busy busy

kat's been ill lately - looks as though her gall bladder will need to be removed. meanwhile, i'm getting ready to host a labor day cookout - rented out the clubhouse and now i'm in the process of rounding things up and making sure all will be good...

SoaP

goin to a Fark Party tonite - gonna see Snakes On A Plane - i'm predicting it'll be cheezy and stupid, and a lot of fun. *8-)

i have the best godson in the whole wide world

i spent some time with my cousin marian and her family today, including my godson Dominic. the boy is amazing - i just can't even put into words the happiness he puts into my heart. prozac's got nothing on this kid - he ooozes anti-depressant qualities. he's trying to learn to snap his fingers - got the motion down, just not the pressure, so not a sound is made. and he's waving, but for some reason, when he waves with his right hand, he leaves his index finger erect - not sure what that's all about, but it's cute.

the kids are still having difficulties remembering my name, and that i'm Lori and not Linda - makes me think about Mom a lot and how much i miss her.

time for a recipe...

the joy of Fark is finding all sorts of spiffy things - like this recipe from TotalFarker jimmyhaha:

Type II Diabetes

26 1/2 lb Froot Loops
2 1/3 lb butter
1600 Whatchamacallit Bars (crumbled)
26 gal. Dry Gin
1 Couch
1 Tivo
1 xBox 360

Mix the first three ingredients until they form one smooth, flabby ass.
Apply ass to Couch for 18 hours daily, basting liberally with Tivo and xBox.
Serves one.

crippled...

been crippled with depression recently, hence no posts. i'm now in intensive outpatient therapy. it's helping me.

compassion - fuck it!

maybe i've just spent too much time on TotalFark where the current flavor of acronym is DIAF = die in a fire...

but even in real life it seems that people aren't too compassionate these days...

a product of the Bush administration? *shrug*

people suck.

networking problems....

damn lightning hit my building again, and ever since i've had problems getting online with my computers. wish i knew more about networking stuff to fix the danged thing...

it's not just computer networking causing an issue - doctors are annoying the fark out of me as well. i seem to have pissed off the shrink by questioning a medication she prescribed for me, cuz ever since i started taking it my blood sugars have skyrocketed. it's not that i don't trust her, i just would rather be on a different medication if this is gonna happen. *shrug* meanwhile i've had difficulties getting through to my other docs and it's all just a big clusterfuck. argh!!!!!

Click

Adam, Codi and i just got back from seeing Click - the movie where Adam Sandler gets a truly universal remote control. It was amusing, tho Roger Ebert didn't seem to like it as much as i did. i'm not this huge Adam Sandler fan or anything like that, but i did like this movie. Dolores O'Riordan (lead singer of the Cranberries) had a cameo, now i've got "Linger" stuck in my head. whoever picked out the music for the movie did a good job - it doesn't look like they're releasing a soundtrack tho...

making it difficult to cancel...

Got a solicitation in the mail from Stamps.com urging me to join their service, to try it out, get $45 free postage and a free postal scale, blah blah blah...

what they don't tell ya is that you get $5 up front and the other $40 ya get when ya sign up for their $15.99/month service, and that's when ya get the "free" scale too...

so i wanted to cancel...amazing how these companies (AOL's notorious for it) make it so difficult to cancel a subscription...

particularly when it comes to actually finding a NUMBER to call to cancel...so, if anyone's looking to cancel a stamps.com account, here's the info, from http://www.stamps.com/cancel/:

To close your account, please contact Customer Support at 1-888-434-0055, Monday - Friday, 6 am - 6pm (PST). Thank you for your patience.

i'm sure the "thank you for your patience" comment comes from the fact that customers get aggravated as hell trying to find the damned number...

so i called the number...went through 3 menus to get to talk to a person...of course, then i was on hold...8 minutes...no doubt people get annoyed and hang up...

thankfully, when i did talk to a person, she didn't attempt to keep me on the phone for 29 minutes begging me to reconsider my cancellation...so they're definitely better than AOL in that regard...

the internet's gonna die on my birthday!

that's what this link discusses - whether or not the net will die on September 30.

signs of the times...

well, you can definitely tell what the owner of Casa D' Ice feels about a variety of issues - he posts it on the signs of his restaurant...

CouchSurfing.com

looks like an interesting idea - "CouchSurfing.com helps you make connections worldwide. You can use the network to meet people and then go and surf other members' couches! When you surf a couch, you are a guest at someone's house. They will provide you with some sort of accommodation, a penthouse apartment or maybe a back yard to pitch your tent in. Stays can be as short as a cup of coffee, a night or two, or even a few months or more. When you offer your couch, you have complete control of who visits. The possibilities are endless and completely up to you."

agreeing with a Fox News anchor?

i know we shouldn't give assholes like family members of Fred Phelps any air time, but i found this YouTube link to be rather amusing...

