jibber jabbering again + Widget pics.

I am finally starting to feel better about my Grandma’s passing.  I feel so very guilty being here instead of at home with my family, where I should be.  This, I guess, is one of those drawbacks to following my heart across the country.  I must admit things are going pretty good for me out here in VA and they will hopefully continue to improve as time goes on.

Last night I called my mom after text messages from Bill and Pete telling me to ask for alcohol.  Little did I know I was being sucked into a game of calling mom even though everyone else was in the same house(except for me).  🙂  It was nice of the siblings to include me in on the game and I got a kick out of it, made my night a little bit happier.  Asked Ma what they were planning on doing with my Grandma’s body and she told me she was being cremated and then Pops wanted to scatter her ashes at the beach where he was raised.  I told her to let me know in advance when they were planning on doing that so I could at least get out there for that.  Again I feel so guilty…but I know there’s nothing I can do about it.  This was just a bad weekend for it to happen although when is someone dying a good thing?  Ha.

Widget and I were pretty lazy all day today.  I went to bed around 2:00AM this morning, was awake until about 3:00AM and finally fell asleep only to have a nightmare semi-based on that movie SAW.  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed that movie but having a dream that I was in that kind of situation wasn’t cool.  I woke up around 4:00 with a gasp and it took me a while before I calmed back down enough to sleep.  Matt’s alarm went off at 6:00 and I was up until around noon.  Started dozing on and off until about 3:30 this afternoon.  I really need to start sleeping more on my days off, reguardless if I do sleep through a beautiful day.  I have come to find that the less sleep I get the more depressed I feel and I should pick feeling happy but guilty instead of sad and bummed out all the time.

I changed Widget’s litter box only to find that I didn’t have enough litter to put in the box to refill.  He jumped in it and had a blast playing around in what litter was avaliable and finally did his business.  When he got out of the box he was acting all crazy and sideways hopped at me.  Mom told me I needed to get a video of him doing that and hopefully I will be able to do that one day.  It’s just a matter of having the camera out at the right time and the right place since he doesn’t do requests, just whenever he feels it necessary.  I mean, I wish he’d do it when I asked him, it makes me laugh.  🙂

Might go out to Chili’s for chips and salsa again tonight, I told Matt we should make it our usual Sunday night thing.  It could be our chips and salsa date night thing since date night is non-existant anymore since either one or both of us are at work on Wednesday nights.  Still planning on Splash Down on Tuesday, we better go this time!  Dammit, I want a tan!  I guess I could be out at the pool right now but it’s kind of boring going by yourself…now if it were the ocean I’d be there but since it’s not I’d rather just sit here and ramble about nothing.

Last night Matt and I walked over to Baskin Robbin’s to get some dessert and while we were there I picked up a quart of chocolate ice cream to have here at home since I love it so much.  So after we bought the ice cream we ran over to Blockbuster(I admit it…I miss that place sometimes.) and grabbed a couple of movies.  So all this time the ice cream is in a little paper bag and slowly melting and condensation is starting to form on the container.  La la la, we walk home(it’s like a 5-10 minute walk) and as I’m walking up the stairs the bag tears open and my ice cream falls down with a *plunk* onto the stairs.  For some reason I found this hilarious(lack of sleep?) and started giggling like a fool and was immediately thankful the ice cream didn’t fall down onto the ground because that would have surely been the end of it.  No moral to the story, I just wanted to keep reference of the event.  I know it’s not funny to anyone else but me but this is my diary so there.  🙂

I’m not sure why but I am pretty excited about Christmas already.  Probably due to the fact that I’ve already bought my plane tickets home and I won’t be totally broke this year so I can actually buy everyone presents and not have to stress out about money for once.  My only major concern is getting things home when Christmas time actually comes so I guess whatever I buy can’t be too big unless I ship it beforehand.

On that note I will leave you with some pictures of my little monochromatic friend sitting up on the desk where he is not supposed to be.

Right before it spit the paper out and made him jump backwards.

I love his little "freckle".  🙂

That is all from me, I’m sure I will be back again before my weekend is up.  Later taters, hope all is well.  🙂