oh yeah...

...and happy new year...ya fucks...

quick and boring...

ok, so there's a new look to my blog. yay...i finally got around to fixin' it up all purdy like. or at least, better than it was.

saw 'brokeback mountain' last week sometime...it was "eh". not real great, not real bad. just felt like they were trying too hard.

we're trying out our new crockpot today. we're making beef stew, which is one of my favorite dishes, so it's a good test to see if i like using it or not. we shall see.

wow, this is such an interesting and exciting post isn't it? woo hoo!

alrighty, well it's 5:30 and i'm still in my pj's because my leg has been hurting too bad to stand for too long, but i think i'm going to go try to take a shower and get dressed. later!

let's see if blogger likes me today...

so i've somehow hurt my leg again. except, this time it's not just my knee, no no, it's everything from my hip down to my ankle. sometimes i amaze even myself!
and, since i haven't been able to be very mobile the past couple of days, there's really not a whole heck of a lot to update on.
rob and i have been playing a lot of 'soul calibur III' and 'sonic the hedghog ultimate collection' to pass the time and have fun. unfortunately, he had to go into work today so i've just been trying to clean up the apartment and stuff. i have finally gotten around to starting to organize stuff. all of the kitchen cleaners and laundry stuff and cat food/accessories have now been organized and put away. if only i could find the space for everything else now!
speaking of limited space, tho, rob and i are going to head to the container store this evening to look at storage and organizing solutions. i like our townhome and everything, there's just not a lot of storage space, and the space we do have gets filled up pretty quickly. you would never know it looking in my office area, but i am a total geek for organizational/storage products! the world of plastic totes and desk drawers, cork boards and mail centers, sweater bins, shoe racks and multi-compartment containers excite me to no end. i'm always watching that show on TLC, "Clean Sweep", with my little australian who goes through, throws out, and organizes all the clutter in peoples lives! man i love that show!
ok, confession time over.
tomorrow i'm going to the wonderful town of greenville to spend time with my mommy. i've gotta go pick up my christmas money that my father dropped off, and then my mom and i are going to go shopping and hang out and stuff. i'm gonna take my new camera with me and break it in a bit. just shoot a couple of standard color rolls since i can't go process any b&w til the spring semester starts and the photo lab opens back up.
i started drawing again, the other day. just got the urge outta nowhere and dug out my sketchpad. not a lot came from it...certainly nothing as good as my boobs drawing, but then again, i'm starting to think none of my drawings will ever be as good as that one. truly, my best work.
okie dokie, well i've gotta go check on my laundry and finish the dishes. later!

ricus fracus...

argh!...so blogger is fucking with me, and keeps garbling the post i've attempted to do twice now. so :P on it!
regardless, here's what i got for christmas from rob:

a thing of beauty...

that's all for now...more later, perhaps.

later!

save the mcrib!!!...

...please!!!

please?

ok, later!

fag movie of the month...

so every month or so i rent what rob and i lovingly refer to as a "fag movie". and really, it's just that. some movie with fags of either sex being the main or supporting role in, what is usually, but not always, an indie film.
the other nite, when we rented sky high, we also rented a movie called "cowboys and angels". it's a movie by david gleeson, starring two extremely hot irish guys, one of which is gay and the other straight.
i just got done watching it, and i must say that it was definitely one of my favorite fag movies this year. it's a really good artsy fartsyfilm that has a good message and a really good, not overpowering, soundtrack.
that's all for now. later!

quick movie plug...

so we rented the disney movie Sky High the other day, and i must admit to really liking it. suprisingly, rob, too, thought it was really cute. i thought they did a good job making it feel comic-ish without going too over the top, as well as adding in references for adults while still keeping it a kids movie. anyway...just thought i'd share. later!

oh yeah, serenity is out on dvd today!

later!

yawn...

ok, so i just noticed that if you go too far back in my posts, the layout changes and gets all screwy. i really should take the time to fix it, especially given the topic that i'm about to post on, but i really just don't want to. perhaps at some point i might, but i dunno. we shall see.
with that said, on to my real post...

