:eek: Hope you feel safer soon.

This is the 1,500th reply on this thread. :cheers:

No, the idiot forgot to lock it last night. He wouldn't have even looked for the remote (he uses the keypad next to the door), but he said the inside of the car smelled like cigarettes. Nothing else was missing from his car, just the remote.

He talked to Carl (next door neighbor) who said he thought he had heard PoohDog barking around 2:30. I don't remember hearing him, but I bet that is what woke me up. David had asked me if I had gone outside for a cigarette when I got up. I didn't rememeber doing that at the time, but I did. Because of the black widow infestation in the patio I turn on all of the lights back there when I smoke. That is probably what spooked the guys off. Imagine being up to no good and all of a sudden there are lights everywhere.

Prudence is now the official LoT doctor- and if she screws up, she can sue herself!;)

MG- glad things are okay, but doesn't it just piss you off to no end that some creep was rummaging about in your car?
Here's your tea :coffee: and chocolate:

A doctor AND a lawyer? Sounds like a new gripping drama...

Soooo....I've allowed my bangs to grow long so that I no longer have to tweeze my eyebrows. Yes, I am that lazy. :blush:

Soooo....

I've been MIA for a couple of weeks (about 1,380 posts worth). After my computer being on (with occassional restarts for SW updates) for about a year and a half straight, I decided to shut it down when we went away for a long weekend. When we got back, it wouldn't turn on.

After much futzing, I got it to start up... sort of. I don't remember the specifics, but it wasn't good (that much I remember).

Finally got it down to a problematic hard drive or corrupted directory. After running three different disk recovery programs, one of which ran about a half dozen times, taking about 36 hours to "rebuild" the directory each time, I gave up. Installed a new HD. Somehow, I f-ed up the power switch during the drive swap (not the power SUPPLY; the stinkin' switch!).

So, after a $90 visit to the computer doctor, I got my computer back on Monday. I put the old hard drive in an external case and have been extracting all my files from it. So far, I have beeen able to restore all my email messages and bookmarks. I've re-installed most of my programs. I just need to find all my MP3s and the Disneyphile/Frodo Potter engagement video (seems I spelled her name wrong - duh!).

So this evening, after the frustrating end to the Angels game this evening, I didn't have the patience for any more forensics this evening. Soooo....

I'm back.

Sorry!

So -- second Friday in a row I have rearranged my schedule to be home for furnace maintenance. Second week in a row I get stood up. Last week, they called me 15 minutes before my appointment to say they were too busy to keep that appointment, then hung up on me. So I called a second guy. Appointment today for 4. Hubby calls at 4:30 to see what's up. Second furnace guy forgot. And not only is he not willing to come right out, he's not willing to do it evenings or weekends and waive his surcharge. Even though it's his mistake. So in two weeks we go with furnace company #3...

Well...today we moved Dawn into her new house. Last night David was over there moving some stuff for her and she kicked him out, saying that she was having a "girls only" party. Today he found out that it was not girls only. The guy that was trying to score with either her or her step daughter, a guy that was forbidden to be around their house, a guy that Dawn was seen out in public with, a guy that we all think she had an affair with, who hates her kids, was also at the party. She had told me that they had talked last night, but on the phone. She never told me that he had come over. David found out that he was there last night and he got so upset that he came up to me and said that we are leaving NOW.

She is out of control. She has bills 1-3 months past due, but she went out and bought all new livingroom furniture, a new computer desk and a new dining room set. I am now sorry that I had given her money. For the first time in her life she has freedom but does not know how to handle it. At least I know why she hasn't been calling me for the last week; I would have called her out on her behavior.

I feel bad, but I can no longer be involved with her. My marriage means more to me than that.

Good for you for making that decision!
She's (obviously) going through a tough time, but handling it very poorly.
Here's to staying strong for you and YOUR family during this tough time.

Sooo...

I've been freaking out because I'm nearing the 3 year anniversary of my car accident, which also means I'm nearing the glorious, yet terrifying statute of limitations. Yes, the accident was my fault and I pushed a car into another car. (I was applying the brake quite forcefully (due to another accident up ahead that had just happened and we were all slamming on our brakes), but apparently I'd already locked the brakes and the car refused to stop.) But everything that could go wrong after that did.

I broke my arm in the worst possible way (used it as an air bag) and it took forever to heal. (Although I did regain full motion, and I wasn't supposed to.) I went to traffic court and the judge was an old college buddy of the front car's driver. The front guy's insurance company reported me to the state as an uninsured driver AFTER my insurance company had already settled with them. The state sent the notice to some ancient address of mine (why do I bother with change of address forms? And yes I sent the special DoL form, too) and so I didn't have notice my license was *suspended* until I went to renew it and learned I'd been driving on a suspended license for 6 months. Getting the suspension revoked took forever because the first person at the DoL said I had to get the other driver's insurance company's permission to lift the suspension, and the insurance company swore at me, called me every name in the book, and hung up on me. (Turns out I just needed to fax over proof that I was insured at the time, plus a copy of the police report showing that I did provide my info at the time.)

Meanwhile, the middle driver *was* uninsured. And decided to sue me. For lots and lots of money. I had a pretty damn big policy, but she wanted more. And apparently she tried to claim everything that had every happened to her. Her first attorney refused to continue with the case. Then nothing for awhile from the second attorney. Finally I had Ryan call my insurance company (I was too freaked out) and not only has this woman been in a really really bad accident since the one I caused, but she's now dead. Deceased. Not-my-fault deceased.

And it's really really morbid, but I'm so relieved I can't even describe it. I mean, it was my fault (in the I caused it, not in the I deliberately was a bonehead sense) and that's why I had a big policy -- to financially protect myself should such a thing happen. And of course she (now her estate) should be compensated for her injuries. But she had for some reason decided she wanted to take me down and it's just been a near constant source of stress for me. I won't even drive any more unless I absolutely have to. I can barely tolerate riding in cars. But she's dead. And the estate could still sue me, but without a live client it's not so likely.

On a much lighter note --

In some moods I free associate songs. Ryan says I'm basically a live sampler. So, last night I was going through different musical genres and stopped briefly on the Immigrant Song. Like most people, I have no idea what the words are, so I mostly just do the howl-y bit. And every time I did that, Boris would howl back -- in tune! That kitty does a mean Robert Plant. It was pretty funny.

The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying:
Valhalla, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green,
Can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
We are your overlords.
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now you’d better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing.

Or, if you're Boris, "Mrrrrooooow, ow!"

I have no plants in my house. Do you all think I should buy some? My mom always had plants around...

So, I'm trying not to let panic set in. While I very diligently confirmed serveral months ago that our passports had not expired...I didn't even THINK to notice that Jen's still has her maiden name!!! PLEASE let that + marriage certificate be good enough :(

When are you leaving? You may want to call and get an appointment at a passport agency ASAP. The closest one is LA, and it serves people traveling within 2 weeks. (The site says within two weeks, so if you do need to get it changed, you won't be the first people to need that and the agency is prepared to help you.)

You have to make an appointment and the number is 1-877-487-2778 (automated appointment number).

You will have to pay extra fees for expediting service, but not for the appointment.

Get an appointment if only for the peace of mind.

Relax, you're going to France - just tell them she is your mistress

We leave TOMORROW! CP has the afternoon off. She'll be figuring out wtf we need to do.

Eeeep! Well, hopefully it will be okay. Collect all the identifying documents you can get your hands on and we'll all hope for the best.

Hmm, so that's stress. Me no likey stress.

Well, after a morning of calls and running around on CP's part, we think we've got some peace of mind. Too late to get an appointment downtown for the Passport center. Airline's not allowed to change the name on a ticket once it's issued. Person answering phones for the passport department knows that they'll accept a marriage license in this situation for Canada/Mexico, but isn't so sure about France.

We were able to find CP's OLD ss card, but not her new one. So she was able to go in and get a printed, certified document with her new name and her number.

But the real good news was that after being given the run around by the French Embassy ("This is the DC office, call your local office." "We're the local office, call the DC office." "This is the DC office, we won't talk to you." "No one's here at the local office until 2pm."), CP FINALLY got through to someone who said they were 100% sure that the passport + marriage licesne would work. I can live with that. I still won't be comfortable until we're on the plane. Check that, until we successfully clear out of CDG airport. But I'm feeling better.

Mr. Zapppop had a good idea. The first people that we'll have to convince of this are the airline people. They'll probably be the easiest. Hopefully, once they agree that she is indeed who she is, they will print her boarding passes for both flights with her maiden name. Then, from there on out, everything matches, no explaining to do. That'd be far easier than trying to expalin the situation to someone in Paris that may or may not speak English very well.

Ugh.

OY VEY GD!

Mr. Zapp had a great idea. :D I hope it works!

Enjoy your trip and have a Fantasmic time!

Yes! I hope this sorts itself out soon!!

I should be at home, curled up on the couch with a good book and a cup of tea. Instead I'm at work. Working hard ;)

Can someone tell me what color shoes go with chocolate brown cords? Chocolate brown shoes? Black? White? Black and white with red all over?

YAY! Glad it looks like it's going to work out.

Oh, and virtually everyone you encounter in Paris will speak English anyhow. Particularly anyone involved in international travel/customs. Have a blast! Eat good food!

Flourescent green

Banana slippers.

I tend to go for offbeat color combinations, so I'd say nearly anything goes with Chocolate brown. I mix browns like they're black. A really nice look, if you're not going anywhere too messy, would be cream colored shoes.

But I'm a fan of anything that is either a little bright, or light in color. You probably wouldn't want to have any dark color that isn't black, and blacks with browns don't look so good unless there's something to lighten it up, like a cream or a white, or again bright color, IMO.

I'd really love to find a great pair of brown pants.

You know, I've had a thing for brown and black together lately. Black pants, brown sweater and brown shoes. Brown skirt, black sweater, brown and black herringbone stockings, black shoes.

