Baby, Maybe, Someday

What up, guys? I don't have a lot to say this evening. I've had a day off. I cleaned out my car, caught up on some General Hospital, enjoyed the storm going down outside...now I'm at Josh's cuddling with dogs, eating pizza that he made, and watching the American President. Good times, essentially. Tomorrow I'm going to Austin! Wheeeee.

Also, I wanted to share something with y'all. On the GN'R message board I'm on 29 hours a day, this chick added me as a friend and said in her message that I was one of the more "normal women" she saw commenting and that she'd like to be friends. I just wanted to point out that in every other aspect of my life I am crazypants, but on a GN'R message board? I'm normal. That should give you a glimpse into what insanity the GN'R fandom contains.

Thank you, and good times.

Some things:

- I am in such a good mood lately! I just am. I am not eating like such a pig and my clothes are fitting better, for one. It's almost Christmas, my boyfriend is adorable, good things are happening with my most favorite of people and bands, and life is good.

- I'm doing ADIML today. No good reason, just thought it would be fun. I talked my co-worker into doing it, too. Y'all are going to get some closed captions up in here.

- Shout out to scullyseviltwin, who will beta the crap out of a fic based on a movie that came out 11 years ago that I'm pretty sure no one has ever or will ever write a fic about. Internet cookies for you!

- Here's Lily. I love me some Lily.


- Tonight there will be Christmas shopping. Epic Christmas shopping. And it will be good.

- Happy holidays, friends. I am glad to have all of you in my lives. And rock on.

I have not had much to say as of late. I'm just trying to work out, do overtime at work, maintain my relationship and also have a little time to myself all at once. Tis difficult. So here's another random picture post for funsies. This time the pictures are from my journal I've had on Diaryland for something ridiculous like 8 years. Image heavy, 'cause apparently I'm in that kind of mood tonight.

This is my mommy. She lives in Utah. I miss her.



( Pictures are fun! )

In other news:
- I haven't watched the last 4 episodes of CSI. I am such a bad fangirl.

- Tonight I was on the treadmill and the chick next to me made mouth breathing sex noises the entire time. Slow down or something, damn.

- There is buzz about a GN'R tour happening this summer. It'll probably be in Europe first with all the festivals, but that's cool with me. I just want to see what Axl has been up to lately. He reinvents himself every couple of years and I'm really anxious to see what's going on now. Okay, really I just want to know if he still has the braids. I will guess yes. But maybe he'll surprise us! You never know with him! The guy's an enigma.

- I am ready to write the novel that will make me rich. I first have to talk to my mom and have her tell me everything that's ever happened in her life. Shouldn't be hard.

- I love Reaper. When it comes back on TV, I command you all to watch it. It's so original and interesting and I want to have babies with it.

- Josh and I are going to the Carlsbad Caverns next weekend. Whee!

- I need to clean my apartment.

- I started a West Wing fanfic based on the episode Full Disclosure. Toby and CJ have a moment. I liked it.

- Today it was something like 85 degrees or something. It felt like June. I didn't like it. But it's gonna rain tomorrow, yay!

- I should definitely be in bed at this time.

Thank you, that is all. I hope my f-list is rockin' on and doing their homework in the dark and eating their cereal with a fork.

Josh has a belief that he resembles seventies-era Bill Clinton. What do you think?





Uncanny, huh?

The other thing that was on my mind today - I have a co-worker that talks to her boyfriend on the phone maybe 2 or 3 times a day, and they have 10 minute-plus conversations. Whatevs, it's not like we're busy at work right now anyway. But the thing I don't get is that they live together. Seriously, what are you talking about all day long if at the end of your working day, you're just going to go home and see each other to talk more? BFF co-worker and I pondered this and wondered it we're just unromantic assholes. Me and Josh's phone conversations rarely last longer than 2 minutes, even if I'm not seeing him that day. And that is a-okay with me. To each his own, I guess. But still.

