If you want to nominate him them please leave a comment here, and repost the above graphic on your LJ.

He's a good guy who would take the role seriously

Tayshaun Prince is the Sho' Nuff Shit.

And...

Since when did Mike Fratello become a straight-haired blonde?  What happened to the dark curly hair of yore?

::shaking my head::

Memmmmmories.... 
 

( X Files movie stuff..no real spoilers but cut for those who want to know nothing )




I want it to be July now please

I have four BLANK T-SHIRTS!

What should I make them say? If you are interested in helping I will take all suggestions seriously will make them into a poll where ultimately you will decide what these shirts, that I will wear in public and take photos of me doing so, will say. Make as many suggestions as you like!

YAYAYAY!

It's here.......I'm sure it will be a couple days before I emerge again....:)

For the record, calling the 1-800 number for Fed-Ex is an absolute joke. Totally un-helpful. However, Scott's friend Jamie who actually works there rocks. They tried to deliver it to my house, and obviously I wasn't there. I tried to call and find out when I could pick it up, and the 1-800 people basically told me they couldn't help with this, and that only the local office would be able to tell me. When I asked how to get a hold of the local office, they informed me that they couldn't give that information out.

Scott's friend works at the Fed-Ex office in town. I sent him a text, he called me, and the driver was in my office within 30 minutes.

Either way....it's here!

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Since the voting for week 1 at thebrenljidol has closed, I feel safe in posting this entry here now. It's not my best writing, nor is it my worst. I believe it earned me enough votes to stay in the running, although I'm not sure how long that will last. For those of you in the contest who might be wondering, my entry was number 17 and earned 14 votes. The entry with the highest number of votes had 30 and the entry with the lowest had only 2. I think we're dropping five writers from this round, but I'm not entirely certain about that.

( I will always have my dreams...  )

On Saturday night a bunch of people came over and we played board games. It was a BLAST!!. Thank you to everyone that came over. We will do that again for sure!.
I spent Sunday with my mom. We went shopping and I spent almost $300 on new clothes... argh... I hate spending money but I got some nice things.
Today I had the day off and we ran errands all day.
I've been super busy lately planning the California trip.
I've officially booked hotels for every night using hotels.com. I'm used to staying with my grandma when I am down there so it's going to be hard. Two weeks worth of hotels is super expensive.
Finding a decent hotel under $100 near Universal Studios was by far the most challenging part.
We are going to be super busy when we are down there. I have stuff planned for almost every day. Most of the tickets have been purchased.
Less than two weeks until we leave. The countdown begins and I am SO excited!.

Remember that "C" I got in Government, that I had some serious questions about.

Turns out the Prof, mistakenly put in a 20.8 for one of my test grades instead of an 80.2.  The difference means I will have an "A" in the class.  It's a world of difference to me, since that was the only class with a degree of difficulty that I didn't withdraw from.  4 "A"s is a much better semester than 3 "A"s and a "C".

So thanks to everyone who responded to the thread especially nannabelle who did the math.  I might not have actually written the Prof without ya'lls encouragement.  Cause I hate to seem like a grade grubber.

I am thankful that her mistake didn't just lower me to a "B" cause I wouldn't have questioned that.  So anyway she isn't gonna fix it til she is back on Campus in June...which is a little disconcerting since I am gonna prolly reg for UH before that.  But I am not gonna sweat it.

But I know there are some college students left on my F-List..so if your grade seems funky....fire off an e-mail.  I came darn close to screwing myself out of 2 whole letter grades!.

Also I scarfed some Chinese with momofthree3176 she really looks good post-op, besides having slimmed quite a bit a lot of the weariness and pain is out of her face. 

O.k kids...I am gonna go celebrate the A with a 20 minute gambling break...and then I am gonna help mom do 1.7 billion loads of washing.

Tonight, we are going to bid on a house. We don't know yet if there are competing offers. The house is small, but lovely. It's in a fantastic neighbourhood. It's not the one I saw last week, it's another one that's in an even nicer spot. It has the corresponding higher price tag, which should come as no surprise.

OMFG! I cannot believe how much money we're about to pay for a little place to hang our hats. I feel a wee bit queasy just thinking about it. Later tonight, an old house on the Danforth may be ours. I'm not sure I believe it...

In other news, we spent the whole weekend getting this place ready to put on the market. Spending your entire weekend working on a place that you're leaving really, really sucks.

Edit 10:27pm: WE GOT IT!! This beautiful home in a lovely neighbourhood is OURS!

 It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.  

— Mignon McLaughlin

Ah yes, I read this quote and know many believe in it whole - heartedly. You want to believe your friends are telling you exactly what you want and need to hear, that they are being honest with you but the reality is they aren't.  Because to be honest would mean to probably lose friends. No one really wants to hear that they are dumb for staying in that relationship or that Joe Schmo is using them or that their creative writing/art/fandom/teams/tv shows could be so much better. So you place nice, because playing nice means you keep your friends. We all know that hearing the truth hurts, because it does. I believe in the truth, no matter the pain. I'd rather someone tell me I sucked because of XYZ then to smile in my face. Does it hurt to hear? Of course it does and trust me I have heard it and hurt and gotten over it. For me I learn from the honesty, learn to be a better friend, a better person.  
In college I was making all sorts of stupid mistakes and not one person took me aside to tell me that maybe I should make some changes, maybe I should stop and think. Instead being my friends, they all patted me on the back, urged me forward, taking all the good that came out of my mistakes and none of the bad. Instead I found out the hard way that my friends we laughing behind my back, talking behind my back. Should I have chosen better? I am sure I could have but like I said I thought these were my friends, we lived together, ate together, shared experiences. But there I was alone in my mistakes because life says it is important to be pc and reserve honesty in order to reserve the friendship.  The funny this is, none of these peole are part of my life,now.  What does that say about life?
I'm not saying that you should be honest to the point of hurting someone, but I think occassionally a friend might need to hear that they are acting like an ass and to grow up. Or numerous other things, but just like junk food it should all be done in moderation.

