long weekend

Had a long weekend... I can't say it was really restful even though I did spend quite a bit of time screwing around. I think it's the things I 'need' to do looming over my head. Dishes, cat litter, laundry, chores, and damn dirty chores too!

I did have some fun helping Dad & his neighbor Rexx hanging new gutters on his house. More pics over on his blog entry for the day. It was fun b/c me and Rexx made jokes at Dad's expense. It was fun for us. I got to do pop-riveting again, which I haven't done since junior high school metal shop. I got to it pretty easily though, the rivet gun was a bit rusty though and stuck often.

Pooks and I spent time on Sunday cleaning and working. Well I cleaned and she worked. Well, by cleaning I mean I shuffled stuff around without really "cleaning". Full of sound & fury (&dust) but not much after that. I did find the broom though, it's been missing for a week now, so things have gotten dusty.

Back to normal life...

Pooks' surgery went well. (She had it on Thursday.) She was stressed but spent most of the time asleep. I was stressed but spent my time awake and waiting. Jennifer was there with me and we passed the time by walking and talking. We were in the little "room" waiting for Pooks when they brought her back. I was slightly surprised that they had her on oxygen when they brought her in, not in a good way either. I had always associated the oxygen tubes with old people who couldn't breath... patients on their way out, but still be kept alive by modern medicine. So I was surprised, but she came in & out of consciousness and I held her hand and soon was more awake. I was ready to sleep by then though. The nurse had turned down the lights and I was sitting there and it was just the two of us and I finally started to relax. Eventually we both had to start moving around to wake up and were out of the hospital, in only 7 hours.

Friday I was dead tired still. Being tense for a whole day doesn't make for a good next day. It was rough and I wasn't the most productive for that day. This weekend too, I spent my time playing WoW and just not "doing" much of anything. In some way I needed the time to space-out. Pooks is recovering well too, she's up and about easily, still gets tired fast though, but she's not having any problems/complications from the surgery itself.

Back to normal life...

Boredom + unmoving cat + scissors = fur fun

I was trying to play games on my computer and one of our five cats would not move off the keyboard. She was sleeping in front of me and rolling around a little, and kept pushing on the keyboard when she did. I was kinda bored with my game and I saw a knot of hair on her chin. Snip, snip, knot taken care of... snip snip, and she started purring. Oh the kitty likes getting snipped! So some more snipping ensued and now we have a slightly patchy cat. No cats were harmed during this, but she's a little bald in a patch.

I've gotten into a reading mood. I can tell b/c I've been actively avoiding the tv room and also video games (a little). My mind is wanting brain food. Sci-Fi should be good, as well as something stimulating. So I plan to hit the local used bookstore for a reading frenzy. My librarian sister(Hi Eve!) gets onto me for not having a library card... oh well ;-) I should get one, but I just haven't yet.

I've been thinking about getting into the Pokemon-craze, but I'm not there yet.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/23

Not there yet...

Me and a friend had a long lunch time talk about the eternal, "What do I want to do when I grow up?" or at least what to do with my life now. I've been getting the urge to change, but to where or what I don't know. A lot of times, my brain runs on over-drive with ideas and possibilities, narrowing that down, holding onto one and finishing it is much more difficult. I am just not sure.

34 and counting....

Turned 34 on Saturday! Yay! Woot! Yippee!

Went to see the Harry Potter movie, verdict: it was ok, but not great.

Spent the rest of the day relaxing with Pooks. Since she had been out of town for the week we used most of the day to just be together and enjoy each others company. It was a nice long realzing weekend.

Several freinds of mine are doing 'self-imporovement' type things. preparing for job changes, working on their education, things like that. I have wondered if I should be doing those things too, but I really like what I do, maybe not where I'm doing it, but I love the what part. If anything, going back to school for a masters would be worthwhile, but I look at the time and money it would take and I have my doubts about it. I know it's a good investment, but with other things to worry about...

on a good note, I've paid off my van woohoo!

Slaughterhouse Five

I was thinking about that book, "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, last night. I was thinking about girl baby names, and one that I like is Lauren. Mainly b/c I had a crush on a girl in high school named Lauren and she liked "Slaughterhouse Five". In it there is a scene where the dad/main-character finds his son with porno mags, showing "Montana Wildhack", in the bathroom. He takes them away, and starts looking at them as well. Later on when he is abducted by aliens for their zoo, the aliens capture the porn star, Montana Wildhack, to live with him. I was thinking about that in terms of the American Idol scandal concerning the images of Anatolla Barba(NSFW - Not Safe For Work). I wonder if she will end up in an alien zoo with an optometrist.

I like the name Lauren.

for a boy I like Zade. It's a family name.

Helen and I are stuck wondering if we should have kids. I have gotten advice going both ways. I'm not sure which way I want to go with it.

I'm also kinda not sure what I want to do with my life in the coming months, going back to school, learning guitar, or trying motorcycling again. I look around and see a crap-load of things that need to be done around the house.

I've been sick the past weekend and so I put in a lot of WoW time. I went from level 50 to 53 in 3 days. I got a cool mask/helmet that makes me look creepier. I also went through and got rid of some characters I just wasn't playing. I had a fun time playing the Alterac Valley 80 player instance, 40 vs. 40 is just fun! I helped fight all the way to the furthest north graveyard, before real life called and I had to go clean or something.

Back again for the first time!

WooT!

Greatings to all my readers (all 4 of you)!

It's been an active time since I last wrote something. I married Pooks on Nov. 4th, I'm closing on a new house, I am learning to live with two new people in my life and I got my warlock to level 45 in WoW.

Me & Pooks:
That's the only picture I've got that I really care about.

So we're happily married going through the growing pains of wrestling with learning to live and be with each other. It's fun being with her even through the rough times.

We're trying to get things rolling on a business doing things online. I can't say we're more focused than that b/c we're not. Not the best business plan to start off with, but it's what we've got for now.

I haven't been getting much sleep recently. Between Maggie's school work and my own trying to clean and get things given away or packed I've been up past midnight twice this week. A big spaghetti lunch and now it's catching up with me. I'm so ready to just curl up and sleep.

In the meantime though, I will keep plugging away at work and fixing up the websites we've got for work stuff.