emily

I keep falling further and further behind on bills and dipping more and more into savings until I'm finally out of savings and am being threatened with legal action. I've spent the day looking for a second part time job with no success. The senior citizens who lost everything in the stock market and the teenagers looking for summer jobs have scooped up the lot.

Stupid housing market, stupid me. Stupid stupid stupid.

Today, life is good. I have coffee. I have apple bread baking in the oven.

Dave Kellet, author of the webcomic Sheldon, is going to the Emerald City Comicon. I'm re-reading the Sheldon archives, searching for a particular strip. Jamie Bamber is also going to the Emerald City Comicon. I'm getting to admire his photos as they display on the banner ad.

Life is good.

I wanted to be Lee Adama. Or maybe I just wanted Lee Adama. Mmmm.

My mom, my mom she gots a new spensive digtal camra for Crhistmas and shes ben taking the fotos of me nonstop. Shes got pixtures of me sleepings, and pixtures of me playings, and pixtures of me drinkings out of the toilet, and pixures of me stalkings my toy. Lots and lots of fotos. I says to her, I says she cant take the fotos of me eatings, cause thats my sacred time.

Sumday I spose she mite axually put sum of the pixures up onna interwebbie, but probly not til shes bak from vacashun end of this month.

O, and my mom, my mom she's goin to go on vacashun without me and she's going to the carib bean. I dont knows fur shure whats a carib bean or why its a vacashun place or why shes not takens me with her. But shes not takens me withs her! Outrageus. I have ben thinkings bout poopin in her shoos, but she wears sandals allatime and puts them in teh closset wheres I cant gets them. Outrageus!

Kaiser Roll

So's my mom, my mom she putted up the Crhistmas tree like days and days and days ago. Is good cause I likes to sleep under the tree thingie when the lights be on and bask. Its like sunshine onlies not so hot. I wish were more hot but mom she says, she says we in Florda and she won't turns on the heat. I'm not being sure we even has heat! Is freezing cold so I knows is winter, but mom she says, she says it's only the mid sevendies and not freezing cold but I tells her to turn on the heat anways. She doesn't.

Oh! But now I has a tree to sleep under with all the liddle lights like small sunshine. Sometimes wen I snooze under the little small sunshiney lights I likes to reach up and bat the little orniements thingies but mom, she puts the orniements thingies up highers so's takes more effort to bat, wich is disgruntlin. But now the Crhistmas tree thing looks funny wit the bear branches on teh bottom and the orniements thingies overcrowded on teh top. Is exelent.

Mery Christmas
Kaiser Roll

So much awesome.

My toilet started leaking a few days ago. ( Drip )

Stardust is a completely awesome movie.

So, I'm minding my own business, chilling at home, ready to check the email one last time before bed when I notice the plants are looking a bit dry.

I'm taking the African Violet to the kitchen sink to fill up its pot after watering the other containers and notice an ant. Ants, two or three. I've had a slight ant problem in the office and I'm getting kinda ticked that they aren't disappearing, but at least now it's only two or three.

I place the violet pot in the sink and take the plant holder portion out and stifle a shriek when I see the three or four dozen ants in the water portion of the pot. They're swimming in synchronized clumps and climbing the walls and one is now ON MY ARM all UNINVITED, didn't even take me out to dinner and maybe a drink before being so presumptuous as to CRAWL on my SKIN.

Gratifyingly, the ants die immediately once they are covered in poison, which is conveniently kept right under the kitchen sink where I am currently dancing about trying to look at every inch of my own skin to make sure I'm not crawling with ants because all of the sudden I'm terribly terribly itchy and am sure I must be covered in ants but at this point there isn't a one left alive in the kitchen sink. And while I'm batting at invisible ants on my arms and legs, the cat is skillfully dodging my feet complaining that I'm in the kitchen but not feeding him or going anywhere near the cabinet his food is in.

I might have over done it with the poison, I concede to myself as I wave a paper towel through the slightly fogged up air and cough. Seriously though, cat, I can see that your food bowl is almost completely full of food. Stop it.

I wash the African violet pot clean of ants, fill the pot back up with clean water, and put the plant back. And now I'm left with a kitchen sink covered in dead ants and poison. Awesome-sauce.

