Zoe’s Journal

*sigh*

Good evening, peoples.

You ever feel like the waking dead? Or the living dead… or something dead? Ha ha ha.

Today after work (and the chiropractor) I went to the gym and played basketball for two hours. The LotR was going to go see a movie with his friends but he stayed home to work. So when I got home, he was busily playing a snowboarding game with a hot chicka in it. *men* He did make dinner though, so I’ll give him brownie points for that.

It is now after 11pm and I am sooo tired. After I post this set then I am going to bed! Sweet sleep… never can get too much of it.

This weekend was quite entertaining. I only played games for about 5 hours total, and that was all on Sunday. On Saturday, the LotR and I went to the gym in the morning for a couple of hours, then swimming in Cave Creek, then we went shopping for gym clothes (and other clothes)… then we went grocery shopping. After all that, we met my aunt and uncle at Chilis’ for dinner, and they all came over to see the place.

Sunday was more relaxing. We stayed at home (as far as I can remember) and did the laundry… played games… and cleaned up a bit. Oh, never mind. We did not stay home. We went on a ‘date’. We had delicious Italian for lunch and then went to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. *I just had a discussion with the LotR on how to spell that last word, and it ended up with a dictionary. He was right.*

We’ve got to stop eating out so much…

*yawns*

G’night.

I am sooooo sore. Yep.

The LotR and I went to LA Fitness yesterday because I saw online that they had, of all things, Basketball Leagues! Oooh…*rubs hands together in glee*

So anyway, we went to check the location out. There is only one basketball court, and it’s filled with men, but hey, the way to get better is to play against people who are bigger and better than you. Since the only amenity I shall be using is the basketball court, I got a half-price discount!

After signing up for said membership, we drove home - where I promptly changed clothes and drove back over. I am very pleased to see that I have NOT lost all of my shooting ability, haha. I’m terribly out of shape, however - my legs started shaking after 10 minutes. I didn’t leave  though, I stayed for an hour and a half… hence the soreness today.

Work…. work bork cork forck. So I’m working on 401k listings, right? Gahhhhh. They won’t freaking balance. After working at it all day, I finally discovered, to my dismay, ‘I forgot to run the macros!’ GAAAHHHH…. I had to start all over. ALL OVER. I am nowhere near done… and they still are not balancing. Idiotic spreadhseets. *mumbles vindictive curses*

I’ll be frantically brain-searching tomorrow morning. And then it’s the weekend! Hurray for movies and games… and now the gym!

Okaaaay….

So… something is up with this mind-o’-mine. Last Thursday my LotR went to investigate a strange sound emanating from the bathroom. A few seconds later….

“ZoeJane?”

“Ya?” I call, from busily fighting giant invading spiders while leveling up my tailoring skills online.

“Come here….”

I meander into the bathroom and the LotR has pulled a strange looking object from my drawer.

“You left your hair-dryer running while shoved into the drawer!”

“……” So that weird thing used to be my hairbrush, eh?

“Ooops.” “How did that happen?”

He, of course, had no explanation. The hairbrush was merely one instance of destruction rescued from the heat-ignited drawer. My make-up sticks were curled into unfathomable curliques and one plastic bottle had burst, spewing its contents throughout the interior.

Accident # 1 - recorded.

The next day, I returned home, exhausted from work. The LotR went to go take his daily shower (kinda late in the day, isn’t it?) and discovered that, of all things, my hair straightener was still on! Now, that could have been a disaster.

The counter where it was sitting was scorching hot to the touch and I’m surprised the poor iron itself hadn’t succumbed to the heat.

That was the night I frantically pounded my head, wondering what was going on inside.

Over the weekend, I swore to myself not to use a single heating item while the LotR was gone on his hiking trip. So I didn’t. I did not blow-dry my hair, or curl it……

But I forgot to feed the cats.

My poor kitties…. I wondered why they were meowing. I’m such a terrible mother.

The LotR usually feeds them and takes care of the litterbox, but I was so going to remember to feed them and be all responsible whilst he was away.

“Ooops.”

Thankfully, nothing yet today has happened…that I know of. I did my homework (the mid-term project) and submitted it to my instructor online. It was scarily easy. The real midterm is next saturday though. I need to go in person to the college and take the exam then.

The bonus numbers came out today! I shall be almost completely paid-off of ALL my accumulated debt. Then I can start working on paying the LotR back for getting my car fixed. Arg. I be bad driver.

Speaking of ‘Arg’, we did not go see Pirates of the Caribbean like I though we would tonight. Instead, we’ll probably go tomorrow night. Of course, knowing us, we probably won’t get around to it until Friday.

ummm…. that’s all I have to say.

My most wonderful fiance has gone to Flagstaff for the weekend, there to ride for hours upon hours over the mountain and over the hills on his unicycle with a group of his buddies who are, coincidentally, doing the same thing.

How dangerous! You say. I agree. But it’s his fun, and who am I to take that away?

I shall be spending the weekend in front of the computer, most likely, with occasional forays into the grocery store and/or Target. Love Target. The rest of the time shall be spent playing World of Warcraft or some other equally addictive game. When I finally emerge, I imagine it shall be time to go to work on Monday.

I suppose this means that I should go to te grocery store first since there is nada to eat in the apartment and I am already getting woozy from lack of blood sugar. (no, i’m not diabetic… perhaps dangerously close though)

My kitties are awesome! They are so lovable, cuddable, and huggable this morning. I’m sure that will change as they wake up.

What is up with headaches? I’ve had one literally all week from from the time I wake up until I go to sleep. What’s up with that, yo? The chiropractor told me to use a heating pad, but, well, I don’t have one and the headaches are not tension headaches anyway. Blech.

(maybe it’s too much computer? *shudders*)

That’s all for now, folks.

Okay, so this has been a couple of the worst days I’ve had in a long, long time. I’m not even going to get into the details… suffice it to say that work was horrific. Today was actually better than yesterday, but I  have no clue what the hell I will be doing tomorrow.

I keep running into the same problem everywhere I go - Not Enough Work. I get so extremely bored that I go into the spreadsheets and let my imagination run wild as I scheme elaborate ways to make it prettier, more functional, and unneccesarily fancy. But I’m done with that. I even created one of my own just to pass time. And I’m not being lazy or shirking my duties… there is simply nothing else to do even after asking my boss.

Today I got so frustrated with doing nothing that I sent my boss an email basically asking her if she had any more projects for tomorrow (she won’t be here) and if she didn’t, would she mind if I took a half-day…. I went on to say that most Thursdays and Fridays are like this, and would she mind if on days where there is nothing to do I took half-days. I received No Reply. Of course, she left early with barely any remark about the subject.

But there is NOTHING for tomorrow. NOTHING. I am so frustrated. Of course I will go in, but for what? Just in case someone wants their federal tax changed? Here… fill out a form and put it in my box. Gah. Maybe, if I’m lucky, (which certainly isn’t the case this week) the monthly agent numbers will be done so I can work on the newsletter. Usually I know a day or two ahead of time though, and I’ve heard nothing of the sort yet.

The Lord of the Realm is going to Flagstaff this weekend for one his periodic unicycling trips. Hopefully, he doesn’t hurt his back any further. I shall be at home, puttering away at petty things. Pirate of the Caribbean comes out tomorrow! Perhaps we’ll go see that after work.

Sleep is good. I shall go indulge. Peace and tater tots.

(get your own tots…. Geez!)