Ahhh Creaky , that sounds divine…
I paid the big pile of bills that I’ve been avoiding looking at. I took my dogs for a walk and they were so happy that it made me happy. I got a lot of work done today as well…This day was all about not procrastinating…
I received a somewhat delayed order from Amazon, and another book via the mail, within minutes of each other. It was like Christmas!
Also, I received an email from one of my best friends with news and pictures of their son. He’s pushing towards 10 months, and has started taking his first unaided steps–or had been, but stopped, for he discovered that he could pull himself up to standing by holding onto the back of his handled toy truck and move about at high speed with that assistance. That made me remember visiting them a few weeks ago, when his preferred mode of transport was gripping convenient grownup fingers and sort of hanging from them while staggering like a tiny and very cute drunken sailor.
After a two year fight, we finally received our pay raises today. Also, I got four CDs of nifty new music and listened to the first one all the way home. I put the top down and let my hair get blown to bits by the wind-- it was great.
I am off tomorrow.
I won an eBay auction on a limited-edition Barbie my best friend’s been lusting after forever. Her birthday’s in three weeks.
Mr. Levins brought me Starbucks coffee at work tonight.
My boss tipped me $20 bucks for pouring him a Scotch.
My nails are actually all one length. I just noticed it today.
Yippee!
Watching my friend’s toddler daughter (thirteen months) playing at the beach today.
Which prompted me to change my sig line for a while.
I realised today that I have only three more exams to do and I will have my Windows 2000 MCSE certification (I’m already NT4 certified).
I also finished writing myself letters (long story) of recommendation for the Masters degree I hope to get into. Now I just have to make the appropriate people break away from their laziness long enough to sign the damn things!
Oh, and Mitch, one of my doggies, just came up to me and put his head in my lap for a big puppy-scratch
Max
Today (yesterday, actually, the 10th) was my birthday.
I spent the morning browsing online, and the afternoon volunteering at the local GLBT community center, building them a much-needed database.
I helped a lesbian couple with a computer problem, and then introduced myself. Shook hands with one of the women, and then tried to shake the other one’s hand, at which point she pulled her hand back, making exclamations of great pain. I stood there bewildered, asking if she was all right. Finally, she looked up and grinned, and said “Watch yourself. You’re way too hot.”
I promptly got flustered, blushed, and retreated. I’m really not used to getting compliments from strangers. I’d love to have the chance to get more used to it; that was amazing.
I stopped by the post office, mailed my taxes. Came home, cleaned a bit, and then my boyfriend came home and started making Navajo tacos, an amazing meal that involves home made fry bread. Friends arrived. Mom arrived. We hung out on the porch, talking about nothing in particular.
Dinner was great, and then Mom broke out the ice cream cake for dessert. I think the ice cream involved was called Amazon Rainforest Chocolate Crunch. Whatever it was, it was amazing.
Mom gave my boyfriend and I a present. Her wedding ring. She wants us to have the jewelers who’ll be making our wedding rings use the gold from hers. It’s an incredibly touching gesture.
Of course, she also threw in a gift certificate to Michael’s. A friend gave me a gift certificate to Best Buy. Oh, and I gave my mom a series of computer progams that’ll help her learn a little French for her trip to Switzerland this fall.
And then… then there was my boyfriend. The man I’m going to marry. I guess I should say that I’m notoriously hard to buy presents for. Most people in my life have given up, and get me gift certificates. But my boyfriend…
He gave me a good keychain sized multitool. A copy of The Action Hero’s Handbook. And The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.
He knows me. He went out, and hunted down the perfect gifts for me. He told me he figured I’d love the Action Hero book, because I seem to collect all sorts of weird trivia. He remembered the time I told him how to cook a porcupine. He figured out exactly what I wanted.
He loves me. He knows me. He makes me happy.
Oh, and then we all went bowling.
I had a good day today.
A friend took me to see Chicago. This made me happy, as I’ve been wanting to see it since my roomate brought home the soundtrack. After the movie, as we passed a bar we hang out in, friend called roomate’s cell, and she said “We’re in the bar, and LC is here! Drag Daerlyn in!” LC and I have been trading comments in livejournal for weeks, so getting to finally meet him also made me happy. So two things.
Of course, I still have the head cold of doom, but this too shall pass.
I sit next to a window that looks out onto an internal foyer in our building.
We have glass lifts and one has broken down half-way between my floor and the floor below.
There is someone in it who i don’t like - and she looks bloody annoyed!
– Someone asked me how I get my makeup to look so perfect and natural every day
– I won a contest at work and get dinner for Mr. Winnie & I at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse!
– Met an old friend from high school for billiards and beers. We had much fun hanging out and teasing each other for a few hours like we used to do.
I just got a great deal on a GameCube yesterday. I bought a GameCube and got Mario Party 4, an extra controller, and a memory card for free. Why is this so important to a 25 year old man? Well, when my wife left me she took the Cube we originally bought for my son. No problem, I would prefer for it to be with him all the time, he would get more enjoyment out of it than I would. The problem is that when I get him for the weekend she doesn’t allow him to bring it. She’s afraid that I’ll keep it out of spite like she is doing. But know that I have one I can once again partake in one of our favortie past times. Plus Mario Party 4 is his favorite video game. He loves being on the same team and kicking the AI’s butt.
I had some amazing spontaneous sex with El Hubbo last night, then we went out to dinner. I had my favorite beer, my favorite salad dressing and my favorite pizza.
All of these things combined caused me to wake up in a fantastic mood with thrumming body parts.
And today is Friday, my friends. FUH-RI-DAY, BAY-BAY!!!
Mr2U and I are getting along great, we’re partying it up tonight, I’ll be getting out of work early, and I actually finished (I got my grades a few minutes ago via email from my way too cool for school professor) my entire 6 first college credit hours with straight A’s!!! Yes, straight A’s on every paper, every assignment and I haven’t been to school in 20 years!!!
I’m NOT AN IDIOT!!! 
After almost 9 months of my father having to buy us food (and complaining about it the whole time) I have finally received food stamps again!
We are going shopping!
Missy2U, you go with your bad self! Congratulations!
I’m a later-in-life student, too. Feels good, don’t it? (That grammatical slip was intentional.)
I went to see Varekai in Atlanta (Cirque du Soleil), and was able to help a person I didn’t know and her son go to see the show due to having a couple of spare tickets. First time for both of them…
GfH - Yes, yes it do!!!
when the kids finally stopped screaming and fell asleep.