A real post will come about tomorrow when I'm not falling asleep at the keyboard.
I miss you all!
- Mood:
quixotic
You Belong in Generation Y |
 You fit in best with people born between 1982 and 2001. You are cooperative, flexible, and adaptable. You know the world changes quickly, and you're eager to change with it. You are socially responsible, forward thinking, and open minded. |
Anyway. I'm tired as anything from not getting enough sleep last night. I stayed up and cleaned my room so my grandmother can take it over for a few days. This also meant that I needed to put clean sheets on the bed, so rather than sleeping under the covers, I froze with a spare blanket on top of the bed. At least the dog was with me. She is a furry hot rock :)
- Mood:
calm
Tonight, a few of mom's nursing buddies decided to come over and they're making a pot luck dish. It should be pretty tasty! I also hear that there might be an informal gathering of the masses at the Caton House, but I don't know for sure.
Random add-on: When I was looking through some of my old journals today, I read some really depressing stuff. REALLY depressing. It's hard to go back to those thoughts now that I'm a bit more mature and generally happy with my life.
- Mood:
curious
I have a feeling Monday will be hard for me to continue on this regiment.
- Mood:
accomplished
So, I walk for 5 minutes. I jog for a minute and realize that I should have worn a sports bra. I walk for a minute and a half and I'm feeling pretty comfortable. However, when I go to jog again, the folly of the lack of bra began to hurt just a touch. I hung in there and managed to do this until 15 minutes had passed on the timer. So, I was 10 minutes short of the end of the alternations. What I did to compromise: I did a quicker walk for 10 more minutes to keep my heart rate up. So, 25 minutes of cardio and then 5 minutes of a slow walk, stretching, and then a lot of water and a shower.
Here's the deal: I know it will take me longer than 9 weeks, partly because I don't like to run right now and partly because this week is my trial and error to see what does work and what doesn't. I will post that I have done this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If I don't post it, feel free to bother me. Call me, come over and harass me, whatever. If I don't post, I didn't do it, which means I'm probably falling off the bandwagon.
On the weekends, I'm going to continue playing with kettle bells for weight training, but no walking/jogging/running unless I get an epiphany and start to like running and manage to do it more than just 3 times a week. This weekend, I am hopefully going to go buy a pair of sneakers. Does anyone have any tips, shoes or otherwise?
- Mood: accomplished
Hello lj! I missed you.
My big change since I last made a post is that I've decided that UB is not for me, academically, at this point in my life. I revisited options for the future and I have decided that massage therapy is a calling I can't ignore. Since I was young, both of my parents told me that it is important to have a profession and a trade. Sometimes they are the same thing, sometimes they are different. With my mom, it is different as her profession is nursing and her trade is manicurist. My brother's are the same: automotive mechanic specifically for Toyota.
I love writing. I really do, but I can't see a solid, financially secure future in it for me. Everyone who sees that I have the gift of eloquence usually wants me to have something else with it, usually computer based, and always certified. Computers are great and all (and I know my way around word like nothing) but I don't see myself working with computers as intensively as everyone else sees. So, when I told Mom about massage therapy, she told me, "you've been talking about that since high school. I'm surprised it's taken you this long to go after it."
The more I think about it, the more I like it. So, my plan: I've applied to CCBC-Essex massage therapy program. I'm waiting to hear back. If it falls through, or there is an overflow, I will spend the summer/fall at the Baltimore school of Massage Therapy getting certified and hopefully starting work at a spa. Then, I will try and get into the program until I finally am there. Once I have an associate's in MassTher, I can go on to work at hospitals and rehab places as well as spas. I think that this will afford me to save up for my own place, my own life, and my own travel plans that I still hold very close to my heart.
And no, I don't mind using anyone in my friends as homework.
