Well! Then! Disneyland Planning.
Ok – so, we got the Ak Perm Fund Dividends yesterday – and already i feel…. broke. heh. They weren’t as big as people were hoping, and so it made things a little tighter for the whole Lessa takes her kids to disneyland so they quit bitching and makes the Asshole tag along too trip. Still going, as we’ve already put it off once? And i’m not going to do that to the kids again.
So! Lessa hit the internet and started searching for cheap tickets x5. I’m talking expedia, priceline, hottickets, cheaptickets, Alaska Air [who PISSED me off by reinstating the “kids fly free” but only to ORLANDO instead of Anahiem which is where we’re going! Bastards! Theiving bloody bastards!] and checked with not one, not two, but THREE travel agencies, one whom I’ve done website work for, so they did their damnedest to find me better deals then I’d located already.
So – our base price we started out with for airfare x5 was a grand total of $2800. Can we say OUCH? I knew we could. So, figuring 2 of those 3 travel agencies can go fuck themselves, I took the Airlines they’d mentