Uppers & Downers

Right now I'm wishing we could afford to get:

- A tankless water heater
- A water softener (our water is clogging the faucets, stupid buildup. plus our water pressure is dreadful)
- A new dishwasher (just quit working)
- A new fence (ours is about to fall down)

There are (of course) a lot of other things that I want but those are the big things at the moment. OH, and world peace!

Seriously, where is a winning lottery ticket when you need one?

I've only picked up like 1 or 2 issues of SELF magazine in my life. But I will say that I am NEVER going to buy it again.

Self editors explain covers aren't supposed to look realistic

What the crap?! They photoshopped Kelly Clarkson to make her thinner. Because the photos in the magazine are "meant to inspire women to want to be their best."

How did that even make sense to them as it was coming out of their mouths. There is even text on the cover that reads, "Stay true to you and everyone else will love you, too!"

By photoshopping the picture they're telling women that they will never be their best. Their best is unattainable if even people that have had the help of make-up artists, stylists, and lighting still weren't quite good enough.

Kelly Clarkson is freaking awesome (and gorgeous)! So she's not a size 2. There is nothing wrong with that! (There's nothing wrong with being a size 2 either, so long as you're healthy and happy.) She's got a hell of a voice. And apparently is just fine with her size. But Self illustrates that no matter what she accomplishes in her life and career she'll never be thin enough and that is stupid.

Can we please stop being bombarded with the message that we will never be good enough? Just let us try to be happy and confident the way we are.

Frankly, I'd probably feel a lot better about myself if I saw accurate representations of women in the magazines, rather than feeling as if I am the only woman on the planet with stretchmarks or fat arms.

Happy, happy birthday to my friend never_walk!

I love you!

This is far too awesome for me to not share!

http://theinspirationroom.com/dail…

Well, I just got reassured that God is out there.

Stepped out of the shower and noticed a burning smell and an ominious glow coming from my space heater. I turned it off. The light didn't go off. I unplugged it. The light didn't go off. I realized that the light wasn't on, the heater was on fire.

I yelled to my sister that my heater was on fire and we needed to get it on the porch and turn the water hose on it. She ran and got the fire extinguisher. But I had already taken it out my patio door and put it on the porch.

So there I was, at nearly 4 in the morning, on my back porch, holding a towel around my still wet self, spraying water into my crackling heater. Excellent.

All I can say is THANK GOD! If that had happened while I was asleep or out of the room...... I don't even want to think about anything like that happening to my sister or me. SHIT!


In brighter news, I gave the kitchen a really good cleaning today. Got all of the dishes done, cabinets clean, the fridge clean out, and the trash taken out. I even straightened up the living room and got the floor vacuumed.

Did you know that beef jerky could mold? Learn new things every day.

I did miss out on going bowling with my co-workers, but when I have cleaning momentum going, I have to keep at it or it can die in about 3 minutes.

So I only really had time to upload the first 2 episodes of Hex this weekend. I plan to share the rest of this show very soon. Thelma is one of my new favorite characters and her breasts are amazing!

I've only got one more episode left to watch. :(

Episode 1 is split into seven parts and need to be rejoined using hjsplit.
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Episode 2
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I just spent the last 5 hours carving pumpkins for a photo illustration for work. I probably won't get paid any overtime for this or receive any reimbursement for all the supplies that I had to buy, but I am going to ask.

And do you know how bloody hard it is to find a meat cleaver in this town? When I went shopping today, I only found 3. Two of them were parts of sets that cost over $160 and the one that was for sale on its own was $80. Guess I'll just have to make do with a butcher knife.

So I was watching On the Line, oh the nostalgia, and I'm about 15 minutes from the end when the disk fucks up. Son of a bitch! Apparently, the disk is corrupt because it won't play in my laptop either.

It's not even that great of a movie. The last couple of times that I tried to watch it I didn't make it 5 minutes in before ejecting it. And now I desperately want to watch the end, even the awkward kiss.

Why!!??!!!!

Damnit, now I'm going to have to buy a new copy of it. Lance's weirdly hypnotizing eyes compell me!

eta: movie ordered. Oh, the anticipation!

The sister and I just commented back and forth in her journal from different ends of our house. And we've been emailing each other links when we don't feel like getting up to see what the other is laughing at.

'Tis sad. Ahhhhh, the plusses and minuses of wireless internets.

This is pretty awesome.


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Too bad more people can't be this open minded.

GIP - I have many new icons thanks to my marvelous sister. This (see icon) is my most favorite person in the world right now. (shhh, don't tell my sister!)

So, would anyone be interested if I were to upload Wedding Wars? I love that movie and I want to share the love, but I don't want to spend hours uploading something if no one is going to download it.