Mellys World

What's a Nubian?

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:07:00 GMT

2 and 1/2 months later, I finally watch Chasing Amy for the first time. That flick hit a little more than I expected it too. It had a lot of heart, but most of it was broken. In any case, yes, it is a must see.

I've been doing a lot of writing lately, letting my costuming and drumming fall into non-existence much to the chagrin of my timetable and my drum instructor. I get to where I have to write or I will go nuts. When I get like that and try to express myself verbally with a trusted few, I end up sounding like a lunatic. *laughs*

Went to Illinois recently for a cousin's wedding. Wedding was fine, Illinois was just ... ugh. I cannot foresee a reason to ever go back. It is time for family to come visit me b/c I just can't handle going back. It isn't like traumatic or horrible things happened when I was there, I just simply have no use for it anymore. I have grown out of it, both in time and in space. It was just a lot to handle emotionally and then coming back and jumping right back into work. *laughs* Actually, it felt good to come back and focus on work instead of dealing with the other things that were on my mind.

Today, K and I are in NC vacuum-forming. Oh the joys of a side business. He has been collecting and buying the parts needed for a vacuum-form machine at the house and of course, when DHL delivered a crucial part, he opens it to find it broken. *rolls eyes* Wonderful. Ah well, other things seem to be falling into place. Things around the house are getting done, motorcycles are up for sale, the washing machine got fixed ... *grin*

I am throwing a baby shower for a friend at the end of July so I have a good set time to have any house projects done by that time. It isn't that the house is a wreck, but it could definitely use a few touches here and there. We'll see what I can come up with. Perhaps I won't cover the livingroom walls in Soyorama and Luis Royo, but I would like something interesting. Perhaps dragons.

Ketchup

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:02:25 GMT

Let's see ..... what is new and exciting ....

I finally watched Reservoir Dogs tonight which friends have been bugging me to watch for awhile now. I had read the screenplay years ago so I knew most of the scenes already, however watching it was well worth it for the soundtrack that accompanies the story. I won't be able to hear "Stuck in the Middle with You" for awhile without seeing Michael Madsen in my head.

I've been reading the Bhagavad Gita for the past couple months and I'll admit I'm enjoying it thoroughly. I don't read large sections of it at a time though, I'll read a few pages and think about it for awhile. It echoes a lot of what I've read in other books I call "Books of Wisdom" ... The Bible, for instance. There is a lot of similar wisdom which I find interesting. I need to read Siddhartha sometime as well .... I've got too many books to read and not enough time.

We bought MarioKart for the Wii a couple weeks back and it has been a blast. Mario Brothers was the first video game I ever played when I was a kid. I used to play it at a friends house. I wanted to save up money to buy a Nintendo, but my mom thought I didn't need it so I never did. Now I kinda wish I had. Not that it was a big deal, but you know, it would have sealed the deal on me being a geek *laughs*

Temperature has started to heat up so I know the humidity can't be far behind .... here is to Georgia Summer '08 ... maybe I'll actually get a tan this time ...

He's working on re-entry!?!

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:57:07 GMT

I've been watching the James Bond films backwards, from most recent back.

I haven't seen all of them yet, but dear lord, Moonraker has to be one of the worst, corniest Bond films ever made. The sound score was AWFUL, the story was lame, and the characters (except for Jaws) just SUCKED. *sigh* Ugh.

Oh well, most of the others make up for it.

Week has gone well, just busy. Working out a lot. Working on taxes this week. Working on Biker Scout Kits continously as well. Going up to NC to hang out with family on Sunday. Yeehaw.

Please wait while files are installing ....

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:29:49 GMT

*sigh*

I'm stuck in a lab installing software that takes much longer than I want it too. On the plus side, the instructor brought me the software TODAY that he needs installed by TONIGHT, so you know, that gives me a lot of time to get it done seeing as how there was a class in said lab until 3:30.

