With my bored time, I decided to mess around with those photoshop tutorial thingies that were on the forums...

Here's something I managed to make in my spare time...you can laugh at me all you want, but I was just playing. It's sort of fun when you just mess around with it.


Just some random lilies I found online...


I love Luis Royo, so I messed around with one of his pictures...


I have no idea where this lady is from, but she was pretty...

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Okay, I didn't change much...just the banner. I can't figure out how to change the color of the bar with the links around my blog/profile/etc. It's like a bluish/tealish color at the moment and I really wish that it was white...and the links were black. I'll figure out how to do it one day...lol

I think if I made that white, the page curl would look better on my banner, but whatever...lol

Anyway, since I'm not really doing anything other than sitting here, I figure I'd post a video of one of the funnier cartoons that I've ever seen. I first watched this back in the mid-90's because my teacher brought it in to class. I was in 6th grade at the moment and we watched it a few times. Even now, I still think it's funny.



There's 3 parts to the video and you can find the rest of the links here - Part 2 and Part 3. The cartoon is about 20ish minutes long, it's just split up into 3 parts :)

If you're bored, I suggest watching it...it's cute to say the least.

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But oh well...it's not like a lot of people read my crap in the morning anyway...I'm sure I could have waited until after work to write something and it would have been about the same...lol

I called my water company this morning and damn, I think they must keep you on hold FOREVER. I took me about 20 minutes to even get to talk to a person and then my question took about 2 minutes. It sucks...20 minutes of waiting for 2 minutes of talking! I told her that I paid my water bill with my rent and there's no way that I could be severely delinquent as their letter stated to me. She said she had to call to verify it with the management company and then I'd be good to go...they'd even clear the late charge off my account. For some reason, my management company did not decide to report that I paid my water bill to the water company. GRR...way to ruin my week ya know.

BUT, yeah...that was my little meltdown. I'm sort of glad I didn't get through to them earlier this morning because I was on a rampage. I'd already gotten two shitty phone calls at work where people insist on talking over me when I'm trying to explain something. You know what...don't call me asking a question if you're going to sit there and have a yelling match with me on the phone. Just because you think you can raise your voice to talk over doesn't mean that I'm not going to do the same thing to you. AND, I sat there and listened to them talk yet when it's my turn to talk and I start telling them something they don't want to hear, they have to talk over me. You know what...shut-up and listen. This is probably why you're having so many problems in the first place.

Ugh...that little debacle put me a poor mood this morning right from the start. All this shit happens prior to 9am this morning, so I've got 6.5 hours left to work in the day when it's already ruined there.

I've had horrible heartburn for the past week or so. According to my mom, since I'm having heartburn, the baby's going to have lots of hair. We'll see about that...if he comes out balder than can be, that little old wive's tale is complete B.S. I can't even lay down at home without having heartburn. I lay down, I get heartburn...I sit in a chair, I get heartburn...I eat some cookies, I get heartburn...I eat NOTHING, I get heartburn...it's relentless I tell you! I've got less than 2 months left now...so if I can deal with it for 2 more months, I'll be good to go!

Got my 3rd clas of 4 tomorrow...then I leave early on Wednesday for a doctor's appointment...then I've got Thanksgiving off...I work Friday...I have next Tuesday off from work (decided to take a vacation day)...I have the 4th and 8th of December off...I took December 27th off...Um, pretty soon here, I would imagine that my doctor's appointments are going to be weekly, so I'll be doing that here pretty soon...THEN, hopefully on or around January 17th, this baby will pop out. I really don't want him to come before. I'm not ready for him yet...and my mom won't be able to be out here yet. I'm suppposed to ask the doctor on Wednesday if he thinks I'm right on track to deliver on my due date, but I mean, he could tell me yes...and then next week, the baby could decide that he wants to come out. I mean, it's all unreliable. When the baby wants to come, he wants to come...so I feel bad because I can't tell my mom when to come out. I think she should at least come out a week before my due date and then at least if he comes, then it'll be good...and she'll be there. I don't know if she'll be able to do that though :(

I wish my mom lived closer...or I lived closer to them. It just sucks.....

