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kellan_the_tabby) wrote2004-06-13 12:42 pm
kellan_the_tabby) wrote2004-06-13 12:42 pm
Catchup, again...
Rereading my last entry I note that boy, it's been a while.
The busy season seems to be ... over. And it's not even halfway through June.
Well, perhaps not _over_ but certainly waning about two weeks sooner than usual. I already have the day before Landsknecht off; usually I have to haul butt to get out that day around maybe 2 or 3. Looks like getting the two days off before KWHS will be pretty easy, which is good as I was getting them off anyway dammit.
Mom's stressed, though; apparently March was really low and she's worried that we haven't made enough this busy season to make it through. _I_ think the work just got spread out enough to make things end early, since schools are all ending early this year and that's about half of the busy season bulk. Yeah, we lost a few big orders, but that happens every year and we gained a few new ones to make up for 'em.
We'll have to wait and see what the numbers say, though.
In other news, I discovered why one ought not to ignore the existence of small holes in one's screens when one has a houseful of cats. Suffice it to say that three days later we'd recaptured all the escapees, with no damage to them and only minimal damage to ourselves. And I got to see the _truly_ wondrous sight of Samson hiding from me ... down a groundhog hole. I explained to him fairly patiently that cats are not tunnelling creatures, but he was unconvinced.
*sigh* Now Chocolate wants very badly to go back outside and explore further, and he's uninterested in wearing his harness at the time...
Lewis is down at Evan's for the weekend with Gisela, for the Wreath meeting. I'd thought about going but figured I'd be awfully too tired after the week at work, and as I woke up Friday with a fairly nasty cold this seems to have been a good choice. No runny nose, but my throat is _still_ sore and my ears are starting to hurt. Now, I usually get a cold at the end of the busy season as my body realizes that it can relax its defenses now, but that's usually around the 4th of July and I have the whole holiday weekend to recover...
Bleh. And we had a shire work day at the Homestead yesterday to get ready for Landsknecht; I took the Van the Size of France up to carry shire stuff from the storage place. Derek and Tiernan helped, fortunately, though I was feeling _just_ good enough to pick up more than I ought to have and I hurt like hell last night. Not so much this morning so I seem to have not overdone it but I'm counting it as my workout for the day yesterday.
And how _is_ the training regimen going...? Seems 'regimen' is the wrong word as I haven't been sticking to it more than sporadically, but arms, legs and stomach are still slowly getting stronger. This pleases me. No weight loss yet, but I'm serene with that as my eating habits always suck during the busy season. Packing a lunch takes time and thought and getting a hot dog and a bag of chips next door is _so_ easy...
Ah, well. In time.
Stayed up stupidly late Friday night and last night talking to Tim. Not so good for getting enough sleep but he's given me a lot to think about. Like I needed more of that right now, but long-term it'll be a good thing, I think.
The busy season seems to be ... over. And it's not even halfway through June.
Well, perhaps not _over_ but certainly waning about two weeks sooner than usual. I already have the day before Landsknecht off; usually I have to haul butt to get out that day around maybe 2 or 3. Looks like getting the two days off before KWHS will be pretty easy, which is good as I was getting them off anyway dammit.
Mom's stressed, though; apparently March was really low and she's worried that we haven't made enough this busy season to make it through. _I_ think the work just got spread out enough to make things end early, since schools are all ending early this year and that's about half of the busy season bulk. Yeah, we lost a few big orders, but that happens every year and we gained a few new ones to make up for 'em.
We'll have to wait and see what the numbers say, though.
In other news, I discovered why one ought not to ignore the existence of small holes in one's screens when one has a houseful of cats. Suffice it to say that three days later we'd recaptured all the escapees, with no damage to them and only minimal damage to ourselves. And I got to see the _truly_ wondrous sight of Samson hiding from me ... down a groundhog hole. I explained to him fairly patiently that cats are not tunnelling creatures, but he was unconvinced.
*sigh* Now Chocolate wants very badly to go back outside and explore further, and he's uninterested in wearing his harness at the time...
Lewis is down at Evan's for the weekend with Gisela, for the Wreath meeting. I'd thought about going but figured I'd be awfully too tired after the week at work, and as I woke up Friday with a fairly nasty cold this seems to have been a good choice. No runny nose, but my throat is _still_ sore and my ears are starting to hurt. Now, I usually get a cold at the end of the busy season as my body realizes that it can relax its defenses now, but that's usually around the 4th of July and I have the whole holiday weekend to recover...
Bleh. And we had a shire work day at the Homestead yesterday to get ready for Landsknecht; I took the Van the Size of France up to carry shire stuff from the storage place. Derek and Tiernan helped, fortunately, though I was feeling _just_ good enough to pick up more than I ought to have and I hurt like hell last night. Not so much this morning so I seem to have not overdone it but I'm counting it as my workout for the day yesterday.
And how _is_ the training regimen going...? Seems 'regimen' is the wrong word as I haven't been sticking to it more than sporadically, but arms, legs and stomach are still slowly getting stronger. This pleases me. No weight loss yet, but I'm serene with that as my eating habits always suck during the busy season. Packing a lunch takes time and thought and getting a hot dog and a bag of chips next door is _so_ easy...
Ah, well. In time.
Stayed up stupidly late Friday night and last night talking to Tim. Not so good for getting enough sleep but he's given me a lot to think about. Like I needed more of that right now, but long-term it'll be a good thing, I think.