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what a busy weekend.
had dinner and drinks with my friend kevin. then i headed home and spent the rest of the evening playing catch up on my tivo and doing some reading in bed.
i woke up rather early on saturday morning and headed out to the suburbs with my friend andrew. of course we set out in the wrong direction but luckily i realize this before we made it half way to wisconsin. surprisingly, the trip to ikea just wasn’t as fulfilling as expected. i left with one small bag of items and having only spent less than $20. after lunch at cheesecake factory, we headed off to check out the hdtvs at best buy and some couches at some random places. while at best buy i was sucked in by the offer of all seasons of futurama on dvd being on sale. i know have every episode of futurama made thus far. how exciting! after spending 8 hours in the suburbs i started having withdrawal symptoms from being away from the city. so we returned to the city and stopped at crate & barrel and cb2. i think i’ve finally found a couch that i like that is at both. i’m about 90% sure i’m going to get the one at cb2. i’m hoping to be 100% sure by the end of the week.
today was a bit more relaxed and less busy. i headed over to my boss and her fiancee’s place mid-day so i could help them set up their wireless network and a new computer. came home and then ended up going over to crew to have a drink with my friend tim.
and that is that. can’t even believe the weekend’s already over and it’s back to work. in completely random news, i’ve developed a severe addiction to wsj.com. i gave in and bought an online subscription and now i’m wondering why i never had one before. it’s all of my favorite parts of the news in one convenient location. i find it sad how sad a simple news website can make me. good times.
the time that amazon.com gave me very odd product pairing suggestions
typically amazon.com provides a better product pairing suggestion than the one listed below. how it came up with toothbrush heads for my electric toothbrush i will never know …
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the time that i found a pic from the time i thought i was going to sleep but didn’t (see 2 Jan’s entry)
i was going through the iPhone and found this picture from that time right after the holiday break that i didn’t sleep and went to work and consumed caffeine all day long. i think this was still caffeine drink 1 of the day so i still look rather chipper. believe me, you don’t want to see the pictures from later in the day.
the time that my head hurt like mad, crazy bad
so yeah, the headache i had last night turned into the onset of a migraine. i was woken up by a painful headache at about 530am and couldn’t get back to sleep. i took my migraine medication to fight it off so i ended up having to stay in and work from home today. that in and of itself turned out to be a huge pain in my ass. i ended up feeling worse and more stressed than i would have had i gone to work.
i took a sleeping pill this evening in hopes that i could start getting back to a decent sleeping pattern. i layed down hoping it would kick in but here i am an hour and a half later. the damn controlled release ones never seem to work until they’ve been in my system for a while.
anyway, so i’m watching deep impact and it’s totally freaking me out. i seriously cannot imagine being killed by a massive tidal wave. that has to be just horrible. watching the movie has also made me decide that i have to give up on my dream of being an astronaut. i can’t imagine being that far from solid ground. i mean seriously, i get freaked out when i’m in an airplane and there’s a decent amount of turbulance. there’s just no way i could survive floating around in space at insane speeds.
ah, new threadless shirts came out today and i couldn’t resist …
can’t wait until i get them!
that’s all i’ve got for now. until later.
the time that it was really, really cold
i purposely refused to leave the apartment this weekend. i think the warmest it has been since friday evening is 9°F. i did manage to leave to go to a movie night on saturday evening and while it was 3°F out, it certainly didn’t feel that way.
last week was rather uneventful. ever since i was promoted i feel a certain sense of responsibility to take my quality of work to the next of level. this is difficult as my to-do list simply seems to be getting longer and longer with no signs of it letting up. i’m hoping i can make a dent in it this week. i’m “lucky” enough to have the honor to get to work tomorrow. seems like everyone else is off.
while i was out saturday i did manage to stumble across a great liquor/wine store. i finally took the time to go into this place around the corner. had such a great selection of wine and they were rather friendly. a pity i hadn’t discovered them earlier.