Also, I hit my head on the refrigerator at work today (I'm very coordinated) and my head STILL hurts. It sucked. A lot.

I will now continue to watch Entourage and then go to bed.

- So I did 7.5 hours of overtime today. Grand total of overtime for the last 2 weeks: 31 hours. I really hope it's worth it and my paycheck doesn't screw me over. Also, I'm done doing that much overtime for a while. It sucks, it screws with your head, it messes up my posture, my neck hurts and I dream about men with mullets who host shows called Team Building: Manufacturing.

- Bravo is showing the West Wing again. 5 years ago when I lived in Austin and they first started airing reruns, I fell in love. I was unemployed and had nothing better to do than watch it 4 times a day when it was on TV. I dreamed about it, I talked about it all the time, it was my show. Then I forgot about it. But now I remember, and it's good, it's oh so good. The first time around I didn't care about shipping anyone, but now that I have ship brain, I think I'm starting to feel the CJ-Toby action. Anyone know of any (GOOD) fanfic?

I watched Let Bartlet be Bartlet today. OMG. Chills.

I've been alternating my West Wing love with my Sex and the City love. I really, really love Sarah Jessica Parker. I'm aware that this is an unpopular opinion, and I'm okay with that.

- I think I'm a little behind on Nano but I'm not worried. No overtime this week = more time for writing. I'm up to 12,351 words and most of it is total crap but I won't let that bother me. I put my very first Nano novel in 2002 online, and sometimes, for shits and giggles, I like to go back and read it. I think some parts of it are good, but seriously? That awful story is proof that I have, if nothing else, grown as a writer. Maybe I'll share some awesome snippets with my viewing audience at some point, because seriously...it's bad, y'all.

- I have been in a better mood today. Thank you for your kind words on the last entry, I don't have the heart to respond in the way I should. Sometimes I feel emo, I'm allowed, right? So thank you for the niceness.

- I really want to play online Monopoly but I can't find anything that doesn't suck. Can anyone assist me with this problem?

- Tomorrow I will be finishing Ballad in Blue, a 1964 movie where Ray Charles helps young blind kids. I like it. It's corny but it has a nice message. And the 8-year-old British boy talks like a 35-year-old woman and it amuses me greatly.

- I need to work out this week. It is vital to my existence.

- That is all.

- I don't think I'll ever get over how hot the piano scene in Pretty Woman is. I'm just plain serious about that.

- Ike is freaking me out. I obviously am thinking about those of my Texas people who are in the brunt of the storm, yes. But we're supposed to get some pretty serious weather tomorrow because of Ike, too. And there's tornadoes predicted. IDK, I've had a few tornado-related dreams lately and I'm suddenly convinced that my ultimate demise will be from a tornado.

- I'm thinking of writing a fic that is way, way out of my league. I'd definitely need a beta who knows a lot about law. It's a CSI (of course) AU fic based on the innocence project, which helps to get innocent people out of prison. I'm kind of obsessed with this idea and I know it will take more research than I've ever done for, well, anything.

- The Orange Clean guy...doesn't it make him want to take a nap when he was to scream all the time?

- That is all.

So at the gym tonight, there was a boy that I enjoyed looking at...a lot. He was hot, if you will. He also had a chick with him, but whatevs. That is something I don't get, while I'm on the subject, couples who work out together. When I work out, I don't want to talk to anybody or smile politely at anybody or, like, know anybody. It's my time to tune out the world and do my thing.

But I digress. The guy was hot. He had many, many complicated-looking tattoos located many places on his body. He had lovely arms. He even had red hair, of which I am a fan. (My boyfriend also has many of these features. I'm just sayin'.) But he also had a headband on, and along with his rockin' glasses, he totally looked like Screech. Dude, the headband just kind of ruined the whole thing. The headband...made me sad. It was so important to me that I had to come home and talk to you about it, that's how important it was!

