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4:42pm: And I am all clean
we are going to a party. Not a fancy party but a fun party none the less..with food, music...(live celtic unplugged tunes)...and my Sweetie.


The shower washed away some of my contempt for the banks behavior earlier this afternoon.

My jeans are in the air cycle on the dryer.

2:22pm: It has been ages

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2:09pm: Tomorrow will be my first day of fall term
freedom. I have my last exam today at 530pm. Strange time isn't it? Anyway tomorrow evening we are attending a Christmas gathering that likely would of been held yesterday but the hostess is now in Law School and tomorrow is her last exam. Then we have friends who have a Christmas Eve party every year. This will be the first time in ages that we are both able to attend and Sweetie will not have to miss due to being at work, leave early because he works that night or the next morning. We are in for the long haul.

Somewhere in that time frame I need to get Sweetie's Christmas present. And stocking stuffers also.

5:31pm: There are these two girls who sat
in the row in front of mine in PLSC class. I called them Nicole and Paris. This week the one had dyed her hair black of some variety. You could see how bad a job had been done...you could see pee yellow blotches in it. It was hideous.

Just thought I would share.

11:05pm: Last Thursday in history class
I got the last seat at the table. (We are rather crammed into a small seminar room) Sadly I got to sit beside someone eating some ring form of corn chips of a flavored variety...it smelled exactly like old wet dog food. It was hard on my nasal passages and of course my gag reflex was working overtime. Question: How do people eat that shit? It wasn't even noon. Gack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2:11pm: Nothing could be further from the truth.
Can I please go somewhere warm? And could next semester be more invigorating than this one. I must admit this is the first semester that I feel most yicky about ever. I must exclude history from that list of course...it has at least been a challenge and fun. I have enjoyed it thoroughly but the rest...rather dullsville and I am wondering just what the hell I have gotten from the two classes. I may have to find a different class to take next semester rather than continue on with the second half of American Lit. I am just so not into his moade of teaching. He is just not taxing my brain....everything this is woth like 10 or 5 % and there is nothing worth investing a great deal of effort into. I am going to half to write a kick as paper and final to keep in the A range. He is not inspiring and I am lacking direction in that class. Just what the hell have I gotten out of it?

I am doing the getting by on Advil thing again. Is this going to turn into an every month thing? I am fed up.

Time to get to the doctor and get the magic blue pills for girl pain. I have over one hour until my next class. Time to take some more advil.

I would just go home but I don't want to miss any lectures in plsc class. We are all over the map in that class. I think something has to sink into my brain by virture of just being in the room for the lecture and discussion.

I am really babbling but that is just where my fingers and my head are connected this day.

Off I go to do some history reading. It is reading for research.

Bye for now.

12:12pm: Great news
I have been so distraught since they started first making blue Smarties and then blue M&M's. It ruined my life.

Now it is Christmas and at the grocery store they have Christmas M&M's that are only green and red. Life is good!

1:45pm: Can you keep a secret?
Don't tell the fitness police: I went for brunch instead of workout out with weights and doing intense cardio.

I am going to put on everything I own and my sunglasses and take a super long walk in nature. It will likely do more for my mind than a punishing workout in a stinky gym.

10:52am: I am shaking my head in disbelief
Sweetie is seriously primping and preening this morning. I must say it is highly unusual. All for the massage he is getting in a hour.

1:18am: tag along

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10:51pm: I know that typing
on my Blurty will not get me steps or my history paragraph for tomorrow written. Farewell.

3:39pm: Arafat
talk about a media clusterf**k. He is improving, he's not improving, he's on his death bed, he is not on his death bed...his advisors are planning a funeral for the now dead Arafat...doctors in France...he is not dead? Good grief.

Speaking of politics and media...I need to get to the store and get back to my research into the media's effect on the bedrock of democracy...AND

why didn't they just kill off Leo on WEST WING? And I feel kinda smart that I figured out who he was going to pick as his replacement. I won't mention in case someone has yet to watch their VCR taping list for the week.

