I had to take a reactine yesterday after cleaning out the basement, because I had hives and a million sneezes.

Today as a consequence I was an utter zombie and managed to do almost nothing productive all day. It took me three tries to remember my work phone number and write it down correctly *while I was looking at it*. I really hate the feeling, and wish I could find a good antihistamine that didn't give me the same reaction :/

Also I ate way too many snacks. But on the upside - I can touch my toes! my bed time/bus stop stretches are paying off!

Sleep now though :3

I did a big entry yesterday and apparently forgot to post it, and semagic didn't save it. Balls!

Well, the tl;dr version: I am destined to be a decrepit old lady and the cat woke me up freaking out over nothing :|

Seriously though - my shoes are wearing out, and I hadn't realized how badly. On Friday I had some pretty bad foot pain, and further investigation has confirmed this is because of how the sole has worn through on my sandal on that side - basically the actual sole is gone in the middle, so the center of the ball of my foot just has squishy foot bed foam between it an the ground, but the bones around it have more sole support, and it puts pressure on my foot bones in terribly interesting ways. So I'm going to ditch them in favour of still worn but more wearable shoes until I can replace them.

Also, to recap what I didn't post yesterday, I probably have hip bursitis that flares up any time I try to run even a bit and affects other forms of exercise, plus knee problems, hand joint issues (that interfere with pushups if I try to do too many), etc - decrepit old lady. I'm not even old yet ;_;

Anyway, it is Star Wars Day! Woohoo! Here's hoping the new movies don't suck and have moar ladiez!

I feel like I had more to say about today, but apparently not? I finished a story I am happy with and am now waiting to be able to post it :3 I am also still waiting to hear back about some stories I submitted for publication back in, um, January >.> But I emailed the editor and they haven't been outright rejected yet anyway so I can be patient :V I should also get some feedback o them even if they aren't accepted, so score! I suspect, in fact, that this is probably the main reason for the hold up. I would be incredibly surprised (but pleased) if they were *both* being seriously considered for publication.

Time to go Write More Things! Or maybe fold some laundry >.>

ETA: I bought these! \o/

I have been living in excel hell, but I think I am through it. I think!

Today I want to try and go to the gym again for the first time in forever, and possibly also write an Avengers drabble for the FF Secrets challenge. And then finish fixing my counts, make my tables, and get on with actual dissertation *writing*. I don't think I'll get that far today, but it feels like it is at least in sight again! Hooray for helpful engineers :)

Time to take out little visiting puffball and then head to work :3

Some random things!

I keep forgetting that it is Thanksgiving weekend, I should make a(nother) pie :)

I went to the gym tonight to play racquetball, but was thwarted by a lack of balls. None to rent, and none even to buy! Instead, merc and I went climbing! Which she is very good at, despite not having been for years, and I am crap at! Still it was fun, and educational. My problems are partly psychological (not trusting myself enough), and partly physical. I know I need to rely on leg strength mostly, but the impulse is to pull myself up, still. Also, I need to do more lunges to go with my squats, and possibly work on flexibility. the muscles I needed to engage were sadly underdeveloped. That also includes my forearms, which were pretty sore from me hanging on whilst groping about for a foothold I trusted. But even so, I think we will go again. I just need to find some decently affordable climbing shoes...

I think I am going to Weinerfest tomorrow! With JJ, even if she is not a weiner by breed ^-^

Something completely unrelated made me think of this song tonight. But you have to skip to almost the 2 min mark to actually hear it, unless you are interested in how it was conceived. My mom had this album, and I've always liked the song - but I haven't heard it or thought of it in yeeeeeears...

Ugh

Went to the gym this AM with tethys123, locker FAIL. Things *eventually* got sorted. Did 1/2 hour on elliptical despite not gyming since the end of spring semester. Survived! Decided to do legs. Went to do squats, decided to aim for a meager 75 lbs on account of... not gyming since the end of etc. Didn't seem to bad, but due to not stretching or warming up properly(?), pulled something in my inner thigh on the first set. Bleh. Did back/side hyper-extensions and a ton of yoga and stretches instead.

Megan nicely took me to Goodwill, where I nabbed a VCR for $10. let the screening of anth films begin :V

Came home, went to Shipleys, ate doughnut while arseing on the internet, passed out for an hour.

Woke up. Showered. Tried to make myself do work. Got some books out. Made some toast. Ate some toast. Arsed around on the internet. Did a little bit of work. Passed out (sort of) for another hour.

Lather, rinse repeat. -_-

Just was forced out of what was closer to a 2 hour lie down by J who wanted out. Took her out briefly. I an still exhausted. I haven't been sleeping well, but my naps (when I can actually sleep during them, as opposed to just lie there like a legless zombie) have not been very successful. On top of just being *tired* now I'm physically tired from the gym as well. I have.... revised about a paragraph of the article I owe Ben for the end of the month. I don't have either the mental or physical energy for anything. I don't even know :/ This morning I had an epic idea for a really cute short story that wouldn't take me long to write, but I've forgotten most of it and don't have time anyway. too much work, too many other half-fulfilled writing projects...

Bleh. I don't think I've been eating poorly. I don't think it is bees. I don't know, maybe it is just the start of term. :/ I definitely need a new mattress (ha, how long have i been saying that? :P), but I don't think that can really account for all of it.

Bleh.

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

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!

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 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

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