Monthly Archives: January 2004

Room of scents…

So this is the third night that my room is going to be full of smell. The first night was when I used WD-40 to clean the bed frame that I got. The 2nd night was the Vicks
Vapor Rub that I used for my cold (Vapor rub is usually a good smell, but I forgot to put the cap back on the jar, so right now it smells like funky, old, used,
Vapor Rub. Now, my room smells like bug spray (organic, orange flavor) because of the ants that I had in my closet. I’ve also had to wash half of my clothes that were hanging up, in addition to the regular laundry that I had to do. πŸ˜›

Listening to The Cure and Pictures Of You, the remix version. Think I prefer the original version. Also, not sure what I think about HP using this song for a
commercial. It just seems wrong. The oddest thing was that I just got this song and Letters to Elise yesterday and have been listening to them all night long. Might as well put up some lyrics…

I’ve been looking so long at these
pictures of
you that I almost believe that they’re real I’ve
been living so long with my pictures of you that
I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
I ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how I always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter and wider than snow and
screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but I never see anything

if only I had thought of the right words I could
have hold on to your heart if only I’d thought of
the right words I wouldn’t be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but I
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

What D&D Character Are You?

I Am A:
Neutral Good Elf Bard Ranger
Follower Of Oghma

Alignment:
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered ‘normal’.

Race:
Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of
existence.

Primary Class:
Bards are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.

Secondary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.

Deity:
Oghma is the Neutral Good god of knowledge and invention. He is also known as the Binder of What is Known, and is the Patron of Bards. His followers believe that knowledge reigns supreme, and is the basis for everything else that is done. They wear white shirts and pants, with a black and gold braided vest, and a small, box-like hat. All priests of Oghma are known as Loremasters. Oghma’s symbol is a scroll.

Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of NeppyMan (e-mail)

Detailed Results:

Alignment:
Lawful Good —– XXXXXX (6)
Neutral Good —- XXXXXXX (7)
Chaotic Good —- XXXXXX (6)
Lawful Neutral — (0)
True Neutral —- X (1)
Chaotic Neutral – X (1)
Lawful Evil —– X (1)
Neutral Evil —- XX (2)
Chaotic Evil —- X (1)

Race:
Human —- XXXX (4)
Half-Elf – XXXXXX (6)
Elf —— XXXXXXX (7)
Halfling – (-1)
Dwarf —- (-2)
Half-Orc – XX (2)
Gnome —- XX (2)

Class:
Fighter – XX (2)
Ranger — XXX (3)
Paladin – X (1)
Cleric — (-1)
Mage —- (0)
Druid — (-4)
Thief — XXX (3)
Bard —- XXXXXXX (7)
Monk —- XX (2)

What tarot card are you?

I am The Emperor

The Emperor represents structure, order and regulation – forces to balance the free-flowing, lavish abundance of the Empress. He advocates a four-square world where trains are on time, games are played by rules, and commanding officers are respected. In chaotic situations, the Emperor can indicate the need for organization. Loose ends should be tied up, and wayward elements, harnessed. In situations that are already over-controlled, he suggests the confining effect of those constraints.

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Michelle Branch

Brought the latest issue of Maxim home to read (and I do read…if I need material to whack off with, I’ll download porn.) Anyway, Michelle Branch is on the cover and is looking hot. The article is good,
esp. when she talks about Hillary Duff (future porn star if I say so myself) and Liz Phair. But there is this picture in the back that I am in love with; like instant boner stuff.

Are You Happy Now?
It’s all about that torn wife beater with that one line. **happy thoughts**

More Xmas gifts

Got some late Xmas gifts from Amber. Some wine markers and a Frangelico set with two glasses. I’ve never had or heard of Frangelico, but I am intrigued by it. Thinking of mixing some of it with my Kaluha. Oooh, that just sounds really good. Too bad I’ve already brushed my teeth. Has for the wine markers, they are a good idea, except when I’m at parties, I just usually drink out of every glass that I see.

a few inches does make a difference

So I was looking around on Craigslist last night. Mainly, I read the missed connections, but I occasionally look at the for sale and job wanted stuff. Was looking at the free stuff and saw that someone was getting rid of a queen size frame today at 10am. Decided that I wanted it so this morning, took Mark with me and we went and got it. I can tell the difference between having it and not having it. However I wish that it was a little bit higher. Anyway, here is a whole bunch of bed stories and facts…

