...I'm back at work.

Oh God, preserve me...

I threw a mini-tantrum after I got up too. Where did my holiday go? It just started...*weep*

Also, I apologize to anyone on my f-list if I made you mad or whatever in my previous post in regards to this cain person.

Hee hee! ^-^v Dinner's covered tonight. I talked to Lita and they still have lots of food left over from Christmas so I'm going over there tonight after leaving work and hanging out there for a while. I probably won't have have anymore pineapple cake, but oh wells! Lita also said that JT's enjoyed his games so far, so I'm glad to hear that! ^-^ I'm going to get her a $25 Gift Card from TJ Maxx and the Transformers movie after I finish my bills. I know she said not to get her anything, but she deserves something as much as anyone else! ♥ :D

Today was about as I thought it would be, but it's almost over and one more day to go, so I think I can make it...

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*** POST WORK ***

Thank you caprices for that little command. I implimented it on both of my journals. I really should learn how to utilize that a bit more fully shouldn't I? Hmm...oh well :p

Just finished talking to Lin; she's going to take the baby back to the doctor to get a referral. She says his itching is getting worse and now he's losing some sort of clear fluid and seems to be developing sores. *sighs* Poor baby...he's had it so rough these first 6 months of his little life...

*giggles* gynophobia your comm seems pretty fun. Let me think of a character to join and I'll add them. I've unfortunately deleted all of my extra journals, so the only active ones are the ones for EF and YGORP. We'll see...

*looks @ time* Hmm...I'd best be getting ready to head over to Lita's. Lin wants me to bring a plate by her place on my way in. TTYL! ♥

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*** HOME ***

Thanks to Nip/Tuck, I can never look at Frosty the Snowman ever the same. Why? Because on their holiday episode, both "Santa" and "Frosty" got shot. And the ironic thing even worse? When Frosty got shot, the other carolers - yes, there were a bunch of people dressed up in different holiday icons singing - were singing THAT song when he was being taken out on a stretcher. And even worse than that, I laughed my ass off for about 10 minutes straight over it!

I know...I'm absolutely horrible and have a very twisted sense of humor...and it can be twisted at times.

This was one of those.

...were some bath stuff, a cup and saucer set and some peppermint biscotti, I got my car insurance paid for a month and that's it.

No, my family doesn't do present amongst the adults. Only the kids get presents. We mostly do like bills paid or whatever to one another.

Boy, did we eat yesterday, holy crap and I went to two houses. Ok, like I had posted, I had a mini-breakfast over at my apartment yesterday morning about 9:30ish in which Kendrick, Little John, Lin and Sev came over. I served biscuits and pumpkin bread muffins. Sev armed herself with her coffee and everyone else had whatever they wanted to drink - the boys drank soda, blech x.o I had orange tea and lin drank milk with her muffins.

After they all left around 11ish something I went and lay back down for a bit before getting ready for the main event that afternoon. I finally got up about 1:15 that afternoon and getting JT's present and the sodas and whatnot and headed on over there.

By the time I got there, Sev had already had her portion as had Lita and Chet. They were very full and happy. ^_^ So I got my own plate, laden with some of the fried turkey, collard greens, turnip greens, potato salad, dressing, yams, and what was called chicken pastry. Then I had a cup of Pepsi to go with it. While Lita's trying to help me get my plate together, JT's screaming for her to come play with him - he got a bike, a scooter, a mini table hockey thingamabob, and a Hot Wheels racing set of some sort. So after she helps me and I sit down to eat, she goes and plays with him - he didn't have anyone to play with him since his cousins weren't going to be with us - and so while we're talking and everything, Sis is wondering where Lin and her crew is. I had it in mind to call them, but Lita beat me to the punch. She said that Isiah was a bit fussy and whatnot and at first Lin thought he might be getting sick, but he was ok, just itchy and whatnot - yes, he's STILL fighting his eczema - so they would be on their way.

