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Favorite Things

All this comment chit chat with Amy got me thinking about all of the coool stuff I love. So, alla Oprah, here are my favorite things.

  1. Demeter's mint julep perfume

  2. Philosophy's soul owner foot cream

  3. salt scrubs from Bath & Body Works

  4. my new balance sneakers which are soooo comfy

  5. my super-cute, really convenient gym bag from title9

  6. Orbit green gum

  7. my digi camera, which is complex enough for lots of custmization but simple enough so i don't have to worry about aperture or f-stop

  8. my Car! the cute, fun CR-V

  9. cooking light cookbooks and website

  10. Shrimp fried rice

  11. PHP … without it, none of this would be possible

  12. Macromedia and their fine fine array of products

  13. Georgia Nicholson books … i've never laughed so much!

  14. Gilmore Girls … constantly entertaining me
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Morning Mumblings

I am (brrr) so chilly. Matt loves to have the A/C on at night, so it's always freezing in the morning. I had kind of restless sleep last night. It was hard getting to sleep and then for some reason, during the last couple of hours of sleep, I kept waking up like every 20 minutes or so. Very annoying. I was also quite disappointed to find that our milk had gone bad this morning. Right after I'd poured it on my cereal and put a spoonful in my mouth. Goooood morning sour milk!!! Continue reading “Morning Mumblings”

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Tuesday Night Happenings

Gilmore Girls was sooooo good tonight and next week looks even better. Luke and Lorelai finally together!! And that Dean, Rory stuff … REOW!! I luved how she shut Jess down too. Grungy little Kerouac wannabe. I really love that show. It was a bit rockier earlier this year, but it's hit its stride again and I'm back to lovin' it. It's been sooo good lately. Yeesh!

I also made dinner tonight. I made some sesame chicken, which was nasty as heck. We couldn't even eat it. That's permanently getting crossed out of the cookbook. So we went to Chin's and got some replacement Sesame chicken that was excellent as usual.

Speaking of cooking, I saw a few more cookbooks today that I'd love to own. Two are from Canyon Ranch (that spa place) and they have really neat looking simple recipes. And I also saw the Jimtown Store Cookbook. The Jimtown Store is apparently this general store type place somewhere in Sonoma and it's got a lot of really great sounding baked goods and some other simple sort of home cookin' recipes with a twist. I like cookbooks way too much for my own good. I won't buy them right now though. I'll be trying some of the recipes in the Moosewood cookbooks I scrored at the used-book store.

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Moment of Weakness

Yesterday I was downloading a new version of a game I enjoy. I got onto a page where the download was supposed to happen. But (apparently) instead of my download popping up some ugly little repository of internet filth popped up. And since I was expecting my game, I hit 'open' and got a batch of crap on my system. GRRRRRRR

This thing installed tons of crap including an annoying toolbar with a button that said “meet live girls.” Lovely. I was able to clean most of it out with Spybot S&D which is the best program out there, incidentally, for cleaning this kind of crap off of your system. (BTW, another good tool is Spyware Blaster which prevents icky stuff from getting on your computer in the first place). Continue reading “Moment of Weakness”

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Errands & Smoking

My day has been absolutely swallowed up by errands … well one errand in particular. Getting new shoes for my car. I was on the way to the club this morning and it was a bit wet and my car was slipping around, so I decided today was the day. Unfortunately, it took waaaay longer than I thought it would. But I got to ready a bunch of my book and so that was OK. Plus, I got the labor free, which was about $40, so that's excellent.

I also got a haircut. I could not stand it anymore. It was getting all tangly underneath and split endy, so now it's cut and back to being light and fluffy. I liked the lady I went to pretty well, so I might go back.

And now, a rant. Continue reading “Errands & Smoking”

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This 'n' That

We've had a very nice day so far. We went to the farmer's market this morning. The weather was overcast, but nice anyhow. The farmer's market isn't very good this time of year mainly because there's just not much there. You're good if you want spinach, but otherwise, you're kinda SOL. Matt, however, found the most yummy thing in the world. They're called pumpkin bars. And I guess, basically, they're light pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting on top. SOOOO good.

We brought May with us but we didn't know that dogs weren't allowed (we'd seen people with some last year) so she had to go back to the car. Luckily it was in the garage with plenty of shade and little heat so we didn't have to leave. Then we tromped up and down state street for a while looking for presents for upcoming events and stuff like that. Continue reading “This 'n' That”

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Mish Mash

OMG. Dakota Fanning is the cutest thing in the world. I'm watching her on Ellen right now. I'd seen her on Live on Air With Ryan Seacrest (oh the shame admiting I watch that) and I noticed she was going to be on Ellen, and I had to watch, and make Matt watch cuz I'd told him how adorable she was before. She giggles constantly and you will not believe the things that come out of her mouth. they seem incredibly advanced for a 10-year-old.

Anyhow, enough about Dakota Fanning. Continue reading “Mish Mash”

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Busy! So So Busy!

It's Thursday. This week has just flown by. I've had so much to do. Little picky problems that had to be solved and those annoying tasks like paying the bills and stuff like that that I've been consumed with. That stuff just eats time. And I've got so much stuff to do and I really really really need to clean before I go insane from clutter poisoning.

The busy/hectic season is starting too. From mid-May to mid-June there's always tons to do. This year we've got a bunch of birthdays, a graduation, Mother's Day and Father's day. Gifts, cards, travel. It's furious fun. Meanwhile, I'm studying up for my MS certification. It's as boring as it sounds, but it is at least useful. Everyone these days wants (2 years!?!) .NET experience (hell, it's only been out two years!) and you've got to stay on top of this stuff.

I've also been toying with the idea of releasing the Jesser.org code for people to install on their own servers. It's been loads of work and I'm a pretty big believer in open source. But I'll have to think on it. Packaging it and making configuration modules would be time-consuming. Hmmmm …

I'd better get back to work.

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What is it With Today Today?

That's a line from a movie or TV show although ATM I can't remember which one. Anyhoo, that's how I felt yesterday. Nothing seemed to go right. The evening was the worst though.

I'd spent way too much time in the afternoon making a reservation for us to go out with some of Matt's clients. It took a while because the restaurant line was busy. So I had to keep calling. So finally, we're just about ready to leave for the restaurant and they call and cancel! That was annoying. I hate getting all ready for something and anticipating it and then the rug gets pulled out from underneath you. Continue reading “What is it With Today Today?”