Jan 18 -- Sunday

It's been a long day already. I've not done anything, but I'm exhausted. It's frustrating to me that I need to get some stuff done, and yet, I don't honestly have the energy to sit here and do it. *sighs*

I came back to the computer to look at the temperature outside and just wanted to go ahead and make a little post on here about things in general. It's 64 degrees outside and I know that it's warmer in the house, but I'm cold. I'm in two shirts and sweatpants. Good grief!

I'm about to go lay back down. I didn't eat breakfast, but I did eat lunch and I'm trying to get some liquids into my system so that I don't get dehydrated. I don't want that to happen.

Since January 1, I've lost now six pounds. Yeah! I'm glad about that at least. I'm watching what I eat and I'm taking care of business, I guess. *smiles*

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Jan 17 -- Saturday

I'm sick. I didn't post yesterday because honestly, I forgot. I went upstairs and went to bed. I've spent most of the day on the couch or in bed. I just feel like warmed over dog meat.

I've had medicine, theraflu and other medicine. Normally, if I get a coke, I drink it down pretty quickly, but... oh no. Not today. It's taken me more than three hours to get a sprite drank.... and I'm still not done yet. *sighs*

My throat hurts. My allergies are just kicking my butt. I'll eventually get over this cedar fever, it's just got to run it's course, I guess. I'm about to go take some more theraflu and go lay down again.

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Jan 15 -- Thursday

After a pretty much uneventful day at school and feeling like crap... I'm going to go to bed. Bleh. I hate cold weather and feeling ill. I shall get some rest now.

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Jan 14 -- Wednesday

Work:

As far as it goes, I'm pretty much caught up with things at work, save for one test that the kids are going to take tomorrow. Since it's Final's week, we have enough to do, literally.

Ever since I found out that Donna has an ulcer, I just want to make sure that she's a little bit less stressed out. So, I'm going to step it up and do the best that I can do to help her out to keep her from getting so stressed out.

Tomorrow is just going to be an interesting day. I have to stay in Killeen until 7:30 for training. So, I'll be getting home around 8:30 and then getting ready for work on Friday. I may be so tired that I may just drop into bed and rest. I have training that I need to go to and it may or may not help me out, but I have to get 150 hours for my certificates. So... it'll count against those hours. So... I'm okay with that.


In general:

I'm tired. I don't know why I'm so tired, but I am. I feel really worn out and it doesn't help that it's going to get even colder here from an artic front that's blowing in. It may be that my allergies are causing me to be so wonkified. I'm thinking of just calling it an evening but I know that I need to be working on some kind of audio.

I've been working on my diet. It's going slow and there have been times when I'm really hungry, but I usually sate my appetite when I pop a piece of sugar free gum into my mouth and drink some water. I know that it's not really doing anything, but it's at least something that will stop the cravings and help me to not go completely biserko.


Audio Production:

It's amazing that I'm doing so many things. I'm about to go back to working on Moonfleet. I'm just so excited to be going back to it. I haven't heard anything about the announcer voice for it yet, but I really wish that Jerry would let me be the announcer for it. But then again, I probably don't have the tonal quality that he's looking for... and I'm lacking in one thing for sure: I'm a woman instead of a man. I've not heard a single woman announcer from Colonial yet and I would definitely be the first if... IF... I'm allowed to do that.

I've also got lines for Tales From The Museum and I think that I also have lines for a new Quantum Retribution. I'm not sure actually. I'm going to have to go through all the QR lines. I'm going to have to work on that. I know that I'm behind on QR a lot. At least, it's a good show.


A complaint:

I'm having issues with my eyes. I'm not sure if it's my contacts or just my eyes in general. I've kinda have the same issue when I have my glasses on as well. They start hurting after a while and I have to relax them sometimes by just closing my eyes. I think that I'm going to have to go to the doctor and let them look again at my eyes. I fear that this is one of those things that happen thanks to the lovely car wreck.


Well... I think that I am going to call it an early night tonight. I'm starting now to get a headache and I can feel it starting to beat at the base of my skull and that's usually when I start feeling a migraine coming on and I don't want to get one of those again. So, I'm going to go take some medicine and just go to bed. Perhaps I can beat it before it progresses into something that's horrible.

~*~ MJ ~*~

Jan 13 -- Tuesday

It's been a rather filled day today. I went to work and found out that Donna needed me to be the substitute for the day... so I took over all of her classes. Pretty good since the knee is acting up.

Today is the start of kids taking their finals. Joy oh joy! Sitting for two hours to watch someone take a test is rather tiring, actually. Odd how that is..

I came home and sat down on the couch and then fell asleep. It's a good thing that I woke up for Eastern Star this evening. It's been the first time that I've gone in a couple of months. I really didn't need to miss it... especially since I was on the refreshment committee this evening! It was a nice meeting and I enjoyed talking and laughing with them. They are a wonderful set of ladies and gentlemen. I can't help but love each and every one of them.

And now... it's bedtime. I almost forgot about this this evening, but someone reminded me of it and I'm glad that reminder came. I've been doing okay, I think. Right? Even if it was something small, I posted. So... yeah. It takes 18 days to make a new habit. So... here's to making this a habit.

Now, if only I can do the same with my diet. Now, that's another blog all together.

Until tomorrow... hehehehe...

Nanu Nanu. (Yeah... I've been watching Mork and Mindy.)

Jan 12 -- Monday

Wow... I can't believe that I'm updating this thing for two days ago! What a mess I am, huh? I can't help it. I was a very very very busy girl this weekend!


