Today was a very long and stressful day. I slept in a little bit, got up around 8:30 instead of 8. Once Marcus left for work a little after 10, I headed out to the bank to deposit my checks, then came home and ate an early lunch around 11:15. Got changed into nicer clothes and headed out to Duluth for my interview with the tutoring company.
It ended up being a video conference (skype) interview, since the hiring lady was out of town at one of the company's offices in another state. It went well, I got the impression that the interview was just a formality, and apparently my friend who hooked me up with the company gave me a great recommendation. So, they want to hire me, but I have some reservations. I don't want to get into it on this public forum, but I wrote a livejournal entry about it, and I've talked to Marcus and a few friends about it. Everyone has pretty much given me the same advice, which is to at least try it out for a while, and if I don't like it, I can always leave. My problem with that is, once I say I'm doing it, I'm not going to leave. That's how I got stuck at the law firm for 3 years, lol, it's just how I am. Plus, it wouldn't be fair to the students for me to leave after a short time, it's not good for them for the teachers to be constantly changing. So we'll see. I'm planning at this point to at least go to the training next week and see how that goes, but I want to make a decision before I actually get in the classroom.
So anyway, after the interview, I came home and was stressing out about it until Marcus got home. I talked to him about it for a while, and then we went to the gym, which was great because it took my mind off the job stuff temporarily. After the gym, we came back and ate dinner, and then I watched the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker. Now we are watching yesterday's Survivor premiere again (Marcus hasn't seen it yet), and then it will be time to shower and go to sleep!
Tomorrow I'm hoping will be somewhat more relaxing than today, but since we're traveling tomorrow night, I doubt it :-P I do get to go watch Eli for a little bit tomorrow morning though, so hopefully that'll help me feel a little better. I need to find some down time between now and tomorrow night, though, because with my stress levels already so high from this job stuff, I might be headed for some kind of meltdown over the weekend if I can't cool them down. And being so stressed about the job thing, it's a really bad time for me to be put in a situation where a lot of people (whose approval is important to me, I might add) will be grilling me about jobs...it's just not good timing. So hopefully I'll be able to relax at least a little bit tomorrow.
I'm not sure that I'll get a chance to post before we leave tomorrow night, so I may just be gone until Sunday night or Monday.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Happy Birthday, Daddy!
Today is my Daddy's birthday! Happy Birthday, Daddy!
This morning I got up normal time and headed over to Joel and Shosh's to babysit. Shosh tried to put Talia down for a nap before she left, but she only slept for about 15 minutes, so she ended up taking a 3-hour nap a little later, which was perfect! Eli and I played out on the deck with beans, bubbles, and basketball for most of the day. He says the funniest things...
We were playing with the beans (Talia was inside sleeping in her swing at this point), and Eli randomly says, "Baby Talia!" I thought maybe she had woken up and he heard her making noise that I couldn't hear or something, so I said, "Baby Talia? What is she doing?" Eli said, "swing!" At this point I relaxed, and said, "yes, that's right, she's sleeping in her swing." Eli responded, "she's a lucky girl!" I laughed out loud...he gave me a funny look as if to say "why are you laughing at me?!?", but it was so funny! I guess he must have heard Joel and Shosh saying it at some point and was just repeating, but to hear a two-year-old say that was just priceless.
Anyway, Joel got home a little early, so I ended up getting home around 3:30. There had been a possibility that I would have to pick Marsha up from either the airport or MARTA, but she texted me earlier saying that she had found someone else to do it, so I just went straight home. Marcus had a board meeting after work tonight, so I was on my own for dinner (leftover pasta, yum!). I watched the season premiere of Survivor...don't worry, I won't post any spoilers! I'm kind of "eh" on this season so far...there aren't any new players who have really caught my attention yet, good or bad. I did like the immunity challenge they did tonight - I LOVE multi-step challenges! Beyond that, it wasn't all that interesting. Then again, it's usually three or four episodes before I really start to get into it and know who I like and dislike, so we'll see.
After the show was over, I called my dad to wish him a happy birthday, and we talked for a little bit (I talked to my mom, too). Then Marcus got home, and now we are just hanging out on the couch staring at our respective computers. Marcus gets to go into work late tomorrow (around 10:30), which is nice, but I haven't decided yet if I'm going to sleep in with him or just get up normal time. I have my interview with the tutoring company at 1 pm tomorrow, and I need to go to the bank before that to deposit a couple of checks.
Speaking of the interview, I'm kind of in a holding phase right now. I found a couple of jobs I want to apply to, but I'm waiting to see how this interview goes first. I really don't know much about the tutoring job - full time, part time, how the hours work, etc., so I want to find out more about it before I apply to anything else.
For some reason, I am REALLY tired, so I think I am going to actually try to go to bed early tonight. Tomorrow should be a slightly less hectic day, but still active. And then Friday is going to be a long, busy, and stressful day (traveling always has that effect on me). At least we (hopefully) get to sleep in on Saturday!
This morning I got up normal time and headed over to Joel and Shosh's to babysit. Shosh tried to put Talia down for a nap before she left, but she only slept for about 15 minutes, so she ended up taking a 3-hour nap a little later, which was perfect! Eli and I played out on the deck with beans, bubbles, and basketball for most of the day. He says the funniest things...
We were playing with the beans (Talia was inside sleeping in her swing at this point), and Eli randomly says, "Baby Talia!" I thought maybe she had woken up and he heard her making noise that I couldn't hear or something, so I said, "Baby Talia? What is she doing?" Eli said, "swing!" At this point I relaxed, and said, "yes, that's right, she's sleeping in her swing." Eli responded, "she's a lucky girl!" I laughed out loud...he gave me a funny look as if to say "why are you laughing at me?!?", but it was so funny! I guess he must have heard Joel and Shosh saying it at some point and was just repeating, but to hear a two-year-old say that was just priceless.
Anyway, Joel got home a little early, so I ended up getting home around 3:30. There had been a possibility that I would have to pick Marsha up from either the airport or MARTA, but she texted me earlier saying that she had found someone else to do it, so I just went straight home. Marcus had a board meeting after work tonight, so I was on my own for dinner (leftover pasta, yum!). I watched the season premiere of Survivor...don't worry, I won't post any spoilers! I'm kind of "eh" on this season so far...there aren't any new players who have really caught my attention yet, good or bad. I did like the immunity challenge they did tonight - I LOVE multi-step challenges! Beyond that, it wasn't all that interesting. Then again, it's usually three or four episodes before I really start to get into it and know who I like and dislike, so we'll see.
After the show was over, I called my dad to wish him a happy birthday, and we talked for a little bit (I talked to my mom, too). Then Marcus got home, and now we are just hanging out on the couch staring at our respective computers. Marcus gets to go into work late tomorrow (around 10:30), which is nice, but I haven't decided yet if I'm going to sleep in with him or just get up normal time. I have my interview with the tutoring company at 1 pm tomorrow, and I need to go to the bank before that to deposit a couple of checks.
