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Aug. 22nd, 2009 @ 09:33 pm Book list
Ok, so school starts on Monday.

These are the books I was able to read over the summer. A little disappointed that I didn't finish my last two. :(

Philip Pullman's: His Dark Materials
-The Golden Compass
-The Subtle Knife
-The Amber Spyglass

C.S. Lewis's: The Chronicles of Narnia
-The Magician's Nephew
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-The Horse and His Boy
-Prince Caspian
-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-The Silver Chair
-The Last Battle

P.C. and Kristin Cast's:
-Marked
-Betrayed
-Chosen
-Untamed

Mead's:
-Vampire Academy

Cassandra Clare's: The Mortal Instruments
-City of Bones
-City of Ashes
-City of Glass

Neil Gaiman's:
-Stardust

Paolini's:
-Eragon
-Eldest
-Brisingr

Stephenie Meyer's:
-twilight
-new moon
-eclipse
-breaking dawn
-midnight sun (not released, it was only a draft Stephenie Meyer has available on her website)

Melissa Marr's:
-Wicked Lovely

Two more books and I would have had an even 30. :(
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Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 03:55 am Reading
So I've been on a reading binge lately.
Not sure where it came from, but I'm enjoying it.

So far since April I've read:

Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr

The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

Stardust (this book sucks, you'd be better off watching the movie)

twilight
new moon
eclipse
breaking dawn

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Batter
--(in that order)

City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
(After reading these books I don't think I can ever feel the same about anything else I read. This trilogy is the best thing I can remember reading. I'll never read them again though, lol, they can't possibly do the same thing for me twice and it would ruin what I remember after reading them.)


I've got several more on my list to read, and a handful in a pile next to my bookshelf that have yet to be read even though they're not on my list. (That's what I get for asking someone who works at a book store for a suggestion).
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May. 30th, 2009 @ 11:31 pm An attempt from last night at more makeup. By now I'm just having fun I think.
So the makeup has gotten a little old for any practical purposes; practical in the sense that I'm only doing this so early so that I can be ready for halloween (I never dress up for halloween). I've practiced and practiced, and I've posted all the pics on my myspace and facebook. But now even though I'm having fun I'm getting tired of it, which is why it's been nearly 2 months since the last time I made an attempt.


But here they are: ( lots and lots of pics under the cut )
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May. 30th, 2009 @ 11:17 pm Bored
I'm uploading some pics so I can post them here and it's taking too long, they're unedited and too big. This is taking forever.


So I'm really just updating in the middle of an update.


I was re-reading all my old posts on here back through January 2008 and it amuses me. :-D
I do hope that in another year I'll do the same thing and be equally amused. lol
With school coming up things seem like they're going to be spun out of control and topsy-turvy (sp?).
I'm excited but at the same time it's the biggest shakeup I've had in years.

And once it's over it wont settle down either, because I'll have to decide where to live and I'll end up moving. (Certainly I wont be here any longer than I have to be.)

Even that's scary though. The longer I stay here the more comfortable I become. I think this wont come a minute too late because complacency is awful and terrifying.

I'm thinking of moving somewhere cold because I like jackets and there wouldn't be any spiders. I'm also thinking of moving somewhere warm because I get tired of the cold, although I feel likewise about the heat.
Then there's NYC, which just seems neat. And San Francisco for practical work opportunities.

But the more I think about it, Alaska could be pretty fun. :) I could learn to like the snow.
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May. 27th, 2009 @ 11:28 pm Update: School Fall '09
Ok, so I'm done flip-flopping, lol.

I went with University of Toledo. Went and registered for my fall classes today. 16 credit hours fall semester, 16 credit hours next semester, (they only wanted to let me do 12 because of my poor performance at Eastern when I was 18-19), and I have to get all A's to be eligible for the pharmacy program next year.

No pressure, right?

lol, I'm excited really.
Now I just need to get the rest of the money gathered by the fall.

Hello school, goodbye social life for the next 6 years (starting in September).


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And while I'm on events for today: I got a couple cavities filled today. It's been over a decade since I've had a cavity. I forgot what it was like, lol. He hit the nerve when he numbed my right side. It felt like someone stabbed me in the face, lol.

Now my face and jaw are both exhausted.


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The counselor at UT thinks it's a waste of time, but I think for some of my electives next year I'm going to take some French classes. I took 3 years in high school, I'd like to take more. After I graduate I plan to visit Europe so it'd be helpful to speak another language. :-D
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May. 14th, 2009 @ 12:43 am A little halloween practice from March and April.
I really have no idea what it is I'm going for. I'm just playing with makeup I guess, which is slightly daunting when I think of the fact that I'm only doing it for halloween and I haven't made much headway.

