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Jello is made from fish bones. Did you know that? I did. Some hard-core vegetarian chick told me back when I was in college. I think she was hitting on me. If you don’t believe me go to wikepedia (about the fish bones, not the lesbian vegetarian). Type in Gelain for the search. Or just follow this link.

I promise wikepedia will suck you in. I was just looking up restrictive diets similar to vegetarianism. And I discovered that there really are Fruititarians. And confirmed that jello is made from fish bones (among other things).

Speaking of vegetarianism, I’ve decided to try it out for a week. Why? You ask. Why not. Plus, here’s a quote from Wikepedia: “As for weight loss, in a year-long study comparing Dean Ornish’s vegetarian diet to Weight Watchers, The Zone Diet, and The Atkins Diet, Dean Ornish’s diet showed the most weight-loss.”
And we all know that all brides-to-be must go on a restrictive diet to look their best for their wedding day. I really don’t expect this to last long. Maybe I’ll alternate weeks between octo-lacto-vegetarian, pollo-vegetarian, and carnivore. Just to shake it up a bit. Keep things interesting. Diets get boring when you stick to the same thing constantly. (if you don’t know exactly what all those are then you obviously didn’t take my advice to go read Wilkepedia.) I could never go hard core vegetarian. I like my jello, ice cream, and cheese entirely too much. Not to mention any foods made with eggs! cake people! hard core vegetarians are nutty. but I doubt most of them know as much about the uses of gelatin as I do (or you probably do, now that you’ve read wikepedia’s entry about it).
but their not as nutty as vegans or fruititarians/fructarians.
bah - hurting the carrots indeed.

Ok - back to mindlessness at work and some GnR Paradise City on Yahoo! Launchcast.

Jess’s comments are all sorts of screwy right now, so instead of patiently waiting for haloscan to get it’s sh*t together, I’ll comment here on her posting of the link to the trailer for Serenity.

Who’s that guy, the main guy says something about “your sister” blah blah blah. He looks like a male version of Trinity from the Matrix. (who has a rather masculine face anyway). And did I see Donnie Darko in there somewhere? Entirely too many faces, but there were a few cutie cute cutes. Not sure if I would give them Hottie status though.
Nonetheless I’m sure I’ll end up seeing it when it comes out.

Ok. So we’ve gone from digital cable w/ DVR at Zero’s to barely cable. I don’t think Comcast should even be able to call it cable. I shouldn’t complain so much, we’re not real big regular TV watchers. I don’t even watch Lost anymore. But occasionally there will be somethign on that I really want to watch. My options are now limited.
A couple weeks ago I watched Revelations. Missed it last week, but I may try to watch it again tonight.
But crappy cable can lead to some interesting watching nonetheless. I’m pretty sure if Phlome and I watch enough spanish TV we’ll be fluent enough to talk to our neighbors. Also, did you know that Magnum PI did a Murder She Wrote crossover with Jessica Fletcher!? Well, he did, and it was a semi-amusing episode. I think that British Guy that Magnum hangs out with may have the hots for Ms. Fletcher.
And we also saw an episode of Matlock w/ Don Knots. Kinda got the impression Andy felt sorry for the guy.
We’ve also been watching a lot of Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond reruns. I was never a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond. I don’t know why. I think they guy is just goofy looking. But I find myself laughing out loud in the reruns. Last night we learned that we should never let our suitcases become our giant fork and spoon.
But Monday night was very educational. Ray’s mom had picked out someone to replace her for her husband in case she died. Unfortunatly her replacement died before she did. No matter that her replacement was already married (the man’s supposed to go first, after all). So of course the entire episode was about Ray and his wife choosing their own replacements. Naturally, then Phlome and I had the same discussion. So I decided that Jess, should be my replacement, should I meet an untimely death (or just go, before Phlome does.) Evidently spouses don’t factor in, it’s just assumed that the other spouse is gone as well. Phlome came up with a couple suggestions for his replacement, they were okay, but none as good as my replacement.
So, Jess, hope you don’t mind taking care of phlome for me should the Reverend and I go before you two. You can spend the rest of your lives driving crosss country in your RV to astronomy conventions.

