Month: July 2007

Tagged by tinaya

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The rules:

* Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

1. I try my best to conserve paper. But I am neurotic about mistakes. If I’m in the right (or maybe WRONG) mood, I will throw away** an entire sheet of paper and start all over. Perfection is what I strive for. (**when I say “throw away” I mean throw into recycling)

2. White vehicles annoy me. The make and model doesn’t matter to me. It can be a pick up truck, a minivan, a sedan, a van, whatever. I just don’t like white vehicles—especailly white vans. Ugh.

3. My favorite type of pen is the Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball. I’ve been using that kind for at least 12 years. And it’s like, the official pen of Zaner-Bloser (red for us copy editors) so yes. That’s awesome. They also make them in funky colors like pink, so that’s even more awesome.

4. I know I already mentioned this, but I am certified to model and instruct Zaner-Bloser handwriting.

5. I just brushed and flossed, and of course, I’m starting to get hungry.

6. About ten minutes after I finish a plate of spaghetti, I get endorphins. I really do. I get these wonderful tingly feelings all throughout my body. It’s not unlike those warm fuzzies you get when you take a pain killer and it starts to kick in, right before you fall asleep. Or a Nyquil. Much milder, but the same feeling. Maybe that’s why I love spaghetti so much. Plus the fact that it just tastes good….

7. I took two Tylenol PM before my bath (filled with lavendar bubbles) and moisturizing (with lavendar lotion), I’ve been up since 4:40am with the exception of a 15 minute nap at lunch, and I’m still not tired. >.< 8. Last week, I got irritated at Magical Mountain Disney News because I noticed yet another error in one of their headlines. There had been consistent errors in their headlines for weeks now, and I finally got irritated enough to say something about it. It said: Disney Movies Makes There Way To Downloadable HD. And one more: Disney World’s Spaceship Earth Going Back To It’s Roots. Can anyone identify the errors and correct them? No fair cheating!!

I emailed them and told them about the errors, and they wrote back two emails thanking me and they fixed it that night! They fixed them both, which I am thrilled about. YAY. They also asked me to email them anytime I found errors. Heh.

I really would love a job consulting Web sites, stores who make signs, menu printers, etc. Seriously. I know I’m needed, but I don’t know how to go about breaking into it. Although, now I have BUSINESS CARDS (my first time having them!), so maybe I can get people to hire me. We’ll see.

Wow, #8 was a long one. And I think all the calm/sleep stuff is finally starting to kick in. I’m beginning to feel that blissful, heavy feeling. Although I could really go for a small amount of spaghetti… but I won’t. I promise!

P.S. I would really love if someone would send me an mp3 of Do Me by BBD. REALLY LOVE IT. It might help me get spaghetti-endorphins.

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I normally don’t tag because well, I don’t. Also, this one’s made its rounds on the ‘net, looks like. Still, I’d be interested in hearing from:
swankivy, drkangelmommy, meimeigui, starlit12, and aruth. 🙂

Night!

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Food Cravings

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I keep having repeated, strong cravings for ice cream, Mexican food (good Mexican, not Chipotle or Taco Bell), green vegetables, and KFC. Not necessarily together. They kind of alternate. Like, right now, it’s ice cream. Chocolate with M&M mix-in from Cold Stone Creamery.

I wonder if it’s because July is National Ice Cream Month?

At any rate, I have loads of ice cream in my freezer, simply because I don’t eat it a whole lot, so I have plenty to indulge in. But I know that I can eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s Neopolitan Dynamite and STILL crave that chocolate with M&M mix-in from Cold Stone.

Last time I had these cravings, I found out I was expecting Aidan.

I know for sure nothing like that is the case now.

Still. WEIRD.

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Some of Y’all Try to Rhyme But Y’all Can’t Rhyme Like This

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Had an okay Sunday. I was actually kind of productive, if you want to know the truth. I sort of organized my CDs (I actually simply repacked most of them), and I partnered the missing cases with their CD counterparts. I still have a lot of blank cases and CDs that don’t seem to know where they go, so I guess I have some more work to do. And I didn’t find my Boys II Men Motownphilly CD. Boo.

