kathulhu fhtagn!

Sitting at the computer in my panties.  I didn't drink that much.  Well.  A bottle of TGIFriday's White Russian.  Which is only .10% alcohol.  And one shot of vodka.  In coke.  meh.  we played Rock Band.  Aaron played with me.  And then we had sex.  For a long time.  Yes!

I'm not that drunk.  Although I probably am.  Yep.  I am.  I'll probably delete this in the morning.  Or not.  Cause it's kind of funny.  I'm actually waiting for Aaron to yell at me for typing.  He's sleeping.  He's not said anything yet.

So yeah about the programming thing.  I've wanted to learn for a while.  But after the Codestock thing, I want to learn even more.  Cause chick programmers are rare.  And I want to be cool like that.  Plus chick developers are smart.  And I think I'm pretty smart.  I think I'd be decent at it.  I like design better but no jobs here in Indy for that.  Not that I'm getting a job anytime soon.

I want to go back to school.  Like now.

Rachel!  I just wanted to see if you're noticing me.  Cause you're the only person who comments on my blog.

bleh.

I'm going to go read until I'm tired. bye.

Oh my god.  Darth Vader and a unicorn.  My life is complete now.

I'm a gonna go eat some chicken.

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 "I am the fire that burns, the choking fog, the storm that rains devastation on our foes."

Wizards are scions of arcane magic. Wizards tap the true power that permeates the cosmos, research esoteric rituals that can alter time and space, and hurl balls of fire that incinerate massed foes. Wizards wield spells the way warriors brandish swords.

Magic lured you into its grasp, and now you seek to master it in turn. You could be a bespectacled sage searching for dusty tomes in forgotten sepulchers, a scarred war mage plying foes with fireballs and foul language in equal measure, a disgruntled apprentice who absconded with your master's spellbooks, an eladrin upholding the magical tradition of your race, or even a power-hungry student of magic who might do anything to learn a new spell.

A cloak of spells enfolds you, ancient rituals bolster your senses, and runed implements of your craft hang from your belt. Effervescing arcane lore pulses through your consciousness, a constant pressure craving release. When will you know enough magic to storm the ramparts of reality itself?

I'm going to be switching to a new blogging tool in the near future.  I've been unhappy with the current platform for a while now and the last time Aaron upgraded the system some things got messed up.  For instance, clicking on my link will take people to Aaron's blog and vice versa and when people try to leave a comment, they get an error message. 

Rather than try and fix these errors, I am switching to Oxite.  Aaron downloaded it for me last night and showed me where to edit the .css files using Visual Studio.  I haven't done web design in several years so I'll probably break the new stuff.  But once I get my new skin done, Aaron said he'd convert this blog to the new design.

Wish me luck.

Breakfast

• 2 pieces of buttered toast
• 1 cup of coffee

Lunch

• Hammich (wheat bread, ham, & mustard)
• carrotts & ranch dressing
• 1 cup of coffee

Snack

• 1 cup of coffee

Dinner

• 2 porkchops
• long grain & wild rice
• 1 cup of iced tea

Misc.

• 40 oz. of water

Activity:

• Washed the car for 2 hours

Summary:  Drank too much coffee & not enough water yesterday.  Got hungry around 11:30 AM but didn't eat lunch until noon.  Got hungry again around 3:30 PM but I drank a cup of coffee and I was fine until dinner.  Woke up in the middle of the night and felt hungry.  Drank some water.  Need more fruits & veggies.

I forgot to mention that we saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen while we were in Tennessee.  I'm using Cyborgirl's movie review format because it's short and sweet.

The Good:

• Character interaction.  The dialogue between Shia LeBeouf & his parents and Ramon Rodriquez & John Tuturro was funny. 
• Ramon Rodriquez.  He was the comic relief guy once things started to get serious in the movie.
• Bumblebee. Who wouldn't want to have a transforming Camero?
• Special Effects. I love a good explosion and there were a lot of them!!!
• The Mom.  She ate pot brownies and embarresed the shit out of Shia at his college.  And then she randomly tackled some dude.

Meh:

• Megan Fox.  Yeah, she's hot.  Big deal.
• The Decepticons.  Barricade was the coolest Decepticon because he was so freaking scary but he gets his ass kicked in the first movie and isn't in the second one.  I also liked him because he looked like a car.  But most of the Decepticons in T2 look the same.
• Inconsistencies.  Why couldn't they use the top-secret rail gun to shoot The Fallen when he was on top of the pyramid, like they did the Devastator?  Why were Jetfire and The Fallen able to use special powers but none of the autobots could?  Why was Bumblebee's voice box not working?  Rachet had it working at the end of the first movie.  If Decepticons could assume human form (i.e. Alice) then why weren't there more of them in human form?  You would think it would make it easier for them to infiltrate human society.