  • I have a queen size that I got after moving out of the dorms, where I was subjected to twin size beds. Beds that are def. not made for tall people. The most interesting one was the old 70’s sofa/bed combo in the freshman dorms. The bottom would pull out about 6-12 inches to convert from a sofa to a bed. Ugh, it was def. a challenge to make out on something like that. When I moved to the resident apartments, I got a slightly larger bed. It was kinda low to the ground, but I liked the fact that there were drawers underneath the mattress.
  • During the summer months, when I stayed with Shawn & Marie in Berkeley, I slept on the floor. That wasn’t a problem, since I had lived in Korea and had slept on the floor there. Also, I had tons of blankets and pads to lay on the ground. Wasn’t that bad of an experience. When I had to stay in Park Merced while waiting for Centennial Village, I had this crappy old rental bed; nothing too memorable about it.
  • When I finally got to Centennial Village, we had what were basicly bunk beds, except that they were sepreated. The cool thing was that it took me forever to get a roommate, so I had a double space to myself. So I decided to push the two beds together and make one huge bed. Gawd, I loved that. It was just so roomy and spacious. When I finally got a roommate and had to seperate the bed, I decided to raise the bed up as high has it could go. So my bed ended up being about 3-4 feet off the ground. It was cool because I could stuff tons of stuff under my bed, like the drawer that we had in the room and my box for my monitor.
  • Eddie (the crack fiend) once asked me if I was afraid of falling out the window. The window was right next to my bed and there was no screen on it. I’m actually surprised that no one has fallen out and killed themselves. Actually, I’m surprised that The Villige got away with windows designed like that (most college dorm rooms windows are built so that they can’t fall/jump out of them.) Anyway, I wasn’t afraid of falling out at all. I don’t think that I even came closed.
  • So once I graduated and moved out, I started looking for a bed. I was really bummed because beds are quasi-expensive, and I’m talking just for the mattress itself, and not even for the headboards and other stuff. Anyway, I was at JCPennys looking at their stuff, and I found this really nice queen size bed for $700. On a whim, I applied for a Penny’s card expecting to get declined, but I actually got approved. I sometimes wish that I would have gotten the king size bed.
  • The only problem I have had with this bed is getting it upstairs to my room in Park Merced. That involved cutting the baninster and bending it to the point of breaking it in order to slide the boxspring up. It is def. takes work to get it up and down. The first two places I was in, I had a master bedroom size room, so didn’t have to worry about space for the bed. When I moved out from the Font address, one of the things I had to make sure was that the room that I was looking at could fit my bed.
  • I have a no flip pillowtop mattress. It is soft, but not as soft has the mattress that I had in Vacaville. The sex bed, has it was sometimes refered has was a black laquer bed with a mirrored, lighted headboard. The mattress was so soft that most people fell off of it the first time that they laid on it. When my family moved to Washington, Eric got my matress (the headboard broke while in transit however). So now when I go up there, I sleep on Eric’s old full mattress; and I get little to no sleep. The only good thing is the bedspread that my mom got for it. A safari/tiger stripe theme with a down comforter. If nothing else, I sleep very warmly while up there.
  • My bedspread right now consist of 2 mink blankets (one orange with a flower pattern, one black with a tiger), and a lepoard print blanket/sheets set (300 thread count). I also have 4 pillows of various firmness and a body pillow. I used to sleep with two pillow, but now I just use one, or sometimes none. Every once in awhile, I’ll wrap myself around the body pillow.
  • The Bed story….This should be it’s own entry, but I’m going to put it here. So I had just broken up with Kathy, so it must have been 1993. So I go over to Lesa’s house and Lesa and Kurt are there. Some reason I crawl under the bed and start goofing around. Lesa tells me that Kathy is on her way over and that I’m going to scare her when she arrives. Now, Kathy and I had a mutual breakup, so it wasn’t ugly or anything. So I’m under the bed when Kathy burst into Lesa’s room and starts telling Lesa and Kurt about her date. She’s going on and on and while it sucks to hear your ex talk about a date with a new guy, it wasn’t that bad. But has soon has she is finish talking about date number one, she goes into date number two. By this time Lesa is just moaning and Kurt is laughing his ass off. So Lesa, finally asks “What about Joe?” and Kathy responds “I never gave a damn about Joe”, or something to that effect. So that when I crawl out from the bed and storm out of the house. Kathy chases after me and stops me in the courtyard and…I swear I can’t remember what she said, but it was that that made me just explode. So I go in my car and a chase scene evolved with kathy chasing me and Kurt chasing us. I ditched Kathy, but Kurt caught up to me at one point. He was reaching out of his car holding on to my car. I told him to let go and when he didn’t, I drove off and almost pulled his arm out of his body. **sigh** Well, all is well and we are all friends. It’s a good story to tell esp, when Lesa is around since it was all her fault πŸ˜€

