Well, got some stuff done tonight

1. Cleaned aquarium filter and added water to tank.
   
2. Uncovered bed.
   
3. Washed hand wash dishes
   
4. Enjoyed listening to Pandora, with a channel built around Loreena McKennitt
   
5. Checked with an application support line as to why it hasn't got all the features advertised
   
6. Played on Facebook a bit (not games; I don't do games--too much time involved)
   
7. Charged Kindle, downloaded books, and put books into categories
   

So I did some enjoyable stuff, and some chores. Laundry will wait till tomorrow. I did check and I have enough quarters for three loads. I'm not sure I have that much laundry, we'll see--I did do some last week. I still have some straightening up to do in the bedroom, but can at least sleep in the bed tonight. We decided to wait until tomorrow for the cabinet, and that was fine with me.

On tomorrow's agenda as well, now that I've dusted off my Kindle and have some new things to read, I'm going to do just that. And I should watch that DVD.... :) I also need to send my mother a birthday card. Her birthday is Friday. (I think Arnold Schwarzenegger's 65th birthday was yesterday; that means he's just a few days older than my mom.)

YKWIA showed this to me this weekend

I really do like the Kinsey Sicks. :)

Here's another one, not a parody, but rather a version of Billy Taylor's 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free', an absolutely beautiful song:

Things to do (as much as I can tonight)

1. Clean out the fish tank; add water
   
2. Clean off dining room table, which is mostly holding stacks of books
   
3. Prepare dining area for a cabinet; find somewhere for coat rack
   
4. Straighten up living room
   
5. Wash dishes
   
6. Take out trash
   
7. Take out recyclables
   
8. Do a once-over on the bathroom
   
9. Straighten up the bedroom
   
10. Do a couple of loads of laundry
    
11. Water the plants
    

But first, to eat a little bit....

Update 7/31: I fell asleep last night early, so I got up early this morning and did most of my list, although I did move a few things into the bedroom, so I'll have to deal with that tonight, as they are on the bed. They're mostly books I need to find shelves for. I wish my apartment was like the TARDIS, but I hate to think what the rent would be like. :)

As someone who grew up feeling worthless

and who has spent most of her adult life trying to recover or even discover a sense of self, I found this not surprising, but important to note:

Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds

It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.

That's the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment. Its effects can be every bit as devastating as those of other abuse.

Psychological maltreatment can include terrorizing, belittling or neglecting a child, the pediatrician authors say.

"We are talking about extremes and the likelihood of harm, or risk of harm, resulting from the kinds of behavior that make a child feel worthless, unloved or unwanted," Harriet MacMillan, one of the three pediatrician authors, told reporters.

I think I spent most of the weekend in bed

I did get the ink yesterday, which entailed going out on the bus for about four hours. I got the notes finished. I went to the grocery store (twice) today, cleaned my friends' house (although I was later than planned, as I overslept), and played in the game (we stopped early, and even then, I came home and crashed). Total hours asleep from 7 pm Friday to now...let's see, that's 28 out of 53 hours, or 53%, also known as excessive, even for me. With the exception of the game and some visiting with friends, I didn't really do anything fun. No movie, no reading, just recuperated from a very long and tiring week in the Land of Serta.

Fortunately this next week I should be able to do some catch-up at the hospital. After work tomorrow I'm going to do some things around the house (get the recyclables out, straighten up, clean out the aquarium, and move some things around in the dining/living areas, and maybe do a little laundry, since I failed to do it yesterday). I'm going to resist the urge to go straight to bed, and take all medicine and eat properly so my blood sugar stays normal.

Oh, and I need to see about putting my pepper plant outside. Brenda gave me a purple bell pepper plant a couple of weeks ago. I've kept it inside because, well, I didn't want it walking off, but it's starting to bloom and if I want peppers I have to let it get pollinated. There is a good sized pepper on it already, not quite ready to pick, which is how I know the peppers are purple. It's in a 2-gallon bucket. I also need to water all the plants tomorrow and turn them (the lavender is trying to grow towards the light, for example).

Okay, it's after midnight. I think I'm going to take some medicine and head on to bed. Hope you had a more productive weekend than I did. Good night.

Well, I'm not going anywhere fast

It's almost 1:30, and while I'm ready, I had sat down and gone through a lot of pictures of the opening ceremonies and then I realised I was going to miss the bus, which on my route only runs every 70 minutes on Saturday, so instead I called Office Depot, to find out the Woodhill store is a little short on the ink I want, so I'll be going to South Park. Both associates were very pleasant, and when I requested the information and told them it was going to take me over an hour to get there by bus, they looked at their stock and told me, which saved me quite a bit on planning my trip.

