Month: August 2007

I am McLovin

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Too tired and ready to head upstairs to post a real entry ….

A Qdoba ground sirloin burrito has 1080 calories! Holy shit, guess I won’t be eating there again for awhile. But that three cheese queso is muy bueno!

I actually lost at Pictionary this weekend. Well, only the second game when I was forced to team up with my brother who draws better than the rest of us yet lacks the mind-reading capabilities my husband and I share. Oh and Trivial Pursuit 80’s Edition still sucks balls.

I finally got my new computer at work! Tomorrow will be my first day using it. I’m way too excited about this than a person should be.

Super Bad was super vulgar, and super free since The Simpsons two weeks ago started late and we got free passes for the inconvenience. “I am McLovin.”

I deleted a load of feeds from my Bloglines. I’m sick of reading boring blog entry after another (much like this one). It’s a total waste of time. I need to stop spending so much time online and rediscover my old hobbies like jewelry-making. And tv-watching. LOL! Oh and exercising would be nice. I have the 1st season of The L Word that’s gathering dust upstairs by the elliptical machine (also full of dust).

Drool-worthy discovery today – Canon has announced the 40D. Oh baby, I am so getting this camera!!! Joe has wanted to inherit my 20D for awhile now but there wasn’t anything out there worthy of relinquishing it to him. Now there is. I also need a hot-shoe and Joe is going to build me a light box.

I want to have a garage sale but I don’t know if I should push myself to get one organized before October or just wait until next Spring so I can slowly declutter the closets and garage. I’m tired of all the stuff. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.

Customize your music

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Slacker.com is a free web-based radio service that learns what you like to listen to, allows you to customize the pre-built stations, and build your own stations. I created a station of my favorite artists – including The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pinback, and more yesterday. I’ve yet to search for an artist and not have them there, including Neds Atomic Dustbin! Plus they have material spanning several albums, not just the singles. I heard an obscure Cure song the other day. Granted, it wasn’t one of my favorites, but the fact that it’s available is pretty damn cool. I’m looking forward to how they plan to offer satellite radio for the car. I imagine that won’t be free but it might be worth checking out instead of paying for another year of XM.

I told my boss about the site the other day and an hour later she proudly IM’d me that she had built a station. I asked, “Who did you add, Winger?” totally trying to be funny and she’s like, “Yea, and G’n’R, Poison, etc. etc.” “You’re killing me!” I exclaimed while I snickered. Our tastes in music couldn’t be more different.

Oh and how did I find this site? Thanks to my friend whom I’ve never met or spoken to directly. He’s a coworker of Joe’s who likes a lot of the same music as I so he’s always recommending music sites or artists and sending cds home with Joe for me to listen to. Isn’t that cool? I love that guy and I don’t even know what he looks like. :)

I-I-Ikea!

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I love visiting Ikea even if I never buy much. I just love looking at the rooms they put together, especially the ones where it tells you how much square footage was used. It’s really impressive.

We visited the Bolingbrook Ikea Sunday morning and we actually bought more than two things. We got two ceramic bowls, three small flower pots, some cutting boards, a spatula, a set of 6 colorful little snacking bowls, and some trivets. I especially love the ceramic bowls because they aren’t deep like a normal bowl, so they’d be perfect for a stew, nachos, or a salad. I look forward to using them. As for the small flower pots, we’ve decided to grow our own herbs. I still haven’t decided which ones, however. Right now I’m thinking cilantro and chives, but I’m not sure about the third one. I want to grow something I like to use but am too cheap to buy because I don’t use it often enough. Any suggestions?

Garage sale finds

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Check out the Halloween decoration I picked up at a garage sale today for only a buck. Nice! I don’t usually buy stuff when we take the kids garage-saling, but I couldn’t resist. I just love Halloween stuff!

The kids made out too. The Girl got Disney Scene It and The Boy got Trivial Pursuit For Kids Nickelodeon Edition. Together they go for $55 new and they only paid $3 each. Other than a missing character (Mickey) in the Disney game, they were both in mint condition.

I’m not ashamed to tell you that the only Trivial Pursuit game I’ve been able to win to date is this kids edition. I don’t watch any of the shows they ask questions on, but I’m very good at making an educational guess. I also won Scene It. Yea, I guess I’m a bitch like that, haha. But the kids are so cool that they were happy for me and not upset they didn’t win. As far as they are concerned as long as their father doesn’t win, the universe is still in balance. LOL!