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Woohoo! =D I'm baaaad. And apparently have limbs the size of small tree trunks. Who'dathunkit.

I turned 19 years last Thursday on August 2nd, and now I'm finally officially back from my celebrations! Actually I was back yesterday, but I was so busy playing Baldur's Gate, writing, and recording Episode 2 of the Dead Robots' Society podcast that I didn't have time to make a post here about it. :)

Thursday was the big day, of course, and mom took the day off work so we'd have the whole day together. :) As a family we all went out for breakfast at the Waffle House, something I haven't done since I was very, very young. They had a couple of new people on the line so it was pretty chaotic and it was probably a good twenty minutes before we got our food, but it was still kind of fun. Unfortunately when we got home we found out that our dog, Bruno, had chosen this day to get in touch with his inner escape artist, so some of the morning's festivities were colored by having a hot, tired, filthy dog burrowing under our fence whenever we all left the house. But we managed.

After a short rest at the house, we struck out again and went to Triad Comics, which is quite possibly my favorite place in the entire universe. =D By extraordinary luck, they were having a wonderful half-off sale on all their $1.00 comics, so mom, dad, and I all camped out for quite awhile at their gigantic clearance table, sorting through stack after stack of comic books. Dad went on a Superman binge, mostly in the .25 boxes underneath the table where he likes to "hunt", and mom found herself a LOT of wonderful Batman comics up above on the 1.00 side of things. She even managed to halfway complete a series she'd started the last time we were there. As for me, I got many excellent things, ranging from Sailormoon to Fathom to Supergirl to Ghost in the Shell to X-men to the beginning of Witchblade: Shades of Gray, and the pride and joy of my comic collection thus far: First Born #1. (For the uninitiated, go here) Calling the art of this series "gorgeous" doesn't even begin to cover it, and I am thrilled to have a true first edition in my possession. =D

After comics we went to McKay (Knoxville's only dimensionally transcendental book store!) real quick so I could pick up a few more Agatha Christie novels, mostly because they're showing Miss Marple on PBS again and I'm thrilled about it. Unfortunately I couldn't find "Bertram's Hotel" like I wanted, which sucks, because even though I know how it ends now (after nearly two years of wondering thanks to an incomplete audiobook! *shakes fist*) I know they sometimes fudge the plots a bit (*coughSLEEPINGMURDERcough*) for the TV series and I'd like the original version. But OMG, Peter Davison sighting for the WIN!!! =D He was the crooked lawyer if any other classic Who fans were watching. He's always so hard to recognize, but there's no disguising that voice. Ha! Spending countless hours into those Big Finish audios does some good after all. He looks good for his age. And Tom Baker was on last week for "Towards Zero". That was awesome. Thought dad was going to faint. Of course they killed Baker's character like ten minutes in, but it was still nice. Now I want them to bring on Sylvester McCoy. Please excuse me while I attempt to build a mind control device to this end. =D

And, of course, there was Thai food. Yummy Thai food. And a new Fresh Market in Farragut that is HUGE, closer to the house than the one on nasty cluttered Kingston Pike, and they have CASABA MELONS. I have been looking for those since we left Columbia, Missouri. That's like six years of searching, people. Six years. Finally found them. HUZZAH! =D And they have many other wonderful things as well, such as sun dried tomato stuffed olives and Bistro Chips. Yummiest chips. EVER. And if you get bored looking for food you can snicker at all the old, fat, rich snooty people walking around, 'cause that's primarily what Farragut is made up of. Haha. I may be poor, but at least I walk straight and have a good rack sense of self, y'know? =D

Oh, and did I mention that I only spent about $28.00 on all the comics and books? Yeah. XD Triad rocks. The Daily Show rocks too, 'cause Jon had Matt Damon on as a guest for my "birthday show". Woohoo! No stuffy authors or politicians for me! Nope, I get Matt Damon. =D Hurray.

