Gakked from nemoinis

The "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme:

1. Put your music player of choice on shuffle.
2. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

( It's all poetical and stuff. )

Classic hubs!monkey exchange.

We're in the car, hubs is driving, and we're waiting for an opportunity to turn left out of the drive-through lane. Hubs suddenly guns it (have I mentioned that he loves the new car?) and peels out onto the road.


Me: You really need to stop.

Hubs: No I don't.

Me (with raised eyebrow): You don't need to stop?

Hubs: I don't stop. (Said with all the Clint Eastwood bad-assery he could push into it.)


Much ROFLing ensued from me. I told him that he's like a character from some crazed adult cartoon. "I don't stop." What the hell does that even mean? Honestly, the man is a complete nut.

Due to a husband-related incident last week, I've been carless. This was the second car of ours that he'd managed to kill, and I was none too happy about it. Luckily, hub's brain is the size of a raisin and his skull is at least five inches thick (with pudding and cookies cushioning everything in between), so he was fine. The hospital kept him for a few days for observation ('cause this was his eleventy millionth brush with head trauma), but he's (mostly) fine. Aiiiiiii! That's the second time I've gotten a call at work to tell me that...wait, the third. Jeebus. The third time I've gotten one of those, "Hello, Mrs. Hubs!monkey? This is AdmittingLady at YourFriendlyHospital..."

Aiii! Too much drama in between. Like, when I called to inform my insurance company about the accident, there was "some concern" with my last payment because it had been made by e-check, and I'm thinking...uh, so? It's not like a paper check where you have to wait a few weeks for everything to go where it needs to go, blahblahblah, am I right? Isn't an e-check immediate, in theory? Also, the fact that I'd paid the premium THREE WEEKS AGO should have made any e-check questions null and void, yes? Yes. BASTAGES. I actually had to fax a copy of my statement showing that the funds had been withdrawn from my account before we could go forward, and I'm getting all het up again just thinking about it. I mean seriously. Three weeks and they still needed proof from me that THEY had withdrawn the funds from my account? OH MY GOD, I NEED TO STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS BEFORE I STAB SOMEONE. Anyway.

So! Our policy provides for a vehicle for up to thirty days while the car is fixed. Went to the impound to retrieve the cell phone and the registration and sign the paperwork to release the vehicle so the insurance guys could tow it to the auto body shop. Little did I know that the impound lot covers about THREE friggin' zip codes, and you have to walk back to your vehicle, and they don't have a courtesy car to take you to the back 40 to get there. HOLY LAWD, the drama. Saw the car and knew pretty much immediately that it was a lost cause. Even if they'd fixed the thing (HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!) there's no way I'd have trusted it more than possibly pulling it out of the garage for a quick spin down to the corner store.

When they called to tell me that it had been totaled I wasn't the least bit surprised. They redeemed themselves for the MASSIVE PAYMENT FAIL by giving me a surprising bit more for the car than I'd expected, and giving me a check that day. Woohoo! I'm suddenly in love with my insurance company, even if they are all bastages!

I figured that two cars killed is more than enough, and there's no way that I'll ever buy a new car again, not as long as I'm married to hubs!monkey. There's a car lot nearby that's been in operation for about 25 years, and they're BBB accredited, or whatever you call it. Went online and checked out their inventory. I saw this little thing and fell immediately in love. :-)

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The one in the little pics is mine, the wikimedia folks very kindly provide a bigger picture.

2004 Honda CR-V, satin silver metallic finish. Squee! Went to see it in the rain Thursday, but didn't test drive. Drove up to the lot this afternoon and someone was looking at it! Aiiiiii! By this time I'd pretty much been thinking of it as mine, so I was just a little distressed to say the least. Hung about trying not to look too interested while the couple checked it out and examined it inside and out and sat in it and stuff. When they finally walked off to another part of the lot I wandered over very casually and staked my claim. :-) Took it for a test drive and fell even further in love. Whipped out my checkbook, and now it's mine! It's in my garage!!!

It's a bit bigger than my old car, which was a regular 4 door, and of course it has a higher profile, being an SUV and all. It's going to take a little getting used to I think, but I so love it. :-D

I hate to sound like a broken record, but illuminations.nu is up (again...again). :-)

It's a three-day weekend for me (whee!), the perfect time to pose a question to my friends list and any interested passers-by.

