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Oh, my goodness gracious. LOLOL Kate finally got her *nsync *n the mix DVD...we started watching it while we were decorating our little tree. Then she had to go pick up her cake, so I kept watching, mostly just the music videos. It was hysterical! Lance is SUCH a cute little spazz! There's this one bit where the camera is on in the limo, and that I'll Walk 500 Miles song comes on the radio. He, Chris and JC start singing along, very loudly and boisterously, dancing around and bopping their heads, and I haven't laughed so hard in ages. <.g> They were so cute and into it! Then I watched some music videos...You Drive Me Crazy is such an interesting video. <.g> JC writhing around, tied to a bed, Lance and Joey totally all over each other, and their eyes are so insane, it's amazing. I kept laughing throughout that one, too. (Noticing a theme? Wonder if it was supposed to be this funny. LOL I laughed more than anything while watching this.) After that, I watched the "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" video. It was soooooo cute!!! They were flying around in Santa's sleigh, delivering presents to all these little kids. I loved seeing them with the kids...they were awesome. And then, jeez, I don't know WHAT JC and Lance were thinking, but there's this one part where JC is standing very, very close behind Lance, both of them laughing as they're bouncing up and down, and then JC bends Lance over a little, and, yeah. LOL I was laughing from surprise that time. <.g> Much fun, all around!

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So the happy cake turned out a little bit too moist. <.g> I think there was too much pudding...I was cutting three slices to bring for Lauren, Meghan and Jill today, and they were totally falling apart. And then in the realm of possibly not too smart, I licked the knife and ate the bits that had fallen off. There was quite a bit. It's very schnappsy. LOL And I haven't eaten breakfast yet.

You know, I really don't like the women on Sports Night too much. I don't think Aaron writes well for women. CJ kicks ass on West Wing, and Donna is great, but Donna kinda wavers between intelligent and not, and CJ sometimes gets ignored. Which may be a common thing in a male-centered thing like the west wing, but I don't generally like it.

I was up until 2:30 this morning. Eeek! Went to bed shortly after that post, but stayed up to finish A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. It was excellent...I think I'm going to get my mom a copy for Christmas. I think she would love it.

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Freakiness. I found a nsync/Buffy crossover. Chris/Oz, Lance/Joey, JC/Justin. Primarily Chris/Oz. It's really fun, and has a totally cool plot. Once you get over the fact that Oz and the Sunnydale gang is fictional and Chris and his gang aren't. But yeah, totally cute and cool and fun, and well written. Anya is hysterical, with the "pretty, rich boys" and JC is so cute with the magick. I like.

Need sleep. Why am I awake? bad me.

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Okay, seriously. How could anyone deny Xena and Gabby had a thing? They're always touching, hugging, holding hands, Gabby's face is buried in Xena's chest every other episode, Xena smiles all the time when she's there, it's beautiful. And obvious! I love it, love it, love it. I love watching this show.

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Okay, I'm looking over my page. I'm astounded, honestly, that the base of my christmas light dividers are green. Although now I'm curious...the first one....is it blue or purple? And wow, look at the banners on my sidebar! I can see everyone in the twisly pic!! I can see Darla and Dru in homoeroticism, yay!!!! All I could ever see was darkness before!! Everything is so clear.

Ooh, damn. I loved Zander and Carly...this better be one of those stupid storylines where Zander is "keeping an eye on her" and then falls in love with her.

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Oh, WOW, Kristina sounds good...singing jazzy riffs. They have got to reopen L&B Records. I wanna hear Ned sing, wanna hear Kristina sing, wanna Lucky sing ('cause DAMN is Jacob Young good). And I think Nik is, too. Ohhhhhh, they're talking about Mae Mae! I miss her. I miss music on this show so much.

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Okay....the greens on this page are truly hideous. Although they're not quite olive on my screen, more of a yellow-green, so I'm probably STILL not seeing what you all do. <.g> I'm so going to have to play with this. Someone tell me when I hit forest green, or kelly green, 'cause I'm sure as hell not going to have a clue.

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WHHOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I got a B on my last EPS exam!!! I'm so excited. Plus, I actually SPOKE in class today. Extendedly. And apparently it made sense, because the TA agreed and elaborated and got exactly what I said. <.giggle> Me being me, I was totally shaking as I talked, but I did it!

This new Alexis doesn't sigh very well. <.g> She's not that good of an actress, either, although she does look kinda like Nancy. Only less beautiful. I guess it's temporary, so only a few more days. And I'm going to be pretty lenient, given the circumstances. It's not like Nancy could give them warning that her father was going to pass away. : (

Oooh, Carly and Zander. I like. Although I still like my theory that they were brother and sister, too. So I can't in good faith go, "Oooh, how cute," until I completely rid myself of that theory. LOL This scene is REALLY helping in that manner. She's so cute and forceful with him. I could get behind them. And hey, Jax is flying a plane! Been years since we saw that. Is it too much to hope that he'll crash?

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Kinda getting used to the light colors everywhere. My wallpaper is so weird, though! LOL The formerly greenish color is now grey, and Lance looks *really weird in one of the pictures. And then he looks yellow in another one, where it used to be golden, but the middle one now looks awesome...he has a face! It was mostly hidden in shadows before, now it can be seen. That is kinda exciting. <.g>

What's really exciting is that fmr. IL gov. Jim Edgar is speaking in my EPS class today! Wheeee!! I can't wait. Then I have to come back and write a paragraph on my definition of education, and which reform movement supprts my definition best. I'm really, really hoping it goes well and fast.

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Wheeee, my favorite holiday commerical was just on! The Hershey Kisses as bells, which I think is so cute and fun!

I so need to go to bed.

