Date:	2006-02-17 13:34
Subject:	A link to waste some time on
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

http://overheardinnewyork.com

Enjoy!

Date:	2006-01-23 09:57
Subject:	Tee-hee!
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Mood:	amused

I am almost ashamed to admit it, but this site makes me actually laugh out loud.

And, I need to take pictures when I do this to my own cat next time. LOL

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

Date:	2005-12-27 15:21
Subject:	Taken from, who stole it from, who nicked it from....
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

[X] I have a job.
[X] I have a car payment.
[X] I have a house payment/rent.
[ ] I've made a house or car payment late.
[ ] I've had a car repossessed.
[X] I know my credit score.
[ ] I have a kid.
[ ] I have kids by more than one person.
[ ] I pay child support.
[X] I'm married.
[ ] I've been divorced.
[ ] I'm 30 or older and haven't been married.
[ ] I have toys from my childhood that are older than half of myspace.
[ ] I remember when David Lee Roth left Van Halen.
[ ] I saw "E.T." in the Theater or Drive - in.
[ ] I know who shot J.R.
[ ] I've watched Fraggle Rock
[X] I know the slogan "Where's the Beef?"
[ ] I've found grey hairs. ha, nope! Blue hair dye hides all grey, so I never seen one, if I have 'em!
[ ] I have aches and/or pains for no apparent reason. nope, I know the reasons for my aches & pains
[ ] I've uttered the phrase "Kids these days..."
[x] I've uttered the phrase "When *I* was a kid..."
[ ] I think current teen fashion is laughable, but I own something from the 80's or early 90's thats equally retarded.
[ ] I know off the top of my head who Crockett and Tubbs are. davy crockett??
[X] "Capital Gains tax", "401k", and "Homestead exemption" all mean something to me. sigh
[X] I wanted a Delorean. I STILL want a Delorean!!
[X] I remember when it was just "Star Trek."
[X] I had a Trapper Keeper.
[X] I know what "Reaganomics" was.
[X] I remember when Michael Jackson was black.
[X] I remember Max Headroom. I loved that show!!!!!!
[ ] I know who killed Laura Palmer.
[X] I remember when VCR's were a "new gadget."
[X] I remember Atari. Oh yeah baby...I still have an Atari 2600 in the garage, I should hook that puppy up!!
[ ] I remember when the only anime show you could watch was Robotech.
[X] I remember when there was no such thing as a home computer.
[X] I remember Pop Rocks. what do you mean, "remember"?? I still eat Pop Rocks!

Date:	2005-12-23 13:43
Subject:	Have a Very Merry
Security:	Public
Mood:	peaceful

Hey hey...

I know, I know, I haven't updated in awhile. I've been a busy girl!!

Holiday insanity rapidly approaches, and I'm doubtful I'll be posting before the New Year. Or maybe I will, one never really knows, do they? (Oh, I'm so WILD)

So to all you folks out there in PC Land, have a Very Merry whatever-it-is you are (or are not) celebrating, and all that good stuff.

Date:	2005-12-12 10:42
Subject:	Apparently I'm not the only one....
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

Going back to my oddly-shaped toothpaste tube photo...

One never knows what one will find online.

http://www.mintyass.com

This all reminds me very much of the time my husband & I were Christmas shopping in a Crate & Barrel store, and I spied a barrel full of these little tins with a big sign above it that said, "RIMMING SALTS, $12.00" I couldn't resist picking one up and hollering to my husband, "Hey honey! Do we know anybody who needs any RIMMING SALTS??"

Oh, the look on his face! Turns out they meant it was for putting on the rims of *glasses*, for drinks. Oh well, that's not nearly as interesting! (It does make more sense though. I mean...salts? Ouch!)

Date:	2005-12-08 15:31
Subject:	Okay, I know I have a dirty mind...
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

...but the other day I was in the grocery store and I spied a brand of toothpaste that is apparently trying out some very interestingly shaped packaging.

Tell me folks...does this remind you of something very different from toothpaste? Or is it just me??



I was tempted, but did not buy any.

