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09:03 pm
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40!
I hit the 40 pound mark this morning. None of my clothes fit, and I just ordered myself some jeans in a size I haven't worn in at least ten years. I'm five pounds away from the halfway mark.
The best part? When I see my reflection in the mirror, I see my own face again.
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12:20 pm
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Exercise
I went biking on Sunday. Two times around the 3-mile bike path around the lake.
Yesterday, I was in crazy pain. I was so sore that I took 3-4 advil every 5 hours just so I could function. Fortunately, it went away by evening.
Today, I feel *amazing*. I have tons of energy, I'm in a great mood, and seems like nothing can bother me. I've asked my friend at work who runs if this is why she's always so cheery and positive, and she was like, 'yes, totally, it's like a drug.'
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be this way all the time.
It's like a drug that makes you feel good all the time AND it's good for you. And makes you live longer. And look better.
Why haven't I been doing this all along?
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09:18 am
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Cancer
Patrick Swayze died yesterday. This is upsetting to me for reasons that have nothing to do with Patrick Swayze.
He survived pancreatic cancer for 20 months. Pancreatic is a particularly nasty form of cancer. You don't normally find it until it's in stage 4, which is part of why the median survival from time of diagnosis is only 3-6 months. For a while, he was proof that a person can outlive a diagnosis.
As you may have guessed, I care about all this because someone close to me was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. So far her treatment is very successful, but...
But.
A bit of hope died today.
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01:17 pm
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Pennsic
I'm back from Pennsic, safe and sound. Had a lovely time, all around.
The sense of disorientation on getting home was much worse than usual this year, probably because I was there for two whole weeks this time. I will still do that as often as I can manage, but, wow do my own walls look strange.
My transition to viking garb was a great success. Much more comfortable, looks good, I get to wear strings of beads on my chest, and it packs down so much smaller than skirts and blouses. I might even be done with all of my laundry by tomorrow.
Work is going to suck when I go back. I'm trying not to think about that.
I do think I've achieved my goal of relaxing and destressing.
It's so very strange to be back.
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12:10 pm
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Bad week, better now
I had a bad week. Last week was the dreaded KCAs, which makes my job an increasing pile of hell from early february until the end of March. The event itself was last Saturday, went well, broke all the records, blahblahblah. Back to work Monday, trying to clean up all the piles of nasty that KCA left behind. Tuesday had a meltdown. Not feeling great. I'm having trouble sleeping and having dreams about work. Wednesday out sick. Nap and catch up on Dollhouse. Thursday try again. By the middle of the day, I was having trouble forming words. People kept asking me if I was spaced out on cold medication. I wasn't. My brain was just shutting down in self-defense.
Friday, thankfully, was a day off.
I think most of the badness can be chalked up to exhaustion. I'm feeling a LOT better, after a little rest and a little time away from work. Got new contacts. Got a nifty hook-thingy to hold up the brooms and things in my closet so they're not piled everywhere. Cleaned. Did some laundry. Bought some shoes for Spring. Packed away all the boots.
Went through the backlog of mail I'd been ignoring. Found out that not only are my common charges going up, but I have to pay them twice in April. That didn't help. Having all of my bills paid and six months of paper recycling taken out did.
About two weeks ago I started some indoor gardening to preserve my sanity. (I really think the picture of my plants on my desktop at work was all that got me through the last week before KCA.) I'm wondering how I can find out when the all-important moment happens when 'danger of frost has passed'. I've really never tried outdoor gardening before. I'm tempted to try growing tomatoes or something.
Today is a glorious day out, so I have my windows open to get some fresh air in the house. I may go for a walk outside later.
Tomorrow I have to go back to work. I'm trying to avoid thinking about that just now. ;-)
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11:08 am
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Improvements
90% of the wallpaper in the bathroom is gone. There's just the little bits that are hard to get at - behind the medicine cabinet I'm going to remove, behind the toilet, between the doorframe and the window frame in the corner. It didn't seem like it was that much work, or like it took that long, but, the day went by in two-hour shots with falling-down-tired breaks in between. Today, My brother comes to help me put up mouldings around shower where the wall is damaged (Yes, I know - I should replace the drywall. I just can't afford that at the moment and this is better than nothing.)
