A lot of things have been going on the last few days, so I do apologize for not writing. I think I'm doing pretty decently in the courses I'm taking and it's taking up a lot of time. I'm enjoying it, too and that's what is going to make it worth my time.

Tomorrow is going to be hellacious. The Boss and Gang will be in the office tomorrow. I almost had the urge to call off today because I had one of those 'gut feelings' that today was going to be aggravating. It wasn't as bad as I had thought it was going to be. But I've been keeping mainly to myself anyway, so it is not affecting me as much as it normally would with the attitude and whining.

I've been getting a cold. I have a sore throat and I've been wanting to sneeze all day but it doesn't seem to get to come out. Perhaps tomorrow. I've been taking only one alka seltzer liquid gel instead of two because they make me loopy, at least at work they do. I only took one at home tonight so I could make dinner and eat and take a hot shower.

Well. I am gonna go. I am going to go to bed soon and I want to get off of here, finish watching Heroes and make a phone call.

Goodnight.

Peace and quiet aren't overrated. In fact, these are very good things. Everyone needs time to themselves to think and regroup. Weekends help me with that. I avoid everything I can completely. If I don't have to leave the house, I don't. If I don't have to answer a call, I don't. I avoid people like the plague. Sometimes. There are times where I will go out and be with friends and have a good time. Those times I need people, I need conversation.

My buddy called me up weeks ago and left me a voicemail. I was sick and there were only a couple of people I was answering calls from. I forgot he had called and decided to give him a call to let him know that I hadn't forgotten him. He told me people have still been asking about me at the bar we go to. I told him the same thing I told them. Once it gets cold, I won't be going out. Of course this was a weekend in the sixties when it should have been in the thirties. He said it's WARM out. Get out here. Well I couldn't because I had extra kids. I told him if I had a kid free saturday (today) that I'd come out if he was buying. So he said he'd buy me a drink. So I'll be going out for at least two hours if the Little Lady is staying with one of her friends tonight.

I'm still sniffling and coughing a bit. Sinus pressure was bothering me when I got up this morning so I took two advil and it's gone now. I can't stand being sick even a little bit. It's too much.

Alright, well. I know I didn't post yesterday, but maybe I'll have some more to post later today. I am off.

I miss my honey. He hasn't even been gone a full day but I'm used to talking to him most of the day and evening. I got to talk to him on my lunch and this evening. All is well here and all is well there.

Jack is hilarious though. I swear he tried to jump from his one spot where there is somewhat a pile of vines in his tank to the log on the other side. He made it, but it was kind of hilarious to see him jump that far.

Alright well I am going to lay down and watch tv until my honey is available again.

Laters.

Today was not a quiet day at work, but the evening has been fairly quiet. It isn't quiet often, but it's kind of nice to have that now and then. Honey went on a road trip to visit some of his east coast friends so he's been gone all day. Left before I even got out of bed. I talked to him just before he left. He should be home in about an hour or so.

>P>We went for a walk on the trails at a local park yesterday. It was a fun time but I wish it had lasted longer. There's a ton of stuff you can do there and we didn't get to do more than look at a few wild animals in captivity and walk a few trails. I wanted to stay longer but ohwell, it's always an excuse to go again.

Someone down the way is revving their bike. Yay.

So I'm cooking dinner. I am making baked chicken, creamy garlic shells and a variety of veggies. I wanted dinner rolls, too, but the bag says they can't be frozen together and mine are frozen in a lump, so if I want some I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Dinner should be ready just in time for Honey to be home. Yes, it's taken me quite a long time to write this post. I think I've been working on it for about two hours without interruption other than dinner. Oh yeah, and petting Velvet.

So I'm doing ok in the Flash class. I am holding onto a B. I hope to keep holding it very tightly. The class seems to be a touch harder than I thought, which happens.

I think Honey is home, so I am off.

So the chicken isn't done yet, but everything else is. I'm waiting for it to be done. I'm starving. About getting a headache from it, too.

Alright, well, I'm gonna go set the table and hopefully I'll be able to post again in a few days.

Well I had to go to Mom's to get online. Yep. Our internet is down. We were first to report it, but since we waited all week to do it (spotty connection all week, but we had internet) they couldn't do anything for us last night. They hijacked our modem in order to figure out what the problem is, others are having shoddy connections, too and it's on the DSL provider's side. So we have no internet at home. There are a couple of WiFi places in the area, but we think they charge, and refuse to pay money for service we should have at home.
So homework got handed in a day late and I posted a notice to let the instructor know what's going on.

So this lovely post is to let all of those I love know out there that I'll be back within 48 hours, per the DSL provider, and if I am not then that means the town is buring and that I will be in need of minions.

Until the net is given back to me.. Laters.

And we're back...

Ok, so we are back on the internet! Yay!

I'm done with homework and thinking of a possible new layout. It contains blood. I haven't officially decided yet.

Laters.

So for some reason a redirect I had put on ages ago took place immediately tonight and then the servers at the host went down. Odd happening or coincidence? Heh. I'll never know. They got the servers back up, I took the redirect off. All fixed.

I think I'll go to bed now. Oh yeah, All As again last week! Whooowheeeee!

For the past few days I've had major issues with the internet. The router has been reset numberous times, the computer rebooted, shut down, restarted, etc. and nothing seems to prevent it from acting out. I get IE Errors stating I'm not connected to the internet when trying to load pages.

I think those construction guys down the way have screwed with the connection. Perhaps they cut a wire or simply nicked it and it's screwing with me. Perhaps the Internet Deities are against me.

I don't know. I tried several times to watch season one of October road since I missed most episodes because of schedule clashes with another show. Anyway, I haven't been able to watch anything online because of the shoddy connection, then when I finally get a decent connection I don't have enough care to bother watching! Meh.

Lately I have felt like there is something missing. Other than a job, of course. The Little Lady spends an abundance of her time on the computer, on MySpace (monitored, of course) making layouts for her friends and uploading them for others to take. Honey has admin responsibilities on the server that hosts a game he plays. He basically makes sure that everyone is on the level and following the rules, when there is an issue he gets it fixed. He's the go-to guy if there's an issue. It takes up a lot of his free time.

I don't feel lonely. I've got friends to chat with online, on the boards and posts to write. Writing.

Lately I have been wanting to write again. Again.

I haven't written anything except blog posts for a very long time, or so it feels that way. I can dive into a book and go away for a few hours, live in someone else's fantasy world created for my enjoyment, but even that isn't enough.

I want to write. I just hate not knowing where to begin. I'm not in the mood to write erotica at this time. I'd like to go back to writing about a few characters from years ago that I used to play, but I don't think I have it in me. So I want to create new characters and figure out what makes them tick.

I've got school to focus on the most though. This class is possibly going to be more difficult now that I have the book in front of me. How odd does that sound? I have several pages to read to catch up. I think I may just focus on what I have to read for this week and get this week over with. I actually want to learn something. I've already decided that keeping all of my books is a good idea. I can actually sit my ass down and read through them and perhaps learn something. Except the PHP book. I'm not going to learn anything from it.

I've been looking at the Holly Lisle website again. She's an author and has been so kind as to share her wisdom on writing. Some of the information I find worthwhile, other information I am not sure.

I have two books by Orson Scott Card on writing. One is on writing SciFi & Fantasy and the other is on Character Creation. They are both great books. And stupidly I didn't think to look for Worlds of Wonder while we were at the library today. Ohwell, we are going to go to the other library soon (I'm hoping tomorrow) and I can look to see if that one has it. Or I can look online now and spare myself the time.

Well. I am off for bed. Goodnight, Sweet Dreams and all those Other Good Things.