ANYWAY...gotta get back to work. Lunch time is O-V-E-R!

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Well, my cookies didn't end up like I wanted them to. One, I didn't make enough cookies...and two, some of the cookies got all warped and melted looking (too much liquid in the dough or something on just those cookies)...

SO, since I didn't make enough cookies, I'm going to cheat and go to Safeway in the morning and buy me some oatmeal cookies and then just put them in plastic bags. Yeah, it sucks and it's a horrible way to do it, but seriously...my cookies were subpar! Safeway makes better cookies...and I can at least have cookies for everyone when I go to work tomorrow. Yeah yeah...what a cop out. If you want cookies, I'll make some and then send them your direction, courtesy of Safeway

Ugh...just sitting here, I'm getting horrible back pains again :( I don't know if it's how I'm sitting in my chair or what, but I'm going to go lay down for a little bit and hope that it goes away...

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Okay, it's not that early...but it's Sunday and I really didn't sleep in much later than I usually do on a work day. I wake up at 6:30am Monday through Friday. I woke up at 7:30am yesterday and I forced myself to go to sleep for a few hours...well, here I am again today, I woke up at 7:30am. At that point, I was like fuck it...I'm up...I'll just start the day a little early. GRANTED, I went to bed at about 1:30am this morning, I didn't get as much sleep, but oh well...who needs sleep? I'll be getting even less of it when the baby comes, so haha...I don't think it'll be too bad. With Brian here, it'll be a lot easier because then we can take turns.

I really have to give credit to all the single parents out there who do it all alone. I think it takes courage and determination because, in all honesty, it takes 2 people to make a baby...it really takes 2 people to take care of a baby...and here they are doing it on their own. I mean, if we were meant to do it alone, don't you think that it would have been made so we could asexually reproduce? Yeah, I'm not going to get into that whole mess, but it's just something to think about.

But anyway, I was surfing around and I saw this website for something called Colorgenics. You basically pick from a series of colors and it will tell you your personality. I did it just for fun and the results were pretty accurate. I was a little surprised, but hehe...aren't we all. I think the thing about it that rang most true to me was this paragraph:

Conditions are rather confusing at this time. You would like to involved with a particular person or a particular situation butyou are holding back. You find it difficult to make a decision.

You are pretending that the situation around you doesn't matter, but the effort of trying to conceal your emotions and anxieties is resulting in untold stress. The existing situation is disagreeable. You feel unwanted and lonely and you would really like to associate with someone whose ideals are as high as your own. You want to be above the standard of mediocrity and this need to be needed and that need to need has almost become an obsession. You are trying to magnify the need into a compelling urge. You would really like to tell the world how great you are but no, you are holding back because you feel that your peers may treat you with contempt. This is a great pity because you have in fact a unique quality of character, but the continual restraint that you impose on yourself makes you suppress this need for others and you pretend you don't really care. You treat those who criticize you with contempt. However, to be honest, beneath this assumption of indifference you really long for the approval and esteem of others.

I can't say this paragraph is entirely true, but sometimes I do feel this way and it's probably pregnancy hormones or something. It sucks being here by myself sometimes and it's just me and the baby...and the baby just likes to kick me a lot, so he's not really any fun yet. Now, give it 2 months, and I'm sure he'll be here and the baby still won't be all that fun (changing diapers, crying, feeding, etc.), but at least he'll be here and I won't be SOOO lonely.

But yeah...other than that, I've just been sitting around. I'm going to look through that cookbook and figure out how much of what I'll need for these cookies that I'm making and go to the grocery store and get all the stuff for it. The recipe in the book makes 48 cookies, but in all actuality, it probably makes around 36 (I like big cookies!) and I think I'll probably need to make a triple batch. According to their thing, if I make a triple batch, I'll be making 144 cookies or so? That should be enough...oh, wait...that's a lot of cookies. I only have to make about 6 dozen cookies and that would make about 12 dozen cookies. UM, maybe I'll just do a double batch. 96 cookies should be enough to give 6 cookies per 12 people...lol...and then still have some left over. GOOD LORD...I'm an accounting clerk and I can't even do math...how pitiful!

