update on yesterday

after i posted more things went wrong.

the day goes bad. you think it can't get worse. then it gets worse. then worse. then worse.

someone who went to RPI got married. a friend sent me the pictures. now i've been looking at the photograhers pictures for over an hour. i don't even knwo any of these people. the scenery is so nice.

the guy from RPI actually talked to me once saying he was in a bunch of my classes. i said "oh i didn't notice" and he left and never talked to me again.

http://rjtpictures.blogspot.com/ Sunday July 20 show his wedding pictures. the engagement photosa re a few pages back. I found those in my browsing.

update: here's the post where I wrote about the guy the first time around: http://smilincolleen.livejournal.com/262971.html

i accidentally napped for 2 hours tonight. maybe closer to 3. going to sleep tonight is going to be rough. i was going to use the treadmill but slept instead.

i just added more layers to my hair. it was already slightly layered before. i cut about 3 inches off the shorter later. then i went and asked dave if he noticed that I cut it. He did not.

i walked for an hour tonight for relay for life. it was hot. luckily it got a little cooler by 8pm when our hour started.

i'm sick of people who think they are better because they have a master's. it really bothers me.

today just had a million things go wrong.

i just updated my weight graph file. and i don't even feel like making the jpgs and updating my weight graph website. i must be sick or something. and the graph is even nice.

gas price

this was almost a month ago at Costco

the slip i wore today was from october 1991. that's 2nd grade. the wedding was october 5.

i worked 9 hours 45 min at work today. then i worked 4 hours at home. insane. after my meetings tomorrow and early Friday i'm going to relax a bit.

i couldn't fall asleep last night. so then i came home from work tonight and got really tired. took a half hour nap. except it wa really a 2 hour nap. now i still have to get some stuff done.

i helped my parents paint timmy's old room this weekend. it's suppose to be a grayish tan or something. it looks purple now though.

i use the treadmill just a little and now my knee is killing me.

time to shower. then off to the atm to deposit checks.

i was eyeing up my MRI films to see how my adenoma has progressed. once i figured out where the adenoma is, it was easy to find. i didn't have the different years side by side so i couldn't fully tell. it was still interesting to be able to see it for myself.

i need something to do.
we just sleep or talk to timmy on the phone it seems.

busy day

I had training 8-12.
i didn't even get lunch somehow i had get my time in and then in that time i remember what happened someone asked me a question. i heated ez mac at 12:50 but i only at 4 bites. it got dry and i didn't have any water. i was so mad. the walk to the water would have made me late to the meeting unless i took food with me. but i didn't want to do that.

then meeting 1-2
meeting 1:30-2:30 (note overlapping so i actually left the 1-2 one early sincethe 1:30-2:30 one was with a manager that was more upper level than the 1:00 meeting and the 1-2 one was only 3 people versus 10 )
meeting 2:30-3:30 (maybe it was more like 2:30-3:15 or something. because at some point after this meeting and before i got up trackign stuff down someone from my old group came to visit me to ask for help on CAPs stuff)
then follow up on who i have to get stuff to. finally sat down at 4:30 as the phone was ringing. as i got off the phone i had to rush out to get an allergy shot.

i'm starving.

stampin

this weekend I decided to make some things that weren't cards to show at stampin' up parties. I made 2 different kinds of mini legal pad covers. then i got mini composition books and covered 2 of them. that may seem simple. it took the better part of today and yesterday. well 4 hours today was spent typing up a tutorial with illustrator to draw where to score lines and stuff.

i went and showed my mom just now. her reaction was "why are you making so many of those?"

btw the reason i covered 2 composition books instead of one was becuase dave saw my one and thought it looked nice and said he'd like one.

doctor appointment wasn't so fun today.

i'm still sad and depressed about the pictures i lost. there are probably a ton of things that are gone that i don't even realize.

i don't have my college graduation pictures anymore. i wonder if my mom has any i sent her an e-mail asking.

