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Hubby and I bought a tree. A fake one, because a.) holy crap, trees are expensive, and b.) holy crap, pine trees shed (we had a real tree one year when I was much younger; that was the year we discovered that 1.) my dog loved - no, like, really loved - pine trees, 2.) my mom was allergic to pine trees, and 3.) pine trees are a bitch and half to clean up after, particularly if you have a carpeted floor). We got ours at Big Lots, because we are unflinchingly ghetto, and because Big Lots is awesome and has good deals on stuff. While there I also got a bunch of gift bags, Christmas cards, tree lights, and gift tags. Boo-yeah.

I know it's early, but time has been moving so quickly lately, I feel like I get up in the morning, and the next thing I know I'm getting ready for bed and it's night time, and oh my god where did the day/week/month go? I'm doing a mad dash to get Christmas gifts/crafts/errands done, partly because I honestly, genuinely like Christmas, and preparing for the holiday (making gifts for friends, writing out cards, decorating, baking, etc.) are some of the highlights of the year for me, but also because I'm afraid I'll wake up mid-December and realize, holy crap, I did none of the stuff I was supposed to do.

In the "mixed blessings" department, I will not, in fact, be hosting Thanksgiving this year, because my family does not want to be anywhere where they can't smoke (my apartment has a "no smoking" clause). I'm more than a little upset by this, because, really? I don't hate on smokers - I was a smoker, stopped because it was in my lease, really, and because it hindered my workout - but it's not like I look down on smokers or anything, that's petty and hypocritical. But it does kind of bother me that they couldn't go, what, a couple of hours without smoking (not even, because they can smoke on the property, just not in the house - also they live, literally, a mile away. I'm one city over. It's not like they're travelling). BUT - this is good, in that it's not yet one more thing I have to focus on this month, since I'm doing a ton of crafting, plus NaNo, plus trying to get back on track with things, like, oh, the penpals who I wrote to once and then forgot about?? Because I do that. A lot. Anyway, I told mom I'd bring a side, just let me know what, and we can have Thanksgiving over there. Whatev.

Mostly, I can't believe how close to the end of the year it is. Where did it go??

Also, up on the schedule for this week: meeting after work tomorrow (2:30 to 4:30), then gym; hosting dinner for Jamie and Dan on Thursday; no work Friday, but cleaning the house (like, really, really, on-my-hands-and-knees-scrubbing-the-floor cleaning the house on Friday (because I have the day off)), and travelling to Derry with my folks and Andy on Sunday to have brunch at Mary Anne's with my sister and her fiance. Still trying to work out plans for Saturday, if anyone has suggestions, hit me up, yo.

Rather belated outline of my week, made more for me than you guys, honestly. It's nice to look back and see if I've finished what I set out to do, or to know that perhaps I need an extra kick in the pants for next week.