I love it - and it makes my life so much easier.

Orange like the ones I was wearing during Sunday's MA. :) Those are my new fall shoes to go with all my browns and oranges.

Coulda been me:

Ha ha! Stupid kid.

:D

Thanks everyone. I shall go shopping in my closet once again and see what I have to go with the pants.

Gap. Chocolate brown cords, boot cut stretch $19.99.

I'm :evil:. I'm responsible for Mrs. mhrc4 ending up with two pairs (in differnet colors). I was able to resist since I didn't like the other colors.

So, apperently I lack the skills to fix the lock on the back gate. I thought my improvised use of used brick as a bludgeoning tool might do the trick, but alas I was wrong and there's a trip to Home Depot in my future.

You require the talents of a skilled Meatsmith.

:D

Yesterday was very productive in the Mousey house. David "borrowed" our neighbor's spare remote for the garage door, and all is working and reprogramed. He is no longer allowed to have a remote in his car (since he has issues keeping his car locked). He also managed to mow the front yard and seed it with winter rye. I managed to do a half-assed clean up of the living room to keep him happy and to keep Nickolas from having any of his Yu-Gi-Oh cards tossed.

Nickolas left to go to a friend's house only to show back up 10 minutes later to ask if he could go to the hockey game. After making sure that he WAS invited and didn't just invite himself I told him he could go. He went back over there a happy camper. Then he came back 15 minutes later to tell me he was asked to spend the night (these are the same friends he spent the weekend with after Jimmy's incident). Of course I told him he could go. At 5 my house was invaded by little boys trying to decide what Game Cube games needed to accompany him. I got him changed into warmer clothes, gave him a pillow and he was off.

David and I went to a BBQ at Dawn's new house. She and David made peace (bad scene last weekend) so things are much better in that area. We got home and enjoyed some "us" time. He went night night and I have been awake ever since. I think I ate too much and my tummy isn not used to red meat. I mostly cook chicken around here and we had tri-tip for dinner.

Hoepfully I will be able to get some sleep today. hehehe One of the things on David's self made list is to clean the kitchen. If I go back to bed it should be clean by the time I wake up (if I time it right). :evil:

So...I have completed my Christmas shopping for my neices. Tuesday I will take my mom to Target so she can complete her shopping for the girls and Nickolas-she has everyone else taken care of already. Friday a friend is going with me to Santa Clarita to the Disney store so that I can get Nick's Santa present, 3 Premium AP's for next year. I didn't want to order them online so I went on a search for the closet Disney store. Santa Clarita is an hour closer than Fresno-which for some odd reason surprised me.

I already took care of his main Christmas present from us (Mario Party 7 for GC) and his b-day present (Pokemon game for GC). Now all I need to get him is some small stuff and he will be done. I have been getting him stocking stuffers since August.

I think I am going to get David a Robopet or Roboraptor for Christmas. Last year I got him the Robosapien.

My parents are pretty easy. They get pissy if we do too much so they will end up with some edible goodies.

I have to wait to shop for the inlaws until after Thanksgiving, when we get their lists.

Now the challenge is going to be NOT getting my neices anything else.

You finished your Christmas shopping?!?

Wadda ya psycho or sumthin?!?

You finished your Christmas shopping?!?

Wadda ya psycho or sumthin?!?

So the third time's the charm, and this time the furnace guy actually showed up. (Third company - I didn't give the first or second one's another shot at lousy service.) A personable fellow who talked my ear off for 90 minutes. Wasn't a bad was to spend an afternoon. He kept bringing up current events being discussed on the LoT, which gave me a weird sense of deja vu. (Is it still deja vu when one conversation is face to face and the other is virtual?) I think scaeagles has a doppelganger working up here doing heating and air conditioning.

Sort of, but not with this. Once it really hit home that I would be out of a job by Christmas-one way or another, I started looking for sales and small stuff to get Nickolas. Then I started planning things out and budgeting. Then my mom got a burr up her butt about wanting to get everything done RIGHT NOW, so it got me started. Since I do most of her shopping and plotting for her I picked stuff up for me as well. I usually do this for her every year, but with her eyesight declining and the kids needs getting more and more technical it is just easier this way. The main difference is that since we owe The Old People $5400 for our a/c unit, I am not taking any money from her and just writing it off of what I owe. They refuse to take any cash from us, so this is also my way of paying them back.

So, today my boss (dept. administrator) calls me at 8am to warn me that there's email waiting for me telling me that the department chairperson (as in, the person I'm "assistant to" is in the hospital and critically ill. So now we wait to see what the next 48 hours brings.

I'm sorry to hear that, Prudence! Do you know what the problem is?

Something pneumonia-like. Is anyone here in the Scotsdale, AZ area?

Just you and 202,704 other Scottsdalians

I meant, are any LoT'ers in or near Scottsdale?

I believe we share aborder with Arizona, does that count as near?


Soooo.... I had to get a one liner in before the site goes down - take it away GD....

So, it appears winter will strike sometime late this evening: Winter stormage.

Crap! Looks like I'll have a day to stay inside and put up Christmas stuff, I guess.:rolleyes:

I've already got one complaint from a neighbor, and I've only put up 1/10th of the Christmas lights...

Of course, this comes the one day I really have to be at work because we're running a faculty interview, the chair's gone, the committee's now indifferent, and I'm left holding it all together for this great candidate that every other university with sense is recruiting, heavily, and it's *my* responsibility to put on a good show. Ish.

Damn snow. Better not happen!

So, we were supposed to go to Disneyland today, but spent the day at home, tending to the cats instead. It was a good day indeed.

I'm a Peetnik!

YAY!

They never called.

It happened.:(

How'd the West side fare? Our roads are a mess, and we're supposed to get another storm tomorrow.

YahOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was so nervous about saying the right thing. May you have many sucessful and caffinated years there!

Can you IM me some coffee? I have 7 pages to write and it's 11:45pm.

Hoooray!!! I also didnt want jinx you. May many people put that extra quarter in the tip jar!

Not too bad. We had some snow yesterday at 2am when I woke up and peeked out the window, but it turned to rain by the time I got up. Then, as we were leaving, it turned back to snow. It was too damp for accumulation, though.

But the real reason it didn't snow is because I created a detailed snow plan to handle the faculty interview in case I couldn't make it in. The next scheduled potential snowfall is at the end of the week. I don't work Friday, so I've made no in-case-of-snow plans. Therefore, I'd say Friday looks real likely for west-side snow.

Wendy, do you get very many snow days over there? I can only remember one in the last 5 years here and it was for icy conditions up in the hills, not snow. I half hoped for one today with all the snow, but at the same time I didn't need the extra kids around :)

They never called, Lisa? Hmm, seemed like they contacted the rest of the planet - Oh well :) They may have discriminated, because I listed you as a "co-conspirator"... LOL, BTD, guess you must have said the right thing. I know they also called my last place of employment and they gave a good reference.

I'm liking it so far. YAY!

And Peet's... mmm... Peet's....

I'm not sure, Brigitte- we homeschool, so I don't pay any attention to that. However, when Tori did go to public school, I don't remember any snow days, even though we had lots of snow at times. Today, the news said busses were running late, but schools were open.

Ours weren't even running late today, all on time. I dread the afternoon commute though by looking at the snow falling right now :(

OK; I give.

WTF is a Peetnik?

Does this mean you are no longer working in the exciting and fast-paced world of Dentistry?

I think it's something akin to Starbucknik-ness.

Can one take something for it? Penicillin maybe?

It is something far better than Starbuckiness, in fact, I question my ability to drink Starbucks again, unless there are no ther choices (being CBTL, or Deidrichs)

Soooo...

Anyone else ever wake up from a night of such unsettling dreams that they run a brief limb check to make sure they haven't been tranformed in their beds into a giant insect? Just me? Figures.

No more Kafka for you

I gotta start leaving the room when I feed baby mice to the dragons. I hate doing it (feeding mice) as it is, but the sounds I hear are just repulsive.

Awwww...Not even if I ask nicely and stuggle against bureaucracy?

Have you seen 'Brazil'?:D

Well there might be a trial, but you wouldn't want to end up in the Penal Colony/

Soooo....

The con law final sucked so hard I don't even have words to describe it. Yea, verily, it sucketh. Suckethed? Ish.

130 True/False statements that tested my recall of trivial minutia mentioned in passing.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

One more left - damn admin take-home final. I want to finish it Thursday evening so I can drop it off Friday morning and celebrate my birthday with a nap.

Sooo.......

We have a New Years Eve party that came to an end aroud 9:00 PM yesterday and I climb into bed at 11:00 delighting in the fact that I can sleep in as Today is a holiday for me....

And I get up at 5:00 AM! Despite my best efforts to go back to sleep, I'm out of bed by 6:00, sipping coffee wodering if this afternoon I'll be taking a nap.

No doubt, I will have a hard time getting up for work tommorrow.

So it's January 2nd - and I'm already getting spam trying to sell me stuff for Valentine's Day...

We woke up around 11:30 this morning. Thankfully the cats let us sleep.

Woo hoo, 12 hours of sleep! :D :D :D Slept until 11pm so sleep tonight may be tough, but I don't care.

It absolutely poured today as we watched the Rose Parade on DVR. I think I'll go make some tea.

I can't believe I go back to my normal work schedule tomorrow. Ah well, today is a nice relaxing wind-down.

Wow, she's slept so much that she's sleeping into the future!

So, I did get to take a nap today - it was good, actually it's been a great lazy day so far - I think this really needs to be a 2-day Holiday.

Where are my house elves and why haven't they done the dishes?

So I'm typing a report on Excel today and I accidentally hit paste. Guess what I pasted onto the report?

"You must spread some Mojo around before giving it to Cadaverous Pallor again."

See what happens when you LoT at work?

:D

Soooo...

