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By this time tomorrow we will be in the condo at Ocean City...Ohhhh. That place is an absolute haven. It's got a quaint, beachy kitchen with a breakfast bar, a beautiful living room, and a loooong screened balcony. It's perfect.
We're dropping Tubbies off at Nathan's parents' house for a long weekend with the grandparents :) His little dog suitcase smells of his treats and he won't stop sniffing it. I think he can tell when we're going away for a few days when he watches me start leaping and bounding around the apartment, packing us and the cooler, not to mention cleaning from top to bottom so we can come home to a clean house Monday night...I need a vacation just from packing.
I just can't wait to get on the beach. :)
Dixie currently feels:
Alone
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- I was planning for my blog title to be alliterative, but I think there's only like two things I'm going to mention that start with S.
So I sort of failed there.
Adam stayed over last night (Saturday).
We started off by him coming at about half 12 - and waking me up. So I went and had a shower, and we sat around for a while, playing Guitar Hero III and watching random stuff on YouTube.
Then he leant me his monster turbo hairdryer, because we were sick of waiting for my hair to dry before we could go out.
- Yeah, on Friday, I went to ASDA with mam. We bought some stuff for Adam and I to munch on, and I bought some socks for dad for father's day today, and a card. I got Adam some hairbands and some Jelly Babies for his birthday present - as he turns 16 tomorrow. :)
I actually made a bit more effort this year, because I totally forgot his birthday last year.
We're best friends, and have been for like 11 years - and I forgot his bloody birthday. :)
I actually remembered it, TEN MINUTES AFTER IT HAD PASSED.
At like 00:10, I remembered. :)
Mam went a bit overboard, she wanted to get Adam presents herself - so she went mental, buying him a Smarties cake, a shirt, a little bracelet kit (as a joke, of course. :D), some Malteasers and some deoderants.
Because it was father's day weekend, ASDA had put all their birthday cards away, so there was a really shitty selection.
Lmfao, today's fucked suggested tag is "I heart Adam".
I do, but he never hugs me. Which makes me sad. :(
But when I was shooping with mam, I persuaded her to get me some Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice-cream.
It's whopper expensive.
It's about the same price as Hagen Daz - which is THE expense of frozen desserts.
I got a little tub, about 250ml, - £2.70!
I told Adam over MSN before he came, and he got a craving for it himself.
Anyway, after my hair was dry - (I put on the new shirt mam had bought me on Friday - red and grey striped polo with a collar :D) - we went down to ASDA so Adam could get his dad and his nana presents for father's day and her birthday, respectively.
And we got a big tub of Ben & Jerry's half-baked. - I actually preferred the cookie dough, but they were both proper lush.
So we got home and shared that - then returned upstairs to play some more Guitar Hero III and mess about with anything we found - like we normally do.
Then we watched The Weakest Link: Blue Peter special - and I don't know WHY we watched it, either...
I think we were just bored and couldn't be arsed, so we watched telly instead of playign video games.
Earlier on, whilst faffing on with the cable box, Adam found the music on demand menu - and we found tons of music videos we could watch for free.
So we watched AFI, Slipknot, Gorillaz, All-American Rejects and The Ting Tings.
- When mam and dad came home, I forced mam to watch The Ting Tings' video. She didn't like them, but after I'd been banging on about them all week, I felt she ought to know why. :)
I made us lamb grillsteaks and chips for tea, and we watched Dr. Who. I played on my DS for a little while, because I don't understand Dr. Who at all - because I don't watch it, really.
It was alright though, it killed some time.
When mam and dad came home, Adam started banging on about playing Scrabble again.
- Last Saturday, he'd wanted to as well, and I didn't want to get under my bed.
I actually wanted to play it myself yesterday though, so he stopped downstairs, and I went upstairs, propped the airbed against the wall, and started looking under my bed.
I found a little box that belonged to my grandad, with dominoes, draughts and chess in it - magnetic!
I put that to one side, because it's awesome.
I also took out my Lego, which I found, (You'll see... :D) and I even found my old hymn book from primary school.
I sang some of my favourite ones to myself as I looked for the game.
As I stuck my head inside, the airbed fell down on top of me - so I had my head and my shoulders stuck inside my bed, surrounded and enclosed by piles of boxes and tins, with a big beasty airbed on top of me.
It took me about five minutes to get out!
- But I found the Scrabble - and Adam read through the hymnbook too, and we both felt nostalgic at our memories of singing them at primary school.
