Donor, Not a döner.

Accompl.sh AKA Trying to improve myself through a list of goals

Acrophobic Pixie — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:57:11 +0000

Thanks to a friend of mine I found out about Accompl.sh. It is a goal checklist app where you write out at least 10 goals (the prior minimum was 101, but they lowered it for ease of use) and try to complete them in 365 (or, in this year’s case, 366) days. I am currently writing up my goals. At this time I’m at about 40, but I hope that by the time I’m done writing, I’ll have close to 101, cause it seems like fun.

One of my goals so far is to update this blog at least once a month. I also have general goals to help better my life, such as making a budget that will actually work, try to get healthier, and organize myself better. So, maybe y’all would like to join me in this? Yes, it’s after Jan 1, but your year starts the day you lock in your goals list, and ends a year later, so it is a true year. (Goals: 45)

Your goals don’t need to be major changes in life, or unattainable. I mean, a friend of mine, one of her goals is to craft something. It doesn’t matter what it is, she just wants to make something with her hands. Of course, crafty me added it to my list, in addition to a couple of other craft related goals, like making a pair of socks. The site even gives you inspiration, by giving you a peek at what other people have put on their lists, challenges that users have submitted, etc. (Goals: 51)

So, now I’m going to stop typing for now. When I’ve finighed my 101 goals, I will type them here. (Goals: 60)

AcrophobicPixie’s Goals for 2012

Make a budget that is simple
Stick to said budget
Preplan any grocery shopping to stay within budget
Try to use coupons once, not switching brands to do so
Open a savings account
Try to have at least $700 in said savings account, unless an emergency prevents me from doing so
Pay all of my bills on time
Write at least twelve songs (Average of one a month)
Compete in at least four SongFights
Take above twelve songs (also four SF submissions if they are extra) and release it as an album of some sort
Have confidence in myself
Make plans with friends more often
Meet an online friend IRL
Show more appreciation to my family and friends
Be more social – Outside of the PC
Cut down on how addicted I am to my phone
Bring my camera and take pictures more often
Send Christmas/Yule cards
Keep my inbox caught up and orderly
Cook more, versus eating out
Be more active
Drop down to a healthier weight
Clear my closet of clothes that are the wrong size/ruined
Try to quit smoking (Or at least cut down by half)
Cut down on my soda intake to a maximum of three cans per day
Keep up on housework (At least 15 minutes every other day)
Get a new (to me) couch to replace my sectional
Buy proper bookshelves
Reorganize my books/magazines
Get a proper desk
Get a new computer
Get the information needed to plan going back to school
Go to at least one concert
Update my blog at least once a month
Update my website at least once this year
Organize my craft supplies
Make something crafty for my home. It can be useful, decorative, or whatever. But I have to craft it myself in some way or other.
Crochet/Knit an afghan
Crochet/Knit a pair of socks
Finish/Frog at least 50% of prior WIP’s
Stop being so nosey
Have a reason to wear heels at least once a month
Get a wonderful haircut
Start buying a more flattering wardrobe
Watch less TV
Have “Ladies Night” on Skype at least once every other month
Try new recipes
Get Cricket fixed (Poor thing)
Paint something (Picture, room, etc)
Organize the apps on my phone, and get rid of unneeded ones
Organize my pantry
Keep a list of my pantry’s contents
Get my own internet provider (versus mooching off of Mom)
Try to switch Cricket to a wet diet
If the above works, try to switch Cricket to a raw/semi-raw diet
Talk to my Gma at least once every other week
Be a better daughter
Be a better sister
Be a better girlfriend
Spend at least 30 minutes a day playing with Cricket
Try to do my local radio station’s “Word of the Day” sentence at least once a week
Stop apologizing for things I don’t/can’t control
Go to the doctor at least once (Outside of Workman’s Comp claims)
Go to the dentist at least once
Look into getting a better job than I currently have
Dress myself better (when outside of my work uniform)
Start the process to get my driver’s license again
Get some form of local identification
Try to cut down on my swearing
Try to be nicer to people in general
Keep up with my DNS friends on a regular basis
Pay my DNS dues on time (In other words, before the duesmaster starts yelling)
Spend at least two nights each PVP week active in the corp
Send at least 10 friends a note/txt/card for their birthday
Keep my alcohol consumption to within my “Rule” of roughly 5 times a year
Go on a walk at least once a week
Spend more quality time with my boyfriend without either of our families
Learn more about Autism Type PDD
Make Cricket’s “Baby Book”
Decorate one room in my home
Keep up on my favorite webcomics
Support at least one of my favorite webcomic artists at least once
Buy at least one album by a favorite artist, versus downloading it (Unless it’s pay to download)
Watch the news at least three times a week
If I start a project, set a deadline for it’s completion that is possible
Add any crochet/knit projects to my Ravelry account
Update Ravelry project with pictures both in progress (if possible) and finished
Cancel/Delete accounts on websites I no longer frequent
Check in on forums once a week
Do not lose my social life irl to social media (ie: Twitter, FB, forums)
Contact at least one friend a week to keep up with them
Participate in at least one Ravelympics event
Read at least 5 non fiction books
Get rid of books I only read once
Do -something- with my Warhammer figurines
Write a children’s book of Norse mythology (Or at least halfway through)
Set up a personal altar space
Either fix or set up a system to keep doors to rooms shut when needed
Do one thing each pay period for fun
Retest for my HAM license
Get a simple HAM setup