♥ GYM. Gym, gym, gym. I gained 2.5 lbs. back, and while I'm trying not to be obsessive and weird about my weight, I'm irritated, not because my weight fluctuated, but because I know it's a direct result of my choices - i.e., ice cream, junky between-meal snacks, Chinese take-out (twice), and no gym this whole past week. I indulged, and I'm not going to beat myself up over it retro-actively, but I do have to take responsibility and get back on track. My new goal is 150, and I'm determined to reach it, if nothing else, by year's end.
♥ Take a break from A Song of Ice and Fire and read something slightly less dense - finished A Game of Thrones, finally, after forever (because I was only reading it during downtime at work), and really enjoyed it, but I think I want a breather before I jump back in. I'm going to raid my mom's bookshelf this week and pick out one or two light reads to keep me in the "reading mood" while still giving me some respite.
♥ Finish pricing out Christmas gifts. As I said, early start, but I'm handmaking this year, and I have some wonderful ideas that should be both inexpensive and really, really enjoyable for both myself and the recipents. Tangentially related, I need to find a pattern for a nice crocheted men's hat and/or unisex fingerless gloves (if anyone knows of any, awesome; also, please note I can crochet with fair proficiency, but I can't knit to save my life).
♥ DMV on Wednesday to renew my permit. I don't do much driving, in part because I hate this stupid car, but now that we're actively saving for a new one, I'd like to be able to legally drive it. I'd like to take the road test around Thanksgiving, if possible.
♥ Start watching Supernatural, another one of those shows that I am saturated with on Tumblr, and was bombarded by at MJ, but never really watched. Everyone seems to be enamoured with it, though, so I feel like I'm completely out of the loop having never seen it. Is it on Netflix Instant, or will I have to stream it form somewhere, ahem, slightly less legal? I also want to watch Firefly, but my husand owns the entirety of that on DVD, so that's not a problem.
♥ Clean out my computer - the Downloads folder and My Documents are just crammed full of random crap - .rar files of full albums where I only wanted one or two songs, Tumblr .gifs, text documents full of old song lyrics and scraps of poetry, webapges I downloaded for various classes, half finished batches of icons, etc. I need to slavage what can be salavaged, finsih what needs to be finished, and discard the rest. Hopefully free up sme space on my computer and let it run a little smoother in addition to just being more organized.
♥ Give the house a good cleaning. House is picked up, I mean really scrub it down. I'll probably aim to do thise in stages after work this week. Bathroom takes priority today, since I also need to contact landlords about the fact that the faucet in the tub has decided to simply not completely shut off anymore. I don't want them coming in to work in a dirty bathroom.
♥ Figure out ditribution for the last $45ish of the monthly "household goods" budget. There are somethings I want that will come out of pocket, and some that I'll take directly out of that budget (i.e., a new broom will come out of household goods; storage baskets for the bathroom will likely come out of my money).
♥ Price out my own monthly budget. I want Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets, number one. What else I want to do I've yet to determine.
♥ Long weekend up in Derry, doing engagement photos for my sister and her fiance. Which reminds me, I still need details as to the when, where, and what else we'll be doing, since this will also be a social visit.

Wow, that's... overwhelmingly long. But, at least it's there. And I can consult it. And hopefully do it, before next Sunday.

Current Mood: groggy
Current Location: "Free" block @ work

1. Mailing out my two penpal letters and buying stamps.
2. Tuesday I'm meeting up with my sister and Steve at my mom's house around 4:30. I have to bring her birthday gift, which I showed her at Darrel's wedding, but which I had to keep in my car because it was pouring so hard out. It's a handmade card and a book of recipes/photographs called Kinky Cupcakes.
3. Wednesday night is the first session of the second of three Math classes I need for my M.Ed., and on of the final four classes I need before I can student teach. Huzzah, light at the end of the tunnel.
4. Saturday there's a huge yard sale at a local school (40 tables of merch!), and afterwards we're joining Amanda for dinner for her 30th birthday.

I'm trying to get back on track with posting something everyday, whether it's just the pre-determined "themed" post of something more substantial, and I'm feeling better about being able to handle it this coming week, now that I'm back in a routine (so long as I don't fall asleep).

So long as I'm making a list-centric post, what else might I say?

♥ Made my favorite peanut butter cookies from the simplest recipe ever: 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of granulated sugar, and one egg. 350 degrees for about 15ish minutes. Melt in your mouth, mmm. I had three, and had to have Andy take them away before I ate more.
♥ Moffat was nominated for a Best Writing in a Miniseries for "A Study in Pink," but didn't win. PEOPLE WILL SUFFER AS A RESULT OF THIS.
♥ So, while no one was able to provide me with Picard/Q fic, I managed to find an author by the name of Varoneeka, who has written the pairing extensively. It's pretty heavy handed (I was hoping for much more subtle stuff), but it is the porniest porn that ever porned, and oh Lord, if nothing else, it is hot. Like, stay-up-until-2-in-the-morning-reading-under-the-covers hot. If graphic gay sex is your thing (and lot's of it), then check it out.
♥ MUSKRAT JAMBOREE HAS ANNOUNCED THE 2013 CONVENTION! March 22 & 23, at Le Meridien Hotel in Central Square. I know it's a year-and-a-half away but I'm ridiculously excited already.

