This is what happens when I don't have internet for a day.
I am very stressed out right now. I've been awake since 5 am. It was nice and peaceful for a while, but then my parents woke up.
My father is stressing me out. Yesterday we had repairmen fix our heater vents. Today we have someone coming to tell us whether we can add extra rooms to the house (what? I thought my parents were planning to move soon?). Every time someone comes over, be it a friend or a relative or a repairman, my father gets into this "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS" mode. Except things don't just have to be clean (which they usually are); they have to be organized and spotless. The floors need to be vacuumed (even the ones that I just vacuumed a week before), the cat house must be lint-rolled (it's a cat house; it's supposed to have cat hair on it), and everything must be cleared off the table and counters. The TV remotes can't be on the couch, for instance; they have to be on top of the TV. By the time everything is "clean", the house doesn't even look lived in.
My dad always acts like the world will end if we don't get everything put away before we have guests. I kind of feel like a bad person for sitting there while my dad rushes around frantically. I don't mind cleaning things that are actually dirty, but I refuse to put things away that we normally use just so it looks less cluttered. Why should I have to pull stuff off the table (it was on the table for a good reason), just for someone who is coming over and won't even need to use that table, let alone that room, only to have to pull it back out again in a few hours because I was actually using that stuff on the table?! It's really frustrating.
Tonight I get to put all of my crap back on my shelves since the heater repair is finished. Hopefully my stress levels will go down once everything is back in its proper place.
Anyway, I had to spend all day out of the house yesterday to avoid toxic fumes from the heater repair. I ended up eating at one of my favorite cafeterias for lunch, walking around the mall for a few hours, and watching movies to kill time.
One of the movies I watched was X-men First Class. I don't know much about the X-men series, but this movie was great. I sat through all two hours of it without getting bored, which is an amazing accomplishment for me. I liked the special effects, I liked the characters... the only thing I didn't particularly like was the ending. I wanted to scream "What are you doing, Eric? You are supposed to stay with Charles. Don't leave!" I kind of want to get into the other X-men films now. I've always thought the series as a whole looked interesting, but had no idea where to start. (I'm still not sure, chronologically, how the movies fall, or if I'd be completely lost.)
I also watched Arthur Christmas to kill some time. I expected it to be mediocre at best, but I loved it. Any Christmas movie that can make me actually like the elves is doing something right. Possibly my new favorite Christmas movie. (I found out that the guy who plays Charles in X-men is the same guy who does the voice of Arthur. Coincidence? I think not!)
I'm on season 3 of Merlin, and I'm depressed that it's not on Hulu. I found it on Megavideo, but the video keeps freezing for 2-5 seconds at a time while the audio continues, and then I get those "you've watched 70 minutes of video today; please wait" messages. I was tempted to just buy the boxed set of season 3 so I could watch it in high quality (I am probably planning to buy the series anyway after I catch up), but it doesn't come out until January. Why do you do this to me, BBC? I want to throw money at you, but you won't let me. ;__;
In other news, I've lost three or four pounds since I started dieting, assuming my crappy new digital scale is accurate. (It only gives results in 0.5 lb increments, but it seems to be consistent, at least.) I was supposed to lose half a pound per week if I ate 1200 calories per day, but it looks like I'm losing something more along the lines of a pound per week. This means that I'm overestimating the amount of calories I eat instead of underestimating (as I had feared), which is a very good thing. It may not sound like much progress, but I'm quite happy with this, especially since I had to contend with both Thanksgiving and Christmas, two of the biggest diet killers of the year. Assuming I don't hit a plateau, I should be down to my high school weight around mid-March. If I'm lucky and if my boobs haven't grown too much I'll be able to fit into my suit from high school. If not, at least I'll feel better about myself.
My father is stressing me out. Yesterday we had repairmen fix our heater vents. Today we have someone coming to tell us whether we can add extra rooms to the house (what? I thought my parents were planning to move soon?). Every time someone comes over, be it a friend or a relative or a repairman, my father gets into this "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS" mode. Except things don't just have to be clean (which they usually are); they have to be organized and spotless. The floors need to be vacuumed (even the ones that I just vacuumed a week before), the cat house must be lint-rolled (it's a cat house; it's supposed to have cat hair on it), and everything must be cleared off the table and counters. The TV remotes can't be on the couch, for instance; they have to be on top of the TV. By the time everything is "clean", the house doesn't even look lived in.
My dad always acts like the world will end if we don't get everything put away before we have guests. I kind of feel like a bad person for sitting there while my dad rushes around frantically. I don't mind cleaning things that are actually dirty, but I refuse to put things away that we normally use just so it looks less cluttered. Why should I have to pull stuff off the table (it was on the table for a good reason), just for someone who is coming over and won't even need to use that table, let alone that room, only to have to pull it back out again in a few hours because I was actually using that stuff on the table?! It's really frustrating.
Tonight I get to put all of my crap back on my shelves since the heater repair is finished. Hopefully my stress levels will go down once everything is back in its proper place.
Anyway, I had to spend all day out of the house yesterday to avoid toxic fumes from the heater repair. I ended up eating at one of my favorite cafeterias for lunch, walking around the mall for a few hours, and watching movies to kill time.
One of the movies I watched was X-men First Class. I don't know much about the X-men series, but this movie was great. I sat through all two hours of it without getting bored, which is an amazing accomplishment for me. I liked the special effects, I liked the characters... the only thing I didn't particularly like was the ending. I wanted to scream "What are you doing, Eric? You are supposed to stay with Charles. Don't leave!" I kind of want to get into the other X-men films now. I've always thought the series as a whole looked interesting, but had no idea where to start. (I'm still not sure, chronologically, how the movies fall, or if I'd be completely lost.)
I also watched Arthur Christmas to kill some time. I expected it to be mediocre at best, but I loved it. Any Christmas movie that can make me actually like the elves is doing something right. Possibly my new favorite Christmas movie. (I found out that the guy who plays Charles in X-men is the same guy who does the voice of Arthur. Coincidence? I think not!)
I'm on season 3 of Merlin, and I'm depressed that it's not on Hulu. I found it on Megavideo, but the video keeps freezing for 2-5 seconds at a time while the audio continues, and then I get those "you've watched 70 minutes of video today; please wait" messages. I was tempted to just buy the boxed set of season 3 so I could watch it in high quality (I am probably planning to buy the series anyway after I catch up), but it doesn't come out until January. Why do you do this to me, BBC? I want to throw money at you, but you won't let me. ;__;
In other news, I've lost three or four pounds since I started dieting, assuming my crappy new digital scale is accurate. (It only gives results in 0.5 lb increments, but it seems to be consistent, at least.) I was supposed to lose half a pound per week if I ate 1200 calories per day, but it looks like I'm losing something more along the lines of a pound per week. This means that I'm overestimating the amount of calories I eat instead of underestimating (as I had feared), which is a very good thing. It may not sound like much progress, but I'm quite happy with this, especially since I had to contend with both Thanksgiving and Christmas, two of the biggest diet killers of the year. Assuming I don't hit a plateau, I should be down to my high school weight around mid-March. If I'm lucky and if my boobs haven't grown too much I'll be able to fit into my suit from high school. If not, at least I'll feel better about myself.