Archive for 'Life'
Nature or Nurture
18 March 2008While walking in the city yesterday a homeless woman looked at me and yelled “You’re arrested you stupid bitch!” right as we passed each other. I couldn’t help but wonder if the statement was born of the substance abuse and/or mental illness she clearly suffered from or if she was parroting something that was said [...]
The Fallout
7 March 2008It seems that the result of a very difficult year, combined with the reality that we just aren’t going to get pregnant without intervention, is that I’m somewhat arrested in my ability to cope with any kind of required action or decision making in my daily life. Where I used to have ideas, definition and [...]
Flu Shot Fever
6 February 2008I tend to buy into the hype about things like flu shots, vaccines, preventative maintenance and insurance in general. So it always comes with some surprise when I am debilitated by illness after receiving the aforementioned shot.
It started with a sore throat on Friday, followed by the 101 degree fever which kept me shivering in bed for the entire [...]
Doh!
2 January 2008I got a camcorder for Christmas. It’s a hard drive version, which means I can easily copy my video off to my computer. In anticipation of many happy/frustrating hours of video rendering I decided I needed more RAM for my computer. 2 more gig to be exact. That gives me 4 gig to run on 32-bit [...]
Compulsion
28 December 2007I am driven in ways that are detrimental to those around me. If I am following a self-prescribed agenda it is next to impossible for anyone, or anything, to break me out of an almost obsessive mode to complete my objective. Drew tries to talk to me, the dog wants to play, and the cat wants [...]
Moving Up!
27 December 2007It was but a mere 15 months ago that I was #6 on a Google search. It seems I’ve taken the Bronze and come in at #3!
Do you Vudu?
27 December 2007Through a mailing list at work I found out about a new technology called Vudu. It’s a box that allows you to rent or buy movies from your home and watch them immediately. It’s similar to PayPerView, except that the selection is advertised as having 5,000 movies available and you’re not tied to a schedule. Once [...]
Snap, Crackle, Pop
11 December 2007I’ve had back problems for almost 20 years. They started when I was 18 and working in Yosemite cleaning hotel rooms for a living. I’ve learned to manage the pain with the use of over the counter drugs, an occasional muscle relaxer or a trip to the chiropractor. Once a year or so I actually [...]
Busy Happy
29 November 2007Busy busy busy or happy happy happy. I’m not sure which describes why I haven’t written a blog post for so long. Certainly I’m guessing a bit of both. The last year was probably one of the more stressful in my young life, and as a result I was constantly trying to quiet the voices [...]
Rollin’
20 September 2007I can breathe again.
Drew and I decided to take the house off the market for now. The value has gone down $100k this year and we’re not willing to lower our price that much. We’ll wait it out. Real estate goes up. It always does. It might take a few [...]