Gah! I went downstairs to get some water and caught my mom laying out all of the fixin's for chili dogs. I was good, though. I got my water and ran back upstairs and had a Slim-Fast bar for lunch. I'm finally noticing some fruit from all of my sensible-diet-and-exercize labor, the last thing I need to do is blow it on a coney. Besides, I'm probably gonna eat some Chinese food tonight, so, yeah.

I'm definitely going shopping later. Need to pick up some things for the shower next week, including a gift. I'm debating on whether go give myself an allowance to spend at Ulta. On the one hand I've got straight As and weight loss that I could use as an excuse to reward myself, but on the other hand I've got that trip to Chicago in May and I really should save my money for that. The Buffy & Angel DVDs were really a pretty substantial reward, anyway. Plus I splurged and bought some more workout clothes on the day of the dog tragedy (I really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near any kind of shopping venue when I'm upset). I might go ahead and split the difference and buy my essentials there. And of course if they still have the pair of sunglasses that I loved but was too broke to buy last time I was there I could take that as a sign that I was meant to have them ... Anyway, the point is that I'm going out tonight. Whether I also see a movie depends on whether Tess goes with me, but I haven't talked to her yet so I don't know. Don't know what we'll see if she goes with, either. Possibly Willard.

My plans for tomorrow are even better. Aside from the wee bit o' writing I'll do just to keep myself in the saddle, I'm going to sit on my ass all day and watch my DVDs. Whee!

Monday, I'm going to go through all of my original stuff and see what's salvageable and possibly marketable, and I'm going to finally get off my ass and submit some of it. Also going to finally get my writing samples together to send to that local 'zine. The rest of the week I'll play by ear. I have to finish both my DL chapter and the remaining DL CDs that I owe people. I should read the book that I have to write a ten page report over by next month for my Marriage & Family class, and I should at the very least narrow down my list of possible topics for my other two big papers. If I was smart I'd also narrow down a research topic for my senior capstone project this summer. I'm getting Nibblet spayed on Friday (hallelujah!), and there's the Mimsies show that night (to which I still haven't decided whether I'm going), and prepping for the shower the rest of that day, and Saturday is the actual shower. I also really, really have to go through my mail and pay any outstanding bills I have and get my financial aid forms turned in, and also make absolutely sure that my not being employed at all last year means that I don't have to file taxes. And also clean. I'll probably get all of that last stuff out of the way on Tuesday. I've a feeling I'm not really going to get much done in the way of schoolwork this week.

As for the garden fic, I got a little more banged out this morning. I wish I could write fast like some people, but as it was two hours resulted in about five paragraphs. Now I have to beta the last few scenes of DL 3.9, which I'll hopefully get done before I have to leave. And hopefully I'll get home early enough tonight that I can write some more. Although realistically I'll probably end up chatting and not getting anything done in the way of fic, but we can pretend I at least have good intentions of coming home and writing. Actually, if I end up going by myself I'll probably end up at Borders or something and might do some writing there. I really hope Tess can go with me, though, as I haven't talked to her for a couple of weeks.

All of this is really to say, SPRING BREAK! WHOO!