Ishte Rants and Rambles

Well, here is what happens when you go out on a Tuesday night and you know you don't have to get up early on Wednesday morning. Well, early for me anyway. Because of the alleged weather (rolls eyes at the '6-8 inches of snow') and the distances my coworkers must travel, nobody else will be in, so I brought my work home with me. So since I am counting carbs right now, I was drinking Irish coffee Jameson and Tully's instead of my usual Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. Thus, I am tipsy and awake at the same time.

Being Irish of course I am still clear headed, though I can feel the effects of my pleasant indulgence. Thus, I am watching Shogun, which I have seen enough times now that I can understand what is going on without even paying much attention to it. Now I'm going to see how well I play Majongg Dimensions. hahaha. Who knows when I will go to bed. Maybe I'll watch the rest of is. Blackthorne is just now with Kiku for the first time. Or maybe I'll just watch this disk and write some music. Music is loud in my soul right now. We'll see.

I have "Morton's Toe".  I think my feet look normal and that people without Morton's Toe have bizarre looking angular feet with giant long halluces and tiny regular toes.  Apparently about 20% of humans have this 'mutation'. It was considered a sign of beauty by the ancient Greeks.  I share Morton's Toe with the statue of liberty. I have this suspicion that she has less trouble with her knees and hips due to overpronation, and shoes that can never fit properly. Ugh...  if 20% of people have this foot, why is it so hard to find shoes that fit properly. I love shoes, so what's the deal with this? I wear a 7.5 EEE.  But it's damned hard to find nice looking shoes in that size. Especially dress shoes. For a couple of years, round toed shoes were in and I could find shoes that fit. Then the style went away... my two pairs of wonderful Austen's wore out and since they were made of cheap vinyl instead of real leather, they shoe man could not repair them. any more. Please have round toed shoes come back in again. I need another pair of nice dress shoes that fit.

 
My favorite shoes ever... Mudd Austen. I need a pair of brown and a pair of black in size 7.5 Wide. They haven't made it for about 5 years and I miss mine sorely. (Quite literally actually.) These were the most comfortable dress shoe I ever had. Perfect heel height, perfect width, didn't bend my hallux in (too much... Morton's Toe you know.) didn't press on my bunion too much (again... Morton's Toe... almost unavoidable. Worse on the left. Medical insurance still unaffordable (3 years after the "affordable health care act" passed, one year from it being mandatory for me to buy it whether I can afford it or not.) Guess I'll use it to get my feet fixed then, since I won't be able to afford a house, I'll need feet that work right and fit in my shoes since I'll have to be outside in shoes since I won't be able to afford a house! hahaha!) I should have hoarded them when I could still get them.

P.S. Re: my rant about health care. I still hold to the FACT that people who are LUCKY enough to have excellent health care provided through their employers (especially those who have employers who actually pay 100% like one of my roommates) and those who make enough money that they really are NOT burdened by their health insurance costs really have no clue what it's like the rest of us.  My boss tried to provide insurance and the cost nearly shut us down. He had to discontinue it.  Carrying it myself (the quality and coverage with the same copays I had in 1999 before the rates octupled where I worked (only quadrupled once the owner shopped around and chose us a policy that covered about half what our previous policy had, and had 3-4 times the copay costs) and after paying it for six months and having them refuse to pay for a prescription the first time I tried to use it, I canceled to go self pay) would now take about... Wow.. you know, it used to be half my income when I worked for AT&T... and that was with a deductible of about $5000 and I don't know what copays. Now? I can't even find a comparable policy. So just never mind that. It's still not affordable, not unless I take a HUGE deduction, and I mean like $10,000. I have no idea what's going to happy next year.

Anyway, this post was about my feet... and my halluces which are NORMAL. All you people with freaky long Halluces have no idea how much more awesome my wide foot is with it's short stout hallux than yours. I'm just saying.

K... Bedtime.

sorry, I can't figure out how to embed this with my datapad. I think its just a link. click it anyway. It's awesome!

I took my daughter cheapcarnival to see it.  I admit that at the beginning, I was a little doubtful. I thought I was going to be disappointed. This is because I'm a little spoiled by the 10 anniversary dream cast concert.  The voices here were not as strong. Not as perfect. However, having said that, as the film progressed, it was clear that in the a worthy sacrifice was made of that perfect clarity in favor of delivering the raw emotion of some of these pieces.  cheapcarnival and I both agreed as we were talking on our way out, the longer we watched the more we liked what we were seeing and hearing, the better we understood what the director was aiming for.

