Trivializing the Momentous and Complicating the Obvious

Proudest Moment: Replacing computer desk and cleaning my bedroom. Hooray!

New Movies Seen: Once, Raising Arizona, No Country For Old Men, and There Will Be Blood.

Hours Worked (Earning Money; does not include household chores): 30. Seemed like more. But I guess that explains how I had so much time to watch movies. Huh.

Hours Spent Practicing Piano: about 10, maybe?

Laundry Done, In Loads: 4

Books Read: None

Bills Paid: 2, car and car insurance

Number of Times Dined Out: 1

Tanks of Gas Bought: 1

That's all I can think of. I was going to do a "Happiest Moment," and more along those lines, but I couldn't remember enough specific moments. My short-term memory is really bad.

My current favorite song is At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys, by Five Iron Frenzy. ( Lyrics under the cut )

Another one I like is "So Far, So Bad," also by Five Iron Frenzy ( Again with the lyrics under the cut )

Heehee!

This is the saddest I've been over a celebrity's death since John Ritter and Johnny Cash died on the same day. I've always really liked Heath Ledger, and assumed he'd be around for a long time, making really good movies and getting better and better at the acting thing.

I really want to cry, but for some reason, I can't.

I've been feeling really depressed this last week or so. Not so much that it affects every minute, but whenever I'm by myself, doing nothing..... or a lot of the time when I'm with my sisters. It's hard to keep myself from crying.

*sigh* This too shall pass.

Well, I really liked Sweeney Todd.

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I joined a gym today. :)

My dad's coming home tomorrow. Yay!

I'm halfway to the number of students I need to be able to move out on my own. I realized this yesterday. I've been unshakably happy ever since.

Last week, my sibs went to a weekend concert in Orlando, leaving me and my mother at home by ourselves. My mother worked both of those days, so really I was home alone. The first day was horribly boring, but the second day I realized I could actually do things when I'm by myself.

I wasn't fond of the movies by myself (saw 3:10 to Yuma; was good), but the rest was really nice.

(Using this icon just because I felt like it.)

So, we left our church. Very long story. I hope the next one we go to has people my age. And are capable of getting their heads out of the 60's.

It hasn't been pretty, though. People can be so vindictive. I know there are always two sides to every story, but I can't imagine what justification could be given for the way the administration in this church has acted towards my family.

I can't wait to move.

So I haven't been posting regularly for a long time. You know how it goes, it starts with not having a lot of time, or nothing of interest happening. Then time goes by and you realize that actually a lot has happened, and you wouldn't know where to begin to update. So you keep putting it off and putting it off, until finally, you decide, "Screw it. I'm going to post about something because I feel like it."

At least, that's how it works for me. So here goes.

TV obsession. Now that we have no satellite dish, I have become obsessed with several TV shows. Doctor Who, obviously, but now that's currently between seasons. Life on Mars is intriguing, but am having difficulty finding 3rd episode. Robin Hood was a total bust -- stupid show. Jericho turned out to be a surprise. Has anybody heard of/seen this show? I'd heard of it, but forgot about it until my sister caught the pilot last week, and proceeded to get me to watch the entire season with her on the internet. It started out really bad/cheesy, but got really good about halfway through the first season. CBS cancelled it, but the fans got them to bring it back after deluging the network and execs with letters and peanuts. So they're re-running the second half of the first season. I don't know if a second season is in the works or not, but I sure hope so, because boy was the season finale a cliffhanger.

I still haven't gathered up the courage/strength to begin the next two years of my schooling. I'd really like to just get it over with, because there's not much I can do with a 2-year accounting degree. But on the other hand, I really don't feel like pushing myself to do well in school while working at the same time. If I could go to school and take off work for two years, I'd jump at it. I just don't have the energy.

Piano lessons are going well -- I have about half of the students I need to be making what I was making when I was working Kmart and the doctor's office at the same time --- with only a third of the hours. That's nice.

My parents are talking about moving again, this time up north, probably either Detroit or somewhere around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We've had issues with the church and my mother's closest Florida friend moved to Buffalo last year. My mother's unsatisfied with her job, and my dad is unable to find work down here, so a move seems imminent. My dad's talked about moving before, but never with my mom backing him up. I'm okay with it this time. It seems like the best thing to do given our current situation, and it's not like any of us kids have roots here. My sister has a bosom friend that she will miss, but said friend is going away to college soon, anyway, and they both have MySpaces.

Anyway, at least it's not freaking Okeechobee.

Emotionally drained. Have been blazing my way through seasons 2 and 3 of Doctor Who. Made it through Family of Blood. Was contemplating staying up through Utopia, but since Blink link (ha!) appears to be broken, will probably end up going to bed.

Stayed up late last night, too, because of Who. Went to bed right after 42, so ended up having dreams about the previews for Human Nature. That was creepy, especially since I couldn't remember, while I was at work today, which scenes I was remembering from the preview, and which ones I was remembering from the dream. Turned out they were almost all from the dream. *g*

I'm bored. I'm in the mood to expand. Expand my interests, my tastes, my circle of friends, my horizons, my waistline, anything.

Well, maybe not the waistline.

Finished watching The Forsyte Saga today. I'd heard good things about it, but I found it very tedious. Can't think why I spent so much time on it. I kind of wish I'd stopped after Series 1, actually. It ended on kind of a hopeful note.

My uncle is coming to visit next week. Should be interesting.