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So, again, I've let posting lapse. I remember a time when I was posting every day. Multiple times. That was likely a much more annoying time rather than entertaining, but still. Even if I have a hard time reading what I sounded like in 2001 over again now, it was nice to have a record.
So here's another go at picking it up again. Let's see if I can sum up the recently of things, yes?
A couple of shows have happened. George, Genevieve and I went to see Fuerzabruta in May which is this wild show off Broadway (a birthday gift to Genevieve from me and Michael). Action happening all over, above, on the walls, on treadmills. The audience moves around with the show. Crazy lights and building music. It all ended with a rave dance party under indoor rain. Thoroughly enjoyable show; quite the worth it experience.
Only other notable experience in May was more festivities for Genevieve's birthday. Lots good food and lots of friends.
June came and went almost as though it didn't exist. Many things happened, but it was one of those months that felt like it was over before I'd realized it started. To kick off the month we had a performance in Asbury Park for a ::insert many different sexualities and lifestyle choices here:: benefit. Our very first outdoor (and on asphalt, no less) show which went swimmingly but far too quickly. I did "Fuck You" again (which I absolutely love) and almost bought chaps. Damn my slightly too big (but beginning now to slim) thighs! I'm determined to have a pair by next year. This was followed by Dan's graduation party which was mucho fun and my introduction to a great family tradition of theirs: celebrating important milestones with lots and lots of crab.
Around the same time I got to enjoy both a boys' weekend and girls' weekend (one while Genevieve was in Virginia and one while Michael was in south Jersey). Boys weekend included much geeking out (including seeing the new Star Trek for the second time), much drinking, and a great deal of laziness. Girls weekend started by seeing the rescheduled Bailout Burlesque Charity Auction. (The first of which was cancelled, uncancelled, cancelled, moved, and finally cancelled the first time around - all on the same night. That experience included hanging awkwardly in the new Indian restaurant which was appalled to have us there in the first place, then move up to the scary soon-to-be clothing store which was falling apart, boxes and furniture - and rat pellets - strewn everywhere, only to discover performing there as illegal, almost moving the the gay club down the road, and ultimately turning away the whole audience and going home completely unfulfilled. Although in retrospect not a bad story to have.)
The rescheduled show was much fun to watch, some for tragic and some for very talented reasons. Parts made me very much want to collaborate, and other parts made me cheer (slightly inappropriately) as one act was dragged off stage. Overall and very fun night. I would love to see the auction aspect revisited now with lessons learned.
Saturday continued our girly-fest starting with some shopping, where I spent money I didn't have on clothes I _really_ wanted. Next we saw The Proposal which I liked a lot, followed by Appletizers and an impromtu stop at the club Switch to have shots and dance until close. I hadn't had a girly weekend in a long time; lots of fun was had.
Following the fun and leading up to the first of two full weekends of gaming, I got very sick, although nothing compared to the red death rash of earlier this year. Fortunately, my health returned for my weekends of gaming. You see, many times in the past we've started talking about RPGs and playing and I've said something like, "Oh! We could play now!" and everyone laugh and pats me on the head and we move on. But several weeks before, this happened while Dan and Katie were over only instead of laughing and patting, Dan, Michael, and Joe said, "Okay!" and Katie and Genevieve went shopping. This in and of it self was a geek-dream come true for me. And even moreso, as wee talked further, spawned into a plan to do full-on gaming weekends while Katie was away in Texas for a couple of weeks for a wedding.
This gave us (Michael, Joe, Dan, and I) a chance to plan an awesome D&D campaign Michael's been working on for a while on weekend one. Last weekend we tried D&D 4th Edition Friday night and then George joined us for Saturday and Sunday where we played card and board games and watched some geeky British comedy. (Best way to celebrate Fourth of July ever!) Completely enjoyable weekends and I absolutely want to do similar for every celebration that's for me. And many weekends in between.
Besides these gems I've remembered to mention, I'm sure many other really great things have happened, and for those things I forgot, I appologize. Much of the rest of my life has been exercise, shower, work, shower, dinner, sleep, repeat. Much with the work. But things are pretty okay right now.
Enough rambling; hopefully another two months will _not_ go by this time. |
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[Dec. 27th, 2008|04:20 pm] |
I am a terrible blogger.
