Now that it's nicely official: I start work on Tuesday. :) Finally scrounged up a job at a local plant nursery. It's not gonna mean mad amounts of cash but any cash these days is a welcome addition to my meager collection of dollars. I'm so terribly excited, I could just pee.

I miss my tax refund already. I had $55something for a couple days and now that I've gone nuts and paid some bills and bought groceries a few times and whatnot, I'm staring at a very lonely $159. Poor little dollars are all alone. I wish to give them friends... heh

I feel like I've slept a whole night and I've only taken a nap from 6pm till 7.45. I imagine I'll crash sometime around 2am, realizing that an hour and three quarters is not a whole night.

My new lip gloss has saccharin in it and tastes watermelon-y. I can't stop putting it on!

I don't think I've mentioned anything about rock climbing. The boy and I met up with a couple friends on Thursday and went indoor rock climbing for about 3 hours or so. So much MAD fun, I don't even know how to describe it. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be and a lot harder than it looked. If that makes any sense at all, let me know. Anyways, I think I only made about 7 climbs but my wrists and fingers still feel the burn. I think I'd like this to become a regular past-time but I don't know how much moneys I really wanna sink into it. $17 a pop isn't chump-change, you know.

Aaaaaaaaaaanywhoo. Should go make sure the boy is awake so we can see a movie at the dollah theatre. (heh. Roommate just made all KINDS of noise in the kitchen. Clumsy. Also, he pees with the door part-way open sometimes. Dis-turb-ing.)

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(postgraduate goat it'll virtuosi arrogate. hehe.)

I feel dirty. Last night, on a Wal-Mart excursion, I picked up some new makeup. I love playing with makeup even if I don't wear it all the time. This new makeup is fun and pretty and soooooooo very easy to put on. The eyeshadow is a big fat crayon and the lip-gloss comes out of it's little tube in a watermelon-y ooze.

Mary Kate and Ashley sure know how to appeal to my senses and that is so very, very wrong.

If you wonder why it's all grey today, go here. Download the Grey Album from one of the sites hosting it and enjoy.

Thanks alot, Joe.

I'm always so excited when I hear my Gir new-mail wav.


And then I open the emails and they're all 'Dude! Increase your penis size!!'


I'm crushed.


< /end of email soliciting>

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It all makes perfect sense now...

Road trip. :)

And now for today's random spam!


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1. Read new books: no more re-reading old ones.
2. Find a market for soaps.
3. Take up knitting again. Work in progress.
4. Start crocheting again.
5. Make more candles.
6. Take a yoga course.
7. Landscape the front yard.
8. Plant a fruit tree.
9. Learn how to drive.
10. Save up at least $1000 dollars. Doesn't matter from where.
11. Get money from Misty.
12. Throw out clothes I don't wear anymore.
13. Wear the clothes I like.
14. Do more sewing. Partially done, anyways.
15. Stop talking inside my head.
16. Paint the bedroom.
17. Make/buy new curtains for the living room.
18. Get a job I like.
19. Pay off credit cards.
20. Upgrade processor in computer.
21. Put up curtains in office.
22. Go to Galveston with the boy at least once during the summer.
23. Go to Galveston with Nicole at least once.
24. Paint the kitchen. Be funky with it, you're the one that's in there.
25. Get rid of extra furniture.
26. Replace pots and pans.
27. Hang flower boxes on the shed.
28. Pave area in front of shed.
29. Grow irises. Irii.
30. Make fresh pies as often as possible. Baking is fun.
31. Write more letters.
32. Get something pierced. Nose or eyebrow, I think.
33. Tell dad about the tattoos. It's not the end of the world.
34. Get some Johnny Cash LPs.
35. Buy more Beatles LPs.
36. Go to one amazing concert.
37. Get married. This one's easy.
38. Make and send out invitations. This will make #37 easier.
39. Improve handwriting.
40. Learn how to dance. This also contributes to #37.
41. Buy more comics.
42. Learn how to paint. Japanese!
43. Learn Tarot cards by heart.
44. Bake bread.
45. Get Doggie fixed; it's for her own good.
46. Get rid of pointless collections.
47. Take a trip somewhere I'e never been.
48. Locate and buy copies of "In His Own Write" and "Spaniard in the Works".
49. Resod the front yard.
50. Dye hair bright pink. Disaster. What was I thinking? Saving this one for when I have the money to have it done professionally.
51. Get a new tattoo.
52. Take a real vacation.
53. Get glasses or contacts.
54. Visit friends more often.
55. Keep a normal journal and update it every day. Working at this one.
56. Take more pictures of the pets.
57. Wear more dresses. So much fun!
58. Clean out the office closet.
59. Come up with a schedule of daily chores. Being home all the time means there is no reason to have things in disarray. Now if only I could adhere to the schedule for more than 2 days in a row.
60. Eat less candy. One week of this and I'm already feeling better. yay!!
61. Film parties. They're fun to watch later.
62. Write more emails.
63. Make mix CDs.
64. Exercise more.
65. Dye hair red before wedding.
66. Get some real muscle tone.
67. Replace dishes with Matching Set.
68. Knit baby bonnets and find place to donate them.
69. Clean out closet and donate unused clothing.
70. Expand backyard flowerbed.
71. Add a flowerbed to the front yard.
72. Replace broken screens.
73. Replace missing blinds in living room.
74. Hang more pictures.
75. Take more photos of family and frame them.
76. Paint shed.
77. Get new printer.
78. Get flat panel monitor.
79. Spend more time hanging out with Bob. Good conversation is hard to find. A work in progress.
80. Talk to someone about the whole depression thing.
81. Stop buying things you don't need. Work. In. Progress.
82. Take unread books to Half Price.
83. Redecorate the bedroom: get rid of picture mural.
84. Have at least one garage sale.
85. Stop collecting things that don't have an immediate purpose. (ties in to #46)
86. Do things on list. *sigh*
87. Drink more water.
88. Eat more fresh foods. Processed is Bad.
89. Learn new recipes!
90. Get a booth at the dirt mall.
91. Get a real waking/sleeping schedule.
92. Get shots for the cats and dog.
93. Find a better cell phone plan.
94. Organize dresser and closet again.
95. Fix hallway floor. Yay! I have a dad that likes to do things for me.
96. Replace/get rid of carpet in kitchen.
97. Replace Beatles videos with DVDs.
98. Install toilet in half-bath.
99. Redecorate bathrooms. Duckies in full bathroom, Spongebob or Hello Kitty in half.
100. Put a birdbath in the yard.
101. Grow daisies for wedding.
102. Write vows. (!)
103. Sort out wedding list for once and for all.
104. Regular doctor and dentist visits.

I forgot to post the best line of drunk night.


"I'm just going to change my name to Clan MacGregor."

Inactivity is getting on my nerves. I don't know what I can do about it other than not spending time online but all the time I spend here isn't really making it impossible to get other things accomplished. Laundry is still getting washed and dishes are put away, vacuuming doesn't take but about 15 minutes and picking up around the house is the work of an hour or two a week. So.. yeah. Got to find something I really want to spend alot of time on.

A few people lately have asked about my 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French' so maybe I should take that up. At least I'd have something moderately boring to say in another language. Something other than "I've never really used that but I meant to."

I've got a cat trying desperately to nurse on my shirt. If he weren't 4 years old, this would be cute.

Our new roommate is fucked up.

He just watched the last 20 minutes or so of Donnie Darko while drinking a second whiskey and water and wearing headphones. And during the jet engine scene, he announced quite loudly 'I got it now... I'm gettin' it.'

At least he gets it now. Probably won't remember it in the morning but he's got it now. hehe.

i'm worried about you.

hehe.

Woman Lived with Sister's Corpse for Months
Tue Feb 17,11:06 AM ET


DUBLIN (Reuters) - An elderly Irishwoman shared a room with her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with it in the same bed, newspapers reported Tuesday.


