Sweet Catastrophe

I’m being productive and getting things done…but not the most important things. *shrug Gotta start somewhere! At work on Saturday we had some down time so I went to look up my insurance stuff and on a whim, called and made an eye appointment. It’s time anyway and I talked to the woman about possibly getting new glasses and what my insurance would cover. Since my appointments are only $15 now, I decided to go ahead and have an exam for glasses this time as well and just see what I could afford right now or see if it was something I could manage in 30 days (that’s how long the glasses prescription is good for).

Anyway, quick appointment and then we started looking at frames. My lenses have to be super thick so they thin them up, turns out that my insurance doesn’t cover that, but they cover everything else so I got some thicker plastic frames and paid out of pocket to have the edges polished so hopefully they’ll blend in, we’ll see. If not, I’ll really just use them as backups and not worry about them looking cute….though I really hope they look okay!

I tried to find a picture online, but the don’t have a picture of my style and it’s hard to describe so I’ll just take a pic when I get them next week.

But hey! $400 glasses only cost me $25 ;) Can’t beat that, right?

I’ve only had my Jeep for two weeks now and it’s already been a huge load off my shoulders. I’m already a little anxious when it comes to driving– mainly I worry about getting lost (obviously not here in town) or breaking down– this is amplified in a vehicle that I can’t be sure of. Don’t get me wrong, I was very thankful to have something to get me to and from work, but I had too many close calls with it, it had too many little quirks, and it didn’t have any kind of noise reduction so I heard all the other messed up vehicles on the road and couldn’t tell where those noises would come from.

So it’s just…incredible to have a reliable vehicle again. It may sound a little ridiculous, but I honestly feel like I’ve gotten my freedom back. I don’t have to say no to leaving town just because I don’t know if my car can get me there. I don’t hesitate to crank up just for a quick trip to the store like I did before.

I saw a wreck with a semi a few days ago and I won’t lie, I cried. The driver of the normal car was fine, I looked like he wasn’t paying attention to the fact that the semi was making a wide right turn and tried to go past it and ended up wedged into the side of the trailer. It wasn’t particularly nasty or anything, it’s just that wrecking with a semi is my #1 fear on the road, followed closely by wrecking with a motorcycle. It’s not that I’m intimidated by the idea of having to deal with a Pleasanton motorcycle accident attorney, it’s more that I don’t know of any motorcycle wrecks where the person in the regular car comes out more hurt than the motorcycle driver and I couldn’t live with myself if I seriously injured someone on a motorcycle– even if it were somehow their fault. One of the guys I work with actually just got thrown off his motorcycle by some idiot who was sending a text and not paying attention (this is becoming an awful pattern….) Poor guy had just come back to work after knee surgery too! He’s doing okay, just going to take a little longer to heal now, but he’s back to work, so that’s good.

*cringe* Just really messes me up to think about.

I can’t even lie– now that I’m in a Jeep, I’m afraid of something simple, like accidentally running up on a sidewalk or something, is going to flip me. *shakes head* I’ll get over that, I think, but for now, it’s still less paranoia than I had before!

Well damn… how did I go from thinking about losing a bit of stress to listing off everything else that stresses me?! I’m just gonna go watch Chuck now and turn off my brain!

Fezzik! I believe this shall be my jeep’s name. I’m really not sure where the idea came from, but on my drive back from Douglas tonight I was thinking about how much bigger the jeep is than any other vehicle I’ve driven, I mean, I’m pretty positive I couldn’t haul commercial furniture in the corolla, and Andre the Giant popped into my head! Fezzik was always my favorite character from The Princess Bride and I dunno, it just feels right =)

I think I’m going to make it official and make a custom window decal that says, “Anybody want a peanut?”

EDIT: OMFG! I neeeeeed this!!! It’s a Fezzik talking plush!!! Need. Necessity.

I just love it when people really let loose and have fun with their wedding!

Duh, right? But really, aside from being broke, I’m starting to get seriously annoyed that I can’t find my favorite products anymore. At first, I thought order fulfillment was maybe just slowing down or something, but when labels started disappearing from shelves, I realized some of my favorite varieties just aren’t being made anymore, and even if they are, they’re not being offered widely.

I can’t find my favorite Hamburger Helper, my favorite popcorn, favorite frozen meals and pizzas aren’t there anymore…

I can’t even buy the same bras or jeans I normally would. Though, of course, that’s not really new since it’s almost impossible to find the same thing twice when it comes to women’s clothing.

As a picky eater, it’s starting to really work on my nerves.

