It is done! The feeling of freedom that washes over you (while short lived between semesters) after uploading the last paper is so nice. Time to get reading on enjoyable things for a week or two until the next onslaught begins.

As promised... I made good progress today. I will easily have 13-ish pages. I've gotten about half way thorugh fully fleshing things out into the actual content and the rest of the paper has its bullets and notes all ready to be tweaked into paragraph form. WHEE!

I think I'm going to throw in another movie and shovel in some cereal.

The art of distraction = movies.

So yesterday I mentioned watching a flick or two or three. The first was Riding the Bullet which reminded me (in some strange way) of Donnie Darko. I mean it was a Stephen King based story, which earns it points, but it was a bit jumpy in continuity - but I get it - and can see how they held to the story although its been quite a while since I read anything from Kings works. The second flick was Stripes, which I haven't watched in quite a while. Always a fun one. The third from yesterday was Sweeney Todd, which I had wanted to see while it was in the theatres but knew that I'd have to go solo. I'm glad I finally caught it as I enjoyed it a good bit.

So yes, I successfully slacked on my paper yesterday. But I swear I'll check in later tonight w/ good news. I hope.

I finished the front work pretty fast this morning, thank goodness. I am indeed achy, but I suspect it will be worse tomorrow since it isn't too bad today. From there I TRIED to work on my paper, I swear. Ok, well, it was hard to do while watching a movie... or two.

From there, who am I to turn down dinner - ya know? I had started slow and low cookin on the pork ribs, but when offered a grill to toss them on - I HAVE to agree to go, that's all there is to it. So, does this count as a second date? Inviting a girl you barely know to your place. Sheesh. What if I'm crazy?

I was kickin ass and taking names this evening after work. I got one side of my flower beds out front completely done. The other half - well, I ran out of light. Suffice it to say I moved 4 huge garbage cans of grass/dirt, put in the border, and weed guard on both sides. On the one side I also got the bulbs in, some seeds down, and mulch spread. Hopefully I won't be too sore to finish the other side at some point this weekend (preferrably tomorrow). My hands were so sore immediately after that while washing my hair it felt like pampass grass carving them up, but I don't see blisters - yet.

I really thought we were going to have more rain this evening, so I guess I got lucky. I guess I can thank my uber-sleep yesterday for my productive evening. Ok, time to be a bum and facebook for a while before crashing.

On the surgery front - both Beff and my sis were under the knife today. Both are out and things went well *cheer* Let's see who recooperates first. :)

Last night was Beff's last hoorah before second foot surgery, so I was, of course, out a bit later than I should have been and am now quite tired as a result today. Dude, way too old for this crap anymore, but it was a good time.

Paper is progressing, albeit slowly. I'm really hoping I'll get a spurt of energy this weekend (especially if it's rainy and I can't do anything outside) and get this cranked out a bit early.

So the DBKs in our town are trying to f the chiefs. There's a shocker. Seriously? If you are trying to say you're doing what is best for the town, then why would you do something that has the potential to banish one of the very few things we have here?

Anywho... I'm caught back up on sleep. Hit the dreaded yearly appt yesterday and like a dumbass walked off without a prescription. Go figure. My mind really is crumbling lately. I need one of those brain games. I have also been quite distracted wafflign within my own mind lately based upon seemingly hypocritical opinions of people based on knowing very little about them. Hypocritical in the sense that the things that concern me were never an issue w/ the ex. I guess a red flag is a red flag, if you see it waving you should at least check it out.

I'm asskicked, but I gotta check in, so here ya go...

Friday night I actually put together a solid outline for my paper, which is good, since I didn't get to touch it again all weekend (boo). Saturday I was up reasonably early and moving to an appt then getting dressed in my vampiric finest to head to Draculacon in Windber. Good time! I enjoyed the speakers in the afternoon. Cadillac Creeps were also pretty good. It was incredibly cool to see an amazing gal, and good friend from elementary school and jr high, Phat Man Dee, and to hear her in person. One of my memories from our youth is of her singing, so it's so wonderful to see that she's channeled her passion into a career. Then there is meeting Blair and getting to check out the Grand Midway in all of it's splendor.

All that in one day you say... well, yes, that is why I am so tired - I got home, showered, and into bed by 5am last night and was back up fairly early as I had family coming to take the old entertainment center that simply doesn't fit here. So alas, my purply beauty is gone.

My afternoon running included getting additional plants and materials for out front. I wiped out needing a nap instead of getting planting, but it was pretty darn warm out, so I am not complaining about my lack of progress there. I did at least get the flowers into the planters that will sit at the top of the porch stairs.

Tonight there was a quick dinner with Beth... and then a phone catch up w/ Davey T (good glory it's been a while)...
and here we are, after 11pm, I'm beat, and I'm crashing. It'll be another long week of work work work. Blah!

It should not take a half an hour and leave me filthy, requiring a shower, to change the filters on two furnaces. Go figure, eh? At least I feel like I accomplished something. Long story short, the metal edges around the filter slot on the one for the apartment are pretty raggedy and would NOT let the old filter out. Of course that old filter was one of the ones w/ metal in them, so it was a real bitch to rip to shreds pulling out.

June? But I don't wanna wait til June for my bitchin Tapping the Vein CD. Curse you Amazon.

My little girl is acting a bit too grown up for my liking as of late. I mentioned getting Saffy her own bed - well last night she decided to sleep there instead of curled up next to me! Major bummer. The night before she fell asleep across the room but jumped up when I called her. She is also resisting coming in when she's the last one outside to instead stand and stare at the birds.

Last night we had a good sized crew get together for sushi - nom nom nom. I managed to do a little, and I do mean little, bit of work towards my paper. It seems so daunting to even get started, but I guess time is short. If I only had a game plan in mind!

Ya know, I really do think the US just does whatever the hell it wants. While I agree something needs to be done, how is it okay for us to pluck a pirate out of international waters and try him. The other side is then let's say we prosecute. Does that mean we get to pay to keep them here in the US?

Let's stay Chiefs!

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