Vortexia's Secret

kind of a weird 24 hours. good and bad. it's been raining off and on for a couple days now. what's new... apparently i just need to get used to it. i tried doing work yesterday but couldn't concentrate on it. i was hooked on listening to good music and then trying to watch a movie. that seems to be a signal for everyone to call. nice way to get in touch with close friends, though. my old roomie called during the first movie i tried to watch. we talked for a couple hours. it was good to talk again. although, i still get the feeling that she has mixed feelings about the upcoming engagement that will more than likely happen with J. but most of the people in her life are getting close to marriage or are married, so she might just have mixed feelings in general. J came over at that point, and we started watching another movie together. we also talked about engagements because i found out (through the roomie) that two of my friends from undergrad had gotten engaged. he's one of those guys that other guys don't like because he makes it really hard to top his romantic ideas. he's really loveable in every other way, but he does set the bar pretty darn high. anyway... part way through that movie one of my best friends from high school called. we talked for a few hours... frustration, mean people, hopefully getting together next weekend, etc. even if it wasn't always a happy conversation, it was great to get to talk about everything together. like i've said before, you can't beat best friends.

this morning we had to get up early to get a dining room table from one of my friends who didn't need hers anymore. J had borrowed the truck from his dad and stayed the night so we could get up early in the morning, get the table, and get it back to my parent's house and the truck back in time that his dad could get to work. we had stayed up really late watching the movie and then talking about everything under the sun, and then weren't able to sleep for some reason. it's like our bodies knew we were only going to get about 4 hours of sleep so they just decided 'why bother?,' yet punished us for depriving them of sleep. we hauled ourselves out of bed early to get tie downs to secure the table and got a shower curtain to use as an impromptu tarp since it was still raining. around that time we got a call from my friend saying that her old apartment complex had changed the locks on her apartment and thrown out all her stuff. fabulous. so we're all pissed, and i know J was really upset about having pulled all kinds of strings to get the truck for no reason. so we returned the tie downs, cut our losses on the shower curtain (it was $3) and crashed for another hour.

well, i crashed significantly longer. i finally forced myself to get up because i theoretically have schoolwork to do. i also need to get groceries, but i'm at that point when you're running out of so many things that you can't remember what all you're missing anymore. and i've learned from experience that weekend grocery shopping is a headache. but it must be done, so i'll dispose of all the expired products and get new ones. then i'll be happy that all the food is safe to eat at least. blah. oh well.

P.S. Keep them in your prayers.