Speaking of the interview, I'm kind of in a holding phase right now. I found a couple of jobs I want to apply to, but I'm waiting to see how this interview goes first. I really don't know much about the tutoring job - full time, part time, how the hours work, etc., so I want to find out more about it before I apply to anything else.
For some reason, I am REALLY tired, so I think I am going to actually try to go to bed early tonight. Tomorrow should be a slightly less hectic day, but still active. And then Friday is going to be a long, busy, and stressful day (traveling always has that effect on me). At least we (hopefully) get to sleep in on Saturday!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday Recap
Sorry I didn't post last night (for anyone who actually reads this). It got late, and I was tired, and I decided I'd just wait and post this morning.
So yesterday, we got up around 9 and headed over to Jerrilyn's office. She drove us out to Marietta to look at a few townhouses. One of them I had actually found online and sent to her. That was the first one we went to. We found out that it was actually a foreclosure, which is why the price was so low (although it hadn't mentioned anything about that on the listing, Jerrilyn just found out by talking to the selling agent. I kind of felt like that wasn't right, they should be required to include that information in the listing!), but we really liked it. Very cute house, and there are only a couple of minor, inexpensive repairs that it needs. We then went to look at another townhouse in the same subdivision. This was the first house we went to where the owner was actually there. He was an older man who has lived in the house for 15 years. He had SO. MANY. TCHOTCHKES. It was hard to get a good idea of what the house would look like without all the random stuff! It also had a slightly different floorplan from anything else we had seen. We weren't super impressed. Then we headed over to a different part of Marietta to look at another townhouse, which actually ended up being in the same little area as one of the Gables apartment complexes we had looked in a couple of months ago! This was a newer townhouse, it was very nice and well-maintained, but felt very tall and skinny. Even though it had some really nice amenities (new kitchen appliances, refrigerator included, etc.), we ultimately decided that we still liked the first one we had seen (the foreclosure) the best. After we got home, I sent Jerrilyn a list of the single family houses I had found in the Marietta area, so that will probably be the next thing we go look at.
When we got home, I did my laundry while we watched the Braves game. Then we went grocery shopping, came home and ate dinner. We decided to watch a movie on Netflix, and ended up watching a movie called Strictly Sexual, which had been in our instant queue for a while. It was a decent movie, but it made me really upset afterwards. Marcus and I had a long talk about why I was upset, where we both concluded that somewhere along the way, I lost my "mojo" (for lack of a better word). I should add here that "mojo" in this case is not sexual necessarily (I am not Austin Powers!), but more just a general like...passion, and driving force in my life. I'm frustrated, because I remember what it felt like to feel the way the characters did in the movie, and I want that back, but it's like I don't remember how. Talking to Marcus helped a little, I guess, at least to ease some of the frustration, but I still need to figure out how to get my mojo back!
We ended up showering and going to bed right around midnight, so I could watch the new episode of Food Truck Race, since I missed the original airing at 9 (while we were watching the movie).
This is looking to be a really busy week, with the exception of today. I'm just hoping that I somehow have SOME store of energy left at the end of it, because next weekend is going to be crazy.
So yesterday, we got up around 9 and headed over to Jerrilyn's office. She drove us out to Marietta to look at a few townhouses. One of them I had actually found online and sent to her. That was the first one we went to. We found out that it was actually a foreclosure, which is why the price was so low (although it hadn't mentioned anything about that on the listing, Jerrilyn just found out by talking to the selling agent. I kind of felt like that wasn't right, they should be required to include that information in the listing!), but we really liked it. Very cute house, and there are only a couple of minor, inexpensive repairs that it needs. We then went to look at another townhouse in the same subdivision. This was the first house we went to where the owner was actually there. He was an older man who has lived in the house for 15 years. He had SO. MANY. TCHOTCHKES. It was hard to get a good idea of what the house would look like without all the random stuff! It also had a slightly different floorplan from anything else we had seen. We weren't super impressed. Then we headed over to a different part of Marietta to look at another townhouse, which actually ended up being in the same little area as one of the Gables apartment complexes we had looked in a couple of months ago! This was a newer townhouse, it was very nice and well-maintained, but felt very tall and skinny. Even though it had some really nice amenities (new kitchen appliances, refrigerator included, etc.), we ultimately decided that we still liked the first one we had seen (the foreclosure) the best. After we got home, I sent Jerrilyn a list of the single family houses I had found in the Marietta area, so that will probably be the next thing we go look at.
When we got home, I did my laundry while we watched the Braves game. Then we went grocery shopping, came home and ate dinner. We decided to watch a movie on Netflix, and ended up watching a movie called Strictly Sexual, which had been in our instant queue for a while. It was a decent movie, but it made me really upset afterwards. Marcus and I had a long talk about why I was upset, where we both concluded that somewhere along the way, I lost my "mojo" (for lack of a better word). I should add here that "mojo" in this case is not sexual necessarily (I am not Austin Powers!), but more just a general like...passion, and driving force in my life. I'm frustrated, because I remember what it felt like to feel the way the characters did in the movie, and I want that back, but it's like I don't remember how. Talking to Marcus helped a little, I guess, at least to ease some of the frustration, but I still need to figure out how to get my mojo back!
We ended up showering and going to bed right around midnight, so I could watch the new episode of Food Truck Race, since I missed the original airing at 9 (while we were watching the movie).
This is looking to be a really busy week, with the exception of today. I'm just hoping that I somehow have SOME store of energy left at the end of it, because next weekend is going to be crazy.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Steps in the right direction
I feel like my life finally took a couple of steps in some right directions today. This is exciting!
I got up normal time today and headed over to Joel and Shosh's around 9:45 to babysit. Eli and I played with playdough, and also played out on the porch with beans, his new basketball hoop, and bubbles! He still does the same thing he's done with the bubbles since he first started playing with them - he watches them land on the floor, then looks at me and says, "pop them!" I tell him to go ahead and pop them, and he steps on each one individually. I say "pop!" each time he steps on one, and this sends him into a massive giggle fit! It's the cutest thing ever :-D
While I was giving Talia her bottle, I got a phone call back from the tutoring company. My scores on the teachers' test were "excellent", and they'd like me to come in for an interview. I need to call them back tomorrow, now that I know what my schedule is looking like next week.
I got home around 4:30, received an email soon after that from Jerrilyn (our realtor), and spent the next few minutes emailing back and forth with her planning an outing on Saturday to go look at a few houses! Marcus came home a little late because he had a meeting at work, so I watched the first game of the Braves' doubleheader with the Mets, and then ate dinner when he got home. We are still watching game 2! I also went and watched the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker in the other room during the hour it was on. I loved one of her clients this week! He was such a good guy, and she found a great match for him :-)
Tomorrow is looking to be a quiet day, which will be nice. All I have on the docket is to pay my student loan bill and clean the bathroom. And Marcus has his RPG tomorrow night, so I'll be here by myself. I'll probably end up just watching the Braves game, but we'll see. I MIGHT let myself sleep in tomorrow...I've had a hard time waking up every day this week, so I feel like I need to make sure I get enough sleep at least one night.
