Current mood:

introspective

Lots of thoughts of....death?

Soooo, I was watching Full House tonight (as always, at midnight) and it was the episode where Jesse's dad comes over from Greece and ends up dying while he's visiting. Ummm, did I mention the entry was probably going to be depressing? Anyway, it upset me because once in awhile the thought fleets through my mind "Your parents are going to die some day" and of course the show just brought it to the forefront. I don't know how well some of you know me, but I don't do death. If someone dies and it feels like the end of a normal life for awhile, I work my damndest to make life normal. I don't talk about death, I don't talk about dead people, I hate funerals because I always cry in front of people and that's another thing I "don't do". I've been lucky so far in my life that the only people who have died have been acquaintances: quasi-friends, floormates, school mates, coworkers, but the thought of a funeral for anyone in my immediate family just makes me want to....I don't know. It's scary!

I will now stop thinking about things as irrelevant as death right now. Stupid TV show.

Well, my truck died in the middle of Rt 3-A on Friday (a totally acceptable, different kind of death). The battery had been draining for 2 days previous and the Ford Dealership I went to last time couldn't fit me in, so I just kept driving it (what else could I do?) and it ended up not making it to Concord. I bawled my eyes out for a good few minutes, then spent the rest of the afternoon trying to not do anymore of that! The AAA guy was a bitch and said they couldn't tow me unless I paid them right then and I didn't have anything of monetary value on me at the time, which was annoying, but it all worked out more or less. Phil had the day off so he came and took me the rest of the way to work (MUAH!) and I was only 2 hours late, which isn't bad considering. I got a call from the garage today saying it was the alternator, as I was pretty positive it was from the start, and it's only going to be a couple hundred bucks, so that makes me :-D I can't wait to go pick it up tomorrow. As much as I enjoyed having Jeremy drive me to and from work today I really prefer my independence!

Ummm, that's really all worth reporting right now. Vegas is off, for now, because my boy is trying to head back to school soon and we all know that's not cheap! Instead we're extending our NYC trip this summer, which I'm supposed to be planning before the end of this week - better get on that before Emily maims me! Phil's parents are now talking Costa Rica or some place in Mexico near both Cancun and Cazumel for our trip in November and I'm totally psyched! These all inclusive resorts sound amazing, I can't wait! Just gotta make sure I have the earned time saved up :-)

Jeremy is going to Iraq at the end of the semester for 3 months :-( First Shane and now him - we need more testosterone in the lab, not less! I don't know what I'll do without one single guy my age working there, they're my only sanity some days amongst all the estrogen. The female has never been my favorite of the two genders, but at least everyone is really nice.

*yawn* I'm tiiiiired! Eight days in a row, now, I've worked out. It's really quite amazing. I'll probably have to take tomorrow off to go get my truck, but we'll see what happens.

Goodnight!

P.S. At least I was only depressing for one paragraph :-P