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Watched Suns and Lovers for farscape after crying myself into a nosebleed. *stupid frelling heat and period*

Feeling a little better but am skipping the dishes and just going to fall into bed.

Still more than willing to disown my brother though after I get the chance to have a little revenge first.

Republican Smoke and Mirrors

Bridges to Nowhere canceled....technically
Nytimes so registration is required.

But here's the deal, Republicans in congress had been facing so many questions and criticisms about the money Alaska was to recieve to build two bridges near Ketchikan and Anchorage (described as bridges to nowhere by democrats due to populations involved) that "House and Senate negotiators took the rare step of eliminating a requirement that $442 million be spent to build the two bridges".

Except get this, the state of Alaska STILL gets the $442 million W/ ABSOLUTELY NO STRINGS. The stae can use it for any type of transportation project INCLUDING the bridges.

Soo, when your congressional leaders try to tell you they canceled this but still need to cut back on food stamps and school lunches, remind them that the money still went there. The words just got white-out on the actual bill.

Only in politics.

Less than two weeks to sign up for uncharted_elves

Yep, you heard it right. Go and sign up if you don't want to miss out on Farscape Secret Santa fun!

*especially since I've realized that uneven numbers could be a problem*

Come on, you know you want to. Presents to include fic, vids, graphics, soundtracks, Rygel's thronesled, and a vork of your very own.

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Well, it's supposed to be 41 degrees outside....except w/ windchill it's 32. :P:P:P Ugggghhh.

I soo need to move to arizona.

gakked from cretkid

( Cowboy Bebop, Serenity, and Moya -- not bad )

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great.

so with no notice, one of the two laundry rooms was shut down. It's also the laundry room w/ the machine to refill the cards that operate the machines.

Breakfast of Champions

Heee!

I'm making chocolate chip walnut bread for the weekend for breakfast.

me=boring

well, managed to get my funked out mood self into work today and accomplish what I needed to. Even printed out almost all the stuff I needed to. All I'll need to do tomorrow is feed cells and call to ask for a cab for monday morning. Pleasantly surprised that monday won't be quite as craptastically early as I'd faked myself into thinking -- plane won't leave till 7:40 so I figure get a cab for 6. Still means I'll need to wake up by 4 or so, but doable.

Laundry is done. Wasn't as much of a hassle as I thought. Prior to doing laundry, I took what seems to have been a much needed nap. The bread turned out wonderfully (and two pieces of it into my dinner. Shh, I know I'm bad). So, finish dishes, put away laundry, make bed, and go to bed. Can pack in the morning. Pack for the weekend...not of the week long trip next week.

docmichelle, are you out there? Are we still on for Monday? *bats eyes prettily*

I think I'm going to grab my cd player back from B when I see him on sunday --- I see no need to take my mp3 player if I'm going to have to have CDs for the rental car anyways. And yes, CDs are a necessity...this will be the middle of country and biblical radio station land. I'm sure none of you wants my head to explode if I end up in an area without any heathen rock.

Gods, I realized today what part of my problem is...or not really the problem, but rather what I want/need to make me feel better. Sigh, I just want some cuddle time w/ B. Going to see if he'll have time for more than just dropping off my book (and cd player) on sunday, cause I know otherwise, I probably won't get any cuddle time till late december since my friend from DC wants to come up for the first weekend of Dec. Which is fine, I so know how much she needs to get away and all. Gah, methinks I'm just not getting in enough of my human contact need. As much as I hate people crowding my space, I'm surprisingly touchy-feely and it's very very bad for me to deprive myself of that in the winter time.

But overall, feeling better. This stupid thing this weekend will be over and most of the things I dread this year will be over. Well, except for the three weeks of xmas time in OK that I guilted myself into. I still don't know what the hell I was thinking with that. I'm going to be going INSANE by the end of the first week. Seriously. This will not be of the good, no matter how much I know I need to spend time w/ my mother. And the texas relatives, I so forsee a solo-trip down to see them in which I'll have to fend off my grandmother demanding that I take her back so she can take care of my mother. Not to mention, I'm sooo not good w/ my grandmother. I don't have the patience to listen to the 5,000th repetition of every single story she's ever told me. Really. I'm not good at it. God, I miss the days when I could be the anti-social 13 yr old and take my headphones and books on family trips and then retreat into solitude after an obligatory 30 min.

On the upside, at least for once I'll actually be looking forward to going back to work:P:P

Hot damn! Bipartasanship at its best.

22 Republicans join with Democrats to defeat spending bill

Yes, this is the spending bill that would have slashed Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and subsidized school lunches (to name just a few programs that would have been affected). Of course, this probably means that the Republicans will look more into selling off federal park land to pay for the war in Iraq (No, I'm not kidding. I've seen articles that this is actually being discussed, but I don't have the links right now).

And Feingold argues filibuster of planned Patriotic act extension is called for