Fantine's I dreamed a dream was thready and shaky and ... amazingly strong in it's emotive power.  Damn right, Hathaway earned that Oscar. Eddie Redmayne's Marius' "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables, heartbreaking in the beauty of it's delivery. I'm really surprised he didn't get one too.  I was also pleasantly surprised by Amanda Sayfried's Cosette.  I usually dislike Cosette's parts, the sopranos usually ruining it with too much vibrato, but Sayfried's high clear voice and excellent intonation carried the voice of innocence that made the part wonderful to hear. She was very well matched with the other voices she was paired with throughout.

I wish only that we had not had to wait so long to see it.  The reels at the second run theater were clearly not well cared for and nearly completely worn out. The movie had vertical lines and scratches all through it. Still for $3 a piece, I think we definitely got our money's worth. DVD goes on sale 3/22.  It's already in my shopping cart on Amazon.com.

So I have no phone until tomorrow afternoon.  On Tuesday, I went to pub to play some music as I usually do. For some reason though, I didn't put my phone in my purse before I put my phone in my flute bag. So it ended up floating around inside my big flute bag.  When I got home, I discovered that my screen was completely shattered.  I know how too. at some point, I set my chair on the corner of my bag by accident as I was sitting down. (normally my flute bag is tucked under my chair when I play so I can reach for different flutes.) Apparently my phone floating around inside my bag with all the yarn and flutes managed to get down into that corner right at the time I adjusted my chair. UGH... Well, It still worked fine, just the glass of the screen was shattered (to powder at the top and spider-webbed all the way down) under the touch screen, so I considered waiting to upgrade.  I just got a new Nexus 7, and have been using it more for my online stuff and really only needed the phone to be a phone.

Well, anyway, marynachaotica has been having some trouble with her phone. I knew I had an upgrade on the line I gave my mom for her little cheapy $10 GoPhone I gave her to keep in the car.   But when I went online to see what they might have available I discovered that her line could also be upgraded.  So marynachaotica wanted to get an upgrade.  After supper yesterday, we went into Radio Shack to see if they had any deals on Android phones that were better than AT&T had online.  She had an Atrix and I had an Atrix 2.  We both like these phones pretty well, but hers is getting pretty slow and out of date.  Radio Shack had the Atrix HD for $0 which was an amazing deal. That changed my mind about upgrading later, but he only had one in the store. The guy said he would transfer another in and we agreed to come back today to get both phones upgraded.

Well, our trip to Radio Shack was a nightmare. The guy helping us was nice enough, but geeze, he's not the brightest star in the sky.  It turned out to be a complete nightmare.  We  got there about a quarter to four in the afternoon.  So, marynachaotica's phone upgraded pretty easily, but mine wanted to be picky because it was a cross upgrade (that means I'm spending an upgrade on one line to put a new phone on mine).

Problem One: Radio Shack apparently no longer calls directly in to AT&T for assistance. First they call some stupid intermediary and they do not have access to the tools stuff that AT&T has. Simple stuff like putting in a new sim number on the correct number on a cross upgrade.  So ultimately almost an hour into the upgrade I called AT&T directly and explained the situation and had the agent speak to the RS guy to get the right sim card numbers assigned to the right phones without destroying the sim card in my mom's phone.

Problem Two: RTFM! Seriously. You get new technology, you Read the F'ing Manual before you start messing around with customer's new phones.  If you can believe this, not only did the RS guy put the marynachaotica's sim into my phone and my sim in marynachaotica's phone. He failed to look at the diagram right there on the door, and put them in sideways... got them jammed and ultimately destroyed one sim, and one phone. With my help he got one sim out undamaged, but damaged the phone, and got one sim out damaged and didn't damage the phone. He replaced the sim in the undamaged phone (marynachaotica's).

Problem Three: DO NOT TAKE 3 HOURS TO DO A COUPLE OF UPGRADES: I'm not even kidding! And do not take three hours, make your customers an hour late for dinner plans and then send them out the door with only one phone complete. That's what happened to us.  So ultimately, marynachaotica got a new phone today, but I have to wait until tomorrow so that he can go get ANOTHER phone and put the sim card in it.