But here are a few pics from March and April, (the most recent attempts I've made).

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Mar. 20th, 2009 @ 09:21 pm Thou Shalt Not Take The Lord's Name In Vain. Right?
So, I'm a wanderer when I get online. I saw a commercial last weekend for A Haunting in Connecticut I decided to look it up on Wikipedia.

It lead me through page after page as I hopped from hyperlink to hyperlink. To the show A Haunting. To the term demonologist. To Demonology. To Warlock. To Wicca. To names of their God and Goddess. To a link to the Green Man. To some pages on churches and green men. To statues in churches. To demons. To demon names. To the Devil, Lucifer, etc. To The Divine Comedy: Dante's Inferno. To more Demon names. To Satan's names. And finally, to God's name. That ended my trip on Wikipedia after a couple hours of reading. Then I took an external link to a journal entry from a study of some ancient Jewish scrolls and documents.

That's where the point of this blog comes in.

As it turns out from reading the scrolls, a looooong long time ago, a group/committee from some community wrote a rule that God's name was too sacred to be spoken and/or written. Something along the lines of "Anyone who speaks the name of god shall not be allowed back into the committee and should be punished by death."

So they started writing in their ancient Hebrew (I think it was hebrew) the equivalent of our "YHWH." They took the vowels out of his name and put some punctuation markings and a side note providing a name to be spoken in its place: "Adonia" and "Elohim." (I may have spelled those wrong.)

Over the following hundreds of years (through today, which I suppose would make it "thousands of years" instead) the vowels were never written again and the spoken word was lost.

Christians then translated the Jewish bible (Old Testament) into English (or whatever language they spoke, Latin maybe?) and it evolved over time into our current "Jehovah." YHWH = Jehova. Yahweh was how it was pronounced in an attempt to add the vowels again. Scholars finally came to an agreement that this was probably as close to the real name as we'll get. They don't, however, agree that that's definitely what it was. In the absence of any other proof though, they decided to go with it.

All of that kinda adds up to the fact that "God" isn't His real name. The truth is His real name was never written down in recorded history. There is one person in some religion somewhere that claims to know, but it's never shared because of how sacred the information is. The name is passed down from one person to another, like the keeper of the name. It's muttered once every year and no one hears it clearly. Fishy, huh?

Thus leading me to the conclusion that there is no possible way to say the Lord's name in vain, since no one knows his name anyway. :)

So take that for what you will, and hopefully you'll be spared any guilt in the future if you slip up. :-D
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Mar. 2nd, 2009 @ 10:46 pm My 7th Try - 3/2/09
I posted these to my facebook and myspace around 6:30am. No, I wasn't up that early, I was up that late.

( 7th try, same colors as most of the others, but better blending! )
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Feb. 23rd, 2009 @ 10:22 pm (Reminded that I haven't updated in a while)
I got an email today reminding me that I haven't updated my livejournal in some time. So here's an update.



I'm still working at the hospital in 2009. I'm still a pharmacy tech.
I'm admitted to University of Toledo this fall to finally get my pharmacy stuff done.

I turned 24 today. :) I hate getting older. :(

Still single as ever. For better or for worse, however you'd like to think of it.


I've been trying to practice for halloween. (I know it's forever away, but when I started, it was December, still don't have it all down yet.)

Here are a few pics (they're all available on my myspace Mike's Myspace).

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Dec. 11th, 2008 @ 12:18 am Smoking
Did I tell you I quit smoking?!
Well I did now! lol

I'm excited.

I'm going to give myself a Christmas/New Years/Birthday present soon for it and it's going to be a new tattoo or two. I want suggestions and pictures. :-D
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Dec. 9th, 2008 @ 12:21 am Movies
Twilight is awesome, and needs to be watched by more people.
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Sep. 20th, 2008 @ 02:45 pm Vegas Was Amazing :)
The majority of the week was just fun, I got to use the slot machines, listened to a couple different bands play at night at our Hotel (Bally's), we hit up a bunch of casinos. I had a good time.

We went to Death Valley one day, stopped to see a couple ghost towns and Dante's View.

Another day we went to see Bagdad Cafe and drove aimlessly around the desert for hours, lol, not really my idea of fun, but when you're not driving, there ya go.



Thursday night was the best though. After the desert we gambled a bit, and got bored, so I decided to go find Krave Nightclub. It's attached to the building with Planet Hollywood.
The place was slow, but it was awesome, and it was Thursday, so I didn't expect it to be busy.

I walked in and paid and got my drink and just hung out.
There were two guys in underwear dancing up on the blocks, there was a girl on another in her underwear, they were all very entertaining. lol
Eventually a guy from LA came up and we talked for a bit, then we left when it started clearing out. A girl had bought me a drink (it was supposed to be from her friend but he didn't know she'd bought it I guess). Walking down the strip after that we ran into some guy who'd been at Krave too, his accent was cute. Said he was from Ireland and had moved to England and was visiting. We all hung out for an hour or so.

I finally called it a night at 7am, lol.

What an wonderful week. :)
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Aug. 10th, 2008 @ 01:31 pm A fun weekend?
Current Mood: contemplative
Ever had an ex give you a hard time at a party 4 years later?

Neither have I, until last night.

It wasn't very hostile, but still, kinda irritated me.

It was kinda like he thought we were 10 years old or something, just trying to push my buttons by poking me saying "Does that bother ya?" "That offends you, doesn't it?"

I ignored it at first, then that just egged him on. The guy I was talking to just kinda looked on in what I believe was disbelief, the same way I was feeling.

It lasted for a total of no more than 2 minutes, but I mean, come on, we're adults and he never behaved like that before. Caught me off guard.



And then I ended up leaving the party with a group of people to another house on the other end of Ann Arbor, we were there for like 30 minutes, the girls passed out. The guys got into something scandalous, and we left. Girls went home, the rest of us went to another apt. I hung out, but started getting restless when they started smoking next to me.

At 4am when it came to offers of where to sleep I said I need to go and drove home.

I was proud of myself for not getting drunk, but is it always that awful hanging out with people during and after a party if you're not drunk?


I mean, don't get me wrong, they were very nice people.
But that behavior is so far from where I'm at in my life now. I did that 3-4 years ago. I was crazy, had sex while people walked in, went with the pot, hopped from one place to the next, and I even got that sarcastic biting humor with my ex. But that was forever ago.

I learned my lessons. I got caught drinking and driving. I had all the sex I wanted.
I feel boring now, lol.


And just to clarify, I have no qualms with my ex.
He came up to me relatively near to when I got there and we chatted on the couch for like half an hour. Caught up on happenings, news, just chatted.
It was nice.
I felt cute too, so I felt fairly confident at the party.

I wasn't being bitchy about him, I was uncomfortable with his humor I guess.
So when the host started giving me a near-hard time about my reaction to it, (my reaction consisted of me staying in my seat telling him "No, it's fine" just kinda eyeballing his fingers as they kept attacking me while he proceeded to tell me "I know it's bothering you." Then he leaned back, then leaned in again (he was standing over me while I was talking to a new acquaintance) and said "Some things never change."), of course I was offended. Someone asked how I knew everyone here and I said I'd been coming up here for 5 years and that the two people, one in red, one in blue, the blue is my ex. Apparently I said it disdainfully and that was unacceptable.


I was embarrased and offended that I was put on the spot like that.


I'd like to come to the birthday party in October, but from the way I was treated I doubt I'm really welcome.

If not then I'll just have to find something else to do that weekend since I'm off.
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May. 25th, 2008 @ 10:54 pm Vacation Vegas
After looking up flights to Europe and places around the country and after talking to my mom, I've decided on Vegas in September, (maybe August, hopefully September).

I want to check out the gay clubs there and gamble a little. I haven't been there since I was a kid, and we were supposed to all go as a family in February, but that never happened.

But yeah, the month of September, I should be there for 7 days, give or take, depending on how much money I can save, (not sure what the hotel prices are).

If anyone knows of a good place to stay, then I'll be asking over the next few months for updates, let me know. :)


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I'll be going as a group of sorts, but I'll be completely on my own, with plans for hanging out with my family and a couple family friends, (my sister-in-law and my brother may go too, not sure).

So night-wise, my time should be pretty open, and a few days. I'd really like to see the city, not just the strip. :)
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May. 25th, 2008 @ 09:08 pm Vacation
It's time for another vacation.

I have 40 hours (5 days) saved up so far, by the first week of september I can have another 12 days (96 hours) saved up.

So I'll have a choice, I'll be able to cash out 80 hours and use the other 40 for 1 week of vacation, or cash out 40 hours and use the other 80 for two weeks of vacation.

I'll probably do the 40 hours and cash out 80 (two pay weeks), because technically, if I can time it right, I'll have 9 days off anyway.



I just need to figure out where I'm going to go...any ideas? I'm up for suggestions.
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May. 24th, 2008 @ 08:04 am A Fan Club?
I was on lunch yesterday and got to talking with a girl from Lab.
The conversation took a fairly pleasant turn. :)

I mentioned that I'm single again, (that technically I was always single but had been dating one person for a while) and she started talking about her cousin this, and her cousin that, and that he's looking to move down from up around the Beaumont Hospital (I think that's what it is) area in the next couple weeks.

She also told me that she'd already told him about me, and then she went into her story.

He seems pretty appealing, so she got my email address.

He wants to bring her lunch sometime in the near future to try to run into me by accident (so she says). It could be cute. :)


She also mentioned that he's very attractive and that his last guy was intimidated by his looks, so that could be fun to see. :)

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I had to say all of that to lead into the subject line.

Hearing that he's attractive, I mentioned something about looks and how I'm ok, and she said "Ok? You're hot!"

lol, I laughed and said thanks, but that I think I'm just ok. She said all the lab girls know who I am, even the ones I've never heard of.
There's a 50 year old foreign woman in there and this girl told me the woman was going on about me one day so she said "He's like, 21!" and the older woman said "I don't care, he's hot!" (with her little foreign accent, lol)

Needless to say, I was flattered.

I went back to Pharmacy and told the two people I was closing with what I'd learned while we ate, and the RPh said some of the nurses had told her that too.


So apparently, as it was said yesterday I'm the "Bixby Hottie."
lol, I guess I need to start being nicer to everyone while I'm walking around. :-D
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May. 7th, 2008 @ 02:25 am It's late...
I'm tired, this will be fairly quick.

Got the phone issue resolved.
I had them take off the plan add-on that I'd asked for and had them put the old plan add-on back on my bill.

Then I went and bought a second broadband internet card from Sprint.
So we're good, now I have my highspeed, and my parents have my old card so they have highspeed too. Everyone's happy.

We're moved into the house, I don't remember if I mentioned that before and I don't have the ambition to go searching through entries right now, but we're pretty much all settled. :)

I have my hard wood floor and my new furniture, we put hard wood in the dining room and the kitchen and re-carpeted the rest of the house.
Joe put tile down at the entrance at the front door.
We're going to tile the bathrooms.
I still have to go get my sliding mirror doors and start decorating my walls, but in terms of live-ability we're doin' good.

Payments start in 3 weeks, lol, so much for having extra money now that I'm fulltime. ;)

Goodnight all.
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May. 1st, 2008 @ 10:59 pm A Tech Guru?
Is there anyone out there that knows how to get the Palm Centro to work as Phone As Modem?
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May. 1st, 2008 @ 10:51 pm Oh, and also--
We moved into our new house. :)

We're pretty much all done, I just need to decorate.
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May. 1st, 2008 @ 10:44 pm Sprint Sucks
I've been on the phone with Sprint for 2 hours!

They sold me a data plan to use my phone as a modem, but then it wouldn't work. It kept giving me ERROR #678.

Advanced tech support told me that there's no fix for the problem while using the Palm Centro, (that's the phone I have). They told me it's a known problem and that they've had many calls from other owners of the Palm Centro.


Now, knowing this, they sold me the data plan. It's twice the price of my power vision data package.

So tonight I called, and they said that, and went away for 10 minutes, then hung up on me.

I called back.

Right as the hold music stopped, my call ended.

I called back, waited on hold for 10 minutes, then got a guy who says there is a fix and that he doesn't know why anyone would say otherwise.

So now I've been on the phone again for 30 minutes waiting for the guy to get a laptop and a Palm Centro to go through it too to see what's going on since he hasn't had to work with the Centro and Vista together.

And here we are.

I'll let you know how it all turns out.
I'm slightly irritated at their business practices.
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Apr. 21st, 2008 @ 09:03 am This is kinda neat. :)


Helena by My Chemical Romance
String Quartet, no lyrics.
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Apr. 2nd, 2008 @ 11:26 pm Left Overs
I just realized I feel left behind.
Or maybe forgotten?

Or maybe it's just that I feel as though I've let myself and my wants go.


I've been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of remembering.

The tables have turned, I'm seeing a 19 y/0 and I'm 23. This is the arrangement, reversed, that I was in for my first relationship.


I remember that compared to me then, I'm a boring old fucker, and I just can't have that.
I was in much better shape. (I'm not far off, I just don't have any tone :( )
And I had plans and dreams to go everywhere and do everything.

And I think it's time to do just that.
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Apr. 2nd, 2008 @ 11:19 pm hm
It's an odd feeling when you realize a friend from long ago no longer is, isn't it?
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Mar. 30th, 2008 @ 08:31 pm An update
SO!

