Suddenly Routine

Has it really been two months since my last post? Wow, that’s pretty lame even for my everyday low standards.

What has happened since July? Jeez, not that much. My daughter had her fourth birthday, I had my 38th. We went camping one weekend. My summer classes ended (A in Statistics, B in Chemistry Part II, The Retake) and I had about three weeks off before my fall semester started.

Speaking of my fall semester, in order to finish my classes on time, I had to take an extra class this semester (and will have to next semester too). It wouldn’t be a big deal, but all the classes I need are the ones with labs. So this fall, I’m taking Organic Chemistry, Genetics, Physics I and Nutrition (but that’s an online class without a lab, so I don’t really count it as a serious class) And then there’s the beginner swim class at 8am, three times a week. Things are going well so far, but I’m starting to feel some pressure. I had a school anxiety dream last night about getting into a fight with my professor and having her yell at me in front of the class for being stupid. Nice, right? I thought I was too old for those dreams.

On the more positive side, I believe I have found the holy grail of school bags (for me). I found one that holds notebooks, text books, my laptop, wallet, moleskine, water bottle, my lunch and assorted pens/tissues/gum/keys/etc. Maybe not all at the same time, but enough for me. I don’t know if it’s the most stylish bag in the world, but I really like it and am super happy with it so far.

Here it is: The Sherpani Sojourn.

And it’s not a backpack or a rolling case. Good enough for me.

Ok, that’s it for now, see you in another two months.

Proving that I am not as mature as I probably should be, I give you the potato boobs. This was an actual potato that I found in the bag while making dinner last week.

Things have been a little slow around here. There’s been the whole summer classes thing, Statistics and Chemistry II (yes, the one I withdrew from last semester. I love Chemistry so much I thought I’d take it again.) Not having internet at the house, and not really being all that inspired to do anything here. I’d like to change that, but don’t hold me to it.

Today I was poking around in the folder that holds all my spam contents, looking for maybe that one legitimate comment that accidentally marked as spam (never find one, but I’m a sucker for comments, so I keep hoping) and started reading of them. Most are lame and just links to whatever stupid stuff is out there, but some are kind of funny. Here are a couple of the better ones.

Virgil Coloma wrote, Seriously is an incredible piece of content! We now have book marked it and mailed it out to all of my close friends as I know they will be interested, thank you very much! Sounds pretty good to me. I like spam that makes me feel important.

Wimpy just went with, Yo, that’s what’s up trthufully. This shit be funny, yo.

Play Bingo wanted to start a discussion. There is some validity but I will hold judgment until I look into it further. This was on my last post. Yeah, not much to discuss there.

Lyddy’s is my favorite, Great hmamer of Thor, that is powerfully helpful! Great hammer of Thor, I wish this person had spelled hammer correctly.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of my website. Ten years ago I decided to post this and the tone was set. Who could’ve predicted the journey this site would take after that first historic post? You know, I probably could have predicted the lack of solid direction, sporadic posting and a never fully finished design and I would’ve been right. I know myself pretty well. But I wouldn’t have predicted the direction my life took. Let’s compare.

Me in June 19, 2001: 27 years old. Living by myself in Atlanta. Working at a software company as a designer. Single. Living a pretty self-centered lifestyle, lots of good times.

Me in June 19, 2011: 37 years old. Living with my husband and daughter in Rochester, NY. Haven’t worked in almost two years after getting laid off. Back in college, working on my second bachelors. There are still lots of good times, but they are different good times now. Better ones.

Turns out a lot can change in 10 years. Way to state the obvious. I really should put more thought into this shit.

Ten years I’ve been maintaining this site in one form or another. I noticed on more popular sites, you know sites that have traffic, they have some sort of giveaway to mark the big occasion. Yeah, I don’t have any sponsors or traffic or whatever to have a month long giveaway extravaganza. I’ll have to think about this one some more, maybe I can come up with something. But until then, here’s the clip I always think of when I hear “10 years”

Yesterday was the last day of our billing cycle, so our tv/internet/phone should be shut off now. However, I woke up this morning and realized the wireless was still working. Ahhhhh… free internet. And no, it’s not my neighbors’ signal. (I already tried to see if we could get it… just to see if I could, not to actually steal it) The cable company wants me to return the box and modem to them. They said anytime after June 6. What I’m wondering is if we’ll still get cable/internet until I actually disconnect the devices. I’m not sure how it works over there. (Don’t want to mention the company to stay off their radar, just in case they ‘forgot’ to shut us down.)

I’m not sure what Sylvester Stallone has to do with this, but when I did a google image search for ‘borrowed time’ that’s what I found after I sifted through too many John Lennon images.

I feel like such a renegade, not knowing how much time I have left with the at home wireless makes me want to squeeze every last bit per second out of the air.

Viva la revolution!!

Just making sure I can keep up with my posting schedule when I shut off the house internet. Only two days left… and I am not looking forward to it.

There might be a lot of these in my future. So I’ll be spending the savings over at my favorite liquor store…

This summer we’re going to try a little experiment. We want to try to cut down the household budget and there are only a couple of things that can really be cut. In the immortal words of Eminem, “Sometimes you need to stop living up here [waves hand above head] and start living down here. [waves hand below head]” We’re cutting the land line since we both have cell phones. And this really hurts me, but we’re getting rid of cable. I know I’ve made that statement before, but we’re really going to do it this time. And the last and biggest thing to go is our internet connection. Man, that even hurts to type out. Have I gone insane? Did all those science classes break my brain? No. I’m hoping our cable-less-internet-less summer makes us more productive and maybe more active?

June 1 is the day I have set for the big change. My husband is sort of on board. Anna is going to be pissed when she finds out “the white remote” will no longer bring her unlimited Spectacular Spiderman and Strawberry Shortcake cartoons. She’s only three, she’ll adapt. Or else become hopelessly addicted to her Mobigo. And worst case scenario, it will only be three months.

After typing this all out, I’m starting to second guess myself. I love my wireless connection. But I spend hours just mindlessly drifting from site to site. It will be good for me to be unable to do that. Not at first, but hopefully eventually.

And just so you think I’ve gone batshit insane, I’m not giving up my iPhone. So I guess I won’t be totally internet-less. I’ll just be Flash-less. Ha!

School is out and my summer classes don’t start for a couple of weeks. So instead of doing something productive and useful to the whole household, I decided to redesign my website.

You know the phrase, “Use it or lose it?” Yeah, that applies to not only design skills, but also software skills. I’m a little rusty. Not even a little, I think all that anatomy and biology knowledge pushed out the old design knowledge to make room for the new stuff. (Notice how I left out Chemistry. My brain made no effort to welcome that guy in, which is why I’m taking it again this summer.)

So anyway, let me know what you think. I’ve been having a good time on a rainy Sunday playing around with a new wordpress theme. I haven’t gotten very far, so things might look a little funky. Or a lot funky.