Domestic Geek

Man, I just do not feel like doing any work today...so I won't. It's kind of a shame that I had to drive 50 miles just to surf the Internet and iChat with Marcus, though. Really could've done this from home, y'know? I'm taking tomorrow off as my day to make up for overtime put in before deadline. Since we have Memorial Day off, it'll be a nice 4-day mini vacation.

I'm supposed to be working on the Filemaker database for this place, but I'm not in the mood. It's too nice of a day out.

I am catching up on my blog reading and found this comic over at Freakgirl:



It's totally summing up how I'm feeling about my creativity lately. I can't even motivate myself to do the Artist's Way right now. I'm being so self-destructive and I'm wallowing in self-pity and it's not cool.

I'm actually enjoying that Gaping Void site, though. He's got lots of good advice. I'll have to add that to my linklist.

So, I was just watching the television for the weather and traffic reports before I head off to work and there is an accident at I-225 and Yosemite. Great. As if that stretch isn't bad enough on a good day.

I heard it was going to be nice this weekend. HA! It's been kind of chilly and windy. I really needed to change my oil today. I guess I'll have to do it in stages because the freaking rain keeps starting and stopping. And the wind keeps blowing my oil pan around. ARGH!

Going to get oil today was a major chore. I went to the WalMart out on I-70 & Tower because it is cheaper to get the parts at WalMart than anyplace else. I absolutely can't stand shopping at the one on Expositon/Abilene. Well, of all things I can't seem to memorize is the numbers for my oil and air filters. I always have to look them up. I keep meaning to write the numbers down and keep them in my wallet, I just never manage to remember to do that. Well, even though the store is relatively new, somebody managed to smash the little machine that you look filters up on. Do they have any paper copies of those books hanging on the shelves so you can do it manually? NO! I also couldn't seem to find an associate to help me out. Losers. I decided I wasn't waiting in any line just to buy the oil, so I left and went to the one out on Smoky Hill & Gun Club Rd. Their machine worked, but they were out of my oil filter! Grrrrrrrrrrrr. I ended up having to buy a higher priced one because I wasn't stopping anywhere else. So, I get home and have to let my car cool off a bit before I start the oil change. Here come the clouds, wind and rain. YeeeHawww. I got all of the tools assembled and the stupid cover taken off the bottom so I could get to my oil filter just as the downpour started. After that quit, I went out and got the oil plug and oil filter off and was letting it drain and the rain started again. So, it looks like the rain has quit again. I hope it holds out enough that I can finish up.

On another note, I watched The Wedding Crashers last night. I really like Owen Wilson, so I gave it a chance. It was a stupid movie.

I need a couple of things and was wondering if anybody that reads this thing would know where I could find them.

1. I need a couple of 1½" comb binders. Just two. That's all. I know those only cost $5.43, but then shipping is another $7. They don't sell small lots of this size at Office Depot or Office Max. I've got a couple of books that the glue in the bindings has deteriorated and the pages fell out. I've already punched the pages with the machine at work, I just need something to keep them together.


2. I need some scrap wood, preferably of the deck-building kind. My old dog keeps falling off of our front steps. He's going to die from a broken neck, not old age. We need to enlarge the landing and make a ramp. You know our money situation--we can't afford to buy wood. Especially to fix steps at this crappy mobile home park.

Since I don't have Radar from M*A*S*H* to run this stuff down for me, I was hoping somebody who reads this might know. Thanks!

Dad came over this morning to take Marcus and me to breakfast. Marcus wanted some biscuits and gravy. We were going to go to LePeeps, but since we had to pick up rabbit food at I-70 & Colfax, we decided to go to the Moonlight Diner over at 62nd & Tower Rd. It's one of those places I always forget of its existance, which is a shame. Decent food and reasonable prices. The only bad thing was the server that kept trying to push dessert on us (they were probably having some kind of server contest). Marcus and I had dinner there a few years back and had intended on going back, but never did.

So while Dad was here, I showed him the progress I'm making at decluttering. I showed him the huge box of buttons that Mom had. She had one of those 48-drawer cabinets that you sort screws, nails, etc. in and it was full. I needed someplace to keep some other stuff, so I dumped all the buttons into a box. Man, there were some ugly, weird buttons in there. Dad told me that not only did Mom hoard buttons, but so did my grandmother and my great aunt, as well. That's why there were so many of them. It was a sin to them to throw away a garment without first removing the buttons. I think that explains why there were some really icky zippers I found, too. Must've been taken out of old clothes.

I held onto it thinking that maybe I'd do a project someday that needed buttons or something. Well, the one time I needed a couple of buttons, there was nothing in that huge cache that even remotely matched what I needed. I ended up going out and buying the buttons I was looking for. It seems a shame to throw the whole lot out. Maybe I can get someone to buy the whole box on eBay or at the flea market. If not, anybody have a need for a box of old buttons?

In other news, Marcus found a new job. Yay!!! He starts on May 1st. A couple of his bosses' last day was yesterday and they were having a going-away party at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Westminster. In ususal Marcus anti-socialness, he wasn't going to go, but I asked him to go and take me so that I could meet some of these people that he's talked about for the last few years. I had a good time and he won't admit it publicly, but I think Marcus did, too. I was a little embarrassed when Marcus' now former boss told me that he reads this weblog. It's weird meeting someone that already knows all about you.

I have some things I wish I could say about my job right now. I don't know if anybody from there would think to google my name, but if they did, it would lead right to here. I will say that I had a long talk with the owner yesterday and have decided not to leave at this moment. Only because I hate looking for new work and I don't want a new job interfering with starting my business. Until I have more time & experience under my belt, another job won't pay more than this one does (except freelancing). It makes me a little sad that I have wasted so much time running away & hiding from life instead of embracing and pursuing it.

That being said, enough sitting here. I've got work to do!