Sweet Catastrophe

I’ve been tagged by Lori with the My Desktop meme!

I found this background a little while back and I absolutely love it. I’d actually really like to do a Wordpress theme with this as the header and incorporate the vines and flowers into two sidebars on both sides of my content. Too bad I have no graphic design OR theme-making skills!

As you can see, I like the classic menu forms best. I don’t like the blue taskbar and start menu, I dunno why. I also don’t line up all my icons to the left. I like them framing my screen and I generally group them! <---Geeky.

So, I tag Kristi and Catie because I know their desktops always interest me and they change them fairly often. I tag Fab even though he may shoot me and probably won’t do this, but I’m quite interested in what kind of desktop image he’d have. Marmy will either have a really interesting desktop, or a very basic one because she isn’t bothered to mess with it ;). And then I think I’ll leave it at that. That’s only 4, but ya know, I’m not a ‘rules’ kinda gal!

Rules:

Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop.It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. Here’s how you can do a screen capture:

1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).
2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image before saving it.
3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.
4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktops as well.

Rio and I have been talking back and forth for quite some time about setting up my appointment to get my tattoo for Pete. I haven’t been talking about it because it’s all been so indefinite, and I hate talking about getting something done and then it not happening. I was trying not to get myself too hyped.

Wednesday was my first attempt. I went brain dead and realized I needed to take her a picture, but my printer was completely out of ink so I was frantically searching for someone with a working printer. I finally gave up, and as I was walking to my car—DUH. I own about 5 million things with the Phantom mask on them. Gah!

So I get up to Ink Addiction only to find that Rio’s sick as a dog and not there. (She doesn’t currently have a phone, or my number, so she couldn’t contact me about it.) Damn. So back we go to the Facebook messaging!

The new plan was for today, and today was a winner.

The white coloring and the shading all look funky right now. Rio assured me the white would be a little brighter and the shading would fade a tad and it’ll look fabulous =) I learned today that white ink makes you bleed a lot for some reason! lol Which is why my phantom’s mask is pink right now!

I always told Pete I’d one day back a production of Phantom and he’d be my Erik (Phantom). Now he’s my Angel of Music.

“Think of me
Think of me fondly when we’ve said goodbye
Remember me once in a while, please promise me you’ll try

When you find that once again you long to take your heart back and be free
If you ever find a moment spare a thought for me.”

Internet to the rescue! Since I’ve started that Christmas list, I’ve been constantly coming back to what I’m gonna get my grandparents. Rio and I got on the subject of Christmas shopping and something she said jogged my memory.

I remembered those sites that sell stuff as seen on tv. I know there’s something perfect on there for all the grandparents! I may even find something better suited for some of the people I’ve got down for gift cards!

I’m really excited about Christmas this year. Well, okay, I’m excited about Christmas, but I hate all the stuff working up to it. We already have a big portion of our Christmas stuff up in Lowe’s. Working in Returns is a headache–right next to the aisle with all the things that play music. At any given time there are 12 different Christmas songs playing so it sounds like a whole big mess of bells yelling at each other. It sounds horrid.

Anyway, I’m excited to maybe have a pretty stress-free Christmas this year. I mean, if I keep doing well on all the gift stuff, there won’t be much to worry about when the time comes.

I’m hoping we’ll get to go to Louisiana this year. That was the original idea, but now Ryan doesn’t know if he’ll be working too closely to Christmas to make the trip. I just hope he finds out soon enough for me to take off from work. Packing and the drive will be a little stressful, but I’m really comfortable with all of his family that I’ve met so far and he’s always been really good about making sure he plays his part in making that happen. I’d love to meet the rest of his bunch.

I’ll miss Christmas Eve with my mom’s side, but I’m okay with missing it this year. I’ve decided I’ll just drop off all my gifts before we leave. Hopefully if James and Ashley come to town I’ll get to see them.

I just got off the phone with my mom. I was telling her about my new sheets and she reminded me of when we discovered my mild claustrophobia.

My brothers had bunk beds when we were growing up, and when they grew out of them, I put in that I wanted the bunk bed for myself. Well duh, what kid doesn’t want a bunk bed?

I wasn’t allowed to sleep on the top because we didn’t have proper railings anymore, so I slept on the bottom bunk. I don’t remember how long I’d been sleeping in it before I got freaked out, but it was a good little while.

One random night, I couldn’t sleep and lying there in my bed, I started feeling like I was caged in. I remember some creepy thoughts about being caged, about my bed eating me, and something about killer clowns…Who knows how I managed to tie clowns in. I think it had something to do with being in a cage at the circus…*shrug*

Needless to say, I didn’t sleep in my own bed for a few weeks, heh.

I’ve only had handful of episodes in my life. I remember one at a movie theater where the crowd outside of the room we were going into got really cramped because the movie before us had messed up and was running long. They ended up pulling my group out of the little waiting area and letting us wait right outside so we were first in. That’s the only really interesting situation I recall.

Man, claustrophobia, panic attacks, acid reflux, hypochondriac….I’m too weird.

FadedJade23 (1:23:48 AM): it was a very astute connection

FadedJade23 (1:23:56 AM): but i did a bit of a double take

kriSti m 14 (1:24:50 AM): astute ay??

