All Purpose

So here’s the almost 2nd quarter update on my resolutions.

So I did manage to go 3 months (March, April, May) with no nonessential purchases. I did buy a few clothes, some for work and some for the funeral (they were needed though). I also spent some money on plants for the garden, that was a planned expense though and most of it was on a gift card. I also bought a new iPod after my old one died (I waited a month and I used the economic stimulus money for it). I didn’t get any yarn which was a big thing.

I didn’t get through the last month as clean as I’d hoped, and I’m not convinced I’ve broken myself of manic spending so I’m going to continue on with this little quest with some new “guidelines”. I had planned on rewarding myself with some yarn, but since I did get an iPod I have decided I can only get yarn for 1 project if it’s under $20, and I have to commit to starting the project right away and finishing within a month.

I also made a budget/purchase plan for all the yarn I need to xmas presents. I will be buying yarn for one xmas project each month and I will start/finish that project the next month.

I also decided if I got to August and my finances were in good order and I’d done well with spending I could purchase $50 (or less if I can’t afford $50 but can afford $30) worth of yarn for a “summer” project. Again must be started in August and completed in September. I’ll also continue to forgo magazines, make-up, clothes, anything except essentials and my reward(s) and the gift yarn.

I managed to get the garden in, I’m only needing to plant a few more plants that are still in pots and prepare and plant the new roses when they come. It’s getting really hot now so these projects will most likely take place on weekends though I may do some work after work next week when M is out of town.

I am getting back into exercise, but I’ll need at least 2 full weeks before I say I’m doing that for real.

I am back to knitting/crocheting almost every day and am starting to get back into picture taking mode.

I still haven’t cracked the writing resolution so I need to get moving on that for real.

I haven’t kept my personal goals (pets, car, name change) as well. Well, I’ve taken care of the pets well, but the car still needs maintenance and I’ve decided to make the name change an anniversary present (1st year is paper after all).

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So today I’m super happy. Sweetie’s coming home, I got the sweater caught back up, and I’m almost done with my blanket for Ella. Ella’s my niece and she’s 17 months old. I was at the hospital knitting a blanket for her when she was being born, but then I got engaged and married so I didn’t work on the blanket, and when I came back to it I realized it wouldn’t really fit her. I had a brilliant idea though to frog the blanket and do a patchwork blanket with the original yarn plus various leftovers and stash yarn. I am on the last square so she may actually get this present before she turns 2. Go me!

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Don’t worry I did get a photo yesterday, but I didn’t a chance to post it yet. I’ll do yesterday’s and today’s tonight sometime.

And I will try to figure out why my camera is a day off on the date/time stamp.

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Ok, so here’s a little update on how my goals/resolutions are going.

And I think that’s about it. I really haven’t made any progress on the job front. I think the other thing I’m struggling with right now is the fact that I like my knitting blog a lot better. I think maybe I should just merge the blogs. I need to think about it some more.

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I’m feeling blah today. I am supposed to go to my core class tonight for running. [For those wondering what the hell that means, it means being tortured for an hour by a super-fit runner who wants us to do leg and ab work-HELL, but kind of fun hell.] I want to go, but I don’t want to go. I guess the weather is crappy, and my allergies suck, and I’m alone again this week. I think this might be a regular problem though since I didn’t really want to go last week either, I guess the M-W crazy work/work-out schedule is a bit tiring. I know I’ll adjust to it, but right now I’m sooooo tired and the cedar fever shit doesn’t help.

I’m also feeling kind of blah about work lately too. I should be excited, I’m starting a new project, new software, etc. But I’m not. I no longer take pleasure in any of my work really. I have brief flashes of excitement, but nothing like how I used to feel about my job. I can’t figure out if it’s the time of year, getting married or just that really I am done with this job. *sigh*

In fun news though, we got some new furniture (pics to follow) last weekend. I’ll show it off later. I ordered M. a MacBook Air (MBA) today. It looks pretty sweet, and hopefully I’ll get to use it once in a while too. I was quite disappointed that no new iPhone was announced though. I really want one, but I want to hold out for 3G, so hurry up Steve Jobs and get me a 3G iPhone, sheesh.

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Ok, so here’s my obligatory 2008 list of not really resolutions, but goals:

And of course I want to be a good pet mom, and take care of my belongings (car and home) in a fairly regular fashion, and get my name changed officially to my married name. That’s quite a list. I’ll try to do monthly updates on where I stand on these goals.

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So I have a couple of preoccupations that fill my “free” time or the time at work where I’m avoiding work. One is completely fascinating, but probably totally morbid to some people. The other is so shallow and girly it’s sort of funny.

Ok, so I guess when the whole Natalee Holloway thing happened I got interested in this idea of people disappearing or meeting a bad end while they are on vacation or traveling to a place other than their home. So I started digging around and compiling a list of people that have disappeared OR met foul play during travels. I have recently started migrating this into a database on dabble db (which if you are into databases and shit you so need to check out. So this is still a work in progress, but I hope when I get it all sorted out and then start really leveraging some of the dabble features it will be pretty cool (like map of missing people and other cool stuff). So anyway, that’s the morbid.

The other thing I do a lot of is swapping, makeup that is. I’ve been using MakeUpAlley (MUA to those in the know) to find reviews of beauty products for a while, but then this summer I discovered that you can actually swap makeup and other beauty products on the site as well. It’s awesome because you can swap things to try before you shell out the cash for them. I <3 it big time.

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I have the blahs. I don’t know if it’s because the weather can’t settle, or just that I’m in need of some r&r or what, but I do not want to work.

Ever since I transferred to the new job I’ve gone through periods of high productively and something bordering on the passion I once felt for my job, and the blahs. Part of me is really excited that they think I’m so good at implementing new software that they picked me to be the project manager for our new ERM. Then the cynical part of me wonders if they are setting me up to fail. Really I don’t believe I’ll fail because I think I’m realistic in my expectations of what the software can do, but are they?

The other thing that has me down is the whole admin of the library is fucking dysfunctional it’s ridiculous and I’ve been there 6 years now and I honestly don’t think the way things work is going to change until all the upper admin retires and most of the middle management too. I don’t see myself waiting around for that in the hopes that the libraries will become a magically fairyland of forward thinking.

So anyway, it’s close to the xmas break (1 week, 5 days) so my motivation is low and I’ll probably spend the day catching up on knitting blogs and feverishly hoping to get my ravelry invite (which I’m estimating I’ll actually get the week of xmas). Maybe I’ll work on my morbid past time (more on that later).

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So I know I said like a year ago that I was back and that I’d be posting and blah, blah, blah. Then I didn’t post and I wasn’t really back. Well I have a good explanation, I swear. So here’s what I did on my long blogging hiatus:

So, see a very busy year+ for me. I’m done with the wedding stuff though and work is slightly less stressful now. I’m back to crafting (see knitter’s lib), and trying to get myself back into the running habit which I miss (but I’m naturally lazy so even though I like running it’s hard).

I really am going to try to write in this and my knitting blog on a regular basis though, really.

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