Friday, December 31, 2010
Yule Round Six
Yup, round six. This is somewhat accumulative. There is this amazing thing about being a teacher. Sometimes, you are shown such great honor and love and appreciation from students.
I teach two levels of CMS this year. Students from both levels gave me things for Yule. I never expected and am deeply moved by their thoughts and actions.
From level 2:
I teach two levels of CMS this year. Students from both levels gave me things for Yule. I never expected and am deeply moved by their thoughts and actions.
From level 2:
- tea, mug, tea straining tray, and tea warmer
- tiny adorable cloth bag (hand decorated) containing 3 little soaps (hand made by the student)
- a good tough leather CAT shaped change purse
- osteopathy session (as soon as i can figure out the bus route there)
- home baked cookies & rice crispy squares
- iced wine of a brand I have not yet tried (I have tried and loved MANY)
- gift card to Omer DesSerres (hint: Scarlet get back into art)
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Almost New Year's Eve
After poor sleep and a rough busy day where I got ZERO break, not even really to eat something, I am finally home. the hubby is making delicious salmon dinner with rice and steamed veggies from the new rice cooker/steamer. Salmon dinner is a special treat for us since it is usually pricy. My co-worker is doing a salmon dinner this weekend and thus I have been craving it. My craving must have filtered into the groupmind and the hubby picked it up. *GRIN* Not that I really had anything to do with that *ANGELIC SMILE... straightens crooked tarnished and bent halo from garage sale*
Tomorrow is a work day from 10am to 4pm. I don't have party plans. I am not really a party person. Also, I have that Taoist sex paper to still write. I also have a 600 person fan base *SHOCKED* for my Assassins Creed fanfic that I am writing. They are waiting for major scene that I left as a cliff hangar in the previous chapter. I need to write them a chapter soon. they have all been awesome fans reading my stuff and writing reviews.
I think we will take a break and watch some Harry Potter and raise a glass close to midnight. I have tradition obligations to fulfill. Open back door and kick out old year. open front door and welcome in new year. Call all the family and wish them Happy New Year.
If I don't get back here to post before or on January 1st...
Tomorrow is a work day from 10am to 4pm. I don't have party plans. I am not really a party person. Also, I have that Taoist sex paper to still write. I also have a 600 person fan base *SHOCKED* for my Assassins Creed fanfic that I am writing. They are waiting for major scene that I left as a cliff hangar in the previous chapter. I need to write them a chapter soon. they have all been awesome fans reading my stuff and writing reviews.
I think we will take a break and watch some Harry Potter and raise a glass close to midnight. I have tradition obligations to fulfill. Open back door and kick out old year. open front door and welcome in new year. Call all the family and wish them Happy New Year.
If I don't get back here to post before or on January 1st...
Happy New Year Everyone !!!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Yule Round Five
Round five?!?!?!
Out at my family's for Christmas. My Nanny was there which is a total rarity. She seems well. She is a great grandmother. If my niece ever got pregnant, she would be a great great grandmother. How cool is that! But my niece is not pregnant or with anyone... that I know of...
So, the nephews were beyond excited and energetic. Dinner was so-so for specially ordered in Turkey dinner. Hubby and I will be doing dinner next year, because we make awesome dinner.
Gifts from everyone to us:
Future shop gift cards
chapters gift card
movie passes
body shop stuffs
muffins, cookies, cake
two little clocks for my classrooms
soft fuzzy blankie
paper that is not white (yay)
a second rice cooker (that is being exchanged for cash to go towards school)
I got nothing done on my paper as I thought i might today. Mostly because my mom was ill and hubby and I had to fill in cooking the extra stuffs throughout the day and managing the guests. All in all, it was a good Christmas. The shy nephew is much less shy now.
Tomorrow is a tight day with a trip to a funeral home to see a friend, an errand to pay something, an errand to change something, then working. I will get to my paper after supper. The world will not exist... again... till January 4th.
Out at my family's for Christmas. My Nanny was there which is a total rarity. She seems well. She is a great grandmother. If my niece ever got pregnant, she would be a great great grandmother. How cool is that! But my niece is not pregnant or with anyone... that I know of...
So, the nephews were beyond excited and energetic. Dinner was so-so for specially ordered in Turkey dinner. Hubby and I will be doing dinner next year, because we make awesome dinner.
Gifts from everyone to us:
Future shop gift cards
chapters gift card
movie passes
body shop stuffs
muffins, cookies, cake
two little clocks for my classrooms
soft fuzzy blankie
paper that is not white (yay)
a second rice cooker (that is being exchanged for cash to go towards school)
I got nothing done on my paper as I thought i might today. Mostly because my mom was ill and hubby and I had to fill in cooking the extra stuffs throughout the day and managing the guests. All in all, it was a good Christmas. The shy nephew is much less shy now.
Tomorrow is a tight day with a trip to a funeral home to see a friend, an errand to pay something, an errand to change something, then working. I will get to my paper after supper. The world will not exist... again... till January 4th.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Little Update
Sunday was spent again mostly in bed. I must be battling some illness. Sneezing is annoying, especially when it is more than a couple times a day. The constant exhaustion and the perpetual aching in especially my shoulder have driven me to the bed several times. Then there was the four hours of stupid vertigo. Back to bed i went to lay there while still feeling like I was reeling. Most of it seemed to pass by dinner. I probably should not have had the yummy coffee. It turned my stomach for most of the night.
I am still feeling a bit uncomfortable this morning, but much better. The shoulder still hurts and I may go get it checked... in January when my doctor is around.
