The Bungalow

Holy crap, this last week and a half has been nuts. Let me run it down for you:

Last week, my corworker was on vacation, so I had to cover for all the processing she does. To do that, I had to work from home every day to get started on time. Also last week, hubbby was sent to San Francisco for business, so it was just me and the little guy all week.

During that time, I also had to get my Blaine Big Bang finished. Which I did! Yay! \o/

Once my BBB was done, I decided to try and put together a video in the 10 hours I have free over the last 3 days to send to Creation for the SPN Chicago Con. I managed to do that, too! And it might be my favorite video I've ever made (it should be up here soon). Then last night, after getting the final beta notes from the oh so fabulous brihana25, I go to burn the whole thing to DVD to send off. IT WON'T BURN. The program keeps stopping at 75% saying I pushed the abort button. NO I DIDN'T! Ugh. Finally get it burned to a file and then just use Roxio to burn the file to the disc. Go pop the disc in the DVD player to make sure it works and.... it doesn't. Sort of. It's like it doesn't like the menu it created, but when I tried to just exit out it ended up playing the video. Whatever. It's like 1:00 am at this point (seriously, not joking), so I go to bed.

Get up this morning after about 4 hours of sleep to shower while Martouf is still sleeping and come down to try and get the disc burned in the hour before I have to leave for work. Open up my old, old, old pretty much obsolete video editing program and put together the DVD file for burning. Again, for some reason, I can't burn it directly to the disc. Burn it to file, use Roxio AND IT WORKS! FINALLY! OMG YAY.

Glee returns tomorrow!! Finally. SPN not til October. Boo.

It seems like it's been forever since I've posted, like, real life stuff and not just fandom ramblings. So, I shall do some of that now. :-)

Work is driving me nuts, a little bit. But, this is nothing new. I may have posted about this before, where I'm trying to get very specific information that I need in order to do my job and was getting the run around of everyone telling me to ask everyone else. I think I finally got the someone to listen, gave them some more information that they were asking for, and got in response "Wow! That's going to be a lot of information. Are you sure that's what you need?" YES!! THAT'S WHAT I NEED!! I know it's a lot of information, but I NEED IT TO DO MY JOB. Please give it to me. I swear, I'm getting ready to pull my hair out with this.

Had my second ballet class this past Friday. The babysitting went much better. I was a little worried as Martouf has actually been going down for naps around that time now because of the teething. I was concerned he was just going to be super fussy, but he was just fine. He almost fell asleep in the car on the way home, but luckily it's a short drive and I managed to feed him a bottle before nap time. As for me, I showed up to class with my shins wrapped as a preemptive strike against my shin splints acting up. The teacher was all "Are you okay?" Yeah, it's fine. And it actually was. Class wasn't too bad. Until the end. We're getting ready to do the final combination or whatever and she asks if I'm up for jumping. My shins are feeling fine so I agree. However, if I had known what she was going to make us do, I may have declined. 64 CHANGEMENTS. Now, 99% of you probably have no idea what that is. What it is, is starting in fifth position (which is the feet crossed, heel to toe and toe to heel), you jump up, switch which foot is in front and land and repeat. And it's quick. Up down up down up down. Here's sort of an OK vid if you want to see what I'm talking about. Yeah. 64 of those in a row. That was not fun. I was IN PAIN yesterday. Ugh. My calves, too. Not just the shins. Oy.

I went to see I Am Number Four last weekend when Erin was here. I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. ( Some spoilers )

My Glee Tickets are still for sale. If you know anyone who might want them. :-)

The Oscars are tonight! Yay!! I've actually seen some of the nominated movies this year, so I think I actually have things to be rooting for. :-) Can't wait to see what everyone's wearing! Hehe.

( We're the good guys! )

And now some random, sort of...

My modified diet and exercise seems to be working I'm down 10 pounds and a pant size. 10 more pounds and one more size to go. I think I can do it!! *finger crossed*

So, my husband came upstairs a little bit ago and was all "I just did something I shouldn't have."

Uh, oh. What now?

Well, turns out to be nothing major. A couple months ago we went and test drove a VW Toureg as I have been in the market for a new car for awhile. Not that my current car is bad. It still works just fine. But with the baby and everything I knew I would need something bigger. Well, he went back to that dealer's website and the same car is still there for a rather significant amount less than what it was. So, then he did some math, found an affordable loan and, well, we could get it for right on the border of what we could afford. But with me not working now for the next couple months, it's cutting it close. So, no new car yet, but maybe if it's still there in a couple months. :-D

I'm also due for a phone upgrade with Verizon. I've been contemplating the Droid or some other iPhone type thing. So, we'll see...

