| Writer's Block: Secret Ballot |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|09:12 am] |
No lines.... I somehow thought long lines in my district early in the morning inplausible and I was correct. Lunchtime and after will be crowded. Really short ballot. I had one Obama yard sign left in my car and put it out on the highway with two McCains so I think I've done my duty. |
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| Tae Kwon Do, Kung Yo, Yoga |
[May. 7th, 2008|08:14 am] |
Yesterday's classes went well. In the class I teach, Gentle Theraputic Yoga got moved because of a meeting from our usual classroom, the cafeteria, to the fitness room which is smaller. Much quieter too and even though the room was crammed it seemed more relaxed. After yoga I go to a Tae Kwon Do class. I definately prefer the teacher I had yesterday to the one I will have later in the week as that instructor just works us so brutally and is so so picky about every aspect of the forms that it's hard to progress and I get so effing sore and ripped up. I like the instructor personally and I'm new so complaints are not going to come from me right now and I'm hoping that perhaps some of the advanced students say something, two of them have become nauseated in class over the last few weeks and are complaining of getting the piss knocked out of them literally. (One is joking about having post-traumatic stress) I also noticed that yesterdays class was really full and the other instructor's are not as well attended but I have no other time that I can do this so I'm kind of stuck.
I teach another theraputic class today but this one is somewhat more advanced. I have one loaded day per week with three classes back to back. I'm usually fairly hungry by the time it's over.
So this morning I'll get onto choring and do an hour of Kung-Yo before class, this evening's iffy right now |
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| Food |
[Apr. 30th, 2008|05:03 pm] |
So I'm feeling a ton better already. Long about mid-way through brunch the nausea cleared and then they brought us some really yummy carrot cake.
The big-shots from the county that I had hoped would be there so I could ineract w/o appointment, socially like, had begged off, bummer. Still I'm sure it was a good thing to attend.
I think today's class went well. One of the students, Marlene, who would not take no for an answer even though she should not be in the class due to real physical issues wasn't there - I'm sure the other students are not sad. She is terminally late eveeery time. I'm thinking she got scared off by Tilda (another student - opinionated and blunt as hell, I like her, thanks Tilda you can say things that I, as an instructor cannot) Marlene should be coming to Gentle Yoga, not Hatha and hopefully I will see her there. She's in complete denial of how impaired she is and it's not actually an issue, there's a class for her but she slows down the Hatha class (read frustrated students) and she scares me with her sudden revalations like oh, "my balance is bad today 'cause of the oxycotin"... great.
So here we go, this evening I'm trying to use some of our vast reserves of frozen food for dinner.
I've just got the (not frozen)organic brown basmati with garlic, spices and turmeric going and will soon put some frozen flounder fillets topped with frozen shrimp and something or other to perk them up into the oven and then make a salad.
We have a veggie tray left over from Monday evening's meeting - not used, I can incorporate that.
Meals are always a trip - one of my favorite subjects in school was "Home Economics" wierd huh? but I kind of get off on domestic management.
Later there'skid homework and a session of "build an IKEA bed" for my oldest. This shouldn't take long.
Tomorrow's Tae Kwon Do - the instructor's hard core, serious business. My abs are sore now and we will do so much more, makes my Friday class load so much easier to deal with - a picnic compared with this one hour of living hell.
what does not kill me makes me stronger |
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| it's been a long time |
[Apr. 30th, 2008|08:25 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  sick | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Armin Van Buuren | ] |
I haven't written in an age. I teach yoga. I'm back because of Coldplay and their new single being released and the discussion over it on the Coldplay site.
Today I have a staff appreciation brunch at 10am, then back home to change and back to the facility to teach at 1:00, then back home by 2:30 or so.
I don't do luncheons often and I'm limited on wardrobe - I've got about half an hour after I get my daughter on the school bus to figure out what to wear and frankly I'm a little bit nauseous. I have a bit of "eating disorder hangover" and really cannot fathom eating much breakfast before brunch but I'll have to get a small bite or my stomach will rebel completely.
