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.

This was our long weekend and we had a great time! We did SciFi Friday with margaritas then we slept in on Saturday. After getting up and drinking plenty of coffee we cut down one of the nasty old apple trees in the backyard. New chainsaw = WUV!

We got to bed fairly early on Saturday night and got up at the usual time on Sunday (7:30am). We got our hair cut by our pal Keith and then we put up our new mailbox. We attacked the privet and honeysuckle in the front yard and pooped out around 4pm. I was clicking around and found Ed Wood on IFC so we watched that before the Oscars got under way. I was surprised that Crash beat out Brokeback Mountain, but sometimes that happens when there is too much buzz. I’m very pleased that Reese Witherspoon got Best Supporting Actress. That was cool.

Neither of us slept worth a damn last night so we dragged ourselves out of bed at 8:30am and did some work this morning. I had to work on Oracle, I’m a week behind thanks to the flu. Then we went to L5P for our Monday ritual: Criminal Records for comix, Vortex for food. It was glorious outside today, so the trip was really great. Dani was supposed to call us, but she never did so we did our thing as usual. Dunno what’s up with that girl. But anyway, we had a great time and now we’re home trying not to fall asleep as we type! Heh!

We ran into Jet and we’re on for new tattoos on Monday March 20th. I’m getting my hamseh and Nick’s getting, well, something. :-)

As for St Patty’s, we will be at the Vortex early (5pm) so Nick can get his Rob Zombie signed poster then we’ll prolly come back this way, but who knows, we may just head to East ATL for the Prick Magazine St Patty’s party. I guess it depends on whether anyone is coming down here to join us for the weekend.

Well, it’s time to enjoy some Strongbad! [This site still uses Flash, sorry! -A 2017] L8r.

Yep, I felt better this morning until the fever came back. :-( I ended up on the damn couch in and out of consciousness all day. Bleh. This bug is definitely worse than I thought it was.

I hope no one gets it! It BLOWS.