A Ceramic Fish Joint

In an act of defiance on Wednesday, I decided I needed a prize. Because, you know, I hadn't just bought a computer five days before. And Wes needed a prize, too. Because he hadn't bought a TV the day before. Yeah. So anyway, trip to Target! Woo! I picked up Land of the Dead. Because I have a serious love for zombies. Really. I <3 zombies. I get soooo excited when the zombies come. I cheer for the zombies. Yay, zombies! Yay, animated dead! Fast zombies, slow zombies, brains zombies, random flesh zombies…doesn't matter. I <3 zombies. And somehow I missed this movie when it came out. I think that I tried to see it with someone..but it never quite worked out. Or maybe I'm making that up. Anyway, I missed it. Which is just damn tragic.

So, zombie movie. Got it on Wednesday. But, couldn't watch it right away because the DVD player wasn't hooked up. Boo. Then Thursday was Crazy Buffet for birthday dinner fun. And tiredness and death. And Friday. Oh the death Friday. I spent the day – 10 hours of overtime…barely able to speak. It was fun coming up with new words. Mostly I just slurred all the sounds together. And if someone couldn't understand me I just said it a little louder and meaner. Heh. That made them not ask any more. Mostly it worked out. Sorta. But, I came home and was awake for like an hour and a half before dying. And actually, you know…sleeping. It's so weird to go to bed early. Okok, really I was asleep by like midnight. But that's really good for me!

So, now I want to watch it…but Wes is all kinds of not home. And I want someone to be excited for the zombies with me. I love it when they eat people. It makes my heart happy. Seriously, when the zombies come… I'm so gonna be first in line to be bitten. Reanimated dead? Hells yeah!

Woo! Wes and I just bought our plane tickets. As I'm looking at my Backpack page for SXSW, I've crossed almost everything off the list!

-Get time off approved done! (almost ran into a snag with the shift realignments. Luckily Resource Planning boy is sympathetic to my problem and marked all the days approved off for me, regardless of which schedule I have.)
-Get registration done!
-Reserve swanky hotel done!
-Get laptop done! (totally not a necessity for the trip..but it was time for a new computer, I really benefit from it…and it will make the trip and conferences a lot more enjoyable. Besides, I <3 the iBook.)
-Buy plane tickets done!
-Save dollars …not quite done. But, thanks to the mad crazy overtime this week and last (dude…in a week? I've worked 64 hours..and I have another 40 to work before I get a day off. So sad, and so dead.) dollars aren't going to be hard to swing. Yay!

So, in six weeks exactly I'll be in Austin. I am so excited, obviously, what with the not being able to think of anything else. It's just great that this year I remembered it..and have the means to go, and actually worked to make it happen. Every year for the last like 4 years at least I've forgotten about it until like February. Then it's too late. I remember again in April or so, but not long enough to make an impression. If it's all I hope it will be, it'd be great to make it an annual thing. Plus, I'd really like to go to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference right before it. It ends like the Thursday before SXSW starts.

I am really such a dork I think.

Mostly I just want to crawl in a hole for seven years.

Yeah, so about that whole iBook thing. I selected seekrit option C. Wherein I went to the Apple store after work and picked up the iBook. Yes, it was the most expensive option. Well, not really. Same as ordering online from Apple…except for how I wasn't going to get a DVD burner. So, yeah…more expensive. Plus, more tax. But! I have it now! And it's all white. And pretty. And not sticky. I'm so pleased. This is, by far, the most satisfying purchase I've ever made. Plus, dude. The come in a handy dandy little carrying case! And it has a glowing apple! And, yeah. It's no less than 17 kinds of fun.

So much happiness. I <3 instant gratification. That's the bestest option of all. We hates having to wait for our prizes, we do.

It's 4am. I can't sleep. I've already taken so many Unisoms that my tummy is really angry with me…so I'm thinking more at this point is a bad idea. Bah. I signed up for overtime tomorrow…10 hours of it. I'm going to be so sad. Sucks, though, cause I really kinda need the money. Like, I look at how much I have and am going to have and it seems like it should be enough. But I just have this feeling that March is going to come, and I'll barely have money to cover the hotel room…then I'll have no cash in Austin. Mucho sadness.

In other sadness news, it looks like there might be some kind of shift realignment. Which will take effect Feb 26th. See above: I'm going to Austin March 10th. Sigh. I freaking knew that this would happen, too. Hopefully I can get the same shift, or a similar enough one and can easily get any other days off that I need. So far nobody has put in time off requests during that time frame, so..let's hope I'm good. I really liked the way my schedule worked out with the trip now – I have two days off before leaving and a day off after coming back.

Still need to buy plane tickets. That should happen soon, I'm thinking. Trying to coordinate a time when Wes and I both have the dollars so we can get the tickets together. Just hasn't worked out as of yet.

In good news, I'm buying an iBook in a little bit. My bank's website is being retarded so I don't know if my check has dropped in yet…but when it does, woo! Plus, I found a way to make it oddly cheaper. Since the MacBook Pro was released, but I can't afford it, but I want it… I decided that I wasn't going to spend too much money on this so that I can get a MacBook later on. So, I was just going to get a 14″ with the most basic stuff – 512mb ram, 60gb hdd, and I was planning on dropping the SuperDrive (CD/DVD burner) and just getting the ComboDrive (CD burner/DVD). Which makes it like 1200. Apple has free shipping, but the taxes are like 80 bucks. BUT! If I go to Amazon – I get a $125 mail in rebate, get to use the A9 reward thingy (takes off like 20 dollars) and there are no taxes. So with the Combo drive included it ends up costing less in the long run. Now I just have to decide how to ship it. Next day can get it to me on Monday – but I don't get home till 8:30. Wes doesn't always get home before the office closes. And if I ship it that fast, I want to play with it Monday night. Two day gets it to me Tuesday, but the same deal. If I choose 3-5 day shipping, it'll just be dumb. Mostly because I don't like to wait for my toys.

