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[13 May 2008|05:54pm] |
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Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
In no particular order:
1) Laying in bed watching Fred Astaire movies, even the ones I've seen a million times.
2) Getting tons of icon comments in my inbox.
3) Finding new fandoms/tv shows that I love.
4) Driving with my music full blast...esp my Celtic rock/punk music (good for driving, that).
5) Hanging out with my nieces and nephews.
6) Spending all day cooking an awesome meal from scratch and making up the recipe as I go along.
7) Watching my favorite shows over and over again and still finding them funny/entertaining/dramatic.
8) Talking to Brent.
9) Falling asleep with Wolfy on my lap (preferably when he is not smelling putrid).
10) Seeing my favorite bands live (and sometimes meeting them).
Anyone on my flist with a meme itch, consider yourself tagged.
( 4 Things Meme under the cut )
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| So If Everything Stays the Way it is Right Now... |
[12 May 2008|07:34pm] |
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I will have an awesome schedule this week. But I'm not going to say too much about it because I don't want to ruin anything and then get depressed. *knocks wood*
ARG annoying yappy dog above me barking for HOURS and HOURS at nothing. He also just peed on my porch. Lovely. They apparently have a leak in the floor of their balcony.
These gas prices, they're insane. I think everyone in the US needs to have a Gas Protest day and just stay home. Hopefully everything will stop functioning and the oil companies will buckle. Or everyone in the US can get together and drive to the homes of the people who make these price decisions and spit on them in unison. When they finally make their way out of the cocoon of saliva we can beat them with bats until they say we can have gas for $1.50 a gallon.
I have no idea what to have for dinner.
How is this for a random entry?
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| Air and Dancing and Traffic |
[10 May 2008|05:00pm] |
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- The air at work was finally fixed, but not before spending most of the day sweaty again.
- I'm educating a coworker on the wonders of Fred Astaire. She said today that she might go out and buy all his DVDs. Yesssss, I do my job well. (Kimberly- I do have a strange visual media power over people)
- There's this intersection that I have to turn at almost every day that has a lane to go straight, a turning lane, and a lane that's covered over in white stripes because you're not supposed to use it. Pretty much EVERYONE uses these lanes incorrectly and it's REALLY starting to make me angry because I've almost been in accidents there plenty of times, including today. I have to turn there and 99% of the people completely ignore the white stripes over the useless lane AND the big ARROW painted on the turning lane and zoom down the useless lane to turn. This often happens when I'm in the middle of a turn from the REAL turning lane. And then as the people almost hit me when I'm turning they give me dirty looks or flip me off. YEAH BECAUSE THEY'RE BREAKING THE LAW BY TURNING IN A LANE THAT DOESN'T EXIST INFRONT OF MY TURN. So I'm the bad guy? Also tons of people go straight in the turning lane. I swear if I were a cop I'd just sit at that intersection and give people tickets all day long until they started paying attention to the lanes.
- More Hotel Babylon tonight.
- What's up with the HUGE break in Ghost Hunters? Only one new episode for all of this month? And then June may or may not have new shows? And a break during another season of GHI? What is this, House?
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| Pretty Useless |
[09 May 2008|11:24pm] |
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I doubt it, but as a shot in the dark, does anyone on my flist watch Hotel Babylon? (Or anyone not on my flist that has wandered into my little world...)
I started watching it again, and I think I'm going to go through the whole series now. I greatly enjoy Tony (Dexter Fletcher is why I watched a few episodes a while back to begin with). I think being in the industry makes it extremely entertaining. Anyway...just a random (small) fandom note.
Yesterday I went to a baseball game with my neighbors, very randomly. We left as the home team was being pummeled 11 to 3. Ouch. Maybe the players got into the cheap beer. Or maybe they really suck. Either way it was a nice night out.
I have to get up insanely early tomorrow. So I should hit bed. And not watch another episode. No...go to bed, self.
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| *Melts* |
[08 May 2008|05:44pm] |
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The air-conditioning is broken at work.
The air-conditioning is broken in my car.
It's 98 degrees out.
I smell unpretty to the max.
