Askye, if you move to Asheville, you may have some or all of the NCistas inviting themselves to visit. IJS. Asheville is gorgeous and seriously awesome. I miss being able to visit Asheville (and think about moving there) more than my hometown. Nearby Black Mountain is a hotbed of lit'ry sorts, and has been for just about a century. Poets, novelists, more artists and artisans than you can shake a stick at, plus craftsmen in every medium imaginable, and from every culture, immigrants and Natives alike. If I could take NC weather, I'd move to Asheville in a heartbeat.

The family lives about an hour away from Asheville but that's still fairly close.

When I was a kid my grandparents would rent a house near Ashville and summer up there or most of the summer. I visited there and went to summer camp there for 2 years. I have good memories of the area.

I think....well I have a lot to think about and I need to sleep and go to work and deal with that.

Also think I'm getting a cold because I've felt cold all day and I'm sniffling and feel kinda achy.

This struck me as a perfectly Buffista thing - technology, Legos, chocolate.

That's great, Toddson!

And, on a seasonal note, The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow.

I'd sent this to the poor boy in my office who had never heard of Dune ... I suppose it confused him no end ....

Oh, god, I could die laughing at that. Also, I made pumpkin spice pancakes with pecans for breakfast on Sunday. Fortunately, it didn't involve those worm things.

hmmm ... perhaps if you spiked your latte with tequila (or whatever it is that comes with a worm in the bottle)

mescal

Guys I'm having a very bad day.

I'm being pressured to finish a project at work but not given enough time. It's just revising a stupid Word doc but it was set up by someone who didn't know what he was doing so there a a ton of stupid graphical and typographical idiocycracies that take time to unravel so I can get to the actual info that has to be revived. I've been secretly bringing it home to work on because at work I keep getting interrupted.

I'm supposed to block out time to work on it, but that doesn't stop everyone from asking me questions. I actually tried this afternoon only to have the time swallowed up by "can you work on this right now? and Can you answer my question right now, even though I could ask it at any other time?"

So I was stressed to begin with. so I sent the file to myself at home again and left. I went to buy some groceries that I forgot to put on my weekend list and when I get to the checkout my card is rejected. I don't have a backup and no cash. So I had to leave the groceries.

I had a panic attack on the way home. I get home and check my account and it is overdrawn and I have just barely enough in my savings to cover the big check that is freezing the account.

Now I have no saving and I'm not sure if my next paycheck is this week or not. I am running into having my hours cut and my expenses exceeding my capacity.

I just don't even know what to do now. I have one credit card that I could use but that will make those payments go up. and my car needs work and I have medical bills to pay and on and on and on.

I just needed to vent. I see my Psych. on Thursday and I hope she can help me to control the stress cause I know a meltdown won't help anything.

I think I need hair pats, maybe.