Friday, mom and I went clothes shopping. She gave me $100 as a birthday present and I decided to spend it on an entirely new wardrobe, which is something I've needed badly for about three years. We went to Wal-Mart, which was having a massive back to school sale, not to mention it was a tax free weekend, so no sales tax on anything. =D Did my birthday have good timing this year or what?! Anyway. I bought LOADS of stuff. Snarky shirts, three pairs of jeans that fit me wonderfully and to top it off, a black bra that does NOT make me want to set it on fire. (In fact it's quite possibly the most comfortable bra I've ever encountered) Right now I'm wearing my favorite outfit that I assembled: Black jeans that fit me like they were tailor made for my body and this shirt, which I bought with dad in mind. XD

Saturday I furthered my make over by getting my hair cut for the first time in months. Decided to keep it long-ish, but get lots of lovely layers. It looks wonderful, and Cindy had bunches of helpful styling tips. I've decided to start styling my hair more instead of just letting it air dry and hoping for the best. I might *gasp* actually spend time in the bathroom messing with my hair! What a shock! Maybe I'm a girl after all...mom got her hair done in the same style as mine, only longer, and I must say it looks lovely on her. Most of that nasty blonde stuff she had left over from her color days is gone now and she looks very nice. Layers are my new favorite thing ever. They just give your hair so much "oomph" without too much work or maintenance. It rocks. Next time mom gets a little extra money she and I are going shopping again for some different hair brushes and maybe even a curling iron. =D And maybe even PRODUCT. Liek OMG. Girl mode activate.

Sunday was spent watching movies and playing hours and hours of Baldur's Gate 2. =D Oh, and yelling at PBS for showing A Scandal in Bohemia instead of Miss Marple: Ordeal by Innocence. Not that seeing Jeremy Brett (♥!) back on PBS for the first time in years isn't wonderful and all, but we were all expecting Miss Marple and we were all pretty disappointed. Maybe next week. :)

Monday, as you know from the beginning of this monster entry, was spent doing some more normal things...but I have to say, after the past five days I feel like a totally new person. Amazing how much your outlook on the world improves when you've finally got some nice clothes that fit, a new hairstyle and some shiny comics sitting on your bedside table. (Did I mention that between the two of them, my parents bought a stack of comics they could barely carry for only $33? Yeah. Triad ROCKS.) So far, being 19 is pretty sweet. Now all I need is for a handsome alien to come pick me up because I've finally reached the average age most young girls are abducted by handsome aliens in time traveling phone booths. =D

Happy birthday to me!

Well, my first test conversation with my fellow podcasters starts in about twenty minutes. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. (I'm also missing Enterprise - witness my dedication!) My hormones have finally straightened themselves out completely and I feel like a normal human being once again. That sound you hear is me sighing in happy relief. Spent most of today lazing about with mom, who took a sick day. We bought spicy scented soap at Earthfare and gleefully picked over their selection of reading glasses, so much so that we were almost late to pick up dad at the dialysis clinic. Didn't get a chance to do any writing, but I did manage to catch up on a lot of important chores, so the house doesn't look like a filth-bomb laced with dog hair shrapnel hit it, and I can rest easy having relieved some major "OH MY GOD THE HOUSE IS A MESS AND IT'S MY FAULT BECAUSE I AM A LAZY POTATO" (see previous posts on hormones) stress. Am also greatly enjoying my comics, taking the time to savor every one before setting it aside. Can't wait to start filling in the gaps of my collection, which is now a possibility because I've finally gotten ahold of a series that's more than a few comics long. Up 'til now I've mostly bought graphic novels and small individual comics. I did this on purpose, but now it's nice to have the option to catch the collector's bug if I so choose. The hunt is on!

Meanwhile, the plants continue to grow wildly. Mom and dad replanted many of them yesterday and our tomatoes are just taking off. One's even starting to turn yellow, which means it'll be ripe soon. Zucchinis are doubling in size every day now, and several yellow zucchini the length of tooth picks and the width of a crayon are starting to show. Dad's cayenne plant is absolutely going to town, and I spent part of this evening cross legged on our porch snacking on baby spinach. I now know what it feels like to be a rabbit. It's oddly zen.

