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Archive for December, 2007
The last Monday of 2007
Dec 31st
Hallelujah!
Took myself to see I Am Legend yesterday. It was good, but I would have been just as happy waiting for the rental. Preview for yet another Rambo movie made me laugh though I don’t think it was intended to. And if Cloverfield is all choppy with just the hand-held camera, I won’t be able to see it. The preview made me nauseous. But as I was walking out of the theater I saw a cardboard cutout ad for a movie and just the tagline got me interested. Owen Wilson in:
Casey, Kira and I went to the Golden Corral buffet for dinner and then when Ginnie came home we all stayed in last night and watched the Rush Hour 3 (oh joy, just as stupid as the first two) and then Eragon. Yup, you could tell it was based on a story by a teenager.
So today I have a list of things to get accomplished. Tires, at least two. Rent, car payment, groceries, etc. No special plans for tonight. I’m fairly sure I’m babysitting anyway. Maybe next year I’ll have a date. For now I’m headed for the shower, so I’d better wake numbnuts up so he can watch his own kid. I have shit to do.
Happy New Year!
4 am 'tions
Dec 30th
Actually, I’ve been awake for an hour – Casey snores like he’s got a bulldozer up his nose. Even two rooms away and with my door shut I’m awake. Seriously rethinking letting him move in here. Dude.
Irritations: Having to leave the party way before I was ready. I warned the boy beforehand that I would want to stay late and he agreed but in the end I left early. Lately Casey’s been dropping me off while he takes Kira over to visit her mother because neither of them has a car and she’s only a few miles from DVS. Which means I’m kind of under a limitation on my time. So he had a bad day and wanted to go home. Tough shit but there it is, I can’t walk home from Phoenix.
Reflections: And at that point, I was just getting my head clear enough to notice there may have been flirtage aimed in my direction. I’m so unused to it that it totally passed me by. Oh sure, there is plenty of meaningless innuendo there on any given day, but this may have actually been more. I wish I could have stayed longer to see where that played. Now that I’ve had time to reflect, I want to find out more about this person. How to be subtle. Subtle is not my strong point. Unfortunately, he’s not local so I doubt I’ll be seeing him again anytime soon. I wonder how long he’s in town?
Connections: I forgot to mention Lindy! I’ve never watched Farscape, and she’s on the ScapeCast. Even in my Strongbow induced blur of midday I realized I liked this woman. I so seldom like and want to befriend women. I meet so many people that remain acquaintances but the perfect slanted look after a particular joke implies a similar sense of humor . . . I think we could really be friends. But I don’t think she’s local either.
Okay, now that I’ve got that all out of my head maybe I can get back to sleep. And look, now it’s actually 5 am. Isn’t that special.
Farpoint Festivus
Dec 29th
Really great day. Saw some people I don’t get to see often (Yooper and Rhettro) and met some new people (Bob, Amy,Curt) and shared plenty of food. I’d bullied machinegirl into letting me bring the deviled eggs and people complimented me on them! Drank three Strongbows throughout the day and just plain had FUN! We didn’t actually record a show, but Micheal had a chance to tweak his new board and get all the microphones set up for us individually and we just kept the live feed going for fun. Lots of conversation!
A bunch of us went to Magnums and sat in the bar for a while so now I smell like cigars. As soon as Kira is officially asleep, I’m hitting the shower. Can’t sleep smelling like this. Changing my clothes didn’t seem to help that much.
Dec 28th
Daughter will soon be caught up in Torchwood with me. The season preview trailer shows James Marsters in the upcoming season. I wonder if that’s for one episode or if he’ll be around for a while. I’ve been recording episodes off BBC America, unfortunately it records everything and I get three or four copies of each show. I look at my DVR list and get excited but they’re mostly repeats. Oh well.
update
Dec 27th
I’m still feeling crappy. A cough from hell, occasional chest/breathing issues and my voice is shredded. Rene came and picked up Kira last night so maybe I’ll venture over to the VA clinic today. There’s one at Williams Gateway, but I’ve never been there so I don’t know the dealio. I reheheally don’t feel like driving into Phoenix to my regular doctor.
Christmas was nice. I received Dad’s card on Christmas Eve and I really nice card from busyme yesterday – thank you very much! The lasagna was er, edible. The bread rose too high and fell after baking, squishing the good part into a clump. Its a good thing we have plenty of desserts. My BFF Jamie makes incredible brownies and fudge just for me. Ginnie got me Bourne Ultimatum. I posted a couple pictures of Kira and her Christmas.
