Woo!
Miss Creant - You cried? You’d better be crying about the tragic lack of sex in my life, ya hear! 
Bunny - I would love to come. I would also love to win the lottery. If you can arrange the latter, I can arrange the former. 
(Either that, or I need a ride from NYC. I’ll go read the rest of the thread to see if that’s an option…)
Well, DUH!! What else would I be bawling about?!?
A bit more MPSIMS from my life.
I used my rice steamer for the first time last night. My rice came out nice and light and fluffy!
Got the pictures back from the wedding on Saturday, and they came out great. This weekend I’ll be getting together with my girlfriends to trade pictures, so I’ll get to see them again.
I can’t figure out whether I should pay my car loan or student loan this month, and which I should let slide… being unemployed sucks, but hey, I’ll be working part-time starting next week or so. It’s all good.
Ran into my grandmother in the grocery store.
Oh gosh! Is she ok? … wait… you didn’t literally run into her, did you? Ok. Sorry.
No no, I did not physically run into my grandma. I saw her at the grocery store and we stood and chatted for a bit.
Dumb things happening in my life (and some, perhaps, not so dumb)[ul]
[li]When the first close lightning strike hit last night and woke me up, I seriously thought it was a bomb going off. Apparently it just took my cable modem out, though. They can’t roll a truck to my place until Monday. I nearly panicked - whadamigonnado? I am idiot sometimes - someone smarter than me suggested “Just use free AOL.”[/li][li]AOL sucks, even if I can use it free til Monday.[/li][li]It looks like I will a job offer soon. Woohoo. The company we partnered with on the project that got canned is looking to open a local office. The only downside is a lot of travel. But it’s a job, and considering I don’t have one, I can’t afford to be overly picky. My old company wants to rehire me, but they are moving very slow. You snooze, you lose.[/li][li]My dog and cats are turning into horribly spoiled creatures now that I am around all the time to give them all the attention they want.[/li][li]My downstairs neighbor asked me over for dinner again. This, despite the fact that when I went over for dinner a couple of weeks ago, I had to tell him several times I wasn’t interested (in a nice way), and ultimately had to push him off me and threaten to leave if he didn’t back off. He passed out on the couch, and I snuck out shortly thereafter. I tried to graciously duck that latest invitation. He’s my neighbor, so I really don’t want to piss him off, even though I could probably kick his ass. ;)[/li][li]Even with 8000 cable channels, TV still sucks.[/li][li]Apparently an advantage of unemployment is that my appetite dwindles to nothing. The jeans that were too tight a couple of weeks ago are now just-right-tight.[/li][li]My cats hurl a lot. They are old (11).[/li][li]I had plans to go to Egypt in February, but wasn’t sure given the employment situation if I would be able to go. Obviously, the point is now moot. So I need to plan a different trip. Hawaii, perhaps? Who wants to go with me? (No, I’m not paying your way ;))[/li][/ul]
I bought a 256mb stick of SDRAM for my PC the other day. I now have 320mb of RAM in my machine. Possibly overkill for a Celeron 400, but what the hey. My hard disk has never been so quiet.
Over the last week I have had nine job interviews. I’ve handed in my notice to my current employer. I’m not happy with what I am doing right now, it keeps me away from Mrs. psychogumby too much. 70+ hours weeks suck ass. I’m not lazy … i’m more than happy to do a 55 hour week like anyone else, but 70+ is too freakin’ much.
I want to go to back to college next year (part time), but I have no idea what I want to do.
Mrs. psychogumby wants to work part time. This way she can work for 3 or 4 days a week and stay home and cook muffins and stuff on the other day(s) that she’s not at work.
My car badly needs a new muffler, an alternator and an oil change. Whenever the car is not in use, I have to disconnect the negative battery terminial, otherwise the alternator flattens the battery.
I’m happy because we’re no longer in arrears on our mortgage. For now …
Our dog keeps urinating under our dining table. Despite the fact he has a doggy door that he knows how to use. I’ve given up on telling him off. Once i’m placed in a new job, i’ll get prices on getting all the floors in our house tiled.
The biggest asshole I work with is selling his house. It is the biggest house I have ever seen. It’s not the big house that makes him that way, though. Heck, even if he had a tiny house like us, he’d still be an asshole.
