I just posted a bunch of pics from our vacation. It was pretty wild. Had a great time. And it was great seeing Gian and Anthony!
I haven’t really been blogging as much as I used to. Not sure why. I’ve been really busy at work…and with the new puppy at home…I’m just exhausted.
I haven’t had time to think about those little things that I used to notice all the time throughout the average day…kinda sad. Maybe I still notice them….but my memory is completely shot.
My attention span has seemed a little off lately too. Mike will always be talking to me, but I don’t seem to comprehend the words that he is saying, and then I say “What?”, and he repeats himself…but I’m still not listening. It really pisses him off…but I don’t do it on purpose. I guess I’m just distracted a little too easily.
We reserved our plane tickets and hotel for our San Francisco vacation. I think it is going to be really fun. Now we just have to find people willing to take care of our many pets. My dad offered to take the dogs. Mike’s parents wouldn’t mind taking the pigs or the dogs either. The cats might be able to stay here if someone will come over every couple of days and check up.
It’s raining outside. Kinda depressing. And I guess it is supposed to snow tonight. I can’t wait until Spring. Although, I have no clue how to make our landscaping look all pretty. I could probably like clean up all the leaves and trim stuff…but that doesn’t sound like something I would ever want to actually do…So I think I’m going to have to break down and hire someone. Maybe they will be cute. I can dream.
So I’ve been working on this photo collage for a couple of weeks now. It’s pretty cool, it’s 3-d, and colorful, and fun…but dumbass me was putting the finishing touches on it the other day… I put a coat of clear polycrylic over it out in the garage…and instead of drying, it froze. Now it looks kinda strange. Like cloudy/crusty, but I refuse to give up on it. I will salvage it somehow.
I guess I haven’t had a whole lot going on as of late. I downloaded Visual Boy Advance, a Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator, and have been playing Final Fantasy I&II: Dawn of Souls on it. I like it, because there is a ’speed’ button you can press that literally speeds up the emulation, so you can just fly though some of the more monotonous random encounters. I also learned how to use some of the built in cheat search functions to do some tweaking to my stats and inventory. Yeah some people think that takes the fun out of it…but do you know how many times I’ve played this game? Too many to count…so I’ll do whatever I want with this round. So don’t give me shit…
So what else? Oh I’m planning a vacation with our friends Gian and Anthony. We are planning to go to San Francisco in June. None of us have ever been there. So if you’ve been there, and know some good places, please comment. I’m pretty excited about it. We haven’t been on vacation since we went to Las Vegas in November 2006.
Today I’m going to a business intelligence event in Columbus. In the car at the moment with nothing better to do.
Yesterday I was so annoyed because I wasn’t able to get talula’s meds. I feel so bad because I want my kitty to get better. I shouldn’t have to call the vet three times to get her to call in the prescription. Then I felt like an idiot cause I was waiting at the pharmacy when she finally called it in. Then I was told that it wouldn’t be ready for another day. Wtf. I’m out of town and mike has to work. Wonderful.
Now we are stuck in traffic and I have to pee.
This month I got a ginormous cable bill. What the hell, right. I know I paid it last month. Well it turns out I paid the bill..but to the wrong account through my bank’s bill paying system. Woops. I had to call and sound all stupid…Uh yeah I accidentally paid you for an account I closed 2 months ago. Now I have to wait for them to send me a refund check. Wonderful.
Mike and I actually unpacked a couple of boxes last night! Well I’m not sure if it counts since we pretty much just put stuff in a different box. But at least we sorted through the stuff and decided what can stay in storage and what we will eventually want to put somewhere…we just don’t know where yet. So it’s an accomplishment after all.
I also finally finished painting the shelfs and cabinets in the bathroom. It took forever, but I wanted them just right. Hopefully I can post some pics of the finished bathroom soon. I think it turned out pretty good. Blue/Khaki/Brown kinda theme.
Yesterday I somehow overslept and was like 2 hours late for work. woops. No one noticed, but I swear to chebus I will never let that happen again. Today I had two alarms going off, and I got up right away at 6am. Ok maybe I hit the snooze once….
So I really would like to take a vacation. But it will be pretty damn near impossible, since Mike and I will never be able to get coinciding time off, especially with his school starting back up next week. And flights are crazy expensive over the holiday time. I don’t know how we were able to swing Vegas over Thanksgiving last year. At least that was before we had Makalu and KC, but we still had to haul all the other pets to Mike’s parents in the Cleveland area. I cannot imagine loading up all of the pets now and expecting Mike’s parents to take care of all of them! It’s sad to say…but I really don’t trust anyone to take care of our pets except Mike’s parents. One time I asked my mom to feed our fish while were gone, and she just didn’t do it. And then when I asked her why she didn’t come over, she was all like…how did you know?. Uh because I taped a big note over the aquarium lid and set the food up there that you would have had to move to feed them….and it was still in the same place. Geez. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes. So yeah. Wouldn’t trust my parents with the pets.
Chad’s given me a great tip! Google Maps now has a “Customize Directions” feature where you can drag the blue line noting a route and it will automatically re-route based on your adjustment. I tried it out and it seems to work decent when trying to make small changes. Don’t try to get to complicated because what ends up happening is it creates a bunch of intermediate stops along the way in order to do all the computing. I routed a trip from my home to Cedar Point, and knowing Google always tells me a stupid way to get there….I was able to adjust it to a more sensible route. Yay…no more mapquest…hopefully.
Check out the before and after below. You can see how it put an intermediate stop in there to get it to go in the right direction after I dragged it. Also check out the demo.