It was about 12 by this time - and mam and dad were in bed.
Adam said it was too depressing in my room at night, so he wanted to play Scrabble downstairs.
- And we were there for two hours!
Everything is so much funnier when you can't make any noise... Seriously.
Our first few games of Scrabble were quite good - and it also gave us something to piss ourselves over all night.
See, we were coming to the end of one of the games, and I had some really shitty tiles like F, X, J and Z.
Earlier on, I'd been desparate, and put down 'HEN'. - A proper shitty word, worth proper nothing.
Out of boredom, frustration and annoyance, when Adam wasn't looking, I added the Z to the end of 'HEN'.
So it then became 'HENZ'.
And I was proper laughing into a pillow, so he realised summat had amused me - and he didn't realise for ages, but when he did, we were both adding it randomly into sentences and pissing ourselves.
- When we were setting the airbed and the sheets upstairs - bear in mind, this is at about half 2 in the morning - Adam forgot to get the extra cushions, and he goes: "Oh wait, I just need to go get the HENZ..." - and I was crying at it!!
Before we went to sleep properly, after we'd set the airbed up, and Adam was laid on it, and I was laid next to him in my own bed - we were playing on Pictochat on DS.
Of course; we were drawing pictures of hens, or HENZ, should I say. :)
Then we started our Guitar Hero piss-taking again.
Hit Me With Your Best Henz - ROFL.
She Bangs The Henz - LMFAO.
Through The Fire And Henz - PMSL.
And so on. :)
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Next day, today - we woke up at about 11 - well, my mam woke us up - coming in the room, shouting: "SOCKS!", and putting a bag down on my computer desk.
We played some more Scrabble, and I got a proper legendary streak.
I put down 'DYKE' on a triple word score, and got about 30-od points.
Then from it, I added 'FETID', and got another 30-od, thanks to the triple word score.
Then Adam owned me in the next two games, of course.
We had our showers, then played some co-op Guitar Hero III.
We haven't played it together for a long while, and we've gotten a LOT better.
We were going from 3 stars to 5 stars on Expert-Expert.
Then, I got the wonderful Lego, and I built myself a castle. :)
- I was doing most of it whilst Adam was washing his hair and browsing YouTube.
...And I have photos. :D
Here's my castle from the front - notice my two identical guards. :)
Here's an arial shot. :)
I'm going to explain each part now, with a close-up shot of each. :D
This is the main living quarters. :)
At the back, you can see the king's treasure chest, laid out on his royal red carpet.
To the right, that's the king's throne, and his table - complete with a large ice-cream knickerbocker glory, and a pack of cards - because my king is a gambler. :D
At the front, that's the king's sleeping quarters, and his pet cat Soda sitting on it. :)
Here's the kitchen.
Complete with two water-pumps, a large mixing cauldron, and jars of spices on the wall. :)
There's also some bottles of beer and lemonade for his majesty's liquid nourishment.
Here's the guardrobe - or the toilet. :)
You can see some weaponry and a broomstick at the front - they're kept in a barrel in case they're needed. :)
For the comfort of the king and his knights, I enclosed the toilet with some walls. :D
Oh, and I added a mirror, so the knights can squeeze their spots. :)
The best part of every castle - the dungeon! :)
That's actually made with some jail bars I got from a Mega Bloks cowboy set. :)
Luckily, Lego and Mega Blocks usually fit together. :D
I even added a festering skeleton inside. :)
Oh, and some moss growing on the ceiling!
Here's a close-up of the guards.
I was going to give them helmets, but I only had three, and none of them matched.
Oh well, they can be subjectible to headshots. :)
Here's the royal archer, perched on the right battlement. :)
And on the left battlement is the king's trustworthy knight. :)
I love Lego people - and all the accessories you get with them. :D
And here's our foolhardy king - doing a little dance on the front turret. :)
Behind him, you can see the head of a traitor to the castle.
Mwah, that will serve as a warning to others. :D
And then, I started taking funny pictures with them. :)
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I knew it wasn't safe to stand on that turret!
Our king took a plunge into the horses' feeding trough, his sheild and sword scattered, and his cape seriously splattered.
Yes, I like my alliterations. :)
Our king punishes the unruly and lazy guards.
Of course, medieval style - he chains them up by their feet from the front turret. :)
Here's a closer shot. :)
You can almost hear their screams of pity as the blood rushes to their hairy heads. :)
And what's a castle without a few beheadings?
