Amy’s Neighborhood

Mobile nativity scene seen in on the road in Mesa.

Awesome.

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pho and a root beer

update: I had pho for the first time about a month ago. That night, I had flank steak. Next time was chicken. Then I skipped pho and had filet w/rice (recommended by another diner but they but be lacking taste buds). This one was fried chicken pho with egg noodles (instead of rice noodles). My fav so far.

just in time for the Zaturday showing

and even though the movie is 2hr and 10 min long, and I was there 10 min early, and street parking is for only 2 hrs, I did NOT get a ticket!!

.....Halifax Bank.  Well I closed my old current account today with the Halifax bank because I was so disgruntled by their new policy on overdraft fees.  So I walked and today I closed my accounts with them.  I feel much better.

I am however feeling a little bad today I dunno why, still strugglign to get my mandolin tuned and I think I need the bridge adjusting ot lower the action but I dont feel confident doing it myself.

• Boo is fine. She came home around 6:30am. She cried. I let her in. 10 min later, she wanted back out. I think that was when we started the cycle of her crying, me yelling "shut up!" and falling back to sleep. x5, till 11am, when I let Moshi out. Then they both came back in. Then Moshi went back out and, wisely, just before I left for work (11:45 - early for me), Boo decided to go out too.

• Got off work at around 1am tonight. Sucks to get home, turn on the TV, and see that it's already 1:30am. As long as there's work, I'll be in the office for a MIN of 10 hrs a day for the rest of the year... working toward an impossible deadline (but my dept has to make sure that the blame falls on the sw team instead of us).

• ASL Sign Language Question: Should "Damn, I wish I was your lover" be signed as:
• Damn, I wish I will (implied "be") your lover
• Damn, I wish I am (literally signed) your lover
• Damn, I wish I (implied "am") your lover
  
• I really really want to go to Vegas. I don't know why. NYE would be fun but it's not worth the price (2 nights, with partying at the Orleans is over $450... during the summer, rooms were $18/night... 1,250% more expensive = NOT COOL!!)

• Today I ordered this awesome Bottle Top Tripod. No more trying to take pics of myself in the mirror - now I can set it up on a table and user the timer. Other sites have the same tripod for a slightly cheaper but my link has FREE SHIPPING (which I didn't know when I ordered), so $10 is total cost. WIN (DOUBLE WIN since I didn't know about the free shipping).
• Oh. Wait. Does my new phone even have a tripod connector? Ah, F it... if it doesn't, I'll use the old one. Or my digacam.
  

• Roku, the Netflix play (which is WiFi compatible) is down to $80. $100 for an HD version. $130 for an HD version that broadcasts to remote TVs. I'll probably buy it on Thurs (payday).

• Hoping-hoping-hoping I wake up in time, and remember, to see It's a Wonderful Life on a movie screen tomorrow. If I don't, I won't have another chance this year.

• Things I always like: Candles (I want one wall in my future "bar" room to be a total fire hazard: covered with candle wall sconces - cause that's what you want around booze!), windchimes (metal and/or wood; tuned)

• Current mental fantasy obsession: How to fit both a jacuzzi and glass stone fire pit (plus seating) in my 12'x12' backyard. If I figure it out, I'm gonna have it built!

• My sinus infection is better but the coughing has started. I'm hoping to end it before it gets out of control.

• Jamilla DeVille won the International Pole Dance Federation's "Instructor of the Year" award. Yay!!~~!
  

• Gay Progressive Dinner Party on Sunday... and Earl will be there. Should be fun! (maybe I'll be nice and take a pic of Earl while he's AWAKE... I'll have to act fast (even when I went to his house for dinner & a movie, he fell asleep on me!))

• I am totally on board with Crankypant's rant about the Grammy nominations (you have to be in her hood to view that link). Today I heard that the Silversun Pickups are up for Best New Artist. I've been hearing them on the radio for at least 3 years now. "best NEW artist"... WTF?

• Just saw Micheal Buble on Oprah. I really like his voice. Why don't I own any of his CDs (or mp3s)??

• Zero 7's "The Road" is a beautiful song. Beautiful. I got the CD (supposed to be an advanced copy but I think it didn't work out that way) when I renewed my KCRW membership. LOVE the CD (except 1st & last tracks, both strange instrumental mixes). Also got & love the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix CD (my drive to work, plus putting on makeup in the parking lot, takes EXACTLY the length of the CD). Mixed on Band of Skulls, which sounds like Jack White (who I don't really care for). Haven't listened to the 4th CD yet - don't know what it is. Long story longer: I'll link the Zero 7 youtube vid at the bottom of this - but, fyi, there are no visuals in it.
• update, 2:42am: Just saw that Zero 7 will be playing a local, small, venue on the 16th. A Wed. There is no way I will be able to get off work to go. FAIL!!
  

• It's 2:35am. I'm going to bed (or going to pretend that I am). Hope you all had a good Friday night. I'd love to read about it my comments!
  

When I had a Monday-Friday job, Saturday was naturally laundry day. Every week I would have to ask Mr FD to carry the laundry hamper downstairs for me, as it was often too heavy for my back. May I repeat, EVERY Saturday I had to ASK Mr FD to bring down the laundry hamper from our bathroom.

Now, I don't have a Monday to Friday routine, and I do laundry during the week, trying to leave the weekends free. You know, just in case the last threads of our sanity tear and we give in to spontaneity, heaven forbid!

NOW that I no longer do laundry on a Saturday, every Saturday without fail, WITHOUT A REQUEST, Mr FD brings down the laundry hamper and places it with pride in the middle of our small laundry. It sits there like a dog poop on your priceless heirloom rug. I say nothing, trying to ignore it, but oddly enough it makes me want to rip his throat out.

I do not do the laundry. It sits there until the day I do, in the meantime, our dirty clothes mount up on the floor of our bathroom. I prefer not to say anything as when I am back in the work force I will no doubt want him to bring that damn laundry hamper down each and every Saturday again.

I just want to know - does he know what he is doing? Is he playing games with me - stirring the lizard he calls it. Passive aggressive games of marriage...sigh. Or did he just finally get the message through his damn thick skull and is now probably wondering why I am not postulating myself at his feet in gratitude?

Is it him, or is it me? I know, it's him. It is always him. 

Wha..Wha...WHAT ??!!!

Did somebody say GRAPENUTZZ ??!!!

I put my kitties on CL and now someone wants them. :((

.....Ive pretty much done my Christmas shopping.  I went into Thorntons yesterday to get a box of alcoholic chocolate truffles for my grandad because I cant think of anything else to get him and the lad behind the counter checked to see if I looked over 16, im 35 for gods sake!  I know I have a youthful complexion *grins* but I dont look that young.

Looking forward to an hour away then im finished for the weekend, hurrah!

......I played it last night I started my book and hope to start lessons in January from a friend of a friend.  Just need to get a nice strap for it as my guitar strap doesnt fit the peg at the bottom.