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Ugh, I did it. I changed my gamma/brightness level thing. I was in Kate's room, looking at MTV's nysnc flip book, and we were admiring a slashy picture of Justin and Chris they had up. (Well, I was admiring, she was hitting me, upset that she saw the slashiness. LOL) So I went back into my room to save it, and it was so dark I could barely see anything. <.sigh> So I gave in and changed the default from 1.00 which it should be, to 1.42 which is much much brighter. I can see the pictures better, see a shadow of "Chasez" on the original picture that started this all, and am kinda getting used to the huge amount of glare everything has now. <.sigh> All the colors look so weird on everything, though, and I miss the blue my wallpaper words used to be in. But at least graphics are viewable now, right?

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I wanna see The Magestic. It looks fabulous, and I love Jim Carrey. He's a much better serious actor than people give him credit for. And he's cute.

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Oh, wow. LOL This article about Buffy and Spike having sex got posted to my Scullyfic list. Good heavens, that was the CUT version?! LOL I totally have to see the uncut version. <.giggle>

Dr. Kuehn is really loosening up in class these days. Monday's quote was about the cabinets. Today we had two...he was talking about how English is becoming the internation language, and ended with, "At the gain of communication, I suppose there is a loss in culture. Oh, well." We cracked UP! He was like, "Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I didn't intend to make light of it." <.g> Then, I was kinda spaced out for the first part of it, but about ten minutes later, he came out with, "You may not think it, but I'm here to tell you that an elephant and a squid have much to do with the production of speech!" I'm a little nervous to find out where that one came from. <.g>

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Okay, Kate informs me that my dates here are not in forrest green, but in olive. Hmph. On her monitor, yes. On everyone else's monitor, most likely. On mine? Forrest green, I swear to God. I've got to get this changed.

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Okay, so I had what one could easily call an unproductive day today. LOL I did get some stats done, though, so yay me. But tomorrow...I need to go to all three classes and write my EPS assignment. Optional is half of my stats homework, which I'll probably do because I love the labs. Shouldn't be a problem.

But wow...my baby boy is going to be THIRTEEN tomorrow!!!! Unbelievable. Damn, I remember when he was born...mom was overdue, and we went for an ultrasound, where we learned that Josh was losing oxygen. So dad drove me to my grandparents, who lived down the block from our house, and went back to mom where she had a c-section. Then, of course, Josh had to stay in the hospital because he had two holes in his heart and was very sick. My grandparents moved into my parents' bedroom, and Erin came over for many nights. We stayed up a lot, reading and coloring and watching old movies. Every morning when I woke up, there was a present from my parents in the bathroom. One was an orange Puffalump that I still have. <.g> There was such a high, high chance that Josh was going to die, that they were trying to shield me from it and giving me happy things to remember during that time. I remember several mornings after that first week, when my grandparents had gone back home and mom was still with Josh 24/7, daddy was doing my hair, which was down past my waist at that time. We giggled SO much because he had no clue what he was doing, and would forget strands in my braid, or forget the top ponytail holder. It was fun...they did a very good job of hiding how sick Josh was from me. I really do only remember the happy things...Orangey-Orange (I was 7, all right?!), the Barbies, Erin, the first time we saw Josh. That was SO funny. My grandparents had been there to see him once before me, and Josh was a very very hairy baby. <.g> But when they took me, the nurses pointed out the WRONG baby. LOL Po was like, "What happened to all the hair?" <.g> Yeah. So we asked again, and they took us down the windows to the NICU where he was, in all his hairy, bluish glory. So yeah. That's what I remember from when my little guy was born. And now he's a few short hours away from being a teenager. Unreal.

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Okay, also from the site with the mennonite "article" comes this...nysnc's story from the official website, complete with hysterical comments and so many holes being poked in this story, it looks like swiss cheese. <.g> These people ROCK. You must read!

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I found the transcript! It's so awesome. Lance sings!! Okay, only one line from In the Still of the Night, but I LOVE that song! And it was really interesting and fun. Like, their religions...Lance said he was very religious, which I kinda knew. Justin said he was more spiritual, which I identify most with. Chris is Lutheran, Joey is Catholic (big surprise. LOL), but JC did surprise me...he said Mennonite. That's a liberal form of Amish...I would NOT have guessed that from looking at him! I so loved Chris saying that Lance was dating him, since they were the only two unattached ones, and Justin was like, "Okay, the National Enquirer is watching now." Then, Lance was like, "I date everyone!" <.g> And I totally keep getting the impression that Lance's mom is very similar to mine. And I love my mom to death, but damn, I feel bad for him. <.g>

Oh, my GOD. This totally has to be a joke. LOL I told Kate that JC was mennonite, and she went to look up the religion because she didn't know anything about it, and I only knew the basics. She did a search for "mennonite chasez" and found that link. We were CRACKING UP!! It's totally hysterical, so go read it!

I, meanwhile, need to somehow track down a copy of this interview somewhere. <.g>

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Okay, so I was reading an nsync fic, Chris/Lance, and it was based on Chris saying on Larry King that Lance was dating him. And I was like, how cute and totally Chris. Then I remembered they really HAD been on Larry King, and asked Kate if that really had happened. Carolyn said that it did! How totally adorable and fun! Now I gotta find a transcript and wav or MP3. <.giggle> See, they're totally helping me out with not feeling bad about reading nysnc slash...look at what they say and do! LOL

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ARGH! Okay, I know my monitor sucks. This wasn't exactly news. But today I realized just how bad it was....Kate is reading a JC story, and at the top of every page is a graphic. In her room, I admired the pretty graphic. Then I had her send me the site so I could read the story. I noticed that I'm not exactly getting the full graphic, thats how dark my monitor is. (Check out the pretty picture.) All I can see is the picture on the far left, and "joshua scott." Not the right hand pic or "chasez." I am SO ANNOYED. Not because I can't see the JC pic because it's JC, but because I can't see the full graphic. What else am I missing?!?! I'm trying so hard to adjust my color settings so I can see it. If I do some fancy work with my red, green and blues, I can see it just fine...but everything on my screen is tinted yellow, blue, neon green, purple, or any number of other colors. Or, it's just super bright and giving me a headache. Kate's computer isn't that bright, or colorful, and she sees it just fine. <.pout> I wish I knew if there was a way to fix this. I don't want to be missing graphics. And hell, who knows what the things I make look like on other people's computers! My colors are way off, and probably always have been. GRRR!!!

