The Den of Iniquity

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I’ve been sitting at my desk, staring at my monitor for the last half an hour, pondering things.  There’s so much going on in my life right now that I’ve been having trouble getting my brain to function in its proper capacity.  In other words, the brain says, “And just HOW do we use life insurance leads in a sentence? I don’t know!  Now give me another drink, damn it!”

Things came to a bit of a head Wednesday night after I got home from work.  Hubby and I had a bit of a blow-out, and for the first time, we went to bed mad at each other and didn’t even say good night.  In fact, he went to bed before I did, mainly because I told him to.

“Get out of my face,” I told him at one point.

Of course, we’re not a couple that can be mad at each other for very long.  I apologized to him, and we’ve moved on.  He’s made some promises to things that I was getting on him about, so we’ll see what happens.

It is so nice to be home from work.  This week has been utter shit, and I’m rather glad it’s over.  I have a lot of work ahead of me this weekend, and I’ve already managed to put a small dent in the TO DO pile.

And now, I need to go scare up some food before my stomach eats itself.

Today is turning into the day from hell.

• I had to scramble to transfer money over to our one checking account to pay two past due bills.  Our cable got cut off, even though I told the woman that called me last week that I wouldn’t be able to pay the past due balance until TOMORROW.
• I have a THROBBING headache.
• Boss got into it with the pressman AGAIN.  Boss and pressman had both agreed that the pressman only needed to come down here Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to pick up and drop off jobs.  The conversation on the phone between the two of them got VERY heated…pressman didn’t print ANYTHING yesterday, due to him doing his Anilox roll cleaning on his press.  He also said one of his plates had scratches on it and he needs to make a new one.  For a job that was due in here TODAY.
• I had my annual poke ‘n prod visit yesterday.  I’m still hurting.

On top of all of that, I have a to do list a MILE long, and an overflowing laundry hamper.

Is it the weekend yet?!

It turned out to be quite a nice weekend, even though the rain Friday and Saturday soaked everything like costa rica gets soaked during its rainy season.  The field behind our building was turned into a river.  I almost decided to NOT go to my parents’ for the weekend…I still felt like crap, and I just wanted to sleep.  Plus, we’re broker than shit…I barely have enough money in my checking account for gas for the next two weeks.  98% of my paycheck is going to rent (yes, it’s late) and I’ve only got about $90 left over for the next two weeks.

By the time hubby and I went to bed Friday night, I was feeling much better physically, so I decided to head to Delaware Saturday morning.

I made it to my parents’ house around lunchtime on Saturday, and Mom and I hit the road to do some shopping.  Thankfully, she paid for just about everything I bought, except for the stuff I got at two of the craft stores we stopped at.  We went to lunch at Denny’s and had a grand old time.

We had a nice, home-cooked chicken dinner, and then Dad and I settled in to watch the Flyers lose.  Before the game started, I showed Mom how I made up the pendants that I’m selling, and during the game, I made a few pairs of earrings.  The earrings come together nice and quickly, now that I’ve gotten the hang of how to make them!

I couldn’t sleep, so I was up early today.  Mom made us breakfast, then we went and did a little more shopping.  She bought me a couple tops at Fashion Bug, then we hit the grocery store to pick up some cases of soda that were on sale.  I left around 2:15, as I wanted to get home before dark, plus I wanted to get home to see the Eagles play.

I also wanted to surprise hubby, as I picked up some dinner for him when Mom and I had stopped at Sonic earlier in the day.  He was quite surprised when he found out I was home, and even more so when he found out that I’d brought him dinner from Sonic!

I’m headed to Delaware this weekend to spend some time with my parents. My Mom and Dad have decided to replace their TV in the bedroom and get a flat-screen TV, and Dad’s been doing all kinds of research on the differences between LCD and plasma tvs.  Mom’s convinced him to buy a bigger TV than what they already have in the bedroom, so that when the TV in the living room goes, they can move the one over from the bedroom.  Mom wants to get at least a 32″ TV.

Works for me.  I’ll inherit the TV from the other bedroom, as they’re then going to switch out the bedroom TVs.  The remote for the TV in the other bedroom doesn’t work, but I don’t care.  It’s not all that difficult to get a universal remote, and the TV itself has a very nice picture.  We’ll probably end up getting rid of our old behemoth 27″ TV that we have in the bedroom…it’s absolutely MONSTROUS and it takes up two thirds of my bureau!

Mom’s already wrangled a promise from me to go TV shopping with her on Saturday.  Not exactly my idea of a fun time, but it’s a good way to keep me out of the craft stores, I suppose!

