over heard tonight while leaving the movie ”the hours” (which is an amazing movie btw)

guy : I didn’t get it.
girl : that’s because your favorite movie is kangaroo jack!

i need it. i have to have it. it’s imperative. it’s....

monogramed toilet paper

but..my husband said he would shoot me if I got it. so....

Karina made me the ghetto fabulous version. she took a roll of t.p and wrote my initials on it with a sharpie!

I talk a lot. rather I blog a lot. which means I need more space. so today I wrangled up me some more - i.e. I upgraded my account. I now have 500 mb diskspace / 15 GB datatransfer. My hosting company rocks. I pay 9.99 a month for all this space and I’ve got the best customer support guy, Martin. I love it. It rocks. And I am way happy. I’ve got hostees. I am about to dump two. Not cause I am an evil bitch, but because they haven’t contacted to me as why their sites are on hiatus. I could say it’s cause of space..but it’s not. I will (most likely) save their files to my computer so, if for some reason, they don’t have it saved they won’t lose it all. But i’m only gonna keep that shit for a couple of weeks.

good GOD it’s getting cold. I don’t even have enough warm clothing to deal with this. None of my warmest stuff is even clean yet from my trip to kc. (yah I know it was nearly a month ago) The weather channel is bringin me nothing but down...yah...down covers...thats what I need. A-shopping I must go..

damn im good. I finally got my car licensed in Florida today. I’ve always wanted a personalized plate - I didn’t get one, but I got the next best thing. I got a specialty plate. When I saw this plate I knew I had to get it. Its the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition one. See a snap of it here. The plate is this really pretty light blue color, which you can’t really see from the picture. I very much like it. The Mr Q&0153; said “no” when I asked about it, but since he didn’t go with me today, poo on him. I even put the plate on ALL by myself with my OWN tools. Ok...The Mr Q&0153;’s tools, but still. I am having a such a “im a smart capable woman” day.

so..I got my haircut today. At great clips. they are having this 4.99 sale. it says 4.99 for cut and blow dry. I had to ASK the woman to blow dry it and she didn’t even really do it, she just did it for a bit. my hair was SOAKING wet. but..I guess you get what you pay for. I can’t really tell if the cut is even, but I guess I will see tomorrow when I fix it. it’s the same shape as before just like and inch or so shorter. I hope it looks good.

so Yvonne posted a question on her blog “Why do you have a blog? What was your motivation to start one and why do you continue to do it?” I answered in the comments there but I wanted to expand here. What I said in the comments was same here...i mean...i blog because i don’t have anything else to do. none of my IRL friends blog and most of them think that my blog is silly. my mother especially. most of the people in my “real” life even understand why I have a website at all.

I wanted to expand. I wanted to dig into why I really have a blog. I started my website in the fall of 1997 and my blog on Friday, November 10, 2000 at 12:09 p.m. I started my website because when I was a freshman at NW I got into surfing the web and with the chat program called ISCA. When I was a sophomore NW moves from having vax machines in the rooms to full blown computers and I became obsessed with the net. I saw that the university was offering a short course on HTML so I signed up. I was so excited. I went to the class and learned the basics of HTML. I used just raw HTML and worked on my webpage whenever I could. It’s was a new craft and I really, really enjoyed it. My first website was HORRIBLE. It was mostly a collection of links and graphics. I direct linked peopled and everything. Slowly I learned how to use HTML to do the cool things that I wanted it to do. I got into making graphics for my webpage and at one point even had a website of linkware graphics. I updated my website as much as I could. I started using the scanner in the library and added pictures. I added different sections and my site got pretty big. I was quite proud of myself that I did everything with HTML and not a program. None of my friends had webpages. I even had a jobs in college where I did webpages for people. I created, from scratch, the website (that still exists) for my sorority Tau Phi Upsilon. I did the webpage for the campus radio station for a year as well, and that put me on the exec board. Doing webpages became my “thing.” I even put my case study for child development in a webpage format - which apparently isn’t online anymore. Most people knew that I loved working on my page and hardly anyone else I knew did them. It became an obsession. Doing new things, adding new things, learning tricks and tips. I was online a lot - most having something to do with my webapge. Let me take that back, I was on-line a great deal and it was really 50/50 on webpage design versus chatting. I started my first journal in Nov of 2000 because I wanted more interactive, more up to date content. I would change my layout a lot, but I wasn’t really ever actually DOING anything to the page. I was pretty faithful with the updates on that page for a while, and then I stopped using it. I switched to blogger in Aug of 2002 was pretty faithful with updating with that and at that point switched the main focus of my site to the blog - IE moved the blog to the main page (but I still had a spalsh.) It’s then that I started notciing all the people using MT and how their sites were set up. I started to think about using MT and making my blog the center of my site. So..well...I did that.

Looking at WHY I blog. I think that I blog because it’s fun. I like getting comments and getting feed back. I like to talk about things that are funny, or sad, or whatever. I am a big talker and this is my way of talking. I try to be witty and make people smile. I try to make people think. I do it, cause..well..its just who I am now. People outside the webworld don’t really understand it, and they can’t - because they don’t blog. My mother has said to me that my writing embarrasses her. Not the quality but the content. My husband doesn’t understand why I put stuff on the blog. But...some of my friends ARE happy that I do it. They live far away and being able to read my blog makes it seem like I am not so far away. I wish that my family realized that. But at the same time if they did read it I would feel like I have to censor myself more, and I don’t want to have to do that. It’s a double edge sword. They would understand if they read it, but I don’t really want them to read it.

I joined Swappingtons today & I listed one cd. It’s the Doors greatest hits. It’s never been played. I joined cause I saw it Kymberlies site. If you decide to join say that I sent ya - I get points that way :) My user name is kaysee. I hope this will be fun :)

Swappingtons is a www site that’s all about swapping books, music and movies between people who love books, music and movies. How it works is this: If you have a book, CD or DVD, etc., that you don’t want anymore, you can list it on Swappingtons, and when someone else wants it, they can give you swap points for it. At that point, you mail the item to them, the points are transferred to your account, and now it’s your turn to find items that other members have listed and trade them your swap points for them. The best part is that once you get an item from someone and you finish reading, listening or viewing it, you can just list it on the site again and get something else once you swap it out!

I don’t ever talk about “Politics”. it’s not that I don’t care about what is going on with our nation - it’s that I don’t have enough information to talk about it confidently. I don’t want America to go to war. I don’t want Dubya to put this country, and the world at risk for nuclear war. I don’t want my brothers DancerBoy & PainterBoy to get drafted and killed. I don’t want DrummerBoy to get re called. I don’t want Jeff to get sent over to some sandy country and killed because his MOS is in chemical weapons. I don’t want Steev to get killed, or DancerBoy or any of the other men, and women, I know in the armed forces. I don’t want mothers and fathers and daughters and sons to weep because of loved ones that have lost. Yes...the families of September 11th lost and are grieving, I do not discount that. Creating more loss will not help them, it will only give them more people to grieve for. More loss & more pain will not help lessen the current loss and pain - it will make it worse. I don’t have confidence in the current US gov’t to keep us away from war. I am afraid that we WILL go to war, and the loss and pain will just grow, and grow, until everyone has lost someone that they love to this madness. Everyone.