This is to prove that I'm not as gadgety as .. well .. I really am.
I tend to spend at least one day a weekend with my sister Becky and my niece. It's apparently becoming a ritual with us, involving food, hanging out, and playing the Wii. It's my fault .. I bought the Wii, they played it and had to have it. Now I have to go over there on the weekends to beat the boards they can't beat themselves.
Anyway, so Saturday the three of us were out from 8AM - 5PM .. we went lily shopping with my mother, ate unsafe McD's breakfast (I'll get to this story in a bit), went to Dick's Sporting Goods, Books a Million looking for chic books, then to Oxmoor visiting Von Maur, Old Navy, Limited, and Gap, then we did all of that and even made it to Best Buy before noon .. OMG!! I have a point to all of that unnecessary crap in a bit too .. ok maybe not today because it's late, but I'll try and clarify that later.
Ok .. so we're at Best Buy originally looking for a Nerf case for my DS Lite, because Melina dropped it one time and I all but openly cried. We of course end up looking at games for the DS and the Wii because I suck and have to buy more. In the process there's a couple in the aisle and we start talking to the guy about the Wii. I'm holding a USB dongle thinking wireless and the Wii at the same time when the guy points out to me that if I have wireless in my house then I don't need that ... I could have already hooked the Wii up before now.
What???
This is my big lesson .. read the dang users manual, or at least skim the pages you fool!!! I had no idea that I could have hooked it up, for some reason I assumed it was a hard line connection only. Whoops!!!
In the same token, he then makes me feel even more stupid by telling me that the DS can be used with WiFi too ... wow I wanted to kick myself.
Ok .. so I suck because after all of that running around we did Saturday before noon I did not even bother to get out of bed until 12:30 Sunday. What a waste of a perfectly good day, eh? Then, before going back to the hospital I was bound and determined to get the Wii hooked up to the net. Then, I was bound and determined to surf the net. Well dangit .. now I have it down to a science :o) .. and I wasted hald the day away in the process. But .. after all of the stress I've had lately, I really needed some decompressing and the weekend helped.
Ok .. now I'm completely off key...
A real quicky about McDonald's....
For a few months now I've been on a mission to get in shape and get ahead of Father Time as he's slowing my tired old self down. I've been killing myself trying to do this and I've been eating sooo good that I hear people ordering Big Macs and I want to gag. Well Saturday the daylily sale started at 8AM so we have time to kill before the other stores open and we went to McDonald's. I compromise and get the healthiest thing I can find at McD's, if that's possible, while Becky gets those Cinnamon Melts.
She talks about them all the time and how she eats them for every meal she can, so she insists I try one. Well, ok then. After that my niece has to have a bite or two as well. So .. a few minutes later, the cinnamon melts are gone and we're talking. I look down at the box that Becky just ate from ...
Discard after 6:37AM 8/1/2007
WTF???
The day we went to McDonald's ... that was 8/4/2007
I about died when I saw that. Then I remembered how I was stupid enough to sample one ...
So Becky takes the box up to the counter and the manager is dumbfounded. Of course we took a photo of the box and receipt as proof in case we died in our houses later that night.
We, of course, are still alive but that's not the point!!
That was the last straw, and one more HUGE reason why I've tossed out fast food. It's apparently mad that I've abandoned it's Greasy-ness after so many years of loyalty that it's now plotting to secretly take my life.
Ok .. that was stupid ... but what do you expect at midnight?
Anyway ... my life has been a chaotic nightmare as it stands. You know I always say it and no one ever believes me as far as how bad it gets.
So work has been killing me; all I am doing is working. Work work work. I use that excuse that I'm getting into everything I can right now in order to advance myself faster down the road... yea that's apparently a metaphor for I'm using work as an excuse to not work on other parts of my life that need tending too, including my yard .. lol. I work late, I come home and work some more. I dream about damn work ... AAAHH!!
Since I'm working so much I have not had time to go to the gym as often, but never fear, I'm crazy enough to go running in this close to triple digit weather. Am I trying to kill myself? Seems that way sometimes, but I'd rather do that than try and find the time to go to the gym and do it in A/C. Ok I take that back .. apparently I'm going for the uber-kill and I'm going to start going to the gym at 5:30AM so I have enough time to come home and get ready before going into work.
Now, to top it off, my baby sister has been in the hospital. She's been sick for about a month now and the doctor finally decided to admit her. We had first thought that she'd be going home Sunday, but they medicine they gave her did nothing for her and so she is still in the hospital. It will be a week Wednesday and we don't really know when she's coming home.
Because of that, I've been going to see her every night and I've been staying up there about 4-6 hours a pop. Yea, I went up there at 4:45 tonight and got home at 11:30.
