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So tired…

Lately, I’ve gotten into the bad habit of staying up most of the night and then sleeping away a lot of the day. I really need to put an end to this. Maybe I need to go and pitch a canvas tent out in the yard and sleep in that…it’s cold enough that yeah, I’d wake up in the A.M.

Even when I actually do go to bed, I end up sitting up half the night watching TV. You know it’s sad when you know by heart the entire FOX-25 overnight line-up…

• 11:30 PM - Seinfeld
• 12:00 AM - The Simpsons
• 12:30 AM - King of the Hill
• 1:00 AM - Replay of Fox News @ 10
• 2:00 AM - Cops
• 2:30 AM - M*A*S*H*
• 3:00 AM - Infomercial
• 3:30 AM - Another infomercial
• 4:00 AM - Cops
• 4:30 AM - TMZ
• 5:00 AM - Fox Morning News (during the week only, it’s usually kids’ shows on Saturday and religious shows on Sunday)

Yes, sometimes I’ve sat up and watched all of this stuff.  Not good.

I actually do need to haul my sorry carcass out of bed at a reasonable hour tomorrow…we have a lot to do.  I REALLY need to mail some stuph at the Good Post Office…it’s way overdue.  After that, Mike wants to go to this train show out in Marlborough.  I’m going along because I’m desperate to go to anything that gets me out of this house.  Plus, it’s in a hotel…they have a bar there, so I can go and have a beer if/when I get tired of walking around looking at trains.  That bar has local microbrews and decent food, too…we’ll probably eat lunch there.

Then we need to go shopping for grocery items that are not turkey.  I’m sick of turkey…honestly, I don’t see how people can have it for Thanksgiving, and then again on Christmas.  By the time we finish up all the leftovers, and made turkey soup and all, we are sick of it.  That’s why we usually have a ham for Christmas.

Maybe I’ll try the sleeping pills again tonight.  They’re over-the-counter ones, and they work only so-so.  But I’m NOT about to go to some doctor to get prescription ones.  The doctors around here all just want to put people into the hospital, and I’m not letting myself get caught up in THAT nonsense.

I just need to get out of the habit of sitting up too late, then I can sleep at night and get up at a semi-normal hour!

Everything is breaking down…

Okay, so I lost the charger for my new cell phone. How come I have the chargers for my last two phones, though? Too bad neither of them will work with my new phone. I need to get rid of them. I know a guy who has the same Verizon Wireless phone that I used to have…I should give him the old charger, as well as the old car charger, as well. Maybe he can use them as spares in case he loses his charger. As for my Tracfone Motorola phone charger, Mike has the same phone that I used to, so he can use the charger. But he’s dumping Tracfone come June 2008, as soon as his current service plan is up. After what they did to me, when I tried to buy a new camera phone from them, neither of us wants to give that evil company any more of our money. It took forever to get a refund for the phone I ordered but never got. I hate them so much, and I urge you NEVER to use them

I’m with Virgin Mobile now. Very happy so far, and they have much better customer service reps. They actually speak ENGLISH, howzabout that?

Anyhoo, I looked in Target for a new charger last night, and all they had were car chargers. I already have a car charger, in fact, I had to charge my phone in the car last night, because that’s the only way I have to do so. I guess if I either don’t find my original charger, or find a replacement in another store, I’ll just have to order one online from Virgin Mobile’s website.
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The cradle for my XM radio receiver is busted…don’t know what happened to it, but the power cord no longer makes contact to keep it plugged in. I also can’t plug in the anteanna, either. But I was able to plug the power cord into the unit WITHOUT the cradle…so now it doesn’t stand up. As for the antenna, the portable one is enough to pull in a signal here. So I can get along with this one for now, as long as I can listen, I’m happy. They have all of the Christmas music channels on now…my favorite is “Special Xmas”, it’s mostly weird and novelty type songs. It’s a lot of fun. Also, on XM radio, there are no commercials on any of the music channels. Most commercials are annoying, so it’s nice not to have to hear them.
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One of our DVD players sucks…it actually always has, but for the longest time, we thought we had defective DVDs. We bought a copy of the third “Santa Clause” movie on DVD, and it would not play in this particular player. But we tried it on another player and it worked. I have a whole stack of DVDs that will not play on this thing, but work on the other player.

