room vomit.

my room looks as though it threw up.  or perhaps it was my closets that threw up into my room, i don't know.  all i can tell is that the more i try to pack, the worse it becomes and the less it feels like i've accomplished .  and that i will never, ever be able to live in a single room again!

speaking of throwing up, i feel as if i might do that myself.  i'm about to have a nervous breakdown because i haven't heard anything yet about my summer plans.  it's some serious anxiety, i can tell you.

BUT, i got my bridesmaid's dress ordered today (since i am a rectangle, i will have to squeeze into the middle while padding the top or something).  AND i got another check from the federal government refunding me the rest of the money that was taken out of all of my paychecks last year.  having that is fantastic, and i'm hoping that now i won't have to dip into my savings this summer.  that is, if i still have a job...

the wanton destruction of property

these are thumbnails of what the back of my car now looks like, after some assholes used their truck to push it into the street last night.  i can no longer put anything of value in the trunk because if i do, it'll get wet whenever it rains.  also, i may have problems with the transmission.  i guess we'll find out for sure tomorrow because i'm going to iowa city.  (if i do have problems, i hope it's after i get there so i can at least get my errands done.)

i really don't know what to say about it, i was pretty mad this morning, but now i've just mellowed out to mildy upset.  i mean, what can i really do about it anyway?  not a whole lot.

i think i can, i think i can. right?

just like the last twenty minutes of work, these last two weeks are going by far too slow.  okay, so it's only two days into the last two weeks, but it feels like forever.

jane fonda, i am not.

• yesterday was race for the cure.  i lived after my measly one mile run, but i tell you, it was not a pretty sight!  and really, it was more of a slow jog than a run.



• afterwards i rode my bike to the credit union for the breakfast they were serving us.  biscuits and gravy?  after running?  well, i will take what i can get.  it's only 4 1/2 miles there and back, but i'm feeling it today.



• considering riding my bike to work most of the week for national bike to work week, something i've thought about doing anyway, but ottumwa is not very bike friendly so i'm not entirely convinced that it's a good idea.  i bet i could find a decent route (meaning i won't get hit by a car), but it might have a lot more hills than i'm ready to tackle.  as i learned this weekend, i'm not the most in shape i've ever been!



• i made 35 whole cents at our garage sale saturday.



• but i made $40 selling a photo, and there might be someone else interested in a few more.  i've also given some away as gifts and stuff, so i'm finally whittling the collection down.  but i still have some for sale, if anyone is interested!



• i took a sick day wednesday since i had an eye appointment that morning followed by a visit with a doctor.  i might be getting new frames for my glasses, and i learned that apparantly what my back needs is more muscle supporting it.  i guess i was hoping for that magic pill quick fix, but at least it doesn't appear to be anything serious.  (and it didn't cost me an arm and a leg either, although originally she wanted to do an x-ray.)

(le mutt wishes mom a happy mothers day.)

tag, i'm it.

i have been tagged, and so now i am supposed to post eight random facts about myself.  mostly my brain is filled with things like "why on earth did i have to get up so damn early today" and "why did i decide to take that stupid class", so it may be harder than it should be.

1. i have been to 36 states so far, and plan to hopefully hit no. 37 (north dakota) in my travels this summer.  this will leave hawaii as the only state west of the mississippi, as the rest are in the far reaches of the east coast.



2. i got started travelling early, and was at the world's fair in knoxville when i was nine months old.



3. my nicknames in high school were little limabean and sapu.



4. i stood in line at wal-mart for the last two harry potter books, and will probably do the same this summer if i am in anchorage.



5. speaking of books, if i had a dæmon, it would be a lion called Aeschylus.  apparantly. 



6. i am a nail biter, and have been for years.  i can't stop.  i've tried.



7. i was a cheerleader in high school.



8. i love my hair color.  i don't know what i was thinking when i dyed it red, i guess i just never realized how red it was.  speaking of hair, when it gets long, it makes me crazy and i think "the hair must go!"  this happened on saturday, and when i went to work today i got many compliments including one from our mortgage officer who told me my hair looked "spectacular".

so there, that was eight things.  as far as tagging someone else, i don't know who else might do it. maybe i will tag someone later.  now, i am going to go work on some drawings for my cd cover for class.  which is what i was supposed to be doing this whole last hour!

my hair, which is good, and my skin, which is bad.

just call me captain awesome

"i am just so awesome that the state of iowa can't contain me, and that's why i have to go to alaska."