September News

I've been seeing quite a bit of Reggie lately.  That's all I'm gonna say about that for now.  Star and her boyfriend, Yeti are really cute together. I can call him that because his nickname is Sasquatch, but that's someone else's nickname too.  Not here, in real life. I think I want an excuse to get a new computer.  Miss Thing is great, but I'd love a faster, more powerful one.  She's running great so I have nothing to complain about. :)

My Happiness Project is going great!  This doing homework every day is really helping me keep up with stuff.  I finished the Uffington Horse craft/writing project and got some positive feedback on that.  Tonight I turned in the proposal for the last project, based on Stonehenge.  Cool!  That one will take some planning.  We are finishing up the first year of Ancient Rites.  I have one more paper due on Thursday so will work on that tomorrow.  Dean Dharma is going to mail each of us certificates for the first year.  My Mom will be happy about that, proof that all this work is good for something. 

I'm starting I Ching 1 next week and Foundations in Counseling in early October.  I've been so bored, stressed out and confused this summer.  It will be nice having that structure back in my life with deadlines too. No one understands that, I swear.  I'm a Virgo.  Indy is sleeping on the fuzzy blanket Star made me for my birthday.  I'm listening to George Michael videos.  I watched them for awhile while I was working on an afghan to match my furniture, crochet.  For someone who's sick I got a lot done today.  I'm getting over, hopefully for the last time, this dang cold.  My cough has mostly gone away, thanks to large doses of Vitamin C. 

I'm actually going to set foot in church tomorrow.  I'm definitely going to Bible Study. I finally feel good enough to go.  I watched The Book of Eli the other night, very good.  I'm getting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tomorrow, the Swedish one with subtitles, and will probably watch it on Thursday night.  Netflix, of course.

Anne the Conquerer

Well I drove to town today and drove around a little bit before handing the steering wheel to Star.  My Mom was along for the ride too.  I got stressed out after a bit.  I haven't had a car for about three years.  Before that I had my Dad's truck and only drove around my little town.  I was in a bad car wreck many years ago and developed a driving phobia.  I'm making great strides in getting over my phobia though.  The main reason I wanted to go to town was to have the guys at Les Schwab check the air pressure in my tires.  The guy put air in one of the tires and said the rest were OK.  Now, I used to check tires myself and all that.  It's just easier this way.  I'm totally happy with myself that I drove the 20 miles or so there and back.  I know, I know, what's the big deal?  Conquering your fears is HUGE.  Just think if there's something you've been avoiding, maybe not for years, but for awhile.  What if you actually did it?  This feels amazing.  Didn't get a whole hell of a lot of other stuff done today.  I didn't even do much shopping.  I'm listening to Dance Pop on Pandora radio. Salt n' Pepa. "Push it"  My cat wants to go outside really bad, Indy was inside all afternoon.  She's sitting on the dinner table.

Some Kind of Monster

Well I deleted my NING Divination network tonight. All it took was 3 clicks and a password. Sigh. I've been listening and watching loud Metallica tonight. I've got their collected videos, really cool! I recommend Metallica The Videos 1989 - 2004. Indy was really cuddly tonight, she sat on me three times. Still haven't done my homework. Not much to say about that. It was Memorial Day yesterday. To celebrate my family barked at each other and ate fried chicken and potato salad. Dear old Dad would be proud. That's sarcasm for you. I'm a peace lover at heart. I guess I'll just leave it at that. This isn't a political blog. My politics are all over the map anyway. I'm pursuing my own spiritual path, but my politics is positively heretical. I don't fit into any camp there. A half-breed, half Conservative, half Liberal. I'm used to it though. I even vote sometimes. I haven't been doing so hot lately, but today was better. Like I told my cat, "If today's flavor doesn't suit you, just wait til tomorrow. Hopefully you'll get something you like better." All for now! bye

Unwell

So I'm not going to my employment counselor appt. or the Employment Support Group meeting this week. This new drug kicking my ass, up one side of the street and down the other. Mostly nausea, but a couple other side effects as well. I'm not good with stomach pain. I already have acid reflux so this is in addition to that. Take pills for that too. Well, enough about that.

I still have to finish my application for Peer Counselor Training. Will probably get to it sometime today and mail it off tomorrow. Went to a NAMI meeting last night. Lots of personal politics. I guess people without mental problems still like drama in their lives. Kind of disillusioning. The parents outweighed the consumers last night.

Indy wants her treats. I usually give her some kitty treats around noontime. As far as Nature U. goes, Runes 4 has started. We get to do readings for others and ourselves too, with Runes. That should be a good time. The only other person who's posted a question/query is another student, Glenda. I wonder what happens if no one does a reading for you. I guess you just do your own reading and call it good. I haven't done many Rune readings so this is all pretty new to me.

Not making much progress on Prehistory. I guess feeling like shit isn't conducive to getting things done. I was gonna write about something else... Oh well! All for now! Bye

Friend-Sitting

I haven't been doing any studying or anything like that for the last two days. I've been friend-sitting Star. She is going to AA and I'm very proud of her. I'm also exhausted! She was talking about drinking and feelings and remembering stuff. Then we went and visited Bean and Stubby, and they talked about God. Plus Star was angry about stuff and I could feel the anger coming off of her. Luckily, we had some chuckles and I was glad to be there for her. I don't know how much help I was, but she said I was being a good friend so that's OK.

I got my new couch and Indy, my cat, really likes it. My other cat, Smoky, doesn't seem too impressed. This is kind of fun! I'm even changing my cats names. They are incognito, so their cat friends don't know what they're up to. They don't really have any other kitty friends. Smoky, especially, hates the neighbor kitty.

I guess I should say something about Nature U. I'm on vacation for another month. But I'm still working on stuff, or at least I should get around to it pretty soon. I'm really tired. Bye for now!