3 years worth of pictures.
a ton of stampin' up files
all gone gone gone

for the past few weeks i've had some hope that by chance everything could be saved with addtional things we could do to save it.

hard drive

so my harddrive still doesn't work. i still haev it. i want pictures from it.

someone at work tells me about freezing it. dave has heard of that. says you freeze it and sometimes you can get the stuff off of it .

we froze it.

didn't work.


while it was in the freezer my dad checked to see if there was bread. i said not to mess with the hard drive and he said "what hard drive?"
he checked the entire freezer for bread (said there wasn't any) and didn't notice the hard drive just sitting there on top of the boston market mac n cheese dinner.

Giant Eagle

I hate Giant Eagle. I went again last night. They were out of green beans again. I want to eat healthy. i can't. they are always out of it.

today was a busy day.

left the house around noon
came home around 9:30.

update on my aches and paines

my shoulder doesn't hurt anymore. my feet barely hurt (they may hurt if i have to walk or something though). my knee hurts.

ugh

i had to leave work at 3:30 so that my dad could pick me up , he could go to the doctors while i got a shot.   then i dropped him off at penske. then headed back to work. i was going to work but no time. just grabbed my stuff and left.     this process took an hour and a half.
then half hour to get home.
ate dinner.
then moved all of timmy's crap into a penske truck. that took until 9.
i did something nasty to my shoulder when i tried to lift up that wooden TV from my old room. my dad commented that he was able to carry it with my older brother (who is bigger and goes to the gym regularly and is a guy).   so then my dad comments that i messed up my shoulder by "almost picking up a tv"   i used the heating pad on it.   ok i guess we were done moving around 8:40 and i iced until 9. then i showered. then ate a snack and it's now. time to do work that i didn't get to do earlier.

my feet hurt so very bad. my right knee hurts so bad. i meant to take medicine but i didn't.

i think at this moment sitting indian style my knee hurts the worst. if i try to walk or use the gas or break petals (i drove to spee-d to get chips) then my foot hurts the worst. otherwise it's my shoulder. my shoulder hurts all the time. my knee wasn't hurting if it's in a decent position.

now i have to make up an hour of work tomorrow. i couldn't make it up earlier this week because dave kept pressuring me to leave right on time since he was fighting getting sick/sick and needed to rest.

edit: the tv had wheels so it was easy to move to the steps. then it was too heavy and since it was at the steps and it's wide dave couldn't even come up to help because he wouldn't have been able to get by it.

i got blood work today. my arm hurts now. the girl taking my blood was surprised at how many litlte vials they were taking. and they werne't even testing as much as they normally do. then the ride to work was awful. we were behind this cement truck going extremely slow for entirely too long.

i drove by jason's house today. he was out. we didn't get a good look. we drove around the block. he definitely looked at the car the second time. he was trimming his hedges. he's definitely on to me. i need a more incognito car.

ugh

well 3 hours after the scan disk was going pb held the pwoer button. he disconnected the 2nd harddrive* and it seems that the first harddrive will work.

my mac fan is still noisy. it's still hot upstairs around my computers.

i'm still upset. i'm even more upset because i wasted so much time on my computer and got nothing done that i also didn't get to get anything else done. my to do list gets so big that i don't even look at it.

* the one with the files that i want.

more

i also didn't mention that my mom drives me insane

today was just overall awful

the morning flew by w/o me getting much done. pb had training all day so i couldn't even talk to him. my phone still doesn't work (at work) and my boxes did not get delivered to my cube at work. they also couldn't deliver them today because they were too busy getting ready for the picnic. pb got out of training and was miserable and hard to deal with (he's getting sick) then we went to the picnic and he was so slow and made us leave and i wasn't even full. also i let him talk me into going to the picnic before my 8 hours were up. and from 3:30-4 there were about 10 people near the windows looking out at the picnic saying how it's too hot and that they aren't going out there and that they need binoculars and just pointing out everyone they know and people they didn't know. that made it so hard to get work done. i spent like 15 min trying to reword one sentence. i just couldn't get through it. they were so distracting. on a normal day i could put on headphones but not today because i didn't have my boxes. then we got home and i was hungry but i couldn't eat because my mom was cooking. then i tried to boot up my computer (my one that i was complaining about a week or 2 ago) and it's still trying to boot. every single "file record segment" "is unreadable" it numbers them as it goes. it's been over an hour and a half now. oh and at work my "offer" needed to be signed and turned in by today. well sue had to sign it. i gave it to her on about Wed but she had a question. well she got her question answered. and well now she lost the form. it was due today. i did talk to my new manager this morning and mentioned she hadn't signed it and he said it was alright to get it in a day or 2.

