bad mood friday

I did not sleep very well last night, therefore, not in the greatest mood this morning...but, luckily it was just made worse by my dad's persistence on being non-assertive and never believing that he is worth anyone's time. Case in point: I left him a message last night trying to make plans for father's day (which is in 3 days, I'm also resenting the fact that I am always the planner these days but really who else is going to do it?) He calls back and says "Now, I don't want ya'll to mess up your day because of me." I reply, "Dad, its Father's Day...its a day about you..." This makes no sense to me, just doesn't compute, and angers me. Then he says, "Ok, well why don't we just do lunch?" "Perfect," I say, "where would you like to go? Since its your day." Then he says my favorite part: "You know, it really doesn't matter to me. I can eat a hamburger and feel full, and then I don't really know whether I've eaten a steak or a hamburger." Me: no response. "I'm just kidding," he says. He also mentions something about Dick Russel's which I completely ignore. At this point I decide its just best if I make the plans then let everyone know what they are. To summarize, I really don't enjoy having to get everyone together for these events, its just never easy....And now, I resent how unhelpful everyone is.

currently

• Standing at my desk with my computer on a file box so that I don’t kill myself (because sitting at work all day is killing our bodies, can’t find the article….)
• Wishing I were at home working the sewing room – why haven’t’ I worked on that more????
• My arm is looking really bad today from where my blood was drawn, not very well, for the thyroid test
• Hoping I get a call very soon about another job!!

workout update

last week i worked out every single day! ( march 8-12)

this week i have started the "2-week total body turnaround" which i won online from a blog! I have done the workouts from the book every single day this week so far too!!

3.11.2010

my day:
-- sitting on my yoga ball instead of desk chair

-- breakfast: cereal 300 c

-- currently wearing 2 sweaters (one is short-sleeve)

-- looking at pics of short hair cuts because the days are numbered as far as how long i can take mine being this long

-- snack: banana & pb 275 c

-- elliptical 30 min

-- lunch: cereal 300 c
soup 120 c
english muffin + cream cheese 170 c

-- they just opened up the pool on campus and already people are laying out!

-- mr. b just told me he is going to watch the vigor tennis team play and he "probably won't come back" (3pm)

-- quick wal-mart run

-- class...

-- came home to jason making delicious!! stir fry =))

rip pyrex dish -- you served us well

Sadly, our dinner last night (wed -- avocado chicken & modern family night) was untimely taken by physics. I took it out of the oven and set it on stove top without an oven mit under it and it cracked instantly. Thankfully, though, it was the pyrex dish and not the glass stove top! The night was saved however, thanks to papa johns...oh well, we'll try again next wed and I won't forget the oven mit!

condensation

ever since i asked jason (and he successfully explained) about how condensation works, I've been waiting to see some on my morning glass of water. the backstory to this is that i bring a glass of mostly-ice-water with me to work every morning. i fill it up with mostly ice to start then continue refilling it with the water filter i have at work. this process ensures that i can sip ice water throughout the morning hours. during the past few winter months i started to notice that there was no condensation forming on my water glass. so i asked jason about, knowing that he would be able to give me an answer. he explained that in the winter there is less moisture hanging around in the air (humidity) and since the air temperature is colder it can only hold a certain amount of water at a time -- something a little more complicated about pressure and such. so, i am happy to report that today....my water glass is making some condensation!! the world makes sense once again!

3.10.10

Things that have made their way into my cleavage lately:

popcorn at the movies (more than one time)
piece of jolly rancher that i just opened

1.22.2010

Dear Graduate Professor,

As you can see, I am sitting here in your graduate level class, and I would like to take this opportunity to express a continuing frustration. As I already stated, we are here in grad class, so I don't need an explanation for the following words:

generalization

explanatory (are you kidding me?!?!?)

feasibility

I think its pretty safe to assume that we wouldn't have made it this far without knowing these simple, extremely common words. Furthermore, if anyone in the class does not know what these words mean, that's their own fault. This graduate class is not the forum to explain the meanings of commonly used words of the English language.

That is all.

1.14.2010 (twenty-ten)

Why have I waited this long to write my first post of the new year??!!?? Note to self: one of my goals for this year is to keep a more consistent record of my thoughts here!

So, I'm sitting here at work, again, and the monotony is really starting to wear on me. I'm so happy that I only have three classes left until I can leave this wretched job and start doing something that is actually enjoyable. Yes, it will still be a job that I have to get up early to go to everyday, and I won't be thrilled to go every-single-day, but I will have things to do and people to talk to. I will not be stuck at my desk all day with no one talk to or look at but myself or my computer screen (we've become pretty close friends over the past 1.5 years). I did have the discovery this week that I really don't have anyone to talk to unless I go over to Weaver which I rarely have occasion to do because I don't have anything to turn in or mail. I get really tired during the day which I think is pretty unusual because I don't stay up all hours of the night and I sleep fairly well on most nights. So, I realized that I get sooooo tired because there is NO ONE else here with me (except of course for Bumpers, but our communications are pretty non-existent). Yes, yes, it's all very sad....but one day, I'll have a grown up job where I can talk to (or not) other people and actually have some work to do to occupy my time.

Enough with the pity party, what a way to start my first post of the year!

Some good things that I've done so far this year include: not having to come into work this past Monday because the power was out on campus, so I stayed home and re-arranged the kitchen a little, hung lots of things on the walls in the kitchen, took down all the Christmas decorations and put them back in the attic -- except for one outdoor tree that I couldn't get to come apart. The weekend before that though, I started a really fun (if you think organization is fun) project of sprucing up the closet in our entry way. It was previously very inefficient with only one shelf and a hanging rod that had nothing hanging on it. Basically everything was piled in there and if you needed to get anything out, it was necessary to remove everything then put it all back. So, I got some really fun paint called Sour Apple, took everything out and got to painting. Meanwhile, Jason cut some wood that we already had at home for the wall braces and shelves. He installed those then once the paint was dry, I put the shelves in. We ended up only having to buy one piece of wood for the top shelf! I put contact paper on the shelf to make sure the Sour Apple paint didn't get on anything that was put in the closet. It isn't full yet, but is storing our things much more efficiently! One of the best parts of the closet re-do is that our vacuum cleaner now has its very own home in there! Before, it didn't really fit into any of our other closets so we just moved it around from room to room, trying to keep it out the way.

In other news, I've been doing really good working out so far this year. I've been fairly consistent and staying on track so I'm really happy about that!

Total miles ran this year to date: 5.5