December 23, 2009
The stores are getting even more crazy if that is even possible. It took my longer to get from work to the mall area then it normally takes me to get home home at night and I only live five to ten minutes past the mall. Not that I was going to the mall. I cannot say that last time that I was in the mall. But still, it was the area that I was going. I could not believe the number of cars on the road and the number of people who were just driving like complete morons. Since I was going to dinner with Gretchen tonight at 6, I decided that it probably wasn’t even worth it to try and go home only to have to make my way back to Olive Garden. Instead, I stopped at Ulta to pick up more chocolate hand creame and the couple of things that my mom needed. It was crowded in there but I really think it was more people like me hitting the sales for stuff that we like then for people really shopping for anyone else. After that, I stopped at Barnes and Nobles to see if I could get the Star Bucks gift card I need for tomorrow night but since the Star Bucks is in Barnes and Nobles, they only do Barnes and Nobles gift cards. That was fine; I just decided to kill some time and wander around the store to see if there was anything that I might like to read on my week off. Probably not the best idea since I had my laptop with me and as I wasn’t leaving it in the car, I was carrying that bag around with me. After the first five minutes or so, the thing gets really heavy and I really wish I had left it at home. But someone said they were bringing a DVD to work and asked if I could bring it in the play it. And then they forgot the DVD. I did find two books to see if I like them and plan on reading them next week along with playing some computer games.
I didn’t spend to much time in the book store since I really am trying to limit the number of books I buy right now. By that point it was 5:20 and I just decided to go sit at Olive Garden until Gretchen got there. I am glad that I left early since it took me over twenty minutes to GET ACROSS THE DAMNED STREET. It drove me nuts. If I was so inclined, I could have walked across the street faster then it took me to move two feet in the parking lot. I still got there early though and when I texted Gretchen, she said go in and put my name in so we could get a table. They were not busy at all and so I got a table right away. I think the waitress felt sorry for me because I had to wait twenty minutes for Gretchen to get through traffic because she kept coming over and asking if I was okay and just randomly talking to me. It was nice actually. Dinner was not bad and while I do not like chocolate cake, we split chocolate cake and it was good. LOL.
Tomorrow I have to run to Star Bucks and WaWa to get two gifts cards and I do believe that I need to get my eye brows done. At least I do if they aren’t too crazy. With it being Christmas Eve, they might be packed. So I guess that means I am getting up early and hoping to beat the crowds out at the stores. Once we get home, I can play World of Warcraft and try to get my character to level 10 or higher. It’s weird being so low again but I deleted all my old characters. Yes, I know, that was stupid and crazy of me. But we shall see how I do. It can be fun and exciting. I do know we have dinner at Mel’s parents house tomorrow night though I’m not sure what time we need to be there so Steve is going to call our dad tomorrow morning and find out. And with that, I am freezing and sleepy so I think I’m going to go curl up in my bed and sleep for a bit.
December 22, 2009
Why could it not be Wednesday night? I’ve seen this movie five hundred times; including three times in the theater when it was first released but I still want to watch it. Between the cars and the music – I’m in heaven. And it just ended. But I didn’t get to see it from the beginning. God, I am sure a sucker for a fast car. And there is a Porsche. Dear God. I want one. Who or what do I have to do to get one? And I really do not mean that literally. Because that would go against all my personal beliefs and feelings and that is not something that I want to do. Blah. Must go drag myself away from the TV and to dream land.
December 21, 2009
Thank goodness that this is a short week at work and that I’m off next week because I really feel like I have a tension headache going on. Not that I really have anything to be tense over but the back of my neck and behind my eyes is killing me. So…it’s time to take some Aleeve and play some WoW so I can kill some things. I know, my therapist would probably think that’s counter productive but he was the one walking around with a Grinch doll on his shoulder talking to it so I don’t want to hear a thing. Actually, the more I think about it, it might not be a tension headache – I might be hungry. Food would be good. Food is cooking. Food is something I can play with tonight. We’re having dinosaur shaped chicken nugget and french fries…someone will have her dinner walking all over the plate. Yes, I may be twenty-seven but I still play with my food and I’m not afraid to admit it. Afraid to admit just about everything else but if it’s trivial, then I will admit it. Admit that I like someone? Never.
