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November 19th, 2009
01:02 pm - Thinking about happy things for a bit...
Since I've been pretty sad lately, here's the good news from, um, however long it's taken me to post here again:
1. I'm keeping a budget. And so far I've been pretty good about sticking to it, even despite the fact that I had car repairs come up a couple of days ago. Now the hard part will be paring it down a few notches so that I can afford to save some money for emergencies. I mean, I'm already saving some, but it would be good to be able to put aside a few more dollars, with the way things are going. Not eating fast food anymore would be a good start.
2. Health-wise... I gained a few pounds over the past few months. :/ But! My boyfriend and I going to the gym together on a fairly regular basis, so that helps. We just need to stick with it; we can't overdo it, especially in his case, but even a moderate amount of exercise will help with mood stuff. (And again, not eating so much fast food would help immensely.)
3. Car has been a bit sketchy. Money has been tight; I've had to use the credit card I've been trying to pay off, mostly for car repairs. Ah, well. I'm actually making plans to pay it off now, so that helps. (Sometimes I miss not having a car because of the expense it incurs, but as someone most astutely pointed out a couple of days ago, I'll probably find that I miss that a lot less as the winter grinds on. It's gonna be a bad one, I think.)
I just realized that isn't really good news, so here's the good part - now that I've had it repaired, car's running pretty well. Hopefully the next big expense I'm going to need to deal with is the tires, and then I'm set for a while.
4. I made my GYWO goal! Now to keep myself motivated for the rest of the year so that I don't just stop. (I probably could've made one of the higher goal levels easily if I hadn't gotten myself in that funk in the middle of the year.)
5. Relationship status: Happy. :)
I think that's about it.
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August 18th, 2009
05:08 pm - On a happier note...
Apparently there IS a Chicago-style pizzeria around here. I will go there when I get paid again!
I will probably end up going alone, though. I would normally go with a particular person, but... well... let me put it this way. I won't eat pork products, but love the vast majority of vegetable-based pizza toppings. He will eat pork products, but can't or won't eat the vast majority of vegetable-based pizza toppings. While for normal pizza this isn't as much of an issue, if I'm going to get a deep dish pizza, I want a decent number of toppings. (Pepperoni and sausage are unfortunately out, but there's always hamburger, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, whatever else they could put in there...)
On second thought, maybe I should just learn to make my own pies. Then poultry-based toppings become an option. (Hurray for turkey pepperoni, seriously.)
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12:25 pm - Poor crazy bike
...feeling very frustrated over various things. I've been trying to keep it pushed down, but failing miserably. Since I want to deal with this in a way that doesn't end up hurting myself or someone else I decided that a long bike ride was in order, because exercise always helps when I'm in a bad mood. So I changed into clothing, slathered myself in sunblock, ate, drank some water, packed some more water, and went to take said long bike ride.
About a half-mile out, the back tyre went flat. I had to walk the damned thing back to my house, and I can't afford to fix it until I get paid again, which isn't next Friday, but the Friday after that. (Pretty much all of my last paycheck went toward paying off bills and buying food. I have very little left and am saving that just in case something bad happens.)
Apparently the universe doesn't WANT me dealing with this in a positive manner. Apparently it wants me to either go and pick a fight with someone and possibly punch said someone in the face, stay home and cry for hours, or go out and buy a quart of ice cream and a whole deep-dish pizza and eat it all in one sitting. What the hell.
It's a minor annoyance... I'll get it taken care of. It's just one of those things that keeps piling up, and sooner or later I'm just going to blow up at someone, and... yeah.
On the plus side, my credit card debt is almost paid off....
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August 15th, 2009
08:12 pm - Pizza Question
Does anyone else here remember when Pizza Hut served some kind of pizza that basically had one crust at the bottom, a layer of toppings/cheese/maybe sauce, more crust, and then more sauce and toppings? Does anyone remember what that might've been called? I don't know exactly when it would have been - I would have been quite young, because the only place I remember eating it was at a Pizza Hut location that went out of business quite a long time ago. (I vaguely remember eating it while listening to Achy Breaky Heart on the restaurant's jukebox - not MY choice of music, I assure you - shortly after the single was released, which would have put this at... oh... 1992 or 1993, according to Wikipedia.)