Today is Monday, normally a ME day that I spend doing writing, baking, homework. I have family Christmas with my family today. Dad is picking us up at noon. We were going to bus, but apparently my parents decided they did not want to wait the 2 hours it takes to get to their house by bus. I'll pack my homework to bring with me.
I hope to get to a few things this week: the damned late paper (finished), the reading for my exam (start), and the GG stuff (ready to go January 4th).
I am still feeling a bit uncomfortable this morning, but much better. The shoulder still hurts and I may go get it checked... in January when my doctor is around.
Today is Monday, normally a ME day that I spend doing writing, baking, homework. I have family Christmas with my family today. Dad is picking us up at noon. We were going to bus, but apparently my parents decided they did not want to wait the 2 hours it takes to get to their house by bus. I'll pack my homework to bring with me.
I hope to get to a few things this week: the damned late paper (finished), the reading for my exam (start), and the GG stuff (ready to go January 4th).
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Yule Round Four
Thursday was a frustrating day that I thought would end in more frustrating. I left work early to try to find some pretty clothes that fit. It was a fail for me to find anything in budget. So, hungry and hoping to at least get home to eat and relax ended in me standing in the snow outside my door with no keys to get in. The husband was in Point Claire shopping with his mom. He suggested I meet them at Angrignon Mall. So I went there and bought pants in Reitman's, because they make my size and they make "petite" meaning for us folks with short legs. The hubby gave me food money and I ate tacos while he kept shopping. I then bought a lovely green sweater that his mom chipped in for me. I took her to a neat designer store i like because they use their clientele as models (real people to make real shaped clothing that is beautiful). She surprised me and bought me a very pretty shirt. Yule prettiness. The hubby finished off the shopping with Rock Band III. We played till 2am. I suck at the drums only because it requires hand-eye coordination which I do not have. So I sing.
I hate shopping for clothes for me. She makes it fun and oo's and aa's and cheers like a girl. She says wow and everything. If only the husband would say wow when i wear something pretty, like a big meaningful wow (even if he is pretending). "That works." or "That's ok." does not convey that I look good or do anything to make me feel like I look beautiful.
I want to thank the hubby's mom for helping me find and get clothes that look nice on me.
Friday was Christmas Eve. I worked. Then we did family dinner with the hubby's family as is traditional. Though this year we did not do a gift exchange and only bought gifts for the nieces. His sister still got us something interesting. It is a library checkout card system! HAHA! NEATO! She said it was not a Yule gift. Just that she saw it and thought of us and had to get it for us. I know that feeling. I do that too. Some of my friends have stuff waiting for them for when next I see them because I spotted something that would be perfect for them, that they would love, and just had to get it while the option was there.
Today it is Christmas. Normally I would be arranging to spend the day at my parents' home, but they have chosen to do festivities on Monday. So this day is a ME day to do whatever the hell I want for Christmas. It started with sleeping in.
I hate shopping for clothes for me. She makes it fun and oo's and aa's and cheers like a girl. She says wow and everything. If only the husband would say wow when i wear something pretty, like a big meaningful wow (even if he is pretending). "That works." or "That's ok." does not convey that I look good or do anything to make me feel like I look beautiful.
I want to thank the hubby's mom for helping me find and get clothes that look nice on me.
Friday was Christmas Eve. I worked. Then we did family dinner with the hubby's family as is traditional. Though this year we did not do a gift exchange and only bought gifts for the nieces. His sister still got us something interesting. It is a library checkout card system! HAHA! NEATO! She said it was not a Yule gift. Just that she saw it and thought of us and had to get it for us. I know that feeling. I do that too. Some of my friends have stuff waiting for them for when next I see them because I spotted something that would be perfect for them, that they would love, and just had to get it while the option was there.
Today it is Christmas. Normally I would be arranging to spend the day at my parents' home, but they have chosen to do festivities on Monday. So this day is a ME day to do whatever the hell I want for Christmas. It started with sleeping in.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Yule Round Three
The evening was totally lovely. We shared a great meal that we all contributed to. The hubby's turkey was delice! Everything was. Ritual was simple and poignant and a first time for the new folks involved. Out of Drakness comes light, out of death comes life. We shall seem them with the new dawn.
Gift-wise, I have a new box to store my things in. I can now take them out of my shell that is meant for the altar. And I have a neat pop-up Tibetan altar that actually has something about Kurukulle! Nevermind if you don't know what I am talking about. I was cooled out.
The lack of sleep and the turkey coma is catching up to me. There was no progress on the paper beyond being done the context stuff. Now I need to get into sex and gender. I hate trying to write a paper I have zero connection to.
I work tomorrow. Then I plan to have the general gender aspect of the paper written. Thursday is more work and more paper. Friday is more work, but no paper as we go to the hubby's family's for Christmas. I will paper write and sleep through the weekend. I hope to be finished the paper by Monday. Then we have Christmas at my family's.
My next day off... Tuesday. Then I am back to reading for my exam and trying to finish up those interviews... and maybe rewriting my thesis context/history section.
Metaphorically, I tossed a coin into a pond. I wonder if anything will come of it.
Gift-wise, I have a new box to store my things in. I can now take them out of my shell that is meant for the altar. And I have a neat pop-up Tibetan altar that actually has something about Kurukulle! Nevermind if you don't know what I am talking about. I was cooled out.
The lack of sleep and the turkey coma is catching up to me. There was no progress on the paper beyond being done the context stuff. Now I need to get into sex and gender. I hate trying to write a paper I have zero connection to.
I work tomorrow. Then I plan to have the general gender aspect of the paper written. Thursday is more work and more paper. Friday is more work, but no paper as we go to the hubby's family's for Christmas. I will paper write and sleep through the weekend. I hope to be finished the paper by Monday. Then we have Christmas at my family's.
My next day off... Tuesday. Then I am back to reading for my exam and trying to finish up those interviews... and maybe rewriting my thesis context/history section.
Metaphorically, I tossed a coin into a pond. I wonder if anything will come of it.
Yule Round Two
Merry Yule everyone!!
Last night was the longest night with the full moon, lunar eclipse and a meteor shower and all. I stayed up and did some work for friends and myself. It was unfortunate that the snowy cloud cover blocked the view. ALAS!
So round two of yule gifts. The hubby and I celebrate our Yule in the morning of yule day, this morning. We used to celebrate it with the neighbors, but they moved far away. It was a little odd feeling not doing stockings and breakfast with them. We did it with us instead and it was still fun to open stockings over breakfast. My stocking held the truly NUMMY After Eight chocolate mints i adore. They will last me a whole year since I eat them very sparingly and Yule is the only time i ever get any. My stocking also had an XBOX live points card. Yay! I can get some fun things to play or decorate my XBOX with for the games I like to play... which are VERY few.
After breakfast, we exchanged our gifts. I got two gifts that were for just me (though one might get shared) and one that was actually an US gift that has thrilled me to PIECES! The me gifts were the Angel comic hard cover, first in the series of what happens after the season finale, and the Ultimate Dragon Age collection game with both games. I will save that as my reward for finishing my paper. YAY! The hubby might play it too, but he is busy with his own game right now. The SQUEE gift that is for us is a new rice cooker! Ours died some time ago and I have deeply missed making rice for snacks and for side dishes. BONUS! This one also have the vegetable/dumpling steamer with it! How exciting! Does it mean something is wrong with me because i am this happy with a rice cooker?
I bought myself two gifts since I got very little for my birthday and didn't even get myself my usual self-bought fun birthday gift. So I did that for Yule instead. I bought myself a new laptop bag that I love and fits my laptop perfectly. I also bought myself a 6-cell laptop battery so now my laptop will last 6 hours instead of 2 without a plug. That means I will get all the way through class!
This is a Merry Yule! Tonight the coven comes over to share a meal. I have little things for them.
The better gift is that my professors have been very understanding with me and my studies. I need only miraculously pay for my schooling and then it will be smooth sailing. Now to decorate and clean the house, then get back to the paper.
Have a Merry Yule and offer a some love and light and blessings for those in need.
Last night was the longest night with the full moon, lunar eclipse and a meteor shower and all. I stayed up and did some work for friends and myself. It was unfortunate that the snowy cloud cover blocked the view. ALAS!
So round two of yule gifts. The hubby and I celebrate our Yule in the morning of yule day, this morning. We used to celebrate it with the neighbors, but they moved far away. It was a little odd feeling not doing stockings and breakfast with them. We did it with us instead and it was still fun to open stockings over breakfast. My stocking held the truly NUMMY After Eight chocolate mints i adore. They will last me a whole year since I eat them very sparingly and Yule is the only time i ever get any. My stocking also had an XBOX live points card. Yay! I can get some fun things to play or decorate my XBOX with for the games I like to play... which are VERY few.
After breakfast, we exchanged our gifts. I got two gifts that were for just me (though one might get shared) and one that was actually an US gift that has thrilled me to PIECES! The me gifts were the Angel comic hard cover, first in the series of what happens after the season finale, and the Ultimate Dragon Age collection game with both games. I will save that as my reward for finishing my paper. YAY! The hubby might play it too, but he is busy with his own game right now. The SQUEE gift that is for us is a new rice cooker! Ours died some time ago and I have deeply missed making rice for snacks and for side dishes. BONUS! This one also have the vegetable/dumpling steamer with it! How exciting! Does it mean something is wrong with me because i am this happy with a rice cooker?
I bought myself two gifts since I got very little for my birthday and didn't even get myself my usual self-bought fun birthday gift. So I did that for Yule instead. I bought myself a new laptop bag that I love and fits my laptop perfectly. I also bought myself a 6-cell laptop battery so now my laptop will last 6 hours instead of 2 without a plug. That means I will get all the way through class!
This is a Merry Yule! Tonight the coven comes over to share a meal. I have little things for them.
The better gift is that my professors have been very understanding with me and my studies. I need only miraculously pay for my schooling and then it will be smooth sailing. Now to decorate and clean the house, then get back to the paper.
Have a Merry Yule and offer a some love and light and blessings for those in need.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Yule Round One
Today was a busy scattered day of ... stuff ...
I went to bed at 4am after reading for my paper. Slept a few hours and got up to feed the cats. Then slept a few more hours and got up to write paper.
Today was a coven day which meant that my paper writing was intermittent. Then I was off to the store staff yule party. We had a wonderfully decorated eating space (thanks Catharine), great food potluck style from everyone, and a gift exchange.
I have fuzzy socks from Samara (THANKS!) and my favorite lilac perfume from Yves Roches (thank you so much Debra!).
The lift home was also a great gift. I am home with way more time than anticipated and pray I have enough time to finish the paper that is due tomorrow.
Thus ends Yule Round One.
I went to bed at 4am after reading for my paper. Slept a few hours and got up to feed the cats. Then slept a few more hours and got up to write paper.
Today was a coven day which meant that my paper writing was intermittent. Then I was off to the store staff yule party. We had a wonderfully decorated eating space (thanks Catharine), great food potluck style from everyone, and a gift exchange.
I have fuzzy socks from Samara (THANKS!) and my favorite lilac perfume from Yves Roches (thank you so much Debra!).
