Stressed
Why? I don't work! I don't understand this :( Between now and this Thursday evening, I have to:
1. Reserve tent, chairs and tables for Kick to the Stars;
2. Follow-up on wine, food and beer for Kick to the Stars;
3. Compile the team project into something resembling professionalism;
4. Do MY homework;
5. Get ahead in the class since I'm going to New York this weekend;
6. Teach Tae Kwon Do's regular classes and summer classes; and
7. Get the invitations for Kick to the Stars printed.
I'm seeing a trend here with Kick to the Stars. It's going to be an awesome event and loads of fun, but don't ever let anybody tell you that there's a TON of work that goes with it.
I feel better now. Perhaps sharing my stress helped...back to class!
PS Did I mentioned packing? That's just fun though :)
27 June 2004
Strange Synergy II
My anger management was much improved tonight, as I crushed Eric once again, even with pretty well balanced cards. I'm starting to like this game :) My hands started shaking for something to rip at one point, but my self control actually won.
We got some good pictures for the gaming website, such as Howie completely upside down in the leather chair, dead drunk, and other fun "forget-me-not" shots. I'll let you know when I post them!
My anger management was much improved tonight, as I crushed Eric once again, even with pretty well balanced cards. I'm starting to like this game :) My hands started shaking for something to rip at one point, but my self control actually won.
We got some good pictures for the gaming website, such as Howie completely upside down in the leather chair, dead drunk, and other fun "forget-me-not" shots. I'll let you know when I post them!
25 June 2004
23 June 2004
OH!
I forgot to mention...only four pits of hell to cover before graduation from Purgatory. While my sins are probably extensive, I never thought they were this bad. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm just SICK OF SCHOOL! Maybe it's the non-existent break between getting my Bachelors with stupid people and getting my Masters with even stupider people. I think the more educated people get, the stupider they act. Just a hypothesis. It may not be true, but I've got about six years of experience proving that theory correct.
I forgot to mention...only four pits of hell to cover before graduation from Purgatory. While my sins are probably extensive, I never thought they were this bad. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm just SICK OF SCHOOL! Maybe it's the non-existent break between getting my Bachelors with stupid people and getting my Masters with even stupider people. I think the more educated people get, the stupider they act. Just a hypothesis. It may not be true, but I've got about six years of experience proving that theory correct.
Strange Synergy
Please note that I crushed Eric.
Crushed, rampaged, and burned.
A few ashes may remain.
PS Winning games is not my strong suit, so I have officially retired from playing Strange Synergy. After all, I find it doubtful that I can have one person carrying Inner Peace and Prayer again, ensuring successful attacks, while my other shot everybody (rifle). I found very little need for the third :)
Please note that I crushed Eric.
Crushed, rampaged, and burned.
A few ashes may remain.
PS Winning games is not my strong suit, so I have officially retired from playing Strange Synergy. After all, I find it doubtful that I can have one person carrying Inner Peace and Prayer again, ensuring successful attacks, while my other shot everybody (rifle). I found very little need for the third :)
20 June 2004
Pleasant Weekend
After many tragic and exhausting weeks and weekends during these past months, my life was much improved with a party that gave me the opportunity to dress up and be with friends, Babylon 5's season four, and some sleep time. I even got the time to rearrange the basement for the 45,365th time. This arrangement is my favourite so far though. It will possibly last the entire summer!
Subject Change
Have you ever noticed that you can be believe that your little world is mierable, then things come along to show you how that your world was actually quite wonderful? I want my life to go into two different directions...formal education and Tae Kwon Do. I got a wonderful opportunity for each direction. If only one had come, it would be manageable, but no, two have to come, forcing difficult decisions and wishing that life would return to normal. I have put both decisions off for too long, and have to make a decision this week that will impact my life forever.
I hate this week already. Hopefully the comment of impacting my life forever is perhaps exaggerated. I can only hope.
