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Let me tell you what my problem is:  I have this love affair with procrastination.  Sometimes I’ll have a huge goal set for myself, and it’s a goal that I want to achieve so badly I can taste it.

It tastes good.  That’s why I want it.

But no matter how much I want it, I’ll go out of my way to do everything but what needs to be done to achieve that goal.

Take NaNoWriMo for example.

Yesterday I laid in bed for about 40 minutes after I woke up, plotting just how I would get up, pee, get something to eat, and then sit at my computer with Word and just write.  I would write until I couldn’t write anymore, because I really want to get a jump start on this.  But once I got up, you see…. things didn’t go as I’d planned them to go.  It was 9am.

• I made my bed.
• I peed.
• I realized we were supposed to set the clocks back during the night, so it was only quarter after 8!
• I set my clocks back an hour and realized I had more time to write than I thought, so I figured I wouldn’t rush it.
• I waited for Sarah to wash some dishes so that I’d have a spoon for chocolate milk.
• I sat down at my computer and checked my Facebook (BAD IDEA ALWAYS!), because I can’t write on an empty stomach.
  • I Restaurant City’d.  I country Story’d and Roller Coaster Kingdom’d.
• I logged in to WoW to see if my auctions had sold.
• I made and drank chocolate milk.
• I figured I was already logged in to WoW so I did a few quests.
• I realized it was noon-thirty when Sarah said it was time to go.
• We went grocery shopping (took nearly two hours).
• I talked to Walter on MSN, and played some more WoW (I was due at my mom’s for 5pm for dinner, so I couldn’t just sit and write for an hour).
  • Deleted some characters, made a new character.
• I went to my mom’s for dinner.  It was good.
• I got home and finally sat down to write.
• I wrote 96% of this blog
• Then and only then did I finally write 1′684 words, reaching my quota for the day.

That looks nothing like the day I had planned.  I’d planned to have all the necessary writing done before noon, so that we could go grocery shopping and I could go to my mom’s without breaking stride.

Stride?  What stride?!!

And all in there I tweeted, I Facebook’d.  I even wrote most of today’s blog.  Because I have a procrastination problem.  No matter how good my intentions are when I start out, I’m going to procrastinate.  It is one of the handful of things in life I can ever be 100% certain of (we’ll discuss the others in another blog, because I have to write some more… you see?).

Walter:   If someone could die from procrastination, it would be you.

I pretty much choked on my own laughter right there.  Because it’s true, it would be me.

Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year?
What’s your word count?

Word count: 1′684

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It’s not really.  I’m pretty sure I’ve never said “Thursday-Schmurzday” ever in my life.

I apologize for the blip in yesterday’s entertainment, but we are now back to your regularly scheduled non-emo programming!

Speaking of programming, I’m excited for fall TV shows coming back.

• Castle (Sept 21st)
• Heroes (Sept 21st)
• Lie To Me (Aug 31st)
• Lost (the final season actually starts early in 2010)
• House (Sept 21st)
• Grey’s Anatomy (Sept 24th)

And for new shows I can’t wait to sink my teeth into!

• Community (NBC, Sept 17th)
• Glee (Fox, Sept 16th)
• FlashForward (ABC, Sept. 24th)
• Accidentally On Purpose (CBS, Sept. 21st)

Secret Life of the American Teenager is already halfway into the second season (yay!).  That show is so awesome, I get so frustrated with the characters and have to remind myself that they’re in high school and that’s why they dumb.  Also I have NO idea what’s going on with Samantha Who? yet as there’s nothing on ABC about it.  Eli Stone is over, but I love the way it ended.  Sadly, The Unusuals has had it’s run and isn’t being picked back up.  I might start watching Greek since they have all the episodes up on Hulu, and Sarah loves it, we’ll see.  That’s a lot to watch before the season premiere.

Enough talk about TV (WHAT?!!).  I don’t even have cable (which is probably good since I’d never leave the house) so I watch all my shows on the Interwebz.

I’m thinking of changing up my blog layout.  Again.  I loved this one at first but Walter is right: it’s just not me.  I have a really hard time trying to figure out what me is in website form, but I’m not going to stop trying until I figure it out.  It’s got to incorporate nerdiness, to proudly showcase my massive nerd personality.  We’ll see how that goes.

I just made Tori’s layout over the weekend (she’s new to the PQ Nation, so go say hello!), and I’m working on one for Pecosa right now.  Other people know what they want their layout to convey.  Is it weird that I don’t?  Is that related somehow to how I never know what I want from life?  Am I being too deep here about my blog layout?  :D

WAIT!  I have exciting news!!!  I fell in love this week.  Have you played Restaurant City on Facebook?  NO DON’T JUDGE ME!  I’M SERIOUS!  I know I’ve been playing Facebook games up the wazoo since I joined but this one is seriously awesome.  Way more awesome than Dragon Wars, Vampire Wars, Mafia Wars, Lil Green Patch, Heroes vs. Villains, Spy Wars, Robin Hood, Be A Tycoon, FarmVille, Farm Town, YoVille, and School Of Magic PUT TOGETHER.

I don’t think I’m feeling quite right yet, but all those comments yesterday really helped me feel better and see things a wee bit clearer.  Tomorrow I should be good as new!  Or, not new, ever.  Good as ever!  Besides, it’s hard to be sad about anything for long when I remember that Walter will be here for two weeks in only one short month.

Look at this picture of Walter and Benny and I from my first trip to Mississippi in 2006.  It is the only picture of the three of us that I have, which is sad because it’s not even a good one.

Plz do not make fun of my lack of boobs or my bug-eye glasses.

Actually plz make fun.

What shows are you watching right now?  Are you looking forward to old favorites and new shows this fall?
Do you play any Facebook games?  Why or why not?

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Sometimes I log onto my Facebook just to see this:

I know.  I a nerd.

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I’ve got some vacation days to use before October, and I don’t know where to go or what to do.  Suggestions please?

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It’s Monday and that means it’s back to work after a long weekend for me!  I love going back to work on Mondays!!!!

I’ve been obsessed with Facebook lately.  I don’t update my status as often as I Twitter (which is rarely these days because of my obsession with FB), but I’ve been spending a lot of time chatting and commenting and playing games there.

Games like Farm Town.  It’s my new favorite.  I played that game for like two hours this morning.  It might have been more like 3½ hours, but whatever.  What’s an extra hour and a half, anyway?

this is my I'm Playing Farm Town face

I am pretty much in love with Facebook right now.  I’m sure it’ll get old eventually and I’ll grow bored with it, but right now I’m loving it.

I went to see Ice Age 3 this weekend with my family.  It was pretty funny.  I liked it better than the second one, and my nephew really liked it a lot.  So now my count is up to 5.  I’ve seen 5 movies in the theaters already this year.

Are you on Facebook?
Are you addicted to the games, too?
How many movies have you gone to see this year?

That’s it for today.  I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and a great holiday!

Also I look good in pink.

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I LOVE… that Mike is home from WA for the rest of the month.
I LOVE… Seven Moons (om nom nom).  Going there this weekend with Mike and Erik to celebrate my birthday.
I LOVE… MY BIRTHDAY!  It’s in two days!!!!!

I LOVE… watching Grey’s Anatomy and Lost with my sister at the computer.  Less commercials and more fun.  Can’t wait for tonight so we can watch them both!
I LOVE… doing laundry.  I know.  I’m a freak.  Whatev.  I love doing laundry.
I LOVE… the weird pictures I take and the fact that I’m proud of the most ridiculous things.

I LOVE… this program I downloaded called Poladroid (thanks @Daniel_Gardner for the tip!) because it makes said pictures look awesomer.  Plus it has the word ‘droid’ in the name.  So effing cool.

I LOVE… blogging and all of my blogging friends.  I seriously love logging in every day and reading everyone’s blogs.  It’s kind of like spending time with 40-50 different people every day all over the world.  It feels great!
I LOVE… listening to KLOVE on the way into work every day.  Some of the stories people call in with are so uplifting that it makes me happy other people believe so strongly in something.

I LOVE… Sebastian’s blogs.  He’s seriously so funny and so geeky that it’s awesome.  I look forward to his blogs every day, and whenever he doesn’t post I get sad.  Also he takes amazing pictures.
I LOVE… chocolate milk first thing in the morning.  It’s the most delicious breakfast ever!
I LOVE… every other weekend when I’m home alone.  Even though I love spending time with Sarah and John, when I’m home alone I can be as bizarre and silly as I want.

How’s that mental image for ya?!  lolz @ you!

I LOVE… ridiculous Pick 5’s on Facebook that take up a huge chunk of my day.  So what if it has no effect on real life?  I don’t care!  It’s fun while I’m doing it!
I LOVE… that I’m in love, that I let myself be in love with my best friend in the entire universe.  Nothing in the world has ever felt so right.  Nothing is holding me back anymore.  I’m so in love it makes me stupid.  I’m stupid for Walter.

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I LOVE… The Unusuals.  It’s such an awesome TV show!
I LOVE… Walter.  *swoon*

I LOVE… s’mores.  Me and Jean and Danielle need to do s’mores again!  It’s nearly summer.  <3
I LOVE… daydreaming from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed.
I LOVE… myself.

I LOVE… coloring with Crayola crayons on lined sheets of paper.
I LOVE… The Quote Book Comic.

I LOVE… making money.  I keep talking about getting a second job, but I’m so lazy I haven’t gotten to it yet.
I LOVE… wasting hours on playing Facebook applications like Mafia Wars and Pirates (and Vampire Wars. and Dragon Wars. and Heroes vs. Villains… don’t judge me!).
I LOVE… looking at Walter’s house on Google Maps.  It’s almost like I’m really there again.
I LOVE… sharing all my secrets with blank sheets of paper.
I LOVE… secrets!
I LOVE… drinking chocolate milk for breakfast every morning, it does a body good!

I LOVE… staying in bed for hours after I wake up, drifting in and out of whatever lovely dream I had and don’t want to let go of yet.

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POISON IVY UPDATE:

It’s on my back.  MY BACK.  WTF?

