Just wanted to mention how fucking bad ass Torchwood is right now. Thank you YouTube for allowing me to watch this show before they start airing it over on this side of the pond.

And this trailer? Gave me chills. Nice job, marketing people.

So I need to write this down somewhere before I forget about it...but kind of hilarious dream about my trip last night.

I was back in Greece for whatever reason, and it was time for me to come home. But I didn't have tickets to get home, they were already past. And then I realized I didn't have my passport and I was freaking out about how I was going to get home. So I find our tour guide, Todd (really, my tour guide from the trip) and tell him my dilemma. And how i don't even remember going back to Greece and I don't know how I'm going to get home without tickets or a passport.

He then calmly tells me that this is obviously a dream since I would never go on a trip without my passport and since I don't remember the trip to Greece.

I was then extremely relieved and woke up. Thanks Dream!Todd!

So, Thursday evening I leave for London. I'm really getting excited, my clothes are all set out for the most part. I'm still kinda trading out t-shirts, I'm trying very hard not to over pack, I think I've got about 5 regular shirts, 4 tanktops/camis, 3 pants (2 jeans, 1 khaki), 3 dresses, 1 skirt.

I'm going to try and update my twitter account with pictures and whatnot while I'm gone, so you can check out what's going on with my trip here:

http://www.twitter.com/shutterclutter

I was going to post more...but I'm just too damn tired. I dunno if i'll post tomorrow, if not, I'll see y'all after June 2!

(BTW, if anyone has any music suggestions, I'm going to be adding some music to my iPod before I leave and need some ideas!)

I attempted to write about the following events on Wednesday, the evening after they happened. However, it wouldn't send, the draft got deleted, and after the day I already had I decided to just screw it and figured I'd try again later.

Welcome to Later!

So. Wednesday. I get up fairly early because I had a dentist appointment and had to get the shower/dog fed/etc. done before I left. Of course, no matter how much time I allotted myself, I still ended up running late. Because it was bound to be "one of those days" I hit every single red light from L-town to Covington, and continually got stuck behind people who were going maaaaybe the speed limit, but most often not.

According to my GPS I was going to be 10 minutes late for my appointment, and anytime I made up some time, I ended up at another red light or stuck behind another dumbass taking a leisurely stroll down the road.

FINALLY, I make it to the interstate, which is only a few miles from the dentist office. I'm flying down the road, and about 1/2 mile from the exit for the dentist's office when I hear this sound. It sounds like I'm on a rumble strip, except I'm not. I check my tire gauge and ohhhhh shit.

I had a flat.

Of course I did! I pull off to the side of the road, I can see the exit not even 1/4 mile from where I'm stopped. And my back passenger side tire is just dead. I call my dad, who was out at our property only about 20 minutes away and he said he'd come out to help me. I called the dentist office and they decided to just reschedule me in July. Ugggggh.

Oh, and did I forget to mention it was my birthday? Yeah, happy 26th to meeee.

I called Kim to tell her what a wonderful day it was. I had plans to go over to her place after I had my appointment so I could babysit sick Logan while she went to work for a little while. She was also planning on picking up a cake from Coldstone Creamery for me. Mmmmm.

Anyways, while I was waiting I got out of the car to make sure my jack was still there. I located, sighed again over the flat tire and got back in the car to read while I waited. Then I noticed something crawling on my shirt.

A tick. I mean, COME ON!!

I plucked the little parasite off of me, squished and threw it outside. Then quickly sent Kim another text:

"Aaand I just found a tick on me. That cake is going to need chocolate."

My dad showed up a few minutes later and we got the tire changed and I headed over to Kim's. I didn't end up needing to babysit, because Logan was just too fussy and in a bad mood due to his being sick. But I stayed anyway and spent the night, where I had a delicious chocolate ice cream/chocolate cake/chocolate frosting/peanut butter cup birthday cake (yes, we were all in a chocolate coma after we were done) and watched some Lost.

and so ended my oh so wonderful birthday. We're just going to pretend that one didn't happen.

Hooooo shit! pockahtee why must you be away from the internet for weeks?! I NEED SOMEONE TO FLAIL OVER DOLLHOUSE WITH!!

ALPHA! OMGWTF!

HIMYM has forced me to reintroduce:

The Quote of the Night!
"I'm cuddly, bitch, deal with it!" -- Marshall, How I Met Your Mother

Sadly, I finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies this afternoon. I adored this book, it just kept making me laugh. It also allowed those characters you could not stand to have horrible things happen to them. And then I get to the end, and there's a Reader's Discussion Guide! And the questions in there were equally enjoyable. I can't really go into most of them because it gives away some of the gruesome-gorry-surprises in the book. But here was my personal favorite:

7.) Does Mrs. Bennett have a single redeeming quality?

My answer is: no. The only thing I didn't get to see happen was the zombification of Mrs. Bennett, forcing Mr. Bennett to finally shoot her as he must have always wanted. I did love the "Zombie traps" which involved cauliflower to mimic human brains. I can't wait until Seth Grahame-Smith writes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

While on the Jane Austen-ish kick, I got Mansfield Park from Netflix today. So it'll be either that or Slumdog Millionaire that I watch next.

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There's an excellent thunderstorm outside right now, which is great and hopefully the rain will make its way out to our property so that my new vegetable plants can get some water.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. The sudden cold snap we had a few weeks ago killed my plants. Not the ones here at home, because I was able to get them covered, the others didn't stand a chance though. So we bought even more tomatoes, as well as a bunch of cucumbers, another green pepper, and what my dad mistakenly thought were banana peppers which turned out to be "Mexibell peppers". We don't really know what those are, but I guess we'll be finding out.

Goooood morning!

I realized I haven't posted in a little bit (other than my continued P&P&Z gushing). Just kinda slumming this morning, I'm waiting for it to warm up a bit more outside and then I'm going to sit out by the pool and read (it's supposed to be 82 today!).

I got my travel documents in the mail the other day! Hell yeah! The only problem with them is that they have me staying in 2 different hotels during my 3 nights in London (2 nights in one and the last in another) I talked to the company yesterday and they said it's because my main tour starts from the one hotel, and I signed up for my 2 nights in London in the other. If I wanted to switch to all one hotel I'd have to pay extra. Which I've decided to do now, I'm going to call them later today and have that switched. Only 3 weeks away now!!!

I finally went and got a haircut yesterday too. Went to someone new and I really liked her. She has curly hair too and sat down and took notes and asked me what my concerns with it were, what I wanted changed or what I'd had done before that I liked. She also did something a little different with my highlights. I love the color, can't tell much on the cut at the moment since curly hair is fickle and hates the process of being combed out, so it didn't want to curl afterwards (which I'm used to when I go to a salon). I'll wash my hair later today and we'll see how it looks. I don't forsee any problems though. And she told me if there were any weird spots where my curls and the cut didn't mingle to just come in and she would fix it. Then I got free samples, free extras when I come in next as well as referral cards which allow a friend to get $20 off their cut, and gives me $20 for referring them.

mmmm...well, I'm going to clean up the house a bit and then maybe read some more. Later y'all.

My wisdom teeth are oooouuuuuttttt!

I've been unconscious most of the day because of it though. I had my appointment at 8:30 this morning and my dad and I were the only ones in the waiting room for most of the time.

The worst part (for me) was getting the IV put in. I just kinda closed my eyes, they got it in fine the first time, but then I guess it started leaking? So they had to switch arms, and I guess my veins are difficult little twits, because the doctor had to do a good bit of fishing to get in the vein (again, not fun for me). And that's about all I remember after that.

I woke up in a different room not remembering how I got there. My dad waited in there with me for a little while to wake up some more...which I don't think lasted long. He said him and a nurse had to walk me out to the car. I don't remember ANY of that. My dad did later tell me the nurses had said they played with my hair almost the entire time they were working on my mouth (hey! no fair messing with my fro while I'm sleeping!)

I woke up around 12:30 I guess. I vaguely recall getting home. I managed to change into shorts myself, even though I once again, don't remember ANY of that. My dad's GF showed up to the let the dogs out around that time, but Molly just wasn't having any of that and kept jumping back in bed with me and kept trying to hide behind me. I talked to Kim briefly, who said I sounded kinda funny although she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was I was doing wrong (she thinks I was leaving out vowels).

I'm a bit more lucid now, although I usually only stay awake for an hour or so before falling back asleep. I've got some nice hydrocodine to help me fall back asleep tonight. I'm going to try and wait to take that until after all my tv shows this evening come on.