Date:	2005-11-16 11:26
Subject:	I'm slacking on this again, aren't I?
Security:	Public
Mood:	busy

Well, here's a slacker post. Maybe I can do better later, lol.

Naturally Smart You're a naturally smart person. Your intelligence comes to you naturally, rather than from instruction - and you are better with applied or more real-world things... which comes in handy, here in the real world. 80% applied intelligence 80% natural intelligence

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Copied from Carpepax:

If you woke up and I was in bed with you, what would be your first thought?

After you answer this you have to put it in your journal. And such.

Date:	2005-10-13 12:57
Subject:	This is interesting...
Security:	Public
Mood:	curious

I haven't had time to read this whole article, but I thought it was interesting enough to drop here for later perusal. Link & excerpt:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1591084,00.html

A Harvard psychologist named Gordon Allport did some key research in the 1950s on various kinds of human prejudice and came up with a definition of religiosity that is still in use today. He suggested that there were two types of religious commitment - extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic religiosity he defined as religious self-centredness. Such a person goes to church or synagogue as a means to an end - for what they can get out of it. They might go to church to be seen, because it is the social norm in their society, conferring respectability or social advancement. Going to church (or synagogue) becomes a social convention.

Allport thought that intrinsic religiosity was different. He identified a group of people who were intrinsically religious, seeing their religion as an end in itself. They tended to be more deeply committed; religion became the organising principle of their lives, a central and personal experience. In support of his research, Allport found that prejudice was more common in those individuals who scored highly for extrinsic religion.

The evidence generally is that intrinsic religiosity seems to be associated with lower levels of anxiety and stress, freedom from guilt, better adjustment in society and less depression. On the other hand, extrinsic religious feelings - where religion is used as a way to belong to and prosper within a group - seem to be associated with increased tendencies to guilt, worry and anxiety.

Date:	2005-10-07 10:56
Subject:	Meet Feyd, my new baby
Security:	Public
Mood:	busy

(Short on time, so this will be brief!)

My best best best best best bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb... friend (L) just moved to VA. Which is quite a distance away!!

The only silver lining is that she let me adopt her fur-son, Feyd.

I've started an LJ for Feyd, mostly as a way for her to keep up on him and see how he's adapting. And because I'm a big ol' dork that will probably grow up to be a crazy cat lady.

But, I digress.

If you'd like to read Feyd's LJ, I've put him on my friends list (Feyd_the_white). Feel free to "friend" Feyd, if you like. Eventually it'll probably die off and maybe just get pics posted every now and then, but in the meantime some of you other cat freaks out there might get a kick out of it. :)

I just posted 3 pics of him in there today, in fact. :)

More pics and chatter later.

I find this to be completely mesmerizing.

And it's weird. I like weird.

http://www.izpitera.ru/lj/tetka.swf

I feel pent-up today.

I feel like I'm trapped, but in a trap made of spider's silk.

I *could* break out, but then I'd be in trouble. *sigh*

This is all about love, really. Which is really awesome. And about distance; specifically distance between lovers - and that really fucking sucks.

Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. (Sigh, I say, sigh!!)

My sweeties left this morning; going home. It just seems so wrong that "home" for them is so far away from where "home" for me is. We fit together so well; it makes no logical sense that our "homes" are not closer together.

I told them today that if I were single, I'd ask them to just stay here with me forever. And it's true! Not that I'm unhappy being married at all...I'm just unhappy having my lovvies so far away. :(

Oh well, they'll move closer soon. Partially for me, but also partially just because this area has more jobs, and little things like the grocery stores here carry a better selection of vegan stuff.

What else is new?? Not much. Spent the whole weekend with my sweeties. Had my cuz' and his wifey visit both days, and also another friend from high school and her husband and daughter (who is a stunningly beautiful little girl with a smoky jazz-singer voice - she's six now, she's going to be *incredible* when she hits her 20's)

The husband spent a lovely weekend away with his So Cal sweetie. He came back very tired and looking very happy - he was asleep by the time I got out of the shower so I haven't heard the gossip yet. I sent him down there with a book to return to B; I forgot to ask if he remembered to give it to him. B - I hope you got your book back, lol. It's kinda funny to have a connection to your ex thru his ex who is currently your current's current... LMAO The poly world...

