28 doesn't feel all that different from 27.

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You wouldn't believe how many Xterras I've seen on the road lately. And specifically, how many yellow Xterras. I passed by a Nissan dealership and there was even one in the showroom. I guess I can't blame anyone for wanting a bit of Logan in their lives. :)) Seriously, though -- I wonder how many of those sales can be traced back to VM. Speaking of VM, a horrible thought occurred to me. In her VM thread the other day, mynuet said something about how Veronica was way more into her OBHWF scenario than anyone else was -- which is probably true. But that led me to pondering -- is that why she started things up with Logan? She's the one who kissed him. Up until that point, she had lost everything, including her secondary family, of which Logan was a part. Was being with Logan just her way of trying to recapture some of that, however she could get it? She wanted to be on good terms with him -- missed that and the life she used to have. Since she couldn't have Duncan, maybe she went for the next best thing, the only thing that she could have, in her mind. And since Logan wanted it too, it was just that easy to let it happen, let herself have some small crumb of what she used to have. That's what I'd say if I were a V/D shipper, I think. :-S It totally makes sense, but the LoVe shipper in me doesn't want to accept it. Wah.

My mom is a cleaning machine. I wish I could be more like her. My place looks unbelievably awesome now -- I don't know how she does it. I mean, there's still lots of stuff I have to put away, but she cleaned the bathrooms and the kitchen from top to bottom (I don't even know where the mop is, so she totally scrubbed the floor by hand), and now, instead of one bedroom being "finished," all three of them are. Basically all I have to do now is tidy up the bonus/family room, and that's it. And even that looks very uncluttered now. Did I mention that I finally got my office desk? And that it's the most awesome thing ever? I'll have to take pictures. Next order of business is to get myself a digital camera. It's one of those things that I've let slip by me, for some reason. It's like, am I living in the stone age or something, when even my parents have one and I don't?

Well, Talis is back. He's much better behaved now, but I don't know how he'll be after having to spend hours and hours by himself, day after day. :-S I am seriously considering getting another dog, although the thought of two dogs exhausts me -- particularly if one isn't house trained. But in the long run it might be for the best, because it will hopefully keep Talis from being lonely (and thus destructive), and will occupy him while I'm trying to play WoW clean. He's so freakin' adorable, and he bites a lot less now. Also, he understands about "bed time," and depending on how tired he is, will either sleep in his little bed or will sleep at the foot of mine, and won't stir even if I get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. However, at around 7:08 every morning I am woken up by the feeling of someone STARING at me, willing me to wake up just by their sheer willpower. It's Talis, just sitting there, looking and looking and LOOKING at me, until I get up and take him out. *sigh* I am going to be SO TIRED. I've been going to bed really early while my mom's been around, but now that she's gone, I will be playing WoW, probably for longer than I should, and then Talis is going to wake me up at 7am and I'm going to be soooooo cranky.

I failed to get my mom interested in Veronica Mars. Turns out she's not interested in shows about school-age kids, and was only into Buffy due to the supernatural aspect of it (she loves horror movies and the like). However, she is really into Lost, so I have sent her home with my DVDs. Her theory (bear in mind, I haven't seen S2 and she's only seen 8 eps of S1) is that they're all dead and don't know it yet. "How else would Locke be able to walk now?" she demands. How indeed. I know that's one of the theories that's been bantered about; I don't know if anything that's happened in S2 sheds any more light on the situation (don't tell me!), but that's her theory and she's sticking to it.

Ever since my paid account lapsed, I have felt incomplete without all my different icons and being unable to change my mood theme and being limited as to my journal's layout. I was trying to be smarter about where I spend my money and was just about to cave, but ropo saved me. Now I can use 1 billion icons again, wheee! I think I'm way too lazy now to do any kind of customized layout, though. Maybe one day. Also, jade_okelani is the rockingest. She wrote 5 ficlets starring five of my OTPs! There's Mal/Inara, Dave/Georgia, Lex/Lana, Syd/Sark, and Draco/Ginny! (Speaking of D/G, the latest part of DV totally made me cry again. What is UP with that. I'm dying to see the last chapter. First, because I want to know how it all turns out, and second, because it will finally be done and I can move on. It's like the end of an era!)

Due to my mom and Talis being around, I hardly played any WoW in the last four days or so -- probably under an hour. I got some AB playing in early last week, but I was afraid that I'd lose my new rank. I don't know how it happened, but I actually gained headway -- I'm now about halfway to First Sergeant. Craziness. I plan to play Inara and get her to her 20s (because SOME PEOPLE *coughakscullycough* are so impatient), but I hope to keep up with my PVP'ing as well.

Also, it's been so crazy trying to keep up with the Bruins in college football. They've been incredibly lucky this year. I had totally given up on them in the Stanford game and went to dinner with my mom, only to check the score later and find, to my amazement, that they had won. They better get their act together, because their luck won't hold out forever, and they can't play that way against USC, especially. Until then, I'll bask in our #5 BCS ranking and undefeated status. :D

And that's all I have to say about that.