After I finished eating - I enjoyed everything but the chicken pastry aka chicken n dumplings - Sis said she was going to go to our family friend's new house they just bought not too long ago - 5 friggin acres worth! >.< I couldn't begin to fathom such a thing.

Their new house is lovely though; however, they've had to renovate just about the whole house from top to bottom so the house if they ever sold it would most likely be about 3x it's original value. They had before and after pictures too. Oh, they're far from done with it though, but from what they've accomplished so far, it looked awesome. Their adopted son, Kyle, even has his own studio apartment over the 3 car garage that's set apart from the house. They used some of the old fixtures from what was in the house to set up his mini kitchenette and everything. He was quite excited. One of their other children is expecting her 4th child in May - they're hoping for a boy this time, but unfortunately none of them were in town this year.

They were having an open house and invited most of their neighbors that lived in the cul-de-sac where they were to come down and see the renovations and they had a good litle house party going on and they had snacks galore - coconut cake, cheesecake, chips and dip, lil meatballs & weiners, cookies and other sweets, apple cider, etc. I only ate a piece of coconut cake - had they taken out the cheesecake earlier, I would've had some of that too :x dangit...

So then, we went back to Lita's and Lin and the boys were chowin down while Lita was fretting over Isiah who was twitchin and itchin, poor baby. Lita was wondering about the scabs on his arms and legs and everything and Lin was telling her that she was doing what the doctor was telling her, but thinks she may have to just go to a dermatologist and see if there's something else they can do to get his skin to clear up more. Lita did get him to giggle a bit by bouncing him on her lap and having him 'dance' a bit. Lin said the Nabors got him a walker for Christmas, which I'm looking forward to seeing him in that, hehe.

I finally, finally, got my piece of pineapple cake! *_* Ahh, bliss....

JT showed us some of his educational card games he'd gotten from his grandparents in NY who'd sent him a set of them. It was like one box with 7 different types of card games in them - Go Fish, Concentration, Old Maid and things of that nature. He played a math-type game with Lin; I can't remember what it's called but what it is is that you divide the cards up between players equally, then you each put a card down and whoever's value is higher wins; if you have the same value, you go again and whoever's card is higher after you stop having ties, they take ALL those cards used. Then after all the cards are dealt out, you count your piles and whoever's pile is highest is the winner. Cute, huh? ^_^

We were all over there till about 6 something that evening and then finally left and went home. Fun was had by all and none of us took any food home even tho Lita said we could - I guess I just forgot :p *LOL*

I need to get my ass on my DDR pad...

...again to all.

I'm just waiting for family members to come over for breakfast and we'd hang out for a while before going to the MAIN EVENT! Hee hee ^________________^

I've been up since 7:05 a.m. and I did the following:

Washed my dishes

Dumped the trash

Swept my floors

Took a shower/did my hair

And now I'm listening to TAS in the background, but I need to run the trash out while I'm waiting...*zips*

First off...



I know for some of us, we still have another 11+ hours to go before that day is here, some of us are already celebrating the day, etc, but the message is the same all around ^_^

Secondly, remember, this journal will no longer be updated after December 31, 2007 and everyone should have my new journal name. If you don't, just ask, and I'll give it to you.

Third, here's random crap for me to spout about just because I can and because I know you people love me anyways...

Ok, last night I had a weird ass dream...it was something dealing with our current water situation, me moving into a house and then me being compared to Serena Williams. *laughs* I'll try to recall as much as I can...it started off with me talking to this one couple - no I didn't know them - and they were saying how energy efficient the houses were and then talking about something else, but I'm not sure what that was. Then I was with Lin and John over at their house and Lin and I were outside talking about I have no idea what and this young woman comes over and starts talking to me, saying she thought it was me - obviously I was some sort of local celebrity of sorts - and she said I sounded somewhat like Serena Williams except my voice was deeper or some weird shit like that *lols* XD It was soooo fucked up I haven't the slightest idea...and no, I didn't have any cocoa, chocolate or any sort of sweets before bed. I ate dinner very early that evening and it was by way of Jason's Deli - my usual, Plain Jane potato and Strawberry Cheesecake but drinking nothing but water, so...

