August 29

Well, I didn't write anything yesterday. Dunno why, I just never really got around to it. So I went home yesterday and got TK up and off to school, then played a little Black Ops 2 and hung out with TH for a while. Went to bed, got up, and came to work. Yay. This morning, same thing except I didn't play anything. I just hung out with TH for a while then went to bed. TH picked TK up after school and they went to Golden Corral for dinner. I got up after they got home and played a little bit of Black Ops 2 with TK before I had to come to work. I stopped on the way here and bought some chicken for dinner. It was pretty good, but I ordered spicy and they gave me regular. I didn't notice until I was already here. Assholes >:-(

I'll probably get TK off to school in the morning then go by HEB and pick up a few things. Maybe play some Black Ops 2, then take a nap until TK gets home. Dunno what else.

Song: AWOLNATION - Kill Your Heroes. Random shuffle.

Best thing: Made a pretty successful cakeday post on Reddit :-)

Worst thing: One of the fish died :-( It was the suckerfish, the only one who didn't really like me. Still sad, though.

Yep yep yep.

August 27

Well I didn't go home and go straight to bed but I managed to go early enough that I got up when TK got home and I'm not horribly tired tonight. Went home and did the usual routine - make a lunch, clean up a little, then wake up TK. He left for school and TH woke up so I hung out with him for a little bit before I went to bed. When TK got home we tried out the new zombies map. It's pretty cool, but it's another one where there are lots of things to do and places to get lost. It's definitely a complicated map. I like it though. We checked out the multiplayer maps just a little bit and they all seem to be good. TH got home and we made nachos for dinner. I wasn't hungry yet so I brought a salad and some more of the pork/brown rice stuff to work with me.

Talked to my mom earlier and her appointment went well. She said she's still a little numb but so far it seems like the pain isn't nearly as bad as it usually is. So that's good!

Eh, don't really know what else. So yay.

Song: Tenacious D - POD. Random shuffle.

Best thing: New Black Ops 2 maps!

Worst thing: Headache :-/

Hooray.

August 26

Well, we all survived the first day of school. Yay! I went home this morning and made TK's lunch, made coffee, and cleaned up the kitchen a little. Woke him up and walked part of the way down to the bus stop with him. I kinda planned on walking a little more after he cut off to go to the bus stop but I was tired so I just headed back home. I cut up an onion and some of those Hatch chili peppers and threw them into the crockpot with the pork roast to cook all day. TH woke up and I hung out with him for a while, watched an episode of Breaking Bad, and then went to bed.

I got up when TK got home and filled out all of the back to school paperwork shit that he brought home while he did his homework. We played a few games of zombies then worked on our little Minecraft world until TH got home. The roast was finished and I made some brown rice so we did brown rice, shredded pork, salsa, shredded cheese, and lite sour cream. I wasn't hungry yet so I brought mine to work. The roast turned out really good though! It made a huge container so we can eat that for several days :-) Hung out with TH and TK until it was time to come to work. It rained a little before I left the house, and about halfway here. Nothing here until just a few minutes ago when it started drizzling.

August 25

Sunday night, again. Sigh. The weekends are just way too short :-/ All of the kids go back to school tomorrow, so at least it has been pretty quiet here at work so far. Not too much traffic on the way here, either. It's so much nicer here during the school year!

So Friday I stopped at HEB on my way home and picked up a few things. Hung out for a while until everyone woke up and we made bacon and eggs for breakfast. I managed to get one pair of TK's pants hemmed, so that was something, at least. Laid down for a nap when TH left for work but my phone woke me up earlier than I had really planned on getting up. Started some laundry and played some Minecraft and zombies with TK for a while then just kinda hung out until it was time for TH to get home. I had bought a couple of packages of seasoned beef for carne guisada that I found marked down so I threw them in the crockpot to cook all night. TH got home and we hung out with him then went to bed not too long after he did. I ended up calling the cops on that fucking dog behind us again because it started barking and just wouldn't shut the fuck up. I'm getting really tired of that fucking dog >:-(

August 22

Thursday night! I still feel kinda crappy but I'm not nearly as tired as I have been. I didn't really sleep that long today either so I don't know what the deal is with that. Went home this morning and woke everybody up early so they could go to the dentist. They went to Walmart afterwards and found a pair of shoes for TK so I don't have to worry about doing that this weekend. Yay! I went to bed later than I really should have but still got up early enough to hang out with them for a little while before I had to leave for work.

