Jesse (the boyfriend) loves his games so I'm going to get him a component cable for his PSP. Actually, I wouldn't mind getting one for myself... hmm. But wait, yes, Christmas! Must buy for other people. If I had more money - a new laptop so that we could game at my house together. :)

I think walking or using a bike is admirable and I wish I had a bike so I could ride to places more. I also enjoy walking to certain places. However, I get tired of hearing these bike rants about cars or pedestrian complaints.

Yes, I realize I'm in a car and not on foot and it's much safer for me. Do you realize that? When it's too hard for you talk walk 10 extra feet to get to that crosswalk and instead just walk wherever you feel like it, don't you feel like you're taking your life in your hands? Or those people who weave through cars while the light is about to turn green - is that really a good idea?

I also frequently see bikes not following the rules of the road. Yes, surprise surprise, bikes are supposed to ride with traffic and obey road signs. That means that you also have to stop! I always watch cyclists because the vast majority of them that I've seen just cruise through stop signs, ride against traffic or don't signal what they're doing. Heaven forbid I hit one who decides to ride in front of me. Thankfully, I haven't yet but I'm sometimes sure that's because I'm so paranoid. Grrr~

Taking my bf to see Distant Worlds and I'm totally excited about it. The description is "2-hour concert program produced by Nobuo Uematsu and AWR Music Productions, LLC". I totally wanna dress up all fancy and make a super hot date of it. :D

/geek!

For some reason, making up birthdates for a silly project is harder to do than it sounds. Perhaps I'm weird and semi-anal but I don't want one to be too close to the other one (15 total) and consecutive birthdays (in the list) can't be in the same month or same decade. These aren't the parameters of the project... just MY personal weirdness. Sigh.

Classes are almost done which is both exciting and sad to me. While I don't particularly LOVE the classes I'm taking, the econ one is at least interesting. And both of my teachers are fairly nice. My teacher for the online course I'm taking had a chat thing tonight. Since I was the only student who bothered to show up I got to have like a mini-lesson of my own and she seemed really nice. Showing up definitely boosted my understanding of this stupidass program, too. :)

Jesse's birthday was on Monday but we celebrated it last night. I made him dinner (red snapper, brown rice and salad) and then took him out. We met up with some friends at Dogfish Head and they had beer for a while. Overall, it was a nice time and he said he really enjoyed it. I'm glad I could make him happy for his birthday.

Good grief. I feel like this is freaking boring.

Sometimes I wish I liked crowds. I don't. Yesterday we stayed all of 30 minutes actually at the Sakura Masuki. The lines were insanely long and I was getting jostled from all sides. The only thing I wanted was either food or a cat-ear beanie and I wasn't about to stand in line for 20+ minutes for food and most of the beanies were sold out. Blehh. I mean, it was nearly insane how many people were there. Pretty much each booth had about 3 or 4 lines, each approximately 30+ people long. I think it would've been better if they had held it on the mall instead of squishing everyone on the small DC streets. :\

We ended up going over to the National Museum of Natural History and had a great time. Cassie's a little science lover so she really had fun. I think her favorite was the butterfly exhibit followed by the ocean exhibits. She also seemed to like the other ones but the butterfly one was awesome. We paid for the tickets to walk through the live butterfly area. I forgot that she had gone there last year for a trip but she seemed to enjoy it just as much as I imagine she did the first time.

While it wasn't everything I had hoped for, I think we all had a great day. Jesse, Cassie and I came home exhausted and I lent Jesse my DS (he left his at home) while I watched a few episodes of House and Family Guy on Hulu before we crashed for the night. Guess I'm going to get Pokemon Platinum in a few weeks... hopefully by that time I'll have played The World Ends With You out.

After Jesse left today I was so tired I fell back asleep. I woke up and took Cassie to the large playground/park along with Pids. Pids and I sat and people watched while the munchkin ran around. It amuses me greatly that a dog that weighs less than 10 pounds can scare *anyone*, much less a grown woman. Srsly, lady... srsly. She just walked by and the woman damn near jumped out of her skin.

All in all - a good weekend and I'm sad to have to go back to work tomorrow. Blehhh!

Whee. Today Cassie, Jesse, Mary and I are going to go down to DC to see the Cherry Blossom Festival! Doubly awesome is the fact that it's also the Sakura Matsuri today. And THIS time, I swear I won't get lost and never find the place. Oh, and even better - apparently it's the peak bloom period. It's gonna be SO pretty!!