After a morning of actually working and going to meetings, I get to my cubical at about 11 and see my voicemail light blinking at me. The office at our apartment complex had called at 9 saying they needed permission to enter our apartment. That can't be good. I call back and it turns out our downstairs neighbors are getting a water leak and they think it might be coming from our apartment. So of course I give them permission to go in. I also snuck out at 11:30 for an early lunch so I could get home and take a look for myself.

Well, by the time I get there (now nearly 3 hours after the office originally called me), it seems as if no one's come by. They always lock the deadbolt and leave a note when they do, neither had been done and nothing in the apartment looked touched. Meanwhile, the good news is that there were no visible signs of problems in our apartment. I was afraid I'd come home to find that the shower faucet had burst and flooded a whole room or something.

Of course, that probably means there's a busted pipe in the wall or something and it's going to require them to tear into the walls and drive us nuts for weeks on end. But thank God none of my stuff is wet!

So if the last decade (199x) was "the nineties" and the decade before (198x) was "the eighties," what do we call the current decade (200x)?

The naughties?

The naughts. (???)
The two thousands?

A very good question...
:)

The Zeros

Millenios.

That sounds like a breakfast cereal

Actually, in Y2K, they started putting "2"s in Spaghetti-Os and called them Millenios. But I had started calling the decade the Millenios long before that myself.

People are already saying "back in oh-two" so I predicted it'll be "the ohs". I'm more interested in whether 2010-2019 will actually be called "the teens".

After over a year the Mousey house gets to head back to the southland for DLR fun next weekend!!! I tried so hard to go this weekend, but it was not meant to be... I am thrilled to have our APs back and can't wait to break them in.

Oh, on a side note, I get to go to Employer's Training Resource on Wednesday and then to a job search thingy on Thursday. bleh. But maybe this will help me gert out of the doghouse I have been in since I quit.

So. It's the first day of the semester and I'm already behind schedule. And for some reason I thought my final article draft was due in May, when in reality it's due early March. This is a problem! Grrrr.

If it wasn't for the last minute rush, I would never get anything accomplished!

I played the song "Only" by Nine Inch Nails really loud - and found out that the neighbors autistic nephew responds REALLY well to it. He's putting his hands on the subwoofer, and has a look on his face that is priceless. I think he's gonna be over here quite a bit, if music is a spark for him.

So the in-laws are in town for the weekend and I'm half-drunk. With a little luck I'll be whole-drunk soon. Here's to me.:cheers:

thanks kevin.


I'll know I've had too much to drink when your avatar no longer freaks me out.


Not there yet.

Is it my imagination, or is there a bat in Kevy's cave?

Sac, here ya go::cheers:

Okay, I'm going crazy trying to figure out the name of a song. I'm hoping someone will understand my ramblings and be able to tell me what song it is.

It's a trip-hop kind of song with a sort of chorus with a woman singing "love ya" over and over in one part. I think it's been used in an episode of CSI, but I'm not sure.

Anyone have a clue what I'm talking about?

No.

And why are you still awake?

Sooo...

Yesterday, we learned something new about our Beardies. They have two penises!

Well, the males have do; not the females.

Two penises.

How very bizarre.

We found out because we reported something to our rep specialist. The male (Draco) that mated with and impregnated the female (Scarlett) that laid 26 eggs last month, attempted to mate again when we put them back together (again was successful as we are waiting for her to lay another clutch of eggs as I write this). After one attempted mating, to which I was unfortunately a witness to - something I didn't to see, I noticed a little blood on Scarlett's hind quarters and tail. Upon looking further, I noticed some blood around Draco's groin, except in higher concentrations. I was able to determine that it was coming from him, especially since he was walking gingerly and keeping pressure off that area.

He ended up okay (which we ascertained by the check-up). But he has two hangy-down thingies! A living double-dildo.

Is there a reason for this? We need a Nature's Wonderland episode here.

More importantly - are the two penises different in anyway? I imagine the benefit of having two wanes if they're identical - unless of course, one is prone to loosing them.

Or, they could be of two different ComfortSizes (tm) to fit whichever lady comes along. "Never worry about being under- or oversized again!"

TWO peni!?!

Draco is one damned lucky dude.

if i had two i'd be as happy as a puppy with two peckers...but, then i'd probably never get any housework done.



(is he gonna be ok? blood is not supposed to happen, right? or does he get kinky when he gets his freak on?)

It certainly would make threesomes interesting...

One thing I did find was:Other than that, I have no idea why two. I guess there are several other reps (including some/many snakes) with hemipenes.

He is fine. We checked him out (you have to gently force them out one at a time) and all looks okay. More of Draco than I actually wanted to see, but we did need to make sure.

He is looked depressed right now - Scarlett (his girlfriend who is off to lay eggs) has been away for a couple of days now.

We talked to our rep guy who has Scarlett. She dug a hole this morning and crawled down into it, but didn't lay any eggs. Probably by tomorrow.

Talk about showing up late for a party...

I just watched 'Serenity' the other night on DVD. It's really good. I like it! Now I'm going to watch the show called 'Fire-something' on DVD. I hear it's good, too.

D'oh!
:D

He's got a Hemi under the hood....no, make that two! :cool:

So, I don't mean to brag, but,

between Wilt Chamberlain and I, we've slept with 20,002 women!

How weird. We missed Serenity in the theaters and bought it the first day it came out. We decided that the best way to watch it was after a week-long reviewing of the entire series. Moments ago we finished watching the movie (like, literally - the outtakes are rolling now). We love Whedon, but I feel sad.

We just got through the first DVD of the set. Fox (I think it was Fox) was insane for cancelling that show. The show is phenominal. Whedon rocks. :)

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I'm so totally day dreamy today. It's uncontrollable. My mind's wandering all over the place at work. Can't focus. :)

So, I did my good deed for the day. I stopped at the bank at lunch. On my way in from my car, a young blind gentlemen in front stopped me and asked if I saw a cab waiting around anywhere. I did not, and told him as much.

I went in, handled my banking needs for the afternoon, and came back out to see the blind (and likely frustrated) gentleman still outside with no taxi to be seen (or heard).

But as I headed for the exit of the parking lot, drving around to the back of the building, I saw a cab parked, the driver kinda sitting there looking around. So I pulled up and asked if he happened to be waiting to pick someone up, perhaps a blind someone. He was indeed. The driver told me he had originally dropped the dude off back there. Guess there must have either been a misunderstanding, or the poor guy just couldn't see that he was on the wrong side of things. But I felt good for having righted the error and gotten him on his way. :)

So, why do I have Leo Sayer's "When I Need You" stuck in my head. It's not like I heard it today. It just came to me and it won't get out.

back when that song was getting airtime i flew to London in the same first-class cabin with Leo. we didn't chat, but, Sir Alec Guiness and i did.:)

Name Dropper!! ;)

Name Dropper Namer!! :D

ttthhhpppttt!!! :p

I suppose I should have finished my homework before starting in on the frosty beverages.

We actully saw 2 really good films this weekend - Walk the Line and Match Point. I can't believe we actually made it to the theater - twice.

My question is WHY do people think it is OK to talk through a film in a theter? It boggles my mind. It isn't your frickin' living room adn we're NOT your friends and don't care what youhave to say. Go home, take notes, whatever you must do, just SHUT THE HELL UP!

TYVM.

Soooo, thoughts of the day...

1) If you like to go to Disneyland when it is packed, you can't beat Super Bowl Sunday.

2) Likewise, if pointless walking is your thing, may I suggest walking all the way to the animation building in DCA (From IASW, no less), only to find that they are no longer showing the Walt Disney movie. (I could have sworn that I had just heard that they had re-shot the opening, replacing Eisner with Julie Andrews but apparently the whole thing is gone).

3) I wonder if they will ever build another attraction that comes close to matching the overall visual beauty of Pirates.

4) Riding the monorail in the reverse direction through DCA, then dropping straight into the Tomorrowland station, without going around the Matterhorn first is very strange.

Did you at least check out Turtle Talk with Crush, the attraction that replaced it?

WTF! you've got to be kidding me.

UUHGG! can't WAIT till i run the place.


@#*%^#$@!

The Walt movie has been gone for quite some time. It was gone for the 50th - 07/17/05. I went and saw Crush at that time. That was the last time I was at the park. Okay, actually the 18th was the last time I was at the park...

Actually, we didn't. I'm sure it's cool and all but we were really looking forward to seeing the Walt movie.

We ended up riding Grizzly instead, which was kind of cool because inside the raft behind us was Whoopie Goldberg (Califia! ;))

I guess you can tell how often we go to DCA. :)

Ah, DCA! It's like going to see a best friend but instead of visiting their beautiful estate you end up at the neighbor's unfinished shack.
:D

I think they're showing the revised intro to the story in the area where Walt's office is.

(Runs, ducking, from both the grammar police and those that are still irritated at the 'borrowing' of the office)

So, today I was reading one of my Company's monthly HR publications, and one of the articles was a reminder that we were not allowed to bring our firearms to the work place - that we would be terminated if we did. It went on to tell us what we should do if we accidentally brought our guns and left them in our car.

I of course am wondering why this is suddenly getting the attention of our internal press that normally reminds us about investing in our 401(k) and changes in vacation or attendence polcies.

On the other hand, I suppose I could rant about my 4th amendment rights being taken away...

2nd

Perhaps it's a portent of bad news in next month's newsletter...wouldn't want anyone armed when it's annouced that they've embezled all of your 401K funds.

yeah mostly I don't care much past the 1st ;)

How could you ignore the IXth amendment?!?



I have no f-in idea what that means.

It means, "just 'cause we didn't write it down, doesn't necessarily mean it's not a right."

This does 2 things. It allows the legislative branch to pass laws such as the Civil Rights Act without it being struck down by the Supreme Court on the grounds of, "It ain't in the Constitution, so it ain't Constitutional." Otherwise, such laws would have to be passed as amendments.

Secondly, it's what's invoked to justify one's implied "right to privacy".