ooo the first file segment that hasn't popped up as unreadable is 33397. i don't know what this means but i just noticed that it missed a number. first number it's missed in an hour. well it kind of missed 2 numbers but the one before it has that it was deleting the corrupt attribute.

i want to get 2.5 years of pictures. i'm so mad. i can't handle this.

3 more corrupt attributes being deleted.


i also forgot to mention that my mac fan is extremely noisy and i don't know why.

today my alarm went off (after sleeping 8 hours) and i was about to get up. dave turned over and cuddled/put his arm around me. i said "ok. we're not getting up?" and went back to sleep. then i woke up 2 hours later. now i'm behind schedule. i took a shower and uploaded pics and it's an hour later.

House Progress

the house from the front on June 2



the house from the back

House

the foundation on May 25 from the back of the house.

fan

so my mom unplugged my mac on monday because she was trying to figure out what was making her am not come in right. well it was on. she didn't see a light so just assumed but mac doesn't have a light.
well i finally booted it today. the fan is extremely loud. it blows stuff on my desk (stuff = kleenex that is half under my keyboard). it is strong but it's not supposed to be this loud. it's too hot up here for me so i wont even try to get files off my other computer. time to go downstairs.

busy

we met with guardian on monday. then last night we met with brace flooring. that was a long appointment. i didn't like it. today talking to my mom she said shopping for flooring is so much fun. she said flooring and lamps are the 2 best things. she's' insane.

i get nothing done when the penguins are on

very upset with my computer. it just adds to the things that aggrivated me today.

my computer with my pictures and old files and website stuff wont' boot past the windows screen. it freezes/dies. it clicks a lot. dave is sleeping so he can't help me. now i can be mad about this the entire night.

oh now it won't even get past the windows screen

cat

a cat appeared on our porch yesterday. it was afraid of the camera yesterday. it reappeared last night and spent the entire day on the porch. now it's not afraid of us. http://picasaweb.google.com/colleen.michelle.mccloskey/MysteriousCat

soup

today i ate chicken noodle soup for lunch (healthy choice)
for dinner i ate baked potato soup and broccoli cheddar soup.

3 different soups in 1 day. new record.

i had to add pepper to the potato soup. it didn't have flavor this time. last time it was wonderful. i took a few years off eating it because i said it was inconsistent and sometimes not good. i guess it's still that way. the pepper made it kind of better.

cipherin' is hard

i wish i knew what the pay of my "promotion" is when i switch groups. i also want to know what sue's raise would be in june. i am figuring out some money/house stuff now.

i also don't know if we should get a security system or not.

my knee is still killing me. i'm not sure if my feet hurt a lot and it's just that my knee hurts worse so i don't notice or if my feet are actually somewhat better.

church

i'm going to church today. with my parents and grandma
my grandma doesn't normally go but she has been saying she wants communion before she dies. she's been saying this for about a year. i guess she finally decided to go.

we barely had anything left at teh apartment. well we worked a solid 8 hours yesterday. we got mostly everything into the pod. i did bump my knee on the grill and now it HURTS. it makes me not think about how bad my feet hurt. a bruise is forming on my knee. or well it was last night. i forgot to look today.

computers

so there were 13 computers in this house the other day.
maybe more if more ar ehidden in the back room.

but anyway i wanted tos et up my computer on mikey's old desk. there's a big picture on it. my dad said to use the sewing machine desk. said that's what it's for. so i did that evwn thought it's smaller. now i don't have enough room for both my computers (which my mom called nerdy when she just saw me and my dad said at least pb uses 1 keyboard and mouse and it ried to explain that i have 2 computers not duel monitors) so i think i'm moving to the deks. oh when my mom came up she said i was supposed to use the other desk not this one. miscommunication. sucks.

