Domestic Geek

Happy Halloween!

So, as par for the course, the first snowfall in Denver in on Halloween. Big, fat, fluffy, wet flakes are falling out there. Ick. I hate snow. I take that back, I hate snow when I have to drive somewhere, as in work tomorrow morning. I'm really wishing I had made myself get up earlier and get two days done so I wouldn't have to go in. Oh, well.

At least I made myself go out about an hour ago to put gas in the vehicle since I drove home on fumes (being unwilling to stop for gas). I was feeling sick this morning. I think it's because of an allergic reaction I'm having to bites on my ankles that I've had for about a week. They're either from spiders or fleas, not sure which. All I know is, they're bad. I slept most of the afternoon. I woke up when I heard trick-or-treaters knocking on our door about 4:15. I had totally forgot today was Halloween. Marcus had to turn them away--we had no candy this year. I didn't even get pumpkins or decorate at all. Maybe next year I'll be in a position where I can afford things like candy and pumpkins.

I'm working on switching over to Expression Engine this week. I am so sick of comment spam. I wasted an hour trying to log in to my expression engine, only to realize later that it was the wrong installation in the wrong directory. Doh! That's what I get for having so many test installations installed all over the place. I think I've also got 3 different word press installations that I was toying with. Must clean up web server.

I can't wait until Wednesday morning. Then all the election nonsense will be over. At least, I hope it will be over. Please don't let there be a repeat of 2000. I won't be overjoyed if Kerry comes out the winer, but I'd rather have that than the drawn out nonsense that we had last time. I'm also looking forward to not reading politics on people's blogs. I'm just so sick of all the rhetoric. One election is not going to clean up the state of government in this country. It's totally screwed up and out of control. It's going to take a major attitude shift of Americans before anything is going to get fixed.

Dang, the door is open at J.K. Rowling's site, but I can't seem to grab the right key! I can't go to bed until I accomplish this!

Current mood: annoyed
So, I just wanted to say "THANKS A LOT" to all the sportscasters and newspeople in this town who felt the need to utter the "S WORD" (superbowl) before Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Haven't you learned anything about the psyche of the Denver Broncos? They do fine until you utter that word and then everything goes to hell. You're caused them to lose not only to the Bengals (23-10), but now the Atlanta Falcons (41-28). What should now be a 7-1 team is now 5-3. Hope you're proud of yourselves. Next time, keep your S words to yourself.

While perusing Adam Curry's site today, I found this link for the new Ashlee Simpson Karaoke Edition iPod.

Since I'm rather poor right now, there will be no pumpkin massacre for me, so I'm going to have to make due with the next best thing: Virtual pumpkin carving.

Current mood: excited
Hey, there's a lunar eclipse going on right now. I absolutely love these things. Of course, I love full moons, too. I tried to get some pics, but there is a thin cloud layer out tonight. Oh, well. There's another one in 2007 or something. Maybe I'll have a tripod and a telephoto lens for my camera by then! LOL

Tomorrow is Marcus and my 12th anniversary. Wow, sometimes it seems like just yesterday that we met and other days it feels like a lifetime. It is hard to believe that he still puts up with me and still loves me after all this time. I'm a lucky lady.

A woman's body was found Monday by a dumpster behind the place where I used to work. I drove by there that morning on my way back from something I wanted to check out on Wadsworth and saw all the police cars blocking off the shopping center. I thought maybe the liquor store had been burglarized or something. I had no idea they had found a body until I was on the highway on the way home. I hope they find the creeps that did that to that poor woman. It creeped me out because I used to have no qualms about heading out into that alley to take out trash in the early morning when I worked there. (shudder)

I really want the new new iPod Photo. That is so cool that you can display the album art while you listen to your pod. It's neat that you can carry your photo library with you, too. It can be plugged into a TV to make slide shows for your friends and relatives. Too cool. I think the U2 iPod is kind of dumb, but then, I hate U2. I guess it's a neat thing if you're a U2 fan.

I need to rent some movie called Smoke and write a report for next week's communication class. I had never heard of it. I hope it is a decent movie. Has anybody ever seen it?

The Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series. Yay, now I can get back to watching That 70s Show on Fox.

Have I mentioned that I'm in heavy duty Harry Potter withdrawl?