So, here it is late May in Arizona. We had both our first 100-degree day AND the first 110-degree day this week. About right, maybe a little early, but not horribly so (as it was last year, when we hit 100 in MARCH). Okay. Definitely summer. Winter clothes packed away, air conditioner on.

So today it's freezing outside (okay, 65 - that's freezing), raining, and there's snow on the Rim. Snow and rain in May? Memorial Day weekend? WTF? (Well, it's going to be in the 80's by then, but that's a REALLY cool Memorial Day!)

Barb and I stayed home today and went to the first (well, this morning's first) showing of Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I thought it was mucho cool, and a lot of fun. Happy-making movie. And Harrison Ford still looks awesome. And now I MUST get all the collections of The Young Indiana Jones Adventures, a show I absolutely adored and just saw it's available on DVD (it may have been before, but I hadn't seen the sets like this). Even at CostCo they're almost $70 a set. *sad face* Especially since there are only 29 total episodes, split up between the three sets... and by all accounts, poorly edited, as well... damn Lucas... I liked that show so much I actually joined the Lucasfilm fan club for a couple of years... and the name "Sean Patrick" came from somewhere. *whistles* I wish I'd recorded them back in the 90's, at least I could watch 'em again, uncut...

ANYWAY, I liked the movie. Now I want to go to Disneyland and ride the Indiana Jones Adventure again. I told Barb we should go to California, get married, and have a honeymoon.

I'm not totally used to my new glasses yet. They're my first progressives, but I'm still used to reading over the tops instead of through the bottom, and I have a slight headache now.

Not that there really is much.

Let's see, the week in review...

Barb stayed home all week and I had to go to work. Phoenix drivers remain frustrating. I finally forced myself back into the gym, and because I have been such a slug for so long, an average workout left me feeling like someone has been hammering on all my muscles. Yet I have been trying to be really easy on my shoulder - not that this has helped, it hurts more now than it did back when I first hurt it. SO not fair. Barb can hardly hobble around (see rahirah's journal for details) and I can't lift anything with my right arm, leaving my usually weaker left arm trying to be dominant when it is not. This makes grocery shopping interesting.

So today. We went to CostCo, but Barb couldn't handle it after a while and we got away with mostly exactly what we came for (cool). I went over to Fry's on my own to check on the cherries, but it's still too early and they're way too pink.

Last Saturday I got my hair cut short. I'd been dithering between short and long for the cruise, but I like the way it's come out. It's sort of a different style for me, more of an all-one-length bob with bangs rather than the usual layered "cap o' curls" I'd done with short hair before. I think I'll keep it a while.

Moonlight was cancelled. Of course. Because I'd started liking it, of course. Why did I give it a second chance, anyway? Same reason I did Jericho. Well, one less show I have to keep track of next season, where almost everything I like is scheduled on Monday. At least Chuck, Dirty Sexy Money, and all the rest of the usual suspects are coming back. Boston Legal is scheduled for only 13 more episodes, one half-season more - I'm actually glad of that, because I don't think they could sustain it too much longer, and from what I read about Shatner during the strike (how he didn't miss the show at all), I am guessing that he agreed to 13 more, and then they're calling it quits. That show really isn't much beyond the Shatner-and-Spader Comedy Hour (with some much-appreciated - at least by me - left-wing radicalisms thrown in for good measure).

Have started watching Carnivale on DVD - fascinating and creepy show. Also the uncut Dexter, also somewhat creepy, both very good. Still not worth paying for Showtime or HBO, though, especially since I CAN rent the DVDs after the fact.

Donna Noble = Second Best Companion Ever. Am loving Season Four of Doctor Who so far. Only one even slightly weak link in the whole season so far, and it's not that it was BAD, it was just weak. Could have been better.

We haven't gone to see Prince Caspian yet - soon, although I'm rather worried about the apparent appearance of teenage infatuation between Susan and Caspian, which disturbs me. I guess since they went with the slightly older version of Caspian they felt they HAD to have a love interest, but it bothers me not only because it's not in the book, but also because if they go on to Dawn Treader, of course Caspian will meet his future wife; even more importantly, Susan never comes back to Narnia. It's doomed even before it's begun (and if nothing else, these days, viewers are unrepentant shippers).

Barb and I took May 22 off to go see the earliest showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as possible. Yes, we ARE that geeky. We just haven't decided if we want to go for the 12:01 showing or wait until the next day.

