Drinking a Diet Pepsi. Thinking about how I wish I didn't comit to a catering job today. I feel even more jet-lagged today than yesterday. Okay, now I'm remembering how freakin' expensive beer and food was in Japan. Must get ready for work. :rolleyes:

Laughing at Gn2.

Realizing that GD and I had the "screenname for our future child" talk years ago. We are a bunch of dorks.

Now realizing that I really like the name Leota. But of course I'd never put that curse on a child. Perhaps a pet.

Wondering if, after all this talk, people now think I'm pregnant. I'm not! :p

Looking forward to the meet on Sunday.

You mean you two haven't considered a Dismaying Observation?

I could have sworn I sensed a Disquieting Metamorphosis.

Have we frightened you prematurely?

Leota isn't such a bad name - after all Mme. Leota WAS named after a real person.

I'm sitting here having MY first coffee of the day and getting ready to enter the latest good news into my Livejournal - I weighed in this morning.

Send me a PM if you're not on my Friends list already in LJ and I'll add you, so you can view it !

...sitting here, waiting for laundry to be ready for the dryer, drinking a diet Dr Pepper (love am/pm having ddp in their fountain)...also waiting for the daily invasion of the monkeys (while wishing for a monkey-free day).

Still tired, still grumpy and now my throat hurts. What a crappy Friday:(

Yeah, so was Kermit. Some names just don't work anymore.

I'm reading on the road while I wait for things to finish installing so I can run some tests.

I just found out I have a reprieve from invading monkeys!!!! The only monkey I will have today is my own!! YEAH!!!!!!

What...you won't post good news here?

He just wants to suck more people into the eeeevil world of LiveJournals. It is beginning to consume me...it's eeeevil I tells ya! :p

I know nothing about LiveJournal. I cannot imagine wanting to post a journal for others to read. Nor can I imagine really wanting to read someone else's journal. If I write in a journal (I haven't lately--unhappiness & journals seem to go hand in hand for me), it's for me. Speaking of which, I have some journals I should probably destroy.

An evil journal bonfire sounds like fun. :D

Oh, I don't know if they're evil.

...Wondering what I did to deserve the lone monkey having a total hissy/melt down over a freakin' Pokemon game. Smart monkey, when I asked what game he was playing he knew my intentions immediatly...temporary bye-bye to the game.

I mostly use my Live Journal to keep in touch with distant friends. It's easier than writing letters, a sadly dead art form but one at which I suck. They post what they've been up to and I read it at my leisure. And I post what I've been up to. And post silly things like "what intentional tort are you?" (Which is much funnier to me than it needs to be.) You know you want toread it ... you can't resist.

Oh, no prob, whatever you want to call them is cool. ;) Me, I love the poignant past too much to banish my frustrated/depressed/horrified writings permanently. Reading them is actually very cathartic, as it teaches me that no matter how bad you think things are, you'll eventually get over it and move on.

So no book burnings for me. :)

The thing about Live Journal is that it's such a misnomer - think of it rather as a blog - your place to essay about the world, your life, and the people in it.

Those hard copy journals can't be electronic becasue they just are not cumbustible. That is where you hide your scandelous secrets that friends and family only discover after you are dead (or careless and happen to leave it out somewhere). Everyone should have one - or at least some scandelous secret to conceal somewhere.;)

I'm listening to some swanky flippin tunes right now.. Oh, I wish you could all listen with me...

Can you share your playlist ;)

Mamma Pallor and Daddy Delight.

I think that would be so cute.
:)

You think with enough peer pressure we can talk them into it? ;)

I see a black baby stroller with bat wings on the side...
:D

Gomez: He has my father's eyes.
Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
:D

That's a gay porn screen name if I ever heard one.

Totally. :snap:

OMG, Gomez and Morticia? Craziness! I love how our names make people think we're all gothy. :)

Peer pressure ain't gonna work, cats and kittens. We'll have our little Dismaying Observation and Disquieting Metamorphosis when we're good and ready. So there. :p

Comments like this usually make Mother Nature wield her power to show you it happens when SHE wants it to!

:D

Lol! 'Tis true.

Ditto!

HAHAHA!!

See what trouble you have brought upon yourself, GD? LOLOL

I hate my computer!! For the past 2 days I couldn't get on the internet :mad: . I'm at my bf's house, so I have alot of catching up to do.

I need a new computer ASAP!!!

You're at your BF's house and the first thing you want to do is use the internet ??

I hope you 'caught up' with him first.... :D :p ;)

:eek: :eek: He's at the gym!!!

Not the easiest place to 'catch up' with him, I'll admit. :blush:

PS: For those brave enough, my Livejournal's Here :p

:p

I have walking (and at times unfortunatly) talking proof of that.

Hehehehehe.... Join ussssssssssss........:coffee:

I can't . . . I have to go work out now . . .

Waking up and thinking about how cruel I am to myself to pick up a job that requires me to wake up this early to drive down to San Clemente.

Not that I wouldn't have been up this early for any other workday, but dammit, this is my day off (kinda) -- ARGH!

My office has a 'no gossip rule' in the books. How boring is that?!
:D

Lol! How in the hell do they enforce that? I'm glad I'm a hairdresser- I get paid to gossip!;)*


*(Truthfully, I prefer to argue religion and politics. Less dangerous.)

I wish mine did...it would make life a lot easier.

...I have been suspended for 2 weeks, stopped off at my fav hangout, feeling a bit numb and have no large motor skills right now, currently sitting in a monkey free home, enjoying the silence.

I am so unfocused today. I can't seem to get anything accomplished. I feel like a slow motion pinpall bouncing from room to room. Maybe I should just roll with it and quit fighting it.

Mousey Girl~ Suspended?

Suspended? Is this good or bad?

Oh hell...here's some hugs just in case!!!!!!!!

Oh...we don't have a hug smilie....here just have one of these :cheers: :cheers: and then these will appear :birdy: :birdy: and all will be well!!!!

just got home from work and shopping for valentines day for the wifey..... :D

Suspended, both good and bad...no pay, but 2 weeks off...but I am getting my annual Team Preformance Award in 2 weeks and that will more than make up for any loss of pay.

as for the monkey-free home, I spoke too soon, I now have 3 monkeys, eating chips, drinking Capri Sun and playing video games.

Monkeys are going home at 5 so the Lone Monkey and I can go to din din (well, he will eat, I will drink).

Well, here's to that! :cheers: :cheers: Have a maaahvelous suspension, Dahling! :birdy:

Thanky!!!! I am feeling very Swanky!!!

(ok so I hit my drinky place before I picked up The Lone Monkey)

The extra monkeys are on their way out the front door!!! Time for more tastey beverages!!

Sooo...

I have no idea what to get my bf for V-day?

I'm looking online for some ideas, hopefully I will find something before Monday night.

Well, when you figure it out, let me know! I'm at a loss as well....


We just got back from Blockbuster...where the clerk tried to talk me into getting "Notebook" which I know I want to get..but I'm pretty sure my children don't want to watch...well Kat might like it..she likes those kind of movies!


We ended up with "Mr 3000" and "First Daughter"...

I've got cookies in the oven and it's raining outside...I'm actually thinking of making homemade hot chocolate as well!!!!

getting ready to start my vacation by putting "vampire red" hair dye in

I went to Blockbuster too :D

We rented "Shall we Dance" (for my mom :rolleyes: ) & "The Grudge".

I still wanna see Mr 3000, Baileykat is it good?

Well so am I...... ;)


My significant other has decided upon hearing on the radio the insane amounts of money spent on this "Valentine's Day" that he is now boycotting the holiday. I insist that he is cheap. Yet he promises me that he wants us to have a non Valentine's holiday two weeks from the 14th with a special surprise for me. I still think he is just cheap.

I fell asleep halfway thru! But Kat watched it all...I think she liked it...


The Grudge was good...

Tonight she and I are going to the Drive In...we still have one here...they show 8 different pictures a night...It's always a double feature and kids are free...Adults are only $5......We're going to see "Hitch" then I think staying for "Racing Stripes".

Wanna share? My hair is currently normal & boring.

Finally...
 

Scrooge is doing the happy dance all around the office.

I finally found those cool dice plates Alton Brown uses on Good Eats. I've been looking for them forever. They've been unavailable except for serious coin on ebay, but Restoration Hardware has started making them again.

:snap: :snap:

Next swanky cocktail party, watch out!

:cheers:

yeah, i saw those there a fwe months back.. theyve got a whole section dedicated to off the wall dice/poker stuff, those included, they also have a nice set of things to go with them too! very cool!

I ordered 2 sets. :cool:

I mean, what if I get a chip in one set? ;)

I suggest you buy yourself lingerie...

So, I'm at home - Happy to be here after a bouncy flight. Chicago was fun, but it's so good to be home, back sipping coffee (Peets!) catching up on LoT and everything else, wondering what we'll do today, but enjoying the lazyness of the moment.

There's no place like home! :)

I think we will be spending the day at home and calling the plumber. :mad:

That didn't sound good! :(

We're home after our usual Saturday Drive All Over Town Fest! Bailey has a sleep over tonight at a friends house, John is out of town...so it's just me and Kat tonight....

We're going to throw on comfy clothes, throw some blankets in the car, pack a picnic and head to the drive-in to see "Hitch". Girl time! :)

So, was that too much coffee?

Never too much coffee!

But, old houses have plumbing problems. Anyways, a plumber just showed up! After several calls, I found one on-call. He was supposed to call first, but he didn't, he just showed up. I'm not complaining.

So you weren't in the middle of something this time? And if not, why the hell not?? ;)

[quote=Baileykat]Bailey has a sleep over tonight at a friends house...QUOTE]

I think it's an epidemic!! My Bailey has a Valentines Sleepover party tonight!! :)

Let's see. Back last night. Tapped out anyone? ;)

P'shaw, he's only good for one night? You need a backup. If only you had, like, 4 or 5 husbands...

Steal Water-Wiggle of Death

Never realized the insane deadly power of a plumbers snake unfurled and on the loose. I hope our satelite still works. We never cared too much for that awning anyway.

I'm beat.

Interesting weekend though...

Wiped.

Beat.

:snap:

(But I got some awesome jewelry!)

Well, I could call on them if I really wanted too. But, I like mine.

Pardon me, everyone, but I need to vent:


ARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I frikking hate financial entities, my credit union in particular. I just came home to find my stupid credit union has charged my account about $150.00 in fees for debit purchases, etc- even though I had plenty in there to cover it. What's worse, they note that I have money in there, and have deducted the fees and purchase charges, but say I have no available funds. (Actually, the recording says I have a specific amount in my balance, but no available funds.) The only thing I can think of was an insurance check we deposited last week is screwing things up, even though the funds were listed as immediately available. The insurance comapany is clueless, and I know I can get it straightened out on monday, but in the interim I can't use my account. I am so pissed.....:mad:Why do these things always happen on a saturday, when you can't do anything about it until the next business day?:rolleyes:

Look on the bright side, at least it happened THIS weekend and not next...you'd be SOL for Presidents' Day sales.

Currently watching "Cry Baby" on the telly. I wish that was me singing "Please Mr. Jailor." Sigh.

You're one of them glass is half full kind of guys, aren't you?;)

Give me the pillow!

OK, THIS is a story I'm dying to hear!!!

in 100% agreement

Rotfl!!!!!!!

"Steel Water-Wiggle of Death".

:D:snap::D

(Sorry for finding humor in your plumbing woes, €uro! I'll write of my karmic payback as soon as it happens....)

