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 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 13 days off from work – parts I, II, & III
prologue (22 december):
it was a struggle getting through work on monday. knowing that monday would be followed by 13 days of relaxation was too exciting. there was barely anybody in the office so luckily i was able to get some last minute items done before the holiday break. i was so excited that instead of taking the bus from the train station i decided to walk. as you see in the post below, that was somewhat of a mistake. that having been said, as you will read shortly, i haven’t left the apartment much since i got to walk home in -3 degree weather.
part I (23 december):
this started out my marathon of tv watching by trying to get through. by the end of the day i had like 12 hours of sleep and 12 hours of tv watching under my belt. there wasn’t much left on my tivo to be watched.
part II (24 december):
by this point in my vacation i started to realize that i wasn’t going to be able to keep this up much longer. the tivo was pretty much empty except for a few select programs. i finally moved on to starting to watch seasons 1 and 2 of mad men.
part III (25 december):
not a very exciting christmas. not going back home to see the family kind of ended up sucking, especially with having all of this time available. i’m nearly done with season 2 of mad men and it has gotten crazy good. i’ll be sad when i’m done but luckily only have a few months before season 3 starts.
after mad men is done i’m going to breeze through season 1 of damages and then i think i’ll be done with catching up on all of my television that i’ve been meaning to get through. beginning tomorrow i will also be trying to add other activities to my daily agenda as television watching and napping has gotten old really quickly. next week i hope to stop in at the art institute and see all my favorite impressionist pieces that have finally returned. beyond that i’m not sure what else i am going to do to fill in the time.
the time that i got a ginormous tv
omg this tv is amaaaaaaazing. 46″ of wowness. the picture quality is beyond words. it’s a bit crazy going to a tv that’s twice the size as the old one. it’s taking a bit of adjustment but i think i can manage. getting the damn thing was a journey in and of itself. i had requested dhl to make another delivery attempt so i decided to work from home so i could be here for that. of course they still had it on hold at the station for pick up so my friend andrew and i had to rent a zipcar and journey down to the southside to pick it up. that was just grand. as we were walking down broadway to pick up the car it was sleeting and i was trying to have a conference call with work. good times. i finally got the tv and it was sort of worth the battle. especially the one i had trying to set it up. it ended up being a lot heavier than i had expected. i tried lifting it out of the box only to realize that it wasn’t happening. so i had to lightly turn the box over on its side and slide the tv out and drag it into the living room. at this point i had to muster enough strength up to pick it up off the floor.
good times.
after reviewing my most current cell phone bill i have determined that i have enough rollover minutes saved up that i could talk on the phone for five consecutive days and never hang up and still have a bit left over.
bleh, what is up with me having even less to talk about than normal?
the time that the weather was a huge letdown
i’m so tired of these bogus winter storm predictions that just don’t come to fruition. i get all excited thinking it will be bad enough to warrant the office being closed and then it just doesn’t happen. granted it did snow a lot today, it certainly didn’t get bad enough to not have to go into the office tomorrow.
i’m just hoping the journey to work isn’t as bad as it was today. it was sleeting this morning and to make it worse i think my umbrella is at my friend john’s place. the walk to the bus stop was bad enough with the wind blowing cold ice into my face but it got so much more worse as i stood on the corner of foster & ashland waiting for the #92 bus to come. there was a point while i was standing there that i just wanted to go home and climb back into bed, either that or just start crying. it was at the point that i realized that as much as i love winter with its snow and cold weather, i’m so done with it for a while. spring and summer need to hurry up and get here.
speaking of spring and summer arriving shortly, it looks like i’ll be playing on a softball league starting in may. this should be fun(ny). i’ve warned my friend who got me to join that i haven’t played since i was 7 so this is bound to be an interesting adventure.
in other horrific news, my cable card that is in my tivo messed up sometime today and random channels aren’t showing up. tonight’s episode of project runway didn’t get recorded! i’m hoping it gets fixed soon so i can catch a re-air sometime soon. rcn totally blows, i think i need to consider the move to the equally bad comcast.
i’m trying to decide what i’m going to do apartment-wise as my lease will be coming up for renewal in four months. while i do have plenty of time to find a new place, i have less than 60 days to decide if i want to move or give it another year here. i have this horrible fear of not being able to find something decent in my price range. do i want a 1 bedroom or a large studio? do i stay in andersonville or try a new neighborhood? roommate or no roommate? too many decisions to make.
i’m 5% closer to purchasing the couch (for a total of 95% sure). i think i’m going to go this weekend to check it out once more before i order fabric swatches and place my order. oh yeah, and i should probably make sure it will fit in my place as well.
and now it’s nearly 3am and i’m not asleep yet. i probably shouldn’t have taken a nap earlier this evening.
