I've got my 9,000 mp3s on shuffle, so you never know what song you're going to hear next. The Chicken Dance just came on and now I'm sitting in my chair dancing along.

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I decided to take advantage of eBay's free listing day and put up a ton of Beanie Babies for sale that I had multiples of. You can view them here, so if you're a collector, feel free to see if they are any you need.

They're all retired Internet exclusives, so you may be able to find one or two that you missed.

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For some reason, there is a ladybug in my room. I figured - it being December and all - that they'd all be dead by now, but nope, there's one running around the top of my lamp. Since ladybugs are supposed to be lucky, I'll take it as a sign that my luck is going to change for the new year.

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I'm out of here shortly for a night on the town. I just weighed myself and I am down to 142 pounds (no wonder my pants are basically falling off of me!). That's like a thirty pound loss that I've had since November. Damn, I look good!

You kiddies be good now!

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So, to start off my no Coke challenge, I stopped at Chick-fil-A this morning and got a diet lemonade to drink. Man, this stuff is good!

It's got more calories than a diet Coke, but it's still a lot less than I normally have. Instead of having the 256 calories from a large Coke, I'm only having 50 calories from the same size diet lemonade.

Got to start somewhere, right? I wonder if they sell this stuff by the gallon like they do their regular lemonade.

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I bought my tiara today, so I am now ready for Em's Tiara Happy Hour. I also bought some new pants at lunch time to show off my new sexy, much flatter stomach. I do believe that there are several alcoholic drinks in my future, coumadin levels be damned.

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I completely stole Emily's idea and went to Vista Print a few weeks ago and had some business cards for Neurotic Fishbowl. They came in today and they were well worth the $10 I spent on them. Wish I would have had these at my reunion! (Click the image for the supersized version.)

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Steven and I are having friends over tonight and while we're not dressing up or anything, I am doing some Halloween-themed BookCrossing releases. I'm letting loose ten horror novels (King, Koontz, Straub, Rice, and Harris) in my area, so if you're in northwest Houston, keep your eyes open for some free books. They'll be at Best Buy (near Willowbrook in the DVD section), at Willowbrook in a few places, the local Randall's, and more. Hope someone finds them and enjoys them.

Happy Halloween, everyone! Don't eat too much candy!

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It's a nice feeling to realize it's actually Saturday instead of Sunday. Yeah! One more free day!

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Slowly but surely, I've managed to become a bit more human this week. I've made it out of the house (with make-up and decent clothes on - a first in weeks!) to run a few errands, get bloodwork done, and I even made it into work for an hour or two today to see where all the projects stand. I'm going to work from home the next couple of days and start back partial days next week. Everyone at work was so understanding of my situation and I could tell that they were genuinely glad to see me doing well. Makes a girl feel good, you know?

Really, except for feeling really tired when I'm out even just for a few hours and getting short of breath if I have to walk too far, I feel pretty good. Like I told Steven today, today was a good day because I didn't die from a blood clot or suffer permanent damage. When I really think of what might have happened, it gives me pause and makes me realize how lucky I was.

I still haven't posted about my hospital stay, but I'm not sure there's much to say about it. I hated being there, disliked my doctor (guy was a major jackass with no bedside manner at all), and my poor arms look like I have a serious drug habit from all the IVs and blood that was taken while I was in there. The bruises are now a lovely yellow color and I wonder if people think junkie when they glance at my arms.

Also, while I was at work, I picked up a few packages that had arrived for me. Kim and Scott sent me Michelle Branch's The Spirit Room and Erin sent me Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes. Nothing like getting gifts to help your recovery, right?

Speaking of gifts, as soon as Christine gets me a list of all the people that participated in the Pamper Kymberlie in the Hospital Project (that's how I refer to it), I'll be sending thank yous your way as well. I cannot stress enough how wonderful it felt knowing so many people were pulling for me, thinking about me, and wishing me well. You never know how many people love you until something like this happens.

Speaking of people that love you, I just want to thank my mom for staying with me every day and every night while I was in the hospital. She only left for a few hours at a time to shower and get us food when the meals inside were way too nasty to eat. She slept every night in my room and was always there if I work up scared or if the 3:30 blood letting became too much to bear. I wish everyone had a mother like her in there life. I love you, Mom. Thank you so much for being there, even if I did get snippy and bitchy by the end of my stay.

Anyway, hopefully once I get a bit more rested and caught up on all the shit that's piled up while I was gone, blogging will be a bit more frequent here. At least now you know I haven't relapsed.

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Steven and I are going to a friend's house tonight for a little Labor Day bash. Should be about four couples there and Steven's making homemade pizzas and pina coladas. Yum! Everyone have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend!

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Today was the day to pick up cheap supplies for burning CDs. Office Depot is running a sale on Imation CDs - 50 80 minute, 48x speed CDs (regularly $25.00 or so) for $11.87, buy one get one free. That's 100 CDs for about $13 after tax. Office Max has 50 slimline CD cases (regularly $9.99 a piece) on sale for $4.00 which then comes with a $4.00 mail-in rebate making them free.

If you're running low on CD supplies, now would be the time to stock up!

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Today I helped Steven make a copy of a CD for his car. We designed the CD cover and the booklet art, printed it, and put a CD together. I've been thinking that since I'm seeing a pretty big interest in the Burn It CD Swap, I might go through and list what programs I use to put together my CDs. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

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For the last few days I've been fighting the worst headaches. It's hitting me right now with renewed vigor. Why, oh why, must I suffer from headaches? Blah!

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I spent most of today updating my BookCrossing bookshelf to reflect the multitude of bookrings/rays I've joined. I must be insane to be on so many lists!

I also updated my To Be Read list over at BiblioBlog. I've come to the conclusion that if I quit my job and did nothing but read twenty hours a day, I still could never read all the books that I wanted to.

It was good going through my list, though. I found some books that I had forgotten about and plan on moving up my list of what to read next. I've still got to update my DVD list, but at least my books are a bit more orderly back here (read stacked in boxes), so that ought to make Steven happy. Ah, to have a library with floor to ceiling bookshelves. That would be heaven!

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Somehow I've managed to get a crick in my neck that's just about making it impossible to turn my head to the left. Talk about fun! I think I'll play a bit more gin over at Pogo and call it a night.

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We're off to have dinner somewhere (still undecided) and maybe find a local game to visit. Everyone have a nice Saturday night!

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It's Friday, we have friends over, and the drinking has begun.

Last night Steven's Mercedes was vandalized when he left it at the movie theater for a while. Apparently, Mercedes mirrors have some kind of blinking system that makes the mirror go for $1,300 or so. Sucks, huh? Anyway, he was thinking today, after helping a disabled man in a wheelchair with his groceries, that nothing in his life is that bad. Kind of makes you think, huh?

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Just some random stuff that's on my mind:

- I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on Friday and I quite enjoyed it. I agree with several people that the writing is simply not as magical (pardon the pun) as the first couple, but all in all, it was a great book. Lots of good coming of age stuff in there and I just had to see what was going to happen next. Hope we don't have to wait three years for the next one.

- An eBay auction pair of shoes that I have been drooling over for a week ends in forty minutes. If they go up much more, I won't be able to bid on them. Who are the ends that bid on auctions before the last few minutes, driving up the price? Don't they know these are my shoes?

- I watched 44 Minutes on FX this weekend. It's the story of those two guys who held up a bank in North Hollywood in 1997 wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s. They left the bank firing over 2,000 rounds injuring over thirty people, most of them police officers. The movie was great, though I felt such rage that people can legally own weapons like sniper and assult rifles. It's just so fucked up. I really do recommend seeing this movie, though. Really good.

