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redcoog
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Fabulous.
2 more of my summer PD classes have been canceled. Are you freaking serious?!?!
They 'hope to offer them sometime during the fall semester'. Yeah right.
So out of the 6 I had signed up for, only 2 were ever held. Wonderful. Perfect.
Might I add that one email was sent to 8 people and the other email was sent to 5 people. Uhh, that sounds about like the amount of people that were in the 2 that I was able to go to! I know there were only 5 people in the smaller group, yet we still had the class.
UGH!
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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redcoog
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87. See HP and the HBP opening night
Saw it! ( thoughts )
FYI, there's a special tonight on ABC with JK, at 7 (central time).
So, I lied the other day when I said I had all these things to do: Wednesday = movie. Thursday = nothing. Friday = circus. Saturday = NKOTB concert. The lie was Thursday = nothing. I did have something to do tonight that I had forgotten about when posting, but it has since been canceled. I'm ok with that. I think I'm going to take my doggie over to the house where I'm watching another dog. I probably shouldn't have agreed to it since I'm already currently babysitting my own dog (in a sense that everyone's gone). Thing is, the people are ok with me just going over there twice a day to feed her and let her out, but I'm not ok with that since when no one's in the house, she's shut up in the master bathroom. I hate that. :( When I first went over to the house on Monday, I found a note that said their eldest daughter was in town if I needed anything, the neighbor boy was coming over to water the lawn, and they stopped the mail for the two weeks they'd be gone. Seriously?! Then why am I being inconvenienced?? How about your daughter takes the dog to her place? Ah well, they have cable, so I've been watching John and Kate + 8 that I always hear so much about. I find it pretty amusing that they've split; especially since one I saw yesterday had them going on a vacation for his 30th bday and Kate saying it's good for couples to take time for themselves, it's good for the marriage and they definitely have added stress in their marriage. Haha. Also, John rarely looks interested during the times when they're sitting together talking to the cameras.
Benyways.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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mooniecat
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I have a car!!!
It is a light silver blue kia rio.
The sad thing is my dad. He agreed to help me. Then every time I was trying to get something, he then threw a fit. Even now he is spastic about having co-signed. I am soooo going to refinance when I can so that I can free myself from his money lectures and such.
And lord, I was talking to him and trying my best to get him to quick being freaking about it when an accident happened right in front of me. An SUV ran the red light and the car going the same way as I got tangled up with it. I was very glad I had caught a glance of it coming with no slowing down before I really got going. It would have been... very painful in many ways had I gotten hit instead. So I told the cop what happened and gave out name, addy and phone number for further info just in case.
Still, I am fine and the payments are $300 a month. My dad needs to calm down.
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redcoog
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So, remember the hoopla (you probably don't) of signing up for The Writing Academy and my principal said they'd take care of the purchase order but it had to be on 'next year's budget' which started July 1? Well, when I originally got my email from the Academy, in the box for PO#, it said 'will send later'. A week and a half after that, I called them to ask about it and they said it'd be fine, and when I asked when they needed it by, they said the day of. Well I emailed my principal after that just to see how things were going on that end. She replied that she had taken care of everything they needed to and had passed it on, so it was someone else's job to finish it up but she'd check on it.
Well, I haven't gotten another email from the Academy saying the got the PO# yet, but then again, they might not necessarily email me when they get it. Earlier today, I called them. And aside from the PO#, something else odd happened. I said I had signed up for the seminar next week and the girl was like 'gasp! The week after. It's the week after. You just scared me a little bit by saying next week.' I just said ok (really thinking that it is next week) and moved on and asked about getting my PO#. She said she wasn't on a computer that could tell her that information but not to worry about it, I surely was signed up, again, not to worry about it.
Seriously?! Why wouldn't you be like, 'hang on let me check' and then go find out?! And also, according to their website, I am correct in saying that the seminar is next week. Which is precisely why I was calling, there's only a week to get this PO thing straightened out. Whatever, guess I'll just show up on Monday and see what happens. And I guess I could email my principal again. But I don't want to be that person that asks repeatedly and for her to say 'I took care of it!'
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I think last week's memorial for Michael really brought me a sense of closure. I bawled that entire day (found the memorial to be tasteful and touching, plus they kept talking about it on the news and such for the rest of the day), but that night, I was not haunted by his music and thoughts of him throughout the night (upon waking up slightly to roll over and such). I'm also now hooked on Inside Edition, Extra and Entertainment Tonight. And please forgive me if, from time to time, he crops up in a post. I'm still deeply saddened by his death and regardless of the hows and whys, can't imagine what it must've been like to be him; it seems his life must've been so tormented. Wherever he is, though I'm sad that he's gone, I hope he's finally in peace.
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Most of last week, and some of the week before last, my neck had been killing me. To start with, several weeks ago, I changed pillows. My neck had been kinda sore and I thought it might have something to do with my pancake of a pillow. The new one, quite fluffy, didn't really seem to help; my neck was still stiff and sore. After a while, it turned into an almost unbearable pain whenever I'd turn it or lean back (like looking at the ceiling). It hurt getting out of bed, lifting my head up off the pillow. It hurt when I drove, not only turning to check blind spots but when I'd first step on the gas and the car would move forward, it would pull. (It's funny how you never really think about what muscles you use without even thinking about it.) It reduced me to tears on numerous occasions and on Thursday morning, I was even debating with myself how long I could wait before I needed to call someone to help me. Oh God, it hurt. (And I silently commiserated with Michael thinking I could understand how one could get hooked on pain meds.) But I spent much of the day (I think Thursday) with a warm rice rag over it and went to bed with it too and even woke up and reheated it in the middle of the night. It hasn't felt as bad since then, and now I'm back to just feeling a little stiffness, mostly in the shoulder area. So, I guess I'm past all that, thank you! It really sucked!
