lumy12

Last mountain trip of the year this 3-day weekend, and you know what’s annoying? It’s supposed to cool off down here (below 100!) just as I’m leaving -- and they predict RAIN. I never quite believe it when they say it will rain, because most of the time it either skips my part of town or it just "spits." I hope it does rain while I’m away, so my plants won’t be so thirsty in my absence, but it sure as heck better rain up in the mountains too. And there it should be COLD as well, yay! Then next week, the day after I come back, it’s supposed to dry out and get back into the 100s again. No fair. *whine*

Another “last”… I just read in the paper this morning that Big Surf is closing for good on Monday. They close every summer on Labor Day, but this time the owners didn’t renew for next year because they’re focusing on newer, better water parks (and apparently no one is interested in buying it). Gee, how familiar – same reason my movie theatre closed earlier this year. I really wish companies would expend the effort to remodel these places instead of just bailing, but obviously that’s not financially feasible or they’d be doing it. I can’t say I’m upset about this closure (I only worked there two summers – actually, one and a half, because I had to quit after I broke my wrist – and I never went back to visit), it just saddens me a little and reminds me I’m old. And, much as I love Starbucks, it saddens me that they drove two of my old favorite coffeeshops out of business. I feel a little guilty for liking Starbucks >.>

Now for some more cheery news: only 6 days until I see Dr. Hottie again! ♥ I sure hope it’s not for the last time. I’m doing well, but I think I can still do better and therefore I need to stay in therapy FOREVAHHHH. Speaking of therapy…not sure what’s up with Flirty Guy. He acted like a jealous bitch after Aaron came to a session with me last week. I don’t know if he believed that I didn’t plan it that way or what (Aaron showed up randomly!) but jeez, it’s not like Flirty Guy is my boyfriend! And I made it very clear to everyone that Aaron and I are just friends, anyway. That he in fact has a girlfriend. Sheesh.

( RP whining that I’m sure many of you will want to skip )

Blood donation day! I’ll update with my stats (for my own reference, really) later if they actually take me. ETA: Success!
Weight: 145ish
Pulse: 74
BP: 104 over 64
Temp: 98.6
Hemoglobin: 12.5, which is the minimum acceptable level. Must have been all the beef I ate last week!

Hey! If you live in America, you're entitled to a free taco, see? Isn't that cool? You don't even have to buy anything else or bring a coupon or anything. I'll have to get a volcano taco too, though, because those are my new favorite thing at Taco Bell.

I have no interest in the World Series this year :(

It's cold. I think I'm gonna have to put my blanket on my bed. Brrrrr.

Oh! And! I got into that RP, so you guys should all go apply: plutoix. It's panfandom. Looks fun so far, though I haven't actually started yet; I'm purposely waiting for one in-game day to pass.

Gordon Lightfoot tonight! (I know at least one of you knows who he is :P)

Happy Friday, y'all!

I’m in a rambly mood today. I’ll try to stick to each subject header for your skimming convenience.

( Cut for rambliness )

Ohhhhh I forgot one! Food. I've been craving Long John Silver's like whoa. I've had it three times in the last week. I need to stop, it's expensive to eat fast food all the time, not to mention fattening! I want it again now too >.> We have a new employee with the last name Plankey, and whenever I see her name, I think about their fish planks and chicken planks. Gah!

More mostly-pointless babbling.

( Cut because I got a bit long-winded )

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It took me forever to type this because I keep getting interrupted by this thing called work. People (well, three) are bitchy this morning, there must be something in the air. I can't decide whether I'm amused or annoyed by the "you guys took blah blah out of my check" bit - like I or "we" are out to get them. *snicker*

I'm going to shoot my phone. *lets everything go to voicemail*

Work has been interesting lately. So many changes happening at once.

I'm debating whether I should express interest in one of the positions that's opened up in HR due to someone being promoted. I didn't give it a second thought until J came and planted the bug in my ear (he's the one supervising that position, so if he wants me to apply... that's good). I really don't know if I'd like it more than my current job, though.

On the plus side, I wouldn't have to get up at 4:00am twice a month to finish payroll. But YAY daylight savings time is going to give me an extra hour cuz everyone else will be changing their clocks soon.

I don't know. I have a few days to debate it still. Maybe no one else will apply for it and they'll extend the deadline.

I'm starting to wonder if I spend too much time RPing. Note to self: It's only a game. It's only a game. It's only a game. Repeat as necessary.

Maybe I should follow in Becca's footsteps and *gasp!* give up a character. But who?

Yes, I'm tired this morning. And it's all sweet_panda's fault. But I love her anyway.

