Green Room - Week 25 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good (very early) morning!

Happy May to you. . . why do I have "First of May" by Jonathan Coulton stuck in my head now?*g*

But around here we like to call it Month 7/Sprint Month (the final full month). Hope you've got on your running shoes!

So what have you been reading that's struck your fancy?

Anyone have any big May Day/Beltane/Lei Day/'Obby 'Oss/Black Prince Day/Maydayrun/Roodmas/Loyalty Day/International Workers Day/Mother Goose Day/Save the Rhino Day/Space Day/Golden Week plans??

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Edit to add: What happens in Vegas doesn't need to stay there! You, yes YOU, can get your very own postcard from LJ'S OWN kithan as she stumbles through that city next week!

All you need to do is send an email with your address to her at hockeykit@gmail.com!

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[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Still awake?

Me, too.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Me three. Heading to bed in about 15 minutes.

Yay for your being first!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

My boss just got a promotion... she won't be my boss anymore... *sad*

Technically, she'll still be the boss until someone is hired into her position (we're hoping to promote another team member to boss, since he's qualified for it) but that may take a few months. *sigh*

Also, I have an eye doctor appointment today, which at least means I can get an updated prescription to replace the scratched lens in my glasses, and hopefully can get a surgery date scheduled to get rid of the gorram cataract. w00t. :)

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

Yay on the surgery... :)

For MayDay:

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

First I have to deal with the daily and the not-so-daily...Geico found me a mobile glass service so the windshield chips my car got six weeks ago can be fixed without me driving an hour to take care of, and they're coming in the afternoon.

I need to take care of the mail and some other housekeeping that I was hoping to have done today. FAIL!

Between such things, though, I'm going to have a bit of fun. I'll be planting seeds and a few other things, and I'd like to make a flower basket cake. Oh- and I just thought of people to take flowers to as was my tradition. W00t!

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

I'm just relieved that I finished my entry and can now avoid being on the "Hey, where the hell is your entry?" slacker list.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

We could put you on anyway if you like.*g*

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

Using a screen reader sure can make reading posts amusing. Lei is pronounced lay, which made me think all sorts of things, until I looked at the spelling. *g* Then I was disappointed. :-)

So, what is Lei Day?

Only one state in Australia has a May Day/labor day holiday on Monday, and unfortunately it's not my state. :-(

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I think it's Hawaii's version of May Day. Or maybe it's the anniversary of their joining the United States. Something like that.

[heykatie.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Time Travellers Wife at the moment, and it's as excellent as I've heard. I'm really enjoying it, though I'm concerned about what the ending is going to be. eep!

Happy Beltane to all those who celebrate it!! My coven had our May Pole out last weekend. But today I think I'll have to do something special with Ross to mark the occasion. ;)

Right now I'm having trouble keeping a BIG BIG secret, and I'm not allowed to say anything for a whole MONTH! Gah!!

Also, does anyone else get really annoyed with their parents for automatically jumping to the conclusion that you're pregnant whenever you say you have big news? It's especially disheartening when you CAN'T have kids, but your parents still ask you EVERY time you talk to them when you're going to have a baby.

Stupid parents. Gah.

[eqfe.livejournal.com]

Parents are strange what can I tell you. I keep getting calls from my daughter in college asking me to explain to her mother that asking her if she's using birth control is stupid since she also can't have childen. "Daddy tell her she means practicing safe sex."

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

Good morning! It's my last day of work until Tuesday! Yay for long weekends.
We have an emergency preparedness workshop today so that should be interesting. i think we have about 60 people coming.
I'm reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. It started out slow but I'm now liking it. Vampire fantasy sort of thing.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

One of tru2myart's daughters is a huge fan of that series. They tried to explain it to me once....*G*

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I'm going to do my traditional listening to Julie Andrews sing "The Lusty Month of May" from the Broadway show "Camelot".

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You just reminded me that I can no longer listen to my copy of Camelot because I never transferred it to either tape or CD.

It's a vinyl record. A 33-1/4 vinyl record. And I no longer have a stereo.

*sigh*

[fidget]

The move itself starts Saturday, but I have to tie up the loose ends tomorrow night. I'll probably be dismantling my computer then, too, so I probably won't be back here for a while.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Oh man! Good luck with the move!

How long until you have your system back up again?

[bretzysdude.livejournal.com]

I'm still reading "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde. Jodi's was hooked on it, but I have a hard time getting through. I guess work has worn me out, but also the book is just plain weird. It's 60% better than other books I've read, but still...

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I love this series! Did you start with The Eyre Affair? I imagine it would be a difficult series to plop into the middle...

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

I am off work today and tomorrow. One of the benefits(?) of Derby is that Boo's daycare is closed today for the Derby parade, and Lam's school is closed for Oak's Day (first official race day of Derby).