Okay, I had my monitor set to a super bright color (and could see "chasez," but not the picture), and returned it back to what it always was and now it seems so dark. <.g> Man. I just can't win. LOL Maybe I'd get used to the glaring brightness?

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Following Kate and Carolyn, I added a new little bit to my sidebar...friends describing me. Kinda fun! If you want to add some words in there, leave them in a comment. <.g>

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How funny...I just noticed that the date for the current day on my journal is in forrest green, and every other date is in red! LOL I have no clue how I did that, but I kinda like it. <.g>

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Hey, everyone! Don't forget to go over to Kate's blog and wish her a very very happy 21st birthday. Yay for being legal!!! This isn't very much, but here's a little present for you anyway, dearie. Happy Birthday! {{HUGS}} Have a great day!

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Wow, my computer is cranky lately! On AOL, I had to reset how I sign online, and thereby lost all of my shortcut favorites on the top bar. Then I only had, like, 5 windows open, and it started freaking out, saying that I was dangerously low in resources and I had to reboot. That happened three times yesterday, too! I can't wait to get some more ram and stuff on here next month. It desperately needs it. <.g>

I realized something icky today...my snooze button broke! The horror! I have no idea what I'm going to do. <.g> I depend on that thing. Right now, I just have both alarms set to go off, and that's the best I can do. <.sigh> I really really really want my snooze button back, though!

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Deah Gott...Aarti is redoing her sounds on AIM for when people log on and sign off. I just had to go up there and record mine..."Rina Bass!" <.cringe> And I sounded like a perfect lunatic doing it, too! LOL Oh, well. I joined Kate Chasez. ; )

So, did kinda okay on my to do list. LOL Cleaned, got this design up and ready, and organized my cabinet. So all I didn't do was Stats, which I can do tomorrow quite easily. All in all, a good day. <.g> Now to finish helping Carolyn with her archive, and head to bed. Wheeeee!!!!

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Oh, heavens. LOL! I just got off the phone with this publishing company who's doing an alum book for all LTHS students, from 1908-2001. So, I called and gave my information. This guy was a riot! What a sweetie. I hate phone calls, I get so nervous not knowing what to expect, but we were laughing and joking the whole time. I really enjoyed that experience. <.giggle>

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1000 ways you know you're obsessed with Harry Potter. Sadly, some of them *are true for me. <.g> There really are a lot of fun and creative ones on there, though! LOL

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Okay, now it looks almost exactly how I imagined it. Wheeee! Thanks to my Lady K, I learned a lot and made this look somewhat pretty. Yay!! I think I'm going to put on my pretty music I downloaded last night and straighten my room a bit before copying Stats. I may be weird (okay, no, I know that I am), but I like cleaning up, especially with music on. Music makes the whole thing relaxing, and just the act of cleaning makes me feel better because I get so freaky and claustrophobic whenever there are piles around me. Don't care if those piles are jammed into drawers or closets as long as I don't see them. LOL

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Okay, definitely needs some help. Ignore all the, uh, wrong things. LOL Desperately trying to fix them, wish me luck!

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"Okay, today I'm going to close class with this picture of a cabinet." Yes, those words were spoken in my class today. <.g> Physiology, to be specific. Gotta love Dr. Kuehn. LOL He really did end class with the picture of a cabinet, and was quite serious about it. <.giggle>

I got my poster up, with a great deal of help from Aarti, so now my wall doesn't look naked. <.g> It's been blank all semester, and it was sad. Now it's pretty. Of course, my bed's a mess, so I should clean that up. It's starting to drive me nuts, seeing it all every time I look at the pretty boys on my wall. LOL

This is a rather easy week. Today's schedule has fun fun things on it! Like, upload a holiday design here (I'm sure Krissy's will be back up in January, though. <.g> Mine designs pale to hers!), and start a silver snowflake design for chasing-rainbows. Then of course, there's also clean up my room, arrange my food cabinet, and copy at least one Stats chapter that I missed. <.g> Not too bad at all, right?

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Okay, audiogalaxy doesn't seem to like me anymore. But I discovered Kazaa which is awesome! I downloaded the nsync/Tim McGraw "Stand by Me/Fire and Rain/Lean on Me" medley that had Lance's solo (now to cut out the other songs to leave Lance's lovely Lean on Me), two Michelle Branch songs (Everywhere and Goodbye to You, which was on Buffy two weeks ago when Tara and Giles were leaving), and U2's Stuck in a Moment. Wheeeeee!!!!!!!

Okay now to read and help edit an...ahem...interesting part of my favorte nsync story, In Every Dream, which has FINALLY been posted!!!! Go read, people! And feedback her! Just don't be fooled by the notes on the main page. <.giggle>

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Found a great new HP story....No Defense of You. It's Hermione/Fleur, and actually has a real, honest to God plot that is interesting and cool. Fleur is a teacher at Hogwarts, and as a veela, needs to find herself a mate, but there's a catch...her mate is the one who is completely immune to her wiles and is rather indifferent to her, or dislikes her at the start. Enter Hermione. LOL Only two parts written so far, but they're good! She also writes Buffy slash, and anime stuff. You can read it all at the above link.

