This arid mindscape

This is an utter blasphemy. I have only entered something into this place once in the whole of February.Something is lacking within me. The drive to express myself that I used to possess so fervently and the subsequent falling into the cesspool of swamp-like ennui. Perhaps, ever since when I started to use an one-liner updating plus conversing tool called Twitter of which was the depository place for most of my thoughts and emotions, I could no longer find the energy into a full length discourse. =\ Not too good.I will attempt to revert back again.So, how are things treating me recently?Taking into consideration that I am rather incapacitated by a thing called clinical attachment for the past 3 weeks, I think you can deduce the level of my current temperament fairly easily. It is very emotionally...

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Let's have a cage fight

SO. I am actually working on a fabulous and thought-provoking post that will come out on Monday and which you absolutely must weigh in on because I'm sure it's something we've all thought about. (Quite the teaser, huh?)But first. We had a bit of a computer scare recently where GH's computer freaked the heck out and tried to pull some of that classic Dell/Microsoft Hate where it threatens to erase your entire life and then slap you across the face and then call you fat and THEN pee in your cereal. And please keep in mind that GH is the boy who kept every single scrap of homework he's ever completed, every bill or statement or credit card offer that has ever been mailed to him, every broken bit of every toy or trinket he's ever owned, you get the idea. Now imagine what his computer must have...

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Getting through the work day

I think we all have those moments at work (or school, or wherever) where we feel that our brain is possibly going to start leaking out of our ears. My moments come when I deal with certain members of the public and I find myself saying things like "Seriously, I have 4 buttons on my screen and NONE of them will do the [completely unrealistic and unreasonable] thing you want me to do. And no, you can not touch my computer."I am slowly learning ways to save brain matter, though. Here are a few tips and tricks I now keep at the ready in my arsenal.For problems like the one above, I bring out this one: "I'm sorry, I did try." As in, sure, I actually pushed all four buttons and it looks like they really WON'T do the thing that you want. This may or may not be true, but then it stops people from...

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Vacation recap

Since I know everyone is just so, SO interested in hearing about my vacation that you've probably stopped eating, I will go ahead and oblige. (But seriously, it does feel a bit like holding people hostage and making them watch your vacation slides. Will try to make mine more interesting.)HighlightsIn-N-Out Burger twice. And yes, I am the typical Utah Mormon Who Loves In-N-Out. Deal with it. GH does not believe that their burgers are any better than any other freshly made burgers out there. I have to remind myself that this comes from the person who has spent years and years killing his taste buds with things like Frosted Flakes, so like he even knows.Cirque de Soleil's LOVE show. This was so, so cool. I'm not one who usually notices things about sound quality unless it's wretchedly bad, but...

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Nothing but the best for us

For our accommodations during the Vegas trip, I picked a little motel within walking distance of the Strip. It had really good traveler reviews on TripAdvisor so I figured we wouldn't get killed too badly there. I would have liked a more extensive breakfast. GH would have preferred not to have heard these things in the night:a baby being smothereda hooker with her clienta man screaming loudlycars being stolen (he fully expected us to no longer have a car in the morning, but yay, we still did!)I slept soundly during all of this. After our second night, I asked him what I missed."Oh, nothing much, just a casino burning down." Apparently there were a lot of sirens in the night. He expected to look out the window that morning and see a scene out of Terminator where the whole city has been razed...

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It's genetic

I don't know if it was the living in the tundras that started this, but in my family there seems to be some sort of biological trigger that kicks in around January-February. This trigger basically says, "If you don't get out of here and go get warm, you will climb on top of a building somewhere with an assault rifle. Believe me. I will make it happen."So, to avoid jail time, we go get warm if at all possible. (If not, we chain ourselves to the walls in the manner of werewolves and ride this thing out.) Coolmom and Cooldad are on their way to Florida, Jenny & Co are heading to (shhhh!) Disneyland, and I am going to Las Vegas. This leaves...

