August 5, 2010
And this is why I cannot sleep. I looked up Chris O’Dowd from The IT Crowd because I have developed a serious fandom crush on the man and found some other things that he is in. Then I set out to get them so that I can sit down and watch them. And now, I have started watching them. Who needs sleep when you have a 6’3″ geeky Irish man talking about computers, time traveling, and other science fiction shit? I mean seriously. And people wonder why I don’t get along with other people. I can be such a geek. I’ve started watching Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel and will have The Boat That Rocked (or Pirate Radio here in the US) later on to watch. So far F.A.Q. has been funny though I will say Chris with an American accent is totally different then Chris with an Irish accent. All I want to do right now is tackle the man and run my fingers through his hair – and pick his brain. He’s also probably got one of the best job wardrobes. In IT he wears nothing but jeans, sneakers, and geekdom shirts; so far in this he’s in sneakers, track pants and a geekdom shirt with a trench coat over it. What am I saying – I pretty much live in jeans, sneakers and t-shirts though I tend to avoid the geekdom shirts at work.
Alright, instead of sleeping, I’m going to go burn some DVDs and watch my movie. Who needs sleep when you have geek movies?
July 22, 2010
This weather is beginning to get really annoying. I am not a huge fan of the heat and this is just uncomfortable. Now they’re saying that Saturday is going to be 99 degrees – I am not leaving the house and the air conditioning. That way I don’t have to suffer. My plan is to see if mom will do the Wal-Mart run for the week tomorrow instead of Saturday like we’ve been doing. It might even be less crowded on a Friday night then a Saturday and a bit cooler. Well, either way it should be a bit cooler since the sun won’t be pounding down on the building. The goal is to get enough food and drink for the week so I don’t have to buy any food during my vacation. I am somewhat glad that my knitting group I’m planning on joining was canceled for Saturday.
Two weeks now and my back is not better. It starts to get better and then starts to hurt again. Today they were doing free massages at work for the health and wellness fair and it actually helped for an hour after the massage. Yes, I could actually walk straight, didn’t have anything but slight discomfort, and didn’t need my pain medicine. Now – I’m ready to cry again. Seriously. Last night I wound up going to bed before 9 because my back was cramping in the area that’s been hurting for the last week and I could not get comfortable. Yes, that means that I missed Psych last night which sucks but it’ll be onDemand soon so I can watch it over the weekend. Tonight I’m not too sure but I may wind up going to bed sooner rather then later tonight too.
Next week, my plan is to spend my week off relaxing. We aren’t going away and I really don’t want to do much. The plan was to get away from work. And I’m getting it. If I didn’t enjoying texting my friends so much, I’d probably turn off my phone but I like texting and so I think I’ll keep it on. 
Wednesday I am planning on visiting the State Archives. They’re only open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday’s plus Saturdays for Microfilm research. My notebook should be back by then so I can get the information I need from my family tree to know what I want to look for. As long as it’s back this this weekend, I can put together what I want to find since I don’t want to take my computer there. Let’s see, I also have to go through my books and decide what I want to keep and what I don’t want to keep plus try and get the rest of my stuff unpacked. Other then that – it’s time to relax and forget about work.
I might get my laptop back tomorrow. HP shipped it yesterday and while it actually hasn’t left the state of California, my fingers are crossed. I’d really like to work on a webpage or two, play some WOW, and work on my family tree. I can work on a webpage on this computer and work on an outdated version of my family tree and I can play WOW on my desktop if I can get it updated but I want my laptop back. Everything runs so much better on that one then on the other two computers. Plus I really miss my laptop.