I'm been taking Tae Kwon Do on Tuesdays and Thursdays for about a month and it's getting easier. I should get promoted soon to "Advanced White" It's helping me with my yoga, it raises my stamina. |
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| Restless |
[Apr. 8th, 2006|02:26 pm] |
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| |  mellow | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Break the night with color.... | ] |
Lotz of junk - typical rainy Saturday -we begin by hanging Ikea lights in the kids rooms - one's lacking a bulb 25watt max so we gotta buy one. I haven't put the downstairs one in. On the phone with my brother about my mom - she's in a nursing home and deteriorating. His wife left him in February, no kids but he's a little freaked anyway, he has the responsibility for them - my mom and insane other brother and it's too bad, I sit here 400 miles away and free from the day-to-day hassle.
He forgot to tell me my Aunt Marge died about three weeks ago. I have to contact my cousin Linda and send condolences, it's too bad.
DH is out looking at a shed at Sam's Club. I'm brainstorming dinner. Simone's got a friend over and I'm hoping they're treating Erica properly. It's Spring Break with no plans. Last year we went to Disney so it seems anticlimactic, deflated, it's ok though I don't mind being home. We want to take the VRE downtown and take in a day of museums & a good restaurant - I have to call my neighbor for their dog walking service.
Also I'd love to go to NIN at Nissan but it seems undo-able. A Tuesday evening.. June 13th or something --school isn't even out yet. I'm too old for this but I do not want to give it up!! I love live shows and the tickets I had yesterday held on Ticketmaster were amazing. I couldn't go through with it 'cause I can't go and that's all. Maybe we will go to Dave Matthews (sigh) -- It's at least a Saturday I thought of calling my neighbors who have VIP access and have told me to call them for tickets (and I never have) but after Coldplay in September and the parking nightmare after the show I'm ready to pick up the phone.
VIP at Nissan means table seating about halfway up the pavilion - waiters, menu and comfy seats. VIP also means VIP parking - in and out in minutes!! you park behind the stage with the talent buses and limos you have your own driveway. The priviledge is so very, very expensive but my neighbor has access through his work, the only thing is they could ask us if we will take their kids for them and you betcha I will.
So what now? I have chicken in marinade waiting for the grill, it's raining but not too hard. I'm thinking peppers and onions on the grill as well and brown rice with maybe some spinach in it. |
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| Yikes! |
[Apr. 5th, 2006|10:28 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| |  working | ] |
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| | X&Y | ] |
Always too much to do, This is the first Wednesday I've had off in at least 9 months! My cleaning ladies are coming soon, They normally do every other Monday but couldn't two days ago due to a power failure. They aren't actually that great at cleaning, but the house kind of comes up to even with no messy bits and then deteriorates quickly from there.
I've got a list and there's a pool meeting this evening. Party schedule is finished and I need to look at the web site as the membership form isn't working and I need to upload more pics.
Never to be done I actually plan to do some personal yoga practice today for the first time in a while. One does tend to get stale as an instructor without it and I'm wanting to do a headstand or two with the lift and use the abs to get up, not momentum. I haven't done a full backbend in a while, I don't always manage to get up in it and I suppose I'll see.
I've got to cut down on the wine during the week - I'm really pounding and it just runs into the hollow leg - I don't really get very buzzed at all but it's expensive, I don't drive after two or more glasses and that keeps me home, it's bad for my liver and I do want to lose about 5-10 pounds before summmer - cutting down would help with all of that and it's good to write it down, maybe then I'll do it. |
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| Motivation is lacking.... |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|10:57 am] |
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| | quiet | ] |
really really... Cannot get going and I need to clean up and then shop.... I'm thinking maybe shop tomorrow morning before class and spend the rest of today in the quiet... |
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| so I'm not sure |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|10:53 am] |
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| |  dirty | ] |
| [ | music |
| | We got the new Richard ashcroft.... | ] |
should I call all the parents?? I mean we would have to if it was the I-pod or something.... I'll get a nre Tamagotchi as soon as I can find one. |
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| more clues |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|10:52 am] |
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| | now it's quiet.... back to the killers | ] |
Also, this kid had been pushing to use the hot tub all morning, they'd been in it the night before and then done a bonfire and the porch was all dirty from tub water and dirty shoes it was fairly cold out as well and a few of the girl's parents were coming early to get them and I didn't think they would want them all wet - I told them no with a brief explanation and Channon asked at least twice more.... |
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| Crime Scene |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|10:51 am] |
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| |  crazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Now the dog is drinking water...... | ] |
Anyway the parents begin to arrive to get the kids, Simone is looking for the Tamagotchi to feed it and can't find it - I tell her it will turn up, hopefully it hasn't dropped off the table into dsomeone's bag but even then , they'll find it and she'll get it back, etc... and I notice Channon has got her sleeping bag and backpack on and is glued to the door, I told her her mom might be a few minutes yet and to relax.
