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Honeybunch is watching Saw III, and it is turning my stomach (even though my back is to the screen).

I am trying to finish up Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted and having a hard time, as I can't read it while eating/thinking about eating (and without spoiling the book for you, there is quite theeating theme). The last fifteen pages or so have dragged, though I really want to know how it turns out.

Not sure why this is - I have never had any trouble with gore before. Actually, I pretty much love realistic violence and gore, being of the MTV generation.

Meh. Still looking forward to Hannibal Rising. What a romantic Valentine's Day date movie, eh?!

Done with another clean-up day at the Temple. Will be calling the advisor for DeMolay to have the boys clean up the unholy mess they left in the bathroom. (note to self: no painting for those kids, ever again.)

I had 2.5 hours of sleep last night. Considering how much sleep I've forced myself to get this week, I thought I'd be able to push through. Not so! I nearly collapsed in Home Depot this afternoon - literally so weak from exhaustion and not eating that I had to physically fight the urge to sit down, throw up, and pass out. Having to brave Meijer a) on Saturday b) at the beginning of the month c) the day before Super Bowl did pump me up with adrenaline, however.

Sushi has fortifying powers, as does 4 hours of sleep. Feeling much better now, ready to face the prospect of living another day.

I've been craving chicken wings for some reason. Please to be stopping this, insula! Do not want!

Hope you all are having a good weekend and enjoy the Super Bowl, if you care.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: "Me Wise Magic" -Van Halen

This weekend has been equal parts great and notso.

I had to pay the piper for not doing this month's deep-clean in stages at the Temple (spot vacuuming! leather cleaning! high dusting!), but the place looks great. This gig is turning out to be a great one.

I've spent a fair bit of time castigating myself about work. Until tonight, I didn't realize that I'd interviewed for the CML job in the early spring. I should have been looking to improve at least six months before that. Why? Complacence? Ego? Sheer dumbassery? I dunno.

Work Saturday sucked. So busy, short-staffed. I left for lunch and the place quite literally fell apart. Add that to feeling no one likes me at all (which the LM has stated is the case - why I listen to her, I don't know, but the insinuation hurts even if it isn't 100% true - perception is everything), and you get a person who is constantly anxious and marginalized.

Probably not the best time to start listening to Primal Leadership and having Daniel Goleman enumerate the various ways I fail at effective leadership.

BUT, all is not lost. Please to be directing your positive thoughts to my job search - I applied for a job at the Ohio Board of Regents, one at Ohio State, and one at Battelle King Ave. Tomorrow I'll call my former boss at Battelle West Jeff and see if she'd be willing to say nice things about me (which might be a stretch, all things considered, but I'm not going to beat myself up over things in the past that I can't change).

I went to lunch at North Market and chilled today. The Pad Thai from China Market has healing properties. :-9 I'm inclined to believe that even if I'm jumping ship late, I can still make it out alive. Somewhere there is a headboard to float on in the frigid seas (/bad Titanic reference)!

Tomorrow I'm driving down to Roundtown to the dentist - I have a tooth (one that I had a root canal on) that is scary black under the crown. Meeble.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: "Runaway" -Del Shannon

OH HAI.

I have a question before I start to ramble. Embarassing as this is, I don't know how to upload my pictures from my cell phone (I have Verizon) without just emailing them.

Help me, flist, please!

chickadilly, you told me about a site that you used - what was it??

I am not at the Pyrate Party tonight as I spent the day at my dad's house filling the largest dumpster ever. ( Read more... )

My uncle is in the hospital after having a heart attack. He is nearly blind, has raging diabetes and high blood pressure, and he's already had two previous heart attacks. They're going to put him on dialysis after catherization because his kidneys are barely functioning (they won't be able to clear the dye from the catheterization procedure). My dad is pretty upset, and I hope my uncle pulls through, at least enough to pass away in his sleep. ):

I dread going to sleep tonight, for fear of being paralyzed by stiff muscles in the morning.

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: "Futuresex/Lovesounds" - JT

I feel so accomplished. :) Today was the best day I've had for a LONG time. Things just went my way.

My sister and I planned to meet at my dad's house to pack up anything salvageable and take it to AmVets/New Uses. When we got to the house, the neighborhood was having their annual yard sale.

We started chucking everything that wasn't bolted down/ruined out onto the lawn and people FELL ALL OVER OUR CRAP. People bought stuff, left to get more cash, then came back. Other people came back four or five times as we pulled more junk outside. It was AMAZING the way people will take anything if it's almost free. I had to call dad (who's in Vegas this weekend) to tell him we made a HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT DOLLARS selling stuff rather than just chucking it. OMG WOW. I think some of our neighbors were pissed that we were selling all of our crap and they were trying to make money. :P

A lady asked if it was hard to sell my mom's stuff, and really, it's not. I don't consider it "mine" nor do I care about what's left there. The material things aren't important. It's hard to see our neighbors so old, concerned about my dad, and they all miss their kids/grandkids.

Not bad for three hours of work. New Uses gave us about $25 for a few things (mostly my stuff) and we took the rest to AmVets and Volunteers of America. All told we have close to half of what it'll cost to have the junk crew come out and take the rest. Several people asked about the house itself o.O but we're not sure when/if dad will list it.

Unfortunately, I was exhausted and slept through the OSU/NIU game.

When I got up, I went to Odd Lots in search of a tool box. Didn't find that, but I did find a mop-n-vac for $15 and one of those snazzy new Brita pitchers for $15. Then I picked up Chinese. Score.

Pluto must be exerting his PLANETARY influence to give me a day this nice. I needed it!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: "Come Back Home" -Pete Yorn

Confession time:

1. I've been looking at the new clips from the SWC movie, and ( *flail* )

2. I finally gave in and made myself a MySpace account. It's been, for lack of a better word, awesome. Right now I'm having some fun conversations with a couple of people I went to school with. I'm so glad that not everyone I grew up with is a narrow-minded bigot.

But, uh, I'm not friending people I haven't met in real life (aside from

queenkatieett, who snarks hard enough to transcend the ether) over there. So, if you've had good facetime with me, we're cool. If not, that's what LJ is for.

3. Because of #2, I've not been giving as much attention to LJ as I normally would. I still love you all. MySpace isn't as cool as LJ. :)

4. Major things are going down at work. I'm crossing my fingers that everything shakes out good and the organization can get out of the Dilbert phase we've been in this year. It's proof positive that one person can mess things up for everyone, even if said person has the best of intentions. Talking to one of my former classmates has been great for my work outlook - she does a lot of firing at her job, too. Not many people do that, and unless you do it, it's hard to relate. But hey, even for the executioner, it's just a job, eh?

5. I've also begun the conversion from chemical cleaning products to natural/organic. ( I did my bathroom today. ) You know it's good if I look forward to cleaning. :P

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: "Only" -NIN

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