Spring has Sprung

This is the view from our front porch. Our land goes all the way down to the tree in the center of the picture. It was headed toward dusk. Once we get a day with full sun again, I will take another picture. Not a bad view, at the moment.

This week I am totally into...

I have been tired this week. Maybe it's the fans that are always going when we are at home, drying out under the floors. It could be just the last few months catching up. So much going on, and a bad roller coaster ride culmanating in a crash landing with Magic. I have been spending a lot more money on fripperies than I usually do. Clothes. Makeup. Tarot cards.

Speaking of tarot cards this week's deck is the Templar Tarot by Allen Chester. The artwork is dark, and a little different.

I am not looking forward to my next few Tarot Decks of the week. The next eight decks or so are decks I have not connected with very well - including 4 decks that have only pips, not illustrated minors. So, the good thing is I will get a lot of experience reading with pip decks, and I can use that.

This week I am avoiding...

I had been avoiding Magic's ashes, there on the counter, but today I got brave and opened the cardboard box, and there was a nice little gray urn. A lot nicer than what my dad's ashes were in, once again. I cried, but it was okay. I can't really think of anything else I was avoiding that I didn't finally get done.

What else is on my mind...

A lot of things. Roe Vs. Wade, and how we Pro-choice folks need to be a little more vocal, or people who need it are going to loose their rights. I never had an abortion. I hopefully never will have an abortion. I don't think anyone who doesn't want one should have one. BUT, I think we need to have the right to have one if we want one. Or need one.

The week ahead....

I hope, on May 1, to start my exercise/eat right/feel good program again. What does that mean? It means eating healthy every day. It means exercising every day. It means not ever wearing clothes that make me feel bad. Wearing make-up every day to work. Wearing jewelry every day. Giving myself a break. Also, hopefully, fixing our floors. This will be a challenging project for someone.

Accomplishments....

I cleaned the house, as much as I could with the current project. I e-mailed our St. Bernard Breeder, and long time aquaintence, that we wanted a puppy again. Ordered makeup, I am going to try out the mineral make up and see what I think. Got the laundry done.

Weekly Gift....

There wasn't one this week. Too busy, too tired. Unless I get surprised with one tonight when TS gets home.

Quote of the Week

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877

A slightly Better Week

This week was a little calmer than last week.

Although TS finally started working on the leak - it was a HOT water leak, so the underside of our house has been thoroughly steamed. He got the leak fixed pretty quickly, but will now be spending his days removing the old damp flooring and insulation, drying out under the house, replacing the insulation and then the flooring, and getting the carpet and flooring repaired.

Doesn't that sound like fun?

My work has calmed down a little.

We got the call that Magic's ashes are ready to pick up.

We can't put a Mimosa tree down where I wanted to put the Angel Dog statue, and both dogs ashes (Suzie and Magic) it would get too much water and die. We might do a weeping willow down there instead. Which would be okay.

Any cats will go there as well.

I might look for an angel cat statue to put there too, in memory of all our cats. Maybe two cats, because we've had a lot of cats.

Sounds a little morbid, doesn't it?

So, on to better things.

Because I had such a bad week last week I went on a tarot buying spree.

I bought the Dreampower tarot.

The Labyrinth Tarot

Tarot of Metamorphosis

Hermetic Tarot

and the Tarot of Transformation.

I may also buy a 22 card art tarot, the Quantum Tarot.

This week's deck is the Faery Wicca deck, which I am not sure I like. It's a little too much on the Celtic side, and uses a lot of the myths and legends of that culture as its archetypes.

I like the idea of Celtic stuff, but I'm not so up on most of the minor legends.

I have been thinking about...

prejudices, and where they come from. How people can change they way they feel about other people. Also about ways we should treat each other better. Also about the Virginia Tech massacre. The parents and families of those people - it's just awful. It makes my little problems seem pretty small.

Accomplishments

This week I didn't accomplish much. I was happy just to make it to work every day, and be wearing clothes.

Goals for the coming week.

I want to get back on track. Back to eating better, back to exercising (I tried this week, but I just didn't have the heart) and back to wearing better clothes. Wearing makeup every day. Wearing jewelry every day.

Other goals are to get my photos downloaded onto the computer, to keep up with all my other things, like cleaning the house, even though our house will be a construction zone for a few weeks, and starting to play guitar again, and writing again.

