Lastnight I had a dream that I was showing this giant Nordic Viking-type around. Big guy, blonde hair, short beard, lots of muscles. Apparently I was some kind of trainer, and he needed to pass some kind of trials for…something. So I walked him through his trial, and he was so thankful that he decided to stay with me.
Who was I to deny him?
When I awoke, I found the dream ironic because I always imagined myself marrying a giant, bearded Viking-type. I hope I have that dream again. Yum. :)
Today is the fourth time I’ve been here this semester, and it’s the FIRST time that I’ve been here that there hasn’t been at least one person who gets here when I get here and leaves when I leave.
It’s insane.
People, if you need to sit and have someone explain your Algebra class to you for FIVE HOURS, then you’re doing something wrong. Read the chapter and take notes on it BEFORE class. Pay more attention in class. Take more notes. Do more practice problems. Ask the teacher for help–that’s what they are there for! Quit telling yourself that you can’t do Math BECAUSE YOU CAN.
For the love of God…
Five hours of trying to explain the same thing over and over to a person who either a.) keeps telling you that she can’t do Math, or b.) has waited until four and a half hours before his test to learn all the material.
I get tired of these people who think that they can rely on a tutor to explain it all to them if they wait until the last minute. I want to scream at them.
That was my lame attempt at a play on the name of the Xbox game Yourself!Fitness.
Seriously, though. I love it. Especially the exercise where you walk around in half-circles…umm…I don’t remember the name of it. It’s like a twirly dance move.
I did a half-hour workout this morning just to see how it was, after only doing 15-minute workouts previously. I was sweaty, but I felt wonderful afterwards. Still chubby, but at the end when it said I had burned 128 calories, I was like “Sweet! I burned calories! and stuff!” I also restarted taking my multivitamin.
When I started taking the multivitamin before, I was getting headaches. At first, I thought it was because of the multivitamin, but after a week or so I figured out the real reason.
So the multivitamins have resumed, and I am trying to exercise on weekdays and eat less.
Have you seen the newest “Pride and Prejudice”? You should. It’s very, VERY good. They keep playing it on Oxygen, and I watch it every single time. Even if it’s on two times in a row. I watch it EVERY SINGLE TIME.
At first, when I heard they were making another one, I was like “blah blah blah been done what could they possibly do different?” And Kiera Knightley? Skepticism reigned.
The nice thing about Jane Austen is that her books can be interpreted many ways, this one being a very good adptation of the novel. The 1995 version with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth was good as well, but I will tell you what I think makes this one just a titch better…
The soundtrack. I can’t stop thinking about it. I even downloaded it on Napster. Most of it is this beautiful piano music that is so hauntingly beautiful. At this amazon page, they allow you to listen to samples. I recommend “Liz on top of the world” and “Mrs Darcy.” They are easily two of the most beautiful.
So my Grandpa dies in September, my Grandma dies in December, and my best girl dies on Friday the 13th.
I’m not really sure what kind of crap Jesus is trying to pull, but ENOUGH already. I’m not freakin’ Job.
Found this on my camera’s memory card yesterday when I pulled the data off it.
It’s a fantastic video, the last I ever took of our beautiful, gentle girl.
But then…
It seems that ever since she died, good things have been happening. We have been trying to sell a car, and someone came by to look at the car. He seemed very interested. Someone else is coming over tonight to look at it. A friend of mine put my name in for a teaching position at a local school, and they called, even though I don’t have my license yet. My DH and I have been getting along very well, and a few nights ago we went on a motorcycle ride with another police officer, whose father is on the board at the school who I will be interviewing at today. He said he would put in a good word for me.
And he basically said that if he didn’t think that I would be a good teacher, he wouldn’t even have offered, because his kids will be going to that school next year.
NO PRESSURE. *sigh*
A good friend of mine gave me a copy of Yourself! Fitness for the Xbox to use for a while, and I finally got around to setting up the program the other day. Boy was I sore after that. I’m so freakin’ out of shape. They ask you to do jumping jacks for two minutes, a few pushups, a few situps, and I was SORE. Awful.
Another friend of mine emailed me and let me know that one of the rescues has a litter of Akita puppies up for adoption, and that if we wanted, we could adopt one of the females. I was THRILLED.
Thrilled that they would offer, and thrilled that our Sumo won’t be alone for too much longer. A furry little poop machine would go far in healing our hearts, and we are always interested in honoring Pearl’s memory by helping another rescue.