I had a good workout, but I probably ate too much today for it to do much good. I don't know why I do it to myself, it really makes no sense. The only thing about my body that I'm a fan of right now is that possibly, my nails are the longest they've ever been. I don't know why, and I know it is kind of a pain in the ass to type properly, but I love them. I can't even stop looking at them. Good lord.

Also, I watched Burn Notice on my iPod while I was on the treadmill, and it took me half the show to figure out who the random guest star was. Vartann! Oh, Detective "I hate fatties" Vartann, how we miss you on the show. Except not really.

On a totally different subject, I'm totally ignorant about politics, let's get that out of the way right now. I don't want to vote for Hillary, and a big reason why is because she's a woman. I will freely admit that. I don't want to vote for McCain 'cause he's sort of an asshole, as far as I can tell. I don't want to vote for Obama because my dad says with all these promises he's making, he's going to bankrupt the country if does become president. Also, he looks like he needs to eat a sandwich. See? Ignorant.

But tonight I actually watched the news and they were talking about this infamous preacher that's gotten Obama in trouble recently. Obama may have been trying to distance himself from the guy in the past couple of days, but he also defended him, too. He said that the guy helped introduce him to his faith, and a lot of his ideals, and that he's part of who he is even if he doesn't agree with everything he says. I don't know, it just really impressed me, and I need to find out more about this Obama guy and what he's all about.

I'm using my BSG icon because it's a show that I really, really want to be more into. I watched a recap of the first 3 seasons that made it sound like the most bad assiest show ever, and Josh loves it so much that when it's on, he sets his alarm on his phone 5 minutes before it comes on. I've seen a lot of episodes but not in order, so everything is kind of random. What I know is that I'm fascinated by Starbuck, Gaius Baltar, and the relationship between Adama and Laura Roslin.

It rained all day today. That makes me happy.

That is all.

I should very much be working right now, but I just wanted to share that this quote from MSCL never fails to make me happy, and I kind of use it in conversations sometimes. In fact, I use a lot of MSCL quotes in my everyday life, not just because I want to, but because it's so ingrained in my psyche that I just can't help it anymore.

Anyway:

Rickie : So -- *guess* where Angela is.
Rayanne : I know where she is.
Rickie : You know? How do you know?
Rayanne : Because -- I live in the world.
Rickie : It's so romantic. They're like this couple now.
Rayanne : We'll see.

( cut for emo drama... )

I find myself looking up things a lot lately, things I should know. First let's start with how I STILL am confusing "then" and "than", and I've never done that in the past. In the past couple of days, I've had to look up "come full circle," "in the off chance," and just a few minutes ago, "nameplate." (That is the thing that sits on Grissom's desk that says "Gil Grissom, supervisor," isn't it?) I don't know what that's all about. Vitamins are supposed to help with these things, right? Because I don't really dig that feeling of losing my mind and such.

You know what I should have done tonight? Oh, well, pick from 1,000 different things, but mainly:
a. At least write SOME of the next chapter of my fic
b. Wash the dishes, clean my apartment
c. Clean out my car
d. Not order pizza
e. Work out

Did I do those things? No. Actually, I paid $10 to LJ so I could have more icons, then I searched for an hour for pretty icons, then I started on my fic until I realized I didn't know what a "nameplate" was, I watched Bionic Woman, I watched THE SCENE on you tube, and...that's about it.

Also, I really think I love LJ. Not that anyone reads this with any frequency, but I still think I like it better than Diaryland, if only because everyone on LJ is as batshit crazy as I am.

Anyway.

So I was watching Bionic Woman and there was a song in the middle of it that I had to know. I knew I recognized it from somewhere but I had no idea what. The song is called "Breathe Me" by Sia, and I've heard it because it was on the last episode of Six Feet Under, and it played over the montage of everyone dying. I didn't see the last couple of seasons of the show, but it still made me cry like a baby. The song helped. And it is now on my profile on Myspace, because that's what happens when you like a song, right?

I just felt like sharing. Carry on.