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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:49 AM

Well I've hit the six-month mark and the honeymoon officially ended last week at work. All of my fears for leaving have been fulfilled, but there isn't much I can do about it besides do what I've done since my first law firm job: work hard and cover your ass. At least I have some good friends here with the same philosophy. They've made the transition fun. Despite my fears becoming true, I am very glad that I left my old firm. I talk to a few friends over there regularly and it sounds like a cesspool of misery. I can only pray that they find a way to leave as well.

Despite Baylor losing to A&M on Saturday, it was a fun game. I really think that if our quarterback hadn't been taken out in the last five minutes, we would have won the game. But hey, those things happen in football. What was really incredible to me is that there was only one turnover in the game. There were no fumbles and no interceptions until the very end. When our relief quarterback came in, he threw an interception in the last two minutes of the game. I have never seen a pro game without at least one pick. I think it showed how both teams wanted to win so badly that for once their offenses played good games. What saddens me most about the loss is that I don't think Baylor will get a bowl game now. Unless a miracle happens and they beat Tech in Lubbock or an even bigger miracle happens and we beat OU, we're out of contention. We might be out of contention no matter what, if Shawn Bell is definitely out for the season. Not really how I wanted my Bears to end the season, but I think they've had a fabulous season nonetheless. Just one more home game to go in November. I'm sad that it's my last one of the year.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 2:26 PM

I'm getting the bug again... the bug to move the hell out of Dallas. Last week, I was telling my mom how surprised I was to find out that my attorney has never left the Dallas area all his life. He grew up in Garland, went to SMU for undergrad and law school, and has always practiced in Dallas. My mom pointed out that many people never leave a city, and fewer leave a state. That frightened me to think that I could be one of those people that never leave a state. Then I read a blog today about someone who just returned from a trip to Seattle, and now he is ready to pack up and move. No, I don't want to go to Seattle, even though everyone I've ever known who has visited the city has moved there within a year. It was the reasons that he listed for why he disliked Dallas that sparked the bug. I hate the climate here. I am tired of the 100+ degree summers. I'm tired of only four months a year that the weather is pleasant, and that's exaggerating it a bit. Austin is my favorite city in Texas, but I don't want to go there either. The only plus to Austin would be that I would go toobing as many weekends as I could in the summer. Not that huge of a plus. Besides, if I have a choice in where I can pick up and move, Texas is nowhere on the list. My number one choice would be Boston, but I have to face reality and know that I'd be dirt poor if I lived there and well, Shawn will NEVER move there. My next choices down the list are Washington, DC, Atlanta, New York (another place Shawn will never move), and Colorado. Yes, I do have a thing for the East coast. Of those that would be the most feasible are DC and Atlanta.

It's not that I hate everything about Texas. Obviously my family and my friends are here and I don't hate (all of) them. The people here are also a lot friendlier than I have found in the northern cities. But that's really it.

Not that it matters, because thanks to reality, I doubt that I can ever pick up and move. For one, I am married, and he has to have the bug with me. For two, there is that thing about having a job that I need because I like to eat. I've heard stories about people just picking up and going with no job or anything and they're able to make it. They are far braver people than me. Then again, if I keep getting the bug with this urgency, I may have to force Shawn to catch it.

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Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 9:32 PM

Rare weekend in football history for me.

Baylor won.
Green Bay won.
Houston won.
Indianapolis won.

All I need is for Dallas to lose tomorrow and it will be complete.

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Friday, October 20, 2006 - 2:47 PM

This past weekend as I felt like I was dying (thanks Dezi for the tips!), I realized that I couldn't do what I normally do on weekends (housework and yardwork) so I pulled out Kingdom Hearts determined to finish it. It took me an hour and a half to complete it. Now I feel ridiculous for stopping it a few months ago. I then realized that Christi bought me the game about three and a half years ago for my birthday. I played it heavily at first, (it got me through the LSAT, I swear) and then I got so pissed off at it that I didn't play it for three years. I picked it back up again after Kindgom Hearts 2 came out. By then, Rin-chan had beaten the first one two times and was goading me into finishing it. Shawn watched me play the final bosses, and then said he was amazed at how I've actually become somewhat of a gamer compared to what I was three years ago when Christi bought me the game. I had a NES growing up, but I never got a SNES, Sega, or anything else over the years. So I was VERY out of it when it came to console gaming for a long time. I still remember trying to play James Bond on my friend Lee's N64 and I couldn't manipulate the toggle stick enough to walk through doors. The amount of buttons on the controller was undaunting. I can only imagine how painful it was to watch me play. I bought Shawn a PlayStation 2 a few years later, but I never touched it. The memory of James Bond was enough to keep me from ever touching another toggle stick or playing a game where I had to use more than two buttons. And then Christi moved in and introduced me to Gauntlet for the PS2. It's safe to say that it's been downhill ever since. I now own two additional gaming systems and own more games than Shawn. I'm still not that good at gaming. I tend to favor the RAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR technique and don't really develop strategies in how I play. But, I'm not afraid of the toggle stick anymore, and I've started to play games where I use (gasp!) all of the buttons on my controller. I'm not sure if this is a progression, or really a regression.

