Domestic Geek

I went to work at midnight last night to get two days' worth of dough done. I got it all done, amazingly enough. So, I went to bed at 9am, let the dog out to pee around 1 pm and just got up about a half hour ago. It has been sooooo long since I actually slept for one long stretch. It felt totally bizarre. I vaguely recall the screaming trampoline kids outside the window, but for the most part, I was totally out. It felt good. I just hope I can sleep this evening.

When I got home from work this morning, I sat down to do a quick run through the recently updated blogs on my blogroll and <sarcasm>SUPRISE!</sarcasm>, blogrolling was down. I had to give up because, even though most of the sites I visit are in my history, those that use blogrolling were talking forever to load. As soon as I get done here, I'm doing some more reasearch on how to create my own that shows recently updates sites. I'm tired of depending on things outside my own server that screw with my site. I already dumped my Netflix plugin because it slowed my site loading. I also decided that it is not fair to pull bandwidth from Netflix's site just to show pics on my site. It doesn't really matter for as few hits as I get, but a popular site must eat up large amounts of bandwidth. All subscribers end up paying for that, so I don't want to be a part of it, y'know?

My friend from school got a job! Yay!!! Everybody should go congratulate her (not that I have droves of readers or anything). Now, everybody focus the good vibes my way so that I can make the same announcement soon, K?

All right, I'm going blog-surfing then I'm going to call Marcus to see if he's going to be home soon or if I need to go scrounge something for dinner.

Well, it went rather well, I think. The job doesn't start until March, though. Of course, with school and all the housework I need to get caught up with, March will be here before I know it! The gentleman who did the interview said I'd hear back from him in a couple of weeks. He and the creative director kept talking like I had the job, but I'm just not sure. Guess I'll have to wait and see. I really want to work there. I think it would be a good fit.

So, if anybody reads this between now and 10am tomorrow (Tuesday), I need your help. I have a job interview. I wasn't going to post anything in fear of jinxing it, but I really, really want this job. So please say a prayer, cross fingers, eyes and toes, whatever will help me get this job! I'd really appreciate all the good vibes you could send my way.

Thanks!

I forgot to mention that I got my car fixed (partially) today. At least, the starter is attached to the engine block. It still has the fuel problem (it was acting up for the mechanic), but he can't isolate the problem. Could be a multitude of things. His advice: It's got 300,000 miles on it—get a new car! LOL You know it's time when your mechanic tells you something like that. Since he doesn't have any free ones to give away, that will just have to wait, though. *sigh*

Current mood: optimistic
Sorry there hasn't been any posting. I'm still trying to get over the crud I got Christmas Day. Man, I've been sick for 15 days. *sigh* Oh, well. I think Marcus brought it into our home as I have little contact with the outside world. He's had the crud, too. What's weird is, this is the way last year started.

Even though the new year started this way, I'm feeling very optimistic about the coming year. I doubt I'll have as bad a year as the last one. 2004 sucked in more ways than I can count. I'm not going to rehash them all. Alot of them are in the archives, some I still don't want to talk about. All I do know is, Marcus and I have both had our share of crap for awhile. Move on to someone else, Mr. Bad Luck! I'm in the midst of putting together a list of things I will accomplish in the coming 12 months. As soon as it's done, I'll post it.

The first thing on the list will be importing this blog over to Expression Engine, so I'm going to spend the afternoon working on the new template. That blog will not be the Blog of Continuous Woe© (as Marcus has coined this one).

Another thing on that list will be organizing my desk and craft room. There was a neat article at CreativePro.com that dealt with why creative people have such a hard time being "organized."

Oh, and eight (8) more class sessions (and my web site project I need to finish) and I'm done with school! WhooHoo!

BTW, are we almost through with rerun season on television? I need some new stimuli!