Hello Tiffy!

So the other day I started feeling a lot better but now I would say I am a 9 out of 10. Finally. I think we all know to feel a 9 out of 10 any day of the week is a blessing, and I am so happy I am back feeling good and ready to rock. Only problem is that I need to rest more… I am working myself way too ragged but I was politely asked to work this weekend so of course I am doing so. My condition for working this weekend was that this week at some point I can wake up and open my eyes in the morning and decide to take a day off, to which I will text my boss and say I will not be in that day. That sounds pretty sweet to me, because I can treat every day like it is Friday and if I want to sleep in I can do so. If only every day were so luxurious.

I have had a decent weekend so far. J & I went to the bar across the street last night and had some yummy and fattening food with beer, we hung out for a while and talked about stuff. Tonight, I went out to dinner/drinks with my friend Monica. Monica I have known for a long time. I met her during my previous employed time at EA in the Bay Area and she was from Austin. She moved back, and it was crappy! Well that was pretty fun calling her up about a week before I moved here telling her I was moving here. What a shock, and it is awesome having a built-in girlfriend when you move to a strange new town.

My plans for tomorrow are wake up-go to work-come home-do my second job-look forward to day off. I am beginning to feel a real toll on my health, well-being, spirit, motivation, whatever you want to call it, without regular pre-determined rest……… I do not know how the Japanese do this.

Sigh it has been far too long since I told you what was going on in Tiff Land.

Lets see… Oh, recently my upper left wisdom tooth decided it HATED me! Who can hate the tiffster? Well this tooth definitely does. It started on Tuesday, an extremely excruciating pain in the left side of my mouth. I just knew it was my wisdom tooth because I had been expecting it to turn on me for the longest time. I had felt that it was only half-grown in and I had been expecting any day now that it was going to hurt. I was in such pain it only took me 2 days to get to the dentist which says something right there. But anyway, i went to the dentist and they confirmed that the pain will not be going away until I get the thing pulled. So do you remember that discussion we had about a month and a half ago about my insurance and how it totally sucked? So it isn’t the worst dental coverage in the world or anything but it turns out that I am not eligible for oral surgery until I have been on the plan uninterupted for 3 months and of course I am only on 1.5 months at the moment. So I had the dental assistant price it all out for me and it will cost me $500 out of pocket before January 27th. On January 27th it will be my 3 month anniversary so to speak, and I will only have to pay $250. So I am now trying to decide how painful it really is. I discovered Anbesol and it has really helped. If I can stand rubbing numbing solution on my gums every hour for the next 6 weeks i can save $250. I am going to try it. Worst case, I just spend the money. It is certainly a disappointing time of year for my mouth to turn against me but what can ya do? That is life!

In other news, I just bought my dream gaming PC. The sad part of this is I decided to use credit through Alienware to get an ungodly expensive gaming PC because, at the time I had nothing else bothering me for money and I so wanted to treat myself to a new ridiculous treat I could not immediately afford. I flirted with the idea of buying it for months but I took the plunge on Monday and ordered the computer of my dreams, and of course on Tuesday was the day my tooth began to hate me. I have horrible guilt about splurging so much on the computer now and I was so damn close to cancelling the darn thing but you know what this will make me very happy and I just know it will prove to be a good investment. It is hard to treat myself sometimes but dammit I am going to WTF PWN every one with my uber Alienware… you better hope you don’t cross me in WoW or Warhammer online….bitches!

One of my favorite console games - Animal Crossing - was just released for the Wii and I have been addicted for days! I highly recommend the game Animal Crossing it is very cute, rated G and all around fun. However, I warn you that without the Wi-Fi hooked up it is not as fun. Half of the fun is having friends, and trading your items, and you catch fish and grow plants and as lame as it sounds, it is full of goals and is oh-so fun. Up to 4 players can live in the same town so it is a really good family/couples game. I am super addicted and luckily, an old co-worker of mine is playing so we are sending money and items back and forth it is tons of fun. The best!

I know it seems like I have stopped blogging but I have had a seriously rough couple of weeks and I haven’t had much to say out loud (or type out loud for that matter). I know blogs are for sharing but I don’t really want to get into it here at this time. However, I am happy to say that I got my hands on a copy of Viva Pinata and I have been having a blast with that game. What is Viva Pinata you say? It’s only like the cutest game ever! See - this is a picture of two bunnycombs. When two bunnycombs love eachother very very much, they get together and do a “romance dance” to make baby bunnycombs. The game is filled with cute things that have sex and then have baby cute things and so on and so forth. So that is what I have been doing. Breeding fake cute animals. I love video games.

SO I did nothing over the past few days except play on the xbox. God I love xbox. How did I go so long without one? Oh I will get to that in a minute, I have to tell you about the new digital camera I bought myself with my Xmas money! Isn’t it gorgeous??