Just one of those strange things I remember, or at least think that I remember and would like to know that I didn't completely make up. I remember that back then it was what I always ordered at Pizza Hut when I could get it, which explained a lot.
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August 14th, 2009
11:44 am - I don't do this often.
But I think that this interview about health insurance in America is worth checking out for anyone on this list who's from (or in) America.
Not offering an opinion of my own right now, not yet. I just think people should watch this, then do the research on the topic and inform their own opinions.
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May 13th, 2009
05:37 pm - Crazy Bike Adventures, Day 1
I have a bike.
It is not a very good bike. It is, in fact, about as cheap as a new bike could be and not be falling apart (I hope.) But it is a bike, and I am damn well going to ride it as much as possible until I can afford something better. (Don't worry, I also have a helmet.)
It must be noted that I have not regularly ridden a bike since high school, but I figured it wouldn't be that bad. I can walk for hours/miles over varied terrain and barely break a sweat, after all. These were my thoughts when I went out on the trail at approximately five PM today, thinking I'd take the bike for a quick spin, see how it handles. So I put on my helmet, changed glasses to my cheap old pair, and took the bike out.
I was home twenty-five minutes later, after discovering that the trail that I thought was more or less level after walking on it actually DOES have a slight incline to it. I learned this as I was riding home, into the wind and apparently up this slight incline. I'm covered in sweat, my glasses are fogged over, and I think my thighs are on strike now.
I can see that I'm not going to be able to ride this thing to work until after a lot more training.
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May 1st, 2009
April 23rd, 2009
07:53 pm - Writing is still a problem.
Thank goodness for tabletop game recaps. Otherwise I wouldn't have written anything at all this month. But I shouldn't complain, since at least they're something.
I'm having more trouble downloading OpenOffice. I don't know why. My connection speeds with any and all of the mirrors that I try to use are atrocious, and when I tried to download it from ff.net (which is where I learned about it in the first place, back in the day) I end up with great connection speeds but a corrupted file. So in order to get word counts, I'm going to need to go to the library or find something on the internet. Either way.
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April 17th, 2009
05:30 pm - Best workplace PSA text ever.
This is on an actual poster printed by my company. (Actually, it's paraphrased; I meant to write it down but didn't. Next time I'm at work I'll get a few more choice quotes that made me snicker.)
"If you notice any signs of an ORC incident, please notify your Manager, Supervisor or LP Associate immediately."
...I think that if the orcs are already there, it's a bit too late for that, isn't it? Time for the crossbows!
(Context: ORC stands for Organized Retail Crime. I don't think anyone else in the meeting room this morning really understood why I was laughing at this.)
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April 16th, 2009
05:35 am - Worst block ever
I've tried to write something - anything - for weeks now. The words just aren't there. I can't even write LJ posts, which is why I haven't updated for so long.
I have to get ready for work now. It's been an hour. If I can't write a proper entry in an hour, then I might as well try again later.
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March 26th, 2009
01:03 pm - Dear Treasury: I'm poor, okay?
Feeling better for the most part. I'm still getting used to the idea that if you talk to other people honestly about things that bother you, it makes things better. I'm so used to hiding what I feel and think from people that I still believe it's the way to go.
( Tax Rant )
...I should be writing now. Just very, very distracted.
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March 9th, 2009
05:23 pm - Status report
I am happy. Made peace with a few friends that I never thought I'd make peace with and have made a few new connections. Still employeed, and grateful for it, because some of my friends no longer are. Working hard, staying careful, cutting down on my spending by a lot because I want to save up for a few things and I need my tax money to last me for a while.
So. Happy, but tired. Sitting in the library. Waiting for an e-mail that has not come, thinking about what to write.
The past thirty days have been strange.
