Domestic Geek

Sorry I really haven't been in a posting mood this week. Here's a recap of the events of this week:

I was truly saddened by the death on Monday of The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. I really broke up listening to Kelly Rippa on Regis & Kelly on Tuesday morning.

Steve Irwin, the khaki-clad wildlife stalker who won global fame with his televised death-defying crocodile stunts and whose booming voice made “Crikey!??? in a ripe Australian accent an international catchword, was killed by a stingray yesterday while filming a documentary at the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast. He was 44.

Witnesses said he apparently died of cardiac arrest after the stingray attack.

Mr. Irwin was on location in the area to film television segments, including material for “The Ocean’s Deadliest.??? Witnesses on his boat, Croc One, and on a nearby diving vessel said that when he came close to a stingray, its barb pierced his chest and lodged in his heart.

We had a nice little BBQ here on Monday. Mike and Nina brought lots of food. Nina makes THE BEST potato salad in the entire world. I first had it at their wedding. Good stuff! I'll have to find the recipe she gave me and put in on my recipe blog. One day I'm actually going to make it for myself. I keep forgetting.

Happy belated birthday to my friend Mike. His birthday was on Tuesday.

I tried to pick up dog poo this weekend, but was deterred by all the wasps buzzing around. I baited my wasp traps and have caught tons of the suckers this week. I hate wasps. I also trimmed branches off the the darned crabapple tree in the yard. It was way out of control. Makes me angry that they keep increasing the lot rent, our lease says not to prune the trees, yet they have never once taken care of it. Idiots.

I realized that my wardrobe is abysmal. I haven't bought new clothes in ages. Except for a bra, I haven't gotten anything new in over a year (t-shirts from my screen printing job). Marcus got my some polos when I started the screen printing job in April 2005. The last time I bought jeans was well before that. It doesn't help that I don't own a lot of clothes, anyway. While I've lost most of the weight I've gained since losing my job, I've lost it in different places than I gained it. I can't wear my jeans. My one pair of jeans that fit has so many holes in them that it's embarrassing. All of my nicer shirts have holes or stains or don't fit. I don't even have a week's worth of "nice" clothes to wear to a job anymore. My last pair of shorts fell apart. My sweat pants have holes. Even a huge weight loss wouldn't help much because I really don't own much in smaller sizes, either. I'm screwed.

I guess the money I get from paid blogging and the ebay sale of stuff from storage will have to go towards building a wardrobe.

The placement woman sent my resume off to a place that sounds perfect for me (except that it's in the DTC). I hope I get a call.

I'm working on my Thursday Thirteen, but can't seem to come up with 13 things I like about myself. How sad is that?

Can't believe it's Thursday already. Well, I'm going to go take a shower.

I have been tagged by Yoshi to play a game where the last person gives you 5 words and you say the first thing you think of...then you tag others who then continue the tagging game...so here we go:

1. Chute : Ladder
2. Picnic : Basket
3. Concert : Ticket
4. World : Wrestling
5. Beach : Sand

The next five random words are:

1. horse
2. sew
3. paint
4. broken
5. scream

The tagged bloggers are:

MacDude
R A D H O L E
LaLaGirl
Wondering Why
I'm a loser and don't have a 5th person to tag (that hasn't already been tagged)! Let me know if you want to play along in the comments.

The meeting I was supposed to have with the new placement person yesterday was cancelled. I was a little bummed by it, but there really wasn't anything I could do to change it. I keep telling myself that these things happen for a reason. This time I saw the reason immediately. We rescheduled for today and I happened to be meeting with the placement person when one of my old instructors (and a former placement person herself) stopped in to say hi. She's looking for some temporary help with one of her endeavors, so I'm stopping by to meet her business partner tomorrow. Hopefully this will get cash coming in now and lead to more contract type work in the future.

Was there ever any doubt? LOL

I hate it when you have a power outage (and your battery backup is dead and you can't afford to replace it) and all of your open Firefox tabs, BBEdit windows, etc. are all gone. *sigh* Wish I had saved some of that stuff at one point.

I hate it how scattered my mind has been lately. I really wish I could concentrate. The first thing I'm doing after I get a job is get new glasses. I didn't realize how much I depended on them until they're gone. It doesn't help that the blogging world seems to think that smaller is better for type size. I thought the problem was the Cinema display I normally surf on with its 1680x1050 screen resolution, but no...my laptop is set to 1024x768 and I constantly have to ctrl+ the type to make it legible. I've thought about leaving snarky comments on such sites, but why? It's their business how they want their sites to look. I need to learn to let things like that go and stop trying to be such a control freak.