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Sicky McSick Pants!

So I’m sure that I’ll start this post and then not get it finished because we are uber busy around here today.

CSGF Conf is going on we’re working on encoding those presentations. WE just got Tuesday and Wed’s in the mail today. Gotta love FedEx Overnight AM. This batch is going MUCH better then the ones from the SCC conference a couple weeks ago. Mostly because none of these have to have audio remixed, so we just encode and go!

I’ve only got 2 more left, so that’s good. One though has the screen saver pop up in the middle of it. So we have to fix that, but it should be an easy fix.

Yesterday was great, though it was sad to see mt Drew Bear sick!

Work from 7:30 to 10:30, and then I left here and got movies at Family Video, only $1.30 for 2 DVD’s and one of them was a new release! I’d like to see someone beat that shit! lol.

Met up with Andrew about noon and we just spent the WHOLE day laying around his house and hanging out. It was very good times. We watched Frita, and that was good. Andrew layed with his head in my lap, and he kept complaining that it looked like I was in a bad posistion, which I wasn’t! So funny, after that I watched Oprah, and then the news… Because Andrew fell asleep in my lap. It was so cute!

Once he woke up we watched Pumpkin, which was another very odd, but good movie! It wasn’t near as funny as the box said that it was!

By the time that movie was over it was like 7:30, so we went upstairs and made some supper. Andrew had pasta and I had a chicken sandwich. Yummy. I’m hungry just thinking about it! lol.

Once we ate we went back downstairs and laid on his bed talking about things. His mom randomly came in and we were both under the covers, but just talking and his door was open… She was talking to us about things and then took his temp. After she was done with that she was getting ready to leave and then she goes, “Could you please set a good example for your sister and not lay in bed together.”

It was just very annoying the way that she said it, etc. And then they got into a bit of a fight about it. It really annoyes me that his mom takes some of the smallest things and just really blows them up and yells about them. Very annoying, and I hate it even more because of the fact that she yells at them infront of guests. You just don’t do that.

Anyways, it came time to leave and it was really hard because I wanted to just stay there and take care of my baby. We went outside and hugged and I gave him his first kiss of the day. I wasn’t kissing him the rest of the day because I didn’t want to take any major chances of getting sick.

Anyways, I drove back to 86th and dropped off the videos at Family Video. Then I got on the interstate to head back to PC, but I decided not to, so I got off the next exit and turned around and headed back to Ames…

I got to the Elkarht exit when my phone rang, I looked at it and it was Andrew, so I answered….

“Did you leave some keys here..”
“SHIT, THOSE ARE MY HOUSE KEYS!!!”

Followed by many more shits, and “I can’t believe how stupid I am!”‘s. I had to drive all the way back to Waukee to get my fucking keys… I will be making copies of those tonight. By the time I got there it was 10:00, but it was good to see Andrew again!

By the time I got home it was 10:45 or so, and I went right to bed. I was so tired.

Today’s been going really really good. I got up early, for some reason I woke up at 6:30. Crazy I know. Got dressed and came to work. I’ve been here all day working on those presentations, now only one is left to do, YAY!

I’ve been wearing a stocking cap all day too, I wore it to work because I didn’t feel like doing my hair today, but now that I’m here, I’m really glad that I wore it. Because it’s fucking FREEZING in my office. And no, I’m not freezing because I’m sick (or at least I don’t think that’s why). I’m freezing because it IS freezing in this office. Everyone’s complaining about it, but we can’t seem to get the A/C to turn off! ::shivers:: I hope it’s fixed by tomorrow or else I’ll have to wear a sweatshirt to work! lol.

Just received a package from Symantec with our AntiVirus software updates, (About $1,500 worth of software)… The CD’s missing. Great, now I have to go through the annoyance of getting Symantec to send out another CD and I have to call DHL to complain. Bastards!

Anyways, I’ve decided there are TWO things I really want to do on the trip to New Jersey/LA. And that’s to see the Sunset on both coasts from the beach. I think it should be doable. But we’ll see.

