Accio...some shit that works!

[wednes]

My iPod has magically transfigured itself into a piece of crap. This is disappointing since I was hoping it would remain an iPod for a good while longer. Granted, it was my own folly to buy a refurb (from Apple, I'm not crazy!) and not get the Applecare. I was light on funds and really wanted the classic instead of the Nano. Now it is possessed of a problem. If I forget and restart my computer while the iPod is plugged in, it creates a database error that makes it so I can't get into any of my files--except the ones I dragged and dropped there for safe keeping. The only solution is to restore it, which erases the whole goddamn thing. This happened last month and it took me weeks to redownload and format everything. iTunes doesn't let you redownload stuff you've already bought (anymore--dicks!), so I was just out that $80 or so. Then last Saturday night, it happened again. Fie and frown. I burned some stuff onto discs, but as I only have a combo drive and not a super drive, I'm limited that way. So I just have to be really careful or risk losing everything all over again. I really do need to invest in some hard drive space.

Am supposed to be working on two different short stories that I wanted to submit, like...yesterday. I have two great ideas that I should be able to bring in within the proper word limit. I just don't have any goddamn time. Plus all this rapid mental cycling is making it difficult to focus. Plus I'm working and doing the podcast and a few other random projects. I can't even express how much I'd like to quit my day job. But I'm no where near that point financially. But you know, money-wise, I've always been a complete failure. It's a good thing I've got a swell personality.

And now, for your daily cute:


These are cracking me up at the mo' so I thought I'd share.

Got the coolest present from uterdic and smarbaby, who just got back from Harry Potter Land, or whatever they're calling it. SIRIUS BLACK'S WAND!! I know, right? And I'm telling you, it's badass.

I haven't taken any good pics of my hair, but the stripes are in. They turned out more like swaths, actually. Lots of blue on one side, and plenty o' hot pink on the other. The blue is already coming out of the bottom of my hair, presumably because that's the part that's been processed the most. I'm taking that as a cue to get a haircut. I was kind of inspired by thehula's new 'do. I prolly won't go quite that short, but almost.

Will have new glasses pretty soon. Picked them out today at the new eye doctor. Spent $60 finding out I don't have macular degeneration or glaucoma. Hooray for the gift of sight! The news specs are a bit more understated than my current pair. I figured I'd dial it back a notch since I have clown hair right now. I don't want to do the full-out Penelope Garcia. Then again...I kinda do.
H thinks I make a lot of "gaudy" choices regarding hair and accessories. He also points out that I never buy anything beige, brown, orange, gold, tan, or any mottled color aside from gray-blue. That's mainly because I'm a winter. But I'm sure the fact that my parents couldn't get enough of those gross 70's Earth Tones and splashed them all over our old house is a contributing factor.

Comments

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

You would totally rock the full-on Penelope Garcia style!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

You're probably right!

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

1) awww, you're the cutest lil baby girl ever! I want my baby girls to be cute as you! and you're so sombre in the 2nd pic, you totally look like Wednesday Addams.

2) I totally hear you on the rapid cycling. Thank god I'm on drugs that work, or I'd be a freaking basket case. Rapid cycling is kind of my thing. I hope things stable out for you soon.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I have a doc appt tomorrow so hopefully we'll figure something out. I just hate to be trying new meds when I have so much stuff to do with my real life.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

For sure. I've found for me at least that going onto new meds is fine, but going off old ones is where trouble starts. Doctors always put me on a new one first for this reason. Doesn't always give the most accurate results (and gets expensive), but keeps me from hurting myself or others. And if I'm lucky, keeps me from quitting school or work.

But the experimentation stage is always a nervous time. I try to be really optimistic about any new drug I try. Embrace the placebo factor inherent in any new treatment.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear that.

Quitting jobs is a big caveat for me. I get in this med induced/withdrawl mindset where either the job sucks and they don't deserve me, or it's too overwhelming and I can't bring myself to go in.

Then the next week I'm all What the hell did I just do?!?!

So yeah, lets hope this goes better and that self awareness will help me avoid disaster.

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

Now that's cute! My photos from the same years look similar in terms of my moods. In 1973 I was a happy little boy, then in 1983 I was scowling at the camera. I had a hateful attitude during my middle school years.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Catholic school took a lot out of me. It was pretty horrible.

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

How was the quality of the actual instruction?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Meh, there was some Edgar Allan Poe and a bunch of hoosefudge about Jesus. I don't really remember. But the bullying was gourmet.

[groovesinorbit]

Very cute! And yeah, I tend to go with the bright colors, too. My mom loved brown. : p

And what's up with your spam commenter? I noticed it on another one of your posts, too.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Not sure about that. I'm assuming it's part of the price of fame.

;-]

[groovesinorbit]

Hee!

[hellamama.livejournal.com]

I want to squeeze baby Wednesday in the Raggedy Ann dress!

And I think your hair would be adorable short.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I'll have to see how much my cheque is this week as I missed some work recently. if it's enough, I'm gonna go to the mall tomorrow for a cut. If not, I'll probably just cut it myself, which means no real style, just shorter.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Those are incredibly cute! The first one, love the hat. The second, love the "I'm a flowerchild a few years too late" look!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I was very into the hippy thing for a time.