Dear Bob, Mother of… NO.

While I like Charlize Theron… she is completely lacking in the physical characteristics that made Aeon, Aeon. If you could find someone with Liv Tyler’s facial structure it would work. I don’t think Liv Tyler herself would work though. Unless they do a whole lot of editing of her body, I don’t think I could bare to see Charlize playing Aeon. I guess time will tell.

This moment of shock brought to you by a really bad migraine. I’m going to go put my head on my pillow for a bit.

OK, projects. I’ve got work projects going on and downtime projects going on. I’m knitting myself a cute little multicolored hat. I’m kind of just winging it and making it up as I go along. I’m also working on a Gryffindor scarf for my future niece or nephew (my brother’s baby). The baby won’t be able to wear it though or rather it shouldn’t. It’s more of a symbolic thing since my other nieces and nephew each have a Gryffindor scarf. I’m scaling it down and will make a larger one when they get older if he/she wants one. These are things I can do and not have to concentrate too much on. Work projects require more concentration.

I am hoping to begin working on some work projects in the next few days. My head/nose/ear/ problems seem to be subsiding. I’ve got ideas in my head and can now sit at my computer without feeling like I’m going to pass out.

I also need to catch up on emails. I’ve tried to send out short notes, but I haven’t completely been able to. In time… In time.

Apparently sometime in the middle of the night, Skittles and my very first ever Sock Dog got in a fight. Skittles’ pulled an Outsiders on him. I found the sock dog face down in the fountain this morning. I was able to revive him and he is currently in CDC, Critical Drainage Care. He should be in the sink at least until this evening. We hope to move him into ITT, Intensive Tumble Therapy. He’s made out of Angora, so he may have to just be tumbled for his own safety. When he gets better maybe I will take a picture of him with the twins. I made one red and one blue sock dog from soccer socks for AJ and Brittany. Shalyn never picked a sock out.

I’m eating some vegetable lo mein that Josh picked up. It’s not too bad. I never thought I would enjoy cabbage as much as I currently am. That’s a good thing.

I think I should go. There is a line of Doppler red storms heading this way, along with some hail, and tornadoes. It is supposed to let up on Thursday sometime. Definitely no fun.

Well, it’s almost done transferring files. I’ll check the clock when it finally does finish. 3:22pm, that took a while.

This whole Disney looking for a buyer thing is a little disconcerting, at least for me. For those that don’t know, when Disney purchased land in Florida they were given very, very special privileges. They are their own town/city/county. They have their own government, “police”, home developments, etc. They also have lovely little (or not so little) tax breaks. They are authorized to regulate land use, provide police services, fire services, build roads, lay sewer lines, among other things (including the ability to build airports and/or a nuclear power plant). Technically they use private security as their “police force”. They don’t have to report to any building, zoning, and land-use regulators. Local officials must check in when they come on any Disney owned property and local police must drive unmarked cars on Disney property.

Yeah, anyone who ends up owning Disney will get all of those perks and more. They can buy more land and apply these perks. Ugh. We learned all about these little things in history class many, many years ago. Married To The Mouse: Walt Disney and Orlando is a really good book to read regarding Disney’s perks and their effects.

I’m transferring files from the server back to my desktop. I plan to burn them onto cd. I don’t really need them for anything other than putting together some portfolio samples. I can do that from the cd and save valuable server space. It’s over a couple gigs of data.

My finger is doing better. The band-aid seems to be helping a lot, but typing is a little difficult.

While waiting for these files to transfer, I’m watching The Pelican Brief. There isn’t really much else on.

The weather is beautiful and I should go out, but I am feeling anti-sunshine today. Tomorrow it will be in the 80s. Pfft.

I would see Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ, but only if the tickets were given to me. I don’t think I could pay to see it. I am curious to see how Hidalgo is.

Well, it’s down to 127 minutes remaining. Of course that is Microsoft time, not earth time.

I think I will go wake Skittles up. She’s asleep in the spare bedroom and I need to put the sheets on the bed in there. She will probably get mopey on me and not want to leave. She’s so pathetic when she does that.

I just wanted to say. OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I have ripped my fingernail back past the flesh. Holy carp am I hurting.

Oh and for those craving some not-so-hot kitty action, Skittles has been bird watching on the cam all day.

In an effort to start posting a little more often in my LiveJournal, I have finally broken down and installed the cross-posting plugin. I’m still tweaking it some. Hopefully things will go alright and this will post at both miftik.com and livejournal with no problems.

For some reason I smell a dirty diaper. The thing is, I still can’t smell anything very well through my nose AND there are no babies in the house. The house is empty. Josh will be home soon so we can meet up with some friends/family in downtown mouse-ville.

I think I will end this post now. I hope it worked well.

I’m hoping I will be at a better state in the next few days. My ears are still bothering me, as is my nose.

I almost freaked this morning when I couldn’t reach my host! Come to find out they were doing a kernel upgrade. Pheew, I was kind of worried for a second.

Skittles is being cute and sitting in the spare bedroom. It gets a lot of sunlight in there, so she really likes to hang out in there.

I feel like there is something I need to be doing, but am not. I hate that feeling.

Sweet Mama Mia! Holy carp. This deal will roxor the soxor! I’m not even a customer of either of them (formerly of one). My cell phone company gets to use all of Cingular’s coverage which will mean increased area for moi! I already have nationwide (to anywhere from anywhere) and this just makes me happy. I was thinking of moving to Verizon, but I may just wait to see how this turns out. I get a better deal with the family plan Josh and I are on.

My nephew and I went for a walk this morning. We managed to walk about a mile total. We were hoping to walk the usual two, but it started raining so we had to cut it short. Normally rain wouldn’t bother us but when it’s 40 something degrees, it’s a little too cold for a four year old!

I managed to get all three of the kids and in bed before their usual time. I was completely amazed. We read some Encyclopedia Brown, brushed teeth and in to bed. Thirty minutes of tv (102 Dalmatians to be exact) and they were out. Of course AJ was up at 6:30AM! Oh well, at least the girls slept through. My brother and my sister-in-law are away for their tenth anniversary (HAPPY ANNIVERSARY YOU TWO). The kids will work on something for their anniversary.

Not bad for still being sick!

When we went to the library Saturday I picked up The Complete Idiots Guide to Knitting and Crocheting. I thought maybe they would be a good reference for Brittany. I was thumbing through it last night and discovered that someone had cut out the most important chapters. WHOLE CHAPTERS, Plural! I’m more than pissed. I’m going back today to let the librarians know. Maybe they can trace it back. I was looking through some of the more advanced stuff and when I finally decided it was a good time for Brittany to read, I find that crap done to a book. For fudges sake, make copies! Grrrr. You’ve got to be a real asshole to cut pages out of a book from the library.

This cold isn’t funny anymore. My fever has been driving me nuts. Meds aren’t doing anything and I can’t feel my nose anymore. I swear, ever since I got the chicken pox a few years ago, my immune system has been crappy. Grrr.

I’m going to crawl under something and try to pretend I’m better.