I talked with Dad last night, and the car seems to be fixed. No overheating, no leaking fluids, and possibly even some heat. Yesterday I brought Nanny to the bank and the library, and then she took us to Denny’s for lunch. From what Eddie and Mom said last night, she had a blast driving around with me. Tonight we’re going down to Dad’s to pick up the car and bring down a Boston Cream pie, since pretty much no one in the family likes to charge for any sort of help like that, but I don’t like not showing any sort of appreciation for the help.

Work was completely and utterly dead last night. From about 6pm until 9pm we stood around and did pretty much nothing but chat. We did maybe 15 scripts over the 5 hours I was there. This has been a pretty slow month actually; most of the days have been pretty slow, and not even our regular freaks have been coming in lately. Monday afternoon we had a great discussion at work about how if anyone ever heard Eddie and I threatening each other, they’d think we were prime examples of domestic violence. A typical conversation in our house would go something like…

Me: [generally annoying Eddie]
Ed: [pokes me]
Me: Quit it or I’ll punch you in the taint!
Ed: I’m gonna punch you in the tit!

We brought this topic up again last night, and then I was told that with all of our piercings and tattoos, if anyone ever called the cops on us they’d take one look at me and Eddie and figure we liked the abuse and tell us to get a room.

I learned the hard way that if you have a nose stud in and you dry your face with a ratty towel, you will most certainly pull the jewelry right out of your damned face. Picture this: me, naked and dripping wet in the bathroom, holding a towel up to my nose because I’m not sure if my jewelry is still in and I’m now permanently attached to a star-spangled towel, dodging a war-dancing ferret, and telling Eddie to please wipe the mirror down so I can see what the hell I’m doing. After a couple of minutes of literally screwing around with the spirally stud I got it back in rather painlessly. Yeah, not pretty.

This morning I had a dream that I was in Mecca and was chased around a marketplace by something called a bandit-bird, and got my picture taken with Chuck Norris, and all I could think of was how I’d be the envy of WoW players everywhere for meeting him. And then he and Steven Segal got into a fight over who would get to father my child. I love fucked-up premenstral dreams. Eddie overslept, and I didn’t feel like going back to bed when I got home, so I stayed up and redesigned my homepage for the first time in almost a year. I’m going to go get something to eat for lunch, deposit Eddie’s stock check in the bank, and Eddie has promised me Pizza Hut for dinner after we bring Nanny’s truck back to her.

This is my 3000th post on my site. This includes most of my Livejournal archives as well as some stuff that never made it onto LJ, and some random stuff I threw in because I felt that I should probably save it, mainly a handful of angsty poems that I wrote when I was about 20 and a few posts that had originally been on Blogger. According to Livejournal I’ve been blogging since July 30, 2000, which makes me an early adopter over there. I’d set up a Blogger account about a month before I figured out what LJ was, so that puts my blogging debut sometime in June. There’s been a metric fuckton of changes since that time.

• After hosting on my own PC for a few years, my traffic eventually forced me to find an actual webhost. I’ve been through 2 more hosts since then.
• I switched from an embedded LJ to Greymatter to run the site
• I switched from Greymatter to Moveabletype when GM got too sluggish after 500 or so entries.
• Moveabletype eventually started to freeze up after 1000 entries, forcing me to find and upgrade to PMachine
• Tired of PMachine’s very “closed” support atmosphere, I switched to Wordpress a few years ago and never looked back.
• I moved out of my comfort zone, the city I grew up in, and moved with Chris into Providence, a city 10 miles away where I’d oddly enough only visited for doctor’s appointments.
• I took a huge step for myself and moved out on my own a year later.
• I summoned up all sorts of courage to admit how I felt to a guy I’d only known online for 2 months, but knew I wanted to be with forever.
• I took my first solo trip on a plane, my first solo vacation, and a big risk by flying out to Vancouver to meet Eddie for the first time.
• I learned the hard way that the US government really likes red tape.
• I’ve gone through 3 hairstyles and triple that in colors.
• I’ve added a few new holes to my body.
• I’ve gone through 4 jobs, having left for reasons between being fired for my blog, laid off, and just plain quit. Thankfully I love where I am right now.
• I’ve lost count of how many site designs I’ve had. Suffice to say it was a LOT.
• I got myself a new domain name and got a fresh start for myself on the web (sort of).

Let’s hope I can go another 3000 posts or so before this whole fad of online journalling goes the way of skinny jeans and leg warmers.

Oh, wait…. *grin*

It’s getting way too hot lately. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long, but it seems like it’s just going to get worse as the weekend/next week progresses. This means that we’re going to be miserably sticky, which sucks. Pickle might end up moved into the other room where it’s much cooler. We’ll have to see how things go and whether or not the a/c keeps the 2 rooms cool.

I signed up for my medical coverage last night. Hopefully at the same time it goes into effect my raise will kick in. I don’t expect the raise to offset the coverage entirely (impossible when the medical is about $45/week for the two of us), but it won’t hurt in the least. It goes into effect August 20th, and Eddie is positively thrilled at the prospect of getting new glasses, and I’m looking forward to going to the doctors and finding out about getting my tubes tied and possibly getting my ass medicated (birth control until I can get something more permanent done, antidepressant/anxiety). Such fun!

I think I’m going to have some peaches and tuna in a pita for lunch today. Eddie told me I can’t open the canned pears we bought last night until I finish the peaches in the fridge.

As a bit of a warning, those of you who read my site (the actual site, not the Livejournal or the RSS feed) might notice that stuff goes crazy later this evening. I’m testing out some new code, but it won’t have any effect until later tonight because it’s time-based. Unfortunately it should be going live about 2 hours before I get out of work, so I won’t get to troubleshoot things until I pick up Eddie and get back home.

Wednesdays are my midweek day off from now on, and when I went to bed last night I was envisioning a full day of nothing but FFXI. Instead, I ended up pondering a new site design. I’ve been awake since about 7:30am, and what have I done?

• started working on graphics for new page layout
• amused the ferret
• showered with Eddie
• finished graphics and started wirking on the CSS part of new page, which was an utter bitch
• finished CSS and uploaded to Saidshe to and went live
• tweaked the fuck out of the menu in an attempt to get things lined up and functioning and displaying the way I wanted
• stopped fucking around with the menu long enough to post this

I’m quite proud of myself for this theme. It’s based off of someone else’s, which was also based on someone else’s theme, which I guess makes mine a 3rd generation layout. However, aside from some assorted Photoshop brushes that I downloaded ages ago from someplace I can’t remember anymore, I made the graphics myself, and there’s an assload of CSS changes. Nothing special, but I thought it was something cheery for the start of summer.

Tomorrow is Eddie’s birthday, and I’ve got no idea what to get him. That makes me sad. What’s also sad is that we want to go to the drive-in this weekend, but it’s not looking like it’s going to be a nice weekend, which sucks because I was really hoping to see X3.

And now that I’ve got all the designing out of my system for the time being, I’m going to go find myself something to eat.

Had to close down the galleries. There was way too much disk space being used. I’ll switch to flickr instead.