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When you think “80’s movie song” - what song do you think of first?

(Pls answer before peeking at the comments!)

Will explain later. :)

99 things that may (or may not) apply…..

01. I miss somebody right now
02. I don’t watch much TV these days
03. I love olives
04. I love sleeping
05. I own lots of books
06. I wear glasses and/or contact lenses
07. I love to play video games
08. I’ve tried marijuana
09. I’ve watched porn movies
10. I have been in a threesome

11. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship
12. I believe honesty is usually the best policy
13. I have acne free skin
14. I like and respect Al Sharpton
15. I curse frequently
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year
17. I have a hobby
18. I’ve been told I: (women) have an applebottom, (men) am packing.
19. I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me
20. I’m really, really smart (in my own way)
21. I’ve never broken someone’s bones
22. I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal
23. I hate the rain
24. I’m paranoid at times
25. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scars
26. I need money right now! don’t we all?
27. I love Sushi
28. I talk really, really fast ..sometimes
29. I have fresh breath in the morning
30. I have semi-long hair
31. I have lost money in Las Vegas
32. I have at least one brother and/or one sister
33. I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
34. I shave my legs (females) or face (males) on a regular basis
35. I have a twin
36. I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past
37. I couldn’t survive without Caller I.D.
38. I like the way that I look sometimes
39. I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months
40. I know how to do cornrows
41. I am usually pessimistic
42. I have a lot of mood swings
43. I think prostitution should be legalized
44. I think Britney Spears is hot
45. I have cheated on a significant other in the past
46. I have a hidden talent but i can’t find it
47. I’m always hyper no matter how much sugar I have
48. I think that I’m popular
49. I am currently single
50. I have kissed someone of the same sex
51. I enjoy talking on the phone
52. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants or shorts or boxer briefs or…
53. I love to shop.
54. I would rather shop than eat (if I were rich)
55. I would classify myself as ghetto. (ghetto fabulous, that is. heh)
56. I’m bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders, I’ve worn a sweater on my shoulders
57. I’m obsessed with my Livejournal
58. I don’t hate anyone.
59. I’m a pretty good dancer
60. I don’t think Mike Tyson raped Desiree Washington
61. I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother
62. I have a cell phone
63. I believe in God (I believe in gods, plural)
64. I watch MTV on a daily basis (or VH1)
65. I have passed out drunk in the past six months
66. I love drama
67. I have never been in a real relationship before
68. I’ve rejected someone before
69. I currently have a crush on someone
70. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life
71. I want to have children in the future
72. I have changed a diaper before
73. I’ve called the cops on a friend before
74. I bite my nails
75. I am a member of the Tom Green fan club
76. I’m not allergic to anything but I suffer from rhinitis. environmental irritants
77. I have a lot to learn
78. I have dated someone at least 10 years older or younger
79. I plan on seeing Ice Cube’s newest “Friday” movie
80. I am very shy around the opposite sex sometimes
81. I’m online 24/7, even as an away message
82. I have at least 5 away messages saved
83. I have tried alcohol or drugs before booze
84. I have made a move on a friend’s significant other in the past
85. I own the “South Park” movie
86. I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal
87. When I was a kid I played “the birds and the bees” with a neighbor or chum.
88. I enjoy some country music
90. I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza
91. I watch soap operas whenever I can
92. I’m obsessive, anal retentive, and often a perfectionist
93. I have used my sexuality to advance my career
94. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all
95. I know all the words to Slick Rick’s “Children’s Story”
96. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy
97. I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it
98. I have dated a close friend’s ex
99. I’m happy as of this moment

A little shoe porn before bed…

Shoeing a horse is easier than shoeing myself. I don’t much like shoe shopping at all. This afternoon I noticed, much to my dismay, that one of my black slides decided to start literally falling apart. It owes me nothing, I’ve truly warn them to pieces, but I liked them… So, off to the shoe store after work, or I’d be wearing mismatched Keds into the office tomorrow, as I have no other summer shoes…

First, I discovered that apparently NOW is the time to be shopping for boots for fall and winter….and slides would have been more easily found last January when I was looking for boots. (I do still need boots. However, it is exceptionally difficult to get revved up for that in mid-July.)

So, through all the aisles I go, with little luck. What they have doesn’t fit, or just isn’t even in my size to begin with. I stumble upon a pair. Black. Look decent. With a freakin’ three inch heel on them. This could be a dealbreaker. I walk about in them, testing these heels. Before I know it I am near prancing around in them. They don’t hurt. My ankles aren’t wobbling. (well, not much.) My toes are happy. My height has skyrocketed into the realm of average. I bought them.

