What a day

I start wondering why my Semagic program to type of LJ things isn't in my lower right by the clock, and then I remember that my POWER WENT OUT THREE TIMES EARLY THIS MORNING, WAKING ME UP EACH TIME! ARG! So I woke up this morning at 8:10, managed to get out of the door after showering by 8:30 with my mom, and I drove her to St. Francis for her cortozone shot in her back. Despite taking 4 hours instead of the one it was supposed to, everything seemed to go well. No telling how much the shot is going to do, but hopefully it's something, as my mom has been having really bad back and neck pains the past few months. And during the time I spent in the waiting room playing GBA/reading/using my Zodiac I got to watch this funny old nun talk to people; she was nice, just a bit.. off :) And of all places to run into someone I know, Kelly Cary was there in the waiting room. She did a triple take when she saw me, which was amusing, but she didn't seem to be in the mood to really talk besides saying hi. Her and the people she was with were in another sectioned off part of the waiting room, well, waiting. From what I gathered from chit chat going around between the Nun and them and others I think it might've had to do with some major surgery with Greg, but I'm not sure.. anyone who really talks to her should ask and see what was going on to make sure everything's okay; I don't have her screenname. So after that at 1 my mom and I got out of St. Francis and went to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet. $5.95 for all you can eat salad, pizza, and breadsticks sure is a good deal. Mmm.. Then at 2 we went and took the kittens to the vet to get their second dystemper shot, and they did well. Have to bring them back on or around December 17th (yay!!!) for their third shot, then in February or March they need to get neutered/declawed/rabies shot. Fun fun. After bringing the cats back I got to relax for an hour, and then we went off to Robert Wood Johnson to get my ctscans done. That went fairly fast; and it only took 10 minutes tops once I got in to have two scans done, one of my head and one of my sinuses. I should have the results in two days or so; I hope nothing is wrong. After that I managed to relax a bit, get some of my homework caught up and clean my room, then went to my linux class which is just awful. We're doing command line in linux, and not really anything important either. Copying? Making directories? Editing? Good lord, that's not linux! Luckily there's only 3 more classes left.. of course he does this really annoying thing where he TAKES OVER THE MONITORS with a switchbox, so I can't do crap. Luckily I had my Zodiac. After that I got some milk at Acme since we were out of it, and then came home, where I've been lounging and cleaning ever since. So I was digging today and found my 128MB Secure Digital card that I swore I had sold with my Tungsten T! I'm so happy I found it, that's $70 or so I can save. Of course, the card seems to be busted, but Lexar is issuing me a replacement - aren't they sweet? Speaking of that whole Tungsten T Fiasco, PayPal still wants the money for it back, and I'm going to have to pay them I think. A quick summary - I sold my Tungsten T to someone overseas, which isn't covered in PayPal's seller protection policy, and the person used someone's account and credit card to pay for it, and PayPal has decided I owe the money back, making me out of my Palm AND the money I got for it. Isn't that sweet? I've been trying to deal with it for months, but I got a collection notice in the mail today so I better pay it. They're cutting it down to $380, but still. Just one more bill to put on top of the others.. So I was bored on my way to class tonight right, so I decided to give Cingular a call to see why my cell phone service went from crappy to spectacular to craptacular. What do I mean? When I first switched to GSM in July I had no service at my house or at Mercer, and 2-3 bars everywhere else in the area (but full service in Oxford Valley Mall in PA and Palisades Center in NY, go figure). Last month all of a sudden service became great - 3 bars at my house almost all the time, full service around Staples and towards Rt 1, 4-5 bars at Mercer. It was amazing. And then all of a sudden last week I'm back to crap again. Cingular's response? "We had a tower down in your area so we struck up a temporary roaming agreement with one of our competitor's and your cell phone picked up on that tower as it was closer". Gee, thanks. I hope they get a tower up soon to fix this, because I have a feeling I know who that 'competitor' was - TMobile. And I will switch to them in a heartbeat. Why? They get the newest phones, they understand customers and what they want - $24.99 for unlimited data transfer! At Cingular its $24.99 for 10MB! wtf is that!? Also their customer support can help do stuff like SET UP PDA'S TO WORK WITH THE PHONE, instead of insisting that your phone does not have bluetooth and they can't help you even though it most definitely does, like Cingular did with me. Blah. Thank god for number portability which is going into effect in a week. Speaking of that, did you know you can transfer your landline phone # to a cell phone, and vice versa? Cute. So I came up with this great idea. Those of you who actually know me know me know that I'm a huge vinegar nut with my salads. Vinegar (no oil!!), lettuce, bacon, cheese, croutons, mm.. And I like all different kinds, and can tell you what restaurants have which and where is good. Red Wine, Gourmet Salad Dressing, Malt Vinegar, Apple Cidar, Balsamic Vinegar, etc. My thoughts were, what if I mixed up all of them and saw what came out? I definitely am going to try this :) My only concern is that I might up the acidity level to something intolerable, but it should be interesting nonetheless :) Well I probably should get to bed, tomorrow being Tuesday and a work day and all. I have class afterwards too, what fun. I need to continue to work on my hw, get my room & finances straight and stuff. Remind me to watch Double Jeopardy so I can send it back to Netflix, and remind me to post Kitten pictures of Leto attacking my printer, and remind me to look at my Palm for the other 10 things I need to do. I'm going to get a picture of that stinking Burger King tomorrow to show you guys and help me figure out what it is. And I need to buy Mario & Luigi and Two Towers Extended Edition. Best Buy on my lunch hour here I come! Ya know.. I look at my writings, and what I can do for school and stuff, and I start thinking that I really should attempt to write something again.. I just need an idea, but I bet I could right a story.. hmm..