I got my entry done and sent to the Molly Contest, a regional (Denver) contest for Romance writers of every genre - and they turned out to be VERY nice folks, who let me re-submit when the conversion between WordPerfect and Word ONCE AGAIN ruined my formatting (even in .rtf format). I talk them up because they are nice folks, whether I win or lose.

So, back to today. Laundry done, then chocolate chip cookies made, wings fried and tossed in wing sauce, overall good stuff. Now watching the very silly and, yes, I'm laughing my ass off, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Another good weekend. So many things I still need to do...

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!

Yesterday was Awesome IRONMAN. Totally awesome!!!

Today Forbidden Kingdom. Also very awesome, and lots of fun. It's nice to spend money on movies that are actually worth it!!!

Once again I cannot remember what it was I was going to post, and I have no time to think about it since sillymagpie wants to take this meme:

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test written by macbee on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(macbee)

So I hand over my computer.

I hadn't realized quite how long it'd been since I last posted. I've had the odd thing to say, but never seemed to have any time to come sit down to the computer and do it.

Let's see - Tivo is up and working, although I haven't figured out how to make it do all the things it supposedly can do.

I spent every last cent I had this weekend finishing up shopping and such, including the postage for all the boxes that I spent all week trying to get into the mail. Most everything went out on Friday, and just the boxes to my Mom and aunt & uncle alone were $19.51; I haven't gotten the total for the rest of it (one of the few perks of working in the mailroom, the ability to fill out a requisition - or ten - and be charged after the fact).

Since we don't get tomorrow off, they did give us an extra two hours of personal time which can be used any time between now and the end of the year, so I scheduled it for New Year's Eve.

I haven't been sleeping very well; I am delighted that my cat loves me, really, I am, but couldn't he love me during the day as well as at 4 in the morning? And more, he's learned to operate the iHome clock radio/iPod dock - because the buttons are on top, he steps on them and turns on the music at all hours. I had to move it from his path (there is nothing that will keep him from getting on the bureau in the first place).

Took off a good part of the week before last, and got a lot of stuff done around home, but for some reason I just don't come in here as often - once I "finished" NaNoWriMo, I stopped hanging around the computer, and other than getting this desktop up and working (at long last!), I haven't been using it like I used to. I do have the wireless keyboard working, but I haven't installed PhotoShop or PowerDVD yet (so no new icons, although I need to make a few from the Simpsons Movie and Scrubs); I am hoping that once the new year comes in, and things can settle down, I can see if I can get my mind organized back into some semblance of order. Again, I think I like having a living room that's for, you know, LIVING in.

Getting the desktop back does remind me, though, that the last place I sent my novel to was back in AUGUST - and I can't help but think that four months is too long. But I'm not sure about sending it on to the next one on the list until I hear something. Argh. Besides, I'm going through an intense "I'm sure it's crap" feeling, considering all the mistakes that beta readers are finding. I really screwed the damned thing up with those most recent edits.

What rahirah said about Sweeney Todd.

I've gained ten pounds since my surgery. After New Year's Eve, I hope to get back in shape.

Let's see... tried a few new cookie recipes this year, so hopefully everyone who gets 'em likes 'em. I still have a few presents I'd like to get for folks, but seriously - I am BROKE. They'll have to wait until January or February, depending on emergencies, payoffs, etc. I have overspent just a little, but nothing at all like I used to do - this time I reached a stopping point, something that actually CAN be paid off in a few months (instead of five years plus lawsuits and bad credit problems).

And that, I think, sums up my generally boring life, since I can't remember half of the other stuff I'd meant to post but never got it written down, so it's gone.

Ideas for articles I thought about writing: Confessions of a Speed Addict; How Does 'Happy Holidays' Lessen Christmas?; Do Americans Know What the Word 'Moderation' Means?

I don't know where my creative mind has gone. Hopefully I'll find it again sometime.

And now it's already over.

My goodness, how the time does fly. I spent most of the weekend doing the good and sitting in the recliner watching TV, but we did get out to CostCo, where I probably overdid it some, but I feel pretty good today. The doctor did not respond to the pharmacy about meds, but I seem to be doing okay (knock wood) for now; I'll ask again on Tuesday when I get the stitches out, should I still be in need.

