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    Saturday, November 28th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		11:24p
    I was a little productive today. I got tired of seeing my spare room (which actually MY bedroom*/TV room) quite a wreck. It needed dusting and decluttering and I kind of wanted to be able to see the floor again. Also, I hadn't done laundry since before my trip (which I still need to write about, possibly tomorrow). I'm quite pleased now that those chores are done. I feel more relaxed when I'm actually surrounded by neatness.

    (*Yes, I have my own bedroom. Not because the hubby and I don't have a good marriage because it's probably the best it's ever been but I prefer sleeping in my own room for a few reasons. 1) I got used to sleeping alone and being able to spread out back when I worked nights and slept days; 2) my husband snores REALLY, REALLY loud. In fact, he's going for a sleep study tomorrow night; 3) my t.v. is in this room as is all my "stuff": knitting stuff, dvd stuff, music stuff, you know, stuff; 4) my husband has pagers and scanners going off at all hours of the night because of the ambulance and fire department, it gets annoying and I have a hard time falling back to sleep; 5) I like sleeping with the window cracked open near my face but the space heater keeping the room very, very warm, he doesn't. So, for all those reasons, I have my own room. Poor guy, the bedroom he sleeps in is still "our" room. He has no room of his own.
    bally
         		9:11a
    Friday, November 27th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		10:06p
    I had a very pleasant visit with my stepmother and her sister this evening along with my two sisters, Dawn and Darlene. Norma (my stepmom) and Aunt Mary were down to spend the holiday with their mom in Massachusetts yesterday and came down to Connecticut to visit us today at my sister Dawn's. My stepmom is awesome and I hate that she lives a little over 5 hours away as I would love to spend more time with her. My birth dad died over 6 years ago but she is and always will be family. Pat came with me even though we took separate cars so that he could bring Karlie home when it was getting closer to her bedtime since Megan's working tonight. My son Zach was able to make it up for a little bit as well. Finally, everyone had left except me so I could spend a little one on one time with Dawn, which we haven't had a chance to do in AGES. I still didn't stay to late since she had been up since 3am. She's one of those Black Friday shoppers. I was home by 9:45 and can now sit back and catch up on my shows that recorded while I was in California. Once those are caught up on in the next few days, I can start watching Christmas DVDs.
    Thursday, November 26th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		9:13p
    I hope all my American friends had a lovely Thanksgiving. I had a nice time at my sister Tracey's. Turkey, mashed potatoes and meat stuffing for dinner. Yeah, I'm not a fan of veggies. Great desserts too. I had chocolate pudding pie with whipped cream and some tapioca pudding.

    Then we came home and I stopped in next door at my in-laws to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving too. Two of my brothers-in-law were still there with their wives. The guys were in the living room and we womenfolk were in the kitchen when my m-i-l proceeds to tell my sisters-in-law that I'll be having surgery done and why. Yes, I felt my entire face turn bright red and I was so stunned I didn't even know how to react. I tried to play it cool but the more time that's passed, the more embarrassed and angry I've gotten about it. My husband was very apologetic for saying anything to his parents but he's lucky he has ambulance duty tonight and isn't home. Of course, I've been pretty informative here on blurty but for some reason, that's okay. I've kept the discussion to friends only and let's face it, we've talked about almost everything between here, the WD and LJ so not such a big deal (for me at least).
    Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		2:43a
    Well, we're home. And by home, I mean HOME! All my stuff is unpacked and put away and everything. As happy as I am to be home (because, I DO tend to start getting panic attacky when I'm not in my own surroundings), I'm kind of sad that it's over already. You know, like all the build up to Christmas and BOOM! it's over. [sigh]
    cyril
         		12:33a
    ESPN suck balls.
    Having left Stoke and Bally's quite wonderful Sky TV (complete with good ol' Sky Sports), I've found myself in London with people who have access to ESPN instead, so I've traded one load of Premier League football for another. Which is odd.

    ESPN are a weird bunch. 5:30pm on Saturday seems like a very strange time for football anyway, but that's not the issue. The problem is their closedown time. ESPN (over here, at least) ends for the night at 4am. Ordinarily that's not a problem (seriously, what's on at 4am? They show more German football than anything else!), but, say, if you're bored and feel like watching the MLS Cup final (kickoff was 2am GMT), it'd be nice to be able to do so in full. Not, for example, watch LA Galaxy boss the first half, Real Salt Lake come back in the second, and then be left with no idea what happened during extra time and penalties because the channel decided to shut down for the night five minutes in.

    Fucknuts.

    Apparently RSL won, which is moderately saddening. (I was supporting the Galaxy, due to a lingering loyalty towards David Beckham from his Manchester United days...)

    Current Mood: contemplative
    Current Music: Lightning Dust - I Knew
    Monday, November 23rd, 2009
    bally
         		7:20p
    Standing In The Light
    The stars aligned this weekend, as the football team Andy supports (Middlesbrough) played the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) for the first time in over ten years. We'd said we'd go, and go we did. I sat with the Middlesbrough fans, which meant I had to cheer when they scored a goal... after five minutes. The Forest keeper could only palm a fierce shot back out to one of their strikers, who knocked it past him. Bah.

    At half-time, the three presenters of the BBC's Top Gear programme came on to the field to promote their roadshow, which happened to be taking place in Middlesbrough that weekend. They arrived wearing the shirts of Middlesbrough's local rivals, Newcastle United, but soon changed them after the booing. 3000 tickets (I think) were made available to fans of the home side (as Jeremy Clarkson himself said, "But Nottingham - you can't come!", which riled the Forest supporters considerably).

