Random Update
Life has been very busy lately, but also very routine. Which is probably why I havent' really been writing. I feel pretty bad about that, but I just haven't been able to. I do not enjoy this writing ennui. I used to update EVERY DAY. Now I'm lucky if I do it once a month. This has to change.
I work, and I work, and I work out, and I don't sleep enough. I feel very strange. I feel like I am turning into some sort of fitness nut. I work out nearly every day. I am training for my second half-marathon, which will be the Disneyland Half Marathon in September. I hadn't planned on doing a second one, but then my cousin was doing it and wanted me to join her. And I figured, since I live so close... and its at the beginning of the month, so well before Haunt, I had little to no excuse not to do it. And I'm glad I did. I'm not sure why, but I am glad. I am hoping that I will significantly beat my time from the last one. I will be very disappointed if I don't, so this may NOT end up being a good thing. ;) We shall see. Most exciting however, is that lyssabits is joining us! Its a little frightening though. My mother and I have been cruising along, feeling pretty good about ourselves, not training as hard as we did for the first one, because we've already DONE one, so we've not had as far to come. But lyssabits has gone all hard-core and is now better and faster and stronger than us! Its very disheartening. ;)
The running alone is not what has made me feel like I am turning into a fitness nut. Since I don't do it every day. But now my mother and I have added swimming, which we do 3 - 4 times a week. Sometimes we run AND swim on the same day! And then sometimes I come home after one or both of those activites and do some pilates. Also, I have been looking at road bikes, and my mother and I are talking about various rides we are planning on doing once I get one. I am kind of impatient that the bike I have decided I want isn't yet available in the model that I want. I didn't ride the bike that I had for years, why I am suddenly so enthusiastic about this? What has happened to my life?
Work is also sort of taking over my life. Its not that I am working so many more hours, but I do seem to be working them over an increased number of days. I have been working on the weekends a lot lately, doing the summer laundry or to make up for all the time I have been spending at the dentist. We have been in full on Haunt mode for a month and a half now, ever since we opened up the new ice show. Some very pretty costumes in the new ice show, I have to say. I will become very familiar with them when I have to go WORK the ice show for two weeks at the end of this month. I had been so happy to escape having to do the ice show at all last summer, but now I am stuck with it again. It should be better this year, given that I am actually friends with all the dressers this year, which is a different group of girls. Unlike my first year, where everyone did their level best to pretend I didn't exist. Including the shift lead who was supposed to be training and supervising me. Those girls are still around, working in the shop. And they actually talk to me sometimes. And while its kind of nice not to be ignored by them anymore, as I used to be, sometimes I wish they would go back to that... because I feel like my IQ steadily drops the longer I have to interact with them.
Haunt has started to become pretty rote for me. Though the organization fo the whole thing is very different this year, so Tim is completely flipping out. Its kind of fun to watch him be so spazzy, but its also frustrating. I feel less in control now than I did even when I didn't know anything at times, coz Tim's got his fingers too far into my pies. My maze is completely new this year, even if it is Clowns again. Still, they are much better looking clowns this year, so that pleases me. I will be less pleased I am sure, after the first week, and they trash all my pretty costumes. We had our first day of Maze Rehire today. One of those days where we do 200+ fittings. Its very draining. Tomorrow will be Day 2, and we will end even later than we did today. *sighs*
Earlier I mentioned how much time I have been spending at the dentist. Well, I've been having some very major work done. Just last week, I think I broke my record for most time spent in the chair. 3 hours and 40 minutes. I also blew through my entire insurance allotment for the year. Impressive, no?
I have been seeing this new dentist. I went to him because after years and years of having terrible teeth, and my parents and every dentist I've ever had trying to convince me to fix them... I gave in. As some of you may or may not know, I was born with aplastic enamel. That being a condition where my tooth enamel failed to develop properly. My baby teeth were fine, but when my adult teeth erupted, we could see right away that they were a mess. Most of my life, they've looked pretty bad. And have been pretty bad; having weak enamel has meant a lot of cavities and lot of other painful work. This time, I was going in for purely cosmetic reasons. I have had dentists trying to convince me to get veneers for years, and I have never caved. I finally caved to my mother's guilt, however. I never knew she felt so badly all these years about how my teeth looked. So I let them give me veneers and do gum surgery to repair a snafu with my braces that caused me to have too much gum. It was a very long, painful process that involved many many visits... but they look pretty fabulous now that they're done. They're still sore, and I hope that they cut that out soon (A lot of my other teeth are sore and painful right now too, but that could do with the root canal and crown I just had done and because I am stressed out and GRINDING them) but they look great.
I have been very ADD with my simming lately. I can't seem to stay focused on one story at a time. I get bored and then move on. It doesn't bode well. We did just get a new update to Story Progression though, and hopefully it will fix enough of the problems that I can finally do my SimVerse experiment. Though there's nothing to say I won't get bored with that also! And I still haven't figured out exactly how to most easily publish the results. But I'm woring on it.
