yesterday's activities

Up early
Work
At lunch, order a number of clasps online for current and future jewelry projects; read more of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Home
Dinner
Watch part of What Not To Wear on TLC and Real Estate Intervention on HGTV
Read newspaper
Lay out breakfast and lunch for next day
Put large square silver and black diamond box clasp on 11mm round black diamond and 4mm round jet bead bracelet
Make coordinating necklace of vintage black diamond beads of graduating sizes, with 3mm, 4mm and 6mm bicone jet bead spacers; finish with smaller round silver and black diamond box clasp
Contemplate making earrings, but decide against it because I already have a pair of real Swarovski black diamond ones
Finish jigsaw puzzle
Watch Chopped on the Food Network
Bed

Today

Slightly oversleep
Get ready for work
Like necklace and bracelet a lot; may rethink earrings, if I buy a few smaller black diamond beads; have lots of left over jet beads
Get to work slightly later than I usually do
Quiet and work now, which is good, because I have lots to do

Will be off work at 3:00 p.m. today
Need to stop by the bead store; need 4mm Montana, Dark Indigo and Antique Pink for various projects
Double lesson late this afternoon
Small break and then party
 
Thursday:
-Finished reading Catherine the Great.
-Put in 7 miles on treadmill. Showered.
Husband asked if I would mind taking over with Child early b/c he wants to go to a 3rd exercise class today. Um...I haven't been in to work yet and it is already afternoon so I was kind of hoping to stay a little longer...oh fine. Whatever.
-Went to work. Did 1 syllabus.
-Home to take over. Dinner.
-Took Child to gymnastics.

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Friday:
-Worked on letter of recommendation. Electronically filed letters of recommendation.
-While I am polishing this off, Husband informs me that he also wants to use the treadmill this morning. What?!? Fine.
-Go to grocery store.
-Pack.
-Home. 6 miles on treadmill. Shower.
-2:15--Husband drives us to NJ. I sleep for 1 hour in car.
Leave Child with Nana.
-6:02--Train to NYC!
-8:30ish--In ballroom. FRIDAY NIGHT @ MAC!
Highlights: Adult Latin, Youth Standard.
To bed around 1:30.

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Saturday:
Woke up earlier than I should have (8:30ish), but stayed in bed until 9:30ish.

Brunch.

To TKTS to see about 1/2 priced tickets for Bway show. Score the show I wanted to see! Stop by souvenir shop and buy a few items.
On walk home, get this weird, itchy swelling under my eye from the cold. Luckily, a warm compress helps.

Back to hotel for some R+R with Husband.

Back out to theater. Saw "Seminar" starring Alan Rickman. Really enjoyed!

Met up with j_alexandra for about an hour of girl talk! Wish it could have been more, but she had to scamper back to see if they needed her as an evening volunteer as well.

Took a brief nap.

Dinner with Husband.

8:30 or 9ish--Saturday night @MAC!
Highlights: Youth Latin, Adult Standard.
 
Friday:
Up, etc.
Drive to Dr. appt. Drive to other Dr. appt. Drive up close to home. Pick up stuff. Drive home.

Piddle a bit, shower, go dancing (yay!), drive home.

Z around 2am.

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Saturday:

Up at 5:30am. UGH! There is no point to a snooze button when waking up = coughing up one's kidneys or some such. Shower, dress.

Drive DH to airport. Drive home. Nap for about 4.5 hours.

Up. House stuff: laundry, laundry and more laundry; straightening; putting away laundry; schlepping stuff to appropriate floors; clean bathroom; clean litterboxes; pick up frying pans and a few groceries.

Shower.

Go dancing--to a milonga, which I haven't been to in ages. I finally went to my old teacher's new studio. Ahhhhh!!! Soul-happy. Danced with my former teacher, and I was reminded of why I fell in love with this dance in the first place. Felt happier and more relaxed than I've felt in years--since I stopped taking lessons. Words cannot describe the happiness. And!!! There was live music--they brought in a bandoneonist to play some live music, which was absolutely incredibly awesome! Also very cool because I got to watch, up close and personal, how it is played and it's really a very fascinating instrument.

Drive to parents' house. Z around 2am.

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Sunday:
Awake around 6am. For the love of god, WHY?!?!?!?! Attempt to sleep some more and fail.

Get up. Visit with parents, have breakfast, visit with brother and SIL. Shower, etc.

Go shopping with parents: organic market, Trader Joe's, and shoe store. Have lots of fun groceries and two new pairs of shoes. And an edition of Cook's Illustrated Holiday Baking that I hadn't seen.

Spend time with parents--looking at clothes online with mom, then working on a puzzle. Hate puzzles.