Mary Ellen Lyons never told anyone that her sister Agnes had died, the reports said. Even their brother Michael, who lived in the same remote bungalow in rural western Ireland, did not know.


An inquest heard Monday that Agnes probably died in 2002 -- possibly in September -- at the age of 70.


However, her body was only discovered in August 2003 when Mary Ellen fell ill and had to be taken to hospital.


"I have tried to remember when Agnes died but I just can't remember," Mary Ellen said in a statement read out at the inquest. "I remember getting Christmas cards at Christmas 2002 but I cannot remember if Agnes was dead at the time."

For some reason, even tho I updated the archive template with the correct URL for my images, it freaked out and didn't know what to do. Stupid blog. Anyway, it all works now. Go on, give the linkies a click.

I keep telling myself that it's time I head to bed. It's just after 4 am and I told my brother I'd go shopping with him between ten and twelve. I'm not sure that's going to happen. 'Course, I do have a knack for being able to force myself to get up and ready when I think I need to. It's a stupid knack.

I think we've actually come up with a honeymoon plan. It's only taken several weeks of randomly suggesting road-trips and now he's finally realized I meant it. I'm marrying such a silly-pants. I so less than three his silly-pants self. :)

The most vile act ever!


Controversial Wests Tigers winger John Hopoate has been suspended for 12 weeks after being found guilty by the NRL Judiciary of poking his fingers up the anuses of three North Queensland players.

Accused of one of the most bizarre charges in the history of rugby league, or sport in general for that matter of fact, Hopoate was officially found guilty of 'unsportsmanlike interference'.


On the evidence of video footage and the damning testimony from the three Cowboys players, Hopoate was always likely to be found guilty. The length of his sentence seen as the only contentious matter.

Selig approves Yankees' acquisition of AL MVP Rodriguez
Posted: Monday February 16, 2004 1:34PM; Updated: Monday February 16, 2004 1:34PM


NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez is a Yankee.

Commissioner Bud Selig approved the record-setting deal Monday, allowing the reigning American League MVP to be traded to New York by the Texas Rangers.


Texas will pay $67 million of the $179 million left on Rodriguez's $252 million, 10-year contract, the most cash included in a trade in major league history. The Rangers get All-Star second baseman Alfonso Soriano and a player to be named -- but they also will pay Rodriguez through 2025.

(Holy shit. Paying a player they don't have through 2025? How well did he make out?!)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Princeton physicist Paul Chaikin's passion for M&M candies was so well known that his students played a sweet practical joke on him by leaving a 55-gallon drum of the candies in his office.

Little did they know that their prank would lead to a physics breakthrough.


(I could have told them that. If only they'd asked...

Two charged in deliveryman's death
Sunday, February 15, 2004 Posted: 9:04 PM EST (0204 GMT)


NEW YORK (AP) -- Two teenagers accused of robbing a Chinese food deliveryman and then beating and stabbing him to death were charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors said Sunday.

Nayquan Miller and Charles Bryant, both 16, then dumped the victim's body in a lake in a Queens park, prosecutors said. They were arrested late Saturday after police discovered the victim's body and bloodstained clothes.

Activists protest Schwarzenegger's smoking
Saturday, February 14, 2004 Posted: 8:48 PM EST (0148 GMT)


SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Anti-tobacco groups on Saturday protested Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to return the smoke-filled room to California's political lexicon.

To comply with the state's strict smoking laws, the cigar-loving Schwarzenegger is converting the Capitol's interior courtyard into an all-weather "smoking plaza" where he can entertain lawmakers and other power brokers.

...

But, Josh Grahek stood upwind at a distance, close enough that the smoke from his cigar wafted over the activists. He carried a cardboard sign reading, "You have too much free time."

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- At least five people died on icy roads in an unusual winter storm that also caused power outages and flight cancellations.