The lift home was also a great gift. I am home with way more time than anticipated and pray I have enough time to finish the paper that is due tomorrow.
Thus ends Yule Round One.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Stalled & Moving Again
The week got a bit hitched and stalled due to womanly issues. Sometimes, I hate being female. Now that I am somewhat recovered, I have focus and energy again. Shame it leaves me 2.5 days to write my paper.
I have hit the 1000 of 5000 words mark. It feels both frustrating and demoralizing and yet thrilling all at the same time. Frustrating because every idea is dragged out of my brain like molars without anesthesia. Demoralizing because in one of my 2hr breaks, I typed up 3000 words in fanfic. Thrilling because I actually have 1000 of 5000 words written. only 4000 more to go.
My shoulder is still giving me trouble. I am beginning to think it has to do with out deteriorating mattress. I often feel fine by the time I go to bed and in agony when I wake up. Today, the agony has lingered all day.
I have accomplished some laundry today, did an interview for my thesis (thank you!!!), and have plotted out the context of my paper which is now at 1000 words. I intend to be at 2500 words before I go to bed tonight.
I have hit the 1000 of 5000 words mark. It feels both frustrating and demoralizing and yet thrilling all at the same time. Frustrating because every idea is dragged out of my brain like molars without anesthesia. Demoralizing because in one of my 2hr breaks, I typed up 3000 words in fanfic. Thrilling because I actually have 1000 of 5000 words written. only 4000 more to go.
My shoulder is still giving me trouble. I am beginning to think it has to do with out deteriorating mattress. I often feel fine by the time I go to bed and in agony when I wake up. Today, the agony has lingered all day.
I have accomplished some laundry today, did an interview for my thesis (thank you!!!), and have plotted out the context of my paper which is now at 1000 words. I intend to be at 2500 words before I go to bed tonight.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Exhausted
That sums up the feeling of the day. Cramped in the morning meant that I got ZERO done. Managed to get onto a bus to my meeting. the meeting went ok, though my poor teacher is stressed and worried about a sick friend. I wish them all the smooth and good holiday.
I headed out and photocopied a section of a book i need for my paper. The library made a request for its return. I dropped the book off after that. Then headed out to the store to get my pay and pick up some yule gifts. All I have left now is... my dad, food for the various yule parties, paying bills, and getting wrapping paper.
soooo tired... stupid monthly womanly stuff... sapping my energy...
so far... i have a page of paper written, 19 more to go. I have a plan though and so that is progress.
I headed out and photocopied a section of a book i need for my paper. The library made a request for its return. I dropped the book off after that. Then headed out to the store to get my pay and pick up some yule gifts. All I have left now is... my dad, food for the various yule parties, paying bills, and getting wrapping paper.
soooo tired... stupid monthly womanly stuff... sapping my energy...
so far... i have a page of paper written, 19 more to go. I have a plan though and so that is progress.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Updating
Tuesday... happened.
I read... and read... and read... then I wrote... and wrote... and wrote. The reading was for my exam, which i am now caught up for an ready to be assigned the next readings. The writing was fanfiction and preparatory stuff for my term paper, and emails that humiliated me.
I think my ever so patient teachers for being ever so patient with me.
My day was all tired and unfocused, yet hyper focused. I blame PMS.
Today felt real normal. It was just a normal frantic, move stock around day. the store looks AMAZING and FULL and ready for YULE! Come buy everything everyone!! Co-worker showed up late, a student called in sick, so the evening didn't go off as planned at all. We did practice some ritual work and we did make paper. I've made paper before, but not like this. It was fun.
By the end, I was cramping to DEATH... still am and waiting for both the energy drink and the Excedrin to kick in. Should take another 5-10 min. It is usually fast.
I missed a Purolator delivery. Now I have to call my parents and have them bring me out to get it. ARGH! I think it is some DELL stuff i ordered. They told me the 21st... not TODAY! That is a 24hr delivery... delivering on the only day I am NOT here. *curses* If it is my DELL shipment, then I have a proper protective laptop bag I like finally and a 6-cell 4-6-hr batter for my laptop. I won't have to plug in for class or have my laptop die on me in the middle of class if i forget the plug at home. If it is not my DELL stuff, then it is a Yule gift for someone who likely will be reading this post, so I give away no hints here, just in case.
Mt teacher also cancelled meeting me today for my exam meeting. I will meet her tomorrow. My thesis adviser said he could meet me next week. WEE! I feel like i may make progress. I just need to get my fees paid now.
Tomorrow: create GG call for papers database for emails (call to go out January 4th, 2011), pay my ticket agreement, meet my teacher, drop off some business stuff with someone, finish my intro and plan my contextualization for my paper.
The school goal: finish term paper and thus class, finish Pagan exam end of January, finish thesis end of February, do/finish Taoism class end of April, get through Gaia Gathering Conference with my sanity still intact, read/write East Asian exam in summer, do reading course in summer.
Final goal: graduate with an MA in November 2011.
Anyways, there the update. I am going to write some more fanfic since I am too cramped to focus on anything intellectual. If I am still awake after that, I'll go play maybe Dragon Age or Assassins Creed or Settlers of Catan.
I read... and read... and read... then I wrote... and wrote... and wrote. The reading was for my exam, which i am now caught up for an ready to be assigned the next readings. The writing was fanfiction and preparatory stuff for my term paper, and emails that humiliated me.
I think my ever so patient teachers for being ever so patient with me.
My day was all tired and unfocused, yet hyper focused. I blame PMS.