Okay, I'm gonna go do some of my fucking work. Bleh.

Date:	2005-07-19 08:26
Subject:	Whoooeee, is it hot!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	chipper

Summer has arrived with a venegance. This past week has been over 100 degrees every day. Last Friday, I think it was, was 108. Yowza! That's hot!! Thank the gods it's a dry heat, at least.

I'm not at the computer as much lately - it's too damn hot in this office! Instead, I'm in the swimming pool. In fact I think I pulled a tendon in the back of my knee playing around the other night. My cuz and his wife were over (as usual, we love those guys) and we were doing some night swimming. I had fins on and was treading water and we were all tossing around this beach ball...but we kept kind of launching it at eachother's heads, and then it became this sort of free-for-all where we were throwing various things at eachother...trying to laugh your ass off and tread water and throw things all at once is some really good exercise!! But the next morning my left knee was all sore, and one tendon in particular (one of the biggies on the back of your knee, the thick cable-like ones on the outer sides) is sore to the touch. So I'm kinda hobbled, but not too bad.

I've decided what my next tattoo is going to be - a yin yang with an Oroborus around it. It's to symbolize my husband and I together; I'm going to have it put on my back, just under my Eye of Horus tat. I think that will be nice.

My nephew turns 4 this weekend!! Oh my gods, where does time go?? Sis works this weekend though, so we're having his party here next weekend instead. That should be fun; I'll get to hang out with my new baby niece a little bit too; I haven't seen her much yet.

I've been slacking hard on the soap biz, but then last weekend I got a HUGE order (by my standards) and it's motivated me to get my butt back into gear. So I need to dive back in on my website and get that darn thing working right, and redo my inventory, and yikes I'm really out of a lot of stuff and need to make some mega batches of soap very soon here. Guess I'll do that this weekend! I think I'm gonna put a minimum order fee on my site. It is just too much hassle for me to deal with these piddley one-bar-of-soap orders. It is flat-out not profitable - it takes me too long to process each order from start to finish for it to be worth it.

So what do you think? I'm thinking a pretty low minimum order amount and a rather heavy small-order fee (like $10 min order and $5 min order fee) would be the most effective. Who would buy a $4.25 bar of soap and then pay an extra $5.00 small-order fee for a total of $9.25 when they could buy a couple bars of soap and a little drawer sachet for a total of $10.50? I think my software that I'm TRYING to get all set up with my site can do a "new customer" promotion and I think I can waive that fee for the first order automatically.

Okay, enough rambling. Hope everyone is well. :)

Date:	2005-06-29 10:14
Subject:	Wow...
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

There is some weird stuff out there.

http://www.atmospheric-violence.com/mays/

"WOOD DRIES OUT!!"

I'm gonna say that, from now on. Whenever I don't know what else to say, I'm going to just say

WOOD DRIES OUT!!

Date:	2005-06-10 11:48
Subject:	Why you should not post compromising photos on LJ, even in a private entry.
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

I've been amusing myself by checking this link frequently:

http://www.perturb.org/lj_images.php

It's a live feed of photos uploaded to LiveJournal. Just click refresh and you get all the latest. Click the image to go right to the diary they came from....unless it's private, in which case you can't get in.

But you still saw the picture!

So folks, don't post your new nipple piercings on your LJ...unless you want to potentially share 'em with the world.

(Pictures of this nature should be sent directly to me via email for safekeeping.)

Date:	2005-06-08 13:40
Subject:	The Language of Love
Security:	Public
Mood:	caffeinated

I always wonder how accurate these things are...

http://www.thebartonweb.com/Scot/5LoveLanguages1.php

You selected Words of Affirmation: 8 times
You selected Quality Time: 8 times
You selected Giving/Receiving Gifts: 0 times
You selected Acts of Service: 4 times
You selected Physical Touch: 10 times

Your primary love language is: Physical Touch

We have long known that physical touch is a way of communicating emotional love. Numerous research projects in the area of child development have made that conclusion: Babies that are held, hugged and kissed develop a healthier emotional life than those who are left for long periods of time without physical contact. The importance of touching children is not a modern idea. The first century, the Hebrews living in Palestine, recognizing Jesus as the great teacher, brought their children to Him "to have him touch them." Wise parents in any culture are touching parents.

Physical touch can make or break a relationship. It can communicate love or hate. A slap in the face is detrimental to any child but it is devastating to a child whose primary love language is touch. A tender hug communicates love to any child, but it shouts love to the child whose primary love language is physical touch. The same is true for adults.

Physical touch is also a powerful vehicle for communicating marital love. Holding hands, kissing, embracing are all ways of communicating emotional love to one's spouse. For those whose primary love language is physical touch, without it they feel unloved. With it, their emotional tank is filled and they feel secure in the love of their spouse.

Date:	2005-06-07 12:09
Subject:	Hahahah....ewwww!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	laughing my ass off

A friend of mine passed this on to me the other day.

Oh man...just too damn funny...I just had to share it.

Enjoy!

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

Date:	2005-05-23 13:54
Subject:	I'm sweltering!!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	hot

They're painting the house today!

That means all my doors and windows are covered with plastic, so I'm really roasting in here. The AC condenser unit (that's what that thing is, right?) in the backyard is all covered up, too, so I can't run the AC either. Plus, everything smells like paint.

BUT...oh man, it looks so good!! I've gone out a couple times and taken "in progress" pictures...I can't wait for it to be done!

I think they'll finish it today? We had a bit of a miscommunication---they were supposed to come paint swatches of the colors onto the house so we could look at them and give the final thumbs up or thumbs down, but somehow that didn't get communicated to the actual painter dudes. So they came this morning, taped stuff up, and just started painting. Whu? Huh? I had to go make them stop and paint some swatches and call the hubby home from work to take a look.

Fortunately he and I both agree that the colors are perfect, so there was no re-painting that needed to be done. And the guys were good sports about it, so that was cool...they ran down to Home Depot for more primer and took lunch while they waited, so it all worked out okay I think.

In other news...not much else going on today, which is good. Had a great weekend in So Cal with B, as expected. The drive seems shorter and shorter each time, so that's a very good thing. It is uncertain how or when Tree will be seeing K next, so I drove most of the way there and back this trip so I could get a good feel for the distance and how the drive would tire my hip. Fortunately it's just freeway to highway to highway, so it's very easy on the ol' hip as long as I can time things to avoid traffic. Yay!

I love road trips, as I'm sure I've mentioned before. They're not quite as much fun to do alone though, and I have to admit that I feel a wee bit unsafe sometimes, especially if I have to stop and use a gas station bathroom out in the middle of nowhere. I feel very obvious sometimes, with my blue hair and such, and I feel nervous sometimes gathering attention when I'm alone and far from home, and then walking alone into one of those outdoor gas station bathrooms just feels like one step too far from security in the wrong circumstances. But, it's not a big deal really...I just make sure that when I do stop to use the restroom I stop in a busy restaurant, and only use gas stations to get gas. And, it would be a good idea for me to get some pepper spray for the car...I had some years ago but I'm not really sure where it went off to. Probably stolen by some roommate or the other over the years, heh.

My laser printer is still broken. I'm such a slacker...it's under warrenty, but I'm too lazy to find out where to take it for service. So whenever I want to print, I have to open the front door of the printer and unhook the waste bin. Yeah....irritating.

And, my "Soap Site Next Generation" is driving me freakin' batshit. I can NOT get PayPal to play nice!!! On top of that, my MIL was telling me she's been using my "old" (current) site as an example to her web designer of what a "good" site looks like. I was honestly flattered by that, and it made me wonder if switching to this new format is a good idea or not. Argh. I wish I was a better programmer, so I could make my handcoded site have the functionality this canned version has. But, I'm not. Ugh.

