A Sliver of Brain Matter

Last minute location changes Incorrect items ordered, delivered bitching bitching bitching This has been a rough week tears, stomach pain, shakiness shallow breathing, lack of sleep palpitations, cold sweats Let it be over soon. ---------------- Now playing: Sleep Chamber - Beyond The Exerior via FoxyTunes

Talking really does help relationships. Don't hold ideas in, don't be afraid to discuss things with others, especially if something is bothering you. When you let problems build up, eventually an explosion occurs. (Contents Under Pressure are explosive!) Whether it's a loved one, an acquaintance, someone at work... whatever. Just talk. Chances are pretty good things will work out better because of it. If they don't, then consider the way you spoke about the situation. Choosing words carefully is important as well. ---------------- Now playing: Plasmatics - Put your love in me via FoxyTunes

I got a message that my car is almost done-- the paint was applied over the weekend and is now dry, and they are just putting the pieces back on (bumper, and I don't know what else), and it should be done in a few days. For some reason, the car dealer called Judy's phone number and not mine. Weird. So, today is Wednesday, I'm hoping it's ready by Friday! Judy will need to take it to San Antonio for judges' training. I'll use her car for Elgin's camp on Saturday. Which reminds me, I am going to "trade equipment" with someone from San Antonio. He's going to bring up 10 or 20 silver poles that I will trade for 10 or 20 white poles. Fun Fun. Last night was the first night back from winter break for my Elgin kids. Wow. We spent almost the whole night taping rifles and retaping flags. Seriously, it took 2 hours to do, then we only had about 30 minutes to work on basics, and not on show. Apparently Thursday night some of them need to work ...

"It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...for me and I'm feeling good!" I'm in a pretty good mood today, which is nice. I got something accomplished at work, and I found an AWESOME Badtz Maru desktop picture for my computer :-) Also got word that my car should be done in a week! I can't wait to have it back. Last night Judy and I went to Chez-Zee for dinner. It was very good-- as usual, and it was almost free since we used a gift card that her friend gave her. The gift card was a "reward" for cat-sitting while her friend was home for 2 weeks over the holidays. It bought 2 nice dinners, and dessert. We also had a couple of glasses of wine. It was a nice evening. Of course there's negative stuff, but I'm trying not to focus on that right now. I've got too many things going on that I can affect positively, and I'm going to. That's all for now. Have a good weekend (in case anyone actually reads this blog). --...

My year is almost over in a few ways 1) Tomorrow I will be 3 years from the big "40" 2) 2007 is almost over The past couple of weeks, I've been reflecting a lot on the past few years-- the years since moving from PA. I really think my life took a turn for the better once I broke up with Jen, met Judy, and bought--then sold--my house. Looking back, I see a lot of people in my life at that time going nowhere. Of the few I still keep in touch with *two are still living at home with their parents (or returning to live with their parents) *one is married and divorced, although much better off for it in my opinion *one is married with a child, still living in the same house and looking to sell it for the past 4 years. *one is working at a retail store, happily, though! and is a single parent I wonder how I would be if I were still in the area? Miserable? Looking for something more to give my life meaning? Would I really have left everything to go back to school for my PhD? ...

It's been one week since my car was hit. I have yet to get a report on the damage from my insurance company OR the body shop. My back is still a little stiff and sometimes there are some twinges of pain, but it feels much better than it did a week ago. Luckily, teaching guard requires me to do a lot of back and abdominal stretches and strengthening activities, so that helps a little bit. Speaking of guard: my high school guard now has 45 seconds of show on the floor. They're regional A, so there's not much moving involved, but it will work. I'll add more if I think they're capable of handling it. The girls who are on sabre are loving it. I think the work is kinda simple, cheesy, but of course, they never really had sabre work before, so it's awesome to them. I haven't seen the independent guard in about a month now. It's interesting that in that time they've had 1 entire weekend canceled, and 2 rehearsals cut several hours short. I have no...

At this time on a Saturday morning I would be running around trying to organize things for one (or both) of the two performance groups located in Dallas for which I am on staff. However, yesterday on my way home from work, I was hit by a dump truck as I was changing lanes on my drive home from work. Thankfully, I'm ok-- my back and neck are stiff and sore, but I'm going to the doctor about that. As for my car, the rear bumper was torn off, my hubcap came off and my tire on that side was shredded, and there's a big ol' dent in the rear driver-side quarter panel. Of course, I don't know much about car damage, so we'll see what is really wrong once the body shop takes a look at it. I took some pictures, and if I figure out how to save pictures from my cell phone to my computer, I may even post them. I've never been involved in an accident before. It was quite scary and I didn't know what to do. Police came by to help us move our cars off the side of the...