Passing the time...

Wow, third day in a row. Am I gonna get fired or what? I'm not on the internet much at work anyway, but I think that's mainly because there's nothing to look at with the filter. And I miss having the internet at home. It's freeing in a way not to, on accounts of it being free, and it not being available as a time-suck, but sometimes you need to quickly check something before you invariably forget it.

I ordered some old school typewriter ribbon yesterday. Kind of a frivolous expenditure at the moment, but I couldn't help myself. Now that there are some warm days mixed in there, I suddenly have the desire to sit on my porch and click clack away on my typewriter. Might print off some pictures next week as well. Definitely going to clean out my closet and back room, if I have to drag my space heater in there with me. Those two spots are the black holes for the heat in my house. I'm feeling productive and optimistic on this my last day of this week of work.

Went to some garden shop today. Getting excited to re-do my backyard. I want to zero scape it with plants indigenous to Utah, thus a deserty feel. And I want one of those outdoor stoves, which maybe some sort of seating arrangements around it(rocks/stumps/chairs/I don't know). The stoves that look kind of like a bong, for lack of a better descriptive term. Or the glass piece on an old-timey fuel burning lamp/lantern, circa 1910's? And of course a garden elevated along the walls; I'm thinking with railroad ties separating it from the yard. My sister has a similar thing going on. I want a garden so bad, and the foods within.

I also went to go donate plasma today, because if I can sit and get paid while reading, as opposed to sit and not get paid to be reading, I'm in. Unfortunately they didn't seem to care that I could really use that money. I got turned away for having a systolic of 98 instead of 100. It's always been low. It's just what I get for being athletic and having good genetics. And now I guess if the first time it's low, they make you sit perfectly still for 5 minutes until they take it again. Is it any wonder it came out lower the second time? They used to make you do jumping jacks or something before taking it again. I naturally tend to bounce my leg at all time, so that sucked. I hate that they lowered prices and apparently are more stringent on certain things. Having gone to school for what I do, I can tell you, letting me bounce my leg would not have been cheating in a way that would endanger me when donating. Also, if employees are on the floor sticking people with needles, and they are openly talking about how they routinely let people come in to donate who they can tell are high or on meth, I think I should be good too. That was frustrating. I got to work too early. Back to the positive note I was maintaining before all of that though...I'm now back to med tech wages, after mastering my test. I get back-paid from the 5th, which couldn't come at a better time.

Now I'm just wondering how I'm going to get through the next 9 hours...