so, i’ve spent the last week or so cleaning up some of my online areas.
it’s possible I need to keep a better handle on these things, yaknow?
OK, I’ve been paying 200$/mo since april. I’ve been twice. she’s been 0 i think. and since august she’s been pregnant (not SUPPOSED to go), but we’ve been paying still b/c she has to take in a letter saying she’s pregnant so they’ll suspend her membership until next year. which she hasn’t done.
i keep putting it off with, initially, “we should go together” like the theory on the gym too. then it was my back hurting. or my ankle. or my head. actually, mid-summer there was always a storm running up thursday so i had a killer headache before thursday night class. but the ankle i could brace i think. and my back always hurts. once i start going, it’ll hurt like the dickens for acouple sessions, but then it’ll loosen up. i know this. it does it at the gym. but i keep using the excuse anyway.
so, new plan: I’m going to try to go to either M or W 6:30 level 1 and Saturday 9:30. And maybe the Tuesday 7:30 “Krav Kore” fitness training. which is 3-4 times a week at session, and I KNOW that ain’t happening
So, REALLY: Saturday 9:30 is the most likely. Kore I think would be a good thing if I’m only hitting Krav once a week (they added a level3 session, taking away the late TTh level1 session which I think I was more likely to make). So I might try either Kore tuesday or Krav on Wednesday 6:30. twice a week seems like I might be able to do it. and should be enough to help me LOSE SOME FREAKIN WEIGHT by getting real exercise. Maybe by next summer I’ll be able to run with K again, instead of wanting to put him in camp every day so i can be a lazy-assed bum when i get home from work :/
flew down wednesday afternoon, flew back up friday morning. stayed up until like 2 or 3am on saturday. i am so freaking tired today. may end up going to bed right after picking kiir up!!
friday night i put away all the bedroom laundry. saturday i moved the queen bed around and downstairs so they could deliver the king. folded the laundry that was downstairs on the laundry bed and put it in baskets to take upstairs (but never got around to putting it away, oh well). b-day party at a friends place, then i encountered a problem
kiir and k are both out this weekend (she’s with her folks, he’s at camp for the trip, and so i could clean) so i have this BRAND NEW NEVER BEEN USED king sized bed. all by myself. I found, friday, that I apparently have trouble sleeping alone these days. someone should be there. i know I don’t have a problem when k’s at overnight, or when kiirs in atlanta. but apparently i get all twitchy and unhappy when the bed is empty save for me. so after the party, i decided to sit and watch an ep off a netflix disc before bed (so i could get some water down, and to relax). i ended up watching 4 eps. whole disc. went up ~2:30am b/c i was tired and out of things to procrastinate with. quite annoying, b/c the bed really DID feel funny.
sunday i took her car in, got some groceries, then played on the computer most of hte d ay. punted on dinner and ordered a pizza, and apparently i’m up 2lbs again this week. freakin’ hell. 220.4 is the lowest i’ve made in like 6 months, now. it’s getting STUPID, i can’t seem to lose more than that 2-2.5 lbs from 222.8. i’m consistent, of late, though. within that 2lb range.
*sigh*
gave up regular soda a few years back. two montsh ago, with the new job, i switched to water instead of diet at the office, so i drink maybe 2-3 cans a day on the weekends of diet now. maybe a touch more occasionally, but frequently not even that much. need to quit drinking as much beer (usually maybe a six-pack-ish in a week, but a lot of that is still out to dinner or gatherings, so might be ok). other things to help me be healthier maybe, and more exercise. some exercise. whatever. i just don’t feel like taking K for long walks when i get home (which lack I know pisses him off, too)
so, friday wsa the ultrasound. 1pm appt. got there early, except apparently ultrasound is inpatient :o we went to the outpatient building. asked if we were in the right place for “prenatal ultrasound”. got sent from info to registration to something to the ultrasound area. the desk was cleverly labelled “breast cancer” :o
apparently by “prenatal ultrasound” they completely ignored what i was saying and sent us to some other ultrasound cancer screening desk. some discussion there, and we got the long damned directions for getting to the REAL prenatal ultrasound. cleverly hidden with all the other pregnancy stuff :o
ended up ~5 min late, which I thought was damned impressive considering how hard it was to get there (mind, we were ~20 minutes early to begin with). they finally took us back ~2pm. apparently we missed our opportunity to go in in a timely manner :o ultrasound stuff, baby’s not turning over can’t measure the heart, so walk around the room, we’ll be back in a minute to see if baby’s moved. 2:30. phone rings, it’s mom.
