elanya

Frst of all, I have an extra dog atm, which is always exciting. It means twice an many outside breaks for dog emptying! You might think this tends to break up my at-home times and you would be right! This has been my whole weekend.

Today, I woke up, hoping to have yogurt for breakfast, but this time, I failed at yogurt again. Last time, I also failed at yogurt (when I tried to make it in the crockpot) and eventually wound up with someething like unto ricotta cheese which I ate with honey and nutmeg and didn't lill me. This time, I just had my oven too hot and the milk cooked and my yogurt starter died (I'm pretty sure).

Undaunted, once I emptied dogs and went running with Jola, I decided to use my cooked milk for something productive. Cooked milk always makes me think of rice pudding*, so clearly that was what I had to do! Meanwhile I finished the rest of my available cultural readings. While that all was going on, a number of things also happened concurrently! earis called me to tell me about a crazy dream! belryan called to confirm plans for skating! I gave away my old desktop computer to a dude from freecycle! There were excitements.

The most exciting of these excitements is that they both came over to partake of delicious rice pudding before skating!

Skating as, of course, at an indoor rink. It was pretty empty, which was sweet. In addition to the three of us, there was also Heather B a.k.a Merc on account of how there are a zillion Heathers at school. Okay 4. Still!

I fell four times, twice on my knee because my skate got caught on my pant leg *as* I was falling and couldn't fall smart (on my cushiony hip :x)

It was still fun! There was a weird mix of musics: country, rap, modern pop, classic rock, 80's tunes, Led Zeppelin, Rob Zombie...

We were there probably around 12:30, and it went on to about 2, in theory.

In practice, as skating was winding down, we were approached by a chick who induced us to stay.... and play hockey! Well, learn some hockey basics. we got to wear borrowed gear and such, worked on some skating fundamentals and passing and so forth. Fun times! Ryan was better at it, being a Canadain boy (and thus having more ice experience of the formal ad informal type) did well, as did Merc, who can actually skate all proper like. I learned that my skates are really crappy - which I am going to take for the reason that I always fall so much. The blades are crappy and they have no support. This makes me want to try rental skates next time we go and see if there is really a lot of difference, and if there is, I may have to get new better skates.

But the point it that I played hockey in Texas. Not for the first time though (I am pretty sue I have had some basics at some point, on further reflection, probably at school), but that *would* have been hilarious.

After Hockey (!!!), we were all *starving* so we went to the Blue Baker, which is the win, for sammiches. i also had a cookie. Then I came home and walked Jola.... to Petco! where I bought her some new toys and a furminator @_@ So now I will brush my dog, for she is shedding like crazymad!

However I am super duper tired after running and skating and hockey and dog walking. Thankfully I also had some diet coke with my sammich or I would probably have absolutely no energy for the god knows how many pages for bio ;_;

*I used currents instead of raising because I could. Also, I added nutmeg, because, seriously. Rice pudding = nutmeg. I now realize I didn't do the vanilla + butter bit, but whatever - there was nutmeg :p

I am officially getting a cold, booo! At first I thought it was low level dog allergies, but no - it's a cold. Probably because my sleep schedule has been so messed up over the holidays, and I've been sleeping poorly on account of being too lazy to flip my mattress so that the groove I'm wearing in to it is in a different less uncomfortable place ;p

So, I took a bath, even though my water was all dirty again. Baaaath! I think that after it rains, dirt gets into the water, and if my hot water heater gets filled before it is cleared out, i get a tank of dirty water :p Bah! Anyway, by the time I had my post bath shower it was running clear. Now I am having hibiscus tea (made with clean brita-filtered water that was in my nalgene), curled up in bed. That is not just an excuse to use my Iroh icon, but hey, you must admit that it is pretty awesome!

I got lots of stuff done today, including buying an asston of books for my history class, getting a calendar (Futurama!) after failing to find any of above mentioned textbooks at half-priced books (it was worth a look!), paying my tuition, and playing cupcake fairy to the department. Also i think i am done my SHA talk - I just need to look it over tomorrow. And I went to the gym, and took down my Christmas stuff. Rah!

Debating going to bed early tonight, but I had an hour nap (and some cupcakes) after I got *back* from the gym, because that seemed logical somehow ;p too sleepy to read or write, though, so I don't know what else to do!

Happy Birthday Danielle!

