Sean and I took a trip up to Best Buy in Dover today because he found a decent deal on a monitor and wanted to look at it in person before he went ahead and purchased it. A quick $180 on a 20″ Widescreen, and we were then homeward bound. He’s got it setup but his computer is acting funny so he hasn’t been able to enjoy it yet. Either way he actually has a desk again thanks to the loss of a massive CRT and that’s just gravy.

As for me, my left eye has been twitching all freaking day long and the superstitious end of me knows that it either means a streak of luck is coming or something horrible is coming. An actual eye resource, and not some hippy tree-hugging website that claims to have the answer to everything notes that it’s based on fatigue/stress. It only started about an hour ago but my eye randomly focusing in and out isn’t helping me concentration, that’s for sure.

For the past 12 hours, at least, I’ve been cleaning. I’m sure I could have accomplished it in half the time but that’s based on the fact that I kept getting side-tracked with other things. The bathroom took me about an hour, tile is a bitch to clean sometimes. I accomplished the kitchen, even having enough time while cleaning to throw some cookies in the oven for Sean. The living room is the cleanest I’ve personally ever seen it and now I’m working on my third load of laundry. Once I can get that into the dryer, I know for sure that I’m going right to sleep. My eyes keep freaking crossing on me.

Hoppers (yep, chose a name) wasn’t around tonight. I’m sure he was around the house but considering I can’t see what’s going on in the grass below – who knows. I just know he wasn’t on the porch to keep me company tonight during quick smoke breaks.

Sean and I attempted to head into a local mattress store tonight. We were on our way to the super market and wound up going across the street to this place first, not even sure if I remember the name but it also isn’t a chain so that may explain it. They’re running a deal right now where beds start in the $400 range, I’d say that’s a fairly decent price for a temporary bed. It’ll at least get us up off the floor and we can throw out the foam pads we’ve been sleeping on for the last few months. My back is finished, my hip is now acting up and I know he isn’t very comfortable either. Unfortunately, they were closed so we couldn’t look around to see what was on sale but I’m sure we’ll make a run over there tomorrow.

The reason for our trip to the supermarket was due to the fact that some bone head in the complex decided that they didn’t have any propane to BBQ and switched the tanks out on us. The gage is also missing a piece of glass so I want to assume they just unscrewed the whole thing, switched it out, then went from there. Sean noted that the cover for the BBQ never really stayed on properly and at first I was convinced that it was only the wind. Now I’m starting to think that someone has purposely been taking it off just to switch out the tank. I have no idea what actually happened but I can say that it’s not the tank we brought home a few weeks ago and we know neither one of us changed it out for an empty one.

I’m trying very hard to stay awake right now, I’m not sure how much longer I have left until I officially crash though. I do have to clean off my desk because it looks like hell. Then I have to head back into the kitchen and finish a few small things up. I just wish the damn dryer would work faster!

The strange thing about being on a regular schedule is I’m not really used to all of the daily noises around me. The chirping birds are screwing with my concentration, the TV is blaring in the background with what I consider to be the stupidest show on television and Bella is even more insistent about being right under my legs than normal.

Princess doesn’t seem to be acting right, she’s limping a bit more than usual and is kind of hanging out under the dining room table instead of sleeping in her own bed. I’m sure she’s upset over the fact that she’s no longer allowed on the couch but I don’t think that has anything to do with her limping either.

It’s been a pretty fruitful day, I’m working on the $150 mark with paid-posting so that’s covered. A few clients paid me as well so it’s nice to see a few hundred sitting in Paypal at the moment. Thankfully it’s mine to spend because all other bills have already been budgeted out. I’m just going to shoot it into savings though, we really do need to buy a new bed sometime in the next month (at the absolute latest) my back has come close to going out on me completely and I’m sure sleeping on three inches of foam that’s directly on the floor isn’t helping me very much either.

Sean and I are currently looking around Remax and Centry21 for a house. I don’t know how it happened but we’ve kind of settled on Ohio. I’m not too keen on being that far away from New York but he assured me that I’d probably like it there. His brother lives in the North Lima area, so I think we’re looking around there. I found a huge 4 bedroom 4050sqft for like $55,000 which is also on 3 acres of land, something seems fishy about it but figure if I’m looking to get a loan in the $175,000 range – I’m sure we could knock down the old house and just build another one on the property.

We’ve been looking into manufactured homes and I found one that looks fairly traditional but I also know that there’s a solid company backing it. We’re looking into Palm Harbor, and I found a model named Katherine. It’s 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and about 2,368sqft. I know that’s a lot smaller than the house that’s on the property but you’re factoring in that only two people and a 15 pound dog are going to live there and I’d prefer to live in something where all of the pipes are new and in the future when adding an addition to the house, there’s the ability to cut into a wall without worrying about the entire foundation coming down on that side – you know? The house that’s on the property now is about 120 years old, you can’t really upgrade that style of a home without running into some problems. I figure knocking it down and starting fresh would be more than fair.

Sean and I went up to Midway last night. We’ve been itching to get to a casino ever since we left Atlantic City back in April. We probably should have just taken the free rooms available up in Harrah’s and completely avoided this place. I don’t know what it is about local casinos but they all seem to really suck. I know that Alantic City has a decent pay out considering how much money I’ve made there. I refuse to go to ones on Indian reservations because you never win anything there, I don’t care who you are – the pay out in a place like Mohegan Sun up in Connecticut is not going to be anywhere near what a typical payout is in Atlantic City. On average you hear machines going off with $3,000+ coming your way, this is the place to be.

With how messed up our schedule is at the moment, we didn’t leave the house until about 2am but note that we’d been up for about 8 hours at that point. After a 45 minute drive we arrived to find a really empty parking lot and what looked to be a little shack in the middle of no where. It’s only really lit up on the one side so you don’t see much going on behind it. It was no where near as large as the casinos I’m used to going to. The commercials tell me that you win more frequently and to a point this is true, I managed to make $20 last for a very long time. I just don’t consider breaking even to be a reasonable pay out – you know?

I’ve been rummaging around the house trying to locate my total rewards card so I can log into my Harrah’s account and find out what I have available. I think we’re going to take a trip up there after his birthday and sometime before mine so that we can have some kind of a vacation. I know he has four days free, I’m sure I have the same. A week with a free room? I’ll take it.