Today felt real normal. It was just a normal frantic, move stock around day. the store looks AMAZING and FULL and ready for YULE! Come buy everything everyone!! Co-worker showed up late, a student called in sick, so the evening didn't go off as planned at all. We did practice some ritual work and we did make paper. I've made paper before, but not like this. It was fun.
By the end, I was cramping to DEATH... still am and waiting for both the energy drink and the Excedrin to kick in. Should take another 5-10 min. It is usually fast.
I missed a Purolator delivery. Now I have to call my parents and have them bring me out to get it. ARGH! I think it is some DELL stuff i ordered. They told me the 21st... not TODAY! That is a 24hr delivery... delivering on the only day I am NOT here. *curses* If it is my DELL shipment, then I have a proper protective laptop bag I like finally and a 6-cell 4-6-hr batter for my laptop. I won't have to plug in for class or have my laptop die on me in the middle of class if i forget the plug at home. If it is not my DELL stuff, then it is a Yule gift for someone who likely will be reading this post, so I give away no hints here, just in case.
Mt teacher also cancelled meeting me today for my exam meeting. I will meet her tomorrow. My thesis adviser said he could meet me next week. WEE! I feel like i may make progress. I just need to get my fees paid now.
Tomorrow: create GG call for papers database for emails (call to go out January 4th, 2011), pay my ticket agreement, meet my teacher, drop off some business stuff with someone, finish my intro and plan my contextualization for my paper.
The school goal: finish term paper and thus class, finish Pagan exam end of January, finish thesis end of February, do/finish Taoism class end of April, get through Gaia Gathering Conference with my sanity still intact, read/write East Asian exam in summer, do reading course in summer.
Final goal: graduate with an MA in November 2011.
Anyways, there the update. I am going to write some more fanfic since I am too cramped to focus on anything intellectual. If I am still awake after that, I'll go play maybe Dragon Age or Assassins Creed or Settlers of Catan.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sweet Monday
I took this day rather nice and slow like my Mondays ought to be.
I woke super early and kept the kitties quiet so the hubby could sleep more, then I returned to sleep... at least till the landlord showed up. before the nap, i received a call for subbing! I was thrilled! It is part of the new automated system. It is a total shame that the system was so poor at pronouncing the name of the school. I had no idea what school they wanted me at so i turned it down. Now i need to figure out who to complain to. and the landlord... STILL doesn't get the concept of calling BEFORE showing up.
Oh well, I needed to be awake anyways. I folded laundry and prepared the new loads, then headed out for groceries and lizard food. The trip took me 2 whole hours and reminded my how much I miss having a car.
I spent all of my free time today reading for my exam. I am almost done this book on Religion & Canadian Society. I'll be done tonight and then tomorrow delving deep into the Taoism and Sex texts for hopefully a paper.
Took a tiny break to watch DS-9 with the hubby while we ate. I think I will watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen intermittently while I read the last bit of my book.
I woke super early and kept the kitties quiet so the hubby could sleep more, then I returned to sleep... at least till the landlord showed up. before the nap, i received a call for subbing! I was thrilled! It is part of the new automated system. It is a total shame that the system was so poor at pronouncing the name of the school. I had no idea what school they wanted me at so i turned it down. Now i need to figure out who to complain to. and the landlord... STILL doesn't get the concept of calling BEFORE showing up.
Oh well, I needed to be awake anyways. I folded laundry and prepared the new loads, then headed out for groceries and lizard food. The trip took me 2 whole hours and reminded my how much I miss having a car.
I spent all of my free time today reading for my exam. I am almost done this book on Religion & Canadian Society. I'll be done tonight and then tomorrow delving deep into the Taoism and Sex texts for hopefully a paper.
Took a tiny break to watch DS-9 with the hubby while we ate. I think I will watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen intermittently while I read the last bit of my book.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Glaring at Homework
So the laundry was abandoned for more DS-9.
Now I am done with the TV and the hubby has gone to bed. I was scanning the book I have to read for my exam. I think I can manage it tomorrow. I need to find my little pull-tabs (the ones Tsuki loves pulling OUT of my research books at inopportune moments). I also reviewed my term paper outline and the paper criteria. To my astonished joy, I need only write a 20 page paper! I thought I had to write 25-30 pages. What a RELIEF!!
Several interview responses have come back to me. I have a few to transcribe. So, I will have a total of... SEVEN! That means I need only ... ... ... 13 more.
**::HEADDESK::**
Any volunteers? I need a series of questions answered and a consent form signed. And I need them by December 20th.
Tomorrow is Monday... a ME day. I will hopefully get the laundry done, run an errand to get lizard food, and tackle homework. I need a kick-ass paper by Friday. I also need time for me to recoup and and destress.
Now I am done with the TV and the hubby has gone to bed. I was scanning the book I have to read for my exam. I think I can manage it tomorrow. I need to find my little pull-tabs (the ones Tsuki loves pulling OUT of my research books at inopportune moments). I also reviewed my term paper outline and the paper criteria. To my astonished joy, I need only write a 20 page paper! I thought I had to write 25-30 pages. What a RELIEF!!
Several interview responses have come back to me. I have a few to transcribe. So, I will have a total of... SEVEN! That means I need only ... ... ... 13 more.
**::HEADDESK::**
Any volunteers? I need a series of questions answered and a consent form signed. And I need them by December 20th.
Tomorrow is Monday... a ME day. I will hopefully get the laundry done, run an errand to get lizard food, and tackle homework. I need a kick-ass paper by Friday. I also need time for me to recoup and and destress.
I feel like a n00b. I just joined twitter. You can find me at tscarletjory and i have no idea how to find anyone else.