Okay, don't ask me why this stuff pops in my head while I'm getting ready for work in the morning rather than at night when we're actually all chatting. I guess that's why I'm a morning person? ( Cut for those who wish not to witness omg!ls debauchery. Or even if you DO care to witness, there is no debauchery contained herein, so move along )

/babble

Aaron's coming in for the weekend on Thursday - and he wants to go see Snakes on a Plane with me that night. Yay! I wasn't going to bother seeing it in the theatre but it'll be fun.

Oh yeah - I wanted to do a brief shout-out to havergal13 and meli_in_sac - 2 of my real-life friends who are getting MARRIED soon! Congratulations, guys! That's so awesome. [EDIT: oops, no, they're not getting married to each other. Heh. They don't even know each other, actually] I do want to go to both weddings; Meli's will be logistically difficult since she's far away but I'd love to go (could you NOT get married during payroll time? Sheesh! Hahaha)

No, I'm not a hypocrite - I can be happy for people getting married even though I don't believe in it for myself. And I thoroughly enjoy weddings now. I had a slight breakdown at the first wedding I attended after my own didn't happen... a whole 3 years later! I avoided weddings like the plague until then. But even at that one, my friend got this nice guy to pity-dance with me and cheer me up and it turned out alright. Awww.

ETA: Why is this icon so dark? It wasn't nearly this dark when I saved it from wherever I ganked it from. Grrrrr.

I need something silly today, methinks.

Ask me anything and I'll answer in character. This is for EVERYONE, not just players in these games. Don't be shy! And don't be afraid to be weird!

My characters (2 different games) are:
notfromajedi - OOC!Chancellor Palpatine
flowerytease - IC!Padme Amidala
depagonedarkish - OOC!Depa Billaba
max_mondragon - OC, Gryffindor first year

Just, you know, make sure I know which one you're asking. (notice I keep the top one and the bottom one separated. They're not allowed near each other in my brain either *snicker*)

I am a dork.

Would be on the omg!ls or RP filter if I had one but I don't so... yeah.

( Saddest Song Ever. )

Wow those lyrics fit pretty well. *cries* ETA: Heee! The angst didn't last nearly as long as predicted. The song totally doesn't fit at all now, really. But I still love it. /ETA


Maybe I have issues with boys - both my male characters are miserable right now (2 different games). Ha!

Where the heck is thefridayfive? Come on, people!

I'm feeling antsy because there's a possibility I might not get my checks today. Not a huge problem IF they can get them here tomorrow - which means coming in on the weekend but hey, I'm hourly, it's all good. ETA: Nope, no checks 'til Monday. FUCK! *takes deep calming breaths and puts on the slacker cap for the afternoon*

I just want to run around outside while waiting for FedEx. And I've only had one cup of coffee! That's all I needed - I slept for 10 blissful hours last night. God, I love sleep.

I'll either add the friday five questions to this post or, if it's waaaay later, I'll just spam your f-lists. Bwahahahaha! ETA: No spammity today. I don't think my answers will be very interesting so if you don't see 'em here, no big loss. ( The Friday Five is about feeling good )


Oh, and omg_lightsaber folks who are trapped with me in the Slowest Rescue Ever thread: I'm going to the ballgame so I won't be around tonight. Egads! My inner-D! is happy to still be stuck on Iego but... well, tying up 4 characters to do it is kinda mean.

Random observations:

1) Today is Wendy Day (at work; no, I didn't name it this, but I rather enjoy having two days a month devoted to me) - and it's also the Day of the Devil, 06/06/06. Coincidence? I think not!

2) I found my sketchbook! It was ON the scanner glass. Not on top of the scanner where I looked a trillion times. I found it when I was scanning in the weekend's Hayden sketch, done on plain white paper.

3) I'm going swimming at a friend's house after work today. That will interrupt my nap time liek woah. If you never see me on LJ again, assume that I've drowned.

4) Even when I have oodles of work to do, I slack. And yet everyone thinks I'm such a good worker. *guilt*

5) Megan, you were supposed to twitch and you didn't. *pout*

6) Was there life before Mountain Dew LiveWire?

7) raven_annabelle: Please beat me. max_mondragon is yelling at me that he wants to hang out with his homey ethantibble but I never get around to catching up on that game. *more guilt*

8) Apparently there's a guy on Big Love who looks like Hayden... but he's younger and hotter. Note to self: Check this out, even though you know there's no way he could possibly be hotter. Young is good, though. *secret pedophile tendencies* *okay, not so secret*

I want to clone myself. So much I want to do and so little time to do everything. No wonder I'm never bored!