i'm bored.
i realized today that for the next three weeks i have nothing that's required of me to do. i don't have school, i dont' have a job, i don't have kids to watch after...nothing! school doesn't start until the 17th of january. i am supposed to start working for the school's photo lab next semester, but i have no idea when that will actually go into effect, other than not til after january 3rd. it's kind of an odd feeling really.
so what am i to do with myself over the next couple of weeks? i still need to finish unpacking, that's a must, but what else should i do to keep myself entertained? i've been wanting to get into, don't laugh, scrap-booking, but i really don't think that right now is the best time to start a labor intensive project that i will just have to push to the back-burner once school starts up again. no, i want something that i can pick up and put down with ease, and that doesn't demand and/or require time constraints.
i'm all excited because i'm taking a raquetball class next semester, but it's really making me want to start now. so i want something of that sort...not necesarily a sport, but something that i can learn or do or whatever, when i want to, and that can hold my interest for short and long periods of time.
i could always go take pictures, but if i do black and white i won't be able to process the film til the beginning of the semester, and that's no fun. on the other hand, if i do color, then i not only have to pay for the film, but i also have to pay for the processing and prints, and without a job, i don't really feel right paying for that stuff.
there's always video games, but there hasn't been much out there that can hold my attention for very long. PGR2, of course, but there's only so much racing one can do in a day. i never did finish playing through Rygar...it was fun, but it really seemed to get a bit monotonous even just in the few hours i put into it. Soul Calibur II always calls to me, but has the same problem as PGR2...there's only so much ass-whooping a girl can do in a day. i could always install half-life on my comp and stop putting off playing through blue-shift. then again, it's more fun to give rob shit about his game when i still have never played it.
so i dunno. i'm sure i will figure something out, however any suggestions are welcome.
i have to go buy one last gift for rob today. i know i said i was done, but then i found something that i know he would never buy for himself, and that i really want him to have, so he'll just have to deal with it. :) i've been good though, and even with this purchase, i have stayed way under my budget that i set for myself this year. trust me...that's a big feat for me. :)
alrighty, well it's lunch time. later!

short and sweet...

check this out...

kind of interesting.

nite!

i only *thought* we were going to hang stockings...

ok, so i'd forgotten that last nite was the christmas party for gearbox. i'm not really much of one for industry parties, or company parties, or really, parties at all for that matter. anyway, i figured that rob should at least make an appearance there since he does have to see some of those people five days a week. so we went, and it was...well, everything we basically expected it to be. luckily we got to sit with sean and jen (and jen's daughter) so that at least made the evening tolerable. sean took it upon himself to get drunk...which took exactly 1 long island iced tea (who am i kidding, i would've been gone at that point too) so that was at least entertaining.
the food was "eh, ok", and the whole present process was extremely painful...rob ended up with a few box sets of cartoons on dvd...the only of which was worth anything was ren and stimpy. anyway...we left early, so i'm sure we looked like dicks, but really...who cares? not us.

in other news, rob and i went and saw Narnia today. it was decent. not great, but not completely lame either. the whole outting really reinforced why we never want to have kids...so that was good. :)

so i think i'm going to go pour a glass of eggnog and then take a bath and chill out for the rest of the nite. we bought the movie American Splendor the other day, so i may make rob watch that, or we still have last week's smackdown! to watch so who knows. or maybe we'll get crazy and watch both! *gasp* hehe, alrighty, well later!

final final, and a christmas story...

so i had my last final today at school. it was the dreaded math final. bleh. i was holding an 83 in the class fairly firmly, but i don't know what this test will do to that grade. hopefully i did ok tho, and it will either stay at a low B or even maybe go up a little. -shrug- i really don't care as long as i pass the course. that's really all that matters. :)

in other news, booger has seemingly calmed down a bit. i think her heat has relinquished, at least for the time being. she is currently lieing behind me, squished between the chair and my back.

also, i have finished my christmas shopping for rob! yay! his presents are wrapped, finally, and waiting to be put under the tree...that is, once i've finished cleaning the cat puke off the tree stand wrap. all that's left to do now is remove the prices from his stocking stuffers and figure out some way of keeping the stocking hanging without weighing it down too much. we have a rule when it comes to stockings for each other. stockings are solely for entertainment and, aside from usually one serious gift, must be filled only with silly, gag-gift like items. ya know, the small little dollar store gifts that make you think of the other person, no matter how silly it is. and then we add candy for a bit of sweetness and bottom filler...of the stocking i mean...tho, it probably fills that bottom too.
last year was the first year rob and i really celebrated christmas together. i suprised him, not only with an xbox, but also with a stocking full of silly things, the most memorable of which was a small stuffed frog with a lazy eye. he was lovingly named ferdinand, and he still sleeps beside or in the bed every nite...however, usually with me, as rob is not much for stuffed animals. so this year will be the first for both of us to have stockings. rob got me a lovely green stocking at target, and we pulled his out of the box, and i think we shall be hanging them tonite!

ok, well enough of that holiday hooplah. i have to go pick up my last check from earthbound, but first, dr. phil! later!

they grow up so fast...

