Domestic Geek

I've been so busy this week that there has been absolutely no time for updating the old weblog. I'm going to try to recall all the things I wanted to write about this week:
• FRIDAY, November 16, 2001
Somebody around here has got either a ham radio or else they have the same Dish Network system we do. I was trying to watch "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" and the station kept changing to Ellen and some news station like CNN or something. I was getting really irked. It's happening again tonight during "The Screensavers."

• THURSDAY, November 15, 2001
My last day at CollegeAmerica! WhooHoo! All I've got left to do on Monday is a financial aid exit interview and meet with the career placement lady to get my resume out. The teacher of my Unix 4 class was a trip. I studied for a final exam that consisted of 20 true/false questions, all of which had an answer of true. The questions were things like "Linux is the only real operating system." HA! About five question in I started wondering if I was reading the questions wrong since they all were true. The whole class started snickering the farther we got. The last question was "Every question on this test had an answer of TRUE." Too funny. Dad and I celebrated my last day of school at The Armadillo. I just love the burrito surpeme they have. Yum.

• WEDNESDAY, November 14, 2001
Since the stupid walk-in died AGAIN, I got stuck making Friday's, Saturday's and Sunday's dough all at once. Twenty (20!) batches in all at that store, plus another 9 at the other one. My hands hurt so bad when I was done that I couldn't even hold a pen. Good thing the final in Unix didn't require any real writing or I would've been screwed.

• TUESDAY, November 13, 2001
I heard the most tear-jerking poem sent in by a listener on the Dr. Laura radio show. It is called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Go read it, it's a tearjerker.



Marcus and Mike after visitng the new Apple Store

• SUNDAY, November 11, 2001
The first Apple store in Colorado opened this weekend. Marcus and I went with Mike and Nina to the new Aspen Grove mall in Littleton to check it out. It was so cool. Marcus and Mike were in Apple heaven. I want the new iPod so bad! It's so sweeeeet! We even got free t-shirts. Poor Nina could care less about computers and was really bored, so she and I went to check out some of the other stores. One thing I've got to say is: The Pottery Barn sucks ass! I can't believe anybody buys that crap. There was some cool things at Eddie Bauer, but I still wouldn't buy them even if I had money. I guess I just wasn't meant to be "in style".


• SATURDAY, November 10, 2001
We were supposed to get our satellite internet installed today, but he stupid installer cancelled. Jerk. On top of that, the phones were down in the town of Byers for the whole evening. I had my new blog template almost ready to go but I couldn't get on the internet. Good thing we didn't have an emergency or something. Marcus had planned a LAN party to game. Everyone except Mike cancelled on him. Marcus and Mike played Age of Empires II while Nina and I watched Snow White and The Mummy Returns. Those Mummy movies are pretty good. I might have to get those on DVD.

The Leonid meteor shower is peaking Sunday night, but a front is rolling in. Viewing is supposed to be pretty good tonight, too. I'm going to try and check it out.

I must change the template tomorrow. Halloween was over a week ago, for Pete's sake.

Current mood: exhausted
Ten straight hours of prep today to make up for the stuff that couldn't get made yesterday. 24 batches in all plus vegetables and sauce. Oh boy! My feet hurt. The same ass last week that hung his jacket on the can opener while I was making sauce tried to wash the stuff I was using to make dough while I was still using them. Does he have to work hard to be that much of an idiot or does it just come naturally? The head manager at one of the stores brought in the birthday cake his mother made him for us all to eat. I swear, it was the absolute worst cake I have ever had. I tried to be polite and finish it, but I just couldn't. It was really greasy and had a disgusting aftertaste. I had to bury it in the bottom of the trash can. On top of the fact it tasted like crap, it gave me heartburn on the drive home. Ick!

I didn't mention it earlier, but South Park Wednesday night cracked me up. I was wondering if Trey & Matt were going to poke fun at the way this country is handling this whole 911 attack/terrorist issue. I'm going to have to tape that when it is on again on Sunday. Too funny.

I guess I had better get to bed. More prep tomorrow plus some friends are coming over for a BBQ. I wish I had the energy to clean the house better. Oh, well. Life goes on.

850 KOA's The Sports Zoo cracked me up on the way home. They're talking about the way women think. Scott started this out by relating how his wife had decided she wanted a new comforter for the bed. After bringing home a new comforter, it didn't match the existing furniture, wallpaper, drapes, etc. and she wanted to change everything. A man called in and told how his wife put up a wallpaper border in the bathroom and then got the matching towels. When he went to take a shower, she told him not to use the "new towels." What was the logic of that? Susie ageed with the wife because the new towels were "show towels." This reminded me of Marcus' mom. One summer day when she called to chat she was telling Marcus about how the fleas in the basement were biting everyone and they were miserable. Marcus asked why they were in the basement. Watching television. Why were they down there and not watching it in the living room? They just go a new sofa. So why can't you sit on the new sofa. It's a show sofa. They also didn't spray to get rid of the fleas because it cost too much money. Wha???