Torchwood just fucking killed me.

Gah, haven't posted anything substantial in a week!

Mostly I've been reading Jude Deveraux "Montgomery/Taggert" books, some for the tenth/twelfth time.

Let's see...on last Tuesday I nearly died.

That's a good way to start. *g*

I was nearly hit by this huge SUV turning left in front of me when I had the green light. I know I have a tiny little car and they obviously didn't see me but it shook the hell out of me. I slammed on my brakes and came within about three inches of ramming into his side. Of course he took off like a maniac up the street.

After that great excitement I signed bank signature cards for church treasurer with shaking hands.

On Wednesday I had a headache and neckache from the near accident, but I got my toes all pretty and red and got comic books.

I don't remember anything of great excitement happening on Thursday but the headache went away.

On Friday I worked half day and while doing so, saw the bookmark on my computer for Le Tour 2008 and remembered that my second favorite sporting time of the year was about to start! I was all prepared to follow one of the two American teams but then discovered that two Americans, one being Lance, are on Astana, along with the winner from 2007 who was just so darn cute, so I'll be rooting for them.

I bought fireworks that afternoon and it was weirdly cool. I hardly got sweaty in the tents.

(On a today note, I've now talked to the same client three times and I've only been here forty-five minutes *head desk*)

The Royals continued to suck and lose.

On Saturday I got up and watched the prologue time trial. Astana placed their top four riders in the top ten. Amazing! Lance looked great. I think he'll do well in the mountains. I don't expect him to win but it's great to see him back.

My brother did not call me, but called my parents at 6:30 in the morning to tell them he was sitting outside our old school in Dublin. You'd think a world traveler like him would know that 12:30 p.m. in Ireland is only 6:30 a.m. in Lawrence. *rolls eyes*

The Royals managed to win.

Mom and I watched the final two Tudors. Y'know, when Henry married Anne of Cleeves he weighed around 300 pounds. Jonathan Rhys Meyers does not. But he's cute. ;)

We had a cookout and then set off fireworks. I got a bit sweaty from running up and down the driveway but, again, amazingly cool! I don't know what the temp was, but we sat out and watched the neighbors' display after ours was done and it felt so cool, like Spring! I doubt it got higher than 80 that day! Has to be a first.

Then yesterday I did nothing. I blew off church and treasurer stuff and watched Le Tour and the Royals win again and then caught up on some tv (Harpers Island, Dr. Who, Pushing Daisies) and read. Didn't even turn on the computer.

This week my boss leaves on Thursday and then is gone all next week so...fingers crossed I'll get some writing done. I may watch the ten or so Smallvilles I haven't seen just to get them out of the way. I'm so meh about them.

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Well, this day started out greeeeattt!

My radio station was blathering about Michael Jackson so I tuned it out and went back to sleep and therefore was twenty minutes late to work.

Now I just sneezed with a mouth full of donut.

Can I go back to bed?

I'm blaming this on being sick and feverish at the end of May.

I signed up for DC Comics on crack_van.

*face palm*

And I did it on purpose since I used a DC icon--I would have used a Buffy one for BtVS.

Luckily I didn't blithely rec something whille at work, though I did spend time checking back recs, which I'll have to do for DC tomorrow.

Can I blame it on being old as well?

*g*

Now I gotta switch gears, though I did sign up for Buffy later in the summer/early fall--double checked to make sure I was on the right sign-up page!

*sigh*

*TMI Alert*

Why am I getting cramps in my upper thighs yet no period?! All it's making me want to do--besides go home--is not work.

So I'm reading this really hot and nasty Guy/Robin fic. I don't usually read RH slash but this is hot and nasty.

Maybe this (not the smut reading, the other thing) is why I'm tired even after sleeping normal hours and napping for up to three the last two days. I was even too tired to watch True Blood last night!

*grump*

OMG, I found "Friendship" online! The story that got me into the fandom, despite it being a pairing I just never read by any other writer really! OMG *squeeeeeee*

A lot of my links are dead, dead, dead, but some of the best stories are still out there! And google is a godsend!

So, I was accepted to be the Buffy/Angel crack_van driver for July! I just discovered that one of my favorite author's fics are STILL online! Wheeeeee! Unfortunately she writes like I do--skipping around--so the first story in her series is incomplete. I'm reccing something else anyway, she's just too damn good. Oh good, some of my other favorite authors still have sites even if they haven't written in forever.

Expect a lot of old school fics! I don't actually read Buffy fanfiic anymore but ten-twelve years ago, at th e beginning, there were some gorgeous stories by some fantastic authors that no one knows about anymore. They deserve the attention!

So, starting July 1, be on the lookout for my recs!

As you all know by now, Michael Jackson died yesterday. I was never a huge fan of his and I totally lost interest in him once all the plastic surgeries and white skin and allegations and oddly created children began, but I have vague memories of listening to the Jackson 5 as a child and I loved Thriller, Bad, and whatever the name of the album is he did with Paul McCartney.

Thriller came out my freshman year in college and while I was heavily into British New Wave at the time, I loved this album, aided extensively by MTV, which actually was a video channel back then.

Whatever he became, Michael was a huge influence on popular music, and he was a great performer. I even liked him in The Wiz.

My radio station's been playing his music all morning--and since I woke up at 5:00 to him, I mean all morning.

....

It's bloody humid here. I went to court at 9:15--usually go around 3:30--because it's too horrible out there already at like 85 degrees. When it hits 100 we may just all melt.

I think a frosty alcoholic beverage is in order tonight at dinner.

I did not get my house "cleaned". I got it picked up. Mom'll have to live with it. It's not like she cleans--she has a housekeeper.

She plans to mow her back yard (she has five acres, so think large area) tomorrow early morning and she's not allowed to mow by herself since she nearly drove into the pond a couple years ago so I'll be out there to oversee around 7:30 and then we're going to watch more Tudors, and then I'm going to come home and collapse in my cool house before I head out to church for a meeting.

Loving the cool.

I made taco salad last night. Apparently you can no longer buy just a packet of taco seasoning--you have to buy either a large jar and measure or a kit. Since I needed shells anyway I got the kit, even though I didn't need the taco sauce as I have a bottle. Weird. It was on sale as was the ground chuck--I just can't rationalize ground sirloin anymore unless it's on sale--and I bought Kroger brand cheese and sourcream, so the whole meal (two actually) cost around $7.00.

I have no idea why I just typed all that up...

Well, I have a ton of work to do so better get to it. The petition boss wants to file, he can file himself since he has court at 11:30. I ain't going back out in the heat till the end of the day.

Instead of cleaning my house I watched Porkys. I haven't seen it in god probably fifteen years at least. I'd forgotten how hilarious parts are--the one coach laughing his ass off while the other is getting it on with "lassie" and the coaches laughing themselves sick in the principal's office.