10:38pm: Clearly
there is no reason for it. We have all the candy we got for Hallowe'en left. That is 24 little mini chocolate bars. I think this is the first time we have had no visitors for Hallowe'en since we have been in this house. I guess this means times are really changing. Good thing we did not buy more than what we did.


I learned today that I was 4 pounds heavier than I had retained in my brain when I started this exercise regime back in May 04 so as of today's weigh in I have dropped 9 pounds not 5. I suppose this can be more encouraging in some regard.

Tater is having quite a bit of fun chasing about after a twisted pipe cleaner she stole from Sweetie's piping studio room.

8:08pm: I think I thought
so hard I hurt my head!

Off in search of Advil. And some less hard on my brain homework.


Thank God for Willa Cather.

4:19pm: Excuse me when
I randomly come across your journal and stop reading because you spell horribly, don't seem to capitalize the start of sentences, or anything in your post. And if you are going to go to the trouble to rant about someone being stupid...it would be helpful to at least appear to know how to spell.

Excuse me when I don't add you.

12:20am: I got the non essay essay done
rather easily and will be curious to get it back as I don't think I have a clue what he was looking for on this assignment.

I got my rough draft hand written notes for the group presentation meeting tomorrow (oops...today) prepared.

I never got a return email from the 5th member of our group. Hopefully she just got to work on what the rest of the group assigned her by default. Since we are not mark as a group as far as I can tell from the course outline...it won't matter how much she does or doesn't do. The remaining 4 are solid and likely could do the presentation tomorrow if we had to.

I wish you all a good sleep. I think I need to warm myself with a bath. The bath will do a double duty as a cleaning experience to get rid of the workout grungies of earlier.

I had an amazing steak for a late lunch today. I need Sweetie to stick around...I am addicted to all meat on the grill.

Sadly the last weekend for Taber corn on every street corner has come and gone. We never once got to roast corn on the bbq this year. Oh well...there is always next year.

9:48pm: 9137
That is not good....time to go around the block a spell to get my 10 thousand steps. Can't have a workout day where I don't get my steps. Unless the only thing I do after waking and before crawling back into bed is workout. And that has yet to happen.

Today's history class was quite lively. I hope the rest of the term goes like that. Again I did the Tuesday write up...so all I have to do is read the stuff for Thursday. I may do that between my classes tomorrow.

Good night Irene.

May my brain remember Chopin's The Awakening if we get to that in American Lit. class tomorrow. We have yet to stick to the schedule.

SO now I walk and then I bath...then I fall asleep on the surface of my bed.

7:03pm: The time has come
to call it a night. It- You are a night! I am somewhere beyond tired. Kitty wants into the room to play with my bouquet of flowers. Power Tater ...she is about insane with her desire for the flowers she can't even see but knows are just behind a door.

As soon as Sweetie finshes watching a taped episode of the New Yankee Workshop...we will be hitting the hay, flopping out on the rack, sawing logs and inspecting ever so carefully the inside of our eyelids.

So much for watching the Emmys. May all the winners of the statue win on the best dress lists also.

9:47pm: For some reason
the first text I picked up and started to read for my Politics and Media class...makes me bristle. The two authors make me crazy. I had an arguement by page 6 about the way in which they retold a sequence of events. It is all out of whack and their assessment of it is flawed because they did look at a particluar element of what they presented. Grrrrrrrr!

And it seems I still have one more chapter in this text and then two more in the other textbook to read for Monday afternoon. Thankfully we won't have this much reading every week in this plsc class. He sets up the course by topics and assigns readings by topic.

I got my 10000 steps today. Since August 6th I have only missed the goal of 10 thousand steps per day min. a total of 2 times. It will get hard when the winter weather and slippery conditions set in. I will just likely try to use the track inside at the college.

