2 III 2014

I try very hard to stay positive these days. There is so much going right in my life right now, and I honestly don't feel discouraged by much of anything these days, but after last week's debacle at work, I've been feeling a little shitty, not going to lie. Cut to yesterday and Mandy coming into town totally changed my attitude! I was so thrilled to hear she was coming back 3 days earlier, I didn't think anything was going to bring me down.

Then I talked to my uncle.

I've been lusting over this beautiful drafting table at World Market for months now, and Mandy stepped up and decided that I needed to have this for my birthday present, so she got together with my mom, dad, and uncle, and between the 4 of them, put together enough money to get not only the table but some art supplies, as well. I couldn't believe that they had all done that for me. My uncle called my mom last night and since she was at my place, we talked to him, too. I thanked him for contributing to the table and told him how excited I was about it, and there was nothing but dead silence on the other end of the line. I actually thought the call had dropped. He finally just says, "So, you think you're actually going to use this thing?" Not a you're welcome, or I'd like to see what art you'll be creating using it, but a snarky comment about whether I'll even use the damn thing. While I'll eventually channel this hurt into proving him wrong, but for right now, that comment stings. A lot. I think I'm going to ask mom and Mandy to not involve him with something like that again, because I'd rather them not have the money to get something like that again for me because they would need his money to afford it, than yo have him totally crush my excitement with one sentence.

I'm going to bed now. I'll prove him wrong when I get the desk, but for right now, I'm not quite as excited about it as I ought to be.

Sometimes, family sucks.

28 II 2014

So, yeah, it continues to be bone chilling cold. Winter can suck it!

27 II 2014

I received these flowers today from my friend Gail, congratulating me on doing the races at Walt Disney World. After an extraordinarily bad day at work, these flowers put a much needed smile on my face!

17 II 2014

So, this happened today. NEW CAR!

1 II 2014

It's another snowy day here. We're in the midst of yet another winter storm. I guess Mother Nature is making up for the last couple of more pleasant winters that we've had!

So, today is going to be all about reading and not getting out of bed unless absolutely necessary. I have several books sitting here that I'm almost done with each of them, so I'm going to try to finish at least one today. Happy reading!!

28 I 2014

There should be laws against it being this cold out. Just saying.

24 I 2014

Why yes, it was a rather brisk start to the morning, thanks for asking!


Ed closed up the office at 3:30 today, so that was a nice treat to start our weekend a little early. How did I take advantage of that time? Took a nap!

Later in the evening, Sarah, Wendy, Kristin, and I met Whitney and Misty over at Painting with a Twist to paint TARDIS's!!


Look at all those pretty, blank canvases!


The background


TARDIS blue!


The Time Vortex!


Having fun painting!


Stars and the Time Vortex!


Swirls! More swirls!! Must have more swirls!!!


I love seeing how each of us made our paintings uniquely ours. Especially Sarah, the show off! ;-)And Wendy survived the unfortunate fork thru her head incident.


The finished product!
Gail has been doing some of these classes and I had mentioned to her that they looked like fun, and being Gail, she immediately found me the location here in Lansing AND found out they were doing this TARDIS class. Naturally, I signed up and got everybody else together too. It was a TON of fun, and I can't wait to do another one! During one of the breaks, they had a Doctor Who trivia contest and asked 18 questions about the show. Who were the only 2 people in the entire room to get all 18 questions right? Yep, me and Sarah. The best part was when yells out, "My friends are GEEKS!"

I love my friends! lol

Afterward, Sarah, Wendy, Kristin, and I went to Olga's for dinner and Kristin came back with me to stay overnight, as it's getting a little late now for her to be driving home.


All in all, a rather spectacular day.

22 I 2014

MUCH better start to today! Woke up feeling 100% better after a solid 9 hours sleep! (God bless Ambien!)

I got quite a bit accomplished at the office today. Updated the website, uploaded the Grand Ledge information to the website, and started organizing the paperwork for the Marshall book.

Went to the gym and had a really great workout. All chest tonight. I'm sure I will be feeling that this weekend!

I was going to go to a signing at Schuler tonight, but decided to skip out and come home and relax after the gym. I've watched some TV, played with Sky, and now it's time for bed!

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

21 I 2014

Today was not a great start to the day. I woke up with a headache and didn't feel like I'd slept that well at all last night. Of course, when I wake up like this, it's really hard for me to shake it off for the rest of the day.

I'm begrudgingly going to admit that I need my CPAP and that I think I need to go in and get it checked out. I think I've been getting used to the machine, so need more pressure now. I don't know. It's just really frustrating.

I'm going to sign off for the day, make myself some tea, and go read some more of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, which is turning out to be wonderful.

20 I 2014

Back to the real world today! Even after a trip as short as the one we took this weekend to Chicago, it was feels a little jarring going back to work. I love my job, honestly, but it never feels like I spent enough time away when I'm gone!

Not a whole lot happened today. Just did busy work at the office, went to the gym, came home, went to bed.

OH - I did get a copy of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy in the mail today from Knopf Books for Young Readers. Looks to be a modern day retelling of The Snow Queen. Good timing for this book with the success of Frozen right now! I'm looking forward to reading it. In fact, I think I'll sign off now and go read a chapter or two. Bye!