Of course on of the most amusing things is discovering that a Francophile-Plumber is reading my LJ.

It's aaaaall about the beret.

Karmic retribution was swift today. I just got a call from the parent of one of The Girl's friends, inviting us to Chuck E. Cheese's this afternoon. That will make it twice this week- I really hate winter.

TWICE in a WEEK? There oughta be a law.

The owner knows me by name. Isn't that sad?

It's too cold for the kids to run around outside, so our choices are limited. They could come over here, but I don't feel like cleaning the house just to have them mess it up again.:rolleyes:

I wish I can go to Chuck.E.Cheese's:(

But sadly I'm too old and I don't have any kids.


My bf is at work and once again I'm by myself. I have no idea what to make for dinner? and nothing is on tv. I'm sooo bored!!!

The Grammy's are on! And Los Lonely Boys just won for best something or the other...I didn't see the category....Love them! Since they are from San Angelo, Texas which is not far from where we moved from!

I'm stalling from finishing Kat's room...She's putting together her "gift bags" for Valentines Day....Why my children, well just my daughter, have to be such complicated gifters I'll never know!!!! She has like three different Hershey kisses, Hershey hearts, suckers, rings, stretchy dinosaurs, sweet tarts...they barely fit in the bags!!!

Bellah, you missed out on a wall-to-wall kiddo mosh-pit. Seriously! I've never seen the place so crowded- The Girl even wanted to leave. We stayed, mostly because by the time her friends showed up we'd finally managed to secure a table.

They have the best pizza.

Grammy's? Maybe.....

I'm rearranging my Blockbuster Queue...I have three movies to mail back tomorrow. I've lined up "Napolean Dynamite" and "Garden State". Any recommendations?

I am watching Grease, getting ready to turn off the 'puter and tv in favor of a good (well I hope it is good) book.

Yesterday I read 3rd Degree by James Patterson. Tonight it looks like it will be a Deen Koontz book. Tomorrow it will be Angles & Demons.

I am planning a lot of cleaning and organizing type things for my 2 weeks...Should be interesting to see how I can avoid doing any of them.

I've been online so long that I forgot to watch the Surreal Life 3 and Strange love.

I think it will be on again later tonight, I hope.

I watched SL 3... changed to Grease about 1/2 way through Strange Love. Could only take so much 'Gite.

It's on again at 11, so I'm taping it. And If Strange Love gets to wacky, I'll just fast forward it.

2 mins left!!

I really am gonna turn off the tv, but it is blasphomy to turn off Grease.

.... I'm waking up, reading the boards (as usual), thinking about things, what I have to do today. Thinking about my first cup of coffee, but drinking a cranberry juice.

... Realizing that last night I was joking about coming close to three-hundred posts, when in reality, it is something a little more like 350.

... Wishing I had taken the day off anyway.

... Glad she had a fun weekend, despite the not so fun parts of it. It's good when things end on a high note!

I woke up at 4:30am for no reason, after having gone to bed at midnight. After the prereq half-hour of trying to sleep, I got up. :mad:

Soooooo glad I have a half day today. I'm totally napping later on.

too bad there is no STUNNED emoticon...

glad it all got worked out, sounded like an ordeal and a half...



FOR TODAY -

I am up and about, its 7:50 and I will be headed into my office in about an hour, ah the perks of a job like mine..

anyhow, looks to be a slow day at work today, took care of the stuff I had been thinking about over the weekend already, knocked some good stuff off my TODO list last night...

oh well, heres to an interesting day at work and hopefully a peaceful valentines day evening.... :cheers:

:eek: <----- ahem

shush you... i didnt look that closely :p

I'm doing what I do best...procrastination!


Should be cleaning the kitchen, taking a shower, cleaning Kat's room...but I'm here instead!

Bailey is home sick today...he sounds like a toad! He has a nasty chest cold...which means he's fine..til he talks, sneezes or coughs..then he sounds like, well, a toad! So he's in bed playing Lord of The Rings on PS2...

Hubby's on his way home from being in Phoenix for a week...we're doing taxes today..which is always fun because we always get a refund!

Then I'm at school for Valentines Parties..being the room mom is SUCH :rolleyes: fun!

At work, cleaned up my laptop of any "non-standard" software, only to discover my Company has finally discovered and shut down my access to webmail. Ok, I guess these guys really want me sending my personal stuff over their network - sigh - it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to work for the department that is supposed to be responsible for championing these initiatives.

In the meantime it appears everyone took the day off - a bittersweet stiuation which give me a chance to lazily catch up after my week in Chicago, but makes me feel bored and unmotivated at the same time. There is so much I'd rather be doing right now.

Oh well, time to draft a new to-do list I guess...

After a few days of feeling winter blah-like, I'm feeling good and motivated today. :)

I have folded a load of clothes and washed another that needs to go in the dryer now. I'm baking an Apple Crisp that should be done in a about 20 minutes. I will then get in the shower and go out to do a bunch of errands; grocery store, bank, library returns, etc. I'll see if my husband wants to go to his fave Mexican restaurant for a late lunch, if not, I'll get take out. Oh, maybe I'll pick up a Banana Cream Pie too (sounds unswanky, but I promise you, it is swank in moderation) at Baker's Square...a little V-Day treat.

A bike ride later might be necessary if it's not raining.

I hate it when I do that- it always seems to happen when I have to be up early, and have a really busy day going. Here's some wake-up stuff::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:!

I am going in to do battle with my credit union- try and figure out how they'll blame this latest snafu on us. They used to be very reputable, but they started getting rid of long term employees several years ago, in favor of cheaper (and stupider) labor. It shows in their service, and all the weird account mix-ups we've been having.:rolleyes:

Next, I'm probably going to be bank- shopping.

Eric has to work late, so I may just put the lavish dinner I had planned on hold until tomorrow- crab just isn't as good re-heated.

Oh, and it's 'exfoliate the house' day- the animals are all shedding up a storm, and there is a disgusting layer of fur over nearly everything!

dont you love that? every week or so for us, with 2 cats and a dog.... Fun times, lemme tell you.

Lol- we have three cats, two dogs, four birds and a fish. I love them all, but the fur really gets to me. I have to vacuum (or I should) daily just to keep ahead of it.

I'm enjoying the fact that things are finally working properly here in my test environment at work. These last couple of weeks have been fraught with annoying little roadblocks to getting any actual work done. But I seem to have finally worked all the gremlins out. Plus, my department has finished a complete rework of our documentation procedures, which has just made my job a lot nicer since it's now clearly defined what I'm doing. Things had been kindof aimless for a while, it's nice to actually have some results and somewhere to record them for once.

I'm also drinking a cup of tea, having stayed at Disneyland until closing last night.

tell me about it, those 3 animals of ours are in a 710 sq ft condo!

Thankfully we just got tile floors in our living room/dining room / kitchen, so we can sweep and swifter that pretty easily, but the pain is the bedroom carpet and the bed... the cats sleep on the bed, and never leave, except for the litter box and to eat, so needless to say, we have cat sand all over the place... also, our vaccuum is broken :( and we need a new one...

I'm sitting here at work. Last night, I had every intention of recording my podcast early and getting to bed at a reasonable hour, except I got sucked in to watching the stupid Grammys. I have no idea why I'm so fascinated with awards shows, especially when I have no real interest in the nominees (I think our household currently has a grand total of 4 CDs from this year's batch of nominees). I wound up pulling out my microphone at about 1:30 am and wound up going to bed at about 3:30.

Three hours later, I was downing my first cup of coffee and walking the chihuahuas (that's not a euphemism for anything sordid - we actually have two chihuahuas). Then I waiting for my lovely wife to listen to the MousePod, because I wanted to see her reaction to my Valentine's dedication to her.

Finally made it into work. Absolutely exhausted and not ready to deal. Many of the other people in the office carry guns. Monday is not a good place to be around so many guns.

...I am doing what I do best, housework avoidance. I did manage to get all of the dishes caught up first thing this morning. Now I need to be working on the living room.

Since it is too busy to go out tonight I am using my crockpot for spagetti sauce. I think I prefer the stovetop for this. In the next hour or so I will get my garlic butter cooking for the bread.

The Lone Monkey is aware that I am off so he is expecting me to pick him up at 3. I think I am gonna make him sweat it out until 3:30. I may take him to Coldstone for icecream as a VD treat (plus I want good icecream). Or I may put that off until tomorrow.

The other Monkeys are home from their dad's house so by 5 I should have a housefull. *sigh* It was such a quiet weekend...

Update:

I got all tanked up on coffee, then called the credit union. The gal there started giving me the standard speil "I'm sorry, but it's our policy..." and I interrupted her and said "You will take off those charges and free up my funds..." So, she did.:D Actually, she claimed she was going to anyway before I said anything, but she just wanted me to know that inter- bank transfers...blah, blah, blah. I thanked her, and told her I wasn't in the mood for a lecture. I am going to send a ty note, though, simply because it's rare these days when you can accomplish anything by phone, and so quickly.

So, then we went shopping. Well, first to Denny's, then shopping. I think the Girl is growing up, because she wanted technology rather than toys, namely a AM/FM Radio/Alarm Clock/CD player. She also got a pack of Pokemon cards, so there is still some kid in there....

I am in my Visual Basic class again, and zzzzz.. :coffee:

I just had a brownie. I'd forgotten how much I like brownies.

Downloading the new MousePod. Wondering what to do for dinner. Annoyed that VDay is a Monday night and we already celebrated it this weekend.

In contracts class. A case about a cow. Yee-haw. Wondering how I'm going to drive myself all the way home without falling asleep.

I just got done feeding my Monkeys and then walking them home. I ate to much sketti so the walk did my tummy good.

It is nice and quiet with my Lone Monkey (and its dad).

So far nadda for VD, but then I told him before not to worry about it. He wants lovies but I told him that my actually cooking was all the present he was gonna get :evil: .

Planning an Amtrak trip to Chicago for the next government holiday 3 day weekend. I've never reserved a sleeper compartment on a train, so that will be something new and fun I hope. I'm bummed that the Monets will still be in Vegas during that time, but I can't wait to see the Thorne Rooms again and a lot more of the Institute. I have to see Wright's home and studio on this trip. NOT NEGOTIABLE.

Awesome! I would love to do that.

Aladdin is on the Disney channel right now. :) Flipping between that and the Dog Show.

for the next 24 hours.......sleep - coffee - class - study - lunch - class - return any phone calls from class/study time period - dinner - meeting - sleep.

What ever happened to dog and pony shows? I want ponies!
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Just got home from rehearsal. Oy. Every show I've done has its stories, this one's got some doozies and it hasn't even opened. Sat. night/Sun. morning, 1:30 AM, the angel's flying rig failed and I had an actress fall 15 feet to the stage. She's okay, but she shouldn't be. EMTs came, she went to the hospital, people freaked out, including me. My immediate thought was that somehow I'd forgotten to hook her to the rig. It was weird how in my panic I had absolutely no recollection of the preceding 10 minutes. Fortunately, another actor was up there with me, and, together, we were able to piece together the sequence of events. I knew, by the time I went to bed at 5:30 AM, that I had done everything correctly, and had a theory about what went wrong. By that time, we had received phone calls from the hospital and knew that she was a little bruised, but otherwise just fine. I mean, if you saw what I saw, you'd know this borders on the miraculous. Tonight I had a chance to look at the rig and the harness, and very easily see how the really stupidly designed hook was able to slip itself off when a little slack was on the line. They'll be making some changes, or they'll be looking for a new stage manager. I'm so grateful she's okay, if a little stiff. I was absolutely terrified that I'd somehow caused someone to be killed or seriously injured. I love theatre and I love my friends but I didn't know that there could be a combination of the two that would make me feel like I wanted to die. I'm better now, she's opening in the show on Friday, and I know what went wrong.
On the plus side - I was able to get them to use Pete Renaday for a recorded bit in the show. Makes my heart swell with pride, it does.