I'm planning on stopping at HEB on the way home in the morning to pick up a few things, and I need to stop by Walgreen's for my medicine. I didn't realize that it was already time to refill it because I still have a few left. I realized that I'm bad about remembering to take it on my nights off :-/ I really need to work on that. It's still helping me though, which is awesome :-) I think we're going to do breakfast when everybody wakes up in the morning, then I might take a nap early. Dunno yet. I have to get TK's pants hemmed this weekend, and we need to gather up all of his school stuff so he's all ready to go Monday morning. I kinda can't believe it's already time for school to start again! It feels weird too because this is going to be the first semester in a long time that I won't be taking classes. Not really sure how I feel about that.

Song: Cage The Elephant - In One Ear. Random shuffle :-)

Best thing: TH bought the shoes today so I don't have to!

Worst thing: One of my bad teeth broke in half. It doesn't hurt yet, but I'm sure it will eventually. I need so much freaking dental work that it's not even funny but it's just so fucking expensive. Plus I'm scared of the dentist :-(

Yeehaw.

August 21

Still tired and feeling like crap. I slept for almost 8 hours today so it seems like I shouldn't be this tired. But I am :-/ Stopped by Randall's this morning because they have spinach on sale and got some stuff for salads. Went home and was in bed by 7:30 or so. I had really weird dreams again, though. Got up and played a little bit of Halo 4 with TK then made veggie burgers and fries for dinner. Hung out with them for a while and watched an episode of Breaking Bad. Now I'm at work.

TK has his last dentist appointment in the morning. TH is going to take him. If I don't feel any better I'll probably go to bed early again. Then I just have to make it through one more night and hopefully I can get some rest this weekend and get over whatever this crap is. I need to hem TK's pants and go try to find him a new pair of shoes before Monday. Might do that Friday. Dunno yet.

Song: Seether - Gasoline. Random shuffle again.

Best thing: Got salad stuff!

Worst thing: Still feeling like crap :-(

Hooray.

August 20

Tired and feeling crappy again :-/ Sucks. So I went home this morning and actually got to bed fairly early. Got up early enough to play with TK for a little bit. TH stopped at HEB on his way home to pick up a few things so that was cool. All we really need now before the weekend is stuff for movie night. TK wants to do pizza since it's the last movie night of the summer and we haven't had pizza in a while. Dunno yet. He wants me to wake him up early in the morning so we can hang out but I guess it depends on how I feel. I may just try to go to bed early again. I'll be glad when I get over whatever this crap is :-/

Song: Lhugueny - Buried The Musical. This one is for Buried, the newest Black Ops 2 zombies map.

Best thing: Figured out how to get the new hard drive to do most of what we wanted it to do. So yay.

Worst thing: Still feeling like crap :-(

I guess that's pretty much it.

August 19

Not much going on today. I'm tired tonight, though. Sucks :-( So I went home this morning and kinda poked everybody but no one wanted to wake up. So I hung out for a while by myself until they got up, messed with them for a little bit, then went to bed. The electrician dude finally showed up today to fix the light in the bathroom, and while he was there everyone was being loud, which woke me up. Turns out it wasn't the fixture itself, it was a bad switch. But it's fixed now, so yay! Fell asleep again but woke up around 3:00 and couldn't go back to sleep so I got up. I started some lentils and brown rice in the crockpot for dinner. Played a little bit of zombies and some Minecraft with TK until TH got home and we had dinner. It ended up being lentils, brown rice, mixed veggies, and some leftover cherry tomatoes that were about to go bad. Oh, and some Salsa of Doom. It was really good!

So now I'm at work and it's kinda busy and I'm tired and I feel a little crappy, and I just wanna go home and go to bed. Eh. I hope I'm not trying to catch whatever it is that the other guys have had :-/ Only 6 more hours to go, sigh. Hopefully if I go to bed early tomorrow I will sleep better than I did today.