    The Forest team stepped up a gear in the second half, and managed to equalise when Robert Earnshaw fired in a beautiful free-kick from just outside the area. I had to not cheer this time, and did a pretty good 'turn away in disgust' (honestly, I should make my living on the stage, darlings) whilst my brain jumped around like a balloonatic. That's my word, by the way... but you can use it if you like. Honours were even - which helped on the journey back!

    Tomorrow I'm going to see Ed Byrne perform stand-up comedy in my home town. More on that story later.

    Current Mood: grateful
    Current Music: Yann Tiersen - La Valse D'Amélie
    starshine_wd
         		1:17p
    Almost ready to leave for the airport. I'm showered and packed, just waiting for Patrick to get out of the shower and we can be on our way.
    Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		11:02a
    Another long day. I'm even more tired than yesterday as I went to bed at 3am and got up about 8:30am. It was a great day though. Got to sit next to Alan Tudyk and Mark Sheppard and talked to both of them. Jewel didn't sit next to me but I got to talk to her as well. I won an signed "Terafyn' Space Monkey" signed by Nathan in a Silent Auction and had Jewel sign it later. There's more to post about but again, tired. Flight home is tomorrow.
    Saturday, November 21st, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		11:21p
    Very tired, had an awesome day with seeing Yan and Raphael Feldman (who are hysterically funny) and Morena Baccarin (who seemed a little overwhelmed?) and Adam Baldwin (AWESOME! and he sat next to me at the meet and greet Desert Party...SQUEEE!). I'll update more when I have time.

    Btw, this is also a drunk post but I'm using my back button tonight...you know, habit.
    Friday, November 20th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		11:26a
    We got to the hotel in LA around 5pm tonight. We hooked up with Laurie and her son and had dinner. They were still on EST so they went to rest after dinner. Patrick and I went outside for a cigarette and met a bunch of other people here for the convention so we stayed outside for a little while. Now, we're just hanging out in our room but we're getting excited for tomorrow.

    Stupid blurty, still on EST, had to correct the date and time again.
    Thursday, November 19th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		9:15p
    We spent the afternoon at Sea World today. It's one place we always love to visit and we have to see the Shamu show. We did get soaked but luckily we dried off fairly quick but DAMN that water was cold. We're back at Deb's for the night and we decided to skip the San Diego Trolley Tour tomorrow so we could get an early start and hopefully miss rush hour traffic. I've decided to send some of my luggage back via UPS so we don't have to lug quite as much with us on Monday so we'll stop there before heading to LA and then we'll be at the hotel all weekend.
    Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		11:38a
    Okay, I know it doesn't look like I posted yesterday but I did, just take my word for it. I marked it private because it's a copy of the letter I sent to the Better Business Bureau in response to the stupid company who, so far, won't refund my money for that DC AfterDark Tour back in October.

    As for today's post:

    Yesterday, we went to Hard Rock Hollywood for lunch with Rian and that went back to her place. She made us chicken noodle with mashed potato and we watched t.v. and played Scattegories and Uno. Good times, good times. Unfortunately, we had to leave her this morning. We headed out around 10:30am for the Wild Animal Park. We enjoyed ourselves and got to see the things we wanted to see and do the things we wanted to do. We both wanted to take the Safari Tour - done, I wanted to feed the Lorikeets - done and Patrick wanted to see the Cheetahs - done. We left there and headed to Target so I could get some hair spray since mine had spilled in my luggage. Luckily, it was in a plastic bag so the damage was minimal. I also ended up getting How I Met Your Mother S2, Religulous and Zack & Miri. (I also bought The Curious Case of Benjamin Button later on at a convenience store). From Target, we headed to Dave & Busters (a restaurant/arcade). My cousin, Debbie, met us there and we had supper and then played in the arcade.

    Edit: I just noticed that this posting was listed for Thursday, at 2:28am, instead of Wednesday, 11:38pm. Strangely enough, my Blurty seems to still be on EST instead of PST. I corrected the date and time. I'm not bothering to correct the time on the actual Thursday entry since it's still on the correct day. You may now return to your regularly scheduled program.
    Monday, November 16th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		9:04p
    Arrived safely (and a little early) in LA this morning. Got to Rian's around 12:30pm. Went to In&Out Burger for lunch, took a nap and am now stuffed from a delicious dinner after taking a much needed nap. Jenn's chicken fried steak is well worth the trip and I'm totally going to be spoiled because Rian's making chicken noodles w/ mashed potatoes tomorrow. I'm going to burst by the end of this trip, let me tell you. Now, just hanging out with friends and having SUCH a nice time.
    bally
         		9:19p
    Mars Needs Women
    Apologies for the title, but I've already used Life On Mars, and, well... yeah.

    ( Doctor Who episode 4.16/30.16 The Waters Of Mars review )

    Current Mood: excited
    Current Music: Air - Mike Mills
    Sunday, November 15th, 2009
    starshine_wd
         		2:35p
    I'll be in California in less than 24 hours! WOOT! I'm almost completely packed, just have those few odds and ends you can't pack until just before leaving. Also, I still think I've over-packed so I may go through things one more time. It's so much easier for guys. [sigh] According to my son, he's packing one pair of jeans (in case the ones he's wearing get too dirty, he said with a smile) and enough shirts, socks and underwear for the week. Knowing him, everything will just be crammed in the suitcase too.
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