Nescafe has gone downhill recently. Once it used to be acceptable, now it tastes almost as evil as generic coffee. I’ve upgraded our home instant coffee to Moccona.
We can’t have percolated coffee as our trusty old percolator has sprung a leak. I want a new percolator for Xmas.
I had my first experience with a PlayStation 2 at a client’s house the other night. I was playing GT3 with them for almost an hour. I would give my left testicle for a PS2 with GT3.
I would subsequently give my right testicle for one hour behind the wheel of a Ferrari. A REAL Ferrari.
This may cause issues should Mrs. psychogumby go all maternal and procreative in future, but at least i’d have a PS2 with GT3 and I could say that i’ve driven a Ferrari.
The main thing i’m going to miss about my job are my clients. Most of them rock! 
I’m also going to miss the prestige, and the respect I get. But i’d rather be a working stiff with minimal stress than some management type walking ulcer.
I’d continue, but I need to go poop.
I am supposed to be working, but there’s only 15 mins left till the Clock Position of Happiness, so I will compose a wildly interesting post…
I’m broke. I decided it would be cool to buy a brand-spanking-new computer last month with the handy-dandy plastic, but I forgot that I also needed to pay tuition this month. Imagine that…I’m working on my internship, and I still have to fork over almost 2 thou of my hard-earned cash to the university. I’ll just bend over now, and take it up the arse, thanks.
I also need a haircut. I keep putting it off, though, because I don’t know what to do with it. It’s halfway down my back, and the ends are all frizzy, so it’s time, but WHAT TO DO? sigh I’m tired of my current haircut!:rolleyes: [littlevoice]Just shave it![/littlevoice]
On a better note, my online piggy is doing well. I keep feeding and feeding him, and now we’re 137/369 other piggies vying at the “fair”. If you have too much time on your hands, go Hereand start up you own piggy farm! It’s especially fun to zap them…
I am going to the ballet tonight…it’s $5 student night and it’s the last night of Romeo and Juliet…Never been to a real ballet yet. This should be fun! Dressing up and pretending to be a “real” person! Whee!!
I’m hanging at my son’s house this evening, and I wonder what computer game we’ll play or what video we’ll watch.
I just finished a major technical drawing and my assigned chapters for a support document for a Customer Relationship Management system, and I’m pleased to have those things done.
Now that I’ve finished the aforementioned, I need to get started on a project plan to relocate our e-business infrastructure.
I’m considering getting some cheap takeout from Mr. Chau’s for dinner, but I’m vaccilating between that and making something healthier at home.
I’m wondering if I’ll have time to get in excercise this evening.
I really need to devote more time to learning the advanced features of Photoshop.
I’m so looking forward to Dopetoberfest, or whatever the hell it’s called.
I just got a book called Author Unknown, which is about a guy who identifies authors through the application of forensics to writing samples. I first read about this guy in Smithsonian magazine, and it’s pretty fascinating stuff.
My arms and chest are sore from lifting weights yesterday.
My boss is obnoxious, but I like him anyway.
Most people I know are pretty decent folks.
I have a cookie in my backpack for later.
Yet more, inspired by other posters.
I’m sorta “homesick” for the Bay Area, because I believe I know which Mr. Chaus Purd Werfect is speaking of. (He works right near where I lived in San Jose.) And when I set up the scanner today, there was a picture I’d left in there. It was of Mercutio, Purd Werfect and woodstockbirdybird from SLODope.
China bambina is almost 15 months old and sports 5 teeth, two up three down. Being Amerasian with hazel eyes, certainly I think she’s a cute little booger.
We have some fish hanging from a high ceiling from her birthday. She loves being held and the jumping and trying to grab the fish. She giggles like a maniac. Yesterday, she learned how to jump. Well, sorta. I mean, she tries hard. She can’t get off the ground. Just kinda bops up on her toes. But she doesn’t care, she just giggles and giggles and giggles. It’s cute. Even if you hate kids, it’s still cute. Pure joy over trying to jump. Wonderful laughter. It makes the diapers a triffling matter. MPSIMS.
Baaah, Gaaah, more froofiness please. Turns out one of my college classmates was a victim. Not a happy day.
Maybe someone can post links to cat and baby photos? That’d do it for me.
