Be Happy For This Moment

Just realized the last time I was really in LJ was about...seven weeks ago.  But I honestly haven't been on the comp much in any of that time.  It's one of those things (again) where Dave gets the comp for most of the time because when he's home, he's on it.  I'm updating here because I have a rare moment of updateage on the computer ^_^

So...in recent news, finally started something I've been meaning to do for a while, and that's cut back on my drinking habit.  I'd say I'm way on the right road to being an alcoholic, and I'd rather nip that in the bud before it becomes my life.  And for a while, it was.  Well, screw that.  Life's too short to spend every other day feeling like crap and to spend the other days looking forward to having a beer or something.  There's more than that, and I've got more stuff in my life to accomplish.

Which, speaking of, finally got everything done at the school until registration.  If I really push it, I can finish my English AA while starting up my Bio AA.  That'll look pretty good, I suppose, when I go to apply for uni, having two associates under my belt.  I was looking at my transcripts from college, and I nearly laughed myself silly because all of my English/Communication classes were a B or above...my one math class was a D, my history classes were C's and my science classes were a happy medium of B's and C's XD  I really need to discipline myself into studying harder...

Any tips for how to become an overacheiving geek?  XD  Hard work and discipline...might as well tat them into my arm...

Speaking of tats and arms... :D  Dave and I are going to be entertaining a couple of online buds from Ohio in July...it's gonna rock like a hurricane ^_^  Lindsey's pretty cool; we're a lot alike...plus she shows me what meds can do for a person XD  And Adrian's a lot like Dave, except with more ink on him XD  He's gonna do a couple of tattoos for me while they're down here ^_^

Part of the cutting back on my drinking is that I'm taking a few pages out of the books of my friends who do Weight Watchers...the whole point thingie.  I'm not sure if I'd want to calculate that much; I know what kinds of foods are good for me and why the bad foods are bad... in any case, one of them saves up her points all week so she can have Miller Lite at the end of the week.

Plus, I've found a ton of great Zero-Point foods that are also zero-fat and nearly zero-cal...fresh veggies, good soups that are high in fiber...stuff like that...but like I said, I'm cutting back on the drinking because it's starting to take over the kind of person I am, and I really don't like that.

>.>  Not to mention the hangover to end them all kicked my ass over the course of a few hours that had me struggling to gag over a toilet kinda cured me for a while XD  So I've been doing pretty good for the past four or five days...and I'm loving how much more energetic I am and how much more alert I am.  :)  I'm also going to get back into writing down what sort of exercise I do like I used to, which is what I was doing when I was losing the most weight.

God, I've written a lot XD  On the other side of it, my family might be coming to visit in May.  I'm actually looking forward to it, as opposed to dreading it :)  My mother sent me a reply e-mail to a forward I sent, and it was kind of nice...she's never e-mailed me before XD  But she's also really busy...starts work at about 7 AM, doesn't get home sometimes until 9PM or later...she works really hard, and she taught me better than to loaf around and settle for less than what I want.

Besides, the minute you settle for less than what you want, you get exactly what you deserve.  And not only do I want more out of my life then working at the BL and drinking myself into an early grave, but I'm better than that.  ^_^

So anyway, just kind of feeling like I'm in a good place right now...but I've been here before, and I've crashed before several times.  I'm hopefully going to stay here though, but no promises...I'm not sure how I get knocked on my ass, but it's not gonna be my lack of discipline/hard work this time.  Not again, anyway.  Both my parents worked extremely hard to bring up 5 kids, and I want to do them proud.  ^_^  Not just for them, but for me too.

So that's about where I've been.  Hauling through furniture, trying to find a good foothold for life, working with the school to go back, and also recording tons of Scrubs...

Oh!  For all my of my Scrubs-buddies...hee...I have the complete Season I, Season IV and Season V on DVD!  And I'm only one ep from having Season II, one from having Season III, one from having Season VI...and I have a few from Season VII...so awesome XD  And, if my calculations are correct (because I've gotten into the habit of predicting episodes), I'll have Season II and Season III by May 8th, possibly May 2nd...

WOOHOO!  I've been working on it for six months now...so cool...and after I get it all, I just have to categorize them by season.

So yeah...that's about it for me...I'm not sure when I'll be back on LJ...I'm still working on Looking Glass here and there...I'm about halfway through Chapter 17...I need to find a place to actually have them STOP for 2 seconds to breathe XD  But that's about to happen ^.^  And maybe some more JD/Cox angsty moments and stuff...maybe even a kiss soon!  I dunno...but I'll get to it ^_^

I really wouldn't mind making a huge final push towards it to finish Looking Glass before I go back to school...because once I go back to school, I'll be super-strapped for time...but sometimes I work best like that...who knows.

Anyways, I've gotta jet XD  I've got work tomorrow and Monday, and I had a shift today that involved hauling 5 sofas, 4 loveseats and a couple of recliners out the door within six hours XD  I don't know why I went for my walk today if that was gonna hapen XD  But still, hauling furniture's more about strength-training, and the walking's more about cardio...so I'm getting both in XD

Anyways, later days!

-Katy-

So, yeah.  For those of you who are fans of Looking Glass, I'm writing a table for the original version for Libris.  There are no spoilers for the actual story (plot-wise in Looking Glass), and those of you who have discussed the inner-workings of the Looking Glass will know what most of everything means.  I need to post it somewhere.

Meh.  Anyway.

The table, by the way, that I'm using, I got from Jay, who is using it as a JD/Janitor table from 100_Drabbles Community.  Check it!