this is a journal

2008-10-22T15:56:00.005-05:00

We carved some pumpkins last night and I thought I'd share some pictures. Yes, I know I have my Flickr account linked in the right hand column, but if I'm going to keep up with the journal at all, I'm going to have to get my content from somewhere and we all know I'm terrible at writing, so pictures and YouTube videos it is! Holy shit, run-on sentence... sorry about that. I wasn't sure where to end it so the commas kept on coming.

Pumpkins Ahoy!

2008-10-20T11:38:00.016-05:00

I didn't want to see this journal die, but it's been neglected like all of my other journals. I guess I'm still using my myspace journal as my primary outlet, though no one reads that one either. Jamie and I upgraded our Flickr account to PRO yesterday so I think we're going to be taking a lot more pictures... maybe even posting here more often.

I've been working on bettering myself physically and mentally. No medication. No alcohol. No illegal substances. I've been eating low-carb and exercising since September 10th and haven't drank an ounce of alcohol since September 7th. I'm trying to be patient with my weightloss.. I know it doesn't happen overnight. My beer belly isn't budging but I have lost 20lbs. I haven't noticed a difference in the way my clothes fit yet either which is kind of a let down. I do plan on a day of whiskey this Halloween but that's 0 Carbs and okay on my ~~diet~~ lifestyle change. Okay, I know I'd be lying to myself if I was going to do this low-carb shit for the rest of my life. I love beer, donuts, mashed potatoes and pizza too much to give them up for good. I just want to get down to a healthy weight and stay there. So I've omitted all of the bad things temporarily, even if temporarily means a year. I'm real serious about it this time and that is the big difference from all of the other times I've tried to lose weight.

Enough about that crap, how about some recent pictures?

Here's a crazy video I took while chasing Jamie around his church.. I call it Chasing Jamie because I'm incredibly clever!

2008-08-19T06:34:00.008-05:00

I had a fun birthday spent with family. Jamie and his parents went in together on a camera for me. This is what I got.

It's so tiny! I love it. Anyway, we spent a couple of nights at the inn at Montgomery Bell State Park and it was nice to get out of our apartment, if only for a short time. I seldom leave the apartment for anything and now that I'm playing World of Warcraft again, I seldom leave this computer chair. No kidding. I've been wearing these same sweats since we got back home last Tuesday.

Here are some of the pictures I took from our trip last week.

As you can see, I am loving the hell out of the Color Accent feature of the camera. I also tried taking a video with it, which also has the Color Accent (and Color Swap) option. Pretty fun.

Also just noticed that Jamie deleted his blog here. Bastard.

2008-07-07T15:43:00.001-05:00

Our 4th..

2008-05-20T21:44:00.006-05:00

I was searching for taser videos on YouTube and came across these. Heh.

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Outtakes

2008-05-15T10:07:00.014-05:00

Well for the 1 of you that read my blog, I've updated the list of other blogs to check out. They're in order from longest to shortest length of their titles for no other reason than it looks neat. I've added a few blogs from my husband's list because I thought they were interesting... If you would like to be removed, let me know.

If you have any more blog recommendations, also let me know! I'm looking for anything interesting, funny or geeky.. movies, music, horror, comics, video games, gadgets, strange news, amazing photographs, etc.

and here are a few random YouTube videos just to take up some space so that both columns are even.

2008-05-02T04:23:00.008-05:00

Let's celebrate some of Jan Švankmajer's work...

2008-04-25T02:24:00.026-05:00

Speaking of Gucci Crew II, I decided to go YouTube a bunch of my favorite songs from my childhood. I lived most of my childhood in Miami, during the height of the Miami Bass sound... my older cousins got me to sing 2 Live Crew's "We Want Some Pussy" for my parents and my aunt when I was 8 years old and I've been a fan ever since. Not all of this (ie. Sir Mix-a-lot and J.J. Fad) is necessarily Miami booty bass, but they're still some of my favorites. It seems I'm on some kind of nostalgia kick with my postings lately... apologies. I guess I just really miss those days.

2 Live Crew

Luke (of 2 Live Crew)

L'Trimm

Sir MIX-A-LOT

J.J. Fad

this isn't an actual Gucci Crew II video... just close your eyes and listen. heh

...and everyone's favorite, The Dogs

2008-04-16T09:19:00.009-05:00

World Runner was one of my favorite Nintendo games as a kid. It still amazes me that no one knows what the hell I'm talking about when I bring it up, since it seemed to be so popular among my circle of friends... but then again, we (okay, maybe it was just me) were also huge fans of Wizards & Warriors and Wizards & Warriors II (maybe I just really enjoyed games that started with the letter "W"). If you still have your old NES laying around and can get your hands on a copy of World Runner (copies of it are selling for under $10 on eBay...while you're at it, get both copies of Wizards & Warriors as well - also under $10!), DO IT! You're in for a treat. Just the music alone makes me all giddy.