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Because I always love a good courtroom drama

A little while ago fellow blogger April gave me this post idea when she suggested, "You could finally reply to your annoyed commenter and answer that life-changing question:If you were accused of being a Mormon, would there be enough evidence to convict?This question was posed by an anonymous commenter who didn't care for my attitude (I was being snarky about something that happened at church, I think) and suggested that I do a bit of soul-searching. Her question put my back up partially because I really don't enjoy the dramatic platitudes. Because I'm not 14 anymore. Also I think it's funny when someone attacks me and makes all kinds of assumptions about me in an effort to show me how wrong it is when I attack and make assumptions about others. Kind of like somebody who decides to teach...

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Recent highlights and lowlights

Highlight: Celebrated Lincoln's birth by achieving a fiscal victory. (It is what he would have wanted. Also I avoided being racist that day, which I think he would have also found pleasing.)Lugged self out of bed and drove to Provo for the Shade Clothing sale. Spent $35 on a pile of tops that were regularly priced at $140. Didn't have to elbow anyone in their shiny, shiny white teeth but was fully prepared to.Highlight: Much love, enthusiasm, and sandwich hugs from darling Savvy & Ethan on Monday. The sandwich hug alone could probably restart the heart of a dead person. Or Ann Coulter.Highlight: Savvy loves the darling pink stripey legwarmers I'm knitting for her 5th birthday. This is good, because the last thing I made her was a purple poncho that looked like it had Cheeto crumbs sprinkled...

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TSMITW

This is the part where I make everyone gag over the embarrassment of riches that was my weekend. If you choose to proceed, keep in mind what my dental hygienist tells me to ward off the dreaded symptoms: Keep your eyes open, breathe deeply through your nose, and raise your right leg by three inches. (I have had better luck with the dental hygienists in the past couple of years--nothing like that one femmebot who tried to drown me and ruin my new skirt.)The last four days have been lovely. Got home from work Friday night to discover that GH had cleaned the entire death trap apartment (counters included). Which, really, how can that even be topped?...

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Plagued

I could no longer sift through the morass within my depths and write something sustainable.This is a crisis.I need inspiration and I shall not be engulfed by a malaise of expressive ennui.It really scares me that my heart could no longer feel and my mind could no longer provide the stimulus to write. It is a threatening plague, a cancerous malady. Inhumanity. Or rather, the opposite, considering how majority of humanity lacks a certain introspective quality, haha. Meh.The above leads me inevitably to wonder how working adults' minds function. So bland, without flavour, without style, no flair, plagued with ennui.I read bad English at my current...

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Def Jam: Vendetta - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: InglêsMídia: DVDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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Speed Kings - PS2 | PAL

Idioma: Multi5Mídia: CDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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I want pepper-spray as a baby shower gift now

Attended my sister's hard-core cooking group last night at the lovely Jeri's house (she of the redesigning my blog fame). Got to gasp in awe at the food storage bunker that came with the house, with its multitude of shelving. "Old people lived here before us," she said by way of explanation.The theme was aphrodesiac foods, and we've decided that men had to have made the list of supposed aphrodesiacs, because only a man could imagine that looking at phallic-shaped foods would be a big turn-on for women. (You know, cuz we're all about those.) I could, however, absolutely imagine a guy seeing a cake shaped like boobs and having that work for them. Maybe I'm wrong. But I digress. The food was amazing, even if it did not result in us having one of those Victoria Secret pillow-fights that the commercials...

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Coraline - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: InglêsMídia: DVDParte 01Parte 02Parte 03Parte 04Parte 05ouParte 01Parte 02 Parte 03Parte 04Parte 05[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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The Space Sheriff Spirits - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: JaponêsMídia: DVDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Senha para descompactar: www.chilewarez.org[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economizou...

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Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: JaponêsMídia: DVDDVD 1:Parte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 20Parte 21Parte 22Parte 23Parte 24Parte 25Parte 26Parte 27Parte 28Parte 29Parte 30Parte 31DVD 2:Parte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 20Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 30Parte 31Parte 32Parte 33Parte 34Parte 35Parte 36Parte 37OBS: UNDUB (quando tem falas em japonês e legenda em inglês)[+] Clique aqui para obter...