Goodnight.

I'm currently considering never using the phrase, "off the hook" again.

Seriously considering going and disrupting a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight to protest a Sacramento couple who have hung an American soldier uniform in effigy along with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died" on their home.

Apparently, there are a bunch of angry "America lovers" who wish to deny other Americans their basic constitutional rights. Loving America around here means blindly supporting the government and being pro-war, I guess. One bitch has even gone so far as to ask the cops to investigate the effigy as a hate crime. I'd like to go and open up some "dialogue" with these people.

:(

STC, most of what I've seen you post recently is angry stuff against Bush and the war. I myself am rather unhappy with all of that, but seeing only your mad side is making me sad.
:( :( :(

Be happy, Sac! It's the 50th, we have a successful new board filled with wonderful people, and life is good, at least on the micro side of things. Have one of these. :cheers: :)

I'm currently planning my evening, which I have all to myself:)

I'm thinking yummy dinner, glass or 2 of wine:cheers: & DVDs. Maybe a magazine. Can't wait!:)

The train will be fantastic! We've taken it to Seattle from LA and it was a wonderful experience. And, you're going to CHICAGO!!!!!

I adore that city. There is so much to do, see, eat and play with. FLW's house is incredible - do the guided tour and be in awe of the Ginko tree. Take the walking tour of the neighbourhood, too, it is incredibly rich in history and visual pleasures.

It may be too cold, but if you get a change, take one of the architecture riverboat tours. Simply a wonderful! Also, if the Jackie Kennedy exhibition is still at the Field, go see it. I loved it and it really gave me a new appreciation for the early 60's - and fashion.

Oh gosh......food. Chris and I have been making our way through the swankiest and most delicious restaurants in Chicago. Our hobby is not cheap, but it is oh so well worth it. Ask either one of us if you want recommendations.

I could go on and on about this City. It is really in my top 5 cities of the world.

I'm studying the board's code, trying to learn just what I need to do to tweak the next hack I plan on installing to make it swankier than it already is...

I think you should go and have a candlelight vigil for the people who have the uniform up. Signs "Bush lied thousands died", "exercising the 1st ammendment is patroitic", "support our troops, bring them home".

Signed,
an anti-war protest veteran.

I am getting ready to take my Monkeys to Cub Scouts. I switch off with the mother of 2 of my Monkeys. It is my turn this week. She and I talked today, the middle Monkey has been trying to play us lately so we have agreed to talk before agreeing to any of his plans.

just got home from work *ugh* 7pm....

seeing what is happening tonight, Erin has girls night, so shes gone to a friends house in 30 minutes, i think ill put on a movie or some TV, browse the boards, and finish my cleaning that I started late last night....

Oh, and open a good bottle of cabarnet savignon... ;)

Cooking: Steak, Dungeness crab and steamed fresh veggies. It was supposed to be artichokes, but the ones at the store looked sickly, so I passed. Belated VD day meal.:D

Where is it at? Downtown?

"Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden..."

~ Jill Scott

Plus everything else that Not Afraid said - also, about one or two El stops away is Wicker Park (Damen) which is the "Melrose" of Chicago - lots of cool, swanky shops and eateries - Cafe Absinthe was awsome, and if you like shoes (or even if you don't) check out Fluvogs - coolest shoes ever.

I now have an extreme case of the Heebie Jeebies... As I sat at the computer, trying to control a hyper rat, something moved into my vision. It was a big icky spider. I jumped and squashed it. As I moved in for the kill the thing was tracking me. EWWWWWWWWWWW!

Now, if I could just calm the hyper rat down I might stop EWWWWW'ng.

Land Park.


I didn't go.....Crystal says I'm not stable enough to behave myself in these types of emotionally charged situations. I'm unstable? Look who was crazy enough to marry me. :eek:

Thanks NA and €uroMeinke! I just may be hitting you up for more detailed info as we get closer to go date.

Smart wife you have. ::hugs:: I would have gone down there and gave them an example of exactally how patriotic an anti-war person can be. It's probably for the best that you didn't go down. I still think you should have a candlelight vigil for the couple with the uniform and all the people who have died over there.

I'm doing something I haven't done in weeks! Goofing off at work! Sure, there's a load of stuff I should be doing....but right now I'm not doing any of it! And peole keep walking in and out of my office, seeing me doing absolutely nothing, and I don't care! Ah, good times....

I'm just sitting here, staring at my Motley Crue tickets!

Thinking I have the best Mom in the whole world since she bought them for me!

Now I just have to make it til March 19th! Whooo hooo! :D

My dice plates came in!!!

They're gonna be perfect as appetizer plates. Hmmm, might be time to learn to make clams casino.

I just love those plates, Sam! It's fun how just one or two unique items can make a "look".

I'm getting there. I never realized it would be so hard, really. Slinging things around in an apartment is one thing, decorating a house is a whole something else entirely. Yeah, I cliched out and went leather in the great room and now I'm slowly digging my way out of mancave slash pub with a few fabrics, pillows (GASP), art and incidentals. I'm having a blast. It's fun, and most importantly, it's MINE!!!

Pillows, table coverings and curtains play an amazing role in softening furniture and making a original statement.

So, tell me if I'm crazy. I want a course silk floor length drapery and valance set over dark matchstick blinds. I'm thinking a wide vertical stripe or possibly different colored panels shirred together. I need the shade in the windows on the west side in the afternoons, and I like the shadow potential with the matchsticks. I also like play of the fine silk against the almost primitive blinds. Too much? My best bud says, yeah, go for it. My lunch ladies are divided. What say you?

Oh, today..

I have been on this kick lately: Taking long drawn baths in the afternoon. I swear, nothing has been as luxurious as taking a deep soak before going on with the rest of my day. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though I do go to class on that day, and do computer lab work (mostly goofing off on the boards as opposed to real efficiency), are sort of like vacation days to me. I get a chance to really pamper myself. So I soak.

Today, as I was washing my hair in the tub, I let the warm water coming from the tap rush over my head. And then I realized; I found a tiny slice of nirvana. So I blissed out under that tap for a while, as the steamy water enveloped the rest of me. OH YEAH!

I did eventually turn off the faucet, but ended up losing track of time anyway. After 50 minutes of listening to jazz, reading a book, and nearly total immersion... It dawned on me that I should probably leave...

Here's hoping everyone got to be as blissed out as I was at some point today...

:cheers:

I immediately pictured dupioni silk in one of the rich color/drapes available over a bamboo blind. That was after 20 seconds of thinking, so idea are not fully flushed - and are incluenced by my own projects.

I just bought a piece of bronze/gold/red dupioni silk with embroidered bees on it in the Garmet District. I will be making a valance over a 6' wide dining room window and replacing the metal blinds with wood. I also bought a remnant of dupioni silk for a runner for my buffet which sits below the window.

Tell me how I knew I was talking to the right person ;)

Dupioni? That's the stuff, I believe. I had a blazer a few years back of something similar in a pearly white and gray.

http://www.bridalfabric.com/images/dupioni.htm

I'm loving a pale yellow and gold combo, with narrower stripes of red between.

Wow. That is so impressive. I don't have the decorating gene at all. I can pick out nice-looking furniture and stuff, but taking it to the next level is just not my thing. You're gonna show us pictures, right, so I can be pea-green with envy? :)

That sounds amazing ~ I felt relaxed just reading about it:)

I'm staying late working. It's not so bad. This is CP's late night anyway, I've got a lot that needs to get done before the weekend here at work, I came in a little late this morning, and took a long lunch with CP. So this is hardly torture. It's actually kind of nice to be here in the lab as people trickle out and it gets emptier and emptier. Far less need to have my fingers hovering over "Alt-tab" while I read the board. :evil:

:eek:

You did NOT just tell me that. On Mondays and Wednesdays I do have enough time for such a thing....I'm in so much trouble now. :evil:

I love a long hot bath. It's going to be hard to not succumb to temptation!

LOL

Alt-Tab? Drawing a blank here. Yeah, have no idea what you're talking about ;)

Or the ultimate emergency, Windows key-D. I've got so many systems going that I'm on a KVM switch, so I can often just switch over to another system view.

I have time on Monday's!

We could start a club....Afternoon Bathers!

Sounds so decadent! It's usually late morning when I make it to the shower anyway...I might just have to change that to LONG dreamy bath, with wine, candles...of course this might not be a good idea for afternoon baths... :rolleyes:

Today I finally broke down and called the Arizona DMV to get the costs of registering our vehicles here...We've been here since July...I guess it's about time! :rolleyes:

HOLY FREAKIN COW! It's triple what I paid in Texas for my suburban and my husbands car! $300 bucks for both cars! I asked the girl on the phone if this was a one time registration...Nope! Every year...OH..but it depreciates every year at 2%! Ahhhh!

I know California pays more...but this was a shock for me! It's a good thing I'm getting a hefty tax refund! Geesh!

I need :cheers: !

The Lone Monkey just read me his library book. He wanted to read it to me last night but with CS we ran out of time. This is the first book he brought home in a while (other than his weekly reading assignment). He was so pleased with it. I collect mice and he found a book about Owen the mouse. He did a really good job too!!

Right now I am drinking a glass of Sprite, thinking about turning it into a Margarita cooler, and he is making a book about the girls. So far he has the title page: Twitch and Sniff by Nick and Carin and is drawing pictures on the cover.

Hubby (aka Father of the Monkey) is off checking on a friend who left his wife today.

Yes! That's the fabric! This lucious fabric also comes in a few patterns of stripes and these awsome colors that flash to another color depending on the light. I have been in love with this fabris for a while now and can't wait to work with it. Now, (Sheila) the goal is to actually do the sewing.

That... I can help with. :) I sewed a lot of my own clothes when I was a teen. I was so stylin' with my Betsey Johnson outfits and palazzo pants. I've still kept the BJ patterns because they still look really fashionable!

As for what I'm doing right now? I just finished "not watching" American Idol. Because to watch trash television, well, that would be just *wrong*. :cough:

Do I get any make-up points from the fact that the pup just liberated my prized Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Coney Island of the Mind" book from the bookshelf and customized it for me? I'm going to kill that dog....

That makes me so happy to hear that... from 89-96 a certain very close friend of mine was a designer at BJ.

I've got to stop staying away from LoT for so long.

It is quiet daunting to come back to 1,045 unread posts :eek:

I'm down with the club.

We could give pointers and work out problems such as:

1.) Devise new ways to ignore telephones.
2.) Book recommendations for tub-reading
3.) Best bath salts.
4.) How to deal with residue from bath oils.
5.) Music to soak by.
6.) Loofah vs. Scrub Bud
7.) Cucumbers vs. Tea Bags

Oh, the things we could discuss at our meetings....

:cheers:

You forgot one thing:

Bathtub Books

No, you didn't- I just missed that in your post! Okay, I get to handle the Bathtub Books discussion. Dibs, whatever- that's my area of expertise. Expect the unexpected......

I am reading this one book -- And really it's the one that made me think I should take a bath, that has a plastic cover & binding.

