Writer's Block: Short Days

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Can't be beat.

And perhaps the occasional hot buttered popcorn.

bliss....

sucks to be tinkerbelle.

A Productive Weekend.

This is something I have not really experienced in a long, long time--a truly productive weekend.

After we dismissed the kids from the Halloween Fun Friday at school, I first straightened up my desk as I had stacks and stacks of original papers to be filed in the three-ringed binders  and extra copies of worksheets that need to be filed in the appropriate file-folders.  Then I sorted out all of the papers that needed to be corrected.  And then....I corrected them, put the grades into the computer, and filed the corrected papers in my return file.

I hurried home then because I wasn't sure what time the bank closed and I was very anxious to get my check in the bank so I could get some cash to get me through the next two weeks.  I didn't really feel like it, but I got my mail from the post office too--I figured I had better do it since I had not picked up my mail for nearly two weeks. 

I know. 

I'm bad. 

But...but...but...well, there is no excuse except that I just HATE and DESPISE going to the post office.  Seriously.

While I was still in the car, I called Country Pizza and ordered a black olive and mushroom pizza to be delivered.  I figured it was Friday AND Halloween, so I deserved a treat of my own.  I love black olive and mushroom pizzas. 

When the pizza arrived, I took it upstairs and turned on the Ghost Hunters' Live Halloween Special.  It wasn't too exciting--or maybe I was just tired.  I fell asleep after Jason and Grant lied to the others and told them there was lots of "activity" somewhere else so that they could have the dungeon to themselves.  They had heard a rather loud and nasty voice proclaim "You're not supposed to be here" twice.  Now, in my opinion, it sounded like a mechanical tone--like a recording.  I woke up again quite a while later to discover the credits were rolling.  I turned off the TV and went back to sleep.

On Saturday, I slept in till about 11 am.  I don't know why I was so tired, but I was.  I finished the last two loads of laundry that were left from Wednesday, did the dishes that I hadn't done all week, cleaned out the refrigerator, and went through most of the mail--I had billions of political ads which irritated me because most of the Republican ones were bullshit attacks on Obama.  It would be so nice if, just once, they would focus on the truth only and on the issues only.  But--I don't think that is ever going to happen.

My favorite bit of nastiness is that in some states, Ohio being one, so if you are from Ohio, be warned, there is a bunch of republican assholes distributing information that because "voter turn out" is expected to be so high, Republican voters only are to vote on Tuesday and Democrats are to vote on Wednesday.

Sick, sad, pathetic bastards. 

Win at any cost.  Moral bankrupts. 

I did some tidying up, and then I called DeAnn and evilly influenced her to abandon her husband and child (for about 20 minutes) to go to Dairy Queen with me for a Blizzard.  After that I worked on the Nano.  I wrote over a thousand words, but five hundred of them were going the wrong direction.  So I abandoned them and started over.  Now, what I wrote last night was okay--but I don't really feel like I am connected enough to spend a whole month working on it.

At some point, I installed two new discs for my Sims2--one on IKEA and the other on Fun and Games.  So far, I am not seeing massive additional fun added. 

Today, I paid my bills, I paid all the bills that were due, and I paid them on time.  Whoo!  I was short one postage stamp for my envelopes.  I will have to buy one at school tomorrow.  Then my bills can go in the mail. 

I cleaned the cat boxes, I swept and scrubbed the kitchen floor, I scrubbed the stove and all the burners and also the microwave.  I picked up clutter in the living and dining room--though there is still quite a collection of clutter on the table in the dining room.  I sacked up more garbage from the living and dining rooms.  I vacuumed all of the living room and part of the dining room. 

I carried all the clean clothes upstairs and folded and hung them up. 

Now I am upstairs writing up this documentation of my weekend activities.

I did not do my Proverbs yesterday or today.  I may try to do one tonight after I finish this--but I am getting very tired.  I feel the need to go to sleep pretty soon.  I want to put my folded clothing in the drawers and the hung clothing in the closet.  Otherwise, I think I did good at clearing up the mess here at home.  It's a good start anyhow.

I don't know why, but I seem to have much more energy.  I know a big part of it is that my knees are not so horribly painful since I got my knees injected with cortizone.  That is a cool thing.  Hurts a little to have done--but not horrifically.

I don't feel the seasonal depression as strongly now either--I hate to say it--but I think that some of those hard choices I had to make last week paid off.  It hurts to think that I had to let go of some people I cared about--but this feeling of lightness seems to indicate that it was the right choice.  I hope they will be okay.  I feel sad for their pain--but when it comes down to the bottom line, I have to take care of myself.  No one else will.

well, i think I have time to play sims for an hour or so.