Silly movie

I just sat and watched The Break-Up. Silly movie :-P

Not such a great thanksgiving

Okay, first off, Thanksgiving should be family event. Which means that you should be spending it with family, not going off to your girlfriend's house (unless that girlfriend is/or is about to become your fiancee). Of course, when you're 17, that condition doesn't exist. Excuse me for thinking that Thanksgiving should be for family, and you should do things as a family, whatever those things might be. But no, the only thing we did together today was dinner, and even that was subdued as my other brother didn't come home from college for Thanksgiving. Seriously, doing things with the family should be priority number one. End of discussion.

Second, my mother put the fudge out in the garage on my dad's truck to get it out of the way while she was cooking. However, she didn't tell anyone she was putting it out there, so when my brother took the truck and went to his girlfriend's house, the fudge (and the glass pan it was in) ended up in pieces in the cul-de-sac. GRRRRRRRR

It's been too long

It's been too long since I've seen JC in anything...and I have to say he looks good in Ghost Whisperer!

First rush hour snowfall

The first rush hour snowfall of the year was an unholy mess.

It's time to figure out where these wasps are coming from!

We've had four wasps in the house in three weeks now. It's time to figure out where they're coming from and get rid of them before winter really comes. My brother has been drafted to walk around the outside of the house tomorrow after school to see if they're congregating anywhere. We have a nest outside the house that probably goes into the attic, but we're only finding them on the first floor, not the second floor. GRRRRR

Reaction to my medication

So I had a great day on the ADD meds today. Except that I got home, and then had a reaction to them. I won't go into the reaction itself, except to say that it worried me enough to call the Dean on Call line to find out if I should get someone to drive me to urgent care. The doc on the phone told me I didnt need urgent care, and that the symptoms I have now should start to go away as the medication wears off. The doc on the phone was going to call my doc to tell him that I had called, and then I need to call my doc in the morning to deal with changing the dosage/timing, or even the medication altogether. I'm frustrated just thinking about it.

Boredom and my wrists

First off, Im really bored. My cubbies are kicking butt...but I dont really feel like watching. Secondly, my wrists are REALLY bothering me tonight :( Doesnt seem to be much I can do about either problem at the moment.

I wish my family understood me

You know, I wish my family understood me, and the things that make me who I am. I can't decide if that makes me sad or angry. Maybe a little of both. They just don't "get" me, and no matter how many times I may try to explain something about me, they simply can't connect the dots. Since I badly want them to "connect the dots," that's really frustrating for me. It's frustrating to realize that my family may never understand me. I suppose that makes it all the more important for me to find a husband one day that does truly understand me. He's going to really have to "get" me, because I don't think I could deal with a husband that didn't, on top of my family.

Tonight's episode of Studio 60

Im not going to blog tonight's episode as it happens, but we are tivo-ing it (for my dad, who won't be home in time to catch the beginning), so I'll blog it later. Tonight I just want to enjoy it :-P

Photos

I realized that I've been putting photos up at facebook, but havent been giving anyone a chance to see them. Facebook now has a way to share photos, so see the links below :)

Friends and Family
Me
My Doggies
Cubs Game Part One
Cubs Game Part Two

Enjoy!

Yesterday's Cub game

Im not sure if I mentioned it before, but we had great seats to yesterday's Cubs-Reds game at Wrigley Field. We were on the first base side, on the home plate side of the dugout, and in the third row from the field. We were literally next to the visitor's dugout. Even though they lost, it was fantastic to be that close. If you look at my next post, you'll see links to some facebook photo albums. The photos from yesterday are up there.

More doggie pics

More doggie pics. The golden is Sammie. The other dog is Maverick. He's a suisse (I think I spelled that right), and he's a sweetheart, even if he is huge.

Err...Im bored

I'm really really bored. Im sitting on my parents' bed watching my cubbies, and if you can believe it, they're winning! On Friday, we're going in to see a game. We have fantastic seats, and thus will have fantastic pics that I will post sometime over the weekend. In choir today we started an interesting piece of music. With our concerts being over the holidays, our music is mostly Christmas in nature. We started a carol today that will be really pretty, but MAN! It's really going to move when we actually sing it as fast as it's supposed to go.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

I will be blogging Studio 60 like I did the end of West Wing. It was fun to do, and I've decided to do it again. The first episode airs September 18th at 9 CT, and I'm very much looking forward to it :) It'll be nice to see Bradley Whitford again. I have seen the episode already, and it's fantastic, but I'm also going to blog it as it airs :)

It's 12:50 AM and I'm awake

My carpal tunnel woke me up :( I decided to get on my computer until I think I can go back to sleep....

Giggly

Im so giggly tonight, probably because Im trying desperately to postpone the inevitable and classes in the morning. I have about 20 minutes before I have to turn out the lights and try to sleep.....

Classes start tomorrow

Classes start tomorrow, and I can already tell you my wrists are going to be screaming by day's end. I've tried to do relatively little with my wrists today, but *shrugs* even holding them in the wrong position can set them off. So classes start tomorrow, and I've got to bed in bed in two hours *yippe* grrr...

Gah

First off, I hate carpal tunnel. It's annoying and is driving me crazy. I guess I should consider myself lucky it's not worse. However, since I do a LOT of typing for school, and cant seem to keep my hands uncurled when I sleep, it might end up worse before it gets better.

Second, Im watching Just My Luck, and I forgot just how dorky this movie is. Of course, Im really watching it for Chris Pine. He's really cute :)

Third, my counselor strongly suspects I'm ADHD. At first (probably like you are), I was like," What? No, Im not hyperactive and bouncing off the walls." Then she qualified it and said that it was the inattentive type, and when she started describing it, and asked me to see how many of the symptoms fit my life, more than enough did. It would definitely explain many of the problems I see in my life, particularly where school's concerned. To give you an idea of what it's like, at least for me....it's like knowing I have a task to complete, wanting to complete it, and believing that I know how to complete it, only to try and start it and realize I can't do it, and then not being able to remember why you can't do it. It's frustrating, to say the least. So I have a medication consult in a few weeks with a therapist with an M.D. (my counselor is a Ph.D. and thus can't prescribe medication). So we'll see...

Interesting medical diagnosis today

I've been having problems with my arm/hand the last 48 hours or so. It's been numb and tingly, and generally annoying. So I went to the dr tonight and apparently I'm having a minor episode of carpal tunnel syndrome. I saw a new doctor instead of my usual doctor. Since I wanted to make sure it wasnt anything really serious, I didnt want to wait for next week, which was when I'd have gotten into see my usual doc. The doc I saw tonight was nice, and told me the things to watch out for that would tell me it wasnt carpal tunnel. It was nice to have a doc that didnt make me feel like he was patting me on the head and sending me on my way. This doc answered my questions and told me the symptoms that would indicate a serious problem.

Here I am, crying again

What is up with me and watching movies that make me cry? Im watching the end of A Walk to Remember, and of course it makes me cry every time too, not quite as much though as in Ladder 49. I don't bawl buckets for this movie.