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By kilax, March 21, 2008 5:37 am

If, like the newspaper or milk, you could have anything of your choice delivered to your doorstep each morning, what particular item would you want it to be?

I would like a fashionable new outfit delivered to my door each morning, so I wouldn’t have to waste time looking around in my closet, just to end up feeling like I wear the same thing everyday. But does that mean I would have to go to the door in my bathrobe?

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By kilax, March 20, 2008 10:11 pm

Since everyone loves the other movie meme… and since I still have nothing going on in my personal life, I decided to create a movie screenshot meme for you. This should be EASY. In fact, it is going to be SO EASY that I ask you to not answer them all if you know them all so others can guess too.

The rules are the same – post your guess for the movie title in the comments, and I’ll fill in the film once it’s been guessed! (And no cheating and all that)

1.
(American Graffiti – guessed by Robin)

2.

3.
(Pride and Prejudice – guessed by Megan)

4.
(300 – guessed by Christina)

5.
(Batman Begins – guessed by diane – I knew she would get this one!!!)

6.
(Casino Royale – guessed by kapgar)

7.
(Live Free or Die Hard – guessed by SJ)

8.
(Reno 911!: Miami – guessed by CourtneyInControl)

9.
(Transformers – guessed by kapgar)

10.
(V for Vendetta – guessed by Megan)

I apologize for making this so easy. It’s kind of a waste of time. When I thought of it, I thought I could make it harder, but I am not finding any good screenshots on the internet.

Can you tell how bored I am right now?

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By kilax, March 19, 2008 8:55 pm

Borrowed from SoMi…

Ten seconds ago I pulled my hair out of the ponytail I always wear it in.
Ten minutes ago Steven and I started eating freshly popped popcorn!
Ten days ago I spent the entire day in my pajamas, playing Xbox.
Ten weeks ago I was driving a Cadillac DTS to Fort Wayne for a work trip.
Ten months ago I was adjusting to my first week of work after graduation.
Ten years ago I was in the eighth grade. Wow.

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Ten years from now I hope to be living in Europe. Or somewhere overseas.
Ten months from now I will be recuperating from holiday partying.
Ten weeks from now I will be much healthier.
Ten days from now I will be at a friend’s open house party in Chicago.
Ten minutes from now I will be on my way upstairs to take a shower.
Ten seconds from now I will be posting this.

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By kilax, March 18, 2008 5:52 am

Alright, everyone’s doing it, and it seems to be fun. So here goes:

* Pick 15 of your favorite movies
* Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie
* Post them on your blog for everyone to guess
* Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed

These are your rules:
* No Googling or using IMDB search functions (Don’t cheat!)
* Leave your answer(s) in the comments

1. “Wow, he just made the international sign of the doughnut.”
   (Mars Attacks! – guessed by Dave2)
2. “My theory on Feds is that they’re like mushrooms, feed ’em shit and keep ’em in the dark.”
   (The Departed – guessed by Quinn)
3. “But I’d like the pie heated and I don’t want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I’d like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it, if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it’s real; if it’s out of the can then nothing.”
   “Not even the pie? ”
   “No, I want the pie, but then not heated.”
   (When Harry Met Sally – guessed by kapgar)
4. “I love you. ”
   “I know.”
   (The Empire Strikes Back – guessed by kapgar AND Return of the Jedi. Originally, I wasn’t going to give it to kapgar, because I was being tricky and using Return of the Jedi and I was still upset at myself for missing HIS Empire quote on his site. But then I got over it.)
5. “Jesus, this is a nice limo. ”
   “Yes, it is. Now suck my cock.”
   (Team America World Police – guessed by E)
6. “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness’.”
   (Shall We Dance? – guessed by Gina (Mannyed))
7. “If you ever loved me, don’t rob me of my hate. It’s all I have.”
   (The Count of Monte Cristo – guessed by Hilly)
8. “Jeez, why do I always have to be the one to tell the kids there is no Santa Claus?”
   (The Island – guessed by SJ)
9. “What do you mean he don’t eat no meat? ”
   “Oh, that’s okay. I make lamb.”
   (My Big Fat Greek Wedding – guessed by Odie)
10. “Blew it. Didn’t I? Why didn’t I concur?”
    (Catch Me If You Can – guessed by suze)
11. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
    (Saturday Night Fever – guessed by diane)
12. “The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is we’re both about to die.”
    (V for Vendetta – guessed by Megan)
13. “I’d like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake.”
    (Under the Tuscan Sun – guessed by sizzle)
14. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an after-funeral party to attend.”
    (Zoolander – guessed by SJ)
15. “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. Is little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.”
    (Lilo & Stitch – guessed by Christina)

I apologize if I used any quotes that have already been used – there have just been so many!

