August 18, 2012

• I got 4  hours of sleep!  I think the combination of the aromatherapy/herbal stuff/lavender heat packs did help last night.  I'm going to do the same again tonight.  I also did some yoga this morning and, if its not a bazillion degrees in the living room tonight, will do some more.  My active campaign to de-stress my life on a day-to-day basis is also helping.  Didn't hear from the ex at all yesterday, which is a wonderful thing. My neighbor and I had, what we laughingly call, a "back and forth day" yesterday.  We were in and out of each other's houses all day.  We'd each work around the house for a couple of hours and then take a much-needed ice water break and talk for a while.

  The Mandie situation continues.  I've heard nothing.  Another picture of Tristan popped up on the Internet yesterday which I was very grateful for.  He looks exactly like Matt did at the same age.  The situation is what it is, and I feel the best thing I can do is respect the distance they feel is needed. And what I mean by that is Andie doesn't want me to see Matt or Tristan.  I'm sure Matt would hear about it if he brought Tristan over to see me.  I want things to go as smoothly as possible for them right now, so that's the last thing I want to happen.  I guess the landlord found out about the kitten and is threatening to give them a 3 day notice to get out.  What complicates things even further is that the landlord is Andie's aunt.  Sam and I talked about it a little yesterday, and we both keep saying the same thing-they knew they weren't suppose to have pets when they moved in there, which is why Buk is with us.

  My first load of laundry went in at 2:30am.  I'm trying to do an early morning load every day to run the dryer as little as possible.  I noticed yesterday that all 4 pets are feeling the effects of the heat-I feel I live in fan city and am craving total silence in the house.

  Last night I continued my "Allie McBeal" marathon.  I have the first 3 seasons and am on season 2.  Wonderfully written, stellar cast, and it makes me laugh-I can't ask for anything more right now. I really am loving being back in the world of "Fishisms", "bygones", and "taking a moment".   Since I'm up so early, I'm getting an early start on my "to do" list.  I plan to take Buk and go to the grocery store around 6:30am while its still cool.  The boy loves his bye-byes.  I should be done with everything by early afternoon.  Then I'm going to watch "The Expendables" to get ready to see the second one tomorrow.  I always feel guilty if I watch a dv during the day-like I should be doing housework or something productive.

  I realized yesterday that, in exactly 2 months, I will be spending 3 days at Disneyland.  So I have 2 months to get into fighting shape.  The first day I will have Sam with me, so I'm not worried about that.  But the next two days will be my solo days.  However, they are really good about helping you on and off the rides.  That is still a little difficult for me.  But I know the yoga and walking will help.  Next week I'll start back on my stair step machine.  Every so often I come up with, what I consider, a brilliant idea.  Instead of trying to put money aside for my trip, when I get $25 in my Disneyland Fund bucket (it lives on my dining room table), the next time I go to the grocery store, I grab a Disney gift card for that amount.  That way I can't spend the money on anything else-I already have enough to get Sam and I in the first day and all our meals/snacks!

  I worked with my new camera yesterday and am getting used to it.  I think I'm going to go to Sea World one afternoon this next week and just shoot.  My next technological goal will be to upload the software to transfer the pictures to my computer.  There may be a lot of swearing when that happens, but I'm confident I can do it.  After all, I did become friends with my iPhone and I would have laughed hysterically at you six months ago if you told me I'd be using one.

  I have a new Twitter crush-Bruce Campbell.  He's made some movies and now is on "Burn Notice".  Plus, the man looks fine in a kilt. I also follow another actor, Patton Oswald, who is in Florida right now filming an episode of "Burn Notice".  They tweet back and forth all day and it cracks me up!  Yesterday, Patton Oswald tweeted that, at 7am, Bruce Campbell was blasting Tom Jones songs in his trailer.  When he referenced "Delilah", I couldn't stop laughing for 30 minutes.  My mom was a huge Tom Jones fan and I actually know the words to most of his songs.  I loved my mother dearly, but feel the woman emotionally scarred me as far as that goes.

  Crap, now "What's New Pussycat" is stuck in my head.  Time to put the iPod headphones on and take care of that with a little Katy Perry! Otherwise I'm going to go through the house singing it to the cats.  Sam doesn't allow me to sing in the house-I am seriously the tuneless wonder.

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