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3月31日 March goes out like a lambIs it just me or did March seem much shorter than February this year?
And while this week is rather hectic professionally, I don't have much going on personally. Which, I have to admit, is a good thing?
I have been a little stressed as of late. Probably not too shocking to many of you. What? With my lack of 'real' blog entries, my lack of IMing/texting/calling, my lack of ranting/raving and my lack of energy being pretty much evident to anyone who comes into contact with me. For the most part, the stress has been a good thing. I (no-matter-how-much-I-complain-about-work) have been steadily busy at work. Getting stuff that has been on to do lists and my guilt list for awhile accomplished. I have started walking on a semi-regular basis. Been bringing my lunch to work at least 3 times a week. Been cutting coupons. Trying to stay out of the drama. Reading. (The Cheese Monkeys is a must read.) Cross-stitching. Circling words.
Yet. I am still stressed.
I honestly believe that I am stressed because I'd feel guilty if I wasn't. You see, everyone around me is stressed. Now that spring break is over, we're in the home stretch at LSU. Which means only 6 more weeks of programming, classes, meetings, etc. until we reach the 'down time' of summer. Summer usually equals special projects, more meetings and vacations (most likely will be making the SD/NE rounds in July this year) for most people. This year is no exception. The only difference is that the deadlines keep creeping up on all of us. Technology decides to not work on certain days when it really (REALLY) needs to. And for every new item added to a to do list, there are none taken away. But, from my experience, ie The Office and Dilbert cartoons, this is to be expected behavior in the real world of being a grown up.
I guess it is true. I don't wanna grow up.
On that note, it's time for me to start my afternoon's to do list.
Hope your March ends quietly.
Current Mood: Awake
Currently Listening to: Sweet Child O'Mine by Guns N Roses
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Today's Goal: To file like a mad woman. 3月28日 FeastingAs I am unable to motivate myself to be creative this week, enjoy a feast:
Appetizer What does the color dark green make you think of? The United Colors of Bennetton store that used to be in the Sioux Empire Mall. Soup How many cousins do you have? 1st cousins - 8; 2nd cousins (defined here only as children of my 1st cousins, as my dad has a lot of first cousins...I honestly don't know the exact number, does that make me horrible?) - 8 or 12. Salad On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you? 8. Main Course Name something that is truly free. A friend of mine from high school was named Free, does that count? Dessert Using the letters in the word SPRING, write a sentence. Some People Realize I'm No Good. Current Mood: Whelmed
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Today's Goal: To get my ducks in a row. 3月26日 What I did over Easter Vacation/Spring Break
3月25日 Final day of the (fluff)friend egg huntAnd I promise to blog more often after the search for eggs is over.
I hope. 3月20日 Hippity Hoppity, Easter's On Its WayIt has been an interesting week here in Baton Rouge.
I've found a lot of easter eggs on (fluff)friends. (Enough to warrant a special basket, 3 fun mini friends, some bunny ears...and a lot of munny from petting (fluff)friends from all over the world.)
I've encountered the aftermath of some recent changes that have occurred within my work environment.
I've walked a lot. (Tis gorgeous weather outside.)
I've kicked myself for not being closer to MoSus & T right now. (I think they both could use a good night out at Skinner's or Nutty's or both.)
I've eaten at the best Mexican restaurant in Baton Rouge.
I've circled a lot of words.
I've changed my brand of choice in regards to shampoo & conditioner.
I've wished a happy birthday to a lot of friends.
I've overheard a lot of Spanish being spoken.
I've taken the rest of the day off to explore New Orleans with a co-worker and her family.
So, on that note...have a great weekend! I hope to not be back on-line til Monday...but I have a feeling that the egg hunt will draw me back earlier than needed.
Current Mood: Egg-static
Currently Listening to: Hurts So Good by John Mellencamp
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Today's Goal: To enjoy myself.
 Happy Birthday to the Jumpin' Husker Mom! 3月16日 Back for MoreYup.
I am back in the office again. On a Sunday. Searching for eggs on facebook.
I found 12 today. (61 overall.)
In other news about Me:
Well, on that note, I think it may be time to mosey outside and enjoy the gorgeous weather. Current Mood: Hungry
Currently Listening to: Hangin' Tough by NKOTB
Today's Goal: To get lunch before walking home. 3月15日 Randomly Seeking Sanity"Hi, my name is Me. And I'm addicted to facebook."
Yup. I am 30 years of age. And I am admitting to the fact that I'm addicted to a social networking site that is intended for people born well after the year 1977.
Seriously, most of the people on facebook were born in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Years that I remember vividly. I remember the state of SD turning 100. Discussing the first war against terror (aka the first President Bush). The rise and fall of Billy Ray Cyrus, Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Debbie Gibson, New Kids on the Block/NKOTB...
Yet. Here I am...at work on a Saturday...logging onto facebook...to search for easter eggs.
 Yup. Your read correctly...I walked into work in 80+ degree weather in order to search for eggs...on a social networking site...that really don't do anything but assist me in decorating my (fluff)friend habitat in a holiday like matter.
I really don't want to get into too much detail over how this whole 'addiction' began. Or why these eggs are more important to me than chillaxing in my crib on a Saturday. Let's just say I must be stressing, as I be regressing.
Top 5 Things I Do on Facebook...Almost Everyday...
Honestly, the list could go on and on, but I really don't want to be considered that big of a geek to have a longer list than that...for today, at least.
I do appreciate the fact that I have rediscovered a couple of my former high school classmates via facebook. It is good that I realize that I can use facebook as a social networking site, along with feeding my easter egg addiction. And from what I remember from my high school psych class, the first step to overcoming an addiction, is admitting there is a problem.
Today's problem: I only found 14 easter eggs. And Becky found 19. Which is totally not fair.
But, I digress. As usual. Well, as I have now bared my soul, I should probably determine what I want for lunch...and what time I should walk into campus tomorrow...to find at least 10 more eggs. I really need the egg-streme basket.
I need help.
Current Mood: Teenager-y
Currently Listening to: My A/C run.
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# of Types of Eggs I Own: 7
Today's Goal: To clean out my closet...or read. 3月14日 This week I...
Current Mood: Excitable
Currently Listening to: Love Spread by Stone Roses
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Today's Goal: To avoid the Union. 3月12日 The weather outside is...delightful. And the piles of work are frightful. When you've got no motivation to work. I will blog. I will blog. I will blog.
 Now that I've shown my mad song-writing skills, I guess it's time to do a quick list of things I hope to accomplish by Easter. Enjoy!
Current Mood: Antsy
Currently Listening to: Movin' Out by Billy Joel
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Today's Goal: To groom the Jumpin' Husker Ferrets. 3月11日 PopcornPopcorn is a Sunday night delicacy at the Jumpin' Husker Ferret Apartment. Almost every Sunday night, the supper menu consists of popcorn (made on the Stir Crazy), butter, salt and pop. A big bowl of buttery, salty goodness. Typically eaten while watching The Simpsons. Typically ending in a few tears. Some of regret. (That's a lot of food for one person to eat.) Some of homesickness. (Getting to that point here shortly.)
Sunday night popcorn is one of my family's traditions. A tradition that I am pretty much the only one that upholds anymore. Which is understandable when one considers the fact that there are 2 members of my family that have stomach issues, but growing up you could count on at least one batch of popcorn being popped on Sunday nights. The four of us shared that batch of popcorn while watching typical Sunday night programming: Life Goes On, America's Funniest Home Videos, The Simpsons, Married...With Children...you know, the television shows of the 1980s and 1990s that were available on the basic 3, then 4 channels available to families without cable.
The night would begin with someone popping the corn, melting the butter (in the 'butter bowl'...many a fight between my sister and I over who won the honor of using that bowl), shaking the salt, pouring the pop into the frosted mugs kept in the freezer for this type of event. After all the preparations were made, we would all sit in the living room, watching tv, filling up our bowls from time to time. Enjoying the evening. In later years, this custom included Slater, the family dog, doing tricks for popcorn. He was afterall a true member of the family, and adored his salted buttery snack foods like the rest of us.
Once I left for college, this tradition took a hiatus. I was home a lot during those first 2 years in college, but rarely on Sunday nights. That was usually when I came back to campus. I did enjoy a bag of popcorn on those nights. But it just wasn't the same. No fighting over the butter bowl. No refilling Dad's mug during commercial breaks. It wasn't until I moved to Nebraska for graduate school and my parents bought me a Stir Crazy for Christmas that I got back into the swing of Sunday night popcorn again.
While I still enjoy my bowl of mad calories on Sunday nights, it is bittersweet. As I don't have a group of people clammering for another bowl of popcorn, or arguing about who should make the next batch, or whether we should make carmel corn (my mom rocks at making carmel corn). I don't even have a pet that begs for a kernel or more, as the Jumpin' Husker Ferrets are not really snack food junkies. It's usually just me. Watching The Simpsons. With a glass of pop. A bowl of popcorn. And a cell phone that I use to text message (harass) my friends and family with whom I'd love to share some popcorn.
Current Mood: Salty
Currently Listening to: Even Flow by Pearl Jam
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Today's Goal: To plan a social event away from campus. 3月10日 Book Bazaars ROCK!I promise to blog about Me a bit later, but I figured that I needed to share the fact that at the Book Bazaar on Friday, I was able to obtain 15 books for under $30.
Have I mentioned how much I
 the Book Bazaar?My most-recent acquisitions are as follows:
Current Mood: Overwhelmed...lots of piles looking at me at the moment.
Currently Listening to: Waiting by Green Day
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Today's Goal: To get organized. 3月6日 Longest.Week.Ever.In honor of what has been one of the longest weeks in the history of Me, here are 13 things that have most likely occurred in my life since I last posted:
Current Mood: Annoyed
Currently Listening to: Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana
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Today's Goal: To buy books. (Yay! Book Bazaar!) 3月3日 Feeling blah on a MondayIt's just one of those days here in the world of Jumpin' Husker Ferrets.
Not much on my work schedule (woot).
Not much going on in my personal life (ugh?).
Just kinda sitting here waiting for the month of March to roar in like a lion (According to our resident weatherman, the heavens are going to open upon BR later today).
Yet, I am feeling a bit blah today.
Not sure why.
Just am.
I had a decent weekend: put together the newest addition to my furniture collection (bookcase), reorganized my books and DVDs, watched Season 1 of The Whitest Kids U'Know, began watching the first season of The Tudors, finished reading About a Boy, began reading The Amber Spyglass, talked to my family on the phone (Dad is doing well), taunted Thor about turning 30 on the phone, lunched with CB & Jules, shopped for groceries, enjoyed the season premiere of Dirt, realized that I had been quite boring with my blog entries as of late (thanks to my sister's mocking of Thursday's entry - a Thursday Thirteen - of books I may someday read), texted a friend in NE a lot, got homesick, vaccuummed, did laundry, took out the garbage, ached from head to toe, self-medicated in order to not ache anymore, enjoyed the Sunday Morning story on The Onion, noticed a white hair, mentally planned my next long weekend away from BR, clipped coupons, shot the shit with Becky, rediscovered my love of all things mundane, and slept.
Yet, I am a bit blah today.
Eh, maybe I'll be better after lunch.
Current Mood: Blah
Currently Listening to: Lithium by Nirvana
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Today's Goal: To make it home without falling in a puddle. |
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