well... i got the computer back up and running... i still have to install everything but i have 30 free gigs in which to install it :) but now i'm getting tired and grumpy... so i should go to bed...

so i happened to have a random 30 gig hard drive laying around, so i installed that into my computer, and now i'm in the long, boring process of installing windows xp onto the new hard drive... i've had to skip a few files so far... i pray that they weren't essential, cause i don't think i'll be able to stand it if i go through the whole process of the installation to have it fail... ugh... ah well. on the good side, my computer will be like new to me (although i'll have lost some files that will irritate me)... luckily i stored all of my web page files, pictures, and mp3s on my usb hard drive... now i hope i can get it to work with my computer when i get it back up and running, cause for some reason i can't get it to work on this one (my parents' computer), which is weird cause i was running it with xp upstairs, and this computer down here is running xp also... anyway... time to check the progress... morelater...

blah!! my computer crashed hardcore... so i had to move the site (but you can't access any of my internal links, and there won't be any webcam until i either have my computer or a new one up and running or until i move my page to my brother's server (or another one... i dunno... ) but, yeah, BLAH!! my c drive (yeah, my boot drive) is gone. suck suck suck-a suckage.

so i found a webpage that tells you all sorts of stuff about your birthday... did you know that today is
· Seventeenth of July Revolution Day (Iraq)
· Muñoz Rivera Day (Puerto Rico)
· Constitution Day (South Korea)
· National Tennis Month (U.S.) ?
also, on this day in 1955 Disneyland, the first theme park ever, opened in Anaheim, CA... but that's like the only happy thing ever that happened on my birthday.. never fly on my birthday, cause it's always unlucky... JFK Jr. disappeared in his plane on my birthday, there was a huge horrible commercial plane crash one year that killed lots of people (i think that was the one leaving JFK or Laguardia <-spelling?), and on my 16th birthday i was stuck in the pittsburgh airport for 8 hours alone because my flight out of detroit was delayed and i missed my connection.
anyway, the site also had a little blurb about my astrological sign, Cancer, which said: Cancerians are nurturing, emotional, sensitive, conservative, and home-loving, much more aware of how they feel than what they think. They are artistic, have vivid imaginations, and have highly developed memories. that's pretty much true, i guess. but with my memory, the highly developed part is that it stores everything good, and weeds out and deletes (or represses - whatever) most bad memories. which is why i don't stay mad at people for long, i can't really remember why i was mad in the first place...
anyway... i share my birthday with John Jacob Astor and Phyllis Diller (that weird, old comedienne). so rich people and funny people are born on my birthday. that's cool, cause i'd like to be both...

... they say it's my birthday :)

so i wore my new red shoes to work today and both of my bosses noticed them. and they're both men. they are some groovy shoes.... they're like modern-day ruby slippers - although when i was bored at work I clicked my heels and they didn't bring me home :( but i did forget to say, "there's no place like home..."

so tomorrow's my birthday! :) i hope i never get to an age where i'm not excited or where i dread my birthday... but yeah... i'm going to go to the Great Escape tomorrow, so i can ride roller coasters (my favorite thing) on my birthday... morelater..

so here i am fooling around before work instead of getting ready... i always do this and then i end up rushing around all stressed... anyway... so i always figured that my next car would be a saturn sc1 in blue or silver. i've always wanted one (i was hella pissed when tim got rid of his blue sc1, i loved that car...)... here's a pic:



but now saturn is coming out with this new car - an ion - which is hella cute. it's a 4-door, but it's still cute. you can look at it here. It kinda looks like a regular saturn 4-door and a jetta had a baby.

anyway... now i really am running late... morelater...

so yesterday i went to lunch with some friends at Fresno's and they embarrassed me by having the waitstaff sing happy birthday to me (thanks carrie). by embarrass of course i mean delighted, because really everybody complains when people sing to you but secretly enjoys it. i even got a gift! :) they gave me cobalt blue dinnerware that will perfectly match the canisters that i have already :) i'm very excited to have my own kitchen and be able to use it... speaking of kitchens, i've decided to paint the table that i bought red. "cranberry zing" to be exact. i may decoupage the top of the table, but i haven't really decided on that yet. but the table will definately be red. i think a red table will look cool with cobalt blue dinnerware on top. if i did decoupage the table, i'd use vintage advertisements... well, copies of vintage ads... especially liquor ads, because they're hella cool. i bought a print of one that will go in my kitchen:



I've found a bunch of ads like that online, so i may print them out and use them for my table... or, i could make placemats out of them, that way i could have them on the table when i wanted them, and if i got sick of them i could remove them... that's probably a good idea....

my mom sent me shoes in the mail today. when we were in AZ i saw a pair of steve madden shoes that i'd been lusting after for a while at that last chance store, but they weren't in my size, but i guess my mom found them in my size on a later trip :) they kinda look like a cross between running and bowling shoes but they're red and they're clogs. they're lovely.

I looked at another apartment today. in the paper it was advertised as $545 but after i saw it and decided it was perfect they informed me that it was $580, which was hella annoying. and it didn't include any utilities, and it was electric heat, so that would be too much. ah well. the search continues....

well... i'm bored. but it's too late to go out and start cleaning the table and getting it ready to be painted.... ah well... my birthday is the day after tomorrow. YAY! but... i'll probably be depressed (and not cause i'm getting older)... i was watching the history channel earlier and it just made me miss tim... i used to love to be lazy with him and do nothing but lay in bed and watch tv (especially the history channel or TLC or the discovery channel...) but i guess that was old tim and evil/darth tim has killed him. damn darth tim.

i am drunk. in that cool, unreal way, but not so drunk that i'm sick. took me foreve tp type bed now.