Everyone is gone now, Tamagotchi is still missing, we've cleaned up the house a bit, (running the roomba, too) and we assembled a new gas grill on the patio - big job..
My knee is so badly fried that I go to use the hot tub, Erica's with me cause she wants to go in too. We lift the lid to check the temp and there it is on the seat in front of us!
Oh no! the Tamagotchi - drowned, my husband opened it and tried to dry it out - DOA
Now, the hot tub cover was locked - I found that if you lift the cover's seat flap there's a 1/2 inch gap, enough to have slipped it in....
Needless to say we're a bit horrified. Someone intentionally killed it - destroyed another guest's gift, but it's like an electronic pet.... this is really bad karma, like it's just not good. I don't wan't Jessica to know, I'm thinking she'll get her feelings hurt, this is so negative I'm not a real negative type, I thought the party was fun, now it's like pooped and I know it's like a $10 toy, that's not really the point, (I'm so glad it wasn't the I-pod - I think my husband would have been on the phone to ALL the parents)
I had Simone write thank you notes for all the gifts last evening so that she wouldn't forget to and I told her to behave as if this hadn't happened as she wrote them - we cannot prove anything and this girl would just turn and accuse Elise or Erica if it came to that
But it's sad to have a friendship go away like this, Simone cried a little last week at the tone of some of this Channon's emails (friends had forwarded them - they were behind Simone's back) but by the time she RSVP'd.. well she had received an invitation two weeks before, what do you say? "See you there" that's all you can say. (are you sure??)
I'm really sick of the "mean girls" shit BTW... and passive aggressive bullshit as well.
This kid has issues, oviously and my husband was saying that somehow the parents should know about this, (we'd want to know) but how to you even approach when there's no proof?? |
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| Tamgotchi Murder |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|10:49 am] |
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| | Dog barfing..... stop it!! | ] |
On the other hand, some thoughts about the "Tamgotchi murder" and who it might be, well I think we all know and cannot confront or approach the subject as it will ruin a reputation and there is no proof, just suspicion. Simone told Diana about it anyway... and I'm thinking Elise as well and I told Elise's mom, so it is only a matter of time. Channon must have I-M'ed 9 or 10 trimes at least yesterday beginning about 7am all frantic, the bubble popping up - I told Simone, she walked over and signed off without reading any of it - pissed.
Some backstory, the kid (channon) is wierd - materialistic, really screwed up values gotta be coming from mom - who's extremely materialistic... Was shooting poison emails about the party late last week evidently threatening to "not come" as if Simone cared, so don't anyway she RSVPs Friday evening and was pushing about using the hot tub so we got it cleaned out and filled by noon on Saturday.
Long story not so short - channon is acting disconnected and pissed beginning after the bonfire on Sat. Night - in retrospect and in the future - I'll send the kid home, tell the mom I don't think she's feeling well - to my credit I asked her several times if she wanted to call her mom and she refused. I also asked her if someone had been mean, (Elise is definately capable) - Channon said no.