See? I did it! 101 goals for the next year. Told you I could. And if I could, you can too! Give it a go. It’s not like the world will end if you don’t complete them all. But at least you’ll have proof that you wanted to, and something to keep your mind on track.

So now, I’m going to leave you so I can get started. I think I’m going to tackle the budget goals, first. Sounds like a good plan, right? Right. So, until next time, have fun, enjoy your lives, and I’ll be seeing you shortly!

It gets better

Acrophobic Pixie — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:20:43 +0000

I know I don’t blog as much as I say I would, and I’m sorry. But this is important.
If you haven’t heard of the “It Gets Better” project, please look into it. It is a wonderful movement to help teens realize that life will get better. It’s geared towards LGBT teens, but this blog is geared towards vampires & swans, so that is where I’m dedicating it to. I know, I know… It should be a video, but I get highly emotional at a drop of a hat, and with my thick accent, adding tears would make me that much more unintelligible. Hence the written word.
Many of you know me as the bubbly, outspoken Acrophobic Pixie. If you really knew me, especially when I was a teenager, you would be shocked. Gods, I’m so damned quiet, shy, and introverted, it’s ridiculous. I almost missed out on meeting the love of my life due to it.
In high school, I was the shy loner kid who didn’t fit in anywhere. I was in marching band, but I didn’t have any real friends there. I was on the academic teams, even medalling at state Academic Decathalon, but I didn’t feel close to anyone there. I wasn’t freaky enough for the Goth crowd, etc. I grew up in a smallish town in the middle of nowhere Indiana. If you went to the wrong church, you were shunned. So, try to imagine being pagan, with your closest friend being a vampire. To top that off, add normal things girls get bullied over. I was over weight, didn’t have the latest fashions, etc. My parents divorced when I was 6, and then had a fairly nasty custody battle when I was 10. I was physically ripped from my mother’s arms because a family member didn’t want to acknowledge that she existed.
My life has not always been pretty. I know it’s hard to believe, but I have made stupid choices in my life. I have contemplated suicide. Several times. I KNOW how it feels to think that it can never get better, that the pain will stop. It will get better. Trust me.
I have gone through a lot in my life. I have been through what, to me, was hell on earth. I have survived through a dysfunctional family and home life as a child. I have survived an abusive relationship. I have survived being evicted, homeless, needing the help from total strangers to live. I have survived being the butt of bully’s jokes, being mentally and physically abused by people and feeling like you can’t do anything right.
But, like Dan Savage and his husband, Terry, said, it gets better.
I’m not nearly as extroverted as I wish I could be, but I now have many friends, from all over the world. I have met the love of my life, and we have been discussing marriage. I have a steady job, where it doesn’t matter who you are, or where you’re from. My life is a hell of a lot better than I ever thought when I was a teenager. God, if I could go back in time and talk to myself, I would. I would hug younger Pixie, and tell her how awesome we become. We have people who love us, who respect our opinions. We have started a support network for members of the vampire community that had, heretofore been fairly ignored. I’ve had a hard life, but it’s gotten so so so much better. I just hope that you, whoever you are, you can try to believe me. I don’t know you, might never know you, but you’re awesome. You’re special, and nothing anyone says or does can ever change that. You deserve to be whoever you want to be.
Whoever you are, I love you. And you totally deserve it. Never ever let anyone tell you you don’t. I. Love. You. That’s it. Finito. The end. And I’m totally tearing up atm. I’m going to go cuddle with Cricket, mah baby demon kitteh.