So it looks like the next bus is at 2:24. That means I won't be getting home till about 5:30 or 6. Then there's still the notes to go through. I just haven't been moving at more than glacial speed this morning. I guess it's because I didn't have to be anywhere on anyone else's schedule, and I really just was incredibly tired last night, so I slept in.

Hmmm....

I think I'm going to have to rethink my agenda. I've looked at how the buses run and there's just not way to do it efficiently.

So--

1. Farmer's market--maybe, they close at 2
   
2. Bank--wait till later, they close at noon
   
3. Give blood--wait until I can try earlier and have an hour to kill between buses, they close at 2:30
   
4. Ink--still going to try, the special ends today
   
5. Notes--yes
   
6. Laundry--still have enough quarters to do some
   
7. Movie--yes
   
8. Read--yes
   

I didn't record the opening ceremonies. So I missed out on that. There's a photo of an unsmiling somewhat stern, queen captioned 'look at all those countries I used to have' floating around the Internet. I must admit, I was a bit amused by that, Anglophile that I am.

Okay, if I'm going to get anything accomplished today I need to get going. Have a great weekend!

Feeling better since I've been home for an hour or so

I was ahead on my time at work this week, so I left early. I had a splitting headache and everything hurt from there on down to my feet, but I didn't want to take any pain reliever because one of my plans tomorrow is to give blood. Anyway, I've eaten, caught up on the news, etc., and I feel much better.

I am vaguely interested in the opening ceremony for the London Olympics. I'm trying to decide whether I want to watch or if I just want to sort of vegetate for awhile, maybe take one of my famous naps. :) Friday nights are kind of hard to do much because I'm usually pretty tired. We'll see.

On tomorrow's agenda:

1. Go to the farmer's market for tomatoes.
   
2. Go to the bank.
   
3. Go to the Kentucky Blood Center and donate.
   
4. Go to Office Depot and get some printer ink. (They have a buy 2 get 1 special that ends tomorrow, both in-store and online).
   
5. Work on notes.
   
6. Do some more laundry.
   
7. Get a little reading done.
   
8. Watch Desk Set so I can send it back.
   

I think I'd better see what the weather will be like tomorrow. That's a lot of walking and bus riding. I think I will take a nap and DVR the ceremonies. :)

Oh, let me include something that someone showed me the other day. It was amusing and gave me a laugh. Hopefully it will give you a bit of a perk up after a long week.

What an extremely long day

6:30-7:00 Wake up process, with several snoozes
7:00-7:25 Get ready
7:25-7:40 Walk to library, return books
7:40-7:45 Wait for bus
7:45-8:10 Bus to work
8:10-8:15 Walk to work
8:15-8:35 Birthday breakfast for those with birthdays from March through June
8:35-8:40 Pick up paper
8:40-9:00 Sign in and prepare for meeting
9:00-9:10 Sit in meeting room
9:10-9:45 Discover convener is delayed; return to desk, deal with copier issues
9:45-12:00 Meet with brief five-minute break to deal with copier techs; I apparently had the secret method of resetting the machine that customers aren't supposed to know
12:00-12:10 Prepare for lunch (blood testing/insulin)
12:10-12:40 Lunch
12:40-1:00 Dealt with phone call regarding referral
1:00-3:45 Meet
3:45-4:00 Make rounds for data entry sheets
4:00-4:30 Dealt with referrals
4:30-5:00 Took care of various details
5:00-5:15 Got a ride to my friends' house
5:15-8:05 Spent time there; watched two Kim Possible cartoons, took care of something important, fixed coffee, and general visited for a little longer than I meant to do to a storm
8:05-8:22 Waited for the bus
8:22-9:40 On buses home, very crowded and one with a crazy man with no underwear and pants to the ground
9:40-9:55 Walked home, stopped by laundry room for drink
9:55-10:00 Informed one friend I'd been texting on the bus ride that I was home, and let the one set of friends whose house I'd left know via phone call
10:00-10:15 Fixed and ate cheesy tortillas while blogging

Which brings us to now. I am home. I am tired. I am happy to have air conditioning. It can rain with abandon now if it likes (well, I'd rather not have crippling storms or floods). Hopefully I will be able to catch up on my other work tomorrow.

Guess what?

I'm up (got out of bed at 5:30), and I'm doing laundry, at least enough to get me through the rest of the week, anyway, which I could just carry over there sans hamper and granny cart, making it less of a hassle. I'll have to do the main chore Saturday, but at least I'll have three outfits until then.

:)

What else? Oh, Google did send out the certificates for the course, so I have a nice certificate saying I got a 100% on both my tests that I can put in my education file at work. Yay.

Okay, time to change to the dryer....