Holidays... Go away!!!

Is it January 15th yet? I figure by then I'll be safe from holiday crap. It's not even Thanksgiving yet, and everywhere is already playing Christmas music. And the Christmas stuff is out everywhere, and places are decorating. This starts earlier and earlier every year, I swear. I think I would be less annoyed about the holidays if it wasn't so obnoxiously LONG every year, and if there was some separation between Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. But yeah, I'm already ready for January.

The plus side, EGGNOG LATTES ARE BACK AT STARBUCKS. *love*

Ridiculous

My work husband is gone, and work is soooo sad without him. I don't have anyone to smoke with anymore! *sadcat*

So I've been going non-stop for the past couple months working on huge projects at work and whatnot, and I have all of them due by the end of the month. There's been lots of stuff going on at work that is making this extremely annoying to deal with right now. Plus, starting the first work day of November, I have testing stuff going on that I am committed to for 90% of my work week. So I have four hours per week to do my real job. Given all this, I wanted to take a day off next week to relax and all. Which should NOT have been a problem. But of course it was. I was sooo mad.

Then, to make a crappy week and crappy Friday even better, I was in a car accident on my way to the gym. Epic fail. My poor car is all smushed, and I have no idea if they will be fixing it or not. Should find out Tuesday I think. Everyone is ok, it will all work out, but still sucky.

*sigh*

I got absolutely nothing done this weekend (or so it seems). I just can't get motivated to do any of the random stuff I have to do around the house. It's an epic fail. Thank goodness Skrappy has been super awesome about doing his to-do list every weekend so my house is not a complete disaster area. But... he says my bathroom is my problem (rightly so) and I am so not in the mood to scrub my shower or clean my bathroom.

Then again, I did read a couple books to take a break, and worked, and did some homework... So I guess I did get something done. Just not what I need to get done. Boo.

Back to the gym for a harder run tomorrow. My legs are still surprisingly sore from last week, but it could definitely be worse. I'm right about half way through my training program, and I really like it, but it's HARD. This one is a beginner plan, and it's still hard because I had to really REALLY increase my speed to get to the end goal of three miles in thirty minutes. I'm nervous to see how the intermediate plan I also downloaded goes when this one is over.

In other news, my stupid bank card got hacked last week, so I've been without debit card for days, and it's REALLY annoying. I so dislike having to use cash for everything. New card come soon!!!!

Happenings

It's already half way through October, and I can't believe it. I really need a staycation like WWJD got, because I'm BEAT. I've been working on huge projects at work non-stop, as well as two really hard classes at school, and working out... It's making me tired. Poor hubby spends Fridays hanging out and working on his chore list, and then I come home and go straight to bed for a nap. He was so sweet though yesterday, I came home and I had my water cup all ready, flowers, and a cute little card. Nice way to come home!

Birthday and Stuff

So it's been a great month, and it was an awesome birthday! My fabulous hubby threw me an awesome surprise party, which I had NO idea about, and I had a great time. Other than that, it was a very good birthday day, all things considered... Got to spend some time at the bookstore, and just relax after work. I'm definitely going back to taking my birthday off work next year though, there should be rules against having to work on your birthday.

I was sick a couple weeks ago with the horrible nasty evil cold/cough thing that's been going around... Spent a couple days knocked on my ass completely, and still have not fully recovered. Boo for being sick, I'm so not a fan of that. I feel like I've missed so much this month because I've been so dragged out trying to get over this. I did however try running outside for the very first time ever yesterday, because I'm GOING BACK TO THE GYM GODDAMNIT, whether I can breathe or not! Running outside is harder than I anticipated. Or maybe it was the lack of oxygen. Everyone that I know has told me it's very different, and I agree. It's hard not to have your speed counter and distance/time clock right there. I had a mile track picked out through our greenbelt, and I couldn't tell you how much of that I walked and how much I ran, which kind of annoys me. But the weather is so nice, I am hoping to keep it up, at least on the weekends. I am too lazy to drive aaaaall the way to the gym on the weekends, but I know I need to work out more than I have been because I feel better when I do. I also want to get my bike gears fixed, so I can go biking with Skrappy.

Birthday Festival!

September is usually a really busy month, and one in which I spend quite a bit of time thinking about, well, me! September is my birthday month, and I used to leave it at that, but somehow it turned into so called "festival month" and I'm really ok with it. I firmly believe that everyone should have certain times in which they are completely self centered and do exactly what they want for an hour, day, whatever. So that's always my birthday (there's obviously some other times in there, but the birthday is the big one). It's been a pretty big year for me really. I started my masters program. Got married (realistically bigger than the masters degree). Saw some friends graduate, go them. Bought a house... And I'll be turning a quarter century old this year! On a day to day basis, I tend to feel like I really haven't done enough with my life. I have a job, but not a career yet. I'm still in school. My life is kinda boring. I haven't cured cancer or taken over the world, that's for sure. But, at a quarter century I have: a husband, three "kids," awesome friends, a house that I (ok, we) OWN, over 1,000 books, an impressive coffee addiction, a stable job (with accompanying licenses), and a lot of other stuff and accomplishments. So I guess really, I'm doing pretty well for 25. :-)

So, September 1st marks the beginning of Cat's Birthday Festival. I'm pretty excited! :-)

Friends and Such

Have you ever had one of those days, weeks or months where you are fairly certain that you cannot possibly do anything right with someone (or maybe even everyone if you're extra unlucky). Yeah, totally having one of those times, and it's driving me insane. I feel like all I do is argue with or defend myself to this friend, and nothing sticks. I wish I knew the magic words to say to make everything normal again, because this really completely sucks. I just want my friend back.

Doesn't help that I've been super extra busy with other friend drama and school, I guess. I'm trying to get back in the gym habit too... Kind of a challenge. :-)