Domestic Geek

So, I've been banned from surfing the Internet from my PCs indefinitely. The firewall that Marcus bought yesterday is acting up (so if you can't get to my site, you'll know it froze up again). While he's waiting for his new one to get here, I'm more or less grounded. *sigh* I've never been a zombie before. That so totally sucked. I miss surfing in bed, though. I wish I had a Macbook.

My gums are quite sore today. I keep playing with them with my tongue and now I've gotten them all irritated. I've been taking the antibiotics, though, so hopefully no infections here! I gave in after reading the pamphlet that the dentist sent home that said he only prescribes antibiotics if he really feels the patient (that's me!) needed them. Better safe than sorry, I guess. I've had infected gums and they are no fun whatsoever.

I had thoughts of going back to pizza delivery today. It didn't take long to talk myself out of that.

Well, I guess I didn't want to go badly enough or something. I found out on the radio at work first thing this morning that I did not win tickets for this weekend's Police show. Boooooooo!

Gah, how did it get to be 9 pm Sunday already?

Of course, it didn't help that I actually slept until noon today! I think I went to bed around 11 pm last night and only got up for an hour this morning to take medicine and check the bounced email situation. Man, my body was apparently exhausted. Then we spent a good part of the day running errands since Marcus had to get a new firewall to keep me from doing what I did yesterday. The good news is I haven't had any bounced back emails in hours.

My face hurts today, but at least it's the pain of healing. It didn't help that I went to put a shirt on this morning and managed to punch myself right in the jaw. Only I could pull that off.

I (or those signed up under me) need to win some more iTunes certificates on either Winzy or Blingo. I'm getting dangerously low on credits, people!

I need to order something on Amazon and it only costs $10. I want to get the free shipping for orders over $25, but can't seem to find anything I really want around $15. Everything I want costs way more than that and I can't spend the money right now or it's preorder only and wouldn't work for this order. Hmph.

I've been updating my Stephen King missing books list. I found a cute little used bookstore on Broadway a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have my missing books list handy to see if any that they had were on my list. There is also a good one over at 80th and Wadsworth, but I don't get up that way often anymore. I don't mind splurging $3 here and there for used paperbacks, y'know? It's about time I did some pleasure reading and got caught up. I don't think I've read a Stephen King novel since 2002. I'm waaaay behind.

I somehow managed to miss an email from one of my domain hosts that one of my domains was expiring this first week in June. I had the same problem last year and let it lapse. I had intended to move it to my main registrar so that this didn't happen this year and almost forgot. Good thing I decided to finally clean out my mailbox. Those 1000+ unread messages in there were really annoying. I hope it gets transferred before it expires.

One last reminder to send out Police ticket winning vibes. I'm going to win some!

I downloaded a neat little extension for Firefox today that colors your tabs. I've read that other people use these and like them, but I wasn't thrilled before. I'm ready to give them a second chance, though. We'll see.

On that note, I guess I'd better close up here and head to bed.

I had a really weird moment of Zen last Thursday, I think it was. My old place of employment called Marcus because the designers are being allowed to work from home 3 days a week instead of having to make the drive to Larkspur every day and needed their computers set up to access the network from home. At first I was so incredibly angry when I heard about that, because I asked for that exact work situation before I was let go. Since one of my main problems was the amount of gas I was wasting driving there, I wanted the ability to work from home and I was flat out told no.

Then I took a deep breathe and felt totally at peace — a real moment of zen. I realized if I had gotten what I had wanted, I wouldn't be where I am now. I wouldn't be working at an established company only 17 miles from home, working with Marcus, working with a really nice set of people for the most part, getting some recognition for the good work I do, getting paid hourly so I actually get overtime pay for those extra hours I work and getting company-paid benefits. Instead I'd still be working at a floundering start-up where the personalities clash, people are mean and rude to each other, driving 100 miles a day round trip, no benefits whatsoever, having to deal with stupid clients and franchisees and generally feeling too much stress.

It was a sucky road getting here, but I am truly grateful for the position I have now. I'm grateful for the experiences I've had at all the different places I've worked because they have given me such a broad knowledge base of the various types of design skills needed and so far all have come into play in one way or another where I currently work. Even my technology skills have been useful.

I'm so glad I was so quickly able to look for the good and let go of those angry, ugly feelings I was having. It's a real breakthrough for me.

So, it was a little warm driving home from work today. I face was just throbbing and I was sick of being in traffic. I pulled off into a convenience store to get a beverage and decided I'd get an ice cream instead. Well, I set it on the table when I got home and used the restroom, got a drink and plumb forgot all about the poor ice cream. D'oh! I found it before it became a total puddle, so I threw it in the freezer and just now got to eat it. I wanted one last little treat since I don't know how long it will take the old mouth to heal after the surgery. Some days, I wonder where the old brain is hiding!