I must say that I am quite enjoying all of the focus on Rome and mythology lately. Spartacus was enjoyable. Caesar was quite nice as well. Maybe I was a sucker for Richard Harris playing Sulla. While they may not always stick to the facts, they are enjoyable and they cause the other channels to focus on their subjects for a week. Needless to say, I can’t wait for (Troy and Alexander) to come out either.

Oh and let us not forget my love of the beautiful costumes. I was watching Mists of Avalon yesterday and couldn’t help but by jealous. I am interested to see what the costumes will be like in King Arthur.

        Oh, and my birthday color is Orchid Smoke, Pantone color 15-2210 (aka #D194AE). (link via web-goddess.org)

“Your ability to transform yourself and others is extremely powerful. You like to push past limits and go where no man or woman has gone before. There is a great deal of restlessness in your birth date. Try to encorporate ease into your daily plans, as too much intensity can be hard on your body. You can use your curiousity to discover valuable information. Orchid smoke allows you to explore profound experiences while sustaining a balanced and secure foundation.”

To everyone I owe an email or comment and those I plan to email:

I’ve been super-over-busy since last Wednesday and today was my first real day off. Now I have a massive headache and am trying to deal with that. I plan to respond to my emails, I’m just trying to get rid of this headache first.

Thank you. That is all.

The apparent bane of my existance for a while has been a bad (or going bad) 256 meg stick of ram. Grr. We’re talking pain the the tush here. I’ve sworn and screamed about my machine. Hopefully someone will have some on sale this weekend. Then I won’t be so moody about having to buy it. ::Wonders to herself whether her husband would let her get a lot of memory::

Slow day today. I watched Finding Nemo 3.5 times today. I realized today that between my brother and I, we have a crap load of dvds! Holy smokes. I’ve got a lot of series dvds, he’s got a lot of features. I guess I’m a sucker for a good series. Too bad I couldn’t figure what else to take with me today. I need to find something good for tomorrow. I’ll just wait until the morning though. I can figure out my mood better. Maybe I’ll take The Matrix Revolutions. I like the soundtrack. Of course it’s mostly Juno Reactor, so why wouldn’t I?

For two weeks the bank has claimed that they do not have any check registers. They are a bank, how can you not have any check registers? I like to have my checkbook match everything else I use and I can’t enter anything new into the checkbook until I get a new register! This kind of behaviour makes me want to change my bank, though it really shouldn’t. I just can’t believe they would be out of check registers for two weeks! If I can get my checks in three days, why is it harder to get simple registers from them?

I seriously thought about printing out my own, but why should I? As a customer of the bank, it’s the least they could do. Maybe I should just get some coffee cans, close my account, and keep my money buried in the backyard.

So we bought Kill Bill Vol. 1 and of course watched it. It was still just as funny as the first time. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see Vol. 2 until Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m going to be running the show for four days and I will be too darn tired to go to the movies in the evening. It’s been so busy that I don’t think I’m going to get to paint either. Oh well. Maybe next time.

Well, I discovered that my Netflix turn around time is 1 day. I guess that’s pretty good. I only had an issue with one of my first movies. The Big Lebowski was scratched. The dvd player made it through though. The other two were find though.

The other day I went through some old clothes. Clothes from high school. Holy carp they fit. Some were even too big! I found my old NitzerEbb t-shirt and my t-shirt from the first Lalapalooza. That was really the only good one. I found some New Order, Replacements, and even some old t-shirts from Suede. I imagine I could probably fit into my old Space Camp t-shirt. I’ve had that thing for about 18 years!

Skittles is being pathetic and cute. She wants food, but man I can’t take the cuteness much longer.

Anyone use Cingular? I am researching new cell phone providers and I like their coverage. I like T-mobile, but they don’t have an in between plan like one that I need!

Josh and I went out to eat with Josh’s parents and some friends of theirs. Guess who we met?

The Easter Bunny! And guess what the Easter Bunny likes to do after a hard day of work?

Sit at the bar! If I had seen Santa too I would have fallen out of my chair and thought I was in an episode of The Simpsons! I tried to get some more pictures, but I didn’t want to scare the bunny off. I know how bunnies can be.

On a completely different note, I really should have measured my nephew’s head to make this Spiderman hat for him. I just went crazy and kind of made it to big for his head. He’ll still have fun with it. I’m planning to take pictures if it comes out as planned.

