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I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with me. I feel completely drained of energy all the time, and it’s annoying as hell. I’ve been trying to get more sleep at night but I still end up tired all the time. I don’t sit around on my computer as much as I used to, I’m up at the ass-crack of dawn at work, and I’m still in school. Rachel thinks I need to take vitamins. My mom says I should eat breakfast more often. I just feel really cranky when I’m home.
I spent the day working until 11am, watching Matrix Revolutions, and playing IIDX. I didn’t have the energy for anything else. It was a beautiful day outside but I just didn’t feel up to going out. I have no money anyway.

I have another longer 8 hour shift tomorrow morning starting at 6:30am. Not looking forward to it.

In other news I’m no longer going to E3 this year, my sister’s graduation from SUNY Plattsburgh is the same weekend. So no-go for me. I’m annoyed. Well, at least now I’ll have the chance to save money… spend it on something else. Rach and I are planning on a trip to Toronto for a weekend to see LOTR on stage and see the sights. Should be nice.

Saturday’s the day that I have to take Rachel back to college. It really sucks. But then again, it won’t be long until I see her again; she’s coming home in a few weeks to take her road test. There’s no times available there in New Paltz that fit into her schedule, so now she’s gotta come home and take it here. Requires both of us missing a class, but as long as she passes it’d be worth it.

I found a digital camera I plan on buying next week, once when I get paid again. It’s a  HP 5 MP Photosmart E317v. I’m really excited about this; I’ve never had an actually *good* camera, and this one blows me away. Even takes videos with sound!

Last night was a pain for me. Rachel and I went to a Chinese buffet and the food definitly did not settle with me. Ended up sick to my stomach for most of the night. It’ll be a while before I go to one of those again. As a result, I still felt mostly sick this morning. Now I’m here in class, still in my pajamas. Eh, at least I’m more comfortable.

I still have things to catch up with online, hopefully by next week I’ll have the chance to do them. As much as I dislike the idea of Rachel going back to college (I’ve been used to seeing her every day for over a month) I’ll have more time to get my other priorities straightened out.

Well, I’m still not 100% better from my sickness. I really wish it would just go away already. My ears pop every time I blow my nose. It’s annoying.

I tried doing some work on my car earlier but to end up at dead ends. My blinkers don’t want to work and I was told it was because one of the blinker bulbs was out. OK fine, I replaced it. Still doesn’t want to blink. They go on, and stay on. The weird thing though, is that my 4way flashers will work fine. Go figure.

The other issue is that my driver’s side view mirror got fudged up when I was cleaning snow off earlier in the season, and now I can’t adjust the mirror from the inside very well. One of the wires has broken off. My dad said he’d get me a new mirror, but in the meantime it’s just annoying.

On the plus side of things though, I got a quarter raise at work. Wegmans finally bit the bullet and started compensating those above minimum wage. See, here in NY the minimum wage has been going up each year. They hire people at minimum wage, and then at the beginning of the year their pay goes up no matter what. Those like me well above minimum wage don’t get jack. Unfair, right? Well now I get more raises. I can go up to over $9/hr, and I’ll be there in about a year. For now though, I’m at $8.25 which is comfortable for my field of work, and I’ll get another raise come July. Not that far off, really.

Also, My MIDI keyboard finally came in the mail. It’s at Rachel’s right now. She got me this for Christmas but the site she ordered from were a bunch of idiots. The keyboard she originally ordered went out of print at the warehouse and they never notified her, but thankfully her mom’s credit card was not charged. So this time we went to a reputable online site (CompUSA) and ordered one that was better for the same price. She felt really bad about me waiting so long for it, but I don’t mind it at all. She got me it, that’s all that matters to me.

I also got some other things done I’ve been kinda slacking on… namely mailing out the iPod that I sold on Ebay (lady paid $85 including shipping, cost me only $3 to ship it) and getting some loan forms filled out. Now with that out of the way, I just have a couple bills to pay off and things will be set for me for a while.

I’m really enjoying WordPress and the layout of my site. I still need to implement the gallery, and I’ll probably get to that later today.