I have sold my soul to City of Heroes. And I have a brand spankin new computer. Just so I could play City of Heroes. I'm not addicted. Really.

I'm bored. Bored, bored, bored. And I really have no desire to do anything about it.

Let's see if I can remember how to do this....



Woot!
It worked.

So many things to do today, mow the lawn, clean the fridge, fight with the blackberry vines, and trim around the ferns.  Instead I'm spending the day with pain killers due to a full scale revolt involving my joints.  Even typing hurts, damnit.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Where have all the popcorn maker and underpants bandits gone?

I have a bike.  A nice, shiny, red mountain bike.  For FREE! 

I get to work on Thursday and the first thing my boss asks is if I can ride a bike.

Me:  "Er, yes.  But it's been awhile.

Boss:  "Ever been mountain biking?"

Me:  "No, but the fiance does."

Boss:  "Good.  You have a mountain bike."

Me:  "Wha, bah, huh?"  (It's hard to talk when one's jaw is on the floor.)

What happened is that every summer the beer vendors have incentives for placing large orders of beer.  The boss likes to give "the prizes" to his employees.  Hence the bike.  Weeee!

As for the wedding....

At 2pm on Friday we had a minister.  At 2:30pm we didn't have a minister.  Why?  Because the fiance and I didn't want the mention of God in any part of the wedding ceremony.  The minister is a Christian and can't do the wedding with out her God.

Monday we'll be calling around and hopefully can get a Justice of the Peace.  *crosses fingers and toes*

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

× I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

× I have broken someone's bones.	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.	× I need/want money right now.
✓ I love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair.	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	× I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.	✓ I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.	× I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone.	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	× I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone.	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	× I want to have children in the future.
✓ I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.	× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
✓ I own the "South Park" movie.	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	× I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.	× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	✓ I am happy at this moment.
× I'm obsessed with guys.	× Democrat.	× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.	✓ I am punk rockish.	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
× I study for tests most of the time.	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can.	× I have jumped off a bridge.	✓ I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.
× I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
✓ I am a pyro.	✓ I have thrown up from crying too much.	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.	✓ I still have every journal I've ever written in.	× I talk in my sleep.
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.	× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
✓ I have a tattoo.	✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	✓ I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	✓ I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	× I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	✓ If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth.
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.	× I love hugs more than kisses.
✓ I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
× I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.	× I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	× I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
× I have played strip poker with someone else before.	× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone.	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
✓ I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	× I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian.	× I can speak more than one language.	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	× I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
× I have no piercings.	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.	✓ I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	✓ The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	✓ Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	× I don't like to chew gum.
✓ I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	× I have a custom-built computer.	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.	× I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

It's 92 outside right now.  I swear the trees are melting. 

Wedding Invitations. Weeedddiinnng Invita-a-a-a-tions! Woo Hoo, I've got Wedding Invitations. Two of the invitations will even be hand delivered today.  Hurray.

I turned 42 yesterday. 

And my period started.

It's a conspiracy.

Your Life: The Soundtrack

So here's how this works.

Open your choice of music player (be it itunes, limewire, kazaa, windows media, etc) and put it on 'shuffle'.

Press play.

For every question, type the song name and artist thats on. And when you go to a new question press the 'next' button.

Proceed.


My player of choice is iTunes and yes I do have a strange taste in music.


Opening credit:  Respice, Domine - Gradual (Modo V) - The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos - Chant - The Anniversary Edition (Disc 1)

Waking up:  Route 66 - The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Swing: Next Generation

Average day:  Ba Bump - Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

First date:  Sealwoman/Yundah - Mary McLaughlin - Narada World - A Global Vision (Disc 1)

Falling in love: Inner Strength, Inner Peace - Wayne Jones - Yoga

Fight scene:  Media Vita In Morte Sumus - Responsorio (Modo IV) - The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos - Chant - The Anniversary Edition (Disc 1)

Breaking up:  Bloodwork - 36 Crazyfists - Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Getting back together:  MC5 - Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4

Secret love:  The Steward Of Gondor - Howard Shore & Billy Boyd The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

Life's okay:  Door of Celestial Peace - Samael - Reign of Light

Mental breakdown:   Bedlam In Belgium - AC/DC - Flick of the Switch

Driving: Let The Drummer Kick - Citizen Cope CSI: Miami [the soundtrack]

Learning a lesson:  Danny Boy - Glenn Miller Orchestra - Platinum Glen Miller

Deep thought:  Tia Lupe - Alien Ant Farm - truANT

Flashback: Have You Ever - The Offspring - Americana

Partying: Chuaigh Me 'Na Rosann - Scartaglen - Celtic Song

Happy dance:  Kicked In The Teeth - AC/DC - Powerage

Regreting:  Speedy Gonzalez Meets Two Crows From Tacos - Stalling - The Carl Stalling Project - Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958
 
Long night alone:  Cloud My Tongue - Tori Amos - Under the Pink

Death scene:  The Jack - AC/DC - AC/DC Live

I am apprently receiving voice mail from a Sasquatch. Either that or it's a drunk who fell asleep in some bushes. I'm going with the Sasquatch. Who ever it is calls my cell phone, waits for the voice mail, grunts in the phone and then runs through some bushes. They've done this twice now.

Someone call Mulder.

For all the BattleTech fans:

http://www.daveschool.com/MoviePages/MechWarrior/MechWarriorViewer.htm

Yesterday was a two hairball and three cat puke day. I swear it's a cat conpiracy. So far today has just been a one hairball day and sweetie cleaned that up for me. And now the cats are sacked out on the couches and in the cat towers. Except for Aura, who's watching the water dish right now.

As for me...I'm sorta slacking till I go to work. Refinding and bookmarking blogs that got lost when Firefox went brain dead in November. (Still not sure how the hell that happened.) Importing cd's to iTunes. Actually some of the fiance's cds. And thinking about buying some plants for outside.


Just a thought, but would hurt to list which journal formats let you use links?

Today has been interesting.  Went to Borders, got to ride in a tow truck and spent $800 to repair two vehicles.  One was my car.  The cable that makes the passenger window go up and down broke.  $300 later the window works again. 

While waiting for the window to be fixed we (the fiance and I) went out to breakfast and then to Borders to kill time.  Fiance's truck was making a creaking noise, diagnosis was the ball joint on the drivers side wheel was loose and we should have the mechanic take a look. 

An hour ( 2 almanacs, 3 books and a whole lot of must-have-this syndrome) or so later we drag ourselves away from Borders and head back to Puyallup to see if my car is fixed.  Truck is still creaking and we're making jokes about how it must know the fiance just got a raise. 

At the exit for Puyallup there's a loud snap, the left front of the truck falls on the wheel and we stop moving.  The ball joint is gone.  Fiance calls for a tow and we take a ride back to the garage in the tow truck.  The mechanics diagnosis:  left ball joint is gone + right ball joint is about to go too = $500.  Yeaaaaa!

Fiance will use my car to get to work tonight, since his truck won't be ready till tomorrow.  And hopefully the irony gods will leave us alone for a while.

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
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Now I just need an eye patch and a parrot.

My Mormon name is Bonniekaye Valaney VaLaun!
What's yours?

I can't even pronounce that last name.

What kind of looter am I? You decide!
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Now to find a bad situation....

From Amara_M

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Facts:
1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.

1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany

1984 - William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.

Births:
1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)

1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and murder victim (d. 1932)

1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor

Death:
1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
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I'll take that as a compliment.