Btw, thanks again Christi for such a wonderful birthday present. I liked Kingdom Hearts better than any Zelda I have played. Hopefully I'll finish Shawn's Christmas present of KH2 more quickly than three and a half years.

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Friday, October 13, 2006 - 4:57 PM

I'm in day two of a cold where I cannot take any decongestants due to my stimulant intolerance. All I can take is benadryl. Benadryl makes me incredibly drowsy, so of course I don't take it while I'm at work. I'm in day two of no real relief. I'm close to welcoming death.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 1:26 PM

I'm just finding quotes everywhere. This is from my daily dose of insanity, err, I mean wisdom, Bacon-kun.

"Yano may be a man-whore, but he's a sensitive man-whore."

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 7:35 PM

Just got another one. (I love this show.)

"Do you see anyone falling in love with me? No. You can't fall in love with someone who makes you crap your pants."

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- 7:26 PM

Well I have a new quote. Big thanks to Gilmore Girls.

"Helen Keller and Steven Hawking could have had a more meaningful conversation."

Just envisioning this gets me in giggles.

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Monday, October 09, 2006 - 4:40 PM

This past weekend we had no Baylor home game (the Bears beat Colorado! Go Bears!), Shawn went camping with friends, and my best friends were in Mexico (the lucky bastards). So I chose this moment to take over my TV and thus DVD player. I have a stack of Inuyasha DVDs that I have not watched yet, so I stayed up most of the night on Friday watching those and eating my favorite candy. The next morning I felt the serious urge to burn all that off so I took the dogs for a walk. For three-fourths of it, Mufasa was pulling me so hard that I was skipping more than I was walking. For the last fourth, he was waaaaaay behind me and limping a little. We walked again Sunday morning with the exact same results. My hand actually hurts a little from gripping his leash so hard. They were very well behaved except for one instance when we passed by a house that had a chain-link fence and dogs behind the fence. The dogs were barking, as dogs do, which disturbed Bond and Mufasa to the point that Bond decided to attack Mufasa. I never understand why this happens, but it always does. I guess that Bond wants to show the other dogs that Mufasa is his bitch or something. Mufasa is always very gentle when Bond does this, but this time, Mufasa reared back like a bear and bitch-slapped Bond so hard, he fell. I yanked those leashes apart so hard and so quickly that I felt my shoulder muscles pull.

After the adventures in walking, I met Kay for my free dental cleaning and we went to lunch at my favorite restaurant, PF Chang's. While we were there, we talked about movies that we had wanted to see but didn't for different reasons, and we both mentioned The Illusionist. I said that it was still out, but had limited showings. We went to her house, looked it up in the paper, and found one of the only showings for the afternoon and drove out to a theatre that neither of us had heard or been to. If you have not seen this movie, go see it or put it on your list for must-rent. I cannot express how awesome this movie was. If you like movies like The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects, this one is right up your alley.

Today I'm severely paying for Sunday. After walking on Sunday, I got all ambitious and decided that I was tired of our flower beds looking so white trash and I attacked them with a hoe. Oh, this was after I decided to re-pot all of my bulbs. I worked for about two hours until I "found" the third yellowjacket nest in one of the bushes. I only had about a few feet to go, but I decided to screw it; it wasn't worth it. So due to using muscles for two hours that I normally do not use, I was in pain by three o'clock. I could barely get out of bed this morning, and I am walking rather slowly today. I don't think I'm going rollerblading this evening. Our flower beds aren't gorgeous yet, but they look ten times better than they did. I want to dig out a few of the bushes and replace them, but I'll have to wait until Shawn takes care of the nasty yellowjackets. I was proud of myself for not running away screaming down the street when I saw them, but I'm not going to try to kill them. Hey, at least it's not black widows this time.

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Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 6:54 PM

Just when I think they can't come up with an idea for a movie dumber than Snakes on a Plane, they come up with The Marine.

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 9:40 PM

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 9:05 AM

I had a Monday yesterday. My day started off with getting into an argument with a court coordinator in Dallas County about, essentially, how lazy she is in scheduling a hearing. I have conversations like these almost weekly with the Dallas courts. I have no problem at any other court... no idea why these people are so lazy and rude. Then my peaches were stolen out of my lunch; the lunch that I put in the refrigerator at 8 a.m. and removed four hours later for consumption. Someone took my peaches out of my lunch and put the rest back. And then I get a trial setting for December 11th... the Monday after I return from Atlanta. (For those that don't understand the tragedy in such a scheduling, I have to work all weekend the weekend before trial, meaning that I can't be out of town, have out of town guests, or fun in general that weekend.) I hoped that today would be better. This morning didn't start so well, as I dropped my curling iron and burned myself in two places on my chest. I swear, if someone steals my fruit today, I will go postal.

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