so the new shoes that i have are awesome. i laced the shoes up in a very skaterish way (”props” to Joe on that one). i think i have to buy they grey one’s so i can wear them with everything.

i have a couch now. so the couch and the tv just make my place normal for once. the tv alone is amazing. i can’t get enough. hd television is pretty much the most amazing thing ever.

bleh. i’m sleepy and need to get to bed. i just can’t think. more later.

i’m so tired of these bogus winter storm predictions that just don’t come to fruition. i get all excited thinking it will be bad enough to warrant the office being closed and then it just doesn’t happen. granted it did snow a lot today, it certainly didn’t get bad enough to not have to go into the office tomorrow.

i’m just hoping the journey to work isn’t as bad as it was today. it was sleeting this morning and to make it worse i think my umbrella is at my friend john’s place. the walk to the bus stop was bad enough with the wind blowing cold ice into my face but it got so much more worse as i stood on the corner of foster & ashland waiting for the #92 bus to come. there was a point while i was standing there that i just wanted to go home and climb back into bed, either that or just start crying. it was at the point that i realized that as much as i love winter with its snow and cold weather, i’m so done with it for a while. spring and summer need to hurry up and get here.

speaking of spring and summer arriving shortly, it looks like i’ll be playing on a softball league starting in may. this should be fun(ny). i’ve warned my friend who got me to join that i haven’t played since i was 7 so this is bound to be an interesting adventure.

in other horrific news, my cable card that is in my tivo messed up sometime today and random channels aren’t showing up. tonight’s episode of project runway didn’t get recorded! i’m hoping it gets fixed soon so i can catch a re-air sometime soon. rcn totally blows, i think i need to consider the move to the equally bad comcast.

i’m trying to decide what i’m going to do apartment-wise as my lease will be coming up for renewal in four months. while i do have plenty of time to find a new place, i have less than 60 days to decide if i want to move or give it another year here. i have this horrible fear of not being able to find something decent in my price range. do i want a 1 bedroom or a large studio? do i stay in andersonville or try a new neighborhood? roommate or no roommate? too many decisions to make.

i’m 5% closer to purchasing the couch (for a total of 95% sure). i think i’m going to go this weekend to check it out once more before i order fabric swatches and place my order. oh yeah, and i should probably make sure it will fit in my place as well.

and now it’s nearly 3am and i’m not asleep yet. i probably shouldn’t have taken a nap earlier this evening.

yeah, i can’t even remember the time i had insomnia like this. i’m saving my last ambien pill for tuesday evening so that i can make sure i get enough sleep prior to returning to work on wednesday. i think i probably had too much caffeine this evening which didn’t help matters any. i’m trying to be as productive as possible since i’m up anyway. i was able to add a couple of new features to the site, relatively small but somewhat useful.at this point in the holiday break i’m actually looking forward to getting back to work. one week of sitting around and doing nothing isn’t all that great. i’m starting to get a bit restless.my boredom says hello: 

so i’m trying to figure out what the weather is and my two different operating systems are providing different temperatures. thanks to the wonderful parallels virtualization software i can run both windows vista & mac os x at the same time and as per the first picture below the apple widget claims it’s 25F here in chicago and 45F in austin. however, at the same time the microsoft widget claims it’s 29F here in chicago and 35F in austin. they just can’t agree. wow, i must be pretty bored if i have resorted to writing about that.

okay. the sun is coming out now. i guess i should try to get to sleep again. i think i’ll call this my mid-morning nap. 

i have returned to chicago and was graciously greeted with a winter storm. although, in my opinion it most certainly didn’t turn out to be as bad as i had expected. no pics from this snow experience as i only bothered to go outside and walk through it once and when i did, it was just way too wet to want to deal with the camera in it.

my sleeping pattern was thrown off for some reason. i just couldn’t get to sleep last night and ended up with about two or three hours of sleep last night. i tried to nap but after an hour or so i woke up and just couldn’t get back to sleep.

no big plans for the next few days. going to try and take advantage of these last four days of vacation and just relax and catch up with a few friends. no big plans for new year’s, going to a party with a friend but i’m hoping it will be a low-key evening for the most part.

i’ve been entertaining myself with wikipedia over the last few days and i’ve learned some AMAZING things, including some interesting things about lake michigan. lake michigan covers more surface area than the country of croatia. the average depth along the chicago shoreline is 15-35 feet, however the lakebed it littered with tons of crap including ship wrecks and airplanes from world war II. history lesson for the day.

and now i must return to finish the last movie of the day. just about to finish the holiday which caps off a full day of other not-so-great films such as i, robot and maid in manhattan (shut up, don’t even start with me. there was seriously nothing better on tv.).