Sweet Catastrophe

We had a supremely awesome time out here last night. It was exactly what all Parkview nights should be made of.

It was mostly just a chunk of those of us who live here. We set up the fire pit outside Apt 1 and Scroggs propped his television up in the window. We sat around watching The Simpsons Movie, Unleashed, and tons of episode of The Muppet Show.

It was just cold enough out to really enjoy the fire and Smokey curled up in my lap for a few hours. It was really pretty much perfect.

Robert found the best buy on a projector earlier this year. They generally just use it to play Halo, but Saturday we’re planning to hang a sheet on the side of the building and watch a movie around the fire again.

Someone mentioned s’mores as well. I hope it plays out. Best Saturday night ever.

I would like a cheeseburger from Wendy’s, cheesy tots from Burger King, and a cherry coke from Sonic. Can we take care of that?

I go through phases when I don’t want any kind of fast food. Right now it seems that’s all I want. I need fast food rehab. Ya know, like alcohol rehab, but you’d probably lose weight instead of gaining weight.

What would you do in fast food rehab to distract from your cravings? When you quit smoking or drinking or anything like that, it’s common for people to overeat to compensate…You’d probably leave fast food rehab and land right into drug rehab…then back again! God it’d be a vicious cycle!!

I should probably just eat a damn cheeseburger! If I don’t, I might end up on drugs! Yes! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

I have to say I’m definitely a little down now. For the first time in a long time I’ve taken a considerable cut to my hours at work and now am beyond the ‘barely scraping by’ mark. This month has quite a few extra money-drainers and less money than normal to try to accommodate.

I’ve got my trip to Kristi’s for our concerts. I’m NOT dropping that. We may end up not going to see Matty, but we’ve already got our Andrew tickets and I’m just not missing that. I deserve to go and see Kristi and Andrew and be happy–but of course that’s a ton of gas money and meals while I’m gone so that really sucks.

Then not two weeks later we’ve got the wedding to go to. I need to buy a dress. I really don’t like what I wore to my brother’s wedding so I’d really like something different. I’ve also got to figure out what I want to wear for Halloween (their rehearsal is then) and buy what I need for that. I think I want to do something “Office” related. Not a character, but maybe like a jello mold with a stapler! Something silly like that.

Of course there’s meals, gas, and other expenses for that trip.

There are also Birthdays this month–important ones

I’m not sure what to do. I’m pushing for extra hours at work, but that’s really all I can do. I’m seriously considering selling off some of my DVDs but I really don’t want to do that. I really love my DVD collection, but I could probably get some decent money off some of my anime sets…that I have yet to watch so yeah…I dunno, we’ll see.

It’s times like these that a wine of the month club membership would seriously come in handy. I could use a glass or two to relax….or a whole bottle to drown my sorrows! haha

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So Ken (Ryan’s boss in Jacksonville) called this weekend to tell him he’s closing the shop. Thursday is their last show.I have mixed feelings on the whole situation. I’m disappointed for Ryan because he’s put a lot into the job and it was something he enjoyed doing, but at the same time I’m relieved.It was a job that just wasn’t good for Ryan. It was what he wanted to do, but in that situation, Ken expected a lot more out of him than what he was paying for. Ryan was regularly put in situations where he’d be jumping through hoops you’d really only expect the owner to be jumping through, and he did it without question.He keeps getting himself in these situations, working with people who help him out and form this connection with him to where he feels like he owes them something because they ‘look out’ for him. He’s gotta get away from that and this is a big step in the right direction. He’s still at his computer job where the same type of thing is going on, but at least there’s no traveling and he seems more aware of the reality of it right now. He really does have an obligation to stick around a bit longer, but I’m holding out hope that things will look up.He’s got to look for more steady work now. I’ll be honest, I’m a little more pessimistic in that area. He’s had something close to his dream job and I don’t know how he’ll go back to anything less, and there aren’t really any prospects for gigs like the one he had. He tends to surprise me though, so we’ll see.

Work actually went fairly quickly on Sunday. Generally it drags by since we aren’t very busy until lunch on Sunday. Unfortunately it sped by because we were actually pretty swamped on my end and only one person showed up for work. I came so close to getting out on time (a Sunday rarity) but on my way to my locker a guy stopped me and we actually spent 20 minutes looking for the same box cutter he bought last time. I still don’t know what was supposed to be the big deal there.

