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Sunday

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

I need to go to bed, but I’ve been keeping up so well, I wanted to get on quickly and write at least a short something.

I never did get downtown for the arts and crafts show.  We did make it down for the fireworks, but it was a little disappointing.  We made delicious dinner after getting home, though.

Church singing today was good — three-part harmony on wonderful songs.  I wish you could have heard it.

And I finally finished the book I’ve been working on since the beginning of July.  Seriously.

And now it’s late and tomorrow is going to be brutal.  All this week is going to be brutal.  So I’m going to sleep now so I can be ready.

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I’m doing very little and it’s wonderful

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

It’s a beautiful, beautiful day here today and I just finished doing my ironing.  I got behind on laundry this week — one load came out of the dryer last weekend and sat in the basket all week.  Another languished in the dryer since Thursday afternoon.  And the load in the washer just sat there being soggy.  So today, I re-fluffed the two dryer loads, Justin re-washed the washer load, and then I folded all three, with some help fro Justin.  And then, instead of my normal tactic of hanging the stuff to be ironed on the bedroom door until there wasn’t room for any more and my choice of clothing was severely limited, I asked Justin to drag the iron and board downstairs and I stood there watching TV and doing my ironing.  There’s one more load in the dryer, since we were already on a roll, and I’ll fold that once it’s dry.  But I already know there isn’t anything that will need ironing in that load.

So I stood here doing my ironing, with the patio door open to the patio umbrella, which Justin opened for the first time in months on Thursday and we’ve left open since then.  I noticed the smell of grilling when we had it opened on Thursday and I smelled it again this afternoon and I think I’ve finally determined that it’s the umbrella that’s smelly.  It makes sense — it’s near to where we do all our grilling.  But it’s still surprising.  Hopefully a few more days of airing will take care of that.

And because I had the patio door open, I could hear the pedophile-mobile ice cream truck come by.  That’s right, that mobile vending machine is still alive and very creepy in my neighborhood.  I could hear it for a while before it came down my street, the sounds of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Old McDonald” echoing over the trees in a cheerful, spooky way.  I wasn’t sure if maybe there were two trucks having it out with their tunes for a while, the way it was echoing made it hard to tell how many trucks were out there.  I could just imagine two trucks facing off, having a nursery-rhyme jingle joust.  Only the winner gets to go down the block with all the townhouse kids!

It’s a relaxing day, though.  In a couple hours, Justin and I are going downtown for the Arts and Seafood festival.  There’s going to be fireworks at dusk!  There’s a big street festival, too, but I’ll go to that tomorrow by myself and wander around looking at the arts and crafts with my camera in tow instead of my husband.  He’d go if I really, really wanted him to, but he’d be much happier sitting at home, and I’m fine with that, just as long as I get to go.  And as long as we go to the fireworks tonight.

Until then, though, I’m relaxing.  Getting caught up on the laundry feels good, especially since I got all my ironing done, too.  The house is clean and I have no strong need to get anything else accomplished today.  I might step outside with my pruning shears and wander around getting things a little less wild-looking and enjoy the weather.  Tomorrow will be a busier day than today, so for today, I’m taking advantage of the relaxing.

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Still doing okay

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Just a quick “today” post today.  I’ll do another “last month” post tomorrow, probably.

My morning started out kind of weird when my alarm went off and wouldn’t stop.  I snoozed it and it kept ringing.  I turned the alarm off completely.  It kept ringing.  I opened and closed the phone a couple times, since that makes it stop, too, and it STILL kept ringing.  So I turned the whole phone off.  And that finally did it.  It’s never done that before and I’m hopeful that it was the only time it does that.

My stomach this morning wasn’t feeling as well as it was yesterday.  Maybe the pizza for dinner was a bad idea?  I don’t know.  I’m feeling a little better right now.  These pants are too snug and it’s not helping the issue at all.  I’ve really got to get my clothes out of the dryer tonight.

I forgot my soup mug at home this morning.  I got too busy at work to wash it before leaving yesterday, so I took it home with the intention of washing it.  And then left it soaking in the sink, where it’s still sitting.  I eat my oatmeal in that mug every morning.  No mug = no oatmeal.  Granola bar it is!

I also forgot that we’re getting free lunch today, so the salad Justin helped me pack for lunch is completely unnecessary.  I should go take the croutons out so they don’t get soggy and then I could eat it tomorrow.

It was dark most of the way to work this morning.  I’m back to using the full-spectrum light most mornings.  Daylight Saving’s ends in 2½ weeks.  I’m trying to remember how productive I was during the evenings in the summer and keeping energy to get something accomplished between getting home and going to bed.  So far, it’s not going very well.