I can't stand the potty humor of 90s and 00s movies like Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber, but Porkys got it right--funny, silly, smutty, but not outright gross.

Now I really need to clean my kitchen.

OH GAWD SHOOT ME NOW!

This is all sionnain's fault. I've been avoiding all these big bang thingies for the last year and then this one popped up: polybigbang and it was only 10,000 words and I just couldn't resist.

I haven't written anything over a thousand words in nearly a year. I can barely produce a drabble. WTF is wrong with me?!

*head meet desk*

Buffy/Angel/Spike set post season 7/5 probably...

*face palm*

And there's still TEAOW&S to finish...

And this kink bingo thingie...

*shoots self in head*

I mentioned last night that both our local radio stations were missing during the beginning of the storm last night. You'd think this was news, right? A lot of people rely on radio for weather info, and, if you don't have a weather radio, the best bet is local stations--that's why when I got home I immediately turned the tv on to the local station and not Topeka or KC.

But, apparently it's not news. Can't find anything on the local newspaper site or on either of the stations' sites. I checked both twice in a ten minute stretch of drive time, so it wasn't like it was just a "brown out" kind of thing that blipped back on within thirty seconds.

I assume they're back--drove past the station and didn't see anything burned to the ground or anything.

Oh well, whatever, back to life...

Boss was in when I got here. Luckily I was only three minutes late and blamed that on getting stamps at the post office though it was more likely the stopping and getting McDonalds. *g*

We're Hoconning in Vegas this November! So I have to get back on my diet and lose the weight I've gained. The McDonalds didn't help. We're hoping to see Bette in concert, and I'm hoping to get mom out there either before or after for a few days of shopping. Most people don't think shopping when they thing Las Vegas (well, they do if their a Ho), but it's as good as New York or L.A.

I slept pretty well in the coolness but my shoulder was hurting, probably from the storm so I woke when I shifted onto it, despite remembering to take motrin before bed.

Mom and I are going to try out Cafe Agave (or Agave Cafe, whichever) tomorrow night? Any locals been there? We usually eat at Ixtapa but thought we'd try something new. Mom said it only really matters that the margaritas are good. *g*

I have to clean my house tonight. I was embarrassed at the mess when the AC guy was there but it was toooooo hot to clean! And before that I was sick for three weeks. So, it's a mess. At least it'll be cool!

Well, work beckons...or hangs over the head like the sword of damocles.

Ahhhh, the silence....

Of a house where the AC isn't running and no fans are on.

We have cold, people!!!!

I got home after work and felt the cold as I walked into the garage (yes, my garage is airconditioned, even though the vents are closed, because the builder was an idiot--don't even get me started on the foundation built on chicken wire and sand). The main level was very pleasant and while the thermostat in the upstairs hall (see idiot builder comment above) read 82 it was cooler in my bedroom.

I was so happy!

I ran out to my parents to get their mail and water the plants and then drove back as it got more and more overcast to the north. Stopped at Ace for a rake and a mop, then headed across town to the grocery (23rd street Dillons for those in the know). When I came out around 6:15 it was nearly pitch black to the north and this huge wind hit. I live pretty much on a straight line west of the grocery going south a couple blocks and so I decided to head south right away to get away from the terrible storm that was coming.

As I drove dad's massive truck I turned to the local FM station.

It was gone.

I tried the AM--same company. It was gone.

A power line popped as I drove past it! Just from the wind.

I got home, left the rake and mop in the back of the truck, grabbed my bags and dashed into the garage. The trees were whipping. I hate the wind more than anything. I've gotten used to rain flooding the basement and electrical storms haven't taken out the power in a good eight years, but every time the wind blows hard I picture any number of my stupid trees coming down and killing me or the neighbors.

I turned on the tv for the local news and was fiddling with the lamp on the timer that never comes on when I sit in the chair and push back on the timer by accident and the AC stopped. It was not at 77--the set temp--yet, and I freaked some more, even though we'd had no lightning, just wind loud enough to rattle my chimney.

The weather dude said this small but powerful storm was about to hit and we were under a thunderstorm warning for the next hour.

Just as I was about to go check the fuses, the AC came back on--no clue--and I made dinner, trying to ignore the wind...and then it basicallly stopped.

We did get thunder and lightning and rain off and all for several hours but the wind was gone.

Thank god.

And then the Royals won in overtime--second game in a row! Yay!

And Gotham Sirens was excellent.

And it's cold and quiet in my house. :)

So, the AC guy came yesterday at 3:15ish and the temp in the house was 89 degrees. I sat there for about an hour sweltering under the ceiling fan as he replaced some fan in the unit (probably why it sounded funny) and turned off the overheated compressor. He couldn't get said compressor to kick back on--too hot what with running constantly and it being 100 out--so he told me to turn it off, turn on just the fan and wait three or four hours.

Not a problem as I was working out at my parents--okay, I watched the Royals, napped (the heat really was making me sleepy and kind of sick), and read a book, not in that order.

When I got back home at 9:00ish I turned the AC back on and it felt like it was blowing cooler. It was certainly blowing harder (yay for floor vents, easy to check) so I sat and watched the last three Harpers Island eps and did necessary laundry and by 12:30 a.m. it was all of 88 degrees in the house.

I was sure it was working, though, but I'd long since decided to sleep at my parents'.

So, driving out in the country at 12:30 a.m....interesting, especially in dad's boat of a truck which I borrowed since I need to go to ACE and buy AC filters and a leaf rake and my little half car just won't hold a leaf rake.

Anyway...

When I ran home this morning to feed the cats and get lunch it was all of 84 in the house. So then I was convinced the compressor wasn't working and was kicking myself for probably overheating it again by running it all night.

I got to work and waited till 9:00 and called and luckily the guy from yesterday was just finishing up a job in my neighborhood, so I ran home and met him and the compressor HAD kicked on, but it needed freon or fake freon or whatever.

Which is what I was sure the problem was to begin with. I probably broke the fan belt or whatever it was running it constantly as it was trying to cool with little to no freon.

As he didn't need me to stick around, I only missed a half hour's work and I'd gotten a hold of my boss before leaving and he was on his way in. I left everything--even my coffee just sitting there--but I wasn't going to give up a 'right of way' appointment!

So, hopefully--fingers crossed--by the time I get home it will be cold in the house, at least downstairs and I won't have to sleep at my parents' again. The bed is fine but I can't sleep under a duvet. I get hot, regardless of it being like 60 degrees in their basement.

And their shower is weird and needle sprayey.