Less Accomplished
In some ways, I feel like I have done nothing so I am writing about it here to make it look a little more concrete and thus perhaps give me a little bit m0ore of a sense of accomplishment.
Today I slept in till noon and had lunch. I wrote some fanfiction to change my head space after posting the transcription information that was overdue.
I shoveled the snow down the side of the house to the back balcony and most of the back balcony too. Now we can take out the recycling. I even walked Tsuki on the back porch.
I read one book for my exam and just finished the second one. The second one made my brain hurt and didn't really tell me anything. I feel like it was a waste of many hours. I read slowly, so many hours gets me a dozen or few dozen pages.
I tried to watch Lost Boy II, but it was so terrible I stopped not even a 1/4 of the way in. I later watched Daybreakers while reading. It was decent, gross, with a fair story that seemed incomplete... much like the article I was reading!
I feel like a lump. A sore lump. None of the furniture in our home are exactly qualified as comfy reading spaces. Oh gods how I was a comfy reading chair. I feel like my brain is full of fuzz and needs a nap.
I think I will go bathe the skink and fold laundry and get more laundry washed. Then back to reading, or evaluating my term paper. Maybe even emailing my thesis adviser.
Today I slept in till noon and had lunch. I wrote some fanfiction to change my head space after posting the transcription information that was overdue.
I shoveled the snow down the side of the house to the back balcony and most of the back balcony too. Now we can take out the recycling. I even walked Tsuki on the back porch.
I read one book for my exam and just finished the second one. The second one made my brain hurt and didn't really tell me anything. I feel like it was a waste of many hours. I read slowly, so many hours gets me a dozen or few dozen pages.
I tried to watch Lost Boy II, but it was so terrible I stopped not even a 1/4 of the way in. I later watched Daybreakers while reading. It was decent, gross, with a fair story that seemed incomplete... much like the article I was reading!
I feel like a lump. A sore lump. None of the furniture in our home are exactly qualified as comfy reading spaces. Oh gods how I was a comfy reading chair. I feel like my brain is full of fuzz and needs a nap.
I think I will go bathe the skink and fold laundry and get more laundry washed. Then back to reading, or evaluating my term paper. Maybe even emailing my thesis adviser.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Day...
Today was full of busy and relaxation. I was awake at 5:30am for no reason. My waking ended up waking the sleeping Tsuki... *sigh* So I stayed up till 8AM or so till feeding time, till the hubby was awake. While I was awake, I busied myself with reading for that second report and finding some straggling items that needed addressing.
I then went back to sleep... till something like 2pm!! BLISS!!
After which I watched the movie Eat Pray Love. Not bad.
I may read the book if it finds its way into my possession sometime.
I finished that report and sent it off. Now I am no longer delinquent in my semester's homework for that class! YAY! I dug out the contact info for my thesis and sent off several emails for the interview questions to be answered. So that too is off my plate for a week. I will come back to that after my term paper is finished. Now I am working on a project I forgot about, minutes to a HUGE meeting. I will do a section of it this evening and a section of it tomorrow then send it off.
In between the editing sections of the minutes, I will read for my exam, hopefully finish 2 texts. I am only a couple pages from being finished for one and the other is short (about 10 pages). The other two books will get looked at later when I re-evaluate my time and things that need doing.
I am feeling... accomplished. Sleep does wonders.
I then went back to sleep... till something like 2pm!! BLISS!!
After which I watched the movie Eat Pray Love. Not bad.
I may read the book if it finds its way into my possession sometime.
I finished that report and sent it off. Now I am no longer delinquent in my semester's homework for that class! YAY! I dug out the contact info for my thesis and sent off several emails for the interview questions to be answered. So that too is off my plate for a week. I will come back to that after my term paper is finished. Now I am working on a project I forgot about, minutes to a HUGE meeting. I will do a section of it this evening and a section of it tomorrow then send it off.
In between the editing sections of the minutes, I will read for my exam, hopefully finish 2 texts. I am only a couple pages from being finished for one and the other is short (about 10 pages). The other two books will get looked at later when I re-evaluate my time and things that need doing.
I am feeling... accomplished. Sleep does wonders.
Meme
Where do you live (Country)?
Canada
If the country you live in could be summed up in a word, what would it be?
Tolerance
Where do you live (City)?
Montreal
If the city you live in could be summed up in a word, what would it be?
Multicultural
How do you think you are seen by others, in one word?
Too-Busy
How do you see yourself, in one word?
Lost (in the rush) OR Persistent
How do you want to be seen, in a word?
Content OR Happy OR maybe... How do you put into one word: living life and loving every moment of it? Is there a word for that? If there is... that is the word I want.
Alright... If words have power, empower your life!
Canada
If the country you live in could be summed up in a word, what would it be?
Tolerance
Where do you live (City)?
Montreal
If the city you live in could be summed up in a word, what would it be?
Multicultural
How do you think you are seen by others, in one word?
Too-Busy
How do you see yourself, in one word?
Lost (in the rush) OR Persistent
How do you want to be seen, in a word?
Content OR Happy OR maybe... How do you put into one word: living life and loving every moment of it? Is there a word for that? If there is... that is the word I want.
Alright... If words have power, empower your life!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Wonderous
OMGs! Sleep does wonders for one's patience and disposition. It has been a great week with Tsuki sleeping on the bed with us! YAY!
On other notes, I met with Concordia Academic Advising. There is a standing agreement to remove the mistaken F from my transcript, pending a letter from the course's teacher. However, for my Thesis, I have to do some sad grovelling for an IP (In Progress) grade. I really need to have some form of something to show him that I have not been completely neglectful. My exam, I have been asked to focus on to get it wiped from my plate of responsibilities. This is in many ways a great relief!
