Also, who else is counting down until The Lovely Bones comes out?

It's a beautiful Pacific NW day. Chill, yes, with off and on rain. But it's beautiful with the bright fall leaves everywhere you look, and it's a great time of the year to go for long, fast runs/jogs/walks. Which I did, listening to Nickleback's old CD to keep my pace up. Silver Side Up isn't as good as I remember it being in 2001/2002, but it's still good.

When I first woke up, I just laid in bed to enjoy the sight outside the window. Of course, then I ended up reading What Einstein Told His Cook 2, drinking a chai latte, and enjoying leftover Leek and Potato soup, but it was still a good morning.

Came back, and cooked up a storm! Enough food for 14 meals! I'm going to freeze some for the up coming month, and then eat the rest this week. Spaghetti squash yummy-ness under the cut!

Some basic cleaning left to do, but all the laundry's done, and most of my homework as well. I'll probly end up finishing Series 6 of Wire in the Blood today. Yet another thing I recommend, and you should watch! Dexter with a less soap-opera like plot. From the good guy's side, unfortunately, but it's a psychologist with a deep understanding of the "abhorrent" mind(I think that's what word they're using in the show, but I think they just mean abnormal and damaged mind). Robson Green is simply fantastic in this show! I miss Carol (Hermione Norris) muchly, but Simone Lihbib (Alex) isn't a poor replacement.

I put the new router together, more or less. I got it all hooked up, only to find out the modem wasn't sending the signal to the router. Must call Belkin--I have a feeling a call to Comcast will have to be made.

I also did some research on GPS developments, for my paper due next week. Nothing interesting there.

I had my surveying lab outside to enjoy the pouring rain, traversing one of the main campus buildings to calculate area and height, to later be converted into a scaled drawing. By the end, my fingers were bright red and tingling all over, making it difficult to write. I need waterproof gloves to deal with that.

Then, I was kidnapped to go see Men Who Stare at Goats, which was looney and completely fun. Not worth a $10 movie ticket and $5 for snacks (bought at Whole Foods and snuck in; someone thought my ginger beer was real beer, and told me I was a genius). It is good, though, and I recommend renting it when it comes out later!

That evening, I must have spent close to 4 or 5 hours talking with my roommate concerning failed relationships and self-defeating behavior among the uneducated public (refusing to get a degree, despite financial aid opportunities, and paid child care, tendencies to spend over their yearly income to catch up with the Jones', reliance on mind-numbing habits to dull the pain of a repetitive life), and whether or not this behavior and reliance on vices occurs equally in educated households, and it's just publicized more in low-income households, and different causes.

No concrete conclusion was reached. ;-)

I forgot to post Friday, yesterday, and still need to do today's. So, I'm going to write 3 entries, each dealing separately with the days. Forgive me for cluttering your flist!

Friday, 6-11-09

Yay for work! Not really, though I was pleased to be running a machine again. It really does make your day go by fast. That lasted for all of 3 hours. Then, I went off to the hold area to do my daily work. I was highly annoyed at the day shift lead for shushing a packer who was working in my area when she was talking to me. I was giving instruction! It was disrespectful, and when I asked him to have more courtesy in the future and find out what I was discussing with her before telling someone to get back to work, he told me he was playing and I needed to get out of his face! I was being polite about it, and he got an attitude and tried to intimidate me.

Sadly, it did work. Former gang members with criminal backgrounds and more power than you are intimidating.

Then, went home and made yummy food! Leek and potato soup and stuffed zucchini. ( Pics and recipes under the LJ-cut! )

Finished up the day by going to watch All About Steve. It was very funny, and Sandra Bullock was awesome in it. Plus the eye candy that was Bradley Cooper (Jack Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential). A million laughs and all that. Really lightened the day up. To bad it was such a chick flick with a heavy dose of moral... Still fun. My roommate and I went together.

Afterward, I went to Adam's. Nothing exciting there, as he had to go to work shortly after I got there.

I've gone from a little upset to pissed in like, 1 min flat. Actually, I wasn't that upset, but still. So, Tyler (Not from prev postings Tyler) is a guy I met while looking for new roommates. He actually was a roommate for a week, then Michelle and he had a row over when the carpets were to be cleaned, and moved out. We've kept in touch rather sporadically, texting and emailing, played some board games once. He's got a girl, one he met while living with me. He and I have discussed their issues indirectly, and I've asked him for help when I inadvertently called Adam an idiot over the unwillingness to take math to finish his degree.
Halloween, he texts me, asking what turns me on. I'm not very comfy with that, so I simply say, 'I don't know how to answer. How does breathing work?' A joke, as in just having a living being is enough. He replies slighty more explicitly, I don't respond. A shared habit when someone asks something were uncomfortable with. But I found it slightly discomforting that he would ask how I felt about a sexual act when he knows I'm seeing someone.
Today, I hear from him, apologizing for drinking while texting. I let him know, it's fine, just that I'm involved....
And he responds: "I didn't know you had a man... I'm sorry stephanie. Dont worry about getting in touch with me..." That's his entire email.
First: What? How could you not know? You've asked about him and I multiple times!
Second: I'm involved, therefore not worth your time?! Excuse me, have you never heard of friends, as in, what I thought we were? Women are worth more than dating/sex!!!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!



