An interesting note about bluetooth earpieces… they make you want to call everyone in your phone and talk to them incessantly.

Or maybe that’s just me. Eh.

Also, the new Macbook? Deeply disturbing. It’s bright, it’s shiny, the colors look weird, the speakers sound funny and I am petrified that I’m going to break it.

It’s very… confusing. 😀

So I’m a bit late, but I’m lacking a computer right now and honestly, the Porkchop and I have been sleeping most of the weekend, so…..

HAPPY 2007!

Tomorrow I go to pick up my new Macbook Pro from Apple, which is getting my old harddrive installed, and then I prepare to figure out exactly how I’m going to pay it off… ugh.

Fortunately, 2007 looks to be a good year in every way, so I’m not too worried.

At least I came home healthy this time, lol. 😉

So let’s see….

a) the Porkchop is well-liked by the family (surprise, surprise).
b) the family is driving me crazy (again, surprise, surprise).
c) the laptop has crapped out (possibly for the final time, as I cannot get power to it, due to some sort of short in the computer) and will probably cost me upwards of $600 to fix.*
and
d) I burned the utter shit out of my finger (whilst making my dad bacon.. surprise, surprise), the blister is the size of a quarter and I’ve been using lidocaine patches on it every few hours.

but…

I got laid, so all is right with the world. 😉

Have a very Merry Christmas Eve everybody!

* Which basically means I cannot use my RSS reader to keep up with everyone’s blogs, and I am going absolutely batshit!

It’s a documented fact I’m not the biggest fan of Walmart.

But there’s this Supercenter one on my way home from work, and the prices are really good.

And the best part?

The self-checkout lane allows for 20 items.

Granted, I checked out of there with 32 items, but at least it wasn’t the “10 only” regular Walmart.

I also learned that if I ever need a second job, I can TOTALLY be a checker. I’m fast and I bag well.

😀

It’s the little things, you know.

I’m cooking a turkey.

And first of all, cleaning a turkey and soaking it is quite possibly the grossest thing ever. And it’s kinda smelly. (It was a fresh turkey, as in, LIVE three days ago.) Ugh.

Now it’s cooking in the oven and two hours later, it’s finally starting to smell like an actual turkey, which is much better than what it smelled like when we opened the bag yesterday.

So the turkey is cooking, the pots are set on the stove for the rest of the goodies and I am now drinking alcoholic coffee.

Mmmm, holidays. 🙂

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thai food at one of my favorite restaurants, Topaz… $50

Midnight pizza at Famiglia… $9

Cupcake at Crumbs for breakfast (it was Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough)… $3

Nova Salmon on a Bagel w/ Capers for lunch… $5

Learning the Porkchop Now Has to Come to NYC several times a month (and I get to come too.. free hotel!)… PRICELESS.

Which means in two weeks, when we’re back down here and can stay through a Saturday, Porkchop gets to experience Canal Street. Woot!

(Although I admit I am a little worried they will think he is conspicuous… due to the 6’3″ problem, lol.)

My favorite person is having a sample sale.

It’s invite-only, but you can register and get in on the deals. (Some stuff is 75% off.) It only lasts four days and some things are already selling out… even though it started this morning.

Fortunately, I already got the one I wanted—seconds before it sold out. 🙂

:::happy dance, happy dance:::

I saw a car accident on my way to work this morning. A small fender-bender in a yield, right-turn lane, and it reminded me of my very first car accident. Which, unlike my sister, didn’t occur until a couple of years after I got my license.

I did the exact same thing this guy did this morning. A car was in front of me, looking to the left and inching into traffic. I was looking as well, saw the break in the flow of cars and hit the gas before I looked to see what was in front of me.

::Crunch::

The pansy hadn’t gone and it was my fault. Stupid rules.

I then managed to get into two other car accidents in the ensuing year, one being quite memorable for I totalled my Jeep and was grounded for three months… during my high school graduation.

It was then I decided my parents were fascists, hehe, and my car insurance—the true fascists—dropped me.

Obviously I’m back in their good graces (both of them), but for a few months I truly thought my life was going to suck forever.

It’s amazing the difference a few years can make.

I’m not quite old yet, but I am older today and I’m happy to say that although this has been a rough year for me, I can without a doubt say it’s been one of the most interesting and fulfilling ones yet.

My very adorable “chunk of meat” (according to her) is very good at birthdays.

And putting up with having crazy loony friends over to share in the joy of the cotton candy machine. 🙂

Cotton. candy. machine. of. my. very. own.

Best present ever.

It turns out neither of us really wanted to wait until my actual birthday to start opening the goodies, so in addition to god’smachineofgoodness, he also got me one of the greatest movies of all time.

Hey girly, cotton-candy-eating, boy-ogling marathon weekend soon? 😀

So somebody had to do some foofy dress shopping this weekend, and I got to help.

Aside from her looking fantastic in everything she tried on (no really, there are pictures), the best part was that the first dress she tried on was the winner. I’d say that’s a sign.

Oh, and I got to wear a tiara the entire time.

😀