Talked to mom in DC--they're staying in Dupont Circle so she's walking to the nearby bookstores and not taking the deadly Metro--and it sounded cooler there.

I think today is the last mega hot day around here, though, really what's the difference between 99 and 91? Not enough.

But the Royals won last night! Wheeeeee! Grienke is so damn cute I wanna cuddle him and pinch his cheeks.

I have thoughts on the "warning" wank but they'll probably piss off people so I'll keep them to myself. I DO warn heavily but that's more because I don't want to be flamed--as I was about ten years ago for writing rape and not warning--than anything else.

Guess I had something to say after all.

Also laughing at the Star Trek fangirl wank. People are idiots (the people who started it). Icons are supposed to be full of cute guys! Jeez, get a life, and to say that TOS didn't have hardly any female fans is insulting. I grew up watching it in repeats, saw every movie in the theater, had nursedarry crying on my shoulder practically at the end of Wrath of Khan, thoroughly loved DS9 and enjoyed Voyager and Enterprise etc. etc.! Even my mom--not in any way shape or form a science fiction fan--enjoyed it in the original airing and loved TNG. I would say at least half my girl friends have enjoyed various incarnations of ST before this reboot.

I really didn't understand the original argument that fangirls with their cute guy icons are spoiling the fandom or something. It seemed really stupid and, yes, as some commenters pointed out, reminiscent of the way women were treated in the early days of scifi fandom--as interlopers and freaks.

Okay, gotta do the monthly billing.

OMG so freaking hot!

I cleaned out the weeds around the air conditioner and hosed it off but it's still not working--it blows cool air but not cold. On Saturday that was fine--heck, with the rain the outdoor temp got down to 70 and I was out running around to various treasurer meetings--pretty much every process needs to be upgraded to the 21st century--but yesterday it was 95 or so and very hot. I was gone most of the day between church, father's day brunch, and church building dedication in Topeka but when I got home the thermostat read 84 and it stayed there.

Sitting under a fan was okay.

Baking cookies at 11:30 p.m. was not. (church auction win--six dozen cookies). Thank god for two ovens--though twice the heat, it took half the time.

I was sweat soaked by the time I watched True Blood at 1:00 a.m. and it was still 84. During the last week while it's been 83/84 when I've gotten home, over the evening and by morning it's dropped to 78.

Not this morning--it was 83.

I had hoped to wait until Friday when mom would be back in town and could meet the AC guy but I'll leave work tomorrow. He'll be there at 3:00. I'm sure it only needs the fake freon--it's working, just not cold. I'm also getting on a contract so they come out and service twice a year and you get priority and a discount on other calls.

Anyway, I'm staying at my parents' tonight. The cats seem fine and I'll leave on all the fans and leave plenty of cold water for them. They've run to the food at feeding time and gobbled, so I don't think they're suffering.

My parents' basement (where the guestroom is) is so cold I wrap up in two throws when I work down there. I can't wait!

It was already 85 degrees outside when I delivered the cookies at 8:00 this morning. It's supposed to hit 100 for the next couple days. That's August weather not June! It's ridiculous, and because we've had rain, there's also high humidity. We're in a heat warning.

So, that's my bitchy whine for the morning.

I was shocked by Robin Hood ep 12.

I was thrilled by the ending of True Blood ep 2. Also, I like Eric's new look.

I've been reading a lot since I've had no energy to do anything else in the hot house. The latest Pendergast novel was wonderful if very sad. I much prefer the whole range of characters being involved and having it back in New York. I also read the first book of a line of mysteries about angels by Mary Stanton, set in Savannah and in a one woman law firm--she represents the dead in their appeals from purgatory with the aid of former angels. I've started the second book in the series of two.

I also watched the last four Eureka's that were marathoning yesterday. I'd forgotten how they ended! Back in two weeks finally.

Now, where is my boss? Usually when he gets back from vacation he's here before I get here and I've been here 90 minutes!

We haz five Dreamwidth codes. First comment, first getz 'em.

Quick, before I melt in the heat! 82 degrees upstairs. Blech

Good cookout at church--I ate inside. No fool here!

Dang it, CW! You're screwing up my plan not to watch Fox shows on tv (boycott because of SCC).

They moved Gossip Girl to 8:00 cst Monday which means I have nothing at 7:00 to watch since CBS moved Big Bang Theory and I can't watch House on tv due to the boycott. This also means that come January (depending on when Heroes actually airs) I'll have four things at 8:00--BBT, GG, 24, and Heroes.

And a big nada at 7:00.

At least SPN premieres early, September 10, so we have less than three months till Hell's a poppin'! :)

Also ITV can bite my ass for canceling Primeval and leaving it totally screwed up. I'm so not happy with this season. Hell, I still miss Steven. I really hoped season four would fix everything but now it's been canceled.

*grumps*

At least the guy finally left.

You remember 'I need this contract right away' guy?

Well, after the boss spent like two hours rewriting the contact last night and then emailed me the wrong version so had to go sit in front of Starbucks and steal their wireless at 8:30 a.m. his time to send me the correct one and we had a twenty minute phone call to make the changes and I called the guy and told him it was ready...

He still, as of 2:00, hasn't come in to pick it up.

grrrr

He said he'd be in over lunch so instead of me going to get lunch, I ordered from Jimmy Johns, which, actually turned out really, really good. I was craving a sandwich and if I'd gone out I'd have gotten tacos or something from a drive-thru. I'd forgotten how much I love the French bread from JJs. They put lots of mayo on, as well, and not a lot of crap. I rarely eat sandwiches but when I do like meat, cheese, bread and mayo, though I kept the lettuce on today.

Anyway, here I sit waiting. The other people who said they'd be in around 1:00 were here in a timely fashion.

I guess I won't be walking over to get my comics before the end of the work day if he doesn't show up soon. Though with the heat and humidity I'd probably be a sweaty puddle by the time I walked the block. Horrible, horrible today! The last couple of days it's been so cool in the mornings; today it was at least 80 already when I got to work.

...

Oh geez, he's been here like 20 minutes and is now rereading the contracts after I already made final copies for him. Go away!

How did it get to be 2:30 already?!

The Royals won again last night!!! Four in a row! I'll miss most of tonight's game as we have a cookout at church and then choir practice but hopefully Grienke will be on his game and we won't have to rely on the bullpen.

Somehow yesterday I managed to drip strawberry yogurt onto the F3 key. It's like gummy. I'm scraping it off with a paperclip. The paperclip has many uses, y'know.

Well, better work and look productive since this man is NEVER LEAVING.

So far the week of no boss has been pretty meh.

I got a parking ticket yesterday (may have mentioned that).