Drive to friend's house. Go get Ethiopian food. OM NOM!

Drive home.

Now to put away groceries, finish putting away clean laundry, put sheets on the bed, and RELAX!
 
fri...teach "blood and guts" at nine (step for 20 minutes, run track for 20 minutes, step for another 10)...home to quick lunch

back to long meeting with director...pleasantly surprised by his receptivity and some plans for moving some things forward

home to try on a dress that came via fed ex...but sadly, even though the price and the fit is right, the look isn't

in bed by 8...sleep is still messed up from trip


sat...to gym to take a class ...a nice break from having to teach one...stop at post office and walgreens on way home......various tasks around house, and practice...also trip to menards and walmart with dh...bed around 10


sun..clean every single floor in house...brief practice...nice chat with son...friends over for early dinner and visit...allergies are killing me from all the dirt, dust, mold and pet dander that i cleaned up today...cureently popping a benedryl and hoping for the best
 
Friday has eased into the dim and distant past, but I recall more banking

Yesterday:

Up 1 am; try to get back to sleep; get back to sleep 3:45; alarm goes off at 4; doze until 4:30, then shower and dress
Downstairs for coffee, but what's that noise? turns out the new bathroom's radiator is spraying water like a fire hose; wake father to get name of plumber; call plumber, whose wife is, shall we say, not best pleased to be wakened at 5:25am; plumber promises to arrive some time during the morning
Leave for NY; I"m supposed to be at the MAC at 6:10, and make it; park in lot next door for $19 for the day, color me happy
Worka volunteering @ MAC for most of the day; take a break aroud 5 for a meetup with ChaChaMama! Way fun, and much too short
Also have a long conversation with chairman of judges, which surprised me to no end
And hang out with 19DancerBabyLin! Waaaay cool!
Leave 6:59 and walk to parking lot next door, arrive 7:05, which puts me over the edge from $19 for the day's parking to <gasp>$44 for the day; TDNWMH in spades, but I need my car and they have it
Home; father remembers that we "have" to go to a party; go to party, which is held in a Dave & Busters -- I've never been to one before, and hope I never do again, holy cow, what chaos
Home, Z
 
Saturday: Up at some ridiculous hour. Drive back home from BF's place, after calling him in sick to work. Meet dad at my place. Go car shopping, with interesting results. One car salesman who assumed I was 16 and buying my first car. One car salesman who tried to sell us a car with flat tyres for $5.5K. Haha. Hahahaha. Nice job, there. Fail.

Did find one nice Corolla Seca. Comfy, low kilometres, nice under the bonnet. Unfortunately a '97. Oh well. It's on the list to look at.

Home. Visit mother for birthday brunch. Swap Christmas presents (the first time the family has been together since before Christmas). Have lunch.
Visit grandma. Chat for a while. She's doing pretty well...she's recently gone through chemo, and she was a bit tanked for the first couple of weeks, but seems to be doing pretty well now. She's recently gotten new tyres for her car, and apparently they're making the car wonderful to drive. Not sure how any car without power steering can be wonderful to drive, but oh well.

Drive home, stopping en route to buy a new organiser for my room. Get home, and assemble said organiser. On the loungeroom floor. Surprise visit from housemate's BF, housemate's sister, and her BF. And then housemate's mother and her BF. My god. Why don't I just call up mine and we can all have a party!?
Continue assembling organiser. I win! Woohoo!

Use said organiser to organise/tidy room. Woohoo!

Go to work :(
Busy night, though, which is pretty good.
Home. Sleep.

My...Sunday? I think yesterday was Sunday.

Awake at my house at about 1pm. First sleep in in ages.
Clean room a little bit.
Generally don't do much at all until I remember that I have to go shopping. Find Bio Oil for piercing healing, and a sports bra that performs the miracle that is controlling my boobs. Well worth $60. Now I can go running? Hahaha.
Go to work. Another busy night, especially earlier in the night, where I sign myself out for 2-3 at a time while the other driver is out. They're all legitimately close to each other, but I'm a faster driver than him. I usually do two to his one. More deliveries for me!
Work gets really quiet towards the end. I don't know why we're open until midnight on a Sunday. We get nothing from about 10.30pm.
Home. Up to BF's. Realise he has work tomorrow at 6am...remind me why I came up here again? We go straight to sleep.
 
watch new puppy to ensure he doesn't piddle in the house; take puppy out to piddle. watch new puppy to ensure he doesn't piddle in the house; take puppy out to piddle. etc etc etc all day.
 
