What the hell am I doing? I have a friend coming over tomorrow and my house is a mess. I should be cleaning it, not downloading card images from the LOTR Mines of Moria expansion deck. And why the heck did I go spend another $20 on more LOTR cards when I just got a bunch of free ones Thursday? Must be the Earl Collective whispering in my ear again.
Okay, okay, okay, I'll go clean my house... as soon as I get all the card images. Have you seen the balrog yet? OMFG! That's quite a card.
Okay, everyone go visit Catalin's blog. Catalin is from Romania and is trying to find a grad school in the United States. She was kind enough to send me my very first fanmail, so she deserves some fans of her own! Go visit!
You, too, can have your blog or site featured here! Just send me an email or post on the forum and I'll mention you here (unless your site is really nasty or something).
Off to read Draco Veritas. Gosh, this has been a cool day.
...then I get to go home from work, woohoo! Unfortunately I have to come in for a few hours on Monday, so no sleeping late for me. Rats. (aside to TsuKata: Rats! Rats! Rats! *giggle*)
Happily, I was able to silence the Earl Collective for a little while this morning. It's a good thing I did, as my manager made a surprise guest appearance at the branch. I actually looked busy when he arrived! He's really cool, though, so I never mind seeing him.
I'm thinking of making a CD of my favorite "IT'S QUITTING TIME!" Friday afternoon songs. Here's what I have so far:
The Drinking Songs
Pour Me A Vacation (The Great Divide)
Two Pina Coladas (Garth Brooks)
Jose Cuervo (um, I forget who sings this)
The Steering-Wheel Beating, Singing at the Top of Your Lungs Songs
Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo Train (The Tractors)
Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels)
That's How Your Love Makes Me Feel (Diamond Rio)
Sin Wagon (Dixie Chicks)
The Cruising Around Town Songs
Six Days on the Road (Sawyer Brown)
I'd Rather Ride Around With You (Reba McEntire)
Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up (Garth)
Yeah, I listen to country. Yeah, you have permission to make fun of me for it.
What songs would be on your Friday mix? Post your list in the forum.
Oh, I forgot to mention one other cool thing from gaming last night. It was getting kinda late and I was too tired to start another game, but didn't feel like leaving either. Ryan didn't have any Magic cards with him, so I loaned him my pre-built Torment deck. After two games with TsuKata he declared that I had a cool deck, which made me happy because Ryan's been playing forever and I've only played maybe twice.
Been passing time this afternoon by reading over the LOTR TCG spoiler list. Tonight I plan on sorting the LOTR commons I picked up last night, maybe building a deck or two. I also need to do some coding as I stupidly announced on my writing forum that a whole new look was coming on February 23rd. Yikes, what was I thinking? Gotta get busy.
Good morning and Happy Friday! In a good mood this morning. Go me! Travis Tritt's song "It's a Great Day To Be Alive" is playing in my head: It's a goofy thing but I just gotta say, hey, I'm doing alright. Hope you're all doing alright as well.
IT'S UP! IT'S UP!
The long wait is over... Cassie Claire has posted a new VSD! This time it's Arwen.
Last night was so much fun! Completely fell in love with the gaming store. Lots of merchandise, lots of tables in the back. Why can't there be stores like that nearer to me? Got tons of FREELOTR commons (and some uncommons, too!) from a friend of TsuKata, woohoo! Now I can start building my own decks. We played a four-player LOTR game with starter decks. I made it to the final two players, but lost to Ryan (DAMN! I hate losing to him) due to a bad draw. I was only able to throw one minion at him at Site 5 (The bridge of Khazad-Dum), ARGH! That was sooooo frustrating. Well, at least it was just chance of the cards, and not bad playing on my part.
Wil Wheaton posted the sweetest thing about his step-children. Nearly cried. *sniff* Why can't I find a guy like that?
Now I must go try to silence the Earl Collective by actually getting some work done for once. Wish me luck.
Gosh, I love Valentine's Day. Really. Here's my yearly Valentine's Day tradition:
February 7th
Realize Valentine's Day is one week away and I'm single again. Become really depressed. Flop on bed to fantasize about latest celebrity I have a crush on.
February 9th
Recover from chocolate binge brought on by being depressed that I'm single yet again on Valentine's Day.