No, no , no... A good bathtub book is a paperback, swollen from repeated accidental immersions. One that you are a bit sorry for getting wet, but not too sorry, because you know you will be able to find it again, or you have something even better lined up....

Ahhh -- Yes, I have a few of those, as well...

I also like to read magazines in the tub...

Magazines to read by....

I also like bathroom remodeling magazines while I'm in the tub... Hmmm..

Oh, and I mean not that I put a plastic cover on the book, but that the book came that way... it's meant to be beat to sh1t.

I have some weird bathtub books... I'll have to go and take stock- my latest was Catch 22, by Joseph Heller. The one before that was Anna Karenin, by Leo Tolstsoy.

I'm just sitting here waiting for my bf to get home. He went out with the "boys" some where. We were suppose to go to the mall, but no he gets a phone call and he's out the door!

Ok...we'll need a cool, swanky name...matching towels, we'll all join the Loofah of The Month club, WB will organize the book of the month...We'll have to figure out a way to surf LoT while bathing....


My favorite bathtime book is Divine Secrets of The Ya Ya Sisterhood...It's soooo beat up...paperback of course...the back has literally given up and the pages are beginning to fall out one by one....but I love it!

meh, its morning, its early, and I dont wanna be awake!

anyhow, just sitting here browsing the boards, having my coffee, need to get ready for the day, need to be in the office by 10am... blah....

I kept the LM home from school today, he wasn't feeling well yesterday. I slept in. It was a good thing, I am fighting a full-blown migraine.

The kid has been trying to wake me up with rats since 6:30. I finally got up and took someting for my head. It is my own fault that my head hurts... I O.D.'d on Sees yesterday.

Heading off to work in a few. (Sigh). I am not in the mood to work, which isn't good when you have to be creative. That also means that everyone who is scheduled today will want something new, different, etc. I usually kick into hairdresser mode when I walk through the doors at the shop, but on those days when I am really off, I just tell them "Not today, you don't..." Doesn't happen often, but I feel it's best to be honest about it when it does- lol.

I woke up in the crappiest mood this morning. I was feeling mean, nasty and contrary...:( Thank goodness this doesn't happen very often. I have no idea what caused it, nothing in particular that I can think of. Maybe the garbage truck rumbling down the street and waking me out of a sound sleep. Anyway, I read some Buddha. And now I feel as if it has shifted me into a different mood; peaceful. I'm going to do some ironing and meditate. Yeah, I know that sounds weird. Some people soak in a tub to find bliss, I iron. :rolleyes:

I woke up, turned the coffee backo and sat down to check up on the boards and who hops up on me but my sick boy, Buster. I think the antibiotics must be working (I still don't have test results but we think it is a UTI) because he attached himself like a koala to a tree and started purring loudly. He just left, so it's coffee time for me.

Hmm, is this a good lunch day or a cheap lunch day?

Oh, I love the bath club, but man, that would knock a hole in my schedule...I just may fall into it though. :cool:

dont you HATE those days??!? I know I do... :)

Yeah, cheap lunch days aren't the greatest, especially if you're in the mood for something better.

At least two days a week I eat fast food or something similar. Often, what I choose depends on where I want to run errands. There's a nice variety of places to choose from near my morning job, the mall, my evening job, and everywhere in between.

The weather affects it too...it's kind of odd today, warm and cloudy. Hmm. Maybe Quiznos? Definitely not a burger. I'm leaning towards splurging on Boston Market. I looooove Boston Market. I think it's not that much more than Quiznos.

Now I'm checking where the closest thrift shops are to fill my long lunch gap.

meh, im hungry, but not motivated to go anywhere for lunch.... we have some light food in our kitchen here at work, sandwhiches and other fried/mircowave food that is sure to give you a heart attack....

though dinner is being catered at our meeting tonight, then going to ANOTHER dinner at a friends house tonight, so ill be fed well tonight!

Everyone's entitled to a little moodiness now and then. Iron away, MP!
:)

Currently enjoying a microwaved Campbell's Select Beef with Portabello Mushroom and Rice. It's as close as I've come to solid food since last Tuesday.

Soup is good food ... I guess.

Trying to resist the urge to just put my head back and take a nap in my chair, while simultaneously resisting the urge to grab a cup of tea or coffee because the last time I had tea every day in a week, I ended up with the chills and a headache on Saturday.

What kind of tea are you drinking there, GD?
:eek:

Caffinated.

I've been getting headaches from my tea drinking, too. I drink Green Tea. But I think it's because I went from drinking a lot of soda to just drinking 2 cups of tea a day. So I think my headaches are from a lack of caffeine and yours is from too much. Hmm.

No, mine was from lack. It was Saturday, when I was at home, NOT drinking tea. It was total caffine withdrawl, don't want to go through that again.

Ah.

I'm currently revellingin the fact that it's Friday here & a beautiful day too. Friday holds so much promise....the weekend stretches out in front of you, with infinite potential. All too soon it's Sunday night, but I'm not thinking of that now.:)

Went to Boston Market. Had decaf. Fooled myself into thinking I had coffee. Bought a few things at the thrift shops. Went to the wrong branch for work - got to the right branch 3 minutes late.

The right branch is the dead branch so you just might see me a lot here for the next few hours. :)

Watch out for those dead branches. They could break and make you fall from the tree...
:D

We just got back from the grocery store. I had gone back to bed this morning, after taking a couple of drugs. After the 2nd time I woke up with rats in my bed I bribed the LM. If he let me sleep we would go to the store and get ice cream. Right after we unloaded the car it started to rain.

Now I am happily drinking a Diet Dr Pepper and watching him play tug-of-war with the Roaming Rodent. She is trying to stash stuff under the couch and he is stopping her. The other girl is alseep on my chair, under her blankey. Ah, bliss. :)

I hatehatehate my job. Much evilness. Boss constantly sets me up by giving me one set of instructions, then revealing once completed work has been passed along that "real" instructions differed, thus making me look incompetent. I hatehatehate that. And deciding not to replace the 1.5 FTE staff we're missing, because I'm overtime exempt so she can just assign all that work to me. And then sits on a 4 week jury and doesn't even pass her work on to me at the time -- but now that she's back she's "too busy" to do her work that piled up so she's giving it to me -- only now it's overdue and she tells people it's my fault for not doing it while she was gone. She tells me to shut my door so I can work uninterrupted and get work done faster -- then five minutes later knocks and orders me to open it because people are seeing the closed door and going away, thus not interrupting me. And I need to be available to all people all the time for whatever they need. I'm an overtime-exempt, salaried employee, the only other such employee there (besides her), and I'm the one filling people's printers with paper, taking documents downstairs for them because they're "busy," and making photocopies on demand because apparenly everyone else's arms and legs have been amputated. I used to love it there but now I resent all of them. I get indigestion every Sunday evening because I dread Monday morning. Yesterday I actually felt what I'd have to call a small stirring of homicidal rage. Today was better, but only because the boss was in a meeting most of the day and I didn't have to look at her or feel her presence across the suite. But then as I was leaving she complained again about how busy she is, assigned me work I know full well the dept. chair gave to her because I already had a full plate, then when I told her I couldn't meet the competing deadlines said "I don't care about that" and walked away. Wants me to skip classes that start well after the end of my scheduled work day so that she can attend her kids' mid-afternoon sporting events, because I don't have kids and therefore my after work life is irrelevant and she can require my presence any time that suits her. I spend all day seething at her. I'm so happy to have a three day weekend. Although she wants me to work on something Monday that the chair said she wanted Monday, knowing full well that the chair only said Monday because she forgot about the holiday and won't be in herself on Monday.
Hatehatehate. I have so many applications out. Please oh please interview me and let me not reek of desperation.

^^^ I'm sending you good vibes for finding a new job, Prudence! :) Your boss sounds like a total psycho. Ewww...I hate it when that happens! Just reading your post gave me knots in my stomach.


Anyway... I'm watching Vanity Fair and eating Conversation Hearts. Must stop eating CH, I'm feeling ill.

Prudence,

Sending best best bestest wishes your way for some good news on the job front.

I've had bosses try to pull crap on me like this. I wish I had advice for you, but I realize not everybody is as likely to jump up and yell "Oh HELL No!" as I am. I would suggest documenting assignments via email though, if that's possilble.

I'm glad he seems to be better!!! I've been worrying about him. Have you heard back from the vet yet?

No word from the Vet yet. :mad:

At home. Packing up the old suitcase. Getting ready to head up to San Francisco tomorrow for a weekend of fun!

Nothing to watch on TV but Michael Jackson.

Blech!!!

I'm heading to bed! ALONE!!!!

John is out of town and usually when he's gone, Kat just moves into my bed! We always joke when we buy our house this summer, we'll only need Two bedrooms...one for Bailey and one for Kat, me and my husband!

BUT..I actually cleaned her room for her today...moved her furniture around..threw out tons of stuff...washed her comforter, clean sheets, put away her 400 stuffed animals so she can actually get into her bed.....


and what thanks do I get.........SHE ditches me for her bed!

"MOM..I haven't slept in my bed in forever!"

Yeah..but that never stopped you before!

Who's going to hog all the covers..who's going to sleep half-way down the bed, who's going to increase the heat in the bed so that I'm sweating halfway thru the night...who's going to wake me up at least twice for water?

Huh...how am I supposed to get any sleep tonight without all that?

Guess I'll just sleep alone! :eek:

I love it when I have the bed to myself when what's his name is gone.
:D

No snoring.
No cover stealing.
No elbows in my back.
No weird pillow configurations.
No talking in his sleep.

Yay! Celebrate having a liberated bed. Made for one for tonight. Ya Hoo!

:)

BUT it's lonely!!!1



"No bears in the bed and the little one said..."I'm lonely...come back!"



I just love Kat and me snuggle time! I cherish every single moment cause I know it's going to be gone before I know it....Like tonight!!! :(

Wahhh!



BUT...I'll get all the pillows to myself...tee hee hee! :evil:

**yawn**

Goodmorning!

**yawn**

Good Night!

BLAH - work :(

Knowing that € has been sick of late caused for a double take on this line.

I'm doggy sitting Jasmine the terrier (or my little loaner Coco or Winky). I made the mistake of letting her go out in the backyard unsupervised, forgetting how muddy it's gotten back there from endless days of rain. So now, after a doggy bath for her, we are watching Best In Show together. OMG...I'm really getting a kick out of it! I forgot how much I love this movie. It's even more funny after watching The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show only days ago.

It's another rainy day here. We'll probably watch movies all day.

I'm waking up to pleasant thoughts, and pleasant people; hoping my day will stay this way. But not counting on it.

Morning coffee watching the rain and sunshine.
Smiling to myself about last nights mojitos, music, and more.
Fotune cookie delights - but out of bed too soon.
Oh the hedons we had and the feet scoundral hearded.
The morning was bacon.
Hugs goodbye and promises of seven futures.
Mmmmm, have another sip.

:coffee:

I'm having chocolate for breakfast. Well, I guess by now it has to be lunch. Annoying jerk next door left his music on really loud and left for the weekend. Again. I should be doing homework. Or cleaning. Probably will get up and do something useful in a moment or two. Have to shake off the apathy.

Mr. Lazy Bones here! Nice to meet you!

