The beginning of the week is pretty much the same as always other than sleeping a lot during the day. That is due to watching movies, surfing the web, reading and looking at crystals during my free time into the night and finishing in the ungodly hours of the morning. Oops.
While a lot of movies I watched were animations, there was one really funky one in Russian. It was called “The Cat Who Walked By Herself” from the year 1988. I cannot tell if I wasted a good amount of my life watching that or not. It was interesting, boring, mythic and bizarre. It was mainly clay-mation/stop motion, but I think it could have been better in traditional ink on cels.
Anyway, the unusual is for Thursday onward. Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, as known. We are not truly celebrating it. We will be doing that this weekend. Thursday we were to have a semblance of a Thanksgiving dinner, I suppose. The plans of meeting my mom during noon were cancelled due to some sort of “abuse of privilege” on such gatherings due to an unproven excuse of people bring their whole family in opposition to their immediate. Oh, well. I slept until two in the afternoon anyway since I could not sleep the night before and finally fell asleep around six in the morning.
The day continued as normal. My mom came home around five or so and took her dog out walking. My dad started cooking a small Thanksgiving dinner and we all ate around six-something. My brother ate in his room and watched House, MD. My dad ate in the living room and watched football. Mom and I ate together and watched various shows. I left for bed after that. Sleeping was something not to occur.
My computer has been “glitching” on me. While on the Internet the screen would suddenly fuzz up a bit or look like a checker board of white and screen. Sometimes i could move my mouse, but that was of little use since clicking on anything resulted in nothing. Then the entire computer would shut down and restart. It happens between long spaced hours, but it is still troublesome. Sometimes it would go into safe mode and the screen would be chopped up with white horizontal lines and rather reminded me of window blinds. Simply put, reading anything was out of the question.
I asked my dad for his input and eventually took off the side o my computer’s tower to clean it out and check the fan. Everything seems to be okay, but I am an amateur. It still shuts down on me at times. I talked to my mom and dad about it and wondered about getting a new computer for myself. It will be hard since I’m a Medicaid/unable to work person… but from calculations, if I spend my usual on rent and groceries and on nothing else… I could likely get a computer that is in the range of 500-600…
Well… I slept on it.
Friday was spent like a Saturday. My dad cleaned the floors and other chores he’d usually do on Saturday. My dad surprised me by getting me an external hard drive while he was out earlier. I had talked to him the night before about my thoughts of buying myself one while we were out. Well, he surprised me. I eventually told him I’d consider it my birthday present, thus don’t get me anything come that day. After that, I did my chores and we eventually went to the grocery store.
When we got back and put everything up, I worked on hooking the hard drive to my computer and going through its instructions. Halfway through my mom beckons me to go with her to a crafts store. We need flowers to put on her parents’ grave and baby her brother’s gave. I left the hard drive stuff to my dad and I helped my mom pick out fake flowers, pots and whatnot.
After that I became dizzy since I hadn’t eaten for about six hours. My mom needed to make one more stop though, so we parked it at Super S and got a few groceries she forgot to put on the list. We came home and I dug into some left over mash potatoes from the night before. I checked on the hard drive my dad finished installing for me and then helped him arrange the flowers into the pots. He did the one for my grandparents and I did the one for my mother’s brother who never got to grow up. Mom thought they turned out nicely.
After all of that I took a nap around two. I woke up again around five and my mom beckons me out to go to dinner with her and my brother. We ate at Chili’s. My father didn’t go for reasons I’m unaware of. Well, we ate, talked and all that jazz. My brother heard my issues with my computer and mentioned places for me to look into. When we got back, I looked into them. I’ve also thought of my sister having an old laptop.
Tomorrow we’ll be having the official Thanksgiving meal at the house of my mom’s cousin. On the way we will stop by to visit my sister since she won’t join us due to her hatred towards my eldest brother. I’m thinking of asking her about it when we see her.
Well, the night ended in my mom calling me to watch some shows with her and now I am here. Whoo.