  • Mars pictures…

    I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I’m not that impressed with the pictures from Mars. Now I wasn’t expecting to see little green men or 60′ one eyed robots. But most of the pictures are of the robot and desert. They could still be on Earth for all I know.

    memory of pie…

    Must remember to tell the pie story this week…

    damage done…

    Just random thoughts….


    I swear, where ever I go, I can find a way to cause damage, either to myself or to others…

    1st day back at work was…work. So much shit to do, so little time.

    Still, I’ll be able to goof off a bit, if I want too. Macworld is tomorrow and a number of managers will be gone tomorrow. I’m jealous in a geek sorta way; although, not being an Apple worshiping person, I would be out of place. I wonder which would be worse; me at MacWorld, or me at a Christian concert? Well, I survived both before, so I guess the point is mute…

    Going to try an snag a queen size bed frame tomorrow. I hope it is in good condition. When I originally ordered my bed, I failed to order a frame (I assumed that it came with the bed). A bed frame will give me more room to organize stuff (i.e. shove clothes and other stuff
    underneath to give allusion that I spent time cleaning my room.)

    I have lots of stuff to catch up on. Like my phone and all of the other stuff that I have gotten this last month. I finally got the pictures and video from the camera to the computer (i.e. figured out Bluetooth). The pictures aren’t half bad; not as good has my camera, but better than I thought they would come out. Still have to worry about movement since there are alot of motion-blur pics. The videos are good too and with sound. I still want to get a bigger memory card, although 16MB is plenty right now. Uploaded some pics that I got off the web for backgrounds. Also got some new ringtones. Anyway, I will have a post all about my phone later this week I guess.

    Feeling drained from the holidays, esp. New Years and the weekend. Just realized that this is the 3-4 year in a row that I have not kissed anyone on New Years. Yes, there is a story in there, but it’s not going to get told right now. Hmm, what did I do when it was New Years. I mean, I remember the party that I was at, but what did I do when it struck midnight? I do remember that the TV was like 1-2 minutes off from the actual time. But that’s it. Did I even get a hug from anyone? That is def. sad.

    Had In-N-Out for dinner tonight. It’s surprising after all that I read in Fast Food Nation, but Barbara was feeling down today and she really wanted a hamburger from there. It was good, but not as good has before. Thinking about mad cow and stuff. I sure that this won’t be the only time that I have fast food. And I have cut back compared to previous years. However, I think that I will cut out even more than before. Interesting question/thought: Would you still goto the House of Prime Rib even with the mad cow scare going on? I’m thinking yes.

    I guess Britney got married and annulled this weekend. Gawd. You know what I want. Since Madonna has made Britney heir-apparent to the throne, I would love to see Christina do a duet with someone that can also sing. The Lady Marmalade thing was good, but I want something more. What about Mariah and Christina? When I first heard Reflections (the Mulan song) I thought it was Mariah singing because of the notes being reached. Or if Whitney could clean herself up, a duet could be a good thing. No, Christina need a real diva…like Aretha or Patti. I don’t know, just thoughts floating in my head.

    Saw the Marilyn Manson remake of Tainted Love. OMG, I love it. MM is my hero of the moment.

    Time travel and music taste

    If time travel was possible, there are several periods in time that I would like to go back and just kick my own ass.