When I started my livejournal I had much more time to spend and waste in front of a computer, and even afterward, when I didn't have the time, I always made time to post every detail no one but me cared about. But for the last year, I've been completely remiss and hardly every posting. Big, fun, happy things and big, scary, sad things have been happening off and on, and I mean to post, but I never get to it. It doesn't help that I no longer have a job that allows me to be in front of a computer consistently throughout the day to post every time I have a thought. Still, I _like_ blogging, even when no one else cares. And I like being able to go back and say "Hey, that's when I did that! That was fun!" So I'm going to make an effort to chronicle more; and hopefully it will be interesting.
Many things have happened over the last few months; graduation/birthday/holiday parties, amazing engagement, work highs and lows, my birthday, Tiger Lillies concert, White Elephant shows, Thanksgiving in Virginia, shopping on Black Friday, decorating, shopping, sex, reconnection, arguments, and more. I'd love to say I remember exactly everything and when, but I don't. Still, it's been a full and generally good several months. And now we're approaching a new year and this time 2009 I want to be able to look back and read about everything I did. Maybe not the toothbrushing and dishwashing, but everything else.
As of now, I'm in the Atlantic City Medical Center. As I'm sure most of you now know, Michael's father is in the hospital and has been since Tuesday evening as a result of a head injury. While we started at critical condition and unconsciousness, he's now awake, talking, walking around, sitting up, and complaining constantly about wanting to leave while refusing to eat hospital food. So it's an upswing! He's being moved finally out of ICU today and after a couple of more days will hopefully be able to go home. Now that things are out of the woods we're enjoying the rest of what we can of the holiday season and looking forward to being able to try out the brand new Wii my mom got us fro Christmas. I'm very anxious to get to a Gamestop so I can continue to stock up on games and accessories to go with.
Took me four days but I finally thought to bring my laptop to the hospital so Genevieve and I can now take turns online with minimal restrictions (since the hospital computers block almost everything) and playing DVDs and games. Also, they finally turned on the cool air in this waiting room so it's downright cozy.
Anyway, I hope everything had a really great Christmas. For me it's bee a great reminder of how much doesn't matter and how much the important things really do. I love all my friends/family and thanks to everyone who's been supportive and interested. |
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[Jun. 9th, 2008|03:37 pm] |
Lots going on at the moment.
Yesterday officially marked my last day of classes. As of today I graduate with an Associates degree. Going back for my bachelor's probably next spring semester.
Also, moving into our apartment this weekend. Spent much of the weekend (with gracious help from George) packing and organizing for said move. I feel like we've got so much to do but I know we'll get it done. It's both a little scary but also very exciting to know that this time next week I'll be going to a completely different home. One with _space_ all of our stuff and finally a place we can call ours.
This is not without it's stress, though. Money's tight and will remain so at least for a bit. But in that regard I'm actually getting a substantial raise as well as limited holiday pay. Pauline's been very impressed and she's slowly giving me more and more responsibility and compensating for that however she can. I'm kind of proud of myself in this job. And with school.
Life's been kind of up and down for various reasons lately, but for many reasons, I'm proud of the way I've been handling it. And I only intend to get even better at it.
Anyway, I should _probably_ go earn that raise I'm getting. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2007|12:59 am] |
What a fucking month.
Got a raise. Upped my hours at work. For that reason, personal, and severe time management issues got way behind in school work far more than I'd like. I'm no longer a member of HoH (and no, I'm not ready to make that post; I'm not sure there ever will be one). I've completely lost my constant contact with the internet; specifically livejournal and emailing I've intended to do. Things have been really good often, not so good more than I'd like, and stressful pretty consistantly.
Yesterday and today were both 11+ hour shifts at work and man was it fucking busy. Kids are off of school which means we had people there more than consistantly. It was almost unmanagable both days until 5-ish. But the time went quickly that day and I feel even more secure in my job. Pauline likes me quite a bit and she's very impressed with me. I'm very flattered, but my subconscious is choosing to use my good fortune to torture me in my dreams with anxiety based on letting her down.
My two current classes are also ending on Sunday at midnight. That means final papers are due and as off 11:00 PM last night, I hadn't even started either one of them. But, I'm pleased to be able to announce that I completed my Geology class and submitted my final paper six minutes ago. I now wash my hands.
