As you can see, it's 6AM on a Saturday morning. I haven't been able to sleep, and I don't know how it got to be 6 already. I wrestled with sleep all night until I finally decided to get up and do something productive - which means I dyed my hair pink. Not all of it - just streaks. Now I'm waiting out the last ten minutes before the rinse. I hope it turns out alright. No going back now. :)
I've been really anxious the past couple of days - but yesterday (and now) especially. I know why, but I can't put it in the blog except to say it's a chick thing.
Honestly, not much has been happening lately or else I would have written something here.
Well, time to rinse. As soon as something interesting happens I'll blog it. Pink hair is the most interesting it gets here at this time.
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Out of Books -- Internet's Back Up
Well, I've read four books in the last week. I have to say I'm not really impressed with any of them. In Her Shoes, which will be (or maybe already is) in theaters soon starring Cameron Diaz, Splintered Icon by I can't remember who, The Probable Future, and Northern Lights by Nora Roberts. I had to put the Nora Roberts one down about 3 chapters in because it basically sucked. I'm just not into romance novels. I must have outgrown them when I wasn't paying attention.
It's 11 PM and Short Decaf is refusing to sleep so he's in this empty bedroom, which is serving as a catch-all room/office until our stuff gets here this weekend. I'm sitting on the floor because, although having the laptop on the ironing board is a good height for just checking your email - it's a bitch for anything else. I'm sitting on a really, really nice hardwood floor, though. I love the floors in this house.
One thing I do NOT like about this house is the critters. Namely spiders, slugs, snails, and frogs. So far that's all I've seen, and it better damn-well be ALL I see. I've actually heard something else in the woods, but not seen what it is yet. And these little fucking frogs? I actually caught Tall Decaf running out of the house with one saying he'd found it hopping down the hallway! WTF!!? How the FUCK did it get into my house? They're so little, though. Like maybe an inch long tops. I hate them no matter how cute they are.
So yes - I went through these books, but now we finally have internet and cable (meaning phone as well since we use Vonage) hooked up. I'm no longer off the grid. I have been a bit taken back by how well I did without internet or phone access, and only books to pass the time. I am, however, out of books - but have a nice list of recommended books from Mother-in-Law Decaf. She's cool. I actually do miss her and wonder when the next time I'll see her will be. Venti and her don't seem to be very close, and I hope like hell my kids are closer to me than he is to her when they get older.
So, basically nothing on the radar screen for me in the next few days. Sister-in-Law Decaf is coming over tomorow night with dinner. I wonder how much everyone will drink. I should keep a list. One thing's for sure, I'll never feel guilty about buying a $6.99 novel that only takes a day to read.
I've been thinking about lists alot today. I know that sounds stupid, but I really came up with alot of dumb things to keep a list of. Places I've been, how many times I call my mom or sister, (or vice-versa), books I've read, things like that. My grandpa used to keep a very organized list on a tiny memo pad of every book he ever read with very brief notes written next to the title. *GOOD*, *SLOW IN THE MIDDLE*, *BAD*. Hell, I could do it for movies, too. Of course, I had to come up with ten different ways to keep these lists - mostly excel, but that just didn't seem right. I think it would be cool to write them all down in a little memo pad like my grandpa used to do.
First one I'd write down would have to be Matrix Revolutions *SUCKED AND SHOULD BE REMADE AFTER ORIGINAL DIRECTORS ARE REMOVED FROM GENE POOL."
So anyway, a third-grade teacher from Alabama wrote to me to tell me that she used a picture I'd taken of a chubby toad in one of her Life-Cycle class projects, and wanted to tell me thanks, and that she really liked the picture. That was pretty awesome that someone actually - finally - let me know what they were doing with my pictures that they downloaded off of morguefiles.com. I've had somewhere around 600 downloads and only that one email letting me know how they used the image.
And that's everything of interest for now....
It's 11 PM and Short Decaf is refusing to sleep so he's in this empty bedroom, which is serving as a catch-all room/office until our stuff gets here this weekend. I'm sitting on the floor because, although having the laptop on the ironing board is a good height for just checking your email - it's a bitch for anything else. I'm sitting on a really, really nice hardwood floor, though. I love the floors in this house.
One thing I do NOT like about this house is the critters. Namely spiders, slugs, snails, and frogs. So far that's all I've seen, and it better damn-well be ALL I see. I've actually heard something else in the woods, but not seen what it is yet. And these little fucking frogs? I actually caught Tall Decaf running out of the house with one saying he'd found it hopping down the hallway! WTF!!? How the FUCK did it get into my house? They're so little, though. Like maybe an inch long tops. I hate them no matter how cute they are.
So yes - I went through these books, but now we finally have internet and cable (meaning phone as well since we use Vonage) hooked up. I'm no longer off the grid. I have been a bit taken back by how well I did without internet or phone access, and only books to pass the time. I am, however, out of books - but have a nice list of recommended books from Mother-in-Law Decaf. She's cool. I actually do miss her and wonder when the next time I'll see her will be. Venti and her don't seem to be very close, and I hope like hell my kids are closer to me than he is to her when they get older.
So, basically nothing on the radar screen for me in the next few days. Sister-in-Law Decaf is coming over tomorow night with dinner. I wonder how much everyone will drink. I should keep a list. One thing's for sure, I'll never feel guilty about buying a $6.99 novel that only takes a day to read.
I've been thinking about lists alot today. I know that sounds stupid, but I really came up with alot of dumb things to keep a list of. Places I've been, how many times I call my mom or sister, (or vice-versa), books I've read, things like that. My grandpa used to keep a very organized list on a tiny memo pad of every book he ever read with very brief notes written next to the title. *GOOD*, *SLOW IN THE MIDDLE*, *BAD*. Hell, I could do it for movies, too. Of course, I had to come up with ten different ways to keep these lists - mostly excel, but that just didn't seem right. I think it would be cool to write them all down in a little memo pad like my grandpa used to do.
First one I'd write down would have to be Matrix Revolutions *SUCKED AND SHOULD BE REMADE AFTER ORIGINAL DIRECTORS ARE REMOVED FROM GENE POOL."
So anyway, a third-grade teacher from Alabama wrote to me to tell me that she used a picture I'd taken of a chubby toad in one of her Life-Cycle class projects, and wanted to tell me thanks, and that she really liked the picture. That was pretty awesome that someone actually - finally - let me know what they were doing with my pictures that they downloaded off of morguefiles.com. I've had somewhere around 600 downloads and only that one email letting me know how they used the image.
And that's everything of interest for now....
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