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By kilax, March 17, 2008 4:23 pm

This is the first job I’ve had with paid days off. All of my other work until now has been part-time, summer work, non-paid or McDonald’s.

Something inside of me (a conscience?) made me feel like I had to be careful and only ask for days off when I really needed them, so I took off the day before the wedding, six days for the trip to Aruba, and New Year’s Eve for visiting family in Kansas City. And since then, I’ve been slaving away at my desk everyday… because in my office, we recognize zero holidays between New Years Day and Memorial Day.

But oh, how I’ve been getting tense at work. Our secretary took a two-week vacation, during which my mentor found me in the copy room swearing at a printer because I couldn’t figure out how to get the ink in (something our secretary normally takes care of). A general contractor told me he was surprised when I didn’t answer my phone because I always seem to be at my desk. A lunch conversation with a coworker left me so fed-up with some things I felt like I had to have a one-on-one with my boss. A new coworker started, drove me nuts, and quit abruptly five weeks later. An engineer from a job left me so infuriated that I went into my boss’s office and was yelling about it. Multiple arguments with a general contractor that I had to ask my boss to join because I didn’t feel comfortable with on my own. Blah blah blah…

All normal stuff. All signs of needing a break.

But how do you just ask for a day off and say, “I need a break from work.” Does your boss understand that?

My sister and her boyfriend are here until tomorrow morning, so I used them as an excuse to take a much needed day off. And I am trying not to feel guilty about it.

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By kilax, March 14, 2008 4:55 am

Do you love or loathe having house guests?

Steven and I really love having house guests. We like cleaning the house and stocking the pantry, in anticipation of our guests arrival. We like making special meals, or taking our guests to our favorite restaurants. We like to show (off) the work we have done on our town home… especially Steven’s schmancy pants A/V system. We like to stay up late, play fun games, and entertain.

Of course, I ask because my family is coming to visit, and from what I’ve heard from other people, not everyone gets as excited about that as I do.

I am also wondering…

Do you have any good house guests stories?

Now, this isn’t a good story, per se, but it is definitely… interesting. A few years ago I was on a school trip in NYC. Our departure flight was canceled and we ended up on a flight that put us in the O’Hare airport overnight before our connecting flight home.

Of course, I looked at that as an opportunity to see Steven. And it just happened to be on Valentine’s Day! Since I am so nice, I asked three of my friends if they wanted to come stay at our house in the guest bedroom or on the couch so they did not have to sleep in the airport/front the money for a hotel.

Steven was really nice and picked us up in the middle of the night. We all woke up early the next day to catch our flight home. Trying to be nice, I asked my friends if they wanted some breakfast – maybe milk and cereal? I told them I wasn’t feeling awake enough to have any, but they all said yes.

So, we are standing around in the kitchen, them eating their cereal, and me and Steven chatting, when one my friends makes a funny face, places her bowl on the counter, and runs into our powder room and forces herself to throw up into the sink.

Yeah, that alarmed us, especially the other two.

She comes out and we ask what was wrong. “Oh nothing,” she brushes it off. “There were just some live bugs in my cereal.”

Everyone dumped their cereal in the sink. Steven and I were mortified. How did this happen?! She had a different cereal than everyone else! Did she confuse the pieces of cereal for bugs since it was so early in the morning? Or did she actually feel something moving around in her mouth?

Well, it hasn’t happened since. And luckily, I was still friends with everyone after that. That girl was even one of my bridesmaids.

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By kilax, March 13, 2008 5:46 am

Where’s the last place you would expect to find a liberal vegetarian like me on a Saturday?

Think about it.

A few weeks ago, I casually mentioned to Steven that I would like to learn how to shoot a handgun. “Why?” he asked. “Well,I just thought it would be a good thing for me to learn,” I told him.