Also Hatchet, my almost 18 year old, gets his braces off today, Huzzah!

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Hooray for days off! Would you give all your kidlets hugs for me? I miss them too, though not as much as you.

BTW - I posted something extra-special for you (filtered of course, unless you *want* me to share it beyond the group). I just didn't want it to get lost in the shuffle.

*laughing*

Loves you.

fyi

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

kithan will be sending me the poll to post today. So it's not going to up right away. (more like 1) I need the practice.*G*

So be gentle.*g*

Just wanted to make sure you knew.

Re: fyi

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Why is my first reaction to BURST OUT LAUGHING at this?

ETA: Sorry... to explain... I got this mental image of Gary with a pencil behind his ear, focusing on the poll *real hard*, trying not to mess it up, and shouting GRAP when it went up wrong the first time.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Those on my FL already know this, but we've been suddenly blessed with a woman who's offered to help us navigate and sort through all the Chez Kizzy clutter. Yesterday she got a good chunk of SO's files under control. Today she and I are going to start on Mom's room *braces herself*

I just started Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by -- get this -- Fuchsia Dunlop. Now can you walk past a book with a title like that? Never mind that I'm a food/travelogue nut *grin*

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

LOVE LOVE LOVE that icon!!

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

Plans for today???

Clean up after all of the mess at my old desk -- where I'll start organizing my crap. (I'm so happy to be back in my old building again)

Otherwise I'd settle for waking up from my nyquil dreams -- which will happen about 4 pm no doubt.

*waves*...

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

*looks over at my currently reading stack*

I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road last week. I am in the middle of Patricia Dunner's The Doctor, Orson Scott Card's Sarah and Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters.

I have about a dozen other books waiting for me, but those three actually have markers in them.

What am I going to try to do today? Same thing I try to do every day - try to take over the world try to finish my to do list. Today that includes paying the rent, going to the bank, and ... oh wow that is all!

It's May! The Merry Month of May.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

We're going to watch the derby on TV at a pig roast in Indiana.

Me, I've got visions of irresponsible Queens dancing in my head.

[kithan.livejournal.com]

Plans for the day...

Work, more work, some work. I am leaving for Las Vegas on Sunday and have so so so much to get done before then.

Also, setting up the poll as much as I can for Gary so he doesn't lose his mind. (Not that he had one to begin with...)

And waiting. I should hear back about the job tomorrow.

[monkeysugarmama.livejournal.com]

Today we're all going to work at the Lake library - I have a massive cart to shelve that I've been avoiding and I need to write the library's newspaper article for May.

Tonight I'll dash from work to rehearsal while wishing I had time for dinner, then around 9 when I get home I have a mound of clothes to fold. One can only avoid it for so long before it threatens to collapse and crush anyone who strays into the laundry room with an underpants avalanche!

I've been up for an hour and I already feel like a nap!

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

the day before yesterday i laid down for a nap and woke up 3 hours later when indy woke up!

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

So last night I had a dream that i accidentally overslept and didn't get my entry in on time. Not only that I woke up after the poll had closed! I was so distraught over this that I tried to convince Gary to let me stay in the competition anyway, but he would not.

When I woke up I was soooo happy it was thursday and i hadn't missed the deadline.

Guess I've got idol on the brain today, lol.

[monkeysugarmama.livejournal.com]

What a relief to wake up and find there was still time!

I've had Idol dreams too.

One VERY involved one a few weeks ago that involved a crazy road trip to meet up with Kithan and Gary at Sea World for a Cheeto exchange by the sting ray pool!!

[kithan.livejournal.com]

Hey, does anyone want a postcard from Las Vegas next week?

I'll have some free time on my hands, and I like sending postcards.

If you do, drop me an email with your address and I'll add you to the list.

hockeykit (at) gmail (dot) com

[porcelain72.livejournal.com]

::points to icon::

That kind of says it all for me today.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

My icon's hairier.

Actually, I'm a tad above meh today, which is reason to celebrate lately.

[thepheenixeyri.livejournal.com]

I wish. I Might just do my own thing here. My parents really aren't into the who Beltane thing as much as me, and I don't have anyone around here to celebrate it with.

So maybe just a couple of lit candles, something I'll throw out off the top of my head, and some music. :)

Phoenix

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

It's also the anniversary of the Bavarian Illuminati.

And, for some mysterious reason, Law Day.

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

law day, interesting indeed!

[elva-undine.livejournal.com]

After 6 months of unemployment, my husband finally got a job! Now he can play GTA4 with no guilt.

Today I'm baking cookies with my friend's newish girlfriend, which makes me a little apprehensive. I hope it will break the ice. Or in this case, the oatmeal.

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

congrats to your husband!

[sushimustwrite.livejournal.com]

Because outdoor fucking starts today, of course. That aside, anyone have special plans for the First?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I was hoping *someone* would chime in on that!