It took all day but I think I might just have this thing up and running. Watch now as it crashes and burns into teeny weeny blog bigs because I decided to celebrate my WHOLE DAY OF CODING.

Yes. It has taken All. Day.

Now I am off to eat Doritos, watch The Starter Wife and then maybe do some crocheting before I head to bed. Yes. Today I have earned my Doritos.

So last night while I was typing my post about going to visit Fiona in school I got seriously fed up with Typepad and, in a fit of “arrrgghghghghg” switched my blog back over to WordPress. This? Borked up my blog for many hours. Hell, some of you might still be seeing a GoDaddy parked page for all I know. Also? The “helpful” tech support people at HostGator, where I have my hosting? They aren’t actually all that helpful.

ANYWAY–never before has my “I better save these files in case I decide to switch back” come in so handy. I tease Will all the time about his need to save things that, to me, look like little bits of broken plastic but to him are some super important piece of….something, but the truth is that I do the same thing with computer files. And this time? It so totally paid off! And, unlike with Will, I didn’t have to tear the house apart looking for that “thing! It’s a little piece of metal that looks like it got broken off of another piece of metal! And it’s red! or gold!….or silver!….or black!”

Today, in between getting actual work done, I will be working at putting my sidebars back into some semblance of order (that’s one of the nice things about Typepad–my blog is still on their servers, so I can make sure my sidebars look relatively normal.

One thing I am going to work my arse off to do, though, is fix the coding in the comments section. Because that is seriously ugly stuff.

Changes are afoot!

I was going to wait until new years to change my theme, but today I realized that once Thanksgiving hits, I’m so not going to have time to do any sort of template tweaking!

I don’t want a big change, but you know how it goes when you’re surfing through templates, you sometimes find things that you just comletely unexpectedly love.

Today was Grandparents and Special Friends day at my friend Fiona (Wendy's daughter)'s school.  Since Fiona's grandparents all live very far away and Wendy and John both had to work, I decided to go so that Fiona would have someone special in the audience.  I ended up being both Fiona's special friend and a special friend to Fiona's best friend Annabelle (who didn't have anybody in the audience) and can I just say? The program was super cute. 

The kids recited a couple of poems and sang a couple of songs and then Fiona and Annabelle showed me around their classroom and all of the things they like to play with when they aren't busy "learning and learning and learning" and can I just say? I want my own kindergartener.  Right now. 

I can't wait to tell Will when he gets home from work.  He'll be thrilled!

How do you fall asleep when your brain won’t stop thinking?  Last night I may or may not have stomped into the computer room and shouted “This is how people accidentally overdose on sleeping pills!” and then burst into tears at three in the morning to a WoWing Will.  I’ve been taking Advil PM for a couple of nights now–only half the reccommended adult dose–and last night, my one little pill just wasn’t working.  Now I know that taking a second pill when the reccommended dose is two pills isn’t a huge deal especially when it has been three hours since the first one was swallowed, but by three in the morning I was all the way past rational though and into full on “I can’t sleep! Why can’t I sleep? I need sleep! Fall asleep brain!” psychosis.

To give Will some credit, he turned off his game immediately and crawled into bed with me.  No grief, no “I’ll be right there.”  Just “my poor girl” and “here, move me however you want me and you just get comfortable” and “how can I help?” and “it’s okay, you can wipe your nose on my arm.”

We talked a little bit about why I couldn’t sleep–a rough “cycle” this month, stress about work and bills and Typepad not being as awesome as I remember it (that is a whole other post) and his family spending the holidays in our apartment and before I knew it, I was finally drifting off.

He really is a good fiance.

Still though–how do you fall asleep when your brain won’t shut off?  Do you have a nightly “get ready for bed” routine?  Do you do the whole warm milk and small snack of something containing tryptophan?  Warm bath? Herbal tea? What?

Really I’ll try just about anything right now, including an anvil to the head.

Today you will find me lying stretched out on the couch in my pajamas with a cozy blanket and my laptop.  I have not showered.  My hair (which, yes, is gross when not washed every day) is pulled back in an old scrunchy.  The cat is draped across my feet.

Today I am nursing one hell of a that time of the month.  Yesterday, no joke, the only position I found any comfort in was this weird frog-esque yoga-y pose that felt halfway between being curled up in a ball and halfway between “oops, I meant to sit cross legged on the floor and somehow face planted into the carpet.” Honestly? I haven’t had one of those days since long before I began taking the daily “no baby” pills.  I can’t say it is a sensation that I have missed.

Today I am also nursing an “I have a hell of a lot to get done, like, last week.”  And sometimes when you hit the workload overload that I hit this week (which, really, is my own fault), the only thing you can do is curl up on the couch, turn on something you’ve seen a billion times and just…work.  Get it done.  Worry about the rest tomorrow.

I’m really grateful that I work freelance and that I am able to wear my grungy sweats/pajamas and not shower and just focus on the work when I need to.  The idea of wearing real pants right now–no.  The idea of being around other people right now–no.  The idea of having to sit in a chair right now–no.  Get stuff done and screw the formalities–yes.