Really, I have always been afraid of guns, but felt like it was time to conquer that fear.

I kind of thought he would just brush it off, but apparently this inquiry is the type of thing that gets your husband’s attention. Sure enough, he called me in a few days to tell me he talked to some friends about going to the shooting range the following weekend.

So we went with one of his coworkers and his wife. I felt out of place, around a bunch of macho men and dead animals stuffed on the walls.

But I tried it. I shot quite a few rounds. And I even hit the target!

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By kilax, March 12, 2008 6:11 am

When my two-year dating anniversary with Steven rolled around (back in September 2004), I wanted to get him something really special, but I didn’t have a lot of money. So I thought long and hard, “what has Steven been hinting at that he wants?”

I finally figured it out – a memory foam pillow! I knew he had mentioned wanting one. And those are expensive, right? Well, $30 seemed expensive at the time to a living-off-of-loans-and-handouts college student. And I thought it was a nice gift idea…

So I asked Steven’s so-kind brother, who lived in the same town as me, to take me to Sam’s Club to get the pillow. So, there I am, in an aisle with pillows, saying to Steven’s brother, “I really hope Steven likes this pillow! I wonder if he got me anything…”

Yes, you are meant to be laughing at me by this point.

Steven drove in from Chicago that weekend to take me to dinner for our anniversary. Oh yeah, and he did get me something – a three stone princess cut diamond engagement ring.

Of course I was ecstatic. But I kept thinking later on how dumb it was that I bought that pillow, thinking it was an exciting gift. And I felt really dumb for telling Steven’s brother how excited I was about giving it to Steven – because his brother knew all along that he planned to propose to me that night. I am surprised he could keep a straight face!

So, even from early on, I’ve started out defeated when it comes to gift exchanging between the two of us. I’ve mentioned it before – Steven always knows what I am getting him – he probably knew I was going to give him a stupid pillow (which was too stiff by the way). And, my gift always pales in comparison to his.

But, how can he guess if he receives an unexpected gift? That’s right, I bought something for him that has no associated holiday or birthday. And while I can’t keep my mouth shut about the fact that I bought him something, I know there is no way he will guess what it is.

Unless someone tells him.

So keep your mouth shut too.

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By kilax, March 6, 2008 5:51 am

Oops.

Steven emailed me on Monday with the Subject: Happy Anniversary! He then proceeded to tell me that our 6-month anniversary was last Saturday, March 1st, but he forgot to say something.

I actually had to look at a calendar. And count the months off on my fingers. Twice. It doesn’t feel like it’s been six months since we got married!

Half-year milestones probably become less and less significant the longer you have been with someone. But for me, along with the acknowledgment of six happy months of marriage, this milestone is a reminder to take life more seriously.

I often have this “I am so young, I can do it later attitude.” This attitude’s a little bit different from procrastination, because I still do all the things I need to get done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The things I am talking about “doing later” are some of my life goals. (Yeah, now that I think about it, I am kind of just repeating Monday’s post)

I was specifically planning on beginning to study for the ARE (Architect Registration Exam)  and LEED exam (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) after the wedding. Of course, my excuse before the wedding was that I was so busy making all these decisions that there was nothing else I could focus on. Now what’s my excuse? What have I been focusing on for the last six months? How does time slip away from us like this? It really kind of worries me, how my weeks are a blur of work, and my weekends are me trying to have some fun, but catch up on chores and sleep. I really don’t want to live my life in a blur.

Anyway, I’ll make sure I remember the 1.5 year milestone, and I’ll definitely remember the 1 year mark! We’ll just see what I have accomplished by then.

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By kilax, March 4, 2008 8:09 am

Sunday’s word of the day – garrulous – made me laugh. It reminded me of an old coworker that just talked and talked and talked. Talked about personal things. Talked about trivial things. Talked about work things. Always talking.

How do you end a conversation with one of these people? How do you get them to leave your desk when you are really trying to work?

The thing is, they are sweet natured, but sometimes you don’t want to smile and nod and listen to someone ramble on… you want to get your work done so you can leave the office at 5:00.

Oh well, those who know me, know I am guilty of this from time to time as well…