Silverthorne

The vanity cats in WoW make me squee. I love watching their little tails and butts bounce when they're running. And I love the fact that the little paws are textured on the bottom, too. I love seeing those little pads flash up into view!

Yay on the girls starting to get along.

Thunder scares my cats.

Foot gave me three different silent meows with eye-scrunchies tonight. It made me feel all gooey inside.

I hate ragweed allergies. They make me grouchy, migrainy, sniffly, ill, and wanting to do nothing but sleep. :/

Yep, even after being pretty much lazy for a whole month, my apartment is still much cleaner than the trailer ever was after the first couple of years. :) My worst vices are not dusting and not always taking the trash out in a timely manner (not overflowing, but I do press the breaking point of the bags sometimes...). Leaving the dishes overnight is my third vice (but they always get cleaned before I head off to work because I don't want maintenance seeing ugly stuff in the sink).

Got my yearly eval. Getting full amount of available payraise. only 3%, but it's better than no payraise at all (possible in this economy and with the hospital being in between owners), or, you know, not having a job at all. Also--attitude still improving. Still needs a little work, but it's lightyears above what it was even last year this time after a few months away from the ex. Maybe in another year or two, I'll actually be the not-so-pissy person I once was...(or at least think I was...^^;).

Looking forward to cooler weather.

I has LOTS of cat and human food in the house, and a decent start on Ula's vet fund. :)

Three paydays this month. That, plus raise, makes all things good.

Only thing hurting today is, yep, the left butt-cheek, with the attendant 'erg, we're just a little stiff here, lady' leg muscles to go with it. I did get a bit crinked up off and on last night, but I kept doing little mini-stretches on the offending area whenever that happened.

And here I was expecting some sort of crippling pain by this morning. I'm, like, so totally disappointed, guys. (*cough* gottabridegeinAZtosellyouifyoubelievethat. *g*).

Anyhow, so tonight I go back again.

Maybe this time I'll manage to be in agony from the exercise by Friday.

...Yes, I am weird and messed up. Why do you ask? ;)

Anyhow, off to use my stubbornly not hurting muscles for work. :)

I'm 38; I'd say I'm due for one, right?

Anyhow, I've signed up for classes at the Tae Kwan Do dojo across the street. As in, six months and there's a gi sitting on my couch with a dojo thing on the back that I have to learn how to take care of properly, classes.

I'll be out of pocket 6:45 to approx 8:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays at least until May. If I do well enough, that will likely become a permanent fixture until I get out of Texas.

Dude. My classes. One other adult and the rest kids! LOL.

But--I'm also allowed to stretch and practice whenever I like. And watch. As in, take a little hop across the street and check things out whenever it's open. The teacher said so and suggested it. So...yeah.

Also: Kon used to do Tae Kwon Do. Let's hope I do him/his memory justice.

I am wearing SIZE 14 jeans!!!!!

(mind you, they're a little tight on the ass where my hips are, BUT!)

Size

14!!!!!!!

My bottoms are officially high school sized again!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

So, another week with no pool, and now it's getting cooler. But, that's all right. Because today, I actually went to take a look and see what they were actually doing over there.

Looks like they're tearing up the old brickwork. Which, I would hazard a guess, means the pool is likely closed for good until spring. Bricks in the water and everything, you know? Also, the 'drilling' I saw was apparently to get all the caulking out from between said brick work. So, yeah, no pool and massive amounts of re-work going on. I guess they decided to take advantage of the lack of pool filter.

Damn. Going to miss that until they fix it and it's warm enough to swim again.

In other news.

The allergies are finally starting to back off, which is good, because I spent the last three days thinking they were a cold instead. Which sucked. But right now, I have no meds, the door is open, and I'm fine.

Also: Yay! I have the porch door open! Fresh air! And no lectures about people breaking in and cats getting out. I've missed being able to do this. All that's missing is some nice gauze curtains to float in the breeze. For some reason, I've always found that visual comforting.

My size 18 jeans are now an inch to big around the waist. Which means I;ve hit 16...and need to go get two new pairs to replace the two I have now. I guess the upside is at least my jeans aren't going to get the chance to get raggedy before I have to replace them. :)

My accounts, all of them, are now right where I want them to be (cred cards down to zero balance again, savings and checking with plenty of cush so that I can now maintain the bottom line comfortably and without worry). Now I can concentrate on just building funds, rather than
scrambling while I get the household up to snuff and take care of odd bills while dangling right at the redline. It's a nice feeling. All I have to do now is watch the spending on 'treats'. Then again, if I keep to my bottom line when I go shopping, that won't be a problem. And I intend to increase that bottom line slowly over the next few months. You can never have enough bottom line, after all.

The 'learning to sew' thing is going slowly. Slowly enough that I've gone ahead and bought more new scrubs rather than try and alter the old ones. For now, that'll just be practice until I'm better at it. The upside is that I get new tops, which means I'm not looking shabby at work. Also; compliments. Which I'm finding I like (anyone who's known me for a while knows compliments used to make me vaguely uncomfortable. Well, forget that. Not going to get a big head, but it's nice to know I'm doing something pleasing for others to look at.).

Um...yeah. Feeling more frisky these days. Maybe it's the weather. Or maybe the last of the depressive fog is lifting after so many years. Either way, I know I'm doing well when I wind up bouncing (yes, literally) through the house in a happy funk. :)

...Just what I always wanted; to drool white foam for a half hour each night for two whole weeks. XD

...At least it seems to be working. *g*

Had to buy blueberries and teeth stuff today so went ahead and took a pass by the BP machine again. Took it three times, and the mid-range result is 112/78 (Although one of the readings was 102/68. O.o)

So...I guess this means I'm back to normal. Yay!

Also: splurged on a haircut--which means I spent 15 dollars to have someone else do what I usually do, only with better scissors, better aim, and more layers.

...I can style my hair to look just like Denise and Heather now--only with a lot more brown (and a lot less extensions and hair product, thank god).

...I wonder if I should laugh or cry over that.

I did this several months ago and wound up with a bunch of old men as matches. ^^;

Did it again today. I think I like this result MUCH better...

( Celebrity face matches )

On my other recent pic, look who I netted...

( Think I could get away with dating Richie? )

...I wonder who I'll look like when I lose more weight?

Gross. I hate summer colds.

Oh well.

Here's a pic, anyway. This is my new tank top--which, yeah, looks a lot better on me than the old grey one did. Actually, I think it looks pretty damned good. Too bad I'm a 3X up there because of my chest (but at least I'm well-proportioned, right?).

Those are also my old size 18 black jeans, which, for the first time this morning in years, did not require 'help' to be put on. Heck of a change from the size 24s in the earlier pictures, isn't it? *g*

Blarg...cold...ew...yuck.

*goes to drink a bunch of OJ*