Fifteen minutes now. Probably ought to post and go. Seeya.

Life's been irritatingly quiet lately. For the most part I've been bored out of my mind this week, but some cool stuff did happen on the weekend. My parents helped me track down a comic book store so I could take advantage of Free Comic Book Day, which was on Saturday. We found this really cool place called Trinity Comics after like, two hours of searching/getting lost/going to a place called Collector's Universe which was huge and dark and dusty and like some kind of tomb where every body was too hardcore to be nice. Not cool. But Trinity was AWESOME. They had freakin' STORM TROOPERS in front of their door. And a fat Jedi. I have to admit the Storm Troopers kinda scared me a little bit. I was half expecting them to yell "HALT!" or something. XD I'm such a wimp. But it was a really cool store. They had SO much stuff at wonderful prices, everything from comics to figurines to stickers. We brought home some really nice comics, including a yummy X-men comic with Wolverine and Phoenix in it that only cost $1. Awesome. Mom even got herself a very nice 80 page Batman comic, which is neat 'cause mom's not really the geekiest person around. :) The free comics were pretty neat too, though unfortunately they were out of the Spiderman comics I wanted. Sigh. And the girl behind the counter was super nice. I was wearing my NaNoWriMo 2003 T-shirt and she actually asked me about NaNo and then wrote down the website address! Nobody's ever asked me about my shirt before. And if they had, I wouldn't have expected them to actually show interest like that. Most people ask you questions about what you do or what you like, their eyes glaze over while you explain it to them, and by the time you're done they've already forgotten what you said. Certainly they don't write down site addys. But this lady was really cool. I hope I see her at this year's NaNo meet. :) (if the Knoxville group ever reappears, that is. At the moment everyone's fallen completely silent, and I do mean EVERYONE) I can't wait to get some money so I can go back and go through their sale boxes in the back. Some of the comics were only 25 cents a piece, and I saw many fine Star Trek comics that I feel sure are begging me to take them home. =D

But other than that, things have been quiet. I've been doing a lot of reading about dogs in preparation for my dog walking business. Learning a lot and applying some new methods to Bruno which so far are simple and effective. I've also decided that buying/understanding rollerblades is quite possibly the most difficult, unenjoyable thing I've ever had to do. Which sucks, because it doesn't need to be that difficult, it's just that no one could be bothered to make the process simple. Dumbasses. Also, I hate sporting goods stores. Anyone who insists you pay $15 for a roll of socks is just mean. Even if they're super high tech no sweat socks that supposedly make you invincible. Calling the place "Dick's" is appropriate, I think.

On the bright side, I have several lovely new LJ icons. :)

Well, I'm too exhausted to make a full LJ entry right now, but I just had to stop and pimp this great webcomic I found today. It's called Red String, and if you are at all interested in romance, manga, or anime, you will definitely like this comic. I found it to be very reminiscent of Sailormoon, and it had me laughing out loud several times with it's quirky sense of humor. (And I'm also totally invested in all of the characters, heehe) It is also single handedly responsible for me not getting ANY work done on my novel today...XD Well, almost none. I did manage to put out about 500-ish words before Good Eats came on...

Redstring!

I have to go fall into bed now before my eyes literally light on fire. Ergh. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep--I was bad and had ice cream tonight. XD It was goood though. Mint chocolate chip is the best. (And I swear it's not just my favorite flavor because Alton likes it!) It was so nice to have it, though, especially since it was all hot and sticky tonight. Which I don't mind at all. In fact I've been thinking very seriously about visiting Georgia sometime in the next few years...and not just because my favorite Food Network personality happens to live there. It looks like a really interesting place, despite my dad's objections. (Rooted in a desire to protect me, no doubt, so I'm not at all angry at him for what he said) Hopefully the weather will continue to be nice so mom and I can have our lunch date uninterrupted on Saturday. Because if it rains, we'll have to stay home with the dog. Again. I will be very unhappy if this occurs. ><

Heehee. I didn't even do a full length entry and I managed to mention AB four times. XD I'm so crazy.