The accidents occurred Friday and Saturday in West Texas, where officials were forced to close several icy and slush-covered highways. Shelters were set up at churches and civic centers during part of Friday to accommodate stranded travelers.

(Four inches of snow and people died?? What the hell are we raising here in Texas?

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i don't think the author spent as much time on that email as he should have... tho the bit about the demurred uterus is kinda interesting.

Yay! Winter trees!

The curtains I made filter the light to a near-perfect red.

I don't think she knows exactly what to make of the white stuff. I'm pretty sure she's never seen so much of it.

Shadow Cat!!

Aww...

Ashcroft addresses abortion records request
Friday, February 13, 2004 Posted: 11:27 AM EST (1627 GMT)


NEW YORK (AP) -- Under fire from abortion-rights groups, Attorney General John Ashcroft insisted Thursday that doctor-patient privacy is not threatened by a government attempt to subpoena medical records in a lawsuit over the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

At stake are records documenting certain late-term abortions performed by doctors who have joined in a legal challenge of the disputed ban. President Bush signed the act into law last year.

Critics of the subpoenas accuse the Justice Department of trying to intimidate doctors and patients involved in the contested type of abortion.

At least six hospitals have been targeted by subpoenas, including facilities in New York and Michigan which said they are weighing how to respond. Last week, a federal judge in Chicago blocked release of records from Northwestern Memorial Hospital; another judge is considering a similar request from Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Ashcroft said the Justice Department will accept the records in edited form, after deleting or masking any information that would identify a patient. Abortion-rights supporters nonetheless depicted the subpoenas as a dangerous intrusion into medical confidentiality.

"People's medical records should not be the tools of political operatives," said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-New York. "All Americans should have the right to visit their doctor and receive sound medical attention without the fear of Big Brother looking into those records."


(So... 2,200 to 5,000 babies are killed this way every year. The doctors that do these procedures want to protect their right to do them. The patients that have had them done want to protect their right to have had them and maybe have more. Other advocates may never have one but they want to keep their options open. But they're all too shy to come out in public and justify it. I don't think I'll ever understand this horrible obsession with protecting one's right to be vile and cruel.)

Alleged al Qaeda link shocks soldier's neighbors
Army specialist arrested in sting targeting terrorist group
Friday, February 13, 2004 Posted: 8:29 PM EST (0129 GMT)


SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Neighbors of the National Guard soldier who was detained in Washington on suspicion of aiding al Qaeda expressed surprise Friday.

Jack Roberts, who lives in the same apartment complex in Fort Lewis with Spc. Ryan G. Anderson, a 26-year-old tank crew member from the National Guard's 81st Armor Brigade, said his neighbor is a "nice guy."

Roberts said he watched Thursday as the FBI carried computers, guns and cell phones from Anderson's apartment.

...

Anderson identified himself as a marksman and was trying to solicit other Muslims in the group to join a gun club, Juneio said.

"This is completely against the norms of what we think is correct or right," Juneio said.

I think he knows we take pictures of him just to make him angry.

March is shaping up to be a very nice month.

Sea lion forsakes ocean for trip to farm

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Posted: 3:35 PM EST (2035 GMT)

A sea lion basks in the sun on the back of a California Highway Patrol car Monday on a rural road in Los Banos, California.

LOS BANOS, California (AP) -- A sea lion that apparently swam upriver from the ocean into the inland canals of central California was captured after motorists spotted it flopping along the roadway, 65 miles (105 kilometers) from the sea.

The 300-pound (135-kilogram) animal, first reported Monday morning, basked in the sun on the back of a highway patrol cruiser while officers waited for a marine rescue team to fetch him.


(In Los Banos? Like, los baños?)

I do not have the remains of banana bread batter on my lips.



Anymore.

