Make that 9:55 pm. Not that I mind.

I am so tired. SO so tired. But I have so much work to do tonight. Therefore- no sleep! NO SLEEP EVER!
Or, at least, no sleep til at least 9 pm. I have 60 tests to correct and being the fine upstanding citizen that I am, I promised my two classes that I’d have them ready for tomorrow.
So what am I doing online? I was trying to find some low-GI Mexican recipes to try and plan meals for next week.
But? I’m tired. So that will have to wait until tomorrow (story of my life?)

So an ex just sent me a link to a page of diet pill reviews. I kind of feel like laughing; first of all he’s nine times bigger than I am, so if he’s trying to insult me, yeah, pot and kettle. Secondly I think the reason he’s sending it is that he just started his “own home business” on some type of Amway thing, and is selling diet pills, shampoo, and acne creams. He’s been hitting up everyone he knows to see if they will buy from him. I have a feeling his “business” isn’t going so well.
Oh well.

Now it’s 7:25 am, I’ll be leaving for work in 20 minutes, and I’m getting… sleepy.

It’s 6 am.

I’ve been awake and out of bed for 45 minutes.

This is just not right.

I can’t stop sneezing.

Today was a big day – my nephew’s 5th birthday party, and then (early I know it’s tomorrow but we always do it on the Sunday before) Thanksgiving dinner at my parents’.

The only problem being, my brother owns two dogs, a beagle and a german shorthaired pointer. My parents have a (batshit crazy) pomeranian. All of them shot their little danders up my nose and now I’m all sneezy, all the time.

I’ve mentioned before how there are breeds of dogs I’m not allergic to. These dogs? Are not those breeds.

It was still a really fun day. I just wish I’d remembered to take some Reactine beforehand.

Rob found this site, Lifehacker, quite awhile ago, and there have been many good ideas plumbed from its depths.

The latest one that I’ve been enamored with is how to set up cheap ambient lighting using those ropes of led light bulbs that you can get… well… anywhere, for pretty cheap – we have a 20-foot rope that we got for $5 in the after-Christmas sales last year. If you look at the images in the article, you’ll see how the guy attached ropes of LED lights under his computer desk, behind his wardrobes, and under his bed, then set them up to turn on via foot switch. The effect is pretty cool (I like the bed idea because ever since my sister told me that Satan lived under my bed when I was 4 years old, I have always hated having a murky under-the-bed area… but of course it would necessitate us actually having a bed and not just a box spring and mattress on the floor. What can I say? We wear out beds) albeit a little casino-ish. Well not really casino-ish. Maybe if you did it EVERYWHERE IN YOUR HOUSE. I can imagine walking into the bathroom and having the toilet light up might be slightly disconcerting.

… on rob: the sounds are getting louder. He just sent Igor out to buy more diet pills (or, as he calls them, his “energy candies”) and a human brain. Slightly worried about what he’s building in there.

Also to be noted: He mounted a lightning rod on the roof last night.

Hey, I was sleeping.
And when did he hire an Igor, anyway?!!!

But he’s still a total nerd. He is in his cave (okay it’s the office but I call it his man-cave because it’s where he keeps all his stuff) fussing with one of the many computers that he has put together out of… God knows what, actually. I have a feeling there might be parts of Johnny Five in there. He’s been muttering about hard drives and tape drives and um… I don’t know what other kinds of drives for the past half hour and it’s making me nervous.

Very nervous.

I have been chatting with my cousin on Facebook all this morning. He travels as part of his job, and this week has been in Nevada. On his first day, he checked into and out of two different vegas hotels within the first couple of hours, because the first one was filthy, and the second one was “full of loud, obnoxious hookers” (I’m wondering if there are any that aren’t?). I guess these are the perils of making your reservations online sometimes, especially if you’re going for the lowest price and taking half-star accomodations into consideration. The hotel he’s at now is pretty great, he says, and he’s very satisfied with himself because although he didn’t stay in either of the first two hotels for more than half an hour, during his time there he totally cleaned out the free shampoos and conditioners, and took all the coupons for $0.99 steak dinners that he could (his job pays for accomodations but only $10 per meal, so he’s been using the coupons at lunchtime and saving the other $9 til supper when he can have a $19 meal). And rather than thinking “Gee, that’s tacky!” I’ve been thinking “Hey, that is awesome!”
My family. Super cheap, all the time. What can I say? It’s genetic.