I was going to post pictures saying this is a summary of the past month, but that's a lie. This all happened in one weekend - one weekend when Mike, "the RT," visited us. It was awesome. :D

( Mike! )

In other news...

Tore down the majority of the wallpaper in the house, started painting, can't wait to get some color in the rooms. Got a water-proof disposable camera chockful of pictures I need to develop from when we went tubing over Fourth of July weekend. More of our friends should visit. ::hinthintnudgenudgesaynomore:: On second thought, wait until it gets cooler before you visit. ;)

I haven't written much lately. I've been alternating between being lazy and freaking out over wedding stuff. It actually hasn't been that bad.

( To Do Wedding )

I gotta finish planning the honeymoon stuff too! Exchange money for Pounds, map out the sites, print our plane information, figure out transportation. Tube passes!

I had a small bridal shower this past weekend with the girls of New Orleans. It was cute and sweet. I still have wedding cake cupcakes in the fridge. ::drools::

Marty and I picked up a Nikon D60. My brother says we should have gotten aa D80 or D90, but I think this camera suits our needs just fine. It's a fun little camera. I'm glad we got it before our trip.

( Picture from Ryan's Birthday Party )

We might be getting a house, again! An offer we made got accepted. We'll see how the inspection goes. No idea. O_O

Man, I get this Friday off because of Good Friday. Awesome.

I get to leave work early today because it's Mardi Gras weekend. Also get Monday and Tuesday off because it'd be pretty impossible to work with all the people and traffic. Gleeee. Marty and I will try to catch some parades. :)

I wanna join a Krewe, ride a float, and go to a ball at some point! It can get expensive but overall it seems reasonable to me.

Wedding stuff is almost done. Have a few things to take care of here and there and of course, have to pay off the vendors but overall there's nothing to worry about. Maybe there'll be things to worry about after another month and the wedding gets closer. I donno. Some people haven't gotten their invitations yet which is annoying. Come on postal system! I haven't said much when it comes to the wedding because I want it all to be a surprise. :D Secrets, secrets.

Speaking of weddings, we were invited to three weddings in March. Going to two of them. Had to sacrifice one. Makes me upset. They're all good friends. It's expensive to travel so much though, especially when we have to worry about our own wedding.

Missing some conventions too. Ugh. Marty and I already decided we're going to make it to all the conventions next year. Least this year we have Wrath of Con and Dragon*Con.

Since the wedding stuff is taken care of, I found I have more free time and started playing with my serger. I have a lead foot and need to learn to control my speed, bwahahahaha. Yay, sewing!

Work has been crazy lately. I still love my job.

I also still love, love, love David Tennant.

Thanks to Vivian I'm completely in love with Lily Allen.

I wonder what I should do with my hair after I get married.

( I think I want this hair - I've had this hair before but I think I want it again. It's so simple. )

• It's February already, holy poop!


• I have yet to use my serger - I am a horrible person.


• The wedding planning continues - invitations will go out this week and next week.


• Work is good but a tad frustrating. Good thing I'm awesome.


• Only two pictures left to post for 365 of 2008. Finally!


• A building next to my parking lot burned down last week. My office building did not burn down but it was a little smokey for the morning.


• Mardi Gras is coming up.


• I have an iPhone now - it's sweet.


• My life has become way too busy with obligations, weekly activities, and a social life.


• Been house hunting.


• Still gonna post pictures from time to time because it's cool, hehe.


• ZOMG so many people are getting married, yay for dressing up!

Life

• My phone works but the display died randomly - I have no choice but to replace it - procastination time is up.


• Need to work on London itinerary - get me some pounds, bwahahaha.


• Wedding planning continues - so much left to do.


• OMG I have a videographer - so excited!!!

• WTF, ABC! GIVE ME BACK PUSHING DAISIES!


• I don't think I could love David Tennant more.


• Ooo - cute girl in upcoming Doctor Who Easter special - Michelle Ryan.


• Office is back and the show is funny again! :)

• Got a serger for Christmas - need to get back to the sewing soon! Maybe this weekend?


• So many costumes I want to do - need to prioritze.


• Tickets and hotel set for Dragon*Con.


• Growing love for the vintage is bad - bought some uber cute hats and either want to buy or make vintage clothes.

The screen to my work laptop went all wonky.  I waited several weeks before IT came and picked it up for repairs.  They thought they had figured out what was wrong with it and it'd be a quick fix.  That wasn't the case.  It turns out the motherboard was on the fritz and they had to order a new motherboard to replace it.  They're waiting on the part to arrive.

Sheesh.

