For the most part I’ve been cooped up all winter, only going out when I needed something and overall just freezing my butt off. But now that the weather has drastically improved I have been trying to get out of the house as much as possible. This is honestly something kind of new to me. I’ve never gone out a lot by myself, mostly because I don’t drive, but also because I don’t know.. I never really wanted to. But as I’ve gotten older and more independent I want to go out and be alone. I enjoy it. Oddly. Considering I’m alone a lot at home. It’s not the same I guess. I’ve already gotten more than my money’s worth at the zoo and I’ve been frequenting Panera Bread. (Which I really shouldn’t be doing since it’s money I don’t really have but I can’t help it. It’s a great environment to get shit done in.)

So I’m sitting at Panera right now, working on various projects and trying to get in as much work as I can before I leave. I’ve been here an hour so far and have another one to go before I catch the bus back to my house. I didn’t want to take my bike today since I brought all my books and such. (The added weight really hurts my rear end, since my seat is still not softened) That and my legs still hurt from all the riding I’ve been doing over the last week. I’ve done about 20 miles. I’m not losing any weight though. *sigh* Haven’t been gaining any either.

I’ve been really bad about not blogging lately. There really is no excuse other than I’ve lost motivation lately because I’m all stressed out about finals week (which begins today and ends Wednesday). As a result I haven’t been getting much done other than school work. I’ve especially fallen behind on my chores, which I genuinely feel bad about. I am going to vacuum the house tonight and do a load of towels. And just generally straighten up. I know it upsets my husband to come home to a dirty house and that makes me feel like a bad wife since I’m not doing what I should be, even though I have plenty of time to get it done.

This weekend I’m going to be cleaning the carpet one of the downstairs room and hopefully Joshua will wash the dogs as I get the cages fixed and set up in the old workout room. My dogs stink to all high heaven. It’s been about a month since I last washed them and they really need to be bathed every two weeks or so because they get stinky very quickly. Sweaty dogs. YUCK! They are getting more used to taking baths though. Once upon a time they were deathly afraid of the tub lol. But now Ash gets right in and after a lot of coaxing so does Ada. They are going to be 3 years old this summer. It’s really sad to think that a third of their life is already gone How depressing. Nobody likes to think that their pets are going to die some day but with Great Danes the day comes even sooner. Assuming I take good care of them and nothing like bloat happens, I get 8 years with them. Not much time really when you think about the lifetimes of other pets. My two older cats are getting up there too. I guess they are about 5 years old now? But they have plenty of years to go, unlike my big babies.

Anyhow!! Enough sadness. My health is alright lately. My allergies are haywire with all the blooming going on but it seems like the prozac is starting to kick in. I’ve not been as moody lately and I’ve not snapped! Good progress I think. There was some nausea issues when I began the meds but I’ve figured out that taking it after eating helps. A couple more weeks till I increase the dosage. I’m interested to see how it will affect me when the PMDD sets in. I’ll be ecstatic if I can actually function because of them. That would be a very, very good thing.

Well I’m going to go get some more work done. Continue commenting and I’ll make sure to get more posts up!