February 11th
Receive phone call from a friend. Begin to think how truly fortunate I am to have friends who love me.
February 13th
Think about doing something fun on Valentine's Day and actually get out of the house for once.
February 14th -- Valentine's Day!
Splurge and buy myself flowers. Send e-cards to all my friends. Feel amazingly blessed to have so many people in my life who love me. Walk around with a smile on my face all day.
I thought about going to a single's event tonight, but instead I'm going gaming with my friends because isn't Valentine's Day all about spending time with those you love? I am sooo excited because we'll be playing either Lord of the Rings or Magic: The Gathering. This'll be the first time I get to play with my cards, woohoo! Though we might play Acquire instead, which would be fun, too, especially if I beat Ryan's ass like I did last time.
Wishing you all lots of love & friendship this Valentine's Day (unless your name is Rector. Then I wish you happy V-Day card-burning).
I am so freakin' tired. I should be in bed, but I have laundry in the dryer and it won't be done for a half hour yet. Damn the Earl Collective for making me stay up so frickin' late the past couple of nights, so I'm super way behind on sleep. And I'm frustrated as heck right now because I'm trying to put a link in a post I'm writing on a board and I can't get it right. Between HTML and UBB and ezboard I get all the codes messed up. I swear they change them, though. One day you need quotes, the next you don't. They are messing with my brain. How about a little conformity here? Is that too much to ask for?
Damn, I should be in bed. Can't even type right now. Probably hitting backspace every third letter.
And Cassie still hasn't posted the next diary. I fear I'm so obsessed that I'm becoming a bore.
Still no new VSD from Cassie Claire. Cannot cope. Off to drown sorrows in root beer.
Have some black-eyed peas
The voices in my head have been loud today, commanding me to stare at the computer all day clicking from one website to another instead of getting some work done. Cheeky little voices, aren't they? I have decided to name them The Earl Collective, so that when I finally succeed in silencing them I can celebrate by singing The Dixie Chick'sGoodbye, Earl.
Walk this way!
Yesterday in the mail I received a brochure on this year's Joints in Motion program, which raises money for The Arthritis Foundation by training people to complete marathons. I walked the 1999 Dublin marathon with JIM. Ran into my trainer a few months ago, and she said I should be a mentor this year. It'd be lots of fun, but do I really want to get up at 5:00 a.m. on Saturday for the entire summer? I don't know. I would love to do another long race and it'd be fun to train with a team, but honestly I don't think I can handle another round of fundraising.
I'm really starting to feel the walking itch, though. This year I want to take up racewalking so I can shave a few more minutes off my pace. Last year I managed to go from a 17.5 min/mile pace to a 15.5-16.0 min/mile pace, and that was with a minimal amount of training. I'm thinking I could get to a consistent 15 min/mile this year, and maybe even see some 14:XXs, which would be way cool (there's that overused word again). If I get fast enough I may even enter my hometown marathon; it has a six hour time limit so I'm too slow for it now.
Damn it, I need new walking shoes. Anyone wanna buy me a pair?
I spend waaaaaaaay too much time on the Internet. It's especially bad at work; I just read and post to message boards all day instead of actually doing my job. I want to change, but the voices in my head won't let me.
You know that girl you see in the mall walking by herself, carrying huge bags from Waldenbooks and giggling manically? That's me.
My car is overdue for an oil change. Gah.
I am super excited because someone who's not me posted in the forum! Is that not cool? Hey, all you single men out there: see how easy I am to please?
I think I use the word cool too much, don't you?
Meanwhile elsewhere on the net, Wil Wheaton talks about KITT from the TV show Knight Rider. I loved that show! Wasn't KITT the coolest car? My sister and I would pretend our Barbie Convertible talked, just like KITT. Mostly it said "Get off of me!".
And I wonder why I grew up to be a cold dead fish. Geesh.
Darn Internet connection was down this morning; couldn't post this until now.
Bleargh
Blog blog blog blog bloggity blog blog blog.
Why, why, why? Why do I insist on torturing myself? Once again, I stayed up way too late on the weekend. Last night I did not go to bed until sometime after 1:00 a.m. And then I was too hyper from eating leftover Krispy Kremes to sleep... so I'm sitting here at work drinking coffee to keep myself awake due to a sleepless night.