Problem Four: Do not send your customer out the door without a working phone.  The least they could have done was quickly put a new sim into my old phone and activate it until they replace my new phone that they destroyed or give me a loaner.  My old phone doesn't work because the sim is already permanently deactivated. He could have put a new sim in it so I could use it until he got a new phone, but it took him so long to get things figured out, destroy a phone, switch and replace a sim, and establish that he'd destroyed my new phone (after I'd told him for an hour that he'd damaged the internal sim contacts), that I didn't have time to wait around another half an hour or more to have him replace the sim and reactivate my old phone.  Ugh. 

This is why I always told people not to go to Radio Shack for new phones. But the AT&T store just doesn't have the deals that we get at Radio Shack.  So tomorrow he is supposed to get the new phone, set it up, and transfer my data from the old phone to the new phone before I go to pick it up tomorrow afternoon.  I had better have a working phone by the time I leave there tomorrow, and really in all honesty, I had better be able to walk in, sign the contract and walk back out with my new phone, my old phone and a big smile on my face.  He does not NOT want me to leave there with my angry face on!

UGH!

The curtains are drawn
Now the fire warms the room.
Meanwhile outside
Wind from the north-east chills the air,
It will soon be snowing out there.

And some there are
Cold, they prepare for a sleepless night.
Maybe this will be their last fight.

But we're safe in each other's embrace,
All fears go out as I look on your face -

Better think awhile
Or I may never think again.
If this were the last day of your life, my friend,
Tell me, what do you think you would do then?

Stand up to the blow that fate has struck upon you,
Make the most of all you still have coming to you,
Lay down on the ground and let the tears run from you,
Crying to the grass and trees and heaven finally on your knees

Let me live again, let life come find me wanting.
Spring must strike again against the shield of winter.
Let me feel once more the arms of love surround me,
Telling me the danger's past, I need not feel the icy blast again.

Laughter, music and perfume linger here
And there, and there,
Wine flows from flask to glass and mouth,
As it soothes, confusing our doubts.

And soon we feel,
Why do a single thing to-day,
There's tomorrow sure as I'm here.

So the days they turn into years
And still no tomorrow appears.

Better think awhile
Or I may never think again.
If this were the last day of your life, my friend,
Tell me, what do you think you would do then?

Stand up to the blow that fate has struck upon you,
Make the most of all you still have coming to you,
Lay down on the ground and let the tears run from you,
Crying to the grass and trees and heaven finally on your knees

Let me live again, let life come find me wanting.
Spring must strike again against the shield of winter.
Let me feel once more the arms of love surround me,
Telling me the danger's past, I need not feel the icy blast again.

~Tony Banks

The Holly Green,
The Ivy Green,
The prettiest picture you've ever seen.
It's Christmas in Kilarney,
And all of the folx at home!


(my favorite version here, performed by the Irish Rovers)

PS: Yes I know this is early but I was trying to find my Autumn layout, and it apparently no longer exists? (WTF?) so I put on my The Holly and the Ivy one for now since tomorrow is official putting up the Yule Tree day, and the landlord finished correcting our light switch to outlet connection just in time after nagging him for two years about it! hahaha!

So it's been forever since I even posted to my LiveJournal.  I guess I'll steal this from marynachaotica

The Name Game Meme:

I like memes. They're show and tell for adults. OK, for adults who spend too much time blogging. If you would like to do this one on your wall or blog - go for it! Just let me know so I can visit you page and read it.

1. Rock star name ---Name of first pet and current car-- Kajagoogoo Sportage.

2. Gangsta name -- fave ice cream and cookie: Strawberry Fudgie Sticks.

3. Fly Guy/Girl name -- 1st letter of first name and 1st three letters of last name: C-Car.

4. Detective -- fave color and fave animal: Red Dragon.

5. Soap Opera star -- middle name and city you were born: Cynthea Xenia.

6. Star Wars name -- 1st 3 letters of last name and 1st 2 of first name: Car-Cy

7. Superhero -- "The," 2nd fave color and fave drink: The Green Pepper (hahahah!)

8. NASCAR - first names of your grandfathers: Hägan Frank.

9. Witness Protection - your mom and dad's middle names: Jaqueline James.

10. TV Weather Anchor -- Kindergarten teacher's last name and major city with same letter: Woods Washington

11. Spy name -- fave season/holiday and flower: Summer Columbine.

12. Cartoon - fave fruit and article of clothing you are wearing right now: Strawberry Pajamas.

13. Hippie name -- what you ate for breakfast and fave tree: Scooters Maple.

14. Rockstar Tour - "The," + fave hobby + fave weather element + "Tour": The Cycling Wind

...and thank the Gods for it. No more cold clammy weather. Today it was sooooo nice and warm.  I love the feel of warm air on my skin.  Yay for summer.  I wish we could just go straight from Autumn to Spring and just skip Winter (which really if I'm honest, we practically did this year) altogether. That would totally rock.</p>

