It's easier, and more satisfying emotionally, to be a bitch.

Why does no one ever have kleenex out here?  Mike and Christis didn't once they moved here, the house we're at doesn't.  WTF?

1.  I want Michael and Christie out here.  It's just not the same by ourselves.  The house is cute, we're closer to the convention center than we have ever been, but it's not the same.  *pouts*  We even drove up to Escondido to eat at Killer Pizza from Mars (right across from their old apartment)  *yummers*,  then being the creatures of habit that we are, we hit the Von's by their old apartment (using their phone number to get the Von's discount), and topped it off at the DQ we always went to after Saturday night dinner (during the day and without them).  OMG.  *whines*  It's not right.

So we're at the restaurant and the following conversation occurred:

Brian:  It's not right.
Me: I KNOW.
Brian:  I only have you to talk to.
Me:  Shut up.  Hey, at least I'll have someone as of tomorrow.
Brian:  Tara?
Me:  Yeppers.  I'll let you talk to Stephanie when she gets here.
Brian:  *death glare*  It's not right.  *whines* 

On the bright side, at least my husband really likes my BFF from grade school.  On the ickles side, my BFF is stuck in the Hellmouth and I think I'm having withdrawals.

2.  BTW, I have been grounded off of having anyone's babiez anymore, kinda like "game recognize game" and "suck".  Damnit.

3.  Also, those of you who are in the know.  There was this short guy at the airport as we were headed towards baggage, I turned and looked at Brian, who then started laughing, because he KNEW I was thinking " I could take him". 

4.  Since we have no one to socialize with but each other *eye roll*, I expect I should be able to update this nightly with SDCC stuff.  I'll try and upload video stuff to youtube, but make no guarantees.  If nothing else there should be pictures.  If I don't comment back, I'm sorry.  Just advance notice if things turn crazy.

5.  Also, if you know anyone headed out to SDCC I'll be running around with our extra *rock music plays* lanyards left over from winchestmidwest all 4 1/2 days and I'll be selling them for $5. 

We're here.....

Spaced is brilliant BTW.  You need to check it out.

Just for you anteka, here's last year's packing escapade. 

And now, for today's!



I don't think there is as much as last year.  We're gonna be there 4 days less, and sadly I don't fit in all those clothes from last year.  I am here to say yoga does make a difference.  OMG, my bag is sad.  Very empty, but once I add 3 pillows it will look jam packed.

1.  Batman was awesome times awesome plus awesome squared.  I cannot decide whose babiez I want to have Christian Bale, Bruce Wayne, or Batman's.

2.  Joss.  Why?  You had me, then you cut my heart out.  Damn you.

3.  I spent yesterday ghetto sewing up tears on our luggage.  I will not give up my Oakley bag.  I love it, and want to have it's babiez.

4.  OMG.  I need to choose my clothes for the trip.  Photo to follow to make anteka happy.

5.  Video footage from winchestmidwest has been burned to DVD and mailed to anteka.  Done.

6.  Friday at SDCC is gonna kill me.  Can I give up Venture Brothers for Bones?  Fuck.  I swear I'm not gonna see Brian at all that day.  *facepalm*

1.  Ummm, yeah, that phrase still hasn't gotten old.  Anyone see an icon of that yet?  I wants one.

2.  New hair color.  It's the easiest thing in the world you can change about yourself.  I generally don't last longer than 6 months, I like change.

3.  Happy Dark Knight Day!  We'll be heading to the 6:30 PM show this evening.  Hee!

4.  Why the fuck would Illinois just arbitrarily one day decide to change the name of the Kennedy to the Jane Adams Tollway?  It's all I-90.  Why would you change that?  Everyone knows it as the Kennedy.  Fuck.  /rant

Rock of Love 3, or as I like to call it - Bret Michael's Venereal Disease, has just been announced.  And it's taking place on a.... wait for it.... BUS!  The title: Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

BEST EVER!

1.  So last year I planted the perimeter of my backyard with bushes in the hopes of one day blocking out all my neighbors.  We're looking outside and Brian's all "you need to get out the hoses and water those bushes, they're looking a little crunchy".  Fine.  It's hot, and humid, and I can't freaking breathe, but I come home from work and get the soaker hoses to line the bushes in the back yard.  Has anyone seen The Mummy?


2.  I swear at the rate I'm going this should be my angry rant post for the day.   We don't trust our child any farther than we could toss him, so we have taken the steps of installing a wireless camera to record in our family room so we can keep track of him while we're at work.  We're now thinking we do need to purchase two more.  Remember Monday's rant? 

