This is my last post for this year. I was going to do something special but I feel more like crap today than I did last night. I should have rented some movies but I didn’t feel like watching anything mostly because I’m high off of cold medicine.

I don’t know what to blog about. I still haven’t heard anything about that job. I’m guessing I’ll be getting a letter in the mail informing me I did not get the job. I’m sort of relieved because now I can focus on finishing my last course and writing those spec scripts. Or perhaps I got the job and the letter with an offer is in the mail.

I hate waiting. Well, I better get some homework done. I school starts Tuesday and I had plans to finish my discussion questions for the entire course before then. I meant to make some cookies but I don’t want to while I’m sick. I would love some oatmeal craisin cookies right about now.

I have a feeling my weekend is going to be aweful. My throat is on fire!!! I’ve been drinking tea all day long and sucking on Halls but the soreness seems to only be getting worse.

I knew I shouldn’t have washed my hair last night!!! That dang demon, Hairsenon, is totally kicking me arse now! Why couldn’t I have had Buffy powers and slay that beast last night.

I hope this TheraFlu works. I might just double up on it. Have another cup before getting to bed.

I went to Wal-mart today and that place was packed. It’s like everybody ran out of food or something and decided to do their grocery shopping today because everybody in line had groceries.

I met the Arbonne lady to give her back her facial cleaning products. She asked me when I would finish school and I told her and then she started off by saying maybe I could book a party or something or purchase the products for a graduation. I don’t think she got the message last night on the phone when I clearly told her the products were way out of my price range. Like, when someone tells you that, what do you think it means?

Tomorrow will be my last day blogging daily. I feel sort of sad. I picked one heck of a year to do some daily blogging but it’s worth it. I suggest you try it. I don’t know what I’m going to blog about tomorrow.

I’ve been reading about the “Barack the Magic Negro” song that was played on Limbaugh’s radio show. I don’t know what to think of it. It seems it’s poking major fun a Al Sharpton (like that’s hard?). I don’t think it’s particularly funny. How does one become authentically black? I have no idea. I lost my Black Card a long time ago. Anyways, I can think of a million reasons why Barack made it to the White House and Al Sharpton did not.

Somebody got a kick out of watching my video. I can’t tell who watched it over and over but my stats says it was quite a few people. It is wonderful without the sound isn’t it? Who needs to hear my food being chewed?

Anyways. I had a rather depressing day. I kept thinking about that job I interviewed for. I’m 70% certain I didn’t get it. I wish I would get the letter in the mail letting me know they decided on another candidate so I can go with my contingency plan, which happened to be the plan before I applied for the job.

Save.

Invest in real estate.

Continue to submit my resume.

Work on my spec scripts and apply for the ABC writing fellowship.

Yep. That’s it. This week I will focus on my homework for my next class (just in case I do get that job) so I won’t be stressing over the next couple of weeks about participation.

Anyways, I came across interesting articles on the Internet about how the CIA is using Viagra to entice the Afghani warlords into collaborating and giving information about insurgent activity. One article in particular briefly wrote about what this would do to women in that country. On one hand I can see the logic. I mean, I’ve been Afghanistan, I would hate to have to sleep with an Afghani. Deodorant is scarce in that country. On the other hand, women have needs, too. I would fall into the first group. My needs are food and shelter. Sex is the last thing on my mind and I seriously doubt I would ever be in the mood without the smell of soap to help get me in the mood.

I got to thinking about how I don’t have an sincere interest in the lives of some of the people around me. For example, I had plenty of opportunities to ask folks at work how their Christmas was, but I didn’t ask because I don’t care. I think the biggest reason is because I don’t want them asking me questions about my Christmas (they usually suck). Plus, I just seem like a freak when I tell people Christmas is my least favorite holiday of the year. Least favorite. I don’t enjoy any holiday that increases stress in my life and Christmas is the most stressful for me.

(Note to self: Plan a real vacation to Thailand or China or Vietnam during Christmas.)

Well, if you are wondering about the above picture, let’s just say it’s time to wash my hair and generally I feel especially mean when I have to deal with it. I hate fighting Hairsenon. The beast can be so difficult. I need to make an appointment with the dermatologist about my scalp. It’s out of control. I think it’s the shampoo. Or maybe the setting lotion I used on my hair. I don’t know. I just need to get it in check.

Okay, so the video I posted yesterday didn’t have any sound to it. I have no idea why. That troubles me. What if I posted something you’d actually need to have audio for?  It will probably take forever to figure out why this is happening. I posted a question to the WordPress forum about this. Maybe someone else is experiencing this issue.

Anyway. For next week I have to get cracking on my discussion questions for my last class. That’s right. My. Last. Class. I don’t mean to rub that in for all those people out there who still have many years to go. It feels good by the way.

Today will be very busy because I have to do about three loads of laundry and gather all the clothes I don’t plan to keep into a bag to give to Salvation Army. I’ll probably give some shoes, too. Well, let me get to laundering and cleaning. Today and next weekend will be my last days of get anything done that isn’t school related until February 9th.

Come on 2009!

I actually cooked today. I made oyster dressing. I hope it turns out okay. It certainly made a lot. I’m going to have to freeze some of it.  I’m exhausted, BTW. I hate cooking.

I think I will try making my cookies next weekend.

Well, I better start getting ready for bed. I have to go to work tomorrow. I really don’t want to go to work but I have work to do at work.

Cool. I have to remember how to do this. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I try to post something around 3 minutes long.  I shot this September 2007 when I went to visit my dad after my return from Afghanistan. I’m eating cornbread and lima beans. I don’t know why people don’t like lima beans.