- We rented Die Another Day this weekend and it was pretty entertaining (though a lot of it was highly unrealistic). At least it didn't have Denise Richards in it. I really can't stand her.

- I've had thirty people sign up for Burn It - The Summer Edition already. Since we only had about forty people last time, I think this one's going to be even bigger. Come and sign up!

- The cat is so cute running around with her little fur mouse in her mouth like it's actual prey.

- Man, how can it be Monday almost already? I am so glad Friday is a holiday.

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It's Friday, I won a little bit of money playing poker, I've ripped almost all of mine and Steven's CDs into mp3 tracks, I got a cool new bracelet, I have all the makings for raspberry pina coladas, Jeanna should be over soon, and Harry Potter shall soon be mine.

Fridays rock!

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I dropped Steven off at the airport this morning so he could go to Boston for a business trip. I was originally going to go, but since he has class all day and then dinners and receptions at night that significant others can't attend, I figured I'd just stay home.

He called this afternoon from his swanky hotel, Nine Zero, and I realized how much I miss him already. Sappy, huh? This is the first trip, though, that he's taken in almost five years without me, so it's a bit strange to be home alone.

Since he isn't here, I'd thought I'd add another family member to make the household the same number and bought another beta at lunch time (I now have four of them). He's really pretty with lots of pinkish-red coloring shot through with shimmery blue. I'll have to try and do a good picture of him later.

The good news, though, is my best friend Jeanna is coming over tomorrow night to spend the whole weekend with me. We already know that we're going to a midnight sale of Harry Potter tomorrow night and then getting pedicures and checking out this jewelry store that's going out of business on Saturday, but that's all we've got planned so far. I think we'll hit Chinese Cafe for dinner Saturday night which will be delicious as always and since Jeanna's never been there before, it'll really be a treat.

I expect lots of raspberry pina coladas will be drunk, lots of movies will be seen, and an incredible time will be held for all.

I guess if you've don't get to go on a trip, the least you can do is have your best friend stay with you!

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I met Jeanna tonight at Deerbrook Mall after she got off work and we kicked around for a while, did a little shopping, and ate dinner at Jason's Deli (peanut butter and jelly sandwich for me - yum!).

Steven's going out of town next week for a conference in Boston and Jeanna's going to spend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with me and Bella. We're going to get drunk, watch movies, and have great dinners. I can't wait for next weekend!

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I was so tired today that, for the first time in a week or so, I took a nap. I made it until about 9:00 and then I crashed.

I've been having very intense dreams (not just nightmares, though there have been some of those too) and I'm almost as tired in the morning as when I went to sleep. I think I'll take an Ambien and see if I can actually sleep through the whole night with no dreams.

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Ah, where do the weekends go?

I had dreams all night last night where it was finals day and I hadn't been to class all semester so I wasn't going to graduate from college. When I woke up this morning I was even more tired than when I went to sleep.

Despite that, I had a pretty good day. I had a wonderful chat with Sheila, who despite everything going on in her life, took the time to remind me how special I am. She completely rocks.

I also got a phone call from the boyfriend inviting me to lunch out of the blue - another nice pick-me up. Then it was off to Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual sale where I scored a ton of stuff for like $100.

I had bought The Animatrix DVD Gift Set to give Steven from Bella for Father's Day since he takes such good care of her, but I couldn't wait and gave it to him tonight.

I am now off to eat leftover homemade lasagna (Yum!) and watch some of The Animatrix with my baby. Night, all!

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I spent most of the day just fucking off playing games, like I usually do on a Sunday. Nothing of note to post, really, just wanted to say hi.

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Steven and I spent most of the day at a charity benefit for one of his co-worker's husband. They found out last year that both she and him had Hepetitis C and just as they were getting done with the treatment for it, it was discovered that he had pancreatic cancer. The benefit was a lot of fun with ponies and horses for the kids to ride (see them over at the Neurotic Fishbowl Moblog) and they had a band, Victim, that played some real kick-ass music.

After that we headed off to Wal-Mart since Steven decided he wanted to make Emril's lasagna for dinner tonight. It's currently cooking away over in the kitchen and the whole house smells delicious. I love having a man that can cook!

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Am I the only one that doesn't like the new interface over at BlogShares?

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I think I've picked up the cold that Steven had last week. My head is starting to feel like it's going to explode and I'm sneezing like crazy.

I went to the doctor today to talk to him about Lexapro and how I feel on it. I told him I definitely feel much better (I no longer feel that there is a black hole just beyond my line of sight that is sucking me towards it. I actually feel good and hopeful, a nice change), but I am still pretty exhausted. He checked my blood pressure and it's normal, so he's sending me for bloodwork tomorrow morning. My mother is convinced I'm anemic, so I guess we'll find out if there's anything wrong with me.

Steven and I are trying to shopping for a flip-top poker table that doubles as a dinette set. There's one we both like by California House, but it's probably too big to fit in the condo and it's like $5,000 on sale. I'd really like to get it, but I'm not sure if it's in the cards. Pardon the pun.

I'm feeling worse, so I think it's time for me and the cat to go take a little nap while we wait for Steven to come home from work. Have a nice night, all.

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I have been completely obsessed with BlogShares lately.

The good news - increasing my fortune by about $7 million this week alone. The bad news - it's still fake money!

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One of the guys at the office was checking the RoadRunner status page for Houston and it looks like there are outages all over Houston, Spring, Humble, and The Woodlands. Odds are not looking good for having a connection when I get home, so I thought I'd make a quick, "How you doing?" post before I left.

I went to The Limited today and totally scored on some sale items. I got two stretchy shirts (cotton/spandex blend), a necklace, and a pair of earrings for $30. I totally love one of the shirts since you can dress it up or down with either pants or a skirt. When I wear it, I'll have to take some pictures.

Joelle's Vegas posts have completely inspired me to post my own Vegas stories here very, very soon. I have a great story that is just a classic drunk story.

Okay, getting ready to leave soon and run to the PetSmart to see if they still have this huge, gorgeous calico oranda that was there when I went in at lunch to get a heater for the tank. I will be pissed if he was sold in between now and then since the guy said they couldn't hold them.

Happy pseudo Monday, y'all!

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I just had to come and go, "Woo hoo!," since I got first place in a poker tournament through some great reads and calls on my part. I also got a second place early this morning, so I'm feeling good.

Steven and I spent a few hours laying on the couch and watching the E! Hollywood True Story on Corey Haim and the Beverly Hills 90210 cast. Quite entertaining and a nice way to just veg out.

My brother and his girlfriend are coming in from a weekend in Mexico and since they're leaving for Europe on Sunday, we're all supposed to go to dinner tonight. Steven's feeling under the weather and is probably going to stay home so he doesn't get anyone sick. Of course, the time and place are still up in the air, so it's anybody's guess what happens tonight. Guess that means it's time for a bit more Civilization: Call To Power.

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Despite wanting to catch up on all kinds of things, I've spent the day playing Civilization: Call To Power (conquering the planet one city at a time), some poker tournaments, and trying to increase my BlogShares fortune (feel free to gift me shares of your blog. I love when someone does that!).

We went to the most fabulous restaurant last night with some friends called Maggiano's. Steven and I had been there before but my food curse was acting up and they were out of lasagna, my absolute favorite thing to eat. Before we got there I made Steven promise to sacrifice a waiter if they were out and I guess the threat proved good enough since they had some.