I sense you are speaking English here, yet the words are not tracking. 
Inspired by how great boli looked at the last ChiDope, I’ve been walking the 2 miles home from work every day. It’s great to think and let the day roll off me, I get home feeling so happy and relaxed. And I had to get home somehow anyway.
My awesome high school English teacher used to give us tests like this for American Lit and English Lit. He would give us 10 previously unseen passages from authors we’d studied during the semester, and we would have to identify the author and back up our identification. You got to be wrong, as long as you had good reasons. I MUST read this book.
My roommate bought me flowers and left an apology and a request to talk on the dining room table yesterday. Phew…
I am doing my best to ignore the work I don’t want to do that is sitting on my desk right next to the computer as I write this.
I just spent almost all of my tax rebate check fixing the station wagon I really didn’t need and shouldn’t have bought instead of paying down my credit card like I said I would but I just don’t care.
On Monday I moved into a private office at work and the best thing is that I can sit here and cruise the SDMB and nobody knows about it. . .
I really, really, really want to get in the station wagon I spent all my money fixing and drive to New Orleans with a stop in Memphis on the way.
Last weekend I drove my Cadillac to a cruise-in at a pizza place near my house and there was an Elvis impersonator there who went absolutely nuts over it. I even got a photo of him with the car and as soon as I can resize it it’s going to be my new computer wallpaper.
The other night on the phone I explained to Sophie why dipping pretzel sticks in an extra-thick milkshake before eating them is something that everyone must experience on a regular basis.
I wonder if USA Today would permit me to take over Larry King’s column. . .
Yesterday, at the grocery store, I noticed a huge, heavily-tattooed, REALLY scary-looking (by anyone’s standards) man buying flowers. He was carefully examining each little bunch, sniffing them, holding them up to other bunches as though he was trying to envision the finished composition of his arrangement. The juxtaposition of “big and scary” and “pretty flowers” made me smile for the rest of the day.
I’m making a big-time comfort food dinner tonight. Pot roast, noodles, roasted carrots and homemade bread. Yum.
I need a haircut, too. I’ve been letting it grow as a favor to my husband, but it’s really starting to get on my nerves and I think I am going to get it all chopped off. The only reason I am putting this off is that I am not looking forward to the inevitable comparisons to Joyce DeWitt again.
That’s all the froofy I have to share today.
ChinaGuy, do you have any postable pictures of the China-ling (for Cranky)? Your daughter’s laughter and joy must be a very comforting thing to watch. I’ve been watching my kitty cats play and clean themselves and sleep and I envy them their oblivion and joie de vivre.
No school this afternoon because there’s a football game. Football’s the second religion down here, right after Southern Baptism.
I need to do laundry, but I’m out of quarters…
I should be getting my and Gunslinger’s engagement rings in the mail this weekend.
It’s been a month since I placed my order at Barnes & Noble’s website and I still haven’t received the darn textbook I need for my English class. I finally canceled that order and bought it at the school bookstore (for $20 more than they wanted at BN.com, of course, but the wait has become silly).
I set up a wishlist at amazon.com so my parents can buy me books and movies and I can amuse myself when not in class. I’ve been spending far too much time in here. I need to step away from the computer and involve my mind in something with a plot!
My roommate and I bought a fishby - a betta. We’re not sure what we’re going to name it yet. Moe, perhaps.
My slippers are pink and fuzzy and have rubber duckies embroidered on the toes. How’s that for froofiness?
When I’m not playing on my laptop, I’ve started working on a piece of embroidery. It has 3 dalmatian puppies looking with great interest at blue butterflies.
I’ve been craving peach pie, and I think in the VERY near future I’m going to make one and eat a huge and put a BIG scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. [giggle]
My mom gave me some gorgeous fingernail polish, and I think I’ve gotten over how disappointed I was over how short a time it takes for that stuff to chip off the last time I painted my nails to consider painting my nails and toes again.
Y’all have a good one.
My ivy on my desk at work just got lal the dead leaves removed…it looks a bit skeletal. Perhaps it needs more water. But the Norfolk pine is doing great! It’s really perky and I think it has even grown lately. I really love those trees!!
Humperdink! Humperdink! HumperdinkHumperdinkHumperdink!!!