note throughout my years of shaw the school had 13 computers.

i set up my computers. i still need to get pb to fix it so my pc uses my macs wireless

since i already stayed up too late i decided to do a sudoku before bed.

it's funny how i got a 2nd wind tonight and then a 3rd wind. i'm on my third wind now.

packing

i almost went to sleep at 10:30 but then i decided to finish unhooking my other computer.
i did that and packed my printer and packed 1 box. it's 3 hours later.
i talked on aim for an hour in there though.
i did clean off my computer desk and dnow it's ready to go. i put my monitor in teh box too. all the end crap is awful. it never fits right in the boxes. then there are all these misc boxes and it's ahrd to fill a box so then you got get something that doesn't belong just to finish it. i hate this part.

home

i'm home. so glad to be home. i hate driving.
it took us 8.5 hours. it usually takes us 7.5 hours
it took us 8 hours to get to kates
we had too much stopping for food (and stopping for food and not getting it so stopping again) and that makes me mad. i had to drive too much.

my left arm and my face hurt. stupid sunburn.

also this is early in the year for me to have my first burn.

graduation

it was so hot.
i didn't get any good pictures of timmy.
i missed Pip crossing the stage
i got sunburnt and th elast hour i had my coat over my arm to stop from getting burnt.
my left side is more burnt than my right side.
i have an odd tan light since i had a short sleeve shirt on but the short sleeve went almost to my elbow.

pb ditched me like halfway through graduation
i sent more text messages during the ceremony than ever before in my life. i think 3 or 4.

we got a stupid 2nd floor room at the hotel.

my parents are here. my mom called me while my dad was in checking in. my dad called after he checked in but before he went back to the car to say roughly the same stuff.

stupid room.

i'm pretty sure i left my sunglasses at kate's

pb yells at my driving constantly. too fast. too slow. pass this person. get over for this person. but don't get over all the time because you don't want to slow down at all. i cannot win. it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying. (it warrants that many Os.) it makes the trip awful. he doesn't talk at all except about driving.

we did a bunch of stuff today. my body didn't really like the elevator ride to the top of the library. pb kept trying to scare me.

there's a cat here!

we arrived and kate wasn't at her house yet. we sat in the driveway for 15 minutes before knocking and having her roommate let us in.
kate arrived, we left and went to see her office and lab then went to ABC (amherst brewing company)

i was packing. until i found the sprinkles. pb had them buried behind all of his hot chocolates. so now i'm on an ice cream break

eventful time tonight.

well i saw 2 cars get totalled today or well at least 1. http://picasaweb.google.com/colleen.michelle.mccloskey/AccidentNearPanera

my car was almost a 3rd one but while parking i skipped over a spot and didn't want to park there. decided to pick a different one. dave was even like "now what was wrong with that one" and i said "it just doesn't look as nice"
and if i was in that original spot i would have be what stopped the one car instead of the light pole right past the spot.

i took pictures

one guy hurt his head/eye from the airbag dust or so some other guy thinks that's what it was.

this was on 22 by panera. we were coming out of panera.

i was almost parked between the red thing and the SUV thingy but instead i'm on the other side of the red thing.

the lady in the last picture that you can barely see is the one that was driving the blue car. the blue car was at fault.

i definitely saw a truck that had a dent in the bumper like it was hit too or hit the other guy and it just left. i guess the guy didn't car or know that his car had a dent in the bumper. if my memory card didn't have a "card read error" when i first turned it on, i may have gotten a picture of that truck.

the guy in the tuxedo shop says to never park there because there are accidents all the time. he said within the past week there was another accident right there. he said the fence was fixed from that one. but the fence is missing the end post so it must not have been totally fixed.

dave is the one who called 911. there was a panera employee sitting on the bench smoking as we left. he saw/heard it and ran to the car to make sure everyoen was alright. i didn't have that fast of a reaction. i was pointing (literally pointing) at it and stopped in my tracks.

