Saturday, November 16, 2002

Busy Day

I spent all day working on a project with my brother and Steven made plans for us to go over to a friend's house and meet like ten people for dinner. I don't mind the plans, but I wish he would give me more than the, "Oh, yeah, we're meeting a bunch of people for dinner in a day or two" especially when I have things to work on.

Must get wet towel off head, put on make up, and get dressed. See y'all later!

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Friday, November 15, 2002

It's Secret Santa Time!

Woo hoo! It's time for ThinkBlank's Secret Santa Exchange. I participated last year and had a fabulous time. I received The Princess Bride (Special Edition) DVD thus ensuring that my holidays were very special indeed. The limit is $15, so it's a nice inexpensive way to spread some holiday cheer.

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Discovery Friday 111502

It's Friday, so that means time for another edition of Discovery Friday!

.: Broken Down - I've read Carla's site for a while, so I figured it was time I give her a shout out. :-) Go read her site. It's a good one.

.: Dania's Dailies - I love the look of this site, even though I don't like coffee. She's also got a lovely photoblog (with cute kitty pictures) and excellent posts.

.: Living Reflections in a Dream - Amy has a gorgeous site and her posts today have been filled with silly fun. Check her out. Fun stuff.

.: Oomph Girl - I found Rachel's site through Julie and the very first post I read, "Let's be serious for the moment" impressed me immensely. You would never think she was only fifteen.

.: Tummy Monsters - I've seen Julie's site mentioned all over lately, so I thought I would pay her a visit. Fun site with some great monster skins. How can you resist?

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Happy Birthday, Susannah!

Today is Susannah's birthday, so everyone go give her some loving! Happy birthday, Susannah!

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A Wish in The Gold Box

Passed on all of the items my Amazon.com Gold Box Offers today, but feel free to buy me this. :-)

.: Pewter Wine Bottle Coaster: this would be handy if I actually drank wine. Maybe I should so I could start buying more stuff from Amazon.

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Best Known Blogs Top 25

Alas, I was beaten out by Wil Wheaton for a spot in the top ten, but Neurotic Fishbowl was number 11 in Name That Blog's Best Known Blogs.

I'd like to thank all the people that played and guessed me correctly. I could just cry. You like me, you really like me!

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Thursday, November 14, 2002

Thursday Blahs

For some reason I'm feeling kind of blah this afternoon, though I had a pretty positive thing happen to me today. Don't you hate it when you get a mild case of the blues? Only cure - go home and play EverQuest all night since Steven's off playing poker. I'll wear my new cute flannel pj bottoms from Old Navy (the link takes you to the ones I almost bought since I can't find the ones I did buy. They have little polars bears all over them; trust me, they're cute.) and my new stripey socks and I will be a much happier girl, I'm sure!

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Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Girls in Stripey Socks

Christine and I had a lovely afternoon because we went and bought stripey Old Navy socks. We then retired to the conference room to take a few pictures which I have kindly posted here for your viewing pleasure. Today's formula is stripey socks = happy girls.

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American Gods

I just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman and I cannot recommend it enough. My mini review is up on the Book Review page. Seriously, if you're looking for a good read, pick this one up. Highly enjoyable.

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Boring Box

Still nothing of interest to me in my Amazon.com Gold Box Offers today.

.: Kinder-Garden Babies Water Lily: Louisa (African American): what is up with all the kid's toys? I don't need any of these.

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It's a Group Thing XXXVII

I've been craving a massage for the longest time since it's been almost five months since my last one. With that in mind, today's "It's a Group Thing" term is:

A Pummel of Masseurs

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Reasons For Love #6

Every Wednesday those who are involved in a relationship with somebody share a few (simple but significant) reasons for their love. Please keep in mind that this does not have to be a romantic relationship. It can be about a parent, a sibling, a friend, a co-worker, your kid, your dog, whatever.

Stop in here to join the notify list, see who else has left their reasons, and to be added to the blogroll. Also, feel free to save the button below to your server and link it to http://www.neuroticfishbowl.com/reasons.html

I love Steven because...

I was telling him about the crappy day I had when he interrupted and said, "I think you need a hug," and embraced me in a big, warm bear hug

When I was playing EverQuest last night he kept making silly jokes

He knew I've been having trouble sleeping so he bought me some sleeping pills when he went to the store

He bought my new conditioner without me having to tell him I needed more

Even though we had too much food, he ordered the mozzarella covered garlic bread appetizer from Brick Oven Pizza in Austin when we were there this weekend because I wanted to try them

We had so much fun driving to Austin just talking together

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Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Randomness (and a lot of rants)

Just stuff that's crossing my mind:

The damn cat is peeing on the carpet again. She peed on the floor by the bar like ten minutes ago, peed in the hallway this weekend, and peed upstairs last week. We've gotten her two boxes, changed the litter, tried using citrus carpet odor to keep her away and she's still doing it. She was doing so well and I have no idea what's changed.

