Simple things like pop-up windows coming up and causing my IE windows to hang until they pop up when I'm merely searching for an apartment cause my blood pressure to rise! (ROAR!) How do I become less irritated by things like spam and pop-ups?????

Friday Five

1. What is your most prized material possession?
Very very hard to say... anything from a notebook I have, to my violin, to my car. Everything I own I value in some way or another and it's hard to rate their levels of importance. Wouldn't want to hurt any of their feelings.

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
Some baby pictures, I imagine

3. Are you a packrat?
Absolutely... I seem to find sentiment in so many things... even down to a gumwrapper or pencap that a childhood crush of mine barely touched. I love keeping stuff... but at the same time I'd love to have a simpler life without so many material attachments.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?
I would honestly prefer a super clean house... but I know I'd always have to have a room somewhere that has all my must-keep stuff... and I can't imagine that room being very clean. :)
5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?
I don't really have my own place right now; I'm staying with my boyfriend right now... but I'd have to say he does have a theme at his place - Black & Silver... simple.

YOU ARE THE BEST! I LOVE YOU!!!

Friday Five

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
To give myself a place to write down thoughts I've probably tired my friend's ears with, or things that just aren't that easy to express or talk about.

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Yep... family, friends, and coworkers. They know about it either because I gave them the URL or someone I know gave it to them.

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
NOPE... it's personal and impersonal.

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I honestly don't care... I'll just take it in whatever direction it decides to take itself. I must admit that it is a tedious job to maintain anything even resembling a weblog or journal. Sometimes, I just get way to busy in my own life to write about it.

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
- Amy @ Anticipate.org - One of my rare but there girlfriends from real life. She's sharp as a tack.
- Julie @ Amabilis.net - An amazingly down-to-earth and positive webmistress from Bakersfield who inspires me with her life journey.
- Laura @ Goobita.com - A very chic chick from Texas that I'd like to meet someday... her taste in some things is very similar to mine.
- Zannah @ /usr/bin/girl - A Seattle blogger with very good taste in links.. always manages to keep me interested.
- Erica @ EricaLucci.com - A very sweet chick from Dallas, who I've had the pleasure of meeting. Very cheery and welcoming gal.

When something just doesn't feel right... what do you do?

Yay! Got my /dev/blanket today! Yippee skippY!

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day :) I had a very good time.. went to a Dallas restaurant called Rooster's... Grant gave me a heart-shaped necklace from Tiffany's and I gave him a Coach keyring thingy... and thankfully we didn't go to the Stars game that night cuz we lost. Heh.

Happy VALENTINE's DAY :)!!!

Holy cow!!! My guestbook got wiped again... *GRUMBLE* :(

The Replacement

So... I went car shopping yesterday and picked out a replacement. It's used... but it sure looks like someone took great care of it.

::Specs::

Model: 1999 Audi A4 1.8 Turbo Quattro
Mileage: 35k
Color: Red Hibiscus

So far.. I dig it... I've loved Audi's for years now... and now I'm happy to finally own one. I can't really afford the one I really drool for (S8)... but this one will do for now.. it's pretty comfy anyway. Oh yeah... pictures below... if you're curious. And thanks, Will, for hosting them while my webspace is horked.

Pictures:

w00t.. gotta replacement car finally!

My dead car

Alrighty... my car is totalled, according to my insurance company. STILL have yet to hear from that girl's insurance company though.

THE CURE

Oh my God... I think I know what will cure most of this tension -- GET RID OF THE GOD DAMN PICTURE!!!! I'm so glad I just figured it out after all this time. Yeah... showing a little respect goes a long f'n way. Try it.




(If you have no idea what I'm talking about... it's because I'm not talking about anything in a general sense... this is all personal to me... but I have to say it somewhere since I can't say it out loud to the person)

eMotions

It's amazing... I -do- have feelings. Most of the time I'd like to think I was an emotionless, yet personable girl. I'm definitely getting more in touch with my feelings lately... even if they are based on things far from reality. I feel haunted as of late... not in a spooky kinda way, but in a memory of someone kinda way. And no, I'm not talking about an ex-boyfriend. I'll just leave it at that. I'd rather not share every detail of my life. Anyway, I need to shut up... in a way I'm being a hypocrite. Right now, I just need a tension relieving massage and the Ghostbuster's.