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 28, 2010
Getting chewed on by a seven month old…well, it started out where I couldn’t stop laughing (yes, apparently I’m ticklish even on my fingers) and then when he started chomping down on my finger, it hurt. I didn’t expect it to hurt more then when my cat chews on my hand but apparently Madi doesn’t bite as hard as Nathan does. It was okay, he is teething and he kept throwing his toys on the floor so my finger was probably the cleanest thing around for him to chew on. Aside from chewing on my finger, he is still trying to undress me and he loved either yanking on my hair (and now he’s chewing on that too) or sticking his fingers on my lower lip and pulling it and attempting to chew on that. Actually, I apparently taste good because he was trying to chew on anything he could. You know, it’s kind of sad that a seven month old is the…you know what, I think I’ll keep that thought to myself. Tired Jenn almost equals writing whatever comes to mind Jenn. Wow, you want to know something; anything no matter how personal; all you need to do is ask me when I’m tired. Dinner was good though. I had fun with Gretchen and with Nathan. Glad that I decided to go out. See, Jenn can be social.
Last night I didn’t get much sleep. I think it was because I had way to much caffeine late in the day. All I know if by the time I fell asleep, I got maybe four hours of sleep. I thought I was going to fall asleep waiting for Gretchen at Corner Bakery Cafe but I didn’t. Got my second wind playing with the cuddle bug and so I came home to play some WOW. I haven’t done much tonight; just collecting herbs and trying to level my skinning score; and that’s really all I’m going to do. Tomorrow night when I get home from work (no going out for Jenn unless she stops at Target to pick up some more cool recycled notebooks) I’m going to do my message board posts for school, finish the really difficult (not) Excel assignment, and then play WOW for the night. I figure it’s probably a better idea to play when I’m not half falling asleep. I have decided though that I need to make some friends on WOW. It gets kind of lonely playing by yourself. And it is an MMORPG so you would think I would have friends. With having so many low characters, I could always just switch servers and make a new character (I’m on Rexxar btw) or I could just play on Dark Iron and bug my dad. But I don’t like PVP plus (I always get killed) plus I’m a member of his guild and it’s always felt a little weird playing with people I know from when he worked with them. That’s just me though. And last time I played with him, he asked me if I needed help and when I said no I was having fun just killing things, he was like oookkkaaayyy. Yeah, not good.
Alright, I think this is where I get off and go to sleep. I’m tired tonight and playing WOW isn’t going to wake me up. Apparently neither is trying to program a template for myfamiliesgenealogy.net either. Damn.
June 27, 2010
1) How many songs are on your iPod? 7,263
2) How many times has the top song on your iPod been played and what is it? 84 times and it’s I Know, You Know (also known as the theme song to Psych) followed by Defying Gravity from Wicked which has been played 60 times.
3) What was the first song added to your iPod? I don’t know; this is my second iPod and a ton of them were uploaded at the same time. But let’s go with Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo) by Ludwig van Beethoven since that’s the first that comes up in the list.
4) What was the last song added to your iPod? Wavin’ Flag by K’naan and featuring Will.I.Am & David Guetta
5) what are the last twenty songs played on your iPod and who sang them? According to iTunes and my iPod, that last twenty songs played on my iPod were:
- Falling In Love by McFly
- Awaken by BulletProof Messenger
- Gotta Get Out by Endeverafter
- Remember by Dommin
- Every Time You Turn Around by Daughtry
- If It’s Love by Train
- Falls Apart by Absence of Concern
- We All Fall Down by Cavo
- Up All Night by Hinder
- World At War by Course of Nature
- Time In Slipping Away by Course of Nature
- Burnin by Midnight to Twelve
- I’m Not an Angel by Halestorm
- Lose my Life by Papercut Massacre
- St Augustine by Band of Horses
- Apologize by Pixie Lott (also known as OneRepublics song)
- Gravity by Pixie Lott
- On Fire by Eminem
- Parachute by Train
- You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up) by Josh Groban
June 26, 2010
So, in attempting to be a nice daughter today and taking out not only the trash for my mother but also watering her plants, I managed to lock myself out of the house. Apparently you have to a) remember to take your house keys with you if you go out the front door or b) make sure that you unlock the bottom lock. Otherwise you have to ring the doorbell and deal with your mother laughing at you for a good ten minutes. That’s what I get for trying to be nice. Add onto that the fact that I managed to glue myself to the fabric of the headband I was trying to make and my mom got some really good laughs tonight. I’m glad that I could be comic relief. Now I’m waiting for my wash to finish so I can fold it. And while I’m doing that, I’m playing WoW.
What else did I do today besides lock myself out of the house? Well, we did venture to Wal-Mart (as I mentioned earlier) where I found two shirts that I had to buy. One is gray with Snoppy on it that reading a book that says “I ♥ Nerds” and then a blue Tinker Bell shirt that gives the definition of Flirt. I also spent some time working on re-learning HTML and learning XHTML to work on my website. Nothing fancy and I haven’t gotten tons done on it but I did start. No, I did not tackle the layout for my family genealogy site – I’m scared of that. I also mailed three pen pal things, wrote a couple e-mails, started another letter to Katie, and almost finished a whole headband. Oh and I ordered my mom her books from bn.com because MyPoints was giving back 12 points for every dollar spent at bn this weekend. And I had to show her how to use the laptop fan for her laptop that came yesterday. I wanted to clean the bathroom because Mr. Clean himself (my brother) is a bigger slob then I am and our bathroom is a mess but I didn’t get that far. I’m thinking of making him do it since it is his mess but he’s got at least six inches on me and can be pretty brutal. Doesn’t matter if I’m the oldest, he’s the tallest.
The headbands are not as easy as I thought they would be. It’s really hard to get the glue to stick with the fabric. And thank God my mom is understanding because I got glue all over her placemats. At least it wasn’t her new dining room table. I think I would have died if I’d done that. She just said we’ll get new placemats the next time we’re out if we can’t get the glue out. My plan to make all eight this weekend is not going to happen; I don’t want to start them and not finish them. I’m almost done one and have to figure out the second one. The others I am going to look for double sided tape and see if that works a bit better then the fabric glue. Or do they sell little glue strips? Because they would work too.
Alright, guess I’m going back to WOW. It’s a bit quiet here tonight and maybe I’ll find someone to talk to on there.
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
How do you feel about the name given to you at birth?
Hmm…well, Jennifer is a bit of a common name but there are a lot worse names that I could have been given. At least in my opinion.
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.
June 11, 2010
Tell us about your first kiss.
It was in the first grade. His name was David and he fell off the bridge of the playground when I kissed him. Then he got back up and kissed me back. Actually, it was kind of funny.
June 10, 2010
If you could go back in time and meet your 16-year-old self, what three things would you tell yourself?
Let’s see, if I could go back in time and tell my 16-year-old self three things, I think they’d be:
- Yes your parents have decided to get divorced just two months after your 16th birthday but you know what, in the long run it’s going to be so much better for you. It might not seem it now and it might make you decide that retreating from everyone and everything is the best course of action (which btw – DON’T) but it is going to be so much better.
- The people that you think are your friends now will ditch you as soon as you graduate high school. It’s going to hurt for a few years but then you’re going to realize that if they can ditch you that easily, they really weren’t friends to begin with.
- You’re not going to get to go to the college you want to. Don’t be an idiot and decide that you’re going to throw a temper tantrum because you can’t. Suck it up and deal with it like a big girl.