2008-04-11T17:05:00.005-05:00

Dr. Who dubbed for Jamaica...


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(mostly, I just wanted to take up some more space on the entry so the right and left columns on my blog would be even)

2008-04-08T11:43:00.005-05:00

One of the greatest movies from my childhood

2008-04-07T05:17:00.004-05:00

2008-04-05T15:39:00.005-05:00

2008-03-31T22:40:00.006-05:00

speechless.

BUT!!!

be sure to watch the rest of his videos.

uhhh, I didn't either.

2008-03-29T21:09:00.007-05:00

Wow.

2008-03-26T11:31:00.006-05:00

Trio Ist Rad!

More people should love these guys... so I'm sharing the magic that is Trio for those that may have not already experienced it -

and I wish this one, Herz ist Trumpf (my all-time favorite), were better quality and complete...

2008-03-25T10:56:00.007-05:00

Gotta Catch 'em All!!!

Now I know what I want for my birthday this year.

2008-03-23T06:44:00.006-05:00

I'm not a huge fan of anime, but I enjoy these...

After some googling, I found more!

2008-03-18T10:29:00.010-05:00

Hilarious... (I'd start watching it around the 4:30 mark) The metal was edited in by the person that uploaded the video. I just love how gory it gets for a Safety Video. Germans are so cool.

edit: Just found the shorter version of it.... watch that one instead!

2008-03-18T03:56:00.018-05:00

I hope when I die, it's of explosive diarrhea... and if it's not, I hope they lie in my Obituary and say that it was.

I ate probably 3 10 servings worth of Raisin Bran today and my bowels are not happy right now. I thought how funny it would be if I died tonight because of it. It seriously took a lot out of me (harhar), I can barely stand up.


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Yes, that is shit on the floor, and yes those are peas!

2008-03-17T13:28:00.010-05:00

I'm entering a contest to win an awesome wrap memory bracelet and You Should Too!


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2008-03-17T01:43:00.014-05:00

I was noticing that according to my archives, I only update this journal on even numbered years. Weird! I joined back in 2002 and didn't even bother to update it once... came back in 2004 and updated with a simple "hi". I think I had intended to stick around but I quickly forgot about it and didn't return again until 2006... this time I managed to milk out 3 different entries, none of which had any substance at all. Fast forward to 2008 when my husband told me he was going to start using Blogger for his new online journal (he can be found here, by the way). Having been an avid LJer (that's a LiveJournal user, for those not in the know) since 2001 and also having a multitude of other random journals scattered all over the internet dating as far back as early 2000, I've been a little hesitant to come back to this one. I feel pretty intimidated by it. This isn't somewhere I can post my mile long 'About Me' surveys or 'Which Crayon Color Are You?' quizzes. I don't think I'm smart enough to be a blogger.

I'll just stick to posting pictures and YouTube videos here. I've never been good at writing.

While I'm not good at writing, I do love a good read... So any recommendations on some awesome blogs to check out would be appreciated!

2008-03-16T15:38:00.006-05:00

And typing out the word "parentheses" in my last entry, put this song in my head...

This song will remain in my head (and yours too) for the next couple of weeks!

WHHHHHHYYYYYYY?!?!?! D:

2008-03-16T15:00:00.009-05:00

Apparently I say apparently a lot.

From here on out, I'm going to be using correct capitalization in my posts. I've gotten too used to not using it in the 12+ years I've been online, that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to capitalize anymore. I also suck at using correct punctuation. I failed English most of the years I was in school... summer school almost every year. Sucked! Somehow I was in my High School's Spelling Bee my junior year. Spelling, I'm great at... Grammar/Literature, not so much! Same goes with Mathematics... (did you know I like ellipses?! I also like parentheses, so look forward to both in future entries) I was awesome at Geometry, sucked at Algebra.

This makes me laugh every single time I watch it.

2008-03-16T02:43:00.001-05:00

my husband just joined this thing so i thought i'd come see if my old journal was still around. i still don't know what i'm doing. apparently you can do a lot of fancy customizations since the last time i was here. i didn't know what i was doing before things got fancy either. hi!

2006-12-31T13:49:00.000-06:00

apparently i've had this blog since june 2002. i still don't know what i'm doing. i bet there is a way to customize it all pretty like... but i doubt i'll ever figure it out.

2006-12-31T13:28:00.000-06:00

all i needed to do was upgrade to the new blogger...

2006-12-21T10:38:00.000-06:00

hey, long time no post!

2004-04-02T01:02:00.000-06:00