August Comes Early to LofN

It dawned on me today that I only had a couple days left to make a new header grahic for August. I definitely didn't want to put one up late--or not at all, like for July--so I started working on one while taking breaks from everything I was doing around the house. I decided to put it up early when I finished, though, because with as much as I have to in the next few days before Adam comes home , I didn't want to take time away from more important things to work on the site design. So, here it is. It came about while listening to lots of Imogen Heap, Four Four, Dido, and Jem.

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Time Flies

Holy crap, it's been two weeks?! I wish I could explain away all that time, but I can't. I'm not really sure what I have been doing. Adam will be coming home early in a little over a week, though, so I am going to be very busy getting the house ready until then. But, of course, I will always make time for XBL. I just hope the crazies stay away for a while because after this weekend, I don't think I can handle much more crazy.

So what happened? Let's just say that some weirdo started treating me like his online girlfriend after we played CoD4 for several hours straight one day. He then completely wigged out on me two days later for ignoring him and playing with someone else. He removed me as a friend, and then twenty-four hours later, he sent me a long apology and a friend request. DENIED. The long version is far more interesting, but I really don't feel like typing it all out right now.

Oh, and if you're a guy and I play online with you, apparently you're one of my "boy toys" now. Congratulations, or something.

Another One of Those Days

Again, here I am writing about boring crap just to write. Just like yesterday, today sucked. I feel like crap both mentally and physically. I slept in until about 1:30pm, about six hours later than usual, and ever since I have been sitting around waiting for the day to pass. Finally the sun is setting, so hopefully in a few hours I will be ready for bed. If my sleep schedule gets screwed up, I'm going to be pissed. 

Despite my mood, I still managed to get a couple things done today, but mostly I sat around playing CoD4 and watching a few TV episodes. (The new series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime is really cute, by the way.) Unfortunately though, I had to do so on our old tiny TV because yesterday our 50" HDTV decided it wanted to be a brat and turn itself off over and over again, and the only suggested fix I could find online didn't work for me, even though it seemed to do the trick for everyone else. It looks like I am going to have to call Samsung, which I would have done today, but I didn't feel like bothering.

Hopefully whatever the issue is won't be expensive to fix. I don't know how much longer I can go straining my eyes to try and see if that's an enemy I'm shooting at or a palm tree. You have no idea how much ammunition I have wasted on inanimate objects since moving the Xbox upstairs to the loft. I can only hope playing under such circumstances will improve my skills. I won't get my hopes up, though.

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Ugh, Just...Ugh

Today has been weird. After sleeping in an extra two or three hours, I started out the day pretty sluggish. Other than doing a load of laundry or two, I figured I'd just be lazy all day. That was the plan, and I was okay with it. Strangely, though, I managed to get a lot more done around the house than just laundry, yet now I'm angry like I didn't do enough or something.

The only explanation I can think of is the weather. I was making good progress organizing the master bedroom closet when it started storming. I really didn't mind, but after the storm passed, the weather stayed very dark and dreary. Almost immediately, I lost all motivation. Since then, all I've wanted to do is be a bum, and despite that being the original plan for the day, I'm no longer okay with it. I can't figure out why I still feel so cranky, so I'm going to chock this one up to early PMS.

I have to go to the DMV tomorrow, so I'm going to go take out some of my aggression on a bunch of little racist twelve-year olds in CoD4 on Xbox Live. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood before I go to bed.

Stroke and Sugar Free

Oops, I didn't write anything yesterday. I wasn't feeling very well, and honestly, it just slipped my mind. Thankfully today I am am feeling a bit better, though. I was really worried I was going to feel worse because I had things I wanted to take care of yesterday that I had to put off, and I didn't want to have to put them off again today. I'm feeling a bit lethargic this morning, but hopefully soon I'll be able to get going.

Once again I'm writing just to write, and I hate how forced it feels. What other choice do I have, though? I can't get past this block by not writing. That surely wouldn't work. How many times can I write about having writer's block, though? I don't know. Maybe I can't think of anything to write about right now because I just woke up. So far all I've done today is get up and make some coffee, and the only interesting thing about that is the fact that I completely forgot to put sugar in it, but it still tasted good. Also, I kept getting whiffs of something that smelled like lemons while sitting here at my desk, and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Just as I was starting to contemplate the possibility of a mini stroke, I realized the smell was coming from a very old air freshener across the room that I could have sworn lost its smell a month ago.

Wow, I really hope something interesting happens today.