Pinch Me

Yes, the song is about depression, but there is also a little bit of hope in there, which is how I am feeling.

This weekend.....was. It started with me not waking up on Saturday until after noon. OOPS! So much for getting out and getting my tire fixed early! I think I finally left my apartment around 4 after watching WGN's broadcast of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. *shudder* Uhm...I had watched the original Friday night, and all I am going to say is "WHY DID YOU COME BACK PATRICK!?!?!?!?" It was bad. Painfully bad. Ran to the library, grabbed a CD to add to my iTunes (Absolute Garbage --that is the name of the album, not my opinion of iTunes) and a trashy romance. Sad thing is, I have a HUGE stack of books on my floor to get through that were loaned to me by a friend, plus the stack of books on my bookcase that I have purchased or been given that I have not read. OOPS.

Get to my car, to go run errands, and I have a $100 parking ticket for suppossedly being too close to the fire hydrant. Now, when I parked, there was no snow on the ground and I checked the line and I was even with it. When the ticket was written, you could not see the curb or the yellow line, so where is this coming from??? On the bright side, my next door neighbor, Emma Frost, saw me scraping off my car and heard me muttering and invited me out to drinks with them later at Fat Cat to celebrate her birthday with her friends. Then I took off. Went to Target where I used some of my Christmas money to purchase The Dark Knight, Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda. Still need to get Iron Man and season 3 of The Muppet Show. Granted, the list of movies I want is really long...but that is a good start and I am trying to just get the movies I really love. Then Trader Joe's for some groceries, Whole Foods for some more, then back home where I curled up with some chinese take-out (garlic sauce, not a brown sauce) to watch The Longshots. (not great, but good and enjoyable). finished dinner when Emma knocked on my door (I had thought they were already out) and went out for drinks. OMG!!! What a great group of people!! Emma is an X-man costumer, her guy is a member of the 501st and 2 of her other friends do fantasy costumes! A bunch of them go to conventions every year. I was a bit jealous and wondered why I had never met these people before!! I missed SNL with NPH, and they have only posted 9 clips from the show online, but I think it was worth it.

Today was kinda chill. Overslept again (it is the weekend), watched a bit of football, then went to get my car out and get my front tire looked at and replaced. Went to Firestone near Crunch and they wanted over $400 to replace my tires!! EEP! Throw in the 10.25% sales tax in Chicago and I am going to do some more hunting!! Went to the gas station near me to try to get it repaired, but the tire had 3 holes grouped together that were too big to replace, so I am basically stuck purchasing 4 new tires....although I might do 2 and 2.

Came back home cuz I did not want to spend any more money, and finally got to watch The Longshots and I cleaned the main room of my apartment. Not the most thrilling of weekends, but it is what it is.

On the bright side, I am working on getting out of my funk, and that is ALWAYS a good thing!