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Month: January 2011

  • I meant to do things today: clean the bathroom, tidy my house, do dishes.  Etcetera.  Instead I had a two hour nap this afternoon.  It felt as though I was getting sick when I woke up this morning, so maybe my body was just trying to conquer that.  I feel better now.  Better-ish.  Long naps make me feel kind of ikky, but I lay in bed when I woke up for a while.  Recovering?  From my nap?  I wouldn’t have gotten up but I have a ballet show to watch tonight.

    My house is a mess.  But I have other stuff I want to do here.  There’s not enough time.  I’ll see what I can get done tomorrow.  (It’s not really gross or anything, just more cluttered that I am comfortable with.  I need to do recycling, for example, and generally just pick up after my slobby self.)

  • I had my wisdom teeth removed last Tuesday.  This means I have been several days without raisins. I want to eat them, I do, but the thought of digging little bits of chewed up raisin out of my tooth holes just grosses me out.  Just having salad today was awful.  Delishious, but awful. I have to do a salt water rinse after every meal, and spitting out multicoloured bits of crumb into the sink was gross.  And then the pain killers the dentist gave me, while effective, are slowly eating my stomach lining.  I’m off them now, making me the worst drug addict ever as there are some left over in the bottle.

    Note: banana pancakes are good, but would be better with raisins.

    Note 2: Dad brought me a new house plant.  One of the green furry ones. He and Mum have such faith in me they just keep replacing the plants I kill off with new ones.  So far, so good. Ok, I just checked and I’m pretty sure it’s a real plant.

    Note 3: I’d like to say that the best part of my oral surgery was the two tablets of Atavan I took before the procedure, and it was fun at first (and resulted in my not knowing what was going on when, in fact, what was going on was the dentist pulling out my teeth) but afterwards I just felt sick.  Conclusion: no best part of oral surgery.  I lie: the best part was all the applesauce (good with raisins, but not *better* with raisins.)

  • I had a pretty good week at work.  It was nice going to a place where everyone was happy to see me.  My co-worker and I, both starting this week, got applause at the branch meeting when we were introduced, which I liked.  I’ve also gotten welcome back hugs.  That was just the first and second day.  Mostly everyone has left me alone because I have reading to do and for the most part try to look like I’m reading it.  My goal for next week is to try and get into a better sleep routine.  Booooo to being tired all the time.

  • Two words I don’t like: gestalt (bleh) and redux (bleh!)

    One word I do like: reticent (so pretty).

    I’m so tired. I’m curled up under the covers waiting to sleep. Though obviously it is not fast coming as I have gotten up to fetch my phone to write this. Yesterday was the same: so tired but couldn’t sleep. I may have had the teensiest of naps yesterday evening around 7. Big mistake! I had a little eye-shut drifting time today before dance, but then I danced! I’m so pooped I can’t even think up a metaphor to describe how tired I am.

    Review of Harry Potter, book 6 – first 40 pages: Snape! Hoo hoo hoo. Snape. Otherwise I’m too tired to hold it up to read.

  • Review of my first day of my new job: just spiffy! I just remembered I have to call Mum to tell her all about it…

    1/2 hour later…  I called Mum and I remembered that I forgot things in Duncan.  But I had a lot to bring, so it’s not surprizing.  I made the mistake of hanging my nice pants in the cupboard while I was there, instead of leaving them in the heap in my suitcase.  So I forgot those.  I also forgot some dips and cheese in the fridge.  I remembered the dip when I got home and there are chips here.  But where is the dip??  Arrrg!  I also meant to bring the remaining soy cheese with me because no one will eat it otherwise.

  • I’ve killed all my house plants.  Except for my aloes, of course, but they’re used to harsh conditions.  I’m sad.  The one I just lost I’ve kept alive for just under 3 years.  My mum gave me it’s predicesor when I first moved here, and I killed it straight off, but this last one I kept alive.  Hoo.  I forgot to leave it with water when I went away for Christmas.  I was gone 9 or 10 days.  When I went to England I left it in a big bowl of water so that it could drink as it liked but I forgot to do that completely this time.  I didn’t know how long I was going to be away, for one thing.  Sad.  Now it’s all crisp and crumbling.  I gave it some water last night just in case, but it hasn’t absorbed any of it. It was so large and vibrant, and now it’s droopy and dead.

  • I’m at that place where I live now… Victoria is what it’s called.  My eyes are sleepy.  I brought a big box of stuff that I had stored in Duncan with me but I’ve put it over there under my desk for now because I’m tired and I just put away all of my xmas presents and unpacked and such.

    I got home and I’d forgotten to water my one remaining plant that needs water.  It’s dry to the point of crumbling.  It’s probably done for.  Mum and Dad took away the rest of my dead plants.  Mum says it’s winter and that’s what happens to plants in the winter.  Not the house plants, though!  Those are menat to stay alive.

    We all went for lunch/early supper/lupper and I had breakfast.  So I guess I won’t have pankakes for real supper/dinner tonight.  I have tomorrow off, though, so maybe I’ll eat pancakes all day. And read Harry Potter 5.

  • New Year’s!

    I am making resolutions.  They are as follows:

    1) Be nice

    2) Travel

    3) Wear skinny jeans

    4) Write in my blog every day more than last year semi-sporatically.

    That’s all I can think of for now.  Last year I made a springtime resolution to be brave, and that went well.  So you know, I’ll set goals as they come to me.

    Valerie (Naomi’s mom – N’s blog is listed at the side) invited me to Vietnam, so I could go there.  I want to learn some things about it first.  Like, anything that isn’t war related, because that’s the only reason I’ve ever thought about Vietnam, and even that isn’t very much.  More passive paying attention (media) than active engagement in the topic.  Not like when I visited England, which I spent much school time studying.

    I’ve been in Duncan since December 24.  Mostly eating.  I also went through all the junk I have left here.  I have three piles now: take with me, keepsakes, and recycle.  Mum says I’m just like the shows on TV.  I say those shows are just like me.  My recycle pile isn’t as big as I’d like, but to be truthful, much of my stuff was already pretty organized (by me! previously) and just needed a little consolidation.  What I had to go through were the boxes that Mum dumped my stuff into when she emptied my room.  (Which is where I finally found my tiara!) I have now a bunch of stuff to take home with me to use up (things I’d abandoned when I moved and hadn’t gotten around to again).  I feel consolidated.

    Other places I want to travel to:

    France
    China
    Antartica
    Italy/Greece
    New York/Eastern US

    Places I don’t want to travel to:

    Outer Space

    Places I’d like to return to:

    Austria
    Finland
    England