Weekly Gift

My weekly gift this week was this cool t-shirt that I'd seen but the first store I saw it in didn't have it in my size. So yay, now I have it.

Quote of the week

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

- Carl Jung -

One of the Worst Weeks Ever

So, Magic didn't make it. If you want to read about the deatails, go to VGRandom, my main blog. We thought he was fine, but he developed complications from the second surgery, and we had to let him go.

That was not the only bad thing to happen. I was mostly into grieving, and I was sick with the flu at the same time all this was going on, so that made it worse - I would cry, and then throw up. It was ugly.

There was a big upheaval at work, and then the mother of one of the people most closely involved died.

I can't think of anything I'm avoiding. I guess I'm thinking about getting a puppy, but I'm avoiding making a decision as to "when". But it is when, and not "if". I do want another puppy, I want another Saint Bernard puppy. Probably a female this time, just so I am not comparing her to Magic all the time.

I am trying not to beat myself up anymore for Magic dying.

Hopefully I will feel better soon.

Earlier in the week, Ken got me more cute shirts - that was my weekly gift.

I don't really care about that much, at the moment.

Week in Review....

This week I was very busy.

It was my work weekend, so I only had Friday off. Like most Fridays, my plan is "play play play", but in reality I work, work work.

I did laundry, finished cleaning the house, pooh scooped the yard (oh, the romance!) cooked hardboiled eggs, and made chicken noodle soup from almost-scratch.

Of course, of the dozen eggs I started to cook, six were edible at the end, due to not checking the carton of eggs when I bought them (4 cracked eggs - obviously I got the carton everyone traded with for good eggs) , 1 floater, and 1 that cracked after I cooked them.

This week I am using the Buckland Romani Tarot, which is a very lovely deck. Raymond Buckland, the guy who designed the deck, has a Rom grandmother. It's out of print at the moment, and going for a silly amount of money on E-Bay.

I also went out and started weeding the flower beds, since it wasn't raining. I let Magic and Nemo run in the field while I worked, so they had a good time anyway.

Aside from that, it's just been work, work, work.

The weekly gift this week was - I went shopping for 2 pairs of black pants, and came out with a pair of cute camo clamdiggers (okay, I know that isn't what they are called) CAPRIS!!!! That's the name (thanks, Sandra) two cute work-type shirts and a Tinkerbell T-shirt. Oh, and Bad Bunny jammies. I love shopping with TS, LOL.

Next week I am going to clean the house BEFORE Friday, and since it's supposed to rain all weekend I am going to play, play play......

Magic Update, Guitar Gods and Sock Patrol

So, I missed about three weeks of posting because Magic had a crisis. To make a long story that is in other blogs short, after Magic threw up the sock, he quit eating, ended up going to the vet, and later that night rushed to the emergency vet where he had two surgeries over three days. One to remove another sock stuck in his intestines, and the other because there were problems with the first surgery. For awhile we didn't know if he was going to make it. Luckily he's a strong dog, and has a strong will to live. Then when he came home I watched him every minute to make sure he wasn't throwing up or getting diarrhea, which could have meant things had gone wrong.

He's okay now - back to his normal bad self after three weeks of worry.

This week started out well. Saturday Magic got his stitches out. We were so happy. As usual he was a very good dog at the vet's office. Magic loves everyone. Of course, he also thinks everyone wants to be his friend, and that isn't necessarily so.

Sunday we went shopping. Unfortunately the new comforter we got as the summer comforter is almost as hot as the heavy denim winter comforter was.

Started exercising again, which is good. My floor exercises are not so great - with two big dogs as helpers, I tend to finish early.

Thursday we went to see Eric Clapton in concert. The opening artist was Robert Cray, also a very talented player - from Tacoma. Then Eric Clapton came out - and what a show! I felt lucky to see him - especially now that I have a quarter of a clue about playing guitars. He used all Fender Strats, and he really did make them talk. For me, the highlight of the night was when he played my favorite song of all time, Little Wing. It was just amazing. I sobbed. I think the kids next to us thought I was nuts. I noticed them eyeing me a little expectantly when Wonderful Tonight came on. Now, that is not a song I like normally - a little too sappy on record, but in person it was gorgeous. The final songs of the regular set were Cocaine and Layla, which totally got the crowd up and dancing. Robert Cray came out and jammed with the band on Crossroads, another song that I love.

