Month: December 2004

Elusive Sleep

/ ronni

My body is tired. My eyes are heavy. When light hits my pupils, I immediately want to shut my lids and drift into oblivion.

But as soon as I lie down, my mind wakes up. Thoughts flood my brain, and my heart races. I toss and turn, trying to calm myself, trying to clear my mind so I can find solace in that elusive place called Slumberland.

My sleep patterns are completely out of wack. I’ve been napping during the day due to being sick, therefore, I’ve been finding it hard to fall asleep no earlier than 5am or so. My body has become so dependent on medicine to knock me out that it’s having a hard time doing it on its own. And there is the heartburn issue. Lots of heartburn for some reason. That may be because of all the medication I’m taking at the moment.

I have to go back to work (although it is EXTREMELY tempting to take another day off and rest, and I’ll see how I feel in the morning before I decide for sure), and I’m not really looking forward to it. I’m not looking forward to the grind, to the demands, to whatever “judgement” is waiting for me in my mailbox because I was out for so long.

Even now, my eyelids droop and the screen becomes unfocused. But now I’m afraid to place my head on the pillow, for what will cause my pulse to pound this time?

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Silliness Before Bed

/ life, meme, sick
Emo Boyfriend
Name
DOB
Favourite Color
His Name Adam
His Looks/Style Shaggy black hair, blue eyes, wears eyeliner, really skinny, pale, lip ring, band t-shirts, tight pants, and converse
How you met McDonald’s
How he tells you he loves you Gives you flowers every day
What he calls you Love
How far you’ve gone everything but sex
This fun quiz by _shelovedaboy – Taken 37708 Times.

New – How do you get a guy to like you?

So okay. I’m digging the name (I love the name Adam), the black hair, blue eyes, skinny and pale. Not really digging the eyeliner, though. Even *I* don’t wear eyeliner. Not so much the lip ring either. The Converse is just fine. 🙂 LOL about the McDonalds!!

Not much to report. Wrapped some presents today. Cleaned a little bit. The dining room/playroom is straightened up, and the family room was nice and neat but I messed it up again with present stuff. Entertained the thought of answering my emails, but I don’t think so. I have ten and they all take about an hour or so to answer, and I don’t have that kind of time tonight. Well, I might answer one or two. 😉 We’ll see.

Took a nice nap in the recliner. Skipped the chiropractor’s again. Had Arby’s for dinner. Christy came over and we watched A Christmas Story, Good Eats, Unwrapped, and part of Emeril. I <3 The Food Network. It’s always fun to have quality time with other girls. 🙂 Back to work tomorrow. *sigh* Let’s hope and pray it’s not hellish for me. 🙁

OH GOD. I forgot how much amoxicillan stinks!! Ew. I open that bottle and it nearly blows me away. Cowabunga. But hey, if it’s going to make me keep feeling better, then I am okay with it.

I have 2 more CDs of pictures to add to my online album sometime soon. I’m not sure when I’ll get that taken care of, though. Tomorrow is cleaning night, Friday is the Christmas thingy for The Grove, Saturday is MY PARTY and Sunday, well, Aidan will be back. So my free time will be limited again. Back to normal, eh? Maybe the 23rd I can get away with playing on the computer, if Aidan will let me. We’ll see.

Alrighty then. Later!

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Stuff

/ christmas, friends, life

The Grove was nice last night, but what was even better was having quality time with Emily, Sara, and Tami at Steak and Shake til late. We talked about anything and everything, and I am so happy I got the chance to spend time with Sara. She’s really cool. Actually, all the “kids” in that family are great.

I gave Tami and Tina their Christmas gifts, and they loved them. I’m going to give Kelly P hers next week, I think. Or this weekend. Depends on how long I can wait! 🙂 Oooo, I got a gift (How To Write A Damn Good Novel) from Star (selfstyled) yesterday!! 🙂 I love it already. Thank you so much, darling!!! Wishlist surprises are the best! I also got stuff from Tami–a rose scented candle, some Chapstick, and pink bubble bath. (I told her I wanted pink stuff). Tina got me a Legolas magnet which does not make me sad at all. 😉 She said that there is more for me coming, which I’m excited about! 😀

Some of my favorite quotes of the night:

Bizzy (to Chris): You’re funny. I kind of dig you.

