i ordered a wii online last week, and it should arrive tomorrow, along with 6 new games. brian told me controllers are hard to find, too, so yesterday i found somewhere with them in stock and ordered a second controller and nunchuck for overnight delivery. hopefully i'll have it all in time to go home, hook up, and play with before i head out to truck stop tomorrow night.
in other news, the whole offer/counteroffer game is still going on. we shall see.
and i put an offer in on a condo yesterday. seller's agent met with sellers tonight, she said they planned to counter. fingers crossed... i love the place...
wow, BAD week. new low in depression. i actually hit a place where going out to distract myself was not going to do it and actually sounded like the worst thing in the world (that's how i've been handling life for the last 8 months or so), so instead i just kept leaving work early to wrap myself in a blanket and nap in the afternoon. i finally got my shit together a little bit and went out tonight. i only had a couple glasses of wine so hopefully that won't keep me from sleeping well tonight.
depression sucks.
oh wait, it's the family member's illness that sucks. the depression comes along with that.
anyway. i had a decent time tonight after i had lots of friend therapy and made it out to o-bar. so that's good. i was able to cut off a train wreck -- my friend was getting introduced to some girl and my other friends already had preexisting knowledge of this girl's absolute craziness (in a bad way) so we headed it off at the pass. nice work.
good night.
this is really starting to piss me off. starting a month or two ago, i can't get more than 7 hours of sleep, no matter how sleep deprived i am. so if i get 3 hours of sleep 3 days in a row, the night i try to sleep in, i'll fucking wake up 7 hours later. anyway. i think the reason i'm up right now is that i just drank, er, a little too much last night, and i don't seem to be able to sleep well when plastered.
it was fun, though. after spending the day with my mom, i met up with friends at the abbey, and we drank away sunday afternoon until we migrated over to my place to watch the l word. we somehow fit ten lesbians into my couch space and ordered mulberry street pizza. mmm... new york pizza.
i also went snowboarding again on saturday! yay! two weekends in a row, so fun! i am going to get a snowboard and drive up the mountain obsessively all season. it was sort of shitty, though, we took the front way (10-30-330), and because it had snowed, they were requiring snow chains, and that process basically slowed the entire windy portion of the drive to an almost standstill, which was horrrrrible. instead of the drive being a little over 2 hours, it was upwards of 4 hours. we left at 6:30, and by the time we got there, they told us we might as well come back in 20 minutes and get a 1/2 day. grrr. but snowboarding - so fun!
yar. i am going to try to go back to sleep. bye bye!
my ass hurts! well, more accurately, my left butt cheek hurts. and my legs are a little sore. i went up to big bear this weekend and went snowboarding for the first time in, like, five years. i confirmed for myself that i LOVE snowboarding. i'm not all that great, because i've been, like, 4-5 times in my life, but i was pleased that i at least didn't lose any skill from that long hiatus. i'm able to do the intermediate slopes without too much trouble (though i do them more slowly than most, i imagine). and i'm excited because i think i am going back in a couple weeks. i'm all motivated to get a board and go as much as possible.
i went up with one friend on friday night, and then another friend met us up there saturday morning. SO FUN!!! afterward my friend and i ate at some little family restaurant (teddy bear something) and then hung out at chad's, this sports bar that had darts and foosball and pool. they also had a live band that played lots of stuff i liked. i got my ass kicked at darts but won 5 of 7 games of pool. it was amazing how much finesse i gained as i got drunker and drunker -- i know, i know, i'm sure it was the practice more than the booze, but it's a good theory. then we went back and kept drinking at the hotel bar, where i sang "i will survive" with some drunk straight girl.
got back in time to put in almost a full day of work. toward the end, charmingly, we determined that the motion is not due tomorrow, but instead... FRIDAY. yes. the motion i worked on ALL LAST WEEKEND -- sat/sun/mon of NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND, mind you -- and almost all today -- due this coming friday. ahem.
oh well. kicked off the new year with lots of billable hours, and i'm going to be too busy at work to work on this brief this week anyway. and it was nice, i was all worried about it but ever since i turned my draft in the partners have been continuously commenting on what good work i did. so that's nice.
anyway. the l-word comes back today! i'm chilling on my couch and waiting for my friends to show up so we can watch the season premiere. woo-hoo! though carmen is gone. boo. and cybil shepherd is on. wtf?
okay. i will stop babbling now. i am very tired and have lost filter. at some point on the drive back this morning my friend was like, "are you just saying every random thought that comes into your head?" yes. the answer was yes. bye!
another of my really good friends might be leaving. :(
yay!
i had a great new year's, if a bit tiring. i somehow managed to put in a full day of work, make a party in the palisades, swing back through weho for a lesbian gathering, and finish out the night in culver city at ayumi & brian's (happy birthday, brian!). don't worry, i paced myself and drove safely.
we played some more with the wii! i was all sad when brian turned the boxing off so that we could watch the new year's countdown. whatever -- counting down is so not as important as the wii. :)
i did stay too late, though, which got me into bed also too late, and had me in the office not until noon. :/ i was thinking that i didn't so much mind working through the 3-day weekend because i still got to go out every night, but i'm sad now because some of my friends are going to spend this GORGEOUS sunday afternoon at the abbey... wish i could be there...
anyway. tiiiiired. happy new year!