I have done it again

Once again the weather folks in Toledo over-exaggerated the forecast. We were supposed to get "slammed" with an "ice storm" last night, but it was just a little bit of sleet that turned to slush on the ground. Yeah, hardly an ice storm. People here are pansies.

Yesterday I went to the mall and tried on dresses for weddings. There are at least two on tap for the year that I'm definitely attending, and both should be pretty damn fun. Speak of fun, St. Patty's day is creeping up on us, and then two weeks afterwards is Jon's Fantasy Baseball draft, which means I'll either be there as the draft board girl or I'll stumble around Berea. Either way, good times. Jon and I want to try to plan another trip to Athens before summer. Most of our friends will be out of Athens after this spring quarter, so we need to squeeze in an excuse to visit before Homecoming 2007. Yippee!

I got some news about my laptop last night. I have probably complained to you at one time or another about the shitty laptop that Best Buy sold to us about two and a half years ago. We sent it in for diagnostics about 4 months after buying it and they had it for five weeks only to tell us that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, but they replaced the battery just to appease us. Well, when they returned it I had the same problems with it. I ignored them because they seemed to occur a little less frequently, until the last year. Since then I've been getting a lot of blue screens, automatic reboots and shut-downs--yes, all red flags. So we sent it back to the "Geek Squad" (stupidest marketing gimick ever), which proved again that it is useless and stupid. My dad picked up the laptop last night and they told him they found absolutely no problems and they replaced the battery. Yeah, dad was pissed. Apparently, he told them that their work was unacceptable and there is very obviously a problem with the laptop. Dad did a good job and didn't even take the laptop home--instead, they agreed to ship it right back for diagnostics AGAIN. The manager also confirmed that their lemon policy does still apply and if they have to send it back for any reason one more time after this one, they will replace the laptop. Thank God. At this point, I don't care if I get a brand new laptop or if they just make mine work. That is all that I want--a $1300 piece of equipment that actually WORKS. I will never buy a laptop or computer from Best Buy again. Their customer service sucks. And their Geek Squad sucks even more.

The song from the Six Feet Under clip below has become for me much of what Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap was about a year and a half ago. It's called Breathe Me by Sia and I recommend it if you're in for a creepy, depressing and soothing song.

Six Feet Under

I had almost forgotten how great Six Feet Under was. Chris just sent me to the last ten minutes of the series finale. If you haven't seen it and you're okay with a spoiler, go ahead and hit play. Totally phenomenal.

Is this oak?

So Greg Daniels, BJ and Mindy are going to drive me INSANE. No new episode of The Office until March 15. I guess it's only a few weeks, but that's a couple of weeks too long. Last night's episode was totally awesome. It was great to finally see Dwight making things more uncomfortable than Michael for the first time in a while. I honestly have no idea what's going to happen with Jim and Pam, if anything. For so long I've felt that they can't let them just be together, because that would be too easy. Then again, it's been three seasons of the same thing and I honestly think it would be safe for them to go for it. I don't want them to write out Karen, though, because I'm actually beginning to like her. I don't know, I don't want to think about it because I'll lose sleep over it.

Speaking of The Office, what is the deal with the bandwagon? Not naming any names, but I feel like it was just months ago that I was trying to convince people that it's an EXCELLENT show, only for them to ignorantly say it isn't funny or the humor is too stupid. HELLO! It's brilliant. And now you're all on the bandwagon. Don't ever tell me I'm wrong about a television show again.

I like presidents

Government holidays mean no school. No school means more rest for me. I'm a fan.

Although I have the day off, there was no sleeping in. I caved and woke up around 7:30 just before Jon left for class. I need to be a little productive today. My plans are to pick up and ink cartridge, maybe go to the mall just to do a little walking and window shopping, and do some lesson-planning for the week ahead. Next week is "World Languages Week," which means I have to come up with some silly plans for Thursday and Friday that revolve around assiging German dessert recipes and brushing my kids up on their German trivia. I'm sort of looking forward to it because it should be a relatively easy week, but I can see myself freaking out about something already.

I started today off with a bang--coffee and My Super Sweet 16. As much as I can't stand most of those kids and their parents, I love the television they make. But does anyone else wonder why all of these kids think they need to put on some sort of performance? All of them suck at whatever they do, whether it's dancing, rapping or singing. I suppose we can blame their parents for even letting such shenanigans occur. If I am ever loaded enough to throw my kid a 16th birthday party worth more than $200, you can be damn sure that I'll be calling all of the shots. That is, IF I were even a sucker enough to waste the money on something so foolish. My kids will drive Fords or used Volks Wagons. Which reminds me, Prince William drives a VW Golf. That is a person with REAL fame and a future, unlike all of the ungrateful punks whose egos MTV feeds.

Agree? Disagree? I'm up for the debate, but I'm willing that most agree.