Sunday snowy Sunday

Just checked the weather map, and it's supposed to start snowing any minute now. What a weekend I've had so far, and it's only half over.

Friday night, Kerry and I spent several hours on the computer going BACK over what music she had been planning to send me, all thanks to her dear husband. She sent me a few cd's worth of music, then we both went to bed. Once I receive music from Kerry, I use a feature of MusicMatch that allows me to convert (compress) the file down to 128 kbps to make the file smaller. For some reason most of the songs on Kerry's computer are at 160 kbps. The higher the kbps, the larger the file, the more room it takes up on my computer. Supposedly you lose some quality the more you compress, but I've listened to songs before converting and after, and I haven't noticed any difference in quality.

Yesterday I was going to convert all the files Kerry sent me on Friday night. I was part way through, but it was taking so long because my From Kerry file was getting pretty full. So part way through, I start making subfiles in From Kerry, one for each artist. That ended up taking all day and all night, but only because I got distracted doing something else, lmao. I thoroughly enjoyed the chat in msn yesterday with everyone. And I finally got all the subfiles made, songs converted and moved to the appropriate file. The only ones I didn't move are the ones I have just one or two songs for an artist, the oddball ones I don't know if I'll ever have more songs by them, like Tebey.

About 7:30pm last night, I also decided I was going to call this guy Paul who was "matched" for me by this dating service I joined (see post from Monday Feb 27). He answered his phone, lo and behold he knew nothing about our "match." Apparently he hadn't opened his mail for the last couple of days and didn't know there was a match waiting to be contacted, lol. He was at his mom's visiting for a bit, he said he'd call me back later. So later, about 9:00 or so, the phone rings, it's him calling me back. We talked for about an hour. Very nice conversation, we talked a lot about bad drivers here in Chicago, and family stuff. Apparently we talked his whole drive home from his mom's. He lives in Streamwood, which is only about 15 miles north of me. Unfortunately, we ended the conversation not confirming if he would be calling me back so we could arrange to meet. I'm not so good at this stuff, lol.

Then I had the craziest dream last night. Too much stuff going to get into details, but I was at some guy's house who I had been "matched" up with, and after being there for several hours waiting to spend some time with him (he kept doing other things like talking on the phone, or talking to a friend/relative), as I was leaving I asked if he was going to call me, and he said he didn't feel anything for me, and I hope that's ok. LMAO, maybe just my fears coming through in my dream??

Today, I'm going to see a movie, Ultraviolet. Not sure if it will be good or not, I'll let ya know, lol.

Monday's Suck!

Sorry, today started out bad, and never got much better, lol. First, I overslept for work, ugh! I didn't get to work until 9:20, so I had to make up my time, and stay till 5:20. Right before I woke up, I was having this very strange dream. It started out I was at Texas Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys play. It was the last home game before they tore it down to build a new one. Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys was there, and there was some ceremony after the game. Oh yeah, the Cowboys played the Philadelphia Eagles, and they crushed them, all in my dream, lmao. So Texas Stadium is an open roof stadium. There is no roof, so if it rains, the stadium gets wet, if it snows, there's snow on the field. During this cermony with Jerry Jones, he was supposedly "closing the roof," which is impossible in real life. And the "hole" in the roof was about the size of two skylights. That's a heck of a lot smaller than the REAL hole in the roof of Texas Stadium.

Next thing I know, I'm in some high school gymnasium, either before or after a basketball game (I think). Not sure what that was about, but then I'm in a grocery store walking down an aisle. I didn't buy anything, don't even know why I was there. Then I woke up, lmao.

Needless to say, I felt like I was rushing all morning due to being late to work. And of course, tonight has flown by because I got home so much later than I usually do. Listening to a stream as I type this, I'm enjoying relaxing before heading to bed. Continuing with the lyrics to songs from the Ryan Shupe cd, the next song is Rain Falls Down:

I knew down deep inside that something wasn't right
Enough to grip my heart and wake me in the night
But the weather looked so good in the morning
That I failed to heed the flash flood warning

And the rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella again
The rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella
The rain falls down
The rain falls down

The first flash blinded me and caught me by surprise
Until the repercussion hit and opened up my eyes
Sometimes lightning strikes without rhyme or reason
And when it rains it pours in monsoon season

And the rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella again
The rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella
The rain falls down
The rain falls down

Sometimes the knife runs deeper than the blade
Sometimes the bed's still messy when it's made
When Cinderella found the writer had appended
What did she do when the fairy tale had ended

And the rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella again
The rain falls down
And I'm standing here
With no umbrella
The rain falls down
The rain falls down