Anyways. I went to Yang Chows last night and had Slippery Shrimp, Slippery Chicken, Sauteed String Beans w/minced chicken, and some fish dish. I didn’t like the fish dish and the slippery chicken was okay. For my to go order, I got Sauteed Spinach, House Special Chicken and Slippery Shrimp. I didn’t take any pictures of any of this but what I ate at the restaurant was good except for the fish dish. I think next time I will order Lemon Chicken.

My mom has been having serious stomach issues the past couple of days. Reminds me of when I was in Afghanistan and I had stomach problems. It seemed like no matter what I ate, I would have bowel troubles. So, I sort of developed a fear of food and I think that’s why I lost weight while I was there. My goats milk and oatmeal were the only things I could stomach without getting heartburn or the runs.

My stomach has been rumbling more than usual the past few days. I think I’m experiencing a mild stomach problem but my stomach problems are constant.

It seems whenever I make a change to my blog, I always end up screwing something up. You’d think a simple template change wouldn’t cause my blog to completely disappear but it did. Just like it normally does when I try to upgrade WordPress. Because the the WordPress software developers always want to upgrade WordPress every other day (well, maybe not every other day but it sure feels like it). The newer version of WordPress (2.7) will allow me to upgrade WordPress from my blog’s admin section rather than having to upload all the files one by one through my web hosting provider. Great!

But for some reason, I don’t know what I did but you’d think a simple template upload would be easy.

It all started when I decided to upload to my blog using an FPT client application for easy file transfer from my computer to my ftp server. I started installed Yummy FTP and ClassicFTP and decided I would use ClassicFTP because it’s free. Well, ClassicFTP is a piece of junk. When it uploaded files, it did not upload the files the way the files were in the original folders or it wouldn’t upload the files. For example, if the style.css file was in the main theme folder, Classic FTP would upload it to a sub folder in the main folder. Drat! Then I would have to move things back to the folders they were supposed to be in the first place.

Well, it turns out I should have just used Yummy. It comes with a 30-day free trial (I didn’t realize that). Anyways, if I get an American Express gift card, I’ll spending $25 on an license fee for Yummy FTP. I used it and it works but I don’t know what I did when I uploaded the templates to make it my blog not work.

I miss my blog!!! Hopefully, Dot5Hosting will be able to fix my boo boo. Enough about my stupid blog.

I finally finished watching Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Three times is the charm I guess. It turned out better than I thought. My favorite line:

“Maybe it needs oxygen. It looks like it’s being strangled.”

LOL! Too funny.

I also watched Traitor. I didn’t like the movie. I think what I don’t understand about these two movies is the hate folks in the Middle East have. I just don’t get how they think terrorism will solve anything.

I’m glad I’m American.

What Happens in Vegas. It’s a really good movie. I really liked it. I think I’m going to buy in on DVD.

The Women. I didn’t like the movie at all.

I rented Wall-E but I haven’t watched it yet. I went to Yang Chow’s for some good Chinese food.

Yes, today is my b-day. And rather than vegging out and going totally brain dead, I went on a job interview. Not exactly a perfect birthday.

Anyway, I don’t think I got the job because I went brain dead during the interview.  What a great time to forget all I had learned in the Army. I think it was my nerves and fatigue setting in.

I’m glad it’s over. I think I might be expecting another interview if they decide I’m a good candidate.

When I got home I tried to watch one of the movies I rented (Don’t Mess with the Zohan). It was incredibly stupid or at least I didn’t like the beginning. I ended up falling asleep. I’ll probably try to watch it again this weekend as I have a long weekend (4 days left) to catch up on my movie watching. I also need to do some research for that job.

I’m tired and don’t really feel like blogging.

I?m going to make this quick as I?ve got to get up early and get ready for my interview. Yes, I got a call for a job interview today while I was at work. I was totally unprepared for it as I wasn?t expecting anyone to call me until after the new year. Wow. I cannot express to you how unprepared I am for this job interview.

Anyway. I need to get some rest so I can get up early to make the drive down to Northridge.
It would be nice if I got this job at the pay grade I?m hoping to get. California is expensive and I don?t want to live paycheck to paycheck to pay the rent.

I got my final grade for the class I completed yesterday. A-. Ha! I was worried. Sure it isn?t an A but I definitely isn?t a B+. An A- I can deal with because it doesn?t hurt my GPA. Five more weeks of school to go.

Good night.

I have so much to do between now and when school starts back up again. I have to upgrade my template for my blog (shavonne.org) because a new release of the template I?m using (Modularity) is out and it has some pretty neat new features.

I paid $99 for the All Themes Package at Graph Paper Press because I wanted to give myself some variety when it comes to my template and I wanted to get the updates to my templates. I?m glad I bought the package. If only I could get a template like this for my blogger blog. Dang.

Anyway, I will be attempting to update my blog. Hopefully I won?t lose anything as I would hate to have to input all of these wonderful pictures I?ve been adding to my blog for the last 4 months.

It seems everyone is aware of my pending created day. According to my mother, I was born on December 24th. However, since I don?t remember my birthday, I?m going to say that I don?t think that?s accurate. I don?t think I?m from Earth and I?m certain I was adopted or at least I don?t think my mother is from Earth, which makes me not an Earthling.

I don?t know. But I don?t remember all of this happening so, like that saying goes, if a tree falls in the forest and there?s no one to hear it, did the tree really fall?

How old will I be? That?s a good question. If I told you, I would have to kill you. Actually, upon you hearing me tell you my age, your head would explode because the number is incomprehensible for people like you. Does that make sense? Probably not. But test me. I?m certain I want to see someone?s head explode, I just don?t want to be wearing white when I do it. Brains are hard to get out of clothing.

Well, that?s it for today. I will blog some more tomorrow as usual. Hopefully I will have something more meaning to blog about.