Luna Tail

Okay… tomorrow I plan on going and buying some play sand. I’d like to mix some shells in it… is it shells to add calcium? Now I forgot. But really sand is the only thing left that I need. And then I can start adding crabs.

Unfortunately the glass lid I bought is not fitting the tank perfectly. It is about 1/2″ too short length wise, and I think about 1/2″ to wide. I’m not sure what to do about it. I am probably going to try to rig something up, but I don’t know what, to get it to sit securely on the tank and not fall in, and yet be easy to remove, too. I think I have an odd tank size.

I’m excited, I want to get some crabs!

It was a busy weekend, dog seminar.. but fun. But I still don’t feel too hot. I am starting to accept that, though. The mornings are the hardest. Saturday morning was worse than this morning. Last night I went to bed at 8:30 and figured if I got up at 6:30 that would give me a good solid 10 hours. I ended up waking up about 6, which was okay. I don’t like getting up so early but my body doesn’t quite want that much sleep.

I still wake up with a cough and a stuffy nose and feeling all phlegmy. Oh well… tomorrow is my day off, and I have to take Hudson to the vet at 8am, and then I’m getting my hair done at 2pm, and I hope I remember to get my tattoo touched up after my hair. So I won’t be able to stay home all day, but next weekend I have no plans but flyball, so I should have a nice easy weekend next weekend.

I’m going to have brown highlights put in my hair. My Husband tells me I should go brunette.. but that is too scary! I like being blond.

I just have something weird. Maybe it’s some sort of seasonal affected disorder… SAD. Because I swear, each spring and fall I go through this funk that just takes me a few months to get over and no matter what I do, nothing helps but time. Not even Miami botox.

I just have to accept it. Really. I have to accept that I feel run down, stuffy, achy, and somewhat depressed. Just low energy. I probably am getting allergies too, the doc gave me some allergy meds so hopefully they will kick in. I have pressure on my face and I’ve been having a lot of bad dreams, too.

So tonight is Friday, and I’m going to sit and relax and maybe make some tea.

Oh I didn’t talk about the Bionic Woman. I liked it! I thought the woman, Jamie, was a bit wimpy in the beginning. She seems very feminine and not very tough, but I like her personality and it’ll be interesting to see how she develops. I like the technology and I thought her boyfriend was cute. Not sure if she still wants to be with him since she nearly died and he brought her back with bionics. But like most people who watch the show, I’d love to be bionic!

I haven’t had much time to watch all the new shows this week! My DVR is full up with lots of them. As I sit here and read the shows I have recorded, I have CSI Miama, SVU, Cold Case, and How I Met Your Mother.

Instead of sitting on my butt watching TV I should get some fitness advice, but alas, it’s PMS week so all I want to do is sit on my butt and eat and watch TV or knit or play on the computer. Such Fun.

I guess I should record what day it is… it’s day 19, which is just the time to start getting cranky. And I have been feeling pretty awful for the last couple of months… I think I’ll talk more about that tomorrow. Hrmph.

Tonight we are going to practice Flyball because we skipped practice Sunday night because of rain. Should be fun. I’m going to take Tatum with for socialization. It’ll be fun to go to our first flyball tournament in October. I hope the weather is okay for the drive.

I still hate driving in the weather. When it’s clear I don’t have a problem anymore. Though I’m a bit tired of driving since I’ve done so much this summer. I could drive to get some plastic surgery in Houston, Texas, but man Texas is a big state. There are flyball championships in Texas that my club can go to, but I really don’t think I want to drive that far. It’s like 13 hours one way! Ugh.

Anyway… Bionic Woman tonight too! I probably can’t watch until Thursday.

Yesterday afternoon was just about as busy as… well, okay I said the morning was relaxing, but it wasn’t, really. Not with the dogs and the maid. So the whole day felt busy yesterday. I wish I could visit some day spas for relaxation. A full body massage and a mud bath would be awesome.

Anyway so I took Lucy and Levi to the dog vet / chiropractor yesterday afternoon. I just like her a lot. She’s expensive.. but really, the herbs I got for Lucy are the same price as the metacam she’s on, that we are trying to cut back. Hopefully they will work. So really it’s not that much more.

