– My computer stopped working and that’s pretty depressing. Now we have no computers except our work computers (and smartphones) and ugh. That’s not going to work. I don’t even know that I can sign into all the things I need to sign into without that computer because it had all my bookmarks and saved passwords. (I am typing this post from my phone…Will I ever be able to blog via computer again? Not anytime soon.) PLUS, every picture I’ve ever taken of LG is on that computer and that just makes my heart ache. LUCKILY, Chris was able to grab all pictures of her from birth through May 2012 off the computer (PHEW) and everything from August or September 2012 to the present is still on the camera’s SD card, so even if we can’t grab those three/four rogue months, at least I backed up some pictures on Flickr. Oh, but I just remembered all my iPhone pictures I’d dumped onto my computer. DAMMIT. Again, at least all the IG’d shots are on Flickr. Flickr is good for something, today at least.
– I am traveling for work and I realized I have a sort of methodology for traveling alone, so as to avoid against creepers. First of all, I ask for two room keys. What if some creeper is lurking around the check-in counter and sees I only got one key and then he knows I’m traveling alone and follows me to my room? IT COULD HAPPEN. Two keys = Traveling companion! S/he is just parking the car! I have a buddy! Don’t mess with me!
I also don’t put the Do Not Disturb sign up because what if there’s a creeper walking the hotel halls and preying on those whose rooms he knows to be occupied because of the Do Not Disturb sign? IT COULD HAPPEN. No sign = Vacant room, no need for someone to break in and creep.
I think this last one is kind of a go-to creeper-avoidance trick, but I try at all costs to not get one of those rooms with a door adjoining another room. I stayed in a room with a lot of random doors to nowhere recently and it creeped me out. What if the creeper next door has a saw and saws through the lock on the adjoining door and creeps on me? No adjoining door = No creeper sawing his way in. Not that a creeper would know I’m even in the room, because my Do Not Disturb sign wouldn’t be out.
(I am a really good solo traveler, honesty.)
– Chris and I watched The Trouble With The Curve the other weekend and I enjoyed it. I think my Amy Adams obsession has been well-documented here, so that goes without saying. Plus Justin Timberlake. That’s all I need to say about that.
– I’m still reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Did I mention I was reading that? Can’t remember. Anyway. I am slogging through. That’s not to say I’m not enjoying it! I am! I just hope to finish soon so I can grab my next book from la biblioteca, Eleanor & Park (an EBJ-recommended read), and I can’t miss my pick-up window for that book. I missed my pick-up of Brandi Glanville’s book a couple weeks ago and honestly? What kind of Real Housewives fan do I even CONSIDER myself, god?
– I’m feeling very unorganized when it comes to working out/cooking recently. Likely this is because I’m traveling and although I worked out yesterday in the hotel gym, I did FAR LESS than I normally do (because, UGH, hotel gym) and also today I ate Mexican food for two out of three meals and that never makes a person feel ship-shape, ya know? Anyway, I need to get into a routine and that routine includes working up to longer runs (can I break the 3-mile slump?) and more yoga and also a lot of salads and water.
– Last night I dreamed my back teeth crumbled and fell out. Thanks, subconscious. I didn’t actually need you to tell me I’m stressed out, but okay.
What’s going on with all you recently? I hope you’re all reading good books and drinking your fluids and having dreams about white sandy beaches!
The adjoining-door-creeper-with-a-saw fear made me laugh out loud. I have the same fear of going into a bathroom stall by myself. Like suddenly feet will drop down next me and then I’ll be toast. This happened in a Scream movie, so I’m pretty sure it’s a viable fear.
Brandi Glanville’s book was pretty damn awesome, but I’m slogging through Eleanor and Park. Eleanor’s family/home situation makes me sad so I get tense tummy while trying to read it.
I stayed once in a hotel with an adjoining door to a room where a bachelor party was going on. Filled with increasingly drunk, violent guys as the night went on. I should have called security, but I was afraid for them to hear me and know there was a single woman next door. No sleeping for me at all.
I really liked that movie. Baseball is my favorite sport, and yeah. Justin Timberlake.
I *hate* dreams about teeth, especially crumbling ones. I think that means we’re grinding our teeth in our sleep.
Oh, interesting. I always put the Do Not Disturb sign up even if I’m not in the room (after it’s been cleaned) because I want people to think there’s someone in there so they won’t break in and steal my stuff. Never thought about it your way. Huh.
Ya know, I’ve heard that dreams about teeth falling out is actually a sign that money is coming your way!!
Also, I love that Brandi Glanville’s book is on your list…it’s on mine too!
I love your Anti Creeper Techniques. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who thinks about stuff like that – certainly my husband thinks I’m a world-class weirdo. But there ARE creepers out there! Better safe than creeped on!
And I have those teeth-falling-out dreams, too. Ugh. They are the WORST.
Not much going on over here. Just WAITING FOR THE BABY TO SHOW UP.
Well Sar, you come by it honest.
I stay at Marriott’s a lot. They like to upgrade me to Suites. I don’t like it unless I’m with Dad.
One room with line of site to the door please.
I don’t really like to shower with shower curtains either. Thank-you Alfred Hitchcock.
Yeah, the teeth thing. I don’t remember the exact details of my recent dream but my teeth were involved too.