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March 12, 2007 By

I had the television on the other day when I heard something familiar. I went to look and was greeted with this:


Bread, sandwiches, whatever. But the song was vaguely familiar. Isn’t it from Ren & Stimpy? I watched way too much of that show when I was in high school. I know all the words for the Log Song. And how about Powdered Toast Man? In any case, it’s just not right that something as wholesome as Sara Lee baked goods is being pitched with a song from the original cartoon for grown-ups.

Why is it that when I’m doing my laundry, as I’m about to bring my clean clothes in from the laundry room the sprinklers decide to spew water everywhere? I usually cut through the lawn between 2 buildings, cutting my walk to the laundry room from a half a mile to about 100 yards. But I can’t cut through the lawn when the sprinklers are doing their thing. I don’t have much luck walking on the pathways either, because the sprinkler heads are constantly being trampled on by kids in the area, which leads to water getting everywhere but on the lawn. So much for water conservation.

I still have a massive to-do list, but isn’t that always the way? I’m really feeling the need to get more organized, and it will come, eventually. (Oh dear, I just heard my neighbor next door fart. Through the wall. Thank goodness the smell doesn’t travel – it’s not the first time I heard that). Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. I’m getting there slowly but surely. I think I need to write my to-do list out so I can see it every day, and then check off things as I get them done. Or go back to writing it on my bathroom mirror, since I still have those markers in there. That’s what I’ll do. First on my list is go back to Curves. I used to work out there when I first moved here, until I needed to work a second job and life got in the way. Now, I only need the one job, and there is a Curves studio right next door to my office, so I won’t have much of an excuse. I like going to Curves, and with all the weight I’ve gained recently, I really need to get off my ass and get it done.

I think that’s about all for now. I still have a bunch of stuff I want to get done online, but I don’t want to be up all night.

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Movies and TV

August 22, 2006 By

I finally went to see Little Miss Sunshine tonight. Thanks, Macoosh, for the recommendation. It was excellent – the kind of excellent that has one scanning the new DVD releases so as to buy it the minute it goes on sale. Here’s the trailer:

A terrific ensemble cast, and Steve Carell has never been better. I can’t say enough good things about this movie, so you should just all go out and see it, unless you have something against smart, independent films. But I don’t, and I thought this was hilarious – funnier than Tommy Boy. Funnier than Elf. Even funnier than The Forty Year Old Virgin. Those movies played up the comedy for the specific reason of labeling the movie a comedy. This movie had such a sense of realism to it and excellent character development, and that touch of reality is what made it so much funnier. Just go see it.

Now for the TV part. I don’t usually like to invite heated discussions by bringing up controversial topics because frankly, I have my opinions, you have yours, let’s just leave it at that. But documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock of SuperSize Me fame has a tv series on F/X called 30 Days, where he tries to, at the very least, get people to open their minds up about opposing viewpoints by immersing them in some type of foriegn culture for 30 days. I do realize that with any documentary, there are editorial liberties taken, but this show is very thought provoking and does its best to show both sides of the issue at hand fairly. If you get a chance to watch it, I highly recommend it.

Now, I want to know WTF is up with my broadband connection. My tv is working just fine, but my internet has been a bit wonky the past few days. I’ll be surfing online and all of a sudden my connection goes out. My modem looks just fine, all the lights are one, but I have to reset it and sometimes restart my computer. It’s really freaking annoying, but I’m hesitant to call the cable company because the modem reset works for at least a few hours, so the not-so-brilliant people at tech support won’t be able to get to the root of the problem. It’s just really annoying.

Well, it’s after 9 now and I still have to eat some dinner. I also thought of a use for the little pineapple snack cups that I bought a while back and haven’t touched. I’m gonna make Pina Coladas! I bought some pineapple sherbet and coconut rum, and I’ll crank up my little single cup blender and makes me a frozen drink. I don’t drink a lot and don’t know what’s in a real pina colada, but this will do the trick just fine. Cheers!

Filed Under: Movies, TV

Evening Rants and Other Miscellany

August 1, 2006 By

Well I left work feeling a little upset. Ok, a lot upset. Just because of a stupid reference call. I don’t know why this gets passed on to me, they know I hate making phone calls. HATE HATE HATE it. As the admin, I’m supposed to take phone calls. “I’m sorry, Mad Scientist is off-site at a meeting, can I offer you his voice mail?” I’m not the intended recipient of the calls either, I just pass them off. And they already know that cold-calling or other types of out-calling freaks me right out and gives me major anxiety, no matter how much Paxil I take. So now I have to make reference calls for managerial position candidates. I so suck at them, and not only that, the account exec who wants me to make the dang calls has the absolute suckiest question sheet. I can’t wait until everyone else is back from vacation except me. I need a vacation, especially since I never take one because I can’t afford it.