The problem is is that I started using my work laptop as a personal laptop and I'd bring it home every day to do whatever I wanted.  That's a problem considering all my wedding stuff is on that laptop.  I'm not afraid that all my wedding stuff will disappear, but I definitely feel the loss of not having constant access to my wedding stuff. 

It's not too terrible though since Marty's mom has a copy of everything as well, it's just... I WANT MY LAPTOP BACK!!!

Feh.  I need to get myself a new laptop.  That's not gonna happen for a while though.  :P  Wedding, honeymoon, house, costumes, Dragon*Con.  Oh well, I have my priorities.  LOL

So many thoughts in my head...

• Playing catch up - drove back from NC today - have so much to do, unpack, clean, things to do.


• New year - I'm so glad I don't have to do the 365 picture a day thing anymore, but I still need to post all the pictures I've taken from the last month, DOH!


• Need a box for all the Christmas decorations.


• So much left to do for the wedding, aahhhh!


• 4 months till the wedding, aaahhhhh!


• Christmas was good.


• I got my parents a GPS and framed photos from when they visited this past Thanskgiving. :D


• Need a serger!


• Getting a serger soon. o_O


• So many costumes to catch up on.


• Gah! Need to book a hotel for London honeymoon!


• I don't do resolutions.


• So much to do and it is just the start of the new year.

( Pictures of the Snow )

It's snowing, it's getting worse and it's starting to stick. I'm a little bit worried about being able to get home later. o_O It's not just because I'm afraid of driving in snow and ice but also because they'll most likely close the bridges. I'm taking more pictures as the day goes on.

It's freaking snowing in New Orleans.

• I'm sick - ugh.


• This week has been surreal.


• Marty has been out of town since Sunday on a business trip. He was supposed to be back by Thursday but it's been extended until next Tuesday.


• I'm flying out to Orlando this Saturday for a work-related conference. Oki will have to be watched by friends until Marty gets back.


• My birthday is next week and I'm not particularly excited - don't have anything planned.


• I'm excited for Orlando for the most part.


• I've been distracting myself with Blackpool and Pushing Daisies.


• If you're a David Tennant fan, you MUST watch Blackpool. It's absolutely brilliant. It's a drama, comedy, and a musical. Freaking genius.


• Marty needed my camera for work so his viewpoint of Seattle will be my picture of the day whenever I get my camera back.


• My family will be visiting us for Thanksgiving - I'm looking forward to that.

I keep forgetting that New Orleans is not the safest place. Tulane always gives updates and warnings when a crime happens to a student, faculty, or staff. Most of the cases happen after midnight and I think, "Well, of course you don't walk around by yourself after midnight."

This morning nothing bad happened but it amped up my paranoia. I park across the street from my building. It's real close and it's not a big deal. With New Orleans though, it's like every other street goes ghetto, nice, ghetto, nice, ghetto, nice. >_<

Anyways, so right after I got out of my car a tall guy in the distance yells to me. I ask what's up and he walks towards me asking if I had ten cents. He doesn't even look homeless or poor or whatever. I tell him I don't have change and he asks if I have a dollar. I tell him I don't have cash. He says he needs food and I tell him all I have is credit which is true! They don't even have Bank of Americas in these parts even if I wanted to get cash! I'm walking swiftly trying to get to work because not only am I trying to get away from this creepy guy but I'm almost late for work. :P Meanwhile, I'm fumbling around in my bag trying to get to my mace just in case. So he keeps following me and I notice he keeps eyeing my bag. At that point he yells at me to give him five dollars so I turn around and I tell him I don't have anything for him and I walk across the street and he moves on.

Sheesh. I'm glad he didn't try anything although the harassment sure wasn't comfortable. :P There were people around, but not close enough to make me feel safe. Next time, I'm keeping my mace in hand. You can't take chances.

I'm two weeks behind in posting my 365-a-day pictures. NOOOOO!

Dragon*Con was soooooooooooooo great. I would describe everything but I'm so lazy. So lazy. o_O Maybe when I get back to New Orleans. The hurricane hit my town. Not as bad as I thought it would which is great. It just sucked having that in the back of my mind all weekend. Marty and I are taking our forced time off to hang out. We'll go back home on Saturday. Maybe that's when I'll catch up on my pictures and write about Dragon*Con and everything.

Marty and I are flying out to Atlanta later today. We're packed for the most part. Just need to gather the toiletries and such. I'm excited and annoyed at the same. Excited because it's Dragon*Con and I'm pretty much ready. Annoyed because we also have a tropical storm/possible hurricane heading towards Louisiana. It can either veer right towards Florida, left towards Texas or just hit Louisiana because it's right in the middle.

I'm not worried about our safety. Oki is staying with our friends who own Ernie (another corgi) and they told us they'd head to Georgia if they need to evacuate. Marty and I will be Atlanta. We'll see if our flight back gets cancelled or not. Course, I'd rather not fly in any sort of stormy weather.

I'm mostly worried about possible flooding. I like my stuff, I don't want my stuff to be submerged in water.

If we were in Florida, it'd be whatever. I've gone through years and years of hurricanes without anything catastrophic happening. ::knock on wood:: Now that we're here in the New Orleans area, the risks are greater. Sheesh.

• Marty and I set the date for our wedding, April 25, 2009 - I am now in planning mode. Details to come.


• Dragoncon is in two and a half weeks! OMG!


• I need to finish up my costumes!!!


• I'm scrapbooking again - lots of projects going on.


• I decorated my work area but I'm not quite done... pictures soon.


• I can't wait till I get paid.


• Salaried employees at Tulane, such as myself, get paid monthly, WTF! Patience...


• I am feeling motivated and crafty, I hope it sticks.

I have a pending offer from Tulane University to be the Program Coordinator for the department of Human Research Protection. Once I pass the background check, they'll make an official offer. :D Yay! They will call back at the end of the week.

Now the annoying part is there are a couple other jobs I'm interested in that haven't gotten back to me yet... so I need to call them and tell them that they should expedite the decision process if they want me to work for them instead. They may or may not care but I figure I'd like to know what options I have. I'll also have to give a courtesy call to those jobs that I don't care about to let them know I won't be available anymore.

I should probably be more excited but I'll wait until the end of the week.

5-16-08 - Gray/White Hair, originally uploaded by TineyHo.

I discovered a gray hair. Before I yanked it out I made sure that it was an old wives' tale that if I yanked it out, more would sprout... something like that. Anyways, it's completely false so I pulled it out.

That the third gray hair that I've had in my life. WEIRD. I'm getting old.

Why do they call it gray when it's white?

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

I think of this quote whenever I watch movies like Harry Potter where the cute ones are so young. I'm not that much older than them. o_O I look forward to watching the next Narnia movie. I wonder how old Caspian is.

I'm feeling posty today. 

- Marty is driving to New Orleans today in a big truck.  I miss him already.  Two weeks until I go up.
- Happy Birthday Smashley!  You'll like my presents, I'll make sure of it, bwahahahahaha!
- THE OFFICE!  I already posted about it.
- Questionable Content - I'm a huge fan of Sven, huge.
- Saturday is a sort of going-away/birthday party at Howl at the Moon with the Wolf Pack people.  I think I'll get crunk.  I feel like drinking now.  :P
- My room is for the most part, empty.
- I applied to 18 jobs on Monday, I need to apply for more.
- Monday is an office going-away party.
- Oki's going to need a new friend i.e. we need another dog at some point.
- The Monday after I go up, it'll be Marty and I's 6th year anniversary.
- Andrew volunteered to drive up to New Orleans with me, it'll be nice to have human company for the 12-hour drive, especially since I don't trust myself not to fall asleep at the wheel. 
- I can't wait till I get settled again so I can go back to costuming - yes I am a hardcore nerd.
- Probably going home to Ft. Myers on Memorial Day weekend, I want to visit my parents before I move.
- I'm hungry.

5-14-08 - All Packed, originally uploaded by TineyHo.

This is how my room looks from the bed. I still have a bed because it's not my bed, it's Ashley's bed. So Oki's sleeping by the door, I have some shoes, Oki's bed. In the corner is some stuff I'm going to take home to Ft. Myers. Then there's my pink suitcase with clothes. Some entertainment devices such as a portable DVD player, my laptop, DS. I have my wedding planner and some other books. I made a cardboard box to hold the extra stuff since not everything will fit in the suitcase but currently it's working as a nightstand to hold my iHome and lamp. I still have some clothes hanging in the closet and a laundry basket. Downstairs I have a rice cooker, my sewing machine, and a few pieces of fabric.

I hope this will all fit in my car. I think it will.

Two weeks of living like this. It's pretty depressing.

5-12-08 - Packing, originally uploaded by TineyHo.

This was a packing week. Luckily, Lockheed is paying for everything so we got as many boxes as we wanted including the big old fancy box meant for hanging suits, etc. Marty and I got rid of as much stuff as we could and it still seemed like we had a lot although not as much as people with furniture. Moving is so annoying. Lockheed gave us the option of hiring movers but we didn't want to go with that because nowadays with movers they'll only move your stuff if they also pack your stuff which I can understand the liability but I still think it's ridiculous.

Next time though, we're totally using movers.