Ookings of d00m

Good/Bad:

Good: Shipment from ThinkGeek; I now have a samurai umbrella, 3 monitor mounted mirrors for work, a coffe cup power inverter that gives me 1 usb power socket and 2 standard power plugs for the car, two power squids, and laser scissors.

Bad: My lungs hate me today.

Good: Managed three good solid workouts this week. In bodycombat, the instructor took my request and worked one of my favourite song/exercise combos in. Also, next time the schedule shifts, she's also taking my suggestion to have a thursday night class, which a) works perfectly with my schedule, and b) means it'll be a full hour class instead of the truncated 45 minute classes we have at lunch.

Bad: Due to excessive caffeine, my guts also hate me today. (The caffeine usually helps with the lungs).

Good: Contact Dance is coming along well. I think by the end of this course, I might actually feel comfortable enough to try a Jam. Though the timing sucks for me.

Bad: The appartment is reaching terrifying levels of messy. We have a moth infestation, though I think (hope!) that they're the sort that eat our food instead of our clothes.

Good: My Indigo shipment also came in - a book on electronics, Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, and a couple non-fictions on superheroes.

Bad: Still having periodic issues with the jaw. Hopefully the dentist on Tuesday will help.

Good: Cafeteria food this week has included meatloaf wrapped in thick slices of bacon with mashed potato and veggies, and veal saltimbocca (sp? basically veal cutlets with fancy ham on top) with a baked potato and veggies. This is why 52 weeks of music and lunch will be hard - the cafeteria food here is *good*.

Good: Despite the good food, I seem to have lost a little bit of weight.

Bad: Despite having just moved into this cube on Monday, I am moving again March 5th, and probably again two weeks after that. I found out about the second move after I'd unpacked everything. The new cube has two walls instead of the three I am used to.

Good: The number of moves is to ensure that we don't end up in "tripods", where they cut the current cubes to 2/3 of their original size, so you can't back up without smacking into the person behind you (where the third wall ought to be). Move 2 has our current cubes tripodded, while move 3 has us move over a couple desks to cube that will not get the tripod treatment.

I feel like crap today, but I had a hell of a good weekend.

• Spent Friday night seeing Inglorious Basterds with neeuqdrazil. Very fun movie.


• Repaired the Sith robe Saturday


• Dark Raved Saturday night


• Celebrated my two year anniversary with mycrazyhair Sunday (technically our anniversary is today) with an evening that included great food and board games.


• Got to see a lot of great people yesterday while relaxing on the beach


• Came home to Stich and Bitch where the wonderful neeuqdrazil had made an awesome dinner and dessert.


• neeuqdrazil let me take her keys so that I can get into the appt when I get home tonight

Good: Got some sewing gadgets last night, including cases to store my thread and bobbins. No more tangled mass in a plastic bag!
Good: Got some work done on shirtmod #2
Good: Got caught up on TV last night (Heroes, Fringe, Dollhouse)
Good: Got my backup strategy figured out, so tar is now happily churning away dumping 250 GB to my windows box. When that's done, I get to fiddle with the RAID and see if I can manage to *not* blow it up.
Bad: Apparently the last ep of Dollhouse isn't going to air. Dear Fox; WTF.
Bad: I got caught up fiddling with the backups, and didn't check the gym's hours until noon. They close at two. So I guess I'm gymming tomorrow, and should get laundry done today.

Now, I have successfully managed pants, and it is time to go get some lunch.

I have had myself one damned good birthday.

I spent the entire day wandering the city, meeting friends who bought me food and/or alcohol. Seriously.

* Carribean breakfast with ice_scratchin_b
* Stopped to buy myself a whack of comic books
* Lunch with mycrazyhair
* Went to the pub to have hot chocolate with bailey's, where the hot waitress chatted me up over the comic I was reading (Buffy Season 8)
* Met pez_minotaur for a long trip through the Summerhill LCBO. I decided that I wouldn't buy 30 year old scotch. It costs around $300-400. Even if I could convince myself to buy it, I'd never let myself drink it. So, after a pass through the tasting tower, I got a bottle of ardbeg and a bottle of glen scotia instead.
* Then we went back to the pub so Pez could have lunch. He got me brie, beer and ice cream.
* Back home, neuqdrazil took me out for a swanky dinner up the street.

We finished up with Heroes and cuddles. I am very pleased with my birthday. :)

Also: thank you to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday in all the various media!

• I'm moving to a new desk next week, which means I am kicked out at noon for the movers to come in. Free afternoon!


• It looks like the weight I put on while recovering from the hip issues is sliding off at an acceptable rate.


• If all goes well, I will have a new pair of me-made pants by the end of the night!

I'm going to have to cross my fingers that traffic is light tonight - I forgot my sewing stuff at home, so I'll have to go get it before going to class, which may or may not be tight timewise, depending on traffic.

My LJ's been mostly content free lately. I've been in a pretty foul mood, and trying to avoid whiny posts. Without dwelling on the reasons for my funk, I will just say that there were a fair number of reasons.

Things took a turn for the better last week. neeuqdrazil and I got some much needed processing done, and while we didn't come to any resolutions, the discussions cleared the air and significantly lowered my stress levels.

I've got vacation time starting in two days, and my shiny new work laptop has returned to me. Planned implementations that would have required significant outlays of unpaid overtime were cancelled.

I had a very good weekend, starting with a first date with someone shiny, moving on to a Saturday filled with parties, massages and sushi, wrapping up with one of the most low stress family holiday gatherings I can recall.

I've got a good week ahead of me, with promising amounts of slack and socializing. Most of my GrumpMas stuff is done and out of the way.

My life, it does not suck.

Three good things;

1. The lanes closed for "summer" construction on the 401 are fianlly starting to open up again. Traffic has become slightly better as a result.


2. Work's contingency testing has been moved into the new year. So my November weekends are safe once again.


3. Someone at work brought me a piece of yummy home made struedel this morning.

I'm in a much better mood today, in no small part to a couple of exceptionally kind people who put up with me being pouty and sullen yesterday.

It is, I think, time for more good things;

1. I filled up on gas at 75 cents/litre last night, so this week's gas was roughly $10 cheaper than it's been recently.


2. I won two free guestlist spots for Ayria on Friday. I need to ping a couple more people to see if anyone wants to go with me.


3. The wonderful neeuqdrazil took pity on cranky me, and had dinner, a glass of wine and Veronica Mars waiting for me when I got home.

Still no joy on the sleep front - woke up at 5:30 this morning, 30 min before my alarm, and over an hour before sunrise.

Good Things;

• My back is doing much better - I don't need the walking stick today, nor the robaxacet. I expect to be well enough to get back to the gym by the end of the week.


• I got a postcard from corbet that made me go *squee*


• Several big question marks are resolving into answers.


• Tonight, games!