Domestic Geek

Current mood: lonely
Warning! Lengthy, rambling post follows:

It's times like this that I hate Marcus being a tech support kind of guy (and the weekends when he's on call). I guess they had a major power outage where he works and the backups on the servers didn't last long enough or something, so he's stuck there until everything is booted back up and running properly. Good thing I didn't make dinner before he called. At least I'm getting some time to post stuff. I've really been neglecting this poor thing.

Yesterday majorly sucked.

I've been having a hard time dealing with the fact that I'll probably never be a mother (at least not while I'm with Marcus). I find out that yet another acquaintance of mine is pregnant. Sad thing is that I don't think she really wants to be a mother even though she and her husband have been trying for over a year. Their marriage has been in trouble since day one and I think she was hoping that if she gave him a child (even though she can't stand babies), he'd fall down and kiss her feet. Well, that didn't happen, so in addition to the normal pregnancy hormone craziness, she's pissed to boot.

Then the mail came. I got a jury summons and the hospital bills from when I cut my thumb open. If they billed correctly, that little fiasco is going to cost me over $900! I hate how the government and insurance companies have got health care so fucking screwed up. If I had known it was going to cost that much, I would've stitched my own damned self up and put some super glue on it. You'd think for that kind of cash, they could've stitched it so it wouldn't scar. Nooo, I have a huge scar with absolutely no feeling on the end of my thumb. I am so pissed about this. Having to pay $900 to fix my car I could swallow, not for this.

I want to learn how to knit. Does anybody know how or know of a good resource to learn? My mother hated knitting and she tried to teach me, but I never really got the hang of it. This was sparked when I was digging around in my craft room and came across some of mom's old needles. I also want to get some quilling supplies. That'll have to wait, though. I'm also going to really learn to play the guitar. I took a class in college and don't remember squat about it. Finding my old friend today made me really miss being musical.

I couldn't bring myself to go to school today. I'm so freakin' depressed. I don't have any ambition or creativity flowing through me right now. I'm so bummed and burned out. If they offered these darned web classes more often, I'd take a leave of absence. I also have to decide by Friday if I want to continue with the Bachelor's program. I'm torn because I want the classes, I just don't know if I'm willing to invest the time and money. My final project for this class was due today. I just can't bring myself to work on it. Maybe if I get a good night's sleep and get the dough done early (so I don't have to see the asshat manager), I'll be in the mood to finish it by Friday. I don't even care if I get a crappy grade anymore. That is so unlike me. I'm the one who normally wouldn't sleep for two days to make sure I met a deadline.

I need to get into some sort of excercise routine. I know that sitting on my butt all the time is not helping with my mood. Since I haven't delivered pizzas in well over a month, I'm not getting any excercise at all. I think I'm going to start a weight-loss blog on my school break.

Hey, has anybody notice the "Day by Day" cartoon I have at the bottom of the blog? I love that cartoon. Not as much as Foxtrot, but it's still pretty cool.

Well, it's 10:00 and he's not home yet. Damn, I totally forgot to eat dinner. Too late now. I guess I'll go to bed and get a fresh start tomorrow.

Thanks to Deborah, I now have a gmail account. Yay, I feel so special now.

Other good email news is that lycos finally got its act together and I don't have to sift through tons of spam every day. Bad news is that I can't forward anything from any of my domain emails because they block comcast servers. I usually forward jokes people send me with attachments to that address so that I can open them safely and read them easier. Oh, well. It doesn't matter--I have gmail now.

I got an email from the Reunion committee trying to get my to go to my 20th reunion. OMG, twenty years! Anyway, I clicked on the link to see if they had finally taken my name off the missing alumni list since they obviously had my address and I was still there. Out of curiosity, though, I started Google-ing names of former close friends on the missing list to see if they were really missing or if the committee was lazy. I found one guy, Joe Herbert, that I ended up going to UNC with, also. Turns out he's in a local vocal jazz group called Groove Society. That's so cool. I'll have to check out a live performance in the near future and I'll try to find their CD when it's released. I'm glad somebody I went to school with is actually doing something that they love.

I've been seeing this meme all over lately, so what the hell, I'm game. The list contains the 100 top-grossing movies at the time the meme started and you bold the ones you've seen. I've actually seen more of them than I though. It's in the extended entry, if you care.

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Current mood: frazzled
Sorry about the lack of posting, but I've just got way too much on my plate lately. The sad thing is that all I can do is obsess over how much I have to do that I never actually get anything done. It's really frustrating. Good thing is that after Wednesday, I don't have school for 2-1/2 weeks. I sure need the break and I will get stuff done in that time off. Marcus' mom is possibly coming to visit on the 23rd, so the house needs to get cleaned. I hope she does come since it's been like 7 or 8 years since we've actually seen her.

I saw the illustration maker and the icon maker at Lisa's site today and will definitely take time to play with them later this week.

I've got so much to say and I can't think of a single thing right now. *sigh* Maybe I'll just go to bed and it'll all come to me later.