i spent hours tonight cropping pictures for my calendar site http://colleen.akwire.net/_clothes/

i hate how the pittsburgh post gazette calls about 3-4 times a week trying ot get us to subscribe to the paper again.

about 4 different times this morning i thought about how i was goign to forget my mom's mother's day card and i better remember it.
well what do you know, i forgot it. :(

power

the power went out twice while i was cooking. it came back on after a minute but still.

i made a workout buddy. too bad i'm essentially moving out in 3 days. (moving out in over a week but will be out of town after that.

packing

i did a decent amount of packing yesterday and now my foot is swollen. i hate this.

moving

our pod arrived today. time to start loading so then i have room to pack more stuff.

anyone who wants to help load up the pod just let me know :)
Some people are coming May 19 after work if you want to join.

my tummy hurts. dinner didn't seem to sit well. now i don't know if i'll make it to the gym tonight. i only lifted weights yesterday.

we had our preconstruction meeting today. i didn't like driving home. there was entirely too much traffic on the parkway.

i also ate too many krispy kreme donuts. i did stop dave from ordering 2 dozen though.

i didn't pack anything today.

in a week, dave and I will be in massachusetts visiting kate. i'll miss 4 days of work. and i'll miss 4 different meetings (fun kind) at work.

i couldn't find my masking tape that i have been using to label boxes i've packed.
well it was in the laundry basket that is full to clean clothes. no wonder it took me so long to find it. i should have bought 2 things of tape so then i could misplace one and still have one to label stuff with.

nice

i ate a huge dinner
weighed myself
worked out and got naked (to shower)
weighed myself
and i gained weight
that is all

tonight was lots of exercising. still won't make up for my unhealthy lunch and dinner. good thing i don't work that way or it'd get discouraging.
i went for a nice walk with pb and we explored some side streets around here. we walked over 40 minutes. then i went to the gym and used hte exercise bike (because some girl was on the elliptical) she had her ipod but i still felt bad if i turned on the tv so i didn't. so it was awfully quiet for me for 20 min and instead of thinking about stuff in my life i kept doign the math of my percent complete. my guess of my milage i'd have done. my calories and stuff with the other numbers on the display.

i burn 2 calories in 25 seconds.
i burn 2 calories in a tenth of a mile
i go a tenth of a mile in 25 seconds.
i figured out the first statement based on the 2nd two.

i just checked some data i had from before and i went further per min than i did today and burned more calories per minute. hmmm i guess i suck now.

i went back tot he deaville park gym. i hadn't been there in ages. because the bike was broken.

well now the bike is fixed AND they added an elliptical machine. they should have updated me on this information. i would have gone more.

i bought a potato masher thing today so now i can make mashed potatoes if i want to. but i'm scared. i don't want them to be all lumpy. and i don't want them to be /get hard. and i don't want to use scary ingredients.

5 years

i've had LJ for over 5 years. i posted almost daily through it all until the last month or 2. i'm slipping up.

i just finished scrapbooking june 8-12, 2006 when gravester and kate visited.
i had all hte pictures glued in. i just needed to glue in the memoribilia and print the journaling. i had over half the journaling typed too. it still took 8 hours today and a few hours yesterday and then dave even found 2 typos in my journaling. i should probably reprint those so it can be complete and good.

it's the first i've scrapbooked in awhile. i may want to scrapbook or i may not. i don't know. should i take it to my parents when i live there or should i put the supplies in storage for a few months?

my nelnet loan is down to accruing 20 cents a day. how exciting. also this loan is now under 1,000 bucks.

my dinner/dessert tonight was 1780 calories

last night was more because the pizza alone was 1690

fun times

oh boy

i just took out a measuring tape and measured my waist, hips, and bust.

so my waist is still 6 sizes bigger than my hips but now i'm at new numbers.

if you look at a juniors sizing chart my waist is OFF the chart.

nap

i just had a wonderful hour long nap. i've been so exhausted and still wasn't able to get a good sleep in at night.

