I am just testing to make sure this moblog set up works correctly.
I eventually hope to make it so that my Audlink posts will post automatically.
Course when I tried to check it tonight, rather tried to make a test aud post, the number just rang and rang.  I’ve emailed the support people though. It would be wicked cool to be able to audio blog from my cell phone :)

Why is that when I looked last week at plane tickets for a trip to Kansas City at Christmastime I found ones for about 400 for both of us round trip. But when I looked today I can’t find anything less than nearly $500.  Good lord.  Why is it SO fucking expensive to fly?  I just want to see my family for Xmas and spend it where the possibility of a white Xmas actually exists.  It’s still over, what, exactly 2 months away.  The problem always is I don’t know when family parties are going to be planned, so we never know quite when we should schlep up there and schlep home. I think we’re shooting for the 21st to the 28th.  We did New Years Eve in KC last year, we should do it here this year, we thinks. :) I just hate having to pay so much money to get home.  Plus - I can’t seem to find any direct flights.  I hate changing planes once, let alone twice which is what a lot of the flights have right now.  Somebody needs to hurry up and invent a better way to travel and stuff.  Like instant Star Trek transporter travel.  Like today.  So I won’t have to pay over 500 dollars to get to my Mama. 

I have a confession to make.  I sleep with a stuffed animal. To be precise - I sleep with a teddy bear called “bear” that my husband got me when we were engaged. He’s totally well worn and fits just where I need him to.  I don’t sleep with him every single night - but I go through phases.  I’ve been sleeping with him again recently. I like the comfort he brings me. Before I got married I slept with him every single night, and before I got him I slept with a bear I got in elementary school - a panda bear (also called bear). That panda bear was replacing one I was given as an infant - also a black and white panda bear called bear.  This bear (III) is a light brown color.  I should probably have him cleaned - but I’d be worried that he’d get ruined or something.  Yeah. That’s right.  I am 26 years old and I sleep with a teddy bear. :) Wanna make something of it? :)

So guess what. Finally I’ve made myself a new layout for the comments page.  I’ve had that Hula layout for...well...ever. I decided today that it was just TIME to get a new one.  Check out the comments on this post, or any post for that matter, to see it. :) To do the alternating backgrounds on the comments I used a trick that I found at EE Design.  It’s very VERY easy. :) Out with the old. In the the rainbows :)

Every night for the last week or so, I’ve been dreaming of my friend Brian.  My beautiful, funny, smart, wonderful friend Brian.  I haven’t seen Brian since about Nov of 1998.  Brian and I are the same age, and in Nov of 98 neither one of us was 21 (1999 for both) but my boy was.  So we bought him beer and dropped it off with him in front of North Complex.  That was the last time I ever saw Brian in person.  He was arrested shortly there after.  For a murder that was committed in a 97 - a full year earlier.  Brian was convicted and given 15 years in prison.  The judge felt he needed to make an example of Brian. Brian didn’t commit a murder. He wasn’t even present at the murder or the robbery that came before it.  He was asleep in the backseat of the car.  But since Brian didn’t turn his friends in - his friends who threatened his life and the life of his loved ones - Brian got 15 years.  At 20.  Brian and I keep in contact via snail mail.  He doesn’t have access to the internets from prison - but have set him up with a gmail account*.  I’ve always told Brian that I wanted to visit him - but now we’ve actually filled out the visit forms.  If I get approved I will be sitting with him in prison two weeks from today.  I’m nervous about it.  I’ve never even visited someone at a JAIL let alone a prison.  Not to mention, I am nervous to see Brian.  I care very much about this man and I am not sure how I will feel SEEING him locked up. I mean - I know hes there, and has been for a very long while, and will be there for a long time to come, but actually SEEING it.  It may prove to be a very stressful day.  But I am excited too. I miss Brian.  I WANT to see him.  I want to get to hear his voice in person again.  (We’ve talked on the phone a few times over the years.) He’s got such a beautiful smile.  He’s witty and wisecracky too. Which are two attributes that don’t always come off so well in mail, ya know.  I just hope I get to see him.  I hope my visitor form is approved.  I hope that I can hug him - which if I am understanding - I will be able to if I get to see him.  I have a lot of questions about how the visit will go - but since he’s the only one who can answer them - I guess I better finish the letter I’m writing.  ;)

*If YOU would like to write to Brian - you can.  You can email him at Then just email me saying something is there, and ill print it off and mail it to him :)

How did i end up here? A hotel lobby waiting 4 a texas holdem game, that i was too chicken to play, to be over. Before i became a scrouge slots werd mildly entertaing. Not so much now. i had 50 to play with. Couldnt bear to waste more than 20. i just want to go home, herb out & play the pacman i got today. Oh i cant wait. :)

A while back I watched some creepy crash footage, right. Well apparently someone’s had a contest two put that footage to music.  The results are amazing. Check em out!

I’ve always said I loved Eminem, right. but now that he’s got an Anti War/Anti Bush song out I’m loving the man even more.  Get more info here, even download the song.  {lyrics}

I feel like playing the “Last 10 mp3s in Your Playlist” game. So, go for it: no subsituting, no choosing, no matter how embarrassing. Hit random, let 10 songs play and tell me what they are. Readyyyyyyyy? Break!

1. Eminem - Soldier
2. Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
3. Sean Paul - Get Busy
4. Sublime - SantaRia
5. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (which I guess on the first twang)
6. Carly Simon - You’re so Vain
7. Rush - YYZ
8. David Bowie and Massive Attack - Nature Boy
9. The Pretenders - Human
10. Mozart - Greensleeves

{Totally yanked from Joelle}

I feel much better now.  But I do think I will head to bed early.

Tonight I went to Wal-Mart (Bastian of all evil that it is) and I had an eye exam (dilated eyes on upset yummy so NOT a good idea) and ordered my new glasses.  They should be here by Halloween. They are of a much heartier make and they are black. Of COURSE I will take a picture as soon as I get them. They’re pretty stylish, I think.  I decided to go with a regular pair of glasses and then I picked up generic clip on sunshades.  I could have gotten two pairs of glasses, or gotten a pair that came with clip ons (like my current ones) but I just really liked the frames I did choose. They’re funky. 

I’ve got weird girly parts issue going on.  Sort of an unusual* period.  It’s mostly uncomfortable and maybe a little scary. I think the deal with earlier today - the dizzyness - was from these multi vitamins that I am taking.  I think that maybe I over dosed myself.  It was just the weirdest feeling. Totally light headed and weak.  I still feel that way a little.  It’s sort of putting the status of my attending the TBBF in jeopardy. If I feel like this tommorow I KNOW I won’t feel like schlepping from bar to bar in Soho.

*I’d elaborate but I can’t see anyone wanting to read about the nitty details. It’s not a secret thing or anything.