3.  Anyone watch The Secret of Nimh when they were kids?  While I'm not a rat, I felt as though I was channeling that movie yesterday.


4.  Can you believe how freaking spammy I was yesterday?  Well, locked rant to follow.  I need to go adjust my filters, and upload some new userpics and you can all laugh at my anger in a few.  Happy SPN day!

And I'll even be nice and hide most, huh look at that, all of them under cuts.  See how caring I am today?  *Pets Flist*

I spent Friday night and part of Saturday up in Madison again.  Life lessons are included.

Saturday we will continue the life lessons learned from Friday but switch it up a bit.  Michael and Christie came over for dinner and Batman Begins.   anteka kinda believes my Sangria is Kool-Aide.  It's not but that's OK.  Michael made the sangria that night.  I'm puzzeled as to what I've ever done to him as I just gave him some bitchin' birthday presents the week before, and helped move his shit across the country last October, but I swear he tried to kill me Saturday night.

Saturday's Life Lesson:  Sangria + ? = barfing for 3 hours and having the mother of all hangovers for two days

Brian and I were sicker than dogs, Michael & Christie perfectly fine.  Michael claims to be stymied as he poured more potent alcohol down my throat the previous weekend, but I'm sticking with the paranoid conclusion that he's trying to kill me.  He dropped off the pretties last night and gave many hugs and apologies for trying to kill me.  I think I will happily avoid liquor for quite some time now.  Thanks.

And on to last night.  I go in asking for about 2 inches to get cut off, but damn, I kinda miss the length.

BTW, EPIC FAIL on my part earlier.   The damn cord was in my purse. 

No really.  BASK.  After traveling from Illinois to California multiple times in the past year, my boys are framed and up on the wall.  And I'm proud to say I picked out the frame and matting myself.  Eight years of giving Michael stuff to frame, I finally catch on in the end, and the frame store is now gone.  SUCK.  But look at the pretty.  *points*  Clicky to make bigger.



Signed in person by Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, Ben Edlund, Jensen Ackles, and Jared (I can't catch a plane) Padalecki.

1.  Epic fail on my part.  I was gonna post pictures from the weekend, the pretty that is now on my wall, and my hair cut,  but nope,  I left the stupid cord at home.  This means there will be posts later in the day with pictures and I will be spammy.

2.  I spent many hours laboring, I mean transferring video from winchestmidwest.  I will finish that up tonight and put it up where anteka can access it.  So stop your whining and leave my squishy alone.  Don't make me cut a bitch, I will.

3. There will be rage rants later today as well, F-locked.  Oh, just you wait.  anteka got to hear about it on Saturday during my drive back home.  *rage!*

4.  I have not forgotten about furry1 's header.  I played around with it last night.

I lovejaimsie !!!

I now know how to mess with .png and import them into Photoshop as a freaking brush.  I am gonna spend quality time on deviatart this weekend finding all those tribal brushes again.  Supah sweet.

Look what I made!

1.  OMG.  I took a nap last night and probably only woke up due to the crazy ass thunder storm we had going on over our house.  I promptly passed out again at 10 PM.
 
2.  Burn Notice was many shades of awesome, and while some things changed, it's still the same show.  *huggles*

3.  I think I have everything packed and in my car for Madison this weekend.  It's gonna be the last one for quite some time, or at least until August.

4.  I made friends with a Kane County Po-po the other day.  He pulls up beside me at a red light, and we discussed my license plate.  He thought it was quite amusing.  I wonder if he was flirting...

5.  This San Diego trip is gonna give me a heart attack this year.  Have I ever mentioned that I hate change?  It took forever to find a reasonably priced condo which still costs an arm and a leg.  Then, I totally procrastinated about the rental car and the price went up $100.  Thank god for Priceline.  I got it down to what it was two months ago.  Now add in the digital camera mess of the past three months, and now there is a  camcorder mess.  We've been borrowing the school camcorder for 5 years.  It takes us forever to transfer stuff from tapes to DVD, plus the batteries just died.  We're not buying new batteries for equipment that isn't ours, so now I have less than a week to decide on, and purchase, a hard drive camcorder.   My freaking head is going to explode.  I have it narrowed down to 3: Sony DCR-SR45, JVC Everio GZ-MG330, or a Panasonic SDR-H40.  There was too much info on digital cameras, and there's not enough for camcorders.  WTF?  Then, I go to Best Buy and the twerp on the floor was useless. 

