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I was going through a box of pictures my mom sent to me, and found this:

On my way to boot camp

This is me, 17 years old, on my way to boot camp for the Navy. Was I ever this young? Or this thin? Almost 30 years have gone by, and I wonder where the hell the time has gone. I can remember this day like it was yesterday.

I would give anything to be able to go back, with the knowledge I have now, and be that person I was. I was so young, and so scared, and so naive. There is so much I would change… and yet I don’t know if I would change anything. If I did, I wouldn’t have my kids, or the wonderful person I’m with now. If I could just give that younger me some confidence, some self-esteem, it would have made so much difference.

I sometimes wish I could have spared myself the pain of all that I have been through… but at the same time, that’s what made me who I am.  I like who I am… and I suppose that’s a good thing. :)

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Snow and stuff

I’m sitting here in my living room this morning, trying to blog, but nothing is coming to mind. What to talk about? Those of you who blog, how do you decide your subject matter? I’ve just been staring out the window, watching big fat flakes of snow falling out of a grey sky… and that’s all that I can think about.

It’s been a good morning so far. The dogs and I went to the open space park on the other side of the river, and they got to chase the ball until they were exhausted. We have a Chuckit! Ball Launcher (shameless plug, this is the best $15 I ever spent on a dog toy), and I can throw the ball 50 yards without hurting myself, so they get a real workout. I couldn’t keep up with them otherwise. After they were exhausted, I went to the grocery store and bought a few things. Is it just me, or is toilet paper getting really freaking expensive? Probably because I don’t buy the cheap stuff. I’m spoiled. Then we came home. This is my life. Boring, slow, and we don’t get much done, but it is what it is.

The dogs have collapsed on the floor since we’ve been home; Ares is back in the bedroom in his “spot”, and Apollo is laying right next to my computer chair having happy doggy dreams.

Apollo

Some days I really envy the animals in this house.

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Posting from my phone.

If you know me at all, you know that at this moment I am practically giddy at the thought of this. Here I am, laying in bed, tapping out a blog post from my freaking telephone.

I remember when I was little… we had a phone. It was an ordinary phone, connected to the wall, with a rotary dial. I remember hoping the number didn’t have too many zeros or nines because they took too long to dial.

Then, they had touch-tone, and phones were so much easier. I think not long after this was when they would actually let you buy phones, because I remember going to the phone store to look at all the cool phones you could buy. Then came cordless, then pagers, then the first carphones. Hardly anyone had one, but they were awesome. They got smaller and cooler and lighter. Everyone was getting one. I got my first cell phone about 12ish years ago, and thought it was great.

Then? They started to make cell phones smart. Internet. Email. Facebook. Twitter. Everything you can think of, “there’s an app for that”. GPS driving directions.

And just now, I discovered the app that lets my update my blog from anywhere. From my phone.

I think I’m in love.

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Not Perfect

Have I mentioned that I adore Tim Minchin? I love this song.

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Happy New Year 2010!

Yes, we’ve survived another year. This one was interesting, and sometimes difficult, but it was a good year. We stayed up until midnight watching movies, and popped open a bottle of sparkling cider to celebrate. I would have preferred a bottle of champagne, but Brian was on call, I can’t drink because of my meds, and Will is still too young. So, sparkling cider it was. At least I woke up this morning sans hangover.

Hope your new year is great!

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Smoky morning

The fires in California must be producing massive amounts of smoke.  It’s as smoky here as it would be if we were having a fire.  I took the dogs out for a run this morning, and noticed just how much smoke there was when the sun came up:

Sunrise.. red sun and lots of smoke.

Sunrise.. red sun and lots of smoke.

The sun was really red.  This picture doesn’t even do justice to how red it was.  The sun was just clearing the Bookcliffs, and I ran to the truck for my camera.  I wish I would have had the bigger lens.  Well, maybe tomorrow I’ll go out with the bigger lens and see if I can get it before it clears the mountains.

On a side note, all the smoke in the air is playing hell with my allergies.  I don’t even know if I can take an allergy pill with all the medication I’m taking right now, so currently I’m making fairly large inroads into the box of tissues on my desk.  I can’t imagine how bad it must be in California right now.

Good luck to any of you in the fire area.  Stay safe.

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Nap attack.

Ok, I have no idea what to blog about today, so you get more rambling.  Aren’t you excited?

Not a bad day today… went to breakfast with Brian’s parents, and had a good time.  We came home, I played World of Warcraft for a bit (my new baby paladin is up to level 31!) until somebody sneaked up behind me and flipped my off switch.  I mean seriously… happily playing one minute, the next minute I’m heading for the inn with my head down on my desk trying to keep my eyes open.  WTF is up with that?

I logged out and let Will use the computer, and I made my way back to bed.  I hate it when that total exhaustion sneaks up on you like that.  I moved Shiva out of the way (Shiva is always in the way) so I could lay down, and then Brian started to tell me stuff about what he was doing in game.  I tried sooo hard to pay attention, and then I was just out.  Brian woke me up a bit later to tell me I’d been sleeping for an hour and a half, and I just completely ignored him.  What’s funny is that my brain heard him say ten hours, but I was still thinking “So?”, and I went back to sleep.  He finally woke me up after about 3 hours… 6pm and I had to get up and fix dinner.

