Crisis averted.  My car had a bad part, so they replaced it no problem.  Thank God.

My Bible study has started off really well, and I’m really excited about it.

Other than that, not much going on.

It never ends, does it?

Yeah, so apparently my car needs more work.  My “check engine” light came on yesterday while driving to work, and on the way home, just as I was getting home, my car stalled.  Three times.  *sigh* Please pray that it is something simple, easy, and not horribly expensive.  I just can’t afford it.

I dropped off two garbage bags full of clothes today, at a drop-off for Community Crusade for Children.  They will in turn resell the clothes at low-cost, and the profits will go to support breast cancer research.  A doubly rewarding donation, if you ask me.

A friend, whom I worked with previous for an animal shelter, is starting up her own shelter, with the help of friends. I’ve offered my services as a web designer and publishing various documents.  I started work on the website today. I’m a little rusty, but I quickly got back into it.  I’m not skilled enough to be flashy, and I don’t know a darned thing about html.  I’m using Front Page.  It’s not the most sophisticated, but it does the job, and it does it well.  Shelters don’t have a steady surplus of money, so there’s no chance of hiring a designer.  A la, my somewhat limited skills will have to do.  However, I’m thoroughly excited about A Purrfect Start and will do whatever is within my reach to help it get going.

Breakfast for dinner tonight.  I’m really feelin’ it.  It will be quite a platter, too.  At least my tomatoes are from Canada, which is a “safe growing” zone.  A vast majority of tomatoes we consume come from Florida, so if you don’t know where your tomatoes came from, don’t eat them.  You don’t want to get beat down my SALMONELLA SAM!

Diagnosis: A Severe Case of Burn-Out

Apologies for the lack of updates.  It’s been a rough few weeks.  I’m working both more and less than I want to.

Less, because we have such a lack of business that I’m often being sent home early.  More, because I’m burned out and right now I don’t want to work at all.

18 days till vacation and counting.

My days off this week are going to be spent doing as little as possible.  Which isn’t hard, considering how much I’ve had to spend in gas the past 2 weeks, I’m broke.  But beyond that, none of my days off the past few weeks have been mine.  Always for others.  Which, I don’t mind.  But combined with burn-out, it leaves me feeling mentally exhausted.  So, at least one of the two days will be devoted entirely to ME.  My only trip out may be to take some stuff down to Half Price Books to get rid of.

If you’re looking for a book to read, I highly recommend The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.  I finished it last night, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I’m also very disappointed that I have to wait a whole year for the next book.  *sigh*

Matt and I got together with Martin to wrap up the current storyline in our Exalted game.  It was nice to draw the story to it’s conclusion, and the events that have/will occur leave me in a good position to develop my character.

I have been doing ZERO writing.  You can’t write when your brain feels like mush, you can only dream and hope of writing.  I hope to do SOMETHING during my time off this week.  Our Sundered World project is on hold, for personal reasons.

And I’m hungry.