In order to contain what is spreading on my arm I’ve put a huge bandaid on it.  I haven’t been scratching, but that doesn’t seem to stop it from wanting to take over my body.

MY BACK?!!!  I can’t even reach there!

Do you know how hard it is to not scratch an itch?!  An incessant itch?!  I deserve an award for this!!!!!!!!!!!

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It’s no secret (from anyone on Twitter, anyway) that lately everything technology-related simply pisses me off.

The DVD player from Hell is a P.O.S. and deserves a lingering kick in the nuts.
My computer won’t play DVDs.
My computer is making strange sounds and Mike isn’t here to inspect it.
I can’t play my playstation because I accidentally put the AV cables in my dad’s DVD player box and don’t have them.**

In short, I said the fuck word like ten thousand times this weekend at Twitter.

OK, so maybe it wasn’t really ten thousand, it was more like ten.  Hundred.  Or just ten.  But whatev.  You get the picture, I was pissed.

And my stress about my ineptitude concerning all things technology in all it’s lameness has carried on over to today.  Monday.  I suspect my foul mood may also have something to do with the blog I’m trying to write (no, not this one).  And also that all I really wanted on Saturday was to watch the damn Newsies, and I still haven’t been able to.

GRRRRRR.

I guess watching Christian Bale in 3:10 to Yuma (pretty kick ass movie if you ask me) last night with Mike (who is in California for work *angry face*) made up for it a little bit, but he wasn’t singing and dancing with Doogie Howser’s best friend Vinnie so it just wasn’t the same.

You can probably take a guess at the level of my grievous distress at the latter event, and how it has only added to my crankypantsness, right?

What was I talking about?  I got distracted playing Dragon Wars on Facebook for the last 15 minutes.  *blush* Don’t judge me!  *skims*

Oh yeah, I remember now.  Technology is really out to yank my chain this week.  And did I mention that I’m stressed?  DID I MENTION THAT MIKE IS IN CALIFORNIA UNTIL FRIDAY AND I ONLY GOT 1.5 HOURS OF SLEEP ON HIS COUCH LAST NIGHT AND THEN DIDN’T GET ANY SLEEP THIS MORNING AFTER BRINGING HIM TO THE AIRPORT AT THE ASS CRACK OF THE ASS CRACK OF DAWN AND THEN GETTING STUCK IN STAND-STILL TRAFFIC FOR OVER AN HOUR ON RT 3 (of all places, now) BECAUSE SOME SORRY EXCUSE FOR A DRIVER HIT A TELEPHONE POLE ON 95 AT THE ASS CRACK OF DAWN SO I DIDN’T GET TO COME HOME AND GO TO SLEEP????  Did I mention that?  ‘Cause not sleeping stresses me out too.

Now that that’s out of my system (for the time being) I’m going to watch the latest episode of Lie To Me and wait for Walter to call me so I can go to sleep happy.

**Sarah’s brother has since lent me his cord that he’s not using, w00t!

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Mike will be working from home and therefor will not be in the office today.  That makes me sad.  But we’re getting dinner on the company later, which is good.

I don’t know if I want to make a peanut butter and Fluff sandwich today for lunch.

There’s (finally) a new Grey’s Anatomy on this week.  And the preview for it looks good.  Better than good.  I hate when they have particularly dramatic two-parters and then take a couple weeks off.  Who wants to watch reruns mid-season?  What’s wrong with television these days?  Why can’t TV shows just run from September to April like they used to?  Things made sense then.  It made sense when children’s shows were only on on Saturday mornings instead of every day at 3:30am, and when shows like Sex & The City were only aired on HBO because of the content.  What happened to the world?  Why do professional sports celebrities and movie stars get paid more than doctors and teachers and firefighters?  AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO SEES THE STUPIDITY OF IT ALL????

I hate when my computer tells me that updates are ready and it interrupts what I’m doing because the stupid pop up thinks it’s more important than any other program running and needs to be at the front of the screen.

I miss my nephew when I don’t see him for more than a day.

What am I supposed to be doing with my weekend?  I have all this time to myself which is wonderful, but I have no plans and I’m kind of nervous about it.

It isn’t even 9am and I’m contemplating where my life is headed.  Isn’t that a bit heavy for this early?

All Dogs Go To Heaven bothers me.  It’s sort of dark, but I don’t know if that’s it.  The movie itself was good ten or twenty times back in the day (back in the day = when I was wee), but after that it’s just annoying.  I can’t stand any of the music.  It’s like the only Don Bluth film that I truly can’t stand.  Now The Land Before Time, that was an excellent one.

I despise Myspace these days.  I dread logging in but can’t seem to stop myself.  I do have a Facebook now, however.  I broke down and made one ’cause Courtni told me to.  There’s a lot less drama on Facebook.  And I only friend people I actually know and don’t feel bad about it.

What’s the point of life?  I know that’s the age-old question if ever there was one, but it’s eating me up.  What if I’m not doing it right?  What am I supposed to have at this point, being 25?  Am I supposed to have accomplished anything?  Shouldn’t I know myself better than I do?

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