quidditchgrrl

1. I am already baking like a loaf of bread in the sun, even with sunscreen. By the end of May the summer, my skin is going to look like Pam Anderson's. D: Possibly the glint of the sunscreen is inadvertently causing an intensified photoreaction with my skin?

2. Today I ended my 3 MONTH resolution of not buying clothing for myself! *dances* I did it! I am shamelessly addicted to clothes, workout clothing in particular. I bought a nice little Adidas tank top at Sports Authority (all the better to sear my shoulders into early melanoma).

3. I didn't buy a new pair of pants, which I sorely need. Most of mine are at the point of not fitting at all, which TOTALLY justifies buying black, brown, navy, and khaki pants tomorrow.

4. My sister and I are taking my nephew shopping tomorrow (when I will surrepticiously purchase items for myself). My 18-year-old, bisexual nephew, whose idea of high fashion is skull arm warmers from Hot Topic. -.- He does not understand that in addition to trendy, of-the-moment items, one should also purchase staple items to build a long-lasting wardrobe. I predict this will take a little longer than even I can imagine.

5. My last non-$5 show this year is going to be Jane's Addiction. My nephew has never heard of them. I weep (WEEP) for this younger generation, who believe that Avril and FOB are "punk".

6. One of my former girls saw me running today, and we had a nice long text chat. <3

7. I'm warm for the first time in, like, a year! Woo.

8. Sleep is a priority for the first time in, like, a month. Woo. *collapses*

'Night!

1. I do most of my food prep for the week (prep, cooking, and portioning) on Sundays to save time, hassle and temptation during the week. Once I've hit the store, fridge, freezer, and cupboards, I get to work.

( This week: )

2. ( Thoughts about food + recipe )

3. Thinking about my mom and her cooking, did any of your moms/dads have a MAGICAL piece of cookware? Like, my mom had this thin-ass stainless steel cookie sheet and no matter how you effed up the recipe, the cookies were always perfect. I have probably spent $250 lifetime trying to find the perfect cookie sheet, but NO. Only my mother's magic cookie sheet makes perfect cookies. And it is long gone. :\

Now I want some chocolate chip cookies. FML.

4. Have learned my lesson about Google Image Searching. Did a GIS for "Peter Firth" last night and - did you know that he was the first to play Alan Strang in Equus? Well. O.o

5. I am trying valiantly to get through the flist! May prevail. Probably won't. Still love you, warts and all. :)

Ugh.  Am sick.  *snorfle*  I hate being sick.  Especially when it's nice out.  Blergh.

Happenings:

1.  Lived out of my gym bag and at the YMCA for most of the week, between social things and other things and just plain not-having-time between things things.  I'm glad the Y is nearby, nice, clean and cheap.

2.  I saw Morrissey in concert on Wednesday night!  <3 that man.  Had I been up front, I totally would have been one of those crazy people who jump up on stage and try to hug him, only to be tackled by security and thrown back into the crowd.

3.  One of my pals is moving to Cali at the end of June, and I'm going to miss her like crazycakes.  We've both been seriously stressed out over other people's life catastrophies (we didn't realize that we both knew Eric, the man who killed himself last week), the uncertain future, et cetera.  The two of us are not much for superficial emotion, so we spent some time just venting and not having emotional discussions, but talking about not having emotional discussions...it's hard to explain, but we both felt better by the end of the night (the Killian's and Jim & Coke probably helped, too).

4.  Had dinner at Ha Long Bay on Friday night with friends - Columbus peeps, hit this place up if you like fresh Asian food.  The pictures are up on my FB account.

5.  Did breakfast with my dad, his wife, my sister, BiL, BiL's mom, and niece on Saturday, then went to the ultrasound place to check on the Blob.  Dude, that 4D imaging stuff is horrific - seriously, I nearly puked on Natalie about halfway through.  Or maybe it was the onset of this 'flu.  Dancing fetal skeletons are still the stuff of nightmares.  D:  Oh, she's having a boy - we saw the hot dog rather than the bun.

6.  My current Rainbow Assembly had its Reunion on Saturday, which was much more sparsely attended than we had planned for based on the number of folks who RSVP'd, but it was a nice turnout.

7.  Went to dinner (OMG I NEED TO EAT MEALS AT HOME ONCE IN A WHILE!) at Shi Chi Steakhouse with my college roommate and her hubby, then to the new "dueling piano" bar in the Arena District.  Lame, lame, lame.  We stood outside for half an hour to enter a half-full bar, the singing was first episode American Idol bad.  So, we did what we do almost every year (this is Shannon's birthday time) - abandon our grand plans and hit our favorite dive bar for karaoke.  Which I totally BLEW at, considering I've not sung even in the car for a good month, didn't warm up, etc.  She was a voice major, completely dropped off her butt drunk, and got up and sang some country song cold but with perfect pitch and timing.  *jeliz*

8.  This morning I cooked my meals for the week (down already to 172), went for a run, and threw up.  Yay.  Mr. K. is in the doghouse again, but is rallying a little by cleaning at the Lodge this afternoon so I don't have to go over and clean toilets while yakking up my own guts.