FadedJade23 (1:24:11 AM): i’m verbose tonight, hush

kriSti m 14 (1:25:47 AM): sorry, you just discombobulated my sense of familiarity in the context of the conversations we undertake

FadedJade23 (1:25:09 AM): o0o0o0o0o0o0o

kriSti m 14 (1:26:07 AM):

FadedJade23 (1:25:19 AM): <3

FadedJade23 (1:25:26 AM): *grammargasm*

I recently rediscovered my love for Maroon 5. I love everything about their album “Songs About Jane,” including the b-sides from that time period.

The lyrics are so aggressive and flat-out HOT. Adam Levine wants to fuck me like an animal? Well okay then! (Okay, so those aren’t his lyrics, but still, he sings them very convincingly, dammit.)

Those lyrics had bite to them.

This same love does not carry over to the latest album, “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long.” The album fans waited impatiently for five years to hear. I dunno what the hell happened, man. It’s like night and day. I mean, I’d venture to say there are probably two songs on the album I wouldn’t immediately skip over in my iPod shuffling.

I’d love nothing more than to be able to say they avoided the sophomore slump, but I just can’t. I know his life is a little less angsty now, and that’s great! But dude, you don’t have to be angry to write good music with a little attitude, I promise. I’m all for musical growth, but there’s no need to completely change your writing style and music when what you had was working out so beautifully!

Give me back my power-hungry lyricist! Dominate me musically! I’m hoping somebody someday will do me like you did.

Adam are you listening? Can you hear me? Are you reading this? Please fix your album. Kthnxbye.

Help! We tried to get the Macon, Ga branch of Dunder Mifflin Infinity started, but something’s gone wonky and nothing’s happening with that. We’re trying again with the Columbus, Ga branch!

What’s Dunder Mifflin Infinity? They say it better than I could:

What is Dunder Mifflin Infinity?
Dunder Mifflin Infinity (DMI) is the new online division of Dunder Mifflin, Inc. Paper Company. Created by Vice President of Regional Sales Ryan Howard, DMI was designed to reinvent the business of selling paper. DMI employees will form branches and complete work assignments from Corporate. In honor of Dunder Mifflin’s 2006 Salesman of the Year, Dwight K. Schrute, payment for all DMI employees will be in the form of SchruteBucks.

Why should I join the Dunder Mifflin Infinity Team?
In addition to your consummate passion for all things paper, you should have a commitment to excellence and a desire to change the world. Diligent and hard-working employees will be rewarded in SchruteBucks, which can be spent on decorating their Virtual Desks, as well as with exclusive content (video, photos and downloads), official merchandise from the NBC Store, items featured in actual episodes of “The Office”, and much, much more!

So basically it’s just extra fun! The branches that have the most participation get prizes and such, as I understand it!

So help some sisters out! Pretty please, with sugar on top, sign up for the Columbus, GA branch using this as the manager code: ao8e69m0g8. 15 people have to sign up using the same manager code before the branch will be opened. If you want, once we’ve got it all opened, I’ll make sure you know and you can ‘resign’ or move to another branch, or continue on with us! I’d really, REALLY appreciate it!

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Now playing: Lifehouse – Signs of Life [Bonus Track]
via FoxyTunes

Okay, so I had a major scare while making my Freeze It commercial. I decided to play Lifehouse with the credits so I leaned over to turn on my external harddrive and….nothing happened. Holy crap! I had a mini-panic attack. No joke. The majority of my pictures are there and about 98% of my music (over 4,000 songs) and pretty much all of my videos are there. Basically, my external is my media drive. I know it’s basically retarded to simply store them on my external, and not have backups, but it’s no worse than storing them just on my computer and not having a backup, so, ya know. I got the external so I wouldn’t overrun my old computer’s small amount of memory. That’s not really a problem with my new computer, but now there’s no point in moving it all back, ya know?

I unplugged the power source from the actual drive, still no go. *On the verge of hyperventilating* I unplugged the power cord from the outlet and that finally did it. It powered on! *Whew* So now I’m pretty sure I’ll start actively looking for another external to actually use as a backup source. How geeky will that be? An external drive to backup my external drive! Woo!

After that, I finished my movie and went to click one final editing button and the whole thing froze. Greeeeaaat!

I gave it some time, closed some other programs but nothing worked. I finally shut it down ’cause I was definitely running out of time on my reservation. Thank God for autosave! I only had to re-edit my music when I opened it back up! Oh and my credit to Lifehouse for the music somehow disappeared, but oh well!

So here’s hoping none of my technology actually breaks! I’m not really sure what I’d do if I lost all of my music….oh what a sad day that would be.

I read this post on Colleen’s blog expecting to find a story of idiotic criminals. Instead, I found a hilarious tale of a game of “What would happen if…”

I laughed and laughed. You’ll have to read it in her own words to crack up the way I did, but the story basically goes that she gets the idea to see what would happen if she tried to buy 25 bottles of Nyquil. Come to find out, nothing ’cause Nyquil doesn’t have the ingredient you need to make meth anymore! So she returns the Nyquil and tries to buy 25 boxes of Sudafed…that certainly gets a little reaction. It wasn’t enough to excite her, but it gave me the giggles.

I could easily see Catie doing something like this. Well, maybe not right now, while she’s trying to get into Law school haha.

Even geeky gamers can find a use for Freeze It!

It’s just the topical pain relief Peter needed to soothe his Halo 3 soul! Now go Peter! Pwn your little heart out!