Oddly, I’m usually better able to focus on work when I make the effort to get up, get dressed in halfway decent clothes and force myself to keep my butt in the chair.  Today, though, no.

In better news, last night we went grocery shopping.  Have I mentioned how much I love Winco?  While Will did homework in the car, I filled a grocery cart with real food and still the total only came out to $137.  The same amount of groceries at Albertson’s or Safeway would have easily been $200 or more.  And? now we have more to eat in our house than beef and top ramen and no, I’m not even kidding.  That’s where we were at yesterday.  Roughly twenty pounds of beef in the freezer and five packages of ramen in the cupboard.  I’m so glad we went shopping!  Because honestly I was about five minutes away from discovering what top ramen with round steak would have tasted like.

I wanted to get up at eight this morning and go for a run (aka re-start Couch to 5K that I flaked out on a few months ago) and then get straight to work.  I know myself well enough to know that I need a couple of hours in the morning to get my brain together before I’ll settle in and I have a lot to accomplish today.

Instead I didn’t wake up until 9:30.  Oops.

What is it about guys and them having to prove to the people who probably aren't thinking about them at all that they are the most badass whatevers in the room?  Last night Will stayed up all night long playing World of Warcraft because he couldn't let those "high school losers" think that they were more dedicated to the game than he is.  I'm pretty sure those "high school losers" don't spend a lot of time contemplating Will's Warcraft dedication, but Will had to prove that he was just as dedicated to levelling his character as they were…even though they weren't comparing themselves to him. Or probably thinking about him at all.

I am having a hard time not pitying a 27 year old man who feels like he has to prove his betterness to people ten years younger than he is. 

I, on the other hand, slept in until noon.  Oops.  I woke up full of motivation to get a ton of work done today.  I took a shower and got dressed and was practically itching to get to work.  Then? I sat down at the computer and…um….well, I've surfed some blogs, caught up on the Cheezburger site and chased the cat around the house a little.  Why is it that I only feel motivated when I am not faced with my work? What is that about? 

Last night we went to see Quantum of Solace and there was run-nang!  Seriously.  If you told me “hey, they are making a movie in which Daniel Craig does nothing but run, jump and climb on stuff for two hours” I would say “how soon can I fandango my tickets?”

The movie itself was really good.  Look, I know James Bond is a badass and all, but pre-Craig, the only experience I have with him was Live and Let Die, which was shown on television once when I was ten and a couple of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds.  Can I just say? Daniel Craig kicks Pierce Brosnan’s ass.  No joke.  I know that Sean Connery is supposed to be the epitome of Bond, but for me, all future Bonds will be judged against Daniel Craig.

Also?  Is it bad that I am just a tiny bit excited for the next Fast and the Furious movie?  There was a preview for it last night and can I just say? Mmmmm.  Vin Diesel.

Poor Will.  He never gets to go to chick flicks and drool over the women.  It really isn’t fair for the poor guy.

This entry is not for the easily skeeved.  Seriously.

Somehow Fridays have become laundry days in our house so this morning, instead of going back to bed after Will left for school like I desperately wanted to do, I stayed up and got to work.  I have found that the later I wait to start doing laundry, the more likely it will be that I will have to make small talk with my neighbors (who, for the most part, I actually do like, but sometimes just don't feel like chatting).  After sorting our mound o'laundry, I shoved my feet in some shoes and headed out to the laundry room with a load of whites. 

I was standing at the door and fishing the laundry room key out of my pocket when I felt….it.  You know how you can just tell when someone invades your personal space?  And you know how when that person invades your personal space, even before you see them, you can kind of tell whether they are friendly or whether they are….leering?  Yeah.  I got one of those feelings.  Except that, as far as I could tell, I was the only person out and about.  So I froze. 

It took me a good couple of minutes to gather up the guts to turn around to see who was….looming. And leering. At me.  Finally I started to turn around and came nose to web with this:

This picture? Does not really do the thing justice.  He…she…it?  Would probably take up most of my palm…you know, if I had the guts to actually let the thing touch me.  Yuuggghhh.  Of course I had to run and grab the fancy schmancy camera that Will bought for my birthday.  Technically? It's our camera, but whatever. 

Look, I really hate spiders.  Like, really hate spiders.  I do not trust anything that needs more than four limbs to move (or less than two, but we'll talk about snakes some other time).  I kind of wish I had the guts to smash the crap out of the thing.  I, however, subscribe to my friend Abbott's school of thought:  If it's inside, it's in my house and therefore it is trespassing and therefore I can kill it if I see fit.  If it's outside, however, then I'm in its house and I should show some respect.  So, I left it alone.  Except for trying to steal its soul with my camera, which I think I did quite nicely.  Check it out:

Tell me that face isn't saying "mmmmmmm, a morning snack!"  Someone call Hagrid because one of Aragog's relatives has escaped. 

Two more things?

1.  Our camera ROCKS. Holy crap.
2.  Eeeeeeuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhh.