| October 27, 2004 - Night terrors and Scooby Doo |
| Dear Friends, I honestly don't know what's been wrong with me lately, but I've not been sleeping well at all. Last night, for example, I had several of those dreams where you're half awake and trying to cry out but you're so paralyzed that you can't. It was dreadful! At one point I woke up feeling all the muscles in my back kind of rippling like my own private "Exorcist" effect! I've noticed that sometimes happens to me if I fall asleep and get cold; I dream of all sorts of scary things like graveyards and haunted houses. Or that I can fly, but the zombies grab hold of my feet just as I'm taking off to escape them. Now the evening didn't start out all that bad, but I can't help but wonder if my life has taken a boring turn and that's what's leading to bad dreams. I was so bored yesterday evening that I actually sat and watched "Scooby Doo and the Mystery in Cyber Space"! Can you imagine that? With all my varied interests and fantabulousness, you'd think I'd find something better to do. But nope, I sat and watched Scooby Doo, went to bed, and had night terrors. But as my friend SARRRAHJANE always says, "Excelsior!" For, dear Friends, my tickets to Germany over Thanksgiving are free! Woo hoo! I had so many frequent flyer miles that I was able to get free tickets....well not totally free, because I had to pay airport taxes and a handling fee, but that was still only $60. Not only that, but I discovered that at the city theater where my friends in Germany live, they're putting on a performance of "Endstation Sehnsucht", or as we know it in English, "A Streetcar Named Desire"! I am so totally there already! "Stella! Stella!" "I have always relied on the kindness of strangers." Etc., etc. etc. Plus my friends just had a baby in September, so I'll get to see him! Then I hope to go to Switzerland to see another friend of mine there. So I guess life isn't really all that boring; it's just been boring the past couple of days. And it's all Microsoftt's fault. It seems all I've been doing lately at hateful ol' work is testing naughty Microsoft security patches! Even over the weekend I had to install Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my HP at home. What an ordeal! I didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing, because I get automatic update notifications and thought it would just download itself, and so I neglected to install all of these so-called "prerequisite" drivers. Well after all that folderol and fiddle-dee-dee, I had to use HP's instant support to figure out what I needed to do next, because the computer was acting like little Shirley Temple, child star, on valium with broken tap shoes. Well, I'm sure all of you, my dear computer-savvy readers, can only imagine how much time it took me to uninstall SP2, install all the prerequisite drivers, and re-install SP2! After 3 hours of that bull puckey I wrote my final email message to HP in which I stated, "Thank you for your help. I feel now like getting drunk and slapping Bill Gates!" Then I had to dash out the door for a party where I spoke Swedish for over 2 hours! Talk about being pooped! Well, the Swedish wasn't boring, but that bloody SP2 rigamarole certainly was! And just think, I had no hooch in the house to drink while I worked my way through the whole shebang! Is it any wonder then, dear Friends, that I'm looking so forward to my little excursion to la bella Europa? It's just so difficult being me! Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |