Month: April 2005

Still no laptop. There will continue to be no laptop until I buy one, by the way. I’m just saying.

Okay, update on the burning urge to go to Disney again. One of the interesting things about Disney is that I regularly have dreams about going to the park. I have not sat down to evaluate them in any way, but I can tell you that there are times I have the same or similar dreams about the park(s), except the parks in my dreams do not resemble the real ones. Sometimes they are more like a Six-Flags type amusement park. They are the Jody version of WDW. Last night I had a dream that we were in this section of Epcot that is nothing like any other part of Epcot, except I’ve dreamt we have been there before, so in last night’s dream I was actually saying “Let’s go back to that restaurant over there!” The main focus of last night’s dream was making phone calls to my family to try to convince them to meet us at this restaurant.

I had a Disney dream last week where we were first in line to go into an attraction (i.e. the park had just opened) and we were so excited (I think it was Tower of Terror)…we walked all through the queue only to walk through a doorway that put us in the middle of the park. So it wasn’t an attraction at all, it was just the entrance to the park.

Last year I had a dream where we were with the whole family and there was some sort of problem with the plumbing or something and suddenly the whole park (remember, Jody Park, not what one really looks like) was flooded and we had to get the kids into boats, but my sister wouldn’t leave one of the gift shops. There was a big pipe all this water was bursting out of, but I can’t say for sure if it was clean water or dirty, if you catch my drift.

There isn’t anything scary about these dreams, I just suspect it’s my burning desire to go on vacation – specifically back to Disney. But I find it very amusing to have dreams like these over and over again.

Like I said to Mr. Dump as we turned off the television early to end our suffering, “This is good because I prefer spending the season as the underdog. I don’t want to be “them”. I don’t want to be swaggering and cocky because we won last year. This sets the tone for the season, and then we can be the little engine that could.”

Or not, but the pressure is certainly off right now.

I am also having a hard time finding people who are happy we picked up Wells. Last night didn’t help, but I don’t like him. I don’t like him as a person, and I don’t think he embodies the kind of guy who should be offered the privilege to wear a Sox uniform. I was horrified when I’d heard we picked him up. It’s embarrassing to say he’s on our team, not for his playing (although, last night…) but for his politics and social skills. He’s a punk, and Boston fans don’t cotton to punks.

Okay, cozied up on the couch, got the popcorn ready…

And UPN 38 comes out with a GRADE A FIRST CLASS intro to the season.

And once again, I have chills watching the highlights from the series from last year. Big honking goosebumps. And now that the game is on, I’m already stressed. I’ve got this feeling to look forward to for the next 6 months or so. Sheesh.

Day 3 without a laptop. The shakes have gotten a little more intense, and the nightsweats were the worst of my life. I woke this morning groggy and feling vaguely like someone had filled my head with fiberglass insulation.

I may have to go drown my sorrows in a pound of crispy bacon.

I hate hate hate not having my laptop. And it’s all well and good to say “I’ll replace it” but I don’t exactly have a pile of cash just lying out on the coffee table. *sigh*

Oh, and important notice for the locals: the Tri-Town Drive-In is officially open for the 2005 season.

Okay, we can’t put Terri Schiavo in this list because pulling a feeding tube means the death was kind of scheduled. But in the past few days, there are obituary notices all over the place, and then there are people who are on death’s door. It is very “death-y” out there right now. Make sure you take your multi-vitamins, okay?

By the time this posts (or soon after) I’m sure we’ll be able to add Pope John Paul II to this list. Yesterday in the news they were saying he wanted every possibly intervention to keep him alive, and then this morning they were saying he refused to go back to the hospital, putting his fate in God’s hands. Interesting that these two news items were only a day apart. I’m with him today, though. What kind of quality of live is it to just take him to the hospital and plug him in? I’m thinking that maybe, now that he really understands it from that side, he might make some proclamation that it’s okay to choose to go, to tell the family that it is actually a humane and loving thing to do. But it sounds like he’s not in any shape to do that.

Frank Purdue died also, and I’m completely embarrassed to say that I didn’t know he was still alive. I’m guessing I’m not alone, but still.

All this pales, however, to last night’s death of my laptop computer. I am not handling it well, either. Mr. Dump says he experienced this type of death before, and it wasn’t fixable. The tech guy from HP swears that if I pay $298, they will fix it and send it back to me in 6 days. I asked what happens if they can’t fix it and he got kind of indignant.

Which then raises the question – do you spend $300 to fix a 3 year old computer that doesn’t have the power to do any of the things you want to do with it, or do you put that 300 toward something that can? Decisions, decisions.