so our youngest kitty has recently gone into heat. this means sleepless nites of her meowing at the bottom of the stairs non-stop for hours on end, and walking around coo-ing like a dove for no apparent reason. macaroni finally had enough of her sticking her rump in her face, yesterday, and decided to put her in her place. it was the first time i've ever had to yell at mac for being mean.
so while all of this is amusing and annoying all at the same time, it's also makes me a bit nostalgic.
frequent commentor, dread pirate, gave booger to rob and me when she was just a kitten. she was a small little furball with no sense of balance or fear for that matter. (btw, those two combined make for some hilarious moments). however, the last time she went to the vet, we took macaroni as well, and found out that they weigh exactly the same amount. fine and dandy right? wrong...mac is 8 years old and fully grown, whereas booger is 6 months old and still has quite a bit of growing to do. she's no longer a cute little curious and mischeivious lap furball. nope, she's now she's a kitty on the verge of adulthood who's body is growing fast than she knows what to do with it, and who finds herself in odd predicaments when not being able to fit into tight places which not but two or three weeks ago she could still fit. her energy hasn't lessened at all, however now she's gained the balance and knowledge of how to use that energy and new-found strength to get into things that, both rob and i really wish she wouldn't. she's become insanely smart, learning how to properly open cabinet doors (by standing up and pulling them open with her paws as she walks backwards holding on to them), and yet we still get great amusement out of her bafflement when it comes to mirrors.
she's in that awkward little in-between stage of growing where she's no longer still a kitten, but isn't quite an adult yet either. and the only words of comfort i have for her, as she sits here between my arms as i type, are:
don't worry little one, after new years you can say bye bye to those mean old ovaries.

hey look! i didn't die!...

yay! i'm back from indy! actually, we got back monday nite...i've just been too lazy to post about it :)
anyway, the trip was really great. i got to meet all of rob's family, and spend time with them, and eat a lot of really good food (his mom is an awesome cook!) and watch some really bad t.v. and see real snow! that pretty much sums up our entire stay there really.
nothing too spectacular happened. well, that is, after we got there. it was getting there that has a story of it's own.
we were supposed to be taking off from DFW airport at 5:10p.m. on friday. so rob and i get to the airport about an hour ahead of time, check in, go through security, etc etc... so we get to our terminal and find some seats to just chill out til the plane arrives and stuff. so time goes by and we're noticing that there isn't a plane at the gate, and it's about 30 minutes or so before take off. so we check the monitors and they say that our flight is still "on time" so we return to our seats. about 20 minutes or so before take-off, the intercom comes on and informs us that our plane is still in memphis! so they were going to "try and find us another plane" which makes absolutely no sense. anyway, to cut an entirely too long story short, they moved us to another gate for holding, and at one point decided not to give us any updates what-so-ever for about an hour and a half, and then, four and a half hours after our original departure time our plane arrives from memphis (the poor people on that flight had to stay on the plane for 45 minutes because the gate was over-booked with other planes boarding), and we finally got to depart at about 9p.m. or so.
luckily, the trip back was less than uneventful.
anyway, i've got some pictures that i will be posting at some point. i was actually brave and sat by the window on the plane so i have some pictures from the air that are pretty neat.
anyway. i've gotta go grab some grub and then back to finishing up some math homework so i don't fail my course. later!

we think it's something i ate...

i am so sick of not being able to depend on people. i'm sick of people who call others friends, and then turn their backs on them.
rob found out today that someone he called a friend for the past six or seven years was in town recently and actually called one of their mutual friends to go hang out, but yet, we never heard from him. normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but this particular person works for the same company john works for, and look at what wonders that company and the fucktard behind it did for our friendship! it makes me livid to think of what tools these people have become to the money and the man they work for. in a matter of a year this asshole came into peoples lives and tore apart friendships, relationships - personal and professional, all that had lasted years before he showed up. then again, on the other side of the fence, one could argue that these people were never really committed to those relationships if they were so willing to let one man with a lot of money, rip them apart.
then there's the whole tiffani ordeal. someone whom i trusted, respected and cared for. someone who i thought was above playing high school games. i wrote her an email the other day explaining my position on the whole thing. needless to say, i haven't heard back from her.
i look back at my life and it's filled with these people. it makes me really appreciate the one person in my life that i know i can count on. luckily, he feels the same about me. he told me earlier that if these people were dumb enough to let someone else ruin their relationships, then fuck'em, because we don't need people like that in our lives. and he's right. we don't.
so from now on, if you're a part of my life it's because you want to be. it's because you're not a shallow, hypocritical pussy who turns their backs on someone for money. it's because you're willing to stick up for the ones you care about, and are willing to let me do the same.
with that said, i'm going back to bed. i spent last night power-vomitting, and haven't felt real great today either. yay for getting sick right before going out of town! hopefully, it'll pass by tomorrow. we think it was the chipotle we had for dinner last nite. sometimes it's the yummy things that get ya...