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Also this past week, I've been reading Half Blood Prince to get ready for Wednesday! Less than 150 pages left! Aside from Harry, I have quite an exciting week lined up; he just starts it off. Thursday I'm not doing anything, but Friday I'm going to the circus!! And Saturday is the New Kids On The Block concert!!!!
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latara
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Holy crap, how did July happen?
Anyway, not much going on here, as you might imagine. Baking mostly, baking and cooking.
The 4th was... interesting. Lots of drunk, drunk people I didn't know. But hey, the fireworks were cool. I made videos of them!
Cellphone videos, so you know.
I thought I would have more to say but I really, really don't. I'm rewatching Idol, and I just watched the Rock Week elimination so we are reliving the injustice of that. I have not watched Torchwood yet, I will get to it.
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redcoog
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Well after the shock of Michael's death wore off, I was able to grieve, and grieve I did for about 6 days. Tuesday was my last day of big crying. Since then, I've teared up just a few times, with no tear-spillage, so that's good. I do still wake up at night with his music just constantly streaming through my mind. I'm now awaiting the memorial on Tuesday and I'm hoping it's televised locally (since I don't have cable) so I won't have to watch it on the i-net. I wish he'd be buried at Neverland, but it isn't looking like it. So sad. The whole thing.
This past Monday, Naima and I took Lilia out to Brenham. Not much you can do with a one year old out there, well there's not much to do out there, period! But of course, the point of going was to go to Blue Bell. We took the tour; we ate some ice cream. Now, I haven't been out 290 in 3-4 years, but apparently there's a giant swanky outlet mall that I don't remember seeing before. Naima and Jackie have talked about it before, but that's all I knew of it. On the way home, Naima wanted to stop to see if she could find a Coach wallet that she had seen on eBay but didn't get. So we stopped. And she found the wallet. And I, too, joined the Coach family. We made it back to her house in time for me to sit in major traffic if I had left then, so instead, I stayed and we had pizza and watched Josh Groban and Dane Cook. Monday was a good day for this because it meant I could spend more time in the car listening to the MJ tribute station on Sirius. :) Tears abounding. When I got home and checked email and such, I found that TIME had put out a commemorative issue for Michael, but only 450,000 copies of it. I went to a few places, not expecting to see it, and yeah, didn't find it. It was already pretty late (almost 10), plus, they didn't put out that many. (And why not?! That's just, bad business, wouldn't you say?) ( If anyone knows more about eBay than me, feel free to read this and offer any suggestions... )
Tuesday, Naima called me in the middle of the afternoon thinking she had found the TIME I wanted! I was like, if it's TIME and Michael, it must be it, so she bought it and brought it with her that evening as she, Jackie, Bernie and I had plans to see My Sister's Keeper (and sure enough, it was the mag! So I guess I needn't worry about the eBay thing, but it still makes me curious). The movie was different from the book, so if you're interested, and you're one of those people who likes books better, definitely read the book first. And either way, it's a tear-jerker. Which was just great, since my emotions were already right on the brink anyway from this Michael stuff. Bernie was equipped with tissues and I was the first one out of the group to reach for some, and this was after I had already quietly let 2 tears go earlier. Afterwards, Bernie suggested seeing The Proposal, since the 3 of them had already seen it and I had no one to go with. :( We were good, we didn't just sneak into it. We actually had to leave because Jackie had things in my car but was going home with Naima. So we did that and they left and Bernie and I went back in. The Proposal was so cute! What I needed after all that crying. :) Ryan Reynolds = very hot. But I must say, and please don't hate me for saying this because I think she's beautiful, but there's something a little MJ about Sandra Bullock. The cheekbones, the sunken cheek look (due to makeup), the dimple on the chin, the little nose. I promise, go look at her, squint your eyes a little if you need to. So although it was a cute movie, there were also times that I was teary, just noticing this resemblance.
Wednesday eve, I went over to Jenn and Corey's for running and tacos and So You Think You Can Dance. The running, it really sucks. I really don't like it. But I'm going to try to keep up with it at least this once a week that Jenn and I do. I did think about going out last night, but instead I went over to Walmart and Target and wandered around.
Thursday afternoon, my mom and I went for pedicures (as a bday present to me [101 #67]) and that night, one of Jackie's co-workers was having a happy hour for her and 100 of her closest friends, a thing she had won at Howl at the Moon. So a group of us went to that. It was a blast! Never been there before, but I knew I had heard of it before. Turns out, I'd heard of the one in San Antone (never been to that one either), but same thing. It's like, interactive karaoke. 2 guys started out on pianos and as the night went on, other people joined them on guitars and drums and they had little suggestion cards on the tables for you to write down what songs you wanted them to play and everyone would sing along. Quite entertaining!
Yesterday I just laid around all day, and then went to Walmart and Target as previously mentioned. And today, when I'm done with this, I'll head to the shower to get ready to head to Naima's for the 4th of July! Happy bday, USA!
Um, what else was I just thinking to say... Oh yeah, I've fallen way behind on reading HP. I've got about 270 pages left in OotP and then I have to read HBP. Rereading shouldn't have been a problem at all, but the problem has been the hours I've spent surfing around all the Michael stuff. That's pretty much taken up my mornings this week, and then around 1 or 2, I'd finally head off to get showered up, and then I had those evening things going on. Yeah, must get a jump on this reading business or it won't get done.
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