I gots teh girly shooeezzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!! :-D I wouldn’t even begin to call them practical, but I can wear them to work, and that was what I needed.

In other news, work is so much nicer when we have just about everyone actually working. Full staffing levels are a good thing. I still closed 22 calls today, out of 96 for the day… (I tell myself I’m just getting the easy ones. Otherwise, I think I’d be somewhat pissed.) Regardless, it’s much easier to close things faster when they’re aren’t calls stacked up on deck, as you don’t have that distraction of having constantly check where they are while you’re trying to work another call.

So yes, it’s getting late, I was up too late last night, and I should be getting myself to bed here soon. Should you see me posting at midnight, please tell me to go to bed.

So, I’m sitting here waiting for a fax and killing a few minutes. I don’t feel like trying to get wrapped up in another call and then having to shift gears back again when it gets here. Fortunately, everyone seems to be keeping on top of things today so it won’t hurt anything.

Right up til the point where someone asks me to watch their queue too…

It’s nice to have a client say, “You guys are just the greatest!”

Most of them don’t bother to even say thank you.

Say something nice to someone today - you may just make their day.

Another day, another day.

I think I’d rather just go crawl in a hole, thanks.

Sometimes weeknights just suck.

Out doesn’t happen because of the get up in the morning thing, and there just isn’t that much going on inside either. You can only check the headlines so many times before you have them memorized. I’ve got books I can read, but I just can’t get my head into them.

I’m tired and lonely and blech.

A piece of my microwave just fell off…

To do this weekend: take measurements of area for microwave, go shopping…

Now, anything I have to say on iPods should be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as how I don’t even own an mp3 player… iPod has done a revamp and has dropped their prices. Yay iPod. However, the cheapest one (the mini) is still $250.00 - that’s just a lot of money for a long playing walkman… Probably not going to have one of those anytime soon, even if they do have some seriously nifty accessories.

So, then there is work - yay work, cause they pay me. Today was good, pretty much fully staffed, my buddy Ed is back in the office (he telecommutes every other week and then went off and took two weeks of vacation), good to see him again, got back into the swing of things pretty quick.

Had a client send me a bit of a snarky email that said “I make my people read these reports before they process things, and if the report is wrong, it needs to be fixed because it’s holding things up.” Fair enough - the processing is fine - the report is hosed up. However - the root cause of said report hosing goes back to 2000. So these folks aren’t reading those reports too closely, or they would have noticed this about 3 years ago.

Someone nearby is cooking something that smells absolutely fantastic.

Snoopy is being exceptionally needy tonight…I wonder if it has to do with my threatening to capture and bring home the kittens from under ’s deck.

We had storms sort of come through, and how have a very dark sky overhead, but the air has a weird orange glow to it from the sunset peeking in from the side.

So, even the cheap laminate stuff is at least $7 a square foot installed. Armstrong makes glueless laminate that can be installed by normal people. 15 x 15 foot office = 225 sq ft.

Installed by someone else: $1,575 for the $7. $1900+ for the hardwood I was lusting after.
Installed by me: ~$1,300 includes..
— floor
— new trim
— new ceiling fan
— paint
— new window treatment

Does give one pause.

Classic Beech

Heritage Pine

Vermont Maple

by , found via

http://www.livejournal.com/users/magdalene1/265176.html

2 1/2 week old baby on the elevator :-D

First thing I did this morning was block of three more days of vacation time in mid-September. :)

I’ll probably not have anywhere to go that time either, but it beats working.

Fortunately, we’re fully staffed today, which is making a really nice difference.

Sheesh, another back/neck/headache. My eyes even hurt. Here’s to Advil, let’s hope it does something.

Everything that is going to get done tonight is done, which is good, because I just don’t think I’d be able to do much else, even if I wanted to.

I went to go find the charger for my phone, and then couldn’t find the phone.

Bedtime quite soon, and hopefully I will remember to set the alarm clock. (Well, I’d better, or my coworker will kill me.)

I did take a peek at the queue, not as horrendous as I would have expected, but still pretty much a mess for a Monday morning in the middle of summer.

Work email is all cleared out, have two clients to check on in the AM, and they should both already be taken care of. Then I am going to see if I can’t get another client in trouble for some advertising they’re doing on one of my email lists.

So, yes, off to bed.

Yanked from via - of course, his best friend ended up being “our lord and savior Jesus Christ”, who apparently has george clooney listed as one of his interests…

[PS, popups on exiting the site, be warned...]

