Archive for October, 2007
October 21, 2007 at 10:00 pm · Filed under daily
Dave gets his morning routine down pat. He wakes up, grumping a good morning (or not), and can’t have a decent conversation or even crack a smile without his morning coffee. Everyday, he goes out and gets his coffee, and comes back home in 15 minutes. Sometimes, I think those espresso machines sound really good, or even a simple coffee machine. He insists not, and that’s okay. Heh. It’s his routine. It’s kinda cute, actually.
Everyone has their own morning routine. I have mine. It includes taking a shower. I have to take a shower every morning, even on weekends. During this whole renovation thing, it’s really screwed up with my everyday routine, sometimes taking showers at Jenbug’s house, sometimes taking baths late at night at home because we don’t have shower doors or curtains in our new tub yet, and sometimes I go without a shower or bath for a day. That feels the worst, I think. I can’t take that. Routines have a way to keep us scheduled. It’s kind of odd, really. Do you have an odd routine too?
October 21, 2007 at 9:48 pm · Filed under daily, thoughts
I am constantly amazed at how hard people work at my agency. All the therapists all work together to make sure we provide the best care for our clients. All the paraprofessionals are engaging and lovely (especially little Miss Jen J). Even all the other programs are awesome possum, lest I know very much about a lot of them. I’m really blessed to be working in a nonprofit social services agency that puts people first. Heck, with all our money issues (constantly, being a nonprofit, and all), I’m impressed that our human resources lady gets all of her work done so efficiently and sufficiently without a human resources software. It’s amazing all of this work we do. Hard work, and often overtime, with little complaints (well, sometimes a lot, when I’m stressed, heh). I appreciate the work place I work in. 
October 19, 2007 at 7:50 pm · Filed under daily
Yay for Friday!! WOOHOO! This week has been a bit strange — almost surreal. I ended up taking a shower at Jenbug’s house 3 days during the week because of our bathroom getting renovated, and on one day I tried taking a shower at Gran’s downstairs, but she didn’t have any curtains so it was very awkward trying not to get too wet while you’re taking a shower. Seems like a weird ironic oxymoron of some sort. I’ve been all over the place this week, it feels like one would need a GPS system to get ahold of me! The bathroom is almost done, but the walls need to be painted, the cabinet and sink installed (waiting for the plumber to come to fix the pipes so the cabinet can fit), and the sliding glass doors installed. The bathroom looks so freakin’ nice, even with it being only half done. It’s beautiful, I tell ya. I’ll take more pics and post them at blathersnort.com, our home site.
Friday is wonderful. Oh so wonderful. Tomorrow Jen (R) is coming over for another photo shoot, so that will be fun.
October 16, 2007 at 9:23 pm · Filed under daily
I’ve been feeling pretty giddy lately. I don’t know why, but I think it’s because life is good. Well, I KNOW it’s because life is good. Heh. I’ve been hanging out with Jenbug a lot more during the day — it helps that we work together and see each other everyday. That probably has something to do with it. I love that girl! She’s a breath of fresh air, I tell ya! She’s been getting me into trouble too, with all this spontaneous shopping. Heh. Luckily I’m doing relatively good with money this month, so I still have a bit of money left before payday. Woohoo! At this rate, not only can we afford our honeymoon soon, we’d be on our way to getting one of those luxury homes! Haha. 
October 16, 2007 at 7:51 pm · Filed under daily
Autumn is here. Autumn is so darn beautiful, with all the Fall leaves with their different colors. I am always in awe when I see these colors. It’s like I see them with new eyes every year even though this happens every year. The cycle never ceases to amaze me. I truly live in the most beautiful area in the world. Or probably one of, to be honest. Hehe. These pictures are from around town, in the Vancouver area in B.C. as well as the Whatcom County area in Washington. I had to bring my camera along to make sure I get these because they always take my breath away. Despite all the rain, the changing seasons are completely worth it. I would not want to live anywhere else but here.
And, while at Jen & Brandon’s home, we were greeted by a beautiful full-circle rainbow. Can’t see the whole thing in this picture, as it was too big to capture, but I wanted to show you anyway. We’re blessed! Graced by the universe herself!
October 13, 2007 at 4:23 pm · Filed under daily
Nothing like a busy busy day to keep one… busy. Well, I did all the chores on my list. There is one last load of laundry in the dryer and I’m going to put them away pretty soon. Just played another game of Guild Wars with Dave, and now I’m preparing to do some paperwork for work. We’re also going to be taking Gran out to dinner tonight, so that will be a lovely time had by all, I’m sure. Japanese food is yummy!
I just learned of a site that sells incontinence products for those in need of them. Wouldn’t have known where to get them, but now I do, in case I ever need them (hopefully not for a looong time) or if I know of anyone who may need them. These days, you can get anything you want on the internet!
We’re also trying to get rid of some of our furniture to reduce the clutter in the house: a twin bed, two computer chairs, this weird water cooler stand that we’ve been using as a plant stand, and a foot stool thingamajig. May end up just throwing some of them out because not even Craig’s List people want them. Weird?