I got up normal time today and headed over to Joel and Shosh's around 9:45 to babysit. Eli and I played with playdough, and also played out on the porch with beans, his new basketball hoop, and bubbles! He still does the same thing he's done with the bubbles since he first started playing with them - he watches them land on the floor, then looks at me and says, "pop them!" I tell him to go ahead and pop them, and he steps on each one individually. I say "pop!" each time he steps on one, and this sends him into a massive giggle fit! It's the cutest thing ever :-D
While I was giving Talia her bottle, I got a phone call back from the tutoring company. My scores on the teachers' test were "excellent", and they'd like me to come in for an interview. I need to call them back tomorrow, now that I know what my schedule is looking like next week.
I got home around 4:30, received an email soon after that from Jerrilyn (our realtor), and spent the next few minutes emailing back and forth with her planning an outing on Saturday to go look at a few houses! Marcus came home a little late because he had a meeting at work, so I watched the first game of the Braves' doubleheader with the Mets, and then ate dinner when he got home. We are still watching game 2! I also went and watched the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker in the other room during the hour it was on. I loved one of her clients this week! He was such a good guy, and she found a great match for him :-)
Tomorrow is looking to be a quiet day, which will be nice. All I have on the docket is to pay my student loan bill and clean the bathroom. And Marcus has his RPG tomorrow night, so I'll be here by myself. I'll probably end up just watching the Braves game, but we'll see. I MIGHT let myself sleep in tomorrow...I've had a hard time waking up every day this week, so I feel like I need to make sure I get enough sleep at least one night.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
So out of it
So I'm trying to get back into the daily grind, including writing in here every night. It's hard! I literally JUST remembered to write in here tonight.
I slept in a little bit today, but got up around 10 after Marcus got a phone call that woke me up. We ended up going to lunch with Pearl and Joey, then went grocery shopping. It was a rainy, dreary day (although I did enjoy the MUCH cooler weather!), so we were kind of out of it all day. I did go to the gym tonight (but Marcus didn't come with me), and felt a little better after that. I ate dinner and we watched the beginning of the Braves game before the season finale of Secret Life came on at 8. It was a GREAT episode, definitely the best one this season. I have a love/hate relationship with season finales. I love that they are usually amazing episodes that finally tie up all the loose ends of the story. I hate that they mean I have to wait for MONTHS to see the next episode! :-P
Anyway, after Secret Life ended up, Marcus had left to pick David up from the airport, so I watched the end of the Braves game by myself. Then I just hung out until he got home. I showered and got ready for bed, and now here I am writing this. I'm hoping that I will be able to get back into my regular routine starting tomorrow! The only things I have on the docket for tomorrow are to review some basic math stuff for the SAT teacher's test I'm taking on Wednesday (pre-requisite for a potential tutoring job), and Marcus and I are meeting with a good friend of his aunt's, who is a realtor, to start house hunting in earnest. So hopefully I'll have something interesting to report tomorrow night!
I slept in a little bit today, but got up around 10 after Marcus got a phone call that woke me up. We ended up going to lunch with Pearl and Joey, then went grocery shopping. It was a rainy, dreary day (although I did enjoy the MUCH cooler weather!), so we were kind of out of it all day. I did go to the gym tonight (but Marcus didn't come with me), and felt a little better after that. I ate dinner and we watched the beginning of the Braves game before the season finale of Secret Life came on at 8. It was a GREAT episode, definitely the best one this season. I have a love/hate relationship with season finales. I love that they are usually amazing episodes that finally tie up all the loose ends of the story. I hate that they mean I have to wait for MONTHS to see the next episode! :-P
Anyway, after Secret Life ended up, Marcus had left to pick David up from the airport, so I watched the end of the Braves game by myself. Then I just hung out until he got home. I showered and got ready for bed, and now here I am writing this. I'm hoping that I will be able to get back into my regular routine starting tomorrow! The only things I have on the docket for tomorrow are to review some basic math stuff for the SAT teacher's test I'm taking on Wednesday (pre-requisite for a potential tutoring job), and Marcus and I are meeting with a good friend of his aunt's, who is a realtor, to start house hunting in earnest. So hopefully I'll have something interesting to report tomorrow night!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Manic Monday
Days like today are why the term "manic Monday" came about. I'm heading to bed early (as soon as I finish writing this, in fact) in hopes of recovering and catching up a little bit on sleep!
I woke up at 6 am this morning, and while I was attempting to fall back asleep, was startled awake again by a loud noise from somewhere outside (it sounded like a gunshot, but maybe that's just my imagination, since I haven't heard about any shootings...). After that, it took me a LONG time to fall back asleep, and when I finally did, I had a very unsettling dream about my car, in which it ended up having even more problems than those that were already there. Needless to say, I did NOT want to get up when my alarm went off at 8! But I had to, because I had a lot on the docket for today.
First order of business - took my car in to get the tire fixed. Luckily, they were able to plug the hole and didn't have to replace the tire, so I didn't have to pay anything! It also only took them about 20 minutes or so, which was nice. I brought my computer with me and worked on Julia's montage while they were fixing my car.
When I got home, I worked on the montage for a couple of hours longer. I got a lot done, and I'm HOPING to be able to finish it (or at least get really, really close to finishing it) tomorrow. We'll see how that goes, haha.
Then I just hung out for a while. Walked down and got the mail, of which there was a TON - I guess we forgot to get it on Saturday, haha. When Marcus got home, we took out the trash, then ate dinner. We were both feeling lazy, so we just kind of grabbed whatever out of the pantry. I had a tuna pack and he had a bowl of cereal! Then we watched Jeopardy together, then I watched Secret Life (can't wait for next week's season finale!), and we watched the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker together. It was a rare episode where I actually liked both of the millionaires, haha, so that was fun. We also paid rent for next month and Marcus emailed his mom about houses and such.
So, it was a very busy and productive day, which leaves me feeling tired, but accomplished (which is a rare treat for me these days). Tomorrow should be another fun one, not much during the day other than finishing the montage, but after Marcus gets home it will be super busy!
I woke up at 6 am this morning, and while I was attempting to fall back asleep, was startled awake again by a loud noise from somewhere outside (it sounded like a gunshot, but maybe that's just my imagination, since I haven't heard about any shootings...). After that, it took me a LONG time to fall back asleep, and when I finally did, I had a very unsettling dream about my car, in which it ended up having even more problems than those that were already there. Needless to say, I did NOT want to get up when my alarm went off at 8! But I had to, because I had a lot on the docket for today.
First order of business - took my car in to get the tire fixed. Luckily, they were able to plug the hole and didn't have to replace the tire, so I didn't have to pay anything! It also only took them about 20 minutes or so, which was nice. I brought my computer with me and worked on Julia's montage while they were fixing my car.
When I got home, I worked on the montage for a couple of hours longer. I got a lot done, and I'm HOPING to be able to finish it (or at least get really, really close to finishing it) tomorrow. We'll see how that goes, haha.
