elanya

Today I received in the mail:

Soaps from Julie, mailed from Canada on Dec 16.
Postcard from Daniel, sent from Japan around Jan 6.

Fail, Canada Post, Fail.

In other news, I took my camera to Austin on Saturday and left it in Josh's car. And I need to to take pictures for school. And I need to make myself get back in the habit of doing school work at home/at all. And I should get dinner and/or possibly some groceries. And I would like to make some cookies. And And And.

While in Austin on the weekend, I let Zari entice me into another knitting project. I'm gonna make a bigass triangle shawl! It will be deep burgandy and a deep orange paired together. Should be pretty. However I keep messing up my knitting in frustrating ways, with the added annoyance that I will have to wait a couple of days before I am physically close enough to anyone who might be able to help me fix it to do anything about it. So, bah! I dropped/slipped a stitch on the end (I think) - that is my current hang-up. I hate getting stalled on projects that I am keen on - it induces this nigh-constant level of frustration, which gets worse whenever I make myself think about it by doing time-wasting things like writing a live-journal post. Hmmm....

Not sure how the rest of my night is going to break down. Groceries are a must as I am out of bread/bagels (for toast and sammiches, etc), and I need to figure out what i am doing for dinner tomorrow so I can prep anything that might need to go in the crock pot (take meat out of freezer, etc).

For those of you who don't know, Julie was down visiting this past week and it was quite awesome and now she is back home and I am sad. And yesterday was (I think?) the first day I had all to myself since Christmas, and it was awful (not because of loneliness, but rather because of mechanical issues and knitting frustrations). This is a shame as I usually enjoy time alone to some extent, especially after so long without a break!

Ahh well. I must do something to improve my day. But what! :o

Also I still can't find my keys. the last time I had them for *sure* was Thursday afternoon when I went in to school to shut down my computer... I might have had them Friday morning, but I don't 100% remember :x

I may have mentioned here that I am planning a trip to Ontario at the end of the month/beginning of next month. I'm leaving here on the 29th and coming back the 11th - a nice trip, and for most of that I'll be staying with curtana and forthright and their son, Arthur. I'm super excited for that!

I'm also excited because the LARP that I randomly started playing two Januarys ago, on a spur of the moment decision while I was in TO for SHA and hanging out with Rob (who plays regularly)... *deep breath* ... is having a 4 day event that weekend (there isn't an event page yet, so I will show you the main page instead :)! So I will actually get to attend a real event, as opposed to the mini events they run over the winter. I'm super excited for that too, but it involves a bit more prep than just hanging out with awesome people ;) I need a real costume (and more so this time as apparently there is a tv crew coming to film an episode of Fanboy Confessional!), I need camping gear, weapons, transportation, food... Man! I am now questioning my choice of character, who wears very little that I can safely improvise from my own wardrobe and whose survival chances for an event like this are likely to be slim -_- We'll see how it goes :D So far, I have one outfit for her, though as this is a 4 day affair, I'd really like a second :p I got some boots and some other miscellany today as well, so things are looking good! Also, Rob has a little tent he is lending me, and J&S say they might have a sleeping bag :D

People are coming over here Thursday to do some sewing, since Zari asked for help with her skirt, so I will hopefully get a chance to work on costuming some more then. Woot woot!

Yesterday I decided that I was fed up with not getting any exercise - I can feel my back muscles weakening, and it is affecting my posture and my sleep. Man I miss the assisted pull up machine :( Biking two days a week isn't cutting it for cardio either! So yesterday I did a bit of lazy yoga and some push-ups, and today I did a few more, and went sorta running with Jola (the sorta is a reflection mostly of my shitty shitty cardio, but I am also blaming the heat + humidity= heat index of 110 equation ;p). So I'll see if I can keep that up at all @_@ While it isn't my prime motivator, I won't deny that the 4 days of running away from things (in multiple layers of dress) that is coming up at the beginning of next month is also an incentive for doing this ;p

Oh also, work. Ahhh!

I got my Christmas present from Julie :D It is awesome :D I can't say what it is until I know if C got hers though, and she's away this week :/ But once everyone's is accounted for, all shall be revealed :D

Happy Birthday Julie! *loves and kisses*!

Miss you ^-^

So yes.  I got home from school at 9:41.  I left the building at something like 8:40, though.  the bus was supposed to come at 9.  The wait was annoying because it was cold and there should have been at 9 (not one at 8:40 :p), but you all know my hatred of the A&M bus system.  Assholes and Monkeys!

Fortunately it let me get caught up on writing Shadows, as my writing time lately has been limited.  Not quite done the next section but I'm close.

I got to school around 11, I think, and left at 8:30.  I don't actually have class on Mondays - I pretty much spent all day in the ship lab, working on that one project - redrawing, re-measuring, inking, etc.  I am bothered because I messed up somewhere on either the measuring or the drawing, and can't figure out which.  And it is a group project.  Of course, it isn't actually for marks, which makes the fact that i've spend oh, let me count...  Maybe 1-2 hours on Friday, 9 yesterday and 9 today, so about 20 hours, on it, really ridiculous.  Oh, and that is just the drawing, that doesn't count the afternoon we spent taking our initial measurements :p  BAH!

(Well okay maybe I went to a lunch time lecture thing for an hour today, but it was not very well done, and the sandwiches were tiiiiiny!)

What really annoys me is that all the hours I've put into this piece of crap are hours I'd planned to be working on my final project.  Now I'm 2-3 weeks behind where I want to be, and I've not had much time to work on my term paper either.   I'm stressing over the fact that I'm going to be stressed, already.

I wasn't feeling stressed today though - I was feeling very silly.  I'm pretty sure I was being obnoxiously silly, in fact!  By the time I got home, however, I'd crashed completely.  I made my lunch for tomorrow.  I realized that my shoulders felt like bricks, and did some stretches.  I should study for my test on Thursday or finish re-typing my notes, but I haven't.  I don't know the stuff nearly well enough, but I just don't see it happening tonight.  I want a hug and a backrub.  My bathtub isn't worth a damn, alas.
 
At least, I got my art project from Julie today!  It is lovely, and is *like* a hug, anyway :)  I have plans for mine, but need time.  Anyone got an extra week kicking around?