One of the things I enjoyed was that although Eric Clapton was the featured musician, he gave a lot of time to the other musicians in the band, and seemed to be very generous onstage. It was a very special night, and I am so grateful to my brother-in-law and his wife for the truly excellent Christmas present.

Aside from that it was a regular week. This weeks tarot deck was the Tarot de Ambre, a very special deck. It was fun to read with, actually.

We are still on sock lock-down. Of course, this week Magic has eaten one of the handles of his toy box, which freaked me out. He seems fine so far, which is good. I will be so glad when the puppy stage has passed. We get him trained not to mess with one thing, and he's on to something else.

Weekly gift - cool T-shirt

Goals for next week - keep exercising.

Keeeep Marching

This week the Saint was still sick - but getting better.

It seemed like all work and no play - wait - it WAS all work and no play!

Saturday I cleaned the house, Sunday I shoveled gravel in the back yard to stem the mire of mud that was being tracked into the house by the dogs, and spent the rest of the useful day in the hot tub recovering from shoveling mud.

Worked Monday-Thursday. My deck of the week was the Morgan Greer deck. I liked it a lot - easy to use, colorful. Would be a good deck for beginners and a good alternative for intermediate and advanced readers who want something different than the standard Raider-Waite-Smith deck.

My puppy Magic has an upset stomach today, and I'm worried about him. He went to the vet today after throwing up a sock, and he should be fine says the vet - but he's still not eating.


Did my writing exercises.


My weekly gift was a flower.

My goals for next week are for Magic to get better, to start exercising again, to start eating better again, to clean my house this week so my three day weekend is free for playing World of Warcraft. Also to continue with my tarot studies, writing, and all the other fabulous stuff.

Wish me luck.

Winter's End

So, what has been going on this month?

Well, The Saint and I quit taking guitar lessons for now. It was a combination of lack of practice time, lack of motivation, and wanting to play more songs and do less theory.

We both had the stinkin' virus going around. I got it first, and it wasn't bad - then the Saint got it - and he's still sick a week later - although not so near death as he felt the first few days.

I've been starting to think about the flowerbeds, and how I'm going to kill all the stuff in what was going to be a small vegetable garden and plant my tree there. Where the Angel Dog is going to go.

Weekly gift - this weeks was the new edition of my World of Warcraft guide. The Saint got about a month out of my new monitor - it ROCKS.

Starting in March I am going to get back to my eating well, exercising every day program - but until March 1 it's all ice-cream and bread here, baby.

This week's deck is the Morgan-Greer Tarot.

Last week it was the Londa, which I find is now out of print.

Have fun kiddies, and I will try to be more up-to-date and exciting in the near future.

What has been going on this week -

It's been both a busy and a quiet week.

The Saint has been driving "the truck of the day" this week, checking out new trucks for his work truck. The judges are out if he will actually get one, or if he will say, @!$%! it, and forget the whole thing.

Been writing a lot. Tarot stuff, 5 minute writing exercises, journaling. Coming up with some good stuff, actually. Maybe if I find a cure for the lazibone, I will post some of the better ones on my writing site.

Quit guitar lessons for now. The Saint and I had been debating for a couple of weeks about it. We just don't have time to practice, and it's kind of throwing money away. We both have other commitments right now - The Saint has work, and I have other things. Okay, so they are things I have chosen to do, but still, they are commitments just the same.

Not a bad week.

Oh, the weekly gift last week was my brand new, luscious computer monitor, 22 inch wide screen WITH a docking station for my iPod and a built in mike, so I don't have to mess around with peripherals so much. The Saint thinks this is worth several weeks of gifts - I am not so sure. HAHA.

New Year, New Entry

I can't believe I haven't updated my blogs since October.

It's been a busy time. After Suzie's passing, we got a new puppy - Magic. He's a Saint Bernard, and very cute. (Pictures on my mySpace.)

What was going on from October to Now.

Puppy Kindergarten.
Music lessons - practice and lessons themselves. (We are cutting down to monthly lessons. We just don't have enough time to practice.
Puppy Stuff. Having a new puppy really is like having a baby. Right now Magic is at the pre-teen years. Not quite testing the waters, but definitely starting to see where the shore is.
Tarot stuff - been doing daily three card readings with a new deck every week. I figure I will be caught up sometime in 2009. I am not kidding.
Writing - I am doing one writing exercise per day. 5 minutes, more or less. Also writing in my regular journal every day.

