Month: June 2006

New music

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Latest music finds:

Of Montreal – Wraith Pinned To The Mist — Kept hearing this song at the movie theatre so it got caught in my mind. The band lets you download the song from their official site.

Rock Kills Kid – Paralyzed — I just ordered this from Walmart.com to (finally) use the gift card my Mom gave me for my birthday (in January). Personally I could have downloaded the entire album from iTunes for less but the more I use iTunes, the less I like it. For one, it is quite sluggish. Now, I don’t have the fastest computer out there but it’s certainly no hunk of junk and it’s really irritating when I type in a name in the search box and I can watch the letters slowly appear one by one. This is to search the library on my own hard drive! It’s ridiculous. On top of that, iTunes doesn’t allow me to convert any of the songs I downloaded to MP3 because they are protected files. So I’d have to do it in a round-about way by burning them to a CD and them ripping them as MP3s. But thanks to the aforementioned sluggish response, trying to put together a playlist to burn is a nightmare. Screw iTunes, I hate it. I’d rather buy the CD and rip it to my machine. I’m a bit irritated at the moment if you hadn’t noticed.

Nickelback – Savin’ Me — Joe wanted me to see the video for this song and it really stuck with me. I like when videos tell a story, and this one is very neat and emotional. Now I’m addicted to the song.

Nicole out.

No Indiana Beach

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As you can tell by the timestamp on this post (on the permanent link), we didn’t go to Indiana Beach. I am very disappointed by this, but we didn’t feel like driving two hours each way just to hang out in the cold. It’s only in the 60’s today and cloudy. Throw a lake breeze into that mix and brrrr!!! I’m really getting tired of Mother Nature interfering with my plans. Next weekend? 90’s. But we have the kids. Why does this keep happening? It’s some cruel joke, right?

We ended up sleeping til 10:30 am. Wasn’t much point in getting out of bed. Joe made french toast and we haven’t done anything else except look at the Sunday paper. Haven’t even showered. I feel like I’m wasting my weekend away. I want to go out and have fun but what is there to do? I don’t feel like going to the movies and I feel as if we’ve covered all the good nature-related sites in the area for photography. Ugh, I’m in a rut and I need out!

I guess I’ll go take a shower, but if anyone is reading this, suggestions are welcome. Kevin, maybe you know of some nice places out your way. We’ve been to that little (disappointing) “zoo” in Aurora already, but I’m so bored I’m tempted to convince Joe to drive us there anyway. Even though it’s “cold” out. There’s a Fuddrucker’s on the way back. Heh, like I need to be eating anymore fattening food this weekend. I probably gained 5 lbs. this weekend just from the brownies and chips I ate on Friday night.

Game Night & Saturday Plans

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Game Night was SO MUCH FUN! Seriously, I haven’t had that much fun with someone other than Joe in a long time. I only invited two people because I am very particular about who I spend time with … I don’t like being uncomfortable in social settings. Anyway, I almost thought that E, my friend (and boss!), wasn’t going to make it because she’s been having the week from hell, but she did show up a little later after we had eaten dinner and she ate while we played Aggravation. My other friend, C, left around 9 pm. I was worried that maybe she wasn’t having fun since we kept quoting Friends episodes and she’s not a fanatic, but I think maybe it was because she’s older than the rest of us and goes to bed around 10 pm, even on weekends. She did look pretty tired when she left too. I love her and I really hope she had fun! I would hate it if someone didn’t enjoy themselves at my place.

After C left, we watched some baseball and played Yahtzee. When you get me and E together, we revert to 12 year olds. It’s pretty scary, especially if we start acting like that at work. Plus we (yes, we, not just me) have foul mouths. I was mildly concerned we might be disturbing the neighbors since the patio door was open but I really didn’t care since they are always bothering us. Interestingly enough, I didn’t hear the annoying dog bark once so they probably were out and took him with (otherwise he barks the entire time they are gone). Figures. The rare time I can irritate them and they aren’t even home!

E stayed til about midnight and then Joe and I surfed online til about 1:30 am before going to bed. We slept in until 11 am and I felt hung over even though unlike Joe and E, I didn’t have any alcohol at all! We haven’t done much since getting up other than shower and eat lunch, but I think we might head to Marshall Field’s in a bit since I’ve got some decent coupons and wanted to buy this cologne we tried that smells awesome on Joe. I’d also like to look at some shoes. Tomorrow we’re going to Indiana Beach, just the two of us, to check out their cottages. We’re thinking of renting one for a night and taking the kids later in the summer. Can’t wait to have some of their yummy tacos. And you thought I went for the rides. Well maybe, but I want to play some skeeball too!

Auto Meme

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1. Driver’s seat or passenger seat? Driver’s during the week, passenger’s on the weekends or on trips.

2. What was the first car you owned (could have been purchased by someone else)? Chevy Cavalier.

3. What is the first car you paid for yourself? The car I own now, a Volkswagen Jetta.

4. How many cars are currently housed in your place of residence? How many are still operable? Three and three.

5. If money were not a factor, what kind of car would you own? Probably a BMW; I like the 3-series.

6. If a police investigation was not a factor, what kind of car would you destroy any time you see it? Why? Any car where a fucktard is behind the wheel either wasting my time by going too slowly or putting others at risk by driving recklessly.

7. Does driving in big city traffic fill your veins with adrenaline or your pants with something a bit worse? I don’t mind the expressways too much but anytime I’m on a regular street with lots of traffic I want to hurt people. Especially if it’s hot outside or I can smell cigarette smoke from the other people’s cars.

8. What is your biggest pet peeve regarding driving and/or your fellow drivers? Hmmm … this is a hard one since I have so many driving-related pet peeves. But I guess it would be when I’m on a road going a consistent speed, there are no cars in the lane next to me (or they are further behind me) and some jerk turns onto the road in front of me in MY lane causing me to have to brake to slow down, or change lanes quickly depending on how close I am to the street they’ve just turned off. Then they don’t even speed up to try and prevent me from having to do these things. It’s as if they are completely blind and retarded to boot. I especially love it if they do this and there’s no other cars on the road other than mine.

9. What’s the most expensive traffic ticket you’ve ever received (could be monetary or jailtime)? I’ve never received a traffic ticket.

10. What is the name you’ve given to your current vehicle (be honest, everyone names their car)? My car doesn’t have a name, so you’re wrong, everyone doesn’t name their car!