We watched The Fountain, which was nothing AT ALL like I expected. It was a good movie, with extraordinary cinematography and some good acting, but it wasn't the time-traveling fantasy I was expecting, but rather a fairly deep essay on dealing with the realities of death. I did like it.

I keep finding new things I need to re-install since the upgrade to Windows moved my system disc back to C. *sigh* What a pain.

It's still pretty hot in Phoenix, but we've gotten past the bad and now the nights are finally cooling down again, so yay! On the other hand, since I have limited mobility, I can't dig around easily and find my pajama pants, which I would like for cooler nights. I THINK they're packed in one of the winter clothing space-saver bags, but it would take some work to open all of them and then re-vacuum 'em. Maybe next weekend, depending on how I feel. We also wanted to pull out the Halloween stuff and get rid of the old crappy stuff, since we bought some new nifty decorations to replace 'em. Haven't done that, either.

While I have been maligned publicly about my inability to part with my much-loved crap, I still want to try to do another purge. I did get rid of several boxes of crap a few months ago, although since we expanded almost instantly to fill the space, it was hardly noticeable. But when they close off my kitchen and I will HAVE to pack up a lot of crap to move it out of the way of the construction, it'll be somewhat easier to not unpack stuff I don't really want.

It does mean I won't have a kitchen at all for a couple of months. Not that I've been cooking a lot lately, but STILL... no cooking at ALL?

Eek!

I mean, I expected they'd have to close off the construction area and all, but it didn't really sink in what that MEANT until this weekend...

The main dust-collectors I really don't want to get rid of are my bottles (which I've been collecting since I was about ten or so), my die-cast cars, and my kitty cats, which vary from fancy glass to silly plastic Maneki Nekos. I also have a couple of "action figures" (read: McFarlane's fancy sculptures) I don't want to part with. If only we could have afforded to do ALL the stuff we wanted to expand the house...

What I'd really love is another china hutch strictly for my bottle collection.

And if I can finish ripping all my CDs, I can put them into storage. The tough thing is the records - they take up a LOT of space, but they just can't be stored in the outside shed - not in Arizona, anyway. I'm torn about just getting rid of them, because, you know, RECORDS.

Good quote I saw:

Russell Crowe, who wears the black hat in “3:10 to Yuma,” is a native of New Zealand. Christian Bale, the good guy, was born in Wales. Lou Dobbs and other commentators who have lately been sounding the alarm about outsourcing, immigration and the globalization of the labor market may want to take note. The hero and the villain in a cowboy movie: are we going to stand by and let foreigners steal these jobs? Are no Americans willing to do them?

Newest review: Moot Davis has finally released his second album, "Already Moved On," and if you're a honky-tonk fan, you need to check Moot out. If it spurs any interest, his producer and lead guitarist is Pete Anderson.

I have been writing, a reasonable thing; I think I actually have a way to make the "second novel" stand on its own. It initially was all the stuff I had to cut out of Ring of Fire to make that a manageable length - Matt & Cody's story. But I wanted to make it stand on its own and not depend so heavily on Ring of Fire for its mainframe and climax.

No work on the novella. At least, I think it's a novella. Doesn't seem to be anything else.

And no word yet from the agent, so I'm back to "no news is good news." Hopefully it means they're reading it (at least past the synopsis).

The weekend:

Thought about going out all day Saturday, ended up doing nothing more exciting than hitting the grocery store to get kitty litter. Then got dolled up and taken out to a very nice Italian place for dinner - it was beyond excellent, and fun to wear my new dress, which is just too snazzy for work but I hadn't had a chance to wear it anywhere else yet. Had seafood-stuffed manicotti, delicious, with prosciutto & melon appetizer. We all shared around and everything was unbelievably delicious.

Sunday was even worse, as we never ventured outside the home - so much for my last few days sans-cast. But of course, there really wasn't anything to DO, and we've reached the absolute worst days of Arizona's summers, where the humidity is the highest (we're getting the tail ends of Hurricane Dean up here, which means clouds, a little rain, and a LOT of soggy hot air) and the temperature is still above 105 (it was 109 yesterday). But our contractor did come to discuss the final estimate and particulars and we signed all the contracts, so they will be starting SOON - with a completion date of November 17! WOOT! We should have New Kitchen before the holidays!

