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[	Tags	\|	daily mundane	]
[	Current Location	\|	Living room	]
[	feeling	\|	Content	]
[	listening to	\|	Star Wars Battlefront 2	]

Sitting in my living room with my older brother. Peacefully! Try to contain your shock.

Testing to see if lj2me posting works from my bb.

I am debating learning java and making apps for the BB but it's also tempting to me to get a Android phone, since they have about 10x the free applications market. In which case learning Java would be a waste of time.

Device: RIM Wireless Handheld

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can't keep me down!

[Dec. 31st, 2009|02:41 pm]

[	Tags	\|	holiday, retrospective, subreption	]
[	feeling	\|	happy	]
[	listening to	\|	Pink - 18 Wheeler	]

New Year's Resolutions:

(resolutions from last year, 2007, 2006, 2005, none for 2004, 2003 & 2002)

I did pretty good on all of those, except the write more, damnit resolution. It wasn't specific as to journal or creative writing, but I'm going to go with "both" and "didn't do enough."

This year's resolutions:

· Continue to be happy.

· Continue to improve on taking care of my personal life.

         · Health: Evaluate whether quitting smoking is worth it. Eat more regularly. Sleep cycle, much better than it was previously, keep at it. Exercise. (Ideally with some sort of plan, whether walking the dogs or going swimming or whatever.)

         · Friendships: Secret resolution. (!) Also: keep in touch with friends to the extent made possible by their lives & my own. Meet up more often with friends who live in the area/are visiting.

         · Mental health: Continue to: take medication daily; attend therapist, psychiatrist, and group therapy appointments. New: Mood log at least 7 times a week.

· Write more.

· Do well in classes. Ideally all As, we'll see how this goes. Since I'm only taking 2 classes this first semester, it should be okay.

· Possibly gain and retain job that does not interfere with school.

· Control finances & spending.

( Retrospective )

All in all, a pretty fucking good year. Despite the breakup with Austin, which I'm slowly getting over (much harder than I thought it would be), I continued to be happy, worked on taking better physical care of myself, freaked out less, always took my meds and always went to therapy/doctor's appointments/voc rehab/group therapy. I also volunteered and went to every single session of that.

Next year looks to be even better, what with going back to school, my secret resolution, and I fully expect my mental health to become more stable & hopefully stay at the good level that it's at now.

(Plus, I have a new phone/toy. I mean, really. What can go wrong that I can't use my blackberry to macguyver my way out of?)

how can I resist that kind of invitation

[Dec. 31st, 2009|12:39 pm]

[	Tags	\|	icons	]
[	feeling	\|	creative	]
[	listening to	\|	Dragonette - I Get Around (Galore Mix)	]

Icons I've made this year!

( WoW Icons )( Tsk tsk, naughty snark icons. )

( macro! )

( NON-WOW ICONS: )

if i had a chance, i'd ask the world to dance

[Dec. 31st, 2009|11:52 am]

[	Tags	\|	holiday, poetry	]
[	feeling	\|	content	]
[	listening to	\|	Billy Idol - Dancin' With Myself	]

A little late, but better saved than never:

Atheist haiku at Christmas time -
by amandapage.

Please Excuse me for
borrowing your holiday,
the lights are shiny

Atheist Christmas
No responsibilities
Delicious eggnog

is it ever gonna be enough

[Dec. 25th, 2009|11:14 pm]

[	Tags	\|	holiday	]
[	feeling	\|	satisfied	]
[	listening to	\|	Metric - Gold Guns Girls	]

Christmas haul: I got a new sweater and shirt which are GORGEOUS, two calendars (a daily and a monthly one), Idiocracy, post it notes, 2 pairs of earrings, makeup bags, ceramic snowflakes, a fleece throw, and a BLACKBERRY (Curve 8330).

( Gifts given: )

In other news, I think stuffing may be my favorite food.

from one extreme to another

[Dec. 23rd, 2009|06:17 am]

[	Tags	\|	college, school	]
[	feeling	\|	thoughtful	]
[	listening to	\|	Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire	]

Weird to think that soon I won't be writing 2009 anymore. It still feels like the future. Things are going ... well, if not well, they are certainly going fast.

Due to the course I was planning to take filling up months in advance, I will be taking college classes instead next semester. In other words, I am going back to school starting next semester.

2 classes: Introduction to Oral Communication, and Introduction to Sociology. Oral Comm is one night a week on Tuesdays, and Soc. is online.

So far financial aid has been very helpful. Maybe too helpful, as they changed my fucking FAFSA to indicate I received over 14000 dollars in financial help from my parents. Luckily it doesn't disqualify me for a Pell Grant but it's still very frustrating. My Expected Family Contribution went from 0 to 3000+ dollars. I'll be calling them ~~tomorrow~~ soon to ask why the fuck they did that.

Ran into Finn from high school at Target. It was good to talk to him again.

I had STEPPS today. We talked more about communication.

In other news, I've been doing very poorly about getting to bed on time.