So the plan:
- write two response papers before Sunday for Ritual & Body class (DONE ONE! YAY!)
- send out interview questions for thesis to all who signed the consent forms (TOMORROW)
- finish reading Pagan books for exam (BY THURSDAY 10AM)
- research and write paper on Taoist Sexual Practices (DUE DEC 17)
- rewrite thesis context section (GOAL JAN 1, 2011)
- Finish remaining Pagan books for exam and write exam (GOAL IMBOLC)
- finish thesis (GOAL OSTARA)
- take and complete new Taoist course (GOAL BELTAIN)
I am a goal-oriented person. I need goals with due dates. I need to be able to tick things off as DONE to feel small senses of accomnplishment.
So, this weekend:
- read for and write last response
- send out thesis questions
- email out GG call for papers
- read for exam
- evaluate outline for term paper
- email thesis adviser and plead for IP
Thank you Kat for taking my work shifts Thursday and Friday so that I may work of school.
On other notes, I met with Concordia Academic Advising. There is a standing agreement to remove the mistaken F from my transcript, pending a letter from the course's teacher. However, for my Thesis, I have to do some sad grovelling for an IP (In Progress) grade. I really need to have some form of something to show him that I have not been completely neglectful. My exam, I have been asked to focus on to get it wiped from my plate of responsibilities. This is in many ways a great relief!
So the plan:
- write two response papers before Sunday for Ritual & Body class (DONE ONE! YAY!)
- send out interview questions for thesis to all who signed the consent forms (TOMORROW)
- finish reading Pagan books for exam (BY THURSDAY 10AM)
- research and write paper on Taoist Sexual Practices (DUE DEC 17)
- rewrite thesis context section (GOAL JAN 1, 2011)
- Finish remaining Pagan books for exam and write exam (GOAL IMBOLC)
- finish thesis (GOAL OSTARA)
- take and complete new Taoist course (GOAL BELTAIN)
I am a goal-oriented person. I need goals with due dates. I need to be able to tick things off as DONE to feel small senses of accomnplishment.
So, this weekend:
- read for and write last response
- send out thesis questions
- email out GG call for papers
- read for exam
- evaluate outline for term paper
- email thesis adviser and plead for IP
Thank you Kat for taking my work shifts Thursday and Friday so that I may work of school.
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Stuffs and Vet
So Tsuki sleeping with us is working out pretty good. We have had now two good days in a row.
Yesterday, while it started snowing, I did house cleaning and scrubbing, laundry, and baked cookies for us (not to sell).
Today, I have done more house cleaning and more laundry. The snow outside is INSANE! The husband shoveled this morning, not that it looks like it. I have also been reading homework. I hope to get two of three reports done and a book for my exam read tonight. I also need to prepare stuff for the CMS class tomorrow.
Yesterday, while it started snowing, I did house cleaning and scrubbing, laundry, and baked cookies for us (not to sell).
Today, I have done more house cleaning and more laundry. The snow outside is INSANE! The husband shoveled this morning, not that it looks like it. I have also been reading homework. I hope to get two of three reports done and a book for my exam read tonight. I also need to prepare stuff for the CMS class tomorrow.
so far so good...
Yes, this seems to work. Locking him in the bedroom with us for the night is working good, except for the moments when the crazy weather outside gets loud, shakes the windows and scares the crap out of him and me.
We have... snow... serious amounts of cold snow.
I put Tsuki on the leash and let him outside on the bacl porch in the snow. He was unimpressed and struggled between wanting to explore outside and hiding in the doorway to be warm and talk to the snow drift. It was funny!
We have... snow... serious amounts of cold snow.
I put Tsuki on the leash and let him outside on the bacl porch in the snow. He was unimpressed and struggled between wanting to explore outside and hiding in the doorway to be warm and talk to the snow drift. It was funny!
Monday, December 06, 2010
Reverse Thinking
We have discovered a miracle! It worked tonight. I hope it continues to work. Actually this is the husband's idea and it is brilliant! Normally when you are fed up with the pets, the running around, the yowling, you toss them all from the bedroom at night so you can sleep. This has clearly not worked with Tsuki.
So, reverse thinking, We locked him IN with us for the night. He spent it sometimes under the bed exploring, but mostly in one place or another ON the bed cuddling and QUIET! We both got a full night's sleep! YAY!
So, reverse thinking, We locked him IN with us for the night. He spent it sometimes under the bed exploring, but mostly in one place or another ON the bed cuddling and QUIET! We both got a full night's sleep! YAY!
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Death Becomes Me... or maybe the cat...
Yule Fair was a fantastic success and a ton of work. Very fun and very exhausting.
It would have been better endured had the cat not yowled ALL FUCKING NIGHT LONG!
I have not slept this weekend.
I am a wreck as is the husband.
If you are hoping for or expecting anything from me... don't... not till January.
Sorry. I just can't.
It would have been better endured had the cat not yowled ALL FUCKING NIGHT LONG!
I have not slept this weekend.
I am a wreck as is the husband.
If you are hoping for or expecting anything from me... don't... not till January.
Sorry. I just can't.
Friday, December 03, 2010
Struggling Along
The yowling continues. There are some improvements and some setbacks. It is hard to say whether overall we are making headway or not. I am tired... so very fucking tired.