Everything is working so far today at work. I feel better than I did yesterday. Kinda tired, but no dizziness. So I'm taking that as a plus. And I have an appointment for a haircut and highlights this afternoon. That's always fun.

And Leverage is back!! :-D I fell asleep during the episode last night. Oops. Good thing I saw it last week. :-D I'll probably get a review up later this afternoon now that I can. I hope y'all enjoyed it as much as I did. I missed my team. ((HUGGLES)) :-P

So, I have 114 userpics available to me. And that's not enough. AT ALL. I need moar!!!!

My newest graphic obsession is making wallpapers for my cellphone. I have like 20 or something. It's a bit ridiculous. And I have about 20 more cropped and ready to go for coloring. Anyway, I thought I would put it out there if anyone else wants snazzy wallpapers for their phone. Three requirements, though: 1) I need links to the pics; 2) I need the pixel size of your wallpaper backgrounds; 3) Limit 3 please. :-) Oh, and I only make it. You gotta figure out how to get it on your phone yourself. :-)

So, um, yeah.

I am so freaking ready to be done with the jaw thing. I WANT FOOD. I didn't even really have anything for dinner. I had 2 glasses of chocolate milk. Yum. Ugh. 8 more days. 8 more days...

I love my fandom. Like, for serious. All of them. They're just awesome. Completely make of win.

First off, Erin, thank you for the lovely card. Everything right backatcha.

Hope everyone had a very good holiday. Ate way too much food, but it was good. Got a couple Breaking Benjamin CDs, House season 1 & 2, some clothes I had asked for. And then lots of money and gift cards to buy things for the new house! I had to go spend one of them today. It was for this little home store type place and they're closing on the 31st. Oopsy! So, I went. Got a couple decorative wall hangings that look like old stone. Ya know, the kind of thing that looks like it could have come from ancient Rome? They're like 5x7 or so. I'm thinking they can go in one of the bathrooms. And then two small similar hooks that can be for coats or extra keys or something. Need to go and put the rest of the stuff away at some point.

I got myself a present, too. Chopped off all my hair! Yay!! It looks pretty much like it did back in Vancouver in March. Yay for short hair!! :-)

Then Friday, is the bachelorette party for my second cousin that my mom and I are throwing. I need to make marshmallows for that. Well, I'm gonna try. It's for a dessert thing we're going to be making. I think that'll be tomorrow. Perhaps I'll go to the store tonight, though, to get everything I need. Then the wedding is on Sunday. Which I am going to look absolutely fabulous at. :-D

So, I think that's all. Later!!

So, my muse seems to be working hard lately, which is nice. I have that little drabble from the other day. I'm pretty sure I'm finally done with the vid I'm working on. And I have another ficlet like thing I just wrote a little while ago. It's with a friend being read over and hopefully I can post it later today. Yay! That makes me happy.

What else? Oh, I have an idea for another vid I want to do. I'd love to submit it to the Creation contest thing at the Chicago Con. But, um, the song isn't exactly PG. In fact it's rather NC-17. It's gonna be funny though. Not like, LOL funny, but tongue-in-cheek tee-hee kinda funny. I think so anyway. So, I might just make it for myself and see what happens. If any of you have ideas for vids that I could submit, that would be nice! :-)

I got the worst charlie horse last night when I was sleeping. My calf is still cramped and I'm limping. Yay, fun. Not. And I'm freaking starving. But I still have 15 minutes before I can go to lunch since I'm relieving the receptionist today. Grrr. I want food! I think I'm gonna get Burger King. Nice greasy cheeseburger. Yum! :-)

All right, that's all for now. Later peeps!

I have my laptop back! Hubby is home! LJ is back to normal!! Yay!!!!!!!!!! All is right with the world!! Now I just need to get writing..... :-)

<-- So I entered that icon in my first ever icon challenge 2 weeks ago. I did not win, but I'm still kinda proud of how it turned it, so I thought I would share since I can now. :-)

Oh! We're a Nielsen family now. :-D For those of you overseas, the Nielsen ratings is how they determine the most watched programs and demographics for TV programs. And of course, I'm hardly gonna be home this week to watch anything! But they did send $15 cash! Woo-hoo!!

What else?? My wedding shower is tomorrow afternoon. I also have my hair and make-up trial in the morning. So, we'll see how that turns out. Should go fine. It's not like I'm planning some big elaborate updo as my hair is just barely past my ears. I can post some pics if anyone wants to see later.

I am now obsessed with Imogen Heap's song "Hide and Seek." It's so haunting and beautiful. I think I wanna vid QAF to it. Like, a Babylon bombing/Season 5 kinda vid. We'll see. :-D

I think that's all. Back to Dr. Who!!

Lata!