Soooo....I just finished watching the home-game of Gonzaga vs Stanford, and I just wanted to extend my condolences to the Stanford alumni that I know to frequent these boards.

:D

sooooo.... i must be doing something right.

i was called into the office today for a meeting.

got yet another promotion (2nd in three months- not counting the one i turned down)

and was told the BIG suits from up north will pay a visit this week.

cool, huh?:)

There is someone in my office that recently has been limping on his foot. He wants everyone to ask him why he's limping. I know this may sound mean, but I will never ask him.

So, I ran 3/4 of a mile yesterday. It's not much, but it represents the longest uninterupted distance I've run in, oh, 13 years, ever since I discovered I had developed exhertional asthma after collapsing about 3/4 of the way through a mile in PE. It took something like 10 minutes (hardly the 6:18 mile pace I was running 14 years ago), and I paid for it with an evening of asthmatic coughing fits. But it's still a pretty significant accomplishment. I should be able to make a mile by the end of the week.

Now, imagine what I could do if I manage to lose this extra 20 pounds hanging around.

I have asthma, too. I don't know if it's exhertional, though.
I have to take Advair for it.

You'd think I could spell my own affliction..

Do you get spontaneous asthma attacks, or only when you exert yourself? Exertional asthma only affects me when I try to do any sort of aeorobic activity. I don't get sudden attacks, I just get short of breath quickly, and if I push too much, I get light headed and nauseated for a while and once that passes, I cough for a few hours. I have an albuterol inhaler. If I use that before I exercise, it extends the ammount of time I can go before I'm affected, and lessens the attack, but I gotta remember to take it 30 minutes before I start exercising. Last night, I actually didn't take it at all (I'm trying to build up my natural stamina).

No wonder I couldn't find it on Google. It kept asking me 'Do you mean exertional asthma?' And I'm all like 'No, stupid Google.' :D
The second one. Aerobic stuff kills me. But with the Advair (as long as I take it regularly) it doesn't affect me. I do keep an albuterol inhaler with me at all times. Just in case. I haven't used it in a long time. I go to the gym and do the treadmill and nothing happens. Before the Advair, I couldn't even think of doing it.

I have that, bad sinuses and Graskin's Malaloma. Other than that, I'm okay. :D

GD ~ You don't smoke cigarettes do you? I don't. I did it once for a film I was in and hated it. But that will totally make your asthma worse.

:)

I'm all the way up to 3 or 4 packs of cloves...per year (and out of those 3 or 4 packs, I must give a quarter of them to my firends, and lose another quarter of them).

I was fine until I was 14 when, after my 4th or 5th bout with bronchitis (twice turning into walking pneumonia), my lungs finally gave up.

I'll tell you one thing, though, it's definitely improved since moving to OC out of the smog-choked Valley.

This is a little off the subject of asthma, but my sinusitis improved after I moved from Honolulu to LA. I guess all the pollen did me in. My sinuses are even clearer in Boston. Weird.

Interesting......I just made a Dr. appt because my cold thingie is lingering in my upper respitory system but I only seem to cough - big time - at night. I have a feeling there's something else going on here. Asthma, I don't think so, but wouldn't it be funny if I was allergic to cats?

I will so laugh and point at you.

:( That would be tragic! But I'd probably still point and laugh along with Steph.

So is now the time to confess I actually am allergic to cats

You can have asthmatic bronchitis without having actual asthma. I have been dealing with it all freakin' winter. Every cold goes into my sinuses and I get a sinus infection. Each sinus infection ends with another round of the AB.

I got a call-back interview! w00t!

REALLY now! Friday should be an interesting day. I just want the thing OUT of my body! Oh, and I want my energy back.

YAY!!!!

When will school be over? I'm so tired. Looking and feeling ever so slightly like crap.

Delish!

2nd Interview!!! You rock Pru!

My doc thinks I may be, but I don't know and don't care- I'll always have kitties around me, even if I have to live on allergy meds.

I wuv my kitties.

Oh yeah, kitties stay.

I swear it's the full moon. I can't ever sleep during the full moon.

Must be the werewolf bite... :p

Soooooooo...
 

here I am in New Zealand. U2 shows postponed indefinitely...

I would get angry, but since it's probably due to what I think it is, I can't really get mad. I'm just disappointed.

So will you stay until they play?

How can you be angry in NZ? It's too beautiful to be angry there!!!!

I just finished a heap of work on my desk. Now I'm done. Now I have nothing to do. :D

So, I'm an uncle! :D

CP's brother's wife just gave birth to a healthy 8lbs+ baby boy a couple hours ago in Alaska. Yay!

CONGRATS!!!!!! Good news.


I'm in Santa Monica. My feet are on the desk. I'm a slob. But, I'm working.

Congrats, Uncle GD!!!!!!!:snap::cheers::snap:

Congratulations GD and CP!

Uncle Delight and Aunt Pallor.
:)
Congrats!

Congrats!

I'm at work, trying to find things to do to avoid going over the timesheets I need to submit tomorrow morning.

I hate tmesheets.

So...I am finally looking for a job. I went to an "orientation" tonight. It is in a call center, which brought back some really baaaad feelings. The pay is less than what I want, but there is a chance to earn bonuses. I have decided to go ahead and schedual an interview, but will continue looking. I also want to apply for the County, they have a mess of openings, but all require a typing test and I am not sure I am ready for that yet.

Dang it!! I sososoooo don't want to go back to work.

I'm getting a trophy! It's been almost 15 years since I've done anything that warranted a trophy!

Can I interest you in a Lucite Pyramid?

All I want to do right now is take a nap. After the 3rd phone call in 10 mins I have given up. The company I visited yesterday called me this morning and asked me to go in for an interview at noon today. I still have a lot of mixed feelings about it, but I am still interested.

The thought that keeps running through my head is that I have to put on makeup for the 2nd day in a row.

*sigh*

I'm trying to figure out how to get the slurper in the next cube to quit-it. It's disgusting to hear (and loud enough that headphones don't block it out).

LOL!!! I can totally relate. I used to work with a gum chewer. She chomped it like a cow chewing its cud. It bugged me and she was 3 desks away, I always wondered what her customers thought of it. The other peeve was the popcorn munchers. I hate the smell of microwaved popcorn.

... I'm wondering why women consider the ladies room to be another conference room. Every day this week I've walked in the ladies room to discover groups of women discussing work. Not the causal hellos said as you pass; all out discussions. We have 8 conference rooms and 4 empty offices. And the ladies room echos so you can hear it in the office. :confused:

what is bad is when someone is on the phone in the ladies room. :evil: I always make sure to flush a couple times so the person they are talking to knows where they are.

I actually took a phone call in a bathroom today. I have violated my own code of ethics.

Blue sour punch straws taste like Dawn dish soap smells.

There are people who would pay good money to be on the other end of that phone call.

How much do you pay?

REALLY?

I'm obviously missing lucritive opportunities here.

$20 - same as in town

My coworkers got me a Cheshire Cat garden statute as a going away present. Okay, it was Victoria who picked it out. She's one of the best people ever.

I have been searchin for 60s fashion photos to decorate my office and thought it cool to maybe have some Jane Birkin photos - only it seems Jane Birkin spent most of the 60s naked and unfortunately is not workplace safe.

Do a Google Image Search (NSFW link). While you will find lotsa NSFW images, there are a few work safe ones.

My coworker assaulted me this morning with a dangerous weapon. He should know better than to get within 5 feet of me with a Fry's ad...so now I figure he owes me the $35 I just spent.





btw, Fry's is selling a SanDisk 1GB USB flash drive for $35 after rebate. Retail price is $80

You owe me $35 now. :p

Hehehe... I thought I was the only one who calls the Fry's ads EVIL! My co-workers taunt/tempt me with them as well. Fry's is one of those stores where I enter planning to only buy "one" item, but walk out carry unplanned purchases--and a lighter wallet. :blush:

Is it an instant rebate or a mail-in rebate? I'm sick of not actually getting the mail-in rebates and no longer bother with those.

It's mail-in. In-store price is $53 (still a decent deal).

There's also a 256MB that's $8 after rebate. Dunno what the in-store is.

Sneezing my brains out, apparently.

I'm also deciding what to do tonight. For the whole shamrock thing, and all...

We did nothing last night. It was raining like crazy from about 2pm on. I laid down at 5ish and when I got up at 7 the backyard and part of the patio was under water. I would have loved tohave gone to Chuy's last night, but didn't want to deal with flooded streets, drunks and cops.

Drooling on my keyboard while my left eye twitches.

I'll have what she's having

Here's what to do in case your eyeball should pop out of it's socket...

Ya know, just in case. :)

Why aren't these available at DCA, it would be even more fun than it already is!

The only prob with those being sold at DCA is where you would go when you got the munchies since most of the eateries seem to be closed and the few that are open have huge lines.

From the article:
So, you get the munchies and cure them in one convenient step :D

Matt's post forced me to repost this gem:

Watching Wallace and Grommit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Excellent film, so comical! :cool:

Listening to the XTC Box set - Coat of Many Cupboards :cool:

Teavana's Azteca Fire tea is yummy.

Robitussin and Kahlua mixes pretty well...

Listening to some random jungle drum and base mix accompanied by the chirping of the 200 crickets I just bought today.

Soundtrack: Cardin Blue from the album "Very Live at Buddy's Place" by Buddy Rich

Reading:
"The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)" (Anthony Burgess)

So...Every morning, while Nickolas is getting ready for school I go online and check out the help wanted ads on our local newspaper and BakersfieldHelpWanted.com. I have responded to maybe 10. It looks like my resume is finally getting some attention. I just found out that one of the places I applied to is asking about me. I applied for a front office job at a local produce packing/shipping place. I know 2 people who work in the back office, one is Dawn and her boss used to work with me at SBC. Dawn was told today to let me know they got my resume and I shoud be hearing from them in the next day or 2. Best of all....it isn't call center work!!! I know not to get my hopes up, but it is frustrating waiting for the phone to ring. Yeah, it has only been a week since I started looking, but still the waiting is a pain in the butt.