The portions there are huge and I got the most delicious lasagna that was almost the size of an entire plate. Steven had chicken milanese which he is actually cooking right now in the kitchen. I love my chef-like boyfriend.

Anyway, it's been a lovely (if lazy) day and I hope everyone's enjoying their holiday!

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Like Christine, I've had a lot I want to say and do around this place, but I haven't really had the energy more than the time to do it. I still want to post an in-depth post about Vegas, I have some pictures to get out of the Pencam, tons of e-mails to answer, and I've got a lot of little things I need to take care of around the house, not to mention a skin idea I've had for months. Poor BiblioBlog hasn't been updated in months, though I've finished ten more books or so since the last update.

It's been easy not to do any of these things since I've started the Lexapro. I've been thinking about how I feel since I've been on it and the answer is much better, desite being so tired all the time. I know my blood pressure is a bit higher (normal as opposed to low), so that may have something to do with it. Plus, I've started drinking more Sprites than Cokes, so my caffiene intake is probably lower too.

Well, we've got friends coming over in an hour and since I'm sitting her in a t-shirt and boxes with my hair in a towel, glasses on, and no make-up, I guess I better go get ready. Maybe over the holiday I can make it a goal to get some of this stuff done.

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Man, is there anything better than the start of a three day weekend?

I stopped on the way home and bought the most beautiful beta I've ever seen (bringing the total number of betas up to three) to add to our fishy family.

I got second place in a poker tournament, my raspberry candle smells delicious, we're going to Chinese Cafe for dinner, and drinking is about to commence. Ah, life is good.

Saga do some excellent World Cruise Holidays for all ages

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I spent most of the day watching stuff that the TiVo recorded while we were on vacation and playing a little poker (first place in a tournament, which is always nice).

I've also started sorting through my vacation photos and some that we took at the zoo and while back. The first few are showing up over in Picture Fish, so feel free to go have a look. These first ones are lomoized through a Photoshop action and I really like how they look.

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Because I'm geeky, I had to share with y'all the cute glasses I got from Crate and Barrel the other day. Aren't these great? Perfect for a neurotic fishgirl.

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...something about my car that makes it attractive for use as a bird restroom? Every damned day, I have to clean bird crap off the car.

And I don't even park under a tree!

I can't get away from it. This past weekend, when we were in Portland, Maine, we went to the car after the Sea Dogs game, and there was a huge glop of seagull sh*t right smack in the middle of the windshield. Ugh! Of all the bird sh*t out there, there is nothing more disgusting than that of the seagull!

I've long since learned to keep a roll of paper towels and a bottle of Windex in the car at all times.

Also...HOW do the birds manage to sh*t on the SIDE of the car? Today, there was some on the driver's side door.

I wish I had a garage!

This has been a guest post from Christine of The Passionate Ailurophile.

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Yet another nap for me this afternoon after I got home. I've just been so tired ever since I started taking the Paxil. I go back to the doctor next week to discuss how the medicine's working for me and I'm definitely going to mention how exhausted I feel. At least I haven't been feeling as nauseous these last few days.

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I'm still feeling pretty tired and blah today, I'm guessing from the one-two punch of Aunt Flow and the Paxil. It was all I could do today to keep my eyes open, so I'm headed back to the couch to relax a little longer. Sorry for all the boring, whiny posts lately!

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We're off to Steven's mother's church to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter. Everyone have a great Sunday and I'll see you when I get back!

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I've got a terrible, terrible headache right now. You know the kind that makes you feel sick to your stomach and like your head is going to explode? Yeah, that's how I feel right now. I'm not sure if it's the Paxil, PMS, or both, but it sucks.

In other news, I have something that I'd really like to happen, so cross your fingers for me and wish me luck.

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You know how you're just going to lay down for just a minute, only close your eyes for just a few seconds? Two and half hours later, my minute is finally up.

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It's been a crap day for multiple reasons, so I'm not going to post anything. Feel free to cheer me up by joining Burn It - The Spring Edition or buying me a present. Yes, it's a pathetic plea for love, but it's been a really shitty week and it's only Monday.

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It's sad, but I could eat Fruity Pebbles every day for the rest of my life.

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I just got some spam offering to help me "Earn full time imcome while working part time." You know, nothing says "I'm incompetent!" like misspelling the most important word in your title!

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I want a Cherry Coke. Anyone want to run one over? Please? (Also testing Jason's new Blogrolling pinger.)

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After a very emotional, over-wrought Friday, everything was much better after drinking and a nap that night. I decided to just relax and I took it easy all weekend long. I played video games, watched tv, and pet the cat. I played a lot of Zeus and found some strange sense of peace building my little cities and taking care of my citizens. Shame it's already Monday.

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Steven's mother's church is having a Mardi Gras party, so we're off to St. Basil's Greek Orthodox church to celebrate Mardi Gras Greek style. Have a lovely evening, kiddies!

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The sounds I'm hearing in my head sound a bit like crashing and burning. Help.

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Woo hoo! The poker account is over $200 and my wireless keyboard and mouse finally came in today.

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It's been such a great day, I just have to share some of the things that have made me happy:

• I reached UPS and they are delivering the Logitech Cordless iTouch Keyboard with Cordless Mouse I won last month to me at work on Monday (it's been stuck in transit due to some weird happenings)
• I won God Shaped Hole from Robyn's GiveAway Page
• I have beautiful red roses sitting next to my monitor
• I can't wait to go on my spa day courtesy of Steven
• I won $25 in a poker tournament tonight
• We're going to Chinese Cafe (the one on Bellaire) and watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding later tonight
• My tax return was finally accepted after making a mistake in the electronic signature the first time (Oops!) so I should get my refund soon
• And last but not least, I got tons of people wishing me happy Valentine's Day and making me a happy Fishgirl

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My Valentine's Day started a little early with roses tonight from Steven, the sweetie. He says I'm going to love my gift, so I can't wait for tomorrow.

I watched the first episode of Survivor: Amazon tonight. I've watched a few episodes of the one that had the cute Texan guy on it, but that's about it. I must say I was really impressed with the show tonight and have set a season pass. The immunity challenge in particular had me in a state of disbelief. How do you blow a three minute lead like that (left vague on purpose so as not to spoil anything)?

Movable Type 2.6 is now out, but I think I'll wait a few days to upgrade since another release always follows right away. :-)

In other news, Kristine has moved her awesome MT Plugin Directory to new digs. It looks awesome and is bound to be as helpful as ever.

I'm glad it's almost Friday. Tomorrow night is yummy Chinese food at Chinese Cafe. I've been trying to get there for a month and other things just keep getting in the way, but tomorrow it's come hell or high water.

Happy almost Friday and Valentine's Day, everyone!

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I got a phone call today from Jeanna and the first words out of her mouth were, "I need alcohol. Let's go out tonight instead of tomorrow."

I was having what was shaping up to be a shitty day (side note: there is nothing better than having a day that looks like it's going to end in death and bloodshed actually turn out great) so I readily agreed.

We ended up just wandering around the mall for a while and then going to dinner at Red Lobster but, as always, I had the greatest time hanging out with her. We laughed, we called people jack monkeys, we sang along to old ballads, we discussed books, and just talked about whatever random thing happened across our minds.

Isn't it wonderful to have a best friend?

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We went to Cingular (my cellular provider) to see what deals they might have going on since they're in the same parking lot of the gym anyway.

