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Very late start

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I had a late start today but this is because I couldn’t fall asleep until after 5am. Typically I sleep from about 2-10 which is a reasonable 8 hours. Today, unfortunately, it was 5-1pm which is kind of messing me up. I’m hours behind on many things and there’s a lot of work to be done that I’m only now scratching the surface on.

I watered the plants today, I’ve also taken a nice well needed shower considering how horribly I feel right now. I started my period this morning and I’m not sure if it’s an allergic reaction to new body wash or something but I have a nasty rash on the back of my leg that’s driving me crazy. The whole lower half of me is basically falling apart, my hip is bothering me as well. I keep getting random jolts of sharp pain, I really need to find better seating.

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Getting Sleepy

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

It’s a little after 4am and I honestly have no reason as to why I’m still up this late. I woke up around 10:30 this morning which seems to be a consistent time, no matter what time I happened to get to sleep the night before. I’m sure there’s something I could be doing right now to keep me entertained but while I’m finding it hard to get to sleep, my eye lids are growing to be very heavy and I can’t seem to concentrate on anything.

My back was bothering me for the bulk of the day, I can’t wait until all of the birthdays are taken care of so I can start putting money towards my next big purchase – a new bed. Baby and I plan on moving the rooms around soon. We’ll hold off on the bed purchase but I do still need to get about $100 together. It’s going to cost me around $25 to get the closet taken care of because there’s no shelving in there. Another $25 should cover a few baskets. I won’t have a real ‘dresser’ so I’m going to take three baskets and divide my things reasonably. One basket for underwear, one for socks, one for bras. It’ll make life a little easier in the end, at least I won’t have to dig through a single drawer to try to find what I’m looking for. I’m sick of picking up underwear thinking I finally found the bra I was just digging for. There’s very limited space at the moment, this is why I only have one drawer. The rest of the money is for some shelving around the room. Since there’s limited floor space, we’re going to utilize the wall space. Since I’m lucky enough to have an LCD TV, it’s easier to mount that on the wall than it would be to find a thin book case to throw in the corner of the room.

I’m sure everything will figure itself out though, I’m probably just letting off some kind of steam because there’s no one awake to talk to. Princess is crying to get out of the bedroom but I think that’s because I just finished heating up some food for Bella. She’s asleep but I know she randomly wakes up during the night to pick at things. She doesn’t really eat much during the day so that’s really the only way to get food in her stomach. Walmart has been out of chicken all week so I don’t know what else to feed her. I’ve started on some sliced turkey, hopefully they’ll last long enough for me to figure something else out.

Baby’s been asleep for the last few hours, maybe I’ll go in there to curl up with him and hopefully knock out for the night. UHT, Bella’s scratching at the door – guess I should get in there ASAP before she wakes everyone up!

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Shifted

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I decided to spend some time outside. It’s a little hard to see the screen because of the sunlight but it’s nice getting some air. There’s a group of bunnies playing across the street, it’s cute. I kind of wish I brought my camera out here but I see things like this every day so, to me, it isn’t really worth snapping a picture of. Now that it’s getting warmer I’m really itching to get to the beach. Baby and I haven’t been there in a really long time but I also know that the both of us have been sick for the last few weeks so I guess that played a role in it. Hopefully we’ll be able to go soon.

I have some email to go through, a few people are looking for advertising and for some reason I’m having trouble quoting them, not sure why either. I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

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Accomplished

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I don’t know if it’s based on the fact that I’m living in a new house, or if it’s just my mood these days but I’ve found myself being more productive down here than I ever was in New York. Sure, I’d cook and clean all day long on top of getting my work done but I take a little more pride in my work down here for some reason and I’m not quite sure why. I feel more accomplished when I’m done.

I got the kitchen taken care of tonight. The vacuuming was done and the coffee table is sparkling right now. It’s easier to relax in a clean room anyone knows this. It’s hard to keep a clean house with three dogs and a few pack rats. Since Kay and I were sick this past week there was an over abundance of tissues laying around on the coffee table mixed with her nicorette packets, those are easy to clean though. I moved some things out of the living room that I’ve been meaning to get rid of for the last couple of weeks. I’d brought a keyboard and stand down here for baby to hook up when we get the rooms rearranged, now that it’s out of the living room the entire room just looks much larger.

I hope we’re able to get the rooms rearranged sometime soon. This way I can start unpacking everything off my desk. I’m going to need to pick up a shelving unit for the closet so I can get my clothes transferred over to the new closet. He’s going to keep his where they are because in the long run it’ll be easier. This way he gets his closet back and I get to have my own again. That’ll be sweet, real sweet. He can keep his as dirty as men usually do and I get to have a neat and tidy one just for me. :w00t:

I have some more work to get done, guess I should get started on that.