*sigh*

Otherwise, things are okay. I leave for a Microsoft Sharepoint Conference in Redneck Central ... I mean Nashville, TN next week. Looking forward to going to a conference at a hotel that has an Irish pub in it? Oh yeah! Looking forward to being away from my SuperK for 3 nights? Not so much. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to be at this conference during both the Superbowl and Mardi Gras. Seeing as how I usually throw a shindig for Superbowl, this has me bummed. I'll deal.

We recently got one of these for our house and play room, which is awesome. http://www.poofchairs.com/King-Foof-Chair.htm They are fun to sit in, flop in, and throw around the room. Woot.

In really fun and exciting news, my K (who bought this for me last August), his buddy Alan, and myself installed an Injen Cold Air Intake in my car on Sunday. VROOM! I have been wanting to do this ever since I bought my car in January '04, so I am really excited to finally have it installed. The first day was kinda rough, the engine bogged, my check engine light came on, etc. However, after researching it online, it appears that those are normal symptoms b/c the car's computer has to re-map the new part. Today the car has been great to drive and the CEL disappeared so hopefully performance will only continue to improve :) Note to self - change oil in car.

I have yet to make note of my yearly goals for '08 and its almost February. One goal I know will get met is that my Celica will finally be paid off! Of course, by now I am a bit bored with her (sssshhh, don't tell her that), so if I can do some simple modifications to improve her performance here and there, it should keep me from going out and buying something else I don't need. Rar. So there is at least one very attainable goal - Pay off Celica

The weekend before last, K&I went with our friends S&S to the motorcycle show in Atlanta. Freaking rocked. This time I was really able to tell what kind of bikes were most comfortable to me, what weight felt like too much, what seat height was just right, what suspension felt the best, etc... I was REALLY impressed with the BMW bikes, both the 800 and the 1200. K and I have pretty much agreed that my new bike will be the 2008 Kawasaki 250 Ninja. Of course, I need to get my license and get more comfortable with the bike I have now before we buy that one. *grin* Okay, there is goal number 2 - Get motorcycle license

I need some sort of goal marker for my drumming, but I can't figure out what that should be. I feel like I've reached a kind of impasse with it. My instructor says I pick up things really quickly, but I feel like I'm not going anywhere with it. A friend of mine plays guitar and has told me I should be playing drums while K plays guitar. Its a good suggestion. I'll try and come up with a good goal for my drumming. My instructor is leaving 106 West in May. 106 West is the shop where I get my lessons. He will probably continue to give private lessons. In one way I am happy for him b/c I think he could do better having his own business. In another way, I'm bummed because Monday nights have become this nice little world I visited, kind of a retreat from everything else. Now, there is unspoken tension on Monday nights which is the last thing I need. Meh, it'll sort out.

Things have a way of sorting out both with and without outside help.

Laugh for the Day

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:46 GMT

The job market is competitive, but the following statements should help put things into perspective. These have been lifted from actual résumés submitted to prospective employers. Last I heard, unintentional self-deprecation isn't the best strategy for getting hired. And as for proofreading, it's not yet overrated . . .

*Thank you for your consideration. Hope to hear from you shorty!

*It’s best for employers that I not work with people.

*Here are my qualifications for you to overlook.

*Seek challenges that test my mind and body, since the two are usually inseparable.

*Graduated in the top 66% of my class.

*Reason for leaving last job: The owner gave new meaning to the word paranoia. I prefer to elaborate privately.

*I am a rabid typist.

*I have a bachelorette degree in computers.

*Excellent memory; strong math aptitude; excellent memory; effective management skills; and very good at math.

*I worked as a Corporate Lesion.

*Reason for leaving last job: Pushed aside so the vice president’s girlfriend could steal my job

*Married, eight children. Prefer frequent travel.

*Education: Graduated from predatory school with honors.

*Special skills: Thyping.

*Never been fired, although it could happen anytime now.

*Referees available upon request.

*Previous rank: Senior instigator.

What was I drinking?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:14:41 GMT

Okay, if anyone finds the energy drink in a small red aluminum can called "Cocaine" BEWARE! It burns as you drink it. I don't mean like a good Coca Cola burn, this is more like a funky carbonated acid kind of burn. Its like Bawls (yes its another energy drink) but with a kick ... from a stiletto heel. Sheesh.