They didn't have any of the cool phones that I mentioned before. They have some kind of a new network coming online this year and they should have all those types of phones later. I wasn't going to get anything, but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

Basically, I signed another year contract at my current plan and got a Motorola 120T (mine is a pretty silver and blue with the little Cingular guy on it, not that ugly black) for free that I can use as a trade in when the new phones come in.

It's not the phone that I want, but I can trade up for one later and not have to change my phone number. Plus, I still get a Valentine's Day gift. ;-)

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The boyfriend just offered to buy me one of those really expensive phones (like this one for example) that I have been drooling over for a while as a Valentine's Day gift.

Now, I don't really *need* one of those phones. I could use that money to pay off some bills instead. But what fun is that? Be responsible or get a cool phone. Be responsible or get a cool phone. Decisions, decisions.

Update: okay, the link really does go to a phone now. Go see what I'm talking about.

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Thanks to having a TiVo near the StairMaster I have a nifty little equation for you:

40 minutes on the StairMaster = 1 hour of television minus commercials

Nice to see that I save a third of my time by using TiVo.

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I finally figured out what to do to enter my pre-paid game card on EverQuest.

When you get the two options for payment subscriptions, you have to pick one of those and then pick "Use game card" out of the checkboxes. I thought game card was its own category. Doh! At least the problem is solved.

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For whatever reason, I just didn't feel much like blogging this weekend.

Friday night was a night of drunken revelry with my sweetiepie followed up with lots of TiVo watching. Nothing too exciting, but I was a happy chica and that's what really counts.

Saturday was spent mostly playing Zeus, Master of Olympus and a few poker tournaments (I placed in all of them, I believe). We had some friends come over so there was more drinking, dinner at a Mexican restaurant, homemade "Serious" Vanilla Ice Cream, Panic Room on DVD, more TiVo watching, and more Zeus playing.

Big surprise, but today was pretty much the same thing over again. Sometimes it's just good to not worry about anything and just play video games. Know what I mean?

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If you read my post today at Changes - Turning a New Leaf about buying a new lunchbox, you already know that I am the proud new owner of an Army of Darkness lunchbox that came with a set of Evil Dead shotglasses.

While looking for that little gem, I found the coolest lunch box ever, which I too now own. It's a Mexican Day of the Dead metal lunchbox. It's got capering skeletons and demons along the sides. What else could you possibly want out of a lunchbox?

I never got the lunchbox collection thing before, but these were far too cool to pass up. My snacks will be traveling in style!

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Today was one of those days. You know those days where everything is screwed up?

It started out with me oversleeping then getting to work only to find out that I have a client meeting in a few hours (surprise!) for a new client, so that's like skipping ten steps in how we're supposed to do things. It progressed to weird client expectations (lady, that is so not in your scope) and projects that are doomed. We're supposed to have dance class tonight, but I don't feel like going. I'd rather sit here and do nothing.

At least the day is over. Kind of making it hard to come up with my Participation Positives!

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I've been sitting around not doing anything today except playing Zeus: Master of Olympus and its expansion pack, Poseidon. I can't remember why I stopped playing these games. They are so fun.

Steven and I had dinner last night with my brother, his girlfriend, her sister, and two of their friends. Fun time, but I had way too much to drink. At least I didn't get sick. :-)

I guess it's just about time to go back to work. Pity.

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I had pretty much not even considered going to SXSW this year even though I could get a discounted badge for being a Bloggies finalist (btw, the voting ends tonight, so if you haven't voted yet, you still have time). I was talking to Rannie and he suggested blowing off the conference and just coming up for the weekend and hanging out at night.

This is a great idea. Steven's brother has an apartment in Austin that he rarely uses, so I bet we could even wrangle a free room. So, if I do decide to go, who else is coming? If there's enough cool people, it may help make my mind up for me. ;-)

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I am sitting here happy at work because I am listening to my copy of the Chicago soundtrack and it is just so much fun! What exuberant music! If you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it immediately.

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My printer hasn't been working for like a month now. Today Steven suggested checking all of the connections and guess what? I have a printer that prints again. *smacks self on forehead*

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(That's right... it's the 2003 Blog A Day Tour by Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support! This is not a post by Kymberlie - she is not this neurotic.)

I like the name of Kymberlie's site. "Neurotic Fishbowl" has a ring to it, don't you think?

There's something relaxing and healing about watching fish for a while. Sure, the tank can be a royal pain to maintain, but not if you're watching somebody else's fishbowl. It's kind of like visiting someone to get all the benefits of cat or dog therapy without having to have your own cat or dog.

Is it just as soothing for people to look at a weblog fishbowl and stare at the author-fish within? Will a screen-saver fishbowl do just as well, or a DVD with fishy goings-on work on an HDTV receiver? Will every cable system eventually show a fishbowl channel like that one station in New York does the Yule Log?

Anyway, the thought that came to my mind about this site had to do with some other sites out there and titles. Every now and then, a site gets really big, and all sorts of other sites pop up that play on that site's name.

For instance, Glenn Reynolds' InstaPundit. With his success, all sorts of people jumped on the *pundit bandwagon, like VodkaPundit and DailyPundit, and QuasiPundit and IsraPundit and Isntapundit and so forth. I'm sure that many of these folks were *pundit before the pundit-to-end-all-pundits" (or is that pundit-to-link-all-pundits) came about, but quite a few popped up.

Unlike the pundit-clique, there's also a lot of people just happily swimming in their fishbowls. It made me wonder why there aren't any plays on this site's name, seeing as how neat I think is it. I mean, imagine if there were a Psychotic Fishbowl or an Erotic Fishbowl or a Despotic Fishbowl out there. What would those sites be about?

How about playing on the Neurotic part with a Neurotic Soupbowl or a Neurotic Toiletbowl or Neurotic Manute Bol? An Oklahoma author could call his site the "Neurotic Dustbowl" even.

(Once again, this was not Kymberlie. This was the Amish Tech Support Blog A Day Tour stop for today. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled fishbowling.)

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Tonight we went to dinner with Steven's parents and a friend of theirs from their overseas days and their daughter, Angie. She's uber cool, loves Eddie Izzard, and I really enjoy seeing her.

We went to Taste of Texas, which is this great steakhouse that neither Steven or I had been to before. Delicious food. Great people to talk to. Wonderful birthday/blogiversary meal. :-)

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I have been obsessed with buying stuff from Amazon lately. Look at all the stuff I've ordered recently. Items with a * indicate a Gold Box purchase.

• Donnie Darko on DVD
• The Ice Storm on DVD
• Zoo Tycoon
• Zoo Tycoon Expansion pack: Marine Mania
• Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
• Bound on DVD
• Chicago soundtrack
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season on DVD*
• Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition) on DVD*
• Viking 128 MB SmartMedia Card (for my mp3 player)
• Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell*
• Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill

Someone stop me.

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Feeling crappy. Aunt Flo is coming. Want to eat chocolate and lie on the couch with a blanket and my cat. Is the day over yet?

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While at the mall I took advantage of the great mirrors all over the place in the cosmetic area and snapped a few pictures of my new blonder 'do. The second one is me imitating the wonderful Jish since he loves that looking off in the distance pose.

Those are supposed to be pop-ups, but I don't think they're working right. Hmmm.

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Poor Steven. He's spent the last several days being completely run down by a cold. He's currently sleeping on the couch. Sucks since his birthday is in three days. We were planning on celebrating this weekend, but those plans are toast now. I hope he starts feeling better soon. :-(

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For some bizarre reason, I've felt anxious all day, leading me into announcing to several people in my office that something bad was going to happen. The feeling has abated for the most part, but still, very unsettling. I now don't want to go to the gym, but want to go right home. WTF is wrong with me?