I got home to discover my battery backup on my sump pump was going off and it wasn't due to needing a new battery or anything. All I could assume was that it had actually been in use except the power never went off--nothing blinking in the house. It had some kind of message along the lines of 'check pump'. Like I'm going to know what to do about it. The only way to get the alarm off is not only to unplug it but to unscrew the leads to the battery.

I spent fifteen minutes last night cursing my cable company for not showing the Royals anywhere. (They were supposed to be on the FoxKC HD channel which I get but I don't have HD but the channel was a "sign off" channel and regular FoxKC--which is actually FoxMW--was showing something stupid).

Except they were off last night...

Then it stormed a lot. The sump pump did run and the power did not go off so I guess I'll try hooking the back-up back up *snort* and see if the alarm goes off again.

I got to work almost a half hour late because I didn't want to get up.

As soon as I got here, contract guy from yesterday called to ask if they were ready. Um, it's 8:00 in Colorado; I told you boss couldn't get his email until today sometime, do you think he went at dawn?!

My oatmeal kind of exploded in the microwave.

My phone is beeping which means it's running out of charge and I don't have a charger here.

Can I go home now?

Boo to annoying client who needed a contract ASAP, drop everything, blah blah blah, so my afternoon of porn battling didn't happen.

:(

Is it poor form to write some of the prompts once the battle is over?

*thinks about porn etiquette*

*giggles*

Drove to work in torrential downpour so I parked right out front at a meter. Naturally I forgot to feed it and when I went out at 3:00 I missed the ticket lady by 15 minutes. :P Only $2 but still annoying. If the street didn't turn into a river I'd have parked in my normal lot across the street and halfway down the block.

Of course I could have moved the car once the sun came out an hour after I got here but that's too much logic stuff.

Watched True Blood 2.1 last night. Wheeeeee! I'm glad they're getting away from the books and developing their own plots and characters. I love teen bitchy vamp.

Also, Erik made me snortle.

Of course they better veer back to the books come season 4 or I'll be ticked off. Having read most of them in one go, I quickly lost my Bill love and moved it to Erik (okay, that was pretty much a given after seeing the show and the blond haired viking vampire) and I'm a for sure Erik/Sookie fan.

Well, back to work or porn or something.

More porn battle entries. As we discussed at brunch yesterday, I'm not sure what we're battling for or how you win, but I keep churning out the pornlets. Well, they're barely porny. I kind of suck at the sex writing these days.

The first one cements my place in the Special Hell.

Ineffable, a Castiel/Lucifer from Supernatural (though my Lucifer is more along the lines of the Vertigo comic one) pornlet. Yes, a fallen angel and an angel get it on. I was heavily influenced by Good Omens, too, hence the title.

Framed, Wes and Lilah and a lacy bra.

His Dark Queen, Tom and Ginny from my HP series.

And the Royals swept the Reds, so it's been a good day! I need to go plant my flowers and have dinner and then back to the porn!

No More Hiding, a Harry/Draco smutlet for the Porn Battle.

Ice Lolly

Spike/Buffy pornlet over at my dreamwidth account. :)

Well, the very lowgrade fever only lasted about an hour last night so maybe I'm finally getting well. *knock on wood* Now if the other problem would sort itself...

My boss is gone through all next week. Yay! I knew he'd be here until about 11:00 this morning so I expected to be busy but I hadn't realized thirty days had passed for about eight cases which meant drawing up petitions and affidavits along with pulling files for all of next week and doing several other documents. So, busy, busy, busy and now my desk looks like it exploded.

I think we got everything done that was necessary and I even remembered to have him sign the state tax coupon for Monday.

Then I read some fanfic, watched Comes a Horseman, because I just read this brilliant post Bordeaux Methos, Amanda, Cassandra and OFC fic and was in the Highlander mood, and now I'm dithering over participating in the porn battle. There are some intriguing prompts.

But I haven't written anything real in ages.

The Royals overdid themselves last night, winning 9-0. Couldn't save some of those runs for other games, guys? But it was a lovely win and Meche (the pitcher) was on big time. Some guy caught both our home run balls in the same inning, let alone the same game. An AL record, apparently. We had a grand slam. If we'd waited one more inning someone would have won $25,000! I bet he/she is still cursing the team. *g* Tonight is Grienke. Two wins in a row would be nice coming back home tomorrow.

Too bored/tired/in pain to get up, I then watched the end of Wipeout--god let me never be so bored, tired, in pain again--then the finale of Real World/Road Rules challenge. I didn't even know they had another one going. These things are addictive. Talk about your publicity whores! lolol My god, Ruthie was back? Isn't she like 50 by now? lolol Then I watched the hour of outtakes, and then finally got up with this urge to watch the Bab 5 ep where Delenn goes butch. I love that episode.

Such an exciting night.

I did read Batman, Batman & Robin, and Red Robin.

( spoilers for said comics )

Well, that was longer than I planned. Basically I'm enjoying the storyline. It's giving me evil Tim/Slade ideas, too.

I also bought Xmen Forever because, I can't help it, I love Claremont and his obvious Jean/Logan love. :) I need to refresh my memory on Xmen Genesis in 1991, though, because I can barely remember back that far! Obviously Remy just joined the team and Kitty and Kurt are on break from Excalibur. Ah, the more innocent days. And no Emma, yet! I'm also curious as to what originally happened in the story that flowed from Erik's "death" that time around. Not curious enough to go spend hours digging out the relevant comics. wiki here I come.

Okay, let me look at those porny prompts...

First Operation Rescue is interested in buying Dr. Tiller's clinic. My guess, burn it down and make it some kind of pro-life shrine.

Then some probable white supremacist shoots a guard at the National Holocaust Museum.

And vandals are destroying rare books at the KU library most likely to sell the pictures.

The Royals not only gave up a 4-0 lead in the 6th but lost 8-4 last night.

My fever's coming back...again.

The other issue continues to cause pain and discomfort, though today it's from walking, not sitting as much.

It's going to be 99 degrees on Monday. My AC sucks.

Thank god my boss is going out of town tomorrow and all next week so I can just collapse here in the air conditioning and watch DS9 eps with Dukat in them.

And Red Robin #1 better damn well be at the comic book store in 90 minutes. I'm just saying. I didn't realize that Batman and Robin was a mini-series--I thought it was a change in name to Batman--so I didn't order it special and now it's backordered for me which means at least two weeks. I got Red Robin on my list pronto.

Also, he'd better be Tim.

Blech to the day in general.

Why is it storming?

wah

Whiney post ahead...

Also TMI ahead...

Basically I haven't been able to sit for several days due to hemeroids(sp). They suck. Usually I can get them healed within a day or two but it's been a week now. I think it's due to the fact that the antibiotics make me constipated and that pushes on the hemeroids and also on my damaged tailbone (long story, permanent damage for thirty years now) which makes it painful to sit.