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: MOFFAAAAT!

Feeling more than a bit like crap tonight (probably because I inadvertantly fell asleep after returning from the gym) and as a result, got basically nothing done tonight. Anyway, the rest of my week, I hope to get several things done:

1.) Gym four times this week, which is what I'm aiming for as my routine - this week will be today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, since Andy is going to Littleton on Wednesday, so I may as well head to the gym that day and give myself Friday off.

2.) By Wednesday, I hope to have a Hubpage set up, as well as have decided a.) my publishing platform for the book decided on, and b.) a working title.

3.) Thursday night, Andy and I are going to go to dinner with Jamie and Dan (we hope, the invite has been extended).

4.) Saturday, we're starting our shopping for our Halloween costumes; Andy and I are going as The Doctor and Amy, and we're planning on thrifting as much of it as possible. We're aiming for the outfits from "Victory of the Daleks," since they are the ones used in most of the promo material and are probably ( the most recognized. )

5.) Tomorrow I plan to do some cleaning, since I didn't get as much done this weekend as I wanted. I need to fold the last load of laundry and do a lot of dusting and vaccing. I mean, some picking up? But mostly dusting and vaccing.

Tonight, I'm finishing my grocery list (because we are basically out of food, full stop; no meat, no veggies (oh, I'm sorry, a bag of frozen green beans!), no pasta, no yogurt (which is what I take for lunch every day), etc. Also, I need to file FAFSA as a part-time student this year, and even though the due date is in, like, June, I prefer to get it done prior to the start of classes on the 21st.

My media consumption this week has almost entirely consisted of watching (well, re-watching) all of Eddie Izzard's stand-up on Netflix. I can't imagine that anyone reading this hasn't seen Eddie Izzard, but if not, please fix that and do so as soon as you can. If you haven't seen Eddie and don't have Netflix, this playlist has some good bits of his.

Anyway. If the raging headache abates, perhaps I will have something later, but right now I'm having my ass kicked by a still adjusting circadian rhythm, apparently.

Went to a family wedding last night; the ceremony was short (JP in a function hall), and the reception was very enjoyable. I spent a good chunk of the evening comparing certain aspects of the evening to the equivalent parts of my wedding while my sister, half-amused, half-exasperated, kept telling me I was being petty. In my defense, I was not doing it to be catty - like I told my sister, as she is planning her wedding, she is going to look at every wedding she attends in the interim for ideas, and every wedding subsequently as a point of comparison. It was nice to see my family (though I felt, as I always do, remarkably awkward because honestly, I barely know these people despite them being blood relations), the setlist that the DJ had was fantastic, with a lot of my favorite songs on there, and it was nice to spend time with people and have fun. My brother brought his friend Joelle who, despite not being part of the family in any way (she and my brother aren't even dating), wound up with the table's centerpiece, the garter, and the bouquet. That was entertainment enough for me for the better part of the night, anyway.

Getting home was an experience, since we seemed to get the worst of Hurricane Irene last night, and roads were flooding by the time we got home at 10:30. This morning there were a couple of hours of pretty intense winds, but then - nothing. Honestly, it was a bit anticlimactic.

This week:

1. Laundry. We spent the day with Jamie and Dan, and and the guys playing League of Legends while I fandom-blogged on Tumblr, read fic, and played a couple of escape-the-room game (one of which I might rec tomorrow if I can solve it; the graphics are wonderful and it's quite atmospheric).

2. Pack my bag for the first day of work. I want to get all the kind of stuff over and done with days to spare. I'm anxious enough about going back, I am not going to leave anything undone that could exacerbate that anxiety.

3. File FAFSA. There is only one class available for me to take this term, so I'll file as a part-timer. At least I can stay enrolled (thank God I remembered I had those Math requirements, still).

4. Basic housekeeping. I am super happy to inform everyone that I have kept the house is good condition this week, and really just need to do the maintenance stuff -- vaccing, dusting, etc.

5. See if there's a Personal Development class later in the Fall that I can register for at NECC. Last one I took with them was ages ago, but it was Tai Chi, and I adored it.

6. Gym. I seem to be stuck at 168 lbs., so I'm going to have to up my workout level.

Once I'm back to work and we catch up from the financial sinkhole that is summer, I might actually be able to plan recreational events! Wouldn't that be novel?

ETA: Ah! Silly me. We do have The Feast coming up, and as it's in September, perhaps I'll even have a little money to spend. I'll likely be there Friday and/or Saturday evening; Sunday Andy and I have a wedding. Official end of summer tradition, oh my gosh :,(

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Compared to this time last Sunday, I'm much more satisfied. I actually accomplished several of the things on my list, including getting back to the gym (and re-losing those 2 lbs. I gained back last week), reading more of Game of Thrones, and getting the house cleaned. Today I went to the gym, saw my folks, baked banana bread, and did the laundry. I'm going to finish up the two penpal letters I started tonight, and pop them in the mailbox in the morning. This week:

1.) Tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 9 to 3, I have paid ABA training. My boss called my Friday night and made me the offer, and I took it. It might be useful, but it looks good to have had it, if nothing else.

2.) Work out more. My goal this week is 3 lbs., to get me down to 165.

3.) Wednesday I've got to go grocery shopping, and pick up the supplies for my two test recipes this week (Andy and I are going to pick them out tonight). I'll be cooking one on Wednesday and one of Thursday.

4.) Saturday I have a family wedding to go to, and Sunday is Girl's Night In at Amanda's, watching Breakfast at Tiffany's and drinking boxed wine like the super-classy ladies we are.

I am exhausted, but I still have to a.) write those letters, b.) shower, and c.) fold socks. I couldn't sleep last night, so I wound up staying awake until 4 am; up until 3 am I was reading... erm, actually, I'm kind of embarrassed by what I was reading. It was fanfic, I'll cop to that much. But beyond that... yeah, no.

How was everyone's week??

I spent yesterday with my in-laws, which was nice; we got to chat with my father-in-law for a while, had a nice, Mediterranean-inspired dinner at the Common House, and got to play a few games of Dominion with Piper and a couple of the other Camelot residents. As a result, I got out of the house and got to do things, but wasn't able to post about other things that I'd like to do. Which is a trade off where I come out ahead, really. But. I do want try to keep this more or less daily, and I want especially to keep myself honest when it comes to my goals.

Speaking of, re: last weeks goals. Um, "complete and utter failure" would probably be the best descriptor, though not the most elegant? It was a bust, guys. I literally did nothing I set out to do. I've been in a funk the last few weeks, though, and I don't really know why I thought one week of posting my goals would suddenly remedy this, but (surprise, surprise) it didn't.

HOWEVER. Optimism. Perseverance. Other qualities I am lacking. These are the things needed to be successful in life. So, onward and upward; let's try this again.

1.) READ GAME OF THRONES, GODDAMNIT. I can zip through 800 page books in two days if I just sit down and read during the time I'd normally be online. Seriously. I've done it a hundred times before. Especially if the book is good (as this one is). I just need to focus. WHEN DID RECREATIONAL READING BECOME THIS HARD???

2.) Do some more writing. I actually did get some writing done last week, so I suppose that I should mention that. But I'd like to finish something this week, and maybe even get it into the beta-reading stage.

3.) Clean my damn house. TONIGHT. It's cool and rainy and dark here, at 3:30 in the afternoon, and for some reason, it makes me really WANT to clean. It's like I can feel summer dying around me, and I need to get things in order before it's too late.

4.) Laundry. Usually do it on Sunday, it was the casualty of not being home yesterday. I was legitimately doing other things, so I don't/won't feel too badly about this, so long as I get it done today.

5.) Start penpalling again. I recently posted up ads on

snailmail and

penpals, and hope to start writing to some interested parties tomorrow. I really enjoy letter writing, but I've not been able to sustain a penpal for longer than a few months lately. It's been over a year since I've given it a shot, though, and I'd like to try again.

6.) Something recreational, TBD. It's so hard, lately, with money-issues, weather, and Andy's schedule all coming together to create a clusterfuck of sheer inconvenience.

7.) GYM. Enough said. Not today, though, as I don't feel like walking back and forth in the endless rain, but if I am in fact going to really POWER CLEAN the house tonight, I can honestly say that should be plenty of exercise in the interim.

I suppose that's it. I'm going to finish up my on-line business and then get started on Goal 1 (which is actually Goal 3 on this list). Perhaps if I have more time, I will put up a normal Media post today, as well.

Current Mood: sick

Here's a conundrum: I was blaming my lack of productivity on the disturbance of my schedule back in June. In the space of a few days, I stopped working, had a few unstructured days of freedom (that were most welcome at the time), had a day-long workshop on phonemic awareness (one of the least interesting aspects of being a Special Ed. teacher), spent several days at the beach, and returned home to a house torn apart by a well-meaning but hopelessly disorganized electrician. After that, I claimed to be waylaid by the start of summer session, heading back to work and being well-tuckered out afterward. Now, with summer session over and three/four weeks (depending on how you count) of freedom on my hands, I'm laying the lack of motivation on hubby's new schedule, which has him coming and going to far stranger hours of the day and night and which has (to give myself some credit), honestly, wrecked a bit of havoc with my own schedule.

So, I'm unproductive because my schedule is too busy; I am unproductive because my schedule is too open. I may be searching for excuses at this point.

Perhaps if I declare my intentions, I will be more likely to stick to them, I thought, which is why, when I was planning out a schedule for this blog, Sunday involved divulging my schedule/intended goals and activities for the week.

THIS WEEK:

1.) There are two stories I have been trying to lay down on paper since before school let our in June. Neither would be especially long or especially action driven, because plot is not my forte ("pretty words strung together" is where mytalents lie, and I try to play to my strengths). I'm not sure why commiting words to paper is so goddamned hard for me, but it always has been (though it has been consistently worse in the last several years). I'd like to start on this tonight and tomorrow evening.

2.) This may be laying it on a bit thick in the writing department, but I actually have an idea for a character study/sketch that I'd love to write in the Sherlock fandom (based off the idea that Sherlock may have Asperger's Syndrome (I know this is a point of contentions, and I can see both sides of it, having worked with AS students for six years, but it's a trope/theme I'd like to explore). I may not get this written this week, but I'd like to spend a good deal of time Tuesday night working at least on an outline.

3.) Raspberry picking. It has been forever since I have gone fruit picking, and there is a lovely farm nearby where raspberries are currently in season. I have a simple recipe on hand for raspberry muffins, as well, and while I could easily use store bought, I would love to make them using fresh ones. Depending on how my other plans this weeks fall chronologically, I'm hopping to do this either Wednesday or Friday.

4.) Mini-golf. Do I need to explain? Who the hell doesn't love a good game of mini-golf??

5.) Hit the gym. Dear God, it's been forever. Ideally, I'd like to go everyday this week for at least an hour, because I am eight pounds away from my first goal weight (which will mean I have lost a total of about 45 pounds!) and would like to reach it sooner rather than later.

6.) Give the house a good scrubbing down. Ideally tomorrow morning/afternoon.

Not a lot this week in terms of social outtings, partially because a.) it's difficult to plan too far ahead, since hubby's schedule is still fairly up in the air (he's a "floater," security's equivalent to "on call," essentially), b.) my friends have such radically different schedules from me and from one another that planning takes a real effort, and c.) still financially unstable (such is the life of an educator during school break), and I've not really sat down to think what I'd truly like to do that won't break the bank. Of course, there's always next week.

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Holidays (and a very, very brief Schedule Sunday)
(Belated) Schedule Sunday
Schedule Sunday
What I need to do vs. What I've been doing
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(Belated) Schedule Sunday... um, "Mapping Monday....?"
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