I struggled out of bed at 7 this morning. Quickly wore myself out making a cup of tea and reading the paper to the point I needed a nap around 10. Breakfast at 1PM (I love Saturdays) and then a little lightweight RCT3 action. I've spent the last little while virtually visiting DL via http://visionsfantastic.com/index2.html. DL's POTC puts WDW's to shame!

oye, day 2 of a photo shoot for a movie we are doing still photography for, Yucaipa and Calimesa, here we come.... woohoo another 7 hours of shooting in the rain and mud

*grunt*

Just got back from walk/jogging the dog. Perfect timing too. It's starting to rain again. :rolleyes:

Looks like another movie day! Maybe some cleaning and ironing too, that might be a good idea.

I'm busy pondering.

And drinking coffee.

:coffee:

Recovering from last night...

Last night we had a couples only Bunco night..it was a blast! Great friends..ended at 11:00 which was nice...had lots of great wine and champagne, :cheers: great appetizers...John and I won the big money! Whoo hoo!

Then He and I stayed up to watch "Saw"...freaky, weird, good movie!

We actually had NOTHING to do today! Which is soooo freakin nice!

Got up at 8:30am...sent hubby back to Phoenix for the week (he was home for a whopping 15 hours!)...made biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast...a ginormous pot of strong coffee :coffee: (Oy! I'm not as young as I drink I am! )

Kids are playing outside together, I'm chilling, watching the DAYTONA 500 baby!

I get to GO to Phoenix tomorrow

For 9 hours.

Grrrr. It's Monday and I'm at work. I envy those of you for whom it's still Sunday. On the bright side, it's a beautful day here:)

I'm watching the the Daytona 500. My husband sucked me into it...he has it on the speakers throughout the lower part of the house. Nothing like having cars whizzing by in my living room. OMG...Baileykat's right! This is exciting...oooh that crash! :eek:

I can barely watch anymore! My guy is Tony Stewart...I think I've gained 20 pounds this afternoon alone with my nervous eating! Cant's stand the suspense! I'm getting a :cheers: !

I'm sick. I feel rotten. And a little bit faint.

But I do have a sexy voice today. :rolleyes:

My husband loves when that happens! :rolleyes:

I lose my voice about once a year...it gets all raspy-Demi Moore like!

Since he has this whole Demi Moore crush thing going on...he takes great joy in my suffering! :rolleyes:

I spent the day in the Urgent Care Clinic. I seems I have a bad case of the real flu - throwing up uncontrolably and such. So, form about 10 until 4 that's where we were. Fun day. Apparently, there were 4 or 5 other cases of flu in there today. I just thought I had too much fun over the weekend, but, nope, doc says it's flu. I'm still nausious and haven't slept in much too long.

NOT HAPPY!

:mad:

NA~ That sounds awful! Cuddle up with the kitties and get well soon.

I just got up from my nap. I only have 2 Monkeys. No mass invasion today, which is nice. They seem to have been taking turns. When 1 Monkey leaves another Monkey shows up.

The rain seems to only be hitting here at night. The last few days have been beautiful, sunny and upper 60's. Right now the storm seems to be moving in, the winds are picking up and the sky is wonderfully dark.
The weather has also cleaned up the air, the Kern Canyon has snow on the top, we can also see Tehachapi with snow. Even the Grapevine is nice and clear.

This has been a nice weekend, very lazy. Tomorrow I am taking my 3 (HA) boys to see Son of the Mask. I only wanted to take the LM, but I had promised the other 2 I would take them too.

Ay Carumba! I'm sending good vibes your way to help you get better.

Here goes...

GC ))))))))))))))))))))NA
:)

Hang in there. :)

THank you one and all. This is the THIRD time I've been sich with some sort of fluish thing. I really must stop it. I don't like having IV's and such.

Me too. It's the needle into the top of my hand that bugs me. It just feels wrong.

Ralphie had the flu, too. But strangely enough (knock on wood) I haven't got it yet. His lingered as well.

:coffee: <----hot tea with lemon & honey

It was a beautiful day today. I recall reading somewhere that we've had less rain this month than we did last July. Apparently we shipped all our rain to CA. That's what you get for shipping your lousy drivers north!

Today we went to the Aquarium. I haven't been in ages. My friend and co-worker volunteers there and we got to hear her do her spiels on harbor seals, northern fur seals, and sea otters. One of the northern fur seals is 24 and the oldest one in captivity anywhere. She's blind and spends lots of time sort of standing on her head with her flippers sticking out of the water. No one knows why. We got to feel various pelts, too. Sea otter pelt is possibly the most luxurious thing I've ever felt. No wonder they're endangered.

Also rode the waterfront streetcar 'cause it's been a long time since we've done that. Stopped at Krispy Kreme on the way home for no good reason.

Boris tried escaping out the front door when I opened it. Took off down the walk and crossed in front of the garage. Now he's sitting in front of the front door crying because he wants to go have an adventure and mean mommy won't let him. It's really quite annoying. Silly feline. He keeps forgetting that he's a fraidy-cat.

I think the Dr. needs to prescribe you some down time with your King of Swank on some warm, tropical beach somewhere...

I recall vaguely something about the healing powers of suntan oil and Mai Tai's!



:)

Hey NA, I'm sending swanky "get well" vibes your way...

It's been a very up and down weekend up here as well. I spent all day yesterday at "WonderCon" with one of my pals. Bought a few cool Disney items and saw Kevin Smith do a 90 minute Q & A. Heather gave me permission to go geek out as long as I got her Adam Baldwin's autograph (secret crush, anyone?). I wound up chatting with the local Universal Pictures rep who took me back to the press room where Adam was getting ready for a signing session with Joss Whedon and two other Firefly cast members. Long story short, I was allowed back into the house last night with a 8x10 signed to Heather by all three actors and Joss.

Today was a less exhilirating day, unfortunately. Violet, our cat, who at 15 is normally a vivacious and healthy cat, has taken a mysterious turn this week. He's stopped eating and drinking and all of our efforts to coax him into health have been unsuccessful (canned pumpkin, salmon, goopy hairball stuff). Our vet is open tomorrow, but I was too stressed out to wait, so we took him to the emergency vet. They ran a bunch of blood tests, and now he's spending the night there with an IV. The bill is not going to be pretty (the estimate was from $700-$1000 just for the next 24 hours), but hopefully we'll be able to figure out how to treat the little fella.

I guess it's all about extremes.

SYRS,
Jesse

Monterey:
Rain rain rain. Wind. Rain rain. Wind wind.
Power outage? Almost, not quite.
Rain rain rain.
:)

It's kinda fun! :D

Why are there ducks swimming in my parking lot? I guess because it's flooded.

I'm nursing a wound from a flying windchime - I stepped out my door and WHAP!!! Right in the face. I don't know what house it came from, but I hope I can return it (it's still reasonably intact)

Pondering life over a cup of coffee. Just started another pot at work. Stealing moments to be here right now.

Sleep finally triumphing over wakefullness after a long day of aggrevated waiting, sad memories, and old resentments. The rain never ceasing - or it's ceasing just a teasing. Gratefull that this day is commitment free - except for taxes. So today we'll take on the government in the hopes of many happy returns in the future.

Oh, and coffee - there always must be coffee...

For €uro, whilst doing the tax thing::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::cof fee:

And, for after the taxes::cheers::cheers::cheers:

Enjoying having the house to myself. Ralphie's at work.
Playing on the computer and on eBay.
Drinking tea and listening to the Spice Girls.
Life is decent.
:)

LOL! For some reason this made me laugh:) Hope you're okay CM!

Sunny, cloudy, sunny, cloudy! Busy, rest, busy, rest, busy, rest, rest, rest! :rolleyes:

My sinuses feel all crazy today. My head feels like a balloon ready to pop. Lots of pollen everywhere! :eek:

I started off the day with great intentions.....made myself a pot of tea (cool new tea set and woven tray from Target!), read the newspaper (Sandra Dee died :( ), then a chapter of my book (The Vicious Circle by Margaret Case Harriman--written in 1951 while the Algonks were still alive!), then put in a load of laundry, picked out my clothes, had the girls clean their rooms, so we could head out....need to get a quote on a 3X3 mirror framing and I want to um, gobacktoTarget, I mean, um, getalatteatStarbucks, no, I mean run some errands.

I need to run some errands and gotoTargetwherethere'saStarbucksthuskillingtwobird swithonestone.

Alas, I decided first to check my email for auction updates....and got sucked into LoT and MC as a result. I suck.

Arrrrggghhh! It's finally happened!

I'm sick! Bleck!

The kids both had nasty colds last week...it decided I'm next!

Throat feels like I swallowed a cheese grater! Everything aches! Stuffy nose! A little fever! Urk! I hate this!!!!!!

To top this off...Best Buy STILL has my computer..they have totally been giving me the run around...

Hopefully I'll get it back this afternoon...which means I must make a yearbook collage page for Bailey's class by tomorrow! Bleck!

Arrrrggghhh! It's finally happened!

I'm sick! Bleck!

The kids both had nasty colds last week...it decided I'm next!

Throat feels like I swallowed a cheese grater! Everything aches! Stuffy nose! A little fever! Urk! I hate this!!!!!!

To top this off...Best Buy STILL has my computer..they have totally been giving me the run around...

Hopefully I'll get it back this afternoon...which means I must make a yearbook collage page for Bailey's class by tomorrow! Bleck!

Deja vu!
:D

:eek: Oops!

Oh ugh, Bailykat! I feel for ya about the computer thing...Best Buy + computers = nightmares for me. Although that didn't stop me from buying my last one there.....but I did refuse to get the extended service plan for it.

Argh..Thanks! Everytime I call, I get a different person who has NO idea what's going on...They have to look up my account 4 or 5 times before they can find it...then they ask ME what's being done to it? Hello..I thought you were fixing it...No notes on anything...argh!

Soooo..I had the husband call. He's the best about getting to the point of the problem...his people skills get tested in situations like this...and I feel sorry for the person he spoke to ! BUT...I can pick it up anytime tonight as it's suddenly ready! :D





P.S. I've read the reviews from the first Motley Crue shows...they are kicking A!!! Whooo hooo! March 19th! Still think you should head out to Phoenix and go with me! I'm sure you'll be more fun than hubby...last time we saw The Crue, he didn't speak to me for two days...something about my over zealous attempt to get Nikki Sixx to look at me!! Oops!

Giving up on catching up here after nearly a 3 day absence.

I feel like crap.

I've got some you can have.


:evil:

<insert clever retort here--mojo to the best one>

"No, you can keep your pooh, bear".


....can I enter too? huh, can I ?? :D

I've been a sleeping (and dreaming) fool. The meds the Dr. gave me make me groggy, downright sleepy and ful of odd dreams, but I'm not barfing.

Just back from San Fran and a comic book, drunken filled weekend.

Gee, Mousepod didn't even say hi!

Came back to no messages on my machine and 558 posts to look at here.

Oh the irony!!!

LMAO!!!!!! I wish I could go there, we'd have so much fun! I was just thinking to myself I better call and suck up to the guy who has my ticket!


When I bought my computer at Best Buy, they didn't have it in stock so they had to order it and said they'd call me when it came it. I waited until the day after the last day the guy said it would be in by and called them myself. The girl I spoke to couldn't find my info anywhere, then when she finally did she said they were out of them and there was only one available at the service center and I could have it directly shipped in about a week. I (calmly) asked her to look up if I could pick it up at another store. When she came back she said never mind, there was one left in stock, wasn't I lucky? :rolleyes: But when I got there, there was actually a whole stack of them......ugh! Oh well, at least I got it.

I was at WonderCon on Saturday (page back for details).
You should have emailed me - I'd have happily met for drinks.