I will say that traffic is horrible right now. It took me the whole thirty minutes to get from work to therapy – something which normally only takes 23 minutes. And it took me over ten minutes to go a distance that normally takes me two minutes even with rush hour traffic. Yeah. It was frickin wonderful out there. Tomorrow should be even better since I actually have to do my Christmas shopping; and Wednesday Gretchen and I are doing dinner…I may be ripping my hair out by Thursday. And dinner is done. Sweet!
December 19, 2009
There is just something about a snow day that wants to make you curl up and not move. Or run outside, lean your head back and act like a four year old trying to catch snow on their tongue. I’ve done both. LOL. This morning I got up to some snow on the ground but not too much and so I drug the brat out of his room and made him come grocery shopping with me. We now have food to eat…and it’s not snow! LoL. Never mind that I found food in the freezer that we could have eaten. Took some pictures as we were driving home – only at red lights since I have put into effect that I cannot talk on the cell phone and drive in good weather – forget snowy weather. On the way home we stopped at WaWa because its not like we had just left the grocery store or anything and got sandwiches for lunch…and I got Diet Orange Soda! I <3 orange soda. Once we got home, I spent twenty minutes fighting with the freezer to get the food away and then got to eat my lunch while watching Mythbusters. Sadly, after lunch, I had to write my essay for Legal Writing. I did finish it though so that is a good thing. I’ve been dreading having to write this and putting it off but its done. Now I no longer have to worry about writing it and instead can worry about having to write the next one. Yeah, so much fun. While I was writing that, I re-downloaded WoW because let’s face it, I’m just a hopeless geek who has her computer in her life and law school. Oh yeah, and facebook because apparently I’m addicted to that. So let’s see, I’m addicted to facebook, the Internet, new gadgets and looking at cute guys but not doing anything about it. Yup…so completely hopeless. Anyways, the rest of the night is going to be spent here on the computer either a) working on thegrrlgeek.net to get 7DayPrompt up, b) aimlessly looking at videos on YouTube and FunnyOrDie, c) playing WoW, d) playing TheSims3, or e) something else completely random. I will be warm though as since its snowing, I refuse to worry about what I’m wearing and am lying around in both a Hatboro-Horsham t-shirt and sweat pants and an over-sized hoodie. And if anyone has a problem with that, they can bite me. Though if they bite me, I’m going to bite them back!
In other news…errr…there was other news that I wanted to share but apparently I have lost my mind. I haven’t lost my Grinch doll though because he’s sitting here next to me on the couch. Madi though…she loves the heater more then she loves me. Little brat. And I’m out of orange soda. NNNNOOOO. Need more orange soda. Hmm…I could sled down to WaWa and get some more but then I’d have to walk back up the hill. No, not going to do that. Guess it’s Diet Iced Tea instead. Blah. Want orange soda. Mind has completely run away. It must be hiding from more essays but I promised it no more writing them tonight. And with that…I think I’m going over to livejournal because the more random and free my mind gets, the less I know what I’m typing.
December 14, 2009
I happen to have a bunch of Region 2 DVDs of various TV shows that I enjoy. This probably doesn’t sound like a problem but I live in the US and our DVD region is 1. Now, I own a free region DVD player; actually, I own three; but only one seems to play every DVD I own, the other two pick and choose which DVDs they want to play. This is fine if the entire family wants to watch a DVD but there are times that they want to watch something different then I do. Like tonight. They are watching Mary Poppins on ABC family and while I enjoy the movie, I’m not really in the mood tonight to watch it. Instead, I’d rather watch Robin Hood from the beginning of series one. I know I’ve seen all the episodes of Series One and Series Two but I’ve seen them out of order; and I’ve only seen the first two episodes of Series Three. This way I can watch them all at once. Anyways, since my computer is a US based computer, the DVD drive is set for Region 1. And yes, I do know that you can change the region settings on the DVD drive but you can only do it a limited number of times until you cannot change it again and knowing my luck, I’d get it stuck. Instead, my goal tonight besides my Tort quiz was to figure out to break the protection. VLC player played the DVD where the sound was fine and every so often the picture was but for the most part, it was all blurry squares. That’s fine because after some reading, I downloaded AnyDVD and guess what – Robin Hood is clearer on the PC then it was on the TV.
December 6, 2009
So, if I ever get over my fear of flying, there are a lot of places that I want to visit one day. Of course, there are places that you don’t have to fly to to visit either. LOL. That means I should get to visit some of them at least.