Ok...blame the water.

Yesterday, I had a bit of a crisis on my hands - or what I thought was a crisis until I actually thought through what actually needed to be done and it turned out not to be a crisis, but it was so late by the time I figured it out, I couldn't deal with it until this morning.

All right *sighs* This is what happened - I was supposed to go to my cousin's church and see their Christmas play; however, this was unknown since we weren't sure what was going to happen with J-bear since the grandparents were supposed to pick him up EARLY that day (pay attention to that; there will be relevance to this in a bit...) not to mention I didn't know whether I'd be keeping him or if her brother in law Ken would.

I ended up getting the squirt. My phone kept ringing, ringing, ringing after 8 something that morning; next thing I know, someone is knocking on my bedroom window, scaring the begeezus out of me almost - but I did not fall out of bed thank you :p - as I went and answered the door. It was Lin and J-bear. So, she told me that she'd given the grandmother my cell number and whenever they were on their way, they would call me and let me know. Fine. Bye bye Lin.

So, I sit J-bear down and let him play Dynasty Warrior 4 Xtreme Legends (which I hadn't even played since I'd bought it that night) while I go into the kitchen to fix something quick to eat since I hadn't eaten yet and I'm starting to get a hunger headache - I fix some toast with butter and polaner all-fruit black cherry jam and some Hershey's Special Dark Hot Cocoa; about maybe half and hour or so later, Sis calls and tells me she's grabbing gift cards and whatnot. I tell her I'm here with the baby, so she says she'll stop by after she's done to tell him bye.

She shows up maybe an hour later, and so when she comes inside, I tell J-bear to come and speak and he's thinking it's his grandparents and when he sees it's his aunt, he blatantly ignores her and goes back to playing the game. I tell him that's not nice and I immediately turn the game off. He has a fit and I tell him to calm down and be nice, so then we all go into the living room. (I'd closed the door to my room) Sis and I sit down and we talk for a bit while J-bear falls out in the floor, whining and immediately says he's hungry - which Lin told me she'd just fed him before dropping him off to me - I ignore him for the time being while sis and I talk about how we've noticed the change in what a lot of people think this holiday's all about and whatnot and then what holidays we could do WITHOUT as well. Like this is what our family's doing for one another - Lita's gift to everyone is feeding us all tomorrow; mine to Lin was paying her car taxes; and Sev's to me is paying my car insurance for a month. That's what the adults do. The only ones that truly get gifts now are the kids. Lita ended up getting all of Lin's kids toys although she should've gotten them clothes, but she said she could never get ahold of her dear sister to see what they needed. I got J-bear shoes and C3 a shirt and a reversible jacket and JT some games for his educational system. Sev was trying to help Lin with finding that system for J-bear, but then she thought about it when she saw the price of it as well as the cost of the games considering Lin's financial discrepancies right now and said she'd probably try and find another thing for J-bear to get into and whatnot, like golf or something like that, which sounds like a good idea. Then we got to talking about J-bear's tantrum's that he has and whatnot and she was telling me about something she saw on Dr. Phil where they showed that the kids usually reflect what they see at home and whatnot, which I understand that well enough, but for me I'm not just trying to let them cry it out and get it out of their system and calm down, then try and talk to them. Well, after sis left, I reheated the cocoa and split it amongst J-bear and myself and let him have my other slice of toast. Then, I spoke with him about having better mannerisms around people when they say hello to him despite whatever he may be doing at that moment and to always go and greet them then go back to whatever he was doing.

Time passes...9 o'clock - 10 o'clock - 11 o'clock - 12 o'clock - 1 o'clock. J-bear keeps asking me when his grandmother's coming and I tell him I have no idea; just whenever I get a phone call from her. Well, unfortunately, his mother ended up calling first around 2 o'clock and I told her about the predicament and she was hot! Well...yeah, sorta kinda. She was disappointed that J-bear had missed his part in the play for nothing, so she said she would stop by and pick him up after she'd called them. However, right after I got off the phone with her, I hear a "beep" sound which is the type of sound we always hear when the power's going out.

