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Yay me! I got up this morning and found that my chick has finally started a livejournal! A cheery hello to stewlis! She's my bestest friend from college, and I've been nagging her for a year about this. Hopefully she'll become as obsessed as carrieb and keep posting. Hmm.. maybe I should let her know that if she doesn't, I'll never go eat pie with her again.. :)

Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I got Bjorn's basic design done last night. It needs a bunch of sprucing up and stuff, of course, and pages added and stuff, but now at least I know where I'm going with it (clean and simple). I was suffering from a distinct lack of creativity this week. Oh! Eeek! The pressure! The domain name has resolved already!!! (Here, anyway.. it might take a little longer in some places. It works that way.) I've gotta hurry! *grin* I just hate paying for something I'm not using. Oh well, I suspect I'll be working on it a bit this weekend. We can't leave town, and you can only go to WalMart so many times.

My husband has actually now referred to me as an "alien metal monster". I'm not sure that sounds all that nice. You remember me complaining about my watch situation? How no watches ever work for me for long? I replaced the battery on the watch I wore before this one broke, and guess what? It's stopped working already. It started by losing time.. I just checked my watch while we were at dinner last week and realized that it wasn't 3:30 at all. I reset it and it was still working when I took it off, and when I put it on days later. Within an hour of wearing it, it was losing time again, and now it's completely stuck at 12:15.. though the second hand is trying really hard to keep moving. People usually nod knowingly and blame it on magnetism when I tell them this. Assuming that's the case--and obviously, there's something wrong with me--I'm actually wondering if I can blame it on these vitamins we're taking. It feels silly to even suggest.. but the watch problem began again after years of inactivity when I started taking them. The other factor I'm going to check out is that both of the batteries I purchased this month were from WalMart. Maybe I'm incompatible with WalMart batteries. That does not, however, explain why the first watch's battery ran down then to begin with. I assumed it was a normal case of replacing it after a couple of years, but now the timing seems fishy. We're going to talk to a jeweler. Maybe I'll get my Fossil watch back after all.

Look at me, making up conspiracy theories for clocks. I really do slip further and further into crazy every day.

Saturday evening

Magnus is laughing his butt off because he's playing this game, minding his own business, when his character stumbles upon a monster in a cage... and the monster is speaking Swedish. *laugh* It has English subtitles. He's been tormenting it for the last five minutes trying to get it to say some more things. (Enclave, btw.)

I installed the new forum without a single hitch, and so I'm working on getting it configured properly and stuff. I swear, when I get a chance, I'm going to actually make an effort to learn PHP. I've been incredibly impressed with every single script I've worked with. I should probably stop playing with it, though, and finish up the main design. I might work on that tonight. You know, now that I think about it, I don't design well in the daytime.

I've had a headache on and off all day. I think it's about the weather. It was sunny and 80 yesterday but is 40 and grey today. I tend to get this sort of headache when it's like that outside. This one was the worst I've had in a very long time, though.. but it's almost completely gone now. Just in time to do grocery shopping.. argh. :) Well, better Kroger than a headache, I guess!

It's a little frustrating because I'm always nagging Magnus to call his family and stuff, but they're never home anymore! Even more now.. the new phone cards we bought are 1.5 cents a minute to Sweden (instead of 4 cents or something.) That's much cheaper than it costs to call MY family, which is silly. Anyway, it seems they're never home anymore. I told him to call them now--it'd be 11:30 pm. They'll be home! (Asleep, but home..) It wasn't surprising that his sister was out at 8:30 on a Saturday, or his best friend, but parents should stay home every once in a while! :)