Of course my Mom yelled at me for going up there and staying so long, saying I have a life and Jen needs to get over it and learn the toughen up but I have to disagree with her. Dammit she's sick, in the hospital for days and days now, away from her hubby, away from her dogs, away from her bed and any sort of entertainment she had. She's sick and miserable and if all I do is sit there with her and help remind her that she's not alone, then I'll go every night and sit every night. I go up there and we talk, we play on her laptop, we both play our Nintendos, we walk around, who knows where the time goes. My middle sister can't do it because she has my niece and she is my baby sister and if that is what will make her feel better and give her some sort of company, then I'm going to do this until she tells me to go away.
Anyway, apparently my mother got on her tonight too, telling her it was selfish that she let me come up there every night and stay so long and so Jen told me I didn't have to do it and that if I had other things to do then I should. After that I explained to her my standpoint .. she's my babysis, I could not imagine being stuck in a hospital like she is, and that if my being there is helping her, then I'm going to keep coming and our mother can just get over it. She then said that she enjoyed me being there and felt selfish in wanting me to be up there like I am. So it's settled then ... I like to keep her company and she wants me to keep coming.
Needless to say I'm going to work, working through lunch every day, sitting with the dogs for a bit, then heading to the hospital, coming home and staying up until about 1 or 2 (:30 last night .. AAWW!), then getting up at 7 and starting over. Imagine when I start going to the gym at 5:30 ... wow that's going to hurt!!
The weekends I am trying to do some 'fun' things during the day to destress from the work week (hopefully next time it won't encourage the spending of so much money) and then I'm sitting with my sister all evening / night. I was up there about 7 hours I think both days this weekend.
Moral of the story is that I've temporarily cast off all of my other busy things for the moment with the exception of my sis and the people who sign my pay checks. Her birthday is this Friday so I hope and pray that Friday we're not bringing cake to a hospital room, but if so, then I'll just hope she comes the day after that.
Ok .. it's 12:15 and I still need to 'decompress' before bed so I must run. I'm sure this horribly long ramble explains the EXACT REASON why I need to decompress every night .. I swear my brain runs at 200 miles an hour and if I don't do something to unwind, like puzzles or something to 'put me to sleep' ... like last night, I will literally lie awake all night unable to sleep. So .. I slept from 2:30 -4:30 and was awake after that ... and I'm apparently still awake now. Yea .. it will eventually catch up to me I know...
Any typos get my premature apologies .. if I check that I'll be on here forever!! I hate typos and I'm the queen of making them and catching them after the fact .. I hate it when I do that!! .. so if you see any .. sorry!!!
I tend to spend at least one day a weekend with my sister Becky and my niece. It's apparently becoming a ritual with us, involving food, hanging out, and playing the Wii. It's my fault .. I bought the Wii, they played it and had to have it. Now I have to go over there on the weekends to beat the boards they can't beat themselves.
Anyway, so Saturday the three of us were out from 8AM - 5PM .. we went lily shopping with my mother, ate unsafe McD's breakfast (I'll get to this story in a bit), went to Dick's Sporting Goods, Books a Million looking for chic books, then to Oxmoor visiting Von Maur, Old Navy, Limited, and Gap, then we did all of that and even made it to Best Buy before noon .. OMG!! I have a point to all of that unnecessary crap in a bit too .. ok maybe not today because it's late, but I'll try and clarify that later.
Ok .. so we're at Best Buy originally looking for a Nerf case for my DS Lite, because Melina dropped it one time and I all but openly cried. We of course end up looking at games for the DS and the Wii because I suck and have to buy more. In the process there's a couple in the aisle and we start talking to the guy about the Wii. I'm holding a USB dongle thinking wireless and the Wii at the same time when the guy points out to me that if I have wireless in my house then I don't need that ... I could have already hooked the Wii up before now.
What???
This is my big lesson .. read the dang users manual, or at least skim the pages you fool!!! I had no idea that I could have hooked it up, for some reason I assumed it was a hard line connection only. Whoops!!!
In the same token, he then makes me feel even more stupid by telling me that the DS can be used with WiFi too ... wow I wanted to kick myself.
Ok .. so I suck because after all of that running around we did Saturday before noon I did not even bother to get out of bed until 12:30 Sunday. What a waste of a perfectly good day, eh? Then, before going back to the hospital I was bound and determined to get the Wii hooked up to the net. Then, I was bound and determined to surf the net. Well dangit .. now I have it down to a science :o) .. and I wasted hald the day away in the process. But .. after all of the stress I've had lately, I really needed some decompressing and the weekend helped.
Ok .. now I'm completely off key...
A real quicky about McDonald's....
For a few months now I've been on a mission to get in shape and get ahead of Father Time as he's slowing my tired old self down. I've been killing myself trying to do this and I've been eating sooo good that I hear people ordering Big Macs and I want to gag. Well Saturday the daylily sale started at 8AM so we have time to kill before the other stores open and we went to McDonald's. I compromise and get the healthiest thing I can find at McD's, if that's possible, while Becky gets those Cinnamon Melts.