Song: Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo. Random shuffle.

Best thing: Light is fixed!

Worst thing: Tired and feeling crappy :-/

Yep yep yep.

August 18

Well, I survived the weekend. Yay! So I got off work Friday morning and went up to my mom's house. We were going to take her to the store so I thought she would be up and ready but no such luck. So we hung out at her house for a little while until she was ready to go. Went to Walmart and picked up a few things but they didn't have the shoes that we wanted in the right size. Sigh. So I'll probably end up ordering them online. We can make do with what we have until then, I hope. At least we were able to return the first pair that we bought, that TK didn't like. So that was good. Got back to her house and hung out until around 4:00 or so then headed home. I stopped at a Target and let TK run in to look for a Transformer dude that he has been looking for. We got home around 5:30 or so and basically just kinda hung out and played a little Minecraft and stuff until TH got home. Chatted with him for a while then we all went to bed. Because sooooo tired :-/

Saturday we actually got up kinda early and I did some cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, and scooped the litterbox. I reorganized the linen closets so that the towels are on the top shelf and all of the medicines and extra deodorants/toothpaste/stuff like that is all on the middle shelf so it's nice and neat and easy to see. I don't know why it took me this long to think about doing that. I am not a smart girl sometimes, lol. Played some Black Ops 2 with TK until TH got home. He brought home Whataburger, which was really good because we hadn't had it in a while! We watched Iron Man 3 (don't ask how, lol) and hung out until TH went to bed. TK and I stayed up until like 3:00 playing Minecraft and some zombies. We started on a drive-in movie theater and a neighborhood in our little Minecraft world. We have a creek running along between the neighborhood and the rest of the town and so far we have 2 houses built. One of them is a little purple house, (almost) just like ours! So fucking cute :-)

August 15

Finally, Thursday night. Yay! Went home this morning and went straight to bed. Woke up around 1:30, just before TH took TK to the dentist, and couldn't go back to sleep so I just stayed up. They got back but we decided not to try to go swimming because it looked like it was going to start storming. Hung out with them for a little bit, played a few games of zombies with TK, then tried to take another quick nap but it didn't really work. Sigh. Got everything ready to go and just before we left the house it starting pouring. I had to stop at the Crappy Mart for some gas and the wind was blowing the rain so hard that my back and butt got absolutely soaked. I stepped in a puddle, too, so my socks are all wet and squishy. I've got them hanging over the fan drying right now. I had thought about waiting a little longer on buying new shoes but now I'm thinking I need to look for a pair tomorrow when we take my mom to Walmart :-/

Made it to work and my buddy dropped TK off at my mom's house on his way home. It had pretty much quit raining by then so that was nice. Everything's still all squishy, though. I'll head up there when I get off in the morning and we'll stay til sometime in the afternoon then head home. Probably stop at HEB on the way home to pick up a couple of things. Then sleep! Because by the time I get home I will have been up for like 28 hours or something :-/

Song: Imagine Dragons - Demons. I likes :-)

Best thing: Made it to work safely. It got scary there for a while!

Worst thing: I'm all wet and squishy :-/

Okey dokeys then.

August 14

Sigh. Went home and skipped the walk so I could see if TH felt like going swimming. He didn't, and I really didn't want to go by myself. Stayed up for a little bit messing around with them then went to bed. Woke up around 1:30 or so and couldn't go back to sleep so we cooked the chicken for lunch. We ended up battering it, rolling it in cornflake crumbs, and baking it. We ran out of cornflake crumbs toward the end so some of them were just battered. The cornflake ones were ok, but I think I liked the battered ones better. Now I kinda want to try doing the same thing with some of those frozen tilapia fillets. Took another quick nap at about 7:00 so at least I'm not super tired. Dunno if we're going to try to go swimming tomorrow or not. There's a slightly better chance of rain. Today it never rained right in our area but a couple of places nearby got a little bit. I guess we'll see.

So I talked to my mom and we're going to go see her this weekend. Double sigh. I'm going to bring TK to work with me tomorrow night and my buddy here at work is going to drop him off at her house on his way home. He lives pretty close to her. So TK spends the night with her Thursday, then when I get off Friday morning I'll go up there and we'll spend the day. We're not staying Friday night, though. Fuck that. I would like to have at least one real day off, thank you very much :-)

Song: Cold War Kids - Miracle Mile. Another new one.