Monday again. New week.
Finals last week. New session starts tonight. Accounting and Finance. Everyone bitches about how much work it is. The masochist in me is kind of looking forward to it. It’ll be a nice change of pace to have assignments weekly instead of just reading. You know, something to show for time spent on school.

Phlome summed up the weekend. Friday could have been better, but only due to things completely out of our control. Saturday went well. We were able to take our time getting things ready for the Housewarming that night. Pretty low key, except for the russian rulette game we got as a housewarming gift. The boys had entirely too much fun shocking themselves. It’s this thing with hand held buzzers. When the red flashy light turns green everyone is supposed to press their buzzer. The last person to do so, gets shocked. And if you press your button to early, you get shocked. The low setting is rather uncomfortable. The high setting hurts like hell. At least in my opinion.
We’ll need to keep in mind that this is not a game to be played in the hot tub.

Sunday was spent recovering. Some of us needed more recovery than others. But I take most of the blame for that. I should have warned folks that the martini glasses are deeper than you’re standard martini glass, so each one had about 3 shots in it. And I should have taken better care as to the number of martinis I made people.

So I was reading Jessy’s blog (which needs an update, along with several other blogs, not that I’m getting all blogstapo on anyone, espcially not Jess, since she has been one of the few to make regular updates lately)…scanning through her list of interests. And I realized that by this time next year, I will be among her interests. You know, that 2nd to last interest there? Yeah, I’ll be one of those.

Did I mention yesterday that I updated the selections now available on my cafepress page?

Well I did. See that link up there. Yeah, the banner. The one that occassionally flashes something about supporting this site? Click on it, and it will take you to my cafepress store front, and you can see the new additions.

As always, feedback is welcome.

I hate allergy season.

or how I wasted my weekend.

Friday night I was supposed to work on my paper or the house, or something else I can’t remember. Instead Monketo, Ruby and Ruby’s Hubby came over and we played Settlers of Catan. phlome got drunk by drinking a suicide concoction of liquors since we didnt’ have any mixers, and then just some straight flavored vodka.

Saturday I was supposed to work on my paper and study for my final. Instead I slept in late, picked up a bit around the house in preparation for Phlome’s lil’ bro coming to visit, and then went to 6 flags.

Saturday night I was supposed to finish my paper and and study for my final. Instead I went out with Phlome and his lil bro, and his friend to the Lizard Lounge, and stayed up til 4:30am.

Sunday morning I was supposed to do everything I hadn’t completed over the weekend. Instead I slept most of the day, started my paper in earnest around 7pm, finished around 11. This morning at work I did some last minute editing and formatting. Still haven’t studied much for the final, but I’m not that worried about it.

But - the marketing plan is actually very interesting. I decided to do it over my idea for Goth Girls are Easy Apparel and Accessories. I discussed it w/ my prof and he thought it sounded fairly interesting.

Of course, unless I find a more affordable vendor, I won’t make any money off of it until March of next year. But then unless I get a strong following I can’t really afford to handle the production myself. My marketing plan is for 2 years, with a plan to re-evaluate the plan based on sales.
Who knows…but really, I’m not being very optimistic.

I have a marketing plan due for my marketing managment class on Monday. I’ve decided to use GGAE as my topic. Already mentioned it to my prof. he sounded intrigued. He’s cool that way.

Anybody out there done a marketing plan before? I’ve got this cool software that walks you through it that came w/ my text book. I’m just using the template from a sample marketing plan.

Sorry not a lot to share today. When I’ve not been busy w/ school I’ve been ‘researching’ for GGAE marketing plan info. Think I’ll use Tshirthell.com as an example company to fashion my GGAE line after. If anyone has any ideas for t-shirts that fit w/ the GGAE theme (gothy stuff).
Other things I’ve come accross so far:

Something Gothy This Way Comes
Goth Girls are Deadly
KinderGoth
BondageBabe
GlamGoth
Gothier than Thou
Perky Goth
MeloDrama Club
UberGoth
CorporateGoth
Nice boots…
Polyamoral
I heart Goth Boys
I heart Goth Chicks

Let me know what you think.

