My current template isn’t set up to display the time of my posts so I will just tell you that it is after midnight.  It is after midnight and I am still awake.  Heck, I’m not just awake.  I’m still up and moving around!  And so is Will!  We got the parts for the fancy schmancy new computer today so Will spent his lunch break and most of the evening putting the CPU together and has been installing things.  Of COURSE World of Warcraft is installed already because he “just wants to see how it plays compared to the laptop.”  Even though, technically his account is cancelled (finally!) as of the 28th.  Anyway, right now he’s having fun trying to get everything perfectly networked even though tomorrow evening he’ll have to unplug it all because he has to hook up the new monitors we still need to buy and he has to move stuff from his old computer to the hard drive and…oh a bunch of stuff that you have to do when you get a new computer that sounds complicated when he says it.

My flu seems to be losing its grip.  I still have the stupid cough but it isn’t nearly as bad.  That Mucinex DM stuff worked really well (I took a second one when the first wore off to help me sleep through the night.  I haven’t yet decided about whether or not I’ll do that tonight.  The having to drink a whole glass of water at the same time kind of turns me off from the idea).  My energy is slowly returning as well.  I did not have to take a nap after washing the dinner dishes tonight.  This makes me almost giddily happy because it shows promise for my being able to actually fall asleep tonight.  Nothing keeps you up at night like getting too much rest during the day!

Finally, we broke down and bought some Pepsi.  But! Before you groan about my falling off the caffeine wagon… it was caffeine free Pepsi! Because! I missed the taste of Pepsi.  Even though the caffeine cravings are mostly gone, I’ve missed having soda to drink (which will be my next hurdle, I know) so tonight I broke down and asked Will to bring home a 2-liter of caffeine free Pepsi so I could try it out.  It’s all I drank growing up (caffeinated soda was only had at restaurants and out of the vending machines at school until I went to college) and I don’t remember it tasting any different and…hurrah! It still tastes the same! There’s just something about soda… it has the perfect texture-thicker than water but not as thick as juice or milk.  Or something.

Back in the world of we have a new computer, the grand total of computers in our house now? Four.  Two desktops and two laptops.  Except that the (now) old desktop is just barely still running.  And Will wants to give my laptop to his Dad because his Dad will not stop complaining about how he wants a new computer.  He was “asking” us (to everyone outside this family it would appear more like “ordering” or “telling emphatically that we needed to”) to buy him a new one (incidentally, the man and his wife bring in at least twice as much as Will and I do each month thanks to retirement funds, VA benefits and 401Ks) but has since “agreed” that he only “needs” one of our old computers.  And here’s where I’m a completely stereotypical American who has lived in luxury for too long: I am not in love with the idea of giving him my laptop.  At least right now.  For one thing it would leave me without a computer of my own to play on when Will is using both the desktop and his laptop to “do homework” (aka play games.  Don’t laugh, somewhere I think I have photographic evidence of this happening).  For another, if there is one person on the planet who does not need constant internet access it is the F.I.L.  Seriously.  Trust me.  Mostly though, it is more of a “why do we have to foot the bill for something he can afford to buy on his own?” issue, especially since Will’s family members are not known for treating their posessions with anything resembling respect.  I don’t want to give my beat up old laptop to someone who won’t be nice to it (or for a few other reasons that I shouldn’t document here in case we do end up sending him a computer but can I just say? Ebay addict).

Incidentally, it is because my laptop is older and less advanced than Will’s that is the reason behind it being my laptop to get “given.”  If I had the newer computer we’d probably have already sent Will’s laptop away but Will refuses to even consider “giving away” my computer without my giving complete permission (he’s a good man, my husband).  At first I was okay with the idea.  I mean, sure give him my cat hair clogged Dell.  I’ll have a shiny new desktop to play with during the day! And it will get him off our backs for at least a couple of months.  But then I remembered Will’s gaming habits and how I like to surf the web while we watch television too.  And damn it, why can’t he just buy his own?!?

But still.  Poor me.  I have too many toys and don’t want to share.

I am so getting visited by a few ghosts this Christmas.