mountaineer musings

today

today my new city smells like the stockyards. mmm-mmm-good.

today

today i will sit in class and learn some auditing stuff daydream.

in other news, i took a long hot bath then slept many hours last night (compared to the number of hours i've been sleeping lately) and feel a bit refreshed. which is great news for y'all, because that means i might blog tonight, woohoo!

in more other news, Bikermommy says she's sticking to her guns and not letting me take my Nuke the Moon peace gallery pic on their weapons truck (it's a sweet sweet Hummer) until i'm unpacked. so i suppose i have to finish the house stuff so y'all can get a freakishly cool picture of me. or y'all could beg in the comments (address all begging to Bikermommy).

in even more other news, my dear friends Scott and Candace were gonna have a bebe yesterday, so Will should be here by now. i shall call and find out. anyway, congratulations to them!

ta, and have a great day, musees!

today

today i'm sitting in my freshly-decorated tuscan-ish livingroom, watching Terminator 3, writing (yes!!) an ALIAS rewrite, eating chocolate almond ice cream, snuggling with the kitties.

i'm'a pretty much do the same all day. nice day. :)

today

today i woke up at 8:30.
slept through my TWO alarms.

so embarrassing, especially since i've been at this job less than a month; i usually wait until i've been a place quite a while before pulling that.

today

today i've been thinking a lot about our military men and women fighting for us past, present and future.

to all of you, i would like to again say THANK YOU. i'm in your debt, and words are not enough. but they're what i have right now.

today

today the world says goodbye to a great man and a wonderful President.
Frank J says what many of us are thinking better than most of us could. go read it.

God bless, everyone.

today

today was a long day that started yesterday around 2 p.m. (or 1400 hours, whatever).

we finally got away from Bedford about that time and trucked it to Amastinkinrillo. i drove the 15' rental, and Bikermommy followed me in the Splorer; we did take my walkie-talkies, so Bikermommy was able to backseat drive from a whole other automobile. every time i would ride the line or swerve or hit a tree or roll the truck, there was Bikermommy's sweet voice asking me if the wind was blowing really hard or something. oh, and every time the "reduced speed ahead" signs came, Bikermommy would say, "you need to drop down to 55" or "you have to be careful in this town, because they'll ticket you here". we drove by one or two State Troopers, and Bikey recognized them as someone who'd ticketed her before (not joking).

today

as of today, i have 5 days left here.

i'm kinda excited, kinda overwhelmed, kinda beat down because i have a stupid horrible sinus infection that is severely hindering my ability to get stuff done.

Spidade and Stepmo' came over last night and helped with the packing. yay! that was nice of them. i had to get on to Spidade, though; he tried to pack a box a little over-full, and the top was not exactly level. for someone with such a messy apartment, i sure am ridiculously AR about the way my boxes are packed and the way my stuff is organized. go figa.

today

today is one of those days, or tonight is one of those nights, rather... when i'll sleep neckid with the fans on me.

thursday morning i woke up with the beginnings of a sore throat. it's progressed from there, and today i have:
low-grade fever (99.5 and i'm usually around 97.1 -- hey, cool, those are both metroplex radio station frequencies!)
sore throat
total body achiness
sinus infection.

not a great time for this, as i have a bunch of people coming to pack my uhaul friday night and am way behind on packing. ain't life fun.

in other news, i got some fan-mail recently from a guy i hung out with in college; tonight i picked him up from the airport (he was passing through) and we had dinner. it was lots of fun playing catch-up, yay for IMAO contests! we got to laugh about old times and uncomfortable moments (which he was sure i would have forgotten by now -- come on, i'm a chick!!), and i (upon my request, actually) learned lots about the Air Force. it's really nice to rekindle old friendships, and it doesn't hurt when those friendships are with hot guys who are great huggers and at least as sarcastic as myself. :D not that any of that matters.

did i mention that i feel miserable? ugh. wah. ugh. wah. wah. wah. wah. you get the picture. wah.

today

today i've made progress. though you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at my apartment. right, sizzle?

auditing my own books is SO! MUCH! FUN!
eh, at least this is what i do for a living, so it's like old hat, except i'm usually auditing other people who LOVE me, and their love makes it all worth it.
/sarcasm

but actually, the fun will come when the other party sees that yes, i do have stuff in order, and yes, i can prove that he's a clippity clappity scumdiddliumptious flickety floo liar! yay!