Edit:// So plans for this weekend are as follows so far… Leave here about 4:15 on Friday and drive to KC, MO. Get to hotel, hang out, perhaps go out if we feel like it. Otherwise stay in. Saturday spend the majority of the day in Lawrence, KS. I’ve found lots of fun things to do there, it appears. And some other cool stuff. Saturday night, I dunno what we’ll do. Haven’t got that far yet. Sunday, we’ll check out and then go do something, I was thinking mini-golf, perhaps? Then drive home. Good times! I’m really excited and keep thinking that we leave today. I really really want to leave NOW!

And that’s my life…

Finally Thursday

Well, it’s FINALLY Thursday. After thinking that it was Thursday all week, it finally actually IS Thursday… And what a wastefull Thursday it is.

Andrew finally went and picked up his flowers yesterday and called me much later then I would have liked. But I’m very glad that he finally got them and that he likes them. He says that they are VERY pretty. I wish that I could actually get to see them now!

Last night we talked for like an hour and a half. Mostly about random things, but we also talked alot about the whole Homecoming fiasco, and lots of other fights that Adam and I had that Andrew was there for. It really got me thinking about that whole thing, and especially the whole night of homecoming. I should really have broken up with Adam many months before it actually happened. I was so unhappy in that relationship.

Today I went back and read all of September, Oct and Nov of my 2002 archives. And it really made me realize that I should really have broken up with him. I mean there were so many fights over such stupid things, and in the private entries from that time period you can really tell that I was very unhappy in the relationship. There’s a few in there where the private entries completly contridict the public ones. Just a sign of my trying to please Adam, since he had me whipped into constantly pleasing him. As the homecoming fiasco shows.

I wish that I could go back in time, and tell myself in September, when Mike suggested too, that I actually did talk to Andrew about things. Because in the end that’s what I really needed was someone to talk to about how I felt in the relationship, and someone to open my eyes to the fact that it wasn’t a good relationship.

And I know what everyone out there is thinking right now, that Andrew more or less convinced me that I wasn’t happy in the relationship. Because I know you all haven’t got that out of your heads yet that Andrew didn’t steal me from Adam.

I know that the advice he gave me was good, because after I thought about it and talked to other people about the same subjects, I got the same answers. That it was time to end the relationship with Adam. So Blah to all you fuck heads. Whatever.

I just had to get that all out after the talk last night. I also wish that I could go erase that whole Danny era out of my life. What a waste.

We just talked about a lot of other random things as well. But I don’t remember them. Oh, we talked about “The Thursday”… Ahh such confusing times.

I’m also contemplating adding a “Six Months Ago” thing, just like the one/two year. I thought it might be nice because private entries become public after about 6 months usually, so it’d be interesting to let people go back and read those. But at the same time, I don’t know if I really want people to. I know that hardly ANYONE reads my archives to go back and look for the privates, so why publicize  them.

Today has been good. I got up at 7 and did random stuff tell class. I really didn’t want to go to class, but whatever. I went and it was a total waste of time. I spent the whole class reading the old journal entries and getting pissed all over again, because I know I was right, and he wasn’t.

After class I came to work. We got our new firewall in today. I was kind of annoyed with that because the bitch gave it to Chris G and not me. Chris G is leaving here SOON, so why give him something like that. We know it’s going to take at least 2 months before it gets implemented (That’s the set time line as of now). So why give him new projects to get into the middle of and then have to hand it over to someone else? Really… Where’s the logic.

So Chris G left early though and I took it and have been playing with it for a while. I locked myself out of it once, but then remembered how to get back into it. Then for most of the day it was lost on the network and I couldn’t find it. That took me forever to get fixed. But I eventually did find it… Stupid machines getting lost in networks.

After that I fucked things up a lot and had to go buy a serial cable so that we could reset the thing to factory defaults. Did that and then put it away for the day. I don’t feel like breaking it any more. lol.

Andrew called me at some point today as well. I was very annoyed with the secretary because she didn’t even buzz me to make sure I was in my office before she transferred it. Whore. And I wasn’t in my office, but I heard my phone ringing and ran and caught it. We spend like 30 minutes talking about how his day was been and how his PU’s are being abusive to his little step brothers. And they really are abusive.

