Hooplah.Org A Story of Graceful Stumbles

Procrastination, Accomplishing Distractions

I'm not sure why I haven't been updating. I've been slacking in general. Last week I waited until Friday to do my assignments, and put off doing the reading for my programming design class until sometime this week... which only means I have 2 chapters to read and digest before Sunday, as well as my usual 2 chapters from my other class. Wee.

While I was not doing what I was supposed to be, I managed to transfer nearly 300 of the 700 pictures for the upcoming return of my photolog. I've also been playing a great deal of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, and am actually trying to unlock all of the other parks - something I never had the patience to do before in my 5 years of owning the game. I've also managed to create yet another layout. I had been craving something springy when I made this one, and while it satisfied that urge, my pursuit to have a stunningly simple layout keeps eating at me. I really think I have a "winner" in the works... and I hope I can make myself keep it up for as long as possible. Ironically, I recently took a blog personality test, and I had scoffed at the results which said I "will change the format of blogging or design frequently to keep it interesting and different." Guess it's turning out to be more true than I thought. Oddly enough, I long for the times when I kept the same layout up for almost a full year... back when I was wanting to be more like I am now.

In terms of news, nothing really has happened. Though, on the 5th we got a new front door installed. This house is about 40 years old (yikes!), and my parents have plans to replace the kitchen door and all of the windows as well due to them being unsightly and no longer fitting well in their frames. My father swears up and down that getting the doors and windows replaced will help keep the house cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. And I'm sure that there's plenty of cold air and heat that seeps in through the large spaces in the windows and door cracks, but I'd personally rather see the AC/Heating system fixed so that it works properly first. My parents always seem to have a way of focusing on things in the wrong order... or, they focus on the things they can fix with a credit card, like how their new Lowes card has made this all possible. Either way, it will be nice for the house to look better from the adjustments, both inside and out.

My parents have swung into vacation obsession. My father actually came into the kitchen the other day, modeling his old bathing suites and asking my mother which ones she thought still fit him well enough. Once he had chosen the ones to take, he asked if there was a suite case set out to put them in... when at the time, there was still another two weeks until the reservations. He's also been trying to do sit ups and tons of walks, trying to lose a little weight before the trip (side note: my father was complaining the other day about his stomach still being a little bit "lumpy," despite him having a hernia surgery only a few months ago to fix that. Goodness, I wonder why it's coming back, when as soon as the skin had grown back together he let the cats jump up on him while laying down and they did that kneading thing right were the incision was. Multiple times a day it happens, too. It's what caused the hernia to be so bad before, and it's going to cause it to come back. And he never pushes the cats off... ever. The only time he doesn't let them is when he's eating. Ugh... him and how he interacts with animals pisses me off so much. But, must get back to what I was saying, I'm just upsetting myself...) My mother has also been fussing about putting together 3 perfect outfits for the time there, which is why she did a mini shopping spree at Dollar General. There's also been talk of my parents paying for an extra night while we are there, but I don't think they can afford it. While I got it at $99/night through expedia, the rooms were $140+ through the hotel's own site, and they were much higher on Wednesday through Saturday in general from both places. My father said it would be between staying another night at Myrtle Beach or getting the back door replaced... course, my father was thrilled when the front door was done. Kept going on and on about... he really seemed to think it was the coolest thing in the world. Personally though, I'd rather stay another night at Myrtle Beach. Doors just don't thrill me that much

Well, I must get back to doing other things to waste my time. Hopefully I can convince myself to do some of my homework tomorrow instead of waiting until Friday like last time. Nerf no self discipline.