"...no dead end in sight..."

luls

This is why I have mad love for Taylor Swift XD PWN.

one more before bed

Okay so Bones season 5 started up last night and of course I can depend on Live Journal to bring me 4976309476 freakin adorable journal icons like 30 seconds afterward. All of about two are spoilery, though, so I will wait on that one for awhile. Along with The Office at 8 PM I think Thursday is going to be my new favorite TV night. WIN.

OH AND ALSO Michaela Conlin's hair was freakin adorable throughout the entire episode. My hair will never in a kabillion years be that gorgeous. I am so, so envious of whatever her hair people do to get it to be awesome like that. ...I wish I had hair people ;_; I think I may have a huge fangirl crush on her hair. Crap.

I have a definite schedule of working on fiction and it's going to be a spastic next ten weeks, kiddos. Prepping for Nanowrimo is bad enough, but this is working on two projects simultaneously all throughout Octobah. I'll need to purchase several wigs for the amount of hair I'll be pulling out.

Tomorrow night for dinner is tilapia and baked potatoes. BAKED POTATOES, YOU HEAR ME?? Only because I am super guilty about letting the last bag of potatoes rot in the pantry because it made a huge gross stinky mess. Seriously, our pantry smells like old man pants now or something. I have purchased two lonely giganto potatoes (gigantoes? o.o) and they are going to be eaten tomorrow. Or maybe Sunday.

Anyway.

Next week is payday, and I am determined to refresh my acrylic stock and paint. And go to Calloway's and buy some herbs for the kitchen countertop garden I've been hoarding planters planning for. And put aside another $50-$100 for my phone upgrade next month. And buy Rudie a fountain-type water dish so she will quit begging for running tap water out of the bathtub faucet. And...numerous other things.

Bedtime, everybody! Have a lovely weekend~

meh -_-

I am sitting here on the couch trying not to be a grumpy gus and there is baseball on telly. I'm not a Rangers fan. If anything, I would be an Astros fan. But that would be if I liked baseball. Or Houston lol

I woke up this morning with lofty goals. Four minutes before my alarm and I'm wide awake with a head full of stuff I wanted to do. Almost twelve hours later and I'm just...blaaahhh. Stupid overcast weather. My allergies are being obnoxious and I took Dusty to the vet this morning to get her teeth trimmed. Again. My lovely exotics vet said he can't tell if the tumor in her head has gotten bigger, or it's just her misaligned bottom teeth rubbing at the roof of her mouth causing it to look irritated. Poor kiddo. I give her special foods, extra attention, and now she gets special dental work every four weeks or so. Just to keep her "comfortable". 

I hope she is. I've only had to make that decision one other time and it was a definite, "OMG we're in the emergency vet and you've got to euthanize her now because she is dying a horrendous slow irreversible death" type of thing. I really don't know what I would do with this, just a "meh, I'll just -_- the rest of my short little life away" deal. She's not suffering, as far as I can tell...but she's not really ever been an exciting little animal. Ever since Scarlet died Dusty has just been like "-_-" all the time. Bren and PetPet are solid bonded, but Dusty is just like the third wheel roommate who sleeps all day, doesn't work, and eats all the leftovers when nobody else is around.

So after I got back from the lovely vet and put Dusty back in to sulk it off, I started watching KERA for inspiration for cooking today and I've been lounging all day. My head was killing me and I've had some caffeine and now I'm wondering what I should knock out.

