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| Monday, January 26th, 2009 | | 7:46 pm |
The first 5 people to leave a comment here will receive something handmade by me. The catch is that you have to post the same offer in your journal. Most likely you will get a home baked tasty treat, and in the cases of my diabetic friends, I have gotten my hands on some stevia, so the tasty treat can even be sugar free. Also, if you are interested in being in the coupon club but haven't let me know yet, just email me with your address and I will put you on the list. I've sent out about 1500 coupons this month to 9 people, so there are lots of good ones left. And don't assume that I have your address just because I sent you a Christmas card last year. I spilled a very large cup of coffee into my laptop on Thursday and it is all the way dead and one of the things that I lost was my address book file. | | Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | | 12:11 pm |
I forgot to mention in my post last night...Monday marked my anniversary of 6 months smoke free. Woot! | | Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | | 9:19 pm |
New Years Resolutions
A long time ago I swore off New Years resolutions as silly things people make up to make a good impression on others when they tell them about them, but don't actually have any intention of carrying out. However, last year I decided to make one. I made a resolution to improve my health, and what that turned out meaning was that I quit smoking and got emotionally healthier. This year I am again resolving to improve my health, and this year what that means is getting a better handle on my diabetes and losing a shit ton of weight. It has gotten to a point where it is complicating other problems that I have. The arthritis in my knees and the pinched nerve in my lower back do not like me weighing somewhere around 350 pounds (can't be sure, my scale only goes up to 335, then it just says "error"). Neither do I. In order to accomplish this I am going to have to start cooking all of our food again, since the restaurant food that we've been eating a lot of lately is part of why I have gained so much weight. I also need to start exercising the hour or more every day that all of my doctors want me to. So what is the problem? I'm not going to be able to do all of that and still go to school. Since I started school last summer, I haven't been able to cook dinner (or breakfast or lunch for that matter) on anything like a regular basis or keep my house clean or my laundry done. I discussed it with my therapist today and she basically said that school will always be there, but my health will not. So, yeah, this year, no school and lots of walking and cooking healthy food. I have access to my nutritionist (who is also part of the weight loss clinic and has access to a scale that goes over 335), who I'm seeing on Friday, and my Ipod so that I can listen to tunes while I walk. I will give updates here on my progress. I want to lose 100 pounds in 2009, which works out to an average of 2 pounds a week, which is totally doable and will put me at a weight where I will feel healthy. I just have to be willing to do the work. I will be able to continue the travel blog, so no fear there, though I am going to get some housework done before I go on another trip, so it might be awhile. Love you all, Me | | Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | | 7:36 am |
I think I'm sliding into a manic episode. I'm spending money I shouldn't be spending, though I haven't gotten us into any kind of trouble (yet). I stayed awake all night last night, I just couldn't sleep, my brain is going too fast. I spent about 20 minutes digging my screen saver (it's the windows vista "bubbles") while listening to Duran Duran. They go well together. My brain just feels...wrong. I don't know if it's the bipolar or the fact that I had a blood sugar crash this morning. Everything is so intense. A plane just flew over the house (we're in the flight path of the airport, planes fly over the house hundreds of times a day) and I felt like hiding under my desk because it was so intense, it felt like the plane was going to land in my living room. I'm seeing my psychotherapist this afternoon and if I don't feel any more normal I may discuss the possibility of spending a few days in the nut hut, just to keep myself safe. | | Monday, November 17th, 2008 | | 2:21 pm |
I'm still freaking sick. This is ridiculous. I tried taking a Claritin on Saturday in the vain hope that it was actually allergies. It didn't help in the least. I need to practice for my singing final, except I can't sing because my voice is all raspy from coughing. Wah Wah. I'm just feeling whiny. Ignore me. | | Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | | 3:19 am |
| | Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | | 3:04 am |
I have a new travel blog post up about Donut Wheel. http://www.shoeleathertales.blogspot.comI also seem to be getting over my cold/flu and am planning to go to Reno this weekend. That trip will provide much material for blogging, as I planning spending at least half of the time that I'm there looking for cool stuff, and only some of the time gambling. Not to mention, the trip up there has a fair amount of cool stuff to take pictures of. | | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | | 12:38 am |
