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I love the smell of Starbucks in the morning.

Hi Mom! It's not real!

I love my bathtub. It's a huge, triangular shaped affair that allows me to extend all 5'10" of myself and still be fully immersed. I've never had a tub like this before, and it's a luxury I don't take advantage of often enough. And even though while I'm in it, I enjoy it, I don't enjoy baths all that much as a general rule. I can only sit idle and soak for about 10 or 15 minutes before I'm bored and have to get up and get out.

Another softball weekend. At lunchtime, Mad and I took a few minutes to ourselves and sat in the car to eat. She said she needed a few minutes away from "everyone over there that smells like buttcrack". I obliged.

GTWL - Favorites

This week is all about favorites. One of my favorite things is spring and green grass. Spring in the Pacific Northwest is something else. Everything is green most of the time here, but spring is when the greens get freakishly green. Amazingly green. Bright, vibrant, make-your-eyes-pop green. Like now.

Girls Theme Week Live - Favorites

My current favorite sweater.

Another Girl's Theme Week shot - Favorites

I'm a make-up girl, even though I don't wear a lot of it. I like to play around with it, and I actually have quite a bit, but laziness wins out over the urge to paint most days.

I'm liking the Girls Theme Week this week. Favorites.

I love this mirror - it's my favorite prop. I love the light in my bathroom, it's my favorite room in the house to shoot in.

Now I just need to get organized enough to use the backdrop to block out the shower.

For GTWL - Favorites

These are my two favorite people on the planet. No contest. I have some other favorites, but these two top the list.

For the "Pigtail Posse" on flickr.

I got this whip for my former office-mate Arlene for Christmas last year. She had just changed jobs, and part of her new gig is to ride herd on all of the miscreants in the IT department here. I decided that she needed a whip to crack in her new position, so I got her one. She let me borrow it so I could posse up.

WirlyBall, for the record, is more fun than I had anticipated. If you play with people who are like-minded, then it's reaaallly fun because you KICK ASS.

Bruce's birthday party was Saturday, and it was a blast. I finally got to meet Kevin, who now officially doesn't hate me. After the jeans incident, it was looking not-good for me, but I'm way better in person than as an abstract concept, so I won him over.

Dinner with Ron & Jen tonight.

We always have so much fun with them, I'm sad we don't get together more often. We originally had planned to go to an Italian restaurant that they like, but with the snow and all the idiot drivers in this town, we decided to stick closer to home. Translation: Dinner at Grazie. My feelings were not hurt.

For GTWL - Body Language

I speak with my hands as much as with my mouth most times. If I'm talking to you, and I'm within reach, I'm probably touching you in some fashion. If I'm not touching you, it's safe to assume that I don't like you.

caffeine, anyone?

I'm so tired I can't see straight right now.

Playing catch-up over here.

Busy, crazy-busy at work.

Every shot I took today was out of focus. It's becoming a regular state of being around here.

I've been wanting to bust out my gun for photos, but I didn't ever really feel like it until today. I'm home alone, not feeling too well, and I decided to give it a go. There are other shots - check 'em out.

Kierstin and I, sitting at the ball field, waiting for the bleachers to clear out so we can find a seat.

Softball tournament this weekend. The weather today was amazing - in the mid 70's and slightly breezy. Just enough to fan the perspiration and make it ok.

So, for day 69 things could have really gotten out-of-hand, right? I think this was rather restrained.

I originally had visions of doing a high shot of me sort of curled up, then cloning and flipping it, and superimposing it over the yin/yang symbol, but I'm lazy and didn't do it.

Again with the mirror. And the bathroom.

I lost a bet this morning. I don't think I've ever enjoyed losing so much.

Today is full of things I have to do, and not much that I want to do. I'm going to the dentist after work, which has me all uptight. I think I need a valium. I'm not having any work done, just a cleaning, but the smell of the office, and the scraping noises make me almost come out of my skin.

Another group roulette: In Your Kitchen

Zero creativity here - I think I used it all up last night.

My VB game isn't until 10pm, which sucks big, dirty rocks. I won't be home until 11:30 probably. After a shower and wind-down, it'll be well after midnite before I crawl into bed. I think I'm sleeping in tomorrow.

The group roulette infiltration was for a group called "half a face is better than a whole one". I had this idea on the way home, while I was wishing I had someone to chat with. I didn't leave work until after 6, and Carol had left at 5, so I rode home alone.

I really like the way this one turned out, with a couple of exceptions. The first go-round, my trusty assistant sort of missed the boat on the idea, and ended up zooming in too close, and cutting off the top of my head, and the bottom of the mirror. When we went round again, he neglected to tell me that my white-trash bra/cami straps were so awful looking. Oh well.. that's what I get for giving up setup control. It was getting late, and I didn't want to keep the girls up any longer. I should learn a lesson from this, but the lazy will win again, I'm sure.

So, I went for a walk this morning, with an idea in mind. As it turned out, I should have listened to my instinct that told me to grab the extra battery before I left, but I didn't. I got exactly 5 shots before the battery was exhausted. This was #4. It started out being a full body shot, but I liked it cropped so you can't see my fat ass - or the fact that I hadn't done anything with my hair for 2 days except throw it in a ponytail.

Cathy and I went to Birch Bay. We had fun doing a whole lot of nothing for 2 1/2 days.

I was away all weekend - starting Friday.

Work, work, work. This expresses how I feel about work today.

I didn't get home until after 8pm, and I'm tired and ready for bed already. I've decided to keep with the early schedule, but to alter it by going to bed earlier instead of my normal time. I'm missing that extra hour something fierce this week.

I've been getting up early all week, and it's starting to take its toll on me. I'm irritable and nasty this evening, and I'm currently hiding from my family so as not to yell at anyone. Even as I type this, the fact that I can hear them watching American Idol is bugging me. I want to open the door and yell at them all to shut the hell up.

I don't want to know me tonight.

A quickie from my desk, with the pen Laurie Lock gave me about 100 years ago.

Crazy, crazy, crazy day at work. I think someone might have been playing an April Fool's prank on me, because the strangest thing kept happening in my application. I couldn't figure it out, and as soon as I brought it up to someone else, it stopped happening. I can't figure out how in holy hell it could be accomplished, but someone with some mad SQL skills could probably have pulled it off. That narrows it down to 3 possible suspects in my office, one of whom is on vacation until tomorrow, so that leaves 2. I suspect it might have been Bruce, but he'd never confess, because that would mean that he couldn't use the trick again. And he's all about mileage with those sorts of things.