And I think I want to get some Lego’s to play with. They have a lot of interesting sets and I do enjoy building them. I know I haven’t done them in years but they were always so much fun. Look what I’ve found at lego.com
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=21006&cn=627&d=70 – the White House
http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=21000 – the Sears Tower
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=21003&cn=627 – the Seattle Space Needle
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=10193&cn=473&d=70 – the Medieval Market Village
http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7946 – King’s Castle
July 21, 2010
There was a creepy guy in the lobby at my therapists office today. When I got there, he was sitting in a chair by the one window. I went into the office, paid my co-pay then went back out and sat on the couch to read while I waited. As I’m sitting there, I noticed that the guy got up, walked across the room and stood next to my left side. He waited a minute then he walked to the other side of the couch and sat down. He stared at me until his therapist came for him. Had therapy and didn’t think anything of it until I was leaving and the guy was just kind of standing in the lobby. I left and the guy decided to leave then too and followed me out. As he was getting in his car, he turned to me and said “Boy, there’s a lot of traffic tonight, I guess we’re going to have to sit here.” Now yes, my therapist is on York Road and yes, there is a lot of traffic but the door to the office, the lobby and the parking lot are in the back and you cannot see the street from there. It was just really weird. I waited until he left before even going to my car.
July 17, 2010
Happy Saturday. Last night while unpacking, I found my Industry Giant II game and installed it on my old laptop. Today I played around with it and had fun. It’s been awhile since I’ve played it and had to get re-iterated with how the game works but I figured it out. The goal was to rest my sciatic but I wound up doing three loads of wash, made two gallons of iced tea, ice for my mom, cleaned the powder room toilet, got the mail, and started my final project for Software Applications. Now I’m enjoying the time spent with my laptop so I can work on figuring out the book club thing and watching My Family from the beginning again. I love this show and must find more British comedy like this. Plus I’ve got to finish my project for computer class by tomorrow morning.
LOL – the first episode of My Family is great. Ben is a dentist and his wife takes their daughter to another dentist because Ben is always too busy for them. Right now, Ben is lying on the couch talking to a rabbit while drinking and eating the rabbit’s carrot. The son Nick is talking to a girl on the Internet and they asked if it was like the person last time who said they were a 19 year old female who turned out to be a 48 year old bath fitter. I seriously recommend this show to anyone who needs a good laugh. Well, at least I laugh every time I watch it.
Alright, I need to work on my project and I should also work on finding some more pen pals. I have pen pals yes but I really want to make a new friend in Russia and in Israel. But at this point, I’m not sure exactly where I want to look since many of the old pen pal sites are gone and a lot of the new ones are really dating sites.
I’m trying to decide whether I want to ask for the Kindle or of the Nook for my birthday. I’m leaning towards the Nook; I like it so much better; but the Kindle does get British newspapers. Of course, that is the only reason that I was looking at the Kindle – for everything else, I like the Nook.
July 10, 2010
My goal today was to get up early and get done the icky chores that I hate; clean the bathroom, empty the litter boxes, fold clean clothes; well, if 11 is early, then I managed to get up early. LOL. Yeah, I overslept by about three hours. I did manage to clean the bathroom before getting my shower but I decided that since I cleaned the bathroom, my brother could do the litter boxes. Such a sweet sister, I know. After that, mom and I were going to take my laptop to Best Buy since it needs to go in for a boo boo but I got distracted. By a sale at the Tommy Hilfiger outlet. Laptop is still here at home while I now have a new sweat shirt, t-shirt, hat, wallet, purse, and scarf. Yeah, so got distracted. Sometimes I’m such a girl and the words sale brings it out. I did check the sale out at the Calvin Kline outlet too but I didn’t see anything that I liked so I skipped that. I managed to stay out of Brooks Brothers, Lane Bryant and Polo Ralph Lauren’s outlets since they were having sales but we did go into the Bath and Body Works outlet. Only spent $10 in there – go Jenn! After that it was off to Giant for some food and now I am here at home. Where the joys of a science paper and two computer projects await me to get finished today.
Steve brought my old laptop up to the new house and I brought my desktop up with me so I’m not going to be completely computerless, just minus my precious computer that I adore. I decided I’m going to send it back to HP since Best Buy only let me take my iPod back once before they said that the warranty was done. Or maybe I will take it to Best Buy – I’m not actually sure yet. I’m a bit…undecided.
