- Surreal

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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. It's a bittersweet decision. I'm going back home. Home to the snow, construction, midwestern attitudes, and bottle deposits. If I had been born in TN (or anywhere else in the south), it would be my home. I however was not that lucky, so home to me and my other half is up where my poor dog has to freeze his thing off to take a pee for 6 months of the year. Just a warning... don't expect me to stop complaining for a while... even though I know that this is for the best and is where we belong. I don't regret moving to TN. It's something I had to do sometime in my life. I suppose I got it out of my system, but I'm not going to pretend that this isn't a difficult decision.
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- PureText

I get recipes (among many other things) in a daily RSS feed. My recipe folder was getting a bit large and I finally got around to printing recipe cards... the way I do it is by copying the recipe information into my own format in Microsoft Publisher. To do that, you have to remove all formatting or it pastes as a really messed up table. It's really irritating to have to paste into Notepad, then re-copy and paste into Publisher. If you use Firefox and Thunderbird, there's a nice extension that adds a right-click option for copying plain text, but IE of course isn't that advanced. I went on a search and found a really nifty (tiny) program called PureText. It sits in your systray and when you copy text, just click that before pasting - or use the keyboard shortcut. It saved me a huge amount of time doing these recipe cards.

- Movies

About once a year a movie comes out that I get excited about (no, I'm not talking about Starwars... I'm a geek, but puhleeze). I really like when they make TV shows that I used to love into movies (not spoofs like they did with The Brady Bunch). I was rather disappointed with Garfield - it was cute, but just lacked originality in story line. Bewitched (the movie) comes out next month. I'm hoping for the best. I saw the trailer for the first time tonight when I watching The Apprentice finale (yeah Kendra! - even though I was rooting for Tana until the last couple weeks).

- Widgets

- Kapsules is the program that I'm using for my Widgets... Seems to be some cool Widgets at Konfabulator too. Search Google - you can find a Widget for pretty much anything... don't forget if your running a 500mhz piece of crap, that you really don't need anything running but the bare essentials and Widgets aren't the best idea for you. Make sure you have a good system and plenty of RAM before messing with the cutesy stuff.
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- Unexpected Addition

Ok, well I really didn't plan this... you see, Dan and I are looking into getting a saltwater aquarium - we went browsing at a couple stores yesterday... I also have a couple books (saltwater is a big step for an aquarium hobbyist)... anyways, at Pet Supplies Plus, they have a satellite location for the local animal shelter. So, long story short... we're looking for fish and end up with another cat. This poor little girl had been there for a couple months and was going to be put down and just took right to me. I can't resist a cuddly cat. Yeah, I really do want another dog... eventually... cats are easy - very little training involved and they can stay home when you travel. So, yes, we're crazy and yes, I realize that my dearest friend will probably never want to come visit me now... but I saved the life of one of the sweetest cats I've ever met.... yeah, I'll stop rambling now... This is Lydia - she's about 2 years old and quite petite. I think Tori is slightly bigger than she is already and Tori is still growing.... interestingly enough, Tori is the one being a little bitch this time around. I really didn't expect that.


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- Sinus Hell

I once referred to where I lived in Michigan as Sinus Hell. Well, guess what, I didn't know the first thing about Sinus Hell. Did you know that sinuses can cause a toothache? Me neither. I went to the dentist the other day (for crowns) and asked him about a tooth that had become extremely sensitive to cold just the day before... I figured I pulled out a filling or something. The dentist poked at it and couldn't find a cavity. He said it was likely due to sinuses. Say what? I had to take Peanut to the vet last week too because he hasn't been able to stop hacking and sneezing. Don't get me wrong, I love TN, but don't come down here this time of year without some powerful sinus drugs. I even had to upgrade from Allegra to Zyrtec. Happy Spring All!