1. Read new books: no more re-reading old ones.
2. Find a market for soaps.
3. Take up knitting again. Work in progress.
4. Start crocheting again.
5. Make more candles.
6. Take a yoga course.
7. Landscape the front yard.
8. Plant a fruit tree.
9. Learn how to drive.
10. Save up at least $1000 dollars. Doesn't matter from where.
11. Get money from Misty.
12. Throw out clothes I don't wear anymore.
13. Wear the clothes I like.
14. Do more sewing. Partially done, anyways.
15. Stop talking inside my head.
16. Paint the bedroom.
17. Make/buy new curtains for the living room.
18. Get a job I like.
19. Pay off credit cards.
20. Upgrade processor in computer.
21. Put up curtains in office.
22. Go to Galveston with the boy at least once during the summer.
23. Go to Galveston with Nicole at least once.
24. Paint the kitchen. Be funky with it, you're the one that's in there.
25. Get rid of extra furniture.
26. Replace pots and pans.
27. Hang flower boxes on the shed.
28. Pave area in front of shed.
29. Grow irises. Irii.
30. Make fresh pies as often as possible. Baking is fun.
31. Write more letters.
32. Get something pierced. Nose or eyebrow, I think.
33. Tell dad about the tattoos. It's not the end of the world.
34. Get some Johnny Cash LPs.
35. Buy more Beatles LPs.
36. Go to one amazing concert.
37. Get married. This one's easy.
38. Make and send out invitations. This will make #37 easier.
39. Improve handwriting.
40. Learn how to dance. This also contributes to #37.
41. Buy more comics.
42. Learn how to paint. Japanese!
43. Learn Tarot cards by heart.
44. Bake bread.
45. Get Doggie fixed; it's for her own good.
46. Get rid of pointless collections.
47. Take a trip somewhere I'e never been.
48. Locate and buy copies of "In His Own Write" and "Spaniard in the Works".
49. Resod the front yard.
50. Dye hair bright pink. Disaster. What was I thinking? Saving this one for when I have the money to have it done professionally.
51. Get a new tattoo.
52. Take a real vacation.
53. Get glasses or contacts.
54. Visit friends more often.
55. Keep a normal journal and update it every day. Working at this one.
56. Take more pictures of the pets.
57. Wear more dresses. So much fun!
58. Clean out the office closet.
59. Come up with a schedule of daily chores. Being home all the time means there is no reason to have things in disarray. Now if only I could adhere to the schedule for more than 2 days in a row.
60. Eat less candy.
61. Film parties. They're fun to watch later.
62. Write more emails.
63. Make mix CDs.
64. Exercise more.
65. Dye hair red before wedding.
66. Get some real muscle tone.
67. Replace dishes with Matching Set.
68. Knit baby bonnets and find place to donate them.
69. Clean out closet and donate unused clothing.
70. Expand backyard flowerbed.
71. Add a flowerbed to the front yard.
72. Replace broken screens.
73. Replace missing blinds in living room.
74. Hang more pictures.
75. Take more photos of family and frame them.
76. Paint shed.
77. Get new printer.
78. Get flat panel monitor.
79. Spend more time hanging out with Bob. Good conversation is hard to find. A work in progress.
80. Talk to someone about the whole depression thing.
81. Stop buying things you don't need.
82. Take unread books to Half Price.
83. Redecorate the bedroom: get rid of picture mural.
84. Have at least one garage sale.
85. Stop collecting things that don't have an immediate purpose. (ties in to #46)
86. Do things on list. *sigh*
87.Drink more water.
88.Eat more fresh foods. Processed is Bad.
89.Learn new recipes!
90.Get a booth at the dirt mall.
91.Get a real waking/sleeping schedule.
92.Get shots for the cats and dog.
93.Find a better cell phone plan.
94.Organize dresser and closet again.
95.Fix hallway floor.
96.Replace/get rid of carpet in kitchen.
97.Replace Beatles videos with DVDs.
98.Install toilet in half-bath.
99.Redecorate bathrooms. Duckies in full bathroom, Spongebob or Hello Kitty in half.
100. Put a birdbath in the yard.
101.Grow daisies for wedding.
102.Write vows. (!)
103.Sort out wedding list for once and for all.
104.Regular doctor and dentist visits.