Soooo…. stuffs

Acrophobic Pixie — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:56:55 +0000

Things have been… okay… in Pixie Land. I mean, I’m alive, I have a job, a roof over my head, et al. I’m still with the same boyo that I’ve been with for *gasp* 7 months. Things are doing fairly well.

But, due to me needing things like money, etc, I’ve been working a lot of overtime and the like. And, because of this, I’ve been insanely busy. Only thing I’ve been able to do online, really, is checking my im’s and doing my radio show. I’ve not even been able to play my video games as much as I’ve wanted to. Which makes me sad. But obviously, if I barely have the time to do that, I can’t really be fucked to keep my finger on the pulse of the community like I probably should.

Only thing I’ve been doing, community wise, really, is hanging out with a couple of the guys from the local house. Yeah, I know. Didn’t know there was a house here. But the guys are sweet, and fun to hang with. My lil brother even opened up to them, and a couple of months back, gave the whole house valentines. It was adorable. We’re trying to plan a movie night so we can all hang out and not necessarily talk community business. I’m thinking crappy vamp movies. Hehehe.

I’m working myself back up to being as active as I used to be. It’s just going to be hard, cause, well… No offense to the young bits out there, but I kind of got used to kidlets going “But Pixie… How do I do [insert random thing here]” It’s been so quiet, it’s lovely

So, it’s latish, and I need to take a nap and get ready for work. I’ll update as I can.

GRAH!!! Personal Rantage

Acrophobic Pixie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:31:34 +0000

First off, the following rant is solely the opinion of me, personally. It is not the opinion of any association I’m a member/representative of.

Rant: Start -

I hate stupid people.

Seriously.

First off, I’m sure most of you know who Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey is. That idiotic twit who claims that he’s a direct descendant of Vlad Dracul. Really. And he’s apparently now a member of the Republican party, oath and all, and is running for the presidency in 2012. Yeah, like he’s actually going to make it.

Here’s why I can’t stand the guy. He’s 45 years old, and has publicly announced (in a news interview, no less) that he hasn’t dated a girl over the age of 19 in several years. And yet, in his “proclamations” of what he’s going to set into motion when he becomes president, he will impale and torture pedophiles. He just last week supposedly married his latest 19 year old girlfriend. With in a couple of weeks after he was told to desist in contact with his last teenage girlfriend. I feel pity for that poor girl. She’s a victim of his brain washing and I hope she wisens up quickly. She deserves better, and needs time to adjust to not being a kid anymore before shacking up with a guy nearly DOUBLE her age!

But, I digress. I have nothing against the poor girl, other than her choice in men.