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Doing Good

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I’ve been doing pretty good at sticking to my diet today. I’ve had 3 meals and have only taken in about 600 calories. It’s my goal to burn about 7000 calories a week so I can average 2lbs per week. I just snacked on some crackers, I’m still feeling a bit nauseous for some reason. I have a lot of work to do today though, I can’t really just sit back and relax no matter how bad I’m feeling. I guess I should get around to that now. I know there’s a few domains to setup, then I have some other design work to do. With the email downtime yesterday, however, I can’t seem to find anything I need when it comes to getting the clients site in order. Hopefully I can find the email and go from there.

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Lose one, gain one.

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I woke up about 10:30 this morning feeling much better than I have in the past week. My cold is close to gone but now I’ve given it back to Baby so he’s not feeling too well :heh:

I didn’t get to sleep until rather late last night, there was a spill in the fridge that required immediate attention. A bottle of chocolate sauce kind of exploded in the back of the fridge and basically everything in there needed to be thrown out. I then spent about an hour scraping all the chocolate off the shelf. Now the fridge looks close to brand new, but it also looks empty. I’d rather it be empty than full of bacteria though. I also made it a point to throw out a lot of food that I’ve been putting off for a while. I need to get the door cleaned off too, that’s starting to build up a little bit of gunk. There’s opened bottles of stuff that no one is ever going to use so there’s no real need for it to be in there anyway.

While I’m no longer dealing with a cold, my stomach doesn’t seem to be agreeing with me very much today either. I don’t know if it’s something I ate yesterday or just a reaction to stress but I’m really nauseous and even crackers aren’t subsiding the feeling. I should probably be laying down right now but there’s a cool breeze coming in from outside that I won’t be able to get in the bedroom. There’s only one big window in there and with the placement of windows across the hall it just wouldn’t do much for a cross breeze.

I’ve got Princess snoring on the left of me and Bella snoring at my feet – at least my toes are warm…heh.

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Fresh Start

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

After getting the blue screen of death on my laptop a few times today, I decided that it was time to completely reinstall windows and start fresh. The first format didn’t want to work but that’s the one Baby did for me. The one I did for myself seemed to process OK, so it went from there. I couldn’t find any of my disks so I was unable to get any drivers working the way they were supposed to. Baby spent a few minutes on it and now everything is up and running exactly where it’s supposed to be. I almost forgot about how fast this thing could process things. I don’t like having to reinstall windows but something told me this was bound to happen considering it’s about a week after my 1-year warranty expired. I truly believe computer companies program something into windows so it crashes about a week after warranties expire. Every computer I’ve ever owned has crashed after warranties expired. I ran one fine for 3 years with no problems, the day the warranty was up – it was gone. Or maybe I’ve just got bad luck surrounding me, I don’t know.

Either way I have a lot of programs to install so I guess I should get my ass in gear.

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Feeling Better

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Being sick for the last few days has really been driving me crazy. I wound up doing a lot of cleaning yesterday because I found myself being extremely bored, even with a fever I had no problem getting the kitchen, dining room and most of the bedroom in order. Today I think I’m going to tackle the Living Room, or at least see how far my body will allow me to go in order to do it.

It’s very warm today, almost warm enough to throw on the air conditioner but knowing that there are still other sick people in the house having it on wouldn’t be the smartest of ideas. I know that while I do have a fever and feel over heated, there’s someone else who’s always cold and can’t curl herself into a ball any more no matter how much she tried.

It rained pretty badly here last night, which is great considering my flowers could really use the moisture. I do have to head out there in a little while and make sure my hanging plants are getting some water as well. Since they’re under the awning it’s kind of hard for them to have gotten the rain last night. I guess I should head outside and get that done now, I could use a cigarette anyway.

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It’s unfortunate

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Going into my vacation this weekend, there was a preexisting feeling of sadness. This past week I found out that my grandfather has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He’s going through testing, procedures and many other things that one couldn’t imagine. It’s hard when things like this happen. I lost my grandmother to breast cancer about 12 years ago (fathers mother), my other grandmother (mothers mother) has gone through extensive surgeries on her legs, to the point that the doctor nicked a nerve and that’s a long going lawsuit fallen upon a woman who can barely walk. My mother has been through a triple bypass surgery, my father has come home with so many staples in his head from work-related accidents that it’s just unreal – even this past weekend he’d torn some shin muscle making it hard for him to walk around the casino. It’s just a whole series of events that I can’t seem to piece together.

I’ve been very sick for the last couple of days and part of me wonders if stress played a factor in this. I come home after losing money to find that Bella is hurt, I was already exhausted and depressed because of it so now it’s just a series of crap all piling up on top of each other. Tonight I hobbled myself into Wal-mart so I could buy some replacement shades for the ones Bella has damaged over the last couple of weeks. She likes sitting in the window and has proven (three times over) that she’ll do anything to get up there. I probably should take a picture of the damage she did to the rug while we were gone as well.

However, I realized today that wasn’t entirely her fault. A few weeks ago Baby seemed to be on a mission to find something and decided to cut a section of the rug to look underneath (I don’t know why, I also refused to ask). That strip happened to be right outside the bedroom door which made it easy for her to pull the rug back. Because of the she was able to easily destroy it. So right now the blame is basically on the two of them. Either way she’s no longer limping and he still won’t take any blame what-so-ever for the fact that I’m extremely ill.

I’m working on linking Thunderbird from my external hard drive, this way I can run the same email off both the desktop and the laptop. I’m sick of sitting in the office listening to Halo3 Beta gunshots and him yammering into the microphone with people he doesn’t even know…heh. I never understood the gaming world, oh well.

Off I go.

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Switch-a-roo!

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

I need to get myself over to Wal-mart before we go on vacation. The blinds in the bedroom are broken and the last thing I need is for someone to be able to scope out the place while we’re gone. Right now there’s the typical white plastic blinds in there but I’m really interested in getting something different. The problem is that we’re going to be changing the rooms around so now I don’t really know if I’m going to be searching for blinds for the new bedroom or for the one we’re in now. It’s pretty annoying.

We both decided that since the office is very cramped that it would be a better idea to change it over to the bedroom. There is an upside to this, however. The bedroom is MUCH larger than the office and since all of his clothes and things are already in there, he can keep his crap in there and I can get some shelves up for the closet in here. I won’t need a dresser because I can always get some fabric lined baskets and keep my unmentionables in there. It’s a fairly decent sized closet, not as large as Baby’s but my clothes easily pile up nicely on shelves. He’s anal retentive about having everything hung up. Most of my daily clothes can be folded considering they’re primarily t-shirts in every shape and color imaginable.

There’s just enough room in here to fit a king-sized bed and enough wall space so we can put my TV on the wall and maybe some shelving for my light collections. I have quite a few ‘funky’ kind of lamps that I think would look great if they were actually on a shelf down here.

He won’t let me paint the new bed room, even though I’d spend more time in there than he does. Maybe I can convince him in the future or something – I don’t know. For now, at least, I know I’ll have my own closet so that’ll keep me happy for a while anyway…heh.

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Well…ain’t that something.

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I actually completed what I set out to do. I made a run outside with my shovel and my gloves and now the plants are hanging, every so beautifully, on the porch. It looks a little bare though, there aren’t any flowers around the house yet – it’s mainly bushes that don’t die seasonally. I just hope that something comes up soon because I’m itching to watch something bud!

With all the cooking I did last night, I made it a point to put some sauce on the side because Baby is interested in having chicken parmesan tonight. He got upset when I said I’d do something else, such a sucker for chicken – he really is…LOL. So I guess I’ll get started on that now, this way I can continue with the rest of my day while those are in the oven.

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Late, AGAIN!

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Yet again, I woke up later than anticipated. It’s not as bad as yesterday though. I fell asleep around 5:30 and then I woke up about 1:30. I looked at the ceiling for a while before I finally decided to get out of bed. I haven’t done a lot today, minus email checks, but I’m sure that’ll change over the course of the next couple of hours. I have quite a bit of work to do today and I’m going to have to pull out a notebook in order to keep track of everything.

It’s a beautiful day here in Delmarva. It’s very, very windy but it’s also about 70?Ǭ? so that doesn’t matter too much to me. There isn’t a cloud in the sky so the sun is beating down something fierce. I figure before I start any work, I’ll get my ass in gear with moving the plants around to their new baskets. It rained enough last night to the point that hanging them up is the next step to take. I can’t wait, I just hope I can get some more up there because there are five hooks to fill. I’m a little worried that my plants aren’t going to grow, I’m probably going to make a run this week for some Miracle Grow to spray on the law, there are a few dead patches there anyway, so while I’m feeding the flowers I can feed the grass as well.

Anyone in the Delmarva area throwing out some sod? I could use a strip or two of it…heh.

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Slept In

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

I’m kicking myself right now because I slept way longer than originally anticipated. I know I didn’t get to sleep until after 4am but I figured waking up around noon would be a solid 8 hours. You can imagine my surprise when I woke up to see the clock stopped at 2:40PM. I kicked myself out of bed and I’ve been getting a lot done ever since.

