Paint me blue and call me gloomy
Sep. 30th, 2007 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raloriaYou ever have one of those days where you had it all planned out and then something happens, it takes over the entire day/evening and suddenly your whole weekend is shot? Yeah...welcome to my world.
Excuse me while I rant, bitch, and cry...
* After missing yet another program, we're going to return our recently bought DVD recorder (*coughPanasonic-crapcough*). While it produces great recordings, it's also been nothing but one giant headache, with missed recordings, error messages, and the machine freezing up at the worst possible times. Enough is enough! We'll get another Phillips DVD recorder like the one we just bought on Thursday. I set it up yesterday and so far it works great!
* Returning the machine means doing it today because our week is already all scheduled with my class and other appointments. *Sigh* Not what I had planned on doing at all this weekend....playing swap the machines. But we need the 2 machines up and ready by Thursday night because of our Survivor/Smallville/Supernatural triangle of recording/watching. Meanwhile, our CW station? Still up and working....thank God! That's the one bright spot right now.
* Still have reading to do for my classes...another thing that's not getting done because of the DVD recorders. Yeah...I know...warped priorities.
* Haven't even gotten to the capping I need to do for this coming week's picspams! Haven't done my DA picspam roundup yet, or a lot of other posts in the works. I had a bunch of things I wanted to post before the season started and all of sudden here we are only a few days away and none of them are done! After being off the computer for 2 days I find I'm woefully behind in all the SPN happenings on my Flist. I went back over 200 posts and I still couldn't get to everything. And I'm behind on my replies still/again!!! I was supposed to use Saturday to get caught up with them and I didn't have time to do any at all!!! I feel like bashing my head into a wall! What kind of a LJ friend would let replies get this far behind? It must be 3 or 4 months now. I royally suck and I don't blame any of you for leaving if you like.
* Still haven't been able to get a copy of the Supernatural S1 Companion book yet. It's so frustrating! Why don't the bookstores have it yet????
* I have the awful feeling we're not going to get any official S3 promo pics of the guys...which stinks. I was so looking forward to new pictures of them. But we got nada, nothing. *Sigh*
* I've got 4 more remaining S1 episodes to post picspams for and then I've gotta take a little break. I've been capping and posting caps almost non stop since February. I thought coming to the end of the DA picspams would relieve some of the pressure, but it hasn't. With S3 about to start in a few days (which means I'll be capping my recordings and typing out reviews) it's all becoming a bit too much to handle for right now. Having 2 classes doesn't help. I'm afraid I'm getting burned out. It's not that I don't enjoy capping and posting the picspams, it's just that it's so much work and to be doing it for so many months....I need to rest and regroup before I can do anymore. So I hope you all won't mind if I take a little capping vacation.
I'll still post some picspams, but it won't be my normal twice-weekly ones. They'll be small, mini-picspams, with maybe the occasional big picspam thrown in as a surprise. Once I get my bearings back I hope to cap Devour and maybe even S4 of Smallville before I resume capping SPN. I'll still be on LJ and keep up with posting as best I can, it's just the picspams that will be altered for a few months. I'll post more about this later, but I just wanted to give you all a little heads up.
Man! This is such a sad, sucky post. I'm depressed now. I'm stressed, I'm afraid I'm letting all of you down with my lack of replies and my taking a temporary break from my regular picspams. I love my Flist and I don't want to disappoint you. So many of you have been with me since the early days of my LJ and are so supportive of everything I do. I drink in your encouraging words of praise and I love you for all your comments, but right now I just feel so overwhelmed. I know I'm going to look back on this and feel stupid for even stressing out over all of this. After all, as so many people say, "it's not real life, it's just LJ...don't worry about it." But I do, because there's so many of you who love what I do here and I feel sort of responsible to keep providing for my fandom. I want to do it...the picspams...I do. But now...it's just becoming too heavy a weight. I've created a schedule I can't keep up with anymore. Dammit...I'm starting to cry now. I need to get some sleep. I'm tired and stressed out and emotional. And it's gloomy and raining outside....really fits my mood perfectly. Great! Now I'm rambling like some demented freak....I'll shut up now.
