I'm Boring.

So... (I just realized how often I start out my posts saying, "So..." Go ahead. Scroll down and look. You'll see.) Today was rather uneventful in terms of blog post material. And yet, I felt so damn busy all day, I didn't know which end was up. How does that happen anyway? Weird.

Anyway, I had all sorts of stupid, uninteresting things I had to do today -- none of which you'd be interested in. And now it's 1:30 in the morning, I'm not even remotely tired (yet know that I NEED to go to bed), and I have nothing to say to all of you. Nice.

Uhhh... how about looking at some photos? Because I'm sure that you all are just giddy with anticipation every day, waiting for me to post more photos of my kids, right? Uh huh.

Oh! I know! I won a contest today! As I've mentioned before, I'm a blog whore and read a billion of them a day. (God bless Google Reader by the way.) Well, today, one of my feeds came through and the blog was giving away $30 gift cards to a cool store that sells gorgeous photo albums. All you had to do was be one of the first 5 people to comment on the post. Well guess who was #5? Yup! That would be me! [grins] I'm so excited! They have some gorgeous albums and I can't wait to check out the site closer and decide what to buy! Yay me for my obsessive blog addiction!

I bet other readers are pissed though. A lot of the readers are professional photographers and I'm sure they figure they have way more use for the prize than I do. Too bad suckas! You snooze, you lose! Mwaaahaaahaaa! [insert maniacal laughter here]

OK. So what else? Uhhh... yeah. Drawing a blank again. I guess I'll just post the photos and hope that tomorrow at least ONE funny thing happens so I can entertain all of you adoring fans. ;)

These first two pictures are from Monday. Every spring, the girls and I buy a bunch of flowers and plant them in a bunch of pots. (Our soil in the yard is way too crappy to really start a "real" flower garden.) We have a ton of fun, the girls like getting dirty, and it's my little signal to myself that spring is finally here. :)

 

These other three are from Hannah's t-ball game tonight. That's my mom giving Grace a kiss while she was shoving food in her mouth (which is pretty typical of Grace, actually. LOL!)

And this last one is my photo for Project 365 today. :)

Quote of the Day:
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
--John Dryden

What's her secret?

Why, what possibly could Hannah be hiding? What is it that made her slap her hands over her mouth while giggling uncontrollably?

Gasp! It's a new gap in her smile! :)

That's right. Today, my sweet 4-year-old (almost 5-year-old) lost her very first tooth while eating a Twizzler at Grandma's house. She's so excited and proud and just beside herself with the fact that the tooth fairy is coming to visit her tonight. How cute is she with that new space in her smile? LOL! Adorable if I do say so myself. ;)

(And the truth is, in that first picture, I didn't tell her to do that and she wasn't actually hiding her smile. I was trying to snap some pictures of her big milestone tonight when she slapped her hands over her mouth and started laughing. I thought she was just trying to be funny/cute/etc. and said (while laughing), "C'mon! I want to get a picture of you with your tooth gone." Her response? "No Mom! I wasn't trying to hide it. But I just farted and couldn't help but laugh." Nice. See? It's good when my children remind me that there's no way they could be anyone else's child but my own. It keeps me grounded.)

Quote of the Day:
It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup.
--Anonymous

Good Mornin'

Morning gang. Wow, the past few days have flown by. We ended up going to the party with my friends on Saturday night, and I must say, we had a blast. The people I've known since high school (or earlier in some cases) are just hilarious. So I'm glad we went. Good times.

Here are a few photos from the night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, yesterday morning, Steve decided we were having a Memorial Day picnic... in a few hours. What the hell? The house was trashed, we had no food, we had no beer, and the yard was a mess. But he invited everyone before he really talked to me about it (LOL), so we sucked it up, busted ass, and managed to get everything bought and ready by the time people started showing up.

It was actually fun, and I'm glad we had it, but a little bit of prior notice next time would be nice. LOL!

Anyway, it's going to be GORGEOUS today, and I promised the girls we'd go buy some flowers and plant them, so I guess I have to get started with my day. Off to shower. I hope everyone enjoys their last day of their Memorial Day vacation!

(Oh, and Chelle, the reason you don't see the reflection in my photos is because I didn't use a flash. That's why I took them in Grace's room (best natural light). Plus the lens I have on my camera right now takes awesome pictures in lower light situations so I didn't need a flash.)