Any time I see some sort of free iTunes sampler available, I grab it. You never know when you’re gonna find your next favorite song or artist. It’s usually a while before I actually listen to any of the songs though, I like to sing along a lot, but tonight, this little gem popped up from one of those samplers and I had to listen.

It’s a little country song by Hayes Carll called She Left Me For Jesus, and it gave me the absolute giggles. If you’re VERY religious and can’t handle jokes about your religion, I apologize, this one isn’t for you, but if you can handle a little good-natured tongue-in-cheek song, then enjoy! I almost didn’t post the video since it comes close to being a little more suggestive, but the very last scene (before they start to show outtakes from filming) kind of made up for it and made me snort so here it is.

Lyrics are behind the cut.

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*whew* My internet is back! Long story short, our internet got suspended for copyright infringement. Basically, someone used our i.p. address to download the movie The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, which I had to Google because I’d never even heard of it, and they were stupid about it. Our net isn’t password protected because we let some of our neighbors use our wireless since all they do is some basic browsing occasionally, but that’s over with now. It could have been one of them, it could have been one of their guests, or it could even have been a completely random person visiting the park across from us, but it certainly wasn’t us. I spoke to someone about it last Monday and they assured me it was really no big deal, but I had to wait for this piece of paper in the mail that I had to sign basically saying, “my bad,” and get it back to them. I was supposed to have that paper last Tuesday– Thursday by the latest, but it didn’t show up until today.

I don’t even know what compelled me to be so patient, but I was! I know there’s NO way I could’ve done it if I didn’t have my Kindle. I knocked 5 full stories off my To Read bookmarks and that’s really all I’ve done.

Now that my net is back, I fixed the Kindle pictures and the pictures of my still nameless Jeep. Go lookie, pretty please.

Nothing really going on right now. They had to cut 100 hours from the front-end (that’s only cashiers) for this week so I don’t work again until Saturday. Normally, I’d be worried since that left me with about 11 hours this week, but we’re getting a bonus on this paycheck that will even it out so that’s fine. Otherwise the bonus would’ve pretty much been eaten by taxes anyway, so this way it just sort of replaces what I would’ve had.

We acquired an old desktop from a friend for free so it was decided that Ryan would clean it up and sell it off. Instead, he’s made a tentative deal to trade it for a tv tuner for my computer.

Getting one from our cable provider just isn’t an option for us. Their fee isn’t something we can afford right now and we also aren’t happy enough with our service to feel like it would work out right.

I’m super excited about getting it though! I probably won’t do much with it right now but in the Fall I’ll be able to record all my favorite tv shows while I’m at work and watch them later! And with them being on my computer, I can also watch tv on my monitors while Ryan is watching our tv in the bedroom. I’m a little greedy thinking about it as well– if we had gotten something from our provider, it would’ve gone in the living room and been a shared unit, but this way it will be MINE. Ryan has no intentions of using it and no one else is commandeering my computer to use it, I can promise you that!!

I’m already attached and we don’t even have it yet, so if this doesn’t work out– if someone changes their mind or if the tuner we’re getting isn’t compatible with my computer, I’m hitting buy.com to see what they have for sale because I know I’ll find what I need there.

So yaaaay! No more missing The Office! Perfect timing, too, since everyone is pushing new shows on me over this summer. I’ve already officially added Chuck to my list and who knows what’s next!

So, so sorry to my feed readers and lj pals. I’ve been using my phone as a modem and didn’t notice that my posts were timing out before they actually published and instead saved to drafts. You probably got an influx of posts all at once—my bad. I haven’t had a lot to do without a solid net connection so I actually caught up on some things I’d been meaning to post. Again, sorry about the post-dump

Well, actually the night wasn’t awful. Ryan and I went out to eat and then saw Harry Potter (though I already saw it Monday night with theatre employees). But around 6 a.m. I was awoken with probably the worst acid reflux I’ve ever dealt with. It came with a serious sour stomach and I think everyone knows by now I just have no tolerance for that. I ended up spending some time in the bathroom after a random hiccup almost had me vomiting in bed—how relaxing would that have been?

When I finally settled back down into bed, I fell asleep on my back. I didn’t expect to fall back asleep or I’d have changed positions, but it was the most comfortable for my stomach. So I ended up having a horrific nightmare that my roommate, William, had died two weeks ago of mysterious causes and somehow everyone had forgotten. His body had been held for investigation and was finally released and when I was contacted about the funeral being today, that’s when we all suddenly ‘remembered’ that he had died. It was one of those dreams that aside from the situation being unlikely, everything else was very realistic. The conversations we were having weren’t out of the ordinary, there was no random shifting of people or locations. It was a shock to the system when I woke up. I hate those kinds of dreams!