My dad is kinda paying me back for all the cooking I've been doing for him lately by making me soup for lunch and dinner today. He's also made some pudding which I'm very excited about eating in a little while.

The only bad thing about doing all this sleeping, is that it's preventing me from reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies :(

I finally have my hands on a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I was going to wait to read it until after I finished my current book...but once I got in my car I just had to glance at the first page. It had me at the title page which has a drawing of Elizabeth Bennett doing a roundhouse kick. And continued with awesomeness of Mr. Bennett asking Mrs. Bennett whether Bingley (who just occupied a house whose occupants were devoured by zombies or "unmentionables") would have the capability of training his girls in "swordsmanship and musketry" rather than a marriage prospect XD

Yeah. My willpower ain't that great, guys. My other book has been put aside in favor of Regency Era zombie ass-kicking.

Which I'm going to get back to. Wisdom teeth come out tomorrow, so I'll probably be drugged up a good part of tomorrow.

That's it NASA, you fail. You had 2 great options for the name of your space station, Colbert and Serenity and you chose to bypass both and name the damn thing "Tranquility".

WTF? Not. On. You have lost your geek cred to me, NASA.

Apparently I'm not the only one who really wanted to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies because it is now backordered on bn.com, Borders, and Amazon (which I wouldn't have ordered from anyway after #AmazonFail). None of the B&N's in the area have it in stock, and only a few Borders. I've attempted an online reservation of a copy at one of the stores about 30 minutes away, and I'll find out tomorrow if they have it in stock. I hope its still there, it would make me so damn happy :3

I've been listening to a lot of music by the Vitamin String Quartet. I especially love their rendition of Falling Slowly (one of my all time favorite songs). It's a nice spin on some of the music that really gets over played on the radio. But they have sooo many CDs, I can't really pick just one to listen from.

Speaking of Falling Slowly...Kris Allen sang it on American Idol today. Which I had read about on ONTD before the show started and this scared the shit out of me. I like Kris, I think he's an alright singer. But this song is kinda untouchable to me (sans what VSQ did with it). He did an okay job with it, not fantastic. But I give him props for picking an obscure song while the others picked much more obvious songs.

Aaand tomorrow i get to go searching for a computer program my dad asked for for his birthday. It lets him take the guitar parts out of songs he uploads so he can "play with the band". Unfortunately, none of the Best Buys have it, so I get to go try and find it somewhere else. Fun times.

WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET TO SEE THE ALPHA/ALAN TUDYK EPISODE OF DOLLHOUSE BECAUSE FOX IS A LITTLE BITCH.

IF MY USE OF CAPS ISN'T OBVIOUS ENOUGH, I AM PISSED ABOUT THIS.

[Edit]: And to make matters worse! That was the episode Felicia Day was in! Fuck you, Fox, fuuuuuuuck you!

I seem to be making up for the fact I have only seen a doctor once in the past 2 1/2 years.

I just had to make an appointment with an oral surgeon for tomorrow to see about getting my wisdom teeth removed. One of them has already "erupted" and while it isn't interfering with my other teeth...over the weekend I guess it has shifted some and is rubbing against the inside of my cheek which is becoming painful.

Hopefully I can get the removal done soon, so it doesn't cause any problems during my trip (in 1 month, 1 week, and 1 day!).

It just sucks that its just now causing me problems. Ugh.

I'm also trying to avoid going outside for as long as possible. Because it is windy and cold, and I don't need pollen being blown at 25 mph straight up my nose.

This weekend was pretty fun.

Kim came over yesterday with Logan so we could finish fixing my dad's bathroom. Me and Logan hung out downstairs, playing on his rocking motorcycle and trying to teach him how to play a harmonica (he preferred just holding onto it while I played it). He never cried the entire time we were down there, which was impressive. Afterwards we ran a few errands and went to Stone Mountain and got lunch at Miss Katie's Sideboard (where Logan did an impressive and completely headbutt on the table. And then just laughed).

After getting home and doing some cleaning and discovering our complete and utter failure to buy the right side window shades and handles for the bathroom, I drove out to Athens to see Sarah Jane.