Quote of the Day:
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
--John Kenneth Galbraith

Fun with Focus

Sooo... I spent over 3.5 hours today at the local ball fields for Grace's softball game and then Hannah's T-ball game later in the day. Other than that, I've done nothing productive. The girls have been really good actually, and managed to occupy themselves reading and drawing.

In a bit, I'll take them to my parents' house for the night. Steve and I are SUPPOSED to go to two parties/picnics -- one with his old high school friends and one with my old high school friends. Truthfully though, I'm not in the mood to go to either (which is odd for me). Steve left at 4 AM to go turkey hunting this morning and I haven't heard from him since (it's now almost 5 PM), which tells me he's not that excited about the parties either. LOL!

But see, we have this bad habit of ditching ALL of our friends' parties. Sometimes just because, and sometimes because we have other obligations and just can't get there. But these people come to ALL of our stuff, so we REALLY need to at least go to the party with my friends. Sigh.

So while the girls were occupied today, I messed around with some more photos I took the past few days. Yesterday, no one else was home and I felt like experimenting with my camera again. I'm really trying to learn about depth of field, focal point, aperture, etc. Since I really have no interest at all in taking photos of things that aren't people (it's just not my thing... Photos of flowers and bugs and random buildings do nothing for me), I set up a mirror on the floor in Grace's room (best natural lighting) and had at it. I felt like a total dork at the time, but it's always fun for me to mess around in Photoshop afterwards. Anyway... here are a few shots (because I'm sure you really care).

 

This one is/was totally out of focus, but for some reason I liked it, so I changed it to sepia and declared it "artsy." LOL!

 

And I call these two "Fun with Focus" (LOL!) because I had set my focal point on my feet in the reflection of the mirror.

 

I especially like this last one because I like how my real feet and my reflection are out of focus and the reflection of my feet is in focus, which is what I was trying to do. (Please note the small spots of nail polish on each large toe. I NEVER paint my toenails (or fingernails), but a few weeks ago, I threw on some open-toed sandals to wear to work and my nails were dirty underneath, so I quick whipped some of Hannah's polish on them. I don't own nail polish remover, so I'm waiting for it to just naturally wear off of my nails. LOL!)

 

And here are a few from Grace's softball game last night. This one is Hannah watching the game through the fence.

 

A close up of Grace I took while looking through the fence.

 

And one of Hannah. Don't you wonder what she was thinking? I do.

Well, I suppose I should call Steve's cell phone and see if I should shower or something for these stupid parties. Grumble grumble. More later I guess...

Drive by post...

Soooo... I'm supposed to be working, but I also have laundry and dishes to do before Grace's softball game tonight. But I was procrastinating, so I decided to post process some more photos I had taken the past few days. I started messing around with this one I took of Grace yesterday morning:

Now as much as I realize the expression her face isn't the greatest, I loved the catchlights in her eyes and the fact that I had actually focused on her eyes (The new camera can be tricky and mastering your focus is a huge part of it.)

So I opened it in Photoshop and zoomed in on her eyes a bit to enhance the catchlights and sharpen the irises a bit like I always do. As I was doing that, I was sort of wondering what exactly had given her such an odd shaped catchlight. We had been standing outside, waiting for the bus in the morning and I couldn't figure out what could've given them that shape.

So I zoomed in closer. I'm so glad I did! How cool is this?!

Do you see that? Do you know what that is? That's right folks. That's me, reflected in her eyes. I had taken the photo vertically, so that's my arm over my head, holding my camera sideways to snap the picture and the sky behind me.

I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated by this, but I think it's pretty neat.

Anyway, just wanted to post this quick. I'll post again later with my Project 365 photo for today and catch up on what's been going on around here. Happy Friday everyone! :)

I'm Really Bad at Blog Post Titles.

This is going to be short and sweet. I feel bad posting pictures and running. But frankly, I don't have the brain power I'd need to type anything out. I'm whooped. I PROMISE y'all tomorrow that I'll have a good blog post.

Anyway, here are some photos I took today. Enjoy! These were all taken while waiting for Grace's school bus this morning. :)

Crazy Night...

Wow. Yesterday and last night were insane. I won't even go into it all now, but the highlights include:

** Busy day at work.

** Left work and drove to mall to schedule Hannah's Libby Lu party in two weeks. She's so excited! But I need to make the invitations pronto! LOL! It's going to be so cute. Each girl gets a rock star (or princess... or Hannah Montana) makeover, gets to play dress-up, gets to lip-sync at the end, etc. So cute!

** Left the mall and drove to the daycare where I had to attend a mandatory meeting about the summer program Grace will be in. I was a little nervous about the fact that they go to the public pool every day, but I was calmed down a little bit by the information I got at the meeting.

** Left there and tried to make it home to catch the end of Grace's softball game. No such luck. But Steve said she did great and even made a double play... caught it in the air and then threw a kid out at first. That's my girl! :)

** Came home and saw THE most amazing rainbow I've ever seen in my life. Snapped some photos and will post those later.

** Settled in for American Idol. Wow. Was SHOCKED at how big the vote spread was. I really thought it would be closer. Don't want to ruin it for anyone who TiVo'ed it and didn't watch yet, but tonight's post WILL discuss it, so go watch it now if you didn't yet.

** Around 11:30, Hannah puked all over her (and Grace's) bed. Total mayhem. Vomiting for an hour and a half straight with barely a break in between. Poor kid. Her and slept on the couch, so needless to say, I'm exhausted this morning because there wasn't much "sleeping" going on. Sigh.

** So her and I are home today and although I'm supposed to be working, my house is absolutely, positively trashed, I have a TON of laundry to do (thanks to the vomiting), and I really need to get this place in order. Sigh.

So with that, I leave you with my photo for Project 365 from Tuesday. More later tonight...

WWC - May 13th - 20th

I'll be back later with a "real" post. But here are my photos for the Weekly Word Challenge (WWC). This week's words were PEACE and REGRET.

PEACE

REGRET

(I regret ever having started this habit.)

You will always be my baby...

Sorry, once again, for the blog post title that comes from some song lyrics. But my music is streaming (currently, it's David Cook's American Idol performances) and that line actually fits today's posts in some way.

Hannah has her first loose tooth. That's right. My "baby" is going to lose a tooth soon. Now I'm not normally a sentimental type of person. But the fact that the tiny little girl that drives me insane more often than not is about to enter another level of growing up kind of has me in a stupor. She's only 4 after all. And her baby teeth are so tiny (like the rest of her), that I'm seriously afraid that once that sucker does fall out, we'll never find it. LOL! Sigh. My baby is growing up. And I'm cool with that for the most part. But when it's thrown in our ("our" as in the collective group of moms out there) faces, it kind of takes it to a whole new level and makes us a bit weepy whether we'd like it to or not.

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Everyone else in the house is (mildly) sick right now except me. Which gives me one more notch in my mental argument belt that drinking beer kills evil germs and that everyone should do it. Beer is good. Beer does wonderful things. Go drink one.

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So speaking of David Cook, is anyone else as excited for tomorrow's American Idol finale as I am? I feel like such a dork even caring. But I'm soooo excited to see what good ol' Cook pulls out of his hat this week. Get 'em boy!

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I have an awesome idea in my head for one of the photos for Tink's Weekly Word Challenge tomorrow. I already have the "Peace" one snapped and ready to go. But I haven't taken the "Regret" one yet. And I'm glad. Because tonight, I thought about what I wanted to do and tomorrow, I'll give it a whirl. I'm working from home so I'll have time to mess around with it and see if I can translate what's in my head into an actual photograph. Stay tuned...

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For those of you who asked if I'm going to start up Project 365 again now that I have the new camera, the answer is yes. I already have actually. I've been posting to my 365 blog and you're all more than welcome to visit me over there too.

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And with that, I leave you with a bunch of photos I took today after work. I took all of them at Hannah's dance class tonight.

Quote of the Day:
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lazy Days and Good Friends

Ahhh... everyone needs days like today. It was raining and overcast almost all day. The kids couldn't go outside, but for some reason, they were OK with that.

We played board games almost all day, while watching the Indiana Jones marathon on the Sci-Fi channel, and just chilling out.

I had gone grocery shopping first thing this morning, so we had food in the house (unlike the past few days). I did at least 6 loads of laundry (mostly blankets, sheets and towels), and actually put them away instead of letting them stacked (but clean) in the laundry room.

So it was one of those half-lazy and half-productive days that are my favorite. The guilt of being lazy is balanced out by the fact that you did, indeed, get things done. Awesome.

