Is this Red Dawn?

You should have been there

*sobs*

I sign on for one minute at my sisters and that is what tweak says to me.

*sobs more*

I didn't return them.

*sniff*

First off, Happy Birthday to Lucy, my house mate, who is 21 today. Wh00t! *uses birthday icon*






Secondly, after seeing alwaysasnapefan with these, I decided to investigate. Now I have two of my own:


Apparently, if they don't hatch in 6 days, they die ;-; Clicking the link makes them grow!

Senator Barack Obama is going to be in Cincinnati on Thursday, specifically at Ault Park! I can't walk that far (we don't have a car), but B. is a long-distance walker. So he's gonna go!! Yippee!

I feel excited FOR him! I hope he can get some good photos! And even better, I hope he gets to shake Obama's hand!

What I have been twittering about today:

• 06:45 McCain brought it on himself: Keating 5 scandal documentary: www.keatingeconomics.com/ #
• 06:47 My post about the upcoming documentary on the Keating 5 scandal: countrymouse.insanejournal.com/797209.html #
• 17:59 Been playing around with MS Works that came installed on my Eee--fun! I think B. and I are going to watch 1st ep. Desp. Housewives soon. #
• 18:00 Ooo! Got a LOT of packs of Diamine ink cartridges today from local pen shop! Yummy colours! Good ink! #

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

since i started this whole fruit wine thing, i have become the darling of the neighborhood fruit flies. seriously. way too much stuff i bottle has to go through a tea strainer. bees too. since i started distilling the apples, all i have to do is walk out back and open a fermenter, and BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! 0 hai, we can fly in yer face? speaking of apples, i have just 3 5-gallon carboys left to distill. then the result of that gets distilled twice moar. that'll give me (counting what i got already) about 4 gallons of 80% brandy. so we're looking at about 8 gallons of 80 proof brandy by the end of the week (does a quick jug count. just enough)
the gallon of vodka from the other day - is now this

lemon and lime. party @ my house in may, when it's done.

enough about booze.

no, there is never enough about booze!

seriously. tomorrow is call everybody in creation and have everything for the cafe turned off and discontinued. i may have a buyer for a lot of the stuff it turns out. small world, but he's the friend of 2 friends who do not know each other. i need to call him in a bit with my final price. a freakin' bargain it is too.

we're off to louisiana next week. grandparents and friends and siblings. we'll visit them all. this will be my first time to hang with tory's high school crew that she's reconnected with in the past year and a half or so. that should be interesting. one of my oldest friends has 2 kids i've never seen, and her 8 year-old was pocket-sized last time i was down there. and my sisters - they've both moved since katrina, and i have only rough idea where they live. pictures, sure, but no sense of place.
i just drank a fruit fly.
it's raining with a louisiana vigor outside. rare for the pacific northwest.
ok, there's stuff to do, so until later...

Got up at 4 pm. Obviously my body still needs a lot of rest. Back's feeling better, but I'm exhausted.

Gotta get to the bank tomorrow and deposit a cheque. And get groceries. And return some library books. And... yeah. A lot of stuff.

Had a shower today. I feel so accomplished. And that's sad.

Watching Intervention, because reminding myself that other people have more messed-up lives than I do sometimes helps.

Depressed. Bleeding. No motivation. No complete sentences, either.

Blah.

Off to try and write. At least have the day count for something, even if it's just another thousand or so words of fanfic.

It came installed on my Asus Eee, and I've been fooling around with it. It's really kinda cool!

I like the calendar feature. I do use online calendars; but it would be nice to have one that would work even if I couldn't (ghods forbid!) get online.

The word processor *will* save documents in different formats, including as .doc files.

Then there is stationery, greeting cards, and much more! I don't know that I would be using a spreadsheet or database, but ya never know. :-)

I'm planning on getting a hard copy of MS Works 9.0 (the version on the Eee) and installing it on my desktop computer. I think there's a way of sharing the calendar so that I can view it on either/both computer(s).

Firstly, where did everyone go? Did we all run out of questions?

My second question needs some lead up to it. I recently became employed as the head of marketing for a small Chiropractic firm. I'm not going to go into the whole marketing spiel, but basically what I've been noticing is most people know next to nothing about Chiropractic. So what are your opinions on it? Have you ever had any work done? Do you think you might need some?

Tweak says, "Hey, Sonny-boy!"

Tweak just said "but that's a part of it"

*guh*

PREMISE The Durmstrang Institute was created for the magical instruction of Eastern European wizards. Once upon a time, it accepted all promising students who had magical aptitude, but now, any time that Muggleborns and halfbloods were ever accepted is a distant memory, in favor of rigid social classes and tradition. Students are ingrained with a sense of superiority or inferiority [one that often starts at home], a respect for tradition and appropriate social behavior, and most importantly a strong desire to succeed and to be the best. Students that graduate from Durmstrang are the most talented, the strongest, the brightest, and the best. The only question is...are you strong enough to survive until graduation? GAME INFO Premise | School Info | Setting | Hierarchy | Master List [Staff & Students] APPLYING Rules | Taken Characters and PBs | Taken PBs for NPCs | Availability | Application MEMBERS Contact List | School Calendar | Friend-all List | Quidditch | Class Schedules COMMUNITIES In Character | Out of Character | Mod Journal Classes started August 25th!! Seventh years wanted!!

