Even though I’ve already put in 5 hours (on ONE damn site) today, I still feel like I haven’t accomplished ANYTHING. I still have an urge to put in another 3 hours but it’s after 2:30am and all I want to do is go to sleep. I’m not sure why I’m having trouble concentrating, I just keep getting this feeling like I need to be doing something else. Typically “pay the bills” is on the back of my mind. Today, however, it’s been “I feel the urge to Google random shit, just ’cause”. It’s not even anything good. Hell, someone posted on Facebook about how they have a random itch (down there) and can’t figure out what it is. I, for some reason, spent a half hour researching it while over a PM with her. What the hell is wrong with me? Her oonie should be none of my concern, but she posted it on FB and it was a distraction for me so I veered off course.
I know that up to this point I’ve accomplished everything I’ve set out to do today. I got another 10 or so pages completed on the eCommerce backend, the kitchen’s clean and the chicken was taken out of the freezer to thaw for tomorrows dinner. I watched my Monday night shows, and spent some quality time with a very fidgety dog who’s terrified from the one crack of thunder we experienced with the random storm that passed through Delmarva this evening. There’s really nothing left to do, my To-Do list is empty. So why do I feel like I haven’t completed a damn thing?
On the home front things are OK. Karen’s having some post-surgery issues that we’re working on fixing. It’s my hope that we can fix everything with over-the-counter based products before it turns into a trip to a specialist, but we’ll see where things stand on Wednesday morning and go from there. I don’t want to venture over to Maryland but for the sake of her health we’ve got no choice. I don’t trust a single damn doctor in Delaware and if I need to cross state lines to get in with someone who actually knows what they’re doing… so be it.
I decided, this past weekend, that Comcast/Xfinity is the absolute worst company in the world (and I’m an Optimum/Cablevision hater too). With the move to my new “office”, Sean went out and picked up a cable box from Comcast that was supposed to have been activated within an hour of getting off the phone with tech support. Of course after four phone calls and constantly being told “wait another hour” (over the course of three days), I decided to take out my frustration on Twitter with a #comcastsucks hashtag, PLUS tagging with @comcast to prove my point. I get a message from a Comcast employee offering to assist me and within 10 minutes of providing him with my account # and the serial number on the box in question – everything was fixed. I still don’t understand how it was possible for him to fix something in a matter of minutes via Twitter when FOUR phone calls did absolutely nothing! There was only ONE phone call that showed any level of being “productive” and that’s when they somehow conned Sean into signing up for a triple-play when we have absolutely no need or use for a home phone. We’re not getting any kind of an upgrade with channels, we’re only getting Encore for six months free. Who the hell watches Encore? At least offer Showtime so I can watch Shameless in January for crying out loud! It did wind up costing us like $25 less than we were set to pay, but the point is we didn’t call to alter the plan – we called for the damn box to work so I’m not sitting here in silence when I’m not in the mood for music.
I have found that my concentration level goes up with a TV in the background, mainly because I find TV to be so boring that I’d rather be in Dreamweaver. That’s not even working for me though. I’m extremely sound sensitive and wanting to just fly far far away and get away from it all. I’m halfway tempted to head down to the beach since the storm is now off shore and I’m sure the surf on the Atlantic’s gone up quite a bit.
In any event… gonna try to knock out another hour and go to bed. My major goals for tomorrow are to get some clothes folded, put in at least 6 hours and hopefully remember to watch “Extreme Cheapskates” on TLC because the show just looks that interesting. Not to mention the fact that after NCIS (the original, fuck LA) there’s really nothing on TV accept the news.j