Blue Roses

Here I go, taking the annoyance to another location. <.g> ::watches people cringe and run away::

Here's the deal. I'm going out of town tonight. I'm posting this now. Please don't forget? LOL

JC's really close to having his video retired on TRL. 2 days, people. Friday and Monday. The fans have gotten him this far - he doesn't get ANY airtime on MTV at all. We've gotten him this far, I want to get him to the end.

You:
Call 1-800-342-5688 starting at 12:30pm Pacific, 1:30 Mountain, 2:30 Central, 3:30 Eastern. You have 30 minutes.
Press 2 to vote by song title.
Press 2-5-6 for B-L-O. (Or press 1 to vote by artist, then 5-2-2 for J-C-C.)
Wait for the confirmation, hang up, call back. Three times per phone line. Use cells and land lines!

ALSO Vote online here. You need to fill in EVERYTHING. We believe you can vote ten times per day, and you can vote online at any point during the day.

Detailed instructions on how to vote multiple times online is below.

Easy, right? Less than a minute per toll-free call. Find all the phones you can, and VOTE! Get other people to vote! Blame me if necessary!

Me:
I write you a ficlet when you tell me you've voted as much as you can. That simple. You do something that takes less than five minutes, you get a little story all to yourself. If you vote Friday AND Monday, telling me both days, you get an even longer fic! Just tell me the fandom you want (nsync, britney, WENN, XFiles, Dawson's Creek, Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter, General Hospital, Lizzie McGuire. Others possible, just ask), pairing you want, het or slash, and story type (angst, fluff, etc). I can also do original.

C'mon, guys. I know all of this is probably annoying, but it doesn't take much time, and I'd be very grateful.

Just drop an e-mail or comment to let me know if you voted, and if/what you want your story to be. : )

It is unclear how many votes per person MTV will count each day. I have seen a report to the effect that MTV logs votes by IP address. If this is true, then clearing cookies won't help (though logging off DSL and back on may). On the other hand, this report claims that each person is allowed 10 votes per 24-hour period, so we should at least be able to do that much.

The 10 votes/IP address report is, of course, not something we can get a confirmation on from MTV. Therefore, I would still advise deleting your cookies after each vote, and putting in a different name/birthdate/comment for each vote. Here are two methods of deleting cookies on PCs (if I have any of the steps wrong, please correct me!):

Close all browser windows.
Open "My Computer."
Open your C drive.
Open "WINDOWS."
Open "Temporary Internet Files."
Delete all cookie files containing "mtv" or "trl," such as Cookie:???@mtv.com.

or

Close all browser windows.
Open "My Computer."
Open "Control Panel."
Open "Internet Options."
Click "Delete Cookies," then "OK."
Note: This option is faster than searching for specific cookies, but it will log you out of all sites that use cookies to remember you!

For Mac users, Merry adds:

You can delete cookies from Internet Explorer in Mac OS X by choosing Preferences from the Explorer menu, then scrolling down through the preferences to "cookies". In the window with the cookies listed, either click the MTV cookies and hit the delete button or hit apple/option-A to select all and hit the delete button. Hit ok to close preferences, close the program; reopen the program, vote.


Again, this is a lot more time-consuming than just voting over and over again without leaving the MTV site, and it may not be necessary, but we might as well do everything we can to make our votes count.

Posted by Rina at 03:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Wow, do I suck with the updating. I can't believe it's been so long. ::blinks::

Let's see. Dr. said we could hold off on Josh's surgery until it happens a third time. He's still in the immobilizer - we're going to the Dells for the annual RTS weekend this weekend, and we'll start rehab after that. This way, he can swim in the immobilzer and we don't risk dislocating it before he gets to. That's very important to him.

Someone I used to be friends with online died yesterday. My feelings are all jumbled on it. We haven't been friends in years, but we did have to rub elbows, so to speak, in the fandom. It's a very, very tiny fandom. So I'm trying to balance losing someone who's no longer a friend, but once was, and it's a lot harder than I expected. I just keep thinking about her babies, a literal newborn and a 3 year old, and I'm devastated and pissed off on their behalf. It's a mess, all of it. It's hard.

Midterms this weekish. Got a B on the poli sci one, which made me really excited, and waiting for the weather grade back, and taking mythology tomorrow. I feel studying would be in my best interests. I went to all the lectures, though, and already knew the characters. So I'm not too worried. I will, of course, still study.

I'm reading a book called "Briar Rose" by Jane Yolen. It's a story of the Holocaust in a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It's one of the most amazing things in the world, and it's killing me to not be able to read it all the time. I'm absolutely enthralled. It's a small book, but so powerful, and I recommend it highly. Go forth and read, my children.

Wanna help me out? JC Chasez from *NSYNC has a solo single out. It's gotten no promotion or anything from his label. it hasn't played on any video stations. Thanks to us fans, though, it's gotten fairly heavy airplay on the radio, and it's been on TRL for 47 days. If we can keep the video on the countdown through Monday, it'll retire with pride, and will be an amazing accomplishment. Why do I say this?

You can help! Call 1-800-342-5688 tomorrow and Friday at 3:30pm ET, 2:30pm CT, and vote. After it picks up, press 2 to vote by video and then 256 to vote for Blowin' Me Up. Wait for the confirmation, and hang up. You can vote THREE TIMES per phone line! It takes less than a minute per phone call. Please, please, please help me out? I'll write a ficlet if you vote, provided we match fandoms. <.g> Give it a whirl.

Okay, now you're sick of me. LOL Off I go to study. Hopefully WW will be on - Rob Lowe's last episode!