Still sick.

Watching for tornados.

Checking fametracker.com for the latest on the Paris Hilton phone hacking story:evil:

I can't believe some of the stuff she (supposedly) had on that phone....

Preping for a 2 hour drive to school.... It's like 7 miles from here. I hate CA drivers and the rain.

I realize the only think aout being sick is that I miss the glorious and continious rain that we've been having. At least it makes me sleep well, and barf less. Hazaa!

Ditto!


Sinus headache and cheer practice don't go well together!

I have a date with a hot bath and a couple of Tylenol PM's!

I better not linger here too long. I could catch a cold...

:grunt:

I'm enjoying total peace and quiet in my office right now. Or at least I was, until it occured to me to wonder where in the heck everyone went...... :confused:

Nobody likes you. Everyone hates you. They're all out without you. Having fun. If you forget where that's from PM me ;)

I'm trying to hold out another 15 minutes before I go to lunch... where I will be visiting Macys and buying a pretty rose colored pea-coat and maybe a new wallet to go with my 2 new purses.

Just wondering why, every time I see LoT, I think it stands for "Lushess of Taffy" :rolleyes:

No, Lots of Timtams.

I keep staring at my feet. I got a pedicure yesterday and she got a little happy with me. My toes match my nails, complete with nail art.

1 day left of my suspension. This was a very fast 2 weeks. I would be lying if I said I was looking forward to going back to work Friday. Today I got most of my errands done. I went to PetCo for cage litter for the girls. I bought them some new treats too. I feel guilty that I didn't get Poohdog anything.

I am also trying to figure out if I am hearing thunder or the gardeners across the street.

Not sure who here knows that I'm currently working for a school that happens to be in the SF County Jail... but anyway, I just processed the intake form for a woman named "Precious Canister". Just thought you'd like to know.

So, now I'm starting to feel better then by body decided to assert it's feminity on me. GDF - when will it stop?


Sorry, that's really TMI, but It felt damn good to write it.

Sooo... I think I finally am getting what everyone else has/had. I'm feeling icky. Bleh bleh. Came home sick from work today...

:(

Look. I've had THREE different flus. One with fevers or 102-3, one with 3 weeks of bronchitus and one with days and days of barfiness. They are are evil, but I would choose the Bronchitus one. It lasts the longest, but it is the least incapacitating in the long run.

The plumbing hates me :(

Personal or house?

:(

:D That cracked me up!!! There's a new Dior lipgloss called Lick of Taffy....several people have mentioned it to me. I think I shall buy some!!!

So, if you turned on the news today and saw footage of red-tagged houses in Glassell Park because the hillside is about to slide down on them, you saw my neighborhood :eek: ! I woke up to helicopters and called the local news station to find out what was going on. They said 10 or so houses were sliding down the hillside at Mimosa and Ackerman. So, I types the street names into my handy Google maps (thanks GD) and I says to myself, self, you should call the roomate and find out what he'd like saved, cause you live right down the street (Toland and 40th) and might be seeing, like, some mud soon.
What is going on? Train wreck suicide (or not) attempt a couple of weeks ago, actress falling out of the sky at rehearsal a week ago, roomate's cat put to sleep yesterday, mudslides down the street, I seem to have moved into a disaster-prone neighborhood. On the other hand, it all seems to be going on around me, and not to me. Even while everyone else's driving routines have been screwed up from the rain, my routes have been taking me around all the worst storm damage. Weird.
Well, time to go to bed, can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store :rolleyes: .

I'm having one of those really weird days, in which it seems I've gotten out of the wrong side of bed. I'm not cranky, I don't think, I'm laughing at the world, and remarkably pissed off about it. I guess. If that makes any sense. A sense of sarcasm all around me.

OY!

Jim, I hope things start looking up for you. Sounds like you've had an eye-full this week, and just know that I want you to be safe. :)

I'm trying not to make too much out of my manager walking out of the test lab and saying, "There's always something. Greg, you should have stayed in insurance."

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Gn2Dlnd - Wanna go apartment shopping in LB again? ;)

We are dry and, I'd like to say happy, but, other than 75 year old plumbing issues, Long Beach is fine.

I am even feeling about 75% human. Not one of the energetic ones, mind you, but a lot more human than before.

Even Buster seems to be better.

And risk a tsunami?!? I didn't see any surfboards at your house. :rolleyes:

And thanks, Erica. It certainly has been a dramatic couple of weeks. Good for the heart, all that stopping.

Ummm... GD, were you able to ask him what he meant by that? Please keep us posted on anyhting going on.

lol, no worries. I think he was just frustrated at some form of office politics or hoop jumping or other.

I'm drinking heaps of water...there's a cold going round my office at the moment and I so don't want to catch it. Drinking plenty of water probably won't work, but it makes me feel like it will:rolleyes:

In a roundabout way it will. From all that hand washing during those oh-so-frequent potty breaks you're probably taking. Nothing prevents catching a cold like washing your hands.

Cool ~ I hadn't even thought of that! Yay! It's also a good source of exercise....off to the loo, back again, off to the loo....:D

I have to boast.

I just got an award for getting the highest grade in my section of Civil Procedure fall semester. It's by far the hardest class in the first year of law school. I'm so happy I'm crying. There's not money involved, and it's not the hugest deal ever, but it's another item to put on my resume. I usually get good grades, but I've never graduated cum laude or received awards.

OMG! That's is FANTASTIC news and a BIG Congrats to you!

Sensational. Good job. Congrats.
:)

Prudence is now authorized by me to go spend a wad of cash on something fun. No, not my cash... ;)

Congrats! :snap:

"But honey, CP said I could!"

Thanks, guys/gals. I'm celebrating by skipping the "study skills" workshop scheduled during our second class tonight. I've decided my time would be better spent eating frosting from a can while watching Survivor. (The irony is that I'm surfing LoT during civpro.)

My winter carb cravings have finally hit me hard this week, damn it! And I was doing so well. I've been baking cookies, muffins, bread and apple crisp to satisfy the cravings. Also eating pizza and pasta!

Now I'm craving frosting out from a can...gee, I wonder why????? ;) Things are going from bad to worse. :rolleyes:

Congratulations!!!

Prudence, that's so cool! Congrats!:snap:

Congratulations, Prudence! That is quite an achievment!! :snap: :cheers:

Lol! She didn't have a chance with a name like that.....:rolleyes:

I sold tickets to a "Clark Griswold" on Tuesday - he was 13 when the first Vacation movie came out, and it changed his life.

Now, I'm cleaning up after an overclocking experiment went terribly wrong...

Sipping burbon - the coffee long gone, feeling giddy and fatalistic at the same time. All is quiet, but unnaturally so. There is grieving, and sickness, and simple exhaustion. My todo list still shakes its fist at me, and I raise my glass in its direction. The weekend will be here soon enough and the rains have let up, if only for a little while. Maybe then things will be back in my grasp...

Hmmm, but the niece is leaving the mountains to head east for Illinois- Chicagoland perhaps? Oh how I hope that would be true. Alas, I think she's headed for the cornfields just outside of town. The regrets and mourning that will come.

So I pour a little more burbon and feel a little less, numb, giddy, and impervious to the sadness around me. At rare times I can be an asshole, but I don't regret it. At least not now while I've burbon to sip.

Cheers to you, TennesseeWilliams

Ah, so you're the jerk who actually brings it up. I'm sure he looooved you for that ;) :p

Sitting at work, which has been too slow for my liking lately, but alas, what can i do..

westling with financial decisions and spending habits and projects that will never be finished....

today should be an interesting and boring day...yay

Drinking tea, writing out grocery list and reading LoT. I get distracted very easily, so this might take a while. :rolleyes:

On my to-do list today: Scheming, plotting, planning....for MA.

were having people over tonight, i need to be home cleaning..... darn work sometimes

Breaking eggs, making omlettes, dreading the return of the plumber. Later some house cleaning - beyond that, yet unknown...

Called the plumber, drinking coffee, getting to eat omlettes (yes! Real food!), needing to take on finances but afraid to. Hopeing the feeling better status stands.

Today = work
Tonight = clean clean clean, straighten up clean! Do homework and hopefully go out.

Ohhhh my! Yes, I do get easily distracted. I haven't been to the grocery store yet. But I've planned a Tahoe ski trip for next week and another for mid-March. And I've been on the phone with my sis twice.

Okay....where was I??? Back to the grocery list.

I had to end my 2 week "non" vacation. Not too bad, didn't have to take any calls. I sort of went to another manager (who is a friend and feels guilty about the 2 weeks off) he had the Powers That Be close me for the rest of the day. My manager was pretty cool about the whole thing. The Union can't doo too much for me (I dug my own hole) but they are grieving the time frame of things so there is a 2% chance that I will be getting back pay for my 2 weeks. Oh well, now I will have to be a good drone and push for sales.

My Horoscope for tomorrow:

I'm all for the bacon, but what's with skipping the java? This stuff is a krock.

Today was one of my every-other-Friday-off Fridays so mostly I sat around and watched bad daytime teevee. Also started sorting through the boxes of things from my grandmother. Sometimes it's hard to strike a balance between treasuring an heirloom and running a museum. I know my grandma would want me to use things, but I don't want to break or damage anything. And what if there's a fire? I have her wedding dress. And a doily her mom (my great-grandmother) made with an insert of my great-grandfather's wedding shirt. I miss my grandma.

Currently wondering if I should go to Disneyland tomorrow...

You need to wonder? Go, Bornieo, go!
:)

Hmmm...Your Free Will Forcast isn't much better:

Horoscope for week of February 24, 2005
Austrian Prince Pal Antal Esterhazy (1786-1866) was renowned for his extravagance. Roaming across Europe for decades in a constant state of vacation, he squandered his stupendous fortune. In one infamous stunt, he removed a priceless Titian painting from its frame and had it made into the lining for his coat. In bringing this to your attention, Aquarius, I don't mean to imply that you're as profligate as Esterhazy. But there is a way in which you're being as wasteful with one of your valuable assets as he was with his Titian. Fix this glitch, please.




Better not let NA know you're lining your jacket with priceless works of art- she'll think you've gone a little overboard on the Swank thing....:D

My forcast for tomorrow:

"Guard against being overly optimistic, but maintain an attitude that promotes progress. "

To many big words!

There are bacon grease spatters on my eyeglasses...

I've decided to skip the Long Beach Symphony tonight and go see Stompy Jones at Disneyland instead. I have my priorities.

:)

That's assuming that she washes her hands after a potty break. :O

Keeping still and resting. Already I'm feeling less sick than I was feeling yesterday, so my Thera-Flu infusions might just be working.

Later I plan on napping. Reading. Watching TV. Napping. Reading. Watching TV. Sleeping. I think some cat snuggles might be involved.

Scrambling madly to get my to-do list done. Why oh why do I live in such a lame county where 9PM is too late for anything to be open, but 9AM is too early? I'd have my list more than half my list done if people would just wake the f up and get to work!

Sitting at the computer... Due to a couple certain someones and their constant talking of all things Sephora, I broke down and placed a (rather large) order. grrrr

I need to sleep. Now I am winding down to the sounds of the LM snoring. I love listening to him snore, very peaceful, relaxing, everything is right sort of sound. The scary thing is that his room is at the far end of the hallway and I am hearing him over his white-noise machine, Twich eating, Sniff in her squeaky wheel and the TV.