Best thing: On my way home this morning I passed a car on the side of the road with a flat tire. It was one of our patrol dudes who comes through here at work every night! So I circled back around and stopped to help. That was cool :-)

Worst thing: No swimming or walk. Again :-(

Yeah.

August 13

Didn't do much again today. We skipped the walk so I went home and played a little Black Ops 2 by myself before everyone else woke up. Hung out with them for a while, watched the season premiere of Breaking Bad, and went to bed late. Slept til TH got home from work so I still didn't do anything with that chicken. TH said he'll make something with it for dinner tomorrow. We'll see, lol. I do plan on going for a walk in the morning. There's a little bit of a chance of rain starting tomorrow so that would be nice. That's pretty much it, though.

Song: Linkin Park - Numb. Random shuffle again.

Best thing: A little bit of quiet time this morning :-)

Worst thing: I was playing a game of zombies, having a really good game, when I paused it and went to the bathroom. I left the controller on the floor and Moose managed to unpause it and got me killed. Asshole >:-(

Yeehaw.

August 12

Not much going on today. Went home and woke everybody up to go for a walk. We went by Tigger's house but didn't see him this morning. TH got called into work early because somebody called in sick so I hung out with him for a while then went to bed after he left. I still didn't sleep very well. Dunno why. Got up in time to play a few games of zombies with TK. I should have cooked the chicken that I thawed out but just didn't feel like it. I really need to do it tomorrow before it goes bad. I'm trying to decide if I want to go for a walk in the morning or just try to go home and go to bed. I'm tired, and my feet are a little sore. TK's knee is still bothering him from where he busted it on the bottom of the pool the other day, too. If we don't go walk I guess I could pull out the little pedal thingie and use that for a while. Yeah, I may just do that.

I managed to see a few meteors last night, even though it's not super dark out here. It was cool :-) I guess it was mostly the really bright ones. I've looked a few times tonight but haven't seen any yet. I'll probably go stand outside for a while once it kinda slows down a little.

Song: Cake - Never There. An older one :-)

Best thing: Meteor shower!

Worst thing: Tired :-/

Yep yep yep.

August 11

And, here we go again. Sunday night, sigh. It wasn't as hot today as it has been so by the time I left for work it was only like 89 instead of 95 or so like it usually is. The one guy here at work is on vacation so I had to chat with the ditzy little flex officer chick. She's nice, she just talks a lot. Like, a lot. Thankfully she was in a hurry to go see her boyfriend so she didn't hang out for too long.

So Friday I went home and woke up TK to go for a walk. TH woke up before we left but he wasn't feeling well so we went without him. We decided to walk down the next street to see Tigger then make the hike up to the little convenience store at the front of the neighborhood that we call the Crappy Mart. We cut through the crappy little park on the way there and stopped to sit on the swings for a few minutes. It was kinda nice :-) We bought a snack and some drinks then headed home. Hung out with TH for a little while then went to take a nap. The electrician was supposed to be there around 1:00 or 2:00, but he was going to call TH when he was on the way and TH was going to call and wake me up. Well, he never showed up so I don't know WTF was up with that. Got up and played some Minecraft with TK until TH got home, then hung out with him til he went to bed. Played with TK a little longer and went to bed around 3:00.

August 8

Finally Thursday night, yay! When I left work this morning we still hadn't heard anything about someone coming in to cover for the guy who is on vacation, so we had it all figured out. I was going work an extra night and stay late every morning next week so I would have ended up with about 16 hours of overtime. Sure enough though, my boss texted me later and said that they decided they had someone to cover all of the extra hours. Sigh. I mean, I wasn't exactly looking forward to working any extra, but the money would have been nice. Oh well :-/

So I got home this morning and was able to go to bed fairly early. Woke up around 1:30 though and couldn't fall back asleep so we decided to go ahead and go swimming. We only stayed for about an hour and a half. It wasn't horribly crowded but it was fucking hot and very bright. I sunburned a little bit, even with being totally sunblocked. Eh. Got home and played a couple of games of zombies with TK then took another quick nap. So I'm tired but I'm drinking a Monster. All I have to do is make it through tonight! I'll probably wake TK up in the morning and go walk again, then we need to go by HEB for a couple of things. The electrician is supposed to come by sometime tomorrow to replace the fan/light combo that quit working in the bathroom. Hopefully he shows up before TH goes to work so I can take a nap early if I need to.