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I've been kind of quiet today, but I feel like I've got a lot of stuff accomplished.

I went through my sidebar and put just about everything into its own php file, so I hope this helps on load time. I also cut the last read books list down to fifteen and created a To Be Read list. That's been something I've been meaning to do forever, so I'm glad it's done.

I also stumbled across a good way to launch my blogroll and finally installed it.

I added a few things to Changes - Turning a New Leaf like a blogroll and a last 50 referrers script.

Anyway, still working on my To Read List (it's amazing how long that is!), but just wanted to say hi to all my faithful readers. ;-)

Update: I also added the show/hide anything script that Jenn was nice enough to create for me. So far it's only in place in my new "To Do List" in The Fishkeeper section of my sidebar, but it's certainly handy enough to be used in lots of places.

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Woo hoo! I just did my taxes online and I'm getting like $500 back! Much better than when I had to pay a bunch of money last year (I owed on my six months of unemployment).

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Every now and then I see a hit from my Classmates profile (Aw, look how cute I was in high school with my perm!), but I've only had like two people send me an e-mail (Hi, Heather and Holli!). It drives me a bit crazy.

If we went to school together and you bothered to go check out my blog, say hi. I rarely bite and I would probably love to hear from you.

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I wanted to sit on the computer and work on things all night (even though I've gotten a lot of stuff on the latest To Do List done already), but after the best massage ever (Amber was amazing. She was able to work just about all the knots out of my neck and shoulders, something that never happens) I have been too unmotivated. As a matter of fact, I am going to shower and either come back downstairs and watch tonight's ER or stay upstairs and read more in Jemima J. Maybe the cat will come sit with me and I can drift off to the sound of her purrs.

Can you tell I love Thursday nights? It's because now it's basically Friday and Friday's rock.

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I just noticed that Yankee Candles is a member of Ebates, so that was enough to prompt me to take advantage of their clearance sale and snag some ornaments while I got another 22 oz. Housewarmer candle in their delicious Buttercream scent. I just can't resist that smell.

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Today Jeanna and I are off to the Houston Museum of Science to see the Titanic exhibit and the The Cockrell Butterfly Center. If time permits, we're going to go around the corner to the Museum of Fine Arts and see the Impressionist exhibit. Both exhibits are ending today, so it's a last chance to take them in.

We're also exchanging Christmas presents, so there's prezzies in store for the day too. Woo hoo! :-)

Everyone enjoy their Sunday and I'm sure I'll have lots to talk about when I get back.

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Today was a day that kicked my ass.

Like I said in this post, I fell asleep on the couch last night at about 10:00, woke up at about 1:00, and took a sleeping pill probably around 2:15 or so. While it allowed me to go back to sleep, that pill completely screwed my day.

I was under this fog where it took me like a minute to answer questions and every third keystroke was a typo. I just couldn't wake up and I felt like I was underwater.

I finally started coming out of it around 1:00 in the afternoon, but when I got home tonight after running a bunch of errands, I sat on the bed and drifted in and out of sleep until Steven got home about a half hour later. It's now almost 10:00, so I have to go get ready so we can go eat something, but I still just want to go to bed. Let's hope I get a second wind.

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I was planning on coming home from work and doing some new posts (I have this "The Year in Numbers" thing that I want to do), watching a movie, and adding some pictures to Picture Fish, but that got totally derailed.

I did come home from work and I got some barbecue from Barney's BBQ near my parents so I could meet up with my mom and loan her Bloody Bones and Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton (I've got her ready the Anita Blake series and have already loaned her the rest). I started watching Shadow of the Vampire, which has been on the TiVo forever, but I was tired and my tummy full of barbecue, so I fell asleep. I just woke up and finished the movie off (pretty good movie, btw. Willem Dafoe was absolutely amazing) and now I need to get a shower in and see if there's anyway for me to go back to sleep. I feel pretty tired, but I think the nap is going to jack my sleep schedule up for the night. Isn't it amazing how there's never enough time to do all the things you want to do?

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I mentioned the other day that Steven was off to buy ice cream ingredients to use his Cuisinart ICE-20 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Maker, but I never mentioned how the ice cream came out.

His first batch was French Vanilla, made from Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book. It was simply delicious and tasted like it had come from an ice cream palor. I was a very happy little neurotic fish eating it.

The second batch was mango ice cream made using a base from the Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book and a recipe from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book: Over 500 Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, Drinks, and More. I don't like mangos, so the flavor did nothing for me, but Steven loved it. We took some with us last night to our friends' house and they ate it up.

It seems, then, that the ice cream maker was a great buy and is going to be a big hit. It's incredibly easy to use and was pretty cheap to boot. Now if he would just make some peanut butter ice cream (I am dying to try it)....

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I did a little tweaking around here today. I added a GuestMap to the sidebar, so make me happy and leave a little pin in it for me.

I also spent forever messing around with MT tags before I finally figured out what I was doing wrong and now the last five comments and pings are displayed in the sidebar as well. I've always wanted to display those and finally got around to doing so.

It's been a quite New Year's Day, just how I like it. Now to go do some online shopping and maybe, finally, update Picture Fish.

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I got rid of the Zonkboard to see if it's been the problem with the slow load time on the site. Could everyone let me know if they've had a problem, are still having a problem, or have had no problems with the site loading? Thanks!

Update: I was in the MT Forums getting ready to ask a question when I came upon a post titled "Load Time" in the Tips and Tricks forum. Girlie found out that it's actually the Fast Online Users count script that's killing all the pages. I guess the Zonkboard will reappear and that might disappear. I really did like seeing how many people were on my site at any given time, though. :-(

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I have such a sweet boy. He knew I had a crappy day (only compounded by Aunt Flo's visit), so he brought me home these gorgeous orange roses and he's in the kitchen making me soup and toast with the edges cut off. I am such a lucky girl!

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Aunt Flo is visiting, so I'm feeling particularly blah today. I've got like no energy and just spent an hour and a half sitting in our big comfortable leather chair watching the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. While it's not a half bad film, it just didn't live up to my memories of how good it was. If we had a DVD player in the back room, I'd pop in my copy of The Evil Dead and watch it. As much as I love the second two, I've never actually seen the original. Maybe I'll go get comfy on the couch and watch it.

I got a new computer at work (2.4 GHz) and moved to a different spot, so I feel like I didn't get anything done today. Add in the insanity that usually takes place around my office, and I wish I would have just stayed home curled up in bed.

That damned tart made me another skin, this one completely done in CSS and featuring a very sexy cowgirl (much saucier than the other pin-up she made me). Expect to see it up here before the night is over. Thanks to Robyn yet another new skin is being worked on. That one will be my first celebrity skin (I just like using that phrase).

That's all for now, boys and girls, so take care, eat some chocolate for me and watch a scary movie or two. You'll thank me later.

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I was over at Sephora.com ordering Comptoir Sud Pacifique's Amour de Cacao perfume and thought I'd see if they have any sales. They've got stuff for up to 75% off, so I highly recommend checking it out. They had the Sephora Animal Stories Bath Gift Set for $5.00 and I know they started out December at $16.00 a piece. Also, if you're a member of Ebates, you get 3% back on all purchases. If you're not a member, go sign up. I've saved a couple of hundred bucks through them.