Coffee upsets my stomach. Yeah, this is gonna be a fun day.
Can you say "obsessed"?
Lord, I have it bad for Lord of the Rings.
It started when the WB aired the trailer after Angel last fall. "OH MY GOD that looks amazing! And who's the blond with the bow?" (Note that I had only read the first half of Fellowship of the Ring by this point.)
Well, I quickly finished the trilogy and made plans to see the movie opening night. And I became a complete fangirl, constantly visiting the official site and TOR.N.
I love these books. I love this movie. I love the MEN in this movie! So much that I've seen most of the stuff that's been posted before anyone else I know has. When someone posted this pic at a board I visit, I countered with this and this. And also this hot pic.
Yeah, I've got it bad.
My public adores me!
So minutes after I post my second entry yesterday, I receive an email from a girl in Romania who's starting her own blog. She saw my blog on blogger.com's recently updated list and thought she'd say hi. Hey, my first fanmail! Cool.
Yeah, I'm just like everyone else who has a blog. I want people to read my words and think "Hey, that girl is freaking cool". I want to be adored. I want my inbox to be filled with gushing letters. I want my forum to be hopping with activity. I want links to my blog to appear on a million different websites. I want studly male models to walk before me, scattering rose petals in my path.
Maybe that last one is a bit much.
Can you tell my social life is pretty pathetic? If it wasn't for the monthly Mensa meetings, I'd never get out of the house.
That's it, I'm canceling my newspaper subscription. I've had it.
I have had problems with delivery ever since I moved into my condo. People kept taking my paper! It got frustrating after a while, so I changed the subscription to Sunday only. Half the time I forget to get it in the morning, but the one day I really want to read the paper, it's not there. I suspect the cleaning people might have pitched it, because there's no papers downstairs; usually there's two weeks worth of neighborhood papers cluttering the doorstep, because nobody bothers to read them. So I call up the paper to ask them to bring me one and I get the automated system. I guess by the time I called it was too late for a replacement, because the electronic voice said "Thank you for registering your complaint. Your subscription will be extended." Which is nice and all, but I really want my paper!
On happier news, I've added a forum so you can respond to my blog entries. Just click talk about it, located below each entry. Cool, huh? And to show you just how easily amused I am, I think it's hilarious that the forum is located on the pub69 server. Especially since according to this test, I'm a cold dead fish.
It's a beautiful day in the blog today, a beautiful day to be blogged. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my reader?
Already this blog has had its benefits. When I went to bed last night, instead of daydreaming about the latest celebrity that I have a crush on in an effort to forget about all the needless worries in my life, I found myself designing new webpages in my head. Even had to turn on the light and jot down some ideas! This morning I woke up after only six and a half hours of sleep. (hmm.. might need a nap later.) And instead of lounging around, I hopped right out of bed, eager to start coding! It's been a long time since I've looked forward to the day. Most of the time I wake up, grumble, and spend several additional hours in bed, daydreaming about the latest celebrity that I have a crush on.
Plan for today: Add an ezboard forum to this site so you can talk back to me. And maybe this one other page I'm thinking of doing. I've gotta wash clothes, too, preferably sometime before 9:30 p.m. Oh, and maybe I'll finally take the Christmas stuff down to my storage locker.
Blog: the final frontier. These are the blog entries of the user xnera. Its mission: to explore strange new verbs, to seek out new jokes and new contemplations, to boldy go where no sane person has gone before!
Oh wow. My first blog entry. WOW. I've been wanting one of these puppies for a while, just so I could start entries with stupid puns and parodies like the one above. Which tells you I'm not afraid of being cheesy.
What I am afraid of is everything else. Including actually posting this, because I suddenly feel like I'm going on a blind date with millions and millions of people and they're all staring at me because I have spinach stuck in my teeth. And I'm allergic to spinach!
*panics*
Well, I'm going to post this anyway in spite of my fear because I really want to do stupid parodies like the above. (Hey TsuKata, ain't I clever? )
Besides the puns, I'm not really sure what else I'll do with this thing. Probably the same thing everyone else does -- rant about their day, link to cool websites, post a joke or two. When it comes down to it, I'm not much different than anyone else. Wow, some deep thoughts I'm having at two in the morning, huh?
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