I’m heading to bed. The power is back on and I have fixed the microwave clock. I have to be up early for the cable guy. Crap, that means I have to rake wet leaves out of the way too. That bites.

I give up. No, really, I do. I started to dig one of the holes for the canopy, after clearing all of the leaves and debris. We won’t even get into the screams that came from my mouth. Let’s just say the kids can no longer play over in that area for a variety of reasons. Back to the story… I was dumping the dirt from the post hole digger and I look. Oh gawd, is that what I think it is? I cut the cable line. Damn it all to heck. No internet, no cable. They can come out tomorrow between 1 and 4pm, but I won’t be here and I can’t get anyone to cable guy-sit for me. Damnit. So, I have rescheduled them to come Monday morning between 8am and 11am. I called Josh at the flying field and he is running to Lowes to get a patch cable and some connectors. He’s done this once before, so he knows what to do.

I know I won’t be able to post this immediately, but I may be able to hop on to one of the neighbors’ connections if we can’t get the cable modem going. /sigh

Ah, my husband is the greatest. I admit I probably could have done it, but I’m kind of stranded and need materials. He went to Lowes and got the stuff and we sat outside and fixed it. I’m buying him a nice pair of wire cutters/crimpers for our anniversary. I think every family needs at least one good one. I’m still having the cable guy come out to give it an official fix. I want them to bury it like it is supposed to be, not the three inches it is currently at.

Well, I am off to watch Clean Sweep and be happy I am not as messy as the people on the show!

Josh has finall gone through his closet and decided to get rid of some of his ill-fitting pants. The only problem is that now he only has a few pairs left! Everything else is too big. I think there are nine pairs of jeans/pants and six pairs of shorts. I don’t know what to do with them. Only two of them are in decent condition. The others now have paint or airplane related residue on them. I thought about taking them to one of my favorite thrift stores. They are an independent one that doesn’t tend to waste money like some of the larger organizations.

So, it looks like we are going shopping tonight or tomorrow morning. /sigh. It seems like we are always running to the store for something.

My project this weekend is to get my covered area vision created (or at least started). It’s really just a place to put the lawn stuff since we don’t really want to do a shed right now. Getting a shed (of any size) requires getting permits and inspections (for the whole hurricane thing). Neither of which will help right now to keep the yard items dry when it rains. It’s going to be hot as Hades today, but it will be overcast, so it should help some.

Next weekend my parents are going on a mini vacation. I may sneak attack and do some painting that they have been wanting done, but putting off. My mom doesn’t read my site that often now that we live here, so they probably still won’t know about it until they return. Gina, don’t say anything to them, thanks. I will also be running one of their stores during the day, so I may not feel like painting at the end of the day. I will just have to wait and see.

Alright, off to do inside the house stuff and prepare myself mentally for the work I must do outside. On the bright side, I just realized I only have a very little left of the house to paint. I could possibly do that in a day too.

I am just worrying about a friend and just need to calm down. Nothing else.

I attended a revival just now. No, I didn’t go to church. I went here and saw the light! (Link found at bigpinkcookie.com).

Must do taxes and mail them on Monday. Since we know we’ll be paying, we’re holding out as long as we can, just because we can.

Also, I’ve been avoiding it, but I may just sign up for a NetFlix account. I’m going to give the free trial a go and see if it seems worthwhile. I think if we didn’t have as many tv channels as we have now, I might have signed up earlier. We’ll see.

I’m a fool, a cd/dvd burning fool. I’ve been goofing off and making cds and dvds. I made a dvd of the kids at the park set to the music from the Triplets of Belleville Soundtrack. AJ loved it. I think all kids get a kick out of seeing themselves on tv.

I need to find a good source of good quality dvds. I’ve found a couple that average out to $1 a dvd. I’m partial to Sony due to the fact that I have yet to have a Sony go bad. I’ve used Memorex CD-Rs before and had some failures. I don’t know. I’m probably just too picky.

I’m going shopping with the kids later, if I see anything on sale I might pick it up to try it out. I think they also wanted to go to the park and the library, but it all depends on whether they drive me nuts at the store. That and Brittany has a book report to finish. She only has two paragraphs left and she has to design a new book jacket. Not too difficult and it isn’t due for another week. She just needs to finish it while it is fresh.

Thinking happy thoughts about my dear friend Calhoun and his journey to his new home.