Dippity‘s blog mentioned the “end of the world” in 2012 myth/theory and I’d never heard of it, so I googled it.
OMG people actually BELIEVE this because of an ancient Mayan calendar!
I hope my sister never hears of this. She took her daughter and hid in a closet the day all the planets lined up 20-some years ago because she thought the world would end that day.
The kitten we rescued at Christmas, Nico, is growing like a weed. He’s still only about half the size he’ll be as an adult, I think, but he’s really feisty. He likes to attack our other cat, Ping, who is over 12 years old. She has been an ‘only child’ her whole life so I don’t know how she is really taking having a little brother.
Being the sap I am, I had visions of them cuddling with each other and grooming each other. Instead they hiss and snarl at each other. And I don’t know cats well enough to know if/when they are playing. Sometimes they will bat at each other and it looks like playing, but mostly, Ping will just get up and walk away. Now Nico has taken control of most of Ping’s favorite hiding places.
I just hope Ping isn’t suffering emotionally from this – if cats have emotions.
I have used, in my signature on different message boards, the phrase: “There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.” I tried to find out who the author was and in my readings found that most people don’t “get it”. I asked someone at work about it and they said you’d have to be a computer geek or engineer to understand (after I explained to her what it meant).
Is that really true? Don’t they teach other numbering systems in math anymore? In my 7th grade math class we learned about binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems. And that was 40 years ago. (I think we even learned other number systems, but those are the ones that stick out because I AM a computer geek.)
You would think in the computer age, when everything we do is just a series of ones and zeroes, that it would be something taught in basic math.
I admit it. I’m addicted. I was going to spend the day today getting the house cleaned up, doing some decluttering, packing up a bookcase to make room for a kitty play area.
Instead I spent the whole day playing World of Warcraft.
To my credit, I did get three loads of laundry done and got the dishwasher loaded and started.
That sounds like rationalizing, doesn’t it? LOL
When I left for work yesterday we had 8 inches of snow on the ground. Today it’s almost gone! Woo!
While I love my job, I still look forward to the weekends when I can engage in mindless activities or be a sloth. Except it also means doing 3-4 loads of laundry and cleaning up the house.
But I do look forward to hours and hours of World of Warcraft LOL
I decided to take part in Featured Grownups‘ topic of the month. This month’s topic, fittingly, is Love.
I am going to talk about my feelings for my husband Mac and how they’ve grown and changed over the years.
Mac and I met online in a chat room playing a word game. Back when the online world was all text and there wasn’t a WWW yet. We spent many nights chatting and getting acquainted. There is a lot you can learn about a person without being face to face. However, I am a firm believer in tactile love. Though I developed strong feelings for him online, before we met, I couldn’t really know for sure if it was love until we met face to face. We hadn’t even exchanged pictures. We only had descriptions.
So, did I realize I was head over heels in love with him when we first met face to face?
No. I was very fond of him, and pleasantly surprised by how handsome he was, but in love? No.
Love takes time to develop. It takes chemistry. Lust is instantaneous. Did I lust after him? You bet! I still think he is the sexiest man alive. And when I dream about steamy wild sex, it’s HIM in my dreams, not some dream lover.
We were together for two and a half years before we got married. During that time, my feelings for him grew and changed. We had our ups and downs and there were times I questioned whether or not it was right. But the day I got married to him, I knew it was the most right thing I’d ever done in my life.
That’s not to say we didn’t still go through rough patches. We discussed splitting up more than once, but each time we decided we had something that was worth saving. The last time I thought about leaving him was over four years ago, and that was because of my own insecurities, not because of anything he did. I asked myself, “which will you regret more in six months? Staying or leaving?” I realized that I would miss him so much that leaving would be a mistake, and again, thought what we had was worth keeping.
Since then, I’ve been thankful for him every day of my life – thankful that I came to my senses and stayed. If there was any such thing as a soul mate, he is mine. We have so much fun together. We prefer each other’s company to anyone else’s. We also give each other space, and room to grow. (My first marriage was so stifling – my ex hovered.) We have our own independent interests but we also have interests we share. I am comfortable being in a room with him doing my own thing while he does his. I don’t feel jealous of his friends, his work, his hobbies and would never consider trying to change anything about him. He is who he is, and I married the whole package. Flaws and all, I love this man more than I have ever loved another human being.
I always marveled at how old people tend to take a lot of pills. Until I became one of them. Now it’s just something that has to be done. Most of it is because of my lifestyle, things I probably could have avoided had I been living with healthier habits. But I went to Medic Alert yesterday to update my medical info.
Then, let me develop something like a cold or cough and add in
And finally, toss in menstrual cramps and you can count on
And to think I never experimented with drugs when I was younger because, among other things, I had a hard time swallowing pills.
Another sleepless night. Again, fell asleep right before the alarm went off, but I can’t take two days in a row off. I also had an important meeting to attend today.
I’ve had this freaking cough for over two months now. It’s driving me nuts. I thought it might be because of the dry air. We’ll see when the weather gets better. For now, as long as I’m stocked up with sugar-free Halls, I’m okay. I hate taking them at night, though, because sometimes I have sleep apnea and I’m afraid that one time I’ll gasp for breath and inhale the cough drop.
Sort of. I woke up at 2am with heartburn/reflux and it kept me up all night. I also had a dry cough that keeps me up a lot. When my alarm went off at 6:30 this morning, I had just fallen asleep for the first time since 2, so I got up and called in.
I got back up at 8:30 and felt much better, though I think I should have tried to get a little more sleep. I should also clean up the kitchen, but I don’t feel like it. I think I’ll just sit here and play World of Warcraft.
Edit: Oops, I had this as private. I wondered why it didn’t show up!
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