Quick Post

Hey folks, I know it's been a long time since I posted anything subtantial, sorry! I still don't have my writing brain back, if that makes any sense. I just don't have much to write about that I haven't already written about before. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me vent about work, yappin about the cats, etc. And I'm sure Walter's much too tired of me bragging about the heat, though I've not even begun yet! I can imagine Cheryl's even hotter as she's a little further south of me. But hey, if I sent this heat down under, the ice would melt! We can't be having that, now can we? It surely does feel good though, but it WAS a wee too warm to do all that I did yesterday. But I got a lot done that I wanted to get done, just unfortunately this meant I didn't sleep as much as I wanted to. Anyways, I do have things that still need to get done, and this waiting around for other people to do what THEY need to do so I can do when I need to do is driving me crazy! I shall try to post more later though.

And yes, Walter, we are fine here. Stubborn cat... *grunt*

A Brief Blog

Alright folks, let's TRY to write a blog.
The captain is free! America 1, Pirates 0. Nice try guys. You had us on our seats for a few days, but you see, when you mess with one of us, you mess with ALL of us, including the world's strongest military. Come on, you can't even defeat the FRENCH. You thought you'd succeed against an American ship? Give me a break. Go back to your little hole in Somalia and get a life. Try doing something productive with your life, like rebuilding your country, and stop trying to steal what's not yours.
So, I've been thinking if I should upgrade to the 21st century and do something like Twitter, but I've never been very good at fads. It'll be my luck once I get into it, Twitter will be "out" and I'll STILL be ancient. LOL - seriously though, too many viruses and other bad crap are in those popular places like Twitter and Facebook, just as was with MySpace not too long ago before it started it's decline into the "ancient fad" dept. So I'll stay here on blogger, where I met all you wonderful people and hopefully make someone smile now and then.
Work is still, well, work! Here it's been over a year, and I've accumulated a whole HALF day paid time off. I so need an extended weekend, but I'm not about to kill myself to get it. I'm going to be ok though, and I'll wait. Maybe I'll wait to accumulate my whole week's worth and disappear for a week and a half. Teehee, that would be awesome. Maybe, just maybe, I'll actually go somewhere. But right now I'm more focused on getting through day by day.
I'm going to get my hair trimmed here soon, as I've decided to give my head a break from trying to grow the mop out. It's kept me as warm as could be expected for as cold as it was this winter, so I think it deserves a break. Honestly, I need a break from trying to get all the rats out of the nest! LOL I can't help it. Even if I didn't go to bed with wet hair, my hair would STILL be a rat's nest the next morning - been there, done that. It tangles easy, just as easily as I trip over my own two feet!
My shoes are indeed wonderful. My feet still hurt now and then, but not all day and not nearly as painful as the old shoes made them hurt. This week with the new shoes felt so much better than the week before.
Anyways, I'm off for now. Happy Easter to all of you Christian readers!

Hi.

Hello friends. I'm alive - and that's about it. Nimbus is still way too high, and I'm worried. But I must be patient - somehow.
I'm not really in the mood to talk, I just wanted to say hi.