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| And DONE! |
[07 May 2008|07:26pm] |
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I've been quiet the past few days because I've been trying to finish my custom mood theme. And it's finally done! I now have a multi-fandom mood theme
http://www.livejournal.com/moodlist.bml?moodtheme=451631&ownerid=3039091
It contains:
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Fred Astaire
House / Hugh Laurie
Doctor Who - Four
Doctor Who - Nine
The Monkees
Torchwood
Eddie Izzard
Jonathan Creek
Hotel Babylon
Jeeves and Wooster
The Who
Bowie
In other news: I was sick yesterday, but feel better today aside from the massive amount of tissues I still need to use to keep my nostrils breathable. I watched both of Alan Davies' episodes of Hotel Babylon and he's so adorable! Even when he's playing a prick. He even attacked a plant with a knife. I LOL'd.
Fruit is WAY too expensive. I'm trying to eat better but it seems I'm just spending my gas money on healthy food. Why is food that's terribly bad for you so cheap? Is it like a conspiracy to kill the poor people quickly?
Speaking of food...I have to try and make dinner...if my meat would ever defrost.
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| Fred Astaire Love!!! |
[04 May 2008|06:54pm] |
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I opened up my new DVD of Daddy Long Legs today and found something really cool inside!
Lobby cards with Fred Astaire on them!!!!!
( Blurry pics under the cut )
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| If the Song Actually is About You, Then You're Not Vain, You're Right. |
[03 May 2008|10:35pm] |
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I can def say my coworkers want to kill me after blasting John Barrowman's version of You're So Vain 5 times in a row at work. Hehe
After a big disappointment in the Ghost Hunters podcast this week (being that Jason and Grant weren't even on it!), the episode from Wed night more than made up for it. My gosh, that was a great episode. Well, if they say they're investigating an old insane asylum, then you know it's going to be good right?
Ghost Hunters Review under the cut with the very unrelated text.
( There were clouds in his coffee? Ew. Though better than clowns. That would just be scary. )
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| Fandom Meme |
[30 Apr 2008|04:05pm] |
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Saw this floating around and thought I'd give it a go.
Fandom Meme
1. Newest Fandom: Life on Mars (and I'll stick Ashes to Ashes in with it for the boys)
2. Oldest Fandom: David Bowie (you have no idea how much I adored Bowie as a toddler lol)
( It has Pong! )
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| Me, Food, TV...And There's My Mind |
[29 Apr 2008|08:32pm] |
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Made an experimental casserole for dinner tonight. It consisted of:
white corn tortillas
pulled brisket meat
corn
black beans
bbq sauce
cheddar cheese
Turned out very good, but next time I need another layer of tortillas and more cheese. My morning smootie prepared in my new blender of awesome was very good. I'm a smoothie master.
Paying bills sucks. Especially rent. Paying rent is like waving bye-bye to your paycheck. *le sigh* It won't even write.
On the upside I enjoy walking into my bank in my AC/DC shirt and watching everyone look at me sideways.
And onto TV reviews placed kindly under cuts to avoid spoiling anyone:
New Ghost Hunters tomorrow night. Sadly though my itunes dled Jay and Grant's new podcast tonight and...THEY WEREN'T ON IT! I was very upset. Well Jay did call in for a bit. But they were traveling and couldn't do the live show. So no Grant at all. Really disappointing. Hope the episode is good enough to make up for it tomorrow.
And icon post next!
WOAH LJ went into rich text mode without asking me...and then went all crazy.
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| That's Smooth... |
[28 Apr 2008|06:43pm] |
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I LOVE MY NEW BLENDER!!!! I made a smoothie of awesome this morning. It really cheered me up. (Does that make me a pathetic person? I've had a bad few days but feel better because of a smoothie?) I want to make smoothies every day. Blenders rock.
Work was very busy and stressful this morning, but the day went by fast because of it. And guess what? I GET TWO DAYS OFF!!!! Sleep, here I come. I also plan, if all goes well, to have an icon post up sometime between now and Wed night. *fingers crossed*
(And look how adorable Chris is in my icon)
& I was tagged by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zeppelinakias
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.