Date:	2005-05-19 10:39
Subject:	It's raining *again*
Security:	Public
Mood:	aggravated

What the hell is up with this weather??

It's almost JUNE, for the love of cats...why is it still cold and rainy? The pool is back down to 72 degrees. *sigh*

Today in a couple hours there will be people here to power wash the house in preparation for painting, and pick up the paint chips we've selected. Monday they are going to come back with some paint and paint some test swatches onto the house for us so we can be sure we like the colors. Then I think they'll prep and paint on Wednesday/Thursday. So by this time next week, I should (finally) have a painted house! We're doing light grey body with dark grey trim, and a bright/deep cranberry red on the front door. It should look *smashing*! There are some odd areas on the back of the house where trim is missing from the old patio overhang thing being there, but I think we've decided to just pretend it's not there and live with it. I don't think anybody but us has ever noticed it, and to fix it we'd have to either just do a half-assed job of patching, or we'd have to tear down the (brand new) gutter to replace the whole board and then put the gutter back up.

Much easier to just ignore it. There's a LOT of other projects that need doing before we do something like that.

I'm in a grumpy mood. I have a lot of shit to do and not a lot of time to do it in. My hair is fading fast...there's these blotchy areas where you can see green thru, and it irritates me 'cos I paid a small fortune to have it done. I have this work project I'm stuck with that I don't have the right knowledge/tools/or access to the system to do, but nobody will take it away from me so I'm screwed. I've had it since last November and I'm still not done. It's frustrating me and making me angry...I hate to feel stupid. I wish I could afford to just quit, I'm just utterly fed up with this working from home shit. I miss my coworkers, I miss being a part of things, I miss having support and help when I need it, and I miss my old job duties. I'm homesick for my old job, how pathetic is that? *sigh, grr*

Well, guess I'll shut up and get back to the grindstone. I just keep reminding myself...September is coming, September is coming...

And, it's Thursday, so Friday is also coming...

Date:	2005-05-18 09:46
Subject:	So, I take it everybody likes yarnface?
Security:	Public
Mood:	bored

I've been waiting for the screams of horror at Yarnface Girl, but nobody seems to mind her all that much.

Personally, I think she's hideously funny. I get all sorts of horrified comments when I use her as my MSN avatar, hahah, and on one forum where I started using it as my avie, people were flat-out refusing to talk to me until I changed it. *snicker*

Hey, it's HUMP day! I just wish it were FRIday! (For more than one reason! *leer*)

Time is really flying. I can't believe it's already mid-May. Maybe looking foward to my September-long vacation will slow time down, heh.

Plumber was here yesterday. We had a whole list of stuff we'd been Needing To Get Worked On, so we finally decided we had the cashflow to get them all handled all at once. There was the broken cast-iron clean-out pipe in front of the house (broken last year when the bulldozer was here for the pool), the hall bathroom toilet ran on and off and we couldn't seem to make it stop, and then we also wanted the 3 broken (buldozer again) sprinkler head pipe ends to be replaced with nice threaded ends so we could attach driplines and such later this year.

He did all that, and then discovered what was apparently a fourth busted sprinkler head...upon digging it up, it turned out to be a pipe that had been crushed by tree roots. Now I know why the sellers never mentioned the sprinkler system when we bought the place! It's busted! Well, kinda too late to turn back, since I'd already had the guy fix the three sprinkler pipes (which we only discovered when the bulldozer ripped the heads off in the first place, lol)...sooo, I fished around in the garage until I found our root saw (a wicked tool, could really hurt someone with that thing), and we hacked the roots out and he was able to put a new bit of pipe in place.

We crossed our fingers and hit the water...........nothing happened! Woohoo, it held pressure, no more blow-outs.

So, now we have an almost-functional sprinkler system in front...we just need to go buy the dripline attachments and run the lines around the garden and we'll be all set! Oh, well, we still have to PLANT the garden, but...details, details! LOL.

All the extra digging and sawing sure cost me extra tho. Even with me helping, it seemed to take forever. Oh well, it's done, I'm even *further* off budget, but...it's done.