I got some work done on my car. All that’s left to do is replace the fuel filter and timing belt, and get the tires rotated.

We went to Winco and bought groceries. I should have taken pictures of their produce. Seriously, the strawberries had more fur than my cat. Gross.

Now, I’ve spent way too much time trying to get MacJournal to download my old Livejournal entries. It will only download the 20 most recent..which are already stored in MacJournal, and I want the 2005-2006 ones. I exported from Livejournal’s site, and couldn’t get the file to import properly into MacJournal. I wasn’t planning on posting them here or anything, but I just wanted to have a local copy in the unlikely event that something happens with their site. This idea appears to be far more trouble than it’s worth. If anyone has dealt with this program and can tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong, that would be great.

Seriously. I want a different one. But I’ve just finally managed to get to like..2 visitors per day. And if I moved, I would have to start aaallll over again.

Also? Captcha is damn annoying. I tried like 12 times to leave a comment on someone’s blog, and it kept telling me to enter the letters correctly..which I DID. Repeatedly. I am positively baffled because there was another comment on the same entry.

Also? My site has been loading insanely slowly, which you may have noticed if you are reading this. Thanks again, Dreamhost. Your incompetence knows no bounds.

I went and had my thyroid scan this morning. I’m aware that, as a rule, the ultrasound techs don’t/can’t/won’t tell you anything. But I asked her anyway, and she told me that to her, it doesn’t appear to look any different from last time. I take that as very comforting news since my follow-up appointment is two weeks away.

Also, I heard back from my advisor who said that as far as she’s concerned, I can do whatever the hell I want since the department head already told me it was okay. So tomorrow I go to the other campus and make sure it’s okay with them for me to take these classes. Then it’s just a matter of filling out a form, having CSUN fill out part of it, then CSUB fill out part of it, and registering for those classes. That way my financial aid covers it, and everything is peachy-keen, and I then I just have to take the transcripts to CSUN and have the department chair sign off on another form declaring that it was, in fact, okay for me to substitute those courses. But I swear, doing all of this actually makes life much easier for me. So…yay! But I am definitely saving the e-mail where he said it was alright for me to do this. Just in case.

I went to the endocrinologist this morning for my thyroid checkup. I had to wait an hour for the lab to send my results over, which they should have done already but didn’t, and they had some sort of technical difficulties so it took forever. Anyway, my thyroid meds are working fine, labs came back looking good. I’m scheduled to go in tomorrow morning for an ultrasound to see if my thyroid is any more enlarged than it was when I had the last one done.

I e-mailed my advisor, only to find out that he’s no longer my advisor because he’s been promoted to department chair. He gave me the e-mail of my new advisor, and I’m waiting on her to get back to me. He did tell me, however, that the two classes I want to take at the other campus sound okay to him, and I’m guessing if the head of the department says it’s okay, there won’t be a problem with it. If it works out, it’ll save me time and gas and stress, and I’ll only have to commute two nights a week.

Sis-in-law’s lizard has cancer. This sucks. I got pretty attached to my “nieces” when I was lizard-sitting last year, and her mama loves her so.

I got a nice little letter and certificate in the mail for making the Dean’s List last semester. The letter said of 4,550 students in the college of Arts, Media, & Communication, I was one of 678 to make the Dean’s List for Spring semester. Yay me!

Went to Petsmart with my mom and spent like 45 minutes looking at cat food…and ended up buying the exact same kind I normally do. Last month I got her some dry Friskies because I was short on cash, but I’m back to her usual Nutro for lazy fat cats.
There’s not really much else going on right now. The next semester starts the 25th, which I’m kind of really dreading due to the commute, and this is the first time I’ll be driving instead of taking the bus. I need to talk to my advisor to see about taking a couple of classes at Cal State Bakersfield’s satellite campus which is actually pretty close to my house (The reason I’m not getting my degree from there is that their selection of majors is very limited, and they don’t have mine. But they have some classes that I think I can get my advisor to allow me to take toward the major.)

I’m so close to my degree now, but feeling so burned out. I’ve got to finish it though, so I can get a decent job. Which will probably make whining about school seem like a joke.

Okay, so this is old news now. About 12 hours ago a 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California. I felt it. Well, more accurately, I saw it. I just stood there in shock, watching my mom’s flat screen TV sway front to back, over and over…I grabbed the arm of the couch and briefly thought about heading for the doorway, but it was over. My mom actually was on the phone with her doctors’ office, and the girl told her, “There’s an earthquake.” She repeated it to me, and we were kind of confused as to why she thought that, but then it hit a few seconds later. My dad is in San Diego for the week and he said the high-rise building he was in shook for an entire minute. Which is crazy, because we’re in L.A. county and thus much closer to the epicenter. Anyway, that was my excitement for the day!

We went to see the midnight showing of the new X-Files movie. I want to say I was disappointed, but honestly, I wasn’t expecting much seeing as they completely hosed the show during the last two years. I miss the X-Files. Old school X-Files.
I don’t really want to go in depth about it because I don’t want to ruin it for anybody. Then again, the writers did a good enough job of that.

Not much going on here. I feel really sick and blah right now, so I think I’m going to take a little nap or just veg here for a while. Zack is off playing in the poker tournament. I went with him last night, but I didn’t feel up to it today. He had his appendix out last weekend, so he needs to get his stitches out tomorrow. He’s recovering really well! I’m so glad he ended up having laparoscopic surgery instead of slicing him open.

Big bro and his wife are coming out this weekend. I hope I feel better tomorrow because I need to clean the bathroom and such to get ready for them.

I’ve been trying to lose a little weight and get into better shape lately. I’ve been doing yoga and exercising on the treadmill and elliptical, cooking healthier meals, and I’m already feeling better and lost a few pounds (I’ve only been at this a few weeks!) I’m really stoked because I have hypothyroidism which makes it more difficult to lose weight than it used to be for me.

Anyway, I got bored of my DVDs and decided to get a couple new ones. One of them was Fat Free Yoga. Looking past the silly title, I felt like it was a good choice due to having 126 reviews with a 5 star rating. I received the DVD and attempted to watch it today. This is the one of the funniest, stupidest things I have ever seen! She pants like a dog with her tongue stuck out, chants, and is basically smirking the entire time looking like she is trying not to laugh because even she knows how stupid it is!

I went back to the product page to see if there were really some negative reviews that I overlooked, and discovered on the forum that the negative reviews are promptly removed! Not just for this DVD, but for all the Ana Brett & Ravi Singh DVDs. What a scam. I feel like I’ve been duped.