It Started with a Journal

What a game. It all worked out as it should, in my opinion. Reggie Bush won the Heisman, and Vince Young led his Longhorns to a national championship. :-)

I don't often write in to news sites, but I made an exception this time. I mean, I just HAD to thank T.J. Simers at the L.A. Times. I owe him a lot. Without him, well...

To T.J. Simers:

I never cared about the Texas Longhorns before this year, but I have
you to thank for the elation I feel right now. Were it not for your
obnoxious columns, I might have had a fairly boring Jan. 4. So
thanks, and I hope your Trojans are as successful in the coming year
as they were today.

What a fabulous beginning to 2006! :D

And just so this isn't all about football, I do want you guys to know that I have started to work on the sequel to Portkey Party. My biggest obstacle at the moment is the fact that I seem to have lost ALL MY NOTES for that fic. *weeps* I'm in the process of rebuilding, but it's always hard to do that, especially when I keep hoping I'll find the notes any day now. :-S

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. ( Spoilery musing. )

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. ( More doggie woes. )

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. ( What could be spoilery info, depending. )

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!)

( WoW stuff. )

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.

Traffic was freakishly good this morning. Is there some kind of holiday going on that I don't know about?

So did I mention that I put my condo up for sale? I can't remember. Anyway, it got listed on Thursday, and my agents (I got rid of my old agent, who I was not happy with) noted on the listing that I did not want to review offers until Monday, with the hope that I would have multiple offers to choose from. I didn't hear anything over the weekend, so I assumed that they'd been too optimistic. Well, I got a call this morning from one of the agents, and apparently there have been a couple of offers to come in, so we're going to meet tonight to go over them. O.o My mom's like, "I knew you should have asked for more." But I thought it was a reasonable price, plus my condo dues are very high -- $257/month. Just for dues! Not counting the mortgage! Anyway, I have yet to see what the actual offers entail, so I don't know that this monkey is off my back yet -- I mean, what if they suck? It'd be nice to get this settled before I leave, but it won't be the end of the world if I don't.

I had a fairly frivolous weekend.

( I watched Firefly. )

( I also watched some S1 House. )

( There was also come college football viewing. )

( I played WoW. )

Also, I wish the world to know that Jade is an Indian giver, and took back the Xbox Lego Star Wars game that she and Robbie gave me for an early bday present. Well, she claims that she accidentally packed it into her luggage by mistake and that she'll return it to me in NY, but this seems a likely story.