I got some more booty today as well - a present (with a card clearly marked 'for Elanya on her birthday') from rumplefurskin, which I am, apparently, to save for Saturday (bah!), and a mystery Serenity t-shirt! Yay, thank you mystery present giver :D

I also got other exciting mail, that being my new bank and visa card from my dad (wooo!) and also the text book that I was missing and that has been such a giant pain in the butt to track down. So, wooh!

Also yesterday I bought a new office chair (as opposed to a kitchen chair with a pillow on it, which is what i was using before), and assembled it during Exia. So all is relatively well, save that I think I am getting sick. I screamed my throat raw at the pirate party, and then Saturday I had to spray for ants, and I don't think my raw throat too well to the fumes. It's been irritated since then, and I think I have a bit of a fever today as well as it being sore. I think that I weakened it and am maybe now getting a throat cold or infection of some kind, so, wooh -_- Also, my ankle, which I thought was well on the way to recovery on Friday, still bothers me. I think it is because I haven't been wrapping it at night, when I have less conscious control over how I move it. So I wrapped it up again today, and will keep it wrapped tonight, and see how it goes from there.

In the mean time, I still owe three hours of work for today (I came home after my meeting and crashed, only to be awakened by another $&*^%(&%^ police association telemarketer, with whom I was very short). bleh.

Well, here I go to de-dutchify another document!

I have a lot of stuff I want to do this evening, so I'm makin' a list. I may check it twice. Probably I will check it more than twice.

In other news, I just ordered a pair of croc mary janes. And to further offend those who think they are the ugliest shoes ever, I bought them in brown :V I was going to get army green, but Laura has a pair in green already and I didn't want to copy :x Also my ankle is feeling better, at least for walking. I went swimming instead of to the regular gym today, and used the pool buoy thing... and then swam a klick using just my arms, go me!

So, anyway, to do:
- get some groceries (I have nothing in my fridge save a mouthful of cheese, a lot of spoiled milk, and a squash)
- make dinner (in that order, see above -_-)
- read more for EWS
- look for more stuff for MM
- put in an extra hour of work so I can pull ahead for when Joel is here
- copy over the last bit of Shadows 10
- maybe start on some new writing.

I also got a slew of things from Amazon today (okay, three), all of which were delivered by separate methods. None of which were what I was expecting :V I'm still short a book for EWS, which I have just ordered for a third time, as I didn't realize the second order was slotted to tahe 4-6 weeks for delivery. Sheesh. In any case, i received the following early birthday presents from my sister!

1: Dagon - movie - delivered by DHL.
2: Pirate hat (!!!) - delivered by normal post (USPS).
3: Call of Cthulhu - silent movie - delivered by UPS.

Awesome. And now, it is time to get me some dinner!

Bees are mounting, and so I've been cranky lately, and little things are making me feel snappish when they shouldn't.

And then as I was walking to the bus stop after class and talking to Megan, I tripped on a combination of my skirt and some uneven flagstones, and twisted my ankle. So since my reaction to pain is generally to get really cranky*, you can imagine my mood at the moment. I'm not cranky really, but murder is lurking under the surface.

So no only does my ankle hurt no matter what I do, I skinned my knee on the other side (not a real problem), and tore the aforementioned skirt. It is one of my favourites. I inherited it from my mom - it is the one that is mostly a dark pink and then fades to almost tie-dyed or drip-dyed purple, beige, and green at the bottom, with fancy embroidery swirls... Sadness ;_;

And almost all my dishes are dirty, and I'd have to stand to wash them. And I don't have any food I want to eat. And I still have to finish a presentation I hate for tomorrow. And etc...

*depending on what kind of pain, anyway. This kind of pain where there is nothing I can do about it (except take drugs, which I did, and there is ice on my foot now) and it prevents me from operating normally makes me cranky >:|

ETA: And damn it - I want a cheeseburger ;_;
ETA II: And I think I left my nalgene at the bus stop. And there was a dead cockroach in my kitchen -_-

I dreamed I was Batman (or some similar superhero type). At one point someone was trying to trick me into revealing who Captain America really was (does he even have a secret identity? I confess i know very little about him o_O). And somewhere in this plot, I had to find the members of Voltron (who were not Voltrn as we know them - there were at least two chicks, and they were hot). So I tracked down a lair of badguys I thought they'd be going after, and took them all out (killed them, really. So I guess I wasn't Batman after all :V), and then lounged around saucily in a bedroom I'd hastily tidied up until the hot Voltron chicks arrived (as a side note, the lions also transformed into cool looking future cars, or at least regular cars that could pop up futuristic gizmos.). When they did, I tried to seduce them so gain their confidence. (meaningful ellipse.) And then my alarm went off.

I awoke seven kinds of groggy, and decided that i would have a power bar for breakfast because I think my energy/protein levels must be low for me to be this tired all the time! Fortunately today is a meat day, and I am going over to Aaron's tonight for dinner with him and Megan, and some other friends of theirs who I like quite a lot :)

I am almost done with the last glossary, and only need to put in 5 1/2 hours today. So I am going to in to school at some point. I'll have to, unless the glossary guy has got all the other terms added for me. And then I can get some plants before the gym. Yay plants!

I have had adventures tonight. I went to Best Buy, where I acquired a 500gig external hard drive, thereby more than quintupling my data storage space, wooooh! I also finally caved and bought myself a webcam. And the unrated version of Orgasmo. I met earis at school, thinking to drag her along. We wound up getting turned around (my fault -_-) and taking the loooong way to Best Buy. then i had to find the product in question, and then look at movies, and then decided that since I was there I should get the webcam I've been considering for some time now. Which took me a while. We started walking back, and once we were a good 5-10 min away, I realized that they had over charged me, the fuckers! So I had to go back. Claire went back to school though, as she had things to do. Well. The return took longer than it probably needed to. It turns out that the tags were done wrong, so I actually wound up paying *less* for a higher end product, wooh! But then i had to get home. i didn't think I could get to the bus on time for it's hourly run (in the evenings after 6 they run on the quarter hour.... but until midnight, so, sweet). So i decided to walk. It's about 45 min. But I'd already gone swimming today, and then walked out there (the long way), and now I was carrying all this crap.... I was just starting down Anderson (the very long street on which I live), when an angel of mercy descended from the heavens to deliver me! Well, okay, it was tethys123 who was driving by and saw me, and gave me a lift home. But she was lookin' saucy, and I'm sure there are jealous angels out there ;) So then I got home and got to play with the shiiiiiny! The hard drive was a cinch to get up and running. It fills me with joy. Think of how much stuff I can pirate now! :V The webcam, conversely, was a bitch and a half to get set up, because XP was hiding all the necessary drivers. I called the support line, and that one time the install stuff gave me all completely different error messages than it had previously. So I tried messing around with it some more on my own, and eventually found a link on a message board that told me where the drivers were hiding. Of course I had to figure out that it was drivers that were missing, first off, but after I got that sorted, it was smoooooth sailing! So yes, I am now web enabled. Saucy! Now I just wanna chill out for a bit. Hey, I guess I could watch Orgasmo... :D

So far, so medium. i am leaving shortly to head i to school for swimming and some work. This morning I made a big pot of Random Soup, put away some laundry, get all my gym stuff ready and most of the stuff I need to take with me this afternoon. I haven't done any schoolwork, though I thought about it. I did the other stuff and tidied instead. And played game. Which I will do again tonight. Fortunately this presentation is not much of a challenge in terms of research, and I have started the rest of it as well. So wooh! I thik I might just survive! Though I will probably need a nap before Exia... if we are even playing?

Gotta get going to make it to the guym, I think! Later taters!

I was thinking about going swimming this morning, but I talked to L'Annie and now I am going to on the weekend instead! So the the question becomes whether or not I want to go to the regular gym today! i just went yesterday, though, so i think instead I'll just go in to school and do some reading and work on my presentation, and maybe do a few hours of actual work. Except that now I need a shower now instead!

In other news, Buck picked me up a Rescue Ratchet movie tf figure and it fills me with glee! The first Autobot I've bought in a long time - he just looks soooo much better in white and red :D

I just did something pretty horrible to my back reaching behind me to grab a ha;f filled paint can while I was sitting on the floor. I just took a bunch of advil and am hoping for the best ;_; I tried some yoga stretches but Im not convnced it is a muscle thing - not after that horrible crunching ;_; I guess this is what happens when you wake up stiff from the gym the day before and don't stretch out properly.

I am just going to lie here in bed and try not to have to get up.

At least the bathroom is done :p