We decided to go downtown to Farm 525(?) which is restaurant that uses only locally grown/raised produce and animals. However, upon sitting down, SJ realized that they had doubled the prices on their menu. Which was much more than either of us were wanting to spend for just a night out. So We walked back to the car and went to Mirko instead, which is an Italian restaurant that opened just down the street from SJ's house. It was excellent and really well priced. I wish I had some more of the bruschetta I got as an appetizer. Mmmmm.

We went to the dollar movie theater to see a movie and bought tickets to Benjamin Button, but it wasn't starting for another hour, so we went back to the house for a bit. But then neither of us felt like going back out, so we just rented movies instead, which we both fell asleep during.

This morning we went to a new restaurant that popped up after I left Athens (a fact which I greatly lament now) called Mama's Boy which was fantastic. We had issues finding a parking spot, and had to park across the street instead. And then we got seated and were there for a few minutes, got our coffee, when our waitress came up and asked us what they would have to give us for free to get us to change tables. We told them we didn't need anything, but they gave us a cheese and fruit plate for free anyway. The breakfast was great, I had a biscuit and gravy (with bacon instead of sausage. Never heard of that. Its a great idea.) and peach french toast. Sooo good.

I miss the variety of restaurants and characters that you find in Athens. I love that freaking town.

I can't believe its supposed to get cold again tomorrow! I will be okay with this, as long as it snows.

Ugh. I HATE TEXAS!!

Since my lease for my apartment ran through April (and terminating my lease would have cost me just as much as my keeping it another month) I still have to pay this month's rent.

HOWEVER, I just go onto the apartment complex website to make my rent payment, and they have changed around the online payments and it sends you to another website which requires a Customer ID number (which I don't have) or I use the form on the actual website, which for some reason CHARGES ME FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING on a CREDIT CARD PAYMENT.

what. the. fuck.

So now I'm going to wait 45 minutes until I call the apartment complex and find out what the fuck is going on. I about just went through and paid for the damn "handling" charge, but I have a feeling I would somehow get fucked over on that and just plain don't trust it.

This is not an auspicious start to the morning.

[Edit]: Got it paid for. Still had to pay a $14.00 "courtesy charge". Bastards. WE ARE SO DONE PROFESSIONALLY *stomps off in a huff*

I wasn't nearly as productive today. Mainly because the weather still sucks.

I did go outside and put the algicide in the swimming pool. And I was way too excited about this because I want that disgusting green plant growth GONE. It was just sprinkling so I brought the dogs outside with me. I'm just happily going around the pool pouring the chemicals in the pool when I hear a splash from the shallow end of the pool. At first I don't see anything but ripples but then up pop's Charlie's head from the water.

Yeah. Our 13 year old Corgi somehow fell into the pool. He did swim, but couldn't seem to find the stairs (because that would be too easy) he tried to climb up the side, and I had to haul him out of the water (with him trying to shake off the water while I was still pulling him out). Of course, I had just taken a shower and put clean clothes on.

I figure he was trying to drink water, got top heavy and toppled in. Of course, I developed another theory with Kelly. Charlie is, in fact, trying to commit suicide. I think this, because Kelly observed a very strange occurrence with Charlie a few weeks ago. She was apparently standing at the bottom of the stairs and Charlie was coming down them. For some reason, at about 5 steps from the bottom Charlie just leaps off the stairs and crashes onto the floor.

This incident, akin to jumping off a building for a old fat corgi, combined with throwing himself into a freshly chemicalled pool, makes me think Charlie is trying to off himself.

Don't worry, he's fine. I towelled him off once he got back to the house and has been acting unfazed by the situation. He does the pool thing pretty often, according to my dad. He did ask if Molly jumped in to "save Charlie". Ha, no. My dog just sat off the side, probably telling Charlie "Swimming. U R DOING IT WRONG" Because she talks in lolDawg, obviously.

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I had these grand plans of making some turtle cookie bars tonight. I picked a box of the mix at Target today, and the only thing I needed additionally was butter. Well, we always have an abundance of butter in this household, so I didn't buy anymore.

But of course, we were completely out. All we had was the butter-ish yogurt spread (which is tasty, but not suitable for baking). So no turtle cookie bars until tomorrow. Woe.

Well, once again, my tea is letting down and I feel the need to sleep. G'nite f-listers.