Viz!
Well, having used the Mood Theme Editor (which requires you to paste in the URL for every damned mood individually), I am essentially back at square one: some show up, some don't. I have not a clue what else I can do with it. The installation instructions I have are beautifully clear, but were also originally posted 2 years ago by someone I don't know so it's not like I can expect help there. It's even more frustrating after going through all these one by one and remembering just how lovely they are.
It's another gross day - humid, rainy and daaark. Actually, the rain only started in the early afternoon...five minutes before I left the house (for reals). The extra sucky part about that is that there's a problem with the fan in my car - it's only working on high, and the air-conditioning isn't working at all, so it doesn't defrost very well unless it's on hot. :-/ This is not particularly comfortable, obviously; it's what I was *going* to get fixed before there was the brake problem, and had put off for a bit because it's not a safety thing, just annoying as fuck plus I mostly drive with the windows down in the summer anyway so it's not been turned on much at all unless it's absolutely pouring rain. However, since having said brake problem fixed, the acceleration has been hugely whiny and it doesn't feel stable; also feels like it's going to stall out when I slow to a stop; so back in it goes because clearly that is NOT safe. Fuck. I just do not have the money for this shit. I can borrow it, and that's not really a problem except for, y'know, in my head where I'm supremely pissed off (again) because I shouldn't *need* to borrow; I should be making enough money to be able to have contingency funds for shit like this. And there's the deep cynicism that the extended warranty coverage ended last summer, so of course this is all happening now. Especially with 'now' being just a few months before I want to SELL the fucker.
I have been having the weirdest craving for coffee recently so I picked some up today. We do have coffee in the house - the mother drinks it - but I'm fussy and I don't like hers. *laughs* So when I reaaaaaaally want it, I splurge on some good stuff. (Relatively speaking, anyway; 1/2 lb. of ground coffee @ Sbx is not *too* outrageous esp. when it's maybe a bi-annual purchase.) I made the mistake of choosing to wander around Chapters for a few minutes instead of going immediately back out into the rain, hence the acquisition of two bargain books as well: Expletive Deleted: A good look at bad language by Ruth Wajnryb, and Letter Perfect: The A-to-Z history of our alphabet by David Sacks, both of which are exactly what they appear to be. :D Notwithstanding the part where I'm not supposed to be buying any more books at all, but they were $4 each and sometimes, the inner geek needs feeding. Said purchases were also before I finally decided that yes, the car really really does need to be looked at by a professional. Not that my little extravagance would have helped much there, anyway, it just feels a mite hypocritical to be whining about money and then talking about spending it in the next breath. ;-)
Though the only expensive thing I bought today was halogen light bulbs for my living room. I have twin fixtures that hold three 50w floods each. One bulb's been out for ages and I never bothered replacing it as it was the one directed at the far end of the room from where I normally am (thereby not missing it much). Another went right before Jeff visited, and then night before last, two more blew when I turned the light on, leaving me with one bulb in each fixture. Well, yeesh, it was frigging dark in here! Fortunately they don't need to be replaced often. Now that I can see in this room again, I can get some stuff done. Assuming I find any motivation, that is. I kind of feel like just curling up with a book and telling the world to fuck off right now.
It's another gross day - humid, rainy and daaark. Actually, the rain only started in the early afternoon...five minutes before I left the house (for reals). The extra sucky part about that is that there's a problem with the fan in my car - it's only working on high, and the air-conditioning isn't working at all, so it doesn't defrost very well unless it's on hot. :-/ This is not particularly comfortable, obviously; it's what I was *going* to get fixed before there was the brake problem, and had put off for a bit because it's not a safety thing, just annoying as fuck plus I mostly drive with the windows down in the summer anyway so it's not been turned on much at all unless it's absolutely pouring rain. However, since having said brake problem fixed, the acceleration has been hugely whiny and it doesn't feel stable; also feels like it's going to stall out when I slow to a stop; so back in it goes because clearly that is NOT safe. Fuck. I just do not have the money for this shit. I can borrow it, and that's not really a problem except for, y'know, in my head where I'm supremely pissed off (again) because I shouldn't *need* to borrow; I should be making enough money to be able to have contingency funds for shit like this. And there's the deep cynicism that the extended warranty coverage ended last summer, so of course this is all happening now. Especially with 'now' being just a few months before I want to SELL the fucker.
I have been having the weirdest craving for coffee recently so I picked some up today. We do have coffee in the house - the mother drinks it - but I'm fussy and I don't like hers. *laughs* So when I reaaaaaaally want it, I splurge on some good stuff. (Relatively speaking, anyway; 1/2 lb. of ground coffee @ Sbx is not *too* outrageous esp. when it's maybe a bi-annual purchase.) I made the mistake of choosing to wander around Chapters for a few minutes instead of going immediately back out into the rain, hence the acquisition of two bargain books as well: Expletive Deleted: A good look at bad language by Ruth Wajnryb, and Letter Perfect: The A-to-Z history of our alphabet by David Sacks, both of which are exactly what they appear to be. :D Notwithstanding the part where I'm not supposed to be buying any more books at all, but they were $4 each and sometimes, the inner geek needs feeding. Said purchases were also before I finally decided that yes, the car really really does need to be looked at by a professional. Not that my little extravagance would have helped much there, anyway, it just feels a mite hypocritical to be whining about money and then talking about spending it in the next breath. ;-)
Though the only expensive thing I bought today was halogen light bulbs for my living room. I have twin fixtures that hold three 50w floods each. One bulb's been out for ages and I never bothered replacing it as it was the one directed at the far end of the room from where I normally am (thereby not missing it much). Another went right before Jeff visited, and then night before last, two more blew when I turned the light on, leaving me with one bulb in each fixture. Well, yeesh, it was frigging dark in here! Fortunately they don't need to be replaced often. Now that I can see in this room again, I can get some stuff done. Assuming I find any motivation, that is. I kind of feel like just curling up with a book and telling the world to fuck off right now.