Tomorrow is my last day here at Panoz Racing School/Skip Barber Racing School. I'll miss some of the people but damn! Friday will be my first day off in 2 weeks. I'm tired! Blarg.

Drum lessons have been a continual blast for me. Monday I introduced K to my instructor who ... I'll call him 'Guff'. We found out the three of us have a common bond of not only Star Wars and music, but guns as well. That was cool. Guff practices Hop Ki Do so he and I have martial arts in common as well. I have been wanting to take a martial arts class for years at this point, but have not done it yet. Hopefully I can put that on my Fall list of things to do. I still want to get my motorcycle license by the end of summer and I've been slack on that. Plus I am still in the midst of trying to get my can-can costume done in time for Dragon Con. I have never sewed an entire outfit before, but my hubby and his clan are all-out into costuming so they have a plethora of information for me to use. Its been fun so far, plus the tights and other accoutrements I ordered online arrived yesterday so it was a good reminder for me to get my tush back into gear and start my petticoat. Note to self :)

L and I have been having to take turns playing receptionist on top of our normal jobs since SBRS fired our existing receptionist. That has been a bit chaotic trying to get things done but we manage. Yesterday after 4:00 while I was on phone duty, I started to write a story on a past story I started to write over 18 months ago. I'm starting to feel like I'd like to write screenplays instead of novels, but that is just a twinkle in my eye at this point. I'd like to take a class on how screenplays are written. Maybe in the winter.

That's pretty much what is going on for now, other things are still in flux but will hopefully get sorted out someday soon.

In other news, my SuperK is the best. He surprised me by bring me breakfast at work today :)

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:01:04 GMT

Whoooo.....

Lots has been going on. I'm not sure if the grameric structure of that sentence is correct nor if 'grameric' is even a word ... but so be it.

I have been keeping an eye out for opportunities job wise and late in May I found out about an opening at Gainesville State College in their Computer Center. Hells yeah. So I applied May 30th. 3 weeks later it was announced to us at work that Skip Barber Racing School was "merging" with Panoz Racing School - CHAOS ensued at work. The merger was to take place July 1st. Work suddenly became intensified. I kept an eye out for other things but never heard anything back from GSC. This was also in the middle of getting ready for Star Wars Weekends so things were kinda tense for yours truly. Then randomly on a Thursday night, someone from GSC calls me to schedule an interview for the following week. Wow. Rock on. I have the interview and afterwards they tell me they will know something next week. They call me the next day to ask me to come work for them. Hells yeah :) It took awhile for the background check to get done and the contract to make its way to me. However, it finally did and all was well in the land. Unfortunately by that time my boss was already in Connecticut meeting the new owners so I had to tell him about my new position over the phone which I don't like to do. He understood so no harm, no foul. I start my new job on July 25th :)

Now I just have to make it through the next 2 weeks including Track Days this weekend - oyish.

In other news, I watched Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow for the first time last night - Creeeeepy, but I loved the characters. Well done.

Darwin Strikes Again

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:35:35 GMT

Oh dear lord ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/od_nm/germany_moles_dc_1

New Job

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:04:20 GMT

I work here now ....

www.panozracingschool.com.

YeeHaw people :) I'll blog more when I get into this office's swing of things. New routines again *grin*

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

Freaking Hilarious

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:45:39 GMT

I found this on a link off of www.fark.com. Enjoy!

The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay

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They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

RDF

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:19:40 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

This is really wild. If you know anything about Apple or Steve Jobs, give the above few paragraphs a read, its great :)

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:21:46 GMT

So ...

why do men have nipples?

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:20:32 GMT

"Don't decorate your sister's car with condoms, its tacky!!!"

Guess That Quote

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:27:40 GMT

"You know what they have now? Devil's Night Greeting Cards. Isn't that precious?"

What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:45:14 GMT

All Star Wars fans with 3 minutes to spare, WATCH THIS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9zwhersfk

Freaking hysterical!