My problem is with Sharkey. He was invited to be “interviewed” by the masses via #sangspace on DalNet a week or so ago. It was honestly the WORST waste of my time I’ve ever seen. Sharkey didn’t even show up himself, his wife showed up, and typed his “responses” after cleaning them up so there wouldn’t be massive flaming. When people asked serious questions, he ducked and dodged actually giving an answer, after stalling for about 5-10 mins before even starting to type to waste time. He basically said that everyone in the vampire community, save for him, his wife, and a few special few, are all fakes. Nice.

Supposedly he’s going to be on Larry King tonight after the Chelsey Handler segment, along with Don Henrie, the twit Vampyra, and Seregon O’Dassey.

Prominent vampyre elders from the four largest
havens in the U.S.” are appearing on Larry King tonight (after Chelsea Handler’s
segment) on CNN at 9 PM ET to discuss the “alarming phenomenon of real vampyres
‘coming out of the coffin’ in America”. “How will this affect you and your tax
dollars, are your kids safe, and should vampires be counted in the census? All
these questions and more as we take your phone calls tonight on Larry King
Live

Yeah. They are the 4 leading members of the community. Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahaha. *wipes a tear from her eye from laughing so hard* Oh, I needed a good April Fools day joke. Thank you, Larry.

No offense, but no one, really, in the community takes any of these four people seriously. I mean, yeah, Don used to be the poster child, thanks to Mad Mad House, but honestly? Not any more. Seregon is an idiot model/b actress who’s trying to improve her career by claiming to be a vamp, Vampyra just worries me, and well, you’ve heard my rant. What I want to know is when did these four become “trusted leaders” of the community. I mean, if you ask most people involved in the ovc, they’ll typically say “Go check the roster for the VVC (Voices of the Vampire Community) for community leaders”. I mean, they let my happy ass in the group. And I’m not a non-scandelous donor. I’m known for having views and opinions that aren’t considered “The Norm” for a donor. Oh well. But I still have an actual brain and know how to use it.

*sighs*

I’m just frustrated. First, I’ve been having tons of icky shit happen in my real life, and now this idiocy. Lovely. Just what I needed. I’m going to go curl up in my bf’s lap and just try to relax.

Holiday insanity

Acrophobic Pixie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:37:09 +0000

So, yeah. Most of December there were no posts by me. Oh well. There’s this thing called the holidays. It kind of took over my life, but not in the way you expected.

Remember how I said that I was going to be laid off for 6 weeks? Yeah… Didn’t happen. And I had that second job lined up, so for a good chunk of this month I’ve been going insane working two jobs, getting very little sleep, etc. That, and I’ve had a few personal health issues. *shrugs* What’s a girl to do? I mean, I’ve barely had time to spend with family or the boyfriend. It sucks.

So, anyways, I’m keeping this post brief.

I just want to wish all of you a happy holiday season, and that y’all have a good holiday (whatever you celebrate) and a Happy New Year.

Yeah, I know it’s late, but here it is

Acrophobic Pixie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:29:09 +0000

The notice is late due to things that have happened in some of our real lives.

November 2009 Global Vampire Community Discussion
Hosted By Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)

Global Vampire Community Discussion on Sunday, November 29, 2009 @ 7:00 PM Eastern US/ET (11:00 PM GMT). If you need assistance with time conversions refer to: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc The discussion will be held in the IRC channel #vampirevoices on Dalnet.

Topic: The Spiritual Side Of Vampirism

If you have the ability to install or use an IRC client (a program used to connect to an IRC server) to access the discussion, please do so. If you don’t have an irc client already installed on your machine, two popular clients are mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/) and xchat (http://www.xchat.org/ or http://www.silverex.org/news/).

If you do not have the ability to access IRC another way, you can access the discussion by going to http://tiny.cc/vampirevoices and entering your desired Username, then clicking “Connect”. Please be aware that Dalnet limits the number of people who can connect via the browser-based chat, so if you have another option for connecting, we strongly encourage you to not use the browser-based system.

For anyone who has an IRC Client, use irc.dal.net or another dalnet server (http://www.dal.net/servers/) and join #vampirevoices

Please help spread the word to all those you know in the vampire community. The channel (#vampirevoices) is always open so feel free to drop by anytime you wish. We hope to see everyone there!

- Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)
http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/vvc.html

So yeah…

Acrophobic Pixie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:27:53 +0000

I am a very boring person. I’m still surprised that so many people read this thing every week.

So, things that have happened in the past week. Well… Hrmm.

Not much, really. My main job can’t make up it’s mind on if we’re getting laid off or not. Luckily I do have my other job back, so I’m not going to lose too much money either way. And if my main job decides to not lay us off, that’s extra money for bills and stuff… Maybe even let me buy xmas presents instead of making them.

I’m also starting as an internet DJ for www.eve-radio.com. Thursday nights from 22:00-00:00 GMT. DJ SilverPixie. Now, for all of you who are unaware, this is NOT a vampire radio station. It’s for a video game called Eve Online. So no swarming the IRC chat and turning it into vampspeak. Play nice. These people have no knowledge of my involvement in the vamp community, and I’d like to keep it that way. But tune in anyways. You might like the tunes.

Other than that, not much has been happening in my life. Just been hanging around my house and the like, hanging out with the boyo, etc.

OH! There is possibly a Global Discussion next weekend for the VVC. When the official release is made up, it will be posted here, as usual. I’ll see you there.

Shite…

Acrophobic Pixie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:58:23 +0000

Mkay. Yeah, this post is titled Shite. Deal with it. Been cranky lately.

Mom is sick, Jadey (my vamp for those of you in the dark) is sick, the boyo is feeling wonky (but I don’t think he’s sick. Just wonky), and I’m CRANKY!!

Why am I cranky? Apparently I was the only one to see the debacle last night involving the Haven site and forums. What debacle, you say? Oh.. It just decided to go missing for about an hour.

Here’s why. My bank is awesome, and they give me money towards free gas. To show that it’s all spiffy, they sent me a new debit card, thus invalidating my old debit card. And the money for the website hosting was due TODAY. So, of course, with me being a bit of a dumb blonde, I forgot to update my card info in Paypal until last night. So I go in, and it should be an easy thing, right? Change the info before it should be tapped, and evade the site being down for non-payment. Whee. Nope. I change my card, and the page refreshes…

To a message saying that I cancelled my hosting subscription. At first I misread it, thinking that they sent the payment through a day early. Nope. Checked my email. Had an email from both Paypal and the hoster saying that the subscription was cancelled. Which resulted in me going “Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..” very loudly. I checked the website, just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Got a 403 error for the forums, and a 404 for the website. Which led to me hyperventilating a little.

Luckily, I was able to get it to resubmit the subscription (PHEW!!!) but it took about an hour for the site to come back online. Oddly, the forum came up before the site proper. I was able to check the forum before I left for work, but I had to text Zilchy and ask him to see if the website was back up.

So, yay, things are working again.

Now, if I could just get people’s immune systems to get back where they are supposed to be…

Duct tape, vaccums, and birthday cake

Acrophobic Pixie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:50:01 +0000

Lookit! It’s not even been a full week and I’m updating! Going to hurt my computer because my left Ctrl key is busted, so I can’t copy and paste easily. But never fear!

Okay, so Friday was the Haven’s birthday. Unfortunately, my parents “kidnapped” me and forced me to go with them to Cracker Barrel for dinner. Oh, the forcing that they had to do to get me to go have fried apple goodness. So, since I work graveyards, and Mom came up to my place just as I was settling down to sleep, I got no sleep at all that day, so as soon as I got home, I passed out. I wouldn’t have had room for cake, anyways.

So, the Haven had a belated birthday party. After I spent most of the day cleaning, rearranging furniture, etc. My coffee table is now in a proper place in front of my couch. It has my monitor, the front and center speakers, the knitting machine of awesomeness, and my ash tray. (Yes, Pixie smokes. Get over it.) But I have end tables! And my tower is on the one to my left, and books and CDs are on the one to my right. And random stuff is inside them. The boyo is out of town with friends until this evening, so I cleaned my booty off in between books.

