Nothing else matters ...

Book #45 - Silver Master by Jayne Castle - There are several things that I enjoyed about this book. Firstly, there was no random appellation following the title of this book (Book 99,765 of the Completely Awesome Series). Yep, I liked that. Second, this book cost me $2 brand new from Amazon. TWO DOLLARS. Beat that! Third, there are ghost hunters and then there are GHOST HUNTERS. I'm all about the latter, thankyouverymuch. So, this is a book set on the planet Harmony. There's a girl. There's a guy. They sleep together while fending off the bad guys and solving a mystery. Rock it!

I've had songs from Cats running through my head all day. Except that I only know about 4 lines from each of the songs and I keep singing those same parts over and over and over again in my head. *headdesk* To switch things up I tried to supplant the Cats songs with Kelly Clarkson songs. This didn't work so well since I usually change the words to Kelly's songs. Somehow I ended up singing a song about someone falling down the stairs set to the tune of "Because of You". And then I went back to Cats.

Welcome to my world.

Cole has birthday parties lined up this Saturday and next Saturday. I need to go buy presents. I think I'm going to try to take Friday off. Cole's out of school and I'm very tired.

I think I'm done for the night.

This is the thing that was rattling through my head last night. In a nutshell, these are the lines from random songs that stoke the fires of imagination. Every time I hear them I blink and take a breath. It isn't about what the artist (and/or writer) was trying to convey so much as what springs to mind when I hear them.

Enjoy!

( The Totally Random Collection of Lyrics )

There you have it. The weird lines that make my imagination turn. Yes, there are more, these were just the ones I could think of off the top of my head. :)

Cole's had a headache and a stomach ache for the better part of the afternoon. I had to leave our family dinner at my sister's house early because I couldn't make him sit there in misery any longer. Oh, and I had the same thing yesterday afternoon and this morning. Fortunately, I feel much better now. :)

Now, I'm going to be completely honest here and let you all know, up front, that I have nothing to talk about today. Nothing. Therefore, this is going to be a weird post of nothing. I do, however, want to mention that I had ordered a Dwarf keychain (YES! A keychain of a dwarf!) from Lego.com and it came today and now I have something amusing to look at tomorrow at work. Yes, it's going on my work keys. Why do you ask?

I'm still basking in how wonderfully clean my room is. Really, I don't imagine this will last too long so I think I'm going to enjoy it while it does.

I have a hair appointment on Thursday! YAY!

I'm working on my next book. I like it and yet something about it annoys me. But I'll get into that once I've finished it.

I love my iTunes. It's so shiny. It shines. :)

I am done.

I have several things to say here. I'm not planning on making much sense ...
1. I'm slightly [slightly] annoyed that I lost the play count on all my iTunes songs. Many, many, many of them were over 50 plays and my favorites were all nearing 100 plays. However, the annoyance is offset by the fact that all my music is now in one place. All of it. In once place. Hee!

2. The branch is going out to dinner tomorrow night because one of the tellers is leaving. Sonoma Chicken Coop. Downtown Campbell. malkovich03? Up for it? I will be hitting the bar with the boys. Whoo-hoo!

3. I'm still working on rebuilding my play lists for my iPod. *sigh* It's hard work.

4. I think I made my lunch for tomorrow. Maybe I'd better check to be certain... ~pause~ ... yep, I made it.

5. One more day of work and then it's the weekend. It's pretty sad when I took a day off mid-week and I'm still looking forward to the weekend with a fierce vengeance. Fierce.

6. I have completed one book for March. That's pathetic. Especially since I read 18 in January. Work needs to stop getting in the way of my book reading. So say we all.

7. My hair's getting longer. It now goes easily into a ponytail. Before? Not so much.

8. I want to dream about werewolves again. And Jason Behr. Yummy.

9. I just might be done with this here list.

10. Yep. I'm done. 'Night!

My family has a little ritual-type thing that we do every Sunday. We all get up early (not at all uncommon in my house, let me tell you), head out to Target for our weekly shopping and stop at Starbucks before leaving for home. Every Sunday we do this. I kid you not. Since I had to go to Target on my day off on Thursday I bought my weekly necessities (mostly consisting of turkey and cheese for Cole's lunches and yogurt for mine) and was able to sleep in this morning. But wait, someone ask me what "sleeping in" really means in my house. C'mon, you know you wanna! Okay. I was awake at 7 this morning. Cole and I lazed around until about 8 and then got up and showered so we'd be ready for the brunch at my Grandma's house. It was nice, don't get me wrong, but I was really hoping that I'd be able to actually sleep until 8 or so and not feel guilty about it. :P

I've finally decided that I going to buy the bookcase that I'm in love with from Costco. The only reason I've been holding off is that it's too big to fit into my car so I'll have to have it delivered. Blech. But it's the only one I've really been taken with in all my looking and the price is absolutely excellent. Before anyone mentions it, I did check Costco's online site and they don't carry the one that I want. Otherwise I would have gone that route ages ago.

