i was on the treadmill for the first time today since my knee got all stupid two weeks ago.  i didn't wanna push myself much so i just did a lil over 2 miles and it felt great.  iced the knee before and after and so far so good.  yay!!  can anyone suggest a quality pair of running shoes? --the adidas ones i bought a couple of weeks are already going to crap.

so i'm on this country music kick right now.  i go thru phases a lot.  for a while i was listening to a lot of crap like mariah carey, then it was magic 105.7, now its cmt & the few country cds i own.  completely random, i know, but i love it!  it seems like most people like one style of music and freak out if anything else is playing in the background but that seems so lame to me cuz you rilly miss out on a lot of good stuff.  i mean, my ipod has a crazy collection of songs including those of counting crows, FIF, relient k, mandy moore, alan jackson, dolly parton, the drifters, glenn miller orchestra, hanson, green day, frank sinatra, the beatles, frankie valli, mxpx; soundtracks from 10 Things I Hate About You, Grease, A Walk to Remember, Clueless, Coyote Ugly, Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights,  etc., etc., etc...   there are over 1300 songs in that nifty lil ipod so i could keep going but i shall spare you any further pain.

yeah so this PartyLite thing is kind of gettin old.  maybe its just the people i've been working with (my hostesses) lately.  i've a few really great experiences but the several that've been awful are the ones sticking out in my head at the moment.  its been such a pain.  i like certain aspects but i think its hilarious that i was all excited that i would pretty much be able to work whenever i want because hi--its like being on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  people call all the time with questions or to CANCEL the appointment to close their show.  poop on you, you lame people. 

yeah--life has been fairly hectic but i think i'm handling it well for the most part. 

better get something done now cuz i'll be out tonight and busy all day tomorrow (prolly sunday also) with work.  peace--

http://www.rockswithfeet.com/kafka/jackalsAndArabs.html

read it.

seems bizarre at first but think about it.  theres a lot going on right below the surface..

what do you think?

***Edit:: 9/29/05 7pm 
Well, i guess no one reads.. or thinks anymore.  what a shame.

just got home.  yup.  4:42am.  haven't done this in a while.  its been an adventure.  an adventure that will continue on through daylight in more than one way. 

haha.

wow.

to jim & erica, if or when you read this--thank you for being so cool thru the craziness of it all.  despite the obvious it was a fun nite/morning )

went to the doctor today, who is, by the way, a v. pretty man , about my knee.  he told me whats wrong, though i forget now (something about something below my knee cap being messed up? its a fairly common thing as i understand), and prescribed an anti-inflamatory which i picked up at walgreens on the way home.  says possible side effects include dizziness and drowziness.  great.  just what i need--another factor working against me for my 3 hour class tonight. 

huh.

so my away message says that i'm studying for my mythology exam right now but that is so not the case.  i have already filled the cats' and dogs' water dish, given the birds food and water, and even emptied the litter boxes.  does it seem like i'm procrastinating?  maybe just a lil, i guess...

i feel like i'm always behind. 

need to mail out a bunch of stuff for work today that i have yet to prepare. 

i have 2 exams coming up and i'm no where near ready for the one.

..and now i'm going to have to call my doc for an appointment about my knee which has been hurting pretty bad since friday when i messed sumthin up while on the treadmill.  i'm thinking i just pulled something but the brace i have isn't cutting it and i don't wanna go out and spend money on something that isn't gonna be worth it.

o well.  life goes on.

another episode of gilmore girls tonight--i hope they redeem themselves from last week's lame season premier.

well i need to finish up some hw b4 heading to class but i shall leave the theoretical you with a couple of questions from crazythoughts.com::

Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?

If all of the Acme stuff doesn't work, why does Wile Coyote keep buying their products?

make it a good one--

oy with the poodles already!!!!

&#*(^%#%*()@^&

i'm getting so sick of people.  i've done three shows for PartyLite.  each of them has been a pain in the rear in its own special way.  i had a party booked from my first show and its scheduled for friday.  i've called the lady at least 4 times prolly and left several messages on her answering machine.  she never bothered to get in touch with me.  i finally emailed the woman who hosted the show where i made the booking and she was able to make contact with the lady who then responded but not to me. 

i wasn't even planning on going to the lady's house friday cuz i hadn't heard from her but apparently she was still planning on having the show... well heres a lil tip senorita--next time you are having a PartyLite show (or Pampered Chef, or Mary Kay, or whatever) make sure your consultant knows about it!!!!

argh!!!!!!!!!  "work" should not be this much work.

back to school crap.  blah.

isn't it time for autumn?  what is up with tomorrow's high being 86?  don't get me wrong--i'm glad its not rainy or icky outside but i'm ready for it to feel like autumn. 

so i'm not really diggin' this busy-all-the-time thing..i had a partylite show yesterday and i was there for something like 4 hours because everyone kept talking and took forever to give me their orders.  not complainin tho bc the show went really well and everyone was v.nice.  then today i had class at 11, met with the hostess from yesterday to close her show, went to the bank, did some other crap around here, and then had to get ready for another show which didn't go nearly as well.  didn't get home from that until after 9 at which point i got to eat dinner and relax for a bit...now i'm tryin to get all my hw done for tomorrow. 

fun times. 

better get back to work.  not only do i need to read for mythology and do work for pakenhams esl class, but i have about 150 pages left in a novel which is due friday.

i love school.

does the craziness ever end??

has anyone ever noticed that ancient mythology (greek, roman, etc.) is pretty much the same as the bible practically word for word?  well, not literally word for word but a lot of the "stories" are very similar.

first week of classes? check.

today (as in Friday) has been a crazy long but really great day.

i had my one class this morning.  came home.. not really sure what all i did.  "worked" for a while getting some things in the mail and preparing myself for the insanity that is to come. 

then i was out to eat for dinner and saw a random but familiar face which was v.cool except it had me in a weird mood for a while.

went putt putt golfing with erica & kat.  good times. 

can't believe kat leaves tomorrow for arizona and--omg--won't be back until december.  crazy.  i'm so glad we got to hang out tonight tho.  after putt putt we chilled outside, joined by abigail, until some time after 2...just talking and reminiscing bout the good ol' days. 

it scares me a bit--this whole growing up thing.  i said something along the lines of "i don't wanna grow up" earlier tonight and abigail was like "too late."  when did that happen?  when did we all grow up?  george will graduate from high school this year and that just totally blows my mind.  i mean, i realize that i have graduated from high school and will be (hopefully) graduating from college in about a year and a half but the fact that other people are growing up too...?  no.  it just doesn't register. 

life is changing-- a lot and quickly.  people are getting married and having babies (not necessarily in that order).  people are moving.  people are graduating--from high school and college.  kids that i babysat when they were infants are getting too tall for my own comfort.  kids that were once so cute and innocent are now not so much kids and not exactly innocent.

i don't know how people do this.  this life.  am i the only one who sits and dwells on the past?  i know i should be living in the present--not concerned with what has been or even really where i am headed beyond the not-so-distant-future... but i can't seem to get past the concept of time and the fact that i just don't understand it.  time, that is.  and ok, its not as though all i do is sit here and reminisce like i'm 80 years old but when i do stop to think about it all, i just get so...argh.  so like this--sitting here at my desk at 3am trying to figure out how exactly i've come to this place...

ok.  well i think i'm finally exhausted.  physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  sleep will solve at least one of those issues & hopefully alleviate the others so thats where i'm headed.  sleep.

peace--