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Oh, I forgot to mention the other fun stuff!! I got my Jennie-tape yesterday, and mom, as promised, watched the Buffy musical with me. It was hysterical! She was talking about how she didn't want to like this show, or anything, but then she would start laughing at parts, and by the end, she was singing along. It was the third time she had seen the last 20 minutes, but the first time for the first 50, so she was excited that the end finally made sense. <.g> She was completely horrified, and made sure to tell me so in no uncertain terms, but is also now a Buffy fan. Whoooo! LOL As for me, I LOVED the episode. Those 8 minutes make the episode actually make sense! LOL The dialogue really, really, really needed to be in there. I also finally heard the "curtain closes on a kiss" line which made me smile SO much! Wheeeee! <.g>

Okay, now off to audiogalaxy to find a copy of Lance's solo. <.giggle>

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I'm baa-aack! <.g> Complete with photos. I finally finished the Lance roll. Sadly, the Lance ones barely came out. "See that grey blob? No, that's the wall. Over...over...yeah! That's Lance." LOL Oh, well. *I* know where he is!

Speaking of Lance......he got a SOLO!!!!!! I watched Friday's CBS concert, and was well rewarded. He had a SOLO!!! Like, his second ever. And it was on one of my long time favorite songs, Lean on Me. Oh, how I love his voice!! And they showed him a lot during the concert, which made me silly-happy. Most notably during Bye Bye Bye when he was the one the camera focused on for the crotch grab. I loved it!! Especially how he quickly looked over his shoulder with this look of, "Oh, my God, did I do that? Was I supposed to do that?" LOL Hey, the little things make me happy, okay? (All right, when I was reading through this to check for typos, I realized that I may want to clarify that I don't think Lance is in any way "little," okay? <.g>)

So, I also got pictures scanned and sized. So here we go. In alphabetical order. <.giggle>
Alice attacking me (Beach house, June)
Me, Aarti, and Kate before we left for Lance (Oct)
Josh doing Bye Bye Bye (Nov)
Josh doing his dance to Green Tambourine (Nov)
Josh sleeping (July)
Kate and Aarti dancing to Pop (Kate's the one wearing the nysnc watch) (Nov)
Liesl (July)
Po and Grammy, me and Grandma Calahan (Easter 1998)
me and Po (St. Paddy's Day 2001)
me and Gen (I'm the one wearing the nysnc watch) (Oct)

There ya go! Like 'em? : )

Okay, time to start putting stuff away. I'll be stepping over Kate's pile o' presents until Tuesday, but I can put away my Christmas videos and books, and put up my (I can't believe I bought this) nysnc poster. <.giggle>

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Oh, can't believe I forgot!!! This is THE hottest pic of Amber Benson I have ever seen. Words escape me. *drool* Hot sexy Tara...yum!

And Kate tells me that Joey shaved his head, as seen on TRL yesterday. EEEEK!!! The man has a big, fat head...he needs all that hair. LOL *Justin was the one who was supposed to shave his head, damn it. LOL Oh, well. It may grow on me, right? I'll look for pictures to post later.

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I had such a good day yesterday! I was a little worried I wouldn't, because last year yesterday was the day I went on anti-depressants and my granndfather was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, neither of which lent themselves to a stellar day. I was sad for my grandfather, but he's really kinda holding his own these days. Feeding tube, 4000 calories a day, and he's actually up to 118 pounds! Granted, a year ago, he was 270, but this summer he was well past 110. You gotta take what you can. : )

But I decided to try and make yesterday fun for me, and it was! I spent my morning in the kindergarten, which was AWESOME. Oh, I love doing that. Poor mom, every time I come back, she's worried I'm going to change my major. Wish I had the courage to do that, honestly, but I don't. So she has nothing to worry about, really. But Ruth was totally bragging on me to */everyone, it was so funny. she's seen me working with kids for about 4 years now, so she can see how I've grown. And she was so excited that after I finished reading them a book (Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving...everyone with kids MUST read this. It's hysterical!! I almost burst into laughter with the names of the turkeys.), I just asked how much longer we had until the feast and started a new activity on the rug. She was like, "You're a teacher! You've grown into a teacher!" LOL

Then we went to Josh's audiology appt, which was fun! He did an amazing job with all the tests. And yes, I was totally able to understand and translate the results. Wheee!!

Mom and dad went out to dinner, but I caught most of BUffy. It was, to say the least, very disturbing. Very very disturbing. I'll post at Bite Me later. (I'm sneaking this in while they're at the doctor with Josh...this could end at any moment. LOL) I also learned that Josh's TV can kinda get SHowtime...perfect audio, with limited clarity of screen. But I could definitely see what was happening. SO I watched Queer as FOlk. LOL MEl and Linds had just broken up, and Justin was starting the gay/straight student alliance club. Very cool! I wanna SEE that show, damn it!!

Well, better get ready for my day. G-W is so exciting...they keep posting so much! We're up to nearly 300 posts already. I love it. <.g>

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I'm probably going to send up starting every post from home like this, but...I LOVE my brother!! LOL He cracks me up. Mom and I decided that today, we were going to teach him about music CDs. We've been hesitating because of the confusion we thought he would have since they look just like CD-ROMs, obviously. He did SO well, though!! We started out with Bye Bye Bye, but the minute he realized he could change CDs, he did. LOL Wai-Lana, Madeline, and Elmopalooza were his other ones. So, a few hours later, I was trying to get him to put on Bye Bye Bye again. He shook his head no, and pointed for me to leave. Fine. I did. LOL About 20 minutes later, I leaned over the railing to check on him, and saw that he was putting in nysnc!! He listened to the whole song, dancing away, grinning, and then started rewinding. Mom and I were confused...until he picked up his watch!! He then brought the CD to the chorus, and started the watch so they were singing the same parts at the same time! It was SO awesome!! We're really proud of how well he's been handling it today. : )

Hmmm, what else happened today? I know there were more cute Josh moments, but I'm blanking. <.g> Didn't really do much else...tomorrow I'm going to spend my morning in the kindergarten. Such fun! I'm looking forward to it. Granger-weasley hit 206 members, who have posted 268 times so far this month (a group record!!), whcih makes me very happy...I've never had a list this successful before! Tomorrow's Danielle's 17th birthday, so I have to send her something. I didn't last year.

