You know what? I like Facebook. It will never replace journal writing in my heart because I just love to write and write and write and FB doesn't give me enough room for what I have on my mind, but the little snippets of info that one gets throughout the day are just fun. And the games? Oh, the games. I have a bad ass farm over on Farmville and I'm not afraid to admit it.

However. There is one thing that bugs the crap out of me. I'm have reached a place of deep LOATHING for those copy and paste "97% of people will never do this, will you be one of the 3%?" quotes that go around. You know what? I'm not going to do it. I don't want to. I admire that fact that you're all for finding a cure for fungal melanoma or you know someone who once gave birth to a 7 toed baby sloth, but I'm still not planning on reposting it! And that doesn't make me a bad person. Even though that's exactly what you're implying if I don't copy and paste it.

So, take that, copy and paste-ers. I'm taking a stand here and now. And I'm refusing to become a copy and paste whore.

Anyway. It barely rained today. *gasp* But we have another two storms coming in tomorrow and Tuesday. I can't adequately explain how uber squelchy it is when I walk on the grass. It's possible I moved to the Everglades and forgot to tell myself.

Cole and I had some quality mom/son time today and we watched Star Trek. Well, I napped through it. But then we watched a really weird movie that I had to keep pausing to explain to Cole what was going on. Half the time I didn't know what was going on so it was a pretty interesting movie watching experience.

Yes, I realized that I napped through our quality time together. I'm awesome like that.

I'm out. I have a book that I feel like I should get back to. (Just because oddmonster is kicking my butt on book reading this year already!)
Later!

Geez, this week has flown by. I haven't done much with it, but it's almost gone. Interesting.

Not much going on here. jenah and her son came over for a visit today. Jenn and I watched Star Trek in gorgeous, gorgeous Blu-Ray. That's something that just needs to be experienced to be believed. It's very, very pretty. We also watched half of Watchmen but we had to stop midway because it was just too much. Too long, not too much of a movie. Or plot. Or whatever I'm trying to say. We'll pick it up next time they visit.

I hope all my American friends had a nice holiday and a nice weekend and that you're all gearing up toward that crazy Christmas stuff. *sigh* We've already decorated. We'll get the tree tomorrow and get that up and running and then it's just finishing shopping and wrapping gifts and baking. I'm going to be doing a lot of baking this year. I can feel it.

I'm done now. My brain is sleepy.
Later.

Happy 4th. Fireworks. Yay. No, this isn't my favorite holiday (that would be a tie between Halloween and Christmas). All I can say about the 4th is that you wait in the cold for the fireworks to start and once they do you're just waiting for them to get over.

On top of that ...

Today was one of those incredibly busy days. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I had to run up to Target at 8 this morning to buy cupcake liners so I could make the cupcakes for Cole's birthday party tomorrow. I also bought butter to make frosting.

Went to the parade downtown. Good parade, it was just very hot and very long.

Yelled at Cole and threatened to cancel his b-day party if he didn't clean his room. After listening to his whining and whimpering, I threw all his Legos in a box and told him I didn't care if they ended up broken, if he couldn't help me clean, this is what he got.

Took a teeny-tiny nap. So short it almost doesn't qualify as a nap. Boo.

Went to a barbeque where only my family and one other family showed up. The good here? We had lots of good, good food to eat.

Once home, I admired my sunburned nose and shoulder. Just one shoulder.

Thought about taking another nap. Didn't.

Made the cupcakes.

Watched some Enterprise.

Ate an unfrosted cupcake. It was surprisingly good.

Sat on our porch, in the cold, wrapped in a blanket with my slippers on to watch the fireworks. Despite my bitching, it still beats sitting in the middle of a huge crowd in the cold. Plus? We didn't have to drive home with all those crazy drivers.

Now I'm here.
Tired and slightly sunburned.
Goodnight.

Oh, happiness! It looks like our hardwood floor will be completely installed tomorrow. Yayness! I'm so tired of how dusty and dirty everything is. Plus. Plus, I have to wear shoes. All the time because (a) it's so dirty and (b) I'm a little afraid of stepping on a nail.

That said, I was trapped in my room for the bulk of the day since the floor guy was working on the lower portion of the stairs leading to the upper upstairs. That sounds confusing, but when you live in a three/four story hose, there are a lot of levels. Why three/four? It all depends on whether you count the garage as one floor. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't.

Anyway. I was trapped in my room and I was watching many, many episodes of Star Trek Enterprise. I've finished season 1 and am a couple of eps into season 2. I'm really liking it. It's ridiculously fun.

I had more to say but ... it's all gone now.

I think I want to see Transformers 2 before Hailey comes home from D-World. Tomorrow? Maybe. I don't know.

I'm out.

Holy smokes! I just added some new icons and deleted a few that I haven't used in a while and I have 80 fucking icons I could still add. That's a lot of damn icons. People better start going crazy making icons that I like. You know, since I suck at making them.

Completely randomly, I was watching Wrath of Khan earlier and there are parts of that movie that are excruciatingly slow. Like, the beginning. I may have to revise the order of my favorite original movies after I watch them all again.

I'm impatiently waiting for Cole to get home. He was doing a bunch of stuff with his dad's family to celebrate his birthday, one of his cousin's birthdays and his step mom's baby shower. Of course they were doing stuff outside today. In the disgusting 100+F heat. Yikes. I stayed inside. In the air conditioned house. With my dog. Watching movies. Or, just one movie. And playing a stupid game on Facebook that probably gave me Carpal Tunnel. Awesome. I'm pretty sure that I won't be needing my right wrist for anything in the future. It'll be fine. I'll just learn how to write left-handed.

