Failure, Mixed Reviews, I Am An Optimist, Failure Reversed, and Anticipation

That is my morning so far. This was going to be a facebook status, but I decided the story was too good to past up.

First question, does anyone else write blogs in their head and then forget to actually write them? Or what they wanted to write? Well today is not that day for me. So you get a lovely blog post.

Failure. So I went away for the weekend. That weekend will get it's own blog post if I do put anything about it up here. As it is something completely different. What you don't know about me is that I have two alarm clocks. One is blue and travels around with me as it is battery powered. The other is black, and needs to be plugged in to work. This one stays home. When I came back from my amazing weekend I set my black alarm to go off early. It has a snooze, so I can set it a little early and get the extra snuggling, do I really have to get up yet time. Then the blue one chimes in, and says up NOW! The next morning the black alarm didn't go off. I still wanted my snuggling time. *frowns* Needless to say I fell back asleep. It didn't go off yesterday either. I finally figured out what my little sister did to it, so now I won't sleep half the day away. Good for some people, bad idea with energetic dog. Not that she is inside most of the time. But that's another story.

Mixed reviews. (I blame being sick so much.) I came back and went to sleep Monday with a slight ear ache. Nothing unusual. I tend to get water build up in my ears frequently. So I slept on that side, and most of the time the water will work it's way out and all is well. Most of the time. Tuesday my ear hurt worse. By Tuesday night I could only open my jaw half way before my ear complained of being squished and that pain was going to be the result of my actions. I ended up going to the walk in clinic instead of hitting the gym and the Moms2Moms group. I spent an hour and a half waiting. Then in fifteen minutes I was out. Apparently I managed to contract an outer ear infection. That's all I was told. And to use polysporn drops to treat it. Not how much, how often, or whether or not I'm contagious. I'm assuming not on the last one, if only for the fact that it hurts like crazy to touch my ear. I got told at least it's not an inner ear infection. I was prone to those as a child. NOT fun.

I seriously am an optimist. Don't believe me ask Will. So. I decided that the last couple of days I was neglecting Milly pretty hard core. And I was. So I decided to do something about that. Right now our yard is half short grass, and half waist high grass. This would be due to the fact that some random people took apart our rotten deck. Thus all the garbage (aka things that we had used to use, but now had been ruined due to exposure or us breaking them, but never getting around to actually getting rid of them) got moved across our yard, dividing the two. Yesterday Dad took a bunch to the dump. It looks alot better. I can actually let my dog off leash again without having to worry about rust or nails or other things that she might consider 'interesting'. So for the first time since the fall I had access to our backyard to play fetch with my dog. And we did. Then the dogs that belong the paper lady came, (she was with them too, she talks too much about nothing to have a good conversation) and I was actually able to call Milly away from the fence! Sure she did end up fence fighting a little while later, but still! She actually walked away with me, without me having to hold her! If that isn't a signal that her trust in me is growing I don't know what is.

Failure reversed. For the first time in two and a half weeks I made it out to the gym. Even though I missed the planned time. It is a major accomplishment for me. Especially since it wasn't going as fast as I wanted it to go before I stopped going. Add to that that I was sick and a certain time of monthly cramps...

It is an accomplishment that I got over that mental barrier. Now I need to do it repeatedly. Uggh.

Postive.

Right.

Anticipation. I saw a good friend that I haven't seen in a long time (twice in the spring of '08 and before that in '04). He likes Lord of the Rings as much as I do.

Three guesses about what we talked about last time.

This time apparently Battle Star Galatica and Firefly have much of the same in common. As in if you like on you'll like the other. We shall see about this.

See. I did forget parts of the blog that I had written in my head. Something about a book...