I hate TXU - and if I didn’t think it would me more of a hassle, I would switch to Reliant.
Here are some facts:
Texas recycles Driver’s License Numbers
In 1992 Christopher M. Hightower lived in Duncanville TX.
Sometime btwn 1993 and 2001 he moved out of Texas
In 2001 I moved to Texas and was issued Christopher M. Hightower’s old DL #
Christopher M. Hightower did not pay $200.64 in TXU Bills
TXU tacked on $30 in late fees.
March 29, 2005 I contacted TXU to start service at our new residents.
April 12, 2005 we received our first electric bill.

I think you see where this is going.

So this is how my day has gone.
By 9 am I was sure I was a victim of some form of identity theft.
By 10 am I had contacted the county sheriffs office, the DAs office, and the city police department before I finally got to file a report.
In an attempt to get additional information I called TXU back. This was when I found out the dates of the previous service. I talked to the very helpful officer who started to think that perhaps this guys’ DL was close to mine. Then Phlome mentioned to me that Texas recycles DL#s, and that’s when the officer and I came to the same conclusion.
TXU f’d up.
So now there is an informational report about the situation w/ our local PD, just in case.
I’ve talked to several TXU reps, and have been thoroughly pissed off most of the day.
At one point one guy told me I needed to fax a copy of my DL, my birth certificate, and my SCHOOL RECORDS! School records of course to prove that I was not living in Texas at the time. WTF! Do the math. Born 1978. 1992 = 14 YEARS OLD!!!!!
Oh yeah, not to mention the name and SSN do not match on the two accounts. It’s is obvious to every single person in the world that this is not my bill. So what do I have to do? Prove that it’s not me.
AAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGG
OK option 1:
Proof of date of issue of DL. So I called TX DOT, who told me to call the Dept. of Public Safety in a northern suburb. I called them, they told me I have to physically go to a local Department of Public Safety. So, taking an extra hour for lunch, I go to the closest DPS. After driving 15 mins and standing in line for 20 mins, the lady tells me I have to go to the northern suburb office. The same office that I called who told me I have to go to my local office. I was so pissed at this time, I was almost in tears. (BTW, in case you don’t know, this is how I deal with anger, I cry).
Option 2:
Fax a copy of every form of ID I have, DL, SSN, Birth certificate (and school records - ha!). And do you think I can find my Birth certificate now? After just moving?

Option 3 - fax what I have.

I opted for 3. I faxed a copy of my DL along with a brief description of the situation.

I’m just so pissed that TXU can’t do anything with out me faxing them more info. They have all the info they need to show that it is obviously not my bill.

I’m not sure who I should blame. Texas for stupidly recycling DL #s or TXU for not checking their shit. TXU f’d up, but I’m the one who has to run around trying to fix it.
And what’s with not waiting at least 10 years before re-using a DL#? Is there any sort of quality control w/ the DMV/DoT/DPS?

The weekend is gone. Overwith. Kaput. What a waste. I worked on a paper that is due Thursday, all weekend long. I have another one due a week from today. I’ll be working on it tomorrow night mostly. And Saturday, and maybe during the week here at work. Class tonight, gaming at Zeros on Wed. Class on thursday. That leaves me with Tues. Fri. and the weekend to work on it. But Phlome’s Lil Bro is coming down to visit this weekend, and bringing a dining room table (WITH CHAIRS!) and a lawn mower.

Remember the chairs thing? Phlome’s mom was going to give us a dining room table sans chairs. He never bothered to ask why. Well, he finally did. Turns out she does have chairs that go w/ the table. She just doesn’t like them. Not that she bothered to mention that, or to maybe consider that we might want chairs, even if they’re not to her taste. I swear, that family’s communications skills are worse than mine.