It will end gloriously though, with wonderful rum drinks for everybody on Saturday! Just to be clear for the Game Night, I am not copying the Goetz' great Carribean theme, but using a Hawaiian theme. So yes, while the same clothes work for both parties, the theme is distinctly different for the sake of my hosting originality :)
After many tragic and exhausting weeks and weekends during these past months, my life was much improved with a party that gave me the opportunity to dress up and be with friends, Babylon 5's season four, and some sleep time. I even got the time to rearrange the basement for the 45,365th time. This arrangement is my favourite so far though. It will possibly last the entire summer!
Subject Change
Have you ever noticed that you can be believe that your little world is mierable, then things come along to show you how that your world was actually quite wonderful? I want my life to go into two different directions...formal education and Tae Kwon Do. I got a wonderful opportunity for each direction. If only one had come, it would be manageable, but no, two have to come, forcing difficult decisions and wishing that life would return to normal. I have put both decisions off for too long, and have to make a decision this week that will impact my life forever.
I hate this week already. Hopefully the comment of impacting my life forever is perhaps exaggerated. I can only hope.
It will end gloriously though, with wonderful rum drinks for everybody on Saturday! Just to be clear for the Game Night, I am not copying the Goetz' great Carribean theme, but using a Hawaiian theme. So yes, while the same clothes work for both parties, the theme is distinctly different for the sake of my hosting originality :)
16 June 2004
Tired
People that don't work shouldn't be this tired. I should be writing a paper (you know, one of the busy work papers that really makes no impact on my education) right now, but instead I am attempting to keep my head from crashing into my keyboard.
I think that the Tae Kwon Do summer camps are draining me...a huge source of my power loss. 50 kids on Monday, 35 kids on Tuesday, 50 kids today. Please explain to me why I would want one 24/7. Actually I do, but after weeks like this, I go into shell mode.
...oh, and another power drainage was the home owner's meeting last night. You want to get you chance at war? Own a home in suburbia. I was expecting grenades and sniper rifles to appear at any moment. I think people keep their hostility towards their neighbors bottled up for one big explosion. I got nominated to the board, which was interesting. Then...somebody jumped up and wanted a five member board instead of a three member board since the current three member board spends an average of 20 minutes complaining of all the heavy responsibilities. One nice thing came out of it was a final brawl with the morons next door (if you've ever been to our place, you'll know what I mean). After rather harsh words were passed, the peace treaty was signed. Hopefully we'll have a less volatile future.
Ok...back to the brainless busywork paper that is making no impact on my education.
People that don't work shouldn't be this tired. I should be writing a paper (you know, one of the busy work papers that really makes no impact on my education) right now, but instead I am attempting to keep my head from crashing into my keyboard.
I think that the Tae Kwon Do summer camps are draining me...a huge source of my power loss. 50 kids on Monday, 35 kids on Tuesday, 50 kids today. Please explain to me why I would want one 24/7. Actually I do, but after weeks like this, I go into shell mode.
...oh, and another power drainage was the home owner's meeting last night. You want to get you chance at war? Own a home in suburbia. I was expecting grenades and sniper rifles to appear at any moment. I think people keep their hostility towards their neighbors bottled up for one big explosion. I got nominated to the board, which was interesting. Then...somebody jumped up and wanted a five member board instead of a three member board since the current three member board spends an average of 20 minutes complaining of all the heavy responsibilities. One nice thing came out of it was a final brawl with the morons next door (if you've ever been to our place, you'll know what I mean). After rather harsh words were passed, the peace treaty was signed. Hopefully we'll have a less volatile future.
Ok...back to the brainless busywork paper that is making no impact on my education.