9.  They're calling for snow at the beginning of the week.  :-(

10.  OH - watched part of the pilot for First Blood last night - I liked it!  Vampires?  Southern settings?  Crazy hillbillies?  Psychic waitresses?  OMG WUT.  So, how does one go about getting the other episodes before it comes out on DVD?  *eyebrows*

11.  There is no 11.

*wince*  Please to be ignoring teh emo in the last post, kthx.

Amazing what a good night's sleep can do - not cure anything or give it new perspective, but get rid of negative energy that clouds the, uh, inner eye?  IDK.  I feel better, thanks to slumber and you all.  :)

Morrissey helps, too.

In other news, it was warm here today!  78* and sunnnnnny.  Of course, tomorrow it's going to be all of 44* according to my FF weather app.  Couldn't we just have split that and been 60* both days, Mother Nature?  NOT complaining, though!

New running shoes = sore inner thighs.  Yeeowch, but hopefully this = thinner thighs?!  *fervently hopes*

Nine years ago today, the Nasdaq reached the nadir of the dot-com craze.  That seems to have worked out well.  *headdesk*

Night, all - warmer weather (for most of us) is coming!

Wow, damn.  And here I was going to post about the ever-more-craptastic things going on in my life (uncle is in ICU with MRSA, one of my bosses has spinal and brain tumors, I may be furloughed for 10 days) but DAMN, this month is sucking for just about everyone!!!

*BIG GROUP HUG*

So, to counteract the vortex of suck, here are some wonderful things going on in my life:

1.  My puppy came through his surgery with flying colors, and is doing great!  *huggles her Bernie-dog*

2.  Saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and it was decent!  I like Michael Cera, he is the cutest thing.

3.  I made time to watch the movie, which is something special, indeed.

4.  Stimulus money to Ohio = less ouchy for many people!

5.  Liss send me a beautiful card.  Thanks, lovely!  <3

6.  Going to see the Black Swans Saturday night, small venue FTW!!!

7.  Sunday I'm heading out to see community theatre.  Community theatre FTW!!!

8.  Then I'm going to go back to work.

9.  And avoiding the annual ass-raping calculating of the taxes.  La.

10.  There is no 10.

( Things I have done on my unexpected 4-day vacation: )

( Things I have not done on my unexpected 4-day vacation: )

Also, have been listening to Bright Shiny Morning, which is the third novel from the infamous James Frey.  I love stories that deal with the underbelly of life, people outside of the mainstream.  The book is a series of stories about various people in the LA area, interspersed with little historical "footnotes" about Los Angeles, switching from story to story, from a homeless drunk on Venice Beach who meets a young meth addict to a fabulously famous and rich power couple whose marriage is incredibly happy and totally platonic.  The narrator, Ben Foster, makes the story go - so very well-suited for screaming "FUCK FUCK FUCK" or calmly explaining the development of each of southern California's main aqueducts.

Tomorrow, I will attempt to sleep in, then clean house or go to the movies.  Then off to drink alcohol be eaten alive by bugs watch fireworks in Upper Arlington.  Can't think of a better way to celebrate civil disobedience than trying to escape the po-po by drinking wine from paper cups.  :-)

Hope you all have a great holiday weekend, or weekend, as the case may be.  *squishes*

I hate making drive-by posts, but alas, it's this or nothing.

Didn't get finished with season 3 of Lost, so am behind yet again (sorry, authenticpoppy, I really want to know your theories!).

Training is still eating my life...I do my step classes/spinning on Monday and Wednesday nights and then I *must* sleep 12 hours to recover.  Thursday is running flat out for 25 minutes, then pizza and sleeeeeep.  Tuesday is a rest day only because I'm meeting a pal for drinks after work on Tuesday nights.  Mmm, Guinness.  And a really, REALLY hot bartender.  ;-9

All of this sleeping means I've missed Jon and Stephen a lot.  Like, really, truly missed them.  Which is weird.  I totally missed the Conan-Colbert-Stewart feud thingy.  But now that the WGA strike is over, ahoy internet content.  (Anyone know why Eric Drysdale isn't writing for Colbert anymore?)

I miss having an online life, too - one that involves more than manically checking email and trying to wade into LJ before nodding off at the screen.  So...tiiiired...

Work is work, have put job searching on hold for a month or so.  Lodge stuff is good, getting into painting walls.  A church is going to start meeting there in March, so more money is always good.

Love you all like whoa.  *hugs*

I can haz sleeps nao.  *snores*