Purr said:
Today

Will be off work at 3:00 p.m. today
Need to stop by the bead store; need 4mm Montana, Dark Indigo and Antique Pink for various projects
Double lesson late this afternoon
Small break and then party
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Friday Update

- Leave work at 3:00 p.m.
- Stop by bead store; they don't have what I need, and I don't want to drive farther out to another bead store will
- Run errands
- Lesson; single instead of double because of very large group class; good for the studio, but not my lesson
- Decide not to stay for party, go home and watch Greta Garbo movie on TCM

Saturday

- Cleaning day, dusting, vacuuming, moving furniture, laundry
- Crash

Sunday

- Eat dinner out
- Check mail, as I didn't yesterday, clasps I ordered are in
- Finish reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Start new jigsaw puzzle
- Gym

Monday

- Gym
- Lunch
- Nap
- Various jewelry projects
- Watch tv
- Bed early
 
Sunday:
Up, packed.

10:45--Met Best Friend for brunch at the Tick Tock Diner.

1:14--Train back to NJ.

Spend some time with the family, then drove back to MD.

Bathed Child. Put Child to bed.

Stayed up too late.

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Monday:
Finished uploading photos from NYC and posted to my FB.

2--Double Nik lesson.

Dinner.

7--8 miles on treadmill, shower.

Read some of Jamrach's Menagerie. I'm not really into it yet.

Again stayed up later than I should have, and will pay the price today.
 
mon...teach step 2, chat with friend, eat lunch, drive to indy, practice an hour, lessons for three....chat with friend, eat dinner and get re-acquainted with my favorite margarita...chat with son, lather on some bengay...out
 
Sunday:

Worka website update until time to go to HFKAM to pick up van, which I need b/c I'm going to airport to fetch Blond German Friend, who is back for a month's visit, and she usually brings mega luggage; she needs to maintain her green card, so she must enter the US every 6 months, apparently, and she's over by about 2 weeks, but she had two surgeries in the past six months, one of which was just Dec 27, so she is hopeful that the Customs and Immigration agent will be merciful
Have awesome, no-holds-barred, knock-down drag out fight with Spouse over the phone while on my way to airport; this, alas, continues after I pick up Blond German Friend and return with her to HFKAM, where she greets Spouse affectionately and he tries to involve her in our conflict; and then things get worse, unacceptable and unforgivable things are said, and I go over the edge
Blond German Friend and I go to drop her at another friend's house, where she'll be staying for her visit
I have to go back to HFKAM to pick up Elder Cat, who is moving to live with me tonight; Spouse continues on his headlong course of crash and burn; I leave, with Cat, who meows all the way home
Stop for pizza b/c it's now 8:30 and I haven't eaten since 3ish; get home, pour wine, reheat pizza, settle Cat
Cat arrives in new digs, smells EVERYTHING, and adjusts quite well, all things considered; she's over 15 years old, and yet I've been careful to bring her slightly-used litterbox, so it'll smell OK (to her, at least, pewwww), and her food dishes, and her food, and... Time will tell. I take her for a tour of the premises; she goes in and out behind curtains and into and out of cabinets and like that; I hope she adjusts
Z
 
Yesterday:

Up; why am I so cold? Turns out heat is not working, and it's only 12 degrees outside; TDNWH or anything else, for that matter; it's a holiday, try getting a plumber
10: lesson; more technique I'm just not getting:mad:
Pick up Blond German Friend, go to a couple of errands, then to my house; another of her friends comes to pick her up, we all end up chatting for ages
They leave; Cat and I do another tour of the house
My throat gets a bit sore and scratchy and nose plugs up; father suggests hot toddy and bed, a wondeful idea; I do the toddy, but also finish the website update
Chat with friend on phone
Z
 
Up early
Work
Complete timesheet for last week; work on correspondence; conduct some analysis
Compliment from two co-workers on jewelry I was wearing that I made; earrings, necklace and bracelet with faux brown pearls, mauvey-brown roundells and 4mm smoked topaz bicones; clasps for necklace and bracelet are silver with smoked topaz stones
Go online at lunch to library website; renew Our Bodies, Ourselves and Simply Silver, Simply Gold: Designs for Creating Precious Bead Jewelry; check reserves list and see I am 25 for The Girl Who Played With Fire and 453 for The Hunger Games; have a lock on The Tattooed Girl
Call pro and schedule double lesson for late Friday afternoon; early enough to avoid evening group class; he woud like me to come in another time earlier in the week but I am not feeling it
Productive call at work to work towards resolution of complex problem
Home
Dinner
Watch Law & Order
Fix breakfast and lunch for next day; figure out what to wear for next day
Gym
Read newspaper
Watch House Hunters on HGTV
Bed early
 
Data tables, data tables, staff meeting, data tables, data tables, research meeting, data tables, data tables, data tables...
 
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