I have been ok off and on today, but now I’m about ready to just crawl under the covers. For the past ten minutes I have been sneezing at least once a minute. My nose is now all stuffed and my eyes are tearing. Beavis, this sucks. Josh has gone to a class. /sigh

We went to see Open Range last night. It was, hmmm, ok. I wasn’t thrilled with it, but I wasn’t put off by it. It was a little too slow to start. Of course it also ended too quick. The acting was great, except for a few places where Costner seemed to not follow through. I just felt some scenes could have done away with some of the non-essential lines. There were a few that were kind of stale.

During one of my ‘I feel fine’ sprees, I managed to empty a room and steam clean the carpet. Go me. Two more rooms to go. Josh thinks we should scotch-guard the carpet after we do it. Maybe, I haven’t decided.

Alright, time to crawl under a rock, I can’t breathe.

Oh yes, I did good today. I discovered a thrift store that sold things… by the pound! What did I manage to find? Well, lots of dress up clothes for the kids, a nice fancy evening gown that is about one size too small for me in the upper region of my body. /sigh I will just pass it on. I got a few coats for the kids to play pretend in. AJ was with me during the discovery, but he is sick (and I’ve caught it from the kids too), so we didn’t stay there too long. I was just impressed that I actually found a non-dated evening gown! I may take a picture of my $1 dress. It’s in perfect condition too. Someone will get some use out of it. Maybe Josh’s mom can use it for something. Hrmm. I think so.

Alright, gotta go make some mint chutney. /sigh

Last night I went to wash my hands and instead ended up getting sick. Of course the clean up made me want to be sick again. Let’s just say I had spinach for dinner. Bleh.

Just finished mowing the front yard and half of the back. I ran out of gas and there isn’t enough in the gas can to finish, so I’ll do the rest tomorrow. I still feel kind of sick from last night, but not anything too bad.

I need to pick up some speakers for a stereo I bought yesterday. It’s a nice Sony one. I ended up getting it for $10. Someone thought it wasn’t working, but uh, you kind of need to hook the speakers up correctly. I am thinking of trying a pawn shop or five. I think just basic black would be good. I would prefer something small. We already have a really nice stereo system, but I figured it would be good to have either in another room or even out on the patio. I haven’t quite decided where it will go. I’m working on that.

We bought it last night, but managed to beat the huge mob of people by going to a different area to pay. There were actually more people last night than there were when Chamber of Secrets was released. Interesting.

AJ is here and is watching some of it, asking lots of cute questions. I must go answer some.

Yahoo (and everyone else it seems) has finally picked up on the story of Wesley Willis’ death (On August 21st). I liked Wesley, but I can’t really accurately explain why. He didn’t make music in the ‘normal’ sense, but he made something he loved. Maybe that’s why I liked him. Knowing my fair share of schizophrenics may have also helped me understand too. In any case, I was shocked and saddened when I heard last week.

In other news. I received a late night (well late to her) phone call from Brittany. It seems she was having a grammar homework crisis. She had no clue what the questions were asking about. I’m going to get on her case tomorrow if she hasn’t brought home her book. She keeps forgetting to bring her books home for the subjects she has homework in. She remembers the workbooks, but not the books. /sigh We’ve all gotten after her about it since the beginning of last year, but she still “forgets” to bring them. I think tomorrow I’ll make her go back if she forgets. It will really get her upset considering The Two Towers comes out tomorrow on DVD and she is dying to watch it.

I feel accomplished today. I put on my brave face and tackled the back porch’s nether lands. Things roam around there that shouldn’t be thought about, ever. I went in stomping and killed quite a few things I never want to see. A few shrieks and squeaks came from me and a little cursing as well. All in all, I did a fairly good job. Moved the swing out and then put it back, found stuff I never knew was there. Made use of said stuff too.

My dad had jury duty today but managed to get there and get out of it due to health reasons. An actual benefit to having a disease. All he said was that he needed to have certain meals and meds at certain times and they said, “OK, you’re excused. We may call you back for jury duty again though.” Sure, it’ll be the same thing next time though.

I think I injured my shoulder during my cleaning spree. It hurts to move it. The only reason I can type this is because my wrist is really the only thing moving. /sigh

Next stop, post office.

Josh and I drove all over the place and ended up in a town called Frostless or something like that. This house was bigger than some of the towns we went through. We headed home and the skies just started dumping on us. Visibility was pretty close to 0, but we drove on. Mainly because no one else was on the road and we just drove really slow.

More later, I’m kind of hungry.

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John B. email me! We saw your dad last summer and he said you were literally moving at the time and he didn’t have your new number and stuff. We moved really far from where we were. Email me.

You know, if I was to move somewhere, I’m tempted to think Bermuda would be a nice place to move to. All of the people I have met from Bermuda have been very pleasant and I’ve met people in different situations. It wasn’t like it was a tour bus full of them or anything. I was looking at a map and just thought of that. It’s an idea. I’m not sure if Josh would be up for it. All though if I told him he could have a boat, he’d be happy. If it wasn’t for the tropical storms that they get so often I’d put it right at the top of my list!

Got some computer/web related things done. Really just database stuff that wasn’t too hard. I didn’t want to work on anything that I couldn’t stop and pick back up later and still remember what I was doing. I finished most of it, so that was good.

Good gravy my wrist is killing me. I think this will be the last for tonight.

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