August 31, 2001
Yep folks, I'm in that mood again. I'm waiting for the mailman to drop of my mail and then I'm off to do some shopping for that wonderful holiday called Christmas. Even though I don't really celebrate Christmas, it's a good time to give gifts to those we care about. That is what I'm doing. I've got 3 or 4 gifts down and I've thought of a few more for others.
I'm awaiting a letter from little miss Brittany. I really hope it comes today. I've been waiting for it all week. She was just so excited to write me. I want her to always be that way. I plan to write her as soon as I get back. My mother told me that Brittany was asking if there was anything that my mom wanted her to tell me. My mother used to say that to Brittany when she was little. It cracks me up. When I was in college my mom would send care packages and she would ask Brittany if there was anything she wanted to send me. Brittany would always pick a few little toys and put them in the package. I still have them, well mostly. Now Skittles uses the little alligators as chew toys. I wonder if she would remember them if she came?
It's nice that my mom watches the kids some afternoons. My mom would go insane if she didn't have them around. I think it keeps my mom feeling youthful. For some people it ages them, but not for my mom. She's always passed for a lot younger than she is. I've always found that funny. My friends used to look at me and say, "That's your mom?" Ahh, memories!
Ok, I'm going to go camp out my the mailbox now.
Behold the awesome power of JELLO! Sugar Free at that! Yep, I've gone and bought sugar free jello. Can you believe it? I have REALLY limited my sugar intake today. I've had one soda and that was only because I knew my blood sugar was getting really low and eating something wasn't helping. I'm doing pretty good. I made myself a little "spinach ball" sandwich (I'm working on adding how to make it to a section I've been working on).
I can't really recall what I've done today. I'm quite tired because the munchkin kept me up. I would swear she is a newborn child in kitty clothing! She pushes my limits at night. Maybe I just need to sleep deeper. I need a feather bed. Of course then she'll want to slee on the bed everynight until we get her one. It's really a never ending cycle with this cat.
Well, I guess I should figure out what I want for dinner. Got Josh's in the oven now. I may just finish off the spinach. Who knows.
I guess i've figured out why I like Planet of the Apes (Oh yeah, I finally saw it and it kicked arse). It points out how frigging stupid people/beings can be. Ugh.
I could never be a superhero. I'm too vengeful. I would throw a person in jail. I would just do lots of mean things to them and eventually cease their existance.
On a different note, I am hereby boycotting Click and Clack and their Cartalk show on NPR. I'm sick and tired of their half arse comments and knowledge regarding vehicles that they don't like. They know jack spit about diesels (TDIs especially) and with such a fan base, they are perpetuating the myths. At least Howard Stern is smart enough to read up on things and learn. He knows that diesels today are much improved from the diesels of 30+ years ago! Egad, we need pamphlets to print up and pass out!
Well, back to work. I oh so miss my desktop. I miss being able to use my cosy wrist rest and all. Whoa is me.
Oh yeah, and I'm trying to get all gung ho about working on a new layout since I can't do any work for my projects until my desktop is fixed. That's life!
I do believe I'm stylin! I bought myself a few coloring books. Spongebob Squarepants to be exact. One of them comes with a ton of temp tattoos! I am going to scan in some of the images and color them in on the computer and maybe make a desktop with some of the finished images.
I also discovered something else. I don't like Thomas the Tank Engine anymore. I saw a coloring book today that made diesels look bad. The diesel trains were the big meanie trains bullying the steam engines. I was so pissed. I even thought about writing the coloring book creators. Diesels of the world unite against Thomas and Co.!!!!!
Well, my desktop is toast. I think it needs a new motherboard. Josh is supposed to be getting me a new one sometime this week. He has to return something and will pick one up then, I hope.
I'm back from my trip. It went fine. I'm tired and happy to be home. I really missed being home.
I had a fever yesterday. I travel so much that I get sick a lot. Maybe I should just stop traveling so much.
Does anyone ever have to deal with friends who go and get big heads about things? I'm kind of tired of that. I'm tired of a lot of things. I just don't know.