Excuse me while I rant, bitch, and cry...
* After missing yet another program, we're going to return our recently bought DVD recorder (*coughPanasonic-crapcough*). While it produces great recordings, it's also been nothing but one giant headache, with missed recordings, error messages, and the machine freezing up at the worst possible times. Enough is enough! We'll get another Phillips DVD recorder like the one we just bought on Thursday. I set it up yesterday and so far it works great!
* Returning the machine means doing it today because our week is already all scheduled with my class and other appointments. *Sigh* Not what I had planned on doing at all this weekend....playing swap the machines. But we need the 2 machines up and ready by Thursday night because of our Survivor/Smallville/Supernatural triangle of recording/watching. Meanwhile, our CW station? Still up and working....thank God! That's the one bright spot right now.
* Still have reading to do for my classes...another thing that's not getting done because of the DVD recorders. Yeah...I know...warped priorities.
* Haven't even gotten to the capping I need to do for this coming week's picspams! Haven't done my DA picspam roundup yet, or a lot of other posts in the works. I had a bunch of things I wanted to post before the season started and all of sudden here we are only a few days away and none of them are done! After being off the computer for 2 days I find I'm woefully behind in all the SPN happenings on my Flist. I went back over 200 posts and I still couldn't get to everything. And I'm behind on my replies still/again!!! I was supposed to use Saturday to get caught up with them and I didn't have time to do any at all!!! I feel like bashing my head into a wall! What kind of a LJ friend would let replies get this far behind? It must be 3 or 4 months now. I royally suck and I don't blame any of you for leaving if you like.
* Still haven't been able to get a copy of the Supernatural S1 Companion book yet. It's so frustrating! Why don't the bookstores have it yet????
* I have the awful feeling we're not going to get any official S3 promo pics of the guys...which stinks. I was so looking forward to new pictures of them. But we got nada, nothing. *Sigh*
* I've got 4 more remaining S1 episodes to post picspams for and then I've gotta take a little break. I've been capping and posting caps almost non stop since February. I thought coming to the end of the DA picspams would relieve some of the pressure, but it hasn't. With S3 about to start in a few days (which means I'll be capping my recordings and typing out reviews) it's all becoming a bit too much to handle for right now. Having 2 classes doesn't help. I'm afraid I'm getting burned out. It's not that I don't enjoy capping and posting the picspams, it's just that it's so much work and to be doing it for so many months....I need to rest and regroup before I can do anymore. So I hope you all won't mind if I take a little capping vacation.
I'll still post some picspams, but it won't be my normal twice-weekly ones. They'll be small, mini-picspams, with maybe the occasional big picspam thrown in as a surprise. Once I get my bearings back I hope to cap Devour and maybe even S4 of Smallville before I resume capping SPN. I'll still be on LJ and keep up with posting as best I can, it's just the picspams that will be altered for a few months. I'll post more about this later, but I just wanted to give you all a little heads up.
Man! This is such a sad, sucky post. I'm depressed now. I'm stressed, I'm afraid I'm letting all of you down with my lack of replies and my taking a temporary break from my regular picspams. I love my Flist and I don't want to disappoint you. So many of you have been with me since the early days of my LJ and are so supportive of everything I do. I drink in your encouraging words of praise and I love you for all your comments, but right now I just feel so overwhelmed. I know I'm going to look back on this and feel stupid for even stressing out over all of this. After all, as so many people say, "it's not real life, it's just LJ...don't worry about it." But I do, because there's so many of you who love what I do here and I feel sort of responsible to keep providing for my fandom. I want to do it...the picspams...I do. But now...it's just becoming too heavy a weight. I've created a schedule I can't keep up with anymore. Dammit...I'm starting to cry now. I need to get some sleep. I'm tired and stressed out and emotional. And it's gloomy and raining outside....really fits my mood perfectly. Great! Now I'm rambling like some demented freak....I'll shut up now.
