I was looking forward to my extended-weekend, which I cleverly extended even further by working the overnight and having Saturday off. The whole weekend ended up being consumed by cat troubles! My poor little buddy Charlie jumped off a chair, in one of his frequent PTSD-like responses to sudden noise, and bolted behind the TV, and somehow injured ( Read more... )

Weightlifting personal bests, at 5 reps:

Barbell squat-- 85lbs
Deadlift-- 95lbs
Bench press-- 57.5lbs
Overhead press-- 35lbs

It's slow-going; I am still learning. Being able to put the 25lb plates on the bar for my deadlift felt like a major life success.

For the 8-year-old that I babysit, I decided to get her this Minecraft papercraft kit that I saw at Newbury comics. She loves Minecraft AND she loves project kits, and so when I saw it, I couldn't walk away, even though it was more than I planned to spend on her. It was so completely worth it because she was SO excited about it, almost screaming ( Read more... )

WELL Y'ALL I started the day with a pap smear, then spent most of my work day chasing down landlords and meeting with state housing authority representatives, then I locked my keys in my car across town. I had to babysit immediately after work and just got home. ZZZZZZ

By lunchtime today I had convinced myself that I had strep throat, so I called my doctor's office the second it was 1:00 (my break) and the receptionist was like, "oh, come on over right now." So through some magic of convenient timing, I managed to drive over to my doctor's office, and get my throat swabbed, and find out (via a little rapid test ( Read more... )

Last week, I finally got Patrick to join me onstage at open mic! We played 4 misfits covers for halloween, and it was really fun and people liked it. 2 days later, at work, I played a few songs at a celebration of the writing group's first magazine. I didn't do especially well because I hadn't much prepared, and chose to play songs that catered to ( Read more... )

Pat and I went to the shops today and now I have four fall hats. This is important because I am trying to grow my hair out, and "trying" is only an appropriate verb because when it's annoying my impulse is to CHOP CHOP. Now I can just put on a cute FALL HAT and go to work and get compliments all day on my sweet hat ( Read more... )

I had to learn the same lesson again about eating wheat, which is, apparently, don't. I have to keep re-learning this every few months whereupon I convince myself that wheat is going to be fine as long as I eat it sparingly. This seems to be true for dairy--if I eat a little dairy, sometimes, I'm fine, and just have to be cautious and not overdo it ( Read more... )

23. Woke up at 4:45am to get to Auburn by 6am and see the balloon launch. It was great ( Read more... )

18. ate at the bear with Alex ( Read more... )