You know what? blabapalooza's been pretty lively these past few weeks. I'm very happy about that. Keep those reviews coming, ladies! I live to enable your bad movie watching addiction.

I decided that I'd best journal early since I'm going to be out partying like a rock star later. Speaking of which, did I mention how myself and one of my bankers had to head over to the restaurant on our lunch hour yesterday to ensure that everything would be ready for us today? Yeah, it was fun. I took my 6'2" banker who describes himself as being an "angry black man" and the two of us planted ourselves in the middle of their lobby until we had our confirmation that everything would be where it was supposed to be when it was supposed to be. I've never felt so powerful.

For the record, I am crossing my fingers that tonight goes off without a hitch. I'd hate to have 30 people standing around waiting because our reservation got screwed up. :/

I'm going to take off my knee socks soon (yes, I wear knee socks. Every day. They keep my legs warm. And they're fun to show people.) so that I don't have any unsightly sock lines running up my legs under my awesome party dress. What an embarrassing thought. Oh, that reminds me of the Christmas episode of The X-Files when Mulder and Scully find the bodies under the floor boards and Scully notices that the female body is wearing the same outfit that she's wearing and Mulder says "How embarrassing." What? I thought it was funny.

I think I've exhausted all the thoughts in my head.
I'll be thinking of all of you while I'm drinking!

I wasn't feeling too great yesterday so I went to bed before Cole. On a Friday night. *face palm* It makes me feel old when I do stuff like that. My nose is still stuffed up today, but I took a really long, wonderfully luxurious nap and now I feel slightly more human. I also had this burning urge (I can hear iron_knife thinking to himself that they have creams for that now-a-days. pfft.) to watch some episodes of The X-Files (omg! If I type a freaking 'z' in place of an 'x' one more freaking time I'm going to scream. Primally. Yeah, that's right, I'm going to go all Yoko Ono here.). So I watched Firewalker from season 2. I actually wanted to watch Aubrey because freaky BJ *snerf* with her freaky finger writing and her freaky rash are made of the awesome. Oh, why didn't I watch the episode I actually wanted to watch? Because I figured that I sleep through it. And I was right. I slept through the last 15 minutes of the episode. Rock on, awesome nap!

Since I didn't get online yesterday ... Book #79 - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - Re-read. Awesome. I ultimately decided to go with something light to read since nothing else was grabbing me. Now, I'm reading the sequel. And since I had my hair appointment today (which gives me plenty of time to read while my hair is setting or whatever it does) I'll be done with that very shortly.

I feel like I'm at loose ends. I have vacation in two weeks and I'm working my ASS OFF to make sure that every thing's ready for that. But all this ass working is leaving me with not so much energy on the weekend. Plus, there's that whole not feeling well thing. Blah.

I have to write my fic for that challenge I entered. I haven't started. It's due next week. I'm fairly sure I can get it done. What do you think that says about the quality of my writing? Don't answer that.

I'm done now. And my nose is running. AGAIN. Grrrrr.

I'm having a weird day. Nothing in particular has happened/is happening but my head's all weird. I'm in the clouds or something. It might have something to do with finishing The X-Files last night. I don't know. I just feel out of sorts.

Did you see? I finished The X-Files. As previously stated, it took me more than a year, but I watched it from point A to point B and all the places in between. *sigh* It was lovely.

Now I have to finish up season 2 of Lost. I remember being jazzed about that show once upon a time. I just have to find my mojo again. I've also stalled out on Farscape mid-season 1. That needs to be remedied. Where to begin, where to begin. Maybe I'll mix things up and watch BOTH at the same time. That would be crazy.

I think I'm going to snuggle with my boy. He appears to be needing some attention from his mama.

I made a wallpaper last night. Mostly because I found a 9th season episode of The X-Files that I had seen. Boo. I thought I hadn't seen any of them. At all. But no. *sigh*

So, I made a wall.
It's Doctor Who (of course).
>>added to Bay 12
>>textures by jenahville
>>1280x1024
>>no real spoilers for season 2, just some jazzy promo shots
>>That spider looks really moist! (ewwwww!)



I really like it. I was quite pleased with the way the colors turned out, but I wanted something bright yet dark so this somehow managed to hit the spot.
Let me know what you think.

I'm off to watch some Animaniacs! Hee! I love that show!
(overuse of exclamation points. Yep. *nods sagely*)

It's really hot. On top of the disgusting heat, I'm hungry but I'm so sick of pizza that I can't formulate words. Sick.of.it. We've been eating pizza since Cole's party last saturday and now we have another set of leftovers from Hailey's party yesterday. Pizza is becoming the bane of my existence. It's becoming by arch-nemesis. I don't want to eat pizza. I don't. I therefore made my mom buy real meat when we went to Costco earlier today. Tri-tip and sausage and chicken. Oh, my. Anything that wasn't pizza. Please. I beg of you. No more pizza. Also, cake is beginning to reach a level of yuck that I don't want to think about. Two parties in two weekends is too much!