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Love means keeping your mouth shut sometimes

Today I was looking through Valentine's Day ideas over at Martha Stewart and getting all excited about the possibilities. ("Why yes, I COULD make GH a special breakfast with a heart-shaped UFO, I could!") And then the second thought: "Huh. Except I could have been doing that any time, though, not just on Valentine's Day. Why haven't I been doing that? When was the last time I did something like that?"And then take GH. He has always been the most thoughtful of men. Even when we weren't dating, he would do things like leave Toblerone chocolates on the hood of my car and cut out articles about Ioan Gruffudd from his Entertainment Weekly for me (I KNOW, RIGHT???). But lately there hasn't been a whole lot of those sorts of surprises.I thought about it and have come to the conclusion that the thoughtfulness...

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Let's try this again

Don't get me wrong, I'm still in the depths of despair over the whole "it's still winter" thing. And what's even sadder is that it's not like I can just pack it in and spend the rest of the day cuddled up next to a heat-generating GH under my fluffy fluffy down comforter. Because I can't. Today is the day where I work 4 hours in the morning, get 4 hours off to go do awesome things like grocery shopping, and then go work 4 more hours. Jealous?I did want to report on a weekend highlight, though.You may remember that we gave the Precii the Christmas gift of a date. There are technically 4 Precii now, adding in GH's little niece and nephew (5 and baby). And I have to tell you, I'm really liking the date idea as a gift. Instead of just opening something Christmas morning in a sugar-fueled haze...

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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: JaponêsMídia: DVDDVD 1:Parte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 20Parte 21Parte 22Parte 23Parte 24Parte 25Parte 26Parte 27Parte 28Parte 29Parte 30Parte 31Parte 32Parte 33Parte 34Parte 35Parte 36Parte 37DVD 2:Parte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 20Parte 21Parte 22Parte 23Parte 24Parte 25Parte 26Parte 27Parte 28Parte 29Parte 30Parte 31Parte 32Parte 33Parte 34Parte 35Parte 36Parte 37OBS: UNDUB (quando tem falas em japonês...

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Conflict: Vietnam - PS2 | NTSC/PAL

Idioma: Multi5Mídia: DVDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Senha para descompactar: www.chilewarez.org[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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Devil Summoner Kuzunoha Raidou Tai Abaddon - PS2 | NTSC

Idioma: JaponêsMídia: DVDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4Parte 5Parte 6Parte 7Parte 8Parte 9Parte 10Parte 11Parte 12Parte 13Parte 14Parte 15Parte 16Parte 17Parte 18Parte 19Parte 20Parte 21Parte 22Parte 23Parte 24Parte 25Parte 26Senha para descompactar: www.chilewarez.org[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

Except yesterday's rainy Monday was rather nice. Because rain = not butt-freezing cold, and also gives me hope for spring. Snowy, blowy Tuesdays, on the other hand, are more like the harbinger of doom.Ugh. I wish to go hibernate n...

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The Mormon Wedding Post

I said it was coming! As one who has attended many, many weddings, I would like to offer some advice on how to make your wedding a classy affair that will be remembered fondly, reverently even, by all whose lives it touched. (Note: if you feel that I may be disparaging something you did at your wedding, I'm not. I'm thinking of somebody else's wedding, and you don't even know that person.)Here we go.First of all, you must have a reception. Do not even consider doing otherwise. Some may try to tell you that they didn't have one and that it cut out a lot of stress and money and planning and everyone enjoyed the day a lot better and maybe they were able to throw a very nice dinner or luncheon for their family and closest friends instead of serving Sprite and mixed nuts to a blur of 500 people,...

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Random is maybe better than nothing

The creative juices are dry and the lunch break is short, so here are some random Friday library reflections.1. Teenagers can be so nice when you get them on their own. Then the next day when they have rejoined the pack they are unrecognizable little beasts. It is sad.2. I did not consciously choose to spend my days dealing with unstable people. And yet this is what I spend so much time doing. I need to get some sort of sign I can just smack down on my desk that reads, "This conversation is over, as I have just now realized that you are insane." Because really, if nothing you say or do is going to make a dent, why waste the breath?3. Little toddler boys in wooly bear jackets are precious, especially I lean over my desk to whisper, "Hey, I really like your jacket," and they look up at me solemnly...

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Zombie Zone - PS2 | PAL

Tamanho: 360MBIdioma: InglêsMídia: DVDParte 1Parte 2Parte 3Parte 4[+] Clique aqui para obter mais informações do jogo[+] Compare preços e veja quanto economi...

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