current events, container gardening

I love this commercial!! I don't think it necessarily makes me want a JITB smoothie, but it's rather entertaining XD
I have been rather manic depressive lately. Wednesdays are usually a bad day but I was at the doc all day Monday (long story short, I'm fine, as the details are probably way too TMI anyway) so maybe that's why I was all grumpy Tuesday instead. Now it's Thursday and I keep meaning to post an update, but alas, you know how that goes.
Lately the impatient obsessing side of my personality has kicked in and I'm guilty of mad envy when it comes to Things That are Unreasonable Right Now. Maybe in another six months. It will still be there, I keep telling myself. If it is meant to be a part of your life, it will still be there, ie: calm the heck down, stupid. It's like, I have the rest of my life to be a Big Kid so I need to just enjoy this time of my life. Be more Tao and focus on the moment, instead of dwelling on what I don't have or what I probably really don't need.
Anyway.
Everybody is all like OMG AMERICAN IDOL. I'm like "who cares?". When the first season aired I was a freshman in college, living in an all-girls' dorm (don't ask), and it was the big thing to get together in somebody's room and watch AI because it was a new thing. We watched Justin and Kelly and I remember where I was when the last episode aired and it was exciting. But now? What's the draw? They're all great musicians from the projects or similar who are looking for their big break, a quick fix that will be a fast track to Hollywood and an easy, well-funded life. I'm pretty sure things like that don't readily happen to the other 249,999,999 people in this country. It seems as though shows like AI are just promoting the instant gratification, no-work, overindulgent lifestyle that has made the US a country of spoiled, lazy infants. And I'll include myself in that description as I'm not exempt from that attitude at times.
Okay and now that I'm off my soapbox I read this article yesterday about Shanna Moakler resigning from stupid beauty pageant world and I was impressed. I watched their little reality show and I didn't peg her for the type to have ideals. Certainly not the type to stand up for them and to quit because she's apparently so disgusted by Trump letting the little harlot hypocrite Miss CA keep her crown. Heck, if it had been me caught with topless photos on the 'net I would have resigned out of embarrassment and some attempt to retain my dignity. But I'm a Texas girl, I guess.
I sold my xbox 360 on Ebay and now that it's not here I don't really miss it. It's a first step to pare down my life, make things simpler. In the long run I'm not sure what that will accomplish but it will make me feel lighter, I think.
Looking ahead to this weekend: I have to go back to the blood lab place for more testings (follow-up from an appointment with the gastroenterologist last month -_-), and Saturday night my mando teacher has told me one of his other students is having a jam someplace in Irving. Other than that...I haven't really thought ahead to what I'd need to get knocked out. I renewed my car sticker online so I think mostly it's just going to be a lot of cleaning and straightening and laundry. 
OH ALSO I was watering my plants last night and I think a couple of the big pots can be replanted, so I might stop by Calloway's on Saturday morning and see if they have any hot weather-tolerant lovelies. Specifically, flowers, as the ones I have now are pretty but I need some more color variation. Or I may just transplant the lima bean and tomato plants that are growing in the living room so I can finally put the plant light back in the closet for another year and vaccuum all the stray potting soil from the carpet. I think if the weather turns out well it will be an excellent weekend for balcony-container gardening.
I keep saying to myself that I will post photos so we shall see! Happy living everybody!

weeekend~

I find myself pausing whatever I'm doing when this commercial comes on. I like Jupiter maybe even more than Mars, and not just because everybody and their dog plays Mars at some point. It's also not just because of the huge field adrenaline-slash-nostalgia rush. It's more of a...stirring, a call to action, a drive to be more and do more. It's uplifting for me, even though in the instance of this commercial it's only sixteen seconds.
Today is the start of a new week, and it's unusually cool outside. We had the unholy mother of horrendous rainstorms drag itself through DFW this weekend, and when I stepped outside to go see Sasha's new babeh I was surprised to find that it was only 60 degrees out. So much for putting up all my winter sweaters this weekend.
Actually, I didn't get much done. Overcast weather and I was really blah yesterday. Not much cooking, except for a modified recipe from my new Party Food book (well, not new, per se. A Half Price purchase) for rice and crab balls that I've baked instead of deep fried. They're okay. Not great, but they will do in my bento lunch this week.
On the menu for the bento: rice and crab; strawberries; baby carrots; hummus. I also bought refried beans to do some sort of quesadilla thing in the middle of the week, and delicious Pink Lady apples at beloved Market Street for when the strawberries run out. I usually buy Fiji, but I saw these and thought I'd give them a shot. They are sweet and slightly juicy, with a tart bite to the skin that makes it a little bit more diversified than a regular Fiji or Red Delicious. I think they would be good for baking.
I am so not looking forward to the new, stylized Star Trek movie. It will not be the same Kirk and Spock without Shatner and Nimoy. I am predicting all the junior high kids will squeal over it, but all the die-hard fans who knew the Trek franchise was headed downhill at the release of Nemesis will recognize it for what it is: a shiny pile of poo. I am still going to go see it, just for fodder to make fun of it (also because for some bizarre reason pookie is really jonesing to see the thing), but I am not going to consider this canon at all.
Well, we shall see. I didn't think the Wolverine movie would be any good but I am giving that one a 3 out of 5.
Tomorrow is Monday and lately that means it's House night! We have fallen into this television routine in the evenings - Tuesday is The Biggest Loser, Wednesday is SVU, and Thursday is "I'm going to watch NBC even though technically that's cheating to watch The Office when we haven't gotten through all our DVDs yet" night.
This Friday is payday! And that means it's dry cleaning day and car wash day, and I can get my registration sticker taken care of. Not that it's for anyone's personal reference but mine, but anyway.
I see people my age who are super tanned and they look way old. They have that same look that people my age have when they have been smoking for years. That gross, haggard-in-training type of look. I guess it makes them look older? Or at least that's what they want. After awhile I think they just start to look dried out.
When I was going into college I wanted more than anything to be in a sorority. (I was eighteen and stupid and wanted to pull a 180 and "redefine myself".) My parents said, oh hell no we're not paying that much money for you to lose focus with your studies your first semester. I wonder if I would be the same person had they let me. I wonder if at any point it would have occurred to me to get a job and pay for it myself. Was I just not that rebellious, or did it just end up not being that important? I mean, I turned out all right. One of those Butterfly Effect moments. Whatever.
I'm going to start simplifying my life, starting by getting rid of all the material things I don't need. I think it will make my life easier in the long run.
Now I've got to change out the laundry so we will have nice warm sheets and pillowcases to sleep on tonight. Apologies for the sprinkle assortment of words and phrases.