Mama’s moving this week- the Bunnies have come to Casa Gillette to live…
Spike cautiously inspects this new grass…
A lightened pic to show the new hiding spot-under the shed.
We had an accident pouring the food…
-Taria
GED Over April 17, 2008
Yay! I took it. I get my results in 2-4 weeks, and my diploma after that. I am so tired. After the test, Mom took me out to China King. She’d won a free meal, and as a stipulation, we had to watch a program on fire safety. I am terrified of house fires. And home invaders. And everything else. So on top of the test I’m now scared of house fires and realize that I won’t be able to afford the awesome fire prevention alarms the man is going to pitch to be tomorrow, for in my safety fervor I made an appointment for 11 AM. With Flylady, my house is clean enough, besides the fact that my entertainment center is strewn across the floor connected by a motley assortment of cords in a definitely unsafe manner. My fire alarms, which are only 55.8% accurate anyway, apparently, are sitting in the kitchen, disabled and waiting for new batteries. I’m paranoid. More than usual. Pray for me, that I get thru the night without being singed or losing my sanity. -Taria
P. S. A battery, even a dead one, will ignite steel wool if both contact points touch it. Get those loose batteries out of drawers and ziploc before disposing them!
This Week April 4, 2008
I am tired. It’s not like I had a ton to do this week, but what I did have to do took its toll more than it should have. I’m happy, tho, and hopeful. I’m on Day 5 of Flylady, and tomorrow I learn about hotspots. Emotionally, this system has been very revealing to me about just how much my house and other things stress me out and affect my life. I’m learning a lot about myself and just how much I bury on a regular basis. I’m also learning about why I overeat, and how to change. I am so resistant to change sometimes and being told what to do, no matter how kindly, but this system is very slowly-babystepping-changing my life.
There are only two negative side effects, short term. The first is, I’ve been a bit more stressed about changing as well as the aforementioned realization about how much things really bother me, and that’s caused some internal anger and external hissy fits. Plus, I don’t like and it’s painful to confront these issues.
Secondly, I’ve used the system to negate what I was already doing before, such as working on the house and studying. I’ve spent most of my time goofing off. The upcoming GED is less than two weeks away now, and has me a little nervous, as do what I want/need to do afterwards: get a job.
Went to the OBGYN this week- second time ever, since 16 mos ago. My menstrual cycles were always irregular, except for Dec ‘06 – Nov ‘07, when I was on birth control. The doctor thinks I might have polycystic ovary syndrome, meaning I develop an egg each month, but many months my body doesn’t get a strong enough hormonal signal to release it. I read up on it, it’s strongly related to obesity, making it yet another incentive to work on some body clutter. For regular cycles, birth control is the easiest way. When Chris and I start trying to have kids, she can give me something to kick-start my system. I was supposed to get the results of the blood test today, but I wasn’t home to see if they called, and they didn’t call my cell. I’d really like to get an answering machine. I got my “happygram” today, no sign of cancerous cells. That’s always good. =)
Will try to blog more -Taria
Check Out This Site April 3, 2008
Mama made an awesome discovery the other day- someone told her about Flylady.net. I went to it, I read it, it made sense. I am on Day 4, learning how to get off my Franny.
I’m sorry it’s been awhile, and I will write a longer post later. In the mean time, check out the website! -Taria
GED Studies March 24, 2008
Okay, so I think I mentioned that I take my GED on April 17th. I only studied one day last week and I’ve studied a little today but then I ate and now I’m sleepy. I love learning, though. One of my GED books very craftily teaches the basic info I need to know as well as how to take the test. I was studying science, one of subjects (along with social studies and math) that I need to brush up on.
The problem for me is that social studies and science are reading comprehension, which I’ve never quite understood. So along with some basic information on cell structure, the book taught me how to find the main idea and the details that support it. Now I can use that to answer the questions, which to me always seemed very tricky. Two choices would often be obviously wrong, one is unsupported or unstated by the information given, one is correct and is stated by the paragraph but is not shown in the graph or figure, which is wrong since the question specifically asked for something supported by the the graph, and one is correct. Whew. On top of that, I’m now very nervous about my writing style because I didn’t mention writing or reading as subjects I needed to work on and so now I feel nonexistent judging eyes upon my work here.
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Kitty Pics March 18, 2008
This pic is bad quality, but can you say awwww?
The kitties loved how I arranged the kitchen because they can sit on the deep freeze; they also love Nash’s old dog bed, so I combined them…(this was taken today).
Kitties in the window a few minutes ago, waiting for the storm…
One more -it’s just awesome.
-Taria
‘Twas a Blustery Day… March 18, 2008
The wind is something here today. Weather Channel site says potentially severe storms are on the way. I’ve got some windows open to enjoy the breeze-the kitties love it too.
Found out on Friday night that my GED test date is April 17. Yay! I’m excited and nervous. A whole month to study, I thought. ‘Till I didn’t study yesterday, because I got caught up working in the kitchen, rearranging. It looks a lot better, tho. I’m happy with it so far. Also, I have 2 GED prep books, yet one is missing. Yet more incentive to keep chipping away at this mess.
I love Daylight Savings time, and spring. It’s after six, and still there is light, even tho the sky is grey. -Taria
Pressure March 16, 2008
My aunt just wrote an awesome post on her blog. Now I’m thinking, hmm, my blog has been neglected the last couple of days…I have a readership! Must…deliver…aaahhh!
And my Mama beat my comment by 2 minutes! How funny that we were both reading it at the same time.
Here, be distracted by kitten photos…
Kenshin
San
That’s all for now. -Taria
Anime-Manga Mania! March 12, 2008
Today Chris and I were at Hastings, and I was getting Manga. Chris owed me ’cause he got Super Smash Bros.! We ended up having a conversation with the nice lady behind us – turns out she loves manga & anime too, and is even going to open up a store! Her daughter works in digital animation, and apparently she got her hooked. She watched Cowboy Bebop and liked it (that’s Chris’s favorite – in that genre I’m more of a Outlaw Star fan, Cowboy Bebop being much darker, tho overall I like YuYu Hakusho and Chobits in the anime, so far-oh, and Dragonball Z). Anyway she’s been researching it for two years, and her store was actually supposed to open next month, but it has to be delayed another 18 mos because of the economy (sigh). I was just enthralled to meet someone cool! I gave her our e-mail addresses so she can keep us updated on the store’s progress.
I originally scorned anime, a few years ago. I called it “japanimation” and thought it was stupid. When I was 17, I met Crystal, and she at least taught me to say “anime”.
But I really didn’t get into it until I met my husband in 2006. He hooked me with “Chobits”, and I gradually liked it more and more. I still don’t know a whole lot, but I like to pretend I do. =)
Now if only I could put down my books and clean this house…
They didn’t have the Naruto I needed (this happens a lot-maybe God is telling me to stop and work on more important things?) so I got:
Fruits Basket #1 Bleach # 1 Yu-Gi-Oh GX #1 Hikaru No Go #1
Plus this month’s Sonic the Hedgehog.
I’m geeked out for now-’till later. -Taria