I think I should probably head to bed soon...early morning with my kidlets for a Thanksgiving feast of crackers and raisins! Wheee!

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Warning: This keyboard sucks. Josh has spilled much into and onto it. Beware. LOL

Home's been okay so far! I love my brother so much. He is So cute! And he's so obssessed with his nysnc watch. <.giggle> He seriously carries it everywhere. He won't leave the house unless he has it with him, and he's constantly playing the song. He also already taught himself how to do the arm movements for Bye BYe Bye...I'm gonna snap a picture of it (8 left on the roll until Lance!) and if it comes out well, post it. <.giggle> He also learned how to press the buttons so he can hear the whole song, and, to my parents' delight, learned how to set the alarm. Which, BTW, plays the whole song through until you turn it off. My parents learned this because Josh has a habit of setting it to, like, 2 or 3 am. And if they don't take the watch away and unset it after he falls asleep, it will end up falling between the wall and bed. Josh sleeps right through the songs. Mom and Dad do not. LOL Tomorrow, we introduce Josh to his first CD...No Strings Attached, of course! Good thing the only song he knows, Bye BYe BYe, is the first one. LOL Oh, cute wallpaper that Kate just sent....Rolling Stone cover shots. I love that cHris was the only one to pick a color (purple, his favorite), and JC actually looks really nice. JOey's just plain adorable. LOL

We're gonna try and see HP tomorrow, instead of MOnsters Inc. Dad doesn't want to see HP, but does want to see MI, so we'll see that Thursday. Mom and I are a bit worried about how JOsh will handle the long, dark movie, but it's worth a shot, I guess. Can't wait to see it again. : )

Kinda watching XF, now. They mentioned Mulder, so at least they aren't completely ignoring his presence! COuld be worse.

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I saw Harry Potter! I saw Harry Potter!!

I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet...I'm going to give some vague impressions here. I think I'm going to write up a more detailed thing later, maybe after I see it again on Thursday. Then I'll make a page for it, and link it from here. I think that'll work best.

It was *wonderful. They cut things I wanted to see, including my favorite line, and minimized the roles of certain characters I very much wanted to see. It lacked some of the magic of the books, but I didn't expect it to. It couldn't possibly. But I think it came as close as it could. Also....as a Ron/Hermione fan, I was really rather ecstatic with certain bits. : ) : ) : ) Bodes very very well for future books, I believe.

OKay, time to finish packing. I just need to collect some tapes and books to bring home, set my VCR to record Xena and Picket Fences, and straighten up my room so it's nice when I come back. We're leaving in 90 minutes, I think I can do that.

but first I need to head to audiogalaxy and download the things Gen is recommending..."Sounds of Spike" and "Willow and Buffy." The first is Spike quotes over a "nifty song" and the second is a reading of a...racy...W/B story. <.giggle>

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Christians, beware! Harry Potter is encouraging homosexuality and Satanism. Apparently, Flitwick was pairing off Harry and Seamus in more ways than one. Geez, wish I had a school like that. I could use some help.

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Done! Sucks and short, but done. Wheeee!!

And yay Leo for FINALLY ditching Laura. Man, she's an obnoxious twit. But I'm not sure I want him with Greenlee, either! LOL I like Jake and Greenlee, damn it. And now that Frankie's on the scene, I want her with Bianca, not Laura anymore. <.g> Such fun.

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Quarter of a page, half a page, full page....it's all the same, right?

Maybe one more paragraph. Jeez, I have NOTHING to say here! LOL

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Well, I had my lang dev done by 9:30. I even did the revision for extra credit. EPS, however....I just don't want to write it. I mean, I have opinions on tracking, I know that I do. It seems that the times I have strong opinions are the times that I can't get myself to write. <.g> Plus, I forget what the democratic ideal is. So if/when this does get written, it's probably going to be missing that part of the assignment. LOL UGH! I just need to sit down and write this. Just get it DONE. Right? Urgh.

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Man, I am STILL so tired. At least next week will be good for that. <.giggle> Get to sleep in some days, all that fun stuff.

So, I flaked out yesterday. LOL Well, not entirely...since I had done 75% of the lang dev project before our meeting, we were done by 9:45 and I was able to come back and watch all of Xena with Biz. YAY!!!! It was SUCH a great episode. Lucy Lawless was made for the 1940s look. And my Oxygen comments told me the episodes that they were flashing back to, which came greatly in handy. <.giggle> But yeah...outside of that, did nothing. So this morning, I need to write a paragraph or so on tracking, and a little paragraph analyzing the little's girls morphemes and MLUs for the project. Shouldn't take too long, really. I hope not, anyway!! LOL

Gosh, I can't believe the HP movie is already coming out tomorrow. I've been waiting for SO LONG. Back in May, I thought November was so far away. In some cases, I still wish November was far away. LOL But geez, I hope the movie lives up to the hype. I've only heard great things from friends who already saw it, and I love the clips I've seen. So it *should be good. But there's always that chance. LOL

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Kate posted a nifty quiz....Which Sesame Street character are you?. This is me:

You are ELMO. You are cute, and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and seldom have your own feelings hurt. Life is a breeze. You are witty and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of backstabbers, and you are worry free.

Hmmm. LOL I'm not sure how true that is. I'd LIKE it to be true, how's that? LOL I was one point away from Zoe, who I think is more like me. Go take the test and see who you are!

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Okay, so the test could have gone better. <.g> I knew a lot, but the test didn't quite ask me about what I knew. LOL I think I knew many things, though, and might have gotten a C. Wheee!

Watching the HP Rosie with Aarti...it's so fun! Poor Daniel got pretty scared by Rosie's exuberance, but Emma and Rupert were adorable. At one point, Rosie asked Emma if it was true if she had plyayed jokes on the boys on set. She turned to Rupert, who was next to her, and he leaned far away, crying, "I didn't say anything! I didn't say anything!" LOL!! Cracked me up!!

Okay, must write a page on tracking today, and get started on morphemes for lang dev. Wheee.

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OH!!!!! Casey had the chance to be on Conan O'Brien's show, but turned the position down to work on the tiny sports show with Dan five years ago. And that was what really was the beginning of the end for Casey and his wife Lisa. Casey put Dan before everyone! How sweet!

Isaac is likening Dan and Casey's relationship to his own marriage to his wife. <.g> Very cool.

40 minutes until I have to leave....ack....

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Awwwww, it's Dan and Casey's anniversary, but Casey didn't remember, even though it was one of Dan's most important days. Dan's very sad. Oh, awww, Dan remembers what Casey was wearing, even. LOL

Casey: When we were in Minneapolis, did we do anything untoward?
Dan: Do you mean, did we get married?
Casey: Yeah.
Dan: Then no.
Oooh, wonder what they did that *was untoward that didn't involve marriage. <.giggle> I do love them. They are so slashy. Even the show admits it every now and again. ("You sang Happy Birthday to your partner on air, Dan. Some people find that vaguely gay, but I think it's sweet.")

I really am studying, though. Just with Sports Night on. I think I'm doing good. I hope I'm doing good. <.sigh> Only an hour before I have to leave. Eeek! I wanna do well, I wanna do well...

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Oh! Forgot to mention - we got our HP tickets!!!! 12:30 showing. I am SOOOO excited! Not only have I been waiting all these months to see it, but this will be the first time that I get to see a movie on opening day. Wheeee!

Oh, and Xena rocked last night. I love Christmas (Solstice <.g>) episodes! Sinteclese making toys. <.giggle> I can't wait for tonight's! Yay!!

Okay, g-w topic posted (I know you'll love it, Miggie. <.g>), time to get going. Oh, I don't wanna study. <.sigh> Bad test, bad test, bad test. <.sigh>

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I'm sure Kate will find picture to upload, but yes, Miggie, JC was wearing tight red leatherish pants with a very clingy and tight black shirt. <.g> See, he was standing next to Lance (who was in black leather pants, black jacket and sparkly silver shirt), so I wasn't paying *that much attention to him. <.g> Sorry. Joey's hair looked nice, though, and Chris is a cutie pie.

I'm so worried about my test today. <.whimper> Although I had thought I didn't know things and then started listing it all out to poor Kate while we were working out this morning. So obviously some things sunk in, huh? <.g> Sorry, Kate. LOL I just hope a lot sunk in. When Kate's out of the bathroom, I'll take a fast shower and start studying. <.sigh> So nervous....

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You know, classes can really put a cramp in my schedule. ; ) Ah, well. I did my lab, now I'm watching Christmas in Connecticut on TCM - first Christmas movie I've seen this season. AHHH! LOL But I'm leaving in ten minutes for my lab. But hey, it's only 25 minutes today, so I'll live. <.g>

I came in at a GREAT time for Xena!! They air it three times a day - 10am, 5pm and 10pm. And tonight's 10pm is A Solstice Carol, which is obviously their Christmas ep. <.giggle> Tomorrow is Xena Scrolls, which I am SOOOO excited about. Biz is gonna dig up her tape so we can watch together! It's set in the 1940s, with the descendents of Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer reading the ancient scrolls. How perfectly me is that? LOL

But first, I will do some major studying. And watching of nsync on Michael Jackson's special. ; ) But much studying.

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LOL! I just watched Rupert and Emma on the Today Show....they are so cute! I don't think Rupert was quite awake. In the teaser, Emma was smiling brightly and Rupert just looked dazed. Katie encouraged him to smile, and it took a few seconds before the words reached his brain. LOL Poor kid. <.g> Anyway, they were so fun and cute, and I can't WAIT to see the movie!!

Ooooh, Marlee Matlin on Picket Fences! Laurie, the Dancing Bandit. I love her so much.

Okay, class at 1. Must do the lab this morning. But lab is only 25 minutes today. Wheee! Then back here to study and watch TRL for Dan, then set it to record while I go to Lang Dev. But first, shower time so I can watch Jon Stewart....I love his views on the newspeople yesterday who kept trying to convince us that it was an act of terrorism. ::shakes head::

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Reblogger hasn't been working, so Kate and I switched to Blog Back. I'm still working on the customizations. <.giggle> But meanwhile, leave me comments!!! LOL

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LOL!! Sean Biggerstaff plays Oliver Wood in the HP movies....he's SO cute. And, to my great relief, legal. Barely. But he's 18, so that makes him fair game. <.g> Anyway, this is from an interview:

16: Anything you'd like the readers to know?
Sean: I've got dashing good looks and I'm single!

LOL!! How fun is that? <.g>

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I so suck at studying. I can never concentrate when I don't have something concrete to do. Probably because I never *had to study before college, really. I still don't have to study very often, to be honest. I just read over notes a few times and head out. 95% of the time, that means I get a B, and I go on my merry way. Works less well when it comes to these science based classes in my major, though, but I still don't study. I don't think I even really know how. Anyone have pointers? I want to do well in my classes, I really do. I just have to make myself work at it, something I'm less prone to do.

