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Aug. 7th, 2003 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7a haiku about my upcoming weekend in California:
Going to CA
excitement builds: I can't wait
to leave this damn place.
I don't know if I wrote about this in here, but I'm going to California this weekend!
Dave's sister lives in San Diego with her husband. They have a lovely house (that they've done oodles of work on) and two lazy cats. Dave's mom and dad were going to go out there to help do a bunch of work on the place this summer, but then the whole awful business with his dad and the fishing accident happened (they should be getting the results of the lab back soon. I told Dave that whether or not his dad had a heart attack or stroke or just plain drowned, he's going to the doctor after the tests come back and getting all kinds of his own general-checkup tests done. Sure he's underweight but that doesn't mean his cholesterol level is healthy. Best to start being aware of that NOW instead of when you start to feel sick...). Anyhow, Dave's mom is out there now, for most of August I think. Which should be good for her; Krista stayed for a month after the funeral, but Mrs. K needed some alone time to deal with things, she said. She's had enough of that and more by now, I'm sure, and I bet it's great for her to go spend some time with her kids (Eric's her new older son already, and he and Krista have only been married what, two years?). I'm glad we get to go out and join them. I've never been to CA but i hear it's beautiful (with a few exceptions)...
Dave's family intimidates me a little bit, but I've promised Dave we can spend Christmas with them if he comes to my house for Thanksgiving. I'm thinking that Thanksgiving might be hard for them, though, being the first holiday without his dad. D'aw, I've forgotten when his parents' anniversary was-- It would have been their 30th and I was supposed to remind Dave to do something for his mom. I'm awful at this crap... My brain hurts.
Anyhow, California. I also need a couple days away from here. I've been so stressed these last couple of weeks, or three or six, that I haven't been myself. I actually had an argument with Dave last night over nothing and wouldn't speak to him for about, well, two minutes, until I realized I'd forgotten my keys and needed him to open the door for me. (I had a terrible day, told him so, and then he was snarky with me because I dared to point out that there was a parking space near the house. Jeez. I'm still not sure if it was me being bitchy, or him. Eck.)
Snarky's not my word. I think leopard lady gave it to me. Argh!
But it's not a bad one...
Anyhow, where was I?
Right, California. Not yet, but soon. Essential to prevent me from punching my boss if he makes yet another silly demand of me. I think I've been doing very well. I was all set to launch the site today but there are so many little issues I think I'm going to hold off until I get back. Tuesday morning, I'm going to check it over, and hopefully by Tues. afternoon or Weds night, I can get it put up and be DONE with it. (Well. For about an hour, until I have to fix something, or start adding the additional features the boss wants.)
Then I'll be free to... well, do grunt work that I'm not remotely interested in. Great!
Hopefully this weekend I'll get to catch up on a couple of my little projects-- most importantly, preparing the photo-CD of my digital pictures from Terry's wedding, which I want to include the photos from Grandma's funeral on as well so that I could perhaps ask people to submit their own additions to it. But I have to have at least a dummy website up for that, to refer them to. Ack.
Oh, I heard back from the doctor and all my tests were normal, whatever that means. *shrug* I assume it means that all eight billion of them were the proper shade of negative or positive. So, bonus-- I don't have gonorrhea, chlamydia, or HIV, which are the only things i remember her mentioning at the time of the test. Not like I was scared of that anyway... which is why I remember that I've been tested for them, because I thought it was funny at the time. My... wild past. All those oats I sowed. Yes... And I started on Ortho-TriCyclen this morning, which is what all three of my sisters are on, because I felt left out. Hopefully I won't gain 20 pounds, which often happens to people on those things... I took my first one today. Last night Dave spent about an hour playing with the case and reading the instructions, which amused me. I had no idea he cared about it. I think he just thought the case was cool. (It is, actually. If they applied the same ingenuity to the contents as to the package, there would be no more menstruation. But I digress...)
So, things are wildly amusing. Just, in general. See me? Right now? Wildly amused, that's what I am. I'm thrilled to death that it's 3:45 pm and I'm going to go make clever little changes to the website. Yes. Awesome!