Economic Theory's going to be trickier. As much as I'd like to go to sleep with them both finished and a full, unaccounted for weekend ahead of me, if I try to stay awake much longer my eyes will jump out and I'm just not going to get any more productive work done tonight. So, I've got a full day tomorrow to finish it off.
Apparently I'm not just yet ready to stop typing though, as I'm here. I've barely had time to keep up, much less make a post that's substatial; here included. I've got emails that need to be written and some memes I'd really like to do (and eBay sales that would make my wallet very happy), but I find myself incredibly short on time and heavy on exhaustion and worn out-ed-ness.
Not sure what the point of all this is, but I'm just rambling, so, to sleep I go. |
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[Jun. 29th, 2007|12:22 am] |
I have again been remiss in updating. Although really, it's still. I spent a week getting back to it and then pretty much stopped all over again.
To say nothing's really been happening in my life would be a complete (and transparent) lie.
But I've had not the energy or the time to bother writing about any of it. And some of it I just don't really want to write about.
So, of course, I chose to make a compeltely useless post in order to avoid doing my business paper. Which I need to have done today (Friday) and which I am also completely lost on. At least after this week, this class will finally be over. |
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[Jun. 9th, 2007|01:42 am] |
This has been a very not fun week as far as school goes.
I had some fairly time-consuming (and in many areas confusing) math and business homework to complete. I usually try to have it all done by Thursday. Both to make sure I meet my deadlines and because one of the reasons going to school online doesn't drive me crazy is that it doesn't have to infringe on my personal life.
That said, this week I just wasn't able to get it done. Four days this week I was working for hours at a time and still by today I'd barely actually finished anything. For my math class, I spent a total of 8 and 1/2 hours on just _one_ assignment. This is especially ridiculous because I know the material. I took algebra enough times that I barely have to read any of the book; I just remember how to do most of what we're learning. But actually inputting it into a fucking word document is really aggravating. Plus I had to combine Excel and Word this week just to get all the problems completely done. I have never missed paper and pencil so much in my _life_.
So, as of today at around 5:00, I'd finally (after taking time on Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday as well to do homework) finished my math work for the week. And I still had _two_ papers due for my business class. One of which was due today.
Fortunately for me the first one was _fairly_ short. I was able to get it done in about a half an hour. It was mostly paraphrasing our textbook to begin with and meant more as an exercise in understanding the material for the actual paper that's due on Sunday.
However, since we're going to be busy all day tomorrow and I'd really like _some_ relaxy time with my lovers on Sunday, I really needed to get this paper at least _mostly_ done tonight. So, after coming home from Regina's party, that's what I'm doing. I'm about a third of the way done right now and just about halfway through the really tough part. Once I've finished that it's _mosty_ pretty simple. Over the last couple of days I had to essentially reread the whole textbook up to this point to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be writing about, but I finally got the jist of it and I'm muddling through it now.
It hasn't helped that I've been plagued with a headache that just won't go away. Much of it, I'm sure, is due to the weather. Part of it is probably due to my not taking my medication for the last six or so months. All because I couldn't afford it with no insurance. Forunately that's all settled. I finally went to my doctor this week and talked with her through the whole situation. She represcribed both medications I'd stopped taking for me, took quite a lot of blood from me, and ordered an MRI (which I'm going for next week). So in a couple of weeks we'll see what damage my not taking my drugs actuall did, but for now I'm back on all my meds and hopefully that'll clear up the getting-more-frequent headaches and slight dizziness I've been feeling for the last couple of months.
And that, basically, has been the sucky parts of my week. Fortunately, I had Genevieve there with me at the doctors and her and Michael have been wonderful about helping me get through all this stuff.
As for the _good_ parts of this week, I got to have my way with Regina last night in a genuinely wonderful and enjoyable night of bondage and sensation play. (Well, the three of us did.) I had a really excellent time and I'm very glad to be able to get past some of my insecurities and enjoy playing again in a slightly broader sense. I very much look forward to doing so with her again.
Okay, enough procrastinating and back to my paper. Just needed a vent-y break. |
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[Mar. 1st, 2007|11:22 pm] |
I am a bad livejournaler.
Too much going on. Way too much desire to be angsty when I look at livejournal for my taste.
Perhaps when things are less crazy I'll do a real update.
And now, I sleep. Hopefully a lot.
Busy work days and stressful other parts of life make Danielle a very tired and headachy girl. |
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[Jan. 15th, 2007|04:54 pm] |
This week's homework is done.