and now it’s sunday again. i hate sundays because it’s always the day of the week where my sleeping is off the most. i really need to work on getting back on a sleeping schedule.
this week will be rather uneventful. or at least until saturday that is. on saturday my friend andrew and i are going out to the suburbs for a trip to ikea and some other suburban fare. that should be a fun day.
i have so much more to cover but i have a terrible headache that is preventing me from keeping my thoughts from staying in order. plus i must be up decently early as my boss has so graciously offered to give me a ride to work tomorrow.
until later.
the time that i thought it would be a good idea to start running AGAIN
for the third or fourth year in a row i have added “start running again” to my list of things to change in the new year. to further motivate myself i signed up to run the shamrock shuffle again this year. my goal is to at least do better than last year, but hopefully cut my time by about 9 minutes. i’m even motivated enough to join a gym and make a serious attempt at getting fit. there just doesn’t seem to be that many gym choices convenient to me. hopefully i’ll figure something out soon.
the time i was tired and didn’t want to bother developing a better title
this post initially started off with just reading “an entry … tomorrow … i swear.” but somehow i ended up giving in and writing a bit more.
what an interesting week it has been … the first three days back to work last week were busy and all sorts of crazy. on friday morning i was promoted! woot woot! a bit expected and a bit unexpected. i knew it had been in the works for a while now but i wasn’t expecting it to happen right after we returned from the holiday break. there’s a terribly funny story to go with all of this but it can’t be told yet because it’s not done.
other than that i suppose most of my time has just been spent working. getting back into the swing of things has been crazy. it has been nonstop, especially these last two or three days. my goal is to be done with two big items on my to-do list tomorrow and then i’ll be a boatload less stressed out. i didn’t end up leaving work today until 8:30ish. all my own doing though, i’ve determined that even though i have the laptop now i just can’t get work done when i’m not sitting behind a desk. i guess i’m going to have get a desk for home now.
so yeah, on my way home on the bus today there was this guy eating pizza. i don’t understand why people are okay with eating on the bus or on the train. it’s kind of gross. first of all, who wants to eat in a public place where people are just sitting there staring at you. and secondly, what kind of environment is that to eat in. i only like to eat when i can sit down and enjoy the meal. i would never eat in route to somewhere. it’s just so weird.
that is all.
the time i thought i was going to be able to sleep, but i didn’t
so yeah, that great idea i had to taking an ambien tonight to help throw my sleep schedule back on track? it was 11pm, the cut-off time for taking a sleeping pill in order to ensure enough sleep, and i thought i was tired enough to possibly fall asleep on my own. so i stayed up a bit longer, not thinking that i should go to bed while i was actually tired and of course i ended up losing my chance to sleep. i was wide awake at 1am and it was at this point i realized i was screwed.
it’s now almost 5am and i’m thinking that i could possibly fall asleep now but it’s not enough time to get an sleep in. so i’m thinking this will be the new plan: stay up all night. go to work early. get home at the end of the day and be so tired that i’ll actually go to bed early wednesday night. yeah, i realize this is a horrible plan and that i’m totally screwed. i think it’s my only solution at the moment though.
the time ryan wished you a happy new year … now get back to work!
ah. the 2007 holiday season is now behind us and it’s time to look forward to the remaining 365 days of the year (2008 is a leap year and contains 366 total days). tomorrow is back to work, which i’m sort of looking forward to. i’m moving to another office on the other side of the building and i’m finally getting a work-issued laptop so i’ll finally have VPN access from home. plus it’s a three-day work week so i can’t complain too much.
last night was rather enjoyable. ended up going out with a couple of friends but we ended up at a place that was relatively dead for new year’s, which actually ended up being rather great. it was nice and calm and just a relaxed evening overall. plus, i was home by 1am which was nice. we did manage to unearth the answer to the age old question – which comes first, buzzed or tipsy? the correct order is apparently 1. tipsy, 2. buzzed, 3. drunk. just a little bit of trivia for the inquiring mind.
happy new year to all!
