should i do more frequent updates so they aren't a mile long?
The tea shelf broke the night before last. Ok technically, it's not broken but it did fall over and shatter all of the [brand new] cups that were on top of it all over the wood floor - which dinged up the floor pretty horribly. It also crushed a few of the tins of tea, and one popped open and had it's contents strewn across the kitchen. There was glass everywhere and it took about an hour to clean it all up and take care of everything. Get this - the non-skid pads that we put on the feet of the shelf to keep the wood from sliding across the wood unstuck and the shelf slid off of THEM while they stayed where we placed them. Go figure, eh? The biggest irritation in that is the floor being gouged. Grarh. Looks like we are going to have to anchor the feet to the wall somehow. This is going to be an adventure, since there are no -back- feet to like... subtly attach to anything. Fishing line may be in our future.
The movie Iron Man rocked. Even knowing absolutely nothing about the comic book or the character, the movie was stellar. I loved every minute of it. It had amazing humor, and the explosions were right up my alley. Tidbit: I am so out of it with current ... stuff.. and people... that i didn't even know i was watching Robert Downey Jr until the credits rolled. No clue. I don't think I've ever seen him in any movies before?
The trailer for Indy played while there. This made me MRH, since I've managed to avoid seeing anything about that one until now. DAMN Indy is looking old, eh? Still, it's one i am really a lot totally completely looking forward to seeing, and can't wait til... uh... whenever it's released.
Ordered the new entertainment center the day before yesterday. We are only getting the bottom section, though - since it turns out that the tv we are getting won't exactly fit into the opening of the top section. Yeah. We went and re-looked at the TV the other day (It's one of the phases. "am i really positively sure that that's the one i want to spend my money on?" There are something like 4-5 of these particular phases, which are completely separate from 'let's look at all of the tvs to decide which one we want' - there can me 20+ version of -that- phase [different stores, online research, consumer reports for every model we look at]... I am telling you, people. You DO NOT want to ever make a major purchase with MK. It'll drive you nutty.) to be -sure- it's the one he wants and also looked at the wall mount thingers. Turns out there are different sizes - M, L, XL - and the size you need depends on the weight of the TV you are mounting. So we popped back over to the TV to see if it's weight was listed, and i actually LOOKED at it's tagger thinger with the specs. It's not a 52". It's a 58". I pointed it out to MK and told him that meant we could probably find the 52" version for less and that was good yay! ... The man snorted at me. HE SNORTED AT ME. Apparently, he's cool with the 58". I just shook my head and shrugged at him, since when we first started looking, he was down with getting a 42". Me, i don't really care, as long as it's bigger and clearer than the one we currently have and can hook up to the computers so we can watch the shows he downloads on them instead of the laptop. (The chance to play WoW on a 58" screen isn't hurting my opinion, either.)
But, anyhow. The fact that he's paid for the entertainment center makes the TV an actual reality, instead of a 'yeah, we'll do it ... eventually' thing. (He's big on those, too.) Income tax return + income rebate thinger + 3 paychecks in May means we'll actually have our mutual birthday present sometime here soonish.
He wants to do the hibatchi restaurant again for his birthday. He waffled about inviting some of his firefighter friends along to join us for a while. It'd be nice to have them join us, but he's 98% sure that no one will be interested in coming, or that everyone will be too busy. It's just how it is. They all get along famously at work, but no one has time to do anything with us outside of work. So he was of the mind that if he didn't ask anyone to join us, he couldn't be disappointed when no one came. Me, being the devil's advocate that i am, pointed out that no one could actually surprise him and show up if he didn't ask anyone to come. He conceded my point and asked 4 of them and their wifes to join us... so, i guess we'll see. We honestly aren't expecting much aside from a nice yummy showy dinner for just the two of us. (I also mentioned that if he paid for everyone, people would definitely show up - but we agreed that we don't want to actually have to BUY our friends, y'know?)
I've been sleeping like crap lately. I am staying up til am literally exhausted, because at least then i have a chance of falling asleep when i crawl into bed. Last night, MK's alarm clock somehow got turned on (i suspect the cat) and went off at 4:30 like it does when he's home. Except that i sleep with ear plugs in, so by the time i actually heard and registered it, the damn thing sounded like the fire alarm or something. It took me longer than it should have to realize that it wasn't and reach over to turn it off. And of course, being unfamiliar with the thing, i hit the snooze button instead of actually shutting it off - so it went off again a few minutes later. Then, around 8AM, Anubis was extra-hyper about MK getting home from work and woke me up - making it the third time I'd been woken up while -trying- to get some rest. It wouldn't be such a big deal except that it routinely takes me 1+ hours to relax enough and let go of whatever my brain is working on to fall asleep, so every time i get woken up it has to start all over again.
Bleh. I wish sleep didn't hate me.