Work has kicked my ass all over the place this week. We've been so damn busy. It's actually a bit nice because there isn't any point where I'm standing around wondering how I'm going to fill up the next hour or so of work... but man, was I tired. I even went in to work last Saturday (I work Monday-Fridays) for a few hours to try to keep ahead. As my boss said - "Hasn't anyone told these people we're in a recession?" ... but please don't tell them. I like money. :D

I'm going in on Monday to get the Mirena IUS. I feel like I have a countdown on my girlie bits now. It's exciting but nerve-wracking at the same time. I've lined up someone to take me home after in case it hurts as bad as I'm afraid it's going to. However, no more pregnancy worries for five years = awesometastic to me.

I really ought to post in this thing more. Hmm.

I don't eBay much but I'd assume that, when you're a seller, you use the address that the buyer provides at checkout as the shipping address.

So... what do I do when they send it to an old address? Technically, they sent it, just not to my current address. And it's partially my fault for not checking but I didn't even think of it, given that you can enter an address during checkout. What if I wanted it sent to a friend's house or something? So do I just swallow my $45 loss?

Go in with low expectations. and then lower them some more.

Personally, I could give less than half a fuck about Phelps smoking pot. Seriously, people? Really?

So wow, apparently it's 2009 now. That's amazing in my book.

I got to start off the year with Jesse. Yay. I can't remember the last time I got kissed at midnight. I don't know if it was precisely AT midnight but well, it was enough around it that it counted!

I still make stamps and engrave and hopefullllllllly will be taking over the business in a few years. I have to admit - this was not the job I saw myself settling down with. But it is a way to make a living and when I own it I'll be able to have my own house, cars, etc and pay for Cassie's schooling and whatever else. I will be taking business courses so I have an idea of what I'm getting into but seeing as how I've been there almost 2 years now I think I have a fairly decent idea.

I finally reinstalled Photoshop onto my computer. The first thing I did was to make a wallpaper for my laptop. I want to play around some more but I should install my tablet first.

Cassie's still doing great but that's to be expected. She is, after all, my kiddles.

Merry Christmas!!!

So not only is my kid doing ok in school, she's actually above distract average for reading and is in 4th grade math (she's in 3rd grade). And here I was worrying all the time.

Yay. :)

Otakon!

Who is going?

Humane society was contacted several weeks ago - 5 weeks to be exact over these horses (I believe she said there's more than one) starving to death out in a field. Still haven't done SHIT.

http://delaware.craigslist.org/pet/773536638.html

My mom took a pic and posted on Craigslist in hopes that it will stir up something. Anyone have any ideas?

R.I.P. George Carlin

:(

Of all the things to try to hack, why would someone try to get into my gaiaonline account? I wouldn't even have known if they hadn't sent some email notification.

So I just read through about 6 years of LJ entries. I really wonder how the fuck I managed to be so damned open and honest before. It's like I was a whole different person. I don't even feel like I'm reading MY writing. I'm glad I'm not the same but at the same time I wonder why I changed so very much.

Some people I miss.

Some people I don't.

I really want to do more but I'm absolutely drooling over die cut machines. I think I've decided to save up the money this summer and get a cricut and also this software to be able to hook it up to the computer. I'd love to make more cards and books and everything and give them away as gifts and such. :D

[20:41] me: it took the guy 15 minutes to take our drink orders, probably another 10 to get our drinks out (sans lemons), probably another 2-3 minutes from that to get cassie's drink... then another 5 minutes to get the baby's drink out (becca's friend has a 2 year old or something like that"
[20:42] me: " = )*

then he brought out my wings before anyone else's even though i'd said it was what i was going to have for my meal. and cassie's came out about 10 minutes after everyone else's. every time we asked for something he would take FOREVER to get it
[20:42] me: he even fucked up our bill
[20:43] me: apparently free chili night is ALSO! free kid's meal night
[20:43] me: and he didn't comp my chili or cassie's meal
[20:43] me: and when i started telling him that he didn't he interrupted me and was like "I'm getting a MANAGER" and walked off

WHY YOU GOTTA RUIN MY CHILI NIGHT. The chili wasn't even that great. :|

And the first manager didn't even fix the bill the right way...

Oh, yeah. And Henrik and I are no longer together. That's a whole 'nother story though.

"It is very sad to have a child gay or ...whatever they choose to do. As a father just be there, talk to the child, get help together, but walking away it makes worst."


Why is someone this fucking stupid taking a psych course?

Yeah, it's VERY sad to have a child who is attracted to other people! OMG HOW HORRIBLE. That pissed me off beyond belief. It makes me "sad" that people still think like this.