Alright – off to the land of homework which means I’ll be distracted and floating around online.
July 3, 2010
So last week I managed to lock myself out front on the porch and had to ring the doorbell to get let back in. Today when I took the recycling to the trash and also the trash down, I remembered to not only take my keys but also to unlock the bottom lock. Well, tonight I was even stupider. I went out in the garage to look for my knitting looms – and managed to lock myself in the garage…in the dark. Yeah. I had to knock on the door until my mom came to let me in the house. Umm…duh? I think the Sun-In is starting to turn my brain blond. Must stop using it.
Tonight I got to play WOW with my dad. YAY! I enjoyed that. Usually no one plays with me. It was nice questing with someone. I am really happy that he played with me. He had to take a break so that’s why I was out in the garage. Now I’m going to go back into WOW and also watch the NASCAR race – go Tony! Yes, I’m back to loving Tony. He’s just so yummy.
I managed to keep some chicken down today. Thank goodness. Because I was seriously getting hungry. Not having eaten much since Wednesday was getting old. And this morning, every time I tried to make toast in the new toaster I managed to burn it. It was actually comical. The first two slices came out black. The next two came out dark brown. Eight slices later, I actually have toast that I could eat. It’s going to take me a little getting used to the toaster.
David asked me if I wanted to go to a Phillie’s game on Friday night. I haven’t been to a Phillie’s game since he took me back in 2001. I said yes; I can drive out to Harrisburg for the weekend after the game. He’s going to have to let me know how much the tickets are but this should be fun. We haven’t spent time together in years and I do miss my best friend. I figure I’ll see if he still like hockey and if he does, I’ll have him come up and take him to a Bear’s game.
July 2, 2010
Well, I just finished filling out my postcards for postcrossing.com. Now all I need to do is put stamps on them and then I can walk them out to the mailbox before I go to bed. Tonight is an early night compared to my normal Friday nights but I’m just getting over the bout of food poisoning that I came down with on Wednesday night and my body just…sucks. Yeah. I think that’s the best way to explain how I feel. It aches everywhere and eating is still somewhat of a challenge. Wednesday night I didn’t sleep at all; just napped for an hour at a time then woke up vomiting until about six. Then I had to wake up at seven to call work and tell them I wasn’t coming in. I managed to fall asleep until nine when I decided to go downstairs and lie on the couch and watch TV while sipping on my Gatorade. Yeah, that worked well. I’d watch for about ten minutes then fall asleep for twenty minutes then wake up for another ten minutes of TV before falling back asleep. That went on until about eleven when I finally fell asleep till about two. That was a nice nap in regards to sleep but it was an odd angle and so I woke up with a kink in my neck. Still have said kink and could really go with a neck massage right now but that isn’t going to happen. Anyways, I napped off and on for the rest of the afternoon/evening. All I did was watch DVDs of ‘Saved by the Bell’ since I really didn’t feel like contending with whatever TV had to offer. I finally went to bed about nine and slept the entire night through. Got up this morning and went to work though I really don’t think I was human until about eleven and then only barely. I probably should have just called out sick and stayed home but that would have made sense. Especially since I haven’t really eaten since Wednesday night and with my sugar problem, that’s not good. I did have four total pieces of dry toast yesterday and about twelve saltines along with two bottles of Gatorade. Today I managed two pieces of bread, ten saltines and a small container of brown rice. Yeah. The only thing food poisoning has going for it is it’s a great way to lose weight though I seriously wouldn’t recommend it. If the dry heaving isn’t enough, it’s not really a healthy way of losing weight. Alright, time to go put clean clothes away and the books that I just got. Yay for spy novels.
June 26, 2010
Okay, I’m actually remembering to write in this. That makes it two days in a row that I’m remembering to write. I wonder if I can go three. We shall see tomorrow.
