Unzipped

Ever have one of those days where you get home from work and realize that your pants are unzipped and have been unzipped for at least a few hours?

That’s the kind of day I’ve been having….for the past several days.  Luckily, the pants thing only happened tonight.  Yes, sadly, I’m admitting it with a wry shake of my head and goofy grin on my face.  This is the point where I thank God that I work the late shift and didn’t run into more than a handful of people – hopefully all of which didn’t notice.  At least no one said anything.

So yeah, I’ve been having a rough few days.  There’s been a lot going on in my personal life (unfortunately nothing outstanding) and a lot going on in my head.  I won’t get into details, but this scene between Verona and Burt from “Away We Go” (which I loved, by the way) keeps getting stuck in my head:

Burt, are we f*ck-ups?

No. What do you mean?

I mean, we’re 34.

33.

We don’t even have this basic stuff figured out.

Basic, like how?

Basic, like how to live.

We’re not f*ck-ups.

We have a cardboard window.

We’re not f*ck-ups.

(WHISPERING) I think we might be f*ck-ups.

(WHISPERING) We’re not f*ck-ups.

So I might not have the whole cardboard window thing going for me, but I’ve been feeling pretty much like a f*ck-up lately.  I’m trying not to wallow in it, though, and am trying to figure out how to get myself out of some of the situations I’ve gotten myself in (and with maybe just a little wallowing on the side, too). 

To top it off, my dad’s head left a nice, well, head-sized dent in our wall last night when he had a seizure and fell.  I tried to take a pic of it, but there was just too much of a glare.

I have also learned my lesson where Tylenol Simply Sleep is concerned – never to take two again (even though that’s what the instructions say).  It knocked me on my ass for many, many hours (though I still kept waking up) and I was groggy for at least another 16 hrs after I woke up!  If (and that’s a BIG if) I ever try it again, I will only take one.

On a positive note, one of the reasons I’m kind of groggy today is that I was up too late reading this book:

It’s the 30th! in Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb‘s “In Death” series which is one of my favorite book series (I’m not sure why Amazon has it listed as the 31st, when even Nora says it’s #30).  It is a futuristic murder mystery series. As you would expect, the past few have been somewhat less than amazing (though still good) – but what do you expect when you are hitting 30 books in one series?  This one, however, I have been absolutely loving!  While that might have something to do with the subject matter (the gaming universe – of which I am very interested in), this book also has a lot more of the humor, sarcasm, and personal relationships that I felt were missing from the last few books.  If you’ve never read any of these books and are interested after checking the link above, I recommend you start at the beginning, though each book stands alone well.  In fact, the first one I read was “Portrait in Death,” number 16 in the series, when a friend loaned it to me.  I loved it so much that I immediately went out and got the previous ones.  I love coming into a series late like that – you don’t have to wait to get your next fix!

I’m sure I’ll probably stay up and finish this one tonight as I only have about 120 pages left.

On the food front, I didn’t do so hot over the weekend (again), but I did well Monday and plan to do great Tuesday, too.  I came across some fantastic one point pitas at the Wal-Mart Market over the weekend, so this is what I had for an after-work snack tonight (light sauce, light cheese, and turkey pepperoni):

It was pretty good!

Anyway, that’s the latest with me.  Hope you’re all having a happy and healthy start to your week!