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It has been exactly six months and two days since I last posted anything on this blog.
For a period of time in the middle there, I almost lost the blog due to lack of funding, but managed to scrape by. When you’ve never had any money, you don’t miss it when its gone. If that makes any sense…
Today is the last in a series of three days off in a row. How I manage that with two jobs, I’ll never know. Tomorrow I work all day, and that’s pretty exciting because I’m about at that point where I’m exhausted from being at home. I did buy Little Big Planet today though, and I’m kind of sad I have to wait a while to play again. (Frank’s busy playing CODMW2 with his dudes…)
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Updates of the past six months:
- I’ve (finally) moved into my own apartment.
- I’ve started WeightWatchers and lost 14.4 lbs as of this past Monday.
- I’ve read the entire Twilight series, loved it, am not ashamed of the fact that I loved it, and plan on re-reading it as soon as I get through Dr. Phillips nightmarish Renaissance Literature class.
- I’ve purchased plane tickets to visit Jeanette in Hawaii in October for her wedding.
That’s really the bulk of it. Nothing in my everyday life is exactly noteworthy. I haven’t even come up with any point to this blog yet.
Aloha!
(oh wait — There it is! ————-> . )
It has been quite some time since my last midnightish post. I have been rather busy depressed not in the mood for blogging. To be honest I’m still not in the mood for blogging.
Lets get to the point, shall we?
Diet — rotten. I’m a terrible dieter. I did good today, but I still manage to feel guilty — I didn’t work out.
Reading — so so. I have found that I really need to be into what I’m reading, and then I powerslam. Comics for a while, I think, will suit me best. I read the first half of an older, mini series comic called the Children’s Crusade, and I started with book one of Y: The Last Man (which is fantastic, and I can’t wait to read the next one! I hear they are making it into a movie, but I am thus far NOT looking forward to it)
Short post — I just realized I haven’t posted my response for Shakespeare class!
Tootles!
My midnight-ish post has been changed. It is now my one am-ish post.
School has started and that means NO! SLEEP! Till Broo… well actually the second week in March. If I’m lucky. That’s what I asked for for my birthday anyway.
Class rundown is as follows:
Mon, Wed, Fri — extremely boring freshman history class. We’re starting with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization at Sumer… gives you an idea about how interesting it will be. I plan to make an easy A.
Mon, Wed = Diversity in American Lit. — Not a terrible course, but it could lead to problems. I’m not the most “humanidocious” person. I don’t really care about race one way or the other because to considered anything but a racist, I have to commit myself to blanket statements about groups of people. I’d rather just work on a case by case basis.
Tues, Thurs – Shakespeare and Film — fun course, and a redo (I’ve taken it before), although the Prof is easily distracted and likes to go off on tangents. I don’t hold it against him, it just takes up a bit too much time sometimes. Lot of writing in both this course and the Diversity in American Lit course, btw.
Tue, Thurs – Art Appre. Oh yes, re-taking this. The teacher is good though, and I really like art, and my background before Trident is in art so, I think I’ll like this one. Oh and I can exempt the final, which is on a Saturday so… Yippee!
That’s whats happening with school. Same ol’ Same ol’
With the weight thing —
Well, I’ve been trying to make a concerted effort on the eating. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I still get cravings, and I still want sweets, although generally I’m eating less overall. I’m finding that its getting more difficult to finish my meals.
The biggest hurdle at the moment is exercise. I’ve attempted several times to start a walking in the AM schedule, but I’ve started to employ avoidance tactics to that, considering it a chore, because of the excruciating pain in my foot when I walk. Its to the point that today I walked from one end of campus to the other (back to my car) at about 11AM and although the intense cramp that comes with walking subsided, a dull ache (a new pain) persisted until late in the evening.
I hope that our recent acquisition of a Wii Fit helps out. I tried it out tonight and I think I will enjoy it. I like yoga, and the strength training exercises are just like what I was doing in P90X, although much closer to my endurance level. It also shaved five pounds off of my weight on the bathroom scale so, that’s definitely a plus.
In reading news – I am still reading Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, and I am very much enjoying it this go round. As I’ve said, it has always been one of my favorites, but I’m gleaning a lot more from it now that I did the last time I read it.
I’m also attempting to read the Annotated Alice in Wonderland (and the second book if I get to it) before March and the Alice movie. The little I’ve read so far has been really enlightening (its a first-read for me), but because it’s annotated it’s taking a lot longer to get into.
For school I’m reading mostly poetry from the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates (whom you might remember from the Beer Summit). I will also be starting Taming of the Shrew by ol’ Bill S. in a day or two.
I’ll let you know how those go.
Ok — it is very late, and I must go to bed.
(P.S. – today’s title comes from the best Customer Satisfaction comment I’ve seen to date: “Again, there need to be some older employees with the ability to supervise all the young kids working at BestBuy. It is like the Lord of the Flies in this store sometimes.“)
(note: the title is not a reference to anyone in particular, its a quote from Fight Club — the movie — which I am watching)
So I found out some things about the whole… issue… that make things a little better. Still sucks, but. Better.
I’m mega excited about Jeanette’s wedding. SUPER excited. I’m super excited to go back to Hawaii too, I miss a lot of things about that place. She’s almost picked out her dress and her color, which is excited, and I can order mine online so that makes things a lot easier too. I’m really really excited!
School starts Monday, so the posting may slow down a bit, but who knows, it may speed up a bit with my penchant for procrastination in full swing. I’m going to try the Pomodoro thing, though, and hopefully that will help. I still have not finished the Procrastination book (how funny), but I’m working on it.
In the way of books, check out my Book Report, 2010 page to see what I am reading and what I think about it.
I happy to be off tomorrow, and I hope to get a lot done, although it probably won’t be as much as I plan. Wish me luck!