The shoulder has no improvement either. I pulled it a couple weeks ago. It eases when I am resting and not carrying things. But with everything I have to do and no car... I kinda am stuck carrying things fair distances. The pains are now getting worse. I saw one of the healers I trust today. I got a VERY FIRM order to put it in a sling and let people help me. Guess I will go buy a sling tomorrow from the pharmacy before the fair starts.
I have managed I think to pull off slight miracles! The vending space is already set up! The Yule Fair is ready to go! HUZZAH! Even my CMS/BFC table is set up. On it are beautiful Multifaith Calendars (Government supported and INCLUDE wicca!), some second hand books, the usual array of pouches, some D-20 pendants, and as of tonight, gift boxes filled with the ingredients to make delicious mint cookies for the holidays. At this very moment, I am sipping an energy drink to help stay awake while I bake a couple batches of these cookies to bring with me. I also printed off little recipe cards to go inside with how to bake the cookies, and designed certificates for Aura Cleansing which I will be auctioning off the first evening of the Yule Fair.
It looks like it will be an amazing weekend. Busy as all hell, but amazing. I am not thinking of homework or any other thing except the Fair and the Auction.
Once the Fair is over, then I will plan the course I am teaching at Concordia, get back to dealing with my cat, and tackle homework.
The shoulder has no improvement either. I pulled it a couple weeks ago. It eases when I am resting and not carrying things. But with everything I have to do and no car... I kinda am stuck carrying things fair distances. The pains are now getting worse. I saw one of the healers I trust today. I got a VERY FIRM order to put it in a sling and let people help me. Guess I will go buy a sling tomorrow from the pharmacy before the fair starts.
I have managed I think to pull off slight miracles! The vending space is already set up! The Yule Fair is ready to go! HUZZAH! Even my CMS/BFC table is set up. On it are beautiful Multifaith Calendars (Government supported and INCLUDE wicca!), some second hand books, the usual array of pouches, some D-20 pendants, and as of tonight, gift boxes filled with the ingredients to make delicious mint cookies for the holidays. At this very moment, I am sipping an energy drink to help stay awake while I bake a couple batches of these cookies to bring with me. I also printed off little recipe cards to go inside with how to bake the cookies, and designed certificates for Aura Cleansing which I will be auctioning off the first evening of the Yule Fair.
It looks like it will be an amazing weekend. Busy as all hell, but amazing. I am not thinking of homework or any other thing except the Fair and the Auction.
Once the Fair is over, then I will plan the course I am teaching at Concordia, get back to dealing with my cat, and tackle homework.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
*sigh* 6:00AM
So Tsuki went into the box for the night around 12:30am-ish. He stayed quiet straight through to 6am. Five and a half hours would normally be amazing for sleep of me.... but after a few days of NO sleep, it certainly was not enough. The yowling was not loud this morning, simply plaintive to be let out of the box. He has eaten and used the litter box all quietly this morning. He is now snuggled quietly on the couch. I am going to try to get a couple more hours sleep. Today is a LONG day for me for work... 10+ hours.
Update on my pulled shoulder... fucking hurts. I should put it in a damned sling to remind me to NOT use my arm. Just... slings are so... annoying!!
I might edit this post later this morning.
::EDIT - 7:00AM::
Fed all the cats at 6:50 because they bugged me for food. Tried to go back to bed. Tsuki yowled. I am up now till the husband's alarm goes off so he may have a few more moments of quiet sleeping. Then I will try to have an hour of sleep after he is up.
Update on my pulled shoulder... fucking hurts. I should put it in a damned sling to remind me to NOT use my arm. Just... slings are so... annoying!!
I might edit this post later this morning.
::EDIT - 7:00AM::
Fed all the cats at 6:50 because they bugged me for food. Tried to go back to bed. Tsuki yowled. I am up now till the husband's alarm goes off so he may have a few more moments of quiet sleeping. Then I will try to have an hour of sleep after he is up.
Snow & Chocolate
So... Bio-calm... Feliway... fails on the eves of snow. We have snow today. I hurt 100 times worse than usual. Now that the snow has fallen and the insane winds are done, Tsuki is a little more manageable... barely. Then again, I have not been home for most of the day and evening to see how he is. All I know is that now he is curled on a blanket in my office asleep and quiet. I think I will try leaving him locked in here tonight.
As for the chocolate... I had one piece today (Wednesday). Presidents Choice "after eight" knock offs. So yummy. Usually I can eat a few After Eights. Apparently the knock offs have more cocoa and more lactose. It has turned me inside out this evening.
As for the chocolate... I had one piece today (Wednesday). Presidents Choice "after eight" knock offs. So yummy. Usually I can eat a few After Eights. Apparently the knock offs have more cocoa and more lactose. It has turned me inside out this evening.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Bio-Calm Day 3 Yesterday
Minimal improvement. On the advice of double dosing Tsuki, over the weekend, we saw improvement. But that is only for short term use of Bio-Calm. Reduced to the normal dose of Bio-Calm, we see little use. There is yowling from 5-9am, from 6-8pm and 10pm-midnight. If he is not locked in the cat carrier from midnight to morning yowling, then he yowls all night long.
The hubby wants him de-meowed or gone. I wish he were back to normal and quiet like he used to be. But I am running out of options. I will have to give into the fucking blood test. My vet bill for Monday will be now $300 instead of $100 (which was for just his booster shots). That is all my Christmas money and my school money.
I am so fucking tired.
The hubby wants him de-meowed or gone. I wish he were back to normal and quiet like he used to be. But I am running out of options. I will have to give into the fucking blood test. My vet bill for Monday will be now $300 instead of $100 (which was for just his booster shots). That is all my Christmas money and my school money.
I am so fucking tired.
