It's here!

My Serenity DVD, that is.

And my Cry Wolf and Titus DVDs.

And my The Tiger's Child book.

I hardly know what to do first.

My new year's eve

The boy and I ended up watching all 6 Star Wars movies. Well, 5 last night. We literally ran out of time and had to watch the 6th one -- which I always knew as the 3rd one -- today.

Also, the boy finally agreed to let me teach him how to play poker on Friday. We started out with 5 card draw. He caught on pretty quick. He knows what to do and when, and as he's got a great head for math, had no trouble at all figuring out how much to throw in after someone reraises him. Cool beans. However, I don't consider myself the best player, so when he had 5 crappy cards and asked me what the best way was to proceed, I'm not so sure I'm the best authority to give advice at that point. But that's the part he'll figure out as he goes. So anyhoo, as is common with him, he couldn't just have me and him play. He had to invite his favorite stuffed animals to play with us last night for new year's eve. So Simba (the tiger), Jason (the jaguar) and Mr. Bear (do I really have to spell this one out?) played with us. Really. I helped Jason deal and helped him with his cards, and the boy helped the other two.

After a while, I threw in some Texas hold'em. At first it really confused the boy, but after the second attempt, he got it. He then said he didn't want to play any more Texas hold'em, and went back to five card draw when he dealt. However, the next time Simba dealt, he switched back to Texas hold'em, and we played both games for the rest of the night.

So, as I said, I played poker with 4 new players who I had just taught how to play...and I was the first one knocked out. Then Jason (whom I'd been helping) got knocked out. So the boy and his two other animals, who'd never played before, were all that were left.
I pointed this out to him, and he laughed and said, "yeah, the student has surpassed the master already!" Either he's going to be REALLY good, or I'm much worse than I thought I was.


Also, Bon Jovi was on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (a pre-taped bit, but still great). Did anyone see Dick Clark? His speech was really affected by the stroke. And he was in the studio, not at Times Square. It was sad.

And I did SIX loads of laundry today!

Like a kid in a candy store

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I just figured out how to post audio files on a website, so they're available to me on the web. And I just went nuts downloading TONS of Serenity/Firefly audio clips onto my PC, to upload to my site later.

Now if I can just figure out how to get them on this blog...

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I just made a list of links on my sidebar, called 'Sound Bytes'. I know when I click on a link, it automatically opens my Windows Media Player so the bit will play. I've NO idea if this will work for anyone else. So please let me know if this does or doesn't work for you.

Thanks!

Dear 2006:

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Welcome. Please, please be kinder than 2005.


Sincerely,

Laurie

Dear 2005:

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You sucked out loud. You sucked big whaler bone. You were the worst year ever. Good riddence. Fuck you. And the horse you rode in on.


Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out,

Laurie

I believe I have 'outed' myself as a psychopath at work

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Anyone remember the question that was supposedly created by a psychiatrist, and if you answered 'correctly', it meant that you think like a psychopath:

Psychological Test:

Read this question, come up with an answer--
A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, She believed him to be her dream and she fell in love with him right there but did not ask for his number and no matter how hard she tried she could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

This floated around the WD once, and I remember that I got the answer right. It was the only thing that made sense to me, and I couldn't imagine what other answers people might come up with. But I never talked about it with anyone, and never got any feedback.

Flash forward to today. I went into the filing room at work and all the temps (probably 10 of them) were talking about something that sounded intriguing. I asked what was up, and someone said there was this question that some psychologist made up, and if you answer it right it means you think like a psychopath. I said, "oh, yeah, I flunked that one." They asked what I meant, and I told them that I knew the right answer right away, that it was the only answer that had ever come to mind for me, and asked if that was bad. They all seemed a tiny bit stunned and didn't seem to believe I knew it. I asked, "the one with the mother's funeral? Yeah, she killed the sister so (I won't post the answer here in case anyone's interested in playing). Did any of you get it?" Nope. Not one of them. And they seemed a bit stunned or tickled or maybe a bit nervous that I did.

Mwahahahahaha

And in other news

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My cousin's daughter, the one who's husband died of an aneurism in July, had her baby yesterday; on the birthday of her brother (who died of a heart attack in April). She had a girl this time. She has 3 boys already, the youngest not even quite a year old yet.