Category: 2006

OMFG the pollen has exploded here in the last 48 hours. We cleaned the house for the party Saturday and today I came to the Mac to find it completely coated with a pollen layer. ICK!

I was standing on the deck looking for a bird and a CLOUD of pollen came off the privet and blew over me. I felt the particles hit my contacts. Again, GROSS! It’s much worse this year than it has been in while.

So, the party was really really great! We had a great time and I want to thank everyone for coming out and bringing gifties! :-)

More on the party later, I have a bizarre party story to relay! But for now, I’ve got to go clean up the heinous mess from the party and the pollen. More later!

I made our reservation for DragonCon last week via the 800#. It never works out well because those people don’t work in the local Hyatt and they don’t see all the actual booking info, they only see part of it. I had to book 4 nights rather than 3, etc. etc. So, today I called and talked to Internal Reservations, which is the actual reservation desk at the Hyatt Downtown and not only did I get the res changed to 3 nights, but the Reservation Manager remembered me from last year and he gave me a FREE UPGRADE to a suite!! W00t!

So we’re booked into a suite on the THIRD floor for the Con! How bad ass is that!

Yah, last year, we had some issues (see this entry) with the safe in our room and our checkout so the Res Manager told me to ring him this year for a free upgrade and he did it! I can’t believe it! I gotta say, the Hyatt’s Customer Service has always been good to me. They do what they say and they are really nice, too. It’s a breath of fresh air when most “service” these days is surly and uncooperative. I just love the Hyatt! :-)

I’m blue today. The weather is chilly and rainy. I’ve made a difficult decision this weekend. I just called Animal Control and in order to find an unregistered animal, one must go there and look through all the doomed animals. I just don’t think I have the ability to do that. They may not even be in this county.

Ugh. This sucks ASS. I don’t feel all that great physically today either, so all in all it’s a crappy day.

I’m supposed to get my hamsah tat today but I don’t think I’ll be up to it. I’m just so down in the dumps.

Bleh.

We had a good time celebrating St Patty’s with our buds! Thanks for coming down to L5P, kids!!

Today we’ve begun excavation [yes, I chose that word because there is much chipping involved] of the bathroom ceiling. ::shudder:: We discovered that you can get this disky thing that attaches to your drill so it becomes a disk sander! Shweet! We only have one drill, though, so Nick gets the sanding job. I will be the second unit, supplying spackle and paint to the freshly sanded surface. We’re doing 2 coats of Killz then one coat of color. I’m going to do a pale metallic blue. Of course there will be pix over at Nick’s Gallery. Next: Kitchen!

I painted the new mailbox freehand today. Heh, it’s SO crooked and, well, freehand! I’m gonna keep futzing with it and if I can’t make it better I’ll paint over all of it and get stick on numbers! I figured I’d give it a shot. Maybe mailboxes aren’t my medium… :-)

After the bad news I just wrote about, I look forward to a long weekend with my sweetie. We intend to get our tattoos on Monday. If Jet isn’t around then we’ll prolly go up the street. I’m taking the basic design from this one

and the universal symbols on the fingers of this one:

I want my hamsah!! Especially now that all this bad shit is going on around me. Anti-evil eye indeed!!

Damn, it’s been a busy couple of weeks!

We went to KnoxVegas this weekend and saw Hannah, Chris and Jean + kids. It was lovely, as always. They are working on a fantastic idea for which I am totally supportive. Read all about it at the Memoreum Group site. Go ahead and go now while you’re thinking about it. I’ll wait…

::insert Jeopardy music here::

Ok, now that you’re WAY impressed (as we were), why don’t you give me some feedback about the idea of creating a memorial for yourself?

I’m hot on the trail of 2, yes TWO new web clients this week. Just a couple of teensy brochure sites, but it’ll bring in more than enough to cover DragonCon in high style as well as pay for our “free” trip from the wankers at Spirit timeshares. I’m very stoked about that! I love the spring! Everyone wants to get a new site or get their Macs upgraded or start a new venture. It’s always the best time of the year for us. Between the logo gig we’re finishing ($500) and the collateral design (uh, that would be letterhead and biz cards for those not in the graphics trade) for that same client ($250) we’re already good for the Con. Add in the $1000 or so from the 2 new clients and the $250 from a support gig and we’re over the top. Keep in mind that all this income is totally gravy for us. We have our budget well in hand on Nick’s normal pay so all this extra stuff goes towards play and paying off our HELOC (Home Equity Line Of Credit). I LOVE IT!! W00t!

Exciting stuff, this thing MONEY that we all covet and never seem to have enough of. It’s funny that I get calls from 2 new clients a day after Nick and I spent several hours daydreaming about how we’d spend all the money if we won the lottery. :-)

Lessee, what else is going on? Well, my hair is black and magenta. We’re back on the South Beach diet for what good it’ll do. I’ve got many political gripes that will get written up when things slow down. Eh, guess that’s it for now. I’m bored of the computer/internet. I hope to write some politcal commentary later in the week.