Mentally, i am still not in a very good place. My doctor didn't have any openings until mid-late-JUNE, so... kinda in limbo. Hoping that nothing drastic happens to push me over any edges in the meantime. The desktop images are helping keep my mind occupied, so that's good. I am using that reason for continuing to make them as opposed to thinking that ya'll actually like them and care. It'd be nice if you did and perhaps you do, but eh - I've got other reasons right now. Reasons that are -for me-, and i think i am ok with that. There are 20some in queue for posting now.
The movie Iron Man rocked. Even knowing absolutely nothing about the comic book or the character, the movie was stellar. I loved every minute of it. It had amazing humor, and the explosions were right up my alley. Tidbit: I am so out of it with current ... stuff.. and people... that i didn't even know i was watching Robert Downey Jr until the credits rolled. No clue. I don't think I've ever seen him in any movies before?
The trailer for Indy played while there. This made me MRH, since I've managed to avoid seeing anything about that one until now. DAMN Indy is looking old, eh? Still, it's one i am really a lot totally completely looking forward to seeing, and can't wait til... uh... whenever it's released.
Ordered the new entertainment center the day before yesterday. We are only getting the bottom section, though - since it turns out that the tv we are getting won't exactly fit into the opening of the top section. Yeah. We went and re-looked at the TV the other day (It's one of the phases. "am i really positively sure that that's the one i want to spend my money on?" There are something like 4-5 of these particular phases, which are completely separate from 'let's look at all of the tvs to decide which one we want' - there can me 20+ version of -that- phase [different stores, online research, consumer reports for every model we look at]... I am telling you, people. You DO NOT want to ever make a major purchase with MK. It'll drive you nutty.) to be -sure- it's the one he wants and also looked at the wall mount thingers. Turns out there are different sizes - M, L, XL - and the size you need depends on the weight of the TV you are mounting. So we popped back over to the TV to see if it's weight was listed, and i actually LOOKED at it's tagger thinger with the specs. It's not a 52". It's a 58". I pointed it out to MK and told him that meant we could probably find the 52" version for less and that was good yay! ... The man snorted at me. HE SNORTED AT ME. Apparently, he's cool with the 58". I just shook my head and shrugged at him, since when we first started looking, he was down with getting a 42". Me, i don't really care, as long as it's bigger and clearer than the one we currently have and can hook up to the computers so we can watch the shows he downloads on them instead of the laptop. (The chance to play WoW on a 58" screen isn't hurting my opinion, either.)
But, anyhow. The fact that he's paid for the entertainment center makes the TV an actual reality, instead of a 'yeah, we'll do it ... eventually' thing. (He's big on those, too.) Income tax return + income rebate thinger + 3 paychecks in May means we'll actually have our mutual birthday present sometime here soonish.
He wants to do the hibatchi restaurant again for his birthday. He waffled about inviting some of his firefighter friends along to join us for a while. It'd be nice to have them join us, but he's 98% sure that no one will be interested in coming, or that everyone will be too busy. It's just how it is. They all get along famously at work, but no one has time to do anything with us outside of work. So he was of the mind that if he didn't ask anyone to join us, he couldn't be disappointed when no one came. Me, being the devil's advocate that i am, pointed out that no one could actually surprise him and show up if he didn't ask anyone to come. He conceded my point and asked 4 of them and their wifes to join us... so, i guess we'll see. We honestly aren't expecting much aside from a nice yummy showy dinner for just the two of us. (I also mentioned that if he paid for everyone, people would definitely show up - but we agreed that we don't want to actually have to BUY our friends, y'know?)
I've been sleeping like crap lately. I am staying up til am literally exhausted, because at least then i have a chance of falling asleep when i crawl into bed. Last night, MK's alarm clock somehow got turned on (i suspect the cat) and went off at 4:30 like it does when he's home. Except that i sleep with ear plugs in, so by the time i actually heard and registered it, the damn thing sounded like the fire alarm or something. It took me longer than it should have to realize that it wasn't and reach over to turn it off. And of course, being unfamiliar with the thing, i hit the snooze button instead of actually shutting it off - so it went off again a few minutes later. Then, around 8AM, Anubis was extra-hyper about MK getting home from work and woke me up - making it the third time I'd been woken up while -trying- to get some rest. It wouldn't be such a big deal except that it routinely takes me 1+ hours to relax enough and let go of whatever my brain is working on to fall asleep, so every time i get woken up it has to start all over again.
Bleh. I wish sleep didn't hate me.
Mentally, i am still not in a very good place. My doctor didn't have any openings until mid-late-JUNE, so... kinda in limbo. Hoping that nothing drastic happens to push me over any edges in the meantime. The desktop images are helping keep my mind occupied, so that's good. I am using that reason for continuing to make them as opposed to thinking that ya'll actually like them and care. It'd be nice if you did and perhaps you do, but eh - I've got other reasons right now. Reasons that are -for me-, and i think i am ok with that. There are 20some in queue for posting now.