I bought a pair of shoes yesterday, I broke down and decided to get something cheap. I ended up at Wal Mart looking for something green to match my scrubs. I did find a pair, and I bought them, but there was something about them that I couldn't put my finger on.

It finally hit me when I got to Josh's. lol, I bought straight shoes...very unlike me. If it weren't for the fact that everyone seems to like the shoes, I'd go buy another new pair.

But oh well I guess.

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My brother and his wife and I are getting a house tomorrow. Joe and Brittney will be closing on it tomorrow, they'll have the keys around noon. (I say this knowing that they already went to close on it a few weeks ago but my brother turned them down because the agent didn't tell them about pro-rated taxes. The pro-rated taxes are gone now, but I'm still aware that it could fall through again last minute.)

I just bought my paint today, and a light. I have so much I want to buy, but we'll be taking this week to get it cleaned up and painted and have cleaners come in for the carpets, then starting next week I guess we'll start moving in. :)

I'm excited to be finished, but I'm not excited about all the money I have to spend on new things, lol. Thankfully I'm full time, so it'll be much more do-able than it would have been otherwise.

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This coming Saturday I'll be in Valparaiso, IN to see family.
I'd invite my friend Josh, but he's in dance and has a rehearsal on Sunday and it's nearly a 5 hour drive (4, but there's a time change on the way back). So it'll just be me, and the AAA discount made me get a room with two queens, (lol, beds, silly), so I guess I get two beds for myself. :)
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Mar. 17th, 2008 @ 09:43 pm Nicotine
Sooooo, I was sick to my stomach this morning.

And it took me a long time to realize why.

I was wearing a patch to try to quit smoking starting before bed the night before.

I took it off this morning, but it was too late.



The problem arose when I used the patch I used when I tried to quit 6 months ago. That was a 21mg patch. I was at nearly a pack a day.

After that attempt to quit, I had a couple patches left over and I only started smoking about 7 cigarettes/day now that I'm fulltime and we have a smoke-free campus and we don't take breaks.
I nearly tripled the amount of nicotine I get daily by using that patch overnight.
I thought I had a stomach flu this morning.

Turns out...lol...I overdosed on nicotine.

I was sick as hell today.


I feel like such an idiot. I mean, I do work in pharmacy...been in pharmacy for going on 5 years in June. It's pretty embarassing to have to admit that I did that. lol


Anywho, just thought you'd like to know what I did.
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Feb. 14th, 2008 @ 11:05 pm Happy Valentine's Day - Dedicated to Long Distance Lovers :-D


A-Teens "Halfway Around The World"







**And has anyone seen the animated movie "A Goofy Movie"?
It looks like they're doing the "perfect cast" when the song gets to 3:00 lol
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Jan. 29th, 2008 @ 11:07 pm Commercials
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Jan. 29th, 2008 @ 01:14 pm Mirrors
Don't you just love when you walk by a big mirror, stretch, look, and say out loud "mm, look at you." And then give yourself a great big grin?

It makes the day so much better. :-D
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Jan. 29th, 2008 @ 12:32 am A Cute Video - Ring Them Bells
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Jan. 28th, 2008 @ 11:52 am *grumble grumble*
Current Mood: bored
I'm bored and grumpy today.

Not sure why. I haven't been up for very long.

I think I just woke up that way, like a wrong side of the bed kinda thing.

It's possible I'm hungry...but I don't like to eat in between meals, and since I woke up late I missed breakfast, which means I'll wait for lunch.


I'm trying to think of what to do for Saturday.
It's possible I'd take a trip up to Spiral. Or I may want to visit Bretz in Toledo. I haven't been there in a long time and I think they're under new management, so it'd be kinda neat to see if they've made any changes.

And Thursday, Friday, or Saturday I want to go see a movie. I might want to see 27 Dresses, Cloverfield, Sweeney Todd, or Meet The Spartans...I don't know. But I want to go to a movie and I want a big bag of popcorn and my sour patch kids.

And I may try to invite someone, or I may go with my brother. We'll see on that too. If you're interested, let me know, we'll see if that could work.


Also, I'm becoming concerned for my vacation.
My friend down in TN hasn't answered me. I asked how things were going and asked if things were still a go for March 1-9, and I never got a response. That was last week. I doubt he's ignoring me, or if he is then fuck him, but I need to know, lol, so I can pick my emotion. :-D
If I don't go, then that's $1000 that I get to decide what else to do with, but I was putting it aside for a vacation...soooo yeah, you use that for a vacation right?

Anyway, we'll see, because we're nearly down to 4 weeks, a little too close for comfort for me.
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