Time to crack down on Chapter 3 of Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News. Milijan and Cooper...you really need to reel in your sweeping generalizations of sweeping generalizations. Eeeeeeeeeesh!

2:25pm: Due to my search for a belt
I added something like 5000 steps to my chew checker (pedometer). I did find a belt at WalMart of all places. It will do. It was cheap and it was leather except for the underside. Maybe by December I will be able to wear my old Club M belts which are still great basic leather belts. I really should get after my one sane brother to build me a belt.

Time to enjoy my Peach Cider.

Might actually tackle my PLSC reading homework. Since all my other stuff is complete.

11:22pm: I no longer have to watch CI
anymore this season. Because last night the guy named Jason G. got booted off the show. Now of the three finalists I don't care who wins. I think all three are good.

More time to do other things.

10:46pm: Pickles
of the dill variety. They finally got made today. Thank goodness that is only once a year. Phew!

We made something like 21 quart size jars. Yikes. I think we need to just do about 15 pounds next year. It was just tooooooooo much.

Oh well in 6 weeks we can give them the taste test. May not get around to it as we still have 6 quarts left of the 2003 batch.

We walked to dinner. We had a nice meal and wayyyyyyyyyyyyy to much alcoswill. It was fun walking home. That with my work out and walking about in general course of the day...I am already at 15,000 plus steps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time to sleep.

12:58pm: I am off to book club
We still lack a name for our book club. I would like to remedy that today at the meeting. We will be discussing The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I look forward to the food, the conversation and the selecting of our third book.

I am not sure but if we can get the smaller dills and enough dill weed we will be doing pickles tomorrow. I hope it is going to be warmer as I seemed to have acquired the dill prep work of scrubbing them. Sweetie has the making of the brine down so that is his solo activity.

We still have 6 unopened jars of our 2003 batch. It is always good to have some left at this point in the year because there is that 6 weeks of waiting before you crack into the new batch.

We obviously made enough last year because the year before that we had to alternate between a bottle of store bought pickles and our own to make them last a year.

It would appear that it is like almost 300 dollars to get the part to fix the headlight reflector and casing on my Oceania. Poor girl.

Not much else to tell.

8:04pm: Firsts Lasts and Right Now
FIRSTS.
first job. babysat
first screen name. no clue
first funeral. an uncle
first pet. likely a dog
first piercing. earlobes...probably around 14 or 15
first real kiss. some I had in grade 11 and grade 12 were darn real and I can remember them
first love. was it Scott or Luther
first enemy. Kathy
first favorite musician. Moe Koffman

LASTS.
last car ride. yesterday as today I was driving
last kiss. around 1030 am today
last library book. gosh I got a swack on my last visit.

last movie watched. Small Time Crooks
last beverage drank. tea
last food consumed. yellow cupcakes
last time showered. oh been bathing of late
last CD played. Mozart
last website visited. lj

NOW
single or taken. taken...I wish someone would take me somewhere warmer
birthday. sometime in May that is an always thing not just a now thing
siblings. 1 brother who is sane and two who are at best gutless wonders
hair color. dark blonde
eye color. eye
shoe size. depends on the shoe maker
height. average I think
wearing. dark jockeys, grey bra, off white undershirt, yellow kangaroo, light tan summer socks, fig, jeans, and two rings OH and a pedometer. I haven't walked my step min. today just yet.

7:41pm: My sane brother's
father in law apparently had a major stroke a week ago. My sister in law is now in the city seeing to his recovery. Apparently he is continually making progress. Considering how serious it was the doctors didn't think he would recover enough to go home but now it looks like he may if he continues on his road to recovery at the same pace he has been going the last while.

Sweetie and I are headed to HR for supper with my Mom and her hubby. Will be different as we always seem to be stopping by for lunch in recent visits.

I hope there is a bit of sun. Must try to fit in a visit with my second set of parents around the corner from my Mom.