Scrubbing the sink with the sponge I use on my dishes is right out, and I briefly consider using the cat, who is now no longer skillfully dodging my feet but skillfully climbing on top of my feet so that I trip, preferably in the direction of the cabinet his food is in.

Paper towels will have to do.

Paper towels don't scrub as well as the ads claim on TV.

Cats are stupid animals in that they can be fooled by waving a bag of food over a food bowl, even though the bag isn't open and no food is transferred from bag to bowl. He's quiet though, so I stop ranting about ridding the house of all animals save one, that one being myself.

Sure would be quieter though.

Having battled ants and won, and having battled cat to a draw (can't claim it as a win since I was waving a bag of food over a bowl at 2am and talking out loud to myself), I check the email one last time before going to bed - victorious but still itchy.

Dang.

There's going to be a new TV channel next year that will tempt me into paying for cable.

The Ski Channel

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070430/tv_nm/ski_dc_1

"The network will focus on sports including skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, camping, climbing, cross-country skiing, rock climbing, backpacking, orienteering, kayaking and caving as well as numerous off-slope activities. The majority of the content is original and will consist of entertainment, reality, news, destination, travel, real estate, equipment, instruction and magazine shows as well as professional mountain sport events."

...

I am delighted.

I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love ....

I love gardening and I love comics. I even like puns. Thus, Get Fuzzy was the bestest comic ever today.

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20061224.html

My poor computer is down (unmountable boot volume) and I'm too busy to try to fix it right now. Argh, stress. Especially annoying as I wasn't there when the problem occurred. I read my comics online, went to work, came home fourteen hours later to a dead pc.

Stress stress stress stress stress.

( States )

Disclaimer: I'm as liberal as a liberal thing. I'm fed up with politicians though.
I was incredibly amused by the following bits from last night's Anderson Cooper 360 (news show on CNN) (copied from transcripts).


COOPER: Joe, what about the Democrats? I mean, can they -- do they benefit from this? I mean, you know, you look at those poll numbers. It's not as if people are, you know, in love with the Democrats either.

KLEIN: Well, you know, the Democrats never fail to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. ...

...

COOPER: Do you agree with that, Candy?

CROWLEY: Well, yes, there was a great line from a Republican strategist who said, you know, the good news for Republicans is, Democrats don't have a plan. The bad news is, they may not need one. It's good enough to just not be a Republican at this point.

COOPER: Bill, you look at the numbers, you think that holds true?

SCHNEIDER: Well, yes. I mean, look, there's an old saying, you can't beat something with nothing. Well, you know what? You can beat something with nothing.


Okay, I love the first bit about missing an opportunity. I'm going to quote that a lot. I also like calling Dems nothing, because Christ, they suck. Anyway, that was my titter for the morning.

Hurricane season is a fun time. After 2004, every one is on edge at the beginning of summer, watching the Weather Channel obsessively. By the end of the season (November 30th) no one even considers evacuating or boarding up the windows.

The director of the National Hurricane Center admitted that while they're pretty good at anticipating the path of the storm, they need to work on the accuracy of the intensity.

Ernesto was quite a disappointment, by which I mean a relief. Monday we thought it'd be a category one hurricane (and I'd get the day off from work). Tuesday we were expecting it to be a tropical storm (and I'd get the day off from work). This morning I wake up to... a slight breeze and no rain. Not even drizzle. Sheesh!

So here I am, at work...

Aaaand, because I am a bit bored, I've uploaded the Hristo lookalike picture. I'm okay with being weird.

So, for those who are curious about where in Florida I live, I'm on the east coast, covered in pink (hurricane watch).See the bump at the top of the pink? That's Cape Canaveral, where NASA launches the space shuttles. I'm just to the south of the bump. Currently looks like my area will get hit by the hurricane (as a category one), but we probably won't get the eye. Very likely to change, of course.

For a larger picture you can check out http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/115600.shtml?3day?large

Went to Denver for a long weekend to meet the nephew. Holy crap, he's adorable. And perfect.

I drove around a bit with my brother looking at apartments. My price range is fairly low but I still have some options. Some skanky looking places near my brother's home but a bit further away there are some nice buildings. Twenty minutes away but still close enough to baby sit :)

I have more than a week of LJ and comics to catch up on. Argh.

Four and a half days on the market and my home isn't sold yet!