I’m going to head outside soon to get the flowers watered, I’m also going to probably be making a trip over to Super Fresh to pick up some ground beef for the dogs ($1.99LB – for 90% lean that isn’t bad). Then I’m getting some hanging plants to put up on the porch to help complete the overall look that I’m shooting for on the front of the house. I also have some work to do but I’m side-tracked because my list has disappeared and I have no idea what’s even pending to be done. I’m going to have to write everything down and weed things out from there I guess.

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Exhaustion kicked in.

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

I told myself, countless times, that I was going to fall asleep by midnight – 2am at the absolute latest. It’s now a little after 3am and the exhaustion has just finally kicked in. I do believe it had a lot to do with the walk Baby and I just took though. We wound up going back and forth because Bella loves to explore and kept going back and forth like a drunk who can’t walk a straight line. She’s cute about it though. In a few days she’s going to the groomer and there will be no more fluffy-puppy, at least for a few months or so. It has to be done, however, summer is coming up and if she’s going to be outside as much as she usually is in the summer, she’s going to have to lose some hair or sweat to death – I wouldn’t want this to happen.

Tomorrow is a big cleaning day, I did a lot in the kitchen this afternoon but that fridge is screaming for me. The dining room table could use some cleaning as well. The damn thing is a glass-top table so even if no one sits there, one finger print just seems to keep re-smearing itself. I want to pick up some new place mats too, they’re only about $1.50 at the supermarket in their seasonal section – there were some pretty colors floating around as well. Maybe that’ll be a future purchase for me, who knows. All money from this point on is casino based anyway…heh.

Welp, guess it’s time for my head to hit the pillow…it’s already starting to droop down like my neck is about to give out. :ugh:

Night all!

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Busy, Busy, Busy day.

Friday, May 4th, 2007

I have to say that I kicked some major ass today. I completed projects for about three clients and I’m in the process of finishing up a fourth. I like when things go well like this, I really do. I’m set as far as A.C. goes so I’m not too concerned there. I also know that with a constant flow of work coming in, I’ll be a lot better off. I’ve been up since 8am and while I’m tired, I know there’s still a lot of work for me to get done so I need to finish that before my head hits the pillow tonight.

Unfortunately I fell asleep so early last night that I didn’t get the chance to bring Bella for her nightly walk. I’m going to make it up to her, however. She’s been eating very well today and before Baby and I go to bed, we’re probably going to do about two miles and she can crap wherever she pleases.

Tomorrow is going to be another busy day for me. While I didn’t get a chance to clean out the fridge this week, I did clean up the kitchen. Tomorrow I’m stripping everything out of the fridge and getting rid of all the crap in there. There’s food in there that can be thrown out. I know there’s a bottle of soda in there that probably went flat a few weeks ago. There’s nothing MOLDY in there because we’re all good on throwing out bad food. It’s just the spring and the fridge, of all places, really deserves to have a good scrub down every month just because of all the bacteria that can form in there. The same goes for the fridge in the office because I don’t know if Baby has EVER cleaned it out and since I’m keeping my water and yogurt in there – it has to be done. I may even drag it outside and power-wash it with the hose…heh.

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Date Night in O.C.

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Before I went to sleep the other night, baby and I had a talk about how we don’t spend too much time together. Yesterday I woke up to him saying “Take a shower, we’re going out!”. After getting a few things done around the house, we took a drive down to Ocean City, MD. We had dinner, walked on the boardwalk and just enjoyed our time down there.

I’m not sure how many days it lasts, typically, but we walked into the Springfest. Usually when we go down to OC we don’t have to pay to park, but yesterday was different. Paid $5 and then spent about 4 hours walking on the boardwalk. It’s a five mile stretch but we only did about 2 miles because we kept stopping by all of the little shops there. I kicked his ass in skiball, no matter what he wants to claim. I also did fairly well on a few of their slot machines. It sucks that it was only tokens being shot out of it instead of real money. I’m just itching to get myself back to a real slot machine because both he and I were on FIRE picking up all of those tokens, heh.

I actually kind of like it down in Ocean City, I know that a lot of things aren’t open year round but when things are open it’s nice to be around there. Their pizza is far better than anything you can find in Delaware and as far as ice cream is concerned, they’ve got fairly decent soft serve. I’m a carvel lover but Dumsers Dairyland isn’t that bad.

Yes, I broke my diet but I did walk off quite a bit of it. I had my yogurt and low-fat crackers this morning to try to justify it. I took a smaller portion than usual just so I didn’t feel so guilty. I’m also working on my green tea at the moment too. It’s a gorgeous day so I’ll be out taking a long walk in a little bit anyway.
After we got home last night I wound up going right to sleep. I’m not quite used to falling asleep before midnight, hell – I was knocked out by 11:15 in reality. It felt good to wake up at 8am though. Hopefully I can stay on this schedule which will make it easier to get work in order and what not.

Speaking of work, it’s a little after 9am now so I guess I should start my day.

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