The royal knight beheaded this guard with his own axe - now THAT'S harsh. :)
Now that's an ice-cream fit for a king!
I think Soda would like a lick too. :D
Ah, Lego is fun. :D
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After Adam had gone, I downloaded some videos from YouTube - ready to go on my future iPod.
After being reminded of the Powerpuff Girls by hearing their song in a background of another video, I scoured YouTube for some full episodes.
It took some doing, but I have found some.
I've downloaded all the ones I could find - INCLUDING ONE OF MY FAVOURITES!!! - and I've even got to watch three new ones I hadn't seen before. :)
Election Software Lost in Transit Found -- But More Chips Go Missing
By Kim Zetter
January 31, 2008
As I reported last month, 174 EPROM chips loaded with software that runs on Diebold optical-scan voting systems were lost in California after they were sent via Federal Express from the secretary of state's office to San Diego County election officials. Two cardboard shipping tubes that were supposed to contain the chips arrived empty in San Diego, with one of the tubes missing its lid.
It turns out that 156 of the chips were found in Santa Barbara, but 18 are still missing. Authorities say that a couple of other CA counties have now discovered that they're missing chips as well.
The San Diego chips were discovered on January 2 by Santa Barbara election officials after the Sacramento County sheriff's office, which was investigating the case, asked the 19 counties that were sent chips to count the ones they received. A Santa Barbara staffer discovered that their box contained 156 more chips than they were supposed to receive and found a sticker on them indicating they were meant for San Diego.
Sergent R. L. Davis, with the sheriff's department, says that all signs point to the likelihood that the chips fell out of the San Diego shipping tubes during transit and that someone, likely a FedEx employee, stuffed them into the Santa Barbara box by mistake. He says that the 3-ft long 4x4 box that was sent to Santa Barbara with its chips arrived badly mangled on both ends and appeared to have broken open and been resealed. He says from the condition of the box it appears that the San Diego tubes and the Santa Barbara box may have stuck in a conveyor belt and torn open, spilling their contents. Whoever found them, stuffed them all into the Santa Barbara box then re-sealed it, though he hasn't been able to confirm this with FedEx.
Davis says this scenario is also supported by the fact that a majority of the 19 counties that were shipped chips received packages that were damaged. Additionally, some of the San Diego chips that were found in Santa Barbara were crushed, bent or otherwise destroyed -- indicating a possible conveyor belt mishap. He thinks the 18 chips that are still missing were probably thrown out or swept up by whoever cleaned up the mishap.
He says "a couple" of other counties have since reported they're missing chips as well, but he didn't know which counties or how many chips they're missing. Calls to the secretary of state's office to get more details have gone unanswered.
San Diego County will not be using the 156 chips that were found. Instead, the secretary of state's office sent it new chips. The chips will be used in next Tuesday's primary.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/election-softwa.html
BLOGGING! Egad? What to make of this? A Blog? What kind of word is this? Who made this up? Que Es?
Well enough of that. Today was terrible. I woke up in all sorts of back pain from the hood of a car (I was looking at the stars you perverts. Most of the time anyway) and I couldnt really even get out of bed. Not that I usually get out of bed at appropriate hours anyway, but it still sucked. I walk like an old man now and it's kinda funny but the hurty kinda funny when you're making the best of things. Anyway, it feels better now mostly so don't worry about me. I am encouragable.
So. I need a lot of money in a short amount of time. Usually if someone is female there are a few options there, but I dont think thats for me. I need a job. And I need to sell stuff. Money money money.
OOH! I found a bag of chips. Goody! They're old though, but no matter. MUNCH!
My train of thought is quite sporadic. It could be because I'm doing a bunch of other stuff at the same time as BLOGGING! Like eating a cheese sammich and old chips. And I'm on the phone. Like its cool. Woo...
NEXT THOUGHT! Zelda. Zelda is Bitchin'. I wish I had a wii so's I could play Twilight Princess. I so miss playing Zelda. I still whip out Ocarnia of Time once in a while because It's still awesome. No matter what, there will be Zelda. Roaches, Kieth Richards, and Zelda.
My brain hurts. It must be the brain worms. THEY MAKE ME YELL! And do obscene things in public. Terrible, terrible things. And on that note, I shall take leave of this blogging place of unfortunate nothingness. AVAST! TOO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS!
Love and trouser kisses.
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