Apparently, this is secretly Monday.

I knew I was going to have to spend the evening emptying out the refrigerator, and wasn’t looking forward to it. What caught me completely off guard was coming home to discover that some jackass had gone off the road and destroyed the light at the end of our walk.

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At 5:30 this morning.

Got me evening all mapped out: listen to the game and clean out the fridge and freezer!

On the bright side, I’ll get rid of all those freeze dried veggies that have probably been buried in the back of the freezer for years.

Is it Murphy’s Law or some other for of karma that decided that the power outage (17 hours and counting) should occur on Trash day–i.e. my trash went out this morning, while I have a refrigerator/freezer full of food that may now be garbage.

Ugh.

There’s your warning. Avoid my driveway for the next week, cuz that’s where the trash can is.

For the past three or four years, I’ve been trying to go to the gym five days a week to walk and do weight training. Since my depression kicked in this summer, it’s been far more off than on, and for the past three weeks, I haven’t gone to the gym at all. Now I’m still trying to walk at least 20 minutes at lunch, and I do walk around a lot during the day, but this is a pretty serious decrease in exercise.

Yesterday, the nurse came by to give us physicals so we can get life insurance.

I’ve lost 3 1/2 pounds since the last time I was at the gym (which puts me 1.2 pounds away from my goal weight), my blood pressure was 98 over 60, and my pulse rate was relatively (for me) low.

This is ridiculous. I don’t need reinforcement for NOT going to the gym.

However, I’m still going to get my butt in gear and start going back, because exercise twice a day helps a good deal in fighting my depression.

But still. Although I’m glad that I’m so healthy, that wasn’t the kind of reinforcement I needed.

YARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s the death of a thousand paper cuts kinda day.

There’s only one solution to this!

CHOCOLATE!

(I tried to figure out how to put more “e” sounds in that title, but that was as good as I could come up with on short notice.)

Went to check the weather, and noticed a strange weather pattern around Pittsburgh. When I went to look at the animated regional radar, it looked even more creepy.

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Happy autumnal equinox!

Today’s goal:

Explain football to Grandmom.

2 episodes of Heroes Season 1 + Agatha Heterodyne Girl Genius = Really screwed up dreams

Michael (reading ingredients): Sugar, artificial and natural flavors, aaaah…aaah..zeesssss.
Michelle: AZIZ! LIGHT!
Michael: Dork.

Just watched the first disc of Heroes Season 1.

Michael just made me order the entirely of Season 1 on DVD.

Average score for this quiz during September: 75.2%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.2%

Civil Literacy Report – Civics Quiz

The ones that I missed, either I had narrowed down to two answers, and then guessed wrong, or I had no idea. (I have never taken an economics course in my life.)

For those who are interested, Raging Red is doing a good job keeping up with the details of the Megan Williams case, especially the on going argument over whether Hate Crimes should be charged.

I haven’t been writing about it, because even the little I’ve heard about what happened to Megan Williams makes me feel physically ill, and to be blunt, I am simply incapable of processing that much awfulness right now.

But it profoundly distresses me that such behavior still occurs in this country and in this state, and whether the case is prosecuted as a hate crime or not, I sincerely hope that the six individuals who tortured Megan Williams rot in prison for the rest of their lives.

“I’m trying to download this file of images, and it says it’s going to take 20 hours. Can you make it go faster?”