It Comes in Waves

I tend to panic in waves, and not the natural sort but the kind that happen on a lake when a speed boat goes by.  I’m a fairly even keel and emotionally predictable person, I think.  It’s not hard to figure out how I’m going to feel about a given situation, and while I’m not always emotionally *rational* at least it’s easy to see how I’m going to be irrational.  But sometimes one of those speed boats comes along and each wave is a thing to panic about (money, mostly, and problems that stem from unpredictable incomes, and then some stuff friends and family are going through that also pertains to money) and in the lulls between the waves I talk myself down only to find another panic wave right after, until they finally go away.

These waves don’t happen often, and only last a few minutes but geeze!

This week I’m down another lb so I’m back to the lowest I was before the holidays.  I’m aiming for dropping another 2 this week (at least) because I’m healthy(ish) again and will be returning to the gym, and thus going back to drinking more water.  I don’t drink enough water when I’m not working out, at least not in the winter.

We went to a Superbowl party at the Paladin’s house yesterday, good times!  I drove, since I (finally) got new tires on my car – I forgot how much fun it is to drive when you don’t have to worry that your car will skid into whatever’s in front of it every time you step on the brakes!  Pretty much the whole crowd except JC/CJ was there, with some extras from the Thursday night gaming crowd that Dread Pirate has recently joined (the Paladin is the DM for that game).  Now that it’s okay for everyone to know, I can squee here – Orangade and Xed are going to have a baby!!!  Orange is due in September!!!  Wheee!!!!

Also expecting is my crazy cousin.  Weird…

Buddha broke his wrist on Saturday while snowboarding.  The doc said that it was going to be the most painful reset of a bone he’s ever done, and thus knocked him out to do it.  Buddha is casted up to his bicep, arm at a right angle, and has to keep it elevated.  He’s going to be mostly standing watch at work for the next few months until he can function again; he broke his right wrist, and he’s right handed.  His handwriting is chicken scratch, at best, and now he’s going to have to fill out the watch log left handed.  *shakes head*  Oh little brother….  Poor kid!

Dr. Who fans out there?  My phone rings "Exterminate" when Jex or LB calls me.  *giggles*  Jex chat-messaged Dory on Facebook a few nights ago to tell her that I have a serious attitude problem.  Who, me?!  No, no way!  Yeah, he called my salon and CHANGED THE ADDRESS they have on file for me so my mail was going to HIS HOUSE.  No wonder he just "happened" to show up there every time I had a hair appointment!  He left me a voicemail informing me that Karma sent me something, and since it’s a felony to open someone’s mail he just held it up to the light, and my (wonderful *sob*) hairdresser (*sob*) Christy is leaving Karma and offering me 10% off my next cut if I follow her to the new place.  (*sobs*)  Then he proceeds to say he can either meet up with me to give it to me, or send it to me "at home at my Mom’s", or do I want him to "send it somewhere else, because I don’t know where’s you’re staying these days".  *blinks*  I mean, REALLY?!  He’s been to my house a few times.  He and Dread Pirate are friends on Facebook.  WTF(lip)!  So yeah, I had a bit of an attitude when I called him, and finally got it out of him that he changed my address down there because he didnt’ want me to miss any sale flyers or specials if I didn’t have a permanant address…*blinks more*  I’ve been living with Dread Pirate for TWO YEARS!!!  *seethes*

Yeah, "EXTERMINATE!"  LB is just being all distant and cold again, but we go through random periods of time where we don’t talk because he’s being pissy with me about the whole I’m engaged thing and then we get over it and are friends again.

Really?  It’s only 10am?  Eeeeeaaauuuggggghhhhh!

If we could see these many waves
That flow through clouds and sunken caves
She’d sense at least the words that sought her
On the wind and underwater
[ Waves ~ Phish ]