3 posts tagged “tim”
I had a really hard time falling asleep last night. It's not due to stress or things on my mind or anything, I just don't do well sleeping alone. But when I'm lying there awake, I start thinking and obsessing.
First, I started worrying about being away from Tim when he moves to another city for a job. It's something we've talked about since the first week after we started dating, he's interviewed at a lot of places but now he's making a whole hearted effort. Because I'm finally ready to move too.
Then I started worrying that I won't be able to find a job compatible with my skills and qualifications in the new city.
After that, I started thinking about what I want to say to George Takei if I get to meet him.
Mostly randomass shit that really don't necessitate losing sleep over, plus it's not the best mental state to be strategizing.
Finally, I was asleep at 4am.
In other news, I had my year end performance review at work. It went really well, let's just say that I was nowhere near the firing squad during the layoffs.
I have some funny pictures that I found on the internet.
If you really love your mommy, I mean REALLY love her in the way that Walmart shoppers love their mother:
And if you need to talk to Jesus, like, right now:
Tim and I just got back from a week long trip to NJ and NY to see our friends and my family. It was good times. It was cloudy most days, we got rained on while trying to find my friend's apartment in Brooklyn, but it was neither hot nor cold. We took the subway and train everywhere, ate really well for not a lot of money, went to some pretty places like the beach and pond on Long Island where my parents live and Princeton where Tim's friend is finishing his post doc. My parents really like Tim, and Tim feels similarly about my folks. My parents treated us to amazing sushi at Kotobuki, it was also bountiful, the tray in the pictures is as big as a wagon wheel. It was listed on the menu as "sushi for 3", but the four of us could barely finish it. The soy sauce bottle and people in the background are provided for size reference. Here are the before and after pictures:
And a picture of Tim making sexy time with the Princeton Tiger:
And the requisite "awww we're so cute" picture, Tim picked the daisy for me from my parents' garden:
Finally I can talk about this.
In the beginning of 2007, Tim's cell phone started to die. Die as in some connection is loose in the display, so on any given day, the display could look fine, or be totally wacky & psychedelic or not working at all. Ernest generously donated his Sony-Ericsson T610 for this cause, it is a kick ass phone with a simple and clean interface and lots of features. I got Tim a charger for Valentine's day, that's when the trouble started.
Tim hadn't gotten around to changing his service over from the old phone to the new phone, so the new phone was locked. It was on, but the only thing you can do is make 911 calls, and you can't access any of the features of the phone, not even to turn the phone off. There was a daily alarm set on the phone. It wasn't a problem before the phone was charged, but once the phone was charged (and the clock in the phone is wrong), the alarm would go off in the middle of the night, usually 2:30 am, causing relationship issues because Tim sleeps like a log. He is extremely unhappy being woken up by me (not by the phone) in the middle of the night and does/says unpleasant things that he doesn't recall in the morning.
The solution we found was to take the battery out until Tim activates the phone, which he keeps in his backpack just in case he comes across an open Cingular store (which is a saga onto itself, apparently the people who work at Cingular stores like to take lunch breaks that last all day). However, the battery somehow always finds its way back into the phone and installs itself, so Tim's backpack would just start beeping and ringing at the most random times. It was really starting to creep us out, we had to put the battery and the phone in separate compartments so it wouldn't keep doing that.
Tim finally activated the phone today. No more phones rising from the dead in the middle of the night.