I was still tired when I got up, and rather brain damaged as well.  Dinner was a challenge.  Breaded pork chops and smashed potatoes, it should have been easy.  I couldn’t remember for the life of me how long to cook the pork chops.  We had the potatoes done way before the chops, so they got a bit dried out.  They were still yummy, though.

Here is a picture of Shiva being in the way.

Shiva, in the way as usual.

Shiva, in the way as usual.

For some reason, he feels the need to lay on whatever article of clothing you put on the bed.  This particular article is Brian’s jeans.  Notice all the fur on the bed?  I blame Alley Cat and Karma, since all that fur seems to be black.  I really need to get in there with a lint brush and get it off, but I am lazy.

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Ahh, that’s better

The dishes are done, the kitchen is clean, and my bed is made.  Yes, Shiva decided to remove himself from the bed for a few minutes.  Here is a picture of him resting on the way to the food bowl.

Shiva, resting on the way to the food bowl.

Shiva, resting on the way to the food bowl.

‘Scuse the carpet, it gets vacuumed tomorrow.  Six animals can generate a metric ton of hair each week.  It’s a never ending job.

In my last post I mentioned Ares’ eye.  We still don’t know what happened to him, but his eyelid really started to get red about a week ago.  Then it started swelling… really puffing out big.  When it got down to his muzzle, we decided to take him to the vet Friday morning.  Poor guy looked like he’d gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson.

The vet looked at him and thought he saw a foxtail inside of his eyelid, so we left him there to be sedated and checked.  Well, the vet didn’t find anything in there, but he did have an ulcer on his eye, and the swelling was just huge.  So, he sent him home with some antibiotics and some eye gel stuff for lubrication and pain relief.

I am so glad that Ares is such a good pill taker.  No arguing with him, just tip his head back and pop the pill in his mouth.  He gets treats afterwards, so he looks forward to that.  So does Apollo, because I give him treats as well.  Anyway… it’s been nearly a week, and most of the swelling is gone.  I can’t take him for walks yet, because he wears a headcollar, and that would hurt!

Ares' eye

Ares' eye

Apollo really wants to go somewhere.  This is him barking at me to take him somewhere.  He gets really excited when he thinks he’s leaving the house.  Next week we can go, I’m sure Ares will be better by then.

Apollo telling me we need to go somewhere

Apollo telling me we need to go somewhere

Now I can relax, have some lunch, and hang out on the computer guilt free for the rest of the day.  Well, at least until Will gets home, I promised him some World of Warcraft time after he does his homework.

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Updating the guild site, and other random rambling.

Working on our World of Warcraft guild site is what inspired me to revamp mine.  Revamping mine was the push I needed to get off my butt and complete the graphics for the guild site.  I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out.  I’m not a web designer, though Brian pushes me to be one.  Between Joomla, PHPBB3, Wordpress, and thousands of lovely people out there who design themes and templates, I can put together a reasonable facsimile of a website.  I can also poke around and modify them to my needs… barely.

I wish I was a better web designer, but I just seem to lack the imagination and talent to pull it off.  I’m ok at changing what other people have already done, sometimes even making it better, but that initial “oomph” seems to be lacking.  Lately it’s been even more difficult… with the fibro, I’ve been a total scatterbrain.  With the Lyrica, I’ve become even worse.  Sitting down and just thinking seems to be difficult lately, my thoughts are so scattered.  I feel like a wren, flitting from one spot to another, but never staying long en0ugh to actually accomplish anything.

I’ve decided I’m going to make this blog a touchstone of sorts… a place I come every day to blather on.  It may not be much, but it will give me at least one thing to focus on each day that is creative, rather than just spending the day reading web sites and posting on Facebook and Twitter.

I miss work.  I don’t know if I miss working so much as I miss something outside the house to do every day.  I miss the bookstore.  I miss talking with people.  I miss commiserating with my co-workers about how things annoy us.  Just silly stuff, but you can’t do it when you’re trapped at home all day.  I hope the Lyrica will get me back on my feet so I can at least work part-time, y’know?

Harass me if I don’t post, ok?  I’ll deserve it.

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How do I relax? (via Plinky)

My answer to the Plinky question of the day/week/whatever:

I like to de-stress by listening to music. What’s my favorite? Eighties metal. Hard driving guitar rock with great lyrics, soaring vocals, and a great beat. I know that’s not your usual “relax” type music, but I still love it. It just makes me feel good, y’know? Crank up the radio and sing along, and all your cares melt away.

If I’m not listening to music, I’m surfing the web (or, like right now, doing both). I’ve been on Last.fm for quite some time now, and I’ve just discovered Pandora thanks to my brother-in-law. I love what the internet has done for music!!

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