October 13, 2007 at 9:28 am · Filed under interests, thoughts
I’ve come across a lot of crazy things that I didn’t know before, since exploring the internet and opening my eyes up to new websites and stuff, like plasma cutting. Didn’t know those things even existed. It makes me realize that there are a lot of things I’m still ignorant to. After so many years in formal education and living 26 years on this earth, I am still pretty ignorant. Not stupid, but ignorant. I don’t believe in inherently stupid people. I believe that we all deserve chances to learn, and it is when we choose not to is when we are condemned as “stupid.” When we turn our backs on the very face of knowledge while it stares us in the face is when we are deemed “stupid.” When we are given the opportunity to learn something outside of our realm of comfort zone, and when we refuse to accept it or even admit its existence because the very fact that it’s there frightens the hell out of us, we can then be coined as “stupid.” Outside of then, no one is stupid to me. 
In yesterday’s training on psychosomatic disorders and how to treat them, I learned something incredibly fascinating that I did not know of before. Perhaps I suspected it in my years of study and experience working with people, but I doubted its fact. The simple lesson that I learned was:
Reality and fantasy are stored in the same place in the brain.
That means that whatever our memories are of one certain event, regardless of the perspective we chose to take at the time, they are stored in the same place of the brain. The brain cannot distinguish between what is fact and what is fiction. What is reality to us may not be reality to someone else, but in our brain, it doesn’t matter. It is “real.” It becomes fact. If we believe in something long enough, we can convince our brain, and therefore ourselves, that it is true.
This is the answer to depression, to “severe sadness” (as directly translated in other languages where the word “depression” does not exist), to behavioral modification systems, to everything that can explain the human condition in all its glory. By curing depression, we simply must convince ourselves that happiness is real. Well, I suppose the “simply” part is the hard work, and it’s not exactly simple. But I live by the phrase my yoga teachers, who are true wise angels in this world, keep telling us in class, “Fake it till you make it.” You practice something so much that it gets stored in that “reality” part of your brain, regardless of whether or not in real actuality it is true, and it becomes true.
And therefore, I believe in my happiness. I believe I am beautiful. I believe I can do anything. I believe I can be anyone’s friend. I believe I am invincible to the negative touch. I believe I can look at life with a positive life in every corner, every aspect. I believe in the human spirit. I believe I am strong.
And it must be true, because all those things, I just stored in my brain.
October 13, 2007 at 9:09 am · Filed under daily
Well, Dave and I ended up going to bed at 9pm. Yes, you heard right – 9pm! Wow! We tried out the new expansion pack that we got for Guild Wars called Factions, and after about half an hour of toying in it, we went to bed. 12 hours later, I’m finally up and I feel so completely rested it’s not even funny. Yay! Going to yoga today, and then coming home to clean house before I set back to work in front of the computer to catch up on my paperwork for work. I’m determined to no longer be behind, but unfortunately that means a lot of work at home outside of seeing clients during the work week.
Some things that need to be done this weekend:
- laundry
- vacuum
- dust
- clean kitchen
That’s pretty much it, so no worries there. Reno guy is coming over at 10am to look at our bathrooms again and give us a time when he can start the work. So exciting, woohoo!! I can’t wait to have a new bathroom, complete with a new bathtub and new sink and new toilet and new paint job and everything. Can’t wait to finally have a bath after all these years.
October 12, 2007 at 7:44 pm · Filed under sponsored
Wealth Expo is the major seminar that is created for investors in order to expand the way they do business and make money. If you’re into that sort of thing, like many of my family and friends are, this will very likely interest you a great deal. Investment big rigs and leaders of every type of industry will be there to give their speeches and tips over how to expand your business or how to even start a business. Looking over their curriculum of classes and speakers, there are quite a few I would be interested in, including the talk regarding how to be successful in a real estate market that is troubled. Some of our family members are real estate agents and while the market is relatively good right now, I bet they would want to know more about how to keep it good when it’s not so good in the general population.
The Expo will be held in New York from October 19 to October 21 of this year. It is sponsored by MyWallSt.net: Your Financial Social Network and is held for 2.5 days, with the first day (October 19) beginning at 1pm and lasting to 6:30pm followed by a cocktail party. There, you can rub elbows with the known investors and learn more of their secrets and tips. The second day is a full day from 9am to 6:30pm with cocktail hour to follow also. The third day is also a full day, from 9am to 4pm, but with no cocktail hour (I’m sure everyone will want to go home by then, after soaking up all that information on all types of investments). Check it out, and participate if you are so inclined to do better in investments and business.
October 12, 2007 at 5:48 am · Filed under daily
I can’t believe I’m up at this ungodly hour. I have to go to a training near Seattle today, so I have about two hours drive ahead of me this morning… which is why I’m up at this ass crack time of dawn. Remarkably, I’m actually UP, versus just being awake. I’m up, completely awake, aware, ready to go. I’m usually not a morning person but this morning seems somehow to be different. I can’t believe I’m actually up and my whole body isn’t aching for the bed. My mind is working, my senses are alert. This must be how “morning people” feel. Heh.
Gotta catch up on the rest of my paperwork. Can’t fall behind, can’t fall behind. Still need to get those intakes and exit summaries done. Yoinks. I hope I can catch up over this weekend. We’re not planning any big events this weekend (unless there’s another spontaneous photo shoot I don’t know about!) so it should be good to go. This week has been kinda crazy. I had weird pockets of free time (mostly when I’m with Jen in between our appointments) and we can’t do much with them because we’re out in the boonies somewhere. Yesterday was interesting, when we got stood up by a client, and had about an hour to kill. It wasn’t worth it going back to the office, but we didn’t know what else to do so we went to do some weird mini shopping at PetSmart and Michael’s. Regardless, it was fun cuz it’s time with Jen.
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