in other news, i think my cat may be dying (Nicole); she just gets skinnier every day. i don't really get it, she seems so with it and healthy, and she acts the same, but she's shrinking a lot. maybe she cut out the carbs like i did. she's getting close to 14, but that's not that old, is it? i do fear that the move will be more than she can handle, though; the second we get in the car, she starts to hyperventilate, and five and a half hours just might push her over the edge. Minerva, on the other hand, does really well in the car. of course, so did Mia until i took her to the vet one day, and she came home without claws and without a uterus; so i guess we'll see. Minerva still has her claws (i'm trying the just clipping them thing), but i did take her for the hysterectomy, so she, too, may pee all over me the next time i try to put her in the car. thank goodness for cat carriers and for cats who just have to walk inside them the second you open them so they can see if there's anything of interest in there. yeah, you are now, silly! haHA!

the little sizzle wants to be a guest blogger here on thursday while i'm at my mediation. i immediately said yes then asked what she would write about. after she told me about all the embarrassing photos she would post and all the stories she would tell, i shouted out a big fat UH-UH and took away her guest blogger privileges before i even granted them. of course, i could allow her to be a "junior" author, which means i would get to edit all her stuff before posting; that's tempting, because little sizzle is pretty funny, and anything embarrassing she told on me could turn into a story about the sizzle... stay tuned.

please mind your manners... ok, fellas, before you just let loose and rip one, please glance all around, in all directions, and check and see that there aren't any ladies walking by... there are these men working between my sidewalk and my vehicle, and i usually just walk right through the work zone; they're hispanic, and i learned from both my prom dates that hispanic fellas like ghetto booties (was it just them, or all hispanic fellas? i don't know), and believe me, i have got it goin' ON back there. lotsa booty. anyway, they usually are not bothered when my big ol' butt marches right through their work zone, they just smile and shout Amen! and stuff like that. so today i turned the corner and was about to approach when RIP!! the fella whose back and backside were to me totally just let one go!! immediately, i adjusted my trajectory and started to make my way in an arch around the worksite. the fella who had seen me approach just looked at me; i made no eye contact for fear that i would scream giggle "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!" when i was almost to my car, the ripper still had no clue i was around, so finally the other fella said something to him; i don't know exactly what he said, it was in espanol and very softly spoken (so as not to disturb the free-flowing flatulence, i guess), but i caught some of the words (vato, gringa bonita) so i'm sure it was something like, "say, vato, you totally just farted right in front of that gringa bonita!" i could barely make it to the car, and as soon as i sat down behind the wheel, i subtlely glanced at the perpetrator and saw that he was laughing his head off, so i decided it was ok for me to laugh mine off as well. but still no eye contact.

um, what else? oh yes, click on this link and go buy Frank's t-shirts. unless the contest hasn't yet started, in which case i would say wait for it... Frank, are we tracking sales yet?

speaking of that, i'm such a good little minion/ronin/t-shirt babe/hawk. in casual conversation with my neighbors (soon to be former neighbors), i blatantly brought up Frank's shirts like this. "say, i'm a t-shirt model now!" "oh really? how's that?" "i entered this contest to be a t-shirt babe for this awesome website and i won! so now i'm going to model t-shirts!" "wow, SarahK, that totally makes sense, because you're such a hot babe, and you should model t-shirts!" then they asked if i'd heard the horrible news about Nick Berg, and i said, "yes, i did." one of my extremely smart neighbors said, "we just need to kill 'em all, drop a nuke over there" or something really smart like that. i said, "oh, you are a perfect candidate to buy Frank's t-shirts." i described the shirts to him and then repeated the name of the website at least three times and had them also repeat after me. I-M-A-O-dot-U-S. then i ran away because i was missing 24.

i seriously need a new banner for the blog, and i know exactly what i want to do, but i need Photoshop or something like that. suggestions, please, on software? i would prefer to just be able to download it, which is apparently not an option with MS's PictureIt! Premium, which seems to have all the tools i would need, or their Digital Imaging Pro or whatever it's called. why in the world would MS not have this available for download, am i just missing it?

i still want advice on buying a gun... which gun for a sprite tiny thing such as i who can handle kick but would like something compact so i can carry... and also a really rockin' gun to have fun with at the range... and also getting that CHL, where in the metroplex is best? or amarillo? help, please!
ok, i should sleep. big day ahead. ta!