I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Oh, hi 2011. No, don't get up, you're looking a bit rough around the edges, just one single day left for you and then it's all over. So please, don't over exert yourself.

You've been an interesting year. So many ups and downs, though I really only posted ups on here. I'm sorry I wasn't more honest with you, 2011. I really just wanted to forget my past this year and embrace a new me and I think I might have gone a little bit overboard with the embracing. I know my bank account is still swooning from the trips to Boston, London, Maine, Bermuda, and Georgia, along with other random concerts and such. It was worth it, though, don't get me wrong, lots of memories that I will have forever! But I think I need to be a bit more selective next year when it comes to spending huge wads of cash. Try to start paying attention to my bills now that I'm on my own.

I'm not really big on resolutions but I do have a few things I really want to do next year. 2012, I'm talking to you now. I know you're waiting in the wings to jump in and take over, but let's just get some things straight. I want 2012 to be a good and honest year. You're gonna be honest with me, right 2012? Let's not keep any secrets from each other or our friends. New rule - if you don't feel comfortable blogging about it or tweeting it, then you probably shouldn't do it. Seems good yeah?

Other than that, my goals are to continue to see my parents at least once a month. The visits did me good. And I'm going to add in to that a monthly dinner with my brother, who I would really like to get to know better and that's hard to do when you're sitting around the dinner table with the family and want to talk about life stuff.

That's it. Figured I would keep it simple - be more honest and reconnect with my brother.

Think you can handle that 2012? 2011 wasn't quite up for the challenge, but I like the look of you.

Went to my new dentist today and had my check up and such. Looks like one of my fillings fell out so I have to go back and get that replaced - yipee. She also said that my lower wisdom teeth have not come in yet because there's no room for them and gave me a referral to an oral surgeon. Yikes! She showed me the x-rays though, and she's right, the teeth are coming in sideways and no good will come of them. It made me sad.

But I cheered up again, because I ran into Target and got a shiny new Blue clone trooper AND a Superman Figure & Cup set! Yay! My new superman will come to work with me and sit on my desk for moral support.

UUuuuuuh, not a whole let else happenin' here. As many of you have pointed out, it's mad crazy hot here on the east coast of the US. I took jimithingy's car into work today. I am planning on taking my car over to the shop tomorrow just to see what it would cost to recharge the AC (if that's all it is). Mini plans are being pushed back until they have a rebate or sale or something.

I signed up for a gmail account. Everyone's always talking about how great it is, and my hotmail has been invaded by strange porn spam recently and it's driving me crazy! So I figured, what the heck! My friends had invites, why not give it a whirl.

I need to buy shorts. That's my mission for this weekend - get shorts! and new sandals that don't smell like feet. Because my grandparents house in Maine has no AC so I will want shorts. And so will the mosquitos.

okay, so that was fun. I'll admit it.

( MINI & me )

Well, today walked a fine line between disaster and good time. We were all set to go down to Virginia for the Rockwell Church concert. As a bonus, we were going to get peking duck at Duck Chang's, as part of jimithingy's (somewhat belated) birthday dinner.

So we're heading out to the car and I'm getting ready to grab my connecting cable from my car so we can plug my minidisc recorder into the soundboard when jimithingy's car decides to do...well nothing. Well, it made a horrible horrible noise but it refused to actually start. This was not good. While his AC wasn't working 100%, it still worked, while my car's air conditioner hasnt' worked all summer.

( things start to heat up... )

I didn't feel like leaving the apartment yesterday so I amused myself by re-arranging the bulletin board above my head and hanging up some new posters. And because I'm a huge dork, I took pictures to show you all! See how many fandoms you can spot!

Oh, and I also took pics of my new desk layout now that I snagged jimithingy's old monitor and speakers. I'm pretty happy with the whole layout.