I discovered the other day that some of the things that happened to me when I was Uber Crazy in Denver were actually real and not a hallucination. I don't know what to do with that information. It means, to some degree, that I actually did publicly humiliate myself while I was in Denver, but to what degree I just don't know. I had been comforting myself with the belief that it was all in my head, and finding out that some of it wasn't throws a big ol' monkey wrench into that. I found some emails that I didn't know that I still had that show that there actually *was* a conspiracy to get me to humiliate myself. That was especially easy to write off to delusions of granduer. Except I have proof. This totally sucks. How many of the actions of the people that I thought of as friends that seemed kinda strange at the time, that I later thought were part of this conspiracy, how much of that was real? I am so confused right now. My sense of reality has been skewed. I think, for right now, I'm going to go with, some of the emails were real, some were the products of delusion and everything else was caused by crazy. That is the most sane way to go, even if it isn't the truth. I don't need the truth. I need whatever will let me sleep at night and leave the house during the day. And my real friends don't care about what may or may not have happened in Denver anyway. They just want me to be happy *now*. I'm working on it guys. I'm working on it. | | Friday, November 7th, 2008 | | 3:38 pm |
New travel blog post is up...fall foliage in Livermore. http://www.shoeleathertales.blogspot.comI don't want to be too hopeful, but I think I may be finally getting over my cold(s). That would be super. | | Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | | 3:16 am |
Huzzah! Classes taken during Summer semester do not count towards transfer for Fall semester. I can't transfer in 2009, I'll have to wait until 2010 after all. Spring of 2010 I'll have to take underwater basket weaving and ornamental egg decorating in order to have 6 units because I'll have completed my transfer credits and all of the scholarships that I want to apply for are for students starting in the fall semester. I'll live. And I can take intro to business writing during the summer session at SF state because it's open to non students. | | 12:26 am |
Completely unrelated to the election
The good news is...It's going to be time for me to transfer to SF state next fall. The bad news is...It's going to be time for me to transfer to SF state next fall. So, it turns out that I can't major in Technical and Professional Writing because they don't actually offer the necessary classes. The best I can do is to minor in it, which I will. Which caused a semi desperate combing of the list of majors on the website to figure out what I want to major in. Semi desperate because what I'm going to major in at SF state determines what classes I take and when I take them at LasPo. And my priority registration period was yesterday and today, until 11pm, so I had to make some kind of decision while all of the classes where still empty. I ended up just taking English and History and hoping for the best, which worked out just fine, for which I am thankful. Luckily, I discovered the perfect major to go with a tech writing minor. Industrial Arts, Product Design and Development. Because of this, I only have 4 more classes that I can take at LasPo. Which means this Spring and Summer semester and that's it. Which means I need to make an appointment with my academic counselor pronto. I need to apply for admissions. I need to get accepted. I need to apply for scholarships. The main scholarship that I'm hoping for is the Eli Lilly Reintegration Scholarship, which is for people who are either bipolar or schizophrenic, it pays all of your tuition, books and fees, but it has a late January deadline, which means I need to get crackin'. Yarg! *head explodes* | | Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | | 2:51 pm |
I was planning on taking pictures of fall foliage in Livermore today, and, in fact, got all the way to Sycamore Grove. Then I discovered that the batteries in my camera were dead and I didn't have any more in my purse. Poo. And now it's too overcast to get any good light. Oh well, I wouldn't have gotten many good pictures today anyway, because of the weather. Maybe it will be better tomorrow. Today I will enjoy the rain instead. | | Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | | 11:55 pm |
New travel blog post up
I've got a new post up about my tour of the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory. Lots of pictures! Like this!  http://www.shoeleathertales.blogspot.comThere's also a post before that one about dinner at Naan N Curry and missing out on seeing Jello Biafra at a California Green party rally. I am really getting into this whole travel blog thing. It's all kindsa cool. I want to get pictures at Sycamore Grove park next because the leaves have started turning and I would like to catch that. It's been raining much of the day today and will be raining most of the day tomorrow, so I'm not sure if I will go out there or not. On the one hand, I'll get rainy day pictures, which could be super cool, but on the other hand, it'll be cold and wet, which now that I've started to have what I think is arthritis in my knees, could suck a lot. I suppose it'll be a case of seeing how I feel in the morning and winging it. Halloween night we're going to the Paramount Theatre in Oakland to see the silent movie version of "Phantom of the Opera", complete with Wurlitzer organ. Supremely awesome. I'll probably do a blog post on that too, if I can get some pictures to illustrate it. I'm also hoping that we can make it to the corn maze this year. Given that it's less than a mile from our house, you would think that we would have been there by now, but somehow we've managed not to make it for the last 3 years. I will have to make Dan go with me before we go to Best Buy to get him a new video card so that he can run "Fallout 3", which he got in the mail today. He is very unhappy about not being able to play it until Saturday, which is why we have to go to the corn maze first. Otherwise I'll be going by myself. Which is no big, it's just that the maze feels like a couples-y thing. | | Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | | 4:21 pm |
