When something really annoys me but I try not to be annoyed, it ends up creating this obsessive annoyance-spiral where whatever the issue is becomes this mental itchy spot that is impossible to leave alone. It's better to just accept being irritated without fighting against it. Right now I'm annoyed at a friend's baby shower being held in a bar ( Read more... )

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This is going to be my last free weekend for a while, my CNA training begins on Monday & four days a week will be occupied first by classes and then clinicals. It's going to be a rough six weeks, no bones about it, but I am hoping this will be enough finally to get me into nursing school. I worked as a CNA for a couple of years right after high ( Read more... )

MVI_0527, originally uploaded by osbick_bird.
Absolutely nothing earth-shattering in this video, just a cute baby eating a cracker. Things have been better these past few days.

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The day after we got back, Ty started a new long-term job on the new film in production at Laika, the production house that put out the movie Coraline. He's been needing a lot of reassurance--though this is steady employment with benefits, the pay rate is markedly less than what he would get freelancing, and the people he frequently gets work from ( Read more... )

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Feeling hot, sticky, irredeemably socially maladroit, easily angered, frustrated that none of our recent plans to do anything fun have worked out, and worried about the ER bill for the little guy from a while back totally wiping out all of our savings and then some. Today quite frankly has sucked, one of those days where you feel like you are bad ( Read more... )

In an attempt to mix things up a bit in my new role as hausfrau, I've been dabbling a little in making Japanese food, since it tends to be relatively healthy (not having, for example, a ton of cheese and cream, though the salt content does not bear too much thinking about). My skills at plating & presentation leave a lot to be desired, or I'd take ( Read more... )

MVI_2151, originally uploaded by osbick_bird.
He gets the general idea of sitting up by himself, but as you can see isn't quite committed to it yet.