I work, and I work, and I work out, and I don't sleep enough. I feel very strange. I feel like I am turning into some sort of fitness nut. I work out nearly every day. I am training for my second half-marathon, which will be the Disneyland Half Marathon in September. I hadn't planned on doing a second one, but then my cousin was doing it and wanted me to join her. And I figured, since I live so close... and its at the beginning of the month, so well before Haunt, I had little to no excuse not to do it. And I'm glad I did. I'm not sure why, but I am glad. I am hoping that I will significantly beat my time from the last one. I will be very disappointed if I don't, so this may NOT end up being a good thing. ;) We shall see. Most exciting however, is that lyssabits is joining us! Its a little frightening though. My mother and I have been cruising along, feeling pretty good about ourselves, not training as hard as we did for the first one, because we've already DONE one, so we've not had as far to come. But lyssabits has gone all hard-core and is now better and faster and stronger than us! Its very disheartening. ;)
The running alone is not what has made me feel like I am turning into a fitness nut. Since I don't do it every day. But now my mother and I have added swimming, which we do 3 - 4 times a week. Sometimes we run AND swim on the same day! And then sometimes I come home after one or both of those activites and do some pilates. Also, I have been looking at road bikes, and my mother and I are talking about various rides we are planning on doing once I get one. I am kind of impatient that the bike I have decided I want isn't yet available in the model that I want. I didn't ride the bike that I had for years, why I am suddenly so enthusiastic about this? What has happened to my life?
Work is also sort of taking over my life. Its not that I am working so many more hours, but I do seem to be working them over an increased number of days. I have been working on the weekends a lot lately, doing the summer laundry or to make up for all the time I have been spending at the dentist. We have been in full on Haunt mode for a month and a half now, ever since we opened up the new ice show. Some very pretty costumes in the new ice show, I have to say. I will become very familiar with them when I have to go WORK the ice show for two weeks at the end of this month. I had been so happy to escape having to do the ice show at all last summer, but now I am stuck with it again. It should be better this year, given that I am actually friends with all the dressers this year, which is a different group of girls. Unlike my first year, where everyone did their level best to pretend I didn't exist. Including the shift lead who was supposed to be training and supervising me. Those girls are still around, working in the shop. And they actually talk to me sometimes. And while its kind of nice not to be ignored by them anymore, as I used to be, sometimes I wish they would go back to that... because I feel like my IQ steadily drops the longer I have to interact with them.
Haunt has started to become pretty rote for me. Though the organization fo the whole thing is very different this year, so Tim is completely flipping out. Its kind of fun to watch him be so spazzy, but its also frustrating. I feel less in control now than I did even when I didn't know anything at times, coz Tim's got his fingers too far into my pies. My maze is completely new this year, even if it is Clowns again. Still, they are much better looking clowns this year, so that pleases me. I will be less pleased I am sure, after the first week, and they trash all my pretty costumes. We had our first day of Maze Rehire today. One of those days where we do 200+ fittings. Its very draining. Tomorrow will be Day 2, and we will end even later than we did today. *sighs*
Earlier I mentioned how much time I have been spending at the dentist. Well, I've been having some very major work done. Just last week, I think I broke my record for most time spent in the chair. 3 hours and 40 minutes. I also blew through my entire insurance allotment for the year. Impressive, no?
I have been seeing this new dentist. I went to him because after years and years of having terrible teeth, and my parents and every dentist I've ever had trying to convince me to fix them... I gave in. As some of you may or may not know, I was born with aplastic enamel. That being a condition where my tooth enamel failed to develop properly. My baby teeth were fine, but when my adult teeth erupted, we could see right away that they were a mess. Most of my life, they've looked pretty bad. And have been pretty bad; having weak enamel has meant a lot of cavities and lot of other painful work. This time, I was going in for purely cosmetic reasons. I have had dentists trying to convince me to get veneers for years, and I have never caved. I finally caved to my mother's guilt, however. I never knew she felt so badly all these years about how my teeth looked. So I let them give me veneers and do gum surgery to repair a snafu with my braces that caused me to have too much gum. It was a very long, painful process that involved many many visits... but they look pretty fabulous now that they're done. They're still sore, and I hope that they cut that out soon (A lot of my other teeth are sore and painful right now too, but that could do with the root canal and crown I just had done and because I am stressed out and GRINDING them) but they look great.
I have been very ADD with my simming lately. I can't seem to stay focused on one story at a time. I get bored and then move on. It doesn't bode well. We did just get a new update to Story Progression though, and hopefully it will fix enough of the problems that I can finally do my SimVerse experiment. Though there's nothing to say I won't get bored with that also! And I still haven't figured out exactly how to most easily publish the results. But I'm woring on it.