Dear Facebook,
Please stop reminding me that I am like one of the only people from my high school class that doesn’t have a kid or 2. It is the only time that I suddenly feel that I am behind in doing certain things. B/c earlier today, I was secretly very thankful that I had no concerns of what my child crapped out today or I didn’t have to worry about my breasts leaking, or I had a very clear concept of sleep.
Love,
Me
I generally avoid watching the news unless it is the local news… since the local news is generally less depressing than world news. Last night I sat down and watched some the news covering the disaster in Haiti. It completely overwhelmed me emotionally… I found myself crying at some of the stories. It made me realize how small and insignificant my problems are.
There was a story in which they showed a woman who had been trapped under the rubble for days. When the camera arrived she was still under all this rubble and her husband was there trying to dig her out of concrete with his bare hands. Finally some firemen from the states arrived and started digging her out. When they got her out she just started singing a song about not being afraid of death. Of course I was on the verge of bawling. I just can’t imagine…. being stuck under concrete and rubble for days… not knowing if anybody was coming to rescue you, basically waiting to die and then to be rescued…. and when they pull you out and you see daylight for the first time in days… you burst out into song. That woman’s strength and faith just overwhelmed me.
Please continue to to donate to Haiti relief funds
American Red Cross or you can call 1-800-REDCROSS
Text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 (will be charged to your cell phone bill)
Unicefua is using 100% of donation to save the lives of Haitian children
care.org you can also donate by calling 1-800-521-CARE
Stillerstrong, Ben Stiller’s site that has been promoted on The Tonight Show in which all donations are currently going to the relief effort you can make a donation of $5 with your mobile phone via the website
Give whatever you can, no matter how little.
Forget babies, I have been hit with puppy fever. This is worthless to have though, since I will not be getting another dog anytime soon but gawddammit do I want one.
The other day we were in a pet store… and I’ve said a billion times I would never buy a pet shop dog… but yeaaaaaah… if it would have been a few hundred dollars cheaper I think I would have bought this puppy that the girl got out to let me play with. It was the perfect little chihuahua. I think I wanted it so much because it reminded me so much of Nacho, so happy and playful. I went home a little heartbroken that I can’t have another puppy, but instead went home and cuddled my big puppy.
If it wasn’t for the cats, I would insist on getting a second dog… like now. But the cats are here to stay and even though they annoy the shit out of me 75% of the time, I still love them. 3 animals over 10lbs is more than enough for now, especially when 2/3 drive me so stinkin’ batty most of the time.
Go me. I managed to make it to Thursday before falling into “shit, I think I feel overwhelmed” mode.
I’m getting better! Maybe this summer, I can make it till a Friday! One day soon, I’ll be able to last a whole week!
The ideal solution to add a little less stress, is registration for classes should really end on like Wednesday of the first week of classes. Or something. Instead I have a whole week to decide if I want to switch something up… or stalk the class schedules to see if somebody dropped something… things of that nature.
Less stress could also be possible if I had an advisor who I dunno… actually contacted me back. But I don’t, apparently. This is fun. It should also be noted that I have had 4 different advisors all in one department. Only 1 of them has a vague idea who the hell I am. This all seems to defeat the point of having an advisor. Needless to say I won’t be getting too cozy with the new one, since I’ll soon be assigned one in the VCD department.
Less stress could also be possible if one specific thing could actually materialize. At this point we should have something epic worked out. We don’t.
I also should be way more excited about my new flash
My excitement got murdered in attempting to get it. I stupidly ordered it initially from a fraudulent company. Instead I ended up having to cancel accounts instead of getting a new flash. That kinda took the wind out of my sails and also taught me a very important lesson… I’m never ordering photographic equipment online again except at extremely trusted e-tailers. Wait, I did get my flash. I just went to Best Buy.
However I have played around with it some. My husband didn’t understand my excitement of taking a picture of a blank wall in a dark room. This was because w/o a good flash, auto focus had moments where it would completely blow. It would just search and search for a focus point… and who the hell can do manual focus… my eye sight isn’t good enough for that. It wasn’t good enough for that in high school where manual focus was the only option on our cameras in photography class and the little dial had to be lined up… and then more manual focus in the dark room when exposing the paper. F that noise. Now I can take a picture of a blank wall, you know, if I am so inclined. I can also get better focus properly on things where auto focus would want to create a weird depth of field. Or throw one thing out of focus and favor something that was closer as the main subject of a photo.
Monday I went in for a muuuuuuuuuch needed massage and my massage therapist commented on my weight loss so far. It made my freaking day (and well… year so far haha) that someone finally noticed and commented because I HAVE lost weight! I have lost 20lbs since about October. Slower than I would like, but progress is progress!
I’ve lost a good 5lbs just since Christmas thanks to 
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That is most of my exercise. And I sweat my ass off doing it and feel great. Only I hate the dance pad it came with, I am trying to find one of the sturdier ones because the one it came with slips, slides, hurts the arches of my feet a bit since there is no support, and it is not sensitive enough in some places and too sensitive in others.
It’s the perfect workout for me though… since you’re engrossed in the game and all… not thinking “oh hai I’m exercising”. That is why I always failed at the gym… I would just be on the elliptical or something thinking “I’m exercising, I’m exercising, I’m bored, I’m bored, this sucks.”
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