hmm...

just trying to see if posting by email is working because if it is, then i can post from the living room... screw the desktop! (which is now randomly letting me connect fine... i guess all i needed to do was post about it...)

"Seems to me yesterday's still just a day away..."

I swear. Even if the days seem to crawl by while I'm at work, the weeks are going so fast... I can't believe it's already the end of January!

So I had the day off of work yesterday. my morning still sucked though. I got on the computer and tried to sync my PPC, only to find that it wouldn't connect as itself, it would only connect as a guest. Irritating. If it only connects as a guest, it won't sync any of my files/programs, it will just let me "explore" it. So I googled the problem and found that I needed to use regedit to see if the settings were correct. So I went to start/run and typed 'regedit' and it popped up... And blinked away. So I tried it again. And again it wouldn't stay up.

So I googled that problem. And found out that I most likely have a Trojan on my computer. Wonderful. my scans so far haven't discovered the Trojan, but it fits the description I found google-ing it: won't allow regedit or msconfig to be displayed, among other things. So I found a program that would help me shut down the computer's tasks (because, frankly, I don't know what processes are vital and what aren't, so I wasn't about to go f-ing with task manager blindly). But I couldn't find which process it was that was running that was the Trojan. Annoying. So I was back to square one. And, to top it off, I couldn't download the latest version of MacAffee... The html downloader kept encountering a problem and crashing. I was SO irritated. I kept rebooting and swearing at the computer....

So that was my morning. I guess the Trojan that mine seems to match up with is something related to kazaa. I told Alex that we're not using it anymore. I'm just so sick of my machine not working right. I'm probably going to be working on it again all night... I get SO frustrated, especially since I can find all the information I feel I need to figure out for myself how to fix the problem and I figure that I'm pretty good with picking things up and being able to teach myself things, so I get all "wiggly" about asking for help. But in 3 weeks time when the problem still isn't fixed, you know that's the road I'm going to have to go down. Sigh.

And now I've got a headache because I'm so irritated thinking about it. ARGH.

Went for a physical yesterday. Have a new doctor - picked out the practice because they have a pretty cool website. They've got a secure patient area where you can log in to find info about appts, chat with a nurse, and email your doctor if you want, among other things. How cool is that? And then my doctor was using the coolest little tablet PC while she was doing the physical. Screw writing out a chart! She can just type everything in immediately. I approve!

Oh, so went to the HOTD show at Revolution Hall last Friday night. Was an AWESOME show with a predominantly younger crowd. A VERY good time. I bought the big guy's - Mike DeAngelis - new solo CD, "Son of a Dunigan". I've been listening to it pretty much constantly this week at work. It's SUCH a good CD. Standout songs: "Angel from Antrim", "Bartender Billy", "Donegal", "Lost in Cork", and "Almost Home". The entire CD is pretty mellow which makes it a great CD to have on while you're working. I keep thinking that the disc is really short, but I think that's because I really enjoy all the songs so listening to the CD seems to go pretty quickly. I'd definitely recommend it - but be warned that it's pretty much all ballads - no "Old Black Rum" type of songs on this album.

I'm writing this on my break at work - typing away using the bluetooth keyboard for my PPC. I feel like SUCH a hero. ;) I don’t want to go back to work... When I get back to my desk, there'll only be 45 minutes left in my workday. They're offering overtime tonight, though. I'm SO far behind in my work. I really should stay, but I didn't find out about the OT until I got here this morning and so I wasn't prepared for it. All I want to do today is go home. I've got a bit of a headache (yeah, think I mentioned that already) and I was really looking forward to going home tonight and working out for a bit and having another go at the computer and then going to bed early. Hmm... We'll see.

I really would like to get back to regular working out. My upper body really needs some improvement - especially because the bridesmaid dresses that Beck picked out are strapless. Yeah, there will be no spilling over the top/sides for this girl. And there will be no "thick" arms. Luckily, I think I read that arms are one of the areas that show improvement the quickest, so I should be able to stay motivated with that. Hopefully. I'd really like to finally get to a point where I'm not looking at parts of my body and thinking, "ew. I'm really squishy". I think it's a good goal for the year, and something that I should be able to achieve by October. Keeping my fingers crossed....

Random Thoughts

I think I have TMJ. Or something. I must clench my teeth when I sleep because sometimes in the morning when I wake up, my jaw hurts. And then today I was working out and was doing a set of tricep kickbacks and it was like the third set and I was working pretty hard and I noticed that I had my mouth open - so I wasn't clenching my teeth - but my jaw was making this weird clicking sound with every exertion... I guess I was holding it open really stiff-like or something. And my jaw has just been SO stiff all day. Today's not the first day I noticed it - I mean, I've noticed clicking before when I was chewing gum or particularly tough meat or something like that - but it's just really bad today and annoying.

>:|

Went dress shopping again this weekend with Beck etc for her wedding. She picked out the bridesmaid dress - see it here on the David's Bridal website. It's very classy: a strapless A-line gown that's black with white trim - and the back opens up to a white panel. She surprised herself with the choice but it was just so elegant looking. And the design is flattering on pretty much every body shape. So rock! It's a very nice dress and it's something that could be worn again if the occasion called for something very dressy without everyone suspecting it was a bridesmaid gown. She found her dress too, but I'm not linking to any pictures, just in case anyone stumbles across the page that shouldn't see the dress. ;) But needless to say, the gown she chose is awesome! It's just so classic and gorgeous. I mean, if I were getting married right now and it looked that good on me, it would have been the gown I chose. She's going to look amazing! Yay!!

What else... Oh! I decided that I hate my hair. That's actually nothing very new... I've been pretty dissatisfied with it for a while. I was reading up on some website about how you should handle hair like mine - thick and course - and they suggested that you only do styles that are either really short or really long and to avoid medium length styles. This is because without the bulk of a long style, the hair tends to poof out. Boy, do I know that well. But I'm not really happy with the long hair because I've got no patience to really "do" it every day (read: I hate blow drying my hair) and if I just let it air dry with smoothing product in it like I usually do, it turns out... sea hag-ish. So the solution is to either go to a medium length and have it thinned or to go short. I'm thinking that even with thinning it I'd be unhappy with the medium length because it'll probably look the way it does now, but just a little shorter. So I'm starting to think that maybe I should go short. I've never gone short before... I collected a bunch of pictures of hair that I like (happens to be all Mandy Moore, actually) and you can view them here. Please feel free to come back and leave me a comment regarding which style you like best and what you think would look best with my hair... Thanks! ;)

And now it's "late" (after 11 on a work night!) and I'm tired so that's all for tonight...