My better mood continues. Not much else to talk about except getting the house ready for company tomorrow night, and extended-ly, for our trip coming up soon. It's always nice to return from a trip to a clean house, don't you think?
posted by Steph at 3:20 PM[edit]

Sunny day, keeping the clouds away,
On my way to where the air is sweet.
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street?

Nothing like a sunny day to lift your mood....


By the way, Jono...Happy Pride Day!
posted by Steph at 12:05 PM[edit]

Well, so much for the mood getting better. UGH. What a way to start a day. A cloudy day, at that. At least the sun won't be glaring into the window today.

It's neither a rainy day nor a Monday, and I am still down.

I was going to link you to the lyrics to the Carpenters' song that contains the quote above, but I couldn't find a site that would allow me to link. (I hate framed sites..) Soo...next best thing, just write them out myself...

Rainy Days and Mondays
The Carpenters, 1971

Talkin' to myself and feelin' old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

What I've got they used to call the blues
Nothin' is really wrong
Feelin' like I don't belong
Walkin' around
Some kind of lonely clown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

Funny but it seems I always wind up here with you
Nice to know somebody loves me
Funny but it seems that it's the only thing to do
Run and find the one who loves me.

What I feel has come and gone before
No need to talk it out
We know what it's all about
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

posted by Steph at 10:32 AM[edit]

Jono believes that the real reason why I had been so blue for most of this week may have been because HSX has been down. He may be right..HSX is finally back online, and my mood is improved a great deal. Of course, a nice bit of rp and a wonderful friend (who pointed out that it wasn't fair that someone else brought my mood down) helped tremendously.

Do you have your radio station yet? Jono and I take turns listening and broacasting on Live365. My station is called Whispers from the Net, and Jono's station is ClubQale. We play what we like...and being live as we are, we can take requests on the fly with much better turnaround than most radio stations. As of this moment, Jono is broadcasting..why don't you go and listen to him?
posted by Steph at 3:59 PM[edit]

Life is going pretty good on most fronts. Jono got a job that he's enjoying again, delivering pizzas; he gets to interact with people and makes good tips. Francie and Bob seem to be getting along nicely; I got to read a nice little poem he wrote for her, and it made me feel all mushy inside. I found a couple of new games to divert me between IM's, Bejeweled and Atomica. It's a pretty day outside, and not too hot. Everyone around me seems pretty happy.

So why am I so blue?

No, I really do know why. I'm feeling very unsuccessful in my month-old diet, and THAT time of the month is coming up. (Thank you for playing Too Much Information.) But mostly the former. I know that I don't look as good as I could, and I'm working on it. My body doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Every time I think I've lost a little bit, it comes back the next day. I'm so frustrated I could scream.

I'm so tired of fighting with my own body.
posted by Steph at 2:58 PM[edit]

Gotta love Saturday.

The house is (relatively) clean, the laundry's done, the car is fixed, the grass is being mowed as we speak. Shopping and running around later. I love a day with activity, when it's not all MY activity.
posted by Steph at 2:51 PM[edit]

Happy Birthday, US ARMY. We're going in a little while to stand out in either the sun or the rain to watch a formation and to see the men switch from BDU softcaps to black berets.

Whoopee.
posted by Steph at 1:59 PM[edit]

There has GOT to be something in the water.

Alright, so Blogger has been having troubles. Movieboss has been having problems all week. This afternoon, HSX was shut down. Geez louise.

ANYONE ELSE WANT TO SCREW UP TODAY?
posted by Steph at 2:38 AM[edit]

Quite a scare there, Blogger.

You might notice that whenever I update my page, I update the icon for the current weather conditions. I usually do this first before I type anything. This, I have found, is a good habit to get into.

This morning, when I opened the template to change the icon, my template was gone. Absolutely gone. You cannot imagine, unless you've been there, how it feels when you've found that something that took weeks to perfect to your liking is just...poof! Unfortunately for me, I hadn't ever saved the template, and I thought it was all gone for good. I could redo it at some point, I was sure.

Going over to the board, I noticed that many people were having the same problem, so I decided to leave well enough alone. After all, my page was still coming up properly, so I did not change anything in the template, or update the blog like I would have. And tonight, my template is back. The first thing I did, of course, was to save my template to a text file, so this sort of scare wouldn't ever happen again. And I urge you all to do the same. Always, always, always save your work, kids. There might not be time later.
posted by Steph at 12:03 AM[edit]

So it's been weeks since I updated my Blog. Frustration in writing is one thing, but it's even more frustrating when you write something and Blog refuses to publish it. We're told that things are improving, and maybe now they are. I hope so.

Eva flew to meet with my parents today. She's eleven, and even though I know everything went fine now, I was on pins and needles the entire time until that call that said she'd been gathered by her Mimi and Papaw. You see, she flew into Houston. While Houston Intercontinental Airport was closed because of flooding, Hobby Airport, on the other side of the city, was not. And that's the airport that AirTran (bless their little teal planes) flew into. Houston is practically a lake, and it took my parents five hours to get out of the city and back towards Louisiana. I'm assured that they're home now. But if I had seen this morning what I saw on the evening network news, I wouldn't even have taken Eva to the airport.

And it's only the beginning of hurricane season.

In other news...well, there really isn't any other news. Life goes on about the same as it always does. Only now I won't have my sweet gem to help me. It's only for three weeks, though. On June 29, we leave to Louisiana ourselves for a family reunion, and will stay for at least three weeks ourselves. I may get a chance to work a bit, too, substituting for some of the daycare people where my mom administrates. At least it will keep me busy. But I'm going to miss everyone a lot. Still, it is only three weeks. And that's not long. (No, it isn't, Jono!)

Enough for now. I'll try being better about updating.


posted by Steph at 10:22 PM[edit]