too much idle time

since i stopped teaching more than two years ago, i seldom left the house. more so because of the handicapping side-effects of my medications. if i am not lightheaded, my head feels heavy that i have to lie down; if i am not dizzy, my acidic and gassy stomach starts bothering me. or my heart starts racing. or all of them punishing me at the same time.

i think i already have a phobia of leaving the house by myself; or of simply being in the house by myself. i know i put up a conscious effort to fight it. i always try to find an excuse to leave the house especially if it's sunny outside. but 85% of the time, after setting an hour to get dressed and go, i watch helplessly as the clock hours advance, morning becoming noon, noon becoming late noon and finally, late noon becoming evening when i finally give up and just make a promise to myself to go out the next day.

today, my excuse was buying my multivitamins and haircolor.

and i thought, wouldn't it be good if i had those coupons for centrum silver and loving care? i know i have a few for the latter but i didn't feel like looking for them. besides, aren't there online coupons??

i searched and i found the centrum website. i signed up and presto! i was being rewarded with a dollar coupon. i just needed to print it. except i did the search in the outside computer .... which was not connected to a printer.

oh, no!

i am not one who loves having anything, particularly time and effort, wasted; and since i have allowed them to invade my privacy by signing in, i had to find a way to claim my reward. but how do i move what is on the outside screen to the computer in our bedroom which was connected to a printer? i really am not a computer-savvy person. even learning to operate a washing machine took me some time.

and my husband is asleep (he works nights). no one to ask.

i did what i thought best. i copied the address from the ??? is that the tool bar?? boy, it was a million characters long but i meticulously copied each letter, symbol and number and typed it on the ??? on the other pc. voila, it opened the centrum page ... except i had to install something which was on the previous page, etc., etc. i went outside and clicked on the previous page and copied the address on the ??? it was shorter. i typed it on the other computer. my heart leaped in the anticipation of success. ha, you didn't get me! i got the centrum page again but this time it stated something like the installer directions would only appear if i was doing it for the first time.

in short, i didn't get my coupon.

and since it was already 4pm, i thought it was too late to go out. anyway, it was cold and windy according to my daughter who called.

so i searched for my blog site, yes, search, since i forgot what the website was .... after all, i didn't write anything for some time. just to convince myself ...

hey, you did something productive today!!!