Domestic Geek

WARNING! Woman Stuff Ahead! Ignore the first paragraph if you're a guy!

This sucks. My period, which normally starts Tuesday or Wednesday, decided it would wait until late last night to arrive. My planned day of designing my new layout and of doing much-needed housework was derailed and instead I spent much of the day curled up in bed with a heating pad. *sigh* Even a hot shower (almost to the point of scalding), did nothing to reduce the cramps and chills I was feeling. I have got to get myself back on the pill. Even though I will still cramp, it isn't as bad and my cycles are predictable. I'd much rather feel like crap at work than at home on the weekend.

I did venture out briefly to have a yummy dinner of a broccoli cheese soup bowl over at Mike & Nina's home. Marcus got me a tasty chai latte from Starbucks on the way home. I put together the puzzle that came out of the HUGE Kinder egg that Marcus' sister sent and now I'm off to curl up with the heating pad again.

I'm really hoping my body cooperates tomorrow as I have much to do. I just realized yesterday that Thanksgiving is less than 3 weeks away. The holiday season is almost upon us and I'm panicking because I'm once again not ready. With no OT again this week and very little paid blogging, my income lately has sucked. I wish I had a beater car that I could use to deliver pizzas. That is the only part time job out there that can make some decent money. I can't use my current car to do it or it won't last until the payments are done. I can't even design on the side because my creativity is stalled. I've got a friend that wants me to redo her site and I can't even make myself do that. I know it's the financial stress that I'm under that is killing my creative desires (I haven't even picked up my knitting needles in 2 weeks), yet if I could be creative, I could make some more money. It's a really lame catch 22.

I'm a little depressed, too. Wednesday is the day that I had been planning on flying to Vegas. I'm really disappointed in myself that I couldn't figure out how to make that happen.

After coming back from a 3–1 deficit in their series with the Cleveland Indians, the Boston Red Sox won the ALCS tonight to become the Rockie's opponent in this year's World Series. Fortunately the series is being shown on FOX, so I can actually watch it instead of having to listen to the radio or watch virtually through MLB.com's Gameday feature. GO ROCKIES!!!!


Wednesday at work we are having a Rockies Appreciation Day or some such thing. We're supposed to wear Rockies shirts if we have them and the company is buying pizza and sodas for the employees. I don't own any thing Rockies or purple for that matter. I looked at Target today to see if they had a purple polo or something, but no dice.

In other sports news, the Broncos had to have Jason Elam save their butt in the last seconds of the game once again to win against the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight. They blew a good lead to have the game tied right at the end. This is a habit this season that I wish they'd break. Winning is still better than the beating they took two weeks ago, but still...

Remember how I mentioned yesterday that I made paper Rockies player dolls that I put on my monitor at work? Well, some jackoff thought it would be cool to destroy them. Nobody saw who did it (though someone guessed it may have been the Diamondback fan). Why do people have to destroy other people's property? :(

I'm going to be taking somewhat of a pseudo hiatus from blogging. Actually, I'm trying to restrict my time on the Internet overall. It dawned on me the other day that I've become an Internet addict. I used to get so many other things like crafting, cleaning and gardening done before I had access to a computer. I knew it had become a problem when I was seriously thinking about getting online at work one day last week to read my forums (a big no-no there). Also, I'm a little burned out in general and I am falling into my normal seasonal pattern of depression and moodiness. Then there is the carpal tunnel to deal with...

Since I haven't brought in squat lately with paid blogging (I've only got 3 pending posts to be paid for), I'm more than likely going to have to find a part-time job if I want Christmas money. We're also going to get busier at work in the next month, so I'll be putting in some OT, too (I hope).

I have some things I really need to tackle that I've been putting off as well as some online classes I need to finish before they expire. I'll post if I feel the need to, but if I disappear for awhile, nothing bad has happened, I'm just tending to higher priorities.

I've really been pondering that Flylady email I referenced earlier about sidetracked people being perfectionists. I knew I was a perfectionist (it's Virgo by nature), but I didn't realize that one of the reasons I get so sidetracked and off task is because of it.

The point really hit me when I was at work today while cleaning and labeling the DVD cases that store the data backups I do everyday. After I spent five minutes trying to get hard tape residue off of a DVD case when there were piles of stuff everywhere that I needed to file, the point of it hit me. I looked at the stack of DVD cases I had in front of me and realized about 80% of them had this same residue on them. Was I really going to expend that much energy on something like that when the residue had no effect whatsoever on the case's ability to hold a burned DVD. Really, who cares about a little bit of tape residue on the DVD case? I'm sure I am the only one who even noticed it.

It was hard, but I let it go. I'm sure that every time I see one in the rack, I'm going to be tempted to try to clean it, but I must resist.