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Couple bits of randomness for you all today:

1. So far there are only six people who say they're down for participating in the Shipper Showdown this weekend. [nag voice]Now, come on people, are you really gonna let down your ships like that? Don't you owe Mulder/Scully, Adama/Roslin, Booth/Brennan, (insert millions of other ships here), etc, a few minutes of your time? THAT'S RIGHT, I THOUGHT SO.[/nag voice] Hee, okay, I'm done with the fake guilt-trip now. But seriously, if you'll be able to at least drop by to vote & leave even one campaign-y comment, that's cool too. Let me know if so. I just want to gauge whether it's still worth doing, or if I should plan it for another day entirely because not enough people will be able to show. 'Cause really, I want a ~crazy shipper smackdown~ up in here, yo. And so do you. C'mon, you know you do. All the cool kids are doin' it.[/peer pressure]

(But if people really can't do it, or not a huge amount of people are interested, that's okay too. Hee. I'll still do it anyway for the people who are into it. But guilt-tripping is fun! Plus, it burns calories)

2. Here's a sign that it's time to go shopping: you have to roll over the waistband of your jeans to keep them from falling off. Damn. I mean, I know I've lost weight and all (must be all that guilt-tripping, hee), but still. It's a good thing my sis and I are hitting The Gap tomorrow night.

3. Have I mentioned lately how entertaining my coworkers are? Because seriously. Here's just one example of a conversation we had today:

Coworker 1: Why won't you go to trivia with me tonight?
Me: He's got LOST, dude.
Coworker 2: Hell YEAH.
Coworker 1: JUST RECORD IT.
Coworker 2: ANY TRUE FAN WATCHES IT LIVE.
Coworker 1: You can just leave at 8:40! *knowing he'll refuse*
Coworker 2: Hello, commute! I have to get home & get ready!
Me: He's gotta get in his costume, yo. His LOST outfit.
Coworker 2: And I have to make dinner! It's my night!
Me: What will you have for your LOST-y meal this time?
Coworker 2: I don't know yet!
Coworker 3: What is LOST about, anyway? Isn't it, like, an island? And people are lost on it or something?
Everyone: *laughs at her*
Me: IT'S A ~MAGIC ISLAND~. With polar bears. And smoke-monsters. And time travel.
Coworker 1: Polar bears? TIME TRAVEL? Really? Really? *looks at him judgmentally*
Coworker 2: Uhhh, yeah. HEY, WE ALREADY FIGURED OUT THE SMOKE-MONSTER A MILLION YEARS AGO. WATCH & YOU'D KNOW THIS.
Everyone: *laughs at him*
Coworker 2: YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW. Plus, the polar bears are gone now.

Hahaha. I LOVE SCREWING WITH HIM ABOUT LOST. It's the bestest best thing ever. (P.S. To the LOST fans on my flist, ILU. Hee.)

4. On a much more serious note (I warned you this post would be random), I found out my grandma has breast cancer tonight. MAN, LIFE, WAY TO DISH 'EM OUT. God damn. But on the bright side, she says they caught it really early and doubts she'll even need chemo. She's supposed to go in for surgery in the next two weeks, and then it's possible she'll need radiation but doesn't even know for sure yet. But the important thing is, she told me she should be okay. She was more bothered by it hurting right now, and how annoying the testing was (apparently she had to basically lie upside-down for like an hour while they did a needle-biopsy & mri. Good times! She was like, "I'd rather have surgery." Heh).

( I also talked with her about everything that had been going on with my mom & Joe )

5. Meme time! I'm swiping this one from softly_me, because it was too much fun to pass up:

- Choose a random quote from each one of your favorite ships.
- Your friends now must guess the ship that each quote refers to. NO GOOGLING. Cheat if it's REALLY that important to you.
- Edit to add the answer when someone gets it right.
- Tag 5 people. Do it if you'd like.

( First one to guess all the quotes correctly wins a cookie )

Would it be so wrong to spend the whole evening just lounging around all lazy-like in my pajamas? And, if I ask very nicely, can Dewitt from my icon be there too? With her season 1 hair? I mean, my birthday is coming up and all. Okay, so it's 17 days away, but still! I never did get the Power Wheels car I wanted as a kid; I think the world owes me at this point.

All right, all right, I suppose I should do something productive tonight at least. I've been meaning to sort through my stuff so I can throw things out, and now would be a good time to get started on that. It fits with one of the other New Years resolutions I made too, which I forgot to mention here the other day: spend at least ten minutes everyday doing something positive that will improve my home, health, or overall well-being. That can be anything from cleaning to exercising to cooking (vs. eating out), or even simply to accomplish a task I've been procrastinating. I think it's going to become my main resolution actually, because as keenai talked about in her journal when discussing resolutions, it's both specific & attainable. I'll still make attending more meetup events a resolution too, as well as trying to perform well at my job, but I really like this one because of how achievable it feels and how it would affect my day-to-day life. Plus, as I learned back in my days of cognitive-behavioral therapy, it's always better to set a goal that can easily be judged objectively, such as "I will clean for at least ten minutes a day," vs. something subjective like "I will keep a cleaner home."

Before I go become Cleaning Gal though, I've got some TV Ramblage to share with you all:

( Modern Family )

( Dollhouse )

( Vid of the Day: Obama Edition )

Check it out, ladies & gents. I actually created an icon. Of course it's literally just a crappy uploaded picture file from my computer (from the X-Files/Simpsons crossover episode), as I have only the most basic of photo programs on this computer now (due to the great virus purge of '08), but still! I had a couple other images from this episode that I was dying to use too, but they were coming in too blurry. This one cracks me up though. It takes me back to the days when the fans had an entire website devoted to Mulder's red speedo scene in season 2. Haha. Ahh, *memories*.

And btw: For the longest time that's been the image that shows up when I log into my yahoo email account, hee. I also have a picture of Scully at her computer from that ep as my screensaver. I AM A HUGE DORK.

I'm still sad about the fact that I accidentally recorded over that ep back in the day. I had it recorded on VHS and then mistakenly taped over it with the 4th season finale or something. Since then I've tried finding a copy of it online but to no avail. Sigh. Life is hard, yo.

Anyway though, guess what?

( New niece and nephew pictures! )