h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, folks. Not much to say this week. I'm tired today. Very, very tired.

Pretty much all I've done this week was work and sleep- far too much of the former, and not nearly enough of the latter. It'll get worse before it gets better, but it's only for another four months.

I'd meant to spend a decent amount of time here yesterday, but when I got home I was exhausted, and flopped down for a short nap. I slept for around 12 hours.

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts throughtout the past week, and for wishing me well and not to "overdo" it. I *am*, of course, overdoing it, but such is life. I'm sure I'll live.

I'm feeling better after my long "nap" yesterday, and a bit of retail therapy. I ordered used copies of the Impostors and the Magic Christian, and a nifty book called "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody", which covers many interesting historical figures. All three cost me just shy of $20, so I don't feel too guilty about it. Just a little bit.

Earlier this week (or was it late last week, the days all kind of blend together lately), I ordered Krispy's birthday gift. It's a bit early, but I didn't want to miss out. I've got him tickets to see Bill Bailey put on a show in Ipsiwch in July. In return, he's gotten me something REALLY cool, and in addition to that has promised a DVD of the second season of Black Books. It's always fun having neat things to look forward to!

Well, I've got to head out for cigarettes and some groceries, then get some laundry started. I think I may seriously try to quit smoking, as the price of cigarettes is going up to around $7.50 a pack as of April 1st, which is utterly ridiculous and well more than I can afford for such a luxury. I can barely swing that much for necessities these days.

I'll be in and out today, hope to see many of my friends around here. Take care.

Hi psychocandy, I'm tired too!

Moonglum worked all day yesterday and is back in today, so he will be very tired. The evil boss from hell, even rang him up and had a go at him because the other company wasn't organised. Considering where we should have been this weekend, that is a bloody cheek.

Still, in my efforts to lose weight, I have put more on. Walked over 7 miles yesterday, that shold help, if I can keep it up. Woke up Friday, not scared of getting out of bed, for the first time in months. That was a fun feeling!

I know there are times when you have to overdo things, and well done for having the strength. I hope you will be coming on here to get lots of support, cause you deserve it and more importantly you will need it. To think you are doing all this for Krispy, he must be so proud of you! I bet he is your biggest supporter here, or at least he should be!!

Enjoy your day off!

Thank you, Kaz! Wow, seven miles is a lot of walking! No wonder you're so tired. Moonglum's boss sounds like a total a*****e. It sounds like he's doing a brilliant job, and trying to bully or threaten someone into giving even more is totally out of line. I understand how tiring and annoying it is putting in extra time, when you've made plans and have to cancel them at the last minute it's even worse. I wish Moonglum's boss were more understanding and treated him better.

I know that Krispy is proud of me, he keeps telling me so. He knows how hard it is working and what it's like to be exhausted, and he's been very supportive. I do get lots of support here, especially from you, Terri, JEllen, Abbi and Terri. Sometimes I want more, but I don't know what it is I want people to do for me, especially when I have less and less time to talk! Some days I swear the only thing that could help would be a generous contribution from a wealthy benefactor, but that's unrealistic and would never happen. You guys here are worth a whole lot to me, and I'm grateful for the friendship and moral support.

Today is going to be fun, and did I ever need that long sleep yesterday!

Only 2 miles today, its difficult cause its cold and so I dress up, the whole of torso stays warm and sweaty while my legs are getting colder and colder and slower and slower. So I gave up!

Sometimes I ask for suport, but I really think I am asking for someone to take it all off my hands, and make my life easy! So I know what you mean, we all need support and us needy types need extra! Well I am sitting here, starting to warm up and thinking of you, we must swop photos, that would be fun. I search for one, I approve of, and send you one of how I used to look back when I was a babe!

Oh, Moonglum finished work at 1pm today, hes now snoring! The gerbils are being their usual selves and scaring themselves everynow and again, they are so daft. Sometimes they see me walking towards them and stand together in a jumpy up and down way, that is so irresistable, so I give them a treat and they zoom off to eat it, its so much fun! Imust send you some more photos of them, they have speeded up a lot, and we havn't taken any photos for a while. Sometimes they both jump off opposite sides of the bed at the same time, I am sure they do it on purpose!!

