Mildly sick, with a stuffy nose and sore throat and the occasional cough. Not quite to the point of popping Halls like they're candy, but that may come in a little while. Yesterday presented some chills and a mild headache, as well as hypersensitivity, but nothing close to an upset stomach, so it's not near what I had two years ago.
If I don't end up with an apprenticeship (because there's always the chance I'll be told "You're too old" again, which is really a complete crock, but whatever) I think I'm going to look seriously at car sales. I'm good at selling, I'm good at making people think they're getting a deal (or just plain giving people a good deal without compromising the bottom line) and I tend to put people at ease in a sales environment.
That's part of what's killing me with the grocery job. There is no sales, and no real interaction with customers aside from "do you have such and such fruit/vegetable?" It's driving me nuts. Sure I like hard work, but it's tedious, and in some locations in the prep room ("kitchen") it's supremely uncomfortable due to counter height and the repetetive reaching to the back of a 3 foot surface. (Awkward sentence, but I don't care.)
In other news...
My cell phone dropped off the kitchen table, hit the floor, and promtpy shut itself off for good despite being fully charged. I even plugged it back in to the charger and everything, but no such luck. So I have a new phone that is trying to be delivered (first attempt was yesterday around 6, and nobody was here). It's a Motorola V180, which isn't too bad. I doubt it'll be as good as the one it's replacing, because I don't think any phones these days have analog reception, just digital (which the old one had, making it handy for long distance drives through the U.S.). It may or may not have MP3 capability, but that's not really a concern for me, given that my iriver T30 is working fantastically (even after it fell out of my pocket and the lanyard got caught in my blades, dragging it for about thirty feet). It's got picture and I think video capability as well, which is kinda cool, but also not a huge deal to me, though I might end up taking a bunch of pictures with it, just because I don't have a working camera of any sort right now (which is driving me NUTS). Actually, it doesn't have a camera. I should have looked it up again before going on and on about it :P
Thanksgiving was low-key but enjoyable, some good eats and then lounging around.
B is all moved in, and despite some serious fuckups on the part of UHaul, it went as smoothly as possible, and we were done everything by about 10:00 or so on the Sunday. There are still some boxes around, waiting to be unpacked or (in the case of my TV box) waiting to find a home that is out of the way. To compensate for the lack of bass from the tiny tv speakers, I've got it hooked up to the amplifier that has been sitting on my desk since I moved in, and I've got the big wood speakers (that my dad may or may not have built) hooked up to that, so the sound quality is pretty good now, given that they're a pair of single 25 watt cones. The size of the box and the fiberglass insulation in the back works pretty well to give a decent rumble, and the amp has reasonable bass and treble adjustment. (For all the hearing impairment, I'm surprisingly sound sensitive :P)
I think I'm going to go close the balcony door. It's raining, a little windy, and 9 Celsius out, which is a little chilly when one is not wearing socks and not moving around.
