Update: (drum roll pleazzzzzzzze)

• Tired
• To say my job sucks is an understatement. Better pay than in MI, but I am seriously considering leaving for lunch one day and just never coming back. Yes, I'm looking. The practical side of me doesn't know how to just up and quit without a job lined up.
• Finished the Darktower books by Stephen King. I really liked books 3-5. I think the last two could have been a lot better than what they were. Felt like they got a bit rushed and sloppy.
• Knitting baby stuff. No, not for me.
  
• Knitting kitty stuff.
• Saw the pilot for the new Heroes show. Looked pretty interesting.
• Have developed a need to watch A Haunting on Discovery Channel.
• Demetri Martin is coming to town!!!!
• FormerBlondie™ and hubby are coming to town!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• The most interesting thing I've done over the weekends outside of the house thus far is take my car in for an oil change at the local Saturn dealership.
• I really need to watch the movies I've "Tivoed" (Have a Comcraptic DVR). So far I have to watch All About My Mother, The Widow of St Pierre, Life is Beautiful, The Sweet and Lowdown, Girl With A Pearl Earring...I'm sure there are others in there along with a documentary from LOGO called Paragraph 175. That's about stories of homosexual folk sent to concentration camps.
  
• I am not sure why but I am drawn to movies / media about life in the US or Europe during WWII. Something about that time period feels 'familiar' to me. I have recently wanted to learn more about life in Nazi Germany.
  
• On a lighter note, saw Xanadu last weekend. Heh. I so didn't realize Gene Kelly was in that movie.
  
• I am anti grammar in this post, it seems.
• Off to sleep now.

Labels: Lists, Work GA, Work Sucketh

1 bottle of Justin Obtuse port wine
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1 bottle of strawberry bubble bath
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1 bath pillow
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1 bottle of OPI pink nail polish
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Baroque music cd
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Girly day with total relaxation

Labels: Glitzy: Alcoholic, Glitzy: Girly

I didn't realize how I would actually miss certain things I grew up with in South Florida when I moved to Michigan. Rain is the one that has surprised the most. Rain meant tropical depressions, thunderstorms, hurricanes at the very worst. Cloudy days left me somber. I wanted nothing more than to get away from all the "stupid" rain.

I was a public transportation kinda gal in FL. Since I was stuck with taking the bus and rail system for a good 4 years, I saw rain as the enemy which forced me to tote a large umbrella every day. Rain meant puddles. Rain meant there was the off chance to get splashed by the car who was going too fast in rainy weather. Pedestrains be damned! I'm sure more than one of those cars went out of their way to cover me in muck and water. The other almost equally sucky thing was forgetting my umbrella and being caught in the rain without any awning or store to duck into. That amounted to a whole day of class followed by work with soggy clothes. Ick.

Without rain though, you don't get to see too many rainbows. I don't think I saw one the whole 7 years I was in, as Unfriendly's dad calls it, the frozen tundra of Michigan.

The afternooons this past week have been rainy. I've gotten to see some pretty amazing rainbows on my drive home. I took these pictures on 8/29. Alas, they are camera phone pictures. My little Motorola camera didn't quite do this beautiful rainbow justice.

You can see it very well in this first picture.


The second picture shows the upper arc in the clouds but it's very hard to tell.

I was so overjoyed when I saw this rainbow. Luckily, I was at a stoplight so I was able to appreciate it for a minute and snap some hurried shots. A little further on my drive home, I actually got to see the full arc, but since I didn't get a stop light, I couldn't take a picture. I did however, have a flash back to an almost forgotten time.

In first grade, my class had to sing a song about rainbows for something or another...probably some talent show. I still remember the song. It goes like this:


I actually found a midi for this here. It was stuck in my head all throughout the rest of my drive home, which wasn't full of angst (for a change).

Labels: Alpharetta, Ann Arbor, Driving, Nostalgic Glitzy