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It has been a while since I posted. Not much has been happening. I haven't been doing much socially. Just going to work, reading a lot and trying to keep my life on track. Real Estate agent will be coming by again on Friday and hopefully I will finally get things going on the house. The fence, once again, was made unhappy by winter. I have a contractor coming by on Friday to give me a bid on that too.
I'm going to try and get out a bit this weekend and enjoy the change in the weather. I've had enough of winter. Maybe go catch a movie with a friend on Saturday, and if I can get myself up early enough for it, go to the May day event at Brandise before work. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | I am now the proud owner of 2 new cat boxes. Some things really are worth throwing money at to make them go away. I'll replace them when I get home. At least tomorrow is dump day. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Panic attack! I haven't really had any for the last year, but they are back. I'm finally on antidepressants again and coming awake in my life enough to realize that I haven't been living it. I look around me and don't know where to start. Actually, I do, sort of. My house is a mess and needs to be cleaned up, but I stare at it and am totally overwhelmed. It is kind of amazing that I have kind of kept my day to day life going, paying bills, showing up for work and yet so totally and completely stopped living my life. Trying to start again is good, but I really don't know how. I need to start small. I am going to try for the kitchen. Not a major clean up, just a little, empty the dishwasher and have a sandwich. It is a small start, but gives some direction. The cat is also encouraging me to clean out her litter. 2 little things, but I need to start somewhere. Maybe dishes before litter would be a good idea. Done, sort of. I loaded the dishwasher and started it. I'll unload it tonight. That will be the before bed task I set for myself. It seems like the cat was right and her litter really needed to be cleaned. Chris had been taking care of that, or so I thought. It seems like he has just been adding more litter, covering up the mess underneath. Sad, but that seems to be a good analogy for my life. I've just been covering up, doing the minimum to keep it going and never really fixing any of the stuff underneath. It is going to be much easier to just get a new litter box and start over. Unfortunately, I can't do that as easily with my life. I'm going to a movie and then work. The movie is probably more avoidance, but I have had these passes sitting here for 3 months untouched. At least I did something today. It is a start. Small steps... small steps... | | |
| | Time: | 05:49 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/nolegs/happy.gif) thankful |
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| | Ever catch something not quite right out of the corner of your eye and go WTF? I went to leave for work today and noticed something was a tad bit off when I went to climb into my car. ( Read more... ) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I guess I should have ordered coffee instead of hot chocolate. I just sent off half of this months birthday cards 2 to 3 weeks early. Oh well, happy early b-day all you Februaries.
A nap might be a good idea, except for the little detail about being at work for the next 7 hours. I'm not quite sure why I am so tired. I must have forgotten to fill my humidifier again. I slept a full night. Oh well. It is Tuesday, only a few more days to my weekend. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Today has been slightly off from the beginning. I woke up thinking I was late for work. I wasn't and made it on time, but it kind of threw me off beat.
The roads are a mess. There is no good route anywhere at the moment. I wish staying home had been an option. I missed being in a massive pile up by inches. Some idea thought it would be a good idea to high power it around the plow in the middle of the highway which was pushing, unsurprisingly enough a large pile of slush and water. These ended up on top of all the near by cars and fortunately when our wipers cleared away the mess we still had an inch or 2 to dodge each other. Not easy in the slushy, snowy, ice roads, but somehow we all managed it. I'm not really felling much like being at work at the moment, but I feel even less like facing the roads to go home, so I'll just wait out my shift and try and pull myself together. :)
In other news, Microsoft has released a new product, Songsmith. You put in the vocals and it turns it into a song for you. It is bound to be a best seller. Just go to Youtube and see what it has done for some of the classics. White Wedding is one of my favorites so far. :P | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I seem to have gone into hiding since ARISIA. I did have a good time at the con this year though. I made several panels, actually made it to the sea shanties, instead of just intending to, played several new games and caught the Buffy sing along this year.
I also lost my car keys and came home to a busted pipe in the basement. We still don't have all the water out as the "wet" part of the "wet/dry" vac seems to have vanished. I had a spare key for the car, but the spare alarm sensors don't work. grrr. It took a bit but one of my co-workers finally figured out how to get around it so I can drive my car again. The pipe is fixed too.
I've spent most of this week hiding in computer games and avoiding my phone. Sometimes I think this is bad, but I think I needed a week of hiding. I'm almost ready to deal. I had planned on having an Agent come in on Tuesday and get the place on the market. It is now such a mess again that I don't want to live there, let alone think I could sell it. I guess I need to spend a bit more time cleaning.
On the upside, looks like I will be employed for a while. Chris has had a few interviews, but no offers. So it is wait and see there.
