Merry Christmas! / Seasons Greetings :) / Happy Saturday!!! :D
As I sit at my computer, with my Christmas tree stored in my cupboard and my dragon now a female, I have low expectations of this day. Hence they are likely to be exceeded. Which is the way I like it. Having high expectations and them not being met is something that still tends to devastate me. (I'm working on it, ok?)
I did not get around to sending out cards, as I had planned. The whole Working Full Time thing is still tiring. I think in another month or two I'll be better and have my energy back.
Vet gave Cas a clean bill of health. In fact, the whole laying-eggs thing has led to her fat pads shrinking and she's no longer a pudgy dragon! \o/ Vet said that cricket feeding once a week would be an appropriate amount, so feeding her on weekends (and not worrying during workings weeks) should be good for both her and me! :) Shall offer her salads most days anyway. She doesn't eat much, but then if she IS hungry, she will check it out. Of course, now that she's fully developed and healthy, I need to watch out for all the problems that go hand in hand with a mature female dragon. Her ovaries will produce eggs, but hopefully they shall be reabsorbed by her body. Else problems can happen.
Also need to build up foods/meal ideas for myself. Working around the corner from a strip of shops (over 50% being food shops/restaurants - maybe 70+%) means I can make lunch my main meal of the day. However I still need to eat a dinner. And on weekends. So I shall be seeking out a Vegetarian Cookbook and some freezable meal ideas (ie. some Indian foods that I can freeze in portion sizes and make fresh rice and FOOD is ready).
Just heard this on news. I think we should get Neal Caffrey on it :)
I hope you all enjoy the weekend, be it spent alone (with booze/movies/chocolate), with family (and little fighting, if your family is inclined to fight), or with friends. Or spent with your local community. As an atheist I celebrate it as a time which I spend with those I care about. Celebrating my love of my family or my ability to express that love in the form of gifts. I love exchanging gifts, though I have been too cash-strapped to buy much this year. I only bought two gifts this year - a game for my brother, and a bracelet for Suze (his gf). They took me shopping at the start of the month and bought me a new wardrobe of clothing for work.
Oh, and I ought to mention, on the whole Low Expectations of Christmas thing. It's already been exceeded as last night I enquired as to what Suze and Michael were doing for dinner, and ended up going out to their local Indian place for dinner. Every other Christmas Eve has been spent having a Christmas Eve Dinner, as was the custom of my Estonian Granny. My Granny is now in a home. My Dad and step-mom pissed off to Hawaii to spend Christmas with her sisters. Still being able to spend it with my brother was a big deal to me. As was giving them their presents afterwards, at their place. And soon I'll be going to missmoggy's place where there is apparently a present for me under their tree. ♥
I'll be then heading to my Nanna's place... The last we shall be spending there. The house is now For Sale, having been passed in at auction (it was auctioned on that weekend where there was a STUPID number of auctions on). It's going to be ... strange. I'm missing my mum a whole lot more this week. Knowing that both of her parents are now gone, too.
Well, things change. And as Sara (my psychologist) pointed out, I'm doing pretty darn well at the moment. Fighting all my Default Settings on things. It's quite exhausting, but I'm doing pretty well at not putting people on pedestals (which inevitably get knocked down, leading to my being irrationally upset at people) and not over-reacting things/comments/etc. that happen at work.
So I hope you all find something to enjoy this weekend. Thank you, to all of you, for helping me get through this year.
I did not get around to sending out cards, as I had planned. The whole Working Full Time thing is still tiring. I think in another month or two I'll be better and have my energy back.
Vet gave Cas a clean bill of health. In fact, the whole laying-eggs thing has led to her fat pads shrinking and she's no longer a pudgy dragon! \o/ Vet said that cricket feeding once a week would be an appropriate amount, so feeding her on weekends (and not worrying during workings weeks) should be good for both her and me! :) Shall offer her salads most days anyway. She doesn't eat much, but then if she IS hungry, she will check it out. Of course, now that she's fully developed and healthy, I need to watch out for all the problems that go hand in hand with a mature female dragon. Her ovaries will produce eggs, but hopefully they shall be reabsorbed by her body. Else problems can happen.
Also need to build up foods/meal ideas for myself. Working around the corner from a strip of shops (over 50% being food shops/restaurants - maybe 70+%) means I can make lunch my main meal of the day. However I still need to eat a dinner. And on weekends. So I shall be seeking out a Vegetarian Cookbook and some freezable meal ideas (ie. some Indian foods that I can freeze in portion sizes and make fresh rice and FOOD is ready).
Just heard this on news. I think we should get Neal Caffrey on it :)
I hope you all enjoy the weekend, be it spent alone (with booze/movies/chocolate), with family (and little fighting, if your family is inclined to fight), or with friends. Or spent with your local community. As an atheist I celebrate it as a time which I spend with those I care about. Celebrating my love of my family or my ability to express that love in the form of gifts. I love exchanging gifts, though I have been too cash-strapped to buy much this year. I only bought two gifts this year - a game for my brother, and a bracelet for Suze (his gf). They took me shopping at the start of the month and bought me a new wardrobe of clothing for work.
Oh, and I ought to mention, on the whole Low Expectations of Christmas thing. It's already been exceeded as last night I enquired as to what Suze and Michael were doing for dinner, and ended up going out to their local Indian place for dinner. Every other Christmas Eve has been spent having a Christmas Eve Dinner, as was the custom of my Estonian Granny. My Granny is now in a home. My Dad and step-mom pissed off to Hawaii to spend Christmas with her sisters. Still being able to spend it with my brother was a big deal to me. As was giving them their presents afterwards, at their place. And soon I'll be going to missmoggy's place where there is apparently a present for me under their tree. ♥
I'll be then heading to my Nanna's place... The last we shall be spending there. The house is now For Sale, having been passed in at auction (it was auctioned on that weekend where there was a STUPID number of auctions on). It's going to be ... strange. I'm missing my mum a whole lot more this week. Knowing that both of her parents are now gone, too.
Well, things change. And as Sara (my psychologist) pointed out, I'm doing pretty darn well at the moment. Fighting all my Default Settings on things. It's quite exhausting, but I'm doing pretty well at not putting people on pedestals (which inevitably get knocked down, leading to my being irrationally upset at people) and not over-reacting things/comments/etc. that happen at work.
So I hope you all find something to enjoy this weekend. Thank you, to all of you, for helping me get through this year.