Then we talked about how his Dad’s buying the little kids tons of stuff and then won’t buy Andrew anything, and then also how his dad bitched at him about how much college is paying and apparently he seems to think Andrew has to come up with $10,000. And yeah, just really confussing and it pissed me off and made me sad that they’re putting Andrew though all this. He really doesn’t need the stress. From what I gather they’ve been saying that they would pay for college and now all of a sudden they want him to come up with $10,000. (Because apparently they’re only going to pay what it costs to put his elder sister thourgh college, which is totaly fair, you know… Sarcasm)

Whatever.

Tonight I’m going to go home and go swimming, then read books for the night. Tomorrow it’ll be an early morning to get up to Perry. Then Saturday I get to pick up Andrew.. I’m very excited for that!

I’m out…

Laters.

Thursday?

So this week has just been dragging on and on and on. It just doesn’t seem to stop. I was hoping that this week would go by fast, which, I guess it kinda has, but at the same time it hasn’t because it is only WED! Grrr.

Speaking of it being Wed. So far every day this week at some point in the day I’ve thought it was Thursday.. But thank god, tomorrow is FINALLY Thursday, the last day of work, and the last day of school for the week. I can’t wait.

And then once this week is over, only one more week of classes left! YAY! I’m so excited. Hopefully I’ll do better on this next MIS test. I never did go into that story did I? Well the first question on the test you had to assume some stuff. It was a registartion program, dealing with classes and the pre-reqs for those classes. Well in the ERD I added in the Student and Teacher relationships to those classes, and well, he didn’t want that, so he took off 20 fucking points! If I hadn’t over-assumed on that one question, I would have got a 92% on the test. Fucker!

Oh well I’m over it.

Tuesday was good, class as usuall. I also did some other stuff, but I’ll get into that story a bit later. Anyways, I talked to drew for like an hour that night, and that was good. We’ve been talking about tons of random stuff, and we’ve been talking much more then I think we would have had he been in Iowa. Very crazy! lol.

At work we bought a new firewall, that was uber exciting. We got her to go with the one that has 4 trusted ports so we can make a DMZ sometime in the future. Also talking her into Gigabit switches to replace the 10/100 switches we have now, and also racks for the server room. I’m really looking forward to the firewall and the racks. The firewall will be here on Thursday, so that’s exciting. We haven’t got the racks for sure yet, still trying to convince her that we need them! Which we DO!

Also while at work I came up with, what I think to be a sweet idea. Originally I asked Andrew for his address while he was there to send him a little card or something, but plans change, and I came up with the idea to send him some flowers. So I start looking up places to get flowers from that area and couldn’t really find anything that sounded good.

I call up the place that his family rented the apartment from and asked them for a recomendation for a place that’ll deliver flowers. They told me to call this place called ‘Belva’s’, so I did. Asked the what it cost to deliver and it was only $7, so I was like that’s fine. So I start telling her what I want. I just wanted to send him some, like 3 or 4, Spider Mums, because those are his favorite flowers. First of all, she only had 2 colors, yellow and white. So I was kind of annoyed with that, I was hoping that they’d have more colors. So I tell her that stuff and then she’s like, what else. And I’m like “That’s all.” And then she informs me that you have to buy a total of $35 worth of shit before they’ll deliver.

Now this took me by surprse because Hy-Vee will deliver for like $6, and there’s now limit that I know of, cause last time it was only like $15 total. So I’m like, well I don’t want to spend that much, so I asked her for to recommend somewhere else. Which she nicly did, we hung up and I called them.

This time it was $25 for delivery and $30 minimum order. So I was like, fuck them. And looked online for a g-store or something Hy-Veeish. I found this place called Publix and called them up.

Get this, there it was $15 delivery fee, and a minimum order of $50!! I was like, HELL NO!

Finally the last place I called was “Piggly Wiggly Florists” there it was only $5 delivery, which I find the weirdest because they are the farthest away from where Andrew was compared to all the others. And the minimum order was $25. So I felt that I could deal with that. I asked her if she had any spider mums, and she said she did, but only like 6 purple ones. Well, Spider Mums were like $1.50 each, so once you took the price of the vase out of there ($6) I could have gotten him a dozen of those. Which I really didn’t want to get him a dozen or even six (long story) of anything. So I ask her what else she has that she would like. She mentioned a few things and I didn’t know what any of them were. So I decided to just go with something simpler.