So as I arrived home tonite and was trying to calm myself down, I got a nice soothing catalog in the mail tonight. Purty stuff! And I love catalogs too, so that made me happy. Of course, as soon as I turned the tv on a mini-rant came on. I really hate it when the cable company switches channels on me. I love watching Discovery Health channel, and now it’s on channel 60 instead of 72. There are a few other changes too, so I’ll have to learn the channel lineup all over again. Why can’t they just leave well enough alone? And btw, Seconds From Disaster is not on tonite for some reason, so I’m stuck watching medical shows on Discovery Health. Not that I don’t enjoy them, but I really wanted to watch 2nds.

I’m looking more and more forward to my trip home, mostly because I really need a fricking vacation. Officer Friend is taking me to Vinny T’s. I love that place, it’s some of the best Italian food I’ve ever had. The first time I ever ate there, I had the alfredo, one of my favorite dishes. It was so fresh I could have sworn they were milking cows in the kitchen! Perfect al dente pasta and the freshest, most flavorful alfredo sauce I’ve ever had – non of this pseudo Cheez-Whiz crap that I’ve had in other places. No, Vinny’s makes it fresh, and I’m gonna have some when I’m back in Beantown.

I tried a new template that I found online for my blog, but after making the changes in notepad and previewing it in a browser, I really didn’t like the way it came out. So I’m still looking for ideas, and also how to change the background without changing anything else on my template. I like the rounded corners on the different fields and don’t want to change that – only the plain old background color. I just want something with a little bit of texture to it, that’s all. But my meager and extremely limited knowledge of the codes used here aren’t cutting it for me, so again I appeal to all of you for the knowledge. Macoosh would appreciate this too, so once I know how to do it I can share the love. I did change where my counter is located – I think it looks better in the sidebar instead of waaaaayyy down at the bottom of the page.

One more thing – spending update. Yesterday I spent $7.26 on lunch, which includes my lunch and a small portion of Time-Flying Dudette’s lunch, since I owed her for a snack a couple days ago when I didn’t have any cash. Plus, I think I can return a couple things to get extra cash. One thing is something I bought at the crap store that I know I won’t use, and another is the t-shirt I bought for my now former foster sister. As much as my mom wanted to help her, she can only take so much, so she called up the case worker today and told them to come get her. Now she just has Boo, but he’s just a little one and doesn’t have the attitude that a 14-yr-old has. So the t-shirt goes back, as soon as I dig out the receipts and tags (I kept my debit card receipt, but that doesn’t show the individual purchase price of the item). But hey, more money for me.

So that’s it for now. Time to do some forensic searching through my trash for the tiny tag from that shirt, then I’ve got to eat chocolate and stare blankly at the tv.

Filed Under: Grrr, TV

K is for Kirsten

May 1, 2006 By

I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to finally be getting my very own place. Of course I can’t help thinking back to all those episoses of the Mary Tyler Moore show that I’ve been watching since I was a kid. I’ve always wanted to live in a studio apartment, and very soon I will be doing that. When I lived in my condo in New England, it may as well have been a studio, since I very rarely slept in my actual bedroom, but it’s still not the same. This will be one room, one single room, 100% me.

There are quite a few differences between me and MTM. For one, I live in a much warmer climate than she does. Thank goodness I don’t have to wear those early 70s miniskirts in below freezing temps, instead I wear them when the temps approach the boiling point. I don’t work in a newsroom, but I do work with a group of people I consider my family. And my studio is in a cookie cutter apartment complex, because really cool converted Victorian houses don’t exist here in Vegas. Check out the comparisons:

Now Mary’s apartment:

Big difference. Mary had cool architectural features such as the tiny balcony with French doors and the sunken living room with the shelves built into the step. I’ll have an alcove and an old sliding window. My kitchen’s in an alcove off to one side, but I don’t have that way cool stained glass window that would go up and down to close the kitchen off. But I do have a big K for my wall. I had to have that when I saw it in a catalog. It’s whitewashed, not gold, but hey, it’s mine – just like this studio apartment that I’ll move into on Memorial Day weekend.

The biggest thing I’m getting out of all this is that sense of independence I feel like I lost living with people out of financial necessity. My roommate and I are talking and things are back to normal now, which makes this last month much easier, but we both agree that we need to have our own space and that 2 years living under the same roof is more than enough. I’ll be much happier on my own – I was in my dumpy condo in back east (at least as far as my living space went) and I will be here. That happiness will transcend all areas of my life, and I hope it will be the start of a very positive chapter. But I’m determined – I’m gonna make it after all.

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Filed Under: House, TV