Collected Thoughts

I'm going to plant things. It's very exciting, this whole idea of gardening. Anything I've tried before has died, but I'm hoping this time will be different.

I went to the nursery and talked to a lady there. I want to plant herbs and maybe lettuces, and she took me around and explained things and kept pulling off bits of this and a leaf of that and saying "Here! Taste this! Doesn't it taste like..." I left with my hands smelling pungent and my mouth full of sweet, sharp, fresh, lemony, garlicy goodness.

Dad planted pansies and a new rosemary plant, the old one had finally died.

I'm going to plant lavendar and thyme near the rosemary and pansies. Then in boxes and these round tubs cilantro, parsley, sage, oregnao, and there was something else that I tasted that was lovely but I forgot the name.

Then in pots I'm going to get: a bay tree, chives, and marjoram.

Oh and feldsalat and maybe sorel and spinach.


Luckily there is lots of room to plant in the ground and move around containers to make sure everything gets the sunlight and drainage it needs.

I'm pretty sure Mom still has all the terracotta pots in her garage that have been there forever, unless she got rid of them during a cleaning phase.

I've wanted to try my hand at herbs for awhile now and lately I've been trying to cook more, and I hate buying those little bags of herbs. And on various Food TV shows (like 30 minute meals) they use things like fresh bay leaves and I can't find those anywhere except on the plant in the nursery.

If anyone with a green thumb has some hints or tips I'd love to hear them.

I have a lot of updates to make but... I'm really behind in b.org and lj. I don't think I'll ever ever catch up.

Had a crappy day Thursday and as a result I know have a cell phone. Virgin Mobile, pre paid all the way. I got handed a new project at work, I didn't write it down and promptly forgot about it (I'm going to call my voice mail and remind my self). More work is being sifted down to me and that's great! Also we get these flyers for training seminars and I was told that if I found one that I thought would be really helpful money could be found for me to, especially since I'm a temp and don't qualify for company training.

As a result of this I will be online less. I taped Lost, haven't even seen it yet.

I'm making another cut on my lj friends list.

Today's Nonsequitor (the comic) made me laugh and think of all my Canadian friends and the DS fen.

The strip .

Quick boring updates for the weekend.

Football was GREAT!!! I love night games. I love our quarterback. There was a caller to the pregame show (local) who wanted to know why Sexton was starting when he was going to throw his usual 3 interceptions and Rix would have to go in. And also why were they continuing with the I formation when something else would be better (he was specific but I forget). Pissed me off and one of the announcers got all over this caller for saying that.

Sexton threw ZERO interceptions and with a 36-3 win, the I formation worked well. Hopefully the caller feels like a really stupid.

Before going to the game we stopped at the grocery store so I could get some headache medicine and cash, while there I decided to get a scratch off lottery ticket. Except I didn't have my ID and they wouldn't sell me one. The cashier told me I looked too young. I told her was 31, she just said that I looked young. Which, okay, fine. But there is no way I look close too much less younger than 18.

Today I finished off the first disc of Stargate season 1. Love the first instance of Hammond using his connection with the President. I wish there were commentary or something on the discs.

And I watched some of (most of) Peacekeeper Wars...and just bumped Farscape up to the top of my Netflix list. Although I won't be making the mistake I made the last time and watch all the episodes at once.

Even though I was told I paid off the late balance on my old number, but couldn't keep my number and was assigned a new one, I'm getting charged for my old phone number.

The phone company service rep first told me that the old number was showing a 0 balance. Great I tell him what can you do about this bil I keep getting. Oh, no, wait, the guy says, you oew 104 dollars. Do you want to pay that along with the past due balance on your current phone number.

Now, why would I want to pay for a number that I don't have and can't use and got cancelled?? Then he asks which one do I want. I don't really have a choice the new one is the one that works.

So now I have to get my bank statement (i'm really lame about keeping up with those) and send it in asking that they stop charging me. And I wouldn't be in this problem if that one Sprint rep hadn't hung up on me in the middle of my sentence when I was trying to clarify something.

Technically it's Saturday...


A book you own that no one on your friends list does:

Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie

A CD you own that no one on your friends list does:
I've got some local stuff, but also That River, Jim Byrnes (Joe Dawson on Highlander, also on Wiseguy but I never watched it). I bought the cd when I was pretty active on the Highlander newsgroup, which was years ago and since I have such a tiny cd collection i don't get rid of anything.

A DVD/VHS tape you own that no one on your friends list does:
Radar Men from Mars

A place you've been that no one on your friends list has been:

There's a couple of places I could name, but I think I'll go with Climax, GA.

There's a situation with my phone bill so I have no phone. Tomorrow I try and talk to someone about this.

Saw Alien Vs Predator tonight, I actually meant to see Bourne Supremcy but I got the time confused so I got there after Bourne had started.

I enjoyed the HELL out of AVP, I plan to see it again and I hope the dvd has cool extray stuff. I'll attempt a cut tag...

( AVP Thoughts )

I got busted for spending too much time online (I'm on a lunch break right now). So I'll be spending less time online but I hope more quality time. Like actaully emailing people, but it will have to be during the evening.

Because of this I've cut down on the threads in b.org (not that I was posting a lot recently) and I'm going to be cutting down on my friendslist. Doesn't me I don't care and feel free to defriend me.

EEEEEE!!!!!!

At Mom's. There's a mouse or a mole or something the cat caught INSIDE and it's running around half dead. ICK.

I told mom this is what happens when she keeps the lights off, strange animals make theirselves at home.

Amazon.com has Angel Season 1 for 14.99!

I bought it and have a share the love discount for anyone who wants that.