Well, the first one went good on saturday. Maybe I didn’t get my goal time of under two hour, but it went well. I was within a minute of cixelsyd time-wise so, that’s a good thing.
Been training this week. Well, two days so far this week, I would’ve yesterday, but time with the birthday celebration did not allow. So, I just got to keep this up.
I always wanted to do a triathlon, but never knew how to get into one. I did a little short one last summer, and now my first real one—which is still a tri-for-fun tri is next saturday.
Been training kind of half-a$$ed…. so, got to get into the groove.
So, I moved out with Cixelsid and now I live a 7 minute ( Yes I’ve timed it) walk from work.
I drive to class two nights a week and usually one day on the weekend. :D
Doing this in my diary now. not home enough to go online all the time and update.
Maybe a bit later than I intended, but the official move in date for my new digs is February 15. I still need to go in and sign my lease paperwork and stuff, but everything’s official and stuff. So I guess I’m no longer a loser who still lives at home… or i will be for almost another month. but that’s it.
“You are standing in a doorway,” Anna said after I finally swallowed the last of my fortune cookie.
“No, I’m not. I’m sitting at a table.”
“Hush. You’re standing in a doorway between your past and your future. You must decide.”
“What the hell kind of fortune is that?Not a change will bring you happiness or anything you can add ‘in bed’ to to make it make sense.” I shook my head. “Eat your cookie. What’s your fortune say?”
She broke open the cookie and handed me that little strip of paper. Wordlessly, she stuffed half the cookie into her mouth and started chewing.
I turned her fortune over in confusion more than once—there were no words, just lucky numbers on both sides.
“Hey, what’s mine?” she asked around a mouthful of cookie. I shook my head, she knew the rule: no fortune’s until the cookie is gone.
“I think we both got cheated on our fortunes tonight. Eat your cookie.”
“What is there to decide with anyway—that’s so dumb, of course I have to go to the future. Future comes whether I want it to or not.”
“So what’s my fortune.”
“You don’t have one. It just says your lucky numbers are 17, 23, 4, 99 and - ” I turn over the paper ” - Your lucky numbers are 53, 9, 71, 13, and 3.”
“What?”
“You have two sets of lucky numbers. No fortune for you.”
“All right soup nazi, well lame fortune for you. How do you like that, huh?”
“How you doin’?” I said in my deepest voice imitating Joey from Friends. We both started laughing.
“Come on,let’s get out of here. Next time, Mr. Li, I want a better fortune.” I laughed as I let the door jangle shut behind me. He smiled and waved as we walked out the door. Our lame ass fortunes added carefully to the collection in our binders.
“Come on Mel, we got to get back to class.”
“I’m sick of class. All those stupid power points.”
Bus ride over. I think I might do something with this one or one of the other ones, we’ll see.
Yesterday. Wow.
Sun. Dec. 2
• I saw Santa out riding his motorcycle with a little girl (of the elfin variety perhaps around 800 years old?) wearing a pink helmet tonight. Really helps that my eight year old cousin was in the car. So awesome. Totally using that in my words for today too. Which I need to sit down and write.
• Worked on my secret project for about twenty minutes. Ready for the last step.
• SCj is a total doll and umm if anybody reads this you should throw cheers his way because he came down and went to the ice skating rink (he doesn’t skate) and sat on the cold bench not bundled up for almost two hours and watched me and my cousin skate cause SCj is just amazing like that and spending time with me is worth that much to him. And so I got to see him like all day.
• Spending time with my family and talking a bit with them.
Fri. Nov. 30
• Writing on the bus, in both directions.
• Today was just right during my walk at lunch, it was absolutely gorgeous and I walked faster because I was wearing running shoes not dress shoes. So that’s always nice.
• Spending the night with SCj.
• Two for me three for you.
• Getting dinner made for me again this week :D
Sat. Dec. 1
• Awesome day for me.
• Waking up with SCj in the morning was a way to start the day off right.
• Gave blood for the first time in a year and a half because I was deferred fore one whole year after going to the most awesomest waterfalls in South America and I was in South America for five months before that, so I’m finally free to give blood.
• Brought SCj lunch from subway, but still he said I made his day :D and then I gave his cookies to the homeless guy who was very grateful.
• Playing cards. I did okay till I got bored. Then I lost everything in one hand and was done.
Mon. Nov. 26—Only A in my class on the test I took last Wednesday.
—Dinner with SCj. Good thing he made me eat and not take a nap.
—Busy busy at work. No boredom here
Tues. Nov. 27—SCj made me my super romantic dinner and it was awesome, totally surprised me, made steak, what girl can turn down a good steak?
Wed. Nov. 28—Writer’s book of days, I got it yesterday at borders.
—missing the bus, gave me a stolen five minutes with my sweetie. :-D
Thurs. Nov. 29—SCj picked me up from work, total surprise.
—Making the bus in the morning
—talking with my grandparents tonight for a little bit
—yoga
—finding a 5×7 notecard for the final. (one 5×7 is bigger than two 3×5s we voted) (and my gramma helped me)
—pay day
Tues. Nov. 20
• My mommy’s b-day. We went out for sushi.
• SCj helping me try to get my mommy’s b-day present ready in time. And just spending time with him and my family. Sorry if I was cranky.
Wed. Nov 21
• SCj letting me do my homework at his house and just getting to hang out with him.
• Getting off work early.