Yep, the damn power's out.

And it was that way from the time she was off the phone with me, till she came and got J-bear and probably while I was napping, because halfway through my nap I looked to see my light back on in my closet (I'd forgotten I had pulled on it trying to put my clothes away), so that was ok and then I turned to my tv and my VCR screen was blank and for the life of me, I couldn't fathom why I couldn't get it reset, so after pulling all the plugs out and resetting everything on my desk and looking everything over, I gave up for a bit and went back to sleep. When I woke up, I went and got dinner and watched some more PR eps and chatted for a bit before going to bed. However, in the middle of the night when I got up, I thought to myself that I probably needed batteries for the tv remote so I could turn the tv to Ch. 4.

Well, this morning I got up about 10ish, ready to get what little bit I needed to done when my phone started ringing. It was Ny; at first I was busy trying to get going and whatnot and when I got settled into the car, I answered it after the 3rd time she'd called me back. She was just needing a job reference b/c she was trying to get her old jobs back and whatnot. I said that was fine. After that, I proceeded to call Lin not knowing if she had to go to work or not considering I didn't see her car at her apartment. No answer. So then I called Lita at work, but then I digressed and called the house. She was there! :3 So, I asked if they needed anything for tomorrow and what time they wanted us over there. After she rattled off all the stuff we're having for dinner tomorrow, I cheered and she suggested I bring some soda for tomorrow.

While in Wal-Mart, I found something for Ny's housewarming party we need to give her hopefully in another month or so and I hope that they still have some more of these dish sets so I can get her another one since they were so cheap and hopefully get some silverware in addition to the phone I'm giving her since I no longer require a house phone, hahaha. (Just kidding! XD)

So, after picking up a set of dishes, some deodorant, some AA and AAA batteries, some oil, 3 things of soda, another box of cocoa mix, and whatnot, I ended up running into one of my old coworkers from Sears ^_^ It was so nice to see her! She had her kids with her, she was doing her Christmas Dinner Shopping. I told her to be careful and not get swallowed in the madness that was today. *chuckles*

I get home and I pop the AA batteries into the remote and I try it again. I curse at it for a moment after it doesn't work and I know the remote works fine b/c I'd just used it. I look at it closely...

Dumbass, turn the battery right side down thank you much.

It works. I now have my tv, vcr, ps2 and dvd working again. Yay! n_n I can once again pwn at SC 2, DW 3 and DW 4 XL!

And to all I wish a Merry Night!

P.S. And thank you to htmlgoodies, I figured out how to do this:

<b>NAME/ALIAS/NICKNAME</b>; <b>AGE</b>; <b>GENDER</b>; <b>I LIKE YOU; DO YOU LIKE ME? Y/N</b>; <b>FAVORITE FOOD</b>; <b>DREAM VACATION?</b>; <b>AM I A NICE PERSON?</b>; <b>IF WE RP'D TOGETHER, WHAT WAS YOUR FAVE CHARACTER I RP'D? YOUR LEAST FAVE?</b>;

Is there any point? Not really. ^-^ Just something to take up empty head space. ;p

Now, when you reply, please answer those questions for me ok? :3

P.S. 2 - Begat from ankhutenshi who begat it from my imouto, atemu_girl who begat it from here, but I figured I'd just post it here for my own f-list.

MISTLETOEMEME♥♥

Who would you kiss under the mistletoe?

Comment with your username and find out who would kiss you under the mistletoe. After you comment, look around the other comments and reply to the people you would kiss. Even if you wouldn't kiss them, you can give them a hug, a pat on the back, or anything you'd like to do. ♥~!

It's that time of the year for sharing love with family and friends, so spread it around lj too~!

I was talking with Ny a while ago and she told me the best news - she found a apartment! So her and her girls are going to move in together there and her son shall stay with his grandmother. She said it's a 2 bedroom 2 story type apartment. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Congrats girl!