Phone calls to my doctor and Spyderco are made. I should have a new knife clip on the way and all the information my doctor was gathering for me should be ready by Thursday.
Finally got my issue with Power Point sorted out (although my teacher is being a dick about it).
Genevieve and I are going later to get some bookshelves in order to organize this room better so there's not stuff everywhere. And hopefully within a couple of weeks the three of us will have a new King-sized bed and be that much closer to our eventual moving in together.
And, I'm off to exercise and shower.
Very productive day so far. |
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[Jan. 10th, 2007|06:29 pm] |
I have many good things to post about.
New Years. Visiting Willow and seeing Boston. New plans for the future in both living situations and work.
However, I've got like zero time to write about any of it. And right now my mother is frustrating me to no end. I've got a million things to catch up with in school, I may not pass one of my current classes if I can't get a certain problem sorted out, and I still don't have insurance.
And with the no time I've got this week, tonight I have no choice but to get all of (or at least most of) my school work for the week finished and it's already 6:30, plus I've still got to exercise, shower, and somewhere in there have a meal.
How much of this do I want to do? About none of it, actually. Not one bit.
I'm am not a very happy Danielle at the moment. |
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Okay, it's been a while since I posted something of substance about my life besides school and unpleasant surprises.
I'll start with my birthday. I love my birthday. My mother took me out to dinner the night before with Chris and I got the nummiest Mango Margarita. She gave me money to put towards Maryland as did my grandmother. On my actual birthday, I worked for much of the day, but Michael picked me up and wisked me home after. He and Genevieve bought me dinner (Thai food :D) and we watched LOST for a bit until my father got there. He was pretty much the last person I wanted to see, but I figured I'd get a gift out of it. No gift, yet he still insisted on staying (no, I'm not bitter - not at all). My mother got me the most amazing chocolate cake I've ever had. I _love_ it. And Genevieve likes it, too! We finally agree on a cake!
After cake with my mom, Chris, Tara, and my dad, the three of us headed upstairs and they gave my my present. It was a martini shaker, with two tickets to Wedding Singer (::squeal::) and reservations to Carmines (::squeal again!::) for October 19th inside!!! I have the best lovers ever! We broke in my new corset afterwards and Michael ended up sleeping over. Very excellent birthday. And I've still got a topping and a couple more presents to look forward to! I = teh spoiled.
On the creative front of my life, burlesque preparation is going well. I have my full costume together, as does Genevieve (and we both look _really_ hot). The choreography is coming along and we're having a really good time with it. I'm looking forward to SalonCon a lot. Both 'cause it'll be fun, and I won't be opposed to my time slowing a bit after it's over. Plus, Timespiral release and topping to follow that same weekend.
Financially, I'm planning ahead. I'm almost completely finished Christmas shopping (I know - I'm crazy, but I had ideas and really needed to plan while I had the money), and have a good bit of money saved up, which I'll be needing for the eventual apartment and possibly for insurance issues. Soon I should be able to just be putting the bulk of my paychecks away and save as best I can. ::crosses fingers:: Things are rocky at the store, but I'm hopeful about some things we're planning and the fall season.
This past weekend, even though I worked on Saturday, we had the PA Faire on Sunday, and I'd called out of Rocky, I went to the show anyway. I was _so_ glad I did. I ended up being able to help quite a bit. The sound drops were more tedious and frequent then we originally thought, and I found myself running around for much of the show. Michael really needed the constant help and I was glad to be there to do so. Also, I got to see an awesome fucking theme night! I'm getting really excited about cast again. I like being in charge of something, and I've got some ideas brewing to change Transieing a bit. I'm also going to be trying a couple of new characters, hopefully, as soon as I can finish getting the costumes together. And now that I won't be working every Saturday, going to the show won't feel so tiring anymore. And if this is any indication of theme shows again, I'm one happy cast member.
The PA Faire was also a great deal of fun. It was somewhat small compared to a Faire like New York or Maryland, but it was so much fun! There was a Norse theme that really rocked. Lots of hot women in great costumes, and it just had a really great atmosphere. Much more provincial then most faires (and I mean that in a very good way). I got some really awesome dice and a pair of gauntlets for if I ever get around to making that Frank costume. Joe was awesome, and it was good to see him perform again. He had the most impressive bit in the chess match where he caught a fucking spear in mid-air! It was amazing.
