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i just reviewed lazy jane's on yelp. go check it out.
and sign up for an account, if you're an opinionated foody like me.
i'll be 30. i've alluded to my unexcitement... but today i thought of what i wanted kurt to get me. keyless entry for my car. utilitarian. except; how do i keep the button from being pressed when it's in my purse?
i just used the back of my ipod as a mirror.
so, i just realized i never officially announced getting the new position at work. i think i was waiting to tell mom at breakfast and we were interrupted by weather or something. anyway, i'm now officially an associate user experience designer. i didn't get a raise; or a bigger office. just more work and responsibility. isn't that how corporate america is supposed to be?
but... since the new role isn't that big of a stretch from what i've been doing for the last 5 years, i've had both jobs for the last couple weeks. everything was fine til the other front-end design technologist got called to jury duty. so i'm doing all three jobs for three days.
i know, it's only three days, but there's like 43 projects going on right now and i don't think people realize that i'm doing all of them.
my gut hurts. :(
i think i'm allergic to shellfish. well, raw shellfish. we had shrimp last night and i had to pull all the legs off and my fingers were itching so bad! but they tasted yummers.
if anything is going to make me crochet or knit again, it will be this: happy poo.
i'm having digestive problems this morning. stemming from one or more of the following: eating right before bed (naughty!), stress (ugh!), my back problems (small possibility).
i eat yogurt every weekday; those little acidophilus' should be working their way onto regulating my digestive tract. maybe i should start eating it on the weekends, too.
i finally get to sit on the back porch and be interneted. it's so nice out today and everyone's got their motorbikes out. except my neighbor keeps trying to start his lame honda cycle and it's not starting. ruh ruh ruh ruh. "it's a nice looking bike!" lol.
after too many years of putting up with a web host that didn't seem to want to help me (for 5 years), i found one that will. and did. it's funny that it's called misanthrope.
one of the guys who works there just took all my stuff off the old server and plopped it on the new one out of the kindness of his heart. he even installed MT for me so i didn't have to deal with technical settings, etc.
everything is so much faster! i can actually save an entry without getting a 404 and having to rebuild the index page for it to show up. omg.
so, if you're looking for a new web host, use them.
got my back cracked yesterday. it's a little sore still. i really need to get off my hiner and exercise.
so my domain registration expired on march 17th but no one decided it would be a good idea to tell me. so i go and blame my web host for not keeping my site up; making me sound like an ass.
sorry for the interruption: back to my regularly scheduled blogging.
not sure how many of my readers feed their dogs or cats fancy food, but there's been a major recall of "cuts and gravy" cans and pouches... you can see the list of recalled brands here.
i kinda feel like knitting.
i'm maxxed out on lala. i have too many of my cds out there, and not enough on the way to me. it's very easy to add albums to your want list if you know that you want them, but if you're stuck and can't think of anything you want to listen to (cuz you haven't heard it yet), then it's hard to "surf around" the site to find things that they think you might like.
they still have my tower... they're not being very communicative for the amount of money i'm spending; i keep having to call to see wtf is going on. and they've had it for two weeks.
on another note, i observed something kinda strange this morning while driving to work. i go through town, cuz it's just as fast as the beltline (if not faster, i made it in 20 minutes this morning), and i drive around the outer square past the gef2 building and the big glass bank, so i see a lot of state-working pedestrians. anyway, this morning, all of the women had two purses. one real small and one real big. i thought that was extra weird.
so, i just finished listening to nin's pretty hate machine which i had on audio cassette a million years ago. and in addition to "taking me back some" 13 years, it made me feel pretty insignificant in my life's accomplishments. :/
to clarify: not because of the success of nine inch nails, but like i should have something to show for my (almost) 30 years on the planet. a house or something? a pulitzer prize? i dunno.
i think i'm just, as colin said it, terrified of becoming 30.
go vote for me. mkeonline is the electronic version of a milwaukee-based zine; and it seems they've taken a liking to me and my content (this is the second time i've been nominated).
thanks to the different drummer for letting me know!
i received my first monthly charge from lala this morning. $29.75 for 18 cds (you get the first one free for signing up) is surely a square deal! now to get rid of the ones i don't want to hold on to anymore...
i'm back at work today... i was only off for two days, but it feels like i've been gone for a week.
i bet jones is missing me today.
i've sneezed like 16 times in the last two minutes.
two nights in a slightly depressing, gambling town is enough for me. i lost less than i had planned; luckily, the 9:1 chlorine to water ratio in the stupid pool got in my nose and now my sinuses are burned and shriveling and i couldn't breathe last night, so i didn't go back to the boat. i stayed in the room after dinner and watched three hours of cops.
the hotel's "hi-speed wireless" didn't work and i didn't feel like talking to a help desk. the hot tub was nice; last year's hotel stay was slightly nicer. and only $20 more with a much better view.
what's up? i haven't rapped at you in a while. i haven't had a whole lot to say.
i did just review bab's restaurant.
my tower is still in the shop. they forgot to check the power supply (which i told them to do) so they burned two boards before someone thought of the bright idea. so it'll be there for at least two more days.
kurt and i are heading to dubuque today. it's his birthday (39!) and it appears this is becoming tradition. we went last year. this will be our first time away from jones. he's staying next door with joe and tooky. so i'm kinda sad and nervous about it, but i know it'll be fine. too bad we can't set up video chat real quick. :)
i am certainly looking forward to the hot tub. we stayed at the julien inn last year but opted for the holiday inn this year... it'll be about $20 cheaper. we were gunna bring jones, cuz they allow dogs; but didn't want him barking in the hotel room while we were away.
i'm glad i decided to make the big step and purchase this laptop. we're going to bring it with so we can watch a movie or two; at least i'll have something to do when i wake up at 8 tomorrow while kurt's sleeps til 11. they don't have complimentary internet access in the rooms though.. they only have one wired hookup in the lobby (or something; according to the website).
oh, i need to apologize to the knitting bloggers ring checkers. i haven't picked up my needles in over three months. and i haven't blogged about knitting in an even longer time. i might even take that dang blanket with to work on this weekend. it's like writer's block, i swear.
well, it's time to start packing and getting ready to go...
i submitted another review this morning, based on dinner last night.
enjoy.
before i had a real blog, i used to post reviews of restaurants that we'd go to. not being a very good food critic (i don't eat the meats) nor a journalist (i don't usually capitalize words or have very good grammar), i took them off my site. it was kind of embarrassing, i think my mom was the only one who read them anyway.
well, i just found yelp, which is collective of reviews of every kind of place. bars, restaurants, even laundromats! i'll probably spend the weekend thinking of every place i've ever been and document my experience.
and then i'll blog about it.
good news for the guys at work. apple is coming to madison. they're going to open a retail space in west towne mall. i'd think they'd do better at hilldale or even somewhere on state... closer to campus.
i despise the mall so greatly that i haven't been in either east nor west towne in over 7 years. i'd consider going to apple if they are able to be in one of the spots where you can get in directly from the parking lot (like jcpenney's—is that still over there?).
p.s. my tower is currently under the care of milwaukee pc. i'm getting a new mobo/cpu. a fast, spendy one.