Hey wow, my papertowels are two-ply! Neato!
I am anxiously awaiting a letter from little miss Brittany. I have started writing her and she is starting to write me. She seemed very excited to get a letter from me. Apparently she started writing back the same day. Too cute. I will, of course, save them all!
I'm leaving for a week. Time to visit some family. My aunt and I, and her two children are driving to visit some family about 8 hours away. Oi Vey.
It's 5am. The sun should be coming up soon. I have to wake up at a decent time later. I need to do some shopping before I go to my aunt's house.
I was forced to reload my desktop. It has been such a miserable experience. Even after reloading it, I'm still having problems. The only thing we can come up with is that it is a motherboard problem. I guess when I get back, we have to go to the first computer show that comes up. I can't live like this. It's constantly fritzing out on me. I'm copying this post every few lines so that incase something happens, I'll have not lost so much.
Call my crazy, but I've spotted some presents for about seven different people. I'm hoping to go and get some of them today after I wake up. I was very excited when I spotted them. The items and the prices are great.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is set to open at the end of the week. I remember the day Mallrats premiered in LA. It was on my 18th birthday. Gary sent me a ton of swag (misc promo stuff) from the premier. I still have the bumper stickers, buttons, and the premier pass thingy on a chain. I keep stuff. Gary, if you are reading this, Thanks, even after almost 6 years, it's still cool!
This is just plain funny.
My dearest Calhoun has gone to Convergence7 already. I hope he enjoys himself. It's such a fun town and such a gathering shall be so grand. It's being held in NYC this year. One of my favorite cities. Coil shall be there. I really hope he meets lots of new people and has a great time. Oh and takes tons of pictures for me to see! He knows I love pictures. At least I think he does. Calhoun has been a friend of mine since we were in college. He was a year behind me coming in. He was in my dorm (I was in a Co-Ed dorm) and I met him when he asked to sit with me at dinner in the dining hall. He's definately grown in the past few years. I don't know if he notices it, but I do. I tend to notice a lot of things. Man, I just thought of something. I REALLY liked the okra and mashed potatoes at the dining hall. (I was eating mashed potatoes the day I met him)
It's funny how you can remember these things. Weird almost. I remember my meal on my first date with Josh. Hee Hee Hee. Ok, back to work
I've got Jungle Boogie stuck in my head. Flashbacks.
This scanner kicks arse. It's so nice. It scans so much better than my old one. I didn't know what I was missing!
I got this catalog in the mail today. It has a ton of really cute stuff for my niece's and nephew. There is some furniture in it that would be a really good idea. I think I could completely redecorate their "playroom" at my parents house for under $100US. That's a bargain! That includes paint, border, desk, chairs, shelves (wall and floor), toybox and a clock. It's a cute jungle theme. I think that's why I have Jungle Boogie stuck in my head. The chairs are in the shape of a giraffe and a zebra. It's cartoonish characters, but the forms are good. The toychest is in the shape of a zebra (head poking out and all). It's all very cute. It's just something to think about.
I'm waiting for the UPS man to come. Ooh, yeah, it came. I got my books. Sweet. Time to go do some reading. Gotta nix some stuff off my wishlist.
I'm searching and searching the net trying to find information on stopping Junk Mail. I know of a few ways, but I want to cover all of my bases. I also need to search on how to stop telemarketers.
At the same time I'm doing all of this, my shoulder is killing me. Surprisingly enough, it's not the side that Skittles scratched me. It seems to be muscle related. Ugh, this sucks.
I was just thinking about something. The first time I ever met John McCain was when he was at the TV station for an interview and was kind of lost. But the first time I ever saw him was a few hours before that. He was on the first floor trying to figure out where to go (see a theme here?) and I remember looking down and seeing this flaming thinning head. It was him. His head was sunburned really bad and it was showing right through his hair (what little was left on the top). I just thought I would share that. All though, now that I think about it, it's his own fault for developing skin cancer. Then man didn't take proper precautions that we've been advised of for years!