Also the fevers aren't gone yet and it's been a week.

Life sucks.

So, that's why I haven't been around. Mostly I've been laying down or reclining on the non-painful side. I even took off work yesterday but I'm here today, leaning forward a lot.

Again, life sucks.

Friday evening ended well, with the fever going away long enough for me to attend the Spiritual Celebration Team dinner. Jill cooked using recipes developed by her neighbor, the former executive chef at The American Restaurant in KC (for those not from around here, it's a big deal). We had brocoli soup, blue cheese salad, polenta, asparagus, halibut and salmon, topped off with fresh blueberries and yogurt. Lots of nice chatting as well.

Saturday I went out to my parents' to watch the first two eps of the Tudors. Less sexing, more battling, but still enjoyable.

I watched the Royals finally win a game then the fever returned and I napped and then watched Independence Day (which of course I own but still...) and mom had the tape of Star Trek First Contact so I watched that.

I also watched Primeval and, after reading about the rest of the season, I'm not sure I want to continue watching. Let's just say of all the characters who have been on the show my least two favorites are Conor and Abbie. The new soldier is cute but he's no Stephen, and I always preferred Claudia over Jenny. Unless they're going to pull a big alt reality switcheroo next season, I'm not happy.

On Sunday morning I couldn't sit without intense pain so I blew off church, watched the Royals lose, blew off going to see Night at the Museum and dinner with the parents and read the latest JD Robb book. I also painfully sat at my computer long enough to watch Robin Hood. Yeah, I have issues with the complete historical inaccuracy where wardship is concerned but yay Guy!

I got up yesterday and got dressed and then the fever wiped me out and I got undressed and called my boss. I read the last two Sookie Stackhouse books and lay around. Last night I was finally able to sit at my computer for any length of time. I then read about a third of Good Omens (for the zillioneth time).

Such exciting fun. :P

I felt fine yesterday until I left the beauty parlor after my pedicure and could feel the fever returning so when I got home I sat at my desk to take my temp while checking my email and while shaking the thermometer it went flying out of my hand to break all over my wooden floor.

*face palm*

Mom said I could call hazmat to come clean it up. Apparently they do that.

Um, I think I can handle it myself, mom. lolol

We'll just let hazmat deal with the mercury coming out of toilets when idiot meth makers try to flush it. Hint: don't, it's a solid.

Yes, that really happened recently here in town to my handyman (his idiot tenants asked him to unclog the toilet and mercury spilled out; needless to say, they aren't his tenants any more). lolol

Feeling okay today. TMI: a bit constipated which I get before my period which is due any time and also it can be caused by antibiotics, but we loves our antibiotics (children's tastes yummy!)

I'm going to start my treasurer training next weekend. wheeee Hopefully there'll be some mimosas or something at indiefic's house for brunch that morning so I can get buzzed before the boredom. *g*

Tomorrow night is the big team dinner at church--I hope I'm not feverish because I really want to go. As I don't see any point in going to the late June meeting to plan the rest of the summer since I won't be on the team come July 1, this will be my last change to hang out with everyone. We've become a close-knit group. I also would like to go support our softball team on Sunday--I was too sick last Sunday. Yeah, we have a softball team!

We're getting a presence! No longer just that weird little group of hippies out in the country worshiping trees or what-not. *snicker* About five years ago the chair of the Spiritual Celebration Committee started hearing that there were fears from certain religious leaders in Lawrence that we might be moving into town to, I dunno, contaminate them or something. We were starting to grow. Now we have a new building and a minister and a softball team and everything. Yeah, we're a big time threat! *snort*

I watched a certain movie again last night. I won't say how, because it's naughty, but man do I love a certain guy with pointy ears. And, no, Ken, it's not Legolas.

Well, probably should do some actual work. Luckily it's been a slow week since I've missed three hours and been feverish half the time.

Oh, I did put up a whole bunch of new icons over at DW; now I just need to spend 24 hours switching these out.

It's the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters.

Man I'm old.

And the fever is back. *sigh*

And the Royals continue their downward spiral into suckingdom.

*back to watching GB then GB2*

Guess what I have?

If you said 'sinus infection' give yourself a million bucks.

What? I make an hourly wage here and had to waste an hour and a half to leave work early. I can't give you any money!

*g*

At least this time I didn't wait two and a half months to go to the doctor--well, the nurse practitioner because, naturally my doctor wasn't in today. I think of the five times I've gone in for respiratory problems in the last decade--bronchitis and sinus infections--I've seen her once.

The NP had me in and out in thirty minutes, though, with a quick diagnosis and a scrip for children's zpack. I also have to take mucinex and a saline nasal spray. Well, I'd be taking mucinex if it came in liquid, dissolvable or chewable form. I mean, really people! I just told you I can't swallow pills and you were all 'sure, no problem, liquid zpack for you' but then here have a pill.

This is why I go to a locally owned pharmacist and not a big chain, because he immediately said that simple robitusson would do the same thing just not at a time release. I've used it before for sinus drainage issues and it's a lovely liquid to begin with.

All meds need to be liquid, dissolvable or chewable. I'm just saying.

Anyway, I need to go start the zpack. Naturally I feel fine and even had a below normal temp at the doctor's office but she could see the symptoms in my nose and throat and there was pressure change in my ears.

She said if it hadn't been over a year I probably wouldn't have had to go in but the insurance makes them. The insurance that won't actually apply this visit to my deductible. :P

I'm also wondering if all those colds I had over the winter were really colds--they never moved past sinus drainage into my throat, I never had a chest cold, and I did have a couple days of fever each time. Maybe they were minor sinus infections. Mostly I had stuffiness and sinus pressure.

Great. Joy.

And it's pissing down rain.

Well, this has been a weekend of ups and downs, mostly downs...

The fever continues to come in the late afternoons and evenings, though last night I didn't have the accompanying chills/aches so I'm currently deluding myself that it's not a sinus infection and that I'm getting better.

Saturday morning I went garage saling at which it was already blazing hot by 8:15.

Then I basically napped away the afternoon on the couch.

Then I had a near meltdown over my service on gay marriage since I couldn't contact my coordinator--she wasn't responding to emails--and I had no readers or a convener, so I went and scrounged them up myself, all the while sitting at my computer sweating like a pig. I need to stay well long enough to clean my house so the AC guy can come. It's blowing cold air just not cold enough so probably needs freon substitute.

Anyway, I was in no mood to write my sermon so I got up Sunday at 5:15 and wrote it. It went over amazingly well. I got lots of compliments and shoulder squeezes--why do the cute married guys always put their arms around me?!!!