At the time I took my extended break, people were drifting away from popslash. Lots of fen wound up in bandslash, and Supernatural was really gathering steam -- though it may have seemed that way 'cause I had just discovered it :-D. While I was away I watched a lot of shows I hadn't before, so this is a perfect time to see what I may or may no longer have in common with my friends list.

Question: So what's everyone into now? What are your primary fandoms? Secondary? What fandoms do you only read in, what fandoms have inspired you to write?

Since I've wanted to do this for forever but just thinking of it made me tired, I offer my fandom timeline so you can see not just what I'm into, but where I've been. Long, so I don't blame you if you skip it.

( down Fox's rabbit hole...so to speak. )

Waaaaah! I called a half hour ago (at least!)...where's my Chinese food, dammit??? ::cries::

OY. Okay, so one good headbutt later, a little light clicked on in my head and I was able to crop and resize my image using Seashore. Hooray! And I figured it out on my own, mostly! Unfortunately, the text I applied looks like complete and utter crap. Waaaah! My brain, she is hurting! She's not used to being used on the weekend, and learning to use Seashore is causing an uprising in my skull.

Writing! As usual, the ending is giving me grief. My New Year's revolution is to start writing the endings FIRST, then it'll all be gravy and chicken from that point forward. YES. Well...lumpy gravy and chicken with splintery bones, perhaps, but you get my drift.

I'm craving a donut, but we currently have no donuts in the house. There could be a few Little Debbie blueberry muffinlets left, though. Off to investigate, and then write. ::cries::

...well, maybe not pain exactly, but honestly, I've had an LJ since the dinosaurs roamed the earth, so why is it always such a challenge to change my LJ style? It takes me forever to settle on something that I like. I give myself a headache, people. Off to peruse the styles yet again, looking for the most fabulous mix of features that LJ has to offer. Waaaah! I think I may just default to that cute Expressive_winter with the snowman, or whatever the hell it's called. Because seriously, can you ever have too many snowmen? I thought not.

Also! Does anyone have the Seashore photo editing thingie downloaded? If so, how the HELL does it work??? I just want to make some new icons, not try to deciper the Dead Sea Scrolls. Nothing like a little bit o' freeware to remind you that you're not quite as smart as you think you are.

I shake my fist in your general direction, Seashore software, and give you an added headbutt to boot. I hope it hurts. Bastage.

Today was a pretty good day. Because of the winter storm bearing down on us, I actually got my lazy but up and out of the door before 9:00. !!! Yes, it surprised me too! Arrived at 7:30 and proceeded to have a quiet, uneventful day. I'm still getting caught up from being on vacation three days, off sick four days, seven hours, and then throw in the days lost for Christmas and New Year... I've worked about one hour in the last two weeks. Needless to say, I've had plenty of work to catch up on, and today was finally my chance. Didn't get as much finished as I'd hoped, but I made a pretty sizeable (small) dent in the pile. Woohoo! Go me!

Opened the shades in my office and watched the snow come down, half out of love of falling snow, and half out of fear that the snow would pile up faster than anticipated. If the universe is listening, I'd like to say that I fully anticipate a snow day tomorrow, SO DON'T LET ME DOWN. A Friday snow day is just a little too much to hope for, but I've got my fingers crossed.

So, Thursdays usually mean Vampire Diaries and Supernatural. When does the series second half start? Soon, right? I hope? Probably not? But maybe...? Oy, I'm so tired I can't think straight.

I'M STILL UP. I shouldn't be, I should be asleep, 'cause I have stuff to do at work tomorrow. Clearly, I'm insane.

JC! Watched "That's the Way Love Goes" on YouTube a little while ago and felt myself carried away on nostalgic waves of love for the puppies. Waaaah! So freakin' talented, every one of them, far and away the best of the bunch. As someone commented on the video, "The last and best boyband ever." True, so true. They were just...perfect. I miss them. :-(

Aiii! My iPod just decided that it's time for a little solo Chasez, "Lose Myself." I swear, my iPod has a brain and is psychic. I couldn't love it more if it had fur. Other examples of iPod brainwave-liness: shortly after I read an article detailing LeRoi Moore's death, my iPod began playing Dave Matthews Band songs. !!! Also, my iPod loves Hanson. I'd truthfully say that Hanson songs pop, up on average, about 1000x more than anything else I have loaded up. Mmmmmmmmmm, Taylor Hanson is so puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurty.

JC!