Spending the afternoon busying myself with getting things out of the way for the cleaning ladies in the morning, and trying to get in a load of laundry or two before bed.

I’m trying to figure out what’s up with the whole kittens appearing out of thin air thing - in the past couple weeks, I’ve encountered here and on other forums, feral kittens taking up residence in a backyard, mama cat running in and dropping off kittens in a house during a rainstorm, kittens being given away by kids on the side of the road, etc, etc…

Not once in my life have I EVER just stumbled across a kitten…

My back and neck are still bothering me, even though I slept flat on my back just about all night. Perhaps it’s time to look into a new mattress.

OK, time to go tend to the few things in life I do have control over.

So things went from good to crap in a nanosecond it seems (and don’t think I don’t notice and not like how manic depressive that sounds)

I didn’t sleep well last night and did something to my back/neck/nerve endings somehow and now there isn’t a position that I can stand/sit/drive/anything in that doesn’t hurt, and now I’ve got a headache to boot.

I screwed something up and apparently I can’t fix it.

I went out to get the mail and managed to drop half of it on the sidewalk.

Suddenly, going back to work is looking very good.

1. Take your LJ username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc…). If your name contains numbers, you’ll need to convert them to letters first before you can convert to numbers.

2. Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.

3. Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.

4. Find the post of this number in your LJ. If you don’t have that many posts, add the digits together again. Keep doing so until the number is smaller than your pathetic number of posts.

5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.

6. Use the resulting word in a Google Image Search, and select a picture from the first page.

6. Post the results for us all to see.

You know, I think most folks would have pegged me for the “Dark Bitchy Insensitive Soul” - I know it’s what I expected…

Take the quiz: “What Kind of Soul Do You Retain?”

Loving
You have a very warm and loving aura about your soul and believe in the virtues of Love. To you, there is a bright side to everything! You are the polar opposite of the Dark soul.

Why do I get all these emails from people trying to sell me Valium, AND WHY DO THEY THINK I NEED IT??!?

The earlier annoyances of the evening are rolling off slowly, which is good, and I’ll be hitting the rack eventually and by the morning, I’ll likely have forgotten them all anyway. (Sleep is a great thing that way. For all those folks that say “Never go to bed mad” - Nah, just go sleep it off.)

I got the cats a nice kitty mat to sleep on, and Target still prefers the ratty 20+ year old beach towel. Snoopy comes over for lovins and I lean down to pet him and he walks off….typical male :P

Snoopy is all kinds of messed up since I returned ’s table to him from the office. He had been using it as his mid-jump-point going from the office window to the floor. He now loudly lets me know it is missing when he gets ready to get down from the window.

I did log into my work email this evening to at least clear out all the broadcast messages that come in every day - over 50 of them over three days. Delete, Delete, Delete… 3 actual client related ones from Wednesday. Two from the same client, one request and one “disregard” after he got the “I’m not here” autoresponse, and a third from a client who I hope got smart and put her call in the queue…

I just had a crazed, random sneezing fit and now my nose is all stuffed up - I hate it when that happens.

Note to self: Never, ever publicly state you’re having a good day, because karma is a real bitch and she’ll show up damn quick to take care of that little problem…

First brought up by talona, I found another article this morning:

Gun-Toting in Va. Educates Public, Advocates Say

First, I wish they wouldn’t refer to it as “gun-toting” as it’s a tad inflammatory, but it’s also the Post and they tend to lean a smidge to the left.

I shoot for recreational purposes, I don’t own my own firearm so the change in the open carry policy (or reinforcement of existing - I can’t find the exact wording) was news to me - but I also wouldn’t blink upon seeing someone openly carrying to begin with.

I can’t find the text of the code (and that also is annoying me to no end), but my understanding is that not only can you open carry in VA, the counties & localities cannot override this, and the change was to tell the counties & localities to stop trying to override it.

The part that concerns me the most about this is that two college students had their firearms confiscated (and returned the next day and the misdemeanor charges dropped) because the police were not aware that you don’t need a permit to open carry in Virginia, and a reminder had to go out to the police force in Fairfax County that this was, in fact, perfectly legal.

I would have expected this to be part of the daily bulletin when it went into effect - from the gun owning community that I have been in contact with over the years, they pay very close attention to the laws regarding firearms, because they don’t want to violate them - and when a change occurs, they’re going to take notice of it.

So, why didn’t the police get the heads up until after they saw folks openly carrying?

At least more people know now.