Domestic Geek

Current mood: lazy
WARNING: movie spoiler follows:
I watched the DVD of Chicago last night. I really enjoyed the musical numbers (then again, I usually love musicals). It was an interesting story, but I was a little disappointed in the outcome. Whoever wrote the story must've been a man-hater. It more-or-less glorified/condoned women murdering husbands and/or lovers. What was up with that? Then the main characters get off scott-free and get fame/wealth as a result of their murdering ways. Not cool. At least after seeing this, I understand what the writers on the NBC soap Passions were trying to do with these retarded musical numbers they were doing a while back.

The manager at work actually gave me four driving shifts this next week. I was totally shocked. I only got two last week and one of them he decided he didn't need me and sent me home. The same thing happened the previous week. Maybe I'll actually make more than $30 next week. Yay!!

Marcus took an Apple OS X Administration class last week that was paid for by the place where he works. He even got paid (with vacation hours). Now he's all excited about the stuff he learned and I haven't had much interaction with him lately. He's been glued to his Macs. Yay! I'm so glad he's excited about this. He and Mike have also gotten the new Tiger Woods golf game that has had them preoccupied for the last couple of weeks. Marcus needs to get a new video card to handle it, though. It keeps crashing his Mac. I need a new video card, too. And more memory. And a video camera. And a really good digital camera. Ooh, and a G5. BTW, when am I going to win the lottery?

So, since he's otherwise engaged and I have ABSOLUTELY NO HOMEWORK for the first time in ages (and probably the last time for at least the next ten weeks), I'm going to lounge and the couch and watch Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I'll probably cross stitch a little while I do. Then maybe I'll get busy and clean up around here. Maybe not.

Current mood: exhausted
Hey, I'm still alive--more or less. Dad commented to me yesterday that I hadn't written on my site for over two weeks, so I figured I'd better post a little something.

As I've mentioned before, the class I was taking at school kicked my ass. I don't think there was a day in the last five weeks that I got an entire night's sleep. I think I averaged about 5 hours a night. Couple that with the stress of not getting any hours at work (and not making any money) and I've been a complete basket case. Well, the class ended yesterday. I stayed up the entire night to finish my final project. After class, I had lunch with Dad and then I went to work for a couple of hours and came straight home. Of course by then I was soooo tired that I couldn't sleep, so I sat like a zombie and watched stuff on my PVR for about three hours. I finally went to sleep about 8:30 last night and woke up at noon today. I still felt like total shit when I got up. I know you can't make up for weeks of sleep deprivation in one night.

I had a really great birthday, though. I've made some really great friends at school and they threw me a little party. We had cheesecake and cupcakes. YUM! The lady at 7-11 gave me a free refill for my coke. My butthead manager actually made some dough for me to make up for the weekend he screwed me when we went to Colorado Springs (he didn't even know it was my birthday). Later, Dad took me to Hopps for a steak dinner. YUM, again! We had Mike's and my annual party on the 7th--we always hold it the weekend between our birthdays since his is on the 5th and mine is on the 11th. I posted some pictures of the event here. Also, Marcus got me a new scanner the day before at the Apple Store. All in all, it was one of the best birthdays I've had in quite a while. I didn't even let the whole terrorist bombing anniversary thing get to me like I did the year before.

Well, there's more to say, but it's 1 a.m. and I'm getting sleepy. G'night.

Wow, my Lycos email account is still inaccessible. I sure hope the people I sold stuff to on eBay haven't been trying to get a hold of me the last few days. Grr. Something really bad must've happend over at Lycos. I wonder if it is a result of all the worms lately or if they had some major hardware problems. Their search feature and things like that are still active. I bet there are some tech guys not getting any sleep over there!

UPDATE: It turns out that the mail was down due to an upgrade gone bad.

I've hit another brick wall. I'm doubting myself, my whole reason for being, what I truly want out of life. Why do I have one of these every so often? It's so frustrating.

Is there a new virus attacking the Internet today? My Lycos mail account will not be available until afternoon tomorrow. Amazon is not working, either--they have an error page up.