Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Uninspired Randomness

I go from being tired to being super tired. With the new job I am getting up at 3AM, doing the route and then heading directly to the new job until 3PM. With the heat, it is killing me. I need to take a few days off the route to gain some sanity.

Friday, July 23, 2004

WOO HOO!

I got the job! It took them forever to get back to me but in the end there was nothing to worry about. I can go into the paper office tomrrow and give notice immediately! Of course, I still have to work there until the end of next month but there is nothing I can do about that.
Soon I will have a life again! No more early bedtimes or having to stay home each weekend.


Thursday, July 22, 2004

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

I am so tired of being tired!
I am a person that can't go to bed before 10 or 11 pm each night, regardless of when I got up that day. At the beginning of the year I started a paper route which requires me to get up at 3 am. On the average night I now get about 4 hours of sleep. I try to go to bed earlier but can't actually go to sleep until somewhere between 10:30 and midnight and when I get home at about 6am from the route, I am so wired from being on the move for 3 hours that I can't go right back to sleep. Of course by the time I get sleepy my wife and daughters get up for the day which delays rest further.
The upside is that it allows me to stay at home with my daughters. Most parents aren't able to experience this so when I had the opportunity I took it.  
Now, my oldest is getting ready to go to school and the younger one wants to go somewhere during the day. My usefullness as a care provider is coming to an end and it makes me sad and happy.
I will miss spending so much time with them and being there for them when something goes right or wrong.
I will miss hearing them play together. I will miss being able to see them learn something at the actual moment it happens. From now on it will be "Guess what I learned today..."
It makes me sad.
But I will be able to sleep again. 

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

First Post

I hate drug tests. I am trying to get a new job and I had to submit to a drug screening to complete the application process. I hate the procedure of going to LabCorp and then waiting for 1-2 hours (after drinking tons of liquid) to prepare for the test. At least I was able to complete the test this time. A few years back I had to leave in humiliation after a half hour of failed attempts to do so.
On top of this I also have that fear of some sort of mistake in evaluation that makes them think I am hopped up on goofballs 24/7. I will be on pins and needles until I hear back from the potential employer regarding the results. I know that nothing would show up in a normal test but it is an irrational fear that grips me when I take these things.
In other topics:
Six Feet Under was messed up this week. Poor David! All he wanted was a little fun and he ends up with broken ribs and a nice gas smell!
If you have not watched Little Britain or The Graham Norton Effect then I highly suggest you do.
If you have watched The 4400 then I apologize.
It was a wonderful idea that was just executed wrong. Maybe it needed more cowbell!

Current Favorite Song: A Better Son/Daughter  by Rilo Kiley
Current Favorite Quote: "All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and...uh, why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there...and that'll just be our little secret...and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you."-Bob Ross on The Family Guy