This morning I caught the last half hour or so of Jaws, so stopped to watch (another of those movies I have on DVD but still watch when I catch it on TV), and it was followed by a movie I've wanted to see in its entirety for some years: Remember the Titans. They showed us clips of this show years back in a "team building" exercise at work, and showed just enough that I knew I wanted to see it, but I never got around to renting it. Now I have seen the whole thing, and DAMN, this is a fine, fine movie. Even if you don't like inspirational, heart-touching, slightly schmaltzy football movies, it's amazingly good. Also includes a few actors who went on to do other things, like Donald Faison (Turk from Scrubs) and Ethan Suplee (Randy from My Name Is Earl), as well as a teeny little girl Hayden Panettiere (Claire from Heroes).

I then watched Disc Two of the Expanded Lord of the Rings (someone on my friends list quoted me exactly where in the books it says Legolas is, indeed, blond, but I've forgotten both the quote and who did the quoting, so now I'm left wondering again, because wood elves are supposed to be dark), and now I have to go to bed so I can get up at the crack of dawn so I can be at the hospital at 6 a.m. (Surgery is scheduled for 7.) I have the "you sat around all day doing nothing" tiredness, which probably means I won't sleep well, but at least all I have to do at the hospital is lay there sleeping...

Sounds like our packages are arriving - and UPS appears to be nearly as fast as USPS Priority. Coolness! (I had to send some priority because we used some priority boxes and my family stuff was going priority, anyway).

I ate way too much for dinner last night, on sillymagpie's dime; burger w/bacon, fries, and an Oreo shake. I knew my stomach would regret it later (and it did), but I enjoyed it while I ate! (Thanks!)

I just heard some really good reviews of the live-action Charlotte's Web, including the NY Times one; this makes me very happy, since it was of course one of my favorite books as a kid - I bet they NEVER make Trumpet of the Swan into a movie (although one would worry it would be ruined like Stuart Little was - Hugh Laurie notwithstanding).

It's been a very long week for such a busy one.

And now before I race off to work out (and burn some of last night's calories), I meme:

I have a glass of pretty fine Pinot Noir, am listening to the news, and am writing a little bit.

My arm still hurts - I'm avoiding any kind of lifting at all, but just normal activities will make it hurt, like picking up a 12-pack (note to try to lift those with left arm) or putting down a piece of paper (it's the twisting) or writing with a pen (stop that) or using the mouse (damn it) and so on and so forth. I went and got some Ben Gay patches which are nice and soothing and one of those little hand-held vibrating massage-y things. I suppose I have to go back to the doctor at some point.

I am still cranky at my webmistress at About, but when she sent a long lecture about things and what I need to do to make HER (paying) job easier, and how I need to stop "writing reviews" for my Call It Americana article (she told me when she asked me to do the bi-weekly article that I could choose my own topics, mind you), I just responded "Okay" and determined I wouldn't pick up anything new beyond what I already have in my queue and go from there; if media outlets send me un-requested discs I like, I'll review them at Epinions, where I have an account I don't use often enough. Bitch, gripe, moan, complain. I need to branch out more from About, anyway. However, next week I have due the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Sunny Sweeney (who is REALLY good - and I am TOUGH on girl singers), and, if it arrives, a new Roy Orbison DVD; I also have a couple of kid's discs from "Farmer Jason," who is really the hardcore Americana lead singer of Jason & The Scorchers - they're both cute and really good. Then Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis's Christmas CD, Waylon Jennings' DVD, and a few others I haven't received yet.

Perhaps my next article will discuss FREEDOM of choice... it fits into the Americana theme... corporate radio making demands on artists... yeah... (The main reason I don't just tell her to kiss off is because I enjoy doing the reviews, and I REALLY like being able to hear some stuff I wouldn't get a chance to otherwise, since Phoenix is a backward crap town when it comes to hearing Americana music anywhere... bear in mind this "Guide to country music on the About.com network" once asked me "did Merle Haggard sing some song about swinging doors?" {if you know anything at all about country music, I'm sure that hurt you as much as it did me} - I figure I NEED to be there. Someone with some actual knowledge about the genre's history ought to be working there...)

I ate badly today; mostly potato chips and cookies. Did make a nice burger and snap peas for dinner, though. I have lost two pounds this month, though (as of last Thursday).

I am up to almost 1500 points in the "My Coke Rewards." I'm now aiming for only 2560 points (a lovely evening gown), because somehow, some way, they're already sold out of the 11,000-point laptops. I can't figure out how anyone could get to 11,000 points. It's taken me months to get to 1500 points. I obviously need to drink even more Diet Coke...

