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Josh is usuallly the one with the happy stick lodged up his ass. I always rip on his constant state of optimisim since I am a pessimist by nature. I am not sure how it started but this week something shifted. Maybe it was the constant stream of negativity, anger and cynicism I have been witnessing on facebook. Fuck man. One thing I have always learned while watching shitty behavior is to say to myself, ?Yo, I know you have your moments and you can be a downright grinch but please, for the love of everything that is holy, do your best to not be like that?. So after feeling the stars align for me on one day, I decided I am going to make this a habit.

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I decided that the time Reza spends in school, the whole whopping 2.5 hrs she is gone, is going to be time for ME. No grocery shopping, house cleaning, chores, bullshit. ME TIME. In said time I draw, paint, whatever? but this week it has been exercise. A whole fucking lot of it. No joke. 5 days in I have been to the gym for 135 minutes and have biked approximately 26 miles. In 5 days. It doesn?t sound like much but to someone getting back in the game, this is a feat for me cause my biggest vice is lack of consistency. Going to try and make a habit of it but you won?t see me checking in and posting stats very often cause I don?t need that kind of validation. 26 miles! And I get to collect bugs and look at this along the way? (excuse my lazy ass cut and paste job)

+/- I got weighed and measured at the gym. As expected, my months of slacking was a gain but thankfully it was not monumental. I will get back there. The reason why this is a + is cause I didn?t flip out over it. Usually I would be all Cindy Loo Boo from Upsetville. I put on my big girl pants and accepted that reality.

- All that biking and my crotch is on fire. I need to get some ass butter and better gear cause, um, ow. Yes, I said ASS BUTTER. I know someone who would enjoy watching that.

+ My moods have been on a total upswing and as much as I hate to admit it, it has EVERYTHING to do with the massive increase in activity. The PMS isn?t as brutal this month.

+ I have come to a realization that the beauty of being somewhere ?new? is you get a clean slate. You can abandon a lot of the pretenses, pressures and expectations of living somewhere you know everyone. Even more so when it?s a place that is so image driven like CA. The abandon that hits me at times is so unlike what I am used to. I sing out loud, I leave the house without make-up. A pony tail, pants and a t-shirt will suffice. Yes, I have wrinkles and bags under my eyes, welcome to almost 38 Ivonne. It?s a-ok.

+ Reza has been singing a lot lately. The girl has natural vibrato in a big way. I am not surprised to be honest, her dad has no vocal training either and he kills it.

+ In case you didn?t read good day on Monday, things only got more interesting. On Tuesday I found, captured and moved a baby bunny to safety. No, really. The hilarity that ensued while I was chasing said bunny in a busy street while a school bus waited for me was priceless. I wish someone taped it cause I am sure it was utterly ridiculous.

+ As if I wasn?t a goodie two shoes enough, two days after the car book return and later the bun rescue, I found someone?s cane in the grocery store parking lot. I took in to lost and found. On the way out of the store I found someones wallet! What is it with people here losing their stuff? I went to her house and left a note on her door since she wasn?t home. 20 minutes later I get a phone call and the wallet and its owner were reunited. Lots of gratitude there. As much as I like to think I have a black heart, doing nice things for people feels great. Maybe the universe will throw us a bone in the shape of a job in Portland. Wouldn?t that be the shit?

- My iMac is acting all kinds of stupid. Not sure how this happened but I managed to discover my mail application has been backing up EVERY SINGLE EMAIL I have sent, received and deleted since 2005. Ho. Lee. Shit. The whole process is daunting. Josh and I have decided to back up our crucial data and wipe the thing. There have been many views like this to say the least?

- I took advantage of my lucky streak and bought a powerball ticket. I lost. But hey, so did you so

+ Halloween season is upon us and I have been stalking the craft stores and Target for goodies. You got to keep in mind that this is the ONLY time of year where I really get my shop on. I buy supplies to last me a whole year cause as someone put it best, Halloween is a lifestyle, not a holiday. I have gone nuts with the home wares but most of all the craft supplies? papers, paper tape, hole punches, good lord. It all goes to good use though!

+ Now that all of my recipients are getting their Halloween cards, I have been getting the sweetest of thank you messages. I love sending snail mail and as much as it is a dying art form I am doing my best to keep it alive. If you saw the things people have said to me, you would pick up the pen too. I like being thoughtful and if there is one thing that has come from this whole ?having no friends here? situation is that it had pushed me to reach out more. And why lie, I like my penmanship and use cool stationery. Shit, I even got this awesome stamp to celebrate?

+ The email debacle is making me realize I get too much of it and I am unsubscribing from a bunch of shit.

+ Getting to reconnect with old friends, establishing new ones (sadly all out of state) and being reassured why I am letting some fade away into the abyss. OOOf.

And on that note I am off to take a walk with my nugget for some Rita?s, reunite with my man who I haven?t seen since Thursday morning and make sure my weekend is way more + than -.

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