Happy Crappy Monday, friends.

 

  Stolen from kateri_kachina :

Apparently, the only rule that comes with this meme is that you can't duplicate any of my answers. Now, have at it.

( Kinda' Long....peek a boo... )

ugh...kinda' a boring meme

Usually, the rule of thumb seems to be (at least, in my experience), the smaller the plane, the less turbulance you experience.

That wasn't the case yesterday. We had one stopover, and the plane to Clevland was about the size of a sardine can, but it was smooth sailing, all the way. Theo, who had spent days worrying about the flight, even said it was fun, and wanted to do it again.

"Great, you will!" I said. "Only it will be in an even bigger plane, so it will be even more fun!"

Famous last words. The plane ride from Cleveland to Orlando was choppy and turbulant, from the moment we took off.

Anyway, we're here! We spent the evening in Magic Kingdom last night, and I got to visit my Holy Land: Spash Mountain.

Last time I went on Splash Mountain with Theo he was five, and he hated the experience. He loved it up until the watery descent down the laughing hole, and then it was all downhill from there. He swore bhe would never go on it again.

Of course, that was then. Now, at eleven, he went on it, full of trepidition, and came out of it a true believer.

Annie and Josie, who were flying in a separate plane, did not have quite as much fun. Annie was planning to pick up a rental car, which I had warned her not to do, telling her that we were taking a taxi in, and that they probably had a shuttle from her hotel to Disney. When she arrived at the rental place, she was told that since she was under 25 there would be a $150 surcharge and they would hold $300 of her credit. Josie wasn't any help because her credit's shot and she could only pay in cash, which they wouldn't accept. The man behind the counter at Thrifty didn't want to hear it and wasn't interested in helping further, even though it was 11:00 at night and they were a mile and a half from the airport. Fortunately, there was an information person nearby, who took pity on them.

They ended up requesting a taxi, but he didn't show up until 12:30. Annie was a wreck, and eneded up throwing up, and jumping into nbed the minute she got to the hotel. Unsure if we'll see them today, but I think they'll come around, after they recover from their experience.

Let's hope. Today's Disney Hollywood!

Sommerengveien May 12th:



*sigh*

I don't want to hear ANY complaints about temperatures above 20C until all of this white crap is GONE!

First of all Happy Mothers Day to all the moms on my list.  I still have 20 minutes to say that (here in the mighty Central Time Zone anyway),

In past years I have called ya'll by name, but I am scared I would miss someone. (Oh hell, I'll try there is a Tracie a Tracy, a Sandra and a Stacie,a Robin  an Angela, an Elizabeth, an Emily, a Jenn, lakinisjuice, Christen, Naomi, Nina, Cheryl, Sassybobo, Keri etc)  (If I missed ya I do apologize...50 lashes with a wet noodle are in order)  I have the utmost respect for mom's, you and dad's have the most important job in the world.  I find ya'll inspiring......I can't tell you how neat it is to read about and see pictures of your kiddoes on here

Just had a "maintanance" bottle of el cheapo wine.  Not enough to make me feel good, but enough to make me feel like the boxes in the house aren't closing in on me til I can get some sleep in a couple hours.  Next week might be hard, no school no work, just me and my self destructive impulses.  I feel like the world is trying to collapse in on me.  I don't know if I have a chemical imbalance, or its the current drink, or the cumulative effect of all the drinks over all the years. It's midnight and most of the lights in the place I live have been out for 6 hours.  I hear competing televisions in the background.  It's not ideal, but its my life, and I have had some luck.  I have been in really bad fixes before (no electricity, a house that was unreliable in keeping the elements out)  this is a walk in the park in comparison.  Yet, I am having trouble coping.

I have taken to drinking in the yard on the way home from the convienance store.  It avoids having my family look at how much I am consuming.  I know thats on AA's list of bad behaviors but for me right now its what makes sense.

This was probably more appropriate for the drunkie filter..but then you'd miss the mothers day shout outs..so I leave it.  And leave you for the night.  Goodnight sweet princes and princesses.

I Love this site and the blog.  It's my new addiction of the year.  Feel free to check it out.  I've met a lot of really really cool people there.

http://www.millionairematch.com

My next door neighbor just lost a tree. Half of it split, and is now lying in my side yard, driveway and sidewalk. It was a good 20 feet high, so it's all over the place.

I don't think lightning was involved, but it has been pretty soggy here these last few days.

We had to have a tree removed earlier this year. It cost a lot more than I thought it would, but less than fixing my roof would have. No wonder we occasionally get bands of roving tree trimmers, who knock on the door looking for work.