I want more weekend.

We went to see The Prestige yesterday - I truly enjoyed it. I spent about half the movie CERTAIN that David Bowie was playing Tesla, but the makeup was so good I wasn't sure - and I thought perhaps I would have HEARD if Bowie was in this film, but it turned out I was right. It was the eyes that did it. I looked at those eyes thought, "That HAS to be Bowie!" I think The Illusionist was a better film, although despite superficial similarities, they really aren't anything alike; but the acting was fine (especially impressed with Jackman's flexibility) and the makeup was AMAZING. I was amused that one of the few people actually using their own accent in the movie (at least of the leads) was Michael Caine, who almost never plays a character who uses his own "working-class" accent (not sure what part of England it actually belongs to, but it's not the BBC-standard he usually affects for most roles). The Australian was playing an American, the American was playing an Englishman (the same part of London the character of Rose and her family come from - I at least recognized THAT accent), etc. But a very enjoyable film. Lots of nice little twists (some predictable, but still good). I have to read the book now.

I did indeed watch Curse of the Fatal Death today. Bwah hah hah! It was particularly amusing in retrospect that the parody had a "Tenth Doctor" who was, in his own words, "young... sexy... lick-the-mirror handsome!" Jonathan Price plays a world-class, scenery-chewing Master. I wish I knew how to get screencaps off .avi files, 'cause some scenes were just begging to be made into icons.

I'm catching up on several days' worth of NY Times articles (and still bemoaning the fact I can't read Dowd, Rich, Herbert, or the rest), and found a couple I really enjoyed, particularly this one, where it shows that the marvelous little critter of the deserts has slowly and sneakily become the country's most widespread and successful predator. Probably any Chicagoans who see one assume it's a stray dog.

Also read up on plays I can't go see, and found this review, which leaves me wondering why the director did not cast Nathan Lane as Felix and Matthew Broderick as Oscar. It seems to me an obvious casting choice; Lane is an extremely obvious Felix, no wonder he has to stretch to play Oscar. It's not like Oscar is an extension of Max Bialystock (his character in The Producers); and while it's been many years since I've actually seen Broderick IN anything since he's been largely on Broadway, I think he'd make a much more credible Oscar and he would a Felix. I am glad they're bringing The Producers to the big screen so I'll get to see them in it (finally); I just wish they'd start producing Broadway shows for DVD the way they used to for video. I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows of the last twenty years if they hadn't (mostly Sondheim musicals, although there's one or two straight plays and the various Gilbert & Sullivan productions that made it to home video). In fact, I'm often surprised Disney hasn't done just that--it seems to me putting Beauty & The Beast and The Lion King on DVD is a given. I've missed every touring company that's come through Phoenix because of a) bad publicity initially (I never hear a show is coming until it's already here), and b) horrendously expensive ticket prices. The Les Miserables in Concert DVD release was not the play, just the actors standing at a mike singing their roles. Nice, but I can get the same effect listening to the CD.

I stil have a few more days' of articles to read. I won't get on the "look at the monkey!" tax cuts for the rich and the rest of the BS happening in the country... (too stressful!) But now it's time for work.

We do not get Veteran's Day off. Phoo.

It's amazing the thoughts which come to one as you're laying in bed half asleep while cats are dancing around your head and on your bureau (where they aren't supposed to be), and you drift from the dreaming world (I was in the midst of a long and complex dream which stayed with me for a while, but it seems to be gone now) into the waking world, and I thought to myself:

If the Vatican doesn't want gay males in the seminary because of the temptation of being around a large number of men, then it seems to me the obvious solution to the priest shortage problem is lesbian women. No temptation there.

Last night I finally saw The Graduate all the way through for the first time. I knew all the famous scenes, of course, but had never watched the film. I bet those folks who despise musical montages hate this movie. One whole section in the center is Benjamin stalking watching Elaine while they play "Scarborough Fair" two or three times all the way through. Funnier movie than I expected--I hadn't realized it was written by Buck Henry.

Then we watched Monsoon Wedding. I could really come to love Bollywood movies. I love the Indian dress and music, whee!

Turkey came out good, but there's a LOT of leftovers (a turkey goes a long way in feeding three people), including a large amount of gravy. I then came all over with a craving for Big Ass Chocolate Cake, but there was none to be had, so I had to settle for Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls.

