Tennis
This week at IPS (thus all my afterschool TKD programmes) is Spring Break, thus my only "schedule" this week happens to be reading Stargate and preparing a story for next Tuesday. Between my packed hours of heavy Stargate reading and occasional light reading of Issue #100 KODT, and another funny book that I've been enjoying (Female Gamer's Guide :)) I decided to do something active *gasp*. My definition of active is anything above and beyond my current workout plan and evening TKD classes. This all led up to my extreme desire to play tennis today...going to get racquet's restrung, buying a new pink tennis skirt, and to be plummeted into sadness with the discovery of nets not being up yet. Clearly the people in charge of tennis nets in Indianapolis failed to get the memo that Marian was in the mood to play tennis. Ah well...perhaps the first of April.
21 March 2005
3...2...1...Spring!!!!!!!
Thank God! My enjoyment of winter has diminished dramatically these past few years...if it was snowy, maybe...but just cold and windy isn't doing it for me. While I realise that March 21 being the first day of Spring is just a calendar day, my daffy's are blooming, as well as my iris' and tulips growing. THAT'S and excellent sign of happier temperatures :)
Thank God! My enjoyment of winter has diminished dramatically these past few years...if it was snowy, maybe...but just cold and windy isn't doing it for me. While I realise that March 21 being the first day of Spring is just a calendar day, my daffy's are blooming, as well as my iris' and tulips growing. THAT'S and excellent sign of happier temperatures :)
14 March 2005
My Hectic Schedule
Given my new excitement of free lancing, I've had to seriously rearrange my schedule, which took extensive effort. My DVD watching had to be scaled back quite a bit. The bright side is that schoolwork is now gone, which gives me back several hours of my life each week.
1000 start work (this could entail anything from RPG stories to freelancing to TKD)
1100 tea, then beer
130 lunch
400 tea or alcohol, depending on the day's success
500 ignore any work that should be done from that moment on
600 start teaching TKD (some days start earlier depending after school programs, thus tea or alcohol must be bumped up, and work is ignored earlier)
I hope I can acclimate to this new crazy schedule.
Given my new excitement of free lancing, I've had to seriously rearrange my schedule, which took extensive effort. My DVD watching had to be scaled back quite a bit. The bright side is that schoolwork is now gone, which gives me back several hours of my life each week.
1000 start work (this could entail anything from RPG stories to freelancing to TKD)
1100 tea, then beer
130 lunch
400 tea or alcohol, depending on the day's success
500 ignore any work that should be done from that moment on
600 start teaching TKD (some days start earlier depending after school programs, thus tea or alcohol must be bumped up, and work is ignored earlier)
I hope I can acclimate to this new crazy schedule.
10 March 2005
Birthday Surprise
I really thought my birthday was unknown, so you can imagine my *delighted* surprise when I received several birthday wishes from friends over the course of the day...
3 well wishing emails
3 birthday ecards
2 phone calls
5 well wishing IM messages
Quite a nice little bundle of happy returns, if you ask me :)
BIG freaking edit!!!
Adding a huge surprise party to the list is quite appropriate! I have never been the receipient of a surprise party, so that was a huge bit of fun. I just wish that I had a picture of everybody on the stairs like that...but I do have a picture of Ball's kickass Tea Party Cake. Thank you everybody!
I really thought my birthday was unknown, so you can imagine my *delighted* surprise when I received several birthday wishes from friends over the course of the day...
3 well wishing emails
3 birthday ecards
2 phone calls
5 well wishing IM messages
Quite a nice little bundle of happy returns, if you ask me :)
BIG freaking edit!!!
Adding a huge surprise party to the list is quite appropriate! I have never been the receipient of a surprise party, so that was a huge bit of fun. I just wish that I had a picture of everybody on the stairs like that...but I do have a picture of Ball's kickass Tea Party Cake. Thank you everybody!
06 March 2005
New Job!