I would love to go to the USH meet and be able to celebrate having a new job.

So my dad is having "minor" surgery in a few hours. He checked into the hospital yesterday after a few days of discomfort. He seems to have a skin infection called cellulitis, and he had elevated blood sugar levels (he's never been diabetic, hopefully it's just a side effect of the infection). They got him on an IV, antibiotics and insulin.

The surgery is to remove a patch of dead skin...right now I'm trying to forget the fact that after my mom told me he was in the hospital I looked up cellulitis and found that it happens to be the early stages of the flesh eating virus.

Dr House would say to lay off the internet. ;)

I'm sure everything will be fine. Dont worry yourself by reading too much, and everything will be great.

This is what BT had, I'm pretty sure, and he came through it with life and limbs intact, so I hope your dad has the same good fortune. IV antibiotics are the standard treatment, just so they get into the system faster/more effectively.

You know, if I told Ralphie about that, he'd think of nothing else for days.

I hope your Dad's surgery goes well. My best to him.
:)

Worrying is good. I find that 99% if the things I worry about never come true. I think it's all that worrying. ;)

I hope you're Dad gets better quickly.

Oh, how I wish that were true now...

Just got a call from my mom. My dad is NOT in good shape and it's his own damned fault.

See, it seems that, oh, 10 years ago his doctor DID tell him he had elevated blood sugar and was at risk of diabetes. At the time he was pretty significantly overweight. So he, of course, got all the imformation he could on diabetes and worked with his doctor to monitor it and keep it under control, right? Ha! No, he said, "I'll just lose the weight and eat less cake, I'll be fine." To his credit, he lost the weight with no trouble, but he never bothered to follow up and keep an eye on his blood sugar.

So here we are. Now, the other thing about my father is he patholigically avoids hospitals at all costs. So when he first started having symptoms over the weekend...he waited 3 days before saying anything and going in. Seems that had another 24 hours gone by, he stood a good chance of being dead (remember what I said about the early stages of the flesh eating virus?).

So now he's recovering from the "minor" surgery (I knew there was good reason to put "minor: in quotes) in a sensetive area that will require 3 months of recovery and plastic surgery in the form of skin grafts down the road. The think they've got it all, but won't know for sure for a couple of days (and this is where I try to forget about the article I read last week about the lady who, with the same infeciton, went from healthy to "we think we got it all when we amputated her leg" to dead in the span of a few days).

I'm a little out of it right now. Scared, and a little bit angry. Among other things, as my sister pointed out, how times have we answered questions from doctors and on medical forms in the past 10 years? "No, we have no family history of diabetes."

DAMN! I understand both your anger and fear. Sometime you just think a good slapping would help, but it's a bit late now.

Diabetes can be VERY serious when it comes to skin, circulation conditions. I hope that they ot in there early enough. I'm hopeing and praying that is the case.

GD- I'm so sorry; I know how you feel on many counts there. My mom wound up with acute pancreatitis and damned near died- spent 5 months in the hospital and is now a surgical diabetic. (Absolutely no pancreatic function, so she does two types of insulin and takes digestive enzymes). Brought it all on herself, and still engages in very risky behavior despite her tenuous health. Very worrisome and incredibly frustrating to stand by and watch such things happen, isn't it? I feel for you and wish you and your family all the best.

Very sorry to hear of this news. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to you and your family, GD. Please let us know if there is any way we can be of help.

So very sorry to hear of this, GD. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts.



This is a scary subject for me as well. My dad has been the victim of many self-inflicted medical problems over the years. Drinking too much, smoking too much, heaping salt on everything he eats (I'm serious, you cannot eat anything off his plate. Disgusting!), and on and on. I lecture him but it's in one ear and out the other with him. Though, to his credit, he did stop drinking. But only after his doctor told him quit drinking or die. My dad also pathologically avoids hospitals and doctors at all costs. He never changes any of his bad habits until he gets scared by a medical situation. Stubborn old goat.

Dammit, now I'm scared and all worked up.

I've been summarizing for people that he's suffering from "Stubborn Idiots' Disease".

By all other measures, the man's a certified genius. You'd think he'd know better...

Now, I need to go make an appointment to get a physical and have my blood sugar checked.

The surgery went okay?

:)

No news seems to be good news for now. I talked to my dad last night. He was groggy but as good as can be expected. It will be another day or so before we can be sure everything's stabalized, so it's all about waiting.

Hey GD,

Here's hoping everything goes well. It's way better to have him around to goof on his stubborn refusal to take care of himself than the alternative.

Many of us hit the snooze button when we get our wake-up call. It's a good that he gets a second chance.

My thoughts are and have been with you.

So far so good. White cell count is going down, which is a sign that the infection is going away, as is the return of his appetite. The doctor says the area around the surgery is already beginning to heal, and other than when they change the dressing, he's in no major discomfort. Stuborn twit even managed to get himself out of bed and into a chair without assistance today. The changing of dressings will be an issue though as the amount of pain is requiring adminstration of some drug or another which pretty instantly knocks him out...something he's quickly growing tired of. So we'll see.

Meanwhile, he's trying to figure out a way to read the diabetes literature he's been assigned to say that "17 grapes" can be substituded with "17 creme brulees". :rolleyes:

Thank you for the update GD.

Lol!!!

My mom and your dad would get along great, GD.

Glad he's doing better.:)

I just opened my job search email and found a note from the owner of www.sociallyyours.com . She would like for me to come in for an interview next week. I would be doing customer service and order writing. It sounds very interesting. I will also be going to an interview tomorrow for http://www.ppsc.com/ , but I am not sure about it at all.

Hey, when fishing, bites are good. They mean a fish may be about to take the hook.

I just got back from my interview. I guess it webt better than I thought. They want me to go back Monday for a final interview. I was only the 2nd person they asked back.

Congrats!!! Go for it!

LOVE my horoscope today!

Yes, wisdom.;)

Does this mean that scaeagles is off the hook for his cat comments?

:)

no.

I'm wiser than that. ;)

I just love the 91.

The why don't you just marry it?




Sorry, I was in the mood for a juvenile comment

:p

It wasn't too bad today. Actually had more traffic getting to the 241 then on any of the freeways. Must still be the Vegas offseason.

Today at 8:30 I go for my final interview with PPSC. Tomorrow at 10 I meet with the owner of Socially Yours. I just reread her ad and it is for a Customer Service/Order Writer Supervisor position. She had emailed me and asked me what my previous salary was, I was worried that the $25.62/hr had scared her away. I also found out that one of the other places I had applied for is NOT a good idea. They are going through mass walkouts right now and it sounds a lot like SBC, but for 9/hr I would not put up with that kind of stress.

Good luck!

Soooo......today I am sooooooo bored at work that a) I finally have time to post here again! and b) I'm thinking about getting up and brushing my teeth just to kill five minutes.

Oh, that's painfully sad...

So, about a minute after I posted that my boss came in and wanted to see me. I just got a MASSIVE promotion: 25% raise (!), new title, new furniture, etc. etc. etc....OMG!!!! Every day should be so dull!! :D

WOOHOO! Congratulations!

WOW! Good thing you didn't go brush your teeth. ;)

Congratulations!

I went to my interview this morning. I would LOVE to work for this woman. It is a small company that is expanding. It is right up my ally. Only 8 workers so no office politics to worry aobut. She was worried that she could not meet my salary expectations. When I told her (again) that I knew my ending salary at SBC was pretty much a thing of the past and that I was looking for around $15/hr (still really good for Bakersfield) she let out a sigh of relief and said that that was very doable. I should hear from her Thurs or Fri. I am supposed to hear from PPSC on Thursday, so when they call I will tell them I will let them know on Friday. I sosososooooo want this other job. The owner, who I interviewed with is so sweet and her product is absolutly beautiful, I can totally see myself working there, plus the hours are awesome-7:30-4 Mon-Fri!! I really want this!!! I want to be able to look forward to going to work!!

Ok, I am going to go take a nap. I stopped at Chuy's on my way home and need some zzz's before heading to Target later (don't need a DUI to jinx my day).

WTG MG!!!!!!!!

So, I'm working late (again) and want a snack from the vending machine...but it's freaking pouring and I don't wanna go to my car for the change (which I'm not even sure I have in there).

The freeway should be fun tonight when off to Hollywood we go.

There have been sirens going off around here all day. There are a lot of semi-flooded streets and gutters. I also noticed cops galore, Kern Sheriffs, CHP and BPD all over the place on my way home from my interview. I had just grabbed my cell to call my mom when I noticed a CHP truck behind me. Then I saw 2 BPD cars at the next intersection, but they were in a county pocket. Getting off the freeway I ended up behind an umarked cop car. It was nuts.

The park was very, very wet tonight. And I still am.

:)

kevyBaby was reported to be in the area.

So...

Dad's doing much better. A visit from the surgeon on Monday confirmed that the infection is going away, the surgery got everything it needed to get, and that the affected area was healing well. A visit from the plastic surgeon yesterday brought more good news in that they determined that they'd be able to begin the reconstructive surgery process today. This is good because it means he can start the recovery from that immediately, AND that there won't be a grizzly wound to go home with (which was the original assumption). It will make both his and my mom's life easier. I won't go into details of what's going to be done, it's pretty unpleasant. But progess is being made, and now the hope is that he can recover in time to not jeopardize his forthcoming retirement (he saved up 200+ sick days over 40 some-odd years to bolster his retirement, and now if he has to use more than 10, it means a cut in his retirement bottom line. Freaking irony).

And the best news of all is that when the surgeon saw him on Monday and reitterated the "You would have been dead in another 24 hours", it finally seemed to sink in what that meant. Hopefully that will finally serve as his wakeup call.