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:45:31 GMT

So if you could choose to be a superhero/mutant/ and/or choose to have their powers, what would it be? A while back I decided I wanted to be LadyGreyMyst, which combines the powers of Lady Deathstrike, Jean Grey, and Mystique. Don't know if you could beat that combination, but I'm sure a way would be figured out.

And what about you all? And don't just say X-Ray vision *grin*

C4

Tue, 30 May 2006 20:10:42 GMT

Star Wars Celebration is in LA next year.....

http://www.starwars.com/community/event/celebration/news20060526.html

Thu, 25 May 2006 20:54:01 GMT

Opus, Possum, Peanut, Man-Whore, Junior, Nasty, Naughty, FlapJack, TweedleDee, TweedleDumb, Bruhaha, Zeus, Bunz...

These are all nicknames we have for each other at work....I just felt compelled to catalog them so I can look back one day and remember how retarded we all can be :)

Fun 6 minutes

Thu, 25 May 2006 13:31:51 GMT

If you guys haven't seen this yet, take 6 minutes and watch it, its great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Pink, Your underwear is pink

Tue, 23 May 2006 13:34:30 GMT

So last night a myriad of things went wrong that I won't even go into detail about here cause it will only dredge up negativity, which I have no interest in doing, usually.

SO, I saw a trailer for the new Superman movie last weekend and figured I should watch the original before I see the new one. The only copy my video store had was on VHS *shudder* but with a little help from the auto-tracking function, it was watchable. The dialogue....oy. Still, I didn't know Chris Reeve filled out the Sup costume so well. He also had a really good voice. Gene Hackman was crazy as Luthor, I can't wait to see what Kevin Spacey does with that role.

Now, I am much more of a fan of Batman than Superman, but I'll give props to the Man of Steel because what he does, he does well. A friend of mine and I had the whole Bat vs Sup conversation more than once. Batman was like everyone's hero because he was a regular man that chose to become something more. He was human and you could relate to him. Sup was 'born' - on Earth - as already something more. I suppose you could argue that Sup had to choose to use his power for good rather than for evil, but he never had that all-appealing edginess that the Dark Knight did.

I think a re-telling of Superman, an edgier Superman, would be ...... very interesting. Not an evil Sup, but a darker one. Cut out some of the "Boy Scout" as Gigi would say and put in more ..... reality.

I never really got into Spiderman either for that reason. I mean some of the stuff he does is really cool, but ........ he is like the Backstreet Boy of Superhero's. Although the new film is going to have Spidey in his black suit so maybe my opinion will change.

Okay, I'm done for the moment, back to your regularly scheduled web surfing.

Crap!

Mon, 22 May 2006 19:20:04 GMT

Crap! This is NOT who I identify with. Still, its probably the coolest pic of Supergirl I've seen.....

Your results:
You are Supergirl

Supergirl		93%
Wonder Woman		88%
The Flash		70%
Hulk		60%
Green Lantern		60%
Iron Man		60%
Superman		55%
Spider-Man		55%
Batman		50%
Robin		50%
Catwoman		45%

Lean, muscular and feminine.
Honest and a defender of the innocent.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

George Eliot

Mon, 08 May 2006 16:57:00 GMT

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- Above Quotes by George Eliot

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:12:31 GMT

So if you were a songwriter, would you want people down the centuries trying to decipher what your songs meant?

Let's talk about

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:41:35 GMT

......what makes you happy

Open Forum people - I wanna hear what makes you happy, content, excited, passionate, calm, and any other positive emotion.

On a funny note, I did this at work a couple years ago. I wrote "Happiness Is ..." on a board, and we all took turns writing whatever we felt just for the fun of it. My supervisor wrote "GOAT" and as I looked at the board and read "Happiness is GOAT" I started to feel very strange about my new co-workers until I learned he was talking about a Pontiac GTO, commonly referred to as Goats. Phew. :)

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:33:59 GMT

I am in the mood to make a summer music list.

311, Sublime, possibly some Will Smith, but I am opening this forum to suggestions and censure :)

Give me your thoughts/opinions.