So I decided to finally update my main live journal page. I figured it was about damn time. I hope it’s easier to read now.

You’d think they would clean up these things every once in a while.

Uncle Critus’ Farm!

My most heartfelt apologies to all of you who I slighted this evening, particularly jiltos and depotmode.

I simply quit.

The mental and physical exhaustion that I have been fighting for weeks now has finally caught up to me. I came home last night, ate a quick meal, and went to bed at 6:30. I had every intention of trying to get up to go dancing, and actually got out of bed around 3 AM. At this time, noticing that my cellular phone is decidedly void of messages, I reboot it. I am then inundated with a good 20 or so text messages.

I have decided that I am no longer using AIM on my phone. It screws things up too badly.

So anyway…for oversleeping…for not getting messages that were being sent until well after the fact…I apologize, and hope you can forgive the fact that I have just pushed myself too hard recently, and had to pay the price for it tonight.

I am absolutely and completely stuffed.

For the third day in a row I have had lunch purchased for me here at work. On Wednesday and Thursday we went to this nifty little place called the Brunchery. Had quiche and spinach salad on wednesday, and a turkey sandwich with cheddar on a croissant with a spinach salad yesterday. Today the head of the I.T. department bought everyone mexican food. Had some vegetable fajitas with refried beans and rice. That was about the best thing I could find, points wise, on the menu. I avoided getting into the tortilla chips, and I didn’t order anything with cheese and meat. There WAS sour cream and guacamole for my fajita toppings. Oh well. Can’t be perfect in everything.

Lots and lots of food. I ordered the lunch portion. I can’t imagine how much the dinner size is. I feel slightly nauseous.

The light headed sensations continue. Almost fell in the hall last night, and have been swimmy on and off all morning. If I don’t start feeling better I may back out of The Castle tonight. I hate to do it to you two weeks in a row, depotmode, but I’m not really sure how well loud music, dancing and huge clouds of cigarette smoke are going to mesh with me feeling all stupid. I have passed out there once before. I really don’t want to do it again.

Announcing the first ever Critus.com contest!

Ok, so first of all I can’t take credit for this idea. Emotion Eric thought of it first, and I’m stealing it.

I’m having a “Decorate My Desk” contest.

My probationary period is up in two weeks here. To celebrate, I want to totally deck out my workstation, but I don’t want to do all of that hard work myself. So I’m turning to you, faithful readers. Send (or give) me something nifty to put around my work station. There are a few rules to this contest, however :

1) Noting obscene or in any other way inappropriate for display in a credit union.
2) Don’t send anything too valuable. As of August 5th, I’m going to be working from home 3 days a week. Not much point in putting expensive stuff here.

The winner, chosen by yours truly, will recieve his or her very own Geekspotting T-Shirt!

Ok, so maybe this is a totally lame idea. I just can’t think of anything cool to put on my desk.

It was pointed out to me last night that I haven’t talked about my relationship with netgoth much outside of my friends only posts. As a result, my post last night about the flowers may have come as a bit of a surprise to those of you who don’t have a live journal.

So I shall elaborate. In fact, I’ll go into even more detail than I have behind closed doors. The posts haven’t been hidden because of my desire to hide her. They have just been part of larger posts that have included more personal subjects.

Long and smooshy text follows

Whoa…

Quite accurate. Ganked from dawaioser

You are emotional and intense. When involved in a relationship, you throw your entire being into it. Nothing stops you; there are no holds barred. You are all-consuming and crave someone who is equally passionate and intense. You believe in total sexual freedom. You are willing to try anything and everything. Your supply of sexual energy is inexhaustible. You also enjoy mothering your mate.

What does your name mean?

I’d like to thank those of you who helped netgoth send me the flowers today. It was truly a special gift, made more so by the fact that my friends helped it to come about. I took a picture of them so I could share.

Flowers!

Whew!

Boy, that’s a relief.

There was a boy…
A very strange enchanted boy.
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea,
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he.
And then one day,
A magic day, he passed my way.
And while we spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me,

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.”

– Nat King Cole