The brand of DVD player that sucks is Go-Video. They make DVD/VCR combos, that’s what we have. DO NOT buy this brand of player, ever. I’m ready to chuck this one and replace it. I should be able to play what DVD I want in whichever room I want.
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At least my iPod hasn’t croaked on me yet…but I haven’t even had it for a year. But eventually I will have to replace the battery, so I’ll need to find a source for great ipod batteries.

When I finally took the plunge and bought my iPod, I spent a little more and went for the video one. Still, I use it mostly for music…but I bought some games for it, too. Very nice for when I’m stuck in a waiting room or other boring place.
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I just hope nothing else breaks or gets lost! Enough is enough!

It’s that time of the year…

…once Christmas and New Year’s are over, I HATE HATE HATE winter. It’s cold and boring and there is NOTHING good going on. If I ruled the world, I’d banish the entire month of February from the calendar, and I’d consider banning January as well. I want to just go straight into March, when baseball spring training begins.

But one thing we’re hoping to be able to do during those months I want to ban, would be to go and see the Red Sox World Series trophies. There will be a tour, like there was after the Sox won the Series in 2004. We got to get our picture taken with it back then at McCoy Stadium, at a PawSox game.  You can see that picture below.

The 2007 trophy tour will feature BOTH trophies…the one from 2004 that we’ve already seen, AND the new one for 2007.  I can’t wait to find out where we can go to see them…we really need an updated picture here, don’t you think?

Yanno…

…I KNOW I was going to put a moratorium on buying craft supplies, but I simply MUST hit Michaels this weekend. They have Cricut cartridges for half price, as well as 50% off everything Sizzix. Maybe I will drag Mike along and have him buy me some Christmas presents. He never knows what to get me, anyway…I can pick it out, leave him to buy it, and I’ll unwrap it on Christmas. Sounds like a plan!

Other than craft supplies and DVDs, there’s not much else I want for Christmas. Some people want everything, including the kitchen sink and the delta faucets to go with it, but I don’t ask for much. And I certainly don’t want anyone to pay full retail for anything for me. I don’t approve of paying retail for anything, and I manage to avoid doing so about 99.9% of the time.

But yes, some nice new die-cutting toys, at half-price, would be nice.

Also, if you’ve been eyeballing the Cricut, but didn’t get one at A.C. Moore when they were on sale there…maybe you don’t have A.C. Moore where you live…Michaels has it on sale this week for the same low price of $129.99.  You’ll likely NEVER see it anywhere for any less, so if you want one, grab it while it’s there!  It comes with everything you need to use it right out of the box, but once you see all of the cool cartridges that are also on sale, you’ll be hooked…just like I am!

I went shopping today…

…yes, on the dreaded Black Friday. But no, I didn’t haul my carcass up at the butt-crack of dawn so that I can stand in line for hours in the freezing cold to get stuff like flat panel televisions on the cheap. Nah…not worth it to me!

I went to Target, because I wanted to pick up a few DVDs. I wanted “Shrek the Third” and “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”, and I got those…for $14 and $15 respectively. I was also hoping to pick up a copy of “Ratatouille”, but there seemed to be none to be had. Maybe it was on sale for dirt cheap, and the store sold out of them well before noon. I haven’t been keeping track of who had what on sale for Black Friday. I just chose to go to Target because they consistently have the best prices on new release DVDs.

The store wasn’t even that crowded…but the selection of some things was very well picked over. But still, I got what I wanted for the most part, and was in and out of there quickly. I wish all shopping was that easy!