//PREMISE// What happens after ever after? Do our beloved heroes and villains vanish? Are they doomed to repeat themselves over and over again with each human retelling? Do they continue to progress and grow even when their most avid fans & biographers stopped listening to them decades, even centuries ago? Pentamerone is the last stronghold of human imagination. The hundreds of magical lands and worlds that used to exist in the minds of children are now in a state of decay. As a result, the figures of legend have fled to this newly imagined land. Some are afraid Pentamerone will merely become a graveyard for the last of the fairy tales, others are determined to start a new life in their promised land. It's up to you, and them, to decide how they will survive. Or not.

//HELPFUL LINKS// the setting | character suggestions | taken characters | about/rules/faq | character guidelines | application | ic journal | ooc journal | mod journal

( characters wanted! )

On my movie blog, I'm asking people for their 3 favorite movies. I'm going to do a post where I list everyone's choices, along with pictures and anything else they have to say about their movie picks.

Please submit your picks! You can read the post I linked to or you can just comment here. Include pictures or links to pictures, if you have any. I've screened answers so I can keep everyone's choices secret.

Anyone can participate, and when you reply make sure you give a name you want to go by, otherwise I'll just use your journal name. Also list your blog if you'd like to be linked.

Dear guy,

I'm sorry. I feel like I'm leading you on. I'm making a mistake. I know you like me. I just don't feel that way about guys. At all. It just doesn't help when I'm too scared to say no. I need to quit hiding things. Life would be so much easier. I would be left staying awake all night feeling guilty. I know you're lonely. I'm lonely too. I want someone to love me so bad. I just don't think I'm good for you. At all. I've already said these things to you before, but, it seems my words just don't have meaning anymore. Not just with you, but with everyone.

Really sorry,
Your friend

Dear you,

I miss you. So much it feels like I'm dying sometimes. I try to block it out. Get on with my daily life. But, I can barely get out of bed sometimes. I hate that we still talk even. It makes it all harder. It hurts so much. Everything this summer hurt so much. I should be glad it's over. But, I'm not. I love you so much. I always have. Nobody has ever compared. You said you wanted me back at one point. How I wanted to jump for it. Dive back in and feel loved. But, would anything have changed? We decided to wait. I need to be able to trust you again. You cheated on me. Ignored me. Treated me like dirt if I was around. I guess I really just miss what we did have. It made me feel alive. Truly alive. For once in my life. So far, you have proven me correct though. Nothing has changed. You still ignore me and refuse to talk to me most of the time. So what is the point? It makes me want to disappear from everyone we know. To just find a way to live again.

Sad, lonely and pathetic,
Me

Dear jobs,

Hire me. I need you too. I can't make it like this.

Stressed out,
Me

Dear other friends,

Thanks for also acting like I don't exist. I really like this feeling of abandonment.

Angry,
Me

Dear grandma,

You're the coolest. Thanks for accepting me.

Happy,
Me

Bold what you've eaten. Strike what you wouldn't ever consider eating.

My Omnivore's Hundred (46/100):

( Skippy Squirrel says 'SPEWWWWW!' )

When Sarah Palin decided (well, the McCain campaign decided) to do the "guilt by association" smear tactic against Barack Obama and said, "the heels are on, the gloves are off", she/they forced the Obama camp's hand.

It's gonna be High Noon. Seriously.

At noon Eastern today the Obama campaign will unveil a 13-minute documentary on the "Keating Five" scandal, in which Senator John McCain played a central role. This will not be a smear. This is truth, well-known by all and sundry: the savings and loan scandal of the late 80's and early 90's that caused Charles Keating to go to jail for fraud and Senator McCain to be formally reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee. This scandal had so very much to do with deregulation and what has brought us to the economic state we are in now.

Here is the link: Keating Economics: John McCain and The Making of a Financial Crisis. Be ready at noon! And tell everyone you know!

McCain can in no way dodge this!

OH MY GOD FREAKAZOID IS ON DVD WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME OMG OMG OMG

I can twist at the waist today without experiencing terrific pain. Huzzah!

Also managed to clean the cat box in between naps. It might not sound like much, but it's the most strenuous thing I've done since the hysteroscopy.

Slept most of the day. Managed to get 1000+ words of writing done.

Also ordered the first season of Freakazoid! from Columbia House. Wonderful stuff... here's the intro and their Emergency Broadcast System spot: