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This past week has been pretty crazy. Well, crazy for me. On Monday night, I got comp tickets to see Viva Elvis, which I did with my pal M. He’s moving home to Florida at the end of the month. ‘Twas a good thing he was free that night. I’ll prolly never see him again.
I enjoyed the show, only because I love Elvis. However, it might’ve played better in Vegas if this was twenty years ago. Watching it reminded me that no one like him represents Vegas anymore. Vegas is such a corporate town, the fact that Cirque de Soleil produced the show notwithstanding, or the fact that I work in that atmosphere here. If Viva Elvis was playing at another hotel, it might’ve made sense. But seeing the nostalgia of the show, and then experiencing the cold, unfeeling post-modern vibe of CityCenter didn’t mesh well to me. Another show should be in Aria’s showroom, not Viva Elvis. An abstract Cirque show, not a fun, breezy retrospective like Elvis.
Wednesday night, I went to a special “cliffhanger” screening of Toy Story 3. I got to see the first 70 minutes. I felt out of place, only because I was the only goon looking like I just got off of work. Which I was. lol. I cannot wait to see the ending! It was really fun and cute, and has in-jokes to the previous two movies. All the promo posters they’ve been releasing? You won’t believe who the bad guys are…. no spoilers! Las Vegas Movie Insider was one of the local groups that sponsored it, and they offered free premiere tickets for attending the screening! Yay! Since I have to miss the Hollywood premiere for my pal Corinne’s grad, this makes up for it. A little. 
And starting last night, my sister and nieces moved out of the house. Finally. I’m psyched she’s gone, only because I don’t have to deal with her attitude anymore. It wasn’t fun for the last few months they were here. I had a feeling something was going down, because they weren’t talking. They interrupted Criminal Minds to tell me. Mom was miffed that they didn’t give us a month’s notice, because if they felt like they were renters, that’s what should have been done. Dad asked her “are you financially stable?” And she snipped back at him, “Don’t worry about it.” So that sealed the deal that he doesn’t want Mom to send her money if she asks. But Mom is the kind of parent who will give if she has it to give.
I hope she doesn’t ask for money though. She chose to leave. Our parents went through bankruptcy to keep this house so that she and the girls would have a place to live. Maybe it was hard living here, but living in a house goes both ways. Everyone does their share, right? Well, they didn’t. The house was always a mess. Crumbs, empty glasses, shoes and clothes everywhere. I tried to keep the kitchen straightened up, as well as our bathroom. But it’s tiring after a hard day at work to nag people into helping out. Did she ever tell the girls to clean up? No. It was rude living with people like that. Must be nice to have everything picked up after you.
Friday was payday. So I went and bought some essential things at Target. I was so excited to go shopping, I forgot a TON of stuff that I swore I wouldn’t forget, haha. I had to go shopping again today to get all the stuff I missed. Then my dad told me stuff HE needed, so now I gotta go shopping again! Not complaining…. okay, maybe a little. haha.
They moved most of the major furniture out with help from her coworkers this morning. All that’s left are the girls’ computer desks, and little things. The house is so empty! My voice echoes in their rooms. It’s crazy to me.
I can’t wait for Monday now because I’m going to Home Depot to buy paint. Like I’ve been verbal diarrhea’ing all over Twitter and Facebook, I’m going to make the girls’ old room into a game room/office. I’m gonna move my TV and computer desk in there. The walls are gonna look like a scene from New Super Mario Bros Wii. I found these decals on ThinkGeek, and the customer action shots inspired me to do it the same way. It’s prolly not gonna be as elaborate as some of the action shots, but I definitely want the walls to be sky blue. 
I reallly want the mushroom tower deals with the polka dots? But the expense might be too much for me.
