Taxes

Blech. I just did my taxes. I owe money. For the first time ever. It's not much, but it annoys me. Grrr. I'll get over it. And the funny thing is it took hours. And then my state tax owed came to $1. Ha! Federal tax owed is bigger. Booo. I like Turbo Tax, though. Arghcarabumba. If that's a word.

I was also sick for about 10 days. Don't I have good happy news today? It started with heartburn, acid reflux that traveled up and gave me a sore throat. Then I lost my voice. Then it triggered a sinus infection. Then I got a small fever. Then I discovered the name of "postnasal drip". Ewww! And annoying! The throat was only sore for four days, and the sinuses stuffed for 5 days, then the "after effects" as I call them (the postnasal thing) lasted a few days. My point being I think I got over it all quickly. I read all these things online that said, "Go to your doctor now, you need antibiotics. You cannot get over a sinus infection without antibiotics." And I thought, "Bullshit!!!!" So, I took a bunch of vitamins and herbs and whatever I read would help cure this thing. And I kicked it's ASS. Whoop! I'm so weird. I just sat around fuming for days, thinking, "Get out of my head!!" It's so funny how mad I get when I'm sick. Also, the moral of this story is, when you get heartburn take care of it fast before it turns into something else and starts a chain reaction of sicknesses. Grr.

Oh, hey, I got the final season of Angel on DVD. Holy crap! How depressing! It was good, but I liked it better when all the episodes were connected by cliffhangers, etc. But I guess the network didn't like that. Hmm. It was just so sad. I wanted Angel to beat the bad guys, become human, and ride off into the sunset with Buffy. Hello!!!!! Still, it was very good. And I love Illyria. And now I'm sad that it's all over. There is still the Firefly movie, but there'll be no more Buffy / Angel universe.

I'm so mopey today. Geez.

I won 3 video awards. First, second, and third place in different categories with different videos. Here's a link to the site with the video challenge and award winners on it, in case you want to know what I'm talking about: [hi, click me!].

Now I have to get in gear and really try to make my business profitable. I didn't make enough money last year. But enough to pay taxes. So I may as well increase my income. I'm going to be busy busy busy. I have to buy some software and build some sites, and make sites I already have bigger. Not this site. This is my for-fun site. But I feel all businessed out today. Collecting all my payment stubs and credit card statements and whatever else. My calculator got a workout. Sheesh!

And now.... I don't know what to do with myself. It's the wee hours of the morning. All the good TV is gone. Well, good reruns are on. But I've seen them! Wah. Poor me. I may go take a nap. But I will probably end up doing business research online. Blahhhhh. Cuz I'm in workaholic mode. Okayyyy. That's what I'll do. My long fingernails keep causing typos. Maybe it's time to cut them. I could do that. "And my diamond shoes are too tight!" - Chandler, Friends. Hee. Insanity. Later.

Chris on 02.22.05 @ 02:15 am [link]

New site design

Yippee!!!! I love my new site design. I know it's only slightly different, but I think I made it better. I tweaked it. Jazzed it up a bit. I learned CSS so I could do that cool hover thing with the links. And I customized the forms and the scrollbars. Whoop! And I put my face up there in the corner. Whoopie! See, what I did is, I took a picture of me when I was thin and I.... whatever you call it when you "photoshop" something without Photoshop. I did that. Cuz in the pic I had no makeup on and I looked very young. So, I drew on a whole bunch of eyeliner and some pale lipstick and gave myself a Goth look and tinted the whole thing purple, and voila! Now I look like a grownup. And maybe it will motivate me to get thin again, having that thin picture up there. Yeesh. I had such a skinny neck. I'm jealous of myself. (Of all the strange things to be jealous of....!) And of course at the time I probably didn't like the way I looked. Cuz people are stupid. Well, at least I know it's possible to be that thin. Argh.

That may be my only news. I love the color purple, hence the site design. PURPLE. I have a new video up. It's a 30 second commercial. I kind of like it. I used music from Buffy. I loooove that music. It was playing during the only scene of Buffy that ever made me cry. Awww. Season 5 finale. Wowzers! Great episode. There is no crying smilie. There is no crying in baseball. I can't wait to make some Buffy and Angel music videos, but I'm not going to until I get the final season of Angel on DVD. I pre-ordered it from Amazon. Go me. Obsessed, obsessed, obsessed. Oh, hey, I watched Firefly and I love it to pieces! I must go see that movie when it comes out. Eeeee!!!! I'm all about entertainment. Creating things, watching creative things, yada yada yada.

How cool is Medium? I love that episode where she ran through the airport with that woman. Cuz she didn't have to. She could have just let that guy run past her, but she grabbed the woman's hand and led her to safety. Though the safety looked an awful lot like danger. Spooky! Good stuff. It's really growing on me. That show gets better and better. And I already liked it when it began. I loved how she got the lawyer to stop questioning her on the witness stand. Hee hee.

Hey, The Cure are on TV. Similar eye makeup to mine. Yup. I never wear makeup in real life. None, zip, zilch. Nothing. Which maybe makes me look sick or tired because I have dark circles under my eyes naturally. And then people treat me as if I'm sick and tired and then I start to believe it and I become that. Not good. Makeup is a weird form of magic.

That cat that likes me so much at my mom's house jumped on top of my car when I went over there and got on the roof and leaned over and peeked into my car as I got out my laundry. So cute! That was a run-on sentence and I don't care.

God, I'm too full of food. But last night I couldn't sleep cuz I went to bed a little bit hungry. And then I had a perfectly normal dream, and then in the middle of the dream some woman in my head - in my dream - started yelling a boy's name. Like a mom frantically searching for her kid or yelling at him not to go out into the road. It was so freaky. It kept getting louder and it wasn't related to my dream and I knew I had to wake up to get rid of it, so I did. And it was gone. It was all in my head. Then I was too freaked out to go back to sleep for about 2 hours. It's amazing how spooky daylight can be when it's quiet. Really. How many horror movies have that creepy quiet daytime stuff? Yuck. Okay, so maybe it wasn't hunger that kept me from sleeping well. Sheesh.

Ummm, I'm all out of topics. Or I could keep babbling forever really. Let's face it! I could talk about how the ice still hasn't all melted even after weeks of warmer weather. 40 something degree weather. Not exactly roasting, but still. Okay, THAT may be all my topics. I'm so tired! I'm going to go to sleep soon. Gonna watch Just Shoot Me in a minute first, though.

Later.

Chris on 02.03.05 @ 04:42 am [link]