I have a new free lancing job aligning objectives with assessments for all of the online courses within a MSM degree for a local university, so I'm more than excited! Of course my continuation of the course adjustments will depend on my first one's success, but I feel really comfortable with what to do and how to do it. Also, I threw my hat into the ring for a full time job where I would get to work mostly from home. The free lancing is enough to make me happy, but I really like the possibility and requirements of the full time job (and it's flexibility)...I'll give more details if I get that job :) I felt so depressed during my masters that I was being ineffective, but I'm really liking the opportunities that I'm being presented now that the degree is complete. Rock On!
I have a new free lancing job aligning objectives with assessments for all of the online courses within a MSM degree for a local university, so I'm more than excited! Of course my continuation of the course adjustments will depend on my first one's success, but I feel really comfortable with what to do and how to do it. Also, I threw my hat into the ring for a full time job where I would get to work mostly from home. The free lancing is enough to make me happy, but I really like the possibility and requirements of the full time job (and it's flexibility)...I'll give more details if I get that job :) I felt so depressed during my masters that I was being ineffective, but I'm really liking the opportunities that I'm being presented now that the degree is complete. Rock On!
02 March 2005
Mishaps
Mishap #1 - I'm getting pretty upset with Blogger. Every time I try to blog, I copy and paste the post in case the post fails. When I do that, the whole bloody thing disappears permanently, which involved much anger because I usually take some time with my posts. Losing my post for Min's Journal was especially irritating. Now I have to totally re-do it.
Mishap #2 - My wonderful holiday away from everything turned out horribly and caused an early return because it was s-o-o-o desolate. An example would be the deer roaming around the road, dirt roads, and the nearest sign of civilisation (a petrol station) being five miles away. St. Louis was 60 miles south, and as far as I could tell, was the last fort before we moved into Indian country. In case nobody understands this, I am very allergic to desolation and isolation, even though it was gorgeous country in the Mississippi Valley. The problem was that all the activities (swimming, racquetball, biking, horse riding) were summer activities, and the freakin' cold make the place a prison. I reacted poorly to my incarcaration and Eric brought me back early.
Mishap #3 - The tournament Saturday went very very well, but I did take a hammer kick to the chest (above the protective guard) that I shook off at the time, but after weights Monday, felt like bricks on my chest that really reduced my range of motion. No bone breaks according to doc; just a bad contusion and possible muscle separation. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but trust me, it hurts like hell. The Vicodon didn't effect the pain, but fortunately put me to sleep.
Now that the mishaps are hopefully over, I'm looking forward to a fun month in March with a lot less things to do and stress over :) :)
Mishap #1 - I'm getting pretty upset with Blogger. Every time I try to blog, I copy and paste the post in case the post fails. When I do that, the whole bloody thing disappears permanently, which involved much anger because I usually take some time with my posts. Losing my post for Min's Journal was especially irritating. Now I have to totally re-do it.
Mishap #2 - My wonderful holiday away from everything turned out horribly and caused an early return because it was s-o-o-o desolate. An example would be the deer roaming around the road, dirt roads, and the nearest sign of civilisation (a petrol station) being five miles away. St. Louis was 60 miles south, and as far as I could tell, was the last fort before we moved into Indian country. In case nobody understands this, I am very allergic to desolation and isolation, even though it was gorgeous country in the Mississippi Valley. The problem was that all the activities (swimming, racquetball, biking, horse riding) were summer activities, and the freakin' cold make the place a prison. I reacted poorly to my incarcaration and Eric brought me back early.
Mishap #3 - The tournament Saturday went very very well, but I did take a hammer kick to the chest (above the protective guard) that I shook off at the time, but after weights Monday, felt like bricks on my chest that really reduced my range of motion. No bone breaks according to doc; just a bad contusion and possible muscle separation. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but trust me, it hurts like hell. The Vicodon didn't effect the pain, but fortunately put me to sleep.
Now that the mishaps are hopefully over, I'm looking forward to a fun month in March with a lot less things to do and stress over :) :)
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