Ronni (quoting Cartman): My mom says there’s a lot of black people in Africa.
Tyler: I’m not sure how to respond to that.
Ronni: IT’S FROM SOUTHPARK!
Emily: It’s true! There are a lot of black people in Africa!

Tony: Ha ha ha ha. (pause) HAAAA!

Those Grove gatherings are so fun. And you know what? There’s this really cool guy there named Andy or Kramer, depending on my mood, who always forgets my name, but I really want to hang out with him sometime because he’s awesome. Even though he can’t remember my name.

I need to take pictures of the tree as the gifts pile up under there! It’s so pretty and festive. But the house is such a mess. I’m really overwhelmed, and I just end up saying “sod it, I’ll take care of it later.” Especially when the cold medicine starts to kick in… like now. But I can’t sleep all day today, because I have errands to run and I have to clean clean clean.

I have quite a few emails to answer. And so many chores to do before Saturday, when I have my party! I’m really excited. So many people are coming, and Emily (yoimemily – who is officially my 4th best friend, it was decided early this morning at Steak and Shake) is spending the night. That is going to be so much fun!

Friday night, though, is The Grove Christmas event. Christmas cookies, cartoons?, and broomball. I don’t know what broomball is, exactly, but I know that I will fall on my butt, and Chris and Tyler are going DOWN.

It should be good times.

Someone needs to tell the employees at Express to CHECK THEIR CLOTHES FOR SENSORS before they wrap them. I have to go, for the second time this week, back to Express to get a sensor removed. They try to act like their sensors are all that. I walk in and out of the store constantly and the things never go off. This is not the first time it’s happened, and definitely not the first time in a Wexnor owned store. It’s happened at The Limited, and at Victoria’s Secret several times. They really need to look into that. Get some sensors that work, or train their cashiers better. Or both.

I guess that’s all for now. I’m going to take out my contacts and let this cough medicine do it’s job, I think. My chiropractor would be so mad if she knew–they are so anti-medicine there. I haven’t been in days, actually. Just didn’t feel like driving all the way out there. But I told them I’d go tonight, so I’ll be there at some point. *sigh* I hope the visits drop soon. I’m starting to despise the long drive out there three times a week.

And that’s all (for now) folks.

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Hungry Cats

/ cats, life, sick

Remind me to never eat a breakfast sammich in my room again. All three of the cats are staring at the sammich lustfully. It’s kind of overwhelming. I don’t feel bad for not sharing because they have a whole bowl of food downstairs.

Greedy kitties.

So, I’m home for the next two days. Yippee. Doctor’s excuses are fun. I should feel up to going to The Grove tonight since I’ll be getting a lot of rest today. But he wrote me an excuse and told me to stay home and rest. Restity rest rest. So I shall. And play on the computer in the meantime. Woohoo.

Later, gators.

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Cute and Random

/ life, meme, sick

Hmm. Chris is brought me home McDs. This being sick crap is the pits. Especially when you think it’s over and you wake up one day feeling worse! Ugh. I have too many things to do to lie around sleeping all the time. 🙁

I’m laying off the Nyquil for real, yo.

Wrapped a few presents tonight. Feeling much better than earlier today. No more shaking, coughing has calmed down. I feel close to normal, actually. 🙂 Going to the doctor in the morning. Working 1/2 day tomorrow, will probably piss off the boss. Oh well. It’s not like I get sick on purpose. 🙁

So… I haven’t seen any really good Christmas programs yet this year. What happened to the days when they’d play How The Grinch Stole Christmas for days in a row? And what about all the cute cartoons and the awesome movies on Lifetime, like The Christmas List? And A Christmas Story! I haven’t seen that yet, this year! Oh, the horror! WAH. Perhaps I need to check local listings. I haven’t been watching a lot of TV lately. I get sucked in and I hate that. But I do want to watch some Christmas programs.

The Grove is tomorrow! I get to see Emily (yoimemily)!!! YEA! I love her. She’s so awesome. Busy day ahead, but at least I get to sleep in since my doctor’s appointment isn’t until 9. And a half a day at work is a good thing. I should get plenty of stuff done. OH CRAP, I have to sit in on a staff meeting tomorrow and take minutes. Grrrsnarly grumble grumble poop. There goes an hour’s worth of brain cells. Numb. Maybe I’ll cough so much they’ll kick me out. 😉

Alrighty then. I’m done, I think. Later, gators.

Cute & Random

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