- Yesterday, another mystery ailment for the SecondHand Car. Came out to drive to dinner and the passenger-side window was rolled all the way down. I never touched the damn thing. Won’t roll back up.
- This brings me to the mechanic this morning, of course. Thankfully, no rain last night.
- LIST OF PROBS I GAVE THE MECHANIC. (1) The window, obviously. (2) The Swamp is beginning again. Find the fucking leak. (3) SERVICE ENGINE SOON light is off and on, off and on. Never stays off more than a day.
There are 3 weeks until Shannon arrives. I need to get my shit together and get the bedrooms ready. Are you coming to SillyBring? April 24 is coming fast. So far, we have seven people, including me.- There are a lot more Poison fans than I thought. Oddly, some of these people are friends of mine. Oddly, I still like them. The friends, not the fucking band.
- Then again, I like Rick Springfield, so who am I to judge?
- Tomorrow is not only Mom’s birthday, but my twin daughters’ birthday, too. April Fool’s! Mom is still 36 (she swears), yet I’m 43. There may have been a flux capacitor involved, I don’t know.
- Mom is doing well, by the way. This is her second week of physical therapy. Walking around, she even drove from the house to the restaurant last night. “Braking is a bitch.” Um, yeah, Mom. Let’s hold off on the driving, then, for a few more weeks. Braking? Sort of integral to the whole driving thing.
- I’ve had a couple of epiphanies of late. I don’t know what good they do me.
- Been digging “Lost” and its last season. IMAGINARY SPOILER ALERT, BUT ONLY IF I’M RIGHT. My guess for the ending is that Hurley and Sayid will replace Jacob and the Smoke Monster as guardians of the island.
- Almost caught up on “Life,” too. Great series from the same people at Discovery that came up with “Planet Earth” a few years back.
- I’m so woefully behind on virtually every series I watch that there may be no recovery.
- The Sickness. Still coughing and blowing my nose, but I’m relatively better. May start hitting the Y again tomorrow. Just in time for April’s Resolution (announced tomorrow).
- Shit, I really need to come up with April’s Resolution.
- I have the Matrix Therapist this afternoon. Doctor visit tomorrow morning. And a 2-hour drive to get my eyes examined next week. Hoping the car is fixed well before that drive. Having nothing but ordinary terrestrial radio available (should I need to take Mom’s car) is unacceptable.
- Taking mental inventory between now and therapy is gonna be tough. I don’t really KNOW how I’m feeling. Better? Worse? Same? Is the Abilify doing anything? It *might* be giving me more energy (thus, my greatly reduced nappage quotient), but it sure as hell ain’t improving my mood. I don’t think. Then again, the MT did say last time that I seemed “mellower.”
- On second glance, I think I may need to increase the dosage. Feeling like withdrawing from the Net (even like axing accounts) can’t be a good thing. Not for me, anyway. Just. Not. Feeling. It.
- I still get 20-30 “press releases” a day from people trying to get me to write about their celebrities. Hello? No longer doing the celeb thing. Please delete me from your lists. Thanks.
- I also get 10-20 emails a day telling me about Mommy issues. This is also residual ex-job stuff, but probably has some BlogHer mixed in there, as well. Your new nipple cream to help me with my sore nips after feeding my triplets? Thanks, don’t need it.
- After seeing Ben Folds with my friend, Tracy, she got tickets for us to see OK Go in May. She didn’t even ask me first. I’m not bitching. Another band I’ve never seen live. Here’s to hoping they have a giant Rube Goldberg machine set up on stage…or at least treadmills.
Dude. Who doesn’t love “Jessie’s Girl”?!
Yay for mom being better and sicknesses going away!
Too bad you’re not closer – Mr. Law could totally fix that window for you AND the service engine light thing.
Go enjoy your day! That’s an order.
<3
xo
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 11:59 am
@Sybil Law, That would certainly save me the $650 it’s gonna cost. Ugh.
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Sybil Law Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 8:09 pm
@Secondhand Karl, for what?! what the hell are they doing?
you’re getting ripped off, if it’s for those 2 things. seriously.
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am
@Sybil Law, It’s all three things, actually. And there aren’t a lot of choices here.
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I love Ok Go, I think they’d be great in concert.
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 11:59 am
@Robin, Love them, too. Can’t wait.
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LoL @ OK Go doing the treadmill thingy ‘live’: that would certainly be a treat!!
Sorry to hear you’re still battling the coughing and sniffles – I started March with a cold that lingered way too long, and as you know from my post, it really impacted the achievement of my March resolutions. There’s that fine line one needs to straddle, between not pushing yourself too much when you’re just not up for it, vs pushing yourself out of self-coddling… tough call!
Hope you continue to feel better!
btw I did my first Zumba class in months, and was immediately reminded why I’m not fond of it.. “Happy hips”??!! Yeah right!! :p but still, I broke out some sweat, and I was moving for about an hour, so it counts for something, even though I was eyeing the clock the whole time thinking “are we done yet?” :p
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 12:00 pm
@*lynne*, Yeah, I was the same way with Zumba. Gonna try it again, though. Push past the discomfort or some such happy horseshit.
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I missed last night’s Lost so I caught your spoiler alert just in time. Do you have any idea how much willpower it took to not look anyway?
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 7:52 pm
@Kevin Spencer, Oh, it’s more a prediction of the series finale than a spoiler. Won’t spoil anything from last night’s episode.
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So based on today’s tweets from Shannon, we now know she’ll be in Utah the week before Sillybring. She is quite the traveler.
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Secondhand Karl Reply:
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@martymankins, Must have missed those tweets. Seems like you’re right, then. You gonna be able to see her?
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