    This thought was brought up when I was shredding some old receipts and looking at old credit card bills. I still don’t know what the hell I spent to rack up the bills that I had back then. The only thing that I can think of is my Dragonlance & Forgotten Realms novel collection. That still wouldn’t explain all of it. Anyway, I’m glad that period of time is slowly
    coming to an end. I officially won’t reach the end until all of the charge off and collection payments are off of my credit reports. Still, I’m glad that I was able to pay them off instead of declaring bankruptcy.

    I also found a list of CD’s that I sold to The Wherehouse before I left Vacaville for San Francisco. It was actually two different transactions. I think the first one was because I needed money to pay off a bill or something, and didn’t want to ask my parents for the money. The second was because I was going to start my collection over again and become a “serious” music listener. I know that a third of my collection they wouldn’t take, mainly because it was Japanese Anime soundtracks. I gave it to Mew and then her ex, Mike, took them when they broke up. Anyway, here is the list: The titles that are in red are the CDs that I have today; the titles in blue are the CDs that I have the music in a greatest hits collection.

    Four – Blues Traveler
    Breathless – Kenny G
    Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston
    Mr. Smith – L.L. Cool J
    Live Through This – Hole
    Larger Than Life – Jody Watley
    Friends (Television Series)- Soundtrack
    Hints Allegations And Things Left Unsaid – Collective Soul
    Dwight Yoakam – Gone
    Super Dance Hits, Vol.1
    Fush Yu Mang – Smashmouth
    Karyn White – Karyn White
    Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby – Terence Trent D’Arby
    Marvin The Album – Frente
    Definetely Maybe – Oasis
    Bonafide – Jon B.
    Kerosene Hat – Cracker
    Catching Up with Depeche Mode – Depeche Mode
    Music From The Edge Of Heaven – Wham!
    Love Deluxe – Sade
    Tuesday Night Music Club – Sheryl Crow
    Fields of Gold – The Best Of Sting
    When Harry Met Sally (Motion Picture) – Soundtrack
    Bedtime Stories – Madonna
    Pulp Fiction (Motion Picture)- Soundtrack
    Heart Shaped World – Chris Issak
    Recovering The Satelites – Counting Crows
    Tigerlily – Natalie Merchant
    ESCM – BT
    Crash – Dave Matthews Band
    Remember Two Things – Dave Matthews Band
    Telegram – Bjork
    Jesus Wept – P.M. Dawn
    Miss Saigon – Soundtrack
    HIStory Vol1.: Past, Present And Future – Michael Jackson
    Phantom Of The Opera – Soundtrack
    Ima – BT
    MTV Unplugged – 10,000 Maniacs
    (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – Oasis
    Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morisette
    The Score – Fugees
    New Miserable Experiences – Gin Blossoms
    One Hot Minute – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    Tidal – Fiona Apple
    The Concert Highlights – Barbara Streisand
    The Joshua Tree – U2
    Make It Big – Wham!
    Reading, Writing, and Arithmetric – Sundays
    Under The Pink – Tori Amos
    Ill Communication – Beastie Boys
    Maxinquaye – Tricky
    Boys For Pele – Tori Amos
    Daydream – Mariah Carey
    Achtung Baby – U2
    Dance Mix USA, Vol 3
    Blind – Sundays

    I biggest problem is with the 19 that I have now. 19 CDs x $13.00 = $247. I spent $247 buying back CD’s that I have had before. It is actually more because 3 of those CD’s were 2CD collections. And now looking over the list, there are a couple that I want to get back into my collection, like Cracker (has the song Eurotrash Girl; not sure if some of you youngin’s will remember the song). Also U2 (I could just get the
    greatest hits CD’s, but Achutng Baby was one of the best CD’s ever. I can listen to the whole CD all the way through over and over again). What else; Pulp Fiction, Miss
    Saigon, When Harry Met Sally, def. the Wham! CD’s. The Kenny G. and Barbara
    Streisand CD’s just confirm my gayness, but the question mark is the Smashmouth CD. I don’t ever remembering buying it since I have hated them since they came out. I think that might have been a mistake since I refuse to believe that I bought their album. The other interesting thing to note is the Dave Matthews CD’s that I had a year before I met Suzanne.