I don’t know what it is about Sundays. I only get up maybe an hour earlier than I do the rest of the week, but I can’t keep my eyes open! I had no choice but to take a nap when I made it home. Josh and I played Lego Star Wars for something like three hours and he, Jessica, and I ordered Chinese.

Pretty relaxed, and I still ended up in bed around midnight.

I can’t imagine a Sunday without a nap anymore.

When I left for work, I had one assignment to finish tonight. By the time I left work, I had three. How in the hell did my workload triple in 6 hours?!

We didn’t have ACED on Tuesday, so even though I knew part of our assignment was due on Thursday, I assumed it was due by the end of the class as per usual. After all, it’s lab work and we weren’t in lab on Tuesday… Wrong. It’s due at the start of class. Oops. That one is my bad, I should’ve read more carefully and not assumed.

As for my management class– he made no mention of an assignment. There was nothing listed when I checked on Tuesday. I got a text tonight saying that at 9p.m. last night he posted an assignment to be due by 9 a.m. tomorrow. Ugh. His assignments are always such a pain.

I’m waiting for a message that I’ve gotta go buy the moon before tomorrow morning too!

Oh and could someone please go pick up some groceries for me. I sooo forgot to go tonight!

Jeeze! Have you ever had one of those days when all you could do was sleep?

I hit the textbooks hard last night for a production test today and an in-class exercise today and did I go to class? No. I made it out of bed on time but I just couldn’t get going! By the time I got dressed and everything I already knew I was gonna be late but that would’ve been okay. What did I do? I crawled back into bed.

I slept some more and got back up for lunch. I had lunch on the couch, watching television. Take a guess what I did after lunch….I went back to freakin sleep and slept through my last class! It’s not a terribly huge deal. I’m gonna take a blow to my grade for sure, but not one I can’t pull up easily enough, but it still sucks. I have no wiggle room now.

I’ve been to sleep two more times since then! Each time I slept today was well over an hour! I got probably almost 8 hours last night. I don’t know what’s up! And honestly, I’m sure I could go to sleep now but I’m in the middle of doing some stuff to my computer so I’m occupied.

I think part of it was really just boredom. I’m used to multitasking. I’m hardly ever just sitting and watching something, ya know? Ryan had my computer at the shop today– the motherboard in my computer right now isn’t actually mine, it’s sort of just a loaner until they get in the connectors they need for mine, but this one has already been assigned a home and they needed to check some things out to make sure it’s compatible with everything it’s gonna be connected to.

I might take a sleeping pill tonight just to make sure I don’t just wake up in a few hours. I don’t want today to totally throw me off.

I’m trying out Redbox tonight. You may have seen them around your town; we have a Redbox kiosk in both of our Wal Marts.

It’s a little kiosk where you can rent a dvd for $1 for 24 hours. I think right now it’s sort of a small business franchise, I could be wrong, but they’re fairly new here so I dunno.

I’ve been sort of thinking on it. I signed up for a free one, but the code wasn’t cooperating so I just paid the dollar. I was probably doing something wrong. I’ll figure it out next time.

I rented Mad Money. They didn’t have an incredibly huge selection, but I see now that I can check out what they have online and you can reserve a movie too, so we’ll see.

I don’t like though that you only have until 9pm the next night before you get charged another $1. 9 is a common closing time so if you’re planning to drop it off after work, you’re outta luck. I think midnight to midnight would make more sense. It’s still a nifty idea though! It’s cheaper than OnDemand. Why not pick up a movie for a dollar while you’re grocery shopping?

A mile is a very long way to walk to get somewhere you didn’t want to go in the first place.

It’s longer when you’re sweating at 9 in the frickin’ a.m.

And even longer still when you really, really have to pee.

This isn’t a new lesson, rather, one I seem to re-learn every Tuesday and Thursday. I shouldn’t need fitness equipment with all this walking, but yeah, I’m not exactly melting away.

I want like, a Vespa or something. Really. I’m considering a bike, but I dunno, I’m just not a fan of biking. We’ll see.