I did have a really lovely conversation with Mom last night, though.  I enjoyed that a lot!  It was great catching up with what’s been going on.  And just chatting is a lot of fun.  And now I just have to remember when it’s usually a better time to call.  :)   (Monday before 7:30, Friday or Saturday evenings, but not Thursday evening.  Right?)

After chatting with her, though, my netbook completely failed to get online and we can’t figure out why.  Justin was able to connect to the shared folders on the computer, but it absolutely refused to connect to the internet.  It was so frustrating.  I know that I could have just moved to my desktop computer and sat there to check my email and such, but instead, I restarted my netbook about a half-dozen times, gave up, and read a book.

Tonight I’ve got Bible study, but instead of our usual study at the church office, we’re doing a get together at one of the leader’s houses (not that she has more than one house – there are 3 leaders and they each have one house . . . as far as I know).  Hopefully it’ll go well!

And that’s the Kylene news for the day!

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What day is it?

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

I keep losing track of the days this week.  All day yesterday, it felt like Thursday.  But when I got home, it felt like Tuesday.  Today at work it felt like Friday for most of the day, except for the parts that felt like Monday.  My brain keeps alternating between planning what I’m doing to do with my day off tomorrow and trying to figure out why I wouldn’t be working the day after.

I will be working tomorrow, by the way.  And I don’t know for how long.  I’m still playing ketchup with my documents.  Closer and closer!  But not there yet.

Justin and I started our health regimen again, too, just like Luke and Krista.  This means that he’s running and I’m going to the gym/exercising at home and logging my food again.  I’m hoping to drop a quick 10 pounds by the end of next month by working very hard keeping track of what I’m eating and being sure to exercise it off.  Justin will, I’m sure, lose 10 pounds just by stepping outside in his tennis shoes.  The ease with which men in their 20s lose weight is sometimes very frustrating.  Oy!

Anyway, we’ve been at it for a couple days now and, can I say?  I forgot how hard these first days are!  So tired!  So sore!  Did I mention tired?  Tired!  And sore!  I’m looking forward to the end of next month and being long past this extreme tiredness and surprising soreness.  And hopefully my pants will be fitting better again by then, too, and that will be a huge relief.  It’s hard to breathe!

I’m focusing on short-term goals for this at the moment—log my food, exercise, get through the week, hope to lose 10 pound in a month.  If I try to think further out than that, I have troubles.  Not that I couldn’t do the math out and everything; just that I’m frustrated about having to lose some of this weight over again and I don’t want to think about how long that’s going to take me.  So I’ll think about these first couple pounds, up to the first 10, and later on, I’ll be able to think more long distance.

Not to worry that I don’t think about extended plans at all though.  Work is offering a second health option plan next year that has an account associated with it that is, essentially, investing money to use for health purposes after retirement.  We haven’t decided yet if that’s the option we’re going to use (there’s math to be looked at), but it sounds like an interesting opportunity.  I can start putting money away now, pre-taxes, that can be used later, with no taxes involved in pulling the money out, to pay for poor health after retirement.  Or put money away now for paying later when something big happens, medically.  Like babies. (LATER.  NOT NOW.)  But I don’t know.  We still have to look at the math.

Anyway, that’s pretty much what’s on my brain tonight.  I tired and sore from my workout this afternoon.  I’m working in the morning, but hopefully only until 2:00 or so.  And then I’ve got the weekend!  During which I think we’re going to look at rearranging some furniture.  It’s exciting, ya’ll!  :)

Actually, I’m really glad to have so little to write about today.  I’ve needed some mundanity for a while.  I hope you’re all having boring days, too!  ;)

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Rough day

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

I’m having a day where I’m just overwhelmed by . . . life, basically. I got up and went to church early for band practice and managed not to break down crying when Pastor stopped, turned around, and came back to say that it didn’t really sound like I was okay when he asked how I was doing. There were tears, but not full out crying. I made it through the service instead of bailing and hiding in the bathroom the whole morning, which, I’ll be honest, is what I really felt like doing instead of singing.

The singing was good, though. It felt good and refreshing while I was doing it, but it was also exhausting. When I was done helping clean up and heading out the door, Jeremiah, the music pastor, looked at me and asked, “Are you okay?” and I said, “No,” because I just don’t feel okay today. “Do you want to talk about it?” he asked. “No,” I said, and the tears started to come back up again and I bolted for the door.

Justin stayed home with his mom and sister so I was alone driving home. So I drove myself to the soccer field between home and church and just sat there crying. Not because anything in particular is wrong, just because I needed to cry. And I’ve just been curled up in bed for most of this afternoon. Because I just can’t handle doing anything else.

Have you ever had days like that?

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