Then of course there was the holidays, with large amounts of business, from shopping, to wrapping - parties and celebrations.

Things have calmed down finally. So - back in the saddle!

Wow, it's been a long week!

So, a lot has been going on.

The last month we went back to work from our vacation. The Saint had to take Suzie, our oldest dog in and have her put to sleep. That has been very hard. Nemo, our other dog is depressed. We are sad, and even the cats are sad. That has been the worst thing.

In other news - my iPod finally died, and nothing would fix it. Not whacking in on a table, not freezing it (this may sound strange, but there are entire websites devoted to bashing iPods back to life.

We have not been practicing our guitar lessons like we should be, due to post-vacation stress, and Suzie's demise.

On the good side.
We are looking at puppies - Saint Bernard puppies - and they are very cute. More important, they have the temperament, size and personality we are looking for.

Ken got me a video iPod to replace my broken one, and it's a video iPod (all you can get now in the bigger players) and it's black! I downloaded all my favorite Pixar shorts - Tin Toy, Knick Knack, and Luxo, Jr.

I have also been practicing a lot more this week - so hopefully by the time our next lessons will arrive I won't be embarrassed to go!

Since we got back from vacation I also made a vow - no more clothes I hate. So I have been wearing only clothes I like, as well as makeup and jewelry to work every day. I give myself a break on my days off! It feels good.

I'm also (finally) getting back to eating right again. I did okay with getting back to the exercise, but eating right is a little harder. So, that's good.

I've been thinking a lot about things like puppy proofing the house, what we are going to do with Suzie's ashes, cleaning the carpets, getting the story of our vacation up on my VGRandom blog, and our pics up on a website.

This coming week I plan on not letting myself get too stressed out over anything. Getting lots of sleep, and keeping myself sane.

OH, gift of the week was my new iPod, of course. :)

What's been going on with me, lately?

Back from vacation. It was fabulous, and I will be posting our exploits in the Great White North (although at this time of year it was more like the Great Green North) on my other blog.

This week I haven't been into anything much except trying to survive being sick and having to go to work.

I haven't been avoiding anything either - too mellow from being on vacation to need to click into avoidance mode.

I've been thinking a lot about our dog, Suzie Q. She's getting a little worse every day, but she's still perky for a 14 year old dog with terminal cancer.

We're probably going to get a new dog fairly soon after she's gone. We are thinking Newfoundland Dog, probably.

For the week ahead, I hope to get back on track, food and exercise especially. I've been eating a lot of soup and ice cream this week (sore throat, and feeling yukky - salads just don't cut it...) and not exercising.

I did manage to clean up my house for the most part - even though I didn't do much else, at least I accomplished that much. I'm also keeping up with my tarot studies, so I'm happy about that. This week I am working on the Cosmic Tarot - a very 80's deck.

My weekly gift this week was a new outfit. Shhh, haven't worn it to work yet, but it is Sooo Cute.....

If my Life Could Be Summed Up By a Song Title...

...it would be "Runnin' on Empty."

Even though I loath the song.

Partly because this weekend was a cleaning weekend, and I cleaned a lot. It was good, because I got everything done I planned to do. But it was also bad, because I didn't take any rest time, or "me" time, which is imperative to my well-being.

At the moment, I am tired. This week was busy, guitar lessons on Tuesday, worked the usual schedule - Monday-Friday this week.

Suzie is doing okay so far. We are waiting for the animal oncologist to get back to us about the chances the cancer will come back if removed. We are agreed we will not do the surgery if it's 30% or more. She's too old, and in questionable shape.

Aside from that, everything else is going okay. Exercise, water, eating, all good (except I went a little crazy on Friday - had Nachos AND a non-salad meal, haha) and didn't exercise on Saturday because the elliptical was broken. But, it's fixed now. Yay!

Have been busy writing, and working on getting back into reading Tarot, and all the other things that make life sweet, if busy, for me.

Weekly gift - hour long backrub.

Yet another fabulous week

We were busy this week, as usual.