Then I just hung out for a while. Walked down and got the mail, of which there was a TON - I guess we forgot to get it on Saturday, haha. When Marcus got home, we took out the trash, then ate dinner. We were both feeling lazy, so we just kind of grabbed whatever out of the pantry. I had a tuna pack and he had a bowl of cereal! Then we watched Jeopardy together, then I watched Secret Life (can't wait for next week's season finale!), and we watched the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker together. It was a rare episode where I actually liked both of the millionaires, haha, so that was fun. We also paid rent for next month and Marcus emailed his mom about houses and such.
So, it was a very busy and productive day, which leaves me feeling tired, but accomplished (which is a rare treat for me these days). Tomorrow should be another fun one, not much during the day other than finishing the montage, but after Marcus gets home it will be super busy!
Monday, August 22, 2011
Oh, Monday...
I had a really hard time getting up this morning. I kept falling back asleep! I finally got up around 8:45, and tried to be productive this morning. I called my car finance company, because I had originally sent a check for this month's payment, but then I closed the checking account I sent it from because it was like 5 days later and I completely forgot that it hadn't gone through yet. As soon as I had realized this, I paid it "again" online (and it's not due until the 29th, so I'm still fine as far as paying on time). But I wanted to let them know so that they wouldn't try to process the check when they got it. Well, apparently there's nothing they can do about it, so I will have a lovely fee to pay ($20-30) for the check not going through. You'd think they would be able to put a note on my account or something, but nooooo, apparently they can't do that. LAME.
Anyway, I was annoyed after that, so I decided to go grocery shopping (since we didn't get a chance to go this weekend) before lunch so I could listen to music in the car and try to improve my mood. It worked pretty well, it was a successful (and cheap!) grocery shopping trip, so now we have food in the house again, yay!
I spent the rest of the day job searching and such, until Marcus got home. He actually came home a little early because the air conditioning at his office was broken, so his boss let everyone go home early. So, when he got home, we booked our next "vacation" - I had bought a weekend getaway type thing on Living Social a while back, and we finally decided to use it! So we're going to Chattanooga for a couple of days over Labor Day weekend. We're going to go to the aquarium and to Ruby Falls, and we're staying at the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel! It should be fun, I'm excited to get away for a couple of days.
After we had sorted all of that out, we went to the gym, which was nice, since I didn't go at all last week when I was sick. Marcus went out to get us Chipotle for dinner (yum!), and I watched Secret Life and the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker while he watched True Blood on the computer. And now we are watching the Braves game, and hoping it'll be a short-ish game so that we can get to bed early tonight! Marcus has to go into work a little early tomorrow, and I am going with Shosh to a meeting tomorrow morning so that I can watch Eli for her while she and Talia are in the meeting.
It's crazy how the fall always turns out so busy, no matter how calm we try to keep it. There's always so much travel going on, and with the holidays thrown in, it just gets crazy so quickly! So far we already have two trips planned in September and one in October, plus the holidays...it's really kind of ridiculous. Hopefully we'll still manage to get enough sleep somehow!
Anyway, I was annoyed after that, so I decided to go grocery shopping (since we didn't get a chance to go this weekend) before lunch so I could listen to music in the car and try to improve my mood. It worked pretty well, it was a successful (and cheap!) grocery shopping trip, so now we have food in the house again, yay!
I spent the rest of the day job searching and such, until Marcus got home. He actually came home a little early because the air conditioning at his office was broken, so his boss let everyone go home early. So, when he got home, we booked our next "vacation" - I had bought a weekend getaway type thing on Living Social a while back, and we finally decided to use it! So we're going to Chattanooga for a couple of days over Labor Day weekend. We're going to go to the aquarium and to Ruby Falls, and we're staying at the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel! It should be fun, I'm excited to get away for a couple of days.
After we had sorted all of that out, we went to the gym, which was nice, since I didn't go at all last week when I was sick. Marcus went out to get us Chipotle for dinner (yum!), and I watched Secret Life and the new episode of Millionaire Matchmaker while he watched True Blood on the computer. And now we are watching the Braves game, and hoping it'll be a short-ish game so that we can get to bed early tonight! Marcus has to go into work a little early tomorrow, and I am going with Shosh to a meeting tomorrow morning so that I can watch Eli for her while she and Talia are in the meeting.
It's crazy how the fall always turns out so busy, no matter how calm we try to keep it. There's always so much travel going on, and with the holidays thrown in, it just gets crazy so quickly! So far we already have two trips planned in September and one in October, plus the holidays...it's really kind of ridiculous. Hopefully we'll still manage to get enough sleep somehow!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Another sick day...
Yup, still sick. I think I'm starting to get better though, my fever didn't spike nearly as high tonight as it did last night, although it still did go up a little in the evening.
I spent the entire day sitting/laying on the futon in our living room today. There was a marathon of Millionaire Matchmaker on, and I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I watched it for about 6 hours...but hey, I'm sick, so that's my excuse, right? ;-)
When Marcus got home, we decided to order in dinner from Mediterranean Grill, since Marcus loves their food, and I was actually craving their potatoes! I ate while watching the new episode of Secret Life, and then joined Marcus in the living room to watch the end of the Braves game - very exciting finish! I swear I have a 6th sense about these things...I had a "feeling" that Freddie Freeman was going to drive in at least A run somehow! But he managed to drive in two, so we won! Yay!
I felt much better overall today, for most of the day, I didn't even have a fever, in fact my temperature was below normal for a good chunk of the day (thanks to the thermometer I made Marcus pick up when he went grocery shopping yesterday, I was actually able to keep tabs on it for once). I seem to hit a wall around 7-7:30 pm...that's when my fever spiked yesterday, and when it went up to its highest point today (which, today, was only a little over 100 - much better than yesterday's high of 102.4). It somehow went down after that though, as I checked it again around 10 (to see if I should take some Advil before going to bed), and it was 99.7! So I deemed Advil unnecessary, and I think it was the right choice - I'm starting to sweat a little now, which likely means it's dropping even more on its own. GO IMMUNE SYSTEM, GO!
I also ate real food today. Yesterday I fed myself the "sick diet" - toast with jelly for brunch, and soup for dinner. Today I decided I needed some protein, so after eating an orange for breakfast, I ended up having peanut butter and jelly for lunch, and a sandwich from Med Grill (as I mentioned above) for dinner.
I plan to spend most of the day tomorrow laying on the futon again...but Cliff is coming to stay over tomorrow night for an interview he has Wednesday morning, so I'll have to give up my futon spot a little earlier in the day tomorrow than I did today.
I spent the entire day sitting/laying on the futon in our living room today. There was a marathon of Millionaire Matchmaker on, and I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I watched it for about 6 hours...but hey, I'm sick, so that's my excuse, right? ;-)
When Marcus got home, we decided to order in dinner from Mediterranean Grill, since Marcus loves their food, and I was actually craving their potatoes! I ate while watching the new episode of Secret Life, and then joined Marcus in the living room to watch the end of the Braves game - very exciting finish! I swear I have a 6th sense about these things...I had a "feeling" that Freddie Freeman was going to drive in at least A run somehow! But he managed to drive in two, so we won! Yay!
I felt much better overall today, for most of the day, I didn't even have a fever, in fact my temperature was below normal for a good chunk of the day (thanks to the thermometer I made Marcus pick up when he went grocery shopping yesterday, I was actually able to keep tabs on it for once). I seem to hit a wall around 7-7:30 pm...that's when my fever spiked yesterday, and when it went up to its highest point today (which, today, was only a little over 100 - much better than yesterday's high of 102.4). It somehow went down after that though, as I checked it again around 10 (to see if I should take some Advil before going to bed), and it was 99.7! So I deemed Advil unnecessary, and I think it was the right choice - I'm starting to sweat a little now, which likely means it's dropping even more on its own. GO IMMUNE SYSTEM, GO!
I also ate real food today. Yesterday I fed myself the "sick diet" - toast with jelly for brunch, and soup for dinner. Today I decided I needed some protein, so after eating an orange for breakfast, I ended up having peanut butter and jelly for lunch, and a sandwich from Med Grill (as I mentioned above) for dinner.
I plan to spend most of the day tomorrow laying on the futon again...but Cliff is coming to stay over tomorrow night for an interview he has Wednesday morning, so I'll have to give up my futon spot a little earlier in the day tomorrow than I did today.
Still Sick :(
Sorry I didn't post last night. I really wasn't feeling well last night (my fever tends to spike in the evening), so I ended up showering at like 7:30 and getting in bed to watch the reunion show and season finale of Next Food Network Star. I fell asleep soon after it was over, probably around 10:15-10:30. I feel better this morning, but then again, I felt better yesterday morning too. I think it's just because my temperature is lower in the mornings.
Since I was sick, I really didn't do much yesterday. I did laundry, but that's about it. Marcus was awesome and went grocery shopping for me, so I didn't have to leave the house at all. I'm not planning on going anywhere today either.
So, sorry for the boring update. Tonight's will probably be just as boring. Hopefully I'll get better soon, and we'll be back to more interesting daily goings-on.
Since I was sick, I really didn't do much yesterday. I did laundry, but that's about it. Marcus was awesome and went grocery shopping for me, so I didn't have to leave the house at all. I'm not planning on going anywhere today either.
So, sorry for the boring update. Tonight's will probably be just as boring. Hopefully I'll get better soon, and we'll be back to more interesting daily goings-on.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Just Another Manic Monday
I didn't sleep very well last night. Just when I was going to sleep, I found a bug crawling in the bed (just a silverfish, but still, IT TOUCHED ME!), and after Marcus got rid of it for me, it took me a while to get rid of that creepy-crawly feeling and actually fall asleep. So this morning, I had a hard time getting up. I did manage to drag myself out of bed around 8:30 though.
It took me a while to get going even after I got up, and as a result, I didn't even get dressed or anything until around 10:30. I didn't do much during the day - job searched some (and started working on applications for a few jobs, but I didn't find those until around 4:30, so had to save to return later when Marcus got home), did a few tasks on Amazon Turk, and that's about it. I also emailed the leasing agent from the apartment complex we've been looking at, and she got back to me within a couple of hours, letting me know that there would be a unit for us to come look at on Saturday. I also managed to actually walk down to get the mail today, which I hadn't done in a while.
After Marcus got home, it was a typical Monday evening. We went to the gym, then ate dinner, and then I watched Secret Life while he was watching the Braves game. And after my show was over, I came out and watched the rest of the game with him. Also, because we went to the gym AND I ate a relatively small dinner for a gym day (usually I splurge on tacos or Chipotle or something on gym days, but today I just ate easy mac and salad), I hit a new low weight! I've been trying to lose some weight, with the help of a great free online food log I found (that also lets you log your exercise and weight among other things). My goal is to eventually get back down to 120...I haven't weighed 120 since high school, haha, but I don't have a specific timetable in mind, it's just an eventual goal. For right now, my more immediate goal is to get my BMI back down into "normal" range (it's currently in "overweight" range), and I'm getting really close! My BMI as of tonight is down to 25.3, and I think 25 is the upper edge of "normal" range! I started tracking my food and exercise (and weight) about 2 months ago, and in that time, I've lost about 8 pounds! It's a really slow process for me (slower than it should be based solely on my net calories, but that's not surprising, since one of the potential effects of PCOS is difficulty losing weight - it could be MUCH worse, though, I'm lucky that that's not one of the effects that's particularly bad in my case), but I'm clearly making progress, which is exciting. I was SO excited when I had my first sub-140 weight a few weeks ago, and now I am down to 137.7! Granted, it fluctuates, but a few weeks ago, it was bouncing between 140-142.5, and now it's been between 138.5-140.5 (until today!), with the 140s getting rarer all the time. So I'm very pleased with that :-)
Also, the Braves won again tonight, so yay! And we've been firming up more plans for my parents' upcoming visit, it's starting to shape into what will be a very busy weekend. Mostly fun stuff though, so I'm actually getting excited about it.
I have a long list of stuff I need to do tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have another interesting entry to post tomorrow night! Until then, goodnight all!
It took me a while to get going even after I got up, and as a result, I didn't even get dressed or anything until around 10:30. I didn't do much during the day - job searched some (and started working on applications for a few jobs, but I didn't find those until around 4:30, so had to save to return later when Marcus got home), did a few tasks on Amazon Turk, and that's about it. I also emailed the leasing agent from the apartment complex we've been looking at, and she got back to me within a couple of hours, letting me know that there would be a unit for us to come look at on Saturday. I also managed to actually walk down to get the mail today, which I hadn't done in a while.
After Marcus got home, it was a typical Monday evening. We went to the gym, then ate dinner, and then I watched Secret Life while he was watching the Braves game. And after my show was over, I came out and watched the rest of the game with him. Also, because we went to the gym AND I ate a relatively small dinner for a gym day (usually I splurge on tacos or Chipotle or something on gym days, but today I just ate easy mac and salad), I hit a new low weight! I've been trying to lose some weight, with the help of a great free online food log I found (that also lets you log your exercise and weight among other things). My goal is to eventually get back down to 120...I haven't weighed 120 since high school, haha, but I don't have a specific timetable in mind, it's just an eventual goal. For right now, my more immediate goal is to get my BMI back down into "normal" range (it's currently in "overweight" range), and I'm getting really close! My BMI as of tonight is down to 25.3, and I think 25 is the upper edge of "normal" range! I started tracking my food and exercise (and weight) about 2 months ago, and in that time, I've lost about 8 pounds! It's a really slow process for me (slower than it should be based solely on my net calories, but that's not surprising, since one of the potential effects of PCOS is difficulty losing weight - it could be MUCH worse, though, I'm lucky that that's not one of the effects that's particularly bad in my case), but I'm clearly making progress, which is exciting. I was SO excited when I had my first sub-140 weight a few weeks ago, and now I am down to 137.7! Granted, it fluctuates, but a few weeks ago, it was bouncing between 140-142.5, and now it's been between 138.5-140.5 (until today!), with the 140s getting rarer all the time. So I'm very pleased with that :-)
Also, the Braves won again tonight, so yay! And we've been firming up more plans for my parents' upcoming visit, it's starting to shape into what will be a very busy weekend. Mostly fun stuff though, so I'm actually getting excited about it.