( pics of my desk area under the cut )

jimithingy survived another birthday :) It was saturday, so he had lots of presents and then I took him out for dinner. We made a slight detour after dinner to CompUSA and he picked out a new monitor for his computer. It is very very pretty. He gave me his old monitor, which is better than the one I had before (which was starting to die anyway) but now I have monitor envy. I mean, he's got a bunch more space, on his desk and on the screen!

To make it worse, they are on sale this week too...must...resist...another...purchase.

Anyhoo, then Saturday night beckanon popped in and she hung out with us all day sunday and a good chunk of today (I just dropped her at Amtrak around 4:30). That as a lot of fun. She had never seen the magnificence that is our apartment. All the random toys and dvds. I think we scared her a little bit. (we will find out when she posts something abou ther trip...any minute now). I attempted to get her hooked on the WoWz too. We shall see if she tries it again. Might have to email her the free trial so she can play with her undead warlock Schwa some more.

Now we've switched out the monitors...and my star wars toys won't all fit on top of this one, it's too angled in the back so the little "space creator" i had perched o my old monitor just slides right off. :( So now I have to find a new home for my galactic heroes!

Every time we've found the little note in our door saying the water might be turned off tomorrow or the next day, it's usually turned off the next day. But I always get up early on the morrow to take a shower and then find out that I really didn't have to.

So, yesterday, we found a note on the door saying "Water will be turned off Thursday and or Friday from 8am - 5pm". I saw the Friday bit, and decided "it will happen friday".

WRONG!

I woke up this morning at 10am, and there was no water. Thank goodness jimithingy bought some water at Giant. Still, dumping Deer Park water on your head is not the best way to get clean. But I did, and I survived.

and now I'm debating taking a shower before I go to bed in case the water is off tomorrow too.

I love Tues and Thurs - I get to sleep in until 11am because I don't have to be at work until 12:30, it's great.

Except that, I don't get out of work until 9pm...which means I come home, eat dinner and then it's almost bedtime.

Like right now, I should be in bed because I have to be at work at 8:45am...approx 7 hours from now.

*sigh*

In other news - jimithingy & I went ahead and signed on for another year here in the apartment. Rent only went up by $30, which isn't so bad. We just can't find anyplace better than this complex! It's the darn washer/dryer in unit. That really spoiled us.

and THANK YOU to moonfall! I got the buffy book today, it has a good home and will be loved here. It's already making friends with the other books. :D

I actually cut my finger on a jello pudding container today. Slid my hand around to find the little pull tab and managed to slice into my finger with the foil top. *headdesk* Yes, I have a pudding related injury.

I am beyond tired, I don't know where my energy is. If you see it, please toss it in a box and mail it back to me. because i'm zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Had some more LATI training today, this time at the West County branch - a pleasant 20 minute drive from my apartment. First half of the training was very interesting - it was all about web searching, search engines, metafilters and other ways of finding stuff online. I pretty much default to google at all times, so it was nice to hear about Yahoo, Ask, and a few other search engines that are out there.

The second half of the program was on blogging. And I might not be an expert on blogging, but as far as blogging basics go, I'm pretty much there. But part of the exercise of the day was to set up a blog on Blogger. So now you'll get another google hit when you type in "orangerful".

I think that makes 5 blogs for me - livejournal, xanga, MySpace, Starwars.com, and now Blogger. *headdesk*

I think I've posted once to the starwars blog, I was going to make it a collecting blog, but i'm too lazy to log into Hyperspace and post haha. I should start posting there so I can be cool like snarkel. MySpace is annoying so I don't post there. Xanga is me tricking co-workers to come to my livejournal. And Blogger....what shall I do with you???

I want to change my livejournal layout again...I think I want to use the natalie header i made, or perhaps make a jewel staite header that mimics my new wallpaper....hm...what to do what to DO!

OH! Also, during LATI, I went ahead and set up a feed for my friends website - brownbookloft. She's a librarian and reviews books on a pretty regular basis, so if you need some readers advisory, she can help you out. Her blog is pretty nice too, she's set up on typepad. If you want to peruse the actual site, it's http://www.brownbookloft.com