I worked this weekend, so that pretty much took care of the weekend. T.S. Worked for some of it.
Tuesday we had our guitar lessons, and we did well. Then we got BAR CHORDS. For non guitarists, these are one of the most difficult things to learn, especially as a beginner. Of course, T.S., not being a beginner, already has them figured out. However, we learned one of the things he really wanted to know, which was how to figure out which ones were which. So, he was happy. Me, I am struggling. BUT, I am determined to learn them, because once I do, a whole world of stuff will open up. No new songs this week, though. So, I am practicing the old ones in between finger exercises and bar chords, which make my fingers ache.

In other news, I have been exercising every day, and adding a few more minutes to my cardio. Drinking water, and also eating very well. I'm being a little more stringent so when we go on vacation I can not stress if the only thing to eat for lunch is a hamburger.

Suzie Q is doing okay - I finally saw her cancer, and it's bigger than I thought it was. She is doing okay though. I'm not doing so hot.

I am down to one card left in my tarot studies - Le Mat - aka The Fool. Yay ME! I am not sure what I want to do next. I am thinking I will spend a few weeks with each of my decks, and do readings, and make notes. That will take me a LONG time, I have over 150 decks. I'm thinking I will go in order of purchase, too. I have a great tarot journal to put stuff in.

Oh, if you like to write in journals with pens, or if you are a notebook junkie like me check out this site, Michael Rogers Press they have the most fabulous journals! My personal favorite is the Jumbo Book, which is the book I use for my tarot journal. I am ordering several when I come back from vacation. And maybe a few other things as well.

I have been accomplishing everything I want to do, although I wish I had just a bit more time for practicing the guitar.

Other stuff that's been on my mind; Suzie, and the confusion with the vet about the phone consultation.
Our vacation, and getting ready for it.
The new bands I want to get CD's from, but have to wait until AFTER vacation.
What I'm going to do with the other black journal I bought.
How soon I can take all Mom's journals down to Mary. I want them out of here.

The week ahead. Work out, work, keep plugging toward vacation.

Weekly gift...T.S. got me two really cute tops. One of which I will actually be able to wear in public some day. He's such a sweetie....

Hot, Hotter...

This week was a little better than last week.

Although I am still sad about Suzie, she's not in bad shape at the moment - or no worse shape than before we took her in and she was diagnosed with the "C" word. I have a call in to the veterinary oncology to find out about treatment options; if any.

At her age (13 or 14, which is about 108 in dog years for her size) and with her other medical problems we hesitate to put her through too much crap. At the same time, if there is a way to buy her some more time, without putting her through too much, we would do it.

If she was a younger dog (even just 3 or 4 years younger) we wouldn't hesitate. We probably wouldn't do it ourselves, at the corresponding age. So. There it is.

I also had fun with doctors this week. My toe had gone "bad" again - infected and ingrown - and on Wednesday after work I decided to go in to urgent care. With my schedule, and Ken being so busy at work Urgent Care was my only option until next week. I figured I would go in, and like last time I went they would look at it, and say, yep, ingrown toenail, here are some anti-antibiotics. After I am on the anti-antibiotics for a week then they go in and fix the toe. INSTEAD, we got a really cool doctor, who said, "Let's do it now!"

On the one hand, I was happy, because now I won't have to go back, it's done with, and it will certainly be healed by vacation! On the other hand - I was planning to schedule my appointment so I would miss little, if any, work. But, oh well. It's done. So Thursday I was home, elevating my foot. I got a lot of guitar practice in, and played WoW, and did laundry, and finished my housework. I took long rest breaks between chores - I didn't have many left.

As far as other things in my life go, I have been meeting my goals. Health-wise I am really being careful about what I'm eating, and exercising for over an hour a day (except this Thursday, when it was FORBIDDEN) and drinking water. I have exceeded my goals for my Marseille tarot study (aka the Sword of Damocles) and will hopefully finish August 5.

I've been doing better at work - having projects helps.

Over all, it was an okay week, although with a few rocky places. I am still in a little pain from my toe (although it's MUCH better) and I still cry about Suzie sometimes.

My goals for the week ahead are simple. Work on my tarot cards (La maison, La Toille, and La Lune), exercise every day and drink lots of water. Eat well. Clean the house. Survive the heat of the weekend.
Write. Do well at guitar lessons, and practice at least once a day, ideally twice a day. Practice piano twice.
Clean the house, and enjoy next weekend when I will have THREE DAYS OFF! Although, thanks to Mr. Toe, I won't be quite as burned out as I would have been. So, there is a silver lining to that cloud.