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booger typed my subject title...
ok ok...so "tomorrow" turned into three days later...but gimmie a break, i'm a busy grrl!
well rob and i haven't gone to get our pictures with santa done yet. we decided that the first weekend malls had santa was probably not the best time to go. so we're probably going to try to go either tomorrow or thursday.
tomorrow both of the kitties have vet appointments. booger has to get the rest of her shots, and macaroni has something of an eye infection going on, which i really don't want booger to get too. booger has gotten so big! she's already bigger than macaroni (who is small because of deformities, but is still full grown) and she's at the point now where her body is still growing but her head seems to have stopped, at least for the time being. she's definitely a character tho. we've had to start keeping all of the toilet lids down because otherwise you'd walk in and find her with her two front paws and her head down in the bowl drinking the water....eeewww. so now she just sits on the side of the shower while you're in it, and then once you get out, she jumps right in to drink any water that might still be in the bottom of the tub. she's definitely appropriately named. (on a side note, she's currently purring so loud and hard that her ears are visibly vibrating)
so saturday nite rob and i turned on some christmas music, roasted chestnuts in the oven, and put up our new christmas tree. we had gone to the dollar store and bought some cute little ornaments that we hung on it, and it looks really cute! the chestnuts, however, were definitely an...er...experience to say the least. i've had them in the past, and really liked them, but it's been a couple of years since then, and well...let's just say this time around was a bit different. i think we decided that they had gotten overcooked, but i dunno...we still have a bag of them left, so we may try again in a week or so. ya know, after i've regained the courage to try again. :)
ok, so apparently it's really freaking cold in indiana right now. in the words of carlito: that's not cool. i'm thinkin i need to stock up on the thermal underwear before heading up there. i did buy some gloves, however. and real ones too...not just those little cotton "gloves".
well i have a ton of crap to get done today. i have to do laundry and finish putting all of it up. i absolutely have to get up to the photo lab today and finish flattening and matting all of my prints, since they're due tomorrow! i need to go to the store and buy some paper towels and an orange or two because tonite i have to make cookies for class tomorrow and for people at rob's office because, well, i'm nice like that. i'm making these chocolate orange cookies...they just sounded good. they call for white chocolate, but i don't like white chocolate, so i'm just making normal chocolate ones. yum! i also have to do some math homework online so i can get all of it done before leaving on friday. ok, well rather than sitting here talking about it, i guess i should get started on it. have a good one everyone! later!

infinite ramblings...

i always start these things off with so much to post about, but by half way through them i lose the energy and/or interest in really seeing them through. with that said, i give you another half-assed post!

so let's see here. thursday i registered for classes for the spring 2006 semester at quad-c. i'll be taking 10 hours which include the following classes:
Photography II - with my wonderful prof. that i'm taking now
English 1302 - meh, i need to get back into writing, and figure this is the easiest way to do so
History 1302 - with the prof. that is freaking awesome (see: easy class)
and last but not least
Beginning Raquetball - because i need a phys.ed. class
so i'm really going to try and concentrate on school and really just look for a part time job with somewhere between 20 and 30 hours a week, but absolutely no more than 30. i just don't want to be a career student.

in other news
rob and i are going to go get our pictures taken with santa tomorrow! i figure it's a funny, thoughtful, and inexpensive gift for his and my mommy for christmas. don't get me wrong, it's not the only thing i'm getting them, but i just thought it was funny. plus, last year his mom and sister bought him this lamp that was made from the foot/ankle part of a deer...and yes, it was real! so...i think she'll at least appreciate the humor in it if nothing else. and my mom will laugh and be glad that she finally has a picture of us together.

speaking of his family, we're flying up to indiana next friday. i'm so nervous. i hate flying, and i don't like the whole having to meet his family and stuff, but at the same time i'm really excited because i've never been to indiana, and i do want to meet his family, i just don't want to go through that whole "getting to know you" process. -shrug- it'll be fine i'm sure...at least that's what he keeps telling me. we'll see. the way i look at it is, it can't be any worse than my ex's family...they were sweet, don't get me wrong, but completely insane (i know, and my family's not? yeah.), and i never really felt like i was really accepted for who i am. rob assures me that his mom and family are nothing like that, and will love me because he loves me. yay! :D

i got the rest of my supplies today for my photography final project, which is good because i've got to get my prof. to show me how to do the dry mounting matting process on monday. i've also gotta remember to take to c.d.'s to her and get my other two that she already has back from her. turns out we like a lot of the same music and bands, but she hasn't heard some newer stuff (like r.e.m., and the shins, etc...) so i've been loaning her c.d.'s to check 'em out.

oh yeah! shit, i've gotta go find a recipe or whatever for oven roasting chesnuts. we went to whole foods tonite and bought 3lbs. of chestnuts because i've been craving them, but i have no idea how to prepare them. hmm...i'm on a mission...
i'm sure there'll be more tomorrow...later!