Ugh, insult to injury

Ok, so I have nothing to do this weekend. Every single person I know within a 250 miles radius is busy or out of town. I couldn't find a decent flight(i.e.under $400) to Atlanta and gas prices are still too high to make a nearly 1000 mile trip in 3 days. So. I am stuck at home, with absolutely nothing to do. Really. Nothing to do.

This morning a professor comes in and gives me 2 State Fair tickets. Just out of the blue. I now feel like total crap since I have no use for them and no one to give them to. I could go alone, but that would not any fun (considering I've already been with Paul and being there all by my lonesome would really make me miss him more). This totally sucks. He was just trying to be nice and generous, but instead I'm more heartbroken than I thought I could be.

I was doing ok yesterday and I have now hit the low. I think it stems from literally being ALONE all day, everyday. There's really no one in the office, no staff in the departmental office that have time to meet me for lunch and definately no one to visit. It's barely 11:30am and I am just beat. This is bad. I've still got 8+ days until he returns.

The candy's out of the bag....

The Halloween candy has been opened and has become irrestiable to me. I had to open it to make my "boo bags" for the neighbors ("boo!" is this neighborhood thing where you get "booed!" by a neighbor in the stealth of the night with candy and seasonal goodies and then you must "boo!" 2 more neighbors within 24 hours - and you then put the "boo!" sign on your front door to let everyone know you've been "booed!")

We bought 2 bags of candy at Sam's over the weekend - a chocolate mix (snickers, milky ways) and the Willie Wonka assortment. I had to try the RUNTS! Yummy! This year they have blueberries in them. Pretty tasty and colorful, but a they put a poor assortment of runts flavors in each bag. I had to riffle through the huge bag to find a little baggie with bananas and strawberries - MY FAVORITES. I was good, I only took one baggie. However, while I was at SuperTarget purchasing other goodies for the BOO! bags, I bought more candy - WHOOPERS. BIGGER YUM. I've had at least 3 little bags of those (which have 3 litle candies in them). I need to get the candy off the counter and way, way, way out of sight or else the poor trick-or-treaters just won't be getting treats!

Now on my mini sugar high, maybe I'll do something productive around the house. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I've still got last night's Gilmore Girls to watch. YAY! I am saving LOST to watch with Paul. That's a show where you need someone to watch it with. Or at least I do.

Crazy tall flowers

Ok, it's starting to seem very narcissistic of me to keep posting pictures of myself on here, but oh well, I have to share this picture.

I planted these odd looking seeds for "assorted zinnias" that I had bought at Wal-Mart. I had fairly low expectations and they did start VERY slow, but once they got going, I had flowers! They are all very unique and so colorful, these are going to be a garden staple for now on. Very easy to grow and they give so much! LOVE THEM.




Check out the CLEAR BLUE sky behind me. Oh, it was such a beautiful day (this was taken Sunday 10/16 just as I was headed to the airport to take Paul).

Bored, bored

I'm still putting off the review of the Fair. I want to write something really good and I am not feeling it right now.

So.

I'm playing with the new webcam. We gave in and bought 2 webcams, one for me, one for Paul. We're not real sure if it will work while he's in Australia, but we're going to try. Maybe one day we can talk to Justin in Japan and the 'rents down in GA. Who knows!?!?

In the meantime, I am entertained by looking at myself on screen. Wanna see what I see?

Here ya go... me sitting in front of the computer, avoiding figuring out what to eat for dinner, waiting to hear from Paul and listening to Jeopardy! in the background. Oh, the exciting life...