Saturday Update:

I really wish that I knew what was wrong with my knee. All I know is that when I bend it, it gets sore, but when I extend it, the muscle behind my knee almost... catches. It's a bit painful. Now, when it pops it's even worse. It sucks that I'm worrying now about my knee. I know that it has a little bit to do with my weight, which I can't believe how much I weigh.... but I digress about the knee. It's frustrating to be so sore and not understand why or what you did to it to make it sore in the first place. *sighs*

The day started off with getting up at nine. Oh wow... it was nice to actually sleep in and get some extra sleep. Meghan had a friend spend the night Friday evening, and so, we decided that they were going to have to just get up and eat some oatmeal on that fine Saturday morning.

We had plenty to do. Saturday evening was the night of the Masonic Dinner. The Masonic Dinner is just a nice little get together of the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star. Since I'm a member of OES, I was in charge of cooking for the Masons that evening. (It's a monthly thing that happens and it was my turn to do it.) So... we began making Chili at 11:00 that morning for dinner. Oh... what a mess. Making about eight pots of chili for the evening seemed a bit wild, but I did it.

The rest of the afternoon was spent doing the laundry and mixing on Jerry and the Pirates - Ep 24. Ep 24 needed to be done so that it can be shipped off to XM next week at some point. Which also reminds me that I need to put up the 320 version of Ep 23 for Chris. I worked on that thing until it was time for me to go to the Lodge at 4:30... then returned home without Meghan's friend only to fuss at the kids for making spectacles out of themselves.

The dinner though was a great success. We had fifty-four people eating that night. That's a LOT of people when you think about it - and we had a little bit of chili left over too! I'm glad that I made as much as I did. It was REALLY good. Yumola.

After I put the kids to bed, I went ahead and started back on Jerry and the pirates. I worked on it until almost midnight. That's when I realized that I hadn't posted on the blog and put up that little bitty blurb saying that I'd update later. I really need to post at a set time.

Sunday Update:

Yesterday, I spent most of the day sitting in front of the computer working on Jerry and the Pirates and then on Darker Projects Star Trek: Lost Frontier.

Matt worked on the old kitchen putting up new bead-board up and it really looks nice. I however worked on audios and just tried to get myself a little bit caught up on things. Well, did it work?

Not really. I was able to finish up Jerry and the Pirates for Jerry to review, then I quickly began to work on Star Trek: Lost Frontier. Yes, self, I know.... I shouldn't have said that I could help out, but I don't have an iota of a clue to even know where the sounds go initially. I kept having questions over the whole thing and nothing was working. Nothing. So... I spent the day and most of the evening, (save for finishing laundry and eating) putting the vast majority of the lines together.

By the time that 11:30 rolled around, I was extremely tired, but I wanted to get this information to Eric as quickly as I could. So, I uploaded them on the server and then immediately sent him an email to let him know where they were and what was going on with it. I do hope that he's not too terribly mad at me for not finishing up the audio. I mean, I think that he would understand about consistency and places in ones mind. I might go in and turn the Enterprise F (I think that that's the right letter) upside down and almost inside out compared to Eric's view on it.

Anyway, I'm worried about how he's going to take it that I didn't finish it. I don't like just handing things back, but I don't want to screw something like that up.

So... I was in bed around 11:40.

Today's Update:

Well, after an most interesting day at work: I'm being sarcastic actually. This week is Finals week for the first semester. Needless to say, the kids are freaking out over the tests they are about to take. Some of them are actually having anxiety over it. I went to the nurse's office today to see if they had a brace for my knee and there was a young woman in there who was getting her hand looked at. It was bleeding only slightly. She had gotten so upset and was so anxious over a test that she turned and hit the wall instead of hitting a teacher! Good grief!!!

I spent the day mostly in Donna's room. I couldn't walk all over the place like I would need to do. The leg just hurt and I had left my brace at home. :(

So... I went throughout the day, sitting at the desk and grading papers and sorting papers and what not. I got more done on the Hamlet powerpoint, and thankfully, I found out from Paul that they haven't even finished Hamlet! I thought that they were totally finished with it and that it was a part of their final! Thank goodness for that. I'm just glad that I didn't stay up late last night to try to get other stuff done for school.

So... school was just rather blah until Donna said that she was going to the doctor. She was complaining about her abdomin hurting her. She went to the hospital and I got a phone call from her this afternoon while I was in Walmart. She's in the hospital. They wanted to keep her over night to make sure that everything is okay. She had a surgery recently to remove a hernia. So, I don't know if this pain is from that or not. She said that she hoped that she'd be back at school tomorrow. We'll see.

For the past couple of hours though, I've been dealing with the issue of mortality - suicide - a good thing - a bad thing. What a person can do to try to stop another from committing the deed? What can you do when you are a thousand miles away? The only thing that I can think of is pray and keep telling that person how much you love them, how much they mean to you, and that you are there for them to talk and to help them through those rough times.

I did that this evening... I told how much I loved them, how much they mean, and that I'll always be here to talk to in those times. I know how depression is... and I know that the devil is going to use whatever he can to get his claws into someone. He can't have this one. I will *not* let that happen. P e r i o d.

A student of mine from San Angelo High School took his life on Thanksgiving Holidays. In doing what he did, he ruined that holiday for his all of his loved ones. He cheated as far as I'm concerned. Took that easy road out - and left the ones here to deal with what he left behind. I'm sorry, I can't see that as a good thing. I can't see others suffering from losing a loved one that way. And what's sad, is I'm still aggravated at that kid after all this time. He made me mad - my thoughts now even go back to the same thing: "How dare he do that to his family and friends!?"

Moving on....

Moving on....

I finished Jerry and the Pirates this evening and I'm putting them up on the server to be seen for final review. Hopefully they will be okay. I guess now, I can start back on Moonfleet. The moody piece that I love.

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Jan 11 -- Sunday

Of course, I waited again and I'm going to have to update later. At least I'm doing this to remind myself... right? Blah.