| Y'know how they say you can't pack a whole house in two days? They lie!
Heh, we're almost entirely packed. Started tuesday night. Will finish tonight. And then...blissful sleep. Eight years...and I feel a strange nostaliga. The first ever spot I was comfortable in, for my whole life, is this silly apartment. But, the future is bright. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| Anyone playing World of Warcraft? You know you are! Heh. Anyway, I love human beings. God has provided no greater amusement to me than said creatures. Indeed, we are so, so funny.
Things are well. Moving sooner than anticipated, but I can't say I'm sorry. Things are, dare I say it, keen. I have the best friends and the family in the world. No joke. You guys all are awesome!
Just checking in before the apocalypse. See you later. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| I haven't posted anywhere much -- busy getting caught up on life, etc, etc. So on and so forth. I think I tracked down everyone who changed their LJ name. If not, please let me know. Too many changes ;p
Take care. Off to work once more. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Today was awesome. Why? Well...
I PASSED MY TEST! My martial arts test, that is.
Wheee!
My first test at the dojo, and it went spiffy-like. While I screwed up more than I want to recall, it went very, very well. Now, I can relax again. At least until the next one. Heh. The new sword helps; the balance and weight are both much better. It also is quite the devil...very sharp. I shaved the scabbard ever so slightly, but that's par for the course at the moment.
Still busy catching up, so no time for journals lately. But I wanted y'all to know. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Haven't posted since September. Eesh. Still, things are very good. Of course, I lost twelve pounds since last monday after a big stall, so I'm biased. Down to 279.5 ;) The current goal is 150. Caught up on almost all of my backlog. Wrestled some cats. Keep going to the dojo. Meditating every day, etc, etc. Even despite problems with depression, everything is great. Which is surprising, but hey, I shall not complain.
My five good things for the week:
1. Losing 12 pounds!
2. A special practice this week.
3. Readjusted all my various medical items.
4. Sent oodles of stuff out to people.
5. Finished a short story to put in the mail tomorrow.
So, what five things are you grateful for that happened since last wednesday? | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Today, I've lost so much weight, that I weigh 1/2 of what I did in December 2002. And lost 26 dress sizes, all from low-carb dieting. Scary, how close we can be to killing ourselves and not even realizing it.
Have a good day, y'all. :) | | comments: 17 comments or Leave a comment |
| I had a very good weekend. Looked at forty-thousand dollar swords, and had an excellent traditional Japanese dinner with seven folks from the dojo. It was rather keen.
Practice tonight, but first, finishing my work before I go. I'm behind everywhere else, and very likely won't be here in LJ for a while as I get caught up on things. Nothing bad, just a lot of good stuff, which is unusual, but hey -- I'm not complaining. Heh. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | I did 120 emails today. Whee. I have been up since six am, waiting for my new sword. Arrr, it better come soon. ;) I will post pictures of both mine...I enlisted aid to take them finally. Thanks to Biayt. So, we shall see how they compare. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Okay, so I'm done working for the day, except for my class later. Trying to relax... and then I go ahead and read this nonsense about restricting birth control pills. What? Huh? What about some of us who use it for reasons other than birth control (although it's a nice side-effect, admittedly. Sigh, as they say.
In other news, I've lost a pound since last week, and am wearing clothes I haven't been able to since 2000. Life is spiffy. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| They are building an IKEA two blocks from our apartment. Not very happy about that -- at least when we move in a year and a half, things will be better, in that regard.
I shall babble at you later when I return. For now, more work. Tally ho, etc., etc. ;) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Not reading LJ so much, being busy the next week or so. If there's something you want me to see, send it. If you know me well enough to want me to see it, then you know where it goes too. ;)
Have a good week, folks. Take it easy. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Lost three pounds since sunday. Did a bunch of backlogged work. Now all that's left is to do some of my own personal writing, but that's fine. The book still sits at chapter 18. I've been reoutlining the next several bits so it makes it easier to just, well, write. ;)
Anyway, off I go. Back to busy...so if I'm not about, that is why.
I. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Cleaned, wrote, worked today. Productive days make me happy. I rather enjoy being a useful creature. In thirty minutes, off to class. The Temple is quiet. Sitting here, I can feel the silence, comfortable and wandering. Even in the midst of the urban, it is perfectly still, when the windows are shut, anyway. True silence doesn't occur much in the modern world anymore, unless you're lucky enough to live in the middle of nowhere -- kind of like there's no longer perfect darkness for most of us. We aren't afraid of the night anymore, not really.
Maybe we should be.
As a footnote, Djesi helped me find my word from the other day: honing it is. ;) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Someone asked me today what I'd do if not my current career. Well, heck, that's easy.
I'd either finish that degree in physics, or become a Forensic Nematologist. Mostly, well, so I could say I was a Nematologist. Seriously, I have always been fascinated by the little squiggles. Something strangely appealing about them, indeed. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| This new year, August past, reminded me of a decision I made: that life is too short for bullshit.
Life is too short for unhappiness and sorrow. Life is too short for drowning in self-pity or self-loathing. I know because I have. Bullshit wastes something you can never get back; and that would be time. Life is too short to be anything but happy, or at least, satisfied as you can get. Everytime I look at the night sky, I know that in but a few hours, there will be a new time. A time where things begin again. It's all mine, and yours, and all of ours together, to make of it what we will.
I think the martial art I study is narrowing my focus. Perhaps not narrowing...ah, it's hard to explain. Getting rid of things I don't need. How's that? Cutting away more than newspaper. Life is too short to not do what I want to do. So, come hell or what-have-you, I do the things that sing to me.
Tomorrow: work, then swords for a bit, then contemplation.
Life is too short for bullshit, indeed. But never too long to be happy as much as you can. I love the dojo. I love my family in the Temple. And...I love a nice good read, particularly the next Laurel Hamilton book if I can find a used copy this week. ;)
Anyway, see y'all later. Have a good one, eh? | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Tired. It's nice to sleep more than three or four hours in a row after doing it for two weeks, let me tell you. Things have been good, dare I say even great, for weeks now, and so I'm fairly happy. Unusual, but I ain't gonna complain. I actually will have help getting my work in order this year, and so it will be nice to be able to get things done on time for once.
Time to be erudite later. But, for now: A New Jersey meme.
( Read more... )
Okay, a few of those, or more, aren't quite so true. But some of them are. I'd also like to add that: the Statue of Liberty is NOT IN NEW YORK. This has been a public service announcement.
Thank you. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I require a new sword for class; the old one is indeed too heavy. For a while I was feeling like a failure for not being able to use it. The thing weighs ~10 pounds, maybe a bit more. Which is...really heavy to hold for an hour or two, and drawing/resheathing with a fluid motion without amputating appendages I've become rather attached to over the years. I'll miss him, but I will get a new one as soon as I can.
I've been having an excellent past few weeks I have to say, and things just look better every day. It's strange to be happy. Unusual.
I rather like it.
Hope your week to come is as good as mine is. It's going to be a hell of a year.
Anyway, back to work. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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