Then I came home and watched the Royals lose again and fell asleep again on the couch. I watched Harpers Island over dinner then caught the last half of Twister and then the first half of Twister (which, of course, I own--and they cut the 'Bob's road line!') followed by about half of the DaVinci Code, which I recorded to watch the rest of tonight.

Oh so fascinating!

I was supposed to take pictures for eBay--did none of that--and switch out icons--did none of that, though I did load some on DW.

And it's hot and humid.

Life sucks.

Oh, and then, of course, I got the news about George Tiller.

Life really sucks.

Reminders you're getting old pop up in the weirdest places. I was planning my garage sale route (as I seem to be well each morning) and the estate of my junior high librarian popped up. I was her aide for three quarters when I got out of gym when I tore the ligament connected to my tail bone. :(

Name five fannish things that never fail to cheer you up.

1. The Internet exploding in squee when a new show hits or a new pairing shows up or anything squee worthy to show that fandom is never going away.
2. Sexy evil male characters being written as evil and dark and not woobies.
3. Gray characters written well and not destroyed and turned stupidly evil.
4. My Spike...even when he's ash in a bowl or come back to life as William. ;)
5. Pretty icons with writing--hard to find these days!

Give me a character/pairing from any fandom I participate in and I'll give you one fanon that I don't agree with.

I had to skip the cookout at church due to 101 degree fever, chills and aches. They were gone by 6:45; if I'd taken motrin to work and taken it as soon as the chills hit around 3:00 I would have been fine by cookout time since it only took about ninety minutes for the pills to knock out the fever. :(

And the Royals are sucking so I'm going to switch out icons! Whee, Friday night!

I am tsunamied at work (thanks Aileen for the new word for swamped!) so of course I'll post something here....

Such a joy to get to work early and find the most talkative client ever waiting for me. He finally left after a half hour of explaining stuff to me on new collections that I've already forgotten, but not before chatting with my boss' 9:00 appointment for ten minutes.

He's a nice guy, but, please, do you see the stack on my desk (which you've now added to?)

I found the cleverest reading on gay marriage that I'm using in my service on Sunday on "Marriage, Both Spiritual and Legal". Yeah, coming from someone who's never been married and never plans to marry. Why did I agree to do this again? Anyway, it's a riff on How the Grinch Stole Christmas (or Gay Marriage). Our minister said she'd use it and encouraged me to. I thought it was a bit light, but then it follows the UUA president's comments on the stupid California Supreme Court.

I feel ten thousand times better today--you'd never know I have a cold since I sniffle and cough all the time anyway. Let's hope it holds up. There's a cookout at church tonight for the RE teachers that I want to go to and I want to go garage saling tomorrow before I bury myself in writing my sermon.

I did have a fever of 101 but it finally went away around 7:30 and I perked up--which was good since I spent over an hour researching gay marriage and getting the order of service together.

Sam at "Sam's Comics" *snicker* had all but the last issue of the twelve issue run of Young X-Men so I read those last night then watched X-Men (on tape, jeez I don't even have the dvd!). Logan looks so much better in the recent movie. I'd forgotten most of what happened in that movie. Haven't seen it in years.

Well, these stacks are quite intimidating...

(  I swear I did NOT cheat! )

LOLOLOL

Perfect!

Also I have another fucking cold with temperature and aches and everthing! The world sucks.

OMG, swamped at work. A client has sent us 20 separate accounts via pdf files and email. So far. They stopped around noon, I assume only because she went to lunch! I've got the files set up but the collection letters aren't going out today because I need to get our invoices out and make copies, write checks and go to court to file several things. And now I have to draft this petition my boss has put off drafting for two weeks which, of course, he told the client would be emailed to them today.

I'm just now eating lunch 45 minutes later than normal. *sigh*

Oh well, collection accounts are a good thing for a collection attorney. And they're easy enough to process--we just don't get so many at one time. This email way is working well, though--she scans them, I print them, no need for mail etc.

Comic book day, yay! I have a list of needed Xbooks to beg Sam to order. I'm missing the May and June XFactors for some reason. The final Battle of the Cowl offshoot is out today, too, I think.

Last night I lay on the couch and watched Oceans 11. I own Oceans 11 but I was too lazy to do anything else, including find the dvd. Then I watched an episode of Wolverine & The X-Men. I'm not sure I like this show yet. It's an amalgam of so much with timelines all out of whack (kind of like the movies where Rogue and Bobby are too young). I'm such a purist though the books themselves aren't helping with continuity. I'm still trying to slot in Astonishing and I swear Logan must have cloned himself at least three times to be in as many books as he's in! lolol

My allergies are killing me--I have a sore throat and I'm coughing constantly. Maybe I'm turning into a vampire ala this new teen vampire book I picked up at a garage sale called "Marked" where the change begins with coughing. So far about five chapters in I already like the teen heroine a million times better than the whiney "I'm not good enough" one in Twilight. Plus there's swearing and blow jobs. A mother/daughter combo wrote it. I cannot see myself writing about blow jobs with my mother!

It was also bloody cold yesterday. Colder when I left work than I went in--56 degrees! Stupid weather. It's supposed to be in the 90s by the weekend.

I'm doing the service on Sunday on gay marriage and I haven't even picked hymns, let alone started writing the sermon. Or even thinking about it. The Order of Service is due tomorrow. Better get that done tonight.

nursedarry wrote me a lovely Spock/Uhura drabble even though she's a Spock/McCoy shipper. There's also a really evil Draco/Barty Crouch Jr. drabble which I told her to expand into a fic because it rocks in its evilness. I don't think the post is locked if you want to go read them (there's other drabbles as well).

Well, better get back to the huge pile...

Well, had a long, lazy weekend reading three years worth of X-Men comics. Naturally I have some issues missing, like the first issue of the Messiah crossover, but I've muddled through. I'm caught up on Uncanny and X-Men and nearly caught up with X-Factor.

I've been under the impression that Astonishing was AU but apparently it's not--it just doesn't play into any crossovers because Joss doesn't like them (and can't keep to a monthly publishing schedule, apparently). So, Kitty really is dead. Huh.

Of course, no one is every totally dead in comics.

I'm holding out hope that Erik really isn't bad again. I loved the issues of Excalibur with him and Charles on Genosha.

I need to pick up the twelve issues of New X-Men and I missed the first issue of New Mutants but I'm pretty sure Sam is ordering it for me. I need to get the missing Cable issues of this Messiah War, too. I have X-Force.

Anyway, enjoyable. I have no clue why I let them sit for three years. Last time it lasted eight years and was due to Buffy online obsession.

In real life, my boss is back and I'm doing the monthly invoices. Wheee. Excitement.

The Royals won beautifully last night. Up until the sixth inning I was a tad worried. It was 1-0 Detroit (scored in the first) and we had one hit. Then we exploded. :) Today's game is during the day and I can't get radio reception here and I'm not paying for stuttering streaming video from MLB so I'll keep the play by play visual up.

I want to go see Star Trek again. I wish I had some fic ideas but then I wish I had ANY fic ideas. My muse is dead. I have no clue how to revive her.

The rain that was supposed to start Saturday finally came over night last night. No clue how much but it's cooled it off around here which is good for my AC.

Though I finally had to turn on the AC at work yesterday. It was stuffy even at around 72. At least it worked this year.

This is really boring. I'm going back to work.

Dammit, if one more thing goes wrong with a computer...! My stupid wireless mouse right click button stopped working! So, to cut and paste, I have to click on the mouse on the laptop then switch to the wireless mouse to paste. grrrrrr

I've spent the day watching tv (Royals, yay!, Night in the Musuem in prep for sequel) and reading Xbooks. I'm going to read about ten Xfactors before bed so I can start the cycle of Endangered Species through Xmen, Uncanny, New Xmen, and Xfactor, tomorrowl. My life is so exciting!

( a meme while putting off doing the dishes )

Mom and I went to Angels and Demons and enjoyed it. Unlike Davinci Code it kept to the book and wasn't controversial. A good mystery. Having read the book, I knew the "baddie" but mom was surprised. Finally saw some diffferent previews (and an extended preview/interview about HP!!!--mom's never read or seen any of them but was slightly intrigued. If Colin Firth was in one she'd be first in line. *snort*). One was for that Taking of Pelham whatever and mom was like 'seen it' and I was like 'huh?'. Apparently it's a remake! There are SO many remakes in the works both for tv and movies!

It's bloody hot here. I went garage saling and at 7:00 it was already 70, by 8:30 it was 76 and steamy. I actually got sweaty! Found a few things--holiday weekends never have many sales.

Then I went to the church and worked in the muggy library until we ran out of the cards and pockets. I'll see if I can get some on eBay. You can get anything on eBay.

Why on earth would someone zip and load a wallpaper on megaupload?

*downloads Spock/Uhura wallpaper anyway*

Last night I set up my mom's new laptop. Dell is now selling computers with BOTH XP and Vista! Mom's desktop soundcard has never worked and so she can't watch any videos or listen to music or anything and sitting at her desk for too long is painful so now she has a laptop on the wireless network that she sit on the couch with. It's got a 15 1/2 inch screen which is huge compared to my little 12 inch. Of course she got a wireless mouse and keyboard because no one outside of my brother and his family can type on a damn laptop. On mine the mouse is way too sensitive. You don't even have to touch it and it moves the cursor and deletes stuff or suddenly you're typing over stuff.

Anyway, the point is that my desktop is coming up on four years and if I need a new one I can get a Dell with XP. If I had my way, I'd make a computer with current high processing power, ram and storage but with Win95. I have a Win95 computer in a closet. I love it but it runs at the speed of really slow mud.

Mom and Dad got the computer set up and on the wireless network but god forbid they download anything. I set up Firefox, Eudora, Winrar (for zipping because we had to unzip Colin Firth saying something snarky for her email alert) and Word Perfect, got the perfect Colin wallpaper, set up what files will open in what programs, go Win Media set up, changed the size of fonts and icons...I don't know what they'd do if I didn't live here. Pay some guy $300 to do what I did for free. They will have to hire someone to transfer all her documents from her desktop because I don't know how to hook computers together. I've tried and failed--though that is probably due to differing operating systems--and don't want to futz around with it again.

It's hot in my house--reading 78 while set at 75 but I'm hoping that's due to the timer being off and it just switching over from 78 to 75 which it's set to do at some point on Saturday. I checked and it's both blowing cold air and the pipes don't have ice on them so it's not frozen like last year. I need to stop at Ace and get new filters. I have to go to Target, maybe they have them.

Three day weekend, yay! Because it may rain tomorrow and Monday we're having ribs and not cooking out. Dad's version of rattlesnake ribs are to die for. You marinate them and then boil them and then bake them and you have the sauce on the side. I don't like sauce on my ribs. Plus our family recipes for baked beans and German potato salad. :)

Last night before the computer work dad nearly sliced the top off his thumb off. He'd gone in to make stirfry while mom and I remained on the front porch (yes, Shel, they were drinking!). Mom didn't have her hearing aid in and didn't hear him yelling! I was like 'mom, dad's yelling' and she's like 'huh?'. *snort* So I finished the stirfry which they totally ruin by putting onions and peppers in and leaving out the water chestnuts and brocoli. We have the same recipe but they also don't make a thick enough marinade so their chicken doesn't get crispy. Like the same risotto recipe and meatloaf recipe, my version is so much better than mom's. *g*

Tomorrow is memorial day at church. The picture of my grandparents that sat on my dresser for years is missing. What the hell have I done with it? *sigh* We're supposed to bring pics of deceased love ones and that one's perfect because they're holding my childhood cat, also deceased.

Well, I need to go find library cards and pockets and go to Target and try not to melt in the heat. Maybe I'll write something, or more likely I'll read more Spock/Uhura and Claire/Sylar fic. *sigh*

Oh, I definitely will get icons loaded on DW.

Maybe.

Jesus, why are library cards and pockets in the scrapbooking section and why are they so freaking expensive!? I could have sold the 100 I had and made a fortune! Shit, people will buy any old crap!

Off to find them NOT on eBay.

Well, I did my work for the day. :P

I HATE making cold phone calls (a calling center job is my idea of hell) and for some reason, instead of asking me to get him the number, my boss asked me to call the state hospital to find out the procedure to get a client released. I hate doing stuff like that; I literally get nauseated.

But, I did it, and am now waiting for a return call from a social worker. Answering the phone I have no problem with.

In other news, Star Trek on the second viewing continued to rock. nursedarry is not going to corrupt my adoration of Spock with her Spock/McCoy shipperness. For once, kilter and I agree on something, though her reason is because of wasting the hotness that is Karl Urban on another guy and mine is my Spock/Uhura shipperness and lust for Zach Quinto. *g*

Medium got picked up by CBS for a full season! Yay! I have to watch the last five eps now (and a million other things, my dvr is like at 88% capacity).

Star Trek Nemesis was being shown on something last night and I caught bits of it while watching the Royals lose and it made me want to watch First Contact and then I couldn't find it. I dug through all my tapes (yes, tapes). It wasn't until I was in bed that I vaguely remembered that I didn't own it but I'd taped it off of something so it's on a tape with a handwritten label. Maybe. I also want to see bits of Wrath of Khan but that taping (off of HBO or the like) must be in horrible condition from almost 25 years ago. Maybe I need to get the dvds...

