Forget the candy, parties, dressing up. Boys in ties is what really makes Halloween special.

Didn’t dress up this year. Should have, wasn’t prepared. Didn’t hand out candy this year. Was actually prepared for this but ZERO children came trick or treating in our neighborhood.  That just sucks.  Now we have three bags of candy laying around.

But, had a great time at the show this weekend, til all hours of the night.

Photos are on Flickr.

And there was beer, which explains a lot of what went down that night.

Started the redesign. Going well, but taking longer then I expected. I’ve also taken out about a thousand exclamation points. I must sound like a deranged cheerleader, on speed, with PMS. How can you stand it?

Hell! Yeah! It’s! Almost! Done!

I’m in the middle of redesigning this site. I know, this incarnation is only two months old. But I’m bored with it, I’m learning new things, and I find I don’t really have much to say right now. Nightly migraines* and the crazy time at work are bogging me down.

I was talking about getting a second tattoo for Christmas, but I haven’t made the definite decision yet. I know what I want, the general area that I want it, but I can’t get the details right. Solid black? Colors? Which colors? What if I change my mind and hate it in the future, or wish I had done it differently? Well, if this second redesign speaks of anything, maybe I should be putting the tattoo off for a bit.

*Still from my back/neck. Massage helped, but not enough. I know I need to handle stress better, do some stretching, just chilax, but that’s all much easier said then done.

McDonald’s Chicken nuggets:  Why do the round ones taste different (read: like day old tuna) compared to the Louisiana shaped ones?

Looking through my files today I realized I’m probably the only person that saves screenshots of random moments of internet history.  No, I won’t show you examples either!  I probably shouldn’t be that shocked by this as I save everything that amuses me, including bottle caps with funny sayings and fortunes from fortune cookies.

I got a little distracted with the website and burned dinner!

But I did not burn down the house which I think is the important thing here.  I also did not learn anything more about CSS*, but we’re going to pretend I didn’t realize that.

 *When did I become such a bad computer nerd!  Bad in the sense that I know nothing.

I did nothing but sleep and read today.  Just slept and read.  Probably wasn’t the best thing for my back, with the being sprawled out on the couch all day, but since that’s about all my back will allow me to do it will just need to deal with it.

This weekend was crazy.  Maybe I’ll get around to posting the pictures of Friday night, though they won’t do it justice!  Lots of friends and lots of fun.  But some people are determined not to help themselves and that colored my weekend.  Arguing through space and air is no way to get things resolved, but what else do you do when people refuse to listen, or even engage in the conversation?  I’m hoping the situation resolves itself, and I’ve said what I had to in order to let it go for a while.

Tomorrow I give up the sleep/read for the work/complain.  And then I get to have the horror of a stranger going crazy with elbows and pinching on my back!  Hell, if it helps I’ll stop the complaining.  In preparation for Monday I’m off to read, and then sleep.

Another Stuff Portrait from Random and Odd!  I have no idea if there was a “theme” at work here, but the assignments were a tacky vacation photo, something your child/pet made, and your hairbrush.

I’m not saying this is the tackiest vacation photo I’ve ever taken, but it does include the tackiest souvenir ever bought on vacation!  This is during the cross country move that Kevin, my sister, and my Mom helped me do in June of ‘04.  We hightailed it through several states, but made sure we had enough time to party it up in New Orleans!  And boy did we, we drank through several bars in the French Quarter.   It began pouring rain halfway through the night, notice my soaked hair and see through shirt.  A street vendor walked up to my Mom and plunked this on her head.  She thought a hat was a great idea, and bought it sight unseen!  By the time she and my sister caught up to Kevin and I (throwing back shots in some random bar) she thought she was rocking that hat.  It wasn’t until she actually looked at it in the cab on the way back to the hotel that she realized why we’d been laughing all night!

Well I don’t have kids so I was left with something my pets had made. Scary isn’t it, considering all they leave me is a mess. After considering taking a picture of the hairball Killer tried to yak up in MY LAP as we watched TV today, I remembered this. This was about two and a half years ago and I could hear her carrying on all night. I woke up to this! She had crawled in the bathroom cabinet and carried cotton balls one by one to my bedroom, depositing them all over the room. Many, many cotton balls. She seemed proud, as if she was bringing me gifts. Um, honey, next time search out dollar bills!

And my hair brush, isn’t it exciting?

Thursday we have “Anti-Biddy Night.”  This started because every Survivor season my mom and aunt watch it together.  Seems normal enough, until you learn that speaking, except on commercial breaks, is punishable by death.  I can’t be subjected reality TV and expected not to make wise cracks the whole time, so I started escaping to my cousins’ house.   This became a weekly thing.   Tonight we mixed it up, met at their house, and left the Biddies to watch their shows and went out to dinner.

I guess the change in routine got us all a little kicky.  Dinner was spent discussing sperm, diapers, cock vs hen, and the waiter’s ass.  When we got back to my house, Shannon and Lindsey got into a tiff about something.

Lindsey “Your mama!”

Shannon and I both look at each other in utter confusion.  ”My mama is YOUR mama!”

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I wish I was a floating head.  My neck has gone absolutely ape shit this week! I have knots running down the left side to my shoulder and it’s causing migraines nightly.  I tried to work them out myself but I’m not strong enough, and it’s hard to subject yourself to that much pain.  I tried to get a work boy to rub my neck, but he was too concerned with getting me into the copy room alone to worry about my neck.  I tried taking a muscle relaxer, and this resulted in my forgetting who I was or what I was supposed to be doing and having to go take a nap in the truck during lunch.  So I give up.  I’m going on Monday to pay for the torture of having a stranger rub me.  After finally being released from physical therapy a few months ago I thought I would be done with the nakedness in front of stranger ritual!

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Yeah, so I gave up on the whole Firefox issue  So should you be looking at this and it looks totally jacked up, get over it.  I also gave up on learning CSS and working on my archives.  I can barely sit up long enough to do things that are required so I’m just going to try and let it go.

So I finally download Firefox, because I know I should.  So you can get off my case now.  But it’s making half my website look like a hunchback.  Damn it, I wasn’t looking for frustration today  I just do not have the skills to fix this right now!  So, deal with it.  Why didn’t YOU tell me this whole time you’re looking at it that it’s leaning to the right?