I've just been a crazy little writing girl lately. I have another blog post up, this time titled "Curry and Jello". You'll have to go read it in order for that to make sense :). It's at http://shoeleathertales.blogspot.comGoing to Scharffen Berger tomorrow. I am supposed to write a "process paper" for English, which I am interpreting to mean a paper on how something is done, so I will probably just rip myself off and use my blog entry for the chocolate factory as my English paper. Two birds, one stone. If I can figure out why my printer is only printing black and blue and get it to print real color, I will also be able to include pictures in my English paper, which is always good for bonus points. Assuming, of course, that they let me take pictures at the chocolate factory. Hrm. | | Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | | 3:34 am |
| | Friday, October 24th, 2008 | | 12:38 am |
Slight change in plans for the weekend. I won't be staying overnight in Berkeley, as they have no Motel 6's and the cheapest motel to make the AAA guide is $100 a night. Even the hostel is $75. So I'm going to hang out all day and much of the night and then drive home and sleep in my own bed. First I'm going to The Bone Room, which is, as the name suggests, a bone store near Albany. I promise lots of pictures. Then lunch. I'm going to try to find an Ethiopian restaurant, but barring that I'm sure I'll have Indian. Then I have a reservation for a tour of the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory at 3:30 and the Green party thingy at 8:30. There will be breaks for dinner, coffee, uploading pictures and writing at various intervals throughout the day. I also have a regular blog now, just for the travel stuff, so I won't be posting the actual "articles" here, just my personal ramblings about plans and such. The blog will be more of a semi professional kind of thing. The link, which currently has no content, since I haven't done anything yet, is http://shoeleathertales.blogspot.com/ . I'll post here and on Facebook when I put up new articles, which should be once or twice a week, depending. I finally have a hobby. Look out world. | | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | | 12:07 am |
So, it turns out that I have actually used some of my student loan money on something for school (whoda thunk it, huh?), and what that means is that I have gotten myself a bright, shiny new laptop. Nothing terribly fancy, it doesn't even technically have MS Word, though it does have something similar and I can save the files as ".doc", so it's all good. What this means is that I can write whenever I want without having to scribble in a notebook. I can almost type as fast as I can think, but I can't even come close with handwriting. I have a neoprene sleeve coming for it, so I can just throw it in that for cushioning and then toss it in my backpack. Woot! I have been doing a lot of local traveling lately and have decided to start journaling it. Doing sort of a "tourist in your own back yard" sort of thing. I was going to go to SF this weekend, but then Des sent me an announcement about Jello Biafra participating in a thing with the Green party this Friday night in Berkeley. So, since Berkeley was on my list of places to hit anyway, I'll be going there this weekend instead. I have a cheap digital voice recorder, an ancient digital camera and a computer that would be useless if I did anything other than write and surf the net on it(not really true, but it helps to build the image). I feel like Hunter S. Thompson's bastard daughter. And I mean that in the best possible way. Anyway, I need to start planning my weekend, find out where the Motel 6's are and how to get to the places I want to go on public transportation or car, depending on the parking situation. Someone tell me that I will eventually stop reaching for my mouse! | | Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | | 4:35 am |
That wonderful idea for a novella that I had? The one that I am so excited about and am actually working on? There's a new action/adventure tv show on just after "Heroes" called "My Own Worst Enemy". It is close enough to identical to my idea that even though I had my idea before the show went on the air, my story will reek of plagiarism anyway. I will write the book anyway. It's a good idea and it deserves to be written. And it will help me learn how to write. | | Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | | 8:04 am |
So. Due to circumstances mostly beyond my control and mostly disability related, I am not going to be able to turn in my paper that is due today until next Tuesday. Enter stage right Stephanie, my counselor at Disabled Student Services. She is going to email my English teacher asking him for an additional week to complete the paper as an accommodation for my disability. I am very glad that I am hooked up with them and can access their services. Whew! | | Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | | 6:37 am |
My next English assignment is to do a profile piece. Person, place or thing, Sunday special newspaper type of format. Lots of quotes, that sort of thing. My teacher is trying to get me an interview with Jello Biafra, since it turns out that he knows him, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen before the assignment is due. Too bad. I do, however, have a plan "B". I'm thinking of doing a paper on the orientation that I'm going to on Tuesday for vocational rehab. I'm reasonably certain that I can make it interesting, and most people (including me) have no idea what vocational rehab is or does. I should call the rehab lady on Monday and ask her if I can interview her after orientation. That would flesh things out nicely, I think. Anyway, it gives me a great excuse to buy a digital voice recorder. I was going to need to get one for next semester anyway since I'm taking a history class and my short term memory is for shit. Being able to record lectures is considered a reasonable accommodation for the disability thingy, so they have to let me do it. Also got my financial aid money today, so I'm paying off all of the credit cards (huge weight off of shoulders, urf) and getting Dan a new video card for his computer so that he can play the space part of Spore and also be able to run Fallout 3. And I'm going to Denver for Thanksgiving to see my brother and my sister in law. |
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