Week Off! Then Why am I So Stressed?

Yep, all true: I have this week off. As we speak I am typing wearing only underwear and headphones. Actually, I tell a lie, I'm only wearing one of those two items :)

Anyways this is supposed to be a productive week. Supposedly. All the little things I've neglected over the past two months due to surgery, moves, Christmas, laziness and just plain not-having-time I'm trying to resolve this week. So here's a list of things I'm (supposed) to be doing:

Finish filling out all of those pesky change-of-address forms

Get back to the gym routine by going every day this week

Update Monster.ca with the new resume and apply for at least three jobs

Re-organize my stuff as I know I can (barely) fit everything in

Read up on the whole writing thing by actually reading the books Capa and others have loaned me

Update my various blogs, video blogs and writing columns (and thus this post)

Dentist, Eye Doctor and various other health-related appointments

Get my new laptop (yes I got a new laptop) ready for both work (programming software) and writing (finding a free copy of Word if I can)

Laundry and a haircut. But not at the same time

And other things as they come up

What a boring vacation, eh? Ah well, it's been petty good so far (if busy) and I'm actually done many of the above. The gym thing hurts though.

Of course, there's Laura (aka Laroo) who has some very nice things to say about me. I'm blushing, babe!

It's been six weeks (not quite nine and half) and frankly I'm still smitten. Even after taking care of her during a week of a very, very nasty cold.

I could list all the little things like her laugh, her smile, her smarts, her love of all things Shakespeare but the big thing, the huge thing that has me hooked is pretty basic. She knows, I'm a geek, she accepts I'm a geek and she enjoys that I'm a geek. She may not understand the specifics of my geekhood, but she really gets that I enjoy them. No judgment, no rancour just acceptance. Me for me and all that. That, as those who know me, is a huge deal.

And speaking of smitten, everyone say "gratz" to KAJ and Big M who are tying the knot in March. About bloody time you two. I like these guys, I think they are registered at Best Buy. My kinda peoples. I promise to make a huge jack-ass of myself at the reception.

Crime and Punishment

Interesting times continues....

I get into the elevator this morning and find a notice on the inside: there was a break-in in the downstairs, underground, "secure" parking lot and everybody should check their vehicles. So naturally I check.

Smashed passenger side window, nothing taken out of my car. As I toured around the lot to see how many got busted windows, I noticed the interior door leading to stairwell is off its hinges. And I realize the lock and the hinges are on the same side of the door. Brilliant.

So at lunch I go down to the downtown police station, where they tell me I need to bring the vehicle in to be inspected, and that I should do that at another location. I beg off work early, go half way across town to another station, and they tell me since it's a break and enter, I need to call the police (because calling the police from a police station is just crazy talk). So I get home and call the police at about three in the afternoon. They finally arrived around 8, took my statement, looked very seriously at my car. They're still outside.

So it looks like I'm out about $400 because some rummy (or similar) needed another bottle (or similar).

Not a good way to start the week.

I'll save the update on Laroo (my significant other) later, when I'm feeling more mushy and not filled with the urge to don a mask and take justice into my own hands.