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Wednesday, December 29

 

The best diet plan EVER, and my resolutions...

I have found this to be depression, and abstaining from alcohol. Yes in the last two months, I have lost nearly 15 pounds. I didn't ask for it, it just happened. At first I thought I was sick, then I realized all of the extra beer calories I was consuming. Yup. Hasn’t had a drink of anything alcoholic since the day before Halloween this year, and I don't see it happening again in the near or distant future. Good for me. It's the healthiest thing I have ever decided to do.

As far as New Year's resolutions go, my list is a doozy. It's usually baggage I carry with me from year to year, and this year-end is no different.

First and foremost I need to maintain a positive attitude. I need to learn to take life one day at a time, and stop trying to plan my life five years down the road. I need to be more patient, both with myself and others around me. I need to fix Tony, my bike, and take him for countless rides this year (as he's been collecting cobwebs for quite some time). I need to practice my Spanish, and make a point to use it more often. I need to focus on what truly makes me happy and try to work towards that in baby steps. I need to take better care of myself, and love myself more than I do. Ugh, I need to learn to deal with the minutia that comes along with it all. I need to find my peace, my joy.

As far as the more concrete goals: Contact UNL for readmission and work on planning my move back to Lincoln. Contact professors in Biology program regarding focus areas and internship ideas. Start contacting SCUBA clubs and dive shops in the Lincoln/Omaha area regarding advanced classes and dive opportunities. Look into housing and employment possibilities while continuing school. Make it back to Iceland. Obtain my advanced diver certification, and do at least one wreck dive. Keep up with my knitting and crocheting, and perhaps learn some intarsia (knitting technique).

And that's all folks.

Lynnette 2:27 PM

Monday, December 27

 

Yesterday, Steve and I went to see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. While I didn't fall in love with it right away like I did with the Tenenbaums, I still liked it quite a bit. Anderson makes great movies. I was, however, looking forward to more underwater footage/action simply because am desperate for anything scuba-related. I secretly wanted to critique their scuba technique, as I did during Open Water (they should have dropped their weight belts at the first sign of trouble... the fools).

I also tried to get a full-night's sleep after the hell that I found to be Christmas with someone else's family. Holidays with my boyfriends family are one thing; tolerable, fun at times, and definitely make for good stories later. But a holiday with my boyfriend's, sister-in-law's extended family is not soemthing I signed up for.....or was told was happening. I have met most of these people before, here and there, but I didn't expect to spend the day with 40 near strangers.

Now all of that is over and done.

Lynnette 8:38 AM

Saturday, December 11

 

This blog has become a diary. My personal diary, at that. Nobody seems to read it unless they need some stupid link or I ask them "have you read my blog lately?". So people read it out of guilt, I suppose. Even my boyfriend, who cannot pull himself away from a video game, doesn't read this site.

I'm starting therapy on Wednesday because I have hit a rock-bottom depressive state. Very few, if any, of my friends know what's going on, and the worst part of it is, none of my friends are truly in my life anymore. I suppose "out of sight, out of mind" happens with friends, too. I'm riding a bummer, and I have nobody to talk to about it. Zero, not a single one. I have a good friend who doesn't like to talk on the phone, and another friend who isn't speaking to me. My parents are hours and hours away, and crying over the phone to someone does little to ease your conscience. I am extremely unhappy and I fear that I may not be able to snap out of it alone. Nettie is starting to slow down, and I don't mean in a good mellowing out listening to the Pretenders, sort of slowing down.

Lynnette 9:56 AM

Tuesday, December 7

 

Things I think of while in the shower...

I started thinking about this really bad tv show Steve and I watched last night called "Trading Spouses". A very overweight woman was traded to a family that only had a small bathtub. Then I wondered if overweight people have to overcompensate for the amount of water they displace while in the tub. When I take baths, I can fill the tub nearly to the top, and still not overflow the tub when I hop in. Then I wondered if every scuba diver in the world jumped into the ocean at once if the amount of water displaced could be detected. Then I wondered, if they have already mapped the ocean floors with radar they could approximate the volume of the oceans. If they know the volume of the oceans, could they calculate the amount of water displaced by ocean animals if they approximated the number of members of known species . Also, by using these calculations could they guess as to how many creatures we have never, and will never see, or the physical volume of animals not yet discovered.

Then I rinsed my hair and dried off.

Lynnette 8:04 AM

Thursday, December 2

 

Super God Project

My coworker and I misheard someone when they actually said they had a super top project. Anyway, on to the minutia that is this blog. I heard this morning that Webster's is adding the word/definition "blog" to next year's editions. Fabulous.

Oh, and my knitting is coming along swimmingly. Other than that, everything's hunky dory.

Lynnette 1:52 PM

Wednesday, December 1

 

Best of both worlds...

This Saturday afternoon my boyfriend is taking me to the Producers. I was a bit surprised when he suggested it considering he absolutely hates musicals. But he loved the movie so it should be a good time. Then later we're going to walk to the Metrodome and go to a monster truck rally. In between we'll probably throw in a nice sushi dinner, and changing of clothes. As Steve put it, if that isn't a big hot date, I dunno what is!

Lynnette 10:57 AM