24th Anniversary Today - Dying Pets

T.S. and I have been married 24 years today.

Although I got my Strat, this has not been a good anniversary. Or a good week, particularly.

My dog Suzie probably has cancer. We found out yesterday. I am hoping it's just an abcessed tooth - but they think it's cancer. I had always hoped she would die in her sleep someday. That we wouldn't be faced with the decisions coming soon.

Because, there has to be a line in the sand when an animal is terminally ill. When is it time?

With previous pets who have been ill we have changedthe line. The dog we had for fourteen years who was a HELL dog, we put to sleep before we really needed to. He wasn't in pain, but we had to take him to the vet every few months to get tumors removed. Finally we decided it was time.

Mischa, our cat with kidney failure, our line was when he couldn't control his bowels anymore. Not because he was messing up our house, but because it made him miserable. And, he didn't feel good more than he felt good. We gave him IV's at home, fed him special food, but as long as he felt good more days than not, it was worth it to have time for us to say goodbye.

Our other animals were more immediate. Tasha, Bonzai, and Tor were all so ill they were euthanized during the vet visit. All of them had things that we were trying to cure, but ended up going bad. Our other cats were probably eaten by coyotes, all but Squirt, who I still think was stolen. Pip the bird got eaten by Bonzai. (My fault. I still feel horrible about that and it's been over 10 years ago.)

Our little animals all died of old age, Cheerio, Spot, Waco, Spike, Opie.

Now, it's Suzie's turn. We got her from the pound. She was four years old. She is a Rottweiler, German Shephard Dog mix. I had reservations, but Ken had fallen in love with her. Finally, it was her last day before the Big Sleep. We took her. She turned out to be one of the best dogs we've ever had. She's 14 now, 108 in human years for a dog her size.

My line in the sand - when the good days out number the bad. Already before this cancer thing we have been talking about her eventual demise. Her hind legs are a little shakey. Yes, she can get up and down fine, but some days it takes her a long time. Her eyes shine, and sometimes she still bounces up and down on her front feet. Some days she still prances the way she did the first time we took her out of her cage at the pound. But mostly, she sleeps, or lays on the cool floor. Nemo, our other dog, checks on her once in awhile. He no longer comes to get her when there's something going on outside. She's still the boss, but he's taking over some of her patrolling jobs.

We will still have Nemo, Kiel, Tinkerbell, Turdie and Ernie, and the fish of course. And Suzie will be around for awhile. But it's time to start saying my goodbyes.

After the Holiday

A very busy week.

T.S. had Monday off, which was nice for him. I worked.

We both had Tuesday July 4th off, and it sounded like a war zone around here - minus heavy artillery. Nemo the dog was so spooked he wouldn't even go outside. We had to take him out, and stay with him the entire time, and even then it was a nervous giant dog. I don't like them, but I think next year we will be getting some doggie drugs.

I did all the usuals. Exercised, ate well, drank water, blah blah blah. Actually, it's starting to pay off - and I am very happy about that.


Didn't practice as much as I would have liked, I am having a difficult time with this lesson - it's a little more difficult fingering, and I have been tired at night and not as productive. I've even gotten up earlier so I have time to practice in the morning, and been defeated by circumstance. I keep plugging along, and even if I can't play it well this lesson, I will play it.


I have been thinking a lot about perception, because of something that happened at work. I got a complaint that I was rude, and nasty, and unpleasant. Basically. We are in such a vulnerable position at that desk, people hear everything we say, and we forget they listen. Not sure if it really WAS me being rude - but it was a good reminder to watch it. Sometimes people think we are talking about them, and we are not.

My Goals - Pre-vacation

Finish my Marseille Tarot studies.

If I do three cards a week, I will be finished before vacation.

Loose 6 pounds.

My Goals - this week

Three Tarot cards

Practice guitar every day.

Practice piano 2 times

Wash sweater.

Play WoW twice

Play Sims2 at least once

Write every day

Get 3 things for our trip

Weekly Gift

This week wasn't our anniversary, but I got my anniversary gift, my STRATOCASTER!