I have a long list of stuff I need to do tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have another interesting entry to post tomorrow night! Until then, goodnight all!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sunday Funday
I ended up getting up right around 11 today - just like I predicted yesterday! I called my mom to talk about plans for their visit, then Marcus and I watched the Braves game. It was a crazy game, back and forth all the way, but we pulled it out in the end. After the game ended, we went grocery shopping, and then went to Atlantic Station to get dinner. Marcus had a coupon for Which Wich that was going to expire soon, so we went there. As we were walking back to the car, we passed by a magician who was doing some card tricks! We stopped to watch for a few minutes before continuing on home. We hung out for a little while, then watched The Next Food Network Star. I was really pleased with the results of this week, I think they got rid of the right person. Next week is the finale! I simultaneously love and hate finale season, haha. I love it because I like seeing how it turns out, but I hate it because all the shows end, and then there's nothing to entertain me until the next season of shows starts up! Luckily, I don't have to wait too long, as I know several shows will be starting back up in September, so only a month away.
Sorry so short tonight, I'm not really in much of a writing mood. I don't really have much going on this week as of now, but we'll see how it goes. Maybe something interesting will happen...maybe I'll even get a job! Anyway, I should have a little more to say tomorrow, Mondays are always interesting at least.
Sorry so short tonight, I'm not really in much of a writing mood. I don't really have much going on this week as of now, but we'll see how it goes. Maybe something interesting will happen...maybe I'll even get a job! Anyway, I should have a little more to say tomorrow, Mondays are always interesting at least.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
A More Productive Day
As I had hoped, today did turn out to be more interesting and more productive than yesterday. I got up around 8:15, which was already a better start than yesterday! Around 10 am, I headed over to get a haircut (yay for $6.99 haircut coupons!). The place was completely empty, so I was in and out in about 15 minutes. The lady who cut my hair was nice (I hadn't gone to this location before, but the coupon was only valid at certain locations), she talked a lot about her (adult) daughter. She did use a little hairspray and blowdry my hair without asking (normally I just let it air dry, and I don't use any product at all), which I wasn't too happy about, but for $6.99, I guess I can't really complain.
After I got home, I worked for about an hour on Julia's slideshow. It's getting pretty close to being done, which is nice. I was briefly interrupted by the apartment maintenance crew coming in to replace our air filter and inspect our smoke detector (this was scheduled maintenance that they had so nicely informed us of two days in advance - with a note stuck in our door that said they'd be coming "between 9 am and 5 pm"), but they were in and out in under 5 minutes. When I had finished working on the slideshow, I job searched some and did a few tasks on Mechanical Turk.
Around noon, my friend Marsha came over, as we had plans to go to lunch. We couldn't decide where we wanted to go, so she decided we would just get in the car and drive, and pick something we passed. We started off going to the Highlands, but the power was out (all the traffic lights were completely out, not even blinking red or yellow or anything, and the shops/restaurants didn't appear to have power either) due to the earlier storms. So we cut across Ponce to downtown Decatur, found a rare parking spot IN the square, and after filling up the meter with all the quarters, dimes and nickels we could dig out of our wallets, walked around debating where to eat. We eventually decided on Pita Pit, which was awesome because they literally had their nutrition information posted on the window! That made it really easy for me to input my lunch into the website I've been using to keep track of what I'm eating, which was nice.
After lunch, Marsha dropped me off back home, and I did some more Mechanical Turk tasks and just sort of hung out until Marcus got home from work. We went to the gym, and then ate a small dinner. My mom called shortly after that, so I talked to her for a while and had a nice little planning session for my parents' upcoming visit (weekend of August 20th). Then, I had promised Marcus earlier this week that we could watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager tonight (he LOVES Star Trek, and I agreed to watch the series in order with him since it's available on Netflix), since we hadn't watched in a while, so we did that, and now I am sitting here writing this while he is working on a new character for his RPG tomorrow night.
My mom also mentioned that she and my dad have some photo scanning projects for me, which I already knew, but haven't been able to do because I didn't want to bring the photos down with me on a plane (these are OLD photos we're talking about, and they're just loose in boxes). Since they're driving down for their visit, they'll be able to bring them down safely, so I'll finally get to do that! We also briefly talked about Marcus and I possibly trying to plan a (driving) visit up there in October, when Marcus has two consecutive 4-day weekends (Thursday and Friday off) due to random Jewish holidays. I don't know how I feel about that, I mean, I'd love to get up there for a visit, but that time of year is always so crazy, between going to Florida for Marcus's grandfather's birthday, the Jewish holidays, and then Thanksgiving, I don't know if I really want to throw MORE travel into the mix. But we haven't been up there since mid-June, so it would be nice to go. And we still have to meet with our wedding photographer to plan out our album, so we have to get up there at some point to do that! So we'll see. I think it'll probably end up happening.
So, that's about it for today. I'm glad tomorrow's Friday! We don't really have any plans this weekend, so hopefully it'll be nice and relaxing! :-)
After I got home, I worked for about an hour on Julia's slideshow. It's getting pretty close to being done, which is nice. I was briefly interrupted by the apartment maintenance crew coming in to replace our air filter and inspect our smoke detector (this was scheduled maintenance that they had so nicely informed us of two days in advance - with a note stuck in our door that said they'd be coming "between 9 am and 5 pm"), but they were in and out in under 5 minutes. When I had finished working on the slideshow, I job searched some and did a few tasks on Mechanical Turk.
Around noon, my friend Marsha came over, as we had plans to go to lunch. We couldn't decide where we wanted to go, so she decided we would just get in the car and drive, and pick something we passed. We started off going to the Highlands, but the power was out (all the traffic lights were completely out, not even blinking red or yellow or anything, and the shops/restaurants didn't appear to have power either) due to the earlier storms. So we cut across Ponce to downtown Decatur, found a rare parking spot IN the square, and after filling up the meter with all the quarters, dimes and nickels we could dig out of our wallets, walked around debating where to eat. We eventually decided on Pita Pit, which was awesome because they literally had their nutrition information posted on the window! That made it really easy for me to input my lunch into the website I've been using to keep track of what I'm eating, which was nice.
After lunch, Marsha dropped me off back home, and I did some more Mechanical Turk tasks and just sort of hung out until Marcus got home from work. We went to the gym, and then ate a small dinner. My mom called shortly after that, so I talked to her for a while and had a nice little planning session for my parents' upcoming visit (weekend of August 20th). Then, I had promised Marcus earlier this week that we could watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager tonight (he LOVES Star Trek, and I agreed to watch the series in order with him since it's available on Netflix), since we hadn't watched in a while, so we did that, and now I am sitting here writing this while he is working on a new character for his RPG tomorrow night.
My mom also mentioned that she and my dad have some photo scanning projects for me, which I already knew, but haven't been able to do because I didn't want to bring the photos down with me on a plane (these are OLD photos we're talking about, and they're just loose in boxes). Since they're driving down for their visit, they'll be able to bring them down safely, so I'll finally get to do that! We also briefly talked about Marcus and I possibly trying to plan a (driving) visit up there in October, when Marcus has two consecutive 4-day weekends (Thursday and Friday off) due to random Jewish holidays. I don't know how I feel about that, I mean, I'd love to get up there for a visit, but that time of year is always so crazy, between going to Florida for Marcus's grandfather's birthday, the Jewish holidays, and then Thanksgiving, I don't know if I really want to throw MORE travel into the mix. But we haven't been up there since mid-June, so it would be nice to go. And we still have to meet with our wedding photographer to plan out our album, so we have to get up there at some point to do that! So we'll see. I think it'll probably end up happening.
So, that's about it for today. I'm glad tomorrow's Friday! We don't really have any plans this weekend, so hopefully it'll be nice and relaxing! :-)
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Hump Day
Well, I've made it halfway through another week! Today was a pretty boring day, but I'll try to find something to write about :-P
I was REALLY tired this morning, so I let myself sleep in a little bit and got up around 9 am. I took my time getting ready, and finally made it out of the house around 10:45. I went to the bank to deposit a check, and then came back home. HOW EXCITING! :-P Haha...yeah. Then I lounged around surfing the interwebs, job searching, making small change on Amazon Mechanical Turk (which is this great feature on amazon where you can do surveys and random small tasks for pennies apiece), and daydreaming about the future (by which I mean looking at houses for sale on the GA MLS website). I ate lunch and watched a rerun of Millionaire Matchmaker (this blog is making my tv watching look MUCH worse than it actually is, haha) before the Braves game came on at 1 pm. I watched that, then walked down to get the mail. It was SO hot out today - the forecast high was 97, and it felt every degree of that if not more. The only thing of interest in the mail was the new issue of Emory Magazine, so I browsed through that until Marcus got home.
We ate a quick dinner, then headed out to the weekly RPG that he plays in. They usually play on Friday nights, but this was a make-up session. Since I literally had nothing else to do, I decided to tag along. I enjoy watching them play - the story is very interesting - but I don't really want to play at this point. Maybe someday. Anyway, we were there until around 11 pm, then we came home, and here I am.
Tomorrow should be a little more interesting, as I actually have a few things planned to do during the day!
I was REALLY tired this morning, so I let myself sleep in a little bit and got up around 9 am. I took my time getting ready, and finally made it out of the house around 10:45. I went to the bank to deposit a check, and then came back home. HOW EXCITING! :-P Haha...yeah. Then I lounged around surfing the interwebs, job searching, making small change on Amazon Mechanical Turk (which is this great feature on amazon where you can do surveys and random small tasks for pennies apiece), and daydreaming about the future (by which I mean looking at houses for sale on the GA MLS website). I ate lunch and watched a rerun of Millionaire Matchmaker (this blog is making my tv watching look MUCH worse than it actually is, haha) before the Braves game came on at 1 pm. I watched that, then walked down to get the mail. It was SO hot out today - the forecast high was 97, and it felt every degree of that if not more. The only thing of interest in the mail was the new issue of Emory Magazine, so I browsed through that until Marcus got home.
We ate a quick dinner, then headed out to the weekly RPG that he plays in. They usually play on Friday nights, but this was a make-up session. Since I literally had nothing else to do, I decided to tag along. I enjoy watching them play - the story is very interesting - but I don't really want to play at this point. Maybe someday. Anyway, we were there until around 11 pm, then we came home, and here I am.
Tomorrow should be a little more interesting, as I actually have a few things planned to do during the day!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Busy Day
My original plan for this blog was to post each night about what I've done during the day, so I figured I would try that out for today's post. Today was an unusual day for me, because it was actually pretty busy!
I got up at 7:15 this morning (about 45 minutes earlier than normal) and headed over to Joel and Shosh's house (good friends of ours) to babysit Eli (their almost 2-year-old son) while Shosh took Talia (their 2.5-month-old daughter) to the doctor. Eli is the absolute cutest child I have ever known...and I've known MANY adorable children in my life! Anyway, when I got there, Shosh had Finding Nemo on, and Eli was playing in the playroom. After she left, I played with him for a while, but as soon as the movie ended, all he wanted me to do was put on Cars! He kept repeating, "Cars, please? Cars, please?" and looking at me with that adorable little face...so eventually I put it on for him. He actually sat in his chair and watched the first 45 minutes or so of the movie before he got up and started playing (but always running back over to check on the movie, lol) - pretty impressive attention span for a kid his age! After lunch, I managed to get him into his crib for naptime about 45 minutes before Joel got home. As always, I had a great time with my little buddy :-)
I ended up getting home a little after 3 pm - late enough that last night's finale of The Bachelorette was available on On Demand, so I actually got to watch it on the tv rather than my computer for once! I was hoping to finish watching it before Marcus got home, but I got home too late for that to happen. I did pretty well though, he only had to put up with the last 15 minutes or so. My thoughts on the finale: even though I knew who she was going to pick (I had read spoilers fairly early on in the season so I'd know how it ended if I decided not to watch the whole rest of the season), I was BAWLING - especially after the proposal, when they showed the montage of all their moments together throughout the season to REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling"...I was already a little teary, but that just pushed me over the edge, haha.
While I was watching, I got a call from the library to let me know that I didn't get the job - but they said I was among their top choices, and they wanted to know if they could keep my info on file in case something else opens up. They also said that sometimes the other branches call them and ask if they have any good candidates, and asked if I would be okay with them passing on my info to the other branches. Of course I said yes to both - so who knows!
When I finished watching my show, Marcus and I went to the gym, and then he took me to Chipotle for dinner. We just got back a little while ago, so now I am catching up with my Facebook Scrabble games and writing this post while watching the Braves game.
As of right now, I have nothing planned for tomorrow, except I have to go to the bank to deposit a check. I should also do some more work on Julia's slideshow. Other than that, I have no idea what I'll end up doing. Marcus's RPG group is having a make-up session tomorrow night, so I'll be on my own unless I decide to go with him. I usually prefer not to go - while I like the concept of RPGs, I'm really bad at playing them, and watching is only fun for so long. After a few hours it gets pretty boring :-P I could bring a book with me, but I think I'd rather just stay home, where I have my computer and television to keep me entertained!
