Monday, July 07, 2008
Did I even mention I hate waiting? And not knowing? And waiting to know?
Ugh. So my mom is supposed to have surgery. Before she has her surgery they want her to get a CT. Before she has the CT she had to get bloodwork. I'm trying to be in NJ for the CT and surgery. This was supposed to be happening ASAP 2 weeks ago.
I'm supposed to get my carpets cleaned. I'm trying to schedule this for when I'm in NJ so the cats and I don't have to deal with it. Before we go though I need to move everything I can that's on carpet onto floors.
Wednesday is when I scheduled to have my floors done, expecting to be in NJ last week. Well the lab took forever to get my mom's bloodwork back. And now the CT people still don't have it, just her doctor does, so we are waiting for the doc to fax to CT so she can schedule her appointment.
In the meantime, Ive moved almost everything I can, except for the big things. I don't want to be living with my desk and big chair in the kitchen, so the plan is to do it last minute.
So now since she still doesn't have her appointment set up, do I still go on Wednesday up to Jersey and hang for who knows how long while waiting for this all to happen, or do I try and reschedule my carpet cleaning but then find out right after I do that everything is scheduled for Friday?
I am usually a fly by the seat of my pants kind of girl, but this is really getting to me. I also don't know if I might get a work gig while I'm up there that I'd have to go straight from there, so I also have to pack as if that could happen.
So I thought I'd come here and vent for a bit, and then read for a while, and then go back to moving stuff into the kitchen. When it's all done I'll take a picture because it's already quite scary :) I do think this is a good thing though in a way, because I think as I go to put stuff away I might purge some of it. I have too much crap. I also think I might rearrange the layout of the front room when I put everything back.
But I still wish I had a timeline for everything. Bleh.
In good news though, I got my car inspected and oil changed today and it passed inspection :) Rah.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
I must be really desperate!
So I'm doing my best to procrastinate right now. On Wednesday they are coming to clean my carpets. On Tuesday I plan on driving up with the kitties to NJ since my mom is going to be having some surgery soon. So between today and tomorrow I need to go to the library, get my oil changed, and move every thing that I possibly can off the carpets and into the kitchen or bathroom.
Now keep in mind that the front room is the dumping room. There are boxes and storage bins and boxes and storage bins... It's also the cats' favorite room to throw up in, so the most important in the carpet cleaning process. There is A LOT of stuff to move.
So what am I doing instead of being productive? Watching a Paradise Hotel marathon on FoxReality. This is probably the worst show ever. Believe it or not, it's even worse than that stoopid pirate show from last summer. But as much as I'd like to watch the L&O SVU marathon for the 84,000th time, I can almost recite the scripts on most of those, so I can't justify procrastinating for that.
So here I sit, making my very long to-do list, but watching really bad tv. Talk about desperate...
Friday, July 04, 2008
Happy Dana's Birthday! Happy 4th to everyone else. (well to Dana too...)
Just wanted to wish a happy birthday to one of my oldest friends. Dana and I met at Camp Hoover and even though we rarely talk now-a-days, I still love her and think of her every year on this day.
So in other news, the trees have grown a lot since I moved here three years ago. When I first moved here I could see the fireworks over the tops of the trees out my front window. Now all I see is a flash of light. So either the trees got taller, or the fireworks got lower. Either way, it kinda sucks. But the good news is that they aren't that loud, and Ringo isn't freaking out as much as he does for thunderstorms.
OOoo I typed too soon! I just saw big one over the trees!
It's times like this that I am sad to be single. This would be so nice and romantic to just sit out on my front porch and watch the fireworks together. Maybe next year...
Or maybe not...most of them are still too low. And by next year the trees will be even taller. Still would be nice to have someone to watch them with though...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Songs that Make me Smile
So I'm way happy about something. In the past I mentioned my friend Amanda, and the mixed tape she made me. And I've recently shared how I now have access to the technology to convert tapes to mp3's. Well sadly, the tapes that Amanda made me did not survive because I had overplayed them so much :(
Well I was still reminiscing about them, so I dropped Amanda an IM to thank her again for the best music ever introduced to me. She actually offered to remake the "Songs That Make Me Smile" and the "Happy Birthday Monica Honey" tapes into CD's for me, in addition to creating a new 2008 mix!
Since we reconnected via this blog when she googled herself and found me posting about her we did a little catching up, but didn't keep in touch as much as we could have or probably should have. So I'm really looking forward to see what she's been listening to the past 10 years :)
I was trying to think of what I would put on a new "songs that make me smile mix" and I have to say that I'm really stuck in the past. Even my infatuation with David Cook is pretty much over already. I'll still probably download his stuff when it comes out, but I won't be running out to buy anything or standing in line for Idol concert tickets.
In fact, the only new music that I can think of that I'm consistently listening to lately is Fiction Plane. They were just in Raleigh recently and I was so excited that I saw they were coming...till I saw they were opening for some country star. I truly don't get that. I don't think that country lovers would dig on Fiction Plane, and I wasn't about to spend a ton of money for tickets to only see an opening act. (Although now that I type that, I did do that for the Alarm once back in the day... but concert tickets were WAY cheaper back then)
I guess the reason I haven't moved on is because I only listen to my ipod in the car now, so I don't ever hear anything new. Before Fiction Plane, the last new artist I dug on was Anna Nalick, who I found through my sister. And before that was Eva Cassidy, who I heard playing at B&N one time and asked who it was. She was already gone before I ever found her so I can't say I was on the cutting edge there...
Who knows, maybe I should get out more. Or maybe I'll just wait for Amanda's new influence :)