15 June 2004
Some Humour
Ever think about joining a cooking club? Well, I've got the perfect one for you to be able to experiment, and relax with the fact that you may completely screw it up. For example, Sally, Ball, Sheehe and I are sitting in the living room when Ball astutely notices this kind of "flame" thing going on in the oven. Everybody backs away and the oven door is pulled open and flames shoot out from the oven. Seriously big flames, actually. I nearly fell over laughing. I will not disclose the identity of the person that presented extremely crispy mushroom, unless Ellen desires it to be known, (oops, that slipped out) but in her defense, the mushrooms were quite good, and oil had fallen off the tray or something, which is what caused it. It was the foil that was having issues, not the mushrooms. Still, it was very funny, and I think I would have paid quite a fortune to have a picture of everybody scurrying to get the fire out so we could use it as our cooking club logo :)
Ever think about joining a cooking club? Well, I've got the perfect one for you to be able to experiment, and relax with the fact that you may completely screw it up. For example, Sally, Ball, Sheehe and I are sitting in the living room when Ball astutely notices this kind of "flame" thing going on in the oven. Everybody backs away and the oven door is pulled open and flames shoot out from the oven. Seriously big flames, actually. I nearly fell over laughing. I will not disclose the identity of the person that presented extremely crispy mushroom, unless Ellen desires it to be known, (oops, that slipped out) but in her defense, the mushrooms were quite good, and oil had fallen off the tray or something, which is what caused it. It was the foil that was having issues, not the mushrooms. Still, it was very funny, and I think I would have paid quite a fortune to have a picture of everybody scurrying to get the fire out so we could use it as our cooking club logo :)
04 June 2004
Harry Potter
Cute movie. Lots of magic.
From the huge discussion in the car on the way back (Laurie, Ellen, Sally), I am assuming that the movie is not like the book. I hate it when that happens, but I didn't have any expectations, so I'll go back to my review.
Cute movie. Lots of magic.
Oh, there was a lot of serious waiting. We had to stand in line for 1.5 hours to just get our seats! Oh wait, I'm confused. That's right, we walked into a virtually empty theatre at 1030 and sat there for 1.5 hours being tormented by monsterous teenagers. Remind me to kill my future kid once he or she turns 13. Did I also mention that there was a midnight showing at a theatre one mile from Ellen's? So you may ask, "why did you go to Greenwood?" I'll tell you why :) Because this vital information was withheld when a certain Ellen realised this a couple days ago and she couldn't get a return on our tickets at Greenwood so we could go to the other one. That actually didn't bother me in the slightest. What I found funny was her face... when the manager came in to thank us for our support and that only one theatre in town was doing a midnight showing...as all three of us just turned and looked at her. It was quite funny as she realised that her timing of breaking this fact to us slowly was shattered :)
Cute movie. Lots of magic.
From the huge discussion in the car on the way back (Laurie, Ellen, Sally), I am assuming that the movie is not like the book. I hate it when that happens, but I didn't have any expectations, so I'll go back to my review.
Cute movie. Lots of magic.
Oh, there was a lot of serious waiting. We had to stand in line for 1.5 hours to just get our seats! Oh wait, I'm confused. That's right, we walked into a virtually empty theatre at 1030 and sat there for 1.5 hours being tormented by monsterous teenagers. Remind me to kill my future kid once he or she turns 13. Did I also mention that there was a midnight showing at a theatre one mile from Ellen's? So you may ask, "why did you go to Greenwood?" I'll tell you why :) Because this vital information was withheld when a certain Ellen realised this a couple days ago and she couldn't get a return on our tickets at Greenwood so we could go to the other one. That actually didn't bother me in the slightest. What I found funny was her face... when the manager came in to thank us for our support and that only one theatre in town was doing a midnight showing...as all three of us just turned and looked at her. It was quite funny as she realised that her timing of breaking this fact to us slowly was shattered :)
02 June 2004
Shrek II
I cannot endorse this movie too much. It came out in London while Noelle and I were there. Given that our first double date was the first Shrek, it only illuminated the lonliness for our husbands to think about Shrek II. However, it was the first on my To Do List when I got home. Besides all the great mockings of other movies (LOTR, Mission Impossible, etc.), I would have to say Puss In Boots ruled. I laughed so hard that I nearly cried. It's well worth your time.