Mickey from the tdiclub posted an interesting link to this Rice Your Jetta little thing. It's a funny idea more than anything. I'm so tired of seeing people spend so much money on things that look like they were spit out of a junk pile! Ick.
Ok, so I was thinking about it. Considering I don't offer hosting (because my site is full of other stuff that no one sees), I think $6 for 100mb of storage and 5 gigs of transfer and ALL sorts of bells and whistles is a pretty good deal. I am currently paying $5 for 50mb of space. For some reason I completely forgot that as a reseller, the difference is only a dollar. It's two dollars if you aren't a reseller or if you want to upgrade you main site. So, I am upgrading 3 of my domains and actually downgrading one. The other few domains will be upgraded as needed.
I'm debating doing the cafepress thing for the Skittlescam. I saw a finished t-shirt and it just looked like a freaking iron on. I think I'll do it and order a t-shirt and a mug to see how they look. If they are halfway decent, I'll start selling them. If not, oh well. I'm not planning on doing it for a profit anyways. If I did, I'd just send the money to the SPCA or the like.
I managed to get an hours nap. The four legged alarm clock went off once again. She can't stand to have me in a different room. I can't sleep in the dining room, it just doesn't work that way. I tried to sleep on the floor in there but that ticked her off. I can't win with this cat. I've actually gone so far as to sneak a nap. I get the A/C going so she doesn't hear me and try to nap even for just a second. I think she's just paranoid that we're going to leave her. Strange kitty.
My four legged alarm decided to go off early, at 5am this morning. I wouldn't be as ticked if I had gone to bed when I was tired. Instead I went to bed around 2:30am. I can't go back to sleep. I got up and now I feel sick. I think I had too much sodium yesterday. I ate this soup that is full of sodium. That's too bad too, it's one of the few vegetarian ones that I can eat. Oh well.
I've been surfing lots of personal sites. There are a lot of people who think large images are just grand. It would take forever to download for someone on a 56k or less modem. Heck, some of them have problems downloading on a cable modem! I'm not saying my site is grand or anything, in fact it's on the contrary. It's simple and I like it that way. I don't have time to sit and do a complex layout. I have been working hard on two big projects. One of which I just completed and now I need to focus on the other one. I have a home to take care of. I have groceries to buy, dinners to cook. I have a husband to spend time with. I have a cat that needs attention (yes, I know, but she'll drive me nuts if I don't). Then I have to have a few moments for myself (to do things like tinfoil my desk!). I have a design for this site that I have trying to work on for months. I managed to work on it for about 15 minutes the other day. I was happy. Egad, I think I just need to go back to sleep.
Do you know what a Kinder Surprise is? If you don't, go see the website. They are little chocolate eggs with toys inside. I used to get them as treats when I was little (my favorite surprise was a little bike that I put together). Last year while visiting my grandparents I found a little deli that sold them and stocked up for Josh and I. Well not really stocked up, but I got enough! I wasn't sure how they would handle the trip back. But they did surprisingly well. Only one egg was injured and I ate that one for myself. I still have the toys. They are in my desk hutch in a box. Skittles kept trying to eat them so we had to put them away. I had some of the Cairo Cats collection and a bug. I never understood the bug, but it was Skittles' favorite. It's strange that there is not a US office. That would however explain the limited availability of them in the US. Maybe it's because it's kind of a child danger or something. Who knows.
Tomorrow my little munchkin turns three. Little Shalyn is getting big. She said she's a big girl. I believe her. I am not saying the following because I am their aunt, I am saying it because it's true. My nieces and nephew are very intelligent. They absorb knowledge like nobody's business. Not just facts, but lessons. Brittany was old enough to comprehend what was going on during the whole Clinton/Monica ordeal. Shalyn is just a little mindfull of smarts. AJ is delightfully intelligent and he's not even a year old! I'm glad they are smart. I'm glad they like to know things. I'm also glad that they still like to be kids. That's very important. They don't need to be little adults. There isn't much fun in that.
