>Terribly thankful for awesome friends I forgot I had.

>Zombie movie nights!

>Adult conversations I've been sorely missing!

>Hearing that I've been a lot happier over the last year, and that people noticed!

>Friends helping me move later this week!

>Getting my butt out of my apartment and actually doing something.

X-posted to i_am_thankful

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Had a good night hanging out with two coworkers, Tara and Diana tonight. We watched Diary of the Dead and then sat outside and talked till about 1am. It was nice. I have sorely missed talking and just being with people. I have really become a hermit lately, sadly due to so much going on over the last month. Hopefully I can break myself of that. But baby steps; I realized what went wrong with the whole Events and Adventures thing was it was just too much right away. Making plans and keeping said plans, keeping committments that I paid for... was just too much. Cuz some days, I just don't feel like going out. Blame the depression, anxiety, whathaveyou. But being almost pressured into being social just shut me down. So bye-bye, E&A. I'll just stick with my low-key get-togethers with friends. I'll worry about "meeting someone" later.

Okay... terribly overdue for going to bed. Meeting dad @ 10am to go kick some ass at Home Depot for being idiots.

Ciao.

Haven't really felt the need to post much lately. A whole blog post just seems too much for my brain right now. But I'll run down what's been going on over the last week or so for you few curious die-hard fans out there.

All 3 of you.

• Put an offer on a bank-owned townhouse/condo and the bank has accepted said offer. If all goes well, we'll close the deal and I'll get the keys to my new home June 18th.
• I've been slowly recovering after three 12 hour work days last week, and those days were in a row: Thurs-Fri-Sat. Worked both jobs those days, spent 12+ hours at the mall. My legs turned to Jell-O Saturday night and I could barely walk at work. My whole body is just shutting down and I need so much sleep (so I really should be in bed now instead of writing this @ 130am). Need to talk to manager @ 2nd job to keep that from happening again.
  
• Kiera has decided to become a 2 year old, demanding new food at 4am because the stuff I gave her at 11pm before I went to bed isn't good enough for her anymore. Her incessant mrrowing starts at 4am and goes until about 6 when I finally drag myself out of bed and feed her... to only find half her food has been eaten. We have been having little battles over this, but I think the scruff-of-neck-grab-and-throw-to-the-bed move I put on her Sunday morning calmed her down a bit.
  
• The publishing of my book is going insanely slow. I need to email North Star Press about the editing and to see if I can start revising some of the stuff the do have done. The way this is going, the promised release in summer 2009 might turn out to be winter 2010. Bah.
  
• Learning that it's really not the mold in my apartment that has been making me sick, but my cat. Have official medical proof from the allergy test that I'm allergic to cats. Mold is a strong second, but there's not enough mold in my apartment to make me sick. My allergies were just triggered by the normal amount of mold in the air, since my system is more senstive to stuff like that. So my pride, ego, soul, whatever, was knocked down a few pegs after my "righteous" hatred of my landlord over "his indirectly causing me to be sick" was proven false and I was really making myself sick by demanding I have a cat. Bah.
  
• Speaking of books, slowly working on Relic Chosen #2. Got stuck on a fight scene because I'm not too good at fight scenes, and whenever I get around to writing on it, it's 1am and I'm tired.
  
• Finished Pride and Prejudice last week and it was lovely. Had to move on to Rogue Angel: Polar Quest (#16) because I've packed up most of my books in preparations for immenent move, so Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in one of 10 boxes of books. Ugh. But I will read it soon... prolly when I get all unpacked and settled into my new place.
  
• Have been in a funk lately, mostly due to stress of finding a place---and securing said place---by the end of August (when my 2 months' notice said so), and trying to adjust to working 2 jobs while trying to find time for hobbies, relaxation, time for friends, family, and writing. Ugh. Not enough hours in the freakin' day.
  
• Kiera is snoring.
  
• I'm going to delete my Myspace account by the end of the month. Hopefully before then, if I remember. I haven't gone on that bloody page on a consistent basis in in years (really since the last ex and I broke up) and I think I've been on the site with a purpose maybe 5 times this year. It's going. Might be replaced with something else... a writing/Relic Chosen/author page...? I dunno. We'll see.
• I am insanely tired of being single. You really have no idea how tired of it I am on so many levels I won't go into now. But it needs to stop. Which leads me into Events & Adventures, the horrible waste of time and money that was supposed to fix the aforementioned problem. Ha. Yeah. I didn't go to any events from Feb to April because of severe sinus infections/allergies/bronchitis... May I bailed on the one I did sign up for because I went to go hang out with people who already are my friends, and I haven't signed up for anything in June because... eh. Nothing sounds interesting. Big. Collosual. Waste. Of. Time.

So that's all for now. Hopefully soon I'll have good news about the townhouse and the book. I really need to get going on that. Bah. Whatever. I go to sleep now, since I get to sleep in tomorrow.

ciao.