I cannot endorse this movie too much. It came out in London while Noelle and I were there. Given that our first double date was the first Shrek, it only illuminated the lonliness for our husbands to think about Shrek II. However, it was the first on my To Do List when I got home. Besides all the great mockings of other movies (LOTR, Mission Impossible, etc.), I would have to say Puss In Boots ruled. I laughed so hard that I nearly cried. It's well worth your time.
01 June 2004
Our Famous Trek
Many of you know of my aspirations to be a rugged hiker, so I was quite thrilled to spend four days mountain hiking in the Lake District with Noelle. While the natives did not have much confidence in our abilities to get around on foot, we were quite sure of ourselves. We bused to Windemere to check out the Beatrix Potter Exhibitions. We were both quite interested because we were both raised on Potter stories (Peter Rabbit, Miss Tiggy Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, etc.) and have high hopes for baby nursery's soon. Of course we wanted to ferry across Lake Windemere, but there were no buses and it was later in the afternoon anyway. We decided that we were properly suited up for hiking (good walking shoes, comfy clothes and backpacks with the appropriate rations), so we headed off on our eight mile trek. That would have been fine, but a bloody mountain got into the way! Her Air Force chants helped us. We finally hit the peak and got to enjoy a lovely view...(I think Noelle was slipping into some kind of meditation :))
I'll save the horrible hiking experience that would have had me sitting down on a rock in tears, but I didn't want my Burberry jeans to get dusty and there was too much sheep poop anyway. As you can see, that one was disasterous, and never started out as a hike.
Many of you know of my aspirations to be a rugged hiker, so I was quite thrilled to spend four days mountain hiking in the Lake District with Noelle. While the natives did not have much confidence in our abilities to get around on foot, we were quite sure of ourselves. We bused to Windemere to check out the Beatrix Potter Exhibitions. We were both quite interested because we were both raised on Potter stories (Peter Rabbit, Miss Tiggy Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, etc.) and have high hopes for baby nursery's soon. Of course we wanted to ferry across Lake Windemere, but there were no buses and it was later in the afternoon anyway. We decided that we were properly suited up for hiking (good walking shoes, comfy clothes and backpacks with the appropriate rations), so we headed off on our eight mile trek. That would have been fine, but a bloody mountain got into the way! Her Air Force chants helped us. We finally hit the peak and got to enjoy a lovely view...(I think Noelle was slipping into some kind of meditation :))
I'll save the horrible hiking experience that would have had me sitting down on a rock in tears, but I didn't want my Burberry jeans to get dusty and there was too much sheep poop anyway. As you can see, that one was disasterous, and never started out as a hike.
Rollerblading
Eric has a pair of rollerblades, but the official function of the blades is to collect dust. Therefore, I decided to get some of my own so we could enjoy something athletic together (besides Tae Kwon Do). Guess what, it's not like ice-skating! I really love to ice-skate, but this doesn't seem to be a sport widely accepted in Hoosier-Land. We have skating rinks in Carmel, downtown, and Fishers, but I don't have friends or a husband that does it :( My opinion of blading is that it's like taking Karate and Tae Kwon Do: totally two different styles. So far no falls though. It would be nice to discover the secret of stopped without the tree's help.
PS If you like to ice-skate you are similarly isolated from the wonderful world of northern sports, please let me know!
Eric has a pair of rollerblades, but the official function of the blades is to collect dust. Therefore, I decided to get some of my own so we could enjoy something athletic together (besides Tae Kwon Do). Guess what, it's not like ice-skating! I really love to ice-skate, but this doesn't seem to be a sport widely accepted in Hoosier-Land. We have skating rinks in Carmel, downtown, and Fishers, but I don't have friends or a husband that does it :( My opinion of blading is that it's like taking Karate and Tae Kwon Do: totally two different styles. So far no falls though. It would be nice to discover the secret of stopped without the tree's help.
PS If you like to ice-skate you are similarly isolated from the wonderful world of northern sports, please let me know!
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