She talks about them all the time and how she eats them for every meal she can, so she insists I try one. Well, ok then. After that my niece has to have a bite or two as well. So .. a few minutes later, the cinnamon melts are gone and we're talking. I look down at the box that Becky just ate from ...
Discard after 6:37AM 8/1/2007
WTF???
The day we went to McDonald's ... that was 8/4/2007
I about died when I saw that. Then I remembered how I was stupid enough to sample one ...
So Becky takes the box up to the counter and the manager is dumbfounded. Of course we took a photo of the box and receipt as proof in case we died in our houses later that night.
We, of course, are still alive but that's not the point!!
That was the last straw, and one more HUGE reason why I've tossed out fast food. It's apparently mad that I've abandoned it's Greasy-ness after so many years of loyalty that it's now plotting to secretly take my life.
Ok .. that was stupid ... but what do you expect at midnight?
Anyway ... my life has been a chaotic nightmare as it stands. You know I always say it and no one ever believes me as far as how bad it gets.
So work has been killing me; all I am doing is working. Work work work. I use that excuse that I'm getting into everything I can right now in order to advance myself faster down the road... yea that's apparently a metaphor for I'm using work as an excuse to not work on other parts of my life that need tending too, including my yard .. lol. I work late, I come home and work some more. I dream about damn work ... AAAHH!!
Since I'm working so much I have not had time to go to the gym as often, but never fear, I'm crazy enough to go running in this close to triple digit weather. Am I trying to kill myself? Seems that way sometimes, but I'd rather do that than try and find the time to go to the gym and do it in A/C. Ok I take that back .. apparently I'm going for the uber-kill and I'm going to start going to the gym at 5:30AM so I have enough time to come home and get ready before going into work.
Now, to top it off, my baby sister has been in the hospital. She's been sick for about a month now and the doctor finally decided to admit her. We had first thought that she'd be going home Sunday, but they medicine they gave her did nothing for her and so she is still in the hospital. It will be a week Wednesday and we don't really know when she's coming home.
Because of that, I've been going to see her every night and I've been staying up there about 4-6 hours a pop. Yea, I went up there at 4:45 tonight and got home at 11:30.
Of course my Mom yelled at me for going up there and staying so long, saying I have a life and Jen needs to get over it and learn the toughen up but I have to disagree with her. Dammit she's sick, in the hospital for days and days now, away from her hubby, away from her dogs, away from her bed and any sort of entertainment she had. She's sick and miserable and if all I do is sit there with her and help remind her that she's not alone, then I'll go every night and sit every night. I go up there and we talk, we play on her laptop, we both play our Nintendos, we walk around, who knows where the time goes. My middle sister can't do it because she has my niece and she is my baby sister and if that is what will make her feel better and give her some sort of company, then I'm going to do this until she tells me to go away.
Anyway, apparently my mother got on her tonight too, telling her it was selfish that she let me come up there every night and stay so long and so Jen told me I didn't have to do it and that if I had other things to do then I should. After that I explained to her my standpoint .. she's my babysis, I could not imagine being stuck in a hospital like she is, and that if my being there is helping her, then I'm going to keep coming and our mother can just get over it. She then said that she enjoyed me being there and felt selfish in wanting me to be up there like I am. So it's settled then ... I like to keep her company and she wants me to keep coming.
Needless to say I'm going to work, working through lunch every day, sitting with the dogs for a bit, then heading to the hospital, coming home and staying up until about 1 or 2 (:30 last night .. AAWW!), then getting up at 7 and starting over. Imagine when I start going to the gym at 5:30 ... wow that's going to hurt!!
The weekends I am trying to do some 'fun' things during the day to destress from the work week (hopefully next time it won't encourage the spending of so much money) and then I'm sitting with my sister all evening / night. I was up there about 7 hours I think both days this weekend.
Moral of the story is that I've temporarily cast off all of my other busy things for the moment with the exception of my sis and the people who sign my pay checks. Her birthday is this Friday so I hope and pray that Friday we're not bringing cake to a hospital room, but if so, then I'll just hope she comes the day after that.
Ok .. it's 12:15 and I still need to 'decompress' before bed so I must run. I'm sure this horribly long ramble explains the EXACT REASON why I need to decompress every night .. I swear my brain runs at 200 miles an hour and if I don't do something to unwind, like puzzles or something to 'put me to sleep' ... like last night, I will literally lie awake all night unable to sleep. So .. I slept from 2:30 -4:30 and was awake after that ... and I'm apparently still awake now. Yea .. it will eventually catch up to me I know...
Any typos get my premature apologies .. if I check that I'll be on here forever!! I hate typos and I'm the queen of making them and catching them after the fact .. I hate it when I do that!! .. so if you see any .. sorry!!!