i put 53 bucks worth of gas in the car yesterday.
i remember when you could fill your tank for under 20 and i'm not even that old.

i've just done it again a few times.

and .. i already forget why i started this post.

oh and i'm going crazy. i keep thinking i hear the dryer beeping. i already folded everything about an hour ago.

today i really don't get anything done because while doing one thing i get distracted about another thing that needs to be one. or that i want to do. then then that other thing doesn't get done because something else distracts me. i even forget what the earlier things were i was doing. not good.

i'm gettin too fat. everyday i think i should exercise. i don't though.

i can't believe how many days in a row i have things planned. or even i have things double booked. not cool.

also i left work too late today to have time to get an allergy shot before my work dinner.

i have so much over time to put in since i've been working on an internal audit and boy do i not want to do it.

we went to obama tonight

waited in line forever
super long line

got an alright seat
the lady beside me smelled and we just couldn't take it so we moved to the other side which would make it so we can see obama's face. but then we forgot that he moves around when he talks. it was a little far away to get good pictures. i still tried. we'll see how they turn out.

tonight, i had a dinner with people who are on the iternal audit team with me. i remember all the names but not which person goes with which name.

I just updated my weight graph.
I'm still 2 months behind on my calendar (clothes) site.

the three hour nap that i took earlier really messed me up. i really need to get to sleep

i just woke up from a 3 hour nap.

4th nap t his week. 4th night too

i have to make a wedding card but myt able is so messy.
i also have to make a christening card.

if only this table wasn't a mess

also if only it wasn't 79 degrees in this room.

i hate when pb freezes me out with the windwos open. then i don't want to wake up.

busy

my weekend is busy
friday night is mom's birthday dinner
saturday is a wedding
sunday is jason's Christening and then a dinner for work.

oh boy

ok i'm awful
i just got an e-mail from someone who i have been in the car with her driving a few times and she's almost killed me a few times.
the e-mail said she totaled her car and i thought "nice" like maybe she'd learn how to drive now. but she just got this car less than a month ago. it's used but new to her.
someone rear-ended her and as a result she rear-ended someone else. so i don't know if they put any fault on her or not but the way she drives i'm surprised she hasn't caused numerous accidents. literally i HATE driving (hate it so bad that sometimes dave and i don't go out to eat because neither of us will drive the 3 min to a restaurant) and i would drive if we were going somewhere together.

then i told pb about her totalling her car and he said "nice" and went on about deserving it because she's a wreckless driver. he said a lot more and explained himself with specific examples. he can comment if he wants them typed.

nap

i ended up take another nap tonight. i think it was about an hour. last nights was longers. tonight i needed something becuase i was mad. still mad though but not about to explode

i think i accidentally stayed up too late.

i'm going to the bank tomorrow. i'm not looking forward to it.

also i can't believe michael johns was eliminated on american idol. he was my favorite.

i need more clothes.

i'm so tired. i brought work home. i didnt' do it. sigh

ok
fitflop fitness shoes by Victoria's secret. they say that they burn calroies and tone legs with every step. so i'd say all shoes do that in some way. what's special about these. really someone answer me. but model they have wearing these shoes has mighty thin legs so i bet tons of people by them.

i started off today thinking it was wedensday. then i thought it was friday. rude awakening when it was only Tuesday.

so for work i have to write this guidebook based on an analysis i've never done for a plant i've never even worked on. it's hard work. it's taking me longer than they guessed. they being experienced people at work and they guessed it would take me the same amount of time it takes them. grrrr. and it sure sucks not knowing and not being able to find the stuff because the previous calc notes that i'm looking at are not documented well.

when we come home, we notice the house smelling. like mildew or something. couldn't figure out what it was for days. i think i figured it out last night. the potatoes we bought a week ago were all liquidy of some sort in the bag. a brand new bag never opened. grrr.

i filled up my gas tank yesterday. it stoped on exactly 49 bucks. i even bought gas at the station that was 6 cents per gallon cheaper than most of the other ones around.