raijahn

Joined Twitter. I rarely update on lj, but I adore texting, especially short, random messages, so twittering is pretty perfect for that.

Lots has happened the past few months. Biggest thing is my decision to leave Everest and save up to move to Albany so I can go to school at Oregon State University. I'll have to start at the community college in Albany, get my AA there, before transferring to OSU, but I'm certain this will be a better, more fulfilling journey than two years at an expensive trade school whose credits won't transfer anywhere therefore rendering the possibility of getting an MBA pretty much impossible. Also, I can take awesome classes like Tai Chi. For credit, even. How cool is that?

Work is sucky as usual. Recently one of our housekeepers was caught prostituting herself in the back truck lot. Lord knows why. She drove an $80,000 car to work every night. Needless to say she was fired, but there's still an investigation in the works because it seems likely two of her coworkers, also housekeepers, may be involved, too. It's just utter nasty business that I sorely wish I knew nothing about, but the housekeeper who was caught worked on my shift during the weekend. Pretty much, I was her only supervisor. >.< Not that I'm responsible, but I felt pretty crappy for a couple days.

Fox and I are doing good, which sometimes still surprises me. Our one year is coming up next month. The distance has been good for us. Most especially me. I'm finally learning how to be a whole person outside of the relationship, rather than a half dependent solely on that other half. It's been very enlightening.

I'm going to be trying out yoga soon. I found a couple of dvds that look promising. I've been feeling very weighed down lately, mentally and physically, and exercise has always helped with that. Getting out to walk every day isn't always possible because of my work schedule, but I'm going to try that, too. Minimum of six and max of eight hours of sleep, get up to exercise, even if it's just a ten minute walk around the block, regardless of the time of night or day. I work three different shifts every week, so my waking and going to bed times vary drastically. I'm hoping that a regular waking routine at least will help stabilize me a bit more.

Outside of work and health stuff, I've been thoroughly enjoying my usual blend of books, music, tv and movies. Perhaps next time I'll expand on that. *grins* For now, bed. *hugs to all* Night.

Life has been very busy and very stressful as of late (you know, the last several months when most of you haven't heard from me? *sheepish*) but pretty good all in all. Work, school, school, work. Friends, family. (Thank *god* for them.)

I've pretty much worked myself nearly to death these last few months. I started having migraines every day, which led to the doctor, which led to the discovery that I'm anemic (the iron deficient kind, hence the constant exhaustion) and vitamin D deficient (levels should be at *least* 30 - they were 14 - hence the migraines). I'm on a strong regimen of vitamins and minerals and the like, and have greatly improved over the last couple of weeks. Vacation is in less than two weeks, so a nice break from work, and a well deserved and needed visit with the boyfriend.

Anyway... I was browsing around lj and found a very positive meme on roxymissrose's lj. I wasn't tagged to do it, but I thought, what the heck? I could use more positive in my life. So here goes...

Here's the deal:
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.

Quite a few things made me happy today (or yesterday as I work grave, so my days are screwy).

~Fox called out of the blue to share his celebration of completing his first term with three A's out of four classes.

~Two of my favorite guests at the hotel were both in house last night, so I got great big hugs from them both, which was awesome. *beams* I love me my boys.

~I'm finally getting over the cold that laid me out this week and I suffered *no* head pain at all. *cheers*

~My mom sent me an awesome birthday card and enclosed a gift card to my favorite store. (I'm forcing myself not to head to said store now because I work tonight so I must sleep soon.)


I have no idea if anyone is still reading my journal, so pretty much, if you wanna do this meme, do. *shrugs, grins*

Signing off. Hopefully it won't be that long till next time.

Does anyone know how to save a file in Excel so it has a preview image? Supposedly there's a way to do that, so when you are in the open file dialog box and you click on the file name you can see an image of the file before you open it. I cannot for the life of me figure it out and Excel help has been less than helpful.

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Try out this Meme

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Totally and shamelessly gakked from p33ner cuz it looked likes lots of amusing fun.



Plus I got:

"Something Special In The Raijahn"

"Dude, You're Getting a Raijahn!"

"What's In Your Raijahn?"

"It's Not All Raijahn, Raijahn, Raijahn, you know."

"How Do You Eat Your Raijahn?"


Jebus Criminy, some of these are dirty. o.O

*snickers* My nephew is in rare form today. He's hitting everyone who picks him up, trying to put anything and everything he can find in his mouth, regardless of what it is or where it's been, and mama is the only person he wants. He was uber happy to see me, which rocked, but he kept hitting me in the face, the little brat. Hee. He got put in time out for a bit and it just escalated from there. He's eight months going on two years at this point.

*wonders how bad it'll be when he actually hits those terrible twos* O.O

Had a dream I met Eric Szmanda, this is all I remember -

Me: "I write stories about Greg and Nick. Sometimes they boink."

Eric: "That's cool." *pauses* "Sometimes George and I boink."


Me upon waking up: "..."

I think I'm getting just as sick as everyone else with the whole weekly updates thing on a fic that's actually completed, so, I'm going to post the rest of it all in one go (though, possibly multiple posts) and just let ya'll have at it. That way, you guys can enjoy the rest of Marathon in peace, and I can work on getting the third story done. I'm going to post all the chapters to What Makes the Desert Beautiful and link back to it here and on csi_slash. The only other place I'll post it is on tfaro cuz that's where I'm storing all the chapters to all three stories. So, yeah, give me about half an hour or so, and I'll post again with the links. Ciao!

Smallville is crack, crack I tell you.


That is all.

Me, Rae, Kaleb and Rae's sister Ash were all in the bedroom last night. Kaleb was crawling around, and then stopped and proceeded to spit up on the floor. I opened my mouth to tell Rae and ask where the baby wipes were, but before I could get more than her name out of my mouth the puppy licked it all up. *shudders*

(This so appeals to my dark side) Ash has a 'stalker' who likes to text her and not tell her who he/she is. Rae said to tell the person this - If you don't stop texting me, I'm going to hunt you down and rip out your still beating heart and smash it into the ground just for the fun of it. *pauses* I'm pretty sure she *didn't* sent anything that graphic, but whatever she *did* send stopped the text messages.

Which leads me into the story of *my* sister's stalker, from about six years ago -

Trish:(on phone) "Hello?"
Stalker: "Hey."
Trish: "Who's this?"
Stalker: "Your stalker!"
Trish: (super excited voice) "Really?! I have a stalker?! That's so cool!"
Stalker: "..."
Trish: "Well, if you're stalking me, then what do I look like?"
Stalker: "...I don't know."
Trish: *huffs* "Well, then you're not a very good stalker, are you?" *hangs up*


The End