Gakked from sheafrotherdon...

<( Twelve Days of Christmas )

Just something I threw together last night. My take on the Five Things Meme that's going around. SGA and John has a guitar. Unbeta'd. All mine. Except the characters of course. Oh, yea, and there's Karaoke Night on Atlantis. Why not?

( Four Songs that John will not play and one that he will )

Tara & Austin ....

Having some e-mail problems, so I'm posting this here. I can receive mail. Just can't send it. Your packages will be mailed tomorrow. I missed today's cut-off time for office pick-ups.

Austin - Your total comes to $8.35. You should get it Thursday, Friday at the latest.

Tara - You should get yours in 4 to 10 days.

I lost a dear friend on Monday. Someone I've known for a long time. He was my boyfriend's best friend and my dancing buddy when we hung out at clubs. An all around good guy who laughed easily at your jokes (even the really lame ones I specialize in) and always understood. He was 30 and died peacefully in his sleep due to complications with diabetes. He went to sleep and never woke up. I cannot imagine a better way to go, but 30 is too damn young.

Jimmy Eat World - May Angels Lead You In

There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.

What would you think of me now,
So lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that.
Now I'll never have a chance.

May angels lead you in.
Here you meet my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.

So what would you think of me now,
So lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that.
Now I'll never have a chance.

May angels lead you in.
Here you meet my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.

And if you were with me tonight,
I'd sing to you just one more time.
A song for a heart so big,
God wouldn't let it live.

May angels lead you in.
Here you meet my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.
Here you meet my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.

Earlier this week I joined a gym. I am like sooo out of shape. Right now, I'm just doing the treadmill thing. It's still a pretty good work out, except it's kind of monotonous. They keep the volume on the radio pretty low for a gym. The tv is on mute and no subtitles. Plus, I'm going alone so there's no one to talk to. Solution? I broke down and ordered an MP3 player. Hopefully it will be here by Wednesday. It isn't the fanciest one on the block and it only holds a gig, but it should be plenty for me.

Tomorrow night my sister's boyfriend's band will be playing at a local bar. Yea!! I haven't had a chance to listen to him play yet, so I'm pretty excited. Also, this will be the first time Dwayne and I have been to a bar in several years. Should be lots of fun. Especially since we have a DD which means Dwayne can have a beer or two if he wants.

A lovely little quote I found online from Other Voices, Other Rooms by Capote that I thought I would share.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

Found here if anyone's interested.

I have been having pretty craptastic days here lately, hence lack of updates.  Nothing major, just a lot of minors adding up.  For one thing I work out in the country.  It takes 15 minutes to get to town.  I only have an hour lunch, leaving me, really, with a half to get everything I need to get done.  Except, they've begun working on the main road between here and town, so I've been forced to take some of the smaller side roads adding another ten minutes on each way, leaving me with a total of ten minutes.  Why even bother going, right?  Well ...

A) Business has picked up, as it does every year this time, and chaos is settling in.

B) Since I have had a few semesters of computer programming and am not afraid of computers, it is assumed around here that I can fix computers.  I cannot.  Our network server's power supply is going out.  The office manager here called a local computer guy who ordered a new power supply; however, the owner of our company does not want to pay $120 for the computer guy to come out here and install it.  Why should they?  I can fix computers, right?  I get the power supplies switched and it turns out the power supply is bad.  Originally, I thought I'd screwed up, but I switched back to the old one and it works perfectly.  Also, mine and the dispatcher's computers run very very slow.  O.M. ordered memory while ordering the power supply.  Memory does not fit my computer.  Luckily, it does fit the dispatchers.  This has been my day.  This is also why fighting to get to town is better than an hour here.

But ... I did have a very nice Valentines yesterday.  I got Dwayne a stack of Nirvana CDs and a Diamond Rio CD he's been wanting along with a cute card and a small box of chocolates.  He got me some roses, balloons, a very sweet card, and two books I've really been wanting for a while, In Cold Blood and Death's Acre.  Both look very good.  Click the links, Tara.  They're right along our alley.

I need to run.  I keep having to stop writing here to answer the phone and it's driving me crazy.

Man, has it been a busy week and it's only half over. My days are supposed to begin at 8 am and end at 5 pm, but I like to get here around 7:30 am. I like starting my day with a half hour of peace and quiet. Well, the owner of the company has been interviewing for two different positions. He's been
scheduling the interviews between 7:30 and 8:30, so instead of having my half hour of peace and quiet, I've been walking into pure chaos. Plus, the weather here has been pretty which means the pine straw business is picking up. Just plain hectic.

Sunday, Mom, my step father David, and I went to see Brokeback Mountain. It was ... amazing. Heart breaking. Beautiful. There really aren't enough words to describe this movie. It actually had a better turn out than I expected. 3/4 of the theater was filled. Very few people left dry-eyed. I wasn't among them. Mom and David loved it as well. We've been talking about it ever since.

Yesterday was Dwayne's birthday and I got him a region-free portable dvd player. He's been looking at them for a while. He was so surprised. Now, he can finally watch the Googlewhack dvd Tara copied for me. Yea! Also, I ordered a copy of the James Marsters show Tara and I attended last November and we can finally watch it as well. We decided not to go out to dinner last night since it was a week night. Instead, I'm taking him out for his b-day dinner Saturday. More than likely we'll go to Mikata's, one of those Japanese steakhouses where they cook the meal at your table. Haven't been there in a while. Should be fun.

Just found out Tara, Mark, and Gage are coming over the end of April. YEA!!!!! I miss them so much, so when I do get to see them it's wonderful. Plus, it's just a few weeks before my birthday so it's like the best b-day present ever. :)

Not really too much else going on. New NCIS last night. Abby was as beautiful as ever. Won't have another new one for a few weeks, though. :(

Oh, and, Tara, the infamous Lady Heather CSI is this week.

Anyway, that's about it. See what I've saved you guys from by not updating for, uh, months?

I just wanted to say hey. I know I've been gone a while, but I'm going to try and update more. Random observations about my shows and such. Current shows, if anyone's wondering: NCIS, CSI, Smallville, Supernatural, Numb3rs, Stargate: Atlantis, and House when I can swing it. At the moment, my biggest obsession, fan-wise, is NCIS. Well, Pauley Perrette in any manifestation to be exact. Please see icon for reference. All kinds of lovely that girl is.

Work is good, other than the typical one person. Home-life is great. May have some wonderful, about damn time news on that front a little later. Babies are wonderful. Wilson (the Boxer) is a constant ball of energy and entertainment. Abby (the squirrel) is feisty and beautiful. Chanty (11 year old cat) rules the roost with an iron fist. She basically ignores Abby, but Wilson doesn't dare step out of line.

That's about all. If I think of anything else, I'll add later.

We're getting Brokeback Mountain!!!! Auburn "If-You-Aren't-Baptist-Then-You're-Going-To-Hell" Alabama is getting Brokeback Mountain!!! Many levels of awesome. My mom and I are going to see it Saturday. Man, I was worried I'd have to rent through Netflix just to see it. Sometimes it really sucks living in the middle of the Bible Belt.