I don't know who, if anyone, is reading this, so feel free to leave me a comment - let me know if there's anything you'd like me to write more about, or less about, or just say hi and let me know who's reading! I am blogging for my own reasons, but there's no point in making it a blog rather than a private journal if it's not interesting for people to read! :-)
I got up at 7:15 this morning (about 45 minutes earlier than normal) and headed over to Joel and Shosh's house (good friends of ours) to babysit Eli (their almost 2-year-old son) while Shosh took Talia (their 2.5-month-old daughter) to the doctor. Eli is the absolute cutest child I have ever known...and I've known MANY adorable children in my life! Anyway, when I got there, Shosh had Finding Nemo on, and Eli was playing in the playroom. After she left, I played with him for a while, but as soon as the movie ended, all he wanted me to do was put on Cars! He kept repeating, "Cars, please? Cars, please?" and looking at me with that adorable little face...so eventually I put it on for him. He actually sat in his chair and watched the first 45 minutes or so of the movie before he got up and started playing (but always running back over to check on the movie, lol) - pretty impressive attention span for a kid his age! After lunch, I managed to get him into his crib for naptime about 45 minutes before Joel got home. As always, I had a great time with my little buddy :-)
I ended up getting home a little after 3 pm - late enough that last night's finale of The Bachelorette was available on On Demand, so I actually got to watch it on the tv rather than my computer for once! I was hoping to finish watching it before Marcus got home, but I got home too late for that to happen. I did pretty well though, he only had to put up with the last 15 minutes or so. My thoughts on the finale: even though I knew who she was going to pick (I had read spoilers fairly early on in the season so I'd know how it ended if I decided not to watch the whole rest of the season), I was BAWLING - especially after the proposal, when they showed the montage of all their moments together throughout the season to REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling"...I was already a little teary, but that just pushed me over the edge, haha.
While I was watching, I got a call from the library to let me know that I didn't get the job - but they said I was among their top choices, and they wanted to know if they could keep my info on file in case something else opens up. They also said that sometimes the other branches call them and ask if they have any good candidates, and asked if I would be okay with them passing on my info to the other branches. Of course I said yes to both - so who knows!
When I finished watching my show, Marcus and I went to the gym, and then he took me to Chipotle for dinner. We just got back a little while ago, so now I am catching up with my Facebook Scrabble games and writing this post while watching the Braves game.
As of right now, I have nothing planned for tomorrow, except I have to go to the bank to deposit a check. I should also do some more work on Julia's slideshow. Other than that, I have no idea what I'll end up doing. Marcus's RPG group is having a make-up session tomorrow night, so I'll be on my own unless I decide to go with him. I usually prefer not to go - while I like the concept of RPGs, I'm really bad at playing them, and watching is only fun for so long. After a few hours it gets pretty boring :-P I could bring a book with me, but I think I'd rather just stay home, where I have my computer and television to keep me entertained!
I don't know who, if anyone, is reading this, so feel free to leave me a comment - let me know if there's anything you'd like me to write more about, or less about, or just say hi and let me know who's reading! I am blogging for my own reasons, but there's no point in making it a blog rather than a private journal if it's not interesting for people to read! :-)
Monday, August 1, 2011
New Month, New Blog
Hello, world!
I have decided to try daily blogging, partially inspired by reading my friends' blogs, and partially just to give myself something to do each day. The first day of a new month seemed like as good a time as ever to start, so here I am. We'll see how it goes!
It's 9:40 am, and I've already had a fairly productive day. I was actually out of bed by 8:10 this morning (my alarm is always set for 8:00 am on weekdays, but sometimes I let myself doze until around 8:30 or even later), so that was a good start. It's always easier for me to be productive when I start a week off that way - the longer I'm lazy on Monday, the less productive I'll probably be for that entire week. So this is a good sign for this week! After I got up and ate breakfast (Cinnamon Toast Crunch, yum!), I job-searched a little bit, and actually applied to two jobs on Opportunity Knocks - all this before I even got dressed! I also certified for unemployment, as I do every Monday.
Plans for the rest of the day:
Anyway, that's about all that's going on right now. Like I said, I'm going to try to make this a daily blog, so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow. I was originally planning to post every night, so I could recap what happened that day, so maybe I'll even come back tonight, who knows. Until then, peace out, y'all!
I have decided to try daily blogging, partially inspired by reading my friends' blogs, and partially just to give myself something to do each day. The first day of a new month seemed like as good a time as ever to start, so here I am. We'll see how it goes!
It's 9:40 am, and I've already had a fairly productive day. I was actually out of bed by 8:10 this morning (my alarm is always set for 8:00 am on weekdays, but sometimes I let myself doze until around 8:30 or even later), so that was a good start. It's always easier for me to be productive when I start a week off that way - the longer I'm lazy on Monday, the less productive I'll probably be for that entire week. So this is a good sign for this week! After I got up and ate breakfast (Cinnamon Toast Crunch, yum!), I job-searched a little bit, and actually applied to two jobs on Opportunity Knocks - all this before I even got dressed! I also certified for unemployment, as I do every Monday.
Plans for the rest of the day:
- Watch last night's "Men Tell All" episode of The Bachelorette. I couldn't watch it "live" because it was on at the same time as The Next Food Network Star - a show that I actually watch regularly, unlike The Bachelorette!
- Take out the trash. Marcus and I were going to do this yesterday, but the trash chute was broken, so it got pushed to today.
- Work on Julia's Bat Mitzvah slideshow. This is my current project from my side business - Timeless Treasures by Tara. The Bat Mitzvah is Labor Day weekend, and I need to have the slideshow finished by August 15th. I haven't worked on it in a few weeks, since I had a meeting with Julia and her parents and they told me that they'd be sending me a bunch more pictures to include. I told them they had until August 14th to send me pictures, so I've been waiting to have all the pictures before I continue working on the slideshow. They haven't sent me any new pictures in a couple of weeks, though, so I think it's probably safe to start working on it again!
- Email the leasing agent at Dunwoody Gables. Marcus and I have been apartment hunting again. Our lease here is up in January, and if they raise the rent (or even if they don't, but they probably will, since we're currently paying well under the market value of our floorplan), we won't be able to stay. I really don't want to leave, since I've lived here longer than I've lived anywhere else in my life except my parents' current house (we moved there when I was 12, after moving every 3 years of my life before that), but we really can't afford to stay. We found a 2-bedroom floorplan that we LOVE at Gables Metropolitan, but it's super expensive, so we can't afford it. However, a leasing agent at another Gables property we looked at told us that she had the same problem, and she found a floorplan at Dunwoody Gables that was similar (but smaller, and cheaper) to the Gables Met. one. So we went and looked, and sure enough, it is fairly similar! We went and looked at it last weekend, but we only saw a first floor unit. The second and third floor units have fireplaces (first floor ones don't), and only second and third floor units are available in our price range over the next couple of months. So I want to go back and look at one with a fireplace before we make any decisions.
- Read. I'm currently reading "The Wise Man's Fear", book two of the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. I haven't read any in over a week, though. I have been trying to go slowly with it, because I don't know yet when book three will be released, and I'd rather have as short a wait as possible! But the book is so good that every time I read, I end up reading at least 100 pages, so the only way I can slow down is to wait a while in between each time I read. I only have about 150 pages or so left in the book, so the next time I read might be the last for this book.
- Watch Secret Life tonight. This is my guilty pleasure tv show addiction - Secret Life of the American Teenager. I can't even explain why I like it, the writing is awful, most of the acting is equally bad, and these days it seems like most of the episodes are what I like to call "connector episodes", meaning that nothing important really happens in the episode, it just serves to connect one important episode to another. I still can't stop watching, though, haha.
Anyway, that's about all that's going on right now. Like I said, I'm going to try to make this a daily blog, so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow. I was originally planning to post every night, so I could recap what happened that day, so maybe I'll even come back tonight, who knows. Until then, peace out, y'all!
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