Today, my RAM arrived for my laptop. Sweet. It's so nice now. I was quite enjoying it. I watched Sleepy Hollow. Skittles somehow managed to mute my laptop during the last 10 minutes of the movie. Needless to say I was a little upset with her.
I just fed Skittles and she decided to have a little accident. No, not that kind, but she ran head on into the cabinet door and it made a really loud noise. I'm going to have to watch her, just to be safe. I know that had to hurt. I hit my head on the door yesterday and I can still feel it. I also know I have a pretty nasty bruise, but thankfully it's hidden by my hair.
Why didn't anyone tell me that Mr. Belvedere died? Well, at least the actor (Christopher Hewett) that did. I used to love that show as a kid. I feel so sad.
Nothing much happening. Just felt like writing. The weather tomorrow isn't looking so hot. There is talk of big thunderstorms with heavy winds and large hail. Our poor TDI! We need to make sure our car has hail damage insurance!
I got Skittles petfood from Petfood Direct. I ordered the stuff on Monday and I've already got it. Skittles saw it and went nuts. She was worse than a puppy with a new toy.
Josh and I went to dinner at CJ's. I have to remember to not order their veggie burger again. They put espinaca on it and it tasted horrible. The espinaca softened up the veggie burger into mush. I barely ate half of the thing. Needless to say, I'm still hungry. It's kind of late to eat anything.
The cat is licking my foot right now. That feels really weird. Oh, wait, now she's next to my laptop asking for food. I weighed her today. She actually looked like she was getting heavier in some areas, but I weighed her this evening. She's 8.58 lbs. The poor baby needs more food. Her ideal weight is between 9 and 10 lbs. I don't feel so bad sneaking her little foods now. No wonder she's alway hungry. Sheesh. I feel so guilty. I felt so guilty that I gave her a bunch of little extra treats. She's going to work this for a while. She's a smart little cat.
It's been a little frustrating that our cable modem provider has opted to block port80 in access. So we've had to go and reroute a ton of crap to another port. Grrr. It's them darn folks installing IIS and not even knowing about it! Sheesh. Ruin it for all of us why don't you!
This was an interesting site. People doing drugs for the first time. Or something like that. Actually a photographer took non drug users and gave each of them a drug (each person got a different kind), photographed them and made comments on their actions, appearance, longevity etc. Very interesting. Once again reaffirms my reasoning for not needing to use drugs. I can't stand even using IBproufen or Tylenol. Go figure.
I'm getting quite tired of people treating me like I am an idiot and can't do things without instruction. It's getting annoying. I am tired of people staring at me like I'm some picture in a magazine. I've gotten to the point where I stare back at them. Apparently they don't like the feeling. Good for f*cking them. I'm just in a really bad mood today. After 10.5 hours of sleep, I think I have a clear head. I'm tired of idiots that have leashes on their dogs, but that don't hold the dog and let the dog run free. Some idiot let his dog run around and it came running towards me and a woman with a kid. Me being the protective person that I am, got between the woman with the child and the dog. Normally I wouldn't have jumped so quickly, but this was a large dog and it was barking and growling as it came toward us. Come to find out, the kid was the one little thing I can't stand. At least I know I'm protective, no matter who is in the situation. Is this a good thing or a bad thing.
Time for some more laundry. Let's see if the grass stains have come out of Josh's pants. If not, guess who gets to take a trip to the mall this weekend. If you guessed Josh, you are correct!
We went and flew the plane today. It did great. Josh was very excited and nervous. Yipee for him. I think he feels accomplished now. I'm glad. We are both really tired and both feeling kind of icky. My ickiness is partly due to my low blood sugar level, but I think we both have a little bug that won't go away.
As much as I need to stay awake. I can't. I'm going to bed super mondo early. This is the earliest I've slept in a long time. A real long time. No matter. Lots to do tomorrow. I'll wake up bright and early I guess.
Apparently tomorrow "We're going flying." This of course that my husband wants me to awaken at 8am EST and take pictures and video of he and his plane. Considering that it is currently 2:09am EST, I'm going to be one tired puppy in the morning. I better get an extra special treat for this. Maybe i'll just sleep in the car. That could work too. I'll try to remember that.