Now, for the party details! I was just chatting with a couple of friends on Skype, so it wasn’t too interesting, but there was cake, I played the happy hardcore Happy Birthday song, blew out candles, etc. Wanna see?

Sure you do.

Okay, picture one is the cake itself, with it’s black birthday candles. Yes, one is striped and the other has white polkadots, but you try to find black birthday candles at a grocery store a week after Halloween is over with. And no, there’s no cool New Age shop nearby where they sell those year round, like back when I lived in Indiana.

Picture number two! Yup, I blew out the candles. You can see the polka dotted candle mid blowout. Looks spiffy. And like I need to tell you.. I’m not going to spill what the wish was. And yes, that’s my pc with twenty gagilion cables coming out of it’s back, my joystick, and a “rescued” milk crate.

Picture number three! Like I’m going to let good cake go to waste? I mean, I don’t really like chocolate icing. Okay, I hate the stuff. But the cake was cheap, and it’d be bad luck or something to scrape the icing off. So, here it is, partially nommed.

Picture number the last. Poor poor cake is now all nommed and happy in my tummy. All that’s left are crumbs, candles, and a bit of reallllllllllllllly icky chocolate icing stuck to the fork that I just can’t force myself to eat. I mean… Ewwwie.

So, that’s that! Until next year’s party, when there is going to be THREE candles in it. Makes you want to go ooOOOOOoooo, dunnit? You guys go have fun. I’m going to grab me a book and read until the boyo gets home. See you next week!

I know, I know

Acrophobic Pixie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:21:11 +0000

I know, I know. I said that I’d be updating at the minimum every Sunday. Blame Comcast. Every year they raised the price on the tv services, but if we got rid of the expensive movie channels (that we never watched) you think we’d save money, right? Wrong. It would un-bundle us or something, so we’d end up spending more money. *sigh* So, the parental types who are paying for this whole shebang said “Fuck that shit.” and cancelled the tv service, keeping just the internet and phone. Apparently, we can get what we want, tv wise, for much cheaper at Direct TV. The upside? I now have satellite tv in my appartment. The downside? Comcast is being bitchy that they lost a partial customer, and is therefore making my internet connection a bitch and a half to handle. This is the first time in 2 weeks that I’ve been able to get past the damned log in screen for WordPress.

Anyways, things that have happened..

Not much, really. I mean, just been working, trying to save money up for when my plant closes for a month and a half. Luckily, I got a call on Monday from my old job I had last winter (when I was working 2), saying that they would have room for me during the holiday season, and when can I work. Yay, for employment! And! I can still file for partial unemployment, since I’m being laid off from a 40+ hour a week job at a much higher rate of pay, and going to a just above minimum wage part time job. Whoo. I’ll have rent moneys!!!

Oh, and Friday is the 2nd birthday for www.blackswanhaven.org . No, it’s not when it was uploaded or became viewable to the public, but it’s when I bought the hosting and the domain name. So, you know I’m going out and buying a cupcake (or maybe a half cake) and putting 2 candles in it for the site. Whee!

The boyo and I are doing wonderfully. Been hanging out quite a bit, to the point where we’re going “Okay, I need a little Me Time.” That, and I’m getting behind on my housework. *looks at the pile of laundry waiting to be sorted* Yeah, I should get to that soon.

Another good thing is that my stepdad finally got the crap-top fixed. What does that mean, exactly? Well, okay, it’s not fully fixed, since the built in keyboard is shot, so I have to use my usb keyboard, but there is a functional OS on it (Cynsanity must have possessed my stepfather, since Puppy Linux is installed), and all the programs that it comes with. Which means I can find where I stashed my thumb drives with all the website information on it, and actually get down to updating the site. Yeah, I know, I have a high powered pc in my apartment that is fully capable of writing HTML and CSS. But here’s the thing you need to understand. My mother taught me everything I needed to know about website design and coding. She is not upstairs with my super pc. She is downstairs. So, since the crap-top is portable, I can be sitting on her couch, watching tv or eating dinner, and go “Mom, how do I make it do this?” and she’ll show me. Which is somewhat difficult to do over the phone, especially when you can’t think of the right words to describe what you want the damned thing to do.