There is a turkey swimming in brine in the kitchen, and shortly it will be moved into the oven to roast. Why a turkey so early? Well, we always purchase two during the Thanksgiving sales, and that one was still in the deep freeze from then and I thought, "Why the hell not?"

This likely means we won't get to see Serenity today, which we'd talked about, because roasting a turkey is a commitment. Dang. Admittedly, I'm the most anxious of our little threesome to see it, but then, I'm the Westerns fan. I can't help myself, I always make excuses for all the problems rahirah and sillymagpie keep pointing out. Anyway, hopefully sometime soon.

This week was all kinds of business. I won't say it was horrible, because it actually made for some seriously fast days and I got a lot of work done, but I never had a moment all week. On Monday, our lead worker (who had some vacation days scheduled anyway) had a family emergency and was out for the whole week, so I was granted at least half her job. I was already doing the extra work left by the second lead worker, who is out on extended medical leave, so basically I became both Maria and Judy as well as myself (fortunately, Erma was also there to take halfsies on these tasks). This meant answering a lot of questions, handling outgoing mail as well as incoming mail, and a few other things. I swear, I got to work on Monday and BANG, it was time to go home.

Then after a whole week rather like that, where I was basically running around pretty constantly, we hit a Friday where, due to several things, we ended up with five people out. ANOTHER crew member is going on extended medical leave next week, and then our supervisor announced he'd been tapped for Cat duty (that's "catastrophe" in Insurance Speak) for the hurricanes and he would be shipped off to Texas for a month, so we have a temporary supervisor coming in Monday, as well as some more temps to hopefully get us through the next few months while Judy and Pat are off, and if all goes well, two actual new hires before the end of October. Whew!

During the week I watched one of the funniest episodes of Arrested Development evah; a good episode of House; the season premiere of Boston Legal (the cello testimony stretched it a bit); another confusing episode of Lost (didn't it end in the exact same place the week before did?); several episodes of Firefly on DVD; and last night instead of TV we went out for Mexican food because I came all over with a Wild Craving. Then I headed out to Tempe for another terrific Dave Insley show. Dave gave me one of his playbooks so now I have not only his September set list, but the chords to a number of his songs, so maybe I can learn to play them. He always does a good show. New guitar player--fellow named Josh Davis was standing in for Scotty Spenner. Sounds like Josh is a lead man normally (he has a disc coming out in January), and he and Dave are buddies. I didn't ask where Scotty was. Josh had some really good licks. Nice style. And OH, the guys who opened for them! The Vaquetones hail out of Los Angeles/Orange County and they play some hot rockabilly. Their lead guitarist plays the prettiest black Gretsch I've ever seen. I was suffering severe guitar envy (and the music it made in skilled hands was phenomenal). The Yucca Tap Room has done some sound improvements, anyway, so everything sounded pretty good. Did a little dancing, had a grand time. Sat for a little while after the show chatting with Josh, Dave, and Dave's wife, Brenda.

Woke up WAY too early this morning, considering I got home at 2:30 in the morning. I went out to feed the porch cat and sat with him for a while. It's very nice out there today. Nice blue sky, a little breeze (which we needed for the stagnant air we've had all week), cool and pleasant. Hooray for the coming winter. I may soon be able to wear my long-sleeved shirts.

Without my daily Op-Ed Columnists I'm missing out on my usual rants. I was most upset to see not only do I have to pass up on Dowd, Krugman, and Herbert, but Frank Rich counts, too. Sigh. Oh, well. Fewer political rants, I suppose.

I'm considering spending my Christmas Club money on myself (a laptop) instead of on gifts. Is this evil?

I Am

Which tarot card are you?

The problem with this quiz is there were several questions where it was, "Well, six of one, half a dozen of the other," and my first set of answers gave me The Devil. I definitely didn't feel right about that, so I went back to a few of the answers that I was dickering on and changed them to the other answer. This one still doesn't feel right, but hey.

Monday came too soon. I want to know who's responsible for such things. It was a good weekend, though. I think I managed to catch up on some much-needed sleep (although I may have blown it now; I should have gone to bed earlier last night but got attracted by the Chicken Battle on Iron Chef America), we played some intense Baldur's Gate, met littlecrow, went to see The Corpse Bride (which I seem to have liked more than everyone else did), where we saw a great preview for Goblet of Fire, had an evening snack at the Five & Diner, watched the pilot of Firefly, and even got a little editing done.