RSS Feedthe time that i couldn’t sleep #1492a
erg. i had been laying in bed for over an hour when i realized that i wasn’t any where closer to falling asleep than i was when i initially tried going to bed. so, as i have been taught, i got out of bed to take a break before i try going to bed again. so here i am sitting in front of the tv watching iron chef america and killing time before i try to go to bed again in 45 minutes.
speaking of iron chef america, i have randomly become obsessed with food network shows this weekend. i have added four more season passes to my tivo list just from shows i have watched today.
speaking of food … i’m trying to start getting healthy (yes, something i’ve tried a million times before). i have been eating the most unhealthy foods recently and i can honestly say that i’ve never been this large in my life. my medium clothes are starting to feel tight and my pants are starting to have issues closing. i need to start taking some drastic measures or i’m seriously going to regret it. i really need to try and be a bit more active outdoors once it starts warming up again. i also need to start eating better and managing my diet better. i just can’t allow me to do this to myself anymore.
and back to tv … speaking of good tv shows … this weekend i started watching united states of tara on showtime. wasn’t sure how i was going to like it based on the synopsis:
A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family.
it didn’t sound so great initially, but after watching the first episode i have to say i’m hooked. i was scared after the first 15 minutes of the pilot because I wasn’t sure how the story was going to play out but i must say that after i realized it’s a dark comedy i warmed up to it immediately. the personalities that this woman goes through are complex and interesting and the response of the family is confusing yet intriguing.
and now i’m bored. i need to find a new book to read. it’s been a couple of months since i’ve ready a good book. hmmm. i will make that something to accomplish this week.
speaking of this week. it’s going to be an interesting week. i’m about to kick off negotiations for an ad campaign but at the same time i’m releasing rfps this week which comes along with having to let people down and having to deal with those who refuse to take no for an answer. good times to be had by all.
i am still amidst my first box of paperwork that i am trying to get scanned and shredded. this is taking a lot longer than i initially expected. there are about 500-1000 pages of documents to be scanned in this box alone. i can’t imagine how many others there are in the remaining 4-5 boxes of paperwork i have. once i have all this scanning done it will surely make the next move rather easy. getting rid of all this stuff will take care of like 20-25% of all the boxes i filled when i moved last. i have four more months to complete this scanning project and get rid of all the other clutter that i no longer need.
after that task is done the next problem to tackle will be the lack of hard drive space. between all these documents i’ve been archiving and all the tv shows i’ve been transferring off of my tivo and onto the external hard drive, i’m set to have a serious hard drive space issue soon. my temproary quick solution will be to just add a usb hub to my apple time capsule and keep adding hard drives like crazy. i will have to come up with a better solution at a later date.
hmmm i just realized that the number in the title of this entry (1492) is also the year columbus sailed the ocean blue, right? [sings to self: in 1492, columbus sailed the ocean blue.]
this weekend was rather boring. joe is sick with the stomach flu so the weekend was somewhat sidelined after i had to stay up all friday evening worrying about him because he had to go to the hospital [ugh, brings back bad memories of my jan '06 trip to the hospital for the stomach flu]. it was getting late on friday and i was working myself up into a panic attack so i finally just took some advil pm and knocked myself out for my own good.
so yeah, the weekend was spent worrying about joe and trying to mess up my sleep schedule even more. not that there’s a lot to do out and about on the weekend in the dead of winter. it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so cold outside. it was just way too cold this weekend to do anything. not that i could do much since i have gone back to being anti-social. that is something else i’m going to try and fix this year. i’ve reverted back to my anti-social ways of not having friends to hang out with and it’s beginning to suck. last weekend i had brunch with josh which was fun and then this week i am having drinks with my friend michael. that’s two social outings in one month, a decent improvement i suppose. still a lot of work to be done though. i need to figure out how to make new friends
okay enough of coming up with random stuff to talk about. i suppose i will go find something else to do around here before i try sleeping again.
the time that i didn’t make any sense at all.
so i went back and read the entry i made last night and it totally doesn’t make any sense. yay me!
i am most thankful that the week is finally over. seemed like a never ending and most stressful week, although i suppose it is going to be that way until at least the end of february.
now that lost, damages, and battlestar galactica are back on tv with new seasons i couldn’t be happier. the first two episodes of lost were rather interesting. not as fulfilling as i would have liked but still rather great. the island time jumping thing is rather odd and could get rather annoying quickly. my hope is that it will stop before they reach the mid-season mark. three episodes into damages and it’s been quite amazing as well. it will be interesting to see how the story line for this season plays out but there have already been some REALLY good twists. as for battlestar galactica, i’m sad to say that i was somewhat disappointed in the beginning fo the last half of this season. itfeels like everything has just started over and they’re back in the same situation. they have a lot of work to do in the last 8 episodes if i’m going to be satisfied with the ending to the series. caprica, however, will hopefully hold a great deal of promise. getting to know the back story will likely be insanely interesting.
television is absolutely amazing. i thought i loved tv before i got my hdtv but once i got it i really discovered what television is. add in the movie channels and i could literally sit in front of the television all the time. actually, i know that i couldn’t. i tried that over the holiday break and nearly lost my mind after just two and a half days.
beyond tv and work i don’t have much else going on. i don’t really have too much extra time.
i have been having a horrible time sleeping lately so on monday morning i’m heading to the doctor’s office to explore the possibility of me having sleep apnea. after doing some research it seems like a lot of my symptoms are sure signs of all the fatigue and sleep issues i’ve had over the past several years. it will be interesting to find out if this is what is really causing everything.
okay i’m off to bed. more later.
the time that i was stressed and sleepy
this week needs to end immediately. it has been so sleepy and stressful and it’s driving me crazy. in fact, i’m too sleepy to finish this. i’m off to bed. this was sort of pointless i guess.
the time that i added a boat load of movies to my must-see list
after watching the golden globes tonight i have greatly increased the list of movies that i need to watch in the very near future to include:
- Wall-E
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Doubt
- Burn After Reading
- Last Chance Harvey
- Confessions of a Shopoholic (pretend you didn’t see this one)
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Bernard & Doris
- John Adams
- Frost/Nixon
- In Bruges
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- He’s Just Not That Into You (again, pretend you didn’t see this one)
- Milk
- Rachel Getting Married
- Changeling
- Gran Torino
- The Dark Knight
yeah, i have no idea when i’m going to get through the whole list. i will have to get started immediately.
in other news … something that really annoys me are the new ny-quil/day-quil with vitamin c commericals. the commercials feature their new formulations that include vitamin c that is supposed to be good at preventing and stopping colds, right? well then why do they feature people who are vitamin c fanatics? if these people are taking tons of vitamin c and are still getting sick, why would ny-quil with vitamin c be any kind of improvement?
and that’s all i’ve got for now. i have some desparate housewives and brothers & sisters to get watched before i head off to bed.
the time that i had this great idea that didn’t work out
so now that i’m also working on a new account at work i find myself busier than i’ve ever been. this is great except for the fact that i’m always busy now. i came home and was rather exhausted so i developed this plan where i would go to bed early (9pm) and then just wake up really early (6am) and try to get some work done. well, i woke up at 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep so i went to get started on some work only to realize that i left all the files that i need as a reference on my desk. some good that does me. the good thing is i just realized that i do have something that i can work on now that will hopefully give me the rest of the day to work on the other two projects i need to get done.
so today was the apple keynote at macworld. nothing too exciting. the fact that iTunes music is now sold DRM free is kinda great. or at least it was until i realized how much it will cost to upgrade all the songs i’ve purchased to date in my collection. the problem is that you can’t upgrade anything individually. it’s either everything or nothing. hmmmm. doesn’t look like i’ll be upgrading my library any time soon.
the time that i had 13 days off – parts XI – XIII
i am rather excited to be returning to work tomorrow. not because i miss work but because it will give me something to do. i will need to send some of today working a couple of presentations so that i don’t go into the week with nothing prepared. i should have today but i was too busy sleeping and playing guitar hero.
i’ve begun the early, early stages of seeking out a new apartment. i still have 5 months to go before my lease expires but i figure i might as well get a feel for where i want to focus my searching energies when i do get serious about it. grrr. i hate moving. and even more then i hate moving i hate apartment searching.
ugh i’ve been staring at this thing for an hour now. i can’t remember what else i was going to write about. until later i suppose.
the time that i had 13 days off – parts IV – X
i can’t remember the last time i was this lazy. i haven’t gotten very much accomplished in my time off.
one accomplishment is that right after i finished catching up with seasons 1 and 2 of mad men, i began watching season 1 of damages. i was blown away by the show. i watched almost every single episode right after each other and was hooked. so good. definitely 13 hours of on-the-edge-of-your-seat drama. season 2 starts next wednesday and i can’t wait.
i spent sunday through new year’s day at joe’s place in india(na). new year’s eve wasn’t overly exciting but it was relaxing.
i ended up watching joe play a lot of guitar hero on nye, so much that we decided to get one. my mom was nice enough to purchase one for my christmas gift so on our way back in to the city we stopped at best buy and picked it up. i forgot how much fun guitar hero is. it will be the perfect way to relax after a long day at work.
now there are only three days left before it’s back to work. kind of sad but i’m glad to be going back (except for the fact that i haven’t worked on the two things i wanted to during the break, i will leave that for sunday). 2009 will be a busy year so i have no doubts that it will fly by.
that’s all for now. time for some sleep.
