With my birthday coming soon I'm feeling strangely philosophical, especially since I feel like this year is one of those few that feels different. These are good things, but it's as though I can see the new branch of the road and I'm following it. In the past few months I've made what feels like big changes to my life, even though they aren't ( Read more... )

Even worse than last years, both for worthless reading and hideously huge numbers. I'll defend myself with 2 points: 1) I have an hour+ commute to which I listen to my kindle, plus I listen while I feed, cook, clean, whatever (I'm working on things at least 2-3 hrs a day so I go through books fast) so I almost never sit down and read in the ( Read more... )

I'm a horse nut. Have been for as long as I can remember - absolutely since kindergarten. As a kid every year I asked for a horse for Christmas. I'm pretty sure I asked most years in high school and college, though by this point I knew it was just a joke. I know I've asked some years since college, again just as a joke. I was so stressed that this ( Read more... )

I hate traveling ( Read more... )

That's actually the title of a show I've taken to watching and I really enjoy it. It's my life on a bigger scale. I love watching crazy people with crazy animals. I love watching them. like me, set animal goals (new housing, improved pens, etc) and achieve them. People tease me about my constant projects - I've always got something going and a ( Read more... )

I got back from our Hawaii trip this morning at 9am, got to be home for almost an hour before going to work and then got home from that (and groceries) about 9:30pm. I'm wiped. And glad to be home. While it had its good points my overall feeling about it is truly just drained. Too much happened. We spent the night at a hotel near the airport on Sun ( Read more... )

Sometimes my world is so small... When my parents come to visit they joke about not being able to take me anywhere because I always know someone, usually a student. I figured once (years ago) that using Spokane's population data if you put me in a room with 100 locals I'd probably have chatted with at least 1 - this ended up being demonstrated when ( Read more... )

About once every 3 months C and I get a day together and that was today! And tomorrow too! Today was marvelous. I have purchased a bunch of gift certificate things off a web site (Groupon - great site!) and they were about to expire so using them was the goal of the day. We also had to do some shopping for our Feb trip ( Read more... )

Well, all those meetings I dreaded and hated have come to an end - for this year - and the event was worth it. I had a blast. And I think I proved myself as a hard worker so maybe next year will be something I hate less. Or maybe I'll skip most meetings and show up to work my butt off at the event again. We'll see. I left the theater at almost 1am ( Read more... )

A friend of a friend posts in her LJ a list of books she reads in a year and I thought it was a neat idea. She aims for 50 but somehow I thought she aimed for 100. Embarrassingly, I actually reached 100 (actually probably more but I can only list 100 that I kept track of). I do feel that I should explain that most of my reading time is having my ( Read more... )