Other cool things:
I have mastered chocolate chip cookies. This doesn't sound like it should be such a big deal, but in the past, my homemade cookies never quite turned out. They always spread out too much or the taste was off. It was my mom's recipe and she could make them perfectly everytime. So, one day Curtiss' grandson came over and wanted to bake with me. He stuck it out in the kitchen long enough to measure everything and mix it up before he left. So, I put the dough in the fridge to bake them at a later date. When I did bake them, perfection!
I have decided to take a couch to 5k challenge, now that the weather is getting nice. So, starting this wednesday, I'm going to be working up to running about 3 miles a few times a week. The guidline program that I'm following works at any pace I set for myself, which at this point is just to get moving a little more. Heaven help me.
- Mood: calm
Ask a question to any one of my many LARP personas, living or dead. Remember, this is all OOC and you aren't allowed to use it in character.
Halie Comet (Malkavian OWBN)
Johari Xyza (Toreador OWBN) [I played her for the grand total of 2 times in Philly]
yep. Short list.
I just need to get to the store...
With a little more determination (and me running into sharp corners and spilling things on myself) you can become the word of the month!! Congrats!
- Music:Poke and Destroy - Presidents of the USA
I achieved a mind paradox today. Not a big one, but enough of one to make me go "whoa! COOL!!!" I'm listening to The Decemberists in December! I love Scottish musicians...
Anyway, the song in question is Summersong, simply because I like the like "she's grand the bend of her hand" for no particular reason.
Here's the lyrics for Summersong by The Decemberists. It's from The Crane Wife and I highly recommend it.
- Mood:
amused - Music:The Decemberists - Summersong
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sidhedevil!nod618, you were 100% absolutely right. Zelda is the game for me!*coddles the new gaming goodness*
My birthday was pretty good this year. Mom took me out to lunch at Don Pablos so I could get a spiced pina colada, which is made with Cap'n Morgan spiced goodness rather than the regular stuff. I got contacts, which rocks, a neptune topaz ring, which really rocks, and a pink DS lite, which r0x0rz my b0x0rz. So, I decided to buy Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I am in love. I'm glad I wasn't born in November because I totally would have blown off all the writing I did for NaNoWriMo to play this game.
sooper! Dear Santa...Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In April I didn't flush (-1 points). In February on a flight to Pakistan, I stole the emergency flight information card (-40 points). In January I punched silvertongue1 in the arm (-10 points). Last Saturday I gave change to a homeless guy (19 points). In July I ruled Canada as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-732 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, |
Irony: The Writer's Guild decided to strike and not write anything during National Novel Writing Month.
Go November!!
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is considered a piece of classic literature. Unfortunately, it is also dated. So, many of the things in there I did not quite relate to and the "funny parts" were sort of lost on me. I can see why the book is revered, though. I probably wouldn't flat-out recommend it for pleasurable reading, but for school it's great. In fact, that's why I read it: school! Here is the fake-out part: I read the spark notes. Cliff notes cost money, spark notes are free, kids. I also have a certain amount of animosity for the book after having to take a final that required me to write 3 (out of 4) essays on the damn thing. Only a final can bring about that kind of loathing.
Ender's Game by OSC was the most recommended book (3 votes) that I have on my list. It won both a Nebula and a Hugo, the 2 highest honors of the scifi community. Honestly, it deserved it. It's a great example of consice storytelling and if you let yourself get lost in the words, the story will not disappoint. Go read it. I still think that OSC is a bit full of himself, though.
I originally was thinking that I would read The Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, but after seeing the words "techno-thriller" and working on a scifi book for NaNoWriMo, I'm a little out of tech anything as a means to relax. Since
silvertongue1had already (incorrectly) assumed that I had read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, I was thinking of that. I'm still on the fence about it, since I might want to see the movie first as to not be disappointed, but then again, I can pull a movie from the book and enjoy them both (the best example is Queen of the Damned. I liked the music, ok???). If I decide on something different, then it will most definitely be a Phillipa Gregory book as recommended by wingzer0angel. I think we have a copy of The Boleyn Inheritence somewhere in the house. Does that count, Aly-chan?- Mood:
I gotta pee...
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