Weighing in my thoughts on the latest mental dump.

I’m not sure what I’m trying to do with that title, but once you read on you’ll understand… I hope.

haikun3 First of all I’m giving myself a couple pats on the back.

1. It’s officially the fifth month milestone for smoking cessation. Yes I quit cold turkey and strictly by will power and not once did I ever take even a drag. I’ve completely quit… finis! Moving on…

2. My last paycheck I had my US Bank loan not renewed which was a huge sting in my $$ HOWEVER, since my student loan was finished, thankfully the ouch wasn’t as bad as it would have been had the garnishment continued. THIS paycheck I was slightly concerned because I missed a few hours due to the dreadful weather and running out of sick time. I was and *am* actually shocked to see that I was able to pay my bills, my extra bills AND buy holiday gifts for the family when they did a last minute get together (the first time I’ve been able to do that in years!). So this is what happens when I get my fully earned paycheck? I can afford to LIVE????

3rd and lastly I have assembled a laptop caddy which has completely transformed my computer usage.

In 2007 I threw out my desk when I placed my desktop pc in the closet and solely used the laptop. It’s been a wonderful change, however, not once could I find comfort in using the laptop, which in turn has made it nearly impossible to find motivation to sit and write anything with some substance.

So, aside from being able to purchase something useful, buying gifts for people, and feeling that huge weight lifted off me as I smile with the no-smoking accomplishment, I have also purchased a new wallet (small thing I had been putting off for ages) AND a new read

Film: I saw Mamma Mia and I am feeling the regret. I was told that I should just see the stage version and I’m in agreement. The film was awful. The film was awful on so many levels and now I regret having named my beloved son after Pierce Brosnan (his middle name is Pierce). That’s all I have to say about that.

Browsers: Google Chrome. I still seriously love it as well as the gmail lab. I do. I love it. I’m going to marry it… I’ve started out on the invitations and hopefully you will all receive it soon.

Concepts: The toilet seat scale. :-\ I see it as something to enable eating disorders, competitions between roommates… and I think curiosity would cause probably each and everyone of us to get one.

01-12-09_1340 Awards: I was talking to a friend today about how I had felt horrible for writing an article on another site which accidentally insulted this woman’s deceased daughter. I seriously didn’t even write it about her daughter, but her daughter was in a copy/paste portion from a local news story where I couldn’t understand how a man just across the way had crossed the freeway and wound up killed- only days after it happened to someone else. I was writing about the trauma of the person who hit the guy for doing this horribly STUPID act. I titled the article “New Candidates for the Darwin Awards.” I went on to tell him that I took it down out of respect and how it was a Pulitzer winning piece that came complete with the pictures I took of the high way that was at a stand still with the cops/firetrucks/ambulances etc.