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Bonus, Christmas and Heavy Metal Kaiju
Dec. 27th, 2006 04:00 amKathy got her Christmas bonus from work and she had a blast spending it. She bought herself a bunch of fun stuff, mostly books and movies, and we enjoyed some of these things together. She also bought some other things but I'll spare you the agony of TMI. ;)
As I mentioned, she bought movies. If you know her, you can probably guess what kind: giant monsters. We found a great deal on a three-pack of some more modern Godzilla movies that we have yet to watch. She also bought a three-disk set of giant monster movies for $10 with a bunch of early Gamera movies. We've already watched the first two Gamera flicks. Ouch. Fun but ouch.
I decided that since Godzilla has a cool rock song written in his honor by Blue Oyster Cult, and since I like turtles and Gamera is a giant turtle, and since Gamera is very cheesy and underrated that I would be the perfect musician to write his really cool rock song. Let's face it: the song in the first movie was just too cheesy and hardly a song. It's coming along good, and as luck would have it I'm writing it in the 80s hair band style. Appropriately cheesy, even if Gamera was a child of the 60s. I have the verse and chorus riffs. Just have to write some crappy lyrics and harmonize a la Extreme and I'll be okay.
Christmas was fun. Kathy and I don't celebrate but we visited the parents since they've brought back the idea of the whole family getting together for dinner on Christmas Day. It was nice to be with everyone. I'm glad I don't live down there after hearing what's going on with my Mom's side of the extended family (aunts and uncles and childish stuff... again) but it's rather swell to go back for a visit and dinner again. We got to see Aunt Terri and Uncle Bob last night, which was very cool. It's been a long time.
On the trip home I stopped in and had my mirror replaced on the driver's side. Oh yeah, I hadn't posted that. Two days before Thanksgiving someone clipped my mirror while the truck was parked on South Main Street in Plymouth. Didn't leave a note or anything. It was a little annoying since I had to pay the $120 out of pocket ($500 deductible on the car insurance. Yay.) but it's just nice to finally have a mirror on my side again.
Life in general is just peachy right now. I'm taking things day by day with the emotional issues. I'm considering going for counseling when I can afford it, but for now Kathy and Melanie have been very understanding and helpful.
I'm getting my eating and exercising habits back on track. Starting tomorrow I'll be back on Atkins to lose and keep off the weight I gained back. I know I can do it. I've done it before, I can do it again. I have a lot of reasons to want to be back there again and go further. Now that things are a bit better sorted in life I can manage to get back on track and stay there. I've also set myself up with plenty incentives.
I did reneg on one incentive. I wasn't going to allow myself to grow my hair long until I lost the weight but I have another reason to start growing it now. It involves a promise to a friend, so that's a better reason as far as I'm concerned.
Life is good. It's not spectacular. It's not horrible. I think good is the right word, and that's also fine with me right now. I'll take good.
As I mentioned, she bought movies. If you know her, you can probably guess what kind: giant monsters. We found a great deal on a three-pack of some more modern Godzilla movies that we have yet to watch. She also bought a three-disk set of giant monster movies for $10 with a bunch of early Gamera movies. We've already watched the first two Gamera flicks. Ouch. Fun but ouch.
I decided that since Godzilla has a cool rock song written in his honor by Blue Oyster Cult, and since I like turtles and Gamera is a giant turtle, and since Gamera is very cheesy and underrated that I would be the perfect musician to write his really cool rock song. Let's face it: the song in the first movie was just too cheesy and hardly a song. It's coming along good, and as luck would have it I'm writing it in the 80s hair band style. Appropriately cheesy, even if Gamera was a child of the 60s. I have the verse and chorus riffs. Just have to write some crappy lyrics and harmonize a la Extreme and I'll be okay.
Christmas was fun. Kathy and I don't celebrate but we visited the parents since they've brought back the idea of the whole family getting together for dinner on Christmas Day. It was nice to be with everyone. I'm glad I don't live down there after hearing what's going on with my Mom's side of the extended family (aunts and uncles and childish stuff... again) but it's rather swell to go back for a visit and dinner again. We got to see Aunt Terri and Uncle Bob last night, which was very cool. It's been a long time.
On the trip home I stopped in and had my mirror replaced on the driver's side. Oh yeah, I hadn't posted that. Two days before Thanksgiving someone clipped my mirror while the truck was parked on South Main Street in Plymouth. Didn't leave a note or anything. It was a little annoying since I had to pay the $120 out of pocket ($500 deductible on the car insurance. Yay.) but it's just nice to finally have a mirror on my side again.
Life in general is just peachy right now. I'm taking things day by day with the emotional issues. I'm considering going for counseling when I can afford it, but for now Kathy and Melanie have been very understanding and helpful.
I'm getting my eating and exercising habits back on track. Starting tomorrow I'll be back on Atkins to lose and keep off the weight I gained back. I know I can do it. I've done it before, I can do it again. I have a lot of reasons to want to be back there again and go further. Now that things are a bit better sorted in life I can manage to get back on track and stay there. I've also set myself up with plenty incentives.
I did reneg on one incentive. I wasn't going to allow myself to grow my hair long until I lost the weight but I have another reason to start growing it now. It involves a promise to a friend, so that's a better reason as far as I'm concerned.
Life is good. It's not spectacular. It's not horrible. I think good is the right word, and that's also fine with me right now. I'll take good.
