Spooky Weekend

What to talk about?  School I guess.  I'm having a hard time getting motivated to do my schoolwork.  I may be a little depressed.  Plus things are piling up on me.  Halloween!  Our adult youth group is going to have a pumpkin bowling booth at the convention center for the kids on Halloween.  I'm going to watch a scary movie tonight and a slightly less scary one on Halloween night.  Still not getting along with Star.  I hope she's OK.  I'm listening to AC/DC and blogging.  Hee hee!  A missionary had a presentation at church last night.  It was pretty interesting and not the usual message.  All for today.

Anne

Fun computer programs...

I haven't posted here for a long time I guess.  I had a really good time tonight just playing with a couple new programs and investigating others.  One is called simply Stickies and puts Stickies either on webpages which I haven't tried out yet or just on your desktop.  So much fun!  The other is a free chat program called Chatzy, also fun.  A few of my friends have played on it with me.  I finally figured it out and created a chat program for my Divination group.  Other than that, life is going pretty good all the way round.  Except I've been awake for a long time today, since 4:45am Saturday am.  I have to go to bed by 4.  I don't want to stay awake for 24 hours, I'll just get myself in trouble.  I got up early to go to a church conference in the southern part of the state.  It was a pretty OK time for our group.  I'm glad I went.  Also my poetry group might be just that much closer to publication.  That's all I'm gonna say for now.  Have a good Sunday!

Anne

Call Me Irritable

OK, I'm kinda pissed off tonight for a couple reasons.  I did my friends, Donnie and Reggie a favor by putting some of their stuff (with pictures!) on Craigslist.  Now it's just one computer favor after another.  I told Reggie that if Donnie doesn't thank me for selling his damn boat motor, then no more Craigslist.  So nothing today.  Maybe tomorrow will be different.  Hmmmm!  How hard is it to say "Thank you"?  It must be as painful as passing a kidney stone... or having a baby.  Since I've done neither I can only imagine.

And then there's I Ching 1 and the case of the missing homework.  No one, but me, has turned in their homework for the week.  I turned in mine a day late!  So I have nothing to respond to.  So, in fact, I can't finish my tasks for the week until the other students, all 3 of them, wake up and post homework.  OK, so I realize I sound like an anal Virgo who would like the world to be polite, at least a few people, and others to complete their assignments.  The second is so I don't get too lazy and fall behind. I need the peer pressure.

I mostly embroidered today and played on the computer.  I did study for awhile and watched LOTR 1, the first half.  I had dinner at Mom's.  She is depressed, so I gave her some hugs.  I guess I did other stuff too.  It just seems kind of unimportant right now.  Don't you love it when people have the bass turned way up, at midnight, driving through a residential neighborhood. 

Birthdays

I haven't written on this blog for awhile.  Reggie has a bad cold, the one that's been going around, so I won't be seeing much of him.  Star's computer is in the shop, hopefully she will get it back today.  Jed is coming over later today to play on the computer.  I'm making my brother a decoupaged photo on wood for his birthday in October.  The kitties will be 10 years old, Oct.1st.  That's Reggie's birthday too.  He is vain about his age, but I found out how old he is anyway.  Hee hee! 

I have homework today for I Ching 1.  I'm avoiding doing it by blogging.  And starting new craft projects. *sigh*  I may have to drop the Counseling class because of the workload for I Ching.  We'll see.  That class doesn't start for a couple weeks anyway.  I have a lot of energy today.  That's good because the night before last I didn't sleep at all.  And I got sick. :(   I only got about 5 hours sleep yesterday.  But I slept good last night.  These are a few of my favorite things:  printers, social networking sites, grad school, crafts, birthdays.  Just thought I'd let you know!

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.

Getting Older

I had a birthday and a birthday party since I last wrote.  It went well.  I'm having another party tomorrow night minus the guests of honor who can't make it.  *sigh*  I feel at loose ends lately.  You ever have the feeling that nothing is going your way.  When it actually is?  Like I got invited to go to a rock concert and I keep thinking, "what a hassle!"  I must be getting old.  Like I said I had a birthday. 

Doing homework is part of my Happiness Project for the month of September.  School doesn't officially start for awhile, but I wanted to get in the groove.  My productivity has gone up, since I started that. For the month of September the subject is School.  Last month it was Spirituality, before that it was Energy. Not real sure if I'm happier.  Well, I was sick with a cold for a couple weeks in August.  That would take the wind out of anyone's sails. I guess I'm not real happy today.  I'm waiting for a phone call.  I'm wondering if the party tomorrow will even happen.  Maybe it will be just me and the spaghetti, salad, and cheesy bread.  Hee hee!  I'm not doing goal-setting anymore, just the Happiness Project. 

Jean Jeanie gave me a crystal rock candleholder thingy and Star gave me a bunch of stuff, one of which is a homemade blanket.  So pretty and soft and snuggly!  The candle is on the kitchen table, lit. My kitties are inside, it's raining today.  I'm hungry!  I might have dinner early.  All for now.

Creativity and Flexibility

I finally started working on the short story inspired by the Uffington Horse for Prehistory class.  I had an idea and took notes on it awhile ago.  It's shaping up OK.  I only have the first half or so written, longhand.  Still not sure how exactly the rest of the story will go.  School, officially, doesn't start for awhile.  I still have stuff to do for Ancient Rites before the start of school.

I'm "seeing" a guy, but not much (nothing) has happened yet.  I think he is really shy, even though he talks a lot.  I'm really shy too. Hmmmmm...!

I haven't been feeling very good physically lately.  I'm pretty much over my cold.  Yesterday, I went for a walk.  Today it poured.  Maybe I just need to get more exercise.  Tomorrow I'm going to town with my mom, to see my job counselor and do a little shopping.  Oh and me and Lucky are starting an I Ching discussion tomorrow. I might go to Bible Study and I have to back up my docs and pics too.  Busy day tomorrow!