...I just walked outside and it smells like skunk ಠ_ಠ

Song: Nico Vega - Beast. Another newish one I've been hearing lately.

Best thing: Don't have to work overtime :-)

Worst thing: Don't have to work overtime :-(

Yep yep yep.

August 7

Holy crap, I'm tired again :-/ I wasn't sleepy when I got home, and TK woke up early, so we decided to go for a walk again. TH actually woke up before we left so he went with us. We went by to see Tigger again and went up one road with a big-ass hill. But we made it! We had planned on going a little farther every day so when we got home we mapped out all of the walks that we had done. The first day was like .3 miles, the second was about .4, and today was almost exactly 1 mile! Yay! I think we're going to try to increase it by about a quarter of a mile every day (if it doesn't kill us, lol) so we've already mapped out a route for the next time. Again - if I can go home in the morning and go to bed, we'll go swimming tomorrow afternoon. If not, a walk it is! Definitely Friday morning though. Cause I feel pretty good! My feet are a little sore, but nothing bad. Yay!

So we got back home and hung out for a while, then made veggie burgers and fries for lunch (since I planned on sleeping too late for dinner) and I went to bed. Still pretty late, though. When I got up I was in the kitchen making a lunch to bring to work when we heard a car outside honking. Sometimes if there's a cat in the road people will honk and it will move pretty quick but they kept honking for a little bit. TH went to look out and the neighbor's dog (my friend) was standing in the road. I knocked on the door and nobody was home but I managed to get the doggie back in her back yard. So that was cool.

August 6

Oh crap, I am tired tonight. I actually feel pretty good, but I'm tired :-/ Went home this morning, woke TK up, and we went for a walk again! We actually went a little further than we did yesterday. My feet were pretty tired by the time we finished but so far it doesn't seem to be making my feet sore. Yay! Got back home and played a few games of zombies then worked on our little Minecraft city for a while. We did a little more work on the farms and built the swimming pool. It's so cute :-) Hung out with TH for a while and went to bed kinda late. I woke up around 2:30 and couldn't go back to sleep so I stayed up for a while and played some more zombies with TK. Took another quick nap and it seemed like I had finally really gotten to sleep when the alarm went off. Sigh.

We made tacos for breakfast from the black bean/brown rice/chicken stuff that I had in the crockpot. It finished cooking overnight and it is awesome! I think I figured that the whole crockpot full of stuff cost less than $5, easy. And we can eat off of that for days :-) Even TK liked it, and he's kinda picky sometimes. I wubs my crockpot :-)

August 5

I'm back :-) So I know this is a few days late but it's been a crazy couple of days. I guess I should probably break this up into more than one post because - holy wall of text, Batman :-) Eh, screw it. So let's see...Thursday I went home and stayed up too late, had trouble sleeping, and went to work kinda tired. TH and TK went to Sam's while I was asleep and stocked us back up on veggie burgers and stuff. I discovered that they sell a 4 lb bag of frozen edamame (green soybeans) individually packaged in 8 ounce steamable bags for like $4. So I has edamame now. Nom nom nom :-)

So I had just gotten to work and was about to go on duty when it got exciting. I was standing inside the building talking to the other guy who was getting off work when we look up and there is this SUV flying down the driveway toward the resident gate. This dude had to have been going 60 mph, easy. The resident gate is a set of double gate bars that residents can open if they have a remote, or we can open it with a switch outside. So before we even had a chance to think about going outside to try and open it, he hits it, knocking off both gate arms. He stopped for just a second then took off. The arms are held on with bolts and plastic breakaway nuts - they're designed to come off if somebody hits them so it doesn't fuck up their car. This happens from time to time so we didn't think too much of it.