Troy cooked us some breakfast, so at least we have some fuel for the busy day ahead of us. I’m just not looking forward to all of the work that we’re going to be doing and there really isn’t any way around it. If we want to use this TV, we have to get this done. I think the part both of us are dreading the most is moving his computer hutch. It’s a beautiful piece of furniture & it’s served him well over the years, but it’s huge & heavy and very hard to move. I really wish that we had the money to go & look at computer desks & see if there was something a little smaller & easier to deal with for him, but since we don’t, we’ll just do the best we can.

Blech.

I guess it’s probably not going to get done on it’s own, is it? Okay, okay! I’m going already!!

I’m just taking a few minutes this morning to try to catch up on things before Troy & I start rearranging the living room. We bought a new TV this week, and I guess we didn’t expect it to get here so soon, but it did & we have nowhere to put it. When we moved in here, we set the living room up to be conducive to gaming, not really to TV viewing. We put the TV in the area closest to where the cable line comes in & Troy’s computer near the phone jack and we filled the rest of the furniture around that stuff.

We haven’t really changed anything for 5 1/2 years, other than to shift things around to make room for something else or to replace the older stuff with newer stuff, mostly because we never really sat down & figured out a way to make it all flow better. We don’t really use our house for gaming anymore & we rarely have company, so it needs to work for us now, and it really isn’t. We bought a much bigger TV, so now the entertainment center we bought the winter after we moved here (in 1994!) isn’t going to work for us anymore, so everything on there needs to either be packed up & put away or go somewhere else. The VHS movies we have stored in the bottom that we never watch anymore need to be sorted through today, too, because there may be stuff in there that Dawn wants, or even some we can’t replace yet. We don’t use our stereo anymore either, so we need to decide what to do with it & find a place for the CDs. The Playstation games can go to Dawn’s house, since they actually have a PS2 they can play them on & we don’t.

We have a hugely busy day ahead of us, and neither one of us seems all that motivated right now, honestly. Maybe if we were more into keeping things up in here in the first place it wouldn’t be such a big job, but since we haven’t been, we have to start somewhere. Erin did mange to get his laptop running the other night without having to replace the computer memory or the hard drive, like we were afraid he would. He just needed to reinstall Windows XP & it worked perfectly. He was really happy about that & so was Troy.

I think I’ll go try to find myself some breakfast & think about getting started in here.

I’m not sure if anyone noticed my little dragons over in the sidebar or not. I like them & all, but they’re starting to become a pain in the rear. My littlest hatchlings are always getting sick, so I have to hide them & then keep an eye on them & hope they get better. When they do, I have to take the fog stuff off of them so they can grow up. If they don’t grow up within a certain amount of time, they’ll die & who wants to fail at raising a cartoon? Not me. I think that keeping them healthy is one of the hardest things so far. It takes more time than everything else has for me, at any rate.

I do enjoy naming them, though. I like looking the names up, seeing what they mean, deciding on a few & then hoping that no one else has chosen it first. I chose a really cute one for the little gray one this morning, but then I misspelled it, so now I’m stuck with it. I’ve seen cool names & odd names & some that just didn’t make sense to me, like Fenterdren, but I’m sure that not everyone will like what I named mine, either. I guess that just like with kids, it’s a very personal thing.

We had our first board meeting of the year yesterday. The first meeting always involves us going through our address lists & seeing who came last year & who didn’t & then deciding which ones we’ll invite back. Then we collate, fold, stuff envelopes, address & stamp everything. We discuss entertainment for the coming season & who we were pleased with & who we weren’t. When we’re done doing that we try to decide who we want to come back, how much we’re willing to pay them & then people start calling & contacting them. We did all of that & then we talked about what we wanted to do with the new stage & the old one, too & the general layout of the park.

I guess my slacker season is over & it’s time for me to start focusing & planning my booth, so as much as I’d love to sit here & stare at my TV, watching the Leptovox commercials with a sort of train-wrecky fascination, I really can’t afford the time anymore. It’s too bad we just ordered a new TV, I imagine that we’ll find some time to watch it & play some games, too, but I definitely have to get serious about my booth & soon. One thing I have to do this week is talk to a friend of mine & make sure she wants to come back & be a part of the booth after all of the crap I put her through last year. I really hope she does, I missed her last year.

Why is it, that every time I actually want to spend time on Craftster the site either gets too bogged down to load or goes down for maintenance? I swear, it never fails. I settle in for an evening of browsing & getting nifty new ideas for crafting & suddenly everything stops loading. Then I have to figure something else out to do with my time – which makes me grumpy.

It seems to be loading again, for the time being, so we’ll see if my luck holds until I’m tired enough to actually go to bed.

Yeah, I’m still sick. I’ve been sick for so long that the moodiness & depression have started to set in & all I want is my normal life back. I want to be able to go grocery shopping without getting sick in the middle & having to go wait in the car. I want to be able to go shop with my friends, or go hang out & feel like having fun. I want to make it through a day without being so exhausted that I end up wishing I had stayed in bed. Sorry I sound so whiny, but that’s pretty much how I feel all the time now.

I swear, I can’t even think straight most of the time. We have a subdivision west of town called “Westview” & the other day I was trying to tell someone where they needed to turn to get to our friend Ric’s house & I kept saying, “Turn at the Westgate subdivision.” and they kept staring at me like I was speaking a foreign language, until they finally said they had no idea where I was talking about & we got it cleared up. Man, I felt stupid.

I guess what I’m saying is that I’m so ready to be over this crap & on the road to wellness. I want my life back.