In other news, my Grandmother ended up in the hospital on Monday with pneumonia. Other than some anxiety attacks in the hospital bed, she seems to be doing okay now. I don't know how my mom's holding it together right now.

Good news with both your Dad and Grandmother. Give your Mom a hug and tell her it will get better soon.

Hugs to you and your whole family. And best wishes for speedy recoveries all around.

I really feel for GD's mom at the moment. She's a rock (on the outside at least) a real strong lady.

Soooo, I think I did the best I could at an interview today...hopefully I'll move up to the next interview, and on to the supervisor position I've been craving. It's definitely 50/50 at this point, so we'll see.

Good wishes heading your way CP!!

I got a call today from ACS. They had seen my resume online and wanted to interview me. I told her, "thanks but no thanks." She asked me what my concerns were. I had to tell her that after I replied I found out who they were. They do collection work. I remember hearing about them at Union meetings. I even ran into some of their employees at PPSC's open interviews on Saturday. Basically it is a worse invironment than SBC for $9/hr and no Union support. Heck, I left SBC to get away from the stress, I don't need to walk into it again.

In a zombie like state, but alot going on lately. :(

I just opened my email and.....i GOT THE JOB!!! The one I wanted at Socially Yours!! I start Tuesday. YEAH!!!!

Congratulations!!! :)

Mom's are amazing. Hugs all around to everyone is a good thing, glad to hear that things are going better.

Congrats, MG! :)

Congrats MG!

And good luck on the 2nd interview CP!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!:snap: :snap: :snap:

Tank You for all the good thoughts!!! It worked.

I love using the "Party Shuffle" of iTunes just to see what comes up. Gives me interesting sequences like:

1. Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat and Tears
2. Music (Hex Hector Remix) - Madonna
3. Mucho Tequila - Ursula 1000
4. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandel (from Deliverance)
5. Copacabana (Remix) - Barry Manilow
6. Change It (Live) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Your Retro Career Melted (Ursula 1000) - The Faint
8. Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks
9. Looks That Kill - Mötley Crüe
10. Tiki Room Barker Bird - Adventureland Entrance - Disney

I'm the only one at work today.





Everyone else is gone! Ha ha ha!




: Does a little dance.:




And you know what that means?




I can write something for Open Mic and torture you all.



Wahoo!

:D

Remix?!?!?!
You have a remix?!?!
I must have that... where's it from? How long... I must know.

This is a cool remix. I saw it on iTunes. The version I have is about 5 minutes...
:)

Cool, I'll go look, thanks!

Whee! In today's episode of cutting it awfully damn close, my tax return posted at midnight - with the final payment on our May WDW trip due today. After the cutting my salary because I won't work 60 hours in the office as receptionist incident, followed by the getting hit by a metro bus incident, followed by the raging infection medical bills, followed by the days BT had to take leave without pay due to said infection, our savings account was pretty well drained. And I really didn't want to have to charge it to the credit card I've been trying to pay off. And I didn't have to!

I've decided it's a sign that we really as supposed to go.

I think it's a sign, too. You must go!
:)

Surprisingly, I have TWO remix versions: one at 5:46 and one at 6:48. The one I was listening to was the 6 minute 48 second version.

So I took the day off from work to clean my house.. right?

Sure. I ended up buying this and I have to say that the relief I feel is amazing. :D

Sweet! I only managed to order shoes online. Nordy's has free shipping!

Sooo...now that I'm remarried, my initials are: EW. Gotta love it! I want to deliberately make errors everywhere so I can put my inits all over the corrections...:D

Purdy car!!

Nick & I just got home from a morning trip to DLR. The ride down was a bit harry. Right before the 14 merges into the 5, CHP passed us, hit his lights and started doing a round robin to slow us down. We were completly stopped while they placed flares, a truck lost a tire (looked like the whole wheel) and ended up spinning out and hit another car head on in the center divider. There were 2 sheriffs and 3 or 4 CHP on the scene, with more showing up as we sat. (it was raining pretty hard at this point) A bit past that I saw something weird going on, again in the fast lane. Luckily I was going slow enough to react. There was another car that had spun out and hit the center divider head on. There were chunks of the divider in the middle lane of traffic and bits of car every where. It looked like it may have caught fire when it hit. Only thing on scene were 2 fire trucks, sitting on the right shoulder. Just past that mess, again I see something strange in front of me, a white pickup sitting partway in the fast lane and across the next lane, spun out with a flat tire and 2 other cars sitting on the right shoulder with various dents. After that it was just another spun out car on the other side of the center divider. This was all before we go to the 210.

I like the car, but you forgot to mention the most important part -- what color did you get?

Nice car!! :)

Thanks everyone. I am so happy, and my heart is no longer breaking into a million pieces every time I fill up. If gas prices go any higher I'll be saving money (right now I am breaking even between what it cost me to fill up and the increase in car payment).

It looks silver in the photo but it's a dark gray.

2.0L engine with 150 horse power. Zoom Zoom.

Today I managed to clean out another whole portion of my future office (yay!) which makes almost 1/3 of it cleaned out and organized.

I also finally hung decorative item #2 - after only 2 years here. The Monet print went above the piano a few months ago, and tonight I hung my limited edition sericel thingy in the hallway where I can see it when I come downstairs. It's old school Mickey and Minnie giving each other gifts. And the mat perfectly matches my new couch, although that's entirely by accident.

Ralphie and I drove to Provincetown this weekend and saw Steven Tyler walking around. He's short. Ptown is great fun.
:)

I'm the only one here again today! Everyone's called off sick. I'm beginning to like this job. I was totally planning to write something for the Open Mic and decided I hated it and abondoned my short story.
:)

I just want to know what way he was walking

Say it say it say it!

He was...
Walk this way....

My Aerosmith radar pulled me into this thread!


Steven Tyler cheek to cheek with a Very Sexy Monkey :)

:D did someone mention Steven Tyler???? i grabbed his buttocks when i met him! tee hee:blush: my sister dared me.....:D

Soooo...

I'm probably the only person currently listening to the 21 minute and 46 second version of "Space Truckin" by Deep Purple as recorded live at the BBC 03-09-72.

Today was a "Why did I bother" day.

I have this week to do a bunch of stuff. It's all doable but will take some dedication. How much did I get done today? Not a whole lot. Why?

• Lyra had to go to the vet. Her left face was super swollen and she needs to have an abcessed tooth extracted IF she can survive surgury. I'll know tomorrow morning after the tests come back. She's an old girl.
• The blinds I bought yesterday were the wrong size so I had to exchange them at Home Depot. The new ones I got will fit - once I carve out pieces of the window molding to hold the brackets. The new blinds a wood and have larger brackets than the old ones.
• The washer didn't like the load of sheets I put in it - Load Exceeded - and I couldn't get it to reset for a long while. Now I have we soapy clothes in a bucket in the kitchen.
• I was supposed to get a check to my boss but it was in my car which I told Chris to take today since he had to drive and his car was vandalized on Saturday night and has a broken side-view mirror.
• It was too we today to weed or plant the garden and the new plants I bought. They need to go into the ground before Sunday.
• I have 7 pairs of unmatched socks
• I'm totally disoriented due to staying out too late and the time change.

WTF is going on?

Soooo.... Now that I'm on upper campus I get to hear and see all the festive student demonstrations! Although if they really want to get their message across they need to learn how to use the megaphone properly. Judging from the group assembled, however, it's way more about a pathetic attempt to pretend it's 1960-something. Yay whatever!

So...I have a second interview for the supervisor job at the public library on Monday. I've heard it's only me and one other outside guy. We'll see if they want experience in this city (me) or supervisor experience (him). I believe I have a 50/50 shot.

I can't think about much else at the moment.

Good Luck!

Good luck! Good thing you'll be busy Sunday to take your mind off of it.

Sooo... Ralphie's sister is going to be in 2 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes. She plays a Terri Schiavo-esque patient. I think that's cool. She'll be in one of the last eps this season....
:)

Yup, and I'm on vacation from the morning job, plus the interview is at 11am so I don't have to be up super early.

Even better!

So.... I'm supposed to be writing a paper for my Project Management class, but I have severe writers block.

I pass by a church that for the last couple of weeks has had on their marquee:
I'll let you fill in your own punch line here _____________

Well, my baby sister had a baby this past thursday. Cute 7lbs 12oz boy. Jacob Reily. Black hair. Looks like his dad. I'm an Uncle again. :) Held the little booger for an hour. <<SIGH!>>

Waiting (still) about a job with Wildstorm (DC Comics). No news on that front.

Otherwise...
Haven't won the lottery yet.
Walking like an Egyptian.
Looking for love in all the wrong places.

I wrote 2 paragraphs, posted a bunch on here, went and found some old friends on MySpace and watched Lost. I think I shall call it a sucessful evening.

I had a dream about LaWanda Page last night. I have no idea why. I went to a comedy roast and she was the roastee. We watched a film montage of her career highlights.
Weird, but funny...
:D

^Now that's random!

Watch it, sucka.
:D

I had my annual evaluation at work yesterday - scored "Exceeds Expectations" as an overall score- today a family crisis has me at home, on the phone and trying to keep calm...

We're here for ya, Matt, if ya need to vent. Hang in there.
:)

Nothing but good thoughts flowing for Matt and Family.

The church I passed this morning said:

I sense a theme?

Get ahead with God?

Caution: The following link relates to this thread, but is TOTALLY not work safe, and may cause spontaneous outbursts of profanity by viewers...

:evil:

Now there's a Jesus picture that I could send to Mom...
:D

My new favorite name to say:
Mandisa.

I just like the way it sounds.
Mandisa.

:D

Here's a good Jesus picture that ties in with some of our food threads, too

I have to send that to my friend Kristy.
:D

I've started my packing.

I'm Looking forward to seeing and or meeting all of you...