It's not like I haven't tried to sleep. I really have. It's hard to sleep when people are moving about the house. I wonder what they are doing and when they will stop doing it!
I think I may go try again. Try or try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
It's barely August and I'm making my Christmas list. I put the max people on the list and the total humans comes to 44. That's right people, 44 people. I've got the cats all presents all ready. That's no biggie. The dogs aren't either. But the humans, that's 44 people to get gifts for! Everyone thinks I'm nuts for starting my shopping this early, but I'm not. We buy for our family and friends here and our family down south. It's very stressful sometimes, but I manage through it. I already have gifts in mind for people. I'm filtering through my list. I can do this. I know I can. Oh, and that 44 doesn't count myself or Josh. That's a whole other story. My family is generally easy to shop for, but Josh's gets kind of difficult. Mainly because it's so vast. 6 of the people on my side are kids. That leaves very few adults! Anyhow, I'll manage, but I'll be stressed by the end. I know I will. Maybe this year I should have my husband actually help me. Hmm, now that's an idea. If anyone wants to donate any money to me, my paypal email is miftik@miftik.com Ok, so I don't actually expect anything, but I figured I would mention it. Oh well. Back to my lists.
To my website. I am sorry. I am very very sorry. I have neglected you for so long and for that I am truly sorry. I will work on you, I will nurture you. I will make you look like you should. I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones is going to be the title of the newest Star Wars installment. From the looks of some of the pictures being snapped, it's going to be quite action and special effects oriented. Not that it is a bad thing, but hey, it's Star Wars. I can't say that I like the looks of Hayden Christensen (The guy playing the teen/twenties Anakin Skywalker, Lukes dad.) He's just lacking that appeal that the other actors have. Maybe that's on purpose, I don't know. Check out some of the shots at Episode II Selects. Some pretty nifty shots there. Thanks Mr. Lucas, and Gary I know how much you don't like Star Wars, but I had to post it.
Well, all of my sites were down and up and down and up for a while. They switched some switches at the hosting site and something went wacky at the same time. It appears that everything is now up and running, but I really don't know.
I am debating whether or not to create a little mini blog of sorts for the Skittles Cam. I figure I could use it as a "helpful hints" kind of section or something. I don't know. I would use it for her diary, but there are a TON of diary entries that would have to be recreated and I REALLY don't feel like doing that. It would take forever.
I've neglected my laptop a bit. I'm doing it on purpose though. I want it to generate some genes for the tdiclub team for the genome@home project. It's all in good fun. We are trying to do some decoding and at the same time raise money for the tdiclub.
Well, all of my sites were down and up and down and up for a while. They switched some switches at the hosting site and something went wacky at the same time. It appears that everything is now up and running, but I really don't know.
I am debating whether or not to create a little mini blog of sorts for the Skittles Cam. I figure I could use it as a "helpful hints" kind of section or something. I don't know. I would use it for her diary, but there are a TON of diary entries that would have to be recreated and I REALLY don't feel like doing that. It would take forever.
I've neglected my laptop a bit. I'm doing it on purpose though. I want it to generate some genes for the tdiclub team for the genome@home project. It's all in good fun. We are trying to do some decoding and at the same time raise money for the tdiclub.
Got the tax refund check. $600 glorious dollars. Of course the money is already spent. Special fees for the home and stuff. No biggie. It's not like it was ours to start with. Considering we have to go and pay taxes on it and all the other fun stuff that goes along with it. Joy! Not.
I also got lots of neato stuff in the mail from Nita. She sent the Sugarbush keys and lots of Atom Films decals.
I've been doing some mad coding lately. I have been using the good ole' WYSIWYG editor to set up the layout and then I hack up the code to make it legit. Considering the nature of this site that I am working on, it's important to hack it up correctly. Otherwise it's not good.
Her royal evil highness is being a pain in the arse. She thinks she is starving and therefore decides to chew on anything she can find to let me know. She's about to get put in her carrier.
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