Speaking of Costco, I completely love seeing what other people are buying as we stand in line! Love it! Today there was a couple who had a flatbed and a cart filled with alcohol and electronics. Oh, and tennis balls. I'm not sure how those fit in, but they were buying them. Their bill came to almost $2000. That's a lot of money to be spending on DVD players and booze. I'm just saying. Yes, I'm incredibly nosy. I know.

I tried to nap earlier, but I didn't do all that well at it. Yes, the heat. It's a soul sucking demon. Grr.

Fandom ... I've finished The X-Files season 8. I loved that they were all new to be. Mostly. I mean, I can't help it if I've seen bits and pieces of almost every episode. I didn't know how they were going to end and that's what counts. I'm nearly 100% certain that I haven't seen any of season 9. That's worth something. Isn't it?

I also watched Ultraviolet yesterday. I'm not sure what to say about it. I liked it, but I think it could have been more. It could have been more defined. No, that's not it. I just don't know what I'm trying to say. It was pretty. It had some cool effects. Oh, nevermind.

Enough out of me.
Toodles.

I have a shiny copy of Doctor Who series 1. Of course, I had to go to two Best Buys to find it, but I have it! It's ... yummy. The best part of purchasing said DVD was that it only cost me $6.48 due to all the reward certificates I had accrued (from the purchase of my computer, mostly).

Yay!

The fam made the decision not to go out to watch fireworks which was something of a relief for me. I end up getting a little wiggy between the crowds and the traffic and Cole DID get to see fireworks last night while I was watching many episodes of The X-Files. *squeak, squeak* In the end, he's not really missing out. Is he?

In the world of fandom, I'm zipping my way through XF and Farscape. Also, my grandma borrowed a whole bunch of DVDs from me today because (in her words) "there's nothing on TV during the summer". I second that. I had to dig through all my DVDs to come up with something that wasn't "supernatural". Apparently, grandma doesn't like zombies. Go figure.

I have to work tomorrow. Boo.

I have partied. I have eaten. I am tired.
Cole was making me help him put some of his Legos together, but sitting on the floor hunched over searching for tiny Lego pieces makes my back hurt after a while. Imagine that. Therefore, I have stepped away to journal. Yay!

I'm not really looking forward to this work week. However, Friday has some possibilities because kimbrchick, jenahville, debalita and I are planning to see Pirates. (Kim and I are going to sneak out of our respective works early ... HEE!) I've also already planned a second viewing of Pirates with malkovich03 because the original PotC was the first movie we ever saw together. Good times. Good times.

My Farscape watching is going just swimmingly. Episode 8 is winding down as I type. On The X-Files front, I've watched through episode 8 of season 8 and am finding it quite fun. Dark, but fun.

I'm tired. And I downloaded a new moodtheme that I'd really like to put up. I'm just sayin'.
Toodles.

A happy, happy birthday to both jenahville and isabellecs!
*Because I will forget if I don't put it at the top!*

Speaking of jenahville, she made a lovely Aeryn/John vid that inspired me to begin rewatching Farscape. This is something I've been meaning to do for a while, life just kept getting in the way. And other shows. Lots of other shows. Do you know that I successfully hooked kimbrchick on Doctor Who with only two episodes? I rock! Back on topic ... So, I watched the first 2 episodes of season 1 of Farscape. *sigh* So good. I also started watching The X-Files season 8 last night. Why do I always start new shows (or whatever) the last day of my vacation? Why? I had to rearrang the DVDs in my closet so that my Farscapes are easily accessible. Geez. So much work. I need a bigger bedroom/house. That would solve some of my problems.

I'm fairly certain that I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Boo to the end of vacation.

Perhaps I'll make some art.

First off, the fam had pizza for dinner (crappy $5 pizza) and it was damn good. I think it's because we hadn't had pizza in so long. It's like the time I was really, really hungry and I got a Jumbo Jack from Jack in the Box at, like, 8 in the morning and it was the best damn burger I'd ever had. True story.

Secondly, I finished off season 6 of The X-Files last night (after leaving that last episode languishing for several weeks) and watched the first two eps of season 7. Fucking brilliant.

Third, I watched 4 episodes of Dead Like Me season 2 earlier (Cole's not home, can you tell?), leaving me with 3 episodes before I kill that season and am able to put another notch on my belt in regards to The Bet. I so rock.

I'm still waiting for some people *coughmalkovich03cough* to tell me what they want for their birthday.

And last but not least, I went shopping with my grandma today. She bought me underwear.
Out.

I am so, so tired. Really, I need to remember that coming in early to do the alarm test (important because I don't want to be caught unawares when the robbers come!) and staying late to tell my tellers that they need to step it up (and some of them truly do) makes for a looooooooong day.

Onto my X-Files season 6 recap ... ( 6.18 - 6.19 )

Did I mention that I'm a little tired? Yes? Good.
Out.