And so begins my routinely midnight-ish post. A few things I’d like to address this…midnight:
- The days thoughts
- Talent
- Updates
- Reading
Hopefully I can get to all of these subjects without meandering too much.
First — Today’s updates
Today I walked and jogged a portion of my “laps” as I call them (I walk around my block, which is sort of like a track around a football field. Probably smaller…) I didn’t do P90X like I had planned, but I just have to keep working at it, I suppose. Don’t beat myself for not finishing what I had planned to do. Remember, I’m choosing to do this. As far as diet, I woke up late and since I ate a late breakfast, I skipped lunch. I still ate too many carbohydrates and not enough vegetables.
In other daily boring news, my family got our Wii today. We had fun with that, and the excitement helped keep my mind off snacking before dinner, which is great. Wii Fit should be in on the 13th.
I got a few things accomplished, but not as much as I’d like to have (the Wii had some to do with it…).
Anyway, enough of that…
Second — Talent
I really feel that I need to bring some talent to this blog. At present it’s nothing but a bunch of my rambling on about stupid feelings. I have some good ideas, I suppose, but getting them on paper…er, computer screen is not easy. I would like to write a little and podcast some of what I write, but I would also like to get back into speaking on a few other people’s podcasts — like Deadpan for example.. I miss those guys…
Writing too, man. I’m a good writer, I know it. I just suck at getting started. So I’d really like to incorporate that into this blog. It’ll be messy to start, I know, but…Maybe in the end things will smooth out and I can have a blog or podcast to be proud of.
This resurgence of writing and podcast feelings comes as I find out that my friend‘s wife just passed away, and apparently she passed away in her sleep of the FLU! holy crap is all I have to say. I feel awful. I mean… that is an incredibly terrible thing.
Ok so — off the sad note — Updates:
I updated some links, and I will probably update more over the next few days. I don’t want to overload it with stupid stuff, so I’m trying to be picky. Most of the links I add are people who mean something to me, or whose blog/podcast means something to me. I’m trying not to add stuff willy-nilly.
Reading –
I started reading Captain Blood again. The story has always been one of my favorites, but it’s not exactly the easiest of reads. Since I’ve had a few semesters of difficult reading, though, I think I’m better equipped now than when I first read it to get all it has to offer. I would also like for the Boyfriend to lend me his Annotated Alice in Wonderland so I can read it before the movie comes out. I think I’m also going to start reading a Shakespeare play this week, as soon as Dr. Phillips puts his stupid syllabus up! College professor’s are bums…
so all in all, that was a little less painful than the other entries. Not really, but at least I’m moving in the right direction… right?
Well its almost tomorrow. So I guess it’s ok to post.
I did NOT exercise today as planned, and I feel really bad about that. Note to self: remember how bad I feel about not exercising the next time I want to skip a workout. I might still do XStretch if I feel motivated but, by the time I finish it will be tomorrow so, I might as well wait UNTIL tomorrow to do it, when I’m not tired and not sore from swimming yesterday.
And I’m pretty sore. But this stupid thing on my foot hurts, mostly. (It’s not bad, just in a spot my shoes rub…)
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I suppose for anyone to want to read this blog, I should talk about something other than myself once in a while… any ideas?
I wanted to start a podcast about adolescent literature, and I still think I might do that. Maybe start by posting them here and then start a blog site for it later. I know a few people who are writing new YA fiction and I read a lot of YA fiction and I have a professor who knows a lot about YA fiction, so with our powers combined…
I am… Captain Planet!
(evidence of all that 90′s kid “save the planet” brainwashing)
Well, we could pull off the podcast, anyway.
so if you happen to be reading my blog, all two of you, please comment if you’d like to help with a YA blog.
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It’s officially tomorrow now, so, I’m going to bed!
Yesterdays dieting went fairly well, but I do recognize the areas in which I could improve:
–I woke up later than I planned, and therefore didn’t get everything done that I had planned
–I ate about 10 Hershey kisses during the course of the day
–I didn’t drink enough water
–I had one too many servings of dried cherries
Other than those issues, I think I did pretty good for day one.
Day two is starting off well with a handful of dried cherries and a chocolate VitaMuffin-top. I would really love to have TWO VitaMuffin-tops but, I will stick with the one.
Must drink more water today.
In other non-diet news, there are some things going on with work (that I can’t really talk about yet) that are… really bothering me. Something is looming, and I would much rather it just.. HAPPEN… than sit there and stare at me for a week. I’m pretty sure that no matter what happens, I’ll survive, and I’ve always been pretty resilient when it comes to these types of things, but emotionally I just suck at dealing with them. Lets just hope this gets taken away like a band-aid. Quickly.
I get off of work at 6:30 today, so I will likely post again. Keep in touch!
One of the many things I have always intended to do but have never managed to finish is to journal, or as it has evolved into, blogging. So here I go again, starting one, intending to finish, but not sure how it will turn out.
But I have a new thing to work on…
I’m reading this book, Overcoming Procrastination: Practice the Now Habit and Guilt-Free Play. My dad got it for me for Christmas this year. I’m enjoying it so far, haven’t finished it. Usually I don’t do well with self-help type books because A) I practice avoidance tactics (read: Procrastinate) and B) I’m a little too smart to fall for silly tricks, especially ones that involve tricking myself.
Anyway, one of the first things this book tells me is that I have inherent self worth, and that I need to make myself sure of that fact.
So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to use this blog to record some of my daily thoughts and activities, and then look back and find those tasty nuggets of inherent self-worth that Dr. Fiore assures me I have. Dad also gave me a little voice recorder, so you might actually hear me at some point too (won’t that be exciting!).
Come along for the ride if you want…
SPL
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