New beginnings...

Rachel Ray has a line of dog food. What the hell? I used to like her, but she is just TOO HAPPY and she's everywhere. She makes me go e__e


Finished Season 4 of Doctor Who. Donna Noble was awesome, and the ending for her was total shit. B| Out of all the companions, I think I liked her the best. She was loud, abrasive, hilarious, and showed The Doctor what's what. Now I have the two movies and on to season 5 \o Hopefully... before the new seasons tarts in the spring |D


Tax return is in. Very quick, I must say. Now I get to sit on it until March to see if I get this job in Cali. Honestly, I think I won't, only because I am horrendously out of shape. If I don't get it, I'm still torn between getting a netbook or a new desktop. I want a netbook so I can go places and do work. Even if it's just the couch. I want a new desktop because mine has heartattacks and I want to be able to run photoshop without it seizing up in ph34r. I thought about just getting a laptop and using my desktop as a strictly offline machine so when I'm on it internet can't be a distraction, but... yeah... /)_=

Now off to sleep for about 10 hours. Awww yeah. *turns off cell and hopes no one comes to the house*

Wh-Why the hell did you link me to this?!



CHORIIIISU!

Excuse me.

*throws self down the stairs*

...No. It.

theoregontrail

I just CAN'T.

MY BRAIN.

Alright. Got my hair done today. Braids. Started about... 9:30am? Finished around 7:30-8pm. And she said I had a SMALL head. I always feel like they're lying to me, when it takes so goddamn long. The last tuff of hair at the top ALWAYS seems to drag out the longest. ALWAYS.

I did get something worthwhile done. Started and finished Winter Prey, by John Sandford. I'm slowly picking back up with my reading.

I need to seriously think about my next job... I have 3 weeks of pay before I switch to savings. That would not be awesome. I put in one app, but I need more... something in my field. Something... ~_~ I've got to defer my loans, too. That's 150 that I can save.



My mother got worried because we hadn't heard from my grandfather since Saturday and he normally called asking me why I didn't go grocery shopping for him Saturday. She sent out an e-mail, and my Uncle went to check on him before my mother got out of work. Turns out he fell in the tub, hit his head, and was probably unconscious since Saturday. The water in the tub was still running and everything.

...wtf life. WTF.

So, as I am currently jobless, I'll probably stay with him for a while until we figure out what to do with his stubborn ass, since we've tried to get him to consider assisted living since he claims to 'fall all the time'. Maybe now he'll listen, since he miraculously didn't drown to death.

Jebus on a fucking cheese cracker.

Also:

Amazing. They aren't dead. Thank you dragonspam_er >_>

...I've got this new 19" monitor.

LG Flatron W1952TQ

I hook it up. Colors are weird as shit. No worries. Haven't done the install of drivers or adjustments yet.

That was *looks at clock* 3 hours ago. Drivers Installed. Google searched for configuration shit. Did the best I could. The colors are washed out as hell and everything has a ting of blue, despite my best efforts to manipulate brightness, contrast, and gamma settings. I can honestly say that crisp images =/= accurate colors.

My old CRT was better. If I have to get a new video card [or something] I'm going to be annoyed as shit. D< I know my computer is 4 years old, but hell. There has got to be a way to fix this. I'm going to call Best Buy tomorrow and see if I can get help. WITHOUT having to take this shit in to the store, because that would annoy me more.

Ignore my stupid. =D Checking the cable connections is the first step to avoid idiocy \o/





Separate note 1: I uploaded some more to deviantart.

Separate note 2: It's past time to get a new lj layout. Should I just succumb to a Lockon Stratos layout? Or try to find a decent Avatar one? [Zuko, heelll yeah~] Maybe even Dogs [WHICH HAS A NEW CHAPTER OUT I FORGOT TO READ OH SHI-]. Bleach? As long as it looks good and I know what it is, I think I'm up for anything, even if color adjustments are necessary. ~_~

Stimulus package. Pt deux. *twitches* We'll see what the hell the spending is going for.

Regulate credit card industry Fuck yes. Pls. I only have one credit card. My limit is 500 dollars. Yeah. That's it. They keep trying to increase my limit, and I keep soundly rejecting them =D

I do plan on changing cards to one with points and shit on it [since I have to pay that damn fee every year anyway] and upping my limit to 1000 dollars. But if they do shit like increasing my interest to 22% with no rhyme nor reason, fuck them. =D I'll keep my 500 dollars limit and pay it off every month as usual. I'll happily be a deadbeat~

And How to spend 500$

If I ever got it [that last stimulus check I got was only 300 dollars. I didn't even get the 600. Thanks a lot =o=] I would buy that flat panel monitor I've been saving up for and may the other half of my car insurance. \o.

With all of these layoffs and just... total eco-failures, how many people can still go to Otakon this year?

Chocolate Skittles. I finally had some. WTF. I don't know what to think... but I wouldn't willingly buy them.

TRUE BLOOD. 8| Fuck you Jay. Now I want to watch the rest of it. I, however, have to sneak because there's so much SEX in it. Last thing I need is Chibi walking around a corner going WHAT'S THAT? Hell, even my mother coming around the corner like 'WHAT'S THAT?!' Do not want. =_=

I will say that Sookie's best friend Tara. Oh. Man. Fucking hilarious. And the accents amuse me, cus I couldn't fake one even if I lived in Louisiana the rest of my life.

Here you go. Two amusing exerts from my story. One is from very close to the beginning of where I started writing, and the other is ___________.

( Black Lacy Panties~! )

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Aaaand here's another one. I would have, you know, put something else, but without this, all the other scenes between them wouldn't make sense. =___= This is where the Waffle House joke began.

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( The Great White Hope ain't looking so good. )

Oh RP!S. Sometimes I lawl... okay, I always lawl, but then it's offset by BOOOOO.

F-list, please to be doing me a favor. If you ever feel you have to go anon to say something, you probably shouldn't be doing it. [/PSA] I hope we learn our lessons from the last time. No, rly.

AAAAAANNND speaking of lawls.

prez_dressing

That shit. is so funny. I don't care which side you sit, if you chose a side or are still undecided. Read a few posts. Laugh with me. It's hilarious.

Outline = No progress today. Blame work. We'll see if I get online at home tonight after the gym. 50/50 chance of me flaking off and sleeping/reading tonight.

Oh shi- Who wants a Gundam 00 mood theme? \o.

If you've seen this story before, oh well. You're ahead of my curve. If you haven't, get a laugh at it. XD Accurate or not, it amused the hell out of me. Sorry. No cut for you all.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten

comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it
would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are
all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your
daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the
first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.

But what about the other six men * the paying customers? How could they
divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted
that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would
each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested
that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same
amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued
to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to
compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed
to the tenth man," but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar,
too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I got"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back
when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks so the nine sat
down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill,
they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money
between all of them for even half of the bill!



And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is
how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the
most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for
being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they
might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Oh, come ON.

The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have

If I could afford it, I'd buy it D8! It's ugly, but hell. I think the Prius is ugly, too.