1 :: This was the one I found last  night that just made me go "WOW".  The detail is amazing, and I really love the image the artist chose to put in the Pokeball.  I also really like the size of the ball, and the heavy feel of the steel. It's perfect for an Ed Pokeball.


2 :: This one is not quite as detailed as the first one, but it's very nicely handled, and too funny not to share it anyway.


As with most images that I post, you can click on them to either view them full size, or in this case the link will take you to the source so you can download it full size.  The second one, does require a login/register. That said, I tried to register and found that I already was and I didn't even remember it. I don't ever get anything from them or anything.  Anyway, hope you all enjoy.

Since I was showing evil_little_dog my ancient toy giraffe, I thought I'd show Jeannie and Tigger (another of the ancients) to the rest of my folx.

 

It is really way past my bedtime, but I just wanted to mention that
LiveJournal just completely revamped their application for Android.  I have to say that it is SO much better than the substandard app that they had previously. having played with it for only a few minutes, I'm already liking it better than their previous attempt, and even liking it better than the ElJay app I have been using previously. This works much better. I recommend it if you have an Android Phone. I can't speak for the iPhone version, other than that I know it exists. I'm not likely to ever intentionally own an iPhone as I intensely dislike proprietary equipment. I love my Atrix II.

because it is too cute not to share. It's going on FxcxBook too. hahaha.

As a Libertarian, I believe in the following two concepts:

1. Keep your hands out of my pockets.
2. Keep your laws off my body.

That said, I took this from kashicat and repost it because I am in agreement with it by 100%


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1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows


evil_little_dog gave me the letter "B".   ??? B?  Ugh...

1. Breda, Heymans - (Fullmetal Alchemist) On first glance you'd expect this guy to be the ox on Mustangs team, strong, but not too bright.  A closer look though, shows that he has a keen analytical mind. He knows what is going on and is probably ahead of most in planning strategies. Breda beats everyone at chess.

2. Bahamut, The King of Dragons - (Final Fantasy Series) In the very first game he gives your characters the honor of a class change if you bring him a Rat's Tail. In later games you have the ability to summon him for help in battle.  Earlier in the game he is generally a greatly sought after summon, and even when other summoned monsters are available to call upon, he is still an incredibly useful monster.

3. Barrett Wallace - (Final Fantasy VII) Big mouth, trash talker with a big gun grafted onto his arm. He appears at the very beginning of the game as Cloud Strife's boss (having hired Cloud as a Mercenary) on a mission.  Barrett isn't the brightest star in the sky, but he's dedicated to making the world a better place by ridding it of Shinra.

4. B'Elanna Torres - (Star Trek Voyager) Half Klingon. She starts out as a fairly minor character, but grows into a strong presence as she moves up to Chief Engineer of Voyager

Ehhh... B is HAAAARDDD! *Wail*

5. Bronski, Wolf - (Exosquad) Ok.. Bronski is the ox you expected Breda to be. Big and dumb, Bronski is the guy you want with you when you know you have to plow through a lot of hard core physical adversity. Don't expect him to solve any serious puzzles, but he's got the brain power to control his own exoframe without any trouble.

Wow this was damned hard...

Ok.. So seriously, Collapse Blast on Facebook has lost my top score on this damned stupid game that I play. It says I have something over 26,000,000 as a top score, when actually it's 32,196,233 that is my top score. That's a significant difference, so I'm going to post this here with the link so I can see it.

Cynthea Carrington

LMFAO HARD! hahahaha... How the hell did I get that score!

This, I believe is the link to the actual status: https://www.facebook.com/cynthea.carrington/posts/295671907142974

ɹǝɐllʎ' ʇɥıs ıs ʇɥǝ pnɯqǝsʇ ʍɹıʇǝɹ,s qloɔʞ ǝʌǝɹ˙˙˙

Seriously, can't we have some that actually encourage actual WRITING? I mean.. Duh?

