A brief update on all things buggy...
As of tonite:
Released: 19 Butterflies
Chrysalis: 20 more
"J" Form (ready to change): 4
Caterpillars: 7
Deaths: 2
Fortunately, I haven't brought home any babies! Woohoo! I hope to be out of the caterpillar business by Spring Break. If not, then they'll have to come camping with us.
My mood: wanting to kick myself in the butt for doing a REALLY stupid computer thing. What else is new?
Haven't fully recovered from the computer fiasco the other nite. I still have no pictures loaded on my computer! I have a few butterfly pics to post still, but now I have to see if they're still on the digital camera and then reload them.
S I G H !
Well not much else to report right now. Work is stressful because we're not allowed any substitutes, basically if someone's out, you just make do w/whoever is at work----- which would be mostly me. Me as janitor -- refilling toilet paper and spraying disinfectant; me as library assistant -- working at the circ desk; me as tech -- processing books; and me as me -- doing every other god-damn thing that I have to get done. Doesn't matter if I'm sick, I still have to come in. Ugh. I don't know what's wrong w/me. I seem to have a perpetual cold. Always have a sinus headache or migraine and this stupid cough that has been coming and going since October. Gee, I think that's when the furloughs started... hmmmm. I do like the day off, but the paycheck stinks AND I still have to catch up w/all the work when I get back. I guess I shouldn't complain, cause I'm in the same boat as everyone else.
I should have called this entry BITCHFEST. Okay, I'm pau.
My mood: wishing this damn headache would go away for good.
Well I wanted to put in a caterpillar entry, but I have to bitch about my STUPID computer. This afternoon, when I tried to start it, it kept looping up to the Windows screen, then shutting down and restarting itself. Crap! I figure I didn't really have much to lose, so I did a system recovery. BIG MISTAKE. The good thing is that I got my computer working again. Bad thing is that all my files are gone (I was under the impression that they would not go away). I did a backup on my external hard drive a month ago. But I'm sad that some of my digital camera pics of the caterpillar and my child are gone forever. Boohoo! Oh, and my digital iTunes copy of Harry Potter and the half-blood prince -which I didn't get a chance to back up or upload onto my iPod is GONE!!!
My mood: mourning my losses and going to bed.
Graduation day for Little One. He took his test today for the next belt. Now he's a white-orange belt. I'm pretty impressed with his interest in martial arts. He knows the names of the moves that he does and is very good at it. He tends to be less sure of himself in class because he's watching the other kids and then copies them, but they're usually doing the wrong thing! I'm one proud momma.
Will have a cat/butterfly update tomorrow...
My mood: going to bed
Looked at my results for the GAR. I walked the entire route this year and my results were not that far off from last year. Last year I ran for part of the race. I guess when I stopped running and slowed down, I slowed down a lot. I did better walking at a steady pace. Here's my results and I compared them with last year's.
| 2010 | 2009 | |
|---|---|---|
| TIME: | 2:29:25 | 2:21:13 |
| PACE: | 18:20 | 17:20 |
| OVERALL PLACE: | 14129 | 11335 |
| DIVISION: | F35-39 | F35-39 |
| DIVISION PLACE: | 792/996 | 662 / 1100 |
| GENDER PLACE: | 6846/9019 | 5472 / 9452 |
My mood: tired
After the Superbowl we watched the new show Undercover Boss. It was some big boss of a waste management company who went out into the field and discovered things about his company as a low level employee and then comes back to his high makamaka job and then tries to make the world a better place for his employees? Or whatever. It was a pretty interesting show, so I recorded the next one which was the big kahuna at Hooters. Apparently their business has been slower since the economy went bad (join the club) and he wants to see how he can get more business for his restaurants. This one was such a joke. Please, he knows the company has a certain reputation and yet seems extremely shocked to find out that women are offended by the restaurant and that people wouldn't take their kids there to eat. I'm sorry, but your company is named after a slang for boobies? I may have eaten there once in my life, I don't even remember, but I don't think I would ever go there to eat, just because I consider it a bar more than a restaurant AND I would never take my child there to eat. If you want it to be a family restaurant, get rid of the girls and go with large dancing mice. That's the way to get kids...
Released one butterfly today... another girl.
My mood: still coughing, but feeling better. Legs are a little stiff today.
I've had a few days off for recuperating from a cold. I stayed home on Friday plus had a 3 day weekend, but still managed to get Little One to martial arts, soccer, and swimming. Also got to do the Great Aloha Run again. Yeehaw. Yesterday I was at Grandma's house until after 9pm, then went home and got ready for the run. Went to bed at 11:30, but got up every 2 hours because I was coughing and was afraid of oversleeping. Got 4 hours of sleep, then went to the stadium. It was really busy, much more than last year. I couldn't run at all, but I managed to walk at a decent pace so that I think my time will only be 15 minutes off from last year. Go figure.
The butterflies have given me a break, I've had no new butterflies for a few days, although I might have a new one tomorrow (it's dark and I can see wings).
My mood: exhausted and still have that darn cough and 4 days of work to look forward to
More miscellaneous pictures from today's batch of butterflies...
Setting them down on some plants. Hoping they'll take flight soon.
Not quite ready to go yet.
Needs some coaxing.
Needs more coaxing, only made it to blankie.
Checking out the basil plant.
Checking out the bushes in the front.
My mood: better, but a little dizzy
Aha! Finally a boy butterfly:
You can tell it's a boy because of the two spots on the bottom wings (scent glands). It is our one and only boy so far.
Butterflies 7 & 8 have come out this morning. We'll let them go later on today. Here's Little One enjoying his new friends:
They really can't fly until their wings are dry. We tried putting him back on the branch and he lost his grip, fell off, and was like a turtle overturned. She couldn't get herself back upright without help. Here she is drying off with butterfly 8 (not sure if its a he or she yet).
My mood: sick and at home.