Anyway, I think I've rambled on for long enough this morning. It's probably about time I got up and started to do something around here. I don't want to bother Melissa too early this morning, so I'll give it a couple of hours, but then I should get this baking going because I'll probably be baking the rest of the day *sigh*

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I didn't get home until close to 10pm and I left my house at about 11am, so I was gone for a good 11 hours or so.

Didn't have much luck with birthday shopping for Brian's mom, but that's okay. We decided to get her flowers instead, so hopefully she likes those. You can't ever go wrong with flowers...

Other than that, I just bought a preggo shirt at the maternity store and then we bought some chocolate at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. We got a Peanut Butter Avalanche (so good...marshmallows, coconuts, peanut butter, chocolate, peaniuts or something, all in a little bar looking thing), a Cherry Bomb (a cherry dipped in chocolate fudge...then dipped in chocolate), some truffles, Tiger Bark (chocolate with chocolate swirls), and we got a marzapan. Brian didn't like the marzapan...he thought it tasted like play-dough...hehe

Tomorrow (or today s ince it is almost 1am), I'm going to Melissa's to make oatmeal raisin cookies...yum yum! I will definitely be eating those while making those...lol

Anyway, it's late...and I'm tired...must go to sleep

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I should probably go out and at least attempt to clean-up the backseat of my car as soon, a baby will have to be riding in the back seat and he's going to need somewhere to sit. Since I'm about 32 weeks, if the baby decided to pop out tomorrow, he'd be 2 months premature, however, he'd have an extremely good chance of surviving...so I suppose I should start to get ready before it's too late. I feel that it would be unlikely for him to all of a sudden come tomorrow, but you never know. It could very well happen *knock on wood*

What else is on my agenda today...

* Go to the Denver Public Library (the last time I was there was when I witnessed the gentleman watching his pornography in the middle of the library...I won't be staying around long enough to see if that happens again.

* Go shopping for Brian's mom's birthday present (her birthday was on Tuesday...and when I say that, I mean it has already passed...and no one at her house (not her son, not her husband) got her any birthday presents...SO, Brian feels bad and he wants to go get her something)

* Do some laundry (yes it has piled up again just like I said I didn't want it to...damn me)

* Do the dishes and clean the kitchen (ugh...I really don't want to do this)

* Finish my "thank-you" cards from my baby shower (I have extremely procrastinated if you can't tell...that baby shower was at about this time LAST MONTH, so I need to get crackin!!)

* V-E-G-E-T-A-T-E (I like this option the best)

Well...that should be all for today...what a busy day huh? Yeah, I might just morph it into the a busy weekend, but eh...the first priority is cleaning the damn car out though :( I really REALLY don't want to do that, but it has to be done...ugh...SUCKY

Here's a cute picture for you:



This is how I always imagined my mom's cow to look like. I guess when my mom graduated from high school, my grandpa (her dad) gave her a cow for her gift (they lived in a cow town) and my mom/grandpa named him Spunky and Spunky used to follow my grandpa around his farm like a dog. I'm sure Spunky was one of those brown cows because I think they eventually ended up butchering Spunky (this cow in the picture of a Holstein (I most likely mangled the spelling) and they're good for milk), but still...if you leave out that last part, and just imagine a baby cow following someone around a farm all day, it is cute :)

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they threw me a baby shower at work today...it was a nice surprise :) I now have lots of wipes and diapers and lots of bath goodies and lots of little teething toys :) I also got lots of clothes too, but I guess I'll still need lots and LOTS of clothes.

Anyway, I don't really have much else to type. After I'm done posting this, I'm going go watch Ghost Hunters (since I bought the DVD last night)...

AND...I leave you with some baby pictures of little border collie puppies! I remember when my Erita looked like this...she's still cute, but not as cute as she was when she was a puppy...hehe



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