I can’t think of enough stuff to make a post of substance, so I’ll take the easy way out and make a list post.

• Work is still pretty good. My new day shifts rock, and I’ve had 3 weekends off in a row, making me quite the happy camper. We’ve had a bumper crop of losers lately, so eventually I’ll post about them.
• I’m positively addicted to cranberry juice, specifically the 100% kind. I’ve been drinking a hell of a lot of it since we moved into this place, most often not even bothering to put it in a glass and just drinking it right from the plastic jug.
• Chaucer and Pickle have been getting into some epic battles on the weekends. Pickle wears herself out, and Chaucer ends up sitting on top of anything that Pickle can’t get up onto.
• We got a big screen TV from my mother and Brian, since they upgraded to one of the wall-mounted ones. It’s big enough where people watching my cam can figure out what we’re watching, it’s just that big. Thankfully neither animal has discovered that the speaker on the front would be perfect for scratching up.
• I’m a blond, at least for the time being. I had meant to dye it pink or red for Halloween, but I overslept and haven’t done anything since. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be doing to it yet.

And as an added bonus, I present to you the commercial that scared the shit out of me for years when I was little.

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.

Neither of us slept very well last night. Eddie had issues with being either too hot or too cold, and I just had issues. I’ve been up, on and off, since 4am. I’m up early today because I wanted to do a dry run of dropping Eddie off at work and then driving to school, just to make certain that I’d have enough time. School starts at 7:30am, and I got there at about 7am, so I’ve got plenty of time. I didn’t even bother getting dressed, I jut put some jeans on with my jammy top and took off with Eddie.

Things to do today:

• drive to fabric store to find something good for Bridemonkey and purses
• find more trim for the monkey
• research stepdancing again - I’ve got to make a boy monkey this time around.
• finish upgrading my gallery pages and hopefully not break anything

We spent yesterday at Mom’s - without Pickle. We went out for breakfast then hit Petco to find some ferret toys and to Newbury Comics to check out the CDs and toys. I bought a wallet. It matches my school bag. We got to Mom’s just in time to watch the Patriots suck like nothing has ever sucked before. Granted, they did score 10 points in under 30 seconds, but when your quarterback keeps overthrowing the ball and completely missing the receivers, or on the rare occasion that the ball goes anywhere near a guy’s hands it’s someone from the other team or is dropped, you’re not going to win any ballgames. It was kind of amusing to watch Tom Brady get angrier as the game went on though.

I’ve showered. I’ve cleaned up the ever-expanding mass of tissues that were taking over my desk. I’ve cleaned up all the soda cans from the desk and coffee table. The dishwasher is loaded, but nowhere near full enough to actually run. I’m in the process of patching FFXI so that I can actually log into the game and suspend the account.

Holy shit, I actually did everything that I planned on doing. I think I’m going to spend the rest of the day on the couch, maybe even catch a quick cat nap. On the topic of sleeping…. At some point last night, I was sleeping on my back, and either I was dreaming that something was tickling my armpit or Eddie touched it, but I freaked out and elbowed him in the face and/or head. Poor guy.

We went out to the mall today, and ended up getting ourselfs a bunch of goodies.

• one pair of white and pink airwalks for me, for school
• Bif Naked CD for Eddie
• Tragically Hip CD, also for Eddie
• 1 Venus flytrap plant
• 2 pairs of socks (1 for a monkey, 1 for my mother)
• 1 comic book for Eddie
• 1 Shawn of the Dead t-shirt for Eddie

Tonight we’re going to the drive-in tonight to see Transporter 2 and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which should be a pretty good night. I’ve already got the monkey sewn up, and all I need to do is stuff it and assemble it, which shouldn’t take very long at all while we’re there. We have to figure out what we want for dinner soon, because I’d like to be able to eat and not worry about my stomach pitching a fit while we’re at the movies, because that just wouldn’t be cool. I plan on dressing in sweats and a comfy shirt because damn it, I wanna be comfy while I’m there. I may also wear my new sneakers, just to break them in a bit.

Pickle just spent so long out of her cage that she fell asleep under a bookcase. Poor fuzzy wore herself out by dragging Eddie’s sneakers back and forther across the living room floor. We jingled a ball and she came out, I put her back in her cage and she immediately crawled into the bottom level and is sleeping halfway under a pillow.