School daze

I'm still plugging away at school, but it's getting harder and harder for me to keep myself motivated. I think the fact that I'm still unemployed is starting to get to me. I'm finding myself just in a generally "down" mood and have to force myself to do things like make dinner or clean the litterbox. This week, I've even contemplated dropping out of school, but Matt advised otherwise. I'm only a year away from my bachelor's degree, and that's not really that much left to go. Besides, I've got the classes that I really want to take coming up (the stuff that actually pertains to computers).

Fortunately, I had an interview today with a company for a tech support rep. It's not doing support for computers, but instead for emergency response systems for elderly people. It's different, but I think that there's enough to the job outside of that to keep me satisfied. Besides, at this point, I'd just be happy to have a job! I hope it works out, because if it doesn't, I really don't want to be back at square one (again).

Movies

For a very long time, it seemed like there were no good movies worth paying at a theater to see. All of the sudden, there are several that we want to see. Matt, being the military history buff, wants to see Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers. I want to see Running With Scissors (I have read the book many times), Saw 3, the new Will Ferrell movie and Flushed Away. I'm not sure why it always seems to work this way, but there seem to be big droughts and then a rush. I've been trying to remember the last movie that we saw in the theater, and I think it was X-Men 3.

We have joined Blockbuster Online for $6 a month. We get two movies mailed to us each month and two free in-store rentals. I think it's a pretty good deal. I'm seeing a bunch of movies that I wanted to see but had forgotten about.

Sweet relief!

The last few days here have been very nice. The temperature has been dropping to below 70 degrees at night and doesn't break 85 during the day. Yesterday was a little humid, but the past week or so has been pleasant. We were actually able to turn off the air conditioner for three days! It was very nice to have the apartment aired out a bit. We did turn the air on yesterday, however, because it was almost 90, but that's not supposed to last too long. I'm starting to understand why people really like the weather in Florida :)

We've changed our ways

Matt and I both recently gave up something that was once very dear to the both of us - online gaming. We have both canceled our EverQuest and EverQuest 2 accounts, most likely forever. It was a fun six or so years, and I can't say that it was completely wasted time. After all, I did meet my husband there. But otherwise, I probably spent a solid year of my time playing those two games. We've both seemed to just grow out of it, that and it's getting expensive. We still play video games, but no more than a couple of hours a day, and we only play the ones that you don't have to pay to play after you initially buy them.

So long, EverQuest!

My sleep is broken

I've become convinced that there's something inside of my brain that is broken. For many many years now, I've had trouble both falling asleep and staying asleep without the aid of sleeping pills. Sometimes I can't seem to get my brain to "wind down" but other times it just feels like I don't know how to fall asleep. I've gotten just about every trick in the book from many people over the years, but the only thing that really seems to do any good is sleeping pills. If I don't take Tylenol PM before I go to bed, odds are I won't fall asleep, but if I do, I'll wake up in a couple of hours wide awake (as is the case right now). This is frustrating when I don't have anything to do the next day, but when I finally start working, it's going to be a big problem. As soon as we have health insurance again, I'm going to ask a doctor about it. I'm sure I'll just be given more sleeping pills.