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February 23rd, 2009
03:24 pm - Emergency utilities disks FTW
Got my Win98 box working. (Yay!) Didn't find my Win98 boot disk, but I did find the old Norton Emergency Utilities disks that I had made back in the day, and was able to undelete the one file that I'd accidentally deleted that was making Windows fail. So at least now I can still write, although I'm not writing as much as I wish I was. I'll wait until the end of the month to post an update. I want to try to catch up first.
Now it's time to take my car to the shop. Fun times for all. Hope it's back to me tomorrow; I have to work at five in the morning on Wednesday. x_x
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February 18th, 2009
04:37 pm - relearning
Okay, so, I'm getting a new(er) computer soon, now that I have my insurance bills paid and am about to get my taxes sent in. This is good, because my Win98 box seems to be dead. If I can find my old boot disk I could probably reinstall Windows 98 and fix it, since I still have my original upgrade CD and code, but I haven't found it yet. (I have every single other floppy disk that I've ever owned, but not that one. It's almost as irritating as not being able to find the one CD-ROM with my USB wireless network adapter software.)
I've forgotten most of what I know about computers over the past seven years or so. I used to be pretty good with them in college. I can't help but wonder what happened. Atrophy, I suppose. *sigh* So much to relearn.
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February 1st, 2009
02:13 pm
Power's back on. Huzzah.
GYWO word count is at 31,544. It would be higher, but dealing with the ice storm trumped writing for the past week or so.
Don't feel like blogging right now, but wanted to post that before I forgot. I'll get back to doing detailed breakdowns next month.
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January 29th, 2009
11:42 am - Not quite frozen to death yet, sir!
We had a huge ice storm here. Power has been out at my apartment for about forty-eight hours now, and most of the city was shut down yesterday because of ice and power outages. Much of it is still shut down now, but progress is being made.
Just letting people know I'm alive. I rode out the worst of the storm at a friend's house with a bunch of other people.
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January 16th, 2009
12:59 pm - ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) getyourwordsout status
Since the month is half-over....
( The month so far. )
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11:25 am - Failing at kitchen management
I had today off. I was planning to cook today anyway, so that I can have stuff to take to work tomorrow. So I decided that before doing any actual cooking, it would be wise to go through my pantry and see what I had available to me. And I discovered that I'm going to have to make a habit of this, because I have a lot more food available to me than I thought. I've filled up the equivalent of a page in a small legal pad of stuff that I have, not counting any of the things that were obviously needing to be thrown away and things I definitely intend to cook before going out tonight.
The really strange part of the list is the stuff I've had for a very long time and that I'd forgotten about. I have a LOT of microwave popcorn and instant oatmeal, for instance; I need to get rid of some of this stuff. (I'm going to take some of the microwave popcorn to some friend's house or another, since they're far more likely to eat it than I am. They actually have company over sometimes.)
So, next time I complain about not having any food available to me, I need to look at my list and remind myself that yes, I have food. Just need to get better about cooking it.
Heh.
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January 14th, 2009
03:35 pm - More health issues
Something that's a bit less daunting, this time.
My weight's been slipping upwards lately. Not too bad - I'm at about 190 - but I want to do something about it before it gets any worse.
( Rambling )
I think that overall I'm doing pretty well, though. I'm actually feeling as motivated as I was back in March, when I was feeling good about myself and making plans for my future and spending time meeting new people on a regular basis. It's helping a lot.
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December 30th, 2008
10:01 am - Meh.
This computer lab is so cold I can barely move my hands. No way I can stay in here for long today. It's not usually this uncomfortable.
I'm just trying to get some things done today. It's not working. I have my pelvic ultrasound today to check out the mysterious abdominal pains I've been having. I'm so nervous. At least I'm not my poor roommate, who ended up staying up all night (I'm still not sure whether or not she's asleep) because the cat made a mess on her good bedding and she was trying to get it clean.
Finally started poking at the commonplace book again a few days ago. I want to try to find something interesting to write in it every day.
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