So, more things I like. Rain during the day, when I have a choice whether or not to go out in it. Otherwise, rain sucks, because I don't get to chose whether or not I'm getting soaked.
Btw, most of the time I will go out on it. I put in a good cd (Cherry Popping Daddies are a current fav), and I go for a nice long walk.

I'm trying not to devour all the clearance halloween candy I bought today. All $1.50 of it. Admittedly, candy corn/pumpkins are too rich to od that easily. I guess I should be more ashamed of the Toblerone bar that is mostly gone and was only bought at 9 AM...

Gah. So tired! I've got my course list for next quarter set, though. Survey drafting, survey tech, legal descriptions, microstation, and total body conditioning. They don't put out the official schedule until Friday, so I'll have to double check that they haven't changed anything.


Lots of applied math for this week's homework. I hope I catch the drift of using a HP calc soon. It's driving me mad, getting simple cos and asin wrong!

In other news, payday has been delayed. Yet again. Yet again on rent day. >__<'

I always forget what a key resource my bike is for me. Today, I got up at 6 with every intention of being at work before 7, 7:30. That's soooo not happening. 2 buses have passed, and I relized before I left that I couldn't catch one because it leaves me a 3 mile walk, and the other is a 25 min walk to the bus stop, and I hadn't left enough time to get there! >.<

Anyway, until I fix that derailing cable, I'm SOL. I'm going to Adam's instead of going straight to work, so I can pick up my phone and my second bike. I'm not living in the world of an hour plus commute again. No siree bob!

So, more things I like! Adult gummy vitamins. I've been taking the kid gummy ones because the only way I can make sure I take them is to put a tiny handful of real gummies in snack bags with the Omega-3 fish gummies and the vitamin gummies with them. It's cheating, yeah, but all I do is throw the packs into my lunch and just nibble them while working. I'm glad they've come up with the adult version! 120 days worth of them at Costco was $8 with a coupon.

Class tonight. I hope I won't be too tired...we're going over least squares again for the test, and I need the review.

Mmmmm. I feel good ^__^
Took a quick hot shower, then soaked in a warm bath with this milk powder from bath and body works. Almost as good as bubble bath, and hopefully, less drying.
Toes are all manicured, and otherwise pampered. Wish I could do the same for my fingernails, but even if the sound of an emery board didn't drive me mad, they just get scratched up at work anyway.
Don't you love how smooth your skin feels after a bath and lotion?
Left my phone at Adam's. I kinda missed talking to him today, but we had a good cuddle session before work, so it's okay.
I'm going to drink my hot chocolate, make my to-do list for tomorrow, and hit the sack. I really don't want to work a nine-hour day tomorrow, but I guess I'll have to suck that one up, huh? I've left early 2 days in a row. It's time to make that time up! ;__;

Today. I mean, yes, I worked today. But I threw in the towel after 5 hours and left so that I could enjoy the day. The fall air is nice and crisp, all the leaves have turned, and I have sweeping to do in the front, but it's not work I mind. The rest of the day will be spent curled up in a warm blanket, in the living room with a fire going, reading my book on Edward III (or my alternate on Joan of Arc).

I love days like today!

I love chap stick. Mostly because I use a bicycle to get around. There is actually a stick that is reserved especially for my hands, since the cold does awful things to them.

For lips, I tend to use Kiss my Face Sport Balm spf 30, Yes to Carrots Berry, or Burt's Bees traditional stuff.

On my hands, I use Burt's Bees Honey or traditional. It's nice and thick, and does a great job
protecting the cracks in my hands from the cold air when going down a hill at 25 mph in 36 F weather.

I actually have the chap stick that Jeremy and I shared still. It's kind of nostalgic, since Adam wouldn't ever use chap stick, and maybe it's a tad obsessive. Whatever--it is what it is, and I have no intentions of throwing it away anytime soon.

So, today's to-do list: Sweep the front porch and entry way, work, finish my lab report with my group in the library, and class from 6-9. I think today's lecture is on the PLSS. Kinda cool, since the compass rule check and least square are tiring after a bit.