So, since I’m going to have more time on my hands, hopefully there will be major updates (content wise, at least) to the main site. I doubt I’m going to change the layout much, though I might tweak the settings a bit. I don’t know about you guys, but in Opera on my regular computer, a weird gray border is on the left and right sides outside of the content. It irks me. And no, I’m not going to use Firefox or the like. I’ll test the site in it (since that is apparently the default browser for Linux), but otherwise I can’t stand the fucking thing. Same goes for IE. And yeah, I have Google Chrome installed on this pc, but I never use it. It looks funny. Especially since I’ve been using Opera since version 1.something. And it’s now on 10.1. You get used to certain features, like the ease of blowing up a page. I’m getting older, and my eyes hate me, so most websites I have set to 120% or higher. Especially the ones geared towards the vampire community, since light sensitivity abounds, so they are normally dark backgrounds with somewhat dark or freakishly bright text. Gah.

My vampire is fairly fine. She’s had houseguest type people for the past couple of weeks, so she’s been keeping social, which is totally not her norm. But last week she was under the weather, and her allergies have attacked, thanks to said houseguests. Jadey is allergic to some of the chemical compounds/oils in coffee. And the residue sticks to coffee mugs, even after several washings. The houseguests have tainted EVERY SINGLE ONE of her coffee mugs with coffee crap. So she’s been slightly freaking out about it. Upside is that when I go to visit next time, I won’t have to worry over which mug is my coffee mug as much, since there will now be a much vaster seclection for me to choose from. Downside is that she’s going to have to buy some more mugs, and find a place to stash them so they won’t get tainted like the other ones. So, while she’s been popping her prescription thingies to clear herself up from the coffee attack, she’s been feeding like mad. I was wondering why all of a sudden I was in the McD’s drivethru a few days ago and ordering a big mac combo for dinner… And 4 McDoubles and a McChicken for later, and debating on ordering some chinese food to go with it. Should have known then, since the only time I crave McD’s is when I’m feeding people like mad when I’m at normal energy levels. And unless I’m pregnant (which I’m not), no one in their right mind would think that General Tso’s Chicken, a Big Mac, and a large order of fries makes a good tasting meal. Oh, and a large Diet Coke. (The Monopoly game is going on.. Sheesh.. That’s an extra 2 tabbies!!)

Halloween was fairly uneventful. I went out with my sister and mom to take the little brother trick or treating. Two streets into it, I got too cold and walked my ass back home, prepared to take the car and pick them up when they were done. But, Mom, the genius that she is, had taken the car keys with her, so I went back to watching the NCIS marathon. I <3 that show. Later, after we sorted through candy (I got a decent haul, just from those two streets), I went down to one of the bars to hang out and join the costume contest. Totally lost (to a slutty fairy), but saw some interesting costumes. One guy glued palm fronds to a hat, and would stick his arms out. He was a tree. A girl zombie was walking about with a spaghetti pot on her head, claiming she was a pothead zombie (hehe). She later put her pot on tree guy’s head, and he thus became a pot plant. A soldier (I believe he was Marines) had just returned from Iraq. While he was over there, though, he prepared for Halloween. He stole badges and patches off of Iraqi police uniforms, plus the beret, and when he got back, made himself an Iraqi police costume. It was very nice. He was cute, too What, just because I have my boyo doesn’t mean that I can’t appreciate handsome men when I see them. I just can’t touch.

Anyways, that’s about it. 2 and half weeks (roughly) off my life, summed up into one normal sized blog post. What is this world coming to?

Hopefully, if we can bitchslap my ISP, I’ll be able to update again next week!