It's over

Got up early this morning in order to take my dad to the doctor's. Sat in the car while he was in for his appointment and just sorta stared blankly. Had to make myself read something and turn on my AOL Pager in order to NOT look like some creapy guy sitting in the car by myself. But I was zonked, I still am. Got home and dropped my dad off then went to work on the final part of the wood pile.

I hate this part of having to stack because all the wood is up on the steep hill and it's jus torture having to climb up to grab every piece and bring it back down. Today was strange because a lot of the wood had sat there for a month (since our first load of wood), and had settled. When you pick up wood that's settled there's usually lots of wildlife or insects in it. Today there were a lot of salamanders.

I've only seen one salamander in my life. Today I saw about a dozen. These were small ones, biggest one about 2 inches long, and a lot of them were a weird shade of purple that seems to change color in the light. I can tell why they were regarded as mystical in ancient times. They're strange little guys and it could have been my failing sanity (by this point I was getting goofy out there), but they seemed to radiate strength or heat as I picked them up and moved them to safety.

Okay, so yah, my mind went for a while. I was exhausted out there. I still don't want to go out and see how the pile zig zags as I had to start new rows in strange spots as I literally used every inch I could out there. If I go out in a few minutes and notice that I've made a monument to Leo's face with the wood, I wouldn't be surprised. LOL.

Had a long nap and forgot to turn off AOL buddies when I went to sleep. Well, sorta, it blocked IMS but didn't block my name from buddies. I have no clue how I did that but if you tried to IM and it said mine were off, it's fixed now. Now I'm still zonked, but I'm here. I have to work in an hour and so looking forward to sleep tonight.

k9

Totally Zonked

Oh wow, 13 minutes into a three hour shift at work and I'm half awake. It got colder over the past couple of days. I'm wearing a jacket inside the house and trying not to fall over onto my computer keyboard. Hopefully this Dr. Pepper will wake me up or else it's going to be a very long shift.

Listening to weird old songs on my musicmatch jukebox. No Doubt's "Simple Kind of Life" comes to mind. I could play that 20 or 30 times tonight and just get lost in the lyrics. "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse is another. I don't know what came over me today, but I'm sitting here listening to music and not getting anything done.

Ugg. If I get through until 8 I'm going to take along hot bath and soak until my entire body prunes.

Zonk.

k9

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