she swears she “didn’t know” when the appointment was (i know kiir told her a couple times). But lets look at it. it’s ~1hr procedure, a 1pm appt, give 15-20 minutes of slippage for they’re late and we get out and stuff. 1 +1.5 is 2:30. yeah, sure , no idea. right :o
found the gender out. apparently we’re having a boy. so now we’re fishing through names again (we’d been saying desmond for a couple months, but now we figured we’d look more). down to desmond or gareth, i think, at this point. sebastian, alistair, damien, and griffith were on the short list we wrote friday evening
then made soups and a friend’s engagement party saturday. running k down on sunday and cleaning around the kitchen both days. weheee
and next weekend was supposed to be the big back room, but since mom’s coming the following week, i figure i’ll finish the halls and guest room. clothes and stuff needs awaying
Well, kiir was right. she’s been telling me, since i said i was gonna try it, that i wasn’t gonna come even vaguely close
and, well, she was right. still too much with getting settled at my new job and stuff, and weekends i’ve been non-stop cleaning, basically, so i haven’t had any time to really work on it.
maybe next year i’ll be prepared and have thought things out in advance :o
bleah. my hdd is full on the laptop. something about downloading a shitload of itunes tv episodes which are like half a gig a pop :o
i ordered a network drive last week from lacie (500G of drive i can hook onto the wireless local and use for apple storage). i asked for overnight, since it was thursday. then it wasnt gonna ship for like a week, so i changed to regular shipping
no drive ship notice yet, but i’ve got ~200M on the drive, left, now …
ouch.
i was tasked with looking into subversion for doing version control at the office, back when i started
(then i asked for vmware so i could practice messing around with it; don’t hve vm yet …)
this week, it came back up. so i installed it at the office
and i’m working on my nanowrimo story. which i keep having ot mail back and forth, or the new bits, etc
and it occurred to me: hey! why don’t i just set it up and put my story into subversion! sweeet :)
now i can work on the same freakin’ text both ways!!!
ok, so, you probably find this far less exciting than i do. so bite me :p
this was the second weekend on our “clean everything up!!!” schedule.
last weekend was k’s room, baby;s room and the hallway. I threw out ~4-5 bags of trash. but everything was still really cluttered. not quite as bad as before, but still. actually baby’s room didn’t change. k’s room got a bit cleaner, and the hall lost a bunch of stuff as we sorted through the boxes etc. and i took out K’s closet shelf and pseudo hangbar
this weekend was master bedroom/guest bedroom. which LARGELY would consist of putting away the 6 baskets upstairs and then folding the other 3-4 baskets worth in the guest room so it could get put away too. spent most of hte weekend working at trying to get the closets done in k/baby. got the parts, then i needed to trim them. cordless hacksaw… keeps jumping and won’t go very far, fine. hand hacksaw boom done that step. drill holes. drill bit doesn’t fit the screwdriver. oops, it’s a screwdriver anyway, wouldn’t hold regardless. drill – dead battery. many hours later, i’ve done baby’s closet. k’s is still on hold, probably until next weekend
i took one bag of trash (and one of bottles) from the master, and i moved all the furniture around to where we decided we needed to put it to hold the king bed we bought saturday.
and all that work, you can barely freakin’ tell. the upstairs is STILL a bloody mess. next weekend’s the living room! (the following is kindof a catchup weekend b/c we have other commitments … maybe i’ll finish the upstairs before t-day?)
*sigh* such a slow and annoying process :(
i suppose i could post my writing here, i’m still thinking on that
currently, however, my writing style has hit a snag with the “assignment” … i tend to write blurbs. maybe 2-3 book-sized pages and i switch either timeframe or locale. except, since i need 50k words, i’m trying to hook up enough background
and fill-in. UNFORTUNATELY, however, my strength is dialogue. and i need descriptive text. scenery, sounds. i need filler action.
oi. *sigh*
So, as the little icon thingie indicates. i’ve decided to give the National Novel Writing Month contest a shot.
I stole the idea from beans (almaroc.com) and ananth (applegeeks.com).
of course, now i need to not overthink myself :o
I can’t figure out where i might still have copies of my last writing project (which actually originated my current common nick of attriel), but i think it was ~12k. and i tinkered with writing it for most of a year i think …
hrrm, i may be at a disadvantage …