The universe is trying to drive me insane

Just when I thought I was finally getting caught up, and feeling like I could really relax, de-stress, and just take good care of ME for a bit... my laptop hard drive decided to crap out last night.

In the MIDDLE of my first Mozy backup.

Of course, since it didn't complete the backup, I lost the last couple weeks' worth of work. I'm not going to lie, I am pretty freaked out and depressed over this. And I am NOT looking forward to re-doing all of this work.

On the plus side, I'd just finished moving all of my China pictures off of the laptop and onto the photo server--which backs up in two separate locations--yesterday morning, so those are all safe.

I would also like to give thanks to Dropbox, because I used that to sync a good chunk of web work to my computer at The Job. So, my recent work on that is also safe.

Otherwise? January is SO. FIRED.

I need some positivity. ;_;

Positivity Time

OKAY. Time to revel in good vibes.

--Actually had a decent wushu practice on Friday. As in, one where I didn't feel super-tired and didn't feel like I was struggling the whole time. It's progress!

--Got the all-clear to start doing a weeknight of Taiji instead of Saturday Wushu. I've missed the last 3 Saturdays due to photoshoot bookings, so it's good schedule-wise. It'll also be good for regaining body awareness (which should help with the knees/hips) and generally staying mellow.

--Snow shoot went really well. We wound up having to go all the way up to Timberline Lodge to find snow, so that added a half-hour or so of driving on both ends of the trip, but the Lodge exterior gave us a lot of cool options. Shooting with snow is pretty fun! I can't wait to photoblog about this one.

--Board Game Night apparently didn't work out so hot, but I had a nice chat with Scott for a bit, at least. And, that also freed me up just in time to go catch The Fruit Bats show with Amy and Travis. I was completely new to The Fruit Bats, but I enjoyed the show, and it got out early enough that we had plenty of time for drinks and Rock Band after. :D

--Went to a free yoga class last night, and katlyn came out to do it with me! I also definitely noticed an increase in my upper-body and core strength since the lhast time I did it, which is AWESOME. Circuit training FTW.

--Sat down and played Disgaea on the PS2 for a couple hours after the HD Fail, which at least mellowed me out to the point where I could sleep. And I also have a copy of RE4, thanks to veiravx, so I can play that soon, too!

Peekture Peekture

Jeez. I haven't been posting many pictures in recent months, have I?

I'm still futzing with the edit to a certain extent, and I might even wind up choosing a similar shot that I like better--there are a couple of contenders--but here's one from Saturday:



I will share a shot with Actual Snow soon, too. But I liked the look of this structure.