This morning mom and I were going to go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast but I decided that I just wanted to drive further down 81 and see where it took us. I’m a smart Jenn. We went to Camp Hill where I found a bunch of stores. We found another Lowe’s and Home Depot but even better I found the damned Chick Fila I was looking for and the Ulta up here as well as a brand new Target. And further down the road we found a huge Wal-Mart which has an even better selection of things (other then writing paper and pens) then the Super Wal-Mart by the house. We walked around there some and picked up what we needed instead of stopping at the Wal-Mart by the house. I do still need to run to Target because they didn’t have my recycled envelopes or my recycled paper. But that’s right around the corner from the house and I know I’m going to need to go find something for dinner tonight anyways unless I have brown rice – which I might. Anyways this Wal-Mart is really nice and we figured we could make it a weekly or bi-weekly trip to pick up what we needed with our coupons. Yeah, so we wound up trying Bob Evens for breakfast. It wasn’t bad but I do have to remember that their Raspberry tea has a lot of sugar in it. Lots of sugar means Jenn gets sick. Otherwise breakfast was really good.
Now I have a webpage to work on. Okay, I have two webpages to work on since I want to get a template working on my genealogy page and I have to actually design and code a layout for my personal webpage. I just do not know what I want to do as a layout. Stupid brain, it won’t be creative today. I’m thinking brain transplant. Anyone up for doing one? Alright, forget the brain transplant. I’ll just go fight with the code and see if I can get it to work.
I should also work on the headbands and see if I can get it to work. My friends over on livejournal want to see pictures if I can get them to work. I’m going with I will get them to work. After all, enough time and persistence is going to result in some type of fabric covered headband that can be used to hold my hair out of my face. And it not, then I’ll have fun jumping on the stupid things until they break into a million little pieces. I do think I’ll be somewhat smart and look up on the Internet exactly how to do this first. Or…I try it, write directions and see if Associated Content will pay me for writing them. Ohhh – go me!
June 25, 2010
You know, I keep saying that I’m going to come and write on this blog; especially since I’ve said that I need to write more; and then, I forget. I’ve been thinking of maybe stapling a sticky note to my hand to remind myself but that would hurt and would also produce some blood. Then I thought about writing it on the back of my hand but with the pens that I use, I’d probably wind up engraving it on the back of my hand and there’d be bloodage there too. What I’m thinking of doing is signing up for NaBloPoMo and then putting a reminder in my phone so that I actually have to come on here and write. That actually might be for the best.
Of course, remembering has gotten difficult. Since I went off the Welbutrian two months ago my ADD has become ten times worse (yeah trying to concentrate on any one thing has become impossible) but my OCD has gotten better and I’m a lot less timid then I was. So yeah, things are better off of it then on it. This does mean that I’ve got like ninety different projects started but nothing finished. There are three random web sites, a knitted scarf (that’ll probably take me nine years to finish), a knitted washcloth (which if I can force myself to focus on should take an afternoon), two Civilization IV games, a new WOW character, this journal, a short story, my homework, and unpacking books. Now I’ve decided that instead of trying to find cool headbands I’m going to try making my own. This should be interesting as I get these crazy ideas to try and do something on my own yet they always wind up falling apart. The woman at Joanne’s was really nice tonight though and helped me find cheap, bright pink, plastic headbands in the $1 bin that I can now cover in the fun fabrics that I found. Note to self – make sure the glue dries before you put them in your hair. Ohhh…and I have a ton of pen pal letters to do too (yes Katie, Dem, Steffi, and Erini that means yours too).
I want to sit down and write out the list of places that I really, really want to visit. Because even if I have to go by myself, I’m going. This past week I was seriously thinking of finding a boat and stowing away to England. It was just one of those weeks. Actually, it’s been two months. I’m giving it till the end of summer before I do what I’m thinking but that’s it if it doesn’t get any better.
Alright, I think it’s time to go be more of a geek, put on my glasses and work on the code for one of my websites.
