I haven't posted in here for over a month. Oops... Let's fix that, then.
I have been posting in my weight loss blog, though, so does that count? For those not in the know, I started another Blogspot blog that'll just be for my weight loss 'journey'. I'm going to post in it about exercising and dieting, and all that boring stuff I'm sure you guys don't want to hear about. Oh wait, you do? Then head on over to Less Of VampAmber and enjoy. < /end cheesy advertisement> But yeah, I'm kinda hoping that blogging about it in its own little place will help me keep up with it for once. Especially since I joined DietBet and have to lose 4% of my weight by the end of October 28th... The quick run down on DietBet, for those unaware (like I was until Whitney told me about it a few days ago) is that you 'bet' money that you can lose 4% of your body weight in four weeks, and that money goes into the pot for the 'game' you joined. Everybody who doesn't lose enough weight loses their bet, and everybody who does lose enough gets to split the money in the pot. Pretty sweet deal, right? The bad part is, when I did the official weigh in, I was at 274.2. Unfortunately, after visiting my parents yesterday (my mommy made me hillbilly spaghetti, I couldn't say no), and hitting up McDonald's for breakfast today (large mocha Frappe, a hashbrown, and two sausage McMuffins), I kinda gained a pound and a half... Oops. So now, I have 27 days to lose 12.5 pounds. I was terrified about how hard that would be until I did my first Blogilates workout a few hours ago. Now I'm mega-pumped. This is gonna be fun.
Haven't really been doing too much of anything else lately. It would seem that I've finally hit that point in my life where I've become rather boring, but I enjoy the things that make me boring, so I'm not sure if I want to stop it or not. I've been reading a lot. Right now, I'm working my way through a friend's first draft of a novel she wants to publish. It's really good, but sometimes I miss getting to post my reading updates on GoodReads, so I cheat and read one of the published books that I'm in the middle of, instead. Of which I am in the middle of quite a few. I have this incredibly bad habit of being more in love with starting a new book than I am with sticking by a book until I'm finished. Bad Amber, bad. Can't help it, though, because I finally put all my books and movies on shelves in the front room, instead of packed away in boxes in the spare bedroom. They all look at me with wide, book-spine eyes, saying "Amber, won't you read me? I might be really interesting." Gyah!
The kitties have reached the point where they're terrors during pretty much all their waking hours. I want a dollar for every time me or Ben has had to yell at them or use the spray bottle because they were on the counters or the table, even though I know damn well that they're smart enough to know that they're not allowed up there. I'd be buying all my near-by loved ones a nice, fancy, expensive sushi dinner right about now. Or at least I'd be able to. I'd probably just use the money for boring shit like fixing the car, or paying off bills.
Speaking of the car, not only do I still have that lovely screeching noise from the serpentine belt being loose, but now my brake pads decided to be total cunts and need to be replaced. That noise should not come from anything that is not currently inside a horror movie. Gonna take a few hundred bucks to get them replaced, and that's only if we can get my step-brother to do the work for us for somewhat cheap. And that's not even counting how I need to get the casing around my driver's side back turn signal light replaced because it no longer works all the time. Yeah, you can definitely tell my car is going to be 13 years old next year. >_<
And now, for my biggest complaint for the moment: I have gotten two referrals from my doctor's office so far (one for a therapist, and the other to get me into physical therapy), and I have had to cancel both of the appointments in the middle of setting them up because they didn't take my insurance. So now, I have to find out who they can refer me to and tell them. Because apparently at this doctor's office, you do all the work while the receptionist sits on her fucking ass forgetting to tell anybody that you're there to get your blood drawn, yet she's the one who gets the god damned paycheck. I seriously sat out in the waiting room for over an hour and a half a few weeks ago, because she must've forgot to tell anybody that I was there to get my blood drawn. You wanna know how I know this? Because when one of the nurses saw me waiting, she asked if I had been back yet, and when I told her that I hadn't, she had me back there in a room in about two minutes. FUCKING INCOMPETENT RECEPTIONIST! But yeah, now I'm going to have to take the directory that Molina sent me (all I had to do was call and ask, but that's apparently not in her fuckng job description, the dumb ass) so that they can send me to somebody that I won't have to pay hundreds of dollars to on each visit. Because, you know, if you're poor enough to be on Medicaid, you can obviously afford $100 per session at a therapist's office. Being on Medicaid sucks that way, because the only places that take it are the places that aren't all that great to begin with. But at least I can have medical insurance this way...
Because of my car bullshit, we're not going to be able to go to the Renaissance Faire this year, which is severely depressing. It's been a few years since I've went, and Ben's never went before, so this was gonna be so awesome. But it's too damn expensive so we can't afford it this year. Fuck everything.
That's pretty much it for my updating, but one last thing. I have no idea what costume to wear to the Guild Halloween party this year. The 31st is on a Friday this year, so that's all kinds of awesome for the party, but I don't think I can afford much of anything new. I have devil horns and wings, but I wore that last year. There's my cat eras and tails, but that's kinda boring. Plus, I used to wear that stuff year round, just cuz. There'll be some people wearing their awesome cosplays, and some people are gonna dress in their Ren Faire best, and I'm just gonna be sitting in the corner wearing $5 cat ears. *sighs* Might hafta drag Ben to all the pop-up Halloween stores once the car's fixed, to see if I can throw anything together for massive cheap. After all, Halloween IS my favorite holiday. Without a good costume, it's just not the same. Though I am planning on hitting up more than a few stores on November 1st, so that 50% off discount will help heal the pain somewhat. ^_^