Bright sunny morning, but the coffee is still steeping in the press. I'd like to get out for the day, if just for a bit, but the Academy Awards are tonight, so we'll be home watching them. My niece should be on her way to Illinois, I missed seeing her off last night but perhaps I'll see her next time I'm in Chicago. Maybe we can go out for Brunch somewhere?

About to head to work for a couple of hours, and seeing Steve off as he heads up to NorCal to do some paperwork...

Need coffee...

Nothing.

But I should be doing something

I'm going to head to a couple of stores to get coffee, a bread product, and some cat food.

I carry around a notebook so that when I'm reading a book I can jot down words I'm unfamiliar with. When I'm home, I look them up in the dictionary. Right now I have about 10 words to look up and I'll probably do that today, and then read some more.

A nap is also on the schedule.

Which words? Curiosity, it burns! ;)

It's raining here. I need to find a way to get my clean clothes from the laundry room to my apartment without them needing to be washed again.

Large plastic garbage bags

OOoh --- good idea!

*sigh* Laundry in garbage bags . . . so low class.

I was actually hoping for a break in the rain.

I'm taking a short (35 minutes or so, lol) break from working....I could sit here and just veg....but I'm checking LoT instead....

You're asking me to reveal the depths of my stupidity?

For some reason "perfidious" always slips my mind. It's simple enough. Just means full of deceit, and yet I never retain it. So I had to look up that one again .

"parvenus", which turns out to be "a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth, influence or celebrity."

"ultra posse nemo obligatur". Latin. That was fun, because I basically looked through my Oxford to figure out the definition myself. Came pretty close. I couldn't find "nemo". So basically I worked out that it meant "a service beyond what anyone is able to perform". Turns out "nemo" is "no one" not "anyone". And it really means "no one is obligated beyond what he is able to do"

I really, really want to study languages.

Those are just some examples, CP. I had to look up more, but they're simple words I really should have known.

I'm fascinated by language- the history of, development, influences, everything. There was a great series on PBS years ago called the Story of English, which I loved so much I went out and bought the companion book.

We've been on a little semi-homemade vacation!

The kids were out of school Thursday and Friday for Rodeo Break! (Go ahead and laugh!) John had a week of vacation to take so we're ON VACATION!

Vegged around the house on Thursday, Friday we took the kids to Tombstone. It was a blast! They loved it. We watched "Tombstone" the night before so the kids would have something to go on...Kat and Bailey got cap guns which they wore in holsters on their hips all day...and practiced shooting the bad guys. Kat's guns are pink! So cute!
We watched gun fights, toured the Bird Cage, looked for ghosts, watched a trick riding show and ate ribs, which were pretty good. Kat and Bailey dressed up for an old timey photo..we actually got Kat in a frilly 1800's style dress, though she insisted on being a bank robber and had to hold a gun!

Saturday we went to the Pima Air and Space Museum. They have an amazing collection of historic airplanes and planes from modern age...if it had wings, it's in that mueseum. Even has two Air Force One planes...one was Kennedy's/Johnson's. Very cool!

Today we shopped! Kat is a shopaholic at heart. We've taken to calling her "Princess Shopalot"

Now I'm doing laundry..I didn't do any all weekend..like I was really on vacation...so I have tons! Eating my Berry Cobbler from Claim Jumper! Yummmm!

Me, too. I wonder if I can rent that PBS series from Netflix.

Cool!

OK -- Again, as I am most Mondays, I'm in this rediculous class. Where is everybody? Where are the throngs of posters that were on earlier? Why are you letting me suffer alone. Cold. Bored. And alone.

Meh. I'm at work. Counting the hours (just over 2) until I get out of here. Autumn officially starts today. I'm depressed just thinking about it:(

I'm relaxing with a nice glass of Shiraz, waiting for the dishwasher to finish so I can start cooking dinner. Had a nice productive day and I'm going to end it with a plate of pasta and a movie, if we can find anything interesting to watch. We have the Minority Report but I don't know that I'm in the mood for that. Oh well, we have a couple of hundred stations on cable. Surely something is on. Right?

That means nothing. Millions of channels does not equal something to watch these days...

Baileykat that sounds like a really fun weekend!!! :) I have vowed to get an old time picture of the boys this summer. I love that Kat's guns are pink! HOw cute is that.

I'm vegging out after "playing outside" for over 3 hours in this beautiful sunny 70 degree weather we had today!! We played basketball, baseball(hit and chase LOL)and rode bikes. Fun was had by all. Now everyone has eaten and it's relaxin' time :)

My suggestion...don't watch it.

How about the thongs of posters that were on earlier?

I liked 'Minority Report'. I'm not a huge Tom Cruise fan nor a big Spielberg fan but I thought the story was pretty good. The special effects were neat.
It's kind of morbid and gross in places, though.
:)

I think mine is in Vegas :(

As of the latest check, there are 13,380 posts yet there have been 27,077 searches.

To quote the movie "Bagdad Cafe":
"Too much harmony."
;)

Sh!t happens, right?

Hehehe :D

To anyone who is on the edge of their seat wondering about my laundry delimma yesterday: The chain to the access road was down, so I opted to drive my laundry right up to my building. My clean, dry laundry had minimal time in the rain.

I hear ya. I was hopeful but it would appear that there isn't a damn thing on. Oh well. Plan B - Trivial Pursuit.

I was, in fact, on the edge of my seat. Glad to hear it all turned out ok. ;)

[voice in MBC's ear]Tivo...Tivo... TIIIIIVVVVVOOOOOOO [/voice in MBC's ear]

It's nice to know that people care.

You know, I'm still not a feeling healthy. All I want to do is sleep. Sleep, glorious sleep. I keep looking at the clock and wondering if 8:00 is too early to go to bed. THe sad thing is that I'm bored with being sick and tired. Nothing's worse than boredom for me. Oh well, tomorrow's another day and I havd a to-do list prepared. Maybe that willl help.

Lay in bed and read a book! It's rest, so it's like sleep, but it's not as boring (esp. if you're having trouble sleeping, like I did last week) since you're reading. Fluff book time . . .

"Perfidous" I would have gotten after some thought...maybe. I should have stopped myself from reading your definition first. "Parvenous" and the latin stuff were way over my head.

I wouldn't be ashamed of the "simpler" words in your list. One can't remember all words, especially under-used ones.

I love using scraps of paper as bookmarks so I can write down words that catch my fancy. I have this great envelope I used as a bookmark for On the Road - definitely a keeper.

Read T.C. Boyle. That will be sure to increase your vacabulary.

I was helping one of my students in the library today when one of the reference librarians behind me said, "You're a reference librarian!" (I guess that's a compliment.)

So, in my next life, perhaps I will be a librarian. Or perhaps I already was one in a past life. Or perhaps I chose the wrong profession.

I do like to wear my hair in a bun sometimes. Hmmmm.

I couldn't have scratched that one out of my brain with a pick axe.

Clicking "New Posts" counts as a search.

I'm procrastinating. I've got a pile of projects, but none of them have any sort of urgency or deadline, so I'm ignoring them. Tomorrow will be different, I think. But today, I don't feel like doing anything, so I'm not.

Ah....yup. Uh-huh. Mmmhmm.

Slacking today, just a bit. Did I have an errand to run at lunch? Hmm. Maybe I'll buy blank T-shirts for MA. I think it's a Quiznos day today.

I feel really good because I did laundry and am wearing a rather snazzy look today...complete with matching hat and fashionable scarf. Monday was jeans/t-shirt/sneakers day. I love how clothes can be a way to shift your personality. Forget Matterhorn Fan, I'm the double agent. ;)

im with GD on this one, i dont feel like doing crap today, so i am going to post on here, write some emails, and generally just slack off today at work as much as I can....

HA!

I just finished last semester's attendance report (we have five week semesters here), and the current semester doesn't end until next Friday. I should be catching up, but instead I will work on my wiki.

(If there are any other geek slackers reading this who have any experience with wikis, please PM me - I definitely need help)

I am drinking coffee - still - eating TJs Encheladas, and preparing for RE Study. I will NOT fall asleep. I will NOT fall asleep!

damn

im just sitting here reading NA's double post...

Public thanks and mucho mojo to mhrc4 for jumping into the wiki world with me. Structured and productive slacking. Wasn't there some talk about this a couple of weeks ago?

Today I am envy. And procrastination. Why does my brother have a plethora of first-authored, data-based publications in peer-reviewed journals? Because he does not procrastinate. But I do, so I envy. I could get off my butt and write, but that would be effort and I am also sloth. Way back in undergrad years my boss had a poster of this ad campaign where Harper's hired famous ad agencies to do 1 page print ads for each of the seven deadlies. It was so cool. I wish I had that poster.

I'm contemplating taking a day off tomorrow. Sleeping in, watching DVDs, reading magazines, drinking coffee...sounds good. The only thing is that we currently don't have a PC at home, so there would be no board surfing. Grrrrrrrrr. Decisions, decisions....

I did something!

I put in a request for about $10k worth of equipment. Equipment that, if I get it, I will look forward to receiving, unpacking, installing, and setting up...and then do whatever I can to not use it because I'm lazy and would rather sit here and post.

hehe . . . I change my status line for a while for the first time in like 3 years, and as soon as I change it back I'm no longer the double agent. Hmmph.

Maybe I'm not a double agent anymore.

Or maybe I am. Apparently I could go undercover as a reference librarian. :rolleyes:

I'm starved. I need lunch.

I'm hiding from my grandmother, waiting to go out to dinner with my dad, then going home.

I was pretty productive today, I had my teeth cleaned and got the 15,000 service done on my car.

:eek:! I'm in shock!!!!! ;)

How's Baby? Was she taped?

looks like another day home, :( have to take care of getting a new drivers license, as my whole wallet was stolen. Time to be productive again today i guess

Hoping the products I'm waiting for someone to give to me to test are delayed even more so I can continue to be unproductive this morning. Then, after lunch, it's 3 hours of meetings, so this could be a spectacularly unproductive day. Yay!

I am eating my ham and swiss sandwich for lunch - yes - at 10:00a.m.

I get up early... at 4:20 a.m. actually so it really is lunch time. If I wait until my next break - which is technically lunch - it won't be until 1pm and then I'm not that hungry for dinner (but I starve until then.)

So - mmmmm... ham and swiss with a little mayo, purple onion and lettuce on a roll. The sandwich lady always puts on waaay to much ham though. I think she thinks she's being nice but I'd rather have a normal size. Don't want to say antyhing thought cause she's the only one that makes it "right" - well besides all that meat anyway.

I'm contemplating taking 3/11 off. I have 3/14 off. I would love a 4 day weekend, with 2 days of being a bum... Oh who am I kidding. I'd love a 4 day weekend (with 2 being taken up with MA activities) to catch up on my housework and chores that I keep putting off.

I had the BEST morning! The Division I Washington State Court of Appeals heard oral arguements at school today in our courtroom classroom. I took the morning off work to go watch. It was so much fun! I totally geeked out. I took 3 pages of notes. I don't even take notes in class! There was corruption of a minor, medical malpractice leading to death at sea, and first degree murder and attempted murder (from a shooting right by where I work)! What more could you ask from a morning?

That sounds so exciting Prudence!!!!! I'm not even a law student and I'd love to witness something like that.

I decided to take 3/11 off. So now I have a 4 day weekend!!!!!!!! Gettin a hair cut on Friday, and catchin up on homework, more homework Saturday before I check into the room for MA prep! Sunday MA, then zombified fun and Monday is catch up on all my chores day. WOOHOOOOOOO

winding down, getting ready for bed, its only 945, but wife was in bed over an hour ago..... *yawn*

Just got home from work at 10:15

ouch, where do you work that you get in that late?