Jessica has gotten Simone a Tamagotchi - I tried to find one and they were sold out everywhere, I don't know what anyone else got for Simone but Simeone wants the Tamagotchi opened so we get it open and activate it (it comes out of a egg and begins to grow up!) and I'm thinking that this is where Channon gets pissed again cause we're liking the Tamagotchi a little too much. Channon has been avoiding the others all morning, spending time in the kitchen with me as I cook and clean up - she's now dressed and tells me she's going out as the others don't wnat to "do anything" They happen to writing and illustrating a random story in the living room in their PJs, everyone is having a good time except Channon. I told her to "stay in the yard" and I hear the basketball in the driveway... O.K., She comes back, and gets the present she got for Simone, a very very generous gift certificate from an expensive mall-teen shop out to show me and asks me if I like that gift... (??)
"of course we love this gift!, it's so generous, thank you, Simone loves that store, we will make a special day of shopping around this"
I tell her and she proceeds to ask where we shop and I told her usually Target, actually but sometimes Delias or wet seal .. and I brought up the web site for Delias for her to look at and we spend the next 30 minbutes saying "oh I like that or ewwwww" about the tops and shoes... Channon loves to shop. |
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| Long time no post - diary of a mad house-yogini! |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|09:39 am] |
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| |  restless | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Killers... Somebody told me..... | ] |
O.K. it's been forever. This is the first free day in ages where I have absolutely nowhere at all to go - until evening. Laundry is piled to the effing ceiling upstairs, first load of towels is in, always easy to sort out quick, kids are in school - it smells sooooo bad outside, the forest park is on fire, just a "small portion" the news is saying, 50 to 75 of the park's 15'000 acres - but enough to cover us in haze and noxious smoke... I'm hoping it's not so near to us. No real food in the house (I'll shop this evening)Another house is up for sale across the street, that's making 3 of the five on the cul-de-sac and the Bolivians are getting their place ready to photograph, gotta be a disaster in there - I'm thining with this much stuff on the market there may be some real play in the #s, some of these folks are not going to get as much as they want.
I've been trying to figure out the new Coldplay video and after the last few viewings decided that I can't care - it kind of sucks and they could have just told EMI to just shove it or to film some sort of story thing and edit them in somewhere but noooooo, they had to make something gross.
When I listen to the song I think about challenges and disappointment, watching from afar... and for some reason roller skating or skydiving, movement, something. rotating.... I don't know, just not some swiped vid from ages off ago, no matter how ridiculous and the suspicion that they figure that none of us will know what to think and that's funny? What about the folks who are not even fans? I wouldn't have O.k.'d the release of a song that I had no intention of performing live, or maybe they were bullied or are under contract to release something anything. Granted, I think that EMI didn't get their "Joshua Tree" from Coldplay like they wanted.... too technical... spacy... sci-fi |
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| off to tortuga |
[Aug. 17th, 2004|05:58 am] |
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| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | president gas - the psychedlic furs | ] |
shopping list:
carpet shampoo
splenda
sugar
peach salsa and blue corn chips for smoke |
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| factory |
[Oct. 30th, 2003|10:43 pm] |
Then there's the secretary at the "horrifying suburban factory" I worked at who brings in lollipops she makes at home that are shaped like little penises... She's blonde and busty and really loud around the guys...
the Christmas party:
The woman who is married to one of the salesmen who tells us in a loud voice that the guy is impotent and has hemerriods (sp)....
the really snotty yuppie saleguy who acts really superior, drives a beemer and talks about how his wife f**ks him every morning - his parents show up and they have no teeth.
the "penis pop" secretary spends the party in the closet on her knees "*Next!*"
I never went back to work there.
! Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 02:40:30 PM |
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| Marc |
[Oct. 30th, 2003|10:42 pm] |
Marc is gay, in case you didn't figure that out, and the boss is obsessed with "the waste" of his homosexuality, so one by one, he puts it to the women in the office. $200.00 (this was the early 80s) to "anyone who can get Marc in the sack" This is the proposal, to all of us, and one Friday, Anne, the sales manager, invites the lot of us (8 or 9 women, and Marc) over to her apartment for cooking dinner together and drinking wine.
During the course of the evening it comes out that all of us have been on the receiving end of "the speach" and since the criteria is "in the sack" Anne thinks up something funny. She sets up an tripod at the end of her bed, we all pile in, Marc in the middle, he pulls down his shirt, exposing one shoulder provocatively and...
*Click*
We went in Monday morning, all of us, to collect.
but, but, I didn't mean.... all of you! Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 02:24:48 PM |
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| L.W. |
[Oct. 30th, 2003|10:42 pm] |
O.k. so we had a boss who use to come on to the girls, especially the new ones. We had a few girls quit the first week, the reat of us are so jaded to it, and we get a really efficient office clerk and Marc (the office manager) goes in to threaten the boss, "come on to her, and you are so dead..." that kind of speach, 'cause Marc wants to keep her working there. And the boss does it anyway and the girl runs from his office, tears streaming, her face is red. The agency she camefrom is upstairs in then office building, it's the county "Jobs Corps" office and Marc and I are thinking, like -now the boss is gonna get confronted-, etc...
So, about twenty minutes or so go by and her supervisor comes flying into the office, goes straight for the boss' door and goes in, door's shut and we're all waiting...
They come out chatting real friendly like... and this supervisor, she starts showing up at lunch time, once a week or so and they go out..
he's coming back around 1:30 or so and he can never resist, he tells us, he's paying the supervisor $50.00 an hour.
It's like Charlie Brown at the wall Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 02:07:12 PM |
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| Kris |
[Oct. 30th, 2003|10:42 pm] |
There was a friend who worked at a real estate company who had a big crush on one of the managers... He had a bulimic wife, was supposedly "unhappy" she took to wearing see-through blouses (she had enormous breasts (compared to this poor man's wife [obviously, and moi..]) and sitting on his desk during their meetings - she told me that she would lean her breasts provocatively under his nose, beckoning him forward....
urging him to come to her for comfort..... Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 01:42:09 PM |
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| non-prudes |
[Oct. 30th, 2003|10:41 pm] |
O.K., there's Sharon Lee,(she was a little insecure) who would wait until a guy she liked was passed out from drinking at a party and then begin to work on him until he was ready, then would mount the guy and be en flagrante delicto as the man would regain some conciousness - as if any guy worth anything would object to the proceedings at that point.
I hired Stuart, Shawn, and Ronnie to work the night shift at the newspaper, (along with Glenn and Alan - who were already there), two women on the shift - Kelly (rich kid, a big-time embellisher, educated, you could not believe on word...) and Tracy (daughter of a Brazilian diplomat, started cruising the clubs at 15, I got her at 17 or 18, really hostile) I was accused of having a stable - I didn't know what they all meant - O.K. they all were tall, young guys with good skin and nice hair - but they all fit the qualifications of the job at hand. The other ladies at the paper - secretaries, proofreaders, told me that they couldn't come into my department with out breaking out into a sweat. (I would leave by 7pm most days) and that the "Dark Room" became a very "hot dark room" by 10pm most evenings.
There were two of my friends- Dana and Claudette competing over the same bass player in a punk band - they were both sleeping with the guy, he would come into town and they would dance in front of the guy, like a sleazy bump and grind thing (it would go down to the depths) - hating each other the whole time, right under the bass player's nose - like forcing the guy to choose..... such a trip to watch. I could not bring myself to ever and I mean ever do anything like that I would like - die - first.
I have more but I have to go now.
Chandra A mere spectator in hormone saturation land Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 12:24:44 PM |
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| eeeek! |
[Oct. 26th, 2003|02:01 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  indescribable | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Merlin's Magic | ] |
email me at chandrasoleil@hotmail.com with your email, you need to get something to do and I have it: Go to the library and take out a copy of "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon - it's the beginning of a now 5 book series - I have been re reading the series since July and I am just finishing book 3 - this will give you something to really sink your teeth into |
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| oh boy |
[Oct. 19th, 2003|06:51 pm] |
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| |  blank | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Last Dance - Tom Petty | ] |
no journal entry - nothing much to say, I've just finished dinner & dishes. Nice day. |
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