Quit running me through the wringer in only one day. x.x

Rolled up the the convention center around 1ish expecting to stay for a few hours, take what I wanted from the dealer's room and AA and then be back at the house at a reasonable hour. I had barely gotten in the door when clemmontine and hey_giffy found me. We vowed to meet at the Nekocon booth and off we went. Hung around there for a bit until the Wonder Twins managed to get unlost, wandered around the dealer's room with them a bit, parted ways again and ran back into Dizzy and Ashley. There was an epic hunt for one particular booth that took us around the hall and into the Alley (where we acosted Shadra and ConMom and Dizzy networked), then back again. Finally found the damned booth with the help of Nekocon's wonderful Marlene. Pretty feathers for my hair obtained. u_u d

More wanderings were had (bonus Dana acosted), randomly discovered that Myde and Giffy had a room litterally four or so doors down from the Nekocon crash pad and somehow I was convinced to go to the Aquarium. We saw jellyfish (yay!), dolphins, sharks, rays and a NAUTALUS. :D And then there was dinner at P.F. Changs (mmm ginger chicken I could eat you forever) where we talked convention stuff and gossiped.

Finally hit the road after midnight. *sob* I'd expected to leave by 6 or 7. But good times were had. I bought nifty things and got to spend time with friends, especially the ones I so rarely see. Wish I could've spent more time with Myde and Giffy, but we were all so busy doing our own things. MISS U GUYS <3 <3 <3

Very tired now. Gonna go fall asleep to my new ambient CD. mmmm.. pretty music...

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The only way today could possibly redeem itself at this rate is if Aaron has the classic Soundwave and Laserbeak toys he promised to give me tonight when I get in to LC.

BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEYTOYS

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Sudden distracting surge of anxiety.

What am I forgetting?? What's going on? Am I missing something?? SOMETHING IS GOING WRONG SOMEWHERE

@______@;;;;;

Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern? WTF?

Hi, Monday. Here you are again, just like every week, reminding me why I dislike you so. On the upside, I just have to survive today and tomorrow working both CI and LC and then I get a blissful day at Hershey Park wheeeeee :D I need that day like whoa.

I feel like there was something I was gonna say... but now I can't remember. Nothing is sticking my head today. @__x

Distract me with your angry leftist ranting, Olbermann.

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I cleaned last night and I feel much better. I think this week is making me gun shy, tho... I'm still flinching at little things, waiting for the big fat shoe to drop. But it's almost the weekend, thank goodness for that and at least I'll be busy enough until then.

Tonight I work at LC, then tomorrow night is Video Games Live at Wolftrap. :DDD *does a dance*

Then next Wednesday is Hershey Park with the ol' family.

I am really looking forward to the extra money LC will give me... but not enough that I'd start working weekends again for them. :P I'm just waiting for the day when the company finally just crumbles in on itself... it's had one foot in the grave for years now.

Yeah, I'm pretty boring today.

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p.s.
I smell like drier sheets. I think my shoes are the only thing that hasn't come straight out of the wash today. '_'

Stolen from oatmeal_queen (who knows what my slovenly hovel looks like already BUT)

Without moving, adjusting, cleaning or adding anything, take a picture of your desk/computer as it is RIGHT NOW and post it in your journal. But don't be shy! If there's anything around or on the wall behind it, catch that in the picture too. Bare that mysterious place you reside behind the keyboard for all the world to see.


( BEWARE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE )

Today did not go as I had expected it to. I'd planned to clean and I got the catbox area done and the vacuum cleaner emptied before Sako showed up and we spent some time walking over to the store, having leftover lunch and just hanging out a little bit. And then... it was DMV time. uuuuggghhhh... it wasn't.. difficult, just long. Wasted so much time waiting in the stupidly long lines... and then LensCrafters called me to come in and work. And by then, traffic was so bad that I just cut my losses, grabbed food and went in early. Totally didn't get the kitchen, bathroom or laundry done like I'd wanted to. :(