Since I made my post saying that I was switching to Captcha to get rid of bots posting random comments on my LiveJournal, and made that switch, I have had so far 7 spams... 6 for cheap Chinese designer knockoffs (2 for Louis Vitton) and one elaborate one for cell phones, all of which apparently defeated the Captcha with ease, and all of which were on my most recent post, 3 of which posted today after I complained to LiveJournal about the high level of spam I'm suddenly getting.

Thankfully, LiveJournal did respond to my complaint and has let me know that if I eliminate responses from anyone not registered that it will still allow posts from people on OpenID, Facebook and so on who use those as their registries.  So Those of you who do RX my posts and aren't LiveJournal users yourself, 1) come to LiveJournal. We have cookies and stuff here. 2) just log in using your OpenID, or Facebook or whatever. According to OpenID, most people with the following provisions already have the ability to log in using OpenID (this includes LiveJournal users actually. I use my ishte.LiveJournal.com openID login all the time.):

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Surprise! You may already have an OpenID.

If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID. Below are instructions on how to sign in with each of the following providers on an OpenID enabled website. (When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service.)

Look for the “Sign in with a Google Account” button or use your Google Profile URL.

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button.

Look for the “Yahoo! JAPAN IDでログイン” button.

Enter “username.livejournal.com”

Click the “Sign in with Hyves” button.

Enter your blog URL: “blogname.blogspot.com”

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button or use your photostream URL

Click the “Sign in with Orange” button or enter “orange.fr”

mixi is a web service that allows users to communicate with their friends and acquaintances.

Look for the “Login with MySpaceID” button or enter “www.myspace.com/username”

Enter your WordPress.com URL, for example: “username.wordpress.com”

Look for a “Sign in with AOL” button or enter “openid.aol.com/screenname”

Other Well Known & Simple Providers

In addition, there are several dedicated OpenID providers that are generally recommended by various members of the community. While not a comprehensive list, each of these providers offers a free and secure OpenID to use across the web.

Chi.mp allows you to create your own social hub on an OpenID domain you own and control.

ClaimID is an easy way to manage your online identity with OpenID.

myID.net is an OpenID provider with support for groups and the Korean language.

myOpenID is the first standalone provider for both individuals and businesses, with secure multi-factor authentication.

VeriSign’s Personal Identity Provider is an OpenID provider with support for multi-factor authentication.

Your Internet ID lets you build a social identity to use on the web.

So what that works out to, is I will as of this post no longer allow anonymous comments. Sorry. you have to log in. you have two dozen different ways to do it. If you are too lazy to do it, You can't comment on my LiveJournal. I might even miss you. So just buck up and log in so you can comment.

PS... I totally failed at code and hit the post button before it looked like I was TRYING to tell it to, but having had a few at the pub tonight, I should not even be attempting to write code, though I can obviously still do math somehow...

PPS... apparently I'm only allowed to tell it to have ONE property for the blockquote. It pukes if I try to give it two. I cleaned it up. Sorry if you saw the vomit. *rolls eyes* 

I know some of you have noticed my long absence.  For one thing my computer was awful, but I was also working two or three jobs over the summer just to try to make ends meet.  Earlier in the summer I had been cycling in my neighborhood and since I had often wondered what kind of business was going on in a building down the street, I came in and looked it up. I immediately decided I needed to work there, so I wrote up an inquiry letter and resume and walked over to present myself in person. ( Cut for my usual long blathering about it...Collapse )

Yup... I have just been informed by my daughter, cheapcarnival, of my impending Grandparentization. Yup. You read right. I'm gonna be a Grandmother. Wow... is she really old enough to be a mom?  *counts* Yup... I was the same age when I made the same announcement to my own mom now that I think about it.

ETA: oh yes, and I had my 90 day review, and my boss is very happy with my work, glad to know that I'm getting along with everyone in the office, and wanted to know if I'd like to have my wage increased. To which I answered "yes". So I'll have a dollar increase starting next week. YAY!

Funny thing about that is, as an American, I have always had it.  I can't even imagine what the world would be like if I did not have what I consider one of the most primary fundamental rights, to speak my mind.  Obviously there are limitations, but they are SELF regulating. I censor myself and don't use certain words or certain speech in certain circumstances.  I don't swear in front of my mother, I don't talk politics at work (much), and I don't discuss religion with most Christians.  But those are self imposed and not something the government should have any say in at all. Again, I can't even imagine what life would be like if I had to live in fear of being jailed for things I say, or having my comments online blacked out because someone didn't agree with them.

