yoga, books, movies, tv & too many crime procedurals – not necesarily in that order
I started feeling a cold coming on yesterday during work and by the time I left, all my joints were achey. When I got home I had reached full shivers, so I took a full ambien (I usually take half) a couple of advil, and passed out.
Cut to me waking up 10 hours later and, frankly, not better. The fever hasn’t broken, I’m still achey, and my head feels like it’s going to explode. Turns out working a month with 2 days off also wrecks havoc on your immune system. I got off easy the week of Xmas but the cold is having its revenge.
Right now I’m catching up on last night’s TV and eating dry Trix. Awesome.
I’m just waiting until 4 am so I can call out sick and then I’m headed back to the land of the unconscious sickies.
Why?
1. Closing shift – virtually no traffic on the way there or on the way home. My only complication in life is people who don’t know how to drive in the snow and/or mountains. Takeaway: if you can’t, DON’T.
2. Glee! I love Glee.
3. Criminal Minds! I love Criminal Minds. The last couple of episodes have been crazy intense. Such a good show.
4. Mercy! It was back tonight after a hiatus and I am surprised by how much I MISSED it. I have a hard time describing for people why I like it so much but all of the characters are messed up in their own way and no matter what happens on the show, I feel GOOD when I’m watching it.
5. I don’t work until 1pm tomorrow which means AMBIEN.
For example, I’m not sure I can adequately describe how incredible it is to use a laptop with a FUNCTIONAL BATTERY. The last year-plus has been spent tethered to an outlet because the battery on my Toshiba was croaking its way to annihilation and wouldn’t hold a charge for more than 7 minutes. Every time I wanted to use my laptop, I had to scope out outlet locations which – let me tell you- are at a PREMIUM in places with free wifi. They are also rarely located CONVENIENTLY.
I say this as I am currently reclined on my sofa, dogosai on my feets, and no power cord in sight! It’s delightful! Liberating, even!
One of the great advancements that’s happened since my last computer purchase is an improvement in the touchpad to eliminate right and left clicks with an actual button. I can do both by tapping the touchpad and it’s GREAT. Don’t get me wrong- it’s definitely taking some getting used to but the new laptop is so far and away better than the old one that it makes me feel like I’ve been driving a Ford Model T for three years and just got a Jag.
The internets are all atwitter about Tiger Woods but it turns out I just don’t care. I’m more worried about when Chuck is going to return to Monday night TV.
Tonight I worked my first training shift and it was pretty great. I’m definitely going to enjoy work this holiday season.
In other internet news: troop levels in the Middle East. Here’s the thing. Back when Hils and Barack were just campaigning for the office of President and we were already embroiled in all this shit, I knew it was a bad idea to start promising troop withdrawal. You know why? Because ANYONE could see that there wasn’t a CHANCE we would be getting out SOON. And by ‘anyone’ I mean ‘people who don’t have access to national security information.’ Why did I say that? 1. Korea 2. Germany 3. Afghanistan
You can’t go into a country, dismantle its government, disrupt its infrastructure (such as it is) and then BAIL OUT. That’s not how it works. That’s pretty much NEVER been how it works. Ergo, there was no chance we’d be getting out early. My major bitch with this, by the way, was that in order to GET a job all the candidates LIED about this fact. They all knew there was no chance of it happening – hell, they all started backpedaling on it DURING the campaign. All I want is for people to be HONEST about it. Be STRAIGHT with people about the realities of the world. Maybe then the country would put on its Big Kid Pants and get a grip.
Oh. P.S. Dick Cheney, you can go straight to hell for saying you had nothing to do with the epic clusterfuck that you ACTUALLY STARTED in Afghanistan as a result of all this Iraq nonsense. Asshole. Hell might actually be too good for you.
And since I went on a political rant, here’s a moment of zen:
My new laptop has arrived and she is AMAZING. Lightning fast, new Windows platform, widescreen and supersweet touchpad. I adore it. I may never leave it alone, ever.
I’ve been adding back my favorite software: Filezilla, Zune, Calibre, LastPass and Skype are all safely onboard. All that remains is to resurrect the old hard drive and transfer the bits I want onto my new and dear toy.
Today was eventful, as I also started my new part-time job! I’m pretty excited about working extra hours over the holidays. Employee discounts don’t suck, either.
Tomorrow I’ll hopefully wrangle up some photos – of the house AND the laptop. In the meantime I’m going to keep tweaking the lappie while we watch Star Trek.
Today I found another part-time job, did the last of the Turkeyday shopping, got a haircut and my hair is brown again. All in all, I’m feeling pretty accomplished. Tomorrow is baking, brining and cleaning day. Apple pie and pumpkin torte, thaw and brine turkey, sweep floors, et cetera. The turkey should only have to cook for 5.5 hours on Thursday so I’ll have all morning to make sausage-stuffed stuffing and turkey stuffing. Sweet potatoes are the only other thing oven-bound so my schedule is looking pretty managable.
Tonight I may start the torte or cranberry sauce – I haven’t made up my mind.
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