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Woo hoo! Steven's off to get ingredients to make ice cream in the Cuisinart ICE-20 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Maker I bought him for Christmas. Yummy, yummy, yummy! Guess I better get on the StairMaster! ;-)

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I've got some old high school friends coming over tonight that I haven't seen in ages. We're going to have drinks at the house (Can you say piña colada? I knew you could!) and talk and then we're off to Lupe Tortilla for some yummy Mexican food. Two of them live up north, so I bet a decent fajita is fairly hard to find in Pennsylvania.

It's both exciting and kind of scary to see people you haven't seen in so long, know what I mean?

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It's now officially Christmas and about time for me to go join Steven and hit the sack. He really liked all his books and the gift certificate and I am totally jonesing for peanut butter ice cream after flipping through all the recipes. Doesn't that sound yummy?

Unsurprisingly, Steven's lasagna was to die for (he is such an excellent cook) and we have so much left, we'll probably end up taking some to both sets of parents tomorrow. He got me this really pretty watch that's all silver and blue (he so knows what I like). Watches are almost a tradition for me on Christmas since he gave me one only a few weeks after we started dating that I just loved.

Anyway, it's almost three in the morning, presents are wrapped and lined up, ready to go with us tomorrow. I doubt I'll be on much, so this week's Reasons For Love and "It's a Group Thing" will either get pushed to tomorrow or not done at all. We see how it goes. I've also got some lovely pin-up goodness courtesy of that tart that should be showing up soon, so keep an eye out.

I hope everyone enjoys their holiday and gets all of their heart's desire! Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas

Posted by shelli at December 25, 2002 07:21 AM

Merry Christmas!!! :)

Posted by Gina at December 25, 2002 08:05 AM

Merry Christmas!!

Posted by Shannon at December 25, 2002 11:51 AM

Have a wonderful Christmas!!

Posted by Kelly at December 25, 2002 01:24 PM

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Bev at December 25, 2002 02:19 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Posted by MishMish at December 25, 2002 03:53 PM

Merry Christmas, to you and Steven!

Posted by mikey at December 25, 2002 05:14 PM

Merry (belated) Christmas! Hope you had a great day!

Posted by Christine at December 25, 2002 11:51 PM

The Snowball Prayer
(Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat)

Oh lovely snowball, packed with care
Smack a head that's unaware.

Then with freezing ice to spare
Melt and soak through underwear.

Fly straight and true, hit hard and square,
This, oh snowball, is my prayer.
About D@mn Time has declared a snow fight…

:)

Posted by munin at December 26, 2002 11:34 AM

I'm a day late but I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas! Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

Posted by cybertoad at December 26, 2002 12:40 PM

i'm probably following Elaine around and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! :) (i just don't remember who i already said it to but hey, it doesn't hurt a second time)... Merry Christmas!

Posted by Kathy at December 26, 2002 12:47 PM

Consider yourself balled!!!

Blogger Snowball Fight 2002!!!

For more info visit "About D@mn Time"... Your turn now!

Posted by robyn at December 26, 2002 02:41 PM

muahahahahah!

Posted by mikey at December 26, 2002 02:50 PM

You've been snowballed by Tasha!

Blogger Snowball Fight 2002!!

Posted by tasha at December 26, 2002 03:26 PM

Heh heh. I balled you! (uhhhh huhuhuh) Join the Great Blogger Snowball War of 2002!

Posted by Annessa at December 26, 2002 04:03 PM

This has always been such a pretty blog and I have always been a silent lurker....But I've got all this yellow snow, so...

Snowball love from Texas!

Join the Great Blogger Snowball War of 2002!

Posted by Kevin at December 26, 2002 04:27 PM

Blogger Snowball Fight 2002!

muahahahahaha

Posted by Dania at December 26, 2002 04:28 PM

Posted by skits at December 26, 2002 04:36 PM

The First (?) Annual Blogger Snowball Fight has BEGONE!!!!!!!
BRING IT ON!!!!!
Blogger Snowball Fight 2002!
SPLAT!!!YOU'VE been snowballed BY PETE.. PASS IT ON!

Posted by Pete B at December 26, 2002 08:53 PM

===splat!!===

Posted by Michelle at December 26, 2002 09:06 PM

BANZAI!

You've been snowballed by courtney!

The 2002 Blogger Snowball Fight is ON!

Posted by courtney at December 26, 2002 10:44 PM

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Bah fucking humbug.

Update: things are kind of worked out now, but still, I'm a little pissed.

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Wow. I can't believe it's already 10:00. I've spent most of the day playing pool, getting my points from places like Milesource, finally downloading the 350 e-mails I've had sitting in my account (I answer them through my webmail all week and get behind on clearing them out), and doing surveys for various companies.

I can't believe it's already Christmas time. Woo hoo!

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Ah, if only you could see me singing and dancing around in my underwear to Harry Connick, Jr.'s version of "Sleigh Ride" with the cat looking at me like I'm a loon. Now that's what the holidays are all about!

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Today has been a nice Friday. We had our office party this afternoon and followed it up with three games of Ultimate Outburst. It was fun and a nice way to start five days off from work since I'm taking Monday off and we get Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm now buzzing on piña and luxuriating in the fact that I have nothing to do. It feels so nice.

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Has anyone else not been getting their Bloglet e-mail? I can't remember the last time I got one.

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At this time of year especially, good customer service can seem hard to come by. That's why I was particularly pleased with my latest transaction with Amazon.

I had ordered Young Frankenstein on DVD and Andrea Bocelli's CD Cieli di Toscana. I went to check when they would be shipped and despite both having the "Usually ships in 24 hours" blurb, delivery wasn't expected to happen for eleven more days. I was thinking of giving the CD to Steven for Christmas, so needless to say, I wanted my stuff here quicker. I called their customer service line and spoke to a nice young man who upgraded me to two day shipping for free to ensure that I would get my gift.

Here's to Amazon! Way to make the customer happy!

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Why is it that when I saw this I thought of her and her?

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I played EverQuest until 6:00 this morning, so needless to say, I slept pretty darn late this afternoon.

I woke up, hit the sites I hit every day, read some e-mail, and hopped on the StairMaster. The rest of the day has been filled with Hammerhead Pool at Pogo, reading e-mail, adding people to I Wish, You Wish (everyone who sent me an e-mail has been added, so if you want to get listed, send me your info), tweaking its look, and watching the cat sleep on the floor in the cutest curled-up ball.

I am having an internal debate about what to go get for dinner (Buger and fries? Mexican food? Chicken? I just can't decide), but despite it raining out there, I am going to go soon because I'm starving. I've still got tons of things to do (expect another To Do List post soon), but it's time for some food and to watch a little TiVo.

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I haven't posted much over the last few days, so here's what's going on with me.

With Christine not working with me, things are pretty busy. I actually felt like shit when I woke up Friday morning, so I took the day off. I slept until like 1:00, spending the day cuddling with the kitty since, now that she uses her box, she doesn't have to stay cooped up in the bathroom at night. I felt much better upon rising, but I've still got a nagging headache. I had killer headaches about four years ago and these kind of remind me of them. I think it's time to see the neurologist again.

Shelli had this wonderful idea and asked me to be partners on it with her. It's called I Wish, You Wish and the concept behind it is that it will be a central location for all blogger's wishlists. Birthdays will be displayed as well making it easy for you to see if there is anyone out in the blogosphere that you need to a get a gift for. Currently the design is broke and there's only a small list of people, but with the help of Wendell we plan on making it database driven and eventually even have automatted sign-ups. It should be a cool project, so be sure to keep an eye on it. Anyone have any feedback or a wishlist (pardon the pun) of features that would be useful?