Enjoy your day off have a for being so strong!

I know what you mean about wanting someone to take all your problems away and make life easy. I often wish for the same thing. Even if someone could make my life easy, I'm sure I'd just complain then that life was too boring!

While I was out walking this morning, for a bit of fresh air and sunlight, I found two black-and-white folding TV trays that someone had discarded in the alley. I bought them home and cleanded them up, they'll do quite nicely. I've been wanting some for a while, but they can be rather pricey. Some of the stupidest things can make my whole day!

Swapping photos sounds like fun, I have one or two decent ones from around two years ago. I'd love to see what you look like, if only to have a face to put with the voice and all of the postings. It's nice to be able to visualize your friends when you're thinking of them, and I think of you very often. Most of the weight I'd lost that year came back, unfortunately, and I'll need to find a way to get rid of it when I haven't much free time. Not munching at my desk at work will help, so I'm limiting myself to yogurt and fresh fruit. Some of my co-workers tease me about the "larder" in my desk drawer, but it's mainly tea bags and sweetener packets. I have to keep a little something for snacks, though. Starting at five-thirty and working till past six, with only a half-hour luch at eleven-thirty, my blood sugar drops off by mid-afternoon and I get very cranky and unfocused.

I've taken your advice and poured myself a drink, though it's only eleven here, it's six o'clock somewhere!

I'll keep hoping that Moonglum's boss will get off his back and learn to appreciate him. Lots of positive energy to you both, and love to the gerbils as well. I'm looking forward to seeing more phots of them, too!

I wouldn't complain that life was boring, I would finally catch up on my New Scientist magazine, I am 6 months behind and they come out every week!

I am trying to stop comfort eating and to walk more, and I am still putting on weight, its so disheartening.

I need to stop comfort eating too, though mine consists less of sweets and more of pasta and cheese! And we won't even talk about alcohol, will we?

Life being boring because of having few or no worries might not be so bad, it's boring now anyway! During the year I was unemployed (May '02 through last May), I was only really depressed for the first couple of weeks, and the last few. Most of the time, it was really nice being able to sleep as late as I wanted, stay up till all hours on h2 and stuff, and read and watch movies to my heart's content! One week, I sat around all day every day watching every episode of "Twin Peaks" (I have the series on video) back to back. I'd spent nearly every day that spring and summer lying on a blanket at the lakefront with a book, a big bottle of water (and/or wine ), and treats for the little critters. If I could afford to do that still, and still have the bills paid, I'd do it in a heartbeat!

I'm having fun right now watching movies on the TV. We have a cable channel here called "American Movie Classics" (AMC), and today they're having a marathon of Oscar-winnning "Best Pictures". Some of them aren't my thing, but today I've seen "Chariots of Fire" and "On the Waterfront", both of which I really like. Just now is "In the Heat of the Night", which isn't one of my favorites but is still quite good, and after that "Bridge on the River Kwai". What fun!

I've got my windows open today, it's unseasonably warm, sunny, and the birds are singing and twittering away like crazy!

Well we went for a walk and fed the ducks and geese, I only managed 2 miles today. We also watched Bremner, Bird and Fortune, do you know that one? They expose the unbelieveable in politics and business in such an entertaining way, its real public service broadcasting!

Have a good film night!

Hi PCandy, hi Kaz!

Y'all watching the Oscars tonight?! I am going to an Oscar party in about 30 minutes, I baked a casserole and everything! I hope Rings pretty much sweeps, and I 'd love it if Johnny Depp and Scarlett Johanson won Oscars.

JEllen

Hiya JEllen! I am watching tonight, although it's from home and all by myself. An Oscars party sounds lovely- what kind of casserole did you make?

I hope you have fun, and I'll be online tomorrow night after I get home from work (around 6:30 central time) for as long as I can stay awake, hope to catch you and we can talk about the Oscars and other stuff then!

Wish I could have seen the Oscars with you PC! It would have been exciting -- we are such movie nuts! I don't want to say too much about the winners yet, because I'm not sure it has been broadcast in New Zealand. I baked an italian casserole. The people who hosted the party had some really beautiful original oil paintings.