I have one more week of work then I'm off for a week. Ye, Gods! That makes me happy. I'm getting seriously burnt out with all the stuff that's been happening at work lately.

I've listened to all my music within the last 2 weeks. Every single song. Say what you will, I'm totally impressed with myself.

Hailey and I watched the 3rd Jurassic Park again. It's totally hitting the spot as far as movies go right now. I've been in the mood to watch slightly atmospheric, somewhat scary, the dialogue's not the best but I still have a good time watching it movies. C'mon, that totally fits JP3. I also admit that having entire scenes set in abandoned buildings (especially if they've been used for some sort of genetic experimentation) sends me into delighted giggles. There's just something about abandoned buildings.

I think I've just about said everything I can say for today.
Toodles.

Is it wrong that I bought the soundtrack for Resident Evil: Extinction because I really, really wanted the White Rabbit remix by Collide that plays over the end credits and I couldn't get it anywhere by itself? You know, it's a done deal so don't answer that.

Cole was doing his reading homework for the evening and part of it was to draw a picture of his favorite scene and tell why it was his favorite. He drew a picture of a blacksmith and wrote that it's his favorite because he likes blacksmiths. Ha! What sort of kid likes blacksmiths? My type of kid!

I started a new book about vampires. Awesome. I think I'll get back to that now.
'Night.

Umm, I just realized that I had iTunes running all day. Cole must have turned down the volume at some point and I didn't realize it was on and WOW! I've listened to a lot of music now. *\o/*

I totally can't believe that it's only a bit after 7. I swear that today has been the longest day. Not that I'm complaining or anything because it's a weekend and I'd rather have a long weekend day than a long work day, but still. I haven't done anything and I don't have anything planned and the evening is kinda stretching out before me.

I was even trying to start a new book earlier and it wasn't grabbing me so I put it down after a couple of chapters and started another one. The second one is readable but I just can't pin down the mood I'm in which makes it very hard to pick a book that fits that mood. Hmmph. *pulls out hair* Oh! Which reminds me that my hair appointment that I was supposed to have yesterday got rescheduled to next weekend which means that my hair looks BLAH and I have to go to work like this tomorrow. Bummer.

It's a good thing I'm not in the mood to impress anybody at work. WORD!

I have no idea what I'm going to do for the next two hours until it's time for Cole to go to bed.

[I've watched through episode 11]
Completely obsessed. Good thing Cole was at his dad's today helping to make cookies because I was completely entranced by FNL. It made me [nearly] neglect my duties as a mom. You know, if Cole had been home.

Anyway. Lovely, lovely show. I've been looking for FNL icons to add to my userpics. I found quite a few I like. Yay!

On a completely frivolous note ... Tim Riggins is going to be my next boyfriend. Yes, he has replaced Jim Halpert in my heart. I think it's the brooding hotness. It's just so ... HOT. Yes, I am aware that I have a thing for brooding bad-boys. Trust me, I KNOW this. He's just so ... HOT. It makes me giddy.

Tim/Lyla? Totally my 'ship. It's so totally my 'ship it should be named after me. Kelly's 'Ship. Have they replaced Jim/Pam? you ask. No, simply because they are very different relationships. Jim and Pam are sweet and very real. Tim and Lyla are supreme amounts of hotness.

Also, I've started my FNL playlist on iTunes. That's always a good sign. It means that it's saturating my brain and making me think about nothing but Friday Night Lights. For the record, I got rid of some of my older playlists that I was neither listening to nor working on. That means that I have lots of time and energy to devote to new playlists. It's all about the music, you know.

Btw, Tim completely has his own song. Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson. It's so him, it hurts.

I think I've gone on long enough.

Or not. Because I forgot to mention that I bought more new shoes today. TWO pairs. TWO! And, once again they were on clearance. $6 each. No, not each shoe. Each pair. SIX! And I completely love them.

Also, I need to stop saying "completely" all the time. In my defense, it's usually the absolutely perfect word for whatever I'm talking about. Completely.

Oh, and I'm on the lookout for FNL moodthemes. If you see any, shout it out.