Ended up getting him 6 Yellow Roses with Orange tips. The woman said they looked really good, and it was a good choice. So I hope that they really do look good. After we got all that done she asked me when I wanted it delivered.

I knew that they would be gone from the house by the time I had called her (About 2ish Central time) and that Andrew and family probably wouldn’t be back to the house by the time the florist closed. So I just told her to deliver them first thing in the morning. So like 10ish.

Well come to find out when I talked to Andrew last night that they tried delivering them that NIGHT! I was so annoyed because the florist left a note there. I wanted this to be a super surprise. One of those, things where someone knocks on the door and you go and answer it and boom, there’s some flowers. But no, the stupid florist went and fucked that all up now.

This morning I came into work at 8 (because I had left the number here for them) and called them up. I asked the florist who had helped me the day before what was going on. She explained that she had a delivery in that area and just went ahead and tried delivering it then. So I accepted that, I wasn’t going to get mad at them since they were doing so much for me and helping me out so much. I asked her to call me back if Andrew hadn’t been in to pick them up before 1pm.

So I’ve been uber nervous all day. I didn’t think about it tell I was in class this morning, that his PU’s might not like him getting flowers or something like that there. Too gay or something, you never know. And everytime the phone here in the office rings I just like freeze hoping that they’ll buzz me and say “Andrew McGeehan is on the phone for you.” And I can say, “Thank you, put him though.” But nope, not yet.

I also have my cell phone next to my monitor, and everytime I get a call… Just a few seconds before my monitor flickers. Well today it’s been doing it even when I’m not getting a call. But still everytime my monitor flickers I just sit there for a second looking at my phone and hoping that it’ll start rining.

But it hasn’t YET!

Ok, stirke that last part… It just rang and it was the florists. They haven’t heard from Andrew yet. Very annoying. I would think that that would have been the first place they went to this morning. At least I know I would have… Grrr. I’m very annoyed and very anxious right now.

I hope that everything turns out well. I gave them Andrew’s phone number so that they can call him and find out what’s going on.

Well other then that not much else has been happening in my life lately. Last night I went running for almost an hour, and then did my abslide.

This morning I got up at 7, did my abslide and go ready for the day then went out. Rode my bike here to take care of the florist dilemma. And then rode to campus. By the time I got to campus my shirt was soaking wet from sweat, so I went to the bathroom in Carver and took it off and washed my face with cold water to cool down some. I forgot my water bottle this morning and I’m not happy about that either…Anyways, the point of the story is that I was standing in front of the mirror shirtless there in carver and I really liked the way that I looked. Maybe it’s just me, but I thought it looked like I’ve lost some weight recently. Crazyness really.

Class was class. I started reading Branned since I just finished Culture Jam. I really liked that book and recommend that everyone go read it! lol.

Now I’m at work and I’ve got quite a bit done for being as jumpy as I am. I’ve implemented SNMP on 5 machines and I’m working on getting it on the linux boxes, but the config files for it seem to be confusing me.

Hopefully things will get better!

Laters.

A Weekend of Tiredness

So what all has Chris been up to lately?

One hell of a lot! I left work early Friday to go help my dad get my mom’s b-day present. I had to leave 4 hours early to go help him. We get home, I take all my shit inside, including my backpack which still had my cell phone in it. And then we leave.

We had to drive to the Airport because my dad rented my mom a mustang for the week. We drive there, a good 80 all the way because I hate driving my dad places. I also have the windows down and the music loud so that I couldn’t talk to him. We get there and I had to park cause he wanted me to come in incase there was something wrong and they didn’t have the car ready or something. So I follow him in, he hands me $3 for parking. I’m like, hello? How about paying me for the gas that I wasted driving all the way from Ames, to our house, and then to the Airport, or how about paying me for the 4 hours that I had to miss from work. He gets the keys and then walks off.

No “Hey, thanks” for driving him there, no thanks for taking time off work. Nothing. You know, I really didn’t have to go and help him. I really didn’t have to, but I was being nice by taking time off work. And one other question I have, why didn’t Andy just drive him. He’s got a car, he could have just followed him home. Why the hell couldn’t Andy have done this. I was so pissed off by that time at that asshole. Thanks alot!