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I forgot to mention that last week one day, I finally got to talk to Tink on the phone. First of all, she sounds exactly like I expected her to sound. Too funny. But what struck me was that the second we started talking, you'd swear we'd been friends for years. (Which, technically, I suppose we have been. But we hadn't actually "spoken" other than in blog comments and email until now.) Both of us babbled... both of joked and laughed... and we somehow came up with an idea to revolutionize the beer keg. We swear we're going to get rich with this idea. Watch for it. You won't be disappointed. ;)

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I actually have nothing else to say about today. And I'm OK with that. Sometimes the most uneventful days are the best ones. :)

So with that, I leave you with my Project 365 shot (the first one), and a few others just for good measure.

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Artistic Release

So as most (all?) of you know, my way of relaxing and relieving stress is through the creative side of me. This involves (in my case) photography and digital scrapbooking, which, in my eyes are totally related and intertwined with each other. I take photos and then I scrap them in an attempt to tell the story behind the photos.

When Steve decided to buy me my new D-SLR camera, words cannot describe how excited I was. Think about your favorite hobby and then imagine that someone buys/gives you that one aspect of it that you know is the best of the best and that will take your "hobby" to a whole new level. Awesome feeling, huh? That's how I've felt the past few days as the various parts and pieces of my new camera started trickling in from UPS, the USPS, etc.

As of today, I've received everything I've ordered and to say that I'm like a pig in shit is an understatement. I'm in my glory. I don't put the camera down, Steve keeps making fun of me because I walk around the house 24/7 with the thing, and my kids may very well revolt and kick my ass if I snap one more photo of them. But I don't care. Because I'm having fun and tapping into something that's been there all along, but that I just didn't have the right resources for.

So now, I'm going to torture you all with some of the photos I've taken the past few days. Because that amazing piece of machinery you see in the picture right below this has me walking on air.

First of all, Susan, the other day you asked for a photo of the kickass birthday gift I received from an amazing friend of mine. It's a necklace made from an antique typewriter key. I adore it. I haven't taken it off since I opened the package. And I will forever cherish it for so many personal and emotional reasons, I can't even go into right now (for fear of sounding too sappy and/or boring the crap out of all of you.)  But that person needs to know that this will forever be one of the most favorite gifts I've ever received.

And here we have Hannah. Oh, this child. She drives me insane, but since she's a diva, she'll oblige to having her picture taken whenever I ask her to. That alone makes her my favorite kid. (I'm kidding! Grace kicks ass too. She just gets annoyed after the 800th photo I take of her, while Hannah just keeps on posing.) And yes, those are her "real" eyes. I ran some actions/adjustments on the photo that changed the general coloring/saturation of the entire picture. But I didn't purposely alter her eyes in any way. DAMN, I wish I had those suckers. LOL!

And this one was just me fooling around in Photoshop and ACR. Hannah was showing me the ink she had on her hand after playing with her stamping set. But I find it utterly amazing that after messing around with it and turning it into black and white, it almost becomes "artistic". And now I adore this photo. I love that it shows my  sweet daughter's small hand, full of ink from being creative, and reminding that they're only little for so long and that they grow up way too fast. That's my baby's hand. And although you can't see her face in this picture, in many ways, this photo shows me more about her than the picture above that's entirely her face. But that's the magic of photography and why I find it such an amazing thing.

So that's what I've been up to the past few days. Well, that and doctor's appointments, vomiting kids, T-ball games, softball games, working the food stand at those games, and general everyday stuff. But I've documented all of it with my new toy, so it's all good. :)

Quote of the Day:
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
--Henry Waldorf Francis

Uhhhh.....

I've kind of lost all ability to speak coherently.  Words cannot describe the crap and stress-related incidents that have occurred in my life the past two days. Nothing life-threatening. Nothing devastating. Just crazy, pain-in-the-ass, stuff. Some big. Some little. But when it ALL happens at the same time, all of it seems "big," ya know?

I'm not even going to get into it right now. Not because I'm trying to be all secretive or because I don't want y'all to know. It's just because I'm falling asleep sitting here and I really need to get to bed.

But I wanted to do a drive-by and tell you I'll be back soon. I just need to catch on some sleep and get the house in order again first.

