the 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.