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QOTD: "Don't mistake something more for something better."

I haven't updated in a while. I feel asleep around 6:30 and now I'm awake at 10:45PM on a Tuesday. Foul portents. So I will attempt to mitigate these unfavorable circumstances by doing something constructive as I further exacerbate my offset sleep cycle. ( Read more... )

I was telling Jack I'd take Eulalie with me on a short car ride today. We've been tossing her in the car at least once a week to try to get her over her phobia of being in a moving vehicle. Sometimes she gets a treat from Wendy's $1 menu but she won't even touch it until we're safe back inside the house.

This is Jack's recreation of how she behaves when she has to go on a trip. It's spot-on:

She'll go "Wheee! We're going outside! Wheeee!" and then "What?!? The Car?!? No!!!!" (Pant, pant, drool, Shake) "You're just getting something out of the car right? Dad does that sometimes. Like a book or something. So. I'll just wait over here." "Noooo! I'm in the car! Scary!" (Pant, Pant, Drool) "Oh air. That's kind of neat. I can sniff stuff. No! Car Scary!"

Poor scaredy dog.

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July 3rd, 2008: Minus ended today, which makes me sad because it is a kick-ass comic that I really loved, but Ryan always warned us it would stop suddenly. I recommend reading from the start! I also recommend this particular installment. Ryan I look forward to your next project!

Today's breakfast:
Bowl of jasmine rice with sliced apricot on top.
Curry spice mix sprinkled on top for a little flavor
Bavarian honey/butter spread I made, melted on top

More of a dessert than breakfast. Hah! Vanilla soy milk goes well with it.

Today's agenda:
♠ Go back to Hudson's and get the ink tag removed from the white toile print dress that I bought there yesterday.  If that doesn't work, try another store I suppose.
♠ Remember what errands I needed to run yesterday.
♠ Jack is going to let Mom's dogs outside after work.
♠ Mull over what to wear to Shawn's cook out tonite. Likely to pick the same old thing since we'll be sitting outside with fireworks, beer, and mosquitos.
♠ Try to talk Abigail into DD'ing for us tonite so we don't have to sleep on Shawn's floor (boo). Bring the tommygun of tequila with us to the party.

kawaii_suesse was showing off some dresses she got at Hudson's earlier, and told me that the Pearl one was the best in the area. Between the boredom and the fact that Hudson's was only three lights away from my house, I had to get out of my cave and poke around.

I found this super cute dress at a definitely reasonably price while I was there. None of the shoes they had worked for me though, sadly. Ok, I know I know. I need to stop collecting shoes and wear the ones I have. So I'll do that.

I also found AA batteries, hangover cure juice (no clue, but it was 2 fo $1 and I thought I'd try it) and blueberry shampoo for Jack.

Now I'm back home and bored again :P

PS: Made a new icon. Didn't reduce well from the scan unfortunately.

This is what I've been babbling about over the last day:

• 17:10 AM BORED. Bring me shiny things of distraction or a high paying job. Get to work!
• 08:42 Started the day by making samosas for Jack's office party.
• 09:30 I desire a vintage pilot's cap.
• 10:06 Get a certificate for helping Firefox set their download record: tinyurl.com/64q5gj
• 12:08 Jackson liquor stores are open on July 4th right? (No idea why they wouldn't, but blue laws work in mysterious ways)
• 15:15 Have obtained many things from the Pearl Hudsons. KS, you are a shopping devil!

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July 3rd, 2008: Minus ended today, which makes me sad because it is a kick-ass comic that I really loved, but Ryan always warned us it would stop suddenly. I recommend reading from the start! I also recommend this particular installment. Ryan I look forward to your next project!

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Yesterday I went into work an hour early to pick up my paycheck and Mike, the creepy old guy who would come into the Pastry Garden and make me uncomfortable and give us hats, was sitting at a table chatting with my boss, Robbie. After I came back to work Robbie starting talking about how much he loves Mike because he's such a good Christian man, I mentioned that I see Mike at church sometimes and Robbie suddenly said, "Wait a minute, you're a Christian? I thought you were Mormon!" I was speechless, kneeling down and cleaning out the microwave, so I just stared up at him with this look of shock and dissbelief and blurted "Mormons are Christians!" He disagreed and I shuffled to the sink to do the dishes- I heard one of the guys trying to convince Robbie that Mormons are just another form of Protestant, but Robbie said, "We'll (meaning me and him) have to debate this later."

This makes me not want to go into work tonight.

last night was the most fun ever..next to universal studios. i love my derby team:)

New Zealand man sells his soul to 'Hell'

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand man has sold his soul to hell -- Hell Pizza, that is.

The New Zealand pizza chain said Thursday it had struck a deal with Walter Scott, 24, to buy a deed to his soul, shortly after an online auction site that initially agreed to the sale withdrew it from the Internet because of complaints it was in bad taste.

Scott offered his soul on the TradeMe site on Wednesday, saying he had not found it to be much use.

"I can't see it, touch it or feel it, but I can sell it, so I'm going to palm it off to the highest bidder," Scott, 24, said on the sale site.

The auction attracted more than 32,000 hits and more than 100 bids before it was taken down.

TradeMe business manager Michael O'Donnell said the company had received an "overwhelming number of complaints from the TradeMe community."

"A lot of people felt it was offensive even though we thought it was there for good fun," he told The Associated Press. "So the compliance team pulled it."

He said the auction had also attracted many bogus bids -- while the last bid on the site was listed as $3,799, the last genuine bid was $456.

