I haven't said anything on here for ages, though I've thought about it, especially with the new year.

But I was looking at the website and 'blog' for Being Erica, and - since I'm on the new laptop - I thought I'd write something.

Hopefully I can start writing more. I'd really like to and it'd probably make me feel better and help getting my brain back on track and more reflective and all that good stuff.
We'll see?

Actually, not so idle.... But I thought I'd actually post something and the post Winterlive (http://winterlive.livejournal.com/429783.html) made about this seemed to work well enough.
And yeah, I'm too lazy/tired to do proper html. Blame my 2 hrs of sleep.

"The Big Read (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/) reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

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There's probably more books I would want to read if I took a look at the synopsis (synopses?), but I'm too tired to bother doing that right now....
I looked up some of them though.
And there's lots of books that I like that are or have been huge influences on me (some by the authors mentioned, some not) that aren't on the list. Maybe sometime I'll talk about them.
If I ever get around to it.


But for now I think I'll sleep. G'night.

So... freaking... tired.

And this is on... *counts* 8 shots of espresso today? (2 for the mocha, 5 for the double shot & 1 for the extra expresso shot I had (with milk) 'cause we had it....)

Bleh. Going to go play Rockband and try to not fall asleep now.
I think I have Thursday off....

Just 'cause...
I've been spending far too much time checking these two lately - partly 'cause I can get points every hour.

Anime Fight
http://facebook.frozenbear.com/r/?app=animefight&source=725990995_user

Spies
http://facebook.frozenbear.com/r/?app=spyfight&source=725990995_user


I think I spend too much time on the computer.
(though I rather like just posting the URL rather than sending around tons of invites)

I've had a really nice day so far...

Stayed up later than I should have talking to a friend on MSN and the then I went to bed and slept really well - especially after Jason and the pup came in and snuggled up on either side of me.
Had the alarm go off, but kept turning it off and just lay in bed enjoying being warm and cuddled with - Bella wasn't around and Sagira was curled up with Jay, but it was still good.
After waking up, I got to talk with Jay and it wasn't about anything like money or work or anything like that - a little bit about him not feeling well, but he's feeling a lot better today than he was last night.
Went and tossed laundry in that I probably should have done last night and had not one, but both cats decide to perch on my back while I was cleaning the litter boxes. :) And neither one used claws! It would have been nice to get a picture of them playing on my back, but I didn't want to risk waking up anyone downstairs or sending Jay running to get the camera.
And I actually still had a banana-chocolate muffin left from the batch I made yesterday and it was the one that randomly had a smilie face on it in chips (which I didn't notice until after I took it out of the oven)

I just hope that the rest of my day is as nice. Only thing so far that I wish was different was that I had a bit more time before I have to go to work. (Oops!)

But then, so's everyone else.

Gary Gygax passed away this morning - if no one recognizes the name, he's one of the guys who created D&D. (What's sad is that I know his name mostly because of Futurama)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax

Love it when my boy doesn't tell me stuff. (Or, to give him the benefit of my doubt - when he tells me stuff while I'm still asleep, even if he thinks I'm awake)

Apparently we're going to the in-laws for supper. Which I found out today when Jackie called to ask if we were still coming.....
Grrr. Have to ask Jay about it when he's awake.

Anyone want a wardrobe/dresser sort of thing?

Okay, so in case no one's noticed it yet, I've been looking at a lot of YouTube videos lately, just 'cause.

Found a lot of Sims videos and a lot of Doctor Who videos and actually a lot of music that I ended up buying with the card I got for Christmas.

Just 'cause I was watching Death Note today, I decided to look to see if anyone's done videos for that - hoping just to find more music, mostly.
And then I found some Death Note Sims videos on YouTube. I've only found one and it had very little to do with the song that they picked.


What scares me is that I did a quick search and found 58 YouTube results where people used Sims to do Death Note things.... I really hope some of them make more sense than the one I saw. If not, I'm going to end up being really tempted to try to make a Sim video.
Bad enough that I'm tempted by regular Sim videos, but for Death Note, there's so many ways that you can kill Sims anyways... it'd just be fun.

(And wow, my brain is in an odd spot right now.)

Or how to get another cat for the household. :)


Jay and I went to West Ed on Friday, theoretically to go see Cloverfield. We never got to the movie, but we did end up spending more money than we meant to. Some of it for very good things - like Volume 2 of Death Note - been a lil obssessedish with that lately, but it's cool so there! :p Jay wasn't feeling terribly great that day so we'd actually gotten a wheelchair for him to go around the mall in.
We also stopped in one of the pet stores just to look around while trying to decide if we wanted to stay late enough for the movie. And of course we looked at the pets they had. It's one of the stores where they adopt out rescue pets. And in the first set of cages, the only cat there was this tiny little 10 wk old black and white kitten with big yellow-brown eyes. I looked at her and the name (Honeysuckle) and went "Yep, she's cute." and went to look at the other cats there - all of which were at least a year old. There were two that I liked, a black and white one named Daisy whose info card described her as "scared" and a largish gray-orange cat named Aries. I actually was tempted to think about maybe getting one of them, but Jay never made it past that first cage - I blame it on the wheelchair being just the right height to see her.

So now we have two cats and a dog in the house. (No more roommates though, we kicked them out a couple of weeks ago.)
We're still kicking around names for the new one, but right now it's looking like we're probably calling her Bella.

If anyone else has a suggestion, feel free to let me know? I like Bella sort of, but unfortunately, none of the names we've talked about have jumped out at me unlike when I got Sagira or Tasha.