On the upside, I got a small moleskin notebook to keep in my bag. Starting with my next paycheck this week, I am going to try and keep exact details of my spending. I'll try to cut back as a general rule of thumb, and then a week later, I can take a closer look and hopefully cut out even more. I'm just... I'm not in a position anymore to be spending as much as I have been lately. I've gotten into some really bad habits and even though I know I've had some big expenses lately that've hit me hard (AWA reg, car inspection and registration) not spending as much in general will only help. Especially with this added worry of the tax thing. Sako thinks maybe I should try to question it; I didn't make as much of an effort to file in 06 because I was actually getting back a bit of money but it didn't seem to me to be worth the trouble I'd have to go thru to get it. So to suddenly have them say that I owe over 500 just in back taxes alone (not counting interest or fees, apparently)... I'm like.. how did I get to that number? What happened??

On the other hand, what the heck do I know? I'm lucky I know how to do my taxes at all and it's the freakin' IRS. gah. -.-;;

Oh well... I've got my registration taken care of, finally got my address changed with the DMV and I'll be picking up some nice extra money from LensCrafters the next two weeks. Hopefully I can avoid giving myself an ulcer.

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Fandom is HARD. I dunno why I get it into my head sometimes to try and keep up; I think I suffer from spontanious delusions that I'm as inately interesting or compelling as other people. I ought to just stick to my little corner. :|a

I dunno what it was about today.. I felt like I got nothing accomplished. Oh wait, could be because I didn't. Except to get on Dizzy's last nerve about making the cover for the Ashta machine. It took four tries, at least 6 hours and lots of wasted pleather, but ... we actually have something that is more or less functional. There are some things I think I would like to tweak on it, but I'm terrified of ruining the delicate balance we've got going on. Seriously, the tension on the fabric is JUST RIGHT. We found out the hard way that removing even a little bit results in catastrophic buckling. I just wonder if the little bit that overlaps over the screen will end up driving me batty. I hope not, I really like the cover as a whole.

Tomorrow, I have the house to myself. I think it will be a cleaning and drawing day so maybe I can shake how unproductive I felt today.

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DC fireworks were, I think, some of the most spectacular in quite a while and the turn out was healthier than I've seen in the past couple of years so that's good too.

Went down and had lunch with the parental units at Kelly's Irish Times (mmmm battered fish'n'shimp) then meandered down towards the mall. Dad hit up the Folklife Festival and mom and I went to the Natural History Museum. (well, okay, we thought we were going to the American History Museum, but didn't realize we were at the wrong building until we saw the big elephant instead of the flag lol oops) We also hit up the Sackler and Freer galleries. Which, the Freer had some AMAZINGLY beautiful Chinese caligraphy on display. <3 <3 <3 Wandered around for a while after that (shadrad, you would've laughed: mom had an Ice Cream Disaster just like you. we just stood there staring at her downed Dove bar, melting into the gravel at our feet. I dutifully sang "how could this happen to meeeeeee?" and gave her half of mine) and finally parked our asses in the grass around the Washington Monument.

Fireworks were amazing. I am always amazed each year by all the new stuff they come up with! :U (except for the one year they figured out how to make smiley faces in the sky... that was just dumb and I am pleased to say that they have not repeated it since.)

The ride home on the metro sucked balls, but it always does on the 4th. I had the misfortune of being crammed up next to this couple who were using the close proximity of EVERYONE to fawn over each other. The girl was crushing my hand against the railing with her bag which, despite being HUGE, apparently could not fit her wallet which she kept dropping and having to retrieve every frickin' five minutes. There is no room for that asshattery, hold on to your stuff geeze! I dunno what her problem was.. she couldn't hold still and I think she was leaning on me just as much as she was her boyfriend. *grumblegrumble*

And now I'm tired and sore and I think I'll go read and hopefully not pass out facefirst into my book.

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Do not snap poppers indoors in an enclosed area. x____x

I'mma go to bed and hope my ear stops ringing...

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There is a good sized moth bouncing with amazing persistence against the glass porch door and it's got both Hannah and JJ going bonkers.

bwahahahaha XD

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