you mean zero visibility and by blizzard you mean holy cow, I can't see my house from the driveway!  So I only worked for four hours on Monday and then Tuesday we had orientation for transfers, an overload of ILL, no students, reserves needing to be put on NOW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NOW!  Btw, bringing books in the day before classes start to be put on reserve does not the brownie point receive.  Wednesday (today) we were swamped.  I sent out a call for help and our lovely ILL student came to the rescue whittling the scary 39 items awaiting processing down to 16 waiting to be scanned for tomorrow.

Anyway, that was a long winded back story for my next story.  (Well, not really back story.  More like back vent.  Is that a word?)

I was filing some reserve slips when I saw the folder we keep for one specific class that always has the same books go on reserve.  Our last secretary had put it together (complete with label and everything!) a few years ago.  I decided to just glance at it as I need to take them off of reserve now.  One of the lists was a print out of the barcodes with handwritten titles under it.  I was just thinking what a sweetheart she was that she took the extra time to go through and double check that what we had on reserve was the same as what was on the list when I took a closer look.  And felt like a total idiot.  It was my own handwriting.  Done before I knew how to print off both barcodes and titles together apparently.  Not that I can remember doing it in the first place.

Don't you just wish that you work with me?

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It's a miracle

I have a confession to make.

I just worked out for half an hour.

I know!

I bought the dvd Core Rhythms years ago and I tried it a couple times. Holy cow do those girls go fast! I'm thinking this is one dvd that will have to wait until I loose a little more weight or suddenly become coordinated. Please excuse me while I laugh hysterically.

I didn't do that bad. Okay. I only got through the warm up and 1 1/4 of the sessions. Of which there are two. But still! I did it! Most of my problem comes from the fact that I have two left feet. The way I was tripping all over the place, you could have sworn I had about four or five feet going in the wrong direction, though. Plus I kicked Emme in the face. Not terribly hard but enough for her to run away from me. So I'm thinking kitties go in their room with the door shut while Mommy is exercising, mkay?

Tomorrow I am going back to the oldie but goodie, Tae Bo. The Basic workout, of course, where I can stare at Billy Blanks with his blue spandex leotard thing and wonder how much he got paid to wear what looks like a reject superhero outfit. A too small reject superhero outfit. Seriously. His man boobies are kinda falling out. Ewww.

You know how it feels when you hang upside down and all the blood rushes to your head? Yeah, I feel a lot like that right now. Only I was standing up the whole time. Go figure. Otherwise, I feel okay. No major owies, yet. Yet being the operative word.

And now for the serious section of this post. (Have you noticed that I do this? I'm all la la la then bam! I start being all serious and weepy? I don't know, either. Maybe I'm bipolar.)

So, the whole exercising thing has been brought on by a couple of things. I sorta realized that I'm going to be thirty in four years. I'm not spazzing about turning thirty 'cause it's just not a big deal to me. I just think that by thirty there should be a few things that I should have taken care of.

I finally got the hair and makeup down (okay mostly down), I'm slightly more financially stable (stress on slightly) and I'm finally coming out of my shell (okay, people who know me now can't believe that I was way shyer and quieter than I am now and people from back then, well, actually I haven't seen people from back then in forever so I can't be certain what they would say, but I'm sure it would include some whoah's but anyway. better!).

So these are the things I need to be working on before I turn thirty:
1. Loose some weight. (Stupid health insurance says I'm obese. I wear a size 12 for crying out loud!)
2. Get a life outside of work!
3. Make a good friend to do stuff with (okay, I do have friends. they just all graduated and moved to exotic locations. and I work nights so I'm not exactly around a lot of people (although I do get stalked by the Wal-Mart floor waxer guy a lot). and I don't really make friends all that well. back to the shy thing.)
4. Learn to walk in heels. A frivolous goal but a goal nonetheless.



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Snowbank Blues

So. I got stuck in a snowbank today. The snowbank located directly next door. I didn't even make it to the end of my street, yo!

A series of events led to this snowbank. I got up an hour and a half later than I was supposed to as we were to have our belated staff Christmas party today at noon which is when I usually get to work over Interim and I needed to get there early. So I was in a hurry for that. I didn't let my windows completely defrost on the inside as I was in a hurry (no worries, I could still see, just the far edges were a little blurry!). And last but not least, I was trying to avoid two kids walking home from school who thought that they should walk down the middle of the road when a car is coming. I moved over too far and ended up with my right bumper in a snowbank. I tried to back out but every time I tried, the kids kept getting closer to the car. I finally rolled down the window to tell them I needed some room to back up. Have I mentioned before that I'm not particularly fond of children?

Anyways, all that stopping and starting got me even more stuck. I called the tow truck and the lady said that it would take some time as one truck was just leaving Ft. Dodge and one had a call just outside of town. I gave her my number and walked home (next door! how embarrassing!). I was on the phone with my mom venting about how I got stuck (next door!) when my neighbor (from next door!) knocked on my door and offered to pull me out. I called the tow truck back but the lady said he was on his way. We actually met him right when my neighbor was starting to hitch up my car. He left and I hope that they don't charge me. Keep your fingers crossed!

So, my neighbor got me out, I circled the block and pulled into my driveway and called it good. Then I called my mom back and ranted some more.

On the bright side, the University is closing today so I don't have to take any PTO. Yay for paid day off! Except for the snowbank part. I could have lived without that. Also, I got most of my groceries for the month last night (how's that for being prepared?) so I won't starve any time soon.

So the kitties and I have taken up residence on the couch. We just finished Bedknobs & Broomsticks, totally one of my faves. Trying to get up the energy to start on my mountain of dirty dishes.

Btw, would it be bad of me to hope that tomorrow is another snow day? I was just thinking that well, I don't work Friday or Saturday and if we get Thursday off as well, I could be looking at a four day weekend! Awesome!


Laters.