But before I go, can I just say that the mail kicked some serious (good) ass today. First, my friendly neighborhood UPS dude brought me my new camera bag. There's still no sign of the camera itself, but one thing at a time, right?

And then I checked the mail and found a small package for no apparent reason. Turns out that one of my nest internet girl friends EVER bought me a present that's so perfect,, I can't even stand it. I'm now the proud owner of a custom "A" necklace made out of a vintage typewriter key. It could possibly be the most beautiful piece of jewelry I've ever seen. I swear to god, this girl could have my first born if she wanted. It was just perfect time because in another 5 minutes, I would've gone off the mental deep-end because of all of my life crap. So thank you again, my friend. It was NOT unappreciated.

Later gators. I'm beat.

Guys are cool.

My husband rules. In ways I can't even describe. Mother's Day weekend totally kicked serious ass for me this year.

Saturday night, we met a bunch of friends at a bar to celebrate my birthday (about 13 or 14 of us). We had SOOO much fun! The dude that sang there a few weeks ago was singing there again and we had such a blast with him last time. He was so pumped to see us there and we ended up booking him for the pig roast. He now knows our names, talks to us in the middle of singing, buys us shots from on stage, and lets us come up on stage with him and sing backup when we're really trashed and don't give a shit that we can't sing. LOL! LOVE the guy!

I swear, he's half singer, half comedian. Funny as HELL, even while he's performing, and a totally awesome personality when he's hanging out afterwards with us. I swear, if Steve was gay and this guy was gay (which he very well could be for all I know), they'd be the perfect couple. They totally crack each other up and make the rest of us pee ourselves laughing. It's awesome.

While there, Tink drunk called me, but I didn't know it until two days later because I couldn't hear my cell phone that night and didn't notice the "Missed Call" and "1 New Message" notifications on my phone until today. Dammit. I sooo wish I would've answered because we could've had a contest to see who was drunker. Sigh.

But we had a blast that night, and then stumbled home to go to bed.

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Fast forward to the next morning (Mother's Day) when I woke up bleary-eyed and glanced at the clock to see it was freakin' 10:00 AM! I haven't slept that late in years, and frankly, I hate it. Half the day is gone and it makes me feel rushed the rest of the day.

So I drag my ass out of bed as Steve's pulling in the driveway from being somewhere. He hands me a Mother's Day card, which has happened once before since I became a mother almost 7 years ago. Awesome.

I shower and we head to my mom & dad's (where the girls still are from the night before). I give my mom her Mother's Day present that I made, which I must say, turned out better than I thought they would. I made her (and my MIL) hybrid scrapbooking albums, which combined digital scrapbooking with traditional scrapbooking and some crafting.

We hung out there, ate cake for my birthday a few days earlier, and generally, had a good time.

From there, we headed to my MIL's house. For awhile, we were the only ones there, but then my BIL, SIL and two nephews stopped by. Sigh. My older nephew had me wanting to beat his ass (like usual) about 5 minutes into the visit, and my SIL was a total ignorant and rude bitch the entire time. While everyone else was talking, socializing, WATCHING HER DAMN KIDS, etc., she kicked off her shoes, curled her feet up under her in the living room, and watched TV. Well, excuse me, Princess, but that ain't flyin' with me. [grumble grumble] (PS: In case, by some odd miracle, you stumble across this blog one day, your highlights are so ridiculously fake that it's pathetic, your ass is getting wider, and you still have weird eyebrows. So there.)

But I digress...

We left there around dinner time and took a drive through the mountains with the girls before heading home. Just a nice, relaxing day all around.

But the BEST part of the day was when Steve told me to order one of these for myself:

Huh? What? Are you KIDDING, dude? Because if you are, that's just mean. But nope. He wasn't. We don't normally "do" gifts for each other, but if he was offering, there was no way in HELL I was saying no. Words cannot describe my excitement to get my hands on the sucker. I ordered the body, a lens (thank you SOOO much KF and Kelly for the lens suggestions), a camera bag, a digital card, etc. tonight and it should be arriving later this week or early next week. I've dreamed of one (literally) for years now and the fact that he knows that and offered to buy it for me means the man could very well get lucky every night for the next month if he plays his cards right. LOVE that guy!