Have a great time ML! I know you will!:D

BTW if that Krispy Kream artwork looks familiar, Kieron did the Comic panels for the credits to Disney's Sky High. :)

Now back to your regularly scheduled blaspheme...

I had to go back and look: the sign says Kristy Kreme.

Wadda ya know

I just terrified the cat with a fart... I think I might have damaged my chair, too.

Tomorrow is the yay fun staff the damn Law Review Symposium/CLE during the day and staff the damn Law Review Alumni dinner in the evening. 7am to 10pm. Hose and heels. Grrr! They're taking one of my sacred Fridays off and using up the whole damn thing! I hate doing the schmooze thing. I don't know how I'm going to be "on" for 15 hours. And no laptop! WAAAAAHHH!

I am tired!! This work thing is hard. I miss my 10am naps. *le sigh*

I am enjoying my job though. The mornings seem to disappear, and the work can be both challenging and rewarding. I have help from 8:30-1:30 (she hired someone else at the same time as me, but she is only part time) so that I can get their filing and invoicing caught up and not have to worry too much about the phones. I had no idea how many first communions there were, and not being Catholic I don't quite understand why it is such a big deal.

I miss my naps....

I got up at 5am to go to the gym before work. I'm insane. Although, it sure does feel good to have my workout behind me...

ooo...that is a nasty word to be throwing out this early in the morning...actually any time of day.

Guilty as charged. I like your word 'nap' though. I want to take one right now. My energy peaked. I need lunch. I have to sit through a boooooring meeting first though... Bleh.
:)

KITTIES!

But what are they doing??? Staring at.... sawdust... possibly a creature of some kind.

I just emptied out my iPod. I had too much crap on there. Decided to start from scratch.

I think Chitty Chitty Bang Bang may be my most favoritest movie ever.

not a very noce pic of the kitties...poor little fur ball...


I went out tonight to celebrace ,my first week of work.. bery tasty. I had a great time. Nick went home weith David and didn't start calling me until 8 to find out when I would be home. That is aslmost as full hour later than he usually lets me stay out. I told him I would be home at 9;30. At 9;35 he called and h/u on my friend when she answered the phone. Poor kid. I called him back and told ihm I was on my way. It still took me another 15 mis to gdt there (I only live 4 mins away)... he was staying awake, watchkng the clock. I hate that I have a curfew from my 9 yr old, but hubby doesn't care.

Tori's watching that right now- actually, it just finished- right?

Yup. lovelovelove it!

I like Pippi Longstockings... except for the fact that I got called Monkey boy all the time because of my name...

I'm leaving on a jet plane....

Do you know when you'll be back again?

Lounging in Tomorrow....:cheers:

Lasagna for dinner.
:)

:yummy happy dance:

That Kashi Go Lean cereal makes me fart. I just let off a dozen barking spiders in the bathroom. I guarantee you my wallet stinks right now.

:D

Well, you might be interested in this little bit of news then: FDA close to approving fat blocker for OTC sale.

Combine that pill and the Kashi and you'll be a lean, mean fartin' machine!

Of course, the anal leakage might be problematic.....

Who wouldn't bear with a leaky asshole to look thin thin thin?!
:D :rolleyes: :D

:covering ears:

LALALALALALA

Make it stop!!!!!:p

Which reminds me, who is it that is willing to endure a leaky butt for the crunch of a potato chip?

Do you eat Lays Light?

I remember a commercial for Olestra/Olean awhile ago. It showed a man in an innertube floating down the river. I guessed leakage was the explaination of why he needed to keep his butt in the water at all times...
:D

I feel really bad about Olestra and what happened. The anal leakage thing was mostly hype from an anti-junk food group (CSPI) and the chips were actually very good. I never experienced any undesired anal leakage.

But even if true I'm sure I have one relative who would be more than happy to take the risk to stay very thin.

Anal and leakage. No matter the circumstances, these are two words that should never ever be used together.

:shudder:

I'm the biggest looser in the universe. Just so you all know.

Hmm... I always thought that Paris Hilton would be considered the loosest.

Good thing that you are not a loser though!

Ah, let me fix that - I'm the biggest LOSER in the universe and I can't spell.

Thanks!

Hey... anything I can do to help.

Oooh! iI just can't WAIT to have lunch with Mr. Anal Leakage tomorrow!

As opposed to desired anal leakage?:eek:

Mowed the lawn, cleaned the garage and organized it, now Im just posting. I'm spent.
:)

Well, everything has to come out at some point.

I am bored.


That is all....

Source
Make sure Not Afraid doesn't call anyone if she ever goes to Malaysia.
:eek:

So I'm on Dialup at the moment...

It Sucks!!!!

Wheeeeeee!


(Want the laptop?)

Are you two posting 5 ft from each other in Boston?

No, next to each other in a king sized bed. 2 feet max.

Lol- dueling keyboards!

I'm hungry!

I'm kind of bored, too.

I have spent a good three hours messing around on myspace. It is official. I am a loser.

Everyone in my office is coughing. It sounds like I'm in the lobby of a hospital.

You didn't by chance have a burrito recently, did you, GC? That might explain the coughing. ;)

Why, just yesterday...........

I had a burrito yesterday. I confess. However, I don't pass gas in front of everyone. I usually release the snow goose in the bathroom or in a vacant cubicle.
:D

Can someone tell me what part of this sentenance does not make sense?

"Due to the large amount of feedback that we receive we cannot respond individually to every request, nor can we assist with locating a specific business"

Is there any part of that sentenance that says "please email us back to ask us where you reply is"?

^ I'm at least 20 of those posts.

"Snow goose"? "Barking spiders"?

I love your terminology for ....well, you know. I am also glad to be on the other side of the continent.:D

You can blame my flatulent father for those. I'm sure there are more. :D
However, I am contributing to global warming... So, you can thank me for a hot summer.
:D

I've always found "barking spiders" and other euphemisms to be disturbing. I really hope that no creature makes the sound of a fart when trying to communicate.

Can't we just call a fart a fart and a f.ck a f.ck? (Apparently not.)

So.

Here's my unbelievable report. The promotion I was interviewing for is no more. The woman who was retiring has decided to stay. Sound crazy? Well, it's because her husband unexpectedly passed away last weekend. Two days before the final interview for her replacement.

The world is filled with randomness. I feel so sorry for her that I really don't care about the promotion. Her husband was retired, and they loved to travel. I can't imagine having it all set that you can finally spend all the time in the world with the one you love, only to lose him at the last minute.

So, things aren't changing for me for a while yet.

The other crazy thing is that a woman who used to work at another branch (but left months ago due to cancer) died on the same day as that other woman's husband. The same bloody day.

I was applying for her position as well, just in case. Ran-dom-ness.

What is up with this stuff all seeming to happen at once??

I mean yesterday my boyfriend called me up to say that one of his coworkers committed suicide and that he left his note by his desk at work, yet no one noticed till yesterday. (My boyfriend noticed he wasn't there since Monday but he thought oh he must not be feeling well. He knew he had just broken up with his girlfriend and thought maybe he had decided to take a couple of days off. But then the police showed up at his office and they were checking this guys desk where under some papers was a suicide note.) And then my brother who is an insurance adjuster had a man commit suicide by driving his car off a cliff. It is all so incredibly sad. So much death.....

I forgot to check my mail from Saturday until we got home Sunday...I found a letter addressed to me from Arkansas. I know no one in AK plus they spelled my name wrong (I don't care how you pronounce it, as long as it is spelled correctly), but they knew me well enough to have my address. It was a letter telling me that David is having an affair with the widow. I had to laugh. Who ever wrote it does not know me very well at all. The only people that came to mind were 2 of Jimmy's cousins, who blame her for his suicide. My response was to call her and tell her that since she was having an affair with David she needed to fix me dinner. Dinner was mighty tastey!!! I told her that had I known that is what it took to get food, I should write a letter like that every week.


The kicker on the letter was the person who wrote it said I could always email them and ask any questions I may have...the email is cant_prove_its_me@yahoo.com. Too bad for them it had the opposite affect of what they were trying for.

So what does one do when they can't sleep?
Go bouncing around all of the boards that you don't have the time to do during the day.
This posted at 4:57 am

CP ~ Sorry about the job thang. Poor lady...

T'sK & MG~ :eek:

Promo-Man ~ I had the same prob last night. I had a hard time staying asleep. Kept waking up, walking around the apt, etc.

It's Holy Thursday and for the Catholic guests here at the homeless shelter, our Executive Director is going to be washing everyone's feet. It's weird to come in to work and the first thing you hear is, 'Sheila wants to wash everyone's feet for them today.' Although tempting, I don't think I'll be taking part in the festivities. :D

I could do with a foot massage. Think he'd throw one of those in?:)

So, I had to decline an invitation for a free round of golf today. :mad:

Awww. Why?


--------------------
So I'm walking out of Del Taco and see a line of cars at least 15 deep for the drive-through. No line inside (you can see the inside from the start of the drive-through line).

It was gonna be at lunch today but I had to be here because someone was coming in to work with me so, despite having manager approval to go golf, I couldn't risk not making it back on time (a highly likely proposition when golf is involved).

I miss golf

I have never played golf.

It's basically a nice walk in the park with several interruptions*



*With apologies to Mr. Twain

I worry there might be too much patience invloved. Maybe all I really want to do is drive around a golf cart.

You suck!

Don't get MBC and MickeyLumbos hopes up!

*Scrooge has pulled out his old Pet Shop Boys remixes and is disco-ing his decrepit butt off*

After all, "We all feel better in the dark" ;)

SMcS ~ Did you know that the Pet Shop Boys did a remix of Madonna's song 'Sorry'? It's pretty cool.

:)

I do NOW :cool:

PS... You can just call me Sam, if you want.

Just don't call him late for dinner.

What happens if you call him Al?

OK Who told?

Tomorrow will be work day 7 in a row - Double Pay WOOHOO!
The downside? I'm scheduled every day until Friday... :(

Soooo....not eating bread sucks.

