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Dec. 15th, 2007 | 05:06 pm
mood: happyhappy

My little sister, at ten years old, has just received her black belt.

I'm in Arizona for the weekend because her ceremony was last night. Her school puts on a spectacular show for the new black belts. We got it on tape. :)

That's almost all the boasting all do except to say that she looks incredible. As part of the ceremony she did a creative line drill, a kata with her school and a solo kata. She was /awesome/.

End boasting.

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Pratchett

Dec. 13th, 2007 | 05:46 am
mood: sadsad

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/terry.pratchett/index.html

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Sep. 27th, 2007 | 08:32 pm
mood: tiredtired

Thanks for the support, all. It's appreciated.

I've got a rental car, gotten my car moved to a body shop for appraisal, and I'm waiting to hear on that. Apparently my insurance company isn't sure I'm insured, though I'm fully paid up, so I think there are just confused people on the other end. I'm assured that it's nothing more than a hiccough in the system and it should be resolved tomorrow. More phone calls and poking people with sticks.

Tomorrow also is back to work for... the last day of the week. Gotta pick up the few things I left undone on Wednesday. Bleck.

And maybe tomorrow I'll be a little less sore. There's always hope. :P

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Sep. 26th, 2007 | 10:30 pm
mood: worriedworried

I crashed my car... I made a loud crunch when it hit the guard rail...

I walked away fine except for soreness, which I'm assured will be much, much worse when I wake up in the morning. In the meantime, the after-hours agent at my insurance company couldn't verify my insurance policy, though payments are up to date, so it's probably just a matter of poking more people with sticks. Until I get that worked out, though, I'm without transportation--though $30 a day transportation allowance is going to be interesting. Mind, my only experience with rental cars is Hertz 'cause of my company... So maybe I'll be able to get something with minimal cost to me. Meh. Trouble for tomorrow.

Tomorrow, though, I suspect my car will be pronounced totaled and suddenly I'll be in the market for a new car...

Ugh... Anyway, bedtime for me. I've called in sick to work tomorrow, so I can focus on trying to get as much of this worked out as possible. I may even be able to make it to work on Friday... ... ... ...I really don't want to drive...

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Probably a Bad Idea(tm)

Aug. 31st, 2007 | 12:46 pm
mood: sheepish

I'm joining World of Warcraft.

That is all.

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Holy crap! She's /alive/!

Aug. 19th, 2007 | 12:38 am
mood: sleepysleepy

That's right, I'm still sucking in oxygen and converting it to carbon dioxide. Be afraid.

Really, not much to report. Monday I start at a new location with my job--skeery and exciting. I'm transfering from working on arctic projects (all office work) to being based in/near a refinery down in Wilmington, CA as a refinery support engineer... thingie. Not entirely sure what my new job duties will be, but I /do/ know that for the past several weeks (at least two months), I've had almost nothing to do at work, and it's driving me batty. They tell me I'll be all kinds of busy at Wilmington. We'll see.

It /does/ mean that I'm going to be engaging in the infamous LA commute. Blech! Fortunately gas prices have dropped a little lately. :P

But yes. Alive. Breathing. Job. Stuff.

::Runs away::

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PotC 3

May. 29th, 2007 | 11:14 pm
mood: satisfiedsatisfied

Epic.

'Nuff said.

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And we're off!

May. 28th, 2007 | 10:03 pm
mood: relaxedrelaxed

Spent the weekend at Gamex. Learned that, once again, I'm a bit nuts. I go to cons and enjoy helping out and working to such an extent that it really doesn't strike me as a problem if I don't play in a single game. Wacky. Good weekend. Didn't play in any games. Learned a few more things about running RPG HQ and myself.

Just finished making my lunch for tomorrow. Small salad, sandwich, and an orange. It's a start.

Now I'm sitting here with a Melatonin tab dissolving under my tongue (because apparently I ended up with the kind that you're supposed to do that with rather than just swallowing. Go fig) and relaxing before sleeping. Turns out Melatonin is awesome for helping me get to sleep.

Really that's it. Tomorrow is back to work for a short week--yay for long weekends--and hopefully a good, productive week.

And with that disjointed post, I'm gonna go grab a book and read for a bit.

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Ramblings of a Sleep Deprived Mind

May. 23rd, 2007 | 11:02 pm
mood: numbdetached

Ah, the late night urge to ramble... After a few nights of way too little sleep, I find that the barrier between my brain and my mouth (and fingers, apparently) has just about collapsed; I'll say just about anything if it passes through my head.

The last several weeks have been a bizarre emotional rollercoaster for me. Nothing major has changed in my life. A few things at work shuffled around, a little of this, a little of that, but nothing major. Regardless, a few weeks ago I started suffering insomnia (Hey look, it's more than an hour past my bedtime and I'm still awake). Tonight I haven't even bothered trying to go to bed since everytime I lay down I start to feel more awake. I will soon. I predict quiet music for tonight to try and put me to bed.

The side effects of lack of sleep are typical... Lack of ability to concentrate, restlessness, the collapsing of the brain/speech barrier, loss of ability to think on my feet... And increased mood swings and depression. About a week ago I had the worst bout of depression I've had in months. I'd missed my meds for a couple days, I was behind on sleep, and it hadn't been a great day. Nothing bad, just... Not pleasent. I got home, curled up on the couch and didn't move all evening. The next night I came home and sobbed for about an hour, then proceeded to curl up and do... nothing. A couple days later the sun came out and I started feeling better, but my mood is still rocky and will remain so until I manage to figure out why I can't sleep. It's frustrating in the extreme.

This isn't actually a whine session; right now I'm pretty cheerful in a spacey, not quite with reality sort of way. The phrase "concussed good humour" comes to mind, actually.

Recent discoveries in my life include a new video iPod which turned out to be a really good purchase when coupled with the fifteen dollar cable that lets me connect to the TV. iTunes has recently upped the quality of their video downloads so it looks great on my television. I've downloaded a couple of shows and am working my way through them. It's cheaper than cable and there aren't any commercials. I like it.

Monday (possibly Tuesday if I deem Monday to still be the weekend), I launch into dieting phase. I always feel cheesy using that word. Dieting has always had bad connotations to me, though I don't know why. To me it always feels like it means trying out the latest gimicky instant diet solution so that you lose weight fast and then put it /right/ back on as soon as you resume your normal life. Not so much for me, though. Monday (or Tuesday), I'm headed to the market and hunting for tasty things that are not quite so bad for me. Hopefully once I take off a few pounds, I'll stop ending up with hurting joints after dancing.

Gamex is this weekend; I'll be hanging out there most of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, mostly in RPG HQ when I haven't anywhere better to be. Monday I'm ditching and sleeping in. Possibly hanging out with my brother if he ends up coming down to pick up his felines this weekend. It's possible that, in a few days, my place willbe a one cat household again. Mouse'll love it. (You like how I did that? Gamex to things my cat loves in one paragraph.)

And now? Now it is 2330. I'm going to go grab a snack to shut my stomach up and curl up with some Bahkti Point or some Enya. With a little luck, I'll get more than five hours of sleep tonight.

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Irony

May. 23rd, 2007 | 09:43 am
mood: tiredtired

I just took Zantac--for fun, fun heartburn--with coffee. The reason I need to take Zantac? Primarily because of my coffee drinking habit. Ironic.

Hey all. I'm still alive--some of you have complained that you have no way of knowing this since I haven't touched this journal in a few months. Someday, I may post a life update, but suffice it to say that it's pretty damn boring.

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