Rachael’s Blog

Really, Apple. All I wanted was a speed bump in the Mac Pro's. They're overdue for one, and I'm waiting to buy until it happens, but NOOoooooo.... 2 bloody hours about your stupid phone. *pout* And it's not that I'm not excited about your phone. It's cool, really. But it's 6 months out, and I'm ready for a new computer now.

In other news, OmniWeb is headed for it's 2nd security update in like 3 days... when it rains, it pours. So, if you happen to wander by here... update your OmniWeb! The rest of the Omni-ites seem to be having fun in San Francisco... I'll be joining them tomorrow, for 2 days of booth babe action (No, not really). We'll see how that goes, but it should be fun. If nothing else, it'll be a total disaster and I won't be invited back! ;)

Okay, we hate to ask, but... over the roll or under the roll?  

This link is especially amusing to me... At one point my father tried to break my sister, me, and my mother of our bad habits, including putting the toilet paper on correctly (over the roll, btw), and failing to close the kitchen cabinets, by taping instrutions in the bathroom, and (relatively) offensive pictures on the inside of the cupboards. We went for quite a few months with bikini-clad women leaning over motorcycles taped to the inside of our kitchen cupboards. Kinda backfired, though, since my sister and I were more amused than anything about it. Anyway, we weren't the ones tall enough to hit our heads on the doors!!

My great great aunt (that's my great grandmother's sister) Josephine Thorpe, died last Friday (Dec 29th), at the age of 102. She wasn't doing very well, so I can't help but be relieved that she's not suffering any more, but she will be missed.

What are your resolutions for 2007?

I promised John to set some time aside for him each day. He threatened to get a calendar to keep track, even! I'm gonna try'n set some time aside for my sister this year, too. It's been too long between chatting with her. Hopefully things continue to go well in her life, as well. :D I don't like resolutions, much, though. I tend to think it's silly to make promises just because it's the first.

Life's settling back down into it's normal routines, and I couldn't be more relieved. It's been hell, trying to remember what "normal" is like, and that I would get back to it. Home... ugh. I don't think I'm going back. Every time I walk through those doors, I'm 16 again and struggling to remember why I don't go jump into traffic or something. I'm just glad that John got home not too long after I did. It's hard to be depressed around him. :) I hate that something so simple can shake me that badly, though. I want to be steadier than that. Hopefully someday I will be.

What's the best present you gave this year?

My little sister got a Nintendo DS & Mario Kart from me. It was certainly the most EXPENSIVE present I gave, but she was so excited it was out of the box before I could say "the reciept's upstairs if you don't like it". :)

I loaded up firefox to cruise Vox like I do now and again, only to realize posting is going to be quite nearly impossible. Why, you ask? Why, because the cat is asleep on my left arm, of course! So cute and yet so pesky. :D As indicated by this feline encumbrance, I'm at home with the family, and it's as dysfunctional as ever. It's like time never passed... as if the same tips and tricks that worked on me & my sib when we were small should work now that we're both grown up and out of the house. Mum's still got her super-sekret stash of Marlboros, and the box of wine (yes, box), dissapears with the same rapidity. Dad's still smiling and nodding. The sister is still trying to find the sanity in it all. And me? I'm sticking with my policy of neutrality. Dad puts up with it, Becky ignores it and then mocks it. I just hide from it. Cowardly, I know, but, well... we all find our own ways to cope.

There's something in the air here, that causes insomnia. I can't be in this room & not lay sleepless in bed, staring around, wondering why I come back. What kind of a fool am I? I keep returning, like a moth to the flame -- knowing I'll be burnt, but unable to stay away. Only, there's nothing drawing me here except obligation. Maybe next year I won't. Home alone would be more restful than this, I think.

PS: I fished my arm back from the cat about 1/2-way through the first paragraph... my right-hand-only typing just isn't that leet.

For those who haven't been following the news, last Thursday night a massive windstorm blew through the Seattle area, with 65-70 MPH gusts of wind, as well as rain and such unpleasantness. Over a million homes were without power that night, due to trees blowing over into power lines, and the various local utilities have been frantically trying to restore everyone. John and I were out for 2 and a half days when a tree took out the lines right outside our place.  Friday and Saturday nights it dropped below freezing, but we have plenty of blankets & managed to stay out of the apartment all day until Sunday mid-morning when the power came back on. Thankfully a co-worker hosted us Friday and Saturday evenings, for Risk and Starcraft. (I didn't realize I was such a terrible Starcraft player!) The net is down at our place still, and the cable, so John's going through internet withdrawal, while I get my fix here at work, but at least we have heat and the ability to cook. The contents of our fridge though, weren't so lucky. RIP all that perishable stuff we had to toss...

I've been neglecting my vox for way way way too long... since i posted last night, my mind's been racing about topics to talk about... everything from marriage (John's brother got married yesterday on 0 days notice to his family), to the Wii (wow mine's fun), to WoW (noth is coming along nicely!), to work (good stuff coming tomorrow!!), to a million other topics that flit in and out of my head.

Wolfmother

Instead, I'm gonna talk about music! On the way into my raid t'night, I hit up the iTunes music store, which I do on a him now and again. This's what I picked up, and it's awesome. It's very reminiscent of 80's era rock music, but it manages to feel new, and interesting in a way that older music just doesn't. The Joke and the Thief is still my favorite song on the album... it used to be my favorite one I'd heard, and nothing on the album tops it for pure fun, but there's a flute solo stashed away in one of the tracks that's just awesome as well. (Yes, flute in rock, it's been done before, and it fits beautifully). I'm quite a pleased cookie.

And, with that, I'm gonna go watch daily show & try to stay awake. Have a good night y'all!

I could not be more utterly miserable right now... I haven't gotten a nice, peaceful, solid nights sleep in like 2 weeks. I'm trapped in this hellish 3 day cycle where can't fall asleep till like 5 or 6 am so I don't sleep but 3 or 4 hours one night, pass out at like 9 PM the next, wake up at some time around 2 and can't sleep, maybe get back to bed for another couple hours, then binge on a 12-15 hour night. I've missed work, I'm giving myslf migranes, I'm driving John batty, I'm sure. And I can't seem to break it. I keep getting to the short night, the one where i just don't go to sleep till ridiculously late, and hoping, this time i'll break it. I'll get up at my normal time, and then I'll be sure to stay up late enough I'll sleep in one solid chunk! My body keeps getting the better of me, though, and I'm inevitably out like a light on the couch. I figure I'm getting almost enough sleep to function, 'cuz of the 14 hr nights, but in the middle (tonight's a sleep from 9 -2 and from 6-9 day), it sucks pretty bad.