This Post is All Over The Place

I haven’t felt like blogging – I’ve been sick the last few days and work has just taken all of my energy, not that I’ve had any or anything.

I figured, while I don’t really have enough to make a whole blog post – I do have some tidbits I can share.

• The old man and I decided to make a day out of driving up to Globe, AZ and taking some shots along the way. I took about 125 pictures, most of which were not very great – but I came away with a few that I really liked. I’ll share those now:

Flowers with a Cactus Skelly

Yellow Flowers - to bad about the power lines =(

The next one isn’t’ really a photo we took during our trek. Actually I think I took it the next day, while Henry and I were vegging out on the bed watching Law & Order – typically the cats run for the hills when they see I’ve grabbed the big black torture device – but Henry was quite the subject – he let me take two whole pictures before he tried to rip my eyeballs out and use them for playthings.

Henry, King of The House

• Aside from the journey out to Globe, this weekend was fairly peaceful. It rained on Sunday and I got sick – I stayed sick until Tuesday afternoon, give or take.
• The HVAC guy came out to look at our AC unit and do the ‘annual maintenance’ – our AC is going out – I’ll be putting up a Paypal “Donate” button soon – because I’ll be darned if I know where we’re going to get the money to make that happen.
• I have a toothache in one of the teeth I had filled in November. I’m going to be very much not happy if I have to get this filling dug out and redone after less than six months. I’m going to be very much not happy if I have to pay them one red cent when I go back to find out what the dealio is.
• I seem to have this cycle where I sleep like a baby for a few weeks, then I sleep like crap for a few weeks. This week is one of the crappy weeks. I wake up 3-5 times a night like I’ve overslept the alarm and I have to get ready to be some place in the next ten minutes. Waking up like that makes it really hard to get back to sleep.
• I woke up yellow this morning. I went to the lab and then emailed my Dr.
• I have some older (3 years?) Levi jeans in my closet that I really want to get back in to. I don’t think it’d take a whole lot – I actually tried them on this morning and while I wasn’t even close to buttoning them – I was able to get them over my baby-birthing hips.
• I am considering getting the “Permanent non-surgical birth control” – but I am always scared of trying something like that, because it doesn’t seem like it’s been around long enough to know what the long term effects are…but getting pregnant would be a disaster for me.
• Did you know that if you took a needle and placed it, softly, on the top of the water in a bowl without disturbing the water, so the need floats, it will act as a compass and point north? I didn’t either – don’t feel stupid.
• The kid has lost his third Cell Phone. It took me 30 minutes to cancel the service last night – that’s 20 minutes longer than it should have taken, in my opinion.
• I am eligible for an upgrade of my cell phone (iPhone 3g to iPhone 3gS) – but I don’t know if I’m going to stay with AT&T. Plus, the old man says I really should use my current iPhone until it dies – it randomly vibrates from time to time for no reason – so I wonder if it’s getting close?
• Spring break is next week. I really wish I was made of money, so we could take a vacation or something.
• I hate when I don’t have a book to read before bed. I really do need to get to the book store. Last night I started reading a book called “Baby Markets” – its about adoption, infertility treatments and the like – basically about the commercialization of starting a family if you have to use ‘alternative means’ – I felt like after the first few pages, I was reading a text book. It didn’t really flow all that well.
• People send me all kinds of books to read/review at work – “Baby Markets” was one. I don’t think they’d be happy if I wrote, “By page two, I was going ACK ACK ACK! WHAT THE CRAP IS THIS!?”
• I once got a book from someone where the first page, which was really only half a page, had the F word 8 times. (Since this is a mostly “Mature G” rated blog I do try not to curse, because I know several of my readers appreciate that I don’t) Eight times seems excessive to me. I’m not totally innocent when it comes to using curse words – my dad, literally, was a sailor – then when he got out of the Navy, he became a truck driver – I’ve really heard it all (and then some) – but 8 F words…no.
• It’s been fairly cold here. Cold as in 44-50 in the morning. Now, I realize that’s not really cold – after all, I did live in the Chicago area for four years – but it’s cold for AZ and darn cold when you don’t really have a suitable coat (parka, snow suit, etc).
• I turn the heater on in my car on the way to work and run the vents on ‘cool’ on the way home. Funny, huh?

That’s all I got…this turned out to be longer than I thought. I’m going to bed….please do let me know if you’d like to donate to the “I think I will die without an AC this summer” fund.

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