I support the SOPA PIPA protest, and I'm glad to see LiveJournal take part it in it.

As of today, I am turning off anonymous commenting on my LiveJournal.  The reason for this is that I am tired of having to go and delete random BS (BotShit) posts (most of which don't even make any sense) out old posts in my journal.  I tried setting it to screen anonymous posts, but that hasn't worked because it still means I have to go and do something when they come in. The thing is I can delete them from my phone, but Livejournal doesn't get the spam report when I do it that way, and I don't spend as much time on the actual computer since I got my smartphone.  I have to say that this is partly because when I got the smartphone, I didn't have a computer that worked very well, having had to retire my 'new' computer and bring out my 'old' Sony Vaio with it's tiny screen. So in the mean time, I have developed different Internet habits, including reading my email and my friends list from my phone most of the time now rather than sitting in front of a computer.  It's a more dynamic connection that leaves me more out in the world doing the stuff that I do now rather than spending a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. You may have noticed that my posting has changed quite a bit too.  I do most of my posting from my phone, and there are a lot more Pictures involved because LiveJournal has made it easier for me to post my pictures and I just caption then as I go along like with my bed entry.

The end result of this action though, is that the few people who do read my LiveJournal who do not themselves have LiveJournal accounts are going to need to either log in using one of their alternate Id's and not just be anonymous.  It's not like it used to be where you only had two options. Now besides your LiveJournal ID, you can also use Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, Google, Mail.RU and Vkontakte (whatever those last two are. I think they are Russian services) Anyway, if you don't want to come over to where the cool kids are and get a LiveJournal (and use it ftw), then you'll need to use one of your other logins to comment on my entries. And I do encourage comments. Meanwhile, I'm outy. I got a lot of Live Journal to catch up on this week.

ETA: I discovered when I went to change the setting, that LiveJournal has added the ability to make anonymous users translate a Captcha image. I'm going to try that for a while and see if that gets rid of the problem or not. So for the moment, yes, you can post if you're anonymous (which is what I prefer) but you'll have to put up with the Captcha image so I don't have to keep going in and killing spam posts (hopefully).

I think I did it last year and it was kind of fun. In fact My first entry is that marynachaotica cause me to post something. So here it goes....


January - Embedded video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vPWE2Ebz48] No actual words, but the subject is "marynachaotica caused me to post this."

February: I'm not sure what lead into this dream, but the part I remember starts with me and cheapcarnival being out fishing with friends composer2005, BH and TD

March: The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!

April: How anyone can see and hear these choirs and really believe that there are no souls, that there is no force or connexion between us, no higher power of any sort, I cannot fathom.  It moves me to tears. (this was in response to Eric Whitacre presenting the first 3 minutes of Virtual Choir 2.0 performing his composition "sleep" on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1110

May: There have been some things going on around in the real world, that have made it hard for me to keep up here.

June: Embedded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWK-iyC5oPc Subject: "Too Funny: Om Nom Nom Nom!!"

July: I'm going to re-date this so it will go back to the top because there were some serious formatting errors and things that I discovered that caused large sections to be deleted and some to be repeated. I

August: And also, I'm finding that I've been a little bit Internet disinclined this summer. I am trying my very best to completely disengage myself from FaceBook because I can't stand it.

September: Yay! I have an android app for my LiveJournal that I can use from my Motorola Atrix!

October: I stole this off evil_little_dog's LiveJournal Post, and I am reposting. 

November: My first ever turkey is ready to go in the oven. yay!  (Caption on a picture of the bird)

December: No more sleeping on the floor for me. It's been a long tie coming but it was time for me to get a real bed.

What do I *love* about the wintertime? *blinks* What's to like? What I love most about Winter is when it is Spring again. The only thing that gives Winter any merit at all is when it is Yule. At least then there are pretty lights and it hasn't gotten all that cold yet since Winter is just starting. Bleh... Winter. Pllllllllthhtht!

But I do, and I Was looking for some new careers for my sims to have in The Sims 2.

What I found were a couple I was looking for... and then I found THIS:

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=425512

I Don't know if you have to log in to read it, but I'll paste the text below the cut so you can see it.'

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