Domestic Geek

Today after work I had to stop by the oral surgeon's office for a follow-up appointment. I'm doing fine except for normal healing pain, so I thought about canceling. I decided to go anyway just in case the insurance company would use that against me to deny my claim or something. Fortunately, it looks as it is supposed to and I wasn't charged for an office visit.

Ever since then, though, I have not been able to quit playing with the loose flap of gums. I think I started that while I was bored stuck in traffic. Gah!

I stopped and got myself a Frappuccino from Starbucks on the way home because it was hot, my face hurt and I needed a beverage to make the rest of the ride home. I stopped at that 24-hour one on Colorado Blvd. The employees were too busy socializing in there (I guess a shift change was happening) and the guy making my drink rushed through it. I had big huge ice boulders in it that kept clogging up my straw. I was not happy.

It dawned on me a couple of days ago that Blogathon 2007 will be here before I know it. The date this year is July 28th. They've already reopened the forums, so I'll be hanging out over there really soon. Unlike last year, where I decided to do it at the last minute after losing my job, I'm actually going to promote it and have a plan in place. They mentioned possibly having the ability to blog for multiple charities (I'd really like to do the Denver Dumb Friend's League in addition to Livestrong), so I hope that's the case.

Six weeks! Wow, I was thinking this time was never going to come. I've been staying away from all things HP lately because it makes waiting harder, but today I gave in and went to Mugglenet. I picked myself up that neat little countdown for the top of the page there. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is coming out in a little over a month. w00t! I have a 101 in 1001 site that I haven't publicized much because I wanted to design it first, but one of my goals was to knit a Gryffindor scarf before the book arrives. Well........since I haven't learned to knit yet, not sure I'll make that goal. I think it's only a knit stitch. Maybe I can do it. I've got all the supplies.

Another cool bit of HP news that I forgot to mention recently is the theme park they're going to build in Orlando. I am so going to go see this place. I've always wanted to go to Florida.

I had a bit of a revelation today while at work.

I was thinking about how I'm always gung-ho at the beginning of something, yet I rarely complete anything. I think it's because once I start something, my mind has finished it and is moving on to something else. For example, my mind considers doing laundry as the act of gathering it and putting it in the washer. Of course, there's a few more steps until the laundry is really done — into the dryer, folding, putting away, etc. &mash; but my mind dismisses the task as over. It's why Marcus usually ends up putting the clothes in the dryer or has to empty the dishwasher. When it's up to me, I put my clothes on out of the dryer and once the dryer is empty, it's time to do laundry again. I'm like that with my creative endeavors, too. Take my blog designs. I have an idea in my head what I want them to be and I've even started a couple of them, but since my brain sees the finished result, it considers it done. When I have a craft project in mind, once the supplies are bought, the project rarely goes beyond that.

I don't know when this practice started. I know I've been doing it at least since college, so probably all my life. Why did it take me so long to realize what it is that I do? I've always chalked my behavior up to procrastination, but it's really more than that. It's not even that I'm avoiding anything, my brain is just finished with the task at hand.

Well, now maybe that I see what I'm doing, I can take steps to correct it. Maybe it's time to revert back to childhood and put up that chore chart that I never had as a child. Give myself a star when (and only when) I totally COMPLETE a task.

It's not even the teeth, either. With as out of it as I've been, I totally lost track of when my period was expected and it hit me today with a vengeance. I've got a ton of stuff I want to do and I honestly can't move without being nauseous. <sarcasm>I love being a girl.</sarcasm> I just gave in and took one of those percocet pills the dentist prescribed to see if it relieves menstrual pain. I'll let you know how that works out.

Speaking of pain from the teeth, though, the pain lessened considerably when a small bone fragment finally worked itself to the surface late this afternoon. I've been feeling it just under the surface for days and I just couldn't leave it alone.

I got a good laugh at work today. Apparently my old teacher no longer works for that weirdo I worked for last September. They submitted a file today that was totally unprintable. If it could be done wrong by a designer, whoever is working for him now did it. LOL

I got to do a little bit of design work for a small ad our company was running. It wasn't much, but it was nice to get the opportunity to do a little something.