Like now. I have my notes spread across my bed, but what am I doing? Watching Xena. I love Xena. It's on Oxygen now, and that channel has this black strip across the bottom, like widescreen only just at the bottom. They put these fun comments in there throughout the show. (Gabrielle wakes up Xena): "Don't you wish you're hair looked that neat when you woke up?" (Xena wakes up from a dream within a dream within a dream): "Is this one for real?...Looks like it." (Gabrielle comes up behind Xena to hug her): "Aww, that's so cute." LOL It's so much fun. Hmmm. Anyone wanna rec some good Xena/Gabrielle slash? Or Joxer stories? He's rather cute. Looks kinda like Josh Charles, I think.

Okay, I think I'm actually going to go away from the computer and study now. With Xena on, natch. Baby steps. <.g> But if I study until 6:30 or maybe 7, I can have dinner then. That's good insentive!

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At 8:30, I turned on NBC to see if Katie was interviewing Dan Radcliffe yet. I saw a lovely sunrise shot of Queens, NY and assumed that they were showing us a shot of New York as they headed into a new segment. So I turned it off, got my tape ready for today. I turned it back on 15 minutes later to see if he was on yet, and saw the same picture of Queens. This time I noticed the smoke. My stomach dropped when I saw "all New York airports closed" written beneath it. All I could think was, "Oh, God, not again." That's not supposed to be my first thought. All these people died, the crash was in a residential area near people that I know...these are horrific things on their own. I should be upset for them. I shouldn't be terrified that people are trying to hurt my country again, that there's an even greater bad thing happening than the loss of these people.

New York City has been closed down once again, just like it was two months ago yesterday. I have to go check on my New York friends...Lydia has been very nervous about everything since the attacks, and she lives on Long Island. She must be hysterical by now.

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Whooo! I got a very solid B on my Stats test. Now that I know that, coud I go back to bed? *eyes bed speculatively* Hmmm. <.g>

Okay, NONE of my shows are on today! TNN is airing an infomercial and Hallmark is showing Bewitched. GRRRRRRRRRR. How annoying indeed.

XF premiere was last night. It was...it wasn't the show that I loved. I very much like Reyes, however, and Doggett and Skinner remain adorable. But Chris Carter did NOT have to make Mulder leave. Especially not 48 hours after he and Scully kissed while holding their baby together. I also don't like that William isn't normal. William should be 100% normal, none of this making the mobile spin while screaming with eerie music playing. I hate that. I don't understand why Mulder couldn't have just stayed home to take care of the baby, and we just didn't see it. <.sigh> How hard is that? Get his stunt double to do a few scenes from the back, you know? Very disappointing. I stand by my decision to not tape, and I can't guarantee that I'll watch every episode. I truly wish that Gillian's contract was over, and she and Mulder could have left together. Then I could enjoy this season more.

Today, I really MUST study for audiology. I reviewed my four pages of notes yesterday before curling up for a two hour nap. Really felt icky - I even kinda dropped off during XF last night. Whoops. So, yes, study. And Kate and I should probably be doing something about having a place to live next year. <.g> So those are my goals.

Ooh, Picket Fences is on now. Wheee! Let's see if I can figure out what episode it is...ooh, there's the stupid therapist dude. Yech. Didn't like him.

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This is hysterical....I'm watching Katie Couric's Harry Potter special. She's going around King's Crossing train station and asking random people there how to get to Platform 9 3/4s. <.giggle> I am SO excited about this! She was the only reporter to go behind the scenes, and the only person able to bring a camera with.

Ooooh, Jo Rowling wrote a special bit for the movie, dealing with Harry's past. Wheee!

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Wow, HP is really starting to get promoted in America now! Daniel Radcliffe will be on David Letterman Monday and TRL on Tuesday, while Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (they're being promoted together! ; )) are on the Today show. LOL Should be pretty fun.

I started working on a holiday design for over here last night. LOL I just have one question - can anyone teach me how to put a box around tables? Like the sidebar and main table, specifically? That would help greatly. <.g> I'm kinda excited - I didn't do a holiday design over here last year, even though I started blogging in December. Oh, but I realized that it would be hard to use last years c-r design again, even though I actually still have it saved, since I dropped AH from the main page and added in HP. Hmmmm. But maybe I can ignore that for a few weeks. LOL We'll see how my schedule goes, I guess!

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Okay, posted my extremely detailed and longwinded thoughts about Once More With Feeling over at Bite me. Enjoy! LOL

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Even knowing that things were cut, it was a fabulous episode. I'm rewinding to watch again. LOL Xander and Anya are still my favorite - I loved his Cary Grant vibe. <.giggle> Spike was amazing, the kiss was great, and it adds SO much to Tara's song to see her singing it. And the end, that was way more suggestive than even the lyrics. I LOVED it! LOL Made me smile so big. The whole episode did, really. Did make me sad that one of my favorite lines got cut, though...Xander asking if this meant he had to go be the queen, and the demon saying it was tempting but no. That totally should have stayed in. But I'm glad Tara's "I'm cured! I want the boys!" got to stay in, because that made me laugh so hard, as did Xander and Anya trying to complain to Giles about their song. <.giggle> Thank God for Jennie!!!

Off to watch again now. <.giggle>

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Fuck UPN. They're punishing me for getting a higher education, not showing me the full Buffy musical. <.pout> This is blatant discrimination. Thank God for Jennie copying her original one.