Father's Day

Father's Day this year was different - i mailed a present off to Dad for the first time in i don't know how long. i guess i had thought about it and realized this past year that he'd acted more like a father than he had in a long time - particularly after Mom's death. even though i didn't want him around, he travelled from Colorado and sincerely (dad? sincere?) seemed to only want to be there to support his kids (psychologically, at least) so i guess that merited a present. *shrug*

another difference was that i didn't have Mom around - in years past i would make a point to give a Father's Day present to her in recognition of her being there more for me as more than just Mom, she'd served the role as both parents an awful lot. so i went to the cemetery yesterday and hung out for a little bit.

dammit, i really miss her.

scion owners are weird...

i'm learning that owners of Scion xB's are kinda weird - guess i'll fit in since i'm kinda weird too...

a few things that are on cafe press that i found amusing:

the weekend...

so, i decided against the detroit idea - it'd be great to see the HNIA show, but the anxiety involved in such a last minute thing just isn't worth it. besides, i need to be home doing some house cleaning. brought in some boxes from the garage, and my place is a huge pile of clutter.

i finally got on the iTunes kick, now i've been downloading tunes like crazy - not just from iTunes, but other sites, as well as putting CD's onto my laptop...

went to dinner with Deb last night - yummy!! bd's mongolian barbeque is up north, so i dunno about making it a regular place to go, but hey, if i'm headed to costco or visiting friends up there, i'd definitely go back...

oh yeah, and there's that little matter of me buying a new car. once i get the check from my aunt (danged trust fund!) i'll be purchasing a new 2006 Scion xB. i don't think i'll be pimping it out like most people in the Scion community seem to do, but who knows. i love the "You just got passed by a toaster" stickers - people seem to have a love/hate reaction to this car, with the "negative" reviewers saying that it looks too much like a toaster. Since mine's silver, i'm sooooo tempted to construct a huge piece of toast out of styrofoam or some such and attach it to the top of the car to really enhance the toaster idea...Heywood Banks would approve, i'm sure.

Unnecessary Censorship

Jimmy Kimmel Live's got a bit called "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" that i find to be farking hilarious, with a gentle poke to the FCC thrown in for good measure.

www.thatvideosite.com has links to a bunch of em, so if you're looking for a laugh, check these out:

http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2654.html #20
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2547.html #19
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2479.html #18
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2419.html #17
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2267.html #15
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2187.html #14
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2125.html #13
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2068.html #12
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1936.html #11
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1857.html #10
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1803.html #9
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1707.html #8
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1662.html Unnecessary Censorship: Best of the Year
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1653.html #7
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1574.html Unnecessary Censorship: Superbowl Edition
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1109.html #6
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1092.html #5
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1087.html #4
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1081.html #3
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1075.html #2
http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/984.html #1

His Name Is Alive rocks!

the concert in Chicago was great! i'm soooo glad i went. now i'm pondering going to saturday's show in Detroit since it's the last date on this tour. since Detroit's their home town, i'm predicting this would be a kick-ass show. *ponder*

AWESOME...

awesome doesn't even begin to describe it - the concert KICKED ASS. the band that opened for HNIA was NOMO - very interesting, i picked up their CD...Warren Defever produced their disc as well.

still got songs swirling around in my head (and white castles in my belly) so i can't think, but i'm feeling really good right now... *8-)

in chicago...

so, after some traffic snarls we made it. ugh, construction traffic sucks! along the way we saw signs suggesting you call a toll-free number to see how to avoid using the roads - someone shoulda informed mapquest about this stuff. i'm really glad adam was driving - it woulda probably given me an aneurysm, trying to deal with the stress on my own.

so, we got checked into the motel 8 - i think expedia was being overly generous when saying it was a 1.5 star hotel - and we're chilling a bit before concert time...

we found the dunkin' donuts down the street and got a box of donutty goodness. went to the gas station across the street from the motel to get milk. adam teased me cuz i had "a fan" at the gas station - he mentioned liking my purple hair and that he agreed with my t-shirt (the M [peach] W shirt from tshirthumor.com)

we came back to the room - now our bellies full of donutty goodness. i suppose we should have some real dinner, but damn these donuts are good! a guesstimate of my current blood sugar is about 972...

more later...