Meh.

It’s SciFi Friday, and I can’t stay interested in my usual TV line-up. It’s not that they shows are boring. I’m just mentally tired and can’t stay focused on the storyline. Lin fell asleep right after we watched Star Trek and ate dinner (pizza, finally).

I had an interesting trip to the store. I didn’t get the car out of the driveway until after 4 pm, and on a Friday, that’s insane. The traffic was already backed up for blocks. Interestingly, that meant the store was completely empty. While I think shopping on a late Friday afternoon is probably crazy … I saw two wrecks on my half mile drive home … it was nice not having to fight crowds of people to get to a check-out line. In fact, I walked right up to an available cashier. That almost never happens at that store.

Of course the whole paying for the groceries was painful. It just doesn’t matter how very little I put into the basket, the final tally just keeps getting higher. I bought so few groceries today I felt embarrassed using a large basket to push them out to the car. Even I could have carried them, had it not been for the unwieldy and heavy kitty litter.

One frozen pizza, two small cheap steaks, a pack of beer brats, 3 liters of Dr Pepper, one can of beans, a bag of lettuce, a box of cherry tomatoes, four small white potatoes, two avocados, a carton of mushrooms, eye drops, hair dye (with coupon only $3 for two boxes — the bargain of the day), coffee, two bags of $1 cookie, two boxes of cheap crackers, canned biscuits, canned cinnamon rolls, kitty litter and about four days worth of cat food … that’s it. It’s just about nothing. It cost almost $70. Prices have been going up lately like a rocket. It sucks. I see now why people eat so much fast food. For the same amount of money, Lin and I could eat fast food for a week, maybe more … for every meal. What I bought to day, added to the things I still had in the house will be doing good to get us through Monday, and we don’t generally eat three meals a day.

But hey … on the upside, there was an in store coupon and I got to buy hair dye for super cheap. I guess that means I’ll be dying my hair again soon. I was going to wash my hair tonight so I could do it tomorrow, but I don’t have the will power to stand in the shower and then deal with all that wet hair. What color, you ask? I couldn’t remember which color it was I did it last time, but I think it was plain Dark Brown. At any rate, whether that was it or not, that’s what it’s going to be this time. I wasn’t sure if it was Dark Brown or Brown Black, so I chose the lighter of the two colors … not that either of them could be considered “light”.

On top of being so tired and wanting to work on my web site but realizing there is no way my brain will engage on it … I mean, I can’t even concentrate on watching a TV program, for heaven’s sake … I think I may have caught a cold. Yesterday I was sneezing all the time, which I didn’t think anything of. I have days when I just sneeze all the time due to pollen or mold. It’s been really damp outside lately, so I chalked it up to allergies. Today I woke up with a slight cough, and it worked itself up to a nasty cough and tons of congestion. It could still be allergies, but I started taking my zinc cold tablets anyway just in case. Won’t hurt and might help.

I think I am going to go ahead and crawl into bed. It will take me no time at all to fall asleep, and I am afraid if I go sit on the couch and watch TV, that’s where I’ll fall asleep and regret it. My neck is already not happy with me for spending too many hours in a row sitting at the computer the last two days. I don’t want to make it worse by sleeping in some funky position on the couch.

I think I’ll go buy paints and canvas tomorrow. There’s this painting in my head that really wants out.