I got a little farther towards level 77, but not much. The bigger news is that I've discovered the joys of selling herbs at auction. I made almost 200 gold with yesterday's listings and I stand to do it again today. MUCH easier than running dailies.
I removed my 'single' status from my facebook profile, in order to not get served behavior-targeted ads anymore. (If I see one more '35 and still single?' or 'he didn't call?' ad, I think I will scream). Unfortunately, the way Facebook alerts these things to all my friends, caused a rash of speculation on why I was no longer single. I am mostly amused. ;-)
I think my DSL filter stopped working. I get no dialtone with it on, and a 'line is busy' with modem-noises when it's off. So if you've tried to call my land line in the last few weeks and got no answer, sorry. I'll be getting a new one today, hopefully. (Not like anyone but my mother actually calls me on the phone - but she's pretty pissed about the situation, so I need to fix it.)
Also? I got a retraction and and apology for the the post on my Facebook page. :-D
And all I used was mild, polite snark. Hooray!
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10:59 am
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Sunday Morning Musings
I'm lousy at updating LJ. Especially lately. I'm slightly better at updating my facebook status. Requires less thought and fewer words. I feel like I should have something important or meaningful to say here. This is not that post.
As I type, my cat is trying to take over my desk. I'm not sure I'm going to win this one. So far she's claimed the mouse and a small portion of the keyboard - fortunately I don't need those at the moment, but it could get ugly when I do.
It's snowing. Or, it snowed. I'm feeling to lazy to look outside my window and see which. I distinctly remember the first time I saw it snowing this season outside my window at work. It was magical and wondrous, and I was a little kid again for a few minutes. We've reached the part of winter where that is completely gone, and my only reaction to snow is, 'oh, man, I'm going to have to shovel off my car AGAIN'.
(The cat has ceded the keyboard but claimed possession of the mousepad.)
I started working on a new home improvement project yesterday - making the master bathroom not be disgusting. A few minutes in, and I almost gave up and called the professionals in. If I actually manage to do this myself, I think I will take a vacation with the money I'm not paying to the contractors.
(My box of cables is a casualty, but the desk wars are now over. The sound of the box hitting the floor precipitated an unconditional retreat.)
I finally installed my fist WoW mod, at level 76. I'm not really sure what took me so long. I think I was afraid that installing a mod was the first step down the slippery path to true WoW addition. (I felt that way about professions for a while, too - and I'm not sure I was wrong about that.) But the mod (Carbonite) has drastically sped up my leveling. Probably halved the time it will take me, because I don't have to spend time figuring out what's where. I'm not convinced it doesn't remove some of the fun of the game, but, dammit, I want to get to 80 already.
It's interesting posting political things on Facebook these days, as some of my ultra-conservative relatives are now on and posting replies that deeply piss me off. ("Pundit X has a Jewish surname, so therefore they should support Bush unconditionally because Bush is supportive of Israel." "Why do Leftists make common cause with extremists (terrorists) within the Islamic religion who are diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for?") I'm exercising a great deal of restraint for the sake of not alienating family members.
I'm grateful for the extra day off. Today will involve a lot of cleaning, organizing, and stripping wallpaper. And maybe some TV and WoW. You know, a nice, lazy day. :-)
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07:13 pm
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Really?
Larry Summers? THAT Larry Summers? The guy who said that the reason there weren't more women in the highest ranks of academia was because they were genetically inferior as a whole?
Really?
He better be really good at economics.
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11:31 am
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Shiny
I can't ever remember feeling so optimistic and happy about the world.
( Read more... )
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12:28 am
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OK, so this is cool.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801856.html?hpid=topnews
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