Last month, Adam gave me a VCR because he knew I’d wanted one and that they’re stupidly expensive. He had an extra randomly lying around, and offered it to me. THAT was fun getting home on the plane, let me tell you. 🙂 Anyway, I finally got around to hooking it up today, and the Playstation I got from my mom’s on Christmas. YAY, right? I spent hours watching old MMC episodes. OMG yes, I can still do a LOT of the dance steps. It’s been 14 years, but I picked up on those steps like it was yesterday. That’ll help keep me in shape, that’s for sure. I had fun going down MMC/Memory Lane. I have tapes and tapes of MMC stuff to watch, not to mention tapes of movies like Little Girls in Pretty Boxes (a Lifetime Original starring Swoosie Curtz!), and I should have the video of when I actually met MMC. Good times. It’s so cool to have a VCR again. All I need now is a universal remote. And a memory card for the Playstation. I wonder if they’re really cheap for the original? I suppose I can check at Buy It/Trade It, because as usual, people on eBay overcharge for shipping. Greedy-you-know whats. I’m not dumb enough to think it costs $8 to ship a freakin’ one ounce piece of equipment.

I didn’t eat much today, but I think what I ate was good. I had a small Healthy Choice frozen dinner. It was on sale for $1.84 and I wanted something quick. I am usually wary of frozen dinners because they tend to have a LOT of sodium. But this had only about 500 mgs of sodium (2 grams per day is what my mom, who has a heart condition, is allowed to have, and I try to keep within that range for myself). The meal was chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and green beans and carrots. I also supplemented with a serving of sauteed fresh spinach and a slice of wheat bread. Yummy.

Big Brother. This is my feeling about it right now: >.< *sigh* Blah. It's already after 10pm. Another long week ahead, but at least there is a new HARRY POTTER book at the end. I hope the week doesn't go by too terribly slow, as I'll be looking forward to that greatly. I will shut myself off from the world next weekend, so if you call or anything, don't be offended if I don't answer. Just sayin'. G'night.

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Very Much A Potluck

/ birthday, friends, music, work

Way I Are – Timbaland
I heard this song for the first time on the radio on the way home from work today. I was enjoying the beat. Then I heard the chorus. A part of it. THE WAY I ARE. Again, I like the beat. It’s a catchy song. But, as a copy editor, I feel morally obligated to refrained from obtaining it in any way, shape or form. It’s like the way I cringe when, In Big Girls Don’t Cry, Fergie sings, “like a child misses their blanket.” The noun/pronoun agreement in that sentence is off. But I like the song. So now what? *sigh* I just know that everytime I hear that “way I are” part I’m going to want to throw something across the room. So I guess the answer is to let the song be.

During the Spring, I was taking the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting course. It was a correspondence course. I worked on certain letters, manuscript and cursive, and turned them in to an evaluator. It was HARD. Writing is very much about muscle memory, and my hands had been trained to write a certain way, to make letterforms a certain way. To retrain is hard and painful. Even still, I got very good scores on my lessons, and on June 7th, I became certified to model and teach Zaner-Bloser Handwriting! 🙂 Yay.

Other than that, work’s been pretty run-of-the-mill.

I did a BAD THING last night. I installed Zoo Tycoon on my computer. And no, not the new one. The ORIGINAL one. And I played it for TWO HOURS. ARGH. I can’t believe I got sucked in again. I managed to spend $250,000 trying to get the thing established, and the stupid giraffes just kept on being pissed off, and the stupid zookeepers and maintenence workers refused to clean up all the poop which pissed the giraffes off even more! So I sold all the giraffes, and I’m going to rebuild the exhibit and only put two giraffes giraffes in there. I’d added too many before, then they started making babies and oh man. OUT OF CONTROL. I never got any of the expansion packs, and I don’t know if I am going to ever invest in the newer versions (they look fun!), but I tihnk that’ll be okay. Speaking of computer games… OMG Bookworm Adventure. Defeat the enemies by making big words!!! Yeah, game heaven for a word geek like me.

This just in:
Nielson did some research on the Harry Potter phenomena, and here’s a statistic that surprises me:

51% of people age 12+ in the U.S. are aware that the new Harry Potter book is coming out in July.

I honestly thought it’d be a higher percentage. Wow. But I think 51% is still pretty darn impressive.

The whole “Save Harry” campaign is kind of annoying. Let the author do what she will. Signing a petition to get her to sign more books, while it must be flattering, has to be kind of infuriating as well. The security measures around the book are crazy!!!!! I can’t believe the lengths these companies are going through to keep it secret. Well, one week and one day, and the fans can be satisfied.

And one last note…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO goaliej54!!!!!!! ♥

See ya!

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A Few HP Pix (Pictures)

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Does this mean I’m a Death Eater?

I didn’t take a ton of pictures last night because I wasn’t exactly sure if we were allowed, but now I have the flyer, and this group (www.dalmatianalley.com) is going to be at the theatre through Sunday and it says “Bring your camera and get pictures with your favorite characters from the film!” Those of you who have been reading this for some time know that I LOVE character greetings and getting my picture with characters. I am so tempted to go back there tomorrow evening and see if I can’t get some pix with some of the characters.

Anyway, here are my favorites from last night.

Onward

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