Bailey is sleeping with her head hanging over the side of the bed. It doesn't look all that comfortable.

I'm done.
Later.

My desk is strewn with Zombie-related notes and paraphernalia. It's frightening. I have the Zombie Survival Guide and a page of notes on what my next Zombie project is going to be. Not to mention the oodles of Amazon pages I bookmarked for said Zombie project. Zombies, we're what's for dinner!

I have fallen into deep obsession with Spock/Uhura fanfic. Too bad there's not too much out there. On the plus side, the people who are writing it are talented and not ... not talented like in some fandoms I used to follow. It's amazing how well some people can get Spock's voice down. yeah, I've been home by myself for the last few hours and I've barely roused myself from the computer because I need to rrreeeeeaaaddd these.

Random fic rec ... Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27. Not at all smutty (I didn't know I was allowed to read non-smut), but rather an extremely well-written look at cultural differences between Uhura and Gaila as they struggle with being roommates. Yes, there's some Spock/Uhura but it's more getting to know one another than anything else.

Back to my Zombie stuff ... did you know that you could buy machetes through Amazon? I didn't until I searched for them. I never thought I'd have a need to own a machete. You know, until I started worrying about the Zombie hordes attacking. Wow, I've been watching/reading way to much Zombie stuff lately, haven't I?

I'm going to organize some of those Zombie thoughts a little better so I can get started on my machete-wielding page.
Later!

Wow. So, umm ... I'm not sure if you all remember that yesterday I posted about the fact that I finally got a library card and I picked up a few books and I was going to be reading ... yes? This is familiar? Good.

Book #42 - High Wire by Charles Ogden - The 5th in the Edgar & Ellen series finds those mischievous twins ferreting out some more clues about the mysterious Balm and the one they call Pet. Plus, the Family Heimertz descends upon Nod's Limbs with their circus and the twins might just decide to join them. It's kinda like when I tell Hailey that I'm running away to join the circus. Except there are more pranks. Because I'm not much on pulling pranks. A very good addition to the entire series. With clowns. Which I hate.

-and-

Book #43 - Deadly Offer (The Vampire's Promise 1) by Caroline B. Cooney - Uggh. Although some young adult books are very, very worth reading, this one was not. It was ... predictable? Not very complex? Boring? All of the above? Let's just say that I enjoyed Man-Thing off the Sci-Fi channel far more than I enjoyed this book. Which actually isn't saying much since that was a pretty decent bad movie, but whatever. Skip this entire series. In fact, skip any other books by this author since her writing was not the greatest.

I'm not a fan of giving bad book reviews. But I really didn't enjoy this book.

Cole's off camping with his dad. I saw Star Trek for the second time on a much bigger screen than the first and IT WAS JUST AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUND! ST wins at life! When I got home from the movies, Bailey was so so so so so excited to see me. It was sweet. Then Heather brought Hailey home after her dance class and Hailey was running a fever. Oops. It makes me feels bad that I was a little short tempered with her today. Poor kid, she has dance rehearsals every day in preparation for her recital on Saturday. Not the best time to not be feeling well.

Do I start another book or veg out with my bad movies? Bad movies? Okay!
I'm out!

Oh crap. I'm tired. If it's 7 here, it has to be later somewhere else. Using this logic it's not too early to go to bed. Except that I have to take the dog out in about 2 hours. I guess it could be a nap. Who am I kidding, like I'd wake up from that!

Why am I so tired? Cole had his last flag football game of the season. Sitting in the sun always makes me sleepy. Sadly, after an awesome season (6 wins, 1 loss, 3 ties), they lost both games in the playoffs. Boo. But they played really well. Cole had a great catch that he ran in for the point after and one that he intercepted to stop the other team from scoring. Overall, I think he had a really good time playing and it wasn't a terrible schedule (a 45 minute practice every Sunday followed by 2 30 minute games). I'd be willing to give this sport another watch. I like it when my kid gets excited about running around.

Tomorrow is going to be a lazy first day of summer. The library is closed so we can't get our library cards until Tuesday. The cupcake shop is closed so we can't get cupcakes until Tuesday. That leaves... vacuuming the garage? Cleaning out my car? Sleeping in? (until at least 6:30!!!!) Reading a book? Watching a movie? Keeping the kids from killing one another? All of the above? No, that's too much stuff for one day. Maybe I'll string it out over a couple of days. I also may have been talked into seeing Star Trek again. May have. No, I was talked into it. I just have to figure out when.

That's about all I have to say.

It's official. The kids are out of school for the summer. Awesome! Cole made gold honor roll for getting straight A's! Yay!. He also got an award for making the honor roll every trimester! Double yay!

I'm working my way through the original Star Trek movies. I'm having a really good time so far. Although I am skipping around, so that may have something to do with it.

Question: From most favorite to least, how would you rate the original six Star Trek movies? I'd say ... Wrath of Khan (2), The Voyage Home (4), The Undiscovered Country (6), The Motion Picture (1), Search for Spock (3), and The Final Frontier (5). However, all those are trumped by the newest incarnation. STAR TREK 2009! Woot!

Cole should be home any minute from dinner with his dad.

I'm out!