My favorite line in America's Sweethearts is when Kiki says that she dreams about bread....
She doesnt allow herself to eat it, so she dreams of it. Damn imdb for not listing it.

I didn't wake up quite right this morning - so I'm gonna stay here and straighten the house up.

Do my house while you're at it, CM. K?

I think there is a case of that going around. I woke up with the same thing and really want to be somewhere else. Wearing something else. I think I may go shopping on my lunch.

Not eating bread still sucks.

How many more days?
(And how many total?)
I'll take my meatless Fridays over breadless days-in-a-row any time.

8 days total, started Wednesday at sundown, ends this Thursday at sundown. So just 3 more days to decide where we're going to get massive portions of pasta and garlic bread on Thursday.

On another note...so I performed a small maricle on Friday. I had to go to the post office to mail taxes, AND to the DMV to renew my driver's license, with no appointment. Somehow, I spent less than 20 minutes total between the two of them.

I had an extra helping of spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese tonight, just for my Jewish pals around the world :)

For the second time today, there are 4 people outside doing a choreographed dance. Right now the tune is "Please, Mr. Postman." I don't think it's rush week, and it's a co-ed group anyhow. I have no idea why they are doing this. I feel so old.

I rode my bike on Sunday. I took it to go shopping. I had a great time. Now, two days later, the skin and muscles that tenderly cushion my pelvic bones and genitalia feel bruised. That's right, it feels like someone punched me right in the taint. Does one's body actually adjust to bike riding? Where you can ride your bike everyday to work and it doesn't damage one's private parts?

Well, does it?!

(For the record, I have a very nice, especially cushioned seat, though it is narrow. Not that my a$$ would know. My a$$ thinks I was riding a bike without a seat at all.)

kegel exercises?

LMFAO! Shut it, Meinke! I'm not trying to prevent incontinence, or prevent Mothragina. I just don't want to be bruised in my happy place!

Note to self: Converse All-Stars are not walking shoes. Do not wear them to MA.

At least, not by any bike, eh?;)

Uhm, Lance Armstrong might be able to give you some advice. If he could hop back on the ol' bike after going through cancer of the nethers, then I'll bet he's got some good leads on comfy seats!

I had no idea one could still buy Converse All-Stars.

Yup. However they now cost about 3x as much as they did "back in the day".

I'm wearing some right now. Purple and black argyle pattern.

Even in little boy sizes... bought some camo ones this weekend for the boy.

So, this is the work news thread, yes? If it's too mundane to give it it's own thread, it goes in the Soooo thread.

Had a talk with the big ol' boss today. She said I did fantastic in the interview for the supervisor position that no longer exists. BUT, I didn't beat the outside guy. Oh well. She said some wonderful things about me but said it came down to experience.

She said I "did very well with what I had" and then continued to say how great I was (she used words like maturity and poise, boy have I fooled them) and what a big future I had. She then urged me to continue my schooling because she saw me taking over everything eventually. She offered her considerably large influence to help me with costs etc.

So yeah, I'm feeling pretty pumped. She also said I'm definitely in the running for the full time slot with minor managerial duties at the Main, which obviously leads to greater things down the road. That would start in July...

It's a good day :cool:

Yes, one's general crotchal and assal regions do grow accustom to the abuse. Hey, at least you aren't risking your fertility by riding.

Okay. LMFAO, again. Especially at "crotchal" and "assal," my two new favorite words.

You could always trade your bike in for a recumbent model

CP takes over the world.
:D

Tom and Katie's baby is born the same day a woman is found to have bubonic plague in Los Angeles... The end times are upon us :evil:

Bubonic plague! WTF!

Am I the only one who sees the title of this thread and thinks 'Sooo... a needle pulling thread'? Or 'Sooo... buttons'?
:D

yes. :evil:

Down with Ticketmaster!
 

On Monday I bought tickets to the three Mighty Ducks playoff games. On Monday I was told that the Round 1 Home Game 1 would take place on 4/27. I clarified that it was taking place that day because I could not attend if it was taking place on a Tuesday. Apparently Home Game 1 was never scheduled for 4/27 and the lady who was helping me was full of it. Home Game 1 is scheduled for Tuesday 4/25. I can't go.

Sell the tickets you say? Can't do that either. They are at WillCall and Ticketmaster is not allowing name changes on playoff tickets. Why didn't you have them emailed you ask? Ticketmaster said game 1 tickets could either be shipped via UPS for $100million or picked up at WillCall.

So I say.. Down with Ticketmaster! Outrageous fees. They run boxes offices everywhere leaving few other options to buy tickets.

Could you just pick up the tickets now at Will Call or does it have to be the day of the event?

Arrrgh. I just crushed my thumb between the arm of my chair and the underside of my desk. It hoits, it hoits!
:rolleyes:

Tickets will not be there until day of event. There is no way I can get there early either to pick it up and hand it off.

GC. OUCHIE!!!!!!!

Awwwwwwwwwww, plunge it in ice water? No, heat wrap? Suck on it?
:p

lol! :D

It's fine now. I think I'm going to get one of those white lines across the nail, though.
:D

Ticketmaster made it right. They changed the ticket pickup to email, so now I can sell them or give them to someone who wants to go. Which is fine. I know I won't have a problem getting rid of them.

Well, we are in the information age

I learned that at EPCOT, they've got this big steel, golfball looking thing filled with the history of the internets...

I got Vermonty Python at the store tonight! I feel happyyyyy!

Oooh, Steph- just remembered- my BIL (who's a musician and a music store mgr) was recently at a big music/electronics convention and he met Adam Clayton and Bono. Said he'd get me a pic- I'll post it when he does. I thought of you when he told me the story....:cool:

So, why has it taken us 5 years, and within (knock on wood) a few months of moving of here to figure out A) Where to hang coats, and B) The best (and only sensible) arrangement for out patio?!? I can watch Dodger games sitting in my Dodger seats now! :snap::cool:

Why is it I can't seem to have the textbook I need when I need it? And I need it now, dammit!

:mad:

Why is Dexter having a bad day and why did I just make it worse by stepping on his foot sending him under the bed for the econd time today? Life isn't fair to Dexers today. :(

Why is Lisa stepping on the paw of the one thing that may be standing between her and the Black Plague?

(Okay, she has more than one cat, and a cat isn't a thing, but I'm trying to play up the guilt/paranoia and I'm too lazy to fine-tune things).

PS- Hugs to Dex, if he'll let you.

He's still hiding. :) Poor baby boy.

If he was in my casa, he's be hiding as well. I'm on an animal-habitat cleaning frenzy! Just cleaned the cat boxes, the aviary and the fishpad. I can't believe how well Harry, our Betta, is doing. He's over five years old and still flirts with me when I clean his house. (Burps and waves his fins- he also lets me pet him)*. He's so cool- I'm gonna be sad when he finally 'goes'.





*Not unlike Eric, only Harry is a really cool red color and appreciates what I do for him.

Cool! Adam is so cool and calm and Bono is Bono. Did you BIL comment about how short Bono is?

Why isn't 5 hours enough sleep for me anymore? :(

No, but he's not exceptionally tall himself- average height. I'll be sure to ask him. He said that he didn't realise who Adam was until Bono walked up to him. Surprisingly, no one was bothering him at the time, though people did start milling about when they realised who was there.

Not too long ago he met a nice older couple- they wanted to buy a piano, but they had to get their son, who was waiting outside, to approve of the piano before they bought it. The son turned out to be Jack Black, who Kelly said was very nice and actually seemed kind of shy.

Bono is short - to me. I most likely was wearing heels and he came up to my chest.

Jack Black is short too. I saw him at a concert at UCLA. I wouldn't have noticed him except he was wearing a trucker hat - not the norm for UCLA. He was about shoulder height to me.

I never seen famous people because they are usually below my line of site. ;)

I just realized that I have been over to GD's place on more than one occasion since this purchase and have yet to see these famed seats. I might just have to come by for a Dodger game someday. I'll bring the Dodger Dogs. :)

Why is it I can never seem to finish a full cup of coffee anymore?

I needed it so desperately, and dumped it out of impatience.

I should find a portable espresso machine... ;)

I think this afternoon, I'll grab an americano. At least CBTL gets those right.

I have one that I never use... ;)

I'm sure it could be adapted to work in a car...

Speaking of cars.... :evil:

Hey, anyone else notice that google.com is using a Joan Miro theme today?

Do we know why?

Hmm, gotta pick a date for bbq and Dodger game...

Happy Birthday Joan Miro!

Would you rather smoke two joints or would you rather do your homework?


I knew you were going to say that.

Happy 4/20!

So MBC, what are you up to this Saturday?

Man, I'd love to have a joint in each hand, as opposed to being stuck here on campus. Alas, I am too inundated with gigantor papers to write to take a toke or two...

So....

I think I need an icy drink before my next class.

I've had the busiest day and it is still going on! What's the matter? What happened to my boring life? I like boring sometimes!

I think I just had a 4:20 4/20 revelation!

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

I just had the BEST Ticketmaster experience! It must've happened at 4:20.

My tickets for David Sedaris haven't arrived and the show is on SUnday. I called, entered the order number, pressed a number for a live person, waited about 30 seconds, the live person was nice, polite, helpful and printed new tickets for me to pick up at the box office on Sunday.

WOW!

Dexter and Lyra both went to the vet today. Lyra is a rock. She's going to live to 99 just to piss us all off.

Dex has an ulcer on his gum. He's on antibiotics but will probably have to have dental work done. They're doing blood work to see if he is healthy and normal otherwise. There may also be an extraction or two for him. Poor baby! He's not quite the rock Lyra is so I worry more. :(

Hope Dexter feels better soon. I was wondering if something might be up medically.

I will not freak out about my oral argument tomorrow.
I will not freak out about my oral argument tomorrow.
I will not freak out about my oral argument tomorrow.



okay, I'm totally freaking out.