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I can do this! Final stuff tonight and/or tomorrow morning for final read-through. I can do it and my life will be so much better for it!
Last night I quit work at 2:30, watched anime until 3:30 to calm down then went to bed. Shinji wanted to sleep with his chin on my hand and clawed at it and bit it when I tried to move it! So adorable.
Today I slept in until noon and then went to Sarris and brought doughnuts and hot chocolate. We chatted about stuff, rent, groceries, and I saw my room. We've painted it all Amazing red, a cherry colour, and the cupboards and trim are a rich dark chocolate brown. The window and door frames are white as is the ceiling. So warm and rich. The floor will be blond bamboo laminate. It will be lovely. Her whole family is working so hard on it, they have re-wired it all, and are re-doing the ceiling entirely and have built structures around the overhead pipes so there will be a type of dropped or bulkhead part of the ceiling instead of just exposed pipes and struts. So considerate! Today I finished painting the cupboards brown and started painting the closet doors. Tomorrow I'll put another coat on them and paint the door to the room. I am really looking forward to this.
Strange to think, this weekend will mark 10 years that Geoff and I have been/were together. We began dating in May of 2000 so our relationship lasted just over 9 years. What a 10 years it's been. Hard to believe that in 1 month from Thursday we can begin divorce proceedings because the mandatory minimum of 1 year of separation has happened. That is so hard to believe. While for me there were times it dragged, mostly it seemed to fly by. I think it must have seemed like it dragged on and on for Geoff. I guess there will be many things to raise glasses to at the party this weekend. Thesis edits are being mailed tomorrow, so that is another big reason to celebrate but there is a great deal of stress accompanying that too.
Really disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go to Vancouver. Especially since some friends there are having hard times. Hard to admit to myself how hard a time I've been having. Getting out of the house today was definitely a good decision, spending some time with a friend. Called another friend last night and that helped a lot, too. I have got to stop shutting down like this and cutting myself off from everyone when things get hard for me. Sometimes it's good, but not completely withdrawing. It's just so hard to admit to myself and my friends how badly things are going sometimes.
I will mail my edits tomorrow morning, which means I have a lot of proofreading and tweaking to do tonight but then I can move on in many ways. Tomorrow I will paint at Sarri's and maybe do some shopping! Buy some spring clothes at Value Village and maybe at the mall. I don't buy a lot of clothes but I do need new-to-me things for work. And maybe tomorrow I can do some knitting too! And take some boxes to the garage sale. And maybe take some recycling. And I need to tidy the house to make it presentable so the landlord can show it to renters. Ah, so many things...but I hope to at least start to sew a sundress. That is my happy thought.
Oh yeah...and I have a date this weekend.
Last night I quit work at 2:30, watched anime until 3:30 to calm down then went to bed. Shinji wanted to sleep with his chin on my hand and clawed at it and bit it when I tried to move it! So adorable.
Today I slept in until noon and then went to Sarris and brought doughnuts and hot chocolate. We chatted about stuff, rent, groceries, and I saw my room. We've painted it all Amazing red, a cherry colour, and the cupboards and trim are a rich dark chocolate brown. The window and door frames are white as is the ceiling. So warm and rich. The floor will be blond bamboo laminate. It will be lovely. Her whole family is working so hard on it, they have re-wired it all, and are re-doing the ceiling entirely and have built structures around the overhead pipes so there will be a type of dropped or bulkhead part of the ceiling instead of just exposed pipes and struts. So considerate! Today I finished painting the cupboards brown and started painting the closet doors. Tomorrow I'll put another coat on them and paint the door to the room. I am really looking forward to this.
Strange to think, this weekend will mark 10 years that Geoff and I have been/were together. We began dating in May of 2000 so our relationship lasted just over 9 years. What a 10 years it's been. Hard to believe that in 1 month from Thursday we can begin divorce proceedings because the mandatory minimum of 1 year of separation has happened. That is so hard to believe. While for me there were times it dragged, mostly it seemed to fly by. I think it must have seemed like it dragged on and on for Geoff. I guess there will be many things to raise glasses to at the party this weekend. Thesis edits are being mailed tomorrow, so that is another big reason to celebrate but there is a great deal of stress accompanying that too.
Really disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go to Vancouver. Especially since some friends there are having hard times. Hard to admit to myself how hard a time I've been having. Getting out of the house today was definitely a good decision, spending some time with a friend. Called another friend last night and that helped a lot, too. I have got to stop shutting down like this and cutting myself off from everyone when things get hard for me. Sometimes it's good, but not completely withdrawing. It's just so hard to admit to myself and my friends how badly things are going sometimes.
I will mail my edits tomorrow morning, which means I have a lot of proofreading and tweaking to do tonight but then I can move on in many ways. Tomorrow I will paint at Sarri's and maybe do some shopping! Buy some spring clothes at Value Village and maybe at the mall. I don't buy a lot of clothes but I do need new-to-me things for work. And maybe tomorrow I can do some knitting too! And take some boxes to the garage sale. And maybe take some recycling. And I need to tidy the house to make it presentable so the landlord can show it to renters. Ah, so many things...but I hope to at least start to sew a sundress. That is my happy thought.
Oh yeah...and I have a date this weekend.