JEllen

Oh, one other thing, I'm going out tomorrow (Monday) night with S. Maybe we can catch up Tuesday? We just gotta gossip about Oscars soon!

JEllen

You bet we can catch up Tuesday (tomorrow) night! No mattr how tired I am.

I notice no-one but you, Kaz, and Abbi have bothewred to talk with me this week. I must be getting boring.

Anyway I've got to get to bed now as I've got to up be up no later than four o'clock, and it's past midnight. Not that many people care, but I never get to have any fun anymore, and its getting a bit dull.

Hope to catch you online tomorrow, JEllen, I'll likely log into AIM between seven o'clock and seven-thirty central time. I'd love to talk aboutthe Oscars, and S., and lots of other gossip. Plus I'd love to whinge at you a bit about stuff, if you don't mind.

Nighty night all... or at least to all of you who can be bothered with me.

'Anyway I've got to get to bed now as I've got to up be up no later than four o'clock, and it's past midnight. Not that many people care, but I never get to have any fun anymore, and its getting a bit dull.'

I'll blow at you!!

I once complained of the exact same thing, and got bollocks by someone I never wanted to talk to anyway! Are you feeling unloved? The 3 of us talking to you can send you enough love to make up for it, don't worry!

I guess you won't have as much time for fun anymore, with the hours you are working, but you are planning for a fun future!

If I know you, you will come on later apologising for whinging, well don't cause its okay!! Its also means I won't have to feel guilty for whinging later, we all need whinge time, oh and Tia Maria time, glad you liked it!

I think this might be my bad, Kaz.

Ah, well you had better make it up to her then! I am sure you know the best way, good luck!

Apparently we share the same taste in humour, Black Books (new series next week!), Spaced, Red Dwarf etc. Did you see Little Britain? and did you see that one off Fur TV on Saturday, it was so rude, puppets (obviusly based on certain muppet characters) get it on with humans! It was so funny. What else do you like?

Well, I didn't mean to say that I don't enjoy talking with you three, just that most of my few friends here close to home don't understand very well that while I haven't much time for play, I'm still needy and crave some attention. You guys here are better friends to me than lots of people I see all day every day.

That doesn't mean I don't get into those "I need lots of attention, now everyone p*ss off!" moods. I won't apologize for whinging yesterday, everyone needs to do it sometimes and I guess I just need to do it a bit more often than most.

I didn't see Little Britain, but Krispy's been taping me bits of the radio show. Fur TV sounds like lots of fun, did you like "Meet the Feebles"? How could anyone go wrong with muppet porn?!

I also really like The Young Ones and Bottom, they're great fun if a bit puerile. I love the Fast Show as well. Of course there were a couple of good American comedies I used to enjoy- Space Ghost and Mystery Science Theater 3000. I've got some episodes that I can watch of all of those!

Krispy is always "making it up to me", though I expect that most of my maudlin and loneliness comes from his not being here. I'll make it till he gets here okay, though. I get a bit more emotional when I'm tired, and have I ever been tired lately.

Just in case you come on after I've gone to bed, JEllen, I was here (and on AIM) looking out for you. I'll keep my eyes open for you all this week!

Abbi, has your computer been taken in yet, or are you still here? I'm really going to miss you, and look forward to your return.

Kaz, thanks for the s and es, right back at you!

Krispy, it's not your bad. It's just me feeling tired and moody and p*ssed off that I have to go to bed before my friends can get online. It annoys the hell out of me!

Thanks to all of you for having fun with me when I'm doing okay, and for supporting me when I'm feeling down, or whinging and feeling sorry for myself. I you guys all to bits! I hope I didn't make any of you feel that your being here for me and talking with me isn't good enough, Sometimes I just feel very alone and needy. And then I can never catch you online because I've got to be up at a godawful hour. Why can't I just play all the time?

Off to bed soon, can't afford another late night again tonight, unfortunately. But I'll be back tomorrow, on that you can depend!

Nighty night, my dears! I'll see you all on the flip side.

Hi PCandy, sorry I wasn't on when planned! I laid down for a few minutes rest, and it turned into a long nap! Boy, I was zonked. Hopefully tomorrow I can tell you about my date with S. It went nice!

JEllen