i’ve been feeling more and more stressed out lately. what’s odd about the stress i’m feeling is that it isn’t even stress related to me personally…but my every day environment has been getting more stressful and though i don’t get affected directly i still feel the heat of the stress and it’s beginning to cut in to my personal enjoyment of every day life.
my solution? i’ve decided to more selectively block out the things that have been casuing a more stressful environment for me. we’ll see how that goes.
on to other things, i got lots of good sleep this weekend. i think that the insomnia bug has finally run out its course. i was able to sleep quite well last night without incident. i am a happy camper.
made a rather startling revelation today which was startling and disturbing at the same time. it turns out that if you use the internet explorer innerHTML property, if you assign something to innerHTML, IE will first parse the HTML tags in there and so stuff to it. so when you assign a value to innerHTML, it doesn’t put just what you have, but all this other crap to…it also likes to close <table> definitions so you can’t use multiple calls to innerHTML without it parsing it up the wazoo.
we went to have indian buffet today for lunch. man…i am so full it hurts right now. i don’t know why i feel compelled to stuff myself silly whenever i go to a buffet place. i’m so full now it hurts just sitting and typing. and this happens every time. you’d think that i’d learn by now and i wouldn’t go for that last plate of food, but no. you’d think that i’d learn by now and i wouldn’t force myself to finish everything on that last plate of food, but no.
common sense seems to fly out the window whenever i set foot in a buffet restaurant. why, oh why, am i inflicted with this temporary food stupidity? i don’t know, but i’m paying for it now.
i am a procrastinator. that’s just the way that i am. i’ve never been able to plan out far in advance and usually i end up choosing to cram things in a small amount of time instead of doing a little bit every day. as such, it appears that there are 7 days left until christmas comes around. now, i must confess that i don’t even have a list of people that i want to buy gifts for.
so here i am struggling a week before christmas trying to figure out who i want to buy gifts for. never-you-mind that i don’t have the slightest clue as to what i will get these people…i haven’t gotten there yet. i still need to figure out who i will get stuff for….then the REAL turmoil begins. what will i get them?
i was watching tv last night in another bout of insomnia and stumbled across [url=http://www.mtv.com/onair/room_raiders/]room raiders[/url]. the concept of the show is that three contestants vye for a date with the “room raider”. the first raider was a guy who got to go through three other girl’s rooms and look through all of their stuff…the guy seemed particularly interested in going through the girl’s underwear drawer.
the basic premise of the show is that based on the inspection of the room, the raider would then pick a girl based on the room to go out and have a date with.
the second raider was a girl who went through three guy’s rooms…it’s pretty funny because she was ripping these guys apart. i don’t think that i would participate in a show like this though, i don’t want my privacy violated like that.
it’s the end of the year again and i am checking out the financials of my 401k. i probably don’t pay enough attention to its performance as i should, but it seems that i did reasonably well for the funds that i elected to invest in. i think the [url=http://old.journal.ocliw.com/2003/0530.php]last time i checked[/url] on my 401k, it was back in may! damn! well, it turns out that since the may check-in, things have been doing better, and i’m getting about a 10% return on investment. better than money in the bank, i guess.
i’m kind of upset because i went through great pains when i first set up the 401k stuff so that i’d contribute a very specific amount and it turns out that the math i did was wrong. i even had someone double check the math for me, but still…no dice. so i’m actually contributing more than i wanted to into the 401k this year. bummer. that could have been money that i could have played with…now locked away forever. grrrrr.
i have a newfound awe for [url=http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1026.html]michelle branch[/url]. who knew she was so hot? i mean, i liked her music and all, but who knew she was hot? maybe it was because when her last album was out, she was still 18 or something that made it feel dirty. but now that she’s a whopping 20, it’s all ok to be attracted to her…right?
i’ve only seen her in pretty conservative attire and i always thought of her as a cute little girl, but she looks all grown up now in the latest issue of maxim.
damn…she’s still only 20. that’s young for maxim, isn’t it?
that’s right, bring it on. i think that today, more than ever, i need a healthy dose of the trimethylxanthine. sometimes you just need that little bit of a pick me up and today seems to be one of those days. trimethylxanthine, whose chemical formula is C8H10N4O2, is better known as caffeine.
today i learned that caffeine is also a mild diuretic. for those not jive with the medical lingo (myself included) that means it makes you pee more. i also learned that if something is labelled as “decaffeinated” that only means that there is less than 2.5% by volume of caffeine in the product. so decaffeinated does not equal caffeine free.
[url=http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40148607.htm]did you feel it?[/url] did you feel it? i haven’t felt an earthquake in a long time. this one was a baby one. there was a little shuddering but that’s about it. the interesting thing is that my office building is a brick building. if a big quake hits, i wonder how it’ll do.
if you could choose between getting one really big xmas gift from everyone, or a bunch of little ones, which would you choose?
if i had a choice, i’d probably opt for the bunch of little ones. i think that there’s just more individual thought to the gifts and it’s just more fun opening a bunch of gifts than one big one. but i wouldn’t complain if i did get just one big gift. =P
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But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?