The dreaded Christmas cold...

I have to say I love Christmas. It's my faverite holiday. But it never fails, every year, I get a cold around this time.
I don't know whether it's from the weather or the shopping stress or what, but I always get the dreaded Christmas cold.
Right now I'm hunkered down with a nice mug of hot tea and a box of tissues trying to will myself better.
I'm almost done my workout for the day, so I can go to bed soon and get some rest. Who needs sleep anyway?
At least I'm pretty much done my shopping.

I love giving presents to people, but I hate shopping. I think next year maybe I'll crochet some scarves or something. A gift from the heart sort of thing.

Anyway, that's enough feverish rambling for one night.

Merry Christmas everyone and drive safe!
God bless!

I'm back...

I just wrote my last finals on Friday. Finally I'm finished!!!
I've been a walking stress case for the past two weeks and I'm so glad it's over. This year, the science department scheduled our geology finals (all five of them) to take place in three days a week after classes ended. It was a nightmare circus of pain.
But now that I'm done, I find that I still feel residual stress. I haven't gotten any marks back yet so I'm in that weird limbo state where your worried about how you did, but you can't do anything about it; your exams are done.
I was looking forward to relaxing and letting loose for the holidays, but I'm finding that I still have a thousand things I want to get done over my brief break. I'm trying to let some things go, because I really need to recharge for next symester, but it's hard.
It's funny how you can trade one set of stresses for another.

"Take a deep breath, relax, enjoy." That's becoming my holiday motto.
Or at least I'm working on making it so:)

It's buckle down time...

My final exams start next week.
I'm trying to make myself study, but I'm finding it really hard to buckle down. I feel like I'm drained and just don't care.
But that attitude gets me into trouble.
If I don't study hard, I'll do poorly and not accomplish my goals.

I need to force myself to sit down and study boring igneous petrology and structural geology.
I just have to make it to Dec 13 and I'll be golden! I can do it!

I just need to buckle down and work harder...

Goodbye little friend...

This weekend has been a rather rough one. We had to put our little kitten, Bastet, down. He had a very bad infection and was in alot of pain. He was one of the best kittens I ever owned; he was smart, clever, had a sense of humor and was mischevious and active. I'll miss my little friend, but it was for the best.

When we took him to the vet Friday night, the vet gave us a choice: we good keep giving him medicine (he'd been fighting the infection on and off for a couple of weeks) and keep trying to cure him, or we could end his suffering and put him down. As hard as it was, we decided to set him free. Is it fair to keep a suffering animal around because you'll miss it when it goes? I don't think so. But it's bitter sweet. He's at peace now, but I miss him alot.

So here's to you little guy...
I know your in kitty heaven raising heck:)

A little bit goes a long way...

I had as a requirement to complete 17334 push ups and situps by October 31. I'm happy to say that as of October 31, I had completed 19,317 push ups and 18,904 situps.
A while back, I had decided that I could do 10 more reps every night (10 p.u. or s.u. is quite doable) and those extra 10 really added up. I got almost 2000 extra reps in. That's the secret. Always do a little extra. You can always do a couple more. They add up!

I've decided to keep going. It would be such a waste to stop now. I've come so far, I want to keep going. So as of tonight my counts are : 19,645 p.u. and 19,230 s.u.

Who know, maybe I'll have 3,352,160 reps done by the time I'm 80:)