I've spent the last several days completely amused by Bella. I bought some Keepsake Ornaments from Hallmark Thursday night (damn my ornament obsession!) and brought them home in this big paper bag with handles. I left it in the computer room and Bella has been having the time of her life crawling in it, jumping on it, biting the handles, and just being a complete loon. It's the funniest thing to watch her play with it.

Steven and I are going to be leaving soon to go eat some cheap, delicious Chinese food over at Chinese Cafe. I guess that means I should go get out of my robe and get dressed.

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I have a hypothetical for you people out there. Let's say I know someone who has a hacked satellite card (and no, it's really not me). Let's say they were interested in getting a TiVo. They are worried that, somehow, they will get caught having a hacked satellite card; that somehow TiVo would pass that information on. I say that they can't get caught. Anyone know?

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Today it is Thanksgiving at my family's house (good thing I love turkey!), so we are just about ready to go over there and spend the day gorging ourselves on food and playing Mexican Train dominoes, which has got to be the most fun game known to man. Anyway, everyone enjoy their Saturday!

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Steven has been in Austin at the UT game all day (where A&M got their ass beat. Go, Texas!) so the kitty and I are about to retire to the couch with Blueberry Pop-Tarts to watch the three episodes I have recorded of 24. I loved last season and can't wait to see how this season is going to go. Don't you love Fridays off from work? I know I do!

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We'll be leaving soon for Steven's parents' house (Thanksgiving with my family is this Saturday), but I wanted to wish everyone a happy, safe, filled with yummy food Thanksgiving Day. I know I grouse a lot about all manner of things, but I do have a lot to be thankful for - my family, Steven, my friends, and a fairly successful life. I hope that everyone has a wonderful day and eats too much and falls asleep content.

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Thanks to Christine and Mike, I know have my very own Zip Zap! It's the silver Porche, but I am definitely going to get the purple PT Crusier. Ah, if you could only see Christine trying to do donuts around my Beanie Baby.

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Mostly a typical Saturday here at the Vest-McGuire household. I slept super late and cuddled with Bella when she came upstairs, screwed around online, StairMastered, played at bit of EverQuest, and now we've got friends over. We're probably going to go have dinner at Lupe Tortilla's, the yummiest Mexican food in Houston. Everyone have themselves a lovely evening!

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Is it improper business etiquette to begin a meeting with, "Now, why are you here?"

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Things are kind of busy, so here's some bullets instead of a real post. =)

• Jeanna and I got to see Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets and we loved it. The effects were much better in this movie (my biggest gripe about the first one) and I'd forgotten how good the book was. Plus, Oliver Wood is just so cute. Love the accent.
• If Bella doesn't quit jumping up on my desk to look for her feather want I'm going to kill her
• Am still unsure what to get a lot of people for Christmas and the holidays are rapidly approaching. Yikes!
• Russell was a great help on a project I've got going on and I really appreciate it
• Ibocea is up to level 30 and got a lot of cool spells
• How the hell did it get to be Thanksgiving already?
• I am so buying these pj bottoms and some more stripey socks
• If I have a blinding headache for one more day I may have to shoot myself

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I spent all day working on a project with my brother and Steven made plans for us to go over to a friend's house and meet like ten people for dinner. I don't mind the plans, but I wish he would give me more than the, "Oh, yeah, we're meeting a bunch of people for dinner in a day or two" especially when I have things to work on.

Must get wet towel off head, put on make up, and get dressed. See y'all later!

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For some reason I'm feeling kind of blah this afternoon, though I had a pretty positive thing happen to me today. Don't you hate it when you get a mild case of the blues? Only cure - go home and play EverQuest all night since Steven's off playing poker. I'll wear my new cute flannel pj bottoms from Old Navy (the link takes you to the ones I almost bought since I can't find the ones I did buy. They have little polars bears all over them; trust me, they're cute.) and my new stripey socks and I will be a much happier girl, I'm sure!

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Just stuff that's crossing my mind:

• The damn cat is peeing on the carpet again. She peed on the floor by the bar like ten minutes ago, peed in the hallway this weekend, and peed upstairs last week. We've gotten her two boxes, changed the litter, tried using citrus carpet odor to keep her away and she's still doing it. She was doing so well and I have no idea what's changed.
• I want some socks like Bran
• I have to go send a letter to the post office contesting a claim they denied again. I sent my camera off, insured by the post office, for some repairs. It got to Olympus with a big crack in the case. I sent a claim to the post office, giving them both the packaging and the camera. They wrote me back denying the claim because they didn't get the packaging. WTF? You have that stuff! Write them back again to get the same damn reply. Am now having to send even more documentation to consumer affairs. Simple analogy, people: insurance company can't take your car, examine it, deny your claim, and then keep your car. You either have to give me my camera back or pony up the money for it since I'm sure it's lost by now.
• This week is period week (lucky me) and I want everyone to just leave me alone. I swear, Steven goes out of his way to be annoying right before I start.
• Some big changes are happening with my major client and it's got me a bit worried.
• I want some sweets.
• I have to be at work an hour early tomorrow and I am pissed. I don't want to get up early. I've been sleeping like shit ever since I started playing EverQuest, something I always do when I start a new, addicting game.
• I want the new Anita Blake book Cerulean Sins to be out now, not in six more months.
• I want work weeks to be no more than four days, and most of the time three days, long

Okay, I guess that's off my chest for now. Guess I'll go kill some Aviaks over in South Karana.

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If you've sent me an e-mail over the past week and are still awaiting an answer, I am getting ready to StairMaster and have some cereal, but then I am downloading e-mail and sending off answers and replies. Just a heads up to those that sent me blog questions, EverQuest questions, or anything else.

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Christine was a sweetheart and treated me to lunch today at Lupe's Tortillas. I posted pictures from our trip over at Picture Fish, so be sure to swing by and see them.

This week was an awesome week. My biggest client was out of town, so that reduced my workload and my stress level a lot. Plus, we have several projects on very aggressive timelines, so all my projects that were waiting on client input pretty much stayed that way.

I've had so much fun playing EverQuest and having a stress-free week, that I am not looking forward to Monday. However, I'm slightly drunk, Steven and I are going to Austin tomorrow for the UT game, and life is good, so I can't complain.

Everyone enjoy their lovely Friday evening!

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I was supposed to meet a friend today, but the weather on her side of town is so bad that we decided to try and meet tomorrow instead. So, I called my mom, and I'm meeting her and Dad for lunch. :-) I haven't seen them in a while (despite the fact that I talk to my mom on the phone every day and only live about twenty minutes away; I am such a bad daughter!), so it will be nice to see them.

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Thanks to Google, I know that today is Pablo Picasso's birthday. Go check out their logo.

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I've been thinking about what I want from Steven this year for Christmas and it occured to me that besides my class ring, I don't have a single piece of jewelry that's not costume. I was reading blogs and someone had a link to Kabana Jewelry. I requested a catalog, but neither it nor the website actually have prices. I assume that since prices aren't displayed and they use expensive stones like tanzanite, that's it's probably pretty pricey. They don't have a location here in Houston, but I was wondering if anyone has seen there stuff in real life and have an idea of their cost.

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I left work and came home and took a nice relaxing bubble bath since I've been feeling like shit all day long. I was so relaxing, in fact, that I feel asleep and only woke up because Steven came home to drop some stuff off before he went to poker. I'm now off to curl up on the couch with a bunch of Tivod programs and some Fruity Pebbles.