I want some socks like Bran

I have to go send a letter to the post office contesting a claim they denied again. I sent my camera off, insured by the post office, for some repairs. It got to Olympus with a big crack in the case. I sent a claim to the post office, giving them both the packaging and the camera. They wrote me back denying the claim because they didn't get the packaging. WTF? You have that stuff! Write them back again to get the same damn reply. Am now having to send even more documentation to consumer affairs. Simple analogy, people: insurance company can't take your car, examine it, deny your claim, and then keep your car. You either have to give me my camera back or pony up the money for it since I'm sure it's lost by now.

This week is period week (lucky me) and I want everyone to just leave me alone. I swear, Steven goes out of his way to be annoying right before I start.

Some big changes are happening with my major client and it's got me a bit worried.

I want some sweets.

I have to be at work an hour early tomorrow and I am pissed. I don't want to get up early. I've been sleeping like shit ever since I started playing EverQuest, something I always do when I start a new, addicting game.

I want the new Anita Blake book Cerulean Sins to be out now, not in six more months.

I want work weeks to be no more than four days, and most of the time three days, long

Okay, I guess that's off my chest for now. Guess I'll go kill some Aviaks over in South Karana.

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This-or-That Tuesday

Time for Christine's This-or-That Tuesday:

Hershey's Kisses: with or without almonds?

Wizard of Oz: Scarecrow or Tin Man?

Meat eater or vegetarian?

Buy books or borrow them?

At the bank: ATM or human teller?

Oil or gas (or other) heat?

Pen or pencil?

Drive or use public transit?

Who IS James Bond: Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan (or any of the others in between)?

Tomorrow Never Dies

Your ideal breakfast: full (bacon/sausage, eggs, pancakes, etc) or continental (bagels, muffins, fruit, cereal)?

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Smitten

Cis e-mailed me last week with an idea about creating a companion meme to Reasons For Love the meme I have taken over where you post a list of reasons, simple but significant ones, why you love someone. It's called Smitten and it's got a great idea behind it.

What you do is post a picture of yourself and someone (even a pet; they're people too) together and write a brief post that shares a few of the reasons why you're so smitten.

Sound fun? Of course it does! Run over and get a button and get more details!

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love: daily

Kristine has a new To Do List Blog: love: daily and I love it! Maybe I should set one of these up too instead of just doing To Do List posts.

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Monday, November 11, 2002

Veteran's Day

I just wanted to take a minute and send my sincere thanks and gratitude to all members of our armed services both past and present.

At the UT game this weekend the Longhorn Band did a salute to each service by spelling out the name of the branch and playing their theme song (for lack of a better term). When they honored that branch everyone in the audience who had served stood up and were applauded. In a stadium of 80,000 there were a lot of people to applaud.

I will always support those that risk their lives to make sure that we are safe. You have my gratitude. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Participation Positives

It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

Steven and I met for lunch today and had a really nice time

We had a great time in Austin on Saturday

The meme I took over, Reasons For Love, has gotten a lot of positive response and people signing up (hint, hint - go visit that page!)

I took some make-up back to Sephora with no hassle at all

The weather has been really nice for several days now

Still having way too much fun playing EverQuest

I traded in the Longhorns shirt that Steven bought me when we went up to Austin because it was too tight and got an even cuter one

The Cuisinart ICE-20 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Maker, White that Kristine ordered from her Amazon.com Gold Box for me showed up today

I love and am loved

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Varied and Assorted Items in The Gold Box

A virtual hodge-podge of items in my Amazon.com Gold Box Offers today.

.: Linksys BEFVP41 EtherFast Cable/DSL VPN Router with 4 port Switch: they keep offering me these, but I don't need one for anything. Pass.

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Sunday, November 10, 2002

Sunday in The Gold Box

I hadn't done my Amazon.com Gold Box Offers in a few days, so here's today's.

.: Zenith DVB211 DVD Player: I know my manager has been on the look-out for a cheap DVD player, but I'm not sure how good a Zenith would be.

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E-mails Today

If you've sent me an e-mail over the past week and are still awaiting an answer, I am getting ready to StairMaster and have some cereal, but then I am downloading e-mail and sending off answers and replies. Just a heads up to those that sent me blog questions, EverQuest questions, or anything else.

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