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So I'm sitting here, at the kitchen table again, bored out of my mind. It's not that I've got nothing to do, considering I have over a hundred games I could be playing or I could be reading one of my hundreds of ebooks. Or I could be getting my last load of laundry out of the dryer. But I don't WANT to do any of it. It's the weather, I tell you. Just like Cheryl down in MD, it's rainy and dreary up here too. It really bites, too, because today's supposed to be the warmest day this week. It is suddenly starting to feel like spring is losing the battle with winter again. It's just awful, not so much even the temperature, but the gloominess! I miss the warmth of yesterday. It's been so cold here lately that tempertures near 70 feel like summer. That doesn't bode well for when summer actually DOES arrive though as it'll feel even hotter! But I won't complain too much. Winter was much too cold for my taste, and I know it could've been worse! I miss the warmth of the desert sometimes, but the summers were just unbearable and going from 30 to 70 in the winter in a day will make any sane person sick and insane!
So I guess I should go down and get the rest of my laundry and then decide if I want to go run my errands or just do without my beloved tea for today. Also, if I go ahead and run my errands, I'll probably end up doing so in my old shoes, as I'm not so sure I'll want to take my new shoes out in the rain. But they're liable to keep my feet warmer too. Too many decisions this early in the day! I wouldn't even be quite done with work yet if I had to work today!
Geez, that was a trip! I ran my errands, but my dumb arse didn't put socks on and so now I have an owie on the outside of my right ankle, and I spent the whole walk home readjusting the kleenexes I was using to keep my shoe off of my ankle! But in all fairness, I was offered a ride home and I passed on it. I just didn't want to hurry home! It was nice out, and the rain had stopped. Had the sun come out, it would've been perfect! I just felt - well - rejuvinated and wasn't in any hurry to get back home. I went out last weekend, but this was different. It was like an old routine, something I haven't done in so long (partly 'cause of work, partly 'cause it's been too dang cold outside for going out on walks) that it felt good to be back in the swing. I saw a bank that'd changed names AGAIN (for the second time since I've been up here), my former bank's still an empty piece of prime real estate, the McDonald's has had a paint job on the outside (I didn't go in, I'm not in the mood oddly enough), and the convenience store has been remodeled a little bit since I'd last been in there (of course that's been MONTHS, but I still noticed). It almost felt like I'd moved away for the winter and had just come back! I really DO need to get out more often, just finding the time and energy is difficult sometimes. Today, though, I got back home feeling more energized than when I left. Unfortunately I think I lost a quarter-pound along the way LOL. That's okay though, the way I've been eating since I cooked the spaghetti yesterday, I'm still ahead for the weekend! Maybe THAT'S why I felt so refreshed - maybe all those carbs FINALLY hit my system. But why couldn't they have hit when I was hauling laundry up?
So, off I go again, hours after I started, to rest and relax for a half-hour or so before I have to test Nimbus and give the poor kitty his insulin shot for the evening. I upped his insulin dose again in the hopes that it'll push him down and keep him moving down. The poor cat has never needed this much insulin in one dose, so whatever is inside of him is fighting his body like a b***h. Poor cat, such a fighter, such a brave little fighter... Such a tolerant patient too I should add! Well, most of the time.
Peace folks!!

Brief update

Hello friends. Sorry about the long delay in writing, once again. Part of me just couldn't remember what I was thinking long enough to be able to write it down, and even if I did, I didn't write enough of the thought down to be able to fully blog it. I've also got some crap going on, stuff I can't and don't want to go into. So, what's new, ya say?

Well, I finally got myself a new pair of work shoes. I just got them yesterday. Unfortunately, they're white, so they'll get dirty fast, but I NEEDED shoes bad. My old ones are still in good condition – on the outside! But the insoles are shot, and the store-bought ones aren't much help either. I was swapping insoles every 2-3 weeks and my feet were nearly constantly killing me. I took them on a short test-walk today, a walk that kinda simulates a walk to work, but not the round-trip part (you think I'd actually walk to my job on a day off - HAHAHA) just to see how they – and I – felt afterward. I also did a couple little hop-jumps (as there's a lot of times I need to jump over something or off of something, and those can be back killers in bad shoes) and a short sprint. I am definitely glad I got these shoes. And the woman who sold 'em to me – a coworker's sister! I CANNOT ESCAPE MY JOB! LOL In all seriousness though, it was my second attempt, and I should've known better. I just HAD to try kmart first as they're cheaper, but their womens' shoe section was pathetic and their mens' section was way too big for me (I am a bigfoot, but not THAT big). Luckily, there was a Payless right next door, and wouldn't you know my shoes were right there, nearly in front of the store entrance! It came down to 2 pairs, as the other 2 I tried on were either too hard or the arches were too high. I must've looked like a dork having the left shoe from one pair on the left foot and the right shoe from the other pair on my right foot! But how else are you going to compare? Unfortunately, they were a little more pricey than I like paying, but they'll earn that money back this upcoming WEEK! Ah not to be hurting all day!

Some of you know a week ago yesterday I smacked myself pretty good at work, but nothing THAT serious. Well, it's healing up just fine, the poor finger's still sensitive, but it's fresh skin, so it will be for another day or two. I'm just glad it's done hurting! And please, remind me next time to keep my fingers out of the way of heavy objects! OW!

Well, I think that's all, for now. Once again, I had more on the mind than I could remember! Oh well, I'll remember it eventually.