After sleeping all of yesterday and a good chunk of today, Ben is feeling much better. He immediately perked right up when we returned from Target with Rock Band for PS2, the game he really wanted for Christmas, and was pissed because all he got were Target gift cards and (up until today) Toys R Us was the only store locally to carry the game. He is taking a walk down to the Center to buy a pizza from Domino’s as I am typing this. He wanted me to phone in an order for delivery until he realized he didn’t have the money for a tip.

I’m trying hard not to fall asleep. Glenn had to get up early this morning to finish the snow clean up and made damn sure I was awake and unable to get back to sleep until after he left. Since I’ve been dealing with a mild bought of insomnia, I want to avoid altering my sleep schedule if I can. Animal Crossing for the DS was almost the death of me. 🙂

A couple of sites of interest I thought I’d share:

http://www.buffet.com/eclub allows you to sign up for a newsletter from your local Buffet Chain resturaunt (Old Country Buffet/Hoemtown Buffet/Country Buffet/Ryan’s/Fire Mountain). For signing up you get a coupon for a free meal (any size) with the purchase of an adult meal. They also send out a goody or two for your birthday.

http://www.walkathome.com/club-walkslim/ Get a free six month’s membership to Leslie Sansone’s Walk Club. Definitely a bargain. I only got 12 weeks for my free trial last year! Obviously the club is a promotional tool, but I’ve managed to avoid most of the hype to make it work for me (and if you have a laptop with a wireless connection you can take the best advantage of Leslie’s streaming workout videos).

http://flylady.net Fly Lady’s website to help the organizationally challenged get it together.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com An online To-Do list. I use it to keep track of all my Fly Lady stuff.

http://google.com/calendar Creat an account (if you alaready haven’t) and get yourself this free online calendar. You can create several mini calendars (each a different color!) to keep track of individual projects and decide who else, if anyone, can view them. You can also intergrate your Remember the Milk list into it.

Okay. Done now. Time for sleepy sleepy.

Night!

I ran into a few roadblocks with my Tinker Toys idea. First of all: Holy fuck! When did they become so expensive? The cheapest set available locally (which may make me a rack or two) is $21! @,@ Secondly, the cheapest wooden set may not have the free-spinning spools that I need to make my display carousel. *sigh* Iguess I’ll have t ofigure something out.

In other news, I’m getting fed up with feeling totally incompetent. With Library Assistant jobsnon-existent due to budget cuts, I’ve been forced to look for minimum wage work as a cashier. I applied at Toys R Us two months ago, figuring I could tap into my boys’ knowledge of video games. I have yet to receive a call for an interview, yet they still have a help wanted sign up. It’s Stop & Shop that’s really getting me down, though. I’ve applied twice, after my friend (a front end manager) promised me I’d have a job by the end of this month. There’s three days left and I still haven’t been called. And, yeah, they have help wanted signs up, too.

Glenn, in a tone that only a man who feels he’s being inconvenienced by his wife’s inability to get a job can use, announced that he has no choice but to get a second job. This is after he turned down a transfer to the cemetary department, where he’d be getting the same hourly pay PLUS tips upwards of $100 a week. Oh, and he told me he doesn’t care if I have to fill out applications online for him, he’s going to get another job. Um, yeah.