aftertherockets

Real life is seriously kicking my ass these days. In case you were wondering what happened to me.

Good things, though? The cookie swap was yesterday and I made out with a ton of cookies made by people who are better at baking than I am, which--awesome, and most of the cookies aren't even chocolatey, so double win. AND Tricia came over last night and we watched Love Actually, which always manages to give me warm fuzzies, so yay. ANNNND I hung out with Stew over the weekend. We were supposed to be Christmas shopping, but I only managed to buy one thing, and I still have no idea what to do for my family and I'm fast approaching brokesville, so I don't know about all that. But, happy things! We hung out and watched the Grinch and all was well.

Other than that: ( Memes for the bored. )

Things that are good:

1. Decemberists concert this Sunday! So ridiculously excited.

2. Ashley brought me green curry for dinner last night. I have another meal's worth left over. I've been thinking about it allllll morning.

3. My boss is back from vacation, which means I have work to do again! I'm not sitting around clawing my eyes out for something to pass the time. Also, he's in a really good mood.

4. I got to hang out with Stew this weekend, which is happening less and less often these days. I also got to see other people I never see anymore and go on a hayride through the woods and attempt to freak Ashley out, so overall, I call this weekend a win.


Things that are less good:

1. My dad and my stepdad both are expecting me to spend Thanksgiving with them, it turns out. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to handle this one. I'd rather spend it with my sisters, but I don't really want to go to Florida for an entire week. They're both going to be pissy with me, whatever I choose, so maybe it's best I hide under a rock? Or take my uncle up on his offer to escape to Boston, instead. Having three (four?) families was so much easier when I was twelve.

2. It must be a cyclical thing, because the insomnia's hitting me hard the last couple of days again. 3.5 hours of sleep Saturday and Sunday night, and last night it was 1:30 before I fell asleep, even though I was exhausted. Not cool, man. Not cool.


Things I'm not sure how to classify:

1. My mom's boyfriend is out of town this weekend and she wants me to come down. Yay? Maybe I can convince her to bring my sisters up here Saturday afternoon.

1. I sliced open my left hand index finger last night. I was trying to cut a bagel and decided I should cut my finger open instead. The gimongous bandaid on my finger is making for some excellent typing skills this morning, too. This is why I shouldn't be allowed out of the house.

2. I wish it would cool off already. I'm so sick of waking up all hot and sweaty with my covers kicked off the bed.

3. I am so beyond excited for The Office S2 DVDs. A 17 minute gag reel plus two and a half hours of deleted scenes? I want this now.

4. Ashley and I are meeting madmoisellestar and some others for a cheapo baseball game tonight. I got one of my friends from work hooked on Arrested Development, so sometime this week she's going to come over so we can marathon S3, hopefully tomorrow so we can get a little Project Runway action in, too. My boss is going out of town at the end of the week, so I'm hoping the next few days are pretty low-key around here. That's pretty much in for this week in Heatherland.

5. I'm trying to get back into the groove of posting stuff, can you tell? :p

1. I went to Atlantic City with Racheal this weekend. ( Which actually means, I went to Ocean City, NJ, but stayed in AC. )

2. ( We saw X3 on Friday night. Thoughts and a poll underneath! )

3. I've been talking to my uncle about flying up to Boston for a weekend sometime in June. I'm actually getting really excited, though I kinda wish I could have gone this past month before the weather started shifting into unbearable mugginess. I've been thinking about it a lot, and I'm really going to start saving to move up there. I'm not sure if I'd rather try for this winter or next spring. I may just wait until after my sister graduates high school, because I'd like to be close until then, but who knows. Maybe I'll go up in June and decide I never want to leave. :p

4. Speaking of unbearable mugginess, it's not even June yet and the awful Maryland summer weather has started. It is so gross outside right now, and on top of that, it's sort of freezing in my office, so going back and forth is not so much helping my sunburn-crazy body temperature. Couldn't we just have the perfect May weather stay a little while longer?