People (in general) are starting to get on my nerves, and it was instigated by one person in particular this evening.

And how could anyone, especially an owner of three dogs and married (or whatever) to a vet tech mistake a tiny YAPPY dog’s incessant whining for a black lab’s? A neighbor (from all the way across the GIANT yard) thought Jazzi was ( Read more... )

I am at my wits’ end with my neighbor. We share a wall between our living rooms. He has his sound system set up against this wall, and he blares his awful rap music at extremely loud volumes. It is even worse when he goes outside to smoke, because he turns it up even louder so-I guess-he can continue to ruin his eardrums as well as share his ( Read more... )

There are very few things in this world that aggravate me; however, recently I have discovered a new pet peeve: Callers not leaving messages on the answering machine or voice mail. I do not always keep my cell or the home phone within arms reach, and so there are many times when, by the time I reach the ringing phone, the caller has hung up. If ( Read more... )

Argh. I am so frustrated right now. I managed to dig both of my printers out of boxes, but no matter what I do, both read as "undetected" by my computer. So after venting my frustration, I scanned my NaNoMangO Page 1 on to my sister's laptop with hopes of emailing it to myself. Only her computer eats scans. Literally. You follow the scanning ( Read more... )

Society, especially here in California, has allowed itself to be warped into a ridiculous mockery of the basic principles of common sense, morality, and justice... and watching the "local" news out of L.A. is severely depressing. A four-year-old little boy was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting while playing with a friend just a little ways ( Read more... )

As a follow up of yesterday's post, I decided to begin writing Chapter 1 in The Winterlands. It is not quite finished yet, as I spent over an hour trying to find the "perfect" name for a capital city. Interesting how the little, almost insignificant things when writing a story tend to take the most time, hien ( Read more... )

I feel so grown up. We went into Fredericksburg this afternoon with the sole purpose of buying Disney's Cinderella III and the 25th Anniversy Edition of The Last Unicorn. ^.^

Ever since I first come online back in 1998, I have heard nothing but praise for an animated movie called The Last Unicorn, but try I as might, I could not find a copy of ( Read more... )

We just watched Hotel Rwanda, a true story about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. My head hurts from crying so much. The hatred that one human being can harbor towards another is impossible to comprehend, and then to magnify that hatred by hundreds! When the genocide was finally over, over a million people... men, women, and children ...had been ( Read more... )

Has anyone else noticed the increasing lack of simple, elegant layouts on all of these "free layout" websites? More and more layouts are either anime-themed (great if you like anime, but not so great for everyone else) or so graphic-intense that it is difficult to navigate or even read the words on the title images! Either too bright colors ( Read more... )

About two months ago I sat down and decided to write out my faults. Things that I did knowingly or unknowingly that were either bad habits or bad characteristics. One of them happened today, again ( Read more... )