Quote of the day

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Bertrand Russell

It's a Hot One

I like the heat, and it's a good thing because it's been a warm week.
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I was busy this week, as usual.
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I've been being very good on eating healthy because of a specific goal for this month. I've been a little grouchy because of it; maybe cutting back a little too much. Exercising for an hour every day, drinking lots of water (it's warm out!), thinking healthy thoughts.
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Work wasn't so great. I got the dates I will be working an extra Saturday three times a year, and of course a few of them fall on bad days for me. This year it's our anniversary. Next year, if it stays the same, it will be right in the middle of our vacation, on T.S.'s birthday. Still, it's better than working every other weekend. Or making one person work Saturdays all the time.
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This weekend we are going shopping for clothes for T.S., and books for me. I am starting to stockpile for our vacation. T.S. Got a Thule for the top of the Jeep, so we can put a lot of stuff up there and won't be so crowded inside. What a good idea!

Busy, Busy, Busy

So, what happened this week....

I went to my doctor, thinking we were going to have a nice chat, and she'd renew my prescription - oh so funny! Not even. Oh well, at least I got it out of the way for another year.

T.S. went to his doctor, and he's fine.

We got a beat machine so we can practice with drum sounds instead of the metronome all the time. Although the metronome is fine with me. Ken got it off e-bay, and luckily there were no "postal issues" this time.

Work was fine. Got in trouble for looking down at the computer instead of up at the patrons. Oops.

Drove for the first time in almost 4 years. It wasn't bad. It was only 3 miles, which was a good thing.

I work this weekend, so not planning much fun stuff.

Weekly Gift....

Beat Box

Attitude: Busy!

I am taking a break from my usual weekly report template today. I might just do a weekly update during the summer, since we are going to be pretty busy.

This week was busy - music lessons went well.

We've started getting ready for our trip to Alaska. We're going to work on that tonight sometime.
T.S. went to the funeral for one of our friends mothers. That was sad. I didn't go; had been sick a few days last week and wasn't comfortable asking for more time off. Especially since I had the thing to go to on Friday, and a doctors appointment this week. Nothing serious; just getting ready for the trip. My prescription will run out while we are gone other wise, and I don't want THAT to happen! Also, I need a copy of my perscription when we go over the Border. Since we have to declair T.S.'s meds, I guess I better have a copy of my stuff.

Although, I doubt they are going to be too worried about HORMONES!

Except I can see it now, some border guard going, "Importing these hormones could mean ten years in jail, ma'm, didn't you know that?"

Hah Hah


Weekly Gift was a bunch of new shirts T.S. went and picked out himself. I don't know what they look like yet.

Attitude: Sad

This Week I Was Totally Into....
Finding my cat, Cocoa. He and Susie the dog were featured in an early picture I posted here. He's been gone for two weeks. I have been through our neighborhood every few days, calling for him. I think he'd come to me if he could hear me. He's done this to us before. I know, letting cats outside is bad. I know they should be locked up at night. Cocoa was an outdoor cat. On the few occasions we had to keep him inside, the litter box had to be cleaned three times a day, and changed every three days - or he'd pee on the bed. Or anywhere else that would get our attention. Once he sat on my lap and peed on me (extreme displeasure, LOL).
I also tried keeping the cats in at night, the most dangerous time for them to be out. I'd feed them so they'd all come inside. Cocoa quit coming home at night. So, I let him be the cat he was.

This Week I was Avoiding.....
The Animal Shelter. Looking for Cocoa. I made T.S. do it, which isn't helping his already maxed out stress level. They escort you now, and sneer at you when you tell them you're looking for a cat who was allowed outside.

What Else Is on My Mind.....
Worrying about T.S. He is very stressed out right now.
Gave up on getting my Strat until after vacation.
Thinking about canceling our vacation. It's one of T.S.'s many stress factors.
Being astonished by the rainstorms we've been having the last week or so - turn off the hose!
Practicing my guitar lessons.

The Week Ahead.....
Health - keep on going ahead.
Personal - trying to take some of the stress off T.S. Stop chattering so much. Stop talking about me, me me, all the time. Listen. Take some time to relax.
Work. See Personal.

Accomplished.....
Practiced. Exercised every day and drank all my water, or close to it.

Weekly Gift....
Extra-big mocha just when I needed it.