So I get back on Highway 5 bypass cause I wanted to get back to WDW to get some things for Andrew, and a b-day card for his mom. By this time it was 4:15 or so. I start driving, doing a good 80, when about 2 miles from the Fluer exit, traffic suddenly STOPS! I was like, “Great, just what I need.” I figured it was just road work or something, and we’d get through it fairly quickly. So I stick it out, and get up a little closer (Because everyone was turning around in the median, and being complete assholes about it) and I see that it’s actually an accident and the entire road is BLOCKED! So I get up to a spot where my little car can make the median and turn around. Drive back to Fluer, get off and then drive ALL THE WAY through downtown DM, through rush-hour traffic and get onto 235, again more rush hour traffic. I finally made it to WDW and go to B&N to price a book for my mom about 5:15ish. I wanted to have everything done and have made it back to PC to get my phone, which I forgot initially and then back to Waukee to meet Andrew shortly after 5:30. Well, I knew I wouldn’t make it to PC and back in time, and by that time I was so pissed at all the STUPID drivers that I just drove to Andrew’s office and surprised him there. I think he liked the surprise and it was really good to see him, it made me happier.

From there we went to his house and talked and hung out the whole night with his sister. It was his mom’s b-day and we were waiting around for her and John to get back from supper so that we could surprise her. They finally got back around 8:30 or so, we did the surprise thing, ate so cake and then Andrew and I were off. I felt very weird being there bacuse it was all his family and then me. Very odd.

We went over to girls house and watched some movie. I was so tired by then that I don’t remember what it’s called. But I do remember that it was amusing.

After that we went home.

Saturday I got up fairly early and did a whole bunch of stuff. I don’t remember most of it. But I got a lot done.

After that I met up with Andrew after he got off work. We went out driving to do some errands. I had to go to Christian Photo to get some stuff, and after that we were on the way to his peircing place, but got side tracked by some garage sales. That was UBER fun and there were like 10 on every block! great times. After that we went to his peircer to find out what’s wrong with his eyebrow ring. He really doesn’t want to take it out, and I don’t want him to either! It’s so hot!

After that we went downtown to Sal-Val. I got some cute shirts as did Andrew. We’re both on budgets this summer, so we’ll be shopping there! We haven’t been to the mall to actually buy something in forever!

From there to beak’s. We went “swimming” at gray’s lake with her and leper boy. The water was too cold to go swimming because it really wasn’t warm enough to go. But there were tons of white trash there. We didn’t stay long cause beak was the only one swimming, although I think it would have been nice to stay a bit longer. I just wish we had the weather we had today, yesterday and the weather yeasterday today!

We left the lake and went back to Beak’s where we had the grilling fiasco. None of the grills worked, so we cooked inside. It was all still really really good! I need to hang out with Beak some more so that I can get my cooking expertise back again! After the food we hung around and talked for a while. Andrew and I left and went back to my house where we hot tubbed and spent the rest of the night just talking random talk! I drove him home and he was talking random talk and very incoherant. It was crazy!

This morning I slept in because it’s been long nights all week long and I was so tired! I got up showered and then headed over to Andrew’s. I wasn’t even in the door when Sue visiously attacked me and asked for a hug, and said that she didn’t hate me, and just really embarrassed me! It was very weird.

Met up with Girl #1 and Girl #2. Off to Adventurland we went. I had a REALLY great time there. I went on far more rides then I usually do, thanks to Drew Bear. Though I still wouldn’t go on the rollercoasters. They’re just too scary for me yet. Though I’d like to try one again some day. I did get quite annoyed a few times there with all the peer-pressure and shit to go on rides that I didn’t want too. Other then that it was a GREAT day. The Amazing Race that we did was TONS of fun and I ran around all of Adventure land barefoot because I was wearing sandles that you can’t run in. Now I have two really BIG blisters on the bottom of my feet and it hurts imensily to walk/do anything with my feet. But had a GREAt time.

After Adventure land I really wanted to go back to my house and swim, but Andrew and I decided to just stay at his and hand out, which we did. More good times, and Sue was uber nice to me! lol

Well, I’m really tired of typing so I’m done with this. I know there’s a lot that I forgot about, but I’ll put that in the private update which I’ll write laters!

Laters!