It just shipped (weirdly enough) as I am writing this. I can’t wait!

I picked up the kids a few gifts for Xmas as well and they totally love them. I got Maysie a teeny booda bone with spearmint flavoring for her dog breath and also got her a pink hoodie! She loves it, it fits her perfect, and is she ever cute in it. In fact, I think that will be the first thing I take a picture of with my new camera! I also bought Rocko a scratch mat with catnip inside of it. He rolled around on that thing for hours!

Back to the xbox. I got myself a pink controller and a game that I love, Beautiful Katamari. I am and always have been a huge fan of Katamari games. I have two of the games for my PS2 but since it broke I worried I could never play again until I got a new PS2. I saw that there was a Katamari game for xbox and I ran out and got it. Since then it is basically all that i have done. Sat in the papasan and played Katamari. I also worked the last three days but I am off until Monday, then off again Tuesday. I gave J Halo 3 and Bioshock for his birthday today, and he really loved those. Sadly though, I will have to give up my xbox because he came back from his holiday trip. Waaaaaaaaaaaa! I am happy to announce that Xmas/Bday event is OVER and I am sick of spending money. Back to being a broke ass.

The next thing on my wish list is an iphone but I think I am going to wait because I just KNOW that the next gen iphones will come out in pink. So I think I will just enjoy what I have for now. I am so spoiled, I KNOW!

I am sorry for abandoning you, Ms. Blog! I have had things going on but no time to write (or in other words, I didn’t take any time to write :D)

Friday, J got Rock Band and brought it home. This game is sweeeet!! I am the drummer that I have always wanted to be now. The backstory on my drumming dream is when I was in 5th grade, we had to pick our elective classes for the next year in Junior High. I chose band class, and for my instrument, I picked the drums. I waited all summer, excited to play my drums. I walk into class and there are two drum kits, and there are already boys sitting at them. They told me I had to pick a clarinet or something else because the boys already had the drums. I was livid! I switched electives a few days later. I have always been pissed that I was not given my drums! Rock Band is really realistic feeling and there are some great songs that you can unlock. I have pretty much played non stop for 2 days. I have improved a lot, but I am getting worried the sound the drumsticks make is going to get me a warning from my apartment neighbors. No one has complained yet though.

I spent a few hours yesterday at the mall, boy, was that ever fun. The traffic to the mall was incredible! I know it is to be expected the last weekend before Xmas but it was pretty crazy. I wanted to pick up a few more things for J because since I am a dumbass and gave him his birthday present before Xmas now I have to get him a birthday present. Hehehehe oh well. I grabbed him a few things and grabbed me some jeans which I have desperately needed. I got a few more Xmas gifts last night to my surprise as well. J gave me a Presto Pizzazz, which I always thought were so cool, I can not wait to use it. He also gave me a 100 dollar visa gift card… now that is awesome. He really got me a lot of stuff this year! Oh yes he also ordered us both some Tempurpedic pillows online which is sweet! We got a Tempurpedic bed in August so the pillows will be the finishing touch. I also got a check from my dad for 100 bucks, woot! I am going to take the 100 gift card and buy myself a comfortable computer chair, and the 100 from my dad will go towards a digital camera that I have been wanting for a while. The only camera that I have owned for years was whatever camera my cell phone had at the time. While technology has come a long way, the pictures are rarely how I want them and the shutter takes too long to get a good shot, Although I must admit I have kind of mastered the cell phone photography genre.

I had to get up at 4:50 AM this morning to drive J to the airport. That sucked, but I got there and back and passed back out for a while. He will be gone for 3 days I will be lonely but I have my kids here to keep me company so it’s gonna be alright. Ok I am starving for some lunch. I’m out!

I hope everyone’s dinner was good. Ours was very nice. We had so much food, and I can tell I am older because I just don’t pack it in like I used to, lol. However, I really love leftovers…I am enjoying a turkey and cheese omelet right now.

In a few hours it will be time for a turkey and cranberry sauce and  stuffing sandwich. I will probably make grilled turkey paninis for dinner later.

After dinner J’s friends came over and we all played Smarty Pants. The game is fun but considering it advertises 20,000 questions and you get repeats a lot of the time, it is pretty annoying. You also shouldn’t get it if you only have one controller because you can not save your progress if you play by yourself. When we get some more controllers, though, the competitive trivia part of the game looks a lot more fun and challenging. In that part, you are head to head with your friends and whoever buzzes in and answers correctly gets points.

As for today, I get to tackle the kitchen. Oooh goody. We used every dish and silverware piece in the house and we have a very compact dishwasher. I seriously would be hiding out somewhere if we didn’t have a dishwasher, hehe!