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Month: January 2009

  • I had a dream last night where I told my sister’s friends to be quiet so I could nap and then they hated me.  The person playing my sister in the dream, however, wasn’t my real sister, and her friends were all large, native teenagers.

    I had such a Friday today.  It was ugg.  I topped it off with hot dogs for supper because I’m whimsical like that.

    I had a Soy-Black-Tea-Latte at break this afternoon so I may never sleep again.  It was very worth it though.  Very tasty.  Now that I think about it, I paid for it with a quarter that I should have saved for doing laundry.  Shoo.

    Did I mention I finally got some matches?  Oh yes.

    There were many kinds of post it notes at work today.  (And that’s all I can remember clearly about that, right now.)  Also, someone told me (I know who, I’m just not going to say here) that when she first saw me, she thought to herself, “that’s the kind of girl who’s going to have a romance we’ll all hope for”.  This is one of the many reasons I enjoy going to my workplace 9 days out of a two week pay period.

    Plan for this weekend:
    1) Watch West Wing, season 3
    2) Ballet at 11:15 on Saturday
    3)grocery shopping at Oxford Foods on Sunday (needed: celery and carrots)
    4) (Optional) Go to Mayfair to see if there are any good deals on things I want (I want a new coat and a hoody with fur inside)
    5) Hot bath(s) with Epson salts*

    *This is because I think my chest is better, at least better enough, and I may have pushed myself a little much in Floor Barre this evening.  Right now, this is the list of things that are already hurty: inner thigh, pinkies (fingers and toes), shoulder blades, the place between the bottom of my ribs and my hips on both sides of my body.

  • I sometimes talk to myself in the street, but this evening I noticed a young woman doing this and it was kind of creepy.  So I’ll try not to do it anymore.

  • I’m tired but ok.  I’m trying to think of a new tiny string story but I haven’t dedicated the minutes needed to do so as of yet.  I just took some echinacea pills and I think they got stuck on the way down my food-tube.  Owie.

    My apartment is still clean despite it being a whole day since I last tidied it.  Probably helping this is that I was at work for many hours today.

    My chest feels betterer today.  I’m crossing my fingers (again) that I can get through more of my dance class tomorrow.  PS in regards to dance class: I took only half-classes last week but am wholey stiff from that.  Good times.  Good times.

  • I cleaned my house but now I feel too tired to do anything else today.  I will rest.  My chest is still tight.  I’ve  been going to work ok but only doing half dance classes all week long.  My lingering ailment is getting annoying.

    Tomorrow is the start of two 5-day work weeks for me.  I’ve traded flex days so that I’m free on the 30th to go to the so you thinky dance tour in Vancouver.

    I went to another Imax yesterday.  It was about dinosaurs.  Nothing else can show you how big dinosaurs actually were like Imax can.

    I’m trying to acquire more modest spending habits.  At least for a while, anyway.  My budget this week let me purchase anything only today, Sunday, and that is only groceries.  I cheated a little on Friday when I bought a bottle of Astralagus, and there’s no excuse for doing so except that I saw it and wanted it.  I guess I also went out for dinner on Wednesday too.  Oh well.  It’s not like when I had literally no money in my account.  I’m just trying to buy less stuff that I don’t really need….  Like new boots.  *Sigh*.

  • I forgot to write here until late.  I was eating apricot turds, doing puzzles and watching TV.  Less “watching” TV than having it on as accompianment to me doing puzzles.  Quite boring unless you count the fact that I completed many puzzles.

    Tomorrow is my day off and payday but I shan’t go shopping, as those two things might suggest.

    I received an envelope in the mail asking if I want a subscription to “The Economist”.  The answer is “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOnonono.”  Though maybe I would read one issue sometime just to see what it’s like.  You know.

    That reminds me of some callers I get at work who sound like this:  “Uh, I need, you know, the, you know, uh, you know, the, you know…”

    To this I reply: “Would you like your renewal form?” in a pleasant voice. Because more often than not, this is what callers to my desk require.

    In my head, however, I think “NO!  I don’t know!  ARRRRRRRG: WORDS! use WORDS!”

  • I got a IMAX yearly pass.  I feel awesome-cool about it.  I got one for my bro for Xmas, too and we activated them today and watched a IMAX film, which was big, but not overly long.  I love IMAXes.

    It’s been raining for two days.  I wear my raincoat so that my glasses don’t get splattered, but my feet have been getting wet:  this is because I wear shoes and not boots.  Tomorrow if it is still raining I will wear boots.

    Yes. Oh!  I have to get a flu shot.

  • Let me tell you that it took way too long to recover after dance class today, breathing wise.  I didn’t even make it through the whole class without my legs shaking.

    Oh well.  Work has been fun.

    Oh my goodness it’s raining out.  But really warm so I didn’t notice how wet I was until I got inside and my pants were soaked through.

  • Happy One Year Living in Victoria (again) to me.

    In celebration I bought fruit and ironed my clothes.  Just the clothes that needed ironing, not all of them.  That would be foolish and annoying.  I probably should have vaccuumed, too, but there is only so much time in a two day weekend.  What I did do, though, was organize and upload photos, the link to which I will publish shortly.  It was good to be feeling better enough to get mundane stuff completed, which is what Sundays are usually for.

  • I’m so lazy lately.  I’m just sitting around watching TV episodes and snacking.  Part of this is laziness, part is trying to recover from another couple of colds I’ve had in the last month.  These vex me and also hamper my ability to attend dance classes.  I wish I was snacking on something interesting to describe but it’s just chips and oatmeal.  Also rice since I got a rice cooker for Xmas.