New York City, NY
Washington, DC
Atlanta, GA
New Orleans, LA
California
Washington
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
Toronto, Canada
Ontario, Canada
Alaska
Moscow, Russia
London, England
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Frances
Germany
Greece
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Cyprus
Italy
Spain
Narvik, Norway
Dubai
Denmark
Finland
Austria
Liechtenstein
Portugal
Switzerland
Argentina
Brazil
Venezuela
Aruba
Bahamas
Martinique
December 5, 2009
It looks like my snow dance finally paid off. Yes, we are getting our first snow of the season. Yay! I was out in it earlier when we stopped at Giant to get some things we needed; not Willow Groves because that parking lot was insane but rather Southamptons; and like the two year old I can be, I was walking through the parking lot with my tongue out trying to eat the snow flakes. That was a lot of fun. I would be out there making a snow man but its more of a mushy snow…actually, it’d probably be the best snow to make it in…but they put up ALL the inflatable Christmas decorations this year and so I have no room in the little front yard that we have. And yes, I know we have a backyard but its dark back there and the monsters might eat me – and I’m not looking to be monster food tonight. Okay, so its a little very dark back there.
December 4, 2009
So, Monk has ended. And I am sad. I loved this show. And now it is over. When I first saw the show, I wasn’t sure about it. Okay, so truthfully, I thought it was stupid. But then, we saw a marathon of it during the second season and it was like this show is great. And so we started watching it. Every Friday night, it became a family event. From Monk came Psych; one of my other favorite shows. That one is not ending; at least not yet; but I cannot believe it is already in its fourth season. And as I write this, a commercial just came on for Psych and it is moving to Wednesday nights at 10. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS?!?!?!? What the hell? Errr…sorry, was writing about Monk. What was I saying again? Now I forget. Grrrr.
Tomorrow I get to meet Nathan for the first time. I hear he is a cuddle bug. I really hope so because I can use some cuddling. Of course, I’ve only seen one picture but he is really cute. So cute I could just kiss him and cuddle him all night. LOL. And he might be three weeks old. Or almost three weeks old. How sad is that? The only cuddling I get is from a three week old…and my cat. I am not saying that is a bad thing because I know that one of these days, I will meet someone but I’m just saying, it’s sad that the only cuddling I get is from an infant and a feline.
Besides that, I have to run to Giant and pick up some snacks for my brother and some things for dinner for the weekend. We might have snow tomorrow so the store is going to be insane. Yeah, just what I am looking forward to. Crazy people pushing and shoving to get one of those mystical last loaves of bread that never seem to run out. Seriously, every time they call for a flurry, people act like we’re going to get snowed in for the next month and have to buy as much bread and milk as possible. The grocery store is crazy enough on the weekends, now it’s going to be really crazy. If I wasn’t tired, I’d go now, but I only got five hours of sleep last night and four hours the night before and so I am grumpy. Don’t know why I was not able to sleep but tonight, I think I am going to be able to sleep. This is good news. A well rested Jenn makes a happy Jenn. With said sleep, maybe I will be able to begin working on my new project – relearning HTML and other various aspects to creating webpages. I was alright at it years ago and that was by teaching myself and so I must learn again.
With that, I do believe that I am going to go seek out dream land. Who knows what I might dream.
Yay! I may not have anyone else done except for Nathan but I did buy myself presents. How egotistical is that? In my defense – it is Nathan’s first Christmas and Aunt Jenn does have to start his book collection. What kind of Aunt would I be if I didn’t start him on books? I also want to start him with his first computer games and his first video games. But since he’s only a month old, I do think I have some time before I need to worry about that. Though, you can never start someone too young. Look at me. I’ve been on a computer since I was two. And I’m not addicted to it or anything. *pets computer lovingly* Anyways, I regress like normal. I am apparently a raccoon. Tomorrow night and Thursday morning, I am going to have to go out and buy gifts. It’s the only way to get this done. I should have done it tonight but I had therapy and just wanted to come home to my computer. To play WoW. Which I’m not doing because I’ve been texting Gretchen (and you so cannot text and play WoW at the same time) and reading Ironman fanfic. Change of plans for Wednesday night. Instead of going to Panera Bread like we had planned, we are going to Olive Garden where the pig out Christmas Feast will occur along with plenty of girl talk, exchanging of gifts and crying over desert. So if you’re in the Willow Grove area on Wednesday around six…you might want to avoid Olive Garden. 