Now I'm done.

Okay. Here's my quick update ... I'm almost finished dl-ing FNL. Then I will begin watching. And squeeing. I KNOW there'll be squee-age because everyone else is in that special squee-place when they watch it. I'm just preparing myself for massive love and obsession. I'm not sure if I'm ready to let The Office be removed from my #1 obsession spot, but I'm willing to give FNL the chance to try.

In news that is not related to TV or fandom - We're having Hailey's 4th birthday party today. We shall be grilling hot dogs for the masses and eating watermelon. Yum. Also, just for the record, Cole has been banned from trying to eat as many hot dogs in 2 minutes as he possibly can. I just can't allow any hot dog eating contests in my house. *shakes head* I kinda wonder why my mom felt the urge to bring that up.

I think I might take Hailey and Cole to the Build a Bear workshop at Valley fair tomorrow morning. That was our gift to Hailey and I know Cole desperately wants to go soon, so I might as well do it tomorrow.

I'm also going to book my hotel soon for my annual trip to Disneyland. Usually, Cole and I stay at the Disneyland hotel, but I think I'm going to try the California Grand this time. For one thing, it's cheaper over the week I want to go because they have a special where you get the 4th night free. I mean, I might as well stay at the cheaper place that's closer to Disneyland, right? Also, the hotel backs into California Adventure! That means that I'll be able to walk out of the hotel and be in the park! Awesome. At this point, I've made the decision where and when, I'm just waiting to see which family members will be joining us. Will it be just Cole and I? Or will my mom tag along? Do you see the issues I'm facing?

I cleaned my room last night to Kelly Clarkson. Yeah, she's another of my new obsessions. *sly grin*

For the lovely tlace, I plan on going on (in DEPTH) about The Office. Soon. Be warned.

That is all.

This is going to be one of those all over the place posts. I have a lot to say and I'm not afraid to use it. (?)

Book #55 - Safe Harbor by Christine Feehan - The 5th in the Drake sisters series focuses on supermodel Hannah and dangerous sheriff Jonas. My favorite part? Well, that would have to be that the cover of the book has our hero hanging out on a boat while our heroine pines for him on the dock. Why is this the best part? Because the only time Jonas is on a boat is when he's getting set to kill some evil mobsters. And he sure as hell doesn't do it shirtless as he's looking in Hannah's direction. Sometimes I wonder if the people who decide on the covers and such have even read the book. Anyway. Good book. I'm seriously looking forward to the final two installments.

Part 2 - I was invited to a reception last night for one of my co-workers and found (to my horror) that the dress I was planning on wearing was reaching that point where it was no longer wearable. It's a long, mandarin style black dress with red and gold embroidery. The embroidery was starting to pull away and fray. Ack! I was planning on running out to the mall to try to find something else to wear, but the fam's plane was nearly an hour late getting in and I ran out of time. I had another dress I ended up wearing, but it kinda drove the point home that I need to have a few good dresses on hand for those formal and semi-formal occasions. I have to admit that I'm a wee bit excited about going clothes shopping for some good clothes for myself.

The reception? Well, the 3 vodka and cranberries made it a slightly buzzed and fun, fun, fun time. Although the guy wandering through the guests singing in Spanish with his 7 piece horn section blaring away did make it slightly hard to hear anything.

Now, a cool thing - I dreamed last night. Gross, scary, disgusting zombies coming to life and trying to get me and mine. We're talking crushed and exposed skulls and dangling flesh. The best part? It totally wasn't scary to me because I have my family back! I woke up from crushing the skull of one of the zombies trying to get me and heard Cole breathing in the night and it made me smile. Then I went back to sleep and proceeded to figure out that you had to do more than crush the skull of the zombies, you had to actually decapitate them. Thus, we began chopping.

I have no words for how thrilled this makes me.

Things that are coming up - Tomorrow I have a meeting in the morning form 9-11. Then I get to head home and hang with my boy. I need to be back at work at 5 that night for a server conversion that starts at 6 pm and will last from 10-12 hours. If I'm doing the math correctly, that means that I will be leaving work between 4 and 6 in the morning. Needless to say, I will not be working Tuesday.

I have an AWESOME Flist - heather13 has said some good stuff about Kelly Clarkson and so, seeing as I had little more than a passing acquaintance with some of her songs from the radio, I decided to buy Breakaway and My December. Heather, you give good recs. First, you and tlace rec The Office and now Kelly. I really, really like her music. Thank you.

I think I'm done now. But maybe not. I could be back.