So today I found out that there needs to be an update for the Year of the Baby Part 2.

jilrani & calmingsilence are expecting a new little one in October sometime. And I also remembered that my friends Christina and Wes are expecting as well, and Christina is prolly in her 7th month right now. So let's see what our baby total is thus far:

1. Emma Jane DOB 2-13-09
2. Lilly P. DOB Late Jan 2009
3. Lucy M. ETA Summer 2009
4. Christina & Wes' little one, Name TBA ETA June/July 2009
5. jilrani & calmingsilence's newest ETA 10-3-09

Now we're up to five. I think that's all.

Just heard on the radio that Tuesday we're going to get more snow, but not as much as last Thursday. Maybe 2-3 inches... but it all depends if the temp stays above 32*. If it's warm, it'll be slush/sleet/gross. And I have to get to the Xcel Energy Center by 630pm so I can go to the MN Wild game v. San Jose. I'm going through E&A. My first event in over a month. Ugh. Hopefully the weather/traffic behaves so I can go. I think it's too late to cancel and get my $$$ back. Bah. Okay. Now I need to get to sleep, so I'm not late for work @ 9am.

Just got done watching Severance, a nice little horror flick that'll do to company team-building retreats what Hostel did to backpacking through Europe. I very good flick, very creepy and good gore. A group of employees from a international defense company go on a "team building" retreat and end up in the middle of a massacre, because there's a group of crazy ex-military baddies roaming the woods, and they seem to have some beef with their company. I highly recommend it; a good thriller semi-slasher movie for a Friday night. The best (worst?) scene was the bear trap scene... uughguughghggg *shudder*. That was... brutal. Really. At least to me.

Well, need to pop the pizzah in the oven and check on laundries. Still up in the air about going bowling with E&A tonight... hmm.


EDIT 1242am 3-7-08: I was doing such a quickie review, I didn't rate it! Ugh! I'd rate this movie on 1 (hari kari) to 10 (orgasmic bliss), I'd have to give it a 7.5. I think I need to make a chart/graph thing of all my ratings. Why? I dunno. I like graphs. They're very colorful and shiny. Oh, and I didn't go bowling. Ugh. E&A is turning into a collusal mistake... *le sigh*

It was fun! I want to go again. Even though I didn't make it up the whole wall, I only got as high as I am (about 6 feet off the ground), but it was still pretty freakin' awesome. The whole, y'know, acrophobia thing kinda kicked in so I didn't get as high as other people. And my upper body strength is crap---even though one of the more experienced climbers said not to pull up with my arms but to push up with my legs... yeah, that wasn't happening. And the hand holds--? Just knobby things I could barely grab onto! But it was fun, and the group of people I went with---Events & Adventures---were supportive of everyone, and I had fun chatting with some of them. But it was a little annoying that the Boy Scout group that was there for their fun once-a-year climbing night were just scaling those walls like spider monkeys. Sickening. There was this one little boy who, with no other way to put it, looked like the stereotypical nerd (he wore khakis and a nice shirt to climbing!) and he was having a hard time getting up the wall. So some of us became his own little cheering section. I think we kinda scared him at first, since these adults he didn't know were cheering him on. And when he finally did make the top we all clapped and cheered. It was cute. ^_^

The highlight of the night was when I came crashing down from one of the walls. Why? Because it was a scary rush. The last time I came down off a slightly slanted wall---it went up about 6 feet and then did a slant---I made it to the slant part but then the acrophobia/vertigo kicked in and I was done. I got as high as I could handle, and tried to the life for the of me to do the lean-back-and-just-kinda-bounce-off-the-wall-descent. Nope. Every time I came just zipped down and landed in the chopped rubber floor smack on my butt. I think I smacked my right arm on some of the hand holds, because I had the beginnings of some bruises last night. Today at work my wrist was all squishy and achey---Are your wrists supposed to be squishy?---and tonight my right forearm and wrist are just sore. I may have to break out my wrist brace and wear it at work tomorrow... maybe. My forearms and back arm muscles (triceps?) are just aching. But it's a good ache. Means I did something. Hehehe. Yay. The only regret was that I forgot my camera in the car, so I wasn't able to get anyone to take a picture of me climbing. Oh well. That's when we grab other friends and go again! Despite my fear of heights, I want to go again. I may have to drag my sister and/or brother-in-law out to Vertical Endeavors someday, or just attack Sunny.

Tomorrow is another events with Events & Adventures: Skyway Scavenger Hunt. I'm excited. I've also signed up for 3 events in February: Cosmic Bowling, Game Night, and a Winter Hike in the MN Arboretum. Psyched! Anyhoo, I should head off to bed, got work in the morning, then the Minneapolis Skyways to scavenge in the evening! I'll let y'all know how it goes! Buenos Noches!