Me: "I'm down to these three, which would you suggest?"
Twerp: "They're all the same, except this one has 10 GB more space, and this one has more zoom."
Me: *totally annoyed, because I can read the fucking specs and have been for a week*  "Thanks." *walks away*

There was no this has this feature, this one doesn't.  We sell more of this one than that one.  OMGWTFBBQ!  If you're gonna work a department, you should know what you're fucking selling.  Back in my retail days, I could, and regularly did, sell $200 sunglasses.  I knew what they could do, I owned a pair, and believed in the product.  What a twerp.

6.  Tommy *spam*  I love when I run across new pictures.  It makes me happy in my pants.  I think I need to icon that today.

I'm breaking into your regularly scheduled day to state I want to have Tommeh's rock!babies.



And now, back to work.  Blech.

I learned some new tricks from jaimsie at winchestmidwest.  Hee!

1.  Time for me to be sleeping damn it.  I freaking tired and there is no flippin' excuse.

2.  Ha!  I can still access my journal to post, but can't access my Flist or messages.  Seriously?  How lame is that?

3.  I did more icon shopping last night.  I might rearrange them some more today.  Somehow, I've gotten a ton more Doctor Who.  huh.  What's your oldest icon?  This one is mine, and I made it.



4.  14 days until SDCC.  I'm feeling kinda ambivalent.   There's no Mike and Christie to visit with, and I have a bad feeling we're gonna be passed out at 9 PM every night.  There will be no drinking, partying, etc.  Damn, Saturday night with Tara will probably be the latest we stay up and party.  SUCK.

5.  I feel better knowing I'm not the only one pissed off at the season ender of Doctor Who.  I feel much more better. 

6.  Be prepared for spam today if this continues.  I'll spend some quality time in photoshop with Tommy today and maybe the boys.

7.  New Burn Notice in 2 days.  Andie did you call about cable yet?

1.  I'm not blocked today.  *SPAM!*  EDIT: Ok, I can post, but not look at my Flist or check my messages.  GAY!

2.  So I drove up to anteka's yesterday.  Traffic was light.  Fastest time to Wisconsin evar!  We watched Doctor Who.  I AM SO ANGRY, THERE ARE NO WORDS.  *grunts incoherently*  We went out to lunch, watched some movies, got some ice cream.  It was a good day with my squishy.

Warning the following rant is not for the squeamish...

The Illinois Tollway people are a bunching of mother fucking liars who lie!  We kept going online to check and see if the traffic was bad throughout the day.  The interwebz lied and said green, no traffic at 9 PM.  LIARS!!!  It took me a little over two hours to get home.  And while I can deal with that situation, I have difficulties when it is all the fault of some asshole, who is riding the bumper of the car in front of him, and braking constantly.  There was more than one of these ass-hats BTW.  SUCK.

3.  I gots me Styx concert tickets for me and my squishy.  I was feeling like ass this morning, but decided I had to suck it up and come into work where I could bring up more than 5 computers in the attempt to get concert tickets.  Our seats aren't together, but one behind the other in 2nd and 3rd row center on Tommy's side.  Aww yeah.  With my 10x zoom on the new camera, I will be able to see his pores!  *insert maniacal laugh*  HEE!  You cannot stop the squee!



4.  In other news, here's a shot of JDM in Watchmen.  That's the up-to-date outfit.  Is it bad that I giggle when I look at this picture?  Just curious.

OMG.  All day, it was all Doctor Who? Shit, it's only Friday.  *sonofabitch*

katelennon  and I saw Uncle Ted last night.  It was pretty awesome.  You can't beat $10 to see Ted Nugent in concert and he ended with Stranglehold.   I have to name my videos and get them up on youtube.  But here's a picture:



I'm thinking the camera is a keeper considering how far back we were.   And once more I found a new boyfriend, who grabbed me, and moved me so I could see the stage better.  Biker guys can be pretty cool.

Food is good, and there was plenty of choices.  We started out with eating and drinking in the following order: 
beer
chocolate covered strawberries
Shrimp on a stake with cornbread
rib sampler with cornbread
BIG PIG pulled pork sandwich
and I had a chocolate ice cream cone as we were leaving.  Who can resist ice cream?  It's good stuff.



The morals of that day:

Port o' potties are bad.
Pork is good.
Kate is no longer allowed to be the navigator. 

Yes.  Yes he did...

Dude, Burn Notice marathon on USA today.  Forget work.  I did a bunch.  I think I'm gonna watch me some Burn Notice this afternoon.

So one of the big things at SDCC this year will be The Watchman.  JDM is one of the main characters in Watchmen, he's "the comedian".  If he gets dragged out there for that, I wonder if they will corral him into the SPN panel.