Anyway, I hope the rest of you moms out there had an awesome Mother's Day! And those of you that aren't moms, I hope you had a nice day with your moms. And if you couldn't be with your mom for whatever reason, I hope you had a nice day anyway. :)

Quote of the Day:
False freedom leaves a man free to do what he likes; true freedom, to do what he ought.
--Anonymous

I'm Not Gonna Write You a Love Song...

We're pulling song lyrics again, my friends. And actually, that title doesn't even remotely reflect this post, because hell, if I could write a love song, I'm pretty sure I'd do it whether I felt you were worthy or not. [shrug] But it was that or "Billie Jean is not my lover..." and that one seemed a little weird.

This is going to be Day # 3 of my little blog "Vomit Fest" where I just spew forth random thoughts and happenings of the day. [shrug] It seems to be working for all of us, so let's keep it up, shall we?

** Every time I see/hear/think of the "Billie Jean" song, I'm reminded that I went to high school with a girl named Bobbi Jo. Yup. For real. That poor, poor girl. "Hello redneck parents. It's nice to meet you. You have destroyed your daughter's chance of ever being taken seriously once she tells people her name. Hope you're happy."

** "Hi. My name's Allison and I'm a David Cook-aholic." I know. I know. I shouldn't even admit it. It's kind of embarrassing that a 35-year-old lady (I hate that word "lady" by the way) has downloaded every available David Cook song she could get her grimy little hands on and listens to them repeatedly. That's weird, isn't it? Crap. Of course, I guess it could be worse -- I could be obsessed with David Archuletta. That would be weird. What is he? Like 10? LOL!

** We've rounded up some more people for this weekend's local "Birthday Bash" at the bar. Yay! Babysitters  all over the place are being called for this Saturday, all being begged to please watch some kids while their moms and dads go out and get shit-faced with Allison. (Seriously... we have sooo much fun when it's just me and Steve. God only knows what will happen this weekend. I PROMISE to take some pictures.)

** I still haven't finished my documents for my deadline. But it's cool. My bosses were shocked at how much I did finish and are thrilled and impressed with what I cranked out. They kind of sprung it on me at the last minute. I have literally proofed, reformatted, and fixed up over 30 documents this week.  I realize that doesn't sound that impressive until you realize that most of those documents are over 800-pages long. I've never read/typed so fast in my life. Seriously, I'm surprised I'm not blind right now. Hey, is there a lawsuit in there somewhere? If I start not being able to see right, can I sue them and say they chained me to my desk and drove me to blindness? Hmmmm.... I've already worked WAY more than 40 hours this week, but I'm afraid I have to wake up tomorrow morning and do it all over again. Sigh. One more day... one more day... one more day...

** Does anyone else find themselves using keyboard shortcuts in the wrong programs? I love me some keyboard shortcuts. Since I'm a tech writer, I know virtually every keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Word that exists. I can literally write/edit an entire document without once touching my mouse. I can get to the end of a word, the end of a line, the end of a document, boldface, italicize, cut, paste, copy, highlight an entire paragraph, change a style in a template, etc. with the simple push of a button or two. And I know probably more than the average person for Photoshop too. But I often find myself automatically using those key strokes in the wrong programs. And that kind of annoys me. I think all of the keyboard shortcut people of the world should get together and have a big convention and come up with universal set that works in all programs. Hell, I'll host it. At our pig roast this summer. We'll just call it a big ol' Geek Fest and have at it. Stay tuned for details... And if you're a keyboard shortcut creator geek by trade, contact me. We'll talk.

** Is anyone else seriously disappointed in Survivor? After tonight's vote, I almost don't want to watch the finale on Sunday night. It's ALL chicks left. For some reason, that annoys me in ways I can't even begin to explain. Eric, could possibly be the dumbest person to ever walk on the face of the planet. But when you're 20-something years old and still working as an ice cream scooper, chances are you weren't given the biggest brain in the Creator's box if you know what I mean. And I wouldn't care about the girls so much if they weren't all total bitches. Sigh. DAMN those stupid, stupid men. [shaking head]

** I think I was a rock star in a former life. Unfortunately, I lost all ability to actually sing when I was transported into this one. Damn shame I tell ya.

And the only other thing I have to say is thank you to those of you that offered up birthday wishes. Other than working an insane amount of hours, it was a good day. I ate hot wings, drank beer, and watched 3 of my very favorite shows all in a row. So I can't complain. Thanks again guys! :)

Quote of the Day:
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
--Thomas Woodrow Wilson