• Being busy all week at work. No boredom. Score!
Thurs. Nov 22
• Finishing my mommy’s b-day present and giving it to her. It was an awesome scrapbook.
• Thanksgiving and having everyone over.
Fri. Nov. 23
• Leftovers.
• Second Place at Beerfest oh yeah! and SCj’s sis was my partner so it was good stuff.
• No work. Awesome super long weekend.
• Shopping with my mom and Gramma kind of was a bonding thing too. and we went to lunch and stuff.
Sat. Nov. 24
• Waking up cuddled up next to my sweetie. :D
• Playing board games with friends and family.
• Random guy trying to get my number as I waited outside (downtown) it was kind of flattering.
• Reading. Finally. I will finish my library books before I have to turn them in.
Sun. Nov. 25
• Realizing how much I’ve avoided the computer.
• Being alive and having my loved ones in good health.
• Working on a top secret project ;-P
• Spending time with my family.
Sun. Nov, 18
• Hanging out with my cousin. He’s eight and I never see him.
• Family time in general.
Mon. Nov, 19
• Accounting class where he explained the problems I couldn’t understand. Okay, just payroll in general got explained. So confusing with all the taxes and withholdings and everything.
• SCj picked me up at work :D It was good getting to see him that extra time on a day I would’ve gotten to see him for like half a minute if he hadn’t.
• Getting homework done on the bus.
• Being nice and busy at work.
Discovered quite a lot of them are subsidized and (total awesomeness) I make too much money!
Which kind of sucks, in that that eliminated half the apartments I found online, but now there’s a couple more I saw that I can check into too.
EG seems like a good place because I can take the bus from there to work, have work pay all but $15 dollars of my monthly bus pass and be done with it. So, I will be checking out some of the places still on my list and the two added two my list next week.
So, no internet (very little internet) all this week. Because I’ve been getting up at five instead of fourthirty, which surprisiingly means I take the bus more regularly because I don’t get distracted cheering on 43t’s
So
Mon, Nov. 12
• Jogging with SCj. It was a good run, a nice pace and he didn’t let me walk which I jusually cheat and walk a little.
• No work, so it was still the weekend. Hurray.
• Resting.
• I made the bus.
Tues, Nov. 13
• I did stuff on Tuesday. It’s a smiley face day. ;)
• I made the bus again :D
• Reading on the bus.
Wed, Nov. 14
• Dinner with my brother, even if it was pressed for time it was still good.
• Figuring out computer stuff.
Thurs, Nov. 15
• Eating dinner with my family and SCj.
• Playing spill and spell :D
• Jut. I win.
• Leftover meatloaf. So good (!)
Fri, Nov 16.
• Cuddling with SCj. And glasses clicking. :)
• Going to bed relatively early b/c I’ve got a touch of a cold.
• Having lots of stuff to keep my busy at work.
• I finished my library book.
Sat, Nov. 17
• Tried to go jogging. Calves cramped up, but it was still an awesome walk.
• The birds I saw on my jog/walk. I saw (I think it was) a sandhill crane, a huge white bird with a big long neck in my neighborhood. It was enormous and it just gracefully flew up and landed on this one house and looked at me. So awesome, and then the crows looked pretty neat too. Crows are huge.
• Going to look at apartments even if they’re all lame and their offices are closed on weekends, I have an idea of a couple now and crossed a few off of my list from the internet.
• Hasn’t happened yet but SCj and my bro are coming down and we’re going to drive to MoTown to go to my Uncle’s coffee shop and watch this little concert thingy they’re having.
Okay, so I’m budgeting for when I move out. Right now, I should just be putting all my check but my car payment and five hundred into my savings, and then half that should go to gas and half to whatever else i’m doing. because i don’t pay rent, and i don’t pay utilities. i paid my car insurance for six months, so i don’t need to worry about that again until maybe January.
Actually, I should go to the bank tomorrow (today being a holiday i think that they’re closed) and see what my balance is and throw all I can into my savings. Then I should keep doing that until I actually move out (in theory, I’m moving out in like a month and a half, but i have to find a place first—I’m looking though).
I’m going to sit down and plan out how much I should need for rent, how much for utilities, how much for gas (hopefully considerably less than I spend now since I should be living much closer to where I work), public transport. Then, the food is important, and i’mnot really sure how much I’ll wind up spending on food because right now I’m at home eating with my family and stuff. Hmm… sitting down and planning this out.
I don’t think this is going to happen, but i am going to try to write every day from here on out.
So, since i have probably about a thousand words and i’m super busy and the months half gone, this goal is not getting erased, but i’m also adding a write every day goal.
500 words. should take about 10 minutes once i get into my writing groove. so i just need to get into a totally awesome writing groove, and write for one hour a day—but broken up maybe. like fifteen in the morning, and fifteen at night should give me half an hour. And then, if i write on the bus at least one bus ride a day i should be pretty good.
That won’t get me caught up, but if i can do that on weekdays and just carve out that time then weekends should help me with that.
Nov. 10
• The Wii party
• Reading on the couch
• Got chapter nine of my accounting homework done.
• Eating with my family and SCj again.
Nov. 11
• Played Wii with SCj and my bro and a couple of my bros friends for hours.
• Waking up with SCj, and cuddling and talking and quite a few conversations today.
• lots of stuff, today was an awesome day.
edit: I forgot to mention jogging on Saturday (the tenth) jogging was really good