Posted by Rina at 07:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Fricking exhausted, man. JC did an interview in LA last night that Kate, Karey and Alicia were in studio for, and three other friends of mine got calls in and talked with JC. So cool, man. But he was on at 11 until after 12, and I was seriously dragging by that point. And so was my computer, so I let it sleep overnight. But I had to take a shower. So I did, at 1. And then there was a good movie on TCM (The Divorcee - love Norma Shearer). So I was up until 2. Then woke up at various points in the night. And then had to get up at 7:15. To find out that my e-mail worked, but not internet or AIM. So I rebooted. And internet worked, but not e-mail or AIM. So I rebooted. And then nothing worked. Until 8:15, when AIM loaded an old account and icons were moved and it was all weird. But I'm mostly online now. AIM works, e-mail occasionally does, and the internet mostly does. Take what you can get.

So, have my first session with E this afternoon. I'll just observe from behind the mirror, though. I can't wait to see what their session is like and how it's different from K's.

New WW tonight!! I cannot wait to see this episode. I really want to find out what happened with Donna and Jack. Oh, and Buffy last night? Bloody marvelous - loved the last scene! That was incredible! Continuity! Wheeee!

Joshy has his appointment with his orthopedic surgeon today. I think mom's pretty stressed out. We talked this morning, and she seemed kind of shrill. I hope it goes well. I don't know what well would be, though. Being able to postpone surgery until fall? I don't know, man. It's just a suckt situation all around. : ( Happy thoughts welcomed, though.

Posted by Rina at 09:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I've been playing in the kitchen a lot lately - mostly baking, but some cooking. I made a little recipe for brown sugar cinnamon raisin cookies, and modified it today to make sugar cookies. I'm thinking about adding apples next time. <.g> It's fun. No set recipe yet, because I generally just make enough for 3-4 cookies. (Downside of living alone - no one to eat what you make!) But I substitute in applesauce for most of the butter, and add in vanilla yogurt and it's really quite tasty.

Of course, that all leads to eating too much. I really need to find things to do with my time than cook/eat. I need fabric or something, do some more sewing in addition to my quilting. I think I'll go work out a little after I finish typing this up.

Joshy still needs lots of happy thoughts and prayers. I don't know what we're going to do. He has an appt with his orthopedic doctor on Wednesday, but most likely he'll say it's up to us. Mom can't take care of a post-op Josh by herself - it's physically impossible. That would suggest spring break, so I could help. Which cancels out any plans I may have been able to make, and also takes Josh out of commission for my graduation. Which means mom couldn't go, either, and that would upset me very much, for purely selfish reasons. Other choice would be summer, but that takes out swimming as a PT tool, which is so beneficial. It's chock full of sucky choices.

Poor mom - all of her stressors are converging at once. But she's still at nearly 2 months of no smoking or alcohol, so good for her! She's handling it pretty well, with the aide of diet vanilla coke. <.g> Hopefully once we get past this week, it'll smooth out for her.

Back to the clinic at 3:30 today, for the second session with K. I've already been there today for a meeting on E, which is kind of annoying. LOL Oh, well. Should be fun.

Posted by Rina at 02:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Well, Josh was able to take a few steps with the immobilizer on. So that's a good sign. It could go south at any time, but it seems he's going to pull through this once again. I just don't know how many of these free passes he's going to get, though. For now, I just hope that this one lasts until at least the summer.

So, obviously, today wasn't a good day. I admit it, I flipped out. I've been having a bad streak of days for some reason - hormones? weather? season? I don't know, and I don't like it - and this toppled me over, I guess. Kicked me while I was down. So it was a day of doing schoolwork, which was good, but also of curling up on the couch and watching basketball. Which I don't even LIKE, but found myself rather glued to. Some crying, too. But I feel better now. Hopefully I can kick these sucky winter doldrums and get back to normal this week. It helps that my Iggy Koopa is doing okay now. : )

Posted by Rina at 07:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

My brother's knee fucking dislocated again. God damn it all to fucking hell. It went back in easily, so hopefully he won't need surgery this time. It's been 5 1/2 months, man, since this last happened. Please, please please let it get better. Please.

Posted by Rina at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm so bored over here! Not a lot of schoolwork, and client #2 canceled today. So. Even more free time than anticipated! And I have no idea what to do in it, I swear.

I really need a job. Or a hobby. I suppose I could quilt. But I don't know. I don't think I could concentrate really well. ARGH! I'm going insane! LOL

In milky computer news, all seems to be well. Nothing sticks, and I think the smell is gone. As long as my nose isn't to the keyboard, anyway. LOL I think the fact that it was 55 the next day and I could open the window helped. But believe me, HIGHLY relieved that all is well here. <.g>

Still really bored. LOL Anyone wanna play a game? Or give me words for an improv fic? I'm pretty easy to please, ya know. <.g>

Posted by Rina at 04:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Not a very special day - did some work - did some playing - did some chatting. Okay, the computer eating my breakfast was kinda special, in its own way. And, all right, yeah. The sparks coming off my plate several inches into the air in the microwave added a certain something, too. But overall? Nothing really bad happened. And some fun things did, too.

Hope you guys all had good days, too, with smiles and hugs!

Posted by Rina at 06:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Spilled milk on my keyboard. Cleaned it up, but how do I get rid of the vague smell that now accompanies it? And will it get really sticky? help, people, help!

Posted by Rina at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Anyone know a good site that sells practical joke items? Specifically, rubber pencils?

Thank you. <.g>

Posted by Rina at 01:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mom woke me up, telling me to turn on the news, any channel. And we saw the news about the Columbia exploding on reentry. I'm just horrified. I keep staring at my screen in shock.

Seventeen years and four days after the Challenger exploded, and these things still happen. My heart is with the familes of the six American Astronauts and the one Israeli - the first Israeli astronaunt.

Posted by Rina at 09:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)