'so cheap and juicy!'

the past two days at school i have been suddenly felled by blurred vision and wretched, achey headaches.  the blurriness subsides within about 40 minutes when introduced to ibuprofrofin or the like, but the headaches linger for hours.  i wonder what's wrong with me.  i have been proctoring SOL tests both days, and basically spent 6 hours of the day biding my time online, so i'm thinking the combination of staring at the screen for that long whilst sitting under flourescent lights might be responsible?  that makes me feel really wussy.

it's also caused me to come right home after school two days in a row now without my usual afternoon activities of working out or donating plasma.  as a result, i feel even more bleh, like a big fat slug.  this is compounded by the fact that i have been allowing myself a last-hurrah kind of eating week, as i have decided i want to re-enroll in weight watchers on monday and start regular weigh-ins and meetings again.  after hitting my goal weight and lifetime in the fall i felt like i could just kind of wing it, and i'm not comfortable with the results.  the thought of counting points for, like, infinity is kind of a bummer though.  but for now i think i need to grit my teeth and get back on that path so i don't gradually unravel all the progress i have made in the last year.

i've got moving-lust.  not, of course, for the hellacious actual process of moving, but to be somewhere else with more room both for us and for the dogs.  i can't express how much i daydream about having a backyard.  a friend at work put her house on the market last week and checking it out online today it was like a lightning-bolt zap of recognition, like, this is where we are supposed to be.   which is kind of scary because in all ignorant honesty i don't even know how to go about how to start even thinking about buying a house.  and i have to keep reminding myself it's not quite the same as falling in love with a sweater at the mall.