Hmm, what else. Oh! I think I yelled at my Target Pharmacy boyfriend tonight. He's actually not my boyfriend anymore because the one time he waited on me I saw his hands…and they were all weird looking. Like funky nailbeds and stuff. That just creeps me out. So, you know, we broke up in the Heidi – Pharmacy tech boyfriend kind of way. *ahem* So, yeah. I go to get my clever spawn blocking cunt ring. Now, another medicine I take for migraines (which happens to have been created for seizures, how cool is that?) interacts with birth control in high doses. I don't take a high dose. Also, the same freaking doctor put me on both. But, every damn time I go to refill my cunt ring, I have to talk to the pharmacist about possible decreased effectiveness thanks to head pills. So, he's all “The pharmacists needs to talk to you, blah blah” And I snapped about being well aware of the possible drug interactions. Heh. He was all, “I'm sorry, ma'am. We just need to be safe.” Hehe. Just need to be safe. That's damn silly. So yeah, I yelled to get my cunt ring at Target. It was a fun night.

Eeep! I have to get up in 3 hours! And I am so not asleep right now. Man, I'm gonna be so sad tomorrow…

I feel like ass. Woke up today…well, yesterday I guess…and was mostly sideways. And then with the coughing. And the not being able to swallow. And whatnot. So I called off, and went back to sleep. And slept, and slept, and slept. Only getting up to go to the bathroom. I slept 20 fucking hours. TWENTY. This is not right.

I managed to go to Publix to get something to drink and some food, though I can't really eat. Mostly, though, I just feel like ass. I don't want to go to a doctor, but I keep coughing and the daily nosebleeds I've been having for like a month now plus the pain in my face make me think I have another damn sinus infection. Which mostly just sucks. So if the asstacularness continues tomorrow, and I can manage to drag myself upright, I might go to a clinic. Stupid sick. Stupid, stupid.

So, Apple revealed its hot new stuff today – complete with the Intel core DUO processor. *drool* Jeebus. If I could have a Macbook, that would kick ass so much. However, it's about $600 more than I can spend right now for the cheapest one – uncustomized… Boo to that.

My throat hurts. Like a thousand Kitten claws, playing “I've got the subtle knife, Mom!” I'm so sad. Stupid, stupid throat. I mean, didn't I *just* have a sore throat last week or some shit? And also, with the damn frequency in which I get them, and have always gotten them, why the hell do I still have my tonsils? I barely have a throat-hole right now because they decided to play touchy-feely with one another (and the hangy-down thing.) That's no less than ten kinds of not cool. Bastards.

Other things that suck:

-The movie Hostel. Really. Not good. Just reminds you how creepy eastern-european countries are. Best horror film in ten years my ass. Though, the one part? With hot guy all mostly nekkid and tied to a chair? Was kinda hot. Heh.

-Getting off of work 15 minutes after a damn football game ends. When you work across the street from the stadium. So much sadness I had on Saturday night. Though, I had armed myself with a Pepsi and animal cookies. And, I kept amusing myself with the animal shapes. Like, I'd not pay attention then be all “ooh! A lion!” Then realize what a dork I am. And then eat it. And then grab another. And be all “oooh! An elephant!” Heh.

-Having really tragic hair. I haven't felt like getting it cut…and it super needs it. And I'm so not pretty right now. Sigh. Plus, I make it even better cause I do such awesome things like wash my hair at night after taking sleeping pills…and then the sleeping pills take me…and I have to go to bed or I'll fall asleep in some weird random place. Like my closet or something. Ok, prolly not that bad…but, you know. Something. So, I fall asleep with wet hair. Except, I still go to bed late, cause I'm me. And yeah. Then I look way hot in the morning. But. I'm always so confused in the morning that I can't understand what's going on when my alarm goes off. All three of them, you know. Like, I realize it's an alarm, and I know I'm supposed to wake up at some point…but I never quite know *when* I'm supposed to get up. Sometimes I start getting ready for work at 3am. Sometimes 8. Never when I should…which is like 7:20. Which means that I always end up not having time to make myself not look like ass. Which means tragedy to my head.

-Ordering contacts and having the stupid place never call to tell you if they're in. And them never answering their phone. A one day wait has caused me to wait almost 2 weeks. So now I'm going to have to go to the office on my day off to see what the hell is up. I hate stupidness like that.

Things that don't suck so much:

-SXSW in TWO months! Yay! Wes just got his registration on Friday, so I won't be alone. Also yay! It's got to the point that I'm spending so much money on it…it's kinda insane…and some things just don't even matter to me now. Plane tickets are expensive as fuck, so I've justified it..and figured if coach is gonna be $400…I might as well be happy and fly first class. Cause, really…who likes coach? Ick. Plus, drunker flight! Woo! Besides, I haven't taken a vacation in forever, and this will be over my birthday. So, yeah. Justifying. It's ok.

-New computer, possibly as soon as next week. Well, ordered next week. A Mac. Probably an iBook. This week is the Mac World Expo, and there's all kinds of speculation of the new Intel chipset being released. If it was, I had wanted to order it after Steve Jobs' keynote tomorrow…but my Dad happened to call last night to borrow money for a few days. So, now I'm down to just under what I wanted to spend. So unless they drastically cut the price of something (which isn't gonna happen) I gotta wait till he pays me back. Either way, I'm excited. I desperately need a laptop, both for sxsw and practical purposes cause sitting here? Just pisses me off. So, yeah.