Rachael Allison, head of marketing for Hell Pizza, which has outlets across New Zealand and trades on a naughty image, said the company contacted Scott shortly after the auction was removed and offered him $3,800.

"The soul belongs to Hell, there is simply no better place for it," Allison told The Associated Press. "He was pretty delighted."

O'Donnell had said on Wednesday that Scott's auction complied with TradeMe's rules because a physical object -- the deed of ownership -- would change hands.

In 2001, 20-year-old U.S. university student Adam Burtle tried to sell his soul on eBay, but the auction was pulled after the company ruling that something tangible needed to be exchanged for a viable sale.

Allison said she would fly to Scott's home town of Wanganui on North Island Friday "to pick up the soul -- or at least the deed of ownership."

The deed would be hung on a wall at the company's headquarters in the northern city of Auckland and an image of it posted on the company's Web site.

"We'd love to get his soul in the virtual world -- to keep it immortal," she said.

Most important meal of the day!

(I can't believe Jack found blueberry cream cheese. No, strike that. Only Jack would find blueberry cream cheese! According to him, the only thing he likes more than blueberries in the whole wide world is me. Shucks!)

My to-do list is very short today:
♦ Find a job
♦ Anticipate removal of teeth
♦ Straighten the apartment

Need amusements. Going stir crazy.
Send them stat!

PS: A-Kon prereg for our group may reach 20 people this year again. $27 price is assured.

This is what I've been babbling about over the last day:

• 15:18 Ahhh. It was just a consult. Anticipation!
• 09:42 I have woken up to say: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA!!
• 10:36 @Hadak Glad you found somewhere to crash
• 10:44 Today's Mundane: Going to do laundry and organize the hubby's side of the closet.

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11 ½ work days and counting

Well, here I sit. With my wisdom teeth still in my head and no job yet to head to.

We visited the Grandparents (on Mom's side) last week in Brady, TX. It was a pretty slow week for us compared to our usual family vacation in Texas. We siblings kept busy mostly with keeping the house and meals running. It's a bigger job than you'd think when you need to set the table for semi formal dining for eight people each meal, plus one plate for Grandma. Lots of dishes to wash.

Grandma was looking pretty pitiful when we came to town but the week passed and she was feeling good enough to walk around the house some and tell us what we were doing wrong, so I think she's overcoming the side effects of the last chemo treatment. She should be able to resume them once she's feeling better.

Grandpa is in pretty good spirits, though his hearing is going and he's getting a little forgetful. I guess we shouldn't be surprised though - at ages 75 and 77 one should start to feel a little older.

I only went to Fredericksburg to take Grandma to her doctor's visit, and then we made two trips into Mason for antique shopping (I found a little berry bowl that matches my depression era Hocking Princess uranium glass dishes I've started to collect) and then to see The Hulk in the old restored theater, The Odeon. Mason is celebrating their sesquicentennial this year, by the way.

Now I'm back in Jackson and looking for a job... sigh. Tooth extraction is scheduled for next Wednesday now.

Free Conference on Going Green in our communities in Hattiesburg, July 22-24

( Urban Planting Conference in Hattiesburg )

Random Slayers Revolution thing: if the opening sequence I saw on YouTube is genuine (lord knows it probably isn't, especially since the show aired for the first time a very short time ago) then I was interested to see a bunch of novel-only characters make their appearances, people I had only before seen in the Slayers DX and Slayers Dra-mata artbooks.

Interesting.

Also I'm not sure how I feel about "Plenty of Grit" as a song. Or a title for that matter.

Time will tell.

Maybe the Midsummer Fire Festival in WoW is stressing me, but it caused me to have a very interesting dream. I logged on to find myself in that large hostile keep in Hellfire Pen, only it was now Horde territory. I looked at how many of the fire flowers I had it was around 160, not enough to know what I wanted because nothing I could get with this amount impressed me. I decided to look at what the vendors had to offer anyway and went looking for the fire. I couldn't find it. I asked in general chat if the event was over and they said that it was. I asked why they had ended it two days too early and they said it broke into a Midsummer Nightmare Festival and that I could see the rabbit for more details.

I ran around the big keep, searching for a little rabbit, like the ones you can have as pets, but I couldn't find one at all. Suddenly a giant rabbit based off of the oger modles came stomping through a doorway. It made the ground shake and blue sparkles were fluttering behind it, trying to keep up. I clicked on it to see what the rewards were and found that you could exchange fire flowers for blue sparkles that were used to buy special event items. These event items were awesome but terribly costly. You could get your own fluttery sparkles, a staff or pole arm with ribbons and stars hanging on strings that did shadow damage, a drink that would make your character go all wavey and transparent (like a poorly recived TV station), and what I really wanted: special robes that were dark blue, purple and gold, they had detail of vines all around them and roots that stuck out at the hem and if you stood in one place too long they would root you and you would gain plusses to spells, as well as little blue sparkles were embedded irregularly all around it, as though they grew on the vines.

It was very pretty.

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June 30th, 2008: My street artist friend Poster Child did something cool a few weeks ago: he put up planters around Toronto that look like hit Mario blocks, with flowers growing out of them. Fire flowers! Excellent. This one is my favourite. Then, a few days ago I came across this box in real life, but someone had pulled the flowers out: way to go, Toronto.

Anyway there was a florist a few doors down, so I bought some more fire flowers and planted them in the box. It was my street art / guerilla gardening debut! My cell phone camera has a terminal case of the sucks, but here's what it looked like. It um, was larger and better lit and prettier in real life.