2 More.

Well, the last couple days have been pretty damn busy.

Tuesday I had class, nothing really went on there. The class itself is going to teach me a lot I think. But the professor is pretty boring. Not his fault, he does try and make it interesting. But it’s just not one of those classes that can be interesting. Today was very hard because I was so tired from Wed. But I think I should do pretty good in the class overall. It’s mostly logical stuff.

After class I went to work. I had a TON of stuff to do that day and got most of it done. I have decided that Eudora is a poorly coded piece of crap. It caused many headaches that day.

To relieve the stress, and get a break from Eudora, I called Andrew while he was on his lunch break. We talked for a bit and it was nice. He asked me if I was coming down for the night, and I told him that I’d think about it.

The rest of the day at work was very busy. And I kept debating with myself as to if I wanted to miss class or not. I decided that it was worth one day, and since it’s so early in the year it wouldn’t matter really. So at 4:45 I rode my bike home, quickly threw some stuff into a backpack and then headed off to Andrew’s house. I met up with him at 5:40 or so.

We spent the rest of the night playing around with his computer. I showed him Opera, which is fun and fixed a few other things for him. After that we went to Family Video (2 DVD’s for $1.30, how can you pass that up!) and got The Matrix and Frita. Andrew let me watch The Matrix first, which was nice of him because I know he doesn’t like the movie. I throughtly enjoyed it though can can’t wait to go see Reloaded. After the movie, it was late, so we went to bed.

Wed moring we got up and I showered. After that we hung around the house for a couple hours. We made biscuits which is fun because they’re so GOOD! In fact, I want some more right now! And it was so cute cause we made them together. Why are we such a cute couple, I just don’t know. 😛 Anyways, after we made biscuits we watched Jerry Springer, such a crazy show. I won’t get into it!

After that he had to leave to go to a work function, so I just sat around his house playing video games and doing other random stuff. He got back about 1ish and we called Jenny (who didn’t answer her phones!!!) And Ginny (who did answer). Ginny came over about 2 and we went out Goodwilling. That was alright, but there wasn’t ANYTHING cute. So we went to teh DAV on E. University. Andrew found a cute yellow shirt, but gave it to me and then I bought a muffin tin, so now I can make my muffins! Good times.

We broke about 4ish cause Andrew and I had to meet my mom. We drove downtown to her office, which is way cool. And worked on flight info and also found a hotel for the trip to MCI. We’re going to be gone for 2 nights, and it’ll only cost us $30 each for the hotel. So I’m hoping to keep the costs to below $100 for this trip. Maybe $150. We’ve also decided that we are NOT going to eat out unless we have to! In other words, we should make a trip to Sams Club sometime. lol.

We got done with that about 6ish and then went out to supper with my mom. That was uber good. We went to a place called Centro (pronounced Chen’-tro). They had REALLY great Italian food. I don’t remember what it was that I got, but it was so good. Andrew said that his was really good too! We also got a peice of chocolate cake, it was wonderfull! Andrew and I are going to go back and get a pizza or something some time. They were only like $12 for a large one and they looked so good! Our meal was a bit more then that… Good thing my mom paid! (Thanks MOM!)

After that we broke and Andrew and I drove back to his house. We spent the night laying in his bed talking about him moving to Cali. It was very sad and we were both crying for most of it. He’s scared about moving out there, and I feel so helpless. All I can do is tell him that everything’s going to be fine, and to hold him. But I just know that he’ll do fine out there, he’s a strong guy, and he’ll have tons of great new friends!

It’s very sad to think about because 2 months from today, he’ll be moving into his dorm room. And after that it’ll be 4 months before we get to see each other again. These last 4 months seem to have just flown by, but I’m sure that those 4 months will just crawl.

I left about 10:30 and drove home. I was so annoyed though by the time I got there because once I got onto I-35 north, I got RIGHT behind a state trooper going exactly 55 in the construction zone (With a speed limit of 55) and then once it went back up to 65 he went exactly 65. I had to follow him all the way from the east mix-master to AMES! I was SO pissed at him. Fucking stupid cops.

I got home, threw my stuff down and went to check websites/etc.

I ended up going to bed that night, alternating between crying, and being ferious.

And, after much debate on my part last night, I think it’s time…