I still have no desire to write anything Star Treky (well except my own OFC, of course, because god forbid there be a fandom I don't have an OFC in).

Actually, I did write something yesterday--comment fic for sionnain's have your pairing go grocery shopping challenge. Once I get some icons up on DW I'll post it there. Maybe tonight since there's nothing on tv but Ugly Betty and I'm several eps behind on that as well and the Royals play this afternoon.

So, Smallville is moving to Friday night, the night of death. I don't care. I haven't cared about this show since Lionel died and Lex left (and died or whatever, I haven't watched like the last ten eps or so). I may not watch next year, depending on if I ever watch the remaining eps and if Chloe lives (don't spoil me!). She's the only reason I'd watch.

I never could understand fans of a show who didn't like the main character until I got hooked on Smallville. Clark/Superman has never been a fave of mine (I don't avidly dislike him like some fans disliked Buffy, for example). I watched for the Luthors and Chloe. I think that's pretty obvious from my OTP.

Yesterday was the first day I wasn't tempted to turn on the heat or my space heater at work. Nor am I tempted to turn on the AC. Big ass warehouse taking forever to warm up...

I'm not surprised by the outcome of Battle For The Cowl. Saddened, but not surprised. I think I really love Bruce for saying what he did to Dick, and that fanon reasons for Jason's personality may be canon is pretty cool. The identity of Red Robin is pretty clear now, but the one book I don't really care about is Detective, as I don't really care about Batwoman. Hopefully, Bruce will come back soon and take back his cowl!

I read the first two Return of the Flash issues and the timing is so off with the rest of the DC world it's annoying. I would have loved to see Bart's return to the TT in TT but Tim's gone in continuity. Ditto with Dick being gone from the Titans. Maybe some answers will come in the last Legion of Three Worlds--in my opinion, the only good thing to come out of Final Crisis. I guess I'll be getting Adventure Comics come this summer. :)

(I guess DC settled their lawsuit with the Superman estate, huh?)

I'm in the mood to read X-books (due to the movie, I'm sure) so it's time to find all the last four years or so and get them in order and get to it before another four years pass like the last time this happened (due to my Buffy obsession taking up all my time). Then I read like eight years of comics in one go (well a month or so!). I should be able to get them read before Summer tv viewing starts up in late June.

And then there's the writing...

First...JEEZ 24, and I thought the LOST cliffhanger was big!

Yes, I did just watch it at work. To be fair, I holepunched documents and organized files while doing it.

Now a meme before I trot off to the comic book store to get Battle of the Cowl 3 and find out who replaces Bruce:

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?


liam22 gave me Bones, Heroes and Supernatural.

( My answers )

And Fox continues to suck/be stupid. They're moving Fringe to Thursday night! KILL ME NOW! I already watch (counts) 7 1/2 hours. Oh wait, Fringe will be taking Hell's Kitchens spot so it's still 7 1/2 hours but I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO WATCH ANY HK due to trying to keep up with 6 1/2 hours (and I'm at least eight hours behind on Smallville, three on Ugly Betty and three on Earl)!

Right now, with Reaper on its death bed, that means I have nothing to watch on Tuesday night.

This is ridiculous.

So not happy about Sarah Connor Chronicles.

*pout*

It really sucks that Fox tends to air the kind of shows I like--fantasy, horror, scifi--but rarely gives them a chance. I'd stop watching, but, again, I do love several of their shows (plus their cartoons). grrrrr And I'm very happy about Dollhouse.

Torn.

I'm watching The Patriot for the first time (I've seen bits and pieces). Let's guess who Lara loves. Let's...

See icon but with brown hair. ;)

Yes, Emmy, Tav is an evil god. Can I have him back as my secretary? I promise not to touch!

I'll trade you the fireman who is currently in my office poking around for violations! (which is why I paused the movie)

Yes, I work so hard when my boss is gone. *g*

I haven't watched the Survivor finale yet. So far unspoiled. I watched the above referenced Fox cartoons and Primeval and napped for about three hours on the couch.

Also, please don't spoil 24 for me as I won't be home to watch anything live and probably won't be home till late as the girls are going to KC for fondue. I can feel my arteries hardening already! :)

Huh. Did Robin Hood not air last night on BBC? Becuase ususally it's available at least three or four times within two hours and it's now over twenty four.

The Annual Meeting at church lasted only two hours, a record! At about 11:45 (it ended at noon) I was beginning to think we wouldn't get out of there till 1:00 but then there was no discussion on the last six or so budget lines and they passed in a lump.

An ongoing problem reared its ugly head again--well, it's a problem I see. Until about ten years ago we didn't really have a budget. People donated and bills were paid, we had no paid staff, if we ran out of money the big givers gave more. Over the last decade we've hired a secretary and a DRE, have built a new building, started a second service and done more more more. About six years ago the budget process was revolutionized. We now have a pledge drive, and once that's done, committees send in their requested budgets, then the Board and committee chairs meet to hammer out the budget, which is then approved by the Board, and then goes to the Annual Meeting to be nitpicked over by the congregation, most of whom have had no inpjut to this point.

It used to be that the budget was all put together and decided during the Annaul Meeting. That was fine when the budget was $20k. Not when it's $140+k. The congregation should simply ratify the budget drafted by those people who actually spend the money. The budget meetings are open to the pubic as are all committee meetings. If you want some say, join a committee, chair a committee, join the Board, get off your ass and have a presence at more than the Annual Meeting where your bitch about shit you know nothing about.

We have to have a balanced budget. If during the Annual Meeting you want to change a budget line and give a committee more money, where the hell are you planning to get it?! Yes, you should give that some thought because I can tell you those committee chairs and the Board gave it a lot of thought as they hashed out a balanced budget. Show up for that meeting if you want to make changes.

This is why the damn meeting can last forever.

I always got elected treasurer. Yay.<--sarcasm

There will be changes.

But nothing's gonna harsh my Star Trek buzz. I have no urge to write fic...yet...but I now want to watch DS9 and drool over Dukat.

On tonight's Survivor finale for the first time ever I don't mind if anyone of the remaining four win. I like them all--well, don't really care one way or another for Erin--so I'll be happy with whomever wins. I'm not sure I'll watch it live. May dload Star Trek eps...

Watched Prison Break finale. Damn!

Next movie, Angels and Demons. Yes, I know it got bad reviews but Ewan, Priest, Ewan! *g* Also, Night at the Museum 2 and Terminator to round out May! Then (after HP and probably something I'm missing) GI JOE! I was bouncing in my neat during the preview. Mom was like, those aren't the little GI Joe dolls your brother had. *g*