OK, so that didn't work. But I'm prepared to be wildly amused by anything, so take your best shot. :D
Going to CA
excitement builds: I can't wait
to leave this damn place.
I don't know if I wrote about this in here, but I'm going to California this weekend!
Dave's sister lives in San Diego with her husband. They have a lovely house (that they've done oodles of work on) and two lazy cats. Dave's mom and dad were going to go out there to help do a bunch of work on the place this summer, but then the whole awful business with his dad and the fishing accident happened (they should be getting the results of the lab back soon. I told Dave that whether or not his dad had a heart attack or stroke or just plain drowned, he's going to the doctor after the tests come back and getting all kinds of his own general-checkup tests done. Sure he's underweight but that doesn't mean his cholesterol level is healthy. Best to start being aware of that NOW instead of when you start to feel sick...). Anyhow, Dave's mom is out there now, for most of August I think. Which should be good for her; Krista stayed for a month after the funeral, but Mrs. K needed some alone time to deal with things, she said. She's had enough of that and more by now, I'm sure, and I bet it's great for her to go spend some time with her kids (Eric's her new older son already, and he and Krista have only been married what, two years?). I'm glad we get to go out and join them. I've never been to CA but i hear it's beautiful (with a few exceptions)...
Dave's family intimidates me a little bit, but I've promised Dave we can spend Christmas with them if he comes to my house for Thanksgiving. I'm thinking that Thanksgiving might be hard for them, though, being the first holiday without his dad. D'aw, I've forgotten when his parents' anniversary was-- It would have been their 30th and I was supposed to remind Dave to do something for his mom. I'm awful at this crap... My brain hurts.
Anyhow, California. I also need a couple days away from here. I've been so stressed these last couple of weeks, or three or six, that I haven't been myself. I actually had an argument with Dave last night over nothing and wouldn't speak to him for about, well, two minutes, until I realized I'd forgotten my keys and needed him to open the door for me. (I had a terrible day, told him so, and then he was snarky with me because I dared to point out that there was a parking space near the house. Jeez. I'm still not sure if it was me being bitchy, or him. Eck.)
Snarky's not my word. I think leopard lady gave it to me. Argh!
But it's not a bad one...
Anyhow, where was I?
Right, California. Not yet, but soon. Essential to prevent me from punching my boss if he makes yet another silly demand of me. I think I've been doing very well. I was all set to launch the site today but there are so many little issues I think I'm going to hold off until I get back. Tuesday morning, I'm going to check it over, and hopefully by Tues. afternoon or Weds night, I can get it put up and be DONE with it. (Well. For about an hour, until I have to fix something, or start adding the additional features the boss wants.)
Then I'll be free to... well, do grunt work that I'm not remotely interested in. Great!
Hopefully this weekend I'll get to catch up on a couple of my little projects-- most importantly, preparing the photo-CD of my digital pictures from Terry's wedding, which I want to include the photos from Grandma's funeral on as well so that I could perhaps ask people to submit their own additions to it. But I have to have at least a dummy website up for that, to refer them to. Ack.
Oh, I heard back from the doctor and all my tests were normal, whatever that means. *shrug* I assume it means that all eight billion of them were the proper shade of negative or positive. So, bonus-- I don't have gonorrhea, chlamydia, or HIV, which are the only things i remember her mentioning at the time of the test. Not like I was scared of that anyway... which is why I remember that I've been tested for them, because I thought it was funny at the time. My... wild past. All those oats I sowed. Yes... And I started on Ortho-TriCyclen this morning, which is what all three of my sisters are on, because I felt left out. Hopefully I won't gain 20 pounds, which often happens to people on those things... I took my first one today. Last night Dave spent about an hour playing with the case and reading the instructions, which amused me. I had no idea he cared about it. I think he just thought the case was cool. (It is, actually. If they applied the same ingenuity to the contents as to the package, there would be no more menstruation. But I digress...)
So, things are wildly amusing. Just, in general. See me? Right now? Wildly amused, that's what I am. I'm thrilled to death that it's 3:45 pm and I'm going to go make clever little changes to the website. Yes. Awesome!
OK, so that didn't work. But I'm prepared to be wildly amused by anything, so take your best shot. :D
