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me THE NEDSTER

No, *me* the Nedster.

Anyway, :-D Also you will have a chance to meet my sis, who is a sewing fiend and crafty soul, and will want to hear about your work.

You will all have so much fun!

I am feeling better; I just think my fluid volume must be dropping at night or something. I could not talk A. into taking my blood pressure (with my direction, since he actually only has a vague idea of how to do it). I've got a doctor appointment tomorrow, though, so at least that will be checked then.

hey ned, could be a good chance for a sf/east bay-wide FAP?

-alex in sf
-shakey mo
-steve shasta
-m. white
-the table is the table
-libcrypt
-jaxon
-?

An extremely good chance, though I don't think we've ever gotten everyone in the same room.

mornin!

not going to that job is so nice but i have gotten nothing done yet today!
oh, except re-register for one of my classes that seemingly got dropped. i do not know why. everything else was still there... anyway, as i was doing that i checked and it appears my loans have gone through! now i just have to wait for promisory note to come so i can actually have them, and that will i'm sure end up being another stupid adventure.

adventure + 6-8 weeks processing

tehresa, I get nothing done on any day, so you're still ahead of me! I'm glad your loans have gone through. I should call and find out about mine. I don't want to deal with that yet.

I am still dizzy, which isn't good, but I'm thinking it is a virus or something. I have a doctor appointment this afternoon, so hey, I can say I have a concern I want to address.

My Dad woke me up this morning and ranted to me about how Obama is half Arab and a liar. "I read it on the internet!" Can someone else's parents please adopt me now?

oh dear. well, i can't wait what treats await me in buffalo, where my republican grandfather and not-so-educated/intelligent aunts and uncles will no doubt have plenty of anti-obama gems.

not that you have to be educated to like obama... they are just the kind of people that had reagan's funeral playing on 3 different tvs at the same time and would not let me switch one of them to a basketball game.

Wow, your grandparents sound like they loooooved Reagan. Three televisions worth of his funeral, though? Wow. When are you heading to Buffalo?

I know I shouldn't let the nonsensical anti-Obama stuff bother me (doesn't matter who the D candidate was: there would have been some reason the person was EVIL), but I just find the round robin of sending internet lies to their little right wing group and then forwarding them to me to be disturbing. I can only hope that there are some Republicans out there who are actually voting for McCain for reasons that aren't basically made up internet crap.

i am going this weekend - fri through sun. made it a whole year without a visit but i figured i should give a hello and my parents will be coming up that weekend too so it's convenient.

A whole year without visiting sounds really good right now. Because I am cranky.

But I hope your trip is enjoyable! As long as Nancy Reagan lives through the weekend you should be okay. ;)

My Dad woke me up this morning and ranted to me about how Obama is half Arab and a liar. "I read it on the internet!" Can someone else's parents please adopt me now?

No offense but if I had a relative who did that to me I would tell them to pack sand. (Then again I'm lucky in my relatives.)

I'm in no way offended (by you) and trust me, I was not very polite.

I will definitely be avoiding him until after the election at least. It's just depressing to be 36 and still think, "gah, my parents are IDIOTS." Between that and being in college again, I feel like I'm the oldest teenager alive.

I hear you on idiot relatives. One just asked me for money.Not that I think this person is an idiot, I love her, but gah, hate being in that position of relative bank.

Yikes. I wouldn't want to be in the position.

(Although I would like to be in a position where I had money that I could give to someone if I wanted to...)

I won a fight with Charter Communications today! We were without cable for five days - telephone (two lines), internet, television - and during the time we waited to have the services restored we were promised a pro-rated bill.
So, they offered me $8.43 as compensation. Towards the &180.00 bill for services we pay per month.
I'm not a mathematician, but even I could see that the number of days into the monthly payment worked out to more than THAT!
It kind of takes a while of being really bitchy, but we are going to get the pro rated bill - $30.00 - which I agreed to. I still think they owe us another $8.00 but whatever. I have only so many minutes to spend arguing on the phone in my lifetime.

Chalk one up to being really aggressive about corporations taking advantage of you. I fucking hate Charter.

Otherwise...I swam in the ocean this weekend, and it was amazing! I like getting knocked over by waves. Narraganset, R.I. - I saw that island house that Remy posted as we went over the bridge.

ATTN ITR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4O68kUj5c <--- v. v. important

i just made my hair dark brown again woah

Cool! I kind of want to dye mine again, but I'm kind of not wanting to keep up with it.

Guys, why does the stage for the DNC look like the set for Starlight Express?

I so want Michelle Obama to come out on roller skates now.

haven't done mine since some lowlights i got in early dec, so i felt it was time to spruce things up a bit. i used semi-perm though so hopefully not too much roots/keepup?

haha will michelle obama also throw popcorn at the delegates? (that's what happened when i saw starlight express. 4th wall totally gone, y'all)

Clitter is awesome.

No popcorn or roller skates. ;_;

YET

OMG OBAMA DAUGHTERS A++++++ ADORABLE WOW

A. was sweating bullets there. "They let the six year old have the microphone?!"

Okay, tza, your hair sounds great. Where did you find semi-perm dye? I have heard good things about L'Oreal Color Pro (I think it's called...?).
I don't know how to pick a color out of a package on the internet...

natural instincts?
it looks kind of black. i hope it fades really fast.

Hmmmmmm black would be way too dark for me. That is why I shy away from doing this myself!

You probably look great, though - just need time for your eyes to adjust.

it was not supposed to be black... hope it will fade fast!

this is what i get for doing it myself for $10 because i was freaked out when a woman at a salon told me it would be $70 there. single process color should NOT be $70!!!

Okay, SEVENTY dollars?! WAHT

yeah and not even a fancy place!!!! oh and it was 'starting at 70' which means because my hair is longer than chin length it would likely have been more!

Good grief.

I can't remember how much it used to cost to get my very long hair colored, but it was way worse than that. (Yeah, it was the early 90s and it was in Minnesota, but STILL.)

i had my hair colored by these two really awesome girls from mpls last year. i wish i could regularly go to mpls for them to do my hair!

You should!

Ironically, it would probably be cheaper than having it done where you are.

it was free when they did it here, but that was because i was hair modeling for them at a wella color studio seminar thing.

Wow!

Well, you just have to make them come back and have you do that again... often.

Anyway.

I might make borscht tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

3 hrs of sleep SUX

xxpost

Please send them here too. I hate coloring my own hair.

Dan, why are you sleeping so little? (Let me guess... CRAZY JOB?)

Ned - way to go with the cooking. I've never had borscht. So I'm way impressed.

Ms. M - you're making me shy away from coloring my hair myself even more!

I've had borscht. It was pretty bad :(

Borscht is bullschit.

We were basically up all last night packing and cleaning; we've got a friend staying with us tonight so the house had to be presentable as opposed to the usual post-packing disaster we leave it in. I am now taking the tactic of not reminding my boss that I'll be out so that he can't tell me to change my flight.

good plan. We have half of microsoft here with us in the Xcel so as a consequence none of our computers are working properly.

lol Ed.

Dan, good tactics!

okay, is borscht really that bad?

Borscht is food of the gods, maybe polack/russian gods, but gods nonetheless.