So maaaybe I'm getting a little desperate to clear out my skin.  I'm currently wearing a clay and apple cider vinegar mask and, two times a day, drinking a tablespoon of ACV... which, by the way, tastes like evil.  But apparently it's very good for your skin, your hair, your digestive system, and your weight!  I mixed it with an epic ton of apple juice which improves it a bit... but not a lot... but enough to make me not want to puke it back up.  But my skin was doing very well until last week wherein I got a very bad breakout of cystic acne (which hurts like hell) under my jawline and on my chin.  I'm taking things out of my regimen to figure out what caused it, and so far I think it was the lotion.  Blech.

When the semester ended I visited Elly for a few days before coming home and then going back to school.  I'm in Group Therapy.  We decided our group was focused on Catharsis and I dare you to guess who was the first one to cry :D  But I was group leader today and I made the focus be positive, because darn it!  Although I was amused as I had to 12-hour fast for a blood test and today was the day that someone made coffee and the professor brought donuts.  Curse you irony!  But all the people in the class are cool :)

Tomorrow is the day I find out if I get actual work in the summer.  Cross your fingers for me please as I need moneeeeey. 


And I'm actually writing now :3

So I lent my copy of Good Omens to my client's sister, who's seen The Omen and thus can appreciate some of the humor even if she is kinda young to get a lot of it.  She's not even halfway through and she's already planning out how she can cosplay Crowley while I'm Aziraphale.  I am amused. 

Oh, I've been slowly working on losing weight, and I've lost 11 pounds since January.  My clothes fit better, but after I reach my weight goal I plan on donating all of them and buying a new wardrobe :3  Not that I will have much money, considering the fact that I still have summer, fall, spring, summer and fall to pay for school-wise... Granted, the last summer and fall will be cheaper, but still, I'm baaarely going to be able to afford it. 

I'm only working six hours a week, by the way.  Six. I told them that I want to work with little kids, so in theory there will be someone.  After all, new kids are being accepted to the program all the time and usually very young.  Plus little kids are adorable!

Oh, and this exists: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/ParadiseThwarted.  I squealed like a very enthused baby when I stumbled upon it.

My doctor's appointment was originally at 2, but they called at 8 to reschedule me for 10. This wouldn't be so bad except I'd gone to bed around 2:30... which was better than the night before, which was 4:30. Sometimes I love hour cuts.

It's looking like I'll get my Master's fall 2013. That's not that bad. If I really busted my ass I could make it summer 2013, but honestly, I don't think that's worth it considering the classes are all very work-intensive.

Okay, I'm starting to figure out why I don't update this any more. It's not due to lack of interest - I still check it regularly - it's due to lack of anything to say!

Traditiooooon!

Taliesin the Merlin said in his soft voice, "Why, then, would you be harsher than Christ himself, brother? For he, I seem to remember, was greatly chided that he consorted with outcasts and sinners and even tax collectors, and such ladies as the Magdalen, when they would have had him a Nazarite like John the Baptizer. And at last, even when He hung dying on His cross, He did promise the thief that the same night he would enter paradise- no?"

"I think too many people presume to read the divine scriptures, and fall into just such errors as this," said Patricus sternly. "Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon

Happy St. Patrick's Day from this Polish/German/Scottish/English/French girl!

(year six of this stupid quote!  And of course, British!Aziraphale as my icon.  Not that regular Aziraphale isn't British, of course.)

I've been a bad girl, not posting at all lately.  I do regularly check these things, but I'm just too lazy to actually do things like "respond" or "post" myself. 

So last month I finished reading what exists thus far of The Dresden Files.  Good stressless reading fun!  It's been awhile since I actually read published literature, shame on me.  I've stuck mostly to writing and/or reading fanfiction because I'm a bad person.  And it turns out that my brother owns the first season of the Dresden Files TV show.  I'm scared to watch it.  But I will.  Oh yes, I will.

Second semester is going well so far.  I got a 44/45 on the first Appraisal test, and we just took the first Family test that I'm pretty sure I did well on too.  I've done all assignments due in March and most of those due in April, although I need to do one of the papers over the weekend.  Although next week is spring break, soooooo I might be lazy.  I can do that.  Especially since I now only work Thursdays and Fridays, meaning I have copious amounts of freetime. 

Speaking of, i've been keeping up very well with exercising.  The problem is that I've hit a plateau, so to speak.  But I know that's how these things work, and if I keep going I'll keep losing weight.  The other problem is that I spent most of my time on the treadmill reading, and now I've got nothing.  But next I guess is to watch the TV show XD  My second series was going to be that other wizard named Harry, but we can't find book 1 or book 7.  Irony.  

And I keep dabbling in the ML/PT sequel (which needs to be named some pun of Paradise Regained) and it's over 26,000 words and basically nothing.  Siiiiiiigh.  XD 

So I have a new schedule set up - I exercise for at least a half hour on ever day but Wednesdays and Saturdays.  I actually feel pretty good while doing it, and have started to look forward to it at least a little bit (my lazy ass self can't really look forward to it!)  Part of me has a goal, now, to be able to get a belly button ring without looking like I'm trying way too hard be sexy when I'm not... aka, to have a relatively flat tummy.  Now, most of my fat is in my boobs, so it won't be toooooo difficult to get a flatter tummy, but still.  It's a goal, rather than just an amorphous "lose weight" goal.

Also, while my skin isn't 100% clear, I was able to do something today that I haven't been able to do in a long, long, long long LONG time... leave the house with just some concealer on a few zits.  I have like, three.  Normally I have to cover my face with foundation.  I still have some scarring but it's also healing.  I could not be happier with this progress, because while it's slow, it's happening.  And my skin isn't super dry, or super oily, and it's fairly soft! 

I'm still kind of anxious a lot, but not to some horrible unmanageable degree, but rather to some degree where it annoys me because I shouldn't be unhappy and my own biology is ruining it.  Well, my biology isn't the only thing ruining it.  Money and living at home are as well, but you know, one thing at a time.  Once I get my physical self under control, I can start focusing on external things.

Maybe 2012 will be My Year?  That'd be nice.

Gee, I wonder what this is from /sarcasm

It's hard getting into the habit of checking my dreamwidth, but I am getting better at it - much better than my poor Google+ account, the sad thing.


In political news, Santorum?  Really?  Really?  Really?  Really?  Really?  The guy who's so hated they ascribed his name to something disgusting involving fecal matter and bodily fluids?  Really?  Really? 


My break ends today.  I actually have to work tomorrow.  I don't want to.  I accomplished nothing over this long break except updating my Dragon Age mods.  It's sort of sad.  What did I do?  I don't even know.  I threw up a lot, and that's come back, skippy hooray. 


Yep, that's it.  Happy 2012?

Happy New Year everyone!  2011 was disappointing, but hopefully 2012 will be better :3 <3

This is going to sound awful of me, but here it is.  My birthday's coming up, and all I want is someone out there to make a TVTropes page for Paradise Thwarted, because it needs its own one rather than having to share with ML's page ;_;  And I need something to be happy about besides writing smut, which is an unexpected side effect of stopping an SSRI - it has its own syndrome, by the way, so I'm not crazy! -, and the only one that doesn't make me miserable XD.