We also found this neat vendor that makes custom knives, toys, belts, utensils, jewelry, etc. He had the most gorgeous forged chopsticks that I _so_ wanted, but I couldn't really afford to get them. He frequents some really neat events, and may even be coming to the Wicked Faires. Maybe we'll catch up with him some other time and I can pick them up, then. He also has a myspace and I you can order things custom.
After Faire we got some really nummy food at a really fancy diner (bloodiest burger I've ever gotten at a diner - and the pickles!), and then went home and watched Refer Madness (the musical) which I've been obsessed with and have had on loop for over a week in my head.
On the school front, I have almost all the rest of my work finished for these two classes, and as of next Sunday, I'm finished with session two of classes and start on the third set. Feels so slow going, but it's nice to finally be working towards a degree and feel like I'm accomplishing something in that regard. I'm also pretty proud of my final paper.
Tonight I'm looking forward to Lost and burlesque practicing followed by restful sleep (hopefully). The dreams I've been having lately have had me sleeping anxiously and waking up panicked. I'm ready for that to go away, now. Hopefully tonight will yield better dreams. |
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[Sep. 19th, 2006|06:56 pm] |
I have no health insurance. No medical, eye, or dental.
I should, and yet.
Last time I checked (last year), after turning 22, my insurance company would allow you to stay on until you're 25 as long as you're going to school full time.
The unpleasant letter I got today says otherwise.
This sucks. I need to go to the dentist so badly. I need a gynecologist appointment, to see my endochronologist, and I'm going to need blood work and an MRI and I'm not covered anymore. I have no idea how to do this. We're calling them tomorrow to see if there's anything they can do.
I seriously need to win the lottery or discover some long lost relative that's really fond of me for some reason. |
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[Jun. 25th, 2006|06:57 pm] |
Oh thank christ.
I finally finished my work for this school week (and on the last possible day!). I'd done almost everything, I just needed to do an outline for my persuasive essay that I was really stressing over. It ended up not being too difficult once I got into the swing of it, just time consuming (took about two hours). But, that's done, my preliminary references page is done, and I finished my participation for this week. Yay me!
And now, Genevieve and Michael are on their way home, and I can hopefully hang with them a little while, more or less stress free, until Michael has to leave.
This weekend was really fun if very busy. Friday night was the Inside Insanity cast's 10 year anniversary. I volunteered for tech, and I'm really glad I did. Many of the people performing I'd never met, but I really like a lot of them. It wasn't nearly the cluster fuck everyone expected, and most everything went off without a hitch. Unfortunately, being back stage, I didn't really get to see much of the show, but it was still a lot of fun. And it's been so long since I've teched with Spark.
We got home far too late, slept way too little, and got up yesterday to go to NJ Faire to see Joe. Unfortunately, by the time we got there, they were closing up due to rain. So we ended up going to IKEA instead. We walked around talking about what we're going to do when we get an apartment and such, had dinner in their restaurant, and heard some pretty decent Reggae music (there was a live band; they were loud; fortunately, they were also good). Genevieve and I got a couple-a things, then we headed home. The evening was very relaxing and recreational.
Michael fell asleep at around 8:30, and was still pretty much passed out by the time Genevieve and I left for the show. Show was much fun. I was Magenta against Genevieve's Riff. We always have a blast when we're paired. Gay Pride night was awesome. Preshow went pretty well (and I got to hide something in my breasts!), and Matt and George went all out with their costumes. Matt changed for every Crim scene and was really impressive. George has the best raver Eddie and Dame Edna turned soulfull black woman Dr. Scott ever. It was really just an awesome fund show. And so very lesbionic.
Back home, again, way too late, Genevieve and I showered and crawled into bed. Unfortunately, I slept unpleasantly. I was feeling kinda down and stressed, and that's never good for my sleep. I woke up with Genevieve and Michael at 10:30, stayed up while they got ready to go to the bridal shower they had today. I saw them off at noon, read for about an hour, and then finally fell back to sleep for almost four more hours.
I still felt really tired, but it was getting really late and I had to finish my homework. I have a feeling it'll be a relatively early night tonight, though.
Anyway, I'm gonna go see if I can dig up something to eat. I always hate to see a good weekend end. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2006|02:20 am] |
So much productive today.
Too weak to type.
Shower now. |
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