Manda | 
06 16th, 2008| 
Holy crap on a stick. I just found out that 3 of the guys (Mark, Moonshine, Coach) from 2 different bands (Dollybraid, 40%) that I used to see ALL THE TIME are now in a new band all together. They’re called Miser, and I can’t believe I haven’t heard of them until tonight.
They’re playing a show on the 1st, but that’s all the way up in Denton, and I have stuff to do that day. They’re also playing at a show at a place that’s literally 5 minutes away from where I live. I’ve seen it, but I’ve never been there. I didn’t know they had actual bands there. *haha* 
So I’m making plans to go to that… Joe in tow or not. Maybe I can grab Megan, too. She can crash on the futon or something. *lol*
Anyway… as you can also see, I’ve done a little um.. redecorating. I upgraded to the newest version of Wordpress (went from version 1.5.2 to 2.0.4), and I decided to give my blog a new look, thanks to the Wordpress Themes directory. I also redecorated my knitting blog.
More specifically, I hate MySpace. The one damn time I want to get into it, and I can’t. That’s always the way it works.
Anyway.. It’s official. My sister and I are going to Beaumont in 2 weeks (less than, now! *squee*) to see my boy, Damian. My sister got the OK from Mom (just didn’t want her freaking out about Megan going to like, the other end of the STATE or something. lol) and we got a hotel room to crash in, and I should be getting my tickets any day now. I’m SO FREAKING EXCITED I can’t even STAND!! it. Seriously. It’s been ages since I’ve seen a show. AGES. And the one I get to go to in two weeks? Is basically (sorta kinda, ok, maybe not really) a Plasma Jack reunion!!!!!
I can’t effing wait. I haven’t been this excited about anything since uhm… yeah, I don’t know when. No, I do know when. Since I flew out to get Joe and sorta bring him with me. 
I get Joe next weekend, too, so that’s awesome. A Joe Weekend, then a PJ weekend! ha! Then I think I get another Joe weekend. Then it’s Dina’s Send-Off, but we won’t talk about that. I’m hoping that’s ALSO a Joe weekend, but we’ll see. He’s trying to work out some stuff, and if that happens, he probably won’t be coming back here for that weekend. Bleh.
Anyway, I’m not tired yet, so I’m not going to go to sleep. I think I’m going to get in some quality Netflix time, since I was at mom’s longer than I planned today.
Okay, It’s 7:30(ish) in the morning, and I really need to get dressed sometime this morning (I’m in pjs, pervs) because I really need to be on time to work today (or early.. which is my on-time) because we have to watch some stupid pointless no-use to us presentation. (We found out yesterday that assistants are also included in this presentation-watching thing (because normally we’re not), and now no pregrades or files will be submitted today. /end rant) (Also, how many times can I use sets of parentheses in a single post?) What am I doing instead, however? Reading blogs.
I read most of my blogs through Bloglines (love it!), only veering off to the actual blogs when I’m bored beyond comprehension and nobody’s updated anything and I want to check to make sure they really haven’t updated (yes, I’m a nerd. Also, bored), or I remember that they don’t have an RSS feed, or I just want to see how their blog is looking these days.
Today? I was pleased with two posts that I got to read, and they were from the same family of people. Awesome how that works, huh? (Oh! Maybe that should’ve been in parentheses.. haha!) The first post by this family that I read was Mr. CactusFish’s post about his Bean’s first birthday, and it’s seriously one of the most touching posts I’ve ever read. Go! Now! Bring Kleenex! Chris, you rock, too.
Then on the totally other end of the spectrum (and it may not even be the SAME spectrum!), we have Mrs. CactusFish, and her desiccated cricket carcass poetry. I went to the previous post and read some of the poems that were left in the comments, and they are HYSTERICAL. Also, read her villanelle on the same topic. I’m going to have to find out what a villanelle is, because I don’t remember, and it’s bothering me. LOL
Okay, now that I’ve spent 20 minutes or so typing this up, I REALLY need to go get dressed and get out of here. Have a good day.
(Answer: Nine. No, this makes ten.)
Yall, I’ve had the Frappr Map over on the sidebar for the longest time, hoping someone would see it and stick their pin in it, but I guess not. Most of you, dear readers, must be like me - you either don’t pay attention to the sidebar, or you’re reading through Bloglines or some other such feed-reader. *lol*
Anyway, do me a favor & stick your pin in my Frappr Map! I’d love to see where you all are from!
I just spend about an hour going through myspace profiles for people who I graduated with. They’re most likely people who would never ever remember me (I’m still close friends with all the people who “mattered” in HS! lol), but it’s still fun to see where they ended up. Most of them seem to still be in town, but some of them are all over the place.
A lot of people, judging by their pics haven’t changed too much, but some of them are a little different. Some of them are hotter than I remember, some of them look exactly the same–just a bit older, and some of them look completely different.
It’s pretty funny.
I wonder if we’ll have a HS reunion. *lol* Our class goes down as the laziest Senior Class at NGHS, I’m sure. so it’ll be fun to see if that reunion thing happens. *lol*