Virginity auction ends on net

A lesbian at the University of Bristol who is selling her virginity on the internet has closed the bidding.

Rosie Reid, 18, a social policy first year student from Dulwich, south-east London, wants to avoid graduating with excessive debt.

According to her website, bidding closed at £8,400 on Sunday, with the winner to be contacted by 11 February.


(tell me again why it's important that she's a lesbian?)

When I started making my soaps, I don't know what I was thinking. I hoped I'd be able to sell them, since I loved making them; but that doesn't seem to be working out so well. I've got 25 sets of soaps sitting in a flower shop in Kemp and no real hope of them selling. In the meantime, they're going to just sit there and I don't have anything pretty HERE to look at or give away. I've got friends telling me they want to buy soaps but I don't know... I'll believe it when I see it. And what's more pathetic than depending on the charitable interest of friends? Bleh. I don't mean that. It's not charitable interest when it comes to my friends... I just feel that way sometimes, you know? Everyone's had the experience... like when your mom's coworkers bought your school cookies or candies or whatever. They didn't really need them, they just wanted to encourage you.

So. Buy my soaps. I'm in need of encouragement.

Ohio governor signs bill making state 38th to ban gay marriage
Friday, February 6, 2004 Posted: 6:31 PM EST (2331 GMT)


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio Gov. Bob Taft approved one of the country's most-far reaching gay-marriage bans on Friday, saying its adoption was urgent because the nation's first legally sanctioned same-sex weddings could take place as early as this spring in Massachusetts.

...


"It is necessary for us to act now to safeguard Ohio's marriage laws," Taft said. "Ohio could have same-sex couples who were 'married' in Massachusetts taking legal action in Ohio to recognize that marriage and to obtain the resulting benefits."

Jesus God!! Anything but benefits!!!

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

A paint that soaks up some of the most noxious gases from vehicle exhausts will goes on sale in Europe in March. Its makers hope it will give architects and town planners a new weapon in the fight against pollution.

Called Ecopaint, the substance is designed to reduce levels of the nitrogen oxides, collectively known as the NOx gases, which cause respiratory problems and trigger smog production.

Patents filed last week show how the novel coating works. The paint's base is polysiloxane, a silicon-based polymer. Embedded in it are spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate 30 nanometres wide. Because the particles are so small, the paint is clear, but pigment can be added. The first paint to go on sale will be white.

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I kind of forgot that we're going to be up all day tomorrow. Should have gone to bed at some point but it's too late now.

I find myself picturing little diamonds of varying colours, rotating over people's heads. Mine is a sickly shade of yellow right now. My fun meter is ok but my energy meter is dangerously low. And when I get tired, I imagine that I could nap for a few minutes and wake up with a renewed energy bar in a lovely shade of green.

It's NOT an addiction.

It is not an addiction.

I less than three Google so much.

... hehe

Internet access!!! AHHHH!!!!

After 3 days without it, you'd think there'd be something NEW and EXCITING out there. But no. Not really.

We DO have Comedy Central and VH1 all of a sudden, so that's neat. Yesterday, a tech came out because of our internet access being dead. Initially, he said that the A side of things was terminated, which would mean that someone came out and disconnected us on purpose. However, we were able to WATCH the A side television channels. TV:1, tech:0. Then the tech realized that the B side was the one that was terminated and to prove this, he reconnected it. TV:0, tech:1. He disconnected and reconnected the A side and thereby killed the tv A channels. TV:1, tech:0 and losing ground. Now, the line techs appear to have restored our A side for TV and Intarwebnet and no one has come to disconnect the B side again. TV:bitch, line techs:1.

In other news, my Sims do not like being gay. Martha will kiss Siobhan as a greeting but doesn't seem to think moving in and being loooooooooooooooovers is a good idea. She doesn't like ANY ideas, tho. Anyway. That's all I've found out over the last 24 hours or so.