Go pooka, it's your birthday! *whoo hoo!* Glad I checked my messages before I went to bed. Jef, if you read this again tonight, I'll try to call you sometime tomorrow. I'll be at Rand's during the day (don't know what time since I forgot to call her this evening to set up a time), but I'll get in touch. Way to go!! :)
Off to bed with me. zzzz...sleepy girl.
[edit] Because someone asked, no it's not *really* Jef's birthday, I was just using the expression since he got himself a date. Whoo hoo! :) (For the record, his birthday is July 22nd)
So, the water seems to be (mostly) back on, though it's brown and there's tons of air in the pipes so it comes out intermitently. At least after like 5+ hours I can flush my damned toliet. (eww). We'll talk shower hopefully tomorrow when we stop having the "boil your water before use" warnings to deal with. (double eww)
Got my data entry work done a little while ago - have to go over tomorrow to meet with Ineke to give her the update and get the next batch of items. Aw fuck, I was supposed to call her tonight to find out what time we were getting together. Dammit. I was so busy with finishing the project, that I didn't realize I hadn't called and now, at 11pm, it's too late. Shit. I wonder what time we're supposed to be getting together tomorrow now. *grumbles*
Man, my hands are sore. Trying to get all that data entry done just kills them sometimes. I don't even have an excuse with cold weather or anything (though rain is looming). Speaking of weather, our low for today came in seventeen degrees hotter then normal. Ugh. I hate being in Florida times like these. It's already like in the upper 80's, humid and miserable outside. (And today's the first fucking day of SPRING!) The average low is 59F and today the "low" - if you can call it that - was 76F. It's going to be another loooong summer, I can already tell.
Hrm. Well, that's about the sum of it. I don't really want to keep typing (even if I had anything interesting to talk about) since my hands are achy. Ta for now.
Oh joy of joys, we have no water. Ugh. Occassionaly, dribbles come out from the tap, but nothing else. Right now, it's all bubbly air. I called the complex office to ask them why we didn't have water and they weren't even aware that there was a problem. Best guess is they broke a main on the highway construction they're doing next to the complex. Ugh. Dammit.
Let's see... hung out with Jef this evening as he was in need of some new clothes and a best friend opinion on what to get (not to mention a female opinion is always helpful for guys picking out clothes). We hit the mall and milled around a bit not really finding anything he liked (though I found several adorable baby-doll tees I want to go back for when I have some cash) until we came to the watch kiosk. There he found a really cool Fossil watch which looks just like this (except in the pic, the face doesn't look nearly as cobalt as it is in real life). Yes, my dear friend Jef, who thinks shoes are still wearable even when they lack soles and for whom "dressing up" means tucking in one's tee-shirt, bought a $65 designer-name watch. I was impressed. I think he's finally *sniff* all growing up. (No wait, strike that, he also wanted a Hamtaro plush from target today. *laughs*). It's really nice though and of course, I found one I totally wanted - a fire-breathing dragon pocket-watch. It comes in at a mere $75. *le sigh* (there I go browsing even further; they have women's styles online that they didn't at the kiosk and now I also really want this one as well. Crap.)
After blowing almost all his budget on the watch, added to the fact the mall was closing (well, it was 9pm), we headed to Target. There he found a pair of shoes ($19.99), a pair of jeans (on sale, $10) and a cool dragon design teeshirt in a really ugly orange color - he said he needed color, I said orange should be banned ($9.99). He was also nice enough to buy me some Orajel for my still very-painful gums as I lacked the extra $6 (Love's payday isn't until Friday, so we're on tight funds until then). Came in under budget, even with blowing $70 on the watch. Not too shabby.
Well, seeing as my Love is muttering "sleeepy" to me as an indicator I need to evacuate the bedroom (and specifically stop typing and turn off the damn light), I'll call it a nite.
Thanks to Orb and her wonderful link-finding skills, I wanted to pass along this great summation of the Bush speech. Mike goes through it very well and I actively agree with his comments and assesments. It's worth a read in my opinion.
[edit]: Wow.... browsing further into the depths of Weekly Lowdown I was compelled to not only email the site owner to offer them praise, but to add them to my "reads" list. This is some damn good stuff. Witty and smart all in one with a lovely creamy, liberal center. Mmm mmm good! ;) Go read through yourself; it's good stuff.
My teeth are all kinds of shifting around again and damn is it hurting. See, thing is, that when I was 13-15, I had braces. My teeth were just a mess. So now, many years after losing my retainer (not that I ever wore the thing), they're really, really moving around (especially the botom, where the tooth next to my bottom-left canine, is moving behind the others) and it hurts like hell. About two years ago I made an appointment with an office of my old Othodontist and asked if they could cast me a new retainer. He said sure, however, it wouldn't work anymore and that my teeth were past the point of that helping. He said I'd need six months in brackets on the bottom front teeth again to right the problem. It was $2,000 with half due up front.
That was two years ago and things have only gotten worse. My bottom teeth are actually pushing my top ones out of alignment now as well (though it's the bottom ones that are hurting so badly). All day, my gums and jaw are just throbbing in pain. I keep poking at it (you know when something hurts so you just press and press on it to try to make it feel better?) and biting on my fingers in an attempt to get respite from the pain. Took some asprin, but it's not really helping. Not that I want braces on my bottom teeth again (it hurt a hell of enough the first time they made them move, now they're moving back and it hurts and then I'm supposed to move then again to the "fixed" position and suffer through it a third time?), but I can't have my teeth go back to the way they were. My jaw is just too small and it took almost three years to align and correct my teeth, I certainly don't want that to be all in vain a mere 10 years after the fact! Not to mention my poor (single-parent) mom paid a LOT of money on my mouth (including two surgeries) and I don't want that all being wasted. Ugh, where am I going to get $1,000 and then the other $1,000 due before the six months is up? I hate money so much.
Happy 13th Birthday to Kush-ka! thank you for 13 wonderful years of purring, mrow? -ing, sitting on my lap, sleeping on the bed with me, eating my cheez-its and just being you.
