I remember when posting didn't feel like an obligation.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I love my lj and I spend more time on my flist than I do anywhere else online during any given workday - but I just can't seem to get into the spirit or frame of mind to post often anymore. Maybe I'm in a blogging slump or something. Or maybe I just think that my life and opinions on various things are kind too boring to even type out. At any rate I apologize for my lack of updates. I guess I'm kinda on a mini-hiatus of sorts, yeah, let's just call it that and be done with it.
This is gonna be short and sweet because as I said above I really don't feel like just jabbering away. But there are a few things that I feel I need to just get out for myself more than anyone else - as you will see, I'm plenty apathetic right now (as I have been for it feels like months). Numbered for my own convenience.
Vanity
1. I've pretty much given up on the diet. Seriously, fuck it. I'll be 34 next month and it is very clear that eating healthier and less isn't going to get the job done. Cursed cesarean section and turning 30! Oh well, my little pot belly isn't that bad - I'll just adapt. Still want to quit smoking, but even though I have resigned myself to my current weight - I surely don't want to put on more. *grummbles*
2. I want to get my haircut but I can't commit to it. I got my hair trimmed for the first time in almost a year a few weeks ago and I just feel like it wasn't enough. *shrug*
3. Went to the eye doctor yesterday and got new glasses. Same prescription but my old glasses are almost 2 years old and it was time. Also got contacts for days when I want to wear my sunglasses - but I look increasingly funny to myself without my glasses these days. Anyway, the new glasses are alright but I'm still getting used to them.
4. Went to the dentist a few weeks ago and got a cavity filled in one of my incisors. Also got a 'quote' on fixing the whole upper right side of teeth. One extraction, 3 crowns, 3 root canals, and one other cavity - $6,600. *blinks* Yeah, like that's gonna happen. I hate my short gums and rotting teeth. HATE THEM.
Happenings
5. Ben is still loving working here and it has worked out alright. Lord knows it's more convenient and we have more money and he is happier. But I'm not blind to see that my change in attitude (or lack thereof) recently has happened about this same time. I'm not sure what it is, maybe because I actually talk to my husband more I feel like talking on LJ and with other people less. Or maybe I don't have the time. Or maybe it is that without him miserable I'm not having to be Miss Happy Sunshine all the time and it's made me complacent. Who knows. At any rate the money thing does make me extremely happy and takes a great deal of stress off of me that I had for so long.
6. We had the state gymnastics meet in Tupelo this past weekend. It sucked. Megan did well but they changed the way it was done and she was put into an age group with girls much older than she was and some of them competed her level for the 2nd year in a row. Basically our whole team was left in the dust and it was just disappointing - especially after last year. We were at least prepared for this kind of outcome, but it doesn't make up for the fact that we just spent almost $500 on a weekend out of town for her to come away being disenchanted about the whole sport. Right now she is in Arkansas spending her Spring Break with her dad and step-mom at there new house and seems to be enjoying it so I'm happy about that.
7. Work has been busy. Really nothing new there. We have been steadily busy since around Christmas .
8. Kids are doing great. Brady is getting so big. His newest thing is dinosaurs which makes Ben and I extremely happy since dinosaurs don't have wheels. I mean, there is just so many cars and things I can take. Plus he actually likes shows on the Discovery channel and such now so it's all good.
9. Vacay in 3 weeks! I seriously can not believe it and I can't wait. I think a week at j_mac179's is probably exactly what I need to break out of my self imposed slump.
Fandom Gunk
10. Still reading Queer as Folk B/J fan fiction during just about all of my spare time. There is literally a TON of very talented authors to catch up on and I'm just soaking it all in. Right now my Justin Taylor and Brian Kinney love is simply bursting. They already have secured a spot among my favorite ships ever and I don't see that changing anytime soon. (I really need to change my banners in my profile - of course I also need to change my lj layout since I have had the same one for like 2 years. I'm a slacker.)
11. After the buzz about Skins I kept reading I downloaded and watched the first episode of the second series when it aired and became instantly hooked. I have since downloaded the whole first series and the new episodes every week. I'm glad I didn't start last year, since I think it took about 1/2 of the first season for the show to find it's legs - but once it did it became excellent. This 2nd series is just awesome. It reminds me of Buffy, but not - meaning it is nothing like BtVS in anyway except that it is unique and clever and unlike anything else on TV. Plus it's the first British show I have ever been able to enjoy - so it gets points for that.
12. Lost is beyond excellent this year. It is mind-blowingly fantastic. Of course I never gave up and never thought it was anything less that one of the best shows on TV so this years awesomeness just reinforces all of that.
13. Supernatural and (it appears) Friday Night Lights got picked up - THANK JESUS! The continued existence of Dean Winchester and Tim Riggins can make me happy in ways that not many other things can - so it's all gravy.
Well, that wasn't nearly as short or as sweet as I had hoped. I honestly am starting to think I am incapable of doing short or sweet. That should have been my new years resolution all along, forget about this diet business. Bleh.
This is gonna be short and sweet because as I said above I really don't feel like just jabbering away. But there are a few things that I feel I need to just get out for myself more than anyone else - as you will see, I'm plenty apathetic right now (as I have been for it feels like months). Numbered for my own convenience.
Vanity
1. I've pretty much given up on the diet. Seriously, fuck it. I'll be 34 next month and it is very clear that eating healthier and less isn't going to get the job done. Cursed cesarean section and turning 30! Oh well, my little pot belly isn't that bad - I'll just adapt. Still want to quit smoking, but even though I have resigned myself to my current weight - I surely don't want to put on more. *grummbles*
2. I want to get my haircut but I can't commit to it. I got my hair trimmed for the first time in almost a year a few weeks ago and I just feel like it wasn't enough. *shrug*
3. Went to the eye doctor yesterday and got new glasses. Same prescription but my old glasses are almost 2 years old and it was time. Also got contacts for days when I want to wear my sunglasses - but I look increasingly funny to myself without my glasses these days. Anyway, the new glasses are alright but I'm still getting used to them.
4. Went to the dentist a few weeks ago and got a cavity filled in one of my incisors. Also got a 'quote' on fixing the whole upper right side of teeth. One extraction, 3 crowns, 3 root canals, and one other cavity - $6,600. *blinks* Yeah, like that's gonna happen. I hate my short gums and rotting teeth. HATE THEM.
Happenings
5. Ben is still loving working here and it has worked out alright. Lord knows it's more convenient and we have more money and he is happier. But I'm not blind to see that my change in attitude (or lack thereof) recently has happened about this same time. I'm not sure what it is, maybe because I actually talk to my husband more I feel like talking on LJ and with other people less. Or maybe I don't have the time. Or maybe it is that without him miserable I'm not having to be Miss Happy Sunshine all the time and it's made me complacent. Who knows. At any rate the money thing does make me extremely happy and takes a great deal of stress off of me that I had for so long.
6. We had the state gymnastics meet in Tupelo this past weekend. It sucked. Megan did well but they changed the way it was done and she was put into an age group with girls much older than she was and some of them competed her level for the 2nd year in a row. Basically our whole team was left in the dust and it was just disappointing - especially after last year. We were at least prepared for this kind of outcome, but it doesn't make up for the fact that we just spent almost $500 on a weekend out of town for her to come away being disenchanted about the whole sport. Right now she is in Arkansas spending her Spring Break with her dad and step-mom at there new house and seems to be enjoying it so I'm happy about that.
7. Work has been busy. Really nothing new there. We have been steadily busy since around Christmas .
8. Kids are doing great. Brady is getting so big. His newest thing is dinosaurs which makes Ben and I extremely happy since dinosaurs don't have wheels. I mean, there is just so many cars and things I can take. Plus he actually likes shows on the Discovery channel and such now so it's all good.
9. Vacay in 3 weeks! I seriously can not believe it and I can't wait. I think a week at j_mac179's is probably exactly what I need to break out of my self imposed slump.
Fandom Gunk
10. Still reading Queer as Folk B/J fan fiction during just about all of my spare time. There is literally a TON of very talented authors to catch up on and I'm just soaking it all in. Right now my Justin Taylor and Brian Kinney love is simply bursting. They already have secured a spot among my favorite ships ever and I don't see that changing anytime soon. (I really need to change my banners in my profile - of course I also need to change my lj layout since I have had the same one for like 2 years. I'm a slacker.)
11. After the buzz about Skins I kept reading I downloaded and watched the first episode of the second series when it aired and became instantly hooked. I have since downloaded the whole first series and the new episodes every week. I'm glad I didn't start last year, since I think it took about 1/2 of the first season for the show to find it's legs - but once it did it became excellent. This 2nd series is just awesome. It reminds me of Buffy, but not - meaning it is nothing like BtVS in anyway except that it is unique and clever and unlike anything else on TV. Plus it's the first British show I have ever been able to enjoy - so it gets points for that.
12. Lost is beyond excellent this year. It is mind-blowingly fantastic. Of course I never gave up and never thought it was anything less that one of the best shows on TV so this years awesomeness just reinforces all of that.
13. Supernatural and (it appears) Friday Night Lights got picked up - THANK JESUS! The continued existence of Dean Winchester and Tim Riggins can make me happy in ways that not many other things can - so it's all gravy.
Well, that wasn't nearly as short or as sweet as I had hoped. I honestly am starting to think I am incapable of doing short or sweet. That should have been my new years resolution all along, forget about this diet business. Bleh.