FB Acct Disabled Day 1: Status Updates

Since my Facebook account has been disabled, I thought I would revive this blog just to share the status updates that now regularly come to mind. I'll post every 24 hours.

January 10, 2010:

12:07am C. J. Alice Chuang has found the silver lining to the disabling of her Facebook account - opportunity to try Picasa and Flickr, more time to get through her borrowed West Wing DVDs, and ... well ... more time period.

1:08am C. J. Alice Chuang is still up exploring Picasa and creating a new "2009 Holidays" album despite having woken up at 7am. She is exhausted and will probably sleep late, very late.

4:00am C. J. Alice Chuang can't believe she's up playing Minesweeper. She loses Facebook and copes by reverting to being her 19-yr old self.

10:30am C. J. Alice Chuang is half-zombie on her way to Stacks for brunch with Fe, Be, Max & Sophie

10:55am C. J. Alice Chuang receives lame comment from Stacks manager about her Cal vest (to the effect of, "you're in the wrong neighborhood - if I'd known you were Cal I would have made you wait longer"), and she says something snippy back (although instead of saying something effective, like "this IS my neighborhood" or "Felix, whom you just called from our party, is from Stanford, but apparently too ashamed to show it," I said simply, "I live here," implying that this IS my neighborhood, but not actually saying it). We all sit and discover Minnie Mouse pancakes, which are Mickey Mouse pancakes with strawberry slices for a bow.

12:45pm C. J. Alice Chuang loves her new Angel iPhone cover from Max & Sophie! And she's getting back into bed now.

3:15pm C. J. Alice Chuang had the best nap ever!

3:45pm C. J. Alice Chuang is rooting for Aaron Rodgers, the current Packers and former Cal quarterback! That was one exciting drive!

3:55pm C. J. Alice Chuang thinks that's a shame the Cardinals scored again, even though she likes Kurt Warner, too. This was just becoming a really exciting game. One full quarter left, so still could be.

5:30pm C. J. Alice Chuang misses her 2009 Christmas tree already. It was perfection.

9:20pm C. J. Alice Chuang helped her parents set up their new Samsung phones.

9:53pm C. J. Alice Chuang hopes the nap didn't ruin her for falling asleep at a decent hour tonight.

10:35pm C. J. Alice Chuang has no Sunday night TV shows to watch. Thank goodness for TiVo and West Wing DVDs.

Vacation Alice

I always seem to possess superhuman strength starting the day before a vacation until a day or two before the end of the vacation. On Monday night, I stayed up until 5am packing, tightening up my itinerary for our trip to England, printing maps to match my itinerary, printing our boarding passes, etc. It didn't help that our desktop computer is really slow.

The maid arrived at 8:30am, and while I could have slept in a little more since our bedroom is always the last room she cleans, I needed to finish our packing before she got to our room so that she wouldn't have to navigate suitcases splayed open on the floor and piles of things that still need to go in the suitcase. So I got up.

I was completely finished packing by 10:30am, more than 8 hours before the flight, and I'm sure a record time for me. I'm usually a last minute girl. I could have taken a nap after the maid left, but I didn't. Instead, I proceeded to tidy up the clothes and knick-knacks that didn't make it into the suitcases, clear and charge the camera, clean up my TiVo line-up (this included watching some of my TiVo'd programming while I ate lunch so that I could delete it), toss food that wasn't going to make it through the week, pick up dry cleaning so that Mark would have pants to wear when we returned, turn off alarms, and otherwise get the house ready for our return.

Next thing I knew, I was off to the airport, we were on the plane, and I had gone 36 hours with only 3 hours of sleep. The flight wasn't the most comfortable (see Travel with Alice blog), and I only slept a few hours of the 11-hour flight. Luckily, the rest of the way to Bath was smooth. When we got to our B&B, it was 9am Wednesday morning in California, and I had slept less than 7 hours in 2 days. It seems hunger is more powerful than sleep, though, so after unpacking a bit, we ate, and I finally crashed a few hours later. It was 10pm Bath time (2pm back home).

You would think I would then sleep for at least 8 hours before waking up bright-eyed, but I found myself fully awake at 4am. I tried unsuccessfully for half an hour to go back to sleep, so I got online and wrote this blog. It's now 6:50am, and I've updated FB and both my blogs.

I can't wait for breakfast at 8am!