1. The Young Dubliners - Oh La La
2. Alphabeat - Rubber boots/Mackintosh
3. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
4. David Bowie - Life on Mars ;)
5. The Who - God Speaks of Marty Robbins
6. Rocky Horror Picture Show - Wild and Untamed Thing
7. Dave Spector - That's How Strong My Love Is
And I tag...whoever wants to do it lol
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| Not the Birdie! |
[25 Apr 2008|06:50pm] |
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Leaving aside the other upsetting things that happened in the late afternoon today, I have to post about the non-personal one.
Two little baby birdies fell out of the nest in the driveway along my apt building. One is being very smart and sticking to the curb but the other keeps running, or gimply hopping more like, into the middle of the road! I tried to shoo it back from a slight distance using mainly it's fear of my dog who wanted to eat it, because I know you can't touch baby birds or their parents will abandon them. But it just keeps going back into the street! It also didn't seem to understand what I was saying to it, oddly enough neither did the large birds I was yelling at "to come get their baby."
I'm sure my neighbors now think I'm certifiably insane. But I've had a rough two days and I don't want to see baby bird jam on the road when Wolfy goes for his next walk.
I have a feeling the adventurous one won't last very long as it's a very busy part of the drive and I already blocked two cars from hitting it before Wolfy was too upset about a late dinner to wait any longer.
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| Not a Happy Bunny |
[24 Apr 2008|11:35pm] |
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I'm one sad puppy. :( Bad day at work. Bad time trying to get out of work because of Fiesta taking over the city and closing down all the roads I use. Bad news. Bad stuff. Bad Bad Bad!!!!!!
*cries*
I'm going to go watch Fortysomething and wallow in self pity until I fall asleep, hopefully soon.
Sorry to any of my flist I didn't get to tonight, the thing is HUGE. Post explosion on the 24th.
PS- in a non-sad note, happy bday to seaandsand_1973
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| Things Babies Can Get Away With |
[23 Apr 2008|07:30pm] |
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My family went out to dinner again tonight. While the waitress was taking orders my 1 & 1/2 yr old nephew grabbed the waitress' butt for a good few seconds and then let go and laughed really loudly. She kept taking orders very professionally until everyone at the table was like "Did he just grab your butt?"
Luckily he's completely adorable and cuter-than-anything so he got away with it. But she did tell everyone that works there so when he got a bit fussy and had to be walked around the restaurant everyone was calling him the lady's man.
In a few years he will get slapped for that kind of behavior LOL
( PS- I am the coolest aunt ever. When he was walking toward the table with my sister in law my brother put his hands out and then I did...and he ran to me instead. HA! :P )
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| Happy Birthday Shakespeare! |
[23 Apr 2008|11:51am] |
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Today is Shakespeare's birthday. Happy Birthday William!
There he is partying it up on my Norton. Ye ole Lush! He apparently went to DC sometime recently.
( And of course it's also his death day. )
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| My Bday Haul |
[22 Apr 2008|08:50pm] |
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Since on my real birthday everyone was either sick, having surgery, or working (*cough* me *cough*) we had my birthday celebration today!
I picked out presents with my mom earlier today and then had dinner with my family including my immensely adorable nephew who likes to point at me all night and say "this." I am Aunt This! We also had a very cute waiter.
Anyway...( Click to see my birthday haul )
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| Life on Mars - My Thoughts |
[22 Apr 2008|11:36am] |
I just finished Life on Mars. Man, that is one bloody brilliant show. I understand why it was only two seasons, but I wish it had been more. Certainly one of the best written and acted shows around. Before I go into my spoilery points under the cut, I want to say I REALLY WANT THIS BOOK:
The Rules of Modern Policing - 1973 Edition by Gene Hunt
I WANT! How awesome is that. But I don't really have money to spare. So I thought I'd Interlibrary Loan it. However it's only at libraries that charge. The estimated charge? $20. The book's cost? $19.83. I don't think I'll be ILLing after all. *le sigh*
Ok...onto my review of the series!
( No! God is in church, Smarty Pants! )
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