Well I'm sitting at my laptop watching the 2nd episode of Gummi Bears (thank you starrcandi for finding those! ^_^) and I finished the last of my cards, so these cards will be going out today:


starrcandi

sailoruresui
kuja_rang
gaijin_chan
niisan_ryou

And my buddy Kathryn in MS ^^ So be on the lookout. I think I got everyone. Did I forget anyone? If I did, please let me know and I'll send ya one.

lilwhitetigrah2, vkittydeangel I'll see you ladies tonight - ulp! Speaking of which where are the damn tickets? *looks in drawer* Ah, here they are! Ok...now to grab ya'll gifts and I'm out the door! ^_^ *waves*

Ok, these cards have been sent out today:

bunny_madness
dragondancer515
atemu_girl
ankhutenshi
bluespikey
sakata
leannakitsune89


I will finish up the last batch tonight and that will be that! ^_^ Thank goodness...

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*** BREAK ***

*nail biting* Hm...I know there's no rule against this sort of thing, but this is the first time I've ever seen such a thing happen in an RPG I've been in...it's...weird to say the least. I've noticed it and I guess neither comm has any problem with the same events happening in both, so, I won't really bother talking about it. *shrugs*

And it's sad out of all three RPGs I'm in, there's only 1 that I'm actually having fun in right now. I'm about 3/4ths of the way from dropping out of the other two; however, I will give them a 3 month lease b/c right now I know things are crazy for people and they don't have an opportunity to be on right now with finals, traveling and such, so I won't do anything...yet. However, if by the END OF MARCH, neither comm has stirred any more interest for me...that's it.

If you haven't been able to tell, I'm doing much better today rather than yesterday, so everything's cool for tomorrow night as well. I just need a solid answer from one person so I can figure out exactly who'll be going and who won't *sigh* Right now I have 4 absolute yes, which leaves me with 6 open tickets right now until I know something. If the other two don't go, I'll see if Ny and her kids want to go.

Ok, well, that's enough from me for the time being. Back to the books.

I'm sick today, but yet I'm at work. I'm just nauseated, so that doesn't qualify for calling out *shrugs* oh well...Snagged this from kuja_rang only type ONE WORD as your answer:

( Meme )

*** BREAK ***

Well...I'm feeling some better thanks to sipping on Ginger Ale, but I'm still not 100% though. I'm leaviing out right after work, stopping to get gas, then home I go to soak in the tub and probably just go straight to bed. @_@

I have concluded that I DON'T have what my sister had last week b/c I'm not losing bodily fluids at an accelerated rate (to put it in 'nice' terms) and I'm not feverish or anything either, so I have no idea what the heck this is. Just a 24 hour bug or something I suppose, but we'll find out when I wake up tomorrow.

Let me tell you all something that happened just a while ago that was so funny! :3 Ok, we're all working on the project and whatnot and all the sudden up comes this VERY CUTE guy that Lady said reminded her of Paul Walker - except he had brown eyes instead of blue - and he happens to be a runner for one of the attorney offices that has a box with our office. Well, he's coming to make a certified copy and to check the mail in their box. Fine, well and good - SO! I tell him while he's waiting on the copy (it's 15 pages long), to go and check his box while he's waiting. He finishes checking the box and I give him his copy. So after he leaves, Tina, Lady and I are chit-chatting about him here and there and next thing we know - he's back. And he goes "You needed to see me?" Of course my thoughts go completely NC-17 rated, but ANYHOW!! 0:) and so I simply smile and just ask him if he found everything ok and he tells us yes and to have a good day and walks off.

We burst out laughing after he was out of earshot. We knew exactly why that had happened to - dear Hakeem. We cornered him about that after he got back from break and it did turn out to be true b/c he said we were all sweatin him and whatnot. Crazy boy. :3 But it did make all of our days and reminded me of that one time when I was younger, my sister went chasing after this man from South Carolina that was trying to find his way to some place in the fair city. XD

Ah, good times...