Maybe I go crawl back in may hole now. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| The hotel is warm.
My friends are good.
My mouse is broken, so I am going back to enjoy live people and get off the computer.
Night all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | It is a quiet day at work. I figured I'd try and catch up on LJ, but my sinuses are making me want to pop my eyeballs out. Maybe no one will notice (or at least not care) if I crawl under my desk and nap until it is time to go home. This whole sinus thing needs to go, now. It is not allowed to screw up my weekend. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 01:25 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/nolegs/sleepy.gif) sleepy |
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| I really need to get better about sleeping. Either that or have the sense not to sign up to come into work early. Caffine isn't any help what so ever today. More would just make me twitchy. I went to bed at a perfectly reasonable time for my normal schedule... oh well.
I'm looking forward to ARISIA this weekend. So far I have managed not to commit to volunteering for anything. I had so much fun at Albicon just doing what I wanted on my own schedule that I am hoping to repeat the experience. I'll probably end up helping out somewhere at some point. I usually do, but I want to have fun this year. :) | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| I actually took some time off work for New Years. It was nice to just hang out and mess around on the computer. I did get some stuff done at home. I need to hunt down a real estate agent. If anyone knows anyone one who does real estate out in middle MA, let me know. Mostly I just played around on puzzle pirates. It had been a long time since I played on there much and there is a lot of new stuff. Oooo more shiny useless computer icons to collect! lol It is good for games to be nothing but a bit of fun. :)
I did find a new pod cast I've been enjoying Escape Pod which I have been enjoying. I also made it to Jon and Steph's brunch. Everyone I had expected to see (except the hosts) had apparently come down sick, but I got to meet several new and fun folks. It was a nice afternoon. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Christmas turned out wonderful. I got to see many of the folks I have been missing at brunch and work was pleasantly quiet. The rest of the week was pretty quiet. It seems I had the foresight to take off the 31st and 1st and have a nice 4 day weekend. Hopefully I will make New Years brunch, but otherwise I plan on catching up on my sleep. I've been doing too much work lately. Actually, that is about all I have been doing lately. I need to correct that.... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Nothing went as planned today. I had planned on going to the Yule Revel and then work. I got all dressed up in garb and proceeded to spend the next several hours fighting with my computer. I finally got the spare hard drive to start formatting. I couldn't even figure out how to initialize the drive so I could format it under vista. I finally had to hook it up to an XP machine to get it that far. At least when this is done I will finally have a good back up of everything. Kind of sucks about the revel though, I was looking forward to it. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| OK, I like the new i-phone. It makes keeping up with my e-mail easier and gets better reception than my old phone. I think I have almost everything important transferred over from my palm.
Dentist today, now there is one less cavity in the world.
Dentist again on Tuesday for a cleaning and yelling. Is it really possible to take good enough care of one's teeth to make a dentist happy? | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm really not a big fan of winter. Every year I wonder why I live in New England. Rain and snow for the rest of the week. Saturday will be clear, but too cold to do anything (not that I have time on Saturday anyway).
I need about 30 minutes of good weather to go fix the fence in the back yard. If I don't I, will have 3 times as much to fix in the spring and I would really like the house to be gone by then. Anyone know a good real estate person who works middle MA? At least I have been fairly productive the last few days. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Still alive, just haven't been paying much attention to the online world as of late.
(Climbs back into techno-free hole) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| There is something surreal about watching giant yellow metal beasts grazing at the side of the road, pulling up and devouring whole trees as I pass by. Perhaps I was just tired by the time I hit 495, since I had been driving all day, but they really did look more like large metal dinosaurs than the caterpillars they are named for. All in all, it was a pleasant trip home. I made it in by midnight, which technically makes it an early night for me.
I probably should have written as the week went on, but my laptop finally found a network it didn't like. Unfortunately, it was at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fixx's house. While he has plenty of computing power of his own I could have used, it just didn't seem like a good use of our time together. It a way, it might be for the better. I can reflect on the overall impact of the trip instead of getting mired down in the boring details. Although there were some less boring details which I'll try to remember. It will keep me busy while I'm at work tonight. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Obama won with quite a nice mandate. I should be happy, but the current results are looking like bans on gay marriage have passed in 3 states. America, the great melting pot, where we can show both how progressive and bigoted we are in one trip to the voting booth.
The McCain I used to like back in 2000 briefly poked his head out tonight in a nice concession speech. Perhaps if that McCain had been campaigning, he would have had less to concede. I guess we will see what the next 4 years bring us. At least Palin goes back to being Alaska's problem. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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