Nothing much going on tonight. It’s TV Premier week on regular TV… I’m excited to watch some shows, including the Bionic Woman. Should be interesting.

This was a busy Monday morning. In the morning the Maid Service came… which is just hectic now that we have 8 dogs. They are very nice, but the dogs bark and I want to keep them away from the maids because not everyone likes dogs (not sure why, but there it is).

There were 2 maids today and they did a good job and I just love the house when they are gone. I swear I am bad at cleaning. I don’t know how to do it efficiently, plus I hate doing it. I couldn’t do what they do in three hours. Takes me a whole day. Probably because I always get sidetracked.

Maybe next Monday I’ll try another busy day, and get some plastic surgery in Beverly Hills, CA for kicks.

Ah the ongoing, never ending, eternal trauma of burning DVDs. Hrmph. I bought Roxio yesterday. I decided I needed to buckle down and get a good program where I can make menus and arrange my videos and pictures and burn them onto disks.

And so of course many problems. First is, of course, learning the software. Took me a while to figure out which app to use that would do what I want. Okay figured that out. Got my minidisks from my camcorder and imported a couple of them with the handycam software. Well, then Roxio couldn’t read it. Hrmph. Used Roxio to import… okay fine, but instead of having each scene it’s own little movie, it’s bunched into one big movie. Ugh.

So I know I read about detecting scenes… off to read about that. Okay then I finally figure out that when I’m creating the DVD with the menu, I can then split the movie into chapters. Okay cool! So I load up a test DVD and burn, and put it in the DVD player and it works yay!

(Okay I get the couch back, two of the three dogs on it just jumped off lol.)

Anyway, so then I load up all my movies from minidisc, arrange the menu, import them all, arrange titles and everything… and cool thing, looks like all my minidisc movies will fit on the same DVD. Burn it… put it in the DVD player after a long time of burning, and… no menu.

Ugh! Okay blah. So I go back in, take out half the movies and reburn. Stick the DVD back into the DVD player on the TV.. and it works! Woo Hoo!

So I wasted one LightScribe disk. Figured the next disc would be a cheaper kind to test. Worked, though. So now I am copying the cheap disk to the LightScribe disk which I will be giving to my friends who came to camp with me.

So learning curve, eh? Computers are such a pain. Can’t live with ‘em, Can’t throw ‘em out the window.

I have the world’s worst eye lashes. I don’t know how to wear makeup, I will admit that first off. When I was a kid doing makeup and hair was extremely anxiety ridden. I could never get my hair to work right and remember crying over it more often than not. And I didn’t really have anyone teach me how to wear makeup. My Mom doesn’t. My sister sometimes does. And my friends, I don’t know why, either didn’t wear makeup or just didn’t help me figure it out.

I’ve always been anxious about things I don’t know. Feeling like I should know more than I do. I’m 40 years old, I should know everything about makeup now, shouldn’t I? So it’s hard for me to ask for help.

Anyway I digress. I bought some mascara because I think my eyes are really washed out. I have pale skin, blonde hair, and pale eyelashes. But my eyelashes are thin and when I put mascara on, they point inwards towards my nose. Even without mascara they do that. They also stick together. Maybe I shouldn’t by grocery store mascara? I just don’t know.

Anyway, when I get frustrated I just sit down with some wine coolers and watch some TV and forget about it.

Ugh, my little baby mouse that I take everywhere I go… and plug into my laptop via the USB port, seems to have died. The drawbacks of this are many.

As I eat prunes and type, my touchpad is getting sticky… yeah I know, I shouldn’t eat and do the touchpad but I can’t stop either. And I keep hitting the touchpad when I type, because I don’t have it turned off now. If I turn it off it takes me 3 seconds to realize it’s off. Yeah I know… sometimes I just have blonde moments.

Plus, I have to go buy a new one, which I really don’t want to do. I wonder if the Husband has an extra full sized mouse lying around somewhere.

Well, Friday is a good TV show night, and I’m sitting back getting ready to watch Flash Gordon on my leather home theater seating… err, well, I wish. I’m on the couch instead. But it’s comfortable enough. I just wish SciFi broadcast in HD.