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Oh, my goodness....I just realized. I can put up my holiday design soon!! Not here, probably, unless I find a super cute and sweet template, but definitely at chasing-rainbows. Hmmmm....what to do this year? I really liked last years, and Krissy always does better than I can. So maybe I'll just reuse that. Especially since I just had an idea for a cute candy cane design here. <.giggle> Oh, well. ONE of my sites will look Christmassy soon enough. : )

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I DID it!!! I finished that godawful form for Jill. Only took me about 3 hours. But now I've GOT to get up and away from my computer. LOL I'm dizzy for staring at the black on white for so long, and my shoulders ache from hunching over trying to type everything and figure out how to make the spaces look prettier. <.g>

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LOL!! I'm listening to the Who's on First routine. It's cracking me up. <.g>

Oooh, an Angelina Jolie movie is on next...True Women? I think Annabeth Gish is in it too. I can't believe XF is premeiring tomorrow. And that I won't even be taping it! It just isn't going to be the same. But maybe it'll still be a good show.

So, what have I done today? Talked with Jennie and Carol. Did stats. Vacuumed. Ate lunch. Now I just have to finish cleaning, start studying, and work on Jill's form. And count down until Buffy! 6 hours and 18 minutes, by my clock. LOL

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This is an amazing Anya POV story about Joyce's wake. It's so perfect. I think it's heading into that little place in my mind of "this is canon, we just didn't see it."

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I watched Blue's Clues this morning. <.giggle> Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper had a new baby boy that his big sister, Paprika, got to name. His name? Cinnamon. <.g> I do like that show. Plus, it was good that I watched - mom, Erin and I decided that we're going to drop Josh's signs. He does such approximations, and makes up others, and no one outside of his family and friends knows what he's saying! So we're going to go with universal gestures. And if you've ever seen Blue's Clues, you know that Steve is all about gestures. <.g> Some are signs, but most aren't. So I'm going to tell mom to watch a few episodes and make notes of what Steve does. I think it'll help!

So, what do I have to do today? Clean a little bit, work on Jill's stupid INAAC form, do at least my Stats lab, and start studying for Audiology. Pretty manageable. If I clean and do the lab this morning, it'll be even more manageable.

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Okay, great. So I kept reading Dancing Lessons. I knew it wasn't smart, but I did anyway, because I was hooked. Now it's not done, I'm left hanging, and really depressed and upset. Stupid story. It's like Ebony's Ron/Hermione story Lost in Paradise, or whatever it's called. Brilliant story, engages you immediately, but leaves me highly depressed. I never finished that one. I think I might finish this one, though. There's a chance I might like the ending. I have to like the ending. Please let them write an okay ending...

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AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! This is what Joss said was cut to make the episode fit into an hour, what I fear I'm seeing tomorrow:

The short version will air I think a week from fri -- it was hell to do, but we pulled out "If Were together" entirely, plus a verse from spike and a verse from "Walk through the fire". Plus a messload of dialogue, the overture and Dawn's Ballet. All gone. So tonight -- and the inevitable if very far off DVD are the real versions of the show. The rerun is kind of like highlights.
Hopefully it still plays as a dramatic piece though, not a hodgepodge

Which is the "If We're Together"?? Is that the part of what can't we defeat, at the beginning, after the theories? They can't cut that! That's vital! And how could they cut any of Spike?? And the Ballet?? I wanted to see that!! I don't want HIGHLIGHTS, I want my damn episode! Who taped it? Anyone? LOL

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Okay, this freaking SUCKS. I've been reading the Spike/Buffy story Dancing Lessons for the past few days. The first story is 15 parts, the second is a series, 15 episodes. I freaked at the end of the first story, but continued on in case they fixed what I felt was a grievous error. No. But it was okay, because it led to some really fascinating things. Now this, though. THIS is it. This may be the end of the freaking line. I do not LIKE this story any more. At ALL. This is the second time they did this, and I don't know how much more I can take! ARGH!

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Oh, forgot the other way cool thing that mom and I talked about. Josh's annual audiology appointment is November 20, while I'm home. He's gone to see the same ones for many years now. And mom's going to ask Maureen if I can be in the booth with her while she gives the test! In my audiology class this sem, I learned how to give all the tests, plus read the results and graphs. Now I'll be able to put what I learned to work! I'm really excited about that. <.g>

It's so COLD! LOL Sarah and Tony finally left, so I went downstairs for dinner. Wanted something warm, ending up making my mexican munch ole. Going through recipe books while it heated up, I came up with a new ingredient - worchesire sauce. It made it very very yummy. <.g>

Watching ER now, since I was at my test. It's pretty good. I like Corday's mystery, I wish Roger and Peter would just move in together and share Reese, I want Kerry to come back soon - why don't they even mention her when she's away?, and Grace and Carter werre very interesting. Can't wait to see Susan and Carter.

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My brother is SO cute. LOL Mom just called, and we had a super fun conversation. His new SLP started today, and mom was demonstrating for her what Josh can do. One of their speech things is show and tell - Josh picks an item and answers questions about it. What did he choose today? His nsync watch!!! He's so adorable, I swear. Erin's first question was, "What is that?" and he said NSYNC. Okay, granted, mom had to later pronounciation exception it, but he's obviously been paying attention to the watch if he knew how to spell that. LOL The he said NSYNC WATCH DANCE. <.g> He was trying to tell Erin about how the guys dance on the watch face. LOL I so have to teach him how to do the Bye Bye Bye dance. Not the jumping parts - his right knee is getting very bad now. Like surgery in March bad. So even though I know he'd love to jump like them, he'll have to be content with waving his arms. I know he'll love that too, though. <.g> He's such a cutie pie.

Mom and I also watched the end of GH together. At the end, we realized that Luke and Laura need to get back together. So, we decided Scotty should end up with Bobbie again, and Felicia should be with Jax. I think that could be fun! It was her idea, and it made me giggle since I wrote a GH story with Jax and Felicia's sister. LOL But I'd like to see them - see him with the girls, and see how Mac responds to Jax being with his family. Definitely some interesting tensions possible.

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