This has been an incredibly loooooong week. Physically, I'm feeling much better. Mentally, not so much. Oh well.

I'm going shopping tomorrow with a co-worker, looking for a long warm coat. I have a couple of warm coats, but they all end at the waist, and apparently when it's cold outside, ALL of you gets cold. Not just the stuff above your waist.

Why is there no Dollhouse tonight? Sadface.

I really need a new computer. Given the fact that the weather here can, on occasion, be a bit treacherous and we are allowed to work from home on days such as those, I need a computer that works. I tried to do this on Wednesday, but my poor compy can't really handle it. The Commodore just runs too slow, and I couldn't even download the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader—the latest version is version 9, the latest I could get was 7.1, and the fonts wouldn't work correctly. I can probably wait until I go home at Christmas, which gives me time to figure out a budget and plan, but the timing kind of sucks. I've got to make a bigger dent my credit card debt that added up after the move. Sigh.

Today is my brother's birthday. I don't think he gets on Livejournal much any more, but if you see this, I hope you had a great day, little brother.

My grandmother passed away early this morning. She was a loving and wonderful woman. Many years ago, she first taught me to knit. She cast on some stitches for me and showed me how to knit, but what I really remember is that for some reason, she couldn't remember how to bind off. So we both were just knitting to two together for row after row until we only had one stitch left.

She wanted to be cremated, and a memorial service will be held in a month or so when my aunt and her family and my cousin can make it into town. Hopefully it will be held before I move anywhere, but I'll deal with that if/when I have to.

Pajama Day* is in full effect. CSI: New York is on the TV, and I have the third disc of Season 1 from Netflix. There's knitting work to be done, and yarn has been ordered to knit a new top. Damned yarn stores and moving sales. It's really hard to pass up 30% off yarn to make a top.

I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day doing whatever makes you happy while keeping the service men and women who have died to protect our freedoms in your thoughts.

*Pajama Day: Day in which pajamas are worn exclusively and leaving the house is to be avoided as much as possible. Exceptions include leaving the house for Starbucks breakfast because you woke up at 4 AM; however, pajamas must stay on, although bra and cardigan can be added.

Why, you ask?

Because I've processed and uploaded all of my pictures from my weekend in Colorado...but you can't see the majority of the photos from the wedding. I HAVE MY REASONS. I will post them as soon as a certain something happens.

( My weekend in Colorado, by The Amy )

Okay, so Chuck. Kind of awesome. Must figure out some way to watch season 2 over the summer. And how could you all hold out on me? As I was watching, I was thinking that Zachary Levi was pretty darn adorable, and then I watched one of the special features, and he had long hair and was all scruffy (this was during the writer's strike, apparently)... Really, I must thank Tia repeatedly for encouraging me to watch this show. :D And now I must go find some icons.

I am not sure that I am emotionally prepared for tonight's Criminal Minds finale. I am terrified that they're going to give us a serious cliffhanger, and unlike seasons 1-3, I can't go find out what happens right away! This worries me.

In unfortunate news, my mom sent me an email this evening, and apparently she doesn't expect that her mother will make it to the end of the week. Obviously we all hope that she will make a miraculous recovery, but being realistic, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers and hope for a relatively pain-free passing, whenever it may happen.

Wow. There's a lot to process here.

This is pretty much exactly what I posted in deceitfulangel's discussion. ( flailing mostly for next week's Criminal Minds - spoilery for season 2 and maybe spoilery if you haven't seen the preview? )

I will not be a happy panda if something awful and irreversible happens next Wednesday!

Yesterday morning, I watched Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber in Wolverine. (Quite enjoyed it, although the ending fell a little flat to me for some reason?) This morning, I'm watching the same two gentlemen in Kate and Leopold. Obviously, fate wants me to look at attractive men early in the morning. I think this is a good plan.

I'm pretty sure my air conditioning is just not really working at all. It's been on for almost an hour and it is still apparently 77 degrees (thermostat is set to 76). I turned it off last night because it was doing this then, and usually turning the whole thing off will re-set and get it to working right, but it's not working this time. The high for today is supposed to be 88. If the temperature in my house doesn't go lower than 77, I won't die, but I'm already really uncomfortable (it's all sticky). This is not going to make me more inclined to cleaning my house, either, as that will require me getting up and moving around and it's too warm and quite humid in the house. Really makes the idea of moving to a place where the high for today is 61.

Thankfully there seems to be some breeze action going on this morning, and so I've opened the windows.

Oh, I can finally announce that my friends Heather and Rob are expecting their first baby! Heather's due in mid-November. I really hate keeping happy news a secret.

( some recent photos to share with you all )

It seems that many people that I care about are having a really crap time with things right now. Family illnesses, employment troubles, etc. To everyone on my flist, whether you're struggling to stay afloat or not, give yourself a big hug from me.

In completely unrelated news, I do not have a dreamwidth account, nor do I have any immediate plans to get one, so I do hope that those of you heading that way will come back to visit little old me from time to time.

In news that is even more unrelated, I have somehow magically become a magnet for "winning" yarn. First, a gal was having a blogiversary comment contest, and so by leaving a comment to her blog and having the stars align in such a fashion as to favor myself (and a few others), I won yarn. And then another gal who dyes and spins her own yarn was having a Knit/Crochet/SpinAlong contest, in which you entered by knitting or crocheting with one of her yarns, or spinning a roving that she had dyed. I knit up a little scarflet and entered into the competition, and once again the stars aligned and my number was drawn. So now I will be getting more prize yarn. PEOPLE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO ME. I don't win things. I had become content with that fact and now it's out the window. My entire world, it is upside down.

I am so looking forward to the weekend. I'm going to attempt to hie myself to the gym tomorrow after seeing Wolverine at the early bird (read: cheap) showing. And I'm going to clean. And watch the special features of The Life Aquatic. And work on Chrysta's shawl. And maybe work on spinning up some more yarn. And possibly, just possibly, ignore all of that in favor of staying in bed all weekend. All of those options sound good to me.