Of course with them moving out, it does change my plans considerably. It looks like I won’t be moving out anytime soon, only because it doesn’t makes sense anymore. A big part of me moving out was to get away from her and the girls. Now that they’re gone, the only people I need to worry about are my dad, my mom (when she’s here), and my dog. It sort of does dampen my spirits but I also felt a great weight being lifted off my shoulders when she told me. Finally I have more space to call my own, you know? I’m commandeering their old rooms for my projects, haha. I’m dying for them to finish moving their crap out so I can do everything I’ve planned!
With all this drama – good & bad – this week, I woke up feeling like world-class crap. My muscles were sore all over. I don’t know how people can do stuff after they get off of work. All I want to do is unwind. I had to push myself to go do these things (i.e. Viva Elvis, Toy Story 3, shopping). I don’t know if it’s because I’m out of shape or what, but if I do anything after work, I spend the next few days in pain. I went into work and was so not into it. My co-lead got sent home early because she had surgery the day before and came in with her face still puffy. My supervisor took pity on me and sent me home too. He’s fair like that. If he had said no like he had been saying all week, I would’ve stayed but he said, “Go” and I went.
I took some Tylenol, went to Target to pick up a few more things, and then I bought Del Taco for me and Dad for lunch. After I put everything away, I curled up in bed and took a lovely three hour nap. Was up and about for the Criminal Minds Saturday night marathon on A&E. Definitely ready to take on my Friday (Sunday to you normal folks, lol) with a big smile on my face. Not only ’cause it’s my Friday but ’cause I’m not as hurty all over.
I also saved my dad’s life tonight, haha. He asked that I put either HBO or Showtime on our cable line to watch boxing. That’s been his Friday/Saturday night staple for years. You just know when it’s 8 o’clock, it’s Friday Night Fights and you don’t bother Daddy. Anyways, it turns out the cable guy gave us free HBO for a month. Cool beans. Bad beans? When we entered the channel, the TV started parental controlling us. “Channel is blocked because the rating is too high,” blah blah blah, “enter your passcode below to unblock the channel” blah blah blah. Dad was flipping out. He kept doing this angry grunt whenever we tried to change the channel. It got me all flustered, I had to tell him to chill every time he did it. We called Cox but I deduced very quickly that it wasn’t a cable problem but a TV problem.
After finagling with it for a bit, i.e. a hard reset, punching in random passcodes, going as far as calling Ate to see if she set up a passcode or whatever, I consulted the manual. Turns out a simple keystroke could unlock it. So I did it and it worked! I was able to reset the passcode and shut the damn parental control completely off. Dad was so proud, he’s all, “you’re a Pacheco!” and gave me a hug and kiss. I think he was glad he didn’t have to figure it out on his own. He has bad eyesight. So him consulting manuals is a big to-do, lemme tell ya. And when he gets frustrated, it’s not pretty. But I knew if I kept plugging away, we’d find an answer. He was so thrilled he wanted to call my mom and tell her, haha. 
Less than two weeks ’til grad! I was so busy doing stuff that I haven’t called the office yet to see if they accepted my in-progress class at BYU. I was pulling into my driveway when I realized I hadn’t called them. *headdesk* I’m gonna be soooo pissed if they reject it. I called them to make sure the class would transfer. I KNOW they got the paperwork in time. But I want confirmation that I’m on that list. I have people coming in from out of town. I’m gonna feel like an ass if I’m not on the list. Plus I wanna buy my cap and gown already.
That’s my week so far. I should get some sleep. I hate how dependent I am on naps. /lazy
?: “Are taking naps easy for you?“
The less that can be said about me, the better.
I don’t take naps unless I literally can’t function and that happens rarely, so I find it hard to take naps.
I’m always afraid I won’t be able to sleep on time if I take a nap, which happens.
I’m glad all your drama is outta the way and you can concentrate on your new projects! You’ll have to post some pics of your new game room.
I’m a big fan of naps. But only within the last couple of years or so. I think naps work for me because I work so late in the day.
I will definitely share pictures. But there’s so much I have to do first!