Buck and Ginnie just left in my car. He plans on putting the spare on the car because one of the front ties is showing steel. Like is hasn’t been showing steel for weeks? I have to do something about this car situation. I’m torn between making the car payment and getting tires and just making do with the one I have – hoping the drive shaft doesn’t just fall off anytime soon OR defaulting on the loan, sending the POS car back and starting over with something different at a buy-here-pay-here place for now. I don’t think my credit can get any worse. I can’t afford to fix it and it’s only worth about half what I owe, if that. Yes, I know. Bad decisions in my past. I make bad financial decisions. Anyone who gives me credit deserves whatever they get – or don’t get. Idiots. I suck. Sue me. You won’t get anything.
Tweets from me today:
Dec 26th
- 07:19 Seriously thinking about going to the doctor for this cough. Having difficulty breathing. #
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An Honest Happy Holidays from Me
Dec 24th
I’m not down at all. Things are looking good for me and my family. I miss Max but otherwise we’re fine and trying to spend time with everyone around here. Ginnie got the last two seasons of Buffy from her boyfriend because he just couldn’t wait any longer to give them to her. Her father gave her a bigger TV for her room. I’m actually making her wait ’til tomorrow for what I got her. Must keep some semblance of an actual Christmas Day.
I put Kira’s Zebra thing together and draped wrapping paper around it. That way she doesn’t have to wait once she sees it. Toddlers are notorious for their short tempers. She can tear away at the paper and then get right on it. I can’t wait.
Tonight’s tradition is pizza and driving around looking at lights. Might skip the lights part but the pizza is definite. Sometime tomorrow we’ll open what presents are left and I’m planning Lasagna and fresh baked bread for dinner. Cinnamon rolls for breakfast, too.
I hope everyone has a great day. I plan to.
The story so far
Dec 23rd
I have managed to get one (yes 1 – one – uno) Christmas present so far. Ginnie and I went halfsies on a Fisher Price Baby Gymtastics Bounce and Spin Zebra (which, BTW, we got for $40 at WalMart – who the fuck would pay $199 for this?) and that’s all.
Casey showed up late Friday and Rene right behind him and between their screaming match outside my door and me being sick and trying to remember Kira’s medicines to go home with her . . . I forgot to get paid. This cold has kicked my ass. I’m not going to admit to anything flu-like because I got a stupid flu shot so it can’t be the flu so there.
Anyway, they didn’t come into town yesterday at all and if I want my money I have to go out to Florence and get it. Swell. I really don’t want to take my car out to the boonies but I need money. I need to get Ginnie something for Christmas.
And groceries, and gas, and it’s a long way til next Friday when my VA check comes in. Oh well.
I got a Secret Santa present in the mail yesterday! Way cool liquor filled chocolates and a dragon key chain from Idunnowho. Thank you Secret Santa whoever you are. I’m pretty sure it was from one of my friends on Pernese Friends but I couldn’t reciprocate so I thought I was out. But I get stuff from all my friends so thanks!
Casey handed me an unwrapped electric griddle the other night with a “Merry Christmas Mom.” Great! Wrapping would have been a nice touch, but again Friday night was a confusing blur for everyone. I need to get him something, too.
I loaded a couple more pictures on flickr. I just noticed they’re all a little off-center. It’s an old camera. Yeah. It’s the camera.
I got Father Goose, one of my all-time favorite movies, from Netflix and the last 10 minutes were screwed up. Supposedly I’ll get another copy, but that just ruined it for me.
We all watched Superman Returns last night and I thought it was crap. Seriously. I still don’t understand how these supposedly intelligent newspaper people can’t see Superman in Clark. And that frakking airplane at the beginning would have disintegrated from the shuttle speed long before it fell apart later. And I find it hard to believe even Superman could have lifted that entire land mass especially with it laced with Kryptonite. Superman is bullshit of the highest degree. Spiderman is believable, and Batman is just a rich guy with cool toys but they both tend to stay within a certain degree of believable. Everyone in Metropolis is stupid as shit (except Lex Luthor) and now there’s a kid? Who wants to bet those extra crystals appear somewhere in the next movie?
Oops, spoiler alert. Like it matters.
Squeeing like a little girl!
Dec 22nd
Shocked the heck outta me!
Dec 21st
Seriously?
Whodathunkit.
72 Credits. I guess that answers my Am I Geeky Enough to be a Geek Question.
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