I decided to unplug myself last night. I was tired of staring at my computer…tired of watching hockey (*gasp!*)…tired of playing with my fish, tooting my horn, and starting ghost hunts…tired of trying to figure out how to work the phrase “best weight loss pills” into a sentence…tired of everything. I’d been in front of my computer just about all day…I’d gotten out of work at 11:15 AM and was home a little bit after 12. By 9 PM, I was done. I walked away from my computer and crashed out on the futon in the living room, determined to relax sans computer and watch some TV.

I was flipping channels when I came across The Last Boleyn Girl on one of the movie channels. It was a movie that I’d been wanting to watch, so I settled in to watch it, even though I’d missed the first 20 minutes.

I’ll be the first to admit, my love and adoration for The Tudors series on Showtime makes me very biased. Natalie Dormer portrayed the best Anne Boleyn that I’ve ever seen before, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII…well, need I say more? Eric Bana, while easy on the eyes, just doesn’t compare to the intense portrayal of King Henry by Rhys Meyers.

Natalie Portman’s portrayal of Anne Boleyn was just…awful. Her fake British accent was pathetic, unlike Scarlett Johansson, who pulled hers off perfectly as Mary Boleyn. The acting was…okay. And that’s about it. The story was too rushed…too much important information was tossed aside to make what turned out to be a fluff movie. I was honestly hoping for better, but I was sorely disappointed. I’m really glad that I didn’t waste my money to see this in the theater.

I’m really hoping that the book The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory isn’t as bad as the movie was, but I’m not holding my breath. Since the movie was based off of the book, I have a feeling it’s going to be just as bad.

This is what happens when one studies history. Movies like this can be extremely disappointing, especially when one studies the time period and the people that the movie happens to be about. It’s a good thing I have the last disc of Season 2 of The Tudors left to watch…at least they stayed decently close to what really happened in Tudor England…and the acting is fantabulous!

I’ve been waking up in pain again lately.  The past couple of weeks have been rough.  My arthritis has been acting up so bad lately that I had to have hubby open a freakin’ package for me last night, as I couldn’t get a strong enough grasp on it.

I’m so glad that we bought a memory foam mattress, instead of one of those other regular mattresses with the springs in them. If we had, I’d probably be in a lot more pain than I am now.  As it is, I can handle the pain that I’ve been dealing with now.  With the old inner spring mattress, my back and knees were so bad that I could barely walk when I got up in the mornings.

Granted, I don’t exactly spring out of bed now, but I am able to sleep a lot more comfortably on my memory foam mattress, and my pain has lessened considerably.  I’m also not suffering from the back pain that I used to deal with every day, and for me, that’s a damn good thing.

Now, if I could just fall asleep in less than an hour.  THAT would make me VERY HAPPY.

Where’d my weekend go?  Good Lord, it seems like I was walking out of work just an hour ago.

*sigh*

Yeah, I’m not looking forward to going into work tomorrow morning.  I’ve got nothing to do, and I really don’t feel like sitting around twiddling my thumbs and doing stuff online for the boss.  Getting life insurance quotes and checking on some sports stats for him is not exactly what I’d call a thrilling day.

One of these days, he might learn to use the internet.  Heh.

Hubby’s off tomorrow.  Maybe I’ll ask the boss if I can take a half-day and scoot out early.  I love these weekends that hubby’s not working, but I HATE having to go to work on Monday morning and leaving him warm and snug in our bed all alone.

On the brighter side of things, I actually got a lot of stuff done this weekend.  I got just about all of the laundry done, which is a very good thing, because hubby was all out of socks!

You can blame my high blood pressure on the Phillies’ bullpen.  Jesus mother Mary.

By 11:10 PM, I had a headache.

By 11:15 PM, I was smothering myself with a pillow.

By 11:20 PM, the pillow was across the room, and the cats had scattered to the four winds.

I think my head might’ve gone all ’splodey had they actually lost the game.  Gah.  Now there’s a Game 6 on Wednesday.

*dies*

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I barely made it out of bed this morning.  I couldn’t sleep last night…I hurt my left shoulder at some point during the weekend, and I couldn’t get comfortable in bed.  It also didn’t help that I had a major stomach ache.

My kingdom for a restful night’s sleep!

Somehow, I was only fifteen minutes late to work.  It could’ve also had to do with the fact that I was dragging my heels…I had a ton of books to add covers to today and I was all DO NOT WANT.

Which explains why I asked the boss if I could scoot out early…I got half of the piles done.  I’ll do the rest tomorrow.

The boss was in a bit of a mood today, which was quite understandable.  After going through the mail and tossing out all of the junk (unnecessary catalogs, solicitations from different health insurance plans, like Blue Cross Blue Shield NC (!!!!), and postcards from other advertisers), he was quite perturbed to find the mail lacking in one important thing…a check that we were promised from a client TWO WEEKS AGO.

Then the IRS called.  That’s when I decided it might be a good idea to get the hell outta Dodge.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be a bit more peaceful.  Who knows, I might even manage to actually SLEEP tonight!