The Bad:

• Movie Length.  The movie was 2 hours and 24 minutes long.  It just seemed like each scene took too long to set up and things could've been condensed. 
• Megan Fox's Lips.  Seriously.  Did she really use lipgloss or did they just shellac them?
• Wheelie and Skids.  They were just annoying and they didn't add anything to the movie.
• The language.  There was a lot more swearing in this movie than there was in the first one.  Granted, I don't mind the occasional swear word and it's not like I don't use them but we took the boys to see the movie and there were other kids in the audience as well.  I think that if studios are going to market movies like this towards kids (i.e. with the toys and with Happy Meal promotions) then they should've toned the swearing done a little more.  But that's another rant entirely.

I was reading Cyborgirl's blog earlier in the day and it's prompted me to make my own little confession.  I am very rarely in the mood to have sex.  In fact, Aaron and I had a big fight about sex this weekend.  Every once in a while, I get in the mood and I'll want to have sex 4 or 5 night in a row.  But then something in my brain shuts off and I don't think about sex for weeks at a time.  Aaron tries to make advances but I'm just not in the mood.  Then he feels hurt and rejected and he gets grouchy and then I get grouchy and then we're angry at each other.  Which doesn't help with the making sex.

I asked my doctor about it at one point and she got this sympathetic look on her face and told me that there wasn't much that she could do for me.  She said that with women, there was no magic pill because it's more of a mental thing.  But Cyborgirl said that a sex therapist mentioned to her that it could be her horomone levels and to have her OBGYN check them.

Guess what?

My horomone levels have been fucked up ever since I've had kids.  Horomones play a huge role in a woman's reproductive system and if my body isn't producing the normal levels of horomones then I probably won't have a normal sex drive.  My OBGYN gave me a perscription for a progesterone birth control a few months ago but I haven't been taking it.  I felt like I shouldn't have to take it because I've had my tubes tied.  I know that my weight is a huge factor in how my body functions and I keep telling myself that if I could just get it under control, I won't have to take anymore medication.  But I've only lost 5 lbs. since March and my body is still not working the way it should.  Thus fueling my depression, which also lowers my libido.

Another factor that doesn't help our sex life is that when I am in the mood, it's usually in the afternoon while Aaron is at work.  It's hard to maintain that feeling the rest of the day when I have to take care of the boys, keep the house clean, cook dinner, etc.  By the time we get the boys in bed, I'm ready to go to bed!  Sometimes, we're able to keep the feeling going by sending texts back and forth.  Watching a porn also helps but there isn't much of a chance for that during the day.

Anyway.  Enough bitching.  Blah.

Aaron was invited to speak at Codestock in Tennessee this weekend so the boys and I tagged along with him.  My mom also came with us, which was nice because she stayed in the room with the boys and Aaron and I got our own room with a king sized bed!  We left on Thursday because Aaron was speaking first thing in the morning on Friday.  I think we left around 12:30 PM and got to TN around 7:00 PM.

We stayed at the La Quinta in West Knoxville and thankfully they had a pool.  We went swimming every day that we were there, sometimes twice a day, for at least 2 hours.  My neighbors gave us a couple of swimming vests that helped to keep the boys afloat in the pool.  Sasquatch took off and started swimming around the pool.  He was afraid of the water last year but he seems to have turned into a fish.  Naner stayed mostly on the stairs in the shallow end. 

We went to the Knoxville, TN Zoo on Saturday.  It was so freaking hot that I thought my skin was going to melt off.  We were there for almost 5 hours!  The boys had fun but they were ready to get back to the hotel and swim by the time we left. 

I was a little nervous about driving around Knoxville by myself, but despite the screwed up street names (some streets would have one name going east and a totally different name going west) I was able to find my way around.  There was only one mix up and that’s because google maps listed the street name as West Magnolia when it was really Old Magnolia. 

The guy, Alan, who organized Codestock had an after party at his house, so Aaron and I went for a few hours.  I felt a little out of place because the people were all programmers and all they talked about was code.  I tried to change the topic a couple of times but they were all thinking about programming and would switch back to code talk.  I made a tweet about being at a geek party and how it was criminal that there were no gaming consoles.  Alan informed me after the fact that the gaming stuff was in the basement. 

The drive home seemed to take longer and the boys were a lot grumpier.  I think they were worn out from the weekend.  Nana would let them stay up later than they were used to and we did a lot of swimming.

Our next trip is to St. Louis in August.  Aaron will be speaking at the St. Louis Day of .NET and we’re tagging along for the weekend!

I can’t upload the pictures on my website for some reason but I have them on my facebook profile.  If you’re on my friends list, you should be able to see them.

Oh my gosh, I have been so freaking busy lately.  I’ve been wanting to blog for a week now and I just haven’t had time.

