*serves up a steaming hot plate of blog posts for Ashwan*
I was talking about old computers with a friend, and he pointed me to the Home Computer Museum…it’s an interesting site. If you ever had some of these old computers, flashbacks are guaranteed :).
Today, I tried a new food. It was an Italian sub from Planet Sub. Pretty good…all nice and hot with a good pizza sauce and some parmesan cheese…mmmm :)
When I last talked to my boyfriend Saturday night, he said he wanted to see me today after I got out of class. Well, he left a message on my voicemail today which said that his work schedule had been changed and that he wouldn’t be able to make it. So, the mess continues. He’s supposedly going to call me some unspecified time, which I somewhat doubt will be any time soon, given his history of not calling me and instead letting me call him. I’m just tired of all the mixed signals I’ve been getting from him. He says that he really likes me and wants to spend time with me, but then after he was gone for two weeks, he didn’t want to see me. Also, I don’t really understand why his schedule would be changed without him having more notice about it. I guess he really can’t help that, but it’s still irritating that we can’t see each other yet, so I can’t talk to him about the things that are bothering me. Things in this relationship just aren’t quite right. It’s not just what happened on Saturday and today, it’s how he has been acting the whole time we’ve been seeing each other. He rarely makes any real plans to see me. Instead, he just says he wants to see me on a certain day but won’t specify a time or where he wants to meet. When he doesn’t make plans such as those, I’ll call him to see what he wants to do, and from the way he acts about making plans, it’s almost like he really doesn’t want to spend the time with me, like it’s too much trouble to set up simple arrangements such as a time and place to meet. Call me demanding, but all I want is something like, “Hey, let’s meet at 6 at my place.” Terribly pain-inducing stuff, that is :p. I’ve talked to a couple of my friends about all of this and got conflicting advice. One of my best friends seems to like the idea of me just yelling away at him, but I don’t think that would be the best idea :p. However, it is quite tempting to create a nice little debate, laying down my grievances and convincing him to change his behavior. The other friend says to just play it cool, basically ignoring the whole bit. I do think her idea of not calling him before he calls me is a good idea, but I don’t really like the idea of just ignoring the way he’s been acting towards me. I’ve learned the hard way that I can’t just ignore things that bother me about a relationship. It only turns today’s minor problems into tomorrow’s major problems. It will be hard to wait for him to call, because I really want to set up a date so I can see him and get this resolved. When/if I see him again, I’ll ask him to make plans for times and places to meet at least a day in advance, because that’s the major thing that’s bothering me here. Depending on how that goes, I might also try to figure out why he didn’t want to see me Saturday night, because I don’t think it was a matter of him just being too tired to see me. I kind of think that he thinks I really want to go out and do something every time we see each other, but that really doesn’t make much sense, because we usually just watch a movie at his place. Hmm…wonder how much money I could make by finding a surefire way to understand what goes on in a man’s head.
It’s one of those weeks. You know, the kind where all kinds of little things go wrong and it all adds up to one big thing. I’m so stressed out, my emotions are everywhere, and I really just don’t know what to do with myself right now. Part of me wants to go yell and scream and cry at my boyfriend. The one who said he missed me ever so much when he was gone. That one. Well, now he’s home again. But does he call me today? No. Did he ever make plans to do anything with me this weekend, even after saying that he wanted to? No. So I called him tonight, and guess what. He doesn’t want to see me tonight. At all. But, oh yeah, his friend and brother are over at his house tonight. Does this make any sense to you? Yeah, so there’s that. That, and I have this big term paper that I should work on, but I couldn’t concentrate to save my life right now. Also, I have a few tests next week, joy of all joys. My nephew is sick and has been on IV’s in the hospital for the past two days. But at least he’s getting better now and should go home tomorrow. Things between one of my best friends and I haven’t been great lately. She rarely calls me and we practically never do anything any more. She’s too busy to be bothered with me. Yeah, I know, you’re tired of hearing me whine by now, if you’re still reading this. So I’ll shut up now.
Meh, I’m tired of being stressed all the time. It’s not really anything big, just a lot of small things :p Hopefully, since it’s small things that are bothering me, I’ll be able to take care of them sooner rather than later. My boyfriend gets back home tomorrow, and we’re supposed to do something, so I think that will help a lot. It will be nice to get out of the house and away from the things I’m supposed to be doing right now :p That’s another thing, my procrastination. Gah. Too much to deal with right now. *Goes back to watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus*
Well, I haven’t been up to too much lately. Spring break is over, unfortunately. I worked this weekend, which really sucked. I had a nine-hour shift Saturday and a ten-hour shift Sunday, and I’m still tired. I got kinda sick last night, with a nasty headache and stomach pains, but I seem to be over it now. 24-hour flu, I guess. *shrugs* That’s the basics.
Finally heard from my boyfriend again last night and tonight :) He’s still out of state, but it will only be a few more days until he comes home. I hope he gets to come home early :) He said that he got me a present, and now I’m wondering what it is. I like surprises, but suspense kills me :p
I saw Starsky and Hutch Friday night with the oldest three of my four nieces. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as funny as I had hoped it would be, either. After that, we were bored and feeling silly so we cruised the strip. I know, I know, I’m waaaay too old for it, but they’re still in high school so ’tis all good. Saturday night, I saw Taking Lives with my cousin, who is one of my best friends. We thought it was fairly good. It got predictable at times, but I did like how they made sure all of the male leads looked somewhat similar so that you couldn’t quite be sure if it was them or someone else.
One of life’s little mysteries was solved for me today by a friend of mine. Have you ever seen The Lion King? If you have, you might remember the scene where Scar has Zazu stuck in some dead animal’s ribcage and forces him to sing a couple of songs. One of the songs is, “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.” You can hear Zazu singing three lines quite clearly: “Oh, I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts./There they are all standing in a row./Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head.” but when the hyenas begin to talk, you can’t understand what Scar sings as he finishes the next few lines to the song. This, of course, arouses curiousity in me. Every time I have watched that movie, I have tried to figure out what Scar was singing. I had always thought it was some sort of inside joke between the creators of the movie. Well, I saw a reference to that song somewhere on the Internet today, and of course I got the song stuck in my head (I’m strangely vulnerable to that :p). I then proceeded to sing it to my friend (well, sort of, we were talking through IM’s) and he started laughing. And then he finished the next few lines for me! Of course, I was surprised, since I thought it was just some little song that the people at Disney had created for that scene in the movie. Little did I know it’s an actual song! So, now that that puzzling little part of life has been solved, I wonder what is next. The answer to life, the universe, and everything? No, wait, that’s 42 ;)
Update: It was Zazu who speaks, making it so that you can’t understand what Scar is singing, and a link to the scene may be forthcoming.