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It's been one of those days where I haven't been motivated to do anything. I played some Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (but I'm annoyed with the campaign; each new mission is build another city. I would like to build up a city before leaving it directly) and some Civilization: Call To Power. We were thinking of going to dinner at Carrabba's tonight, but it's already so late, I'm not sure we're going to make it. At least I did twenty minutes on the StairMaster today and I did it before eating anything, so it's really like I did forty minutes. I think I might download the MTAmazon Plugin and see if it will work well for the DVD page that I want to make.

Anyway, everyone enjoy the bit of Saturday that's left!

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Have I ever mentioned I love Fridays? I do. Work was great because everyone was in a wonderful mood and now I'm home, buzzing on raspberry piña coladas. Steven and I are going to Chinese Cafe for dinner tonight (they have the best shrimp fried rice in the world), so I'm salivating just thinking of it.

On the workout front, I drank between six and eight glasses of water on Wednesday, Thursday, and today, went to the gym on Tuesday and Wednesday, and StairMastered for twenty minutes last night even though I was tired and hungry.

I got the most amazing manicure last night with some nail polish I had bought at Wal-Mart. It's Rimmel 60 Second Dry and the color is called Mania. It's the most amazing nail color I've ever seen. It's this green and blue irridescent mix that looks like a peacock's feather or a butterfly's wing. It looks so great with my long nails. I just love it!

Plus, I've got a new skin up, fixed some minor issues that had been bugging me all week, and now my quick search works (need to fix my advanced search this weekend).

All in all, it's a kick-ass day. I'm off for a quick shower, so everyone enjoy their Friday! ~drunken hugs and kisses all around~

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I have found my new desire - Moodmania and Afterglow nail polish, especially the Afterglow VSP polishes. Who wants to be a dear and send them to me? Anyone? ;-)

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Anybody know what happened to "Name That Blog?" I noticed it's missing from everyone's sites today.

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PetSmart always accepts donations towards their charities for homeless pets, but right now they are selling the Spay and Neuter stamps that the Post Office is offering with the proceeds going to their charity. Also, by giving a $10 donation, you receive a commemorative T-shirt featuring the Fall 2002 U.S. Postal Service Neuter and Spay stamp design. I always drop a couple of bucks in the donation receptacle when I go in, so getting a t-shirt for leaving a few more dollars was a no-brainer when I picked Bella up this afternoon. The girl behind the counter was sweet and thanked me several times for buying a shirt. They must be having a hard time moving them, so if you've got $10 and want to help homeless pets, drop by PetSmart and make a donation.

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Back from party at boss's house. Drunk and have hiccups. Must lay on couch with Steven and cat and watch tv. More later.

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I just went and looked at the poll for Photojunkie's 100K Photo Contests "Movement" category and my entry, "Hellcat," is not very far out of first place and I got all excited. I lead the category for quite some time, but have been in second place for the last day or so. Here's hoping for a last minute rally!

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I just got a Yahoo! search request for fine ladies in houston texas that need a man for sex from nigeria. That's the most intersting one I've had in a little while.

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Today is the first annual Talk Like a Pirate Day! I've been practicing for the last couple of days (ask Jeanna and Christine) and am all ready for today. Arrggh! Where's me booty?

(Link courtesy of Robyn)

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Jeanna and I both had shitty days so we decided to ditch yoga class and instead go look for paterns for costumes for the Renaissance Fair. I've always wanted to go as a lusty wench, but feel in love with the costume I found for a lusty gypsy. I want to modify it so that the leg is cut high and I get a garter with a dagger. Jeanna found a great outfit too, so now we need to find someone who can sew the costumes for us. After a stressful day, it was nice to just have some fun and blow everything off.

In other news, I still have been unable to find my class ring. I've called the two places I went to yesterday before noticing it was missing, the gallery we went to Friday night (though I don't think I lost it there; I still have it on in the mirror pictures I took), the pizza place we ate at Friday night, and even the University of Houston in case someone tried to find me through there. I called ArtCarved and they said U of H went to a standard ring, so I can't get my ring recreated even if I wanted to drop the $400 or $500 it would cost. I am so heartbroken. I loved that ring. I wore it every day for over five years. Steven and I have torn the place up with no trace, but I keep hoping it's going to turn up. It really sucks to lose something with so much sentimental value.

My Lusty Gypsy costume

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Christine needs everyone to go vote to eliminate her competition in Big Blogger All-Star! If you've got a minute, go vote to save the Big Pink Cookie.

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I forgot to mention, but tonight while getting some kitty litter and soap, I moseyed down the breakfast aisle in search of the ever-elusive Kellogg's Blueberry Pop-Tart. Not the nasty frosted kind that I find every where, but the unfrosted plain kind. I've been looking for them on and off whenever I go into a grocery store for the past year and was convinced that they had been discontinued. Amazingly enough, tonight the Gerland's by my house (which I never shop at) had them in eight count boxes. The heavens sang and I joyously bought a box. And here I thought I would never find them again. Who says miracles never happen?

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As I mentioned earlier, I received some beautiful jewelry today from B! Beads. B! Beads sells hand-made jewelry (necklaces, earrings, and bracelets) made to your specification by Bronwyn. You can see the beads I bought here. If you visit her site, I bought the Cloud Blue necklace, earrings, and bracelet. The bracelet was a bit too small, so she's generously offered to fix it for me free of charge. While she's doing that, I think I'm going to order some more earrings. :-) If you love beads or jewelry of any kind, give her a visit. I'm sure you'll love what you see. Btw, I found Bronwyn though a link on Chel's site, so thanks for the link find, Chel!

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It's been a lazy Saturday around our house. Steven's not been feeling too well, so he's been on the couch watching tv all day, I've been mostly playing Civilization: Call To Power, and Bella napped on my desk all day.

In other news, she's been using her litterbox this week. A few days ago she came running into the hall and I though, "Oh no. What did you do?" She heard the automatic litterbox start up and she always comes to investigate the noise. I looked in there and, sure enough, she'd used the box and I didn't even have to put her in there. Today when she got up from her long nap and starting walking around I picked her up and put her in the bathtub with the box and told her to be a good kitty and left the room. She got in and used the box, so I praised her and gave her a cat treat. Maybe we'll get her trained yet.

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Christine and I made a late afternoon run to Sonic today. While waiting on our food, we noticed their "Add-Ins" for drinks. We were personally appalled that you could add some of that stuff to any drink. Why in the world would you want to add blue coconut or chocolate flavoring to a drink? They make a mean cherry coke, but there is no way in hell I am adding any of those others to a drink! Yuck! Anyone ever tried a Coke with any those flavorings besides cherry or vanilla?

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My week has been freaky and hellish so I was happy when I realized that since today is Thursday, tomorrow is the end of the work week. Yeah! Hurry up, Friday!

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I just wanted to be like Christine and say "ben affleck toupee."

And, Christine, lunch was definitely entertaining and enjoyable.

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Today I had one of my most heavy traffic days. I'm sure a lot of new readers dropped by, so feel free to say hi. I don't bite. At least not too hard. ;-)

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Happiness is a Thursday night when you don't have to go to work tomorrow and have a four day weekend ahead of you. Happiness is buying twenty purple roses on your way home from work for less than $15. Happiness is placing in the money in a poker tournament. Happiness is tonight.

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Steven and I are off to meet the H-Town Bloggers at Star Pizza for yummy pizza and to finally put some faces to the URLs. Ought to be a fun night.

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Steven and I were watching CSI last night and one of the people was using fingerprint powder and tape to lift a shoe print from the floor causing me to remark that I could never do that job because the tape would always be stuck together and I'd mess up the print. I am a disaster when it comes to using tape. Ask Christine; she's seen me wrap packages before.

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