My mom bought me tickets to see Wicked for my birthday.  The show was on Tuesday, June 9th at the Murat Theater.  It was freaking AWESOME!!!  I had to pick my mom up at her office and the directions she gave me were kind of squirrely.  I forgot to look up directions on Google maps before I left and was thinking crap crap crap to myself when I exited off of I-70 & onto East St.  Luckily, the street that my mom’s office sits on was the next light and I was able to find her building easily.

We went to Bazbeaux’s pizza on Mass Ave. for dinner.  I LOVE their pizza but since they’re downtown, I don’t get to eat there very often.  We ordered the BBQ chicken pizza, although my mom didn’t seem very very enthusiastic the pizza because she doesn’t like chicken on her pizza but she agreed to it since it was for my birthday.  It was fantastic.  I think about that pizza often. 

Then we walked down to Starbucks and got coffee and sat outside, waiting for the show to start seating.  We watched people walking up and down Mass Ave.  If I was single and didn’t have any kids, I would love to live on Mass Ave.  My mom remarked that we don’t hang out like this very often and it’s sad but true.  I told her we would just have to make more time for each other!

Our seats for Wicked were awesome.  We were on the Orchestra level (first floor) and in the center, in row MM.  We weren’t super close to the stage but close enough that we could see everything really well.  As soon as the lights went down, the crowd started clapping and cheering.  My favorite songs were Popular, No One Mourns the Wicked, and No Good Deed. 

I’ve always had a soft spot for Elphaba, the Wicked Witch, but G(A)linda the Good was pretty awesome, too.  In Wicked (both the book and musical), G(A)linda is a snobbish air head and the actress that played her was super funny.  I think the actress who played Elphaba had the better singing voice.

I went to Chicago with Aaron on Friday and Saturday.  He wanted to attend the Sharepoint Saturday at the Tribune building and since we didn’t have any kids (or money), I decided to go with him.  I figured it would be a good way to learn a little about what he does at work so I would know what he’s talking about and I got to spend time alone with him. 

It was a really good conference.  The first two speakers that we saw dealt more with designing the software and I could follow with a lot of what they were saying.  The last 3 speakers dealt more with the development/coding side and so I was lost for most of their presentations.  Still, it was interesting and I’d like to think that I absorbed some of it.  I also got to meet one of Aaron’s co-workers and now I have a face for the name whenever Aaron talks about him. 

During every session, the speakers would always ask for a show of hands and they would ask who was a developer and who was a designer.  I actually got singled out in one session because I didn’t raise my hand to either and the lady asked me what I considered myself.  My response was, “housewife”.  Whenever people asked what I did, Aaron would tell them I was a designer but I haven’t done any design for 6 or 7 years.

After all of the speakers wrapped up, we filled out an evaluation form and got our raffle tickets.  They were giving away XBOX 360s, Zunes, books, and a $100 Visa gift card.  Aaron won a book and I won an 8GB Zune.  I was super excited because I told Aaron that I was going to win something big.  He said I was good luck because he usually doesn’t win stuff. 

It took us almost 5 hours to get home because we got stuck on I-94 for about 2 hours.  There was an accident at the I-94/I-57 split.  It really sucked and I got so bored that I thought about flashing people.  I didn’t.

This week, I’m helping out with VBS.  Yes.  I’m going to a church from 8:00 AM until noon to help out with vacation bible school.  And I’m around kids.  A lot of kids.  Did I mention that I’m getting up early?  To go to church?  But I did it last year and it was actually pretty fun.  I get to be in the boys’ class this year.  Naner really loves to sing and dance and the church is where he goes to preschool.  We also know a lot of the kids in his class because they were in school with him or they’re in the MOMS Club.

We got home today at 1:30 and I had to start doing laundry and cleaning the house because we’ll be busy all week long.

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Bard/Rogue (2nd/2nd Level)*

Ability Scores:
Strength-9
Dexterity-9
Constitution-10
Intelligence-13
Wisdom-11
Charisma-14

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched. A high Charisma score allows a bard to cast high-level spells.

Secondary Class:
Rogues have little in common with each other. While some - maybe even the majority - are stealthy thieves, many serve as scouts, spies, investigators, diplomats, and simple thugs. Rogues are versatile, adaptable, and skilled at getting what others don't want them to get. While not equal to a fighter in combat, a rogue knows how to hit where it hurts, and a sneak attack can dish out a lot of damage. Rogues also seem to have a sixth sense when it comes to avoiding danger. Experienced rogues develop nearly magical powers and skills as they master the arts of stealth, evasion, and sneak attacks. In addition, while not capable of casting spells on their own, a rogue can sometimes 'fake it' well enough to cast spells from scrolls, activate wands, and use just about any other magic item.

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*I don’t know that I agree with the neutral part.  I’ve always thought of myself as a more chaotic person

What?  You no likee the butt secks?