Just an office. But with what I am gettng paid, I do those kind of hours when needed.

gotcha ;) im the same way, sometimes, those hours are required, however, i am not gettnig paid for those kinds of hours

Soo...

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if he had a chainsaw?

Went to Disneyland.
Still love the Mickey Parade.
Big sign over Tiki room is up.
Heard the familiar "Welcome to the Enchanted Tiki Room"
Said Happy Birthday to Indiana Jones after waitng 20 minutes for it to come back online after breaking down.
Back home. Corned Beef Hash on the stove.

Today's a fun filled day of CLEANING CARPETS!

Oh yeah!

Tax refund gift to me...a carpet cleaner! Whoo hoo! Now I can clean carpets any ol' time I want to!

Let the fun begin! :rolleyes:

Where? Were they playing someting outside the TR?

Yup, it sounded like a sound test from behind the walls around TR.

Also, forgot to add:
A construction wall has gone up around Superstar Limo... :evil:

I am so excited! Superstar Limo is my all-time favorite Disney attraction! Hopefully it'll be just a paint job. They should have Superstar Limo in all the Disney Parks!!!!! :p

...or maybe they can put up a park bench with some shade. That would be good too.

*crosses finger on SSL redo*

Bench: The Ride is an absolutely AMAZING attraction

Great big suckage. So I have these on-going issues with my teeth. Long story. Enough built up that at my age, and given my neurotic compulsion to floss multiple times daily, I sought a second opinion. Well, I got the full results of my second opinion. I *just* had a "full" check-up at the old dentist in January, and he filled three cavities but said everything else is wonderful. Results of the second opinion? three more cavities that need immediate attention (including another one in a tooth filled in January -- why wouldn't the old dentist have done both? Even *I* could see it on the xray.)

AND, the last crown I had done only 1 year ago, the one that I've complained hurts and doesn't feel right for a year and been told is all in my head, is actually an incredibly poorly fitted crown. It's so bad that the underlying tooth has been decaying (which was causing the pain and bleeding.) And so now not only do I have to get a new crown (which insurance won't pay for because the old one is only a year old) but FIRST I have to have oral surgery to do something called a "crown lengthening." I have no idea what that is, but it doesn't sound good.

I'm so angry. It's pain and inconvenience for me, and it drains our bank account. And I got suckered into feeling misplaced loyalty and it might cost me teeth. And as snotty as it sounds, having bad teeth makes me feel like I'm some smelly hick who never even looks at a toothbrush. I'm so angry at my (former) dentist. He kept telling me it was my fault and I believed him. Heck, last month he punched me in the arm and it shocked me so much I didn't even know what to do.

I need a freakin' spine already. Grrr.

Prudence, I'm so sorry you're having such a time! I know teeth issues are painful and expensive.

I know bad teeth run in my family. I'm the only one on my moms side to still have my real teeth. Everyone else was below 30 and (knock on wood) I'm headed into...um the next decade!

I hope they can get your crown all fixed up and the pain will end. I'm sure that alone will be a huge relief for you.

Hey Prudence,
I feel your pain. I've avoided the dentist for a couple of years. Last December, I finally found a dentist that I could trust. He laid out the course of action for me: two crowns, two extractions (followed by two painful and expensive implants) and a filling. Last month, I had the two extractions, which included a bone graft (yummy!). Next month, the crowns and filling. Late May, two implants. But after then, my mouth will be perfect. Right? Right?

Ahhh Prudence! I'm feeling for you! Happened to me as well...

Went in thinking I had a little cavity...NOPE you need a root canal. Ok..piece of cake and it really was. Very little pain...I couldn't see what all the fuss was about!

Back two months later..having the same problem on the other side...this time..not just one root canal...TWO. These were soooo painful...I'm scared to go to the dentist now for the first time in my life!

I'm thinking I'll have to see one of those..take the lovely pill..wake up when it's over dentists!

I'm reminding myself about how awesome my bed is... mmmmm... bed....

I guess this might or might not be the time, where I say I work for a dental office. I'm so sorry to hear about what you've gone through, Prudence. :( No dentist should make you feel that way. :( Do you live in California, BTW?

Anyhow, I'll probably send you a PM later, and I might bring this up with the doctor I work for.

Re: the root canals. Yeesh! Yeah, the fuss over root canals is the dying of the nerve, not so much the procedure itself. The procedure is basically designed to relieve the pressure of the gasses being built up by the bacteria being attracted by a nerve that's just called it quits, and to clear it out before things get too bad. The first RC you needed to do probably had a nerve that was already dead. The other side probably got caught a little sooner. Even though it was more painful, it is (I think) better to do it before the nerve completely dies, because you don't want to get a bad infection. Yeesh. OK -- done with too much dental information hour.

Back to your regularly scheduled morning.

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Dentist, me no likey. I get scared they'll hurt me. Having said that, I have been through braces in the 80's, so I should be able to face up to anything !

And you don't look a day over 39! ;)

Ahhh, but my petal, you're only as old as the man you feel ! :evil:

Sanity is over rated

I know I'm exhausted when I keep reading Tiki Meet as Tiki Meat.

O'hana's anyone?

mmm Ohana. All the meat you can eat plus swanky tiki butt...

MmmMMmmmm.... I'm hungry... who wants to pay my teacher to let me out so I can get some food..... mmmm Ohana's

Is there a fire alarm switch in your classroom?

I'm looking around. I see a fire extinguisher. (My brain should be on fire... but alas, my brain could freeze the equator).. Hmm... I don't think they have one in here, or at least not that I can see. I expect that it is over there somewhere, but I can't be sure from where I'm sitting.

On a positive note: The teacher is being more proactive about us learning, even if it was slightly snitty at first (We wrote a program called Dummy... I think it was a thinly veiled insult at the class, though I fault her teaching skills...)

Oh well, class is almost over. Ay dios mio!

I'm going to bed - again - you know, the place where I live?

Now that the rain is over and it is warming up, my allergies are kicking my butt. I am repeating, "I will not get a sinus infection," over and over. Since I can't miss any more work I am praying it will work.

I'm feeling really very pukey and I'm spending a lot of time in the little room - I think I ate something bad :( :( :( I'm off to bed early ! :eek:

Today, I'm glad I took a sleeping pill last night, but I still feel like I'm sleepwalking. I'm trying my best not to have coffee. Decaf does not cut it at all.

Why is it I can't sleep at night in a comfy bed in a dark quiet room but I could fall asleep any time of day, anywhere? :mad: Especially after lunch; so hard to stay awake after lunch.

How is it possible that I already have every weekend and free Friday booked between now and mid-May? When will I find time to outline? When will I have time to finish sewing projects? Heck, when will I have a spare moment to myself?

But I now have a treadmill. I will now use the treadmill faithfully. It will make me slightly achy, but for my slight daily pennance will reward me with increased endurance, improved cardiovascular workings, less asthmatic wheezing, more energy to handle the booked weekends, and, last but definitely not least, smaller pants.

Okay, the treadmill doesn't exactly dispense pants (although the way I go through pants that would be superb), but it will allow me to aquire pants in smaller sizes that actually fit my entire butt.

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[\QUOTE]With apologies to Michael Stipe

Lie
in the place where you live
now face the pollow
think about sleep
wonder why you haven't recently

That's so awesome. I joined 24 hr. Fitness just so I can do the same. Which is where I just came from & of course before bed I needed some LOT

After reading for the last 2+ hours, I went outside and had my final ciggie of the night. I played a bit with PoohDog (he is 1 hyper doggie). I will now watch a bit of the news, enjoy my Sprite and head for bed.


On a rather sad note, Sniff had another seizure Thursday afternoon. Nickolas had her out when it began. He brought her to me as it really hit. She ended up slicing my hand up pretty bad. A trip to urgent care and a tetnus shot later, things are ok. I am just glad that it was me she bit and not him. I honestly think she has a brain tumor...there is no other explanation. Twitch eats and inhabits the same space as Sniff, and she is a roly poly fur ball. I am prepping Nick for the future, he is handling it all very well (he, of course, didn't see the blood gushing from my hand).

I think I'll go to Disneyland tomorrow.

It's my nephew's 7th birthday.

I wish there were "Golden Ears" already so I can get him one... :(

Just found out via the mailer that the golden ears are going to be 10 bucks a pop, $9.50 for kid's size. After reading this we were trying to remember what normal ears cost, but it's been so long since we've purchased any. If I were forced to guess I'd say $7.50? :confused:

I'm trying to figure out how to explain staggered lunches to my co-workers. We're supposed to go at least 20 minutes apart. One left 5 minutes ago, one left 2 minutes ago. Now I'm stuck for another 40 minutes. I'm hungry! :(

I saw a kid with a Gold Ears on today at the park. I almost commited a felony.
:evil: Apparently they were giving them out to kids who perform in the park.

Anyway, rode Buzz 5 times and got into the sneak preview of the new & improved Playhouse Disney. :snap:

The time is now 1:03am and I am the only one the LoT!!!

I have the whole board to myself!!:p

Gosh I'm such a loser and now it's time for me to got to bed.

Getting ready to clean up mold.

And crap.

This is shaping up to be an exciting day.

(Eyes well up with redness and tears -- I'm so allergic!)

I'm off to clean out Pudge~my children's lovely name for my Suburban.

Then I'm going to get my nails done...and picking up the kids at noon...and

heading to Phoenix for the weekend!


Kat has her first cheerleading competition! I'm terribly nervous for her!

She's the flyer! Meaning she's the one that goes up into all the big stunts!

She's in white on top!

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Kat's a very brave girl- good luck to her and the team! (And to you, too, Baileykat!)

Thanks WB! I'm gonna need it! I'm not sure what's worse...performing or watching helplessly from the stands!

I think I'll pack the Valium! :rolleyes:

Watching helplessly in the stands is far worse. I'm a nervous wreck during dance recitals- I can't imagine how nervous you'll be! (Valium time for sure!)

So, I was lying in bed this morning, having hit the snooze for the 4th and final time realizing that, while tomorrow is Saturday, I have to get up early to participate in an all day workshop. Furthermore, Sunday, I'll be getting up early for Muse Adventure> The day off I planned for Monday had to be cancelled, as my part of the project suddenly became part of critical path - we meet in the morning. Hoping next week, I can sleep in.

I'm wondering why I am up so dang early. I took today off to get stuff done. I guess that's a good reason to be up so dang early.

On the list today:

Homework
Homework
Clean (for a break)
Homework
Hair Cut
Homework
Homework
Clean (for a break)
Homework
Date
Sleep

(for those of you who don't know, my office is in the Sheriff's Dept training facility) -

Soooo.... I'm standing by the coffee machine a few minutes ago, and I hear from the adjacent room "TASER! TASER! TASER!" Zzzzzaaapppp!
I know it's just training, but it's one hell of a way to start the morning...

It's snowing here. I'm leaving to get on a plane in a few hours. Can I say how happy I am to not be here for this snow filled weekend?

I'm goiong back to studying in just a few. Just when you think you have a decent vocabulary you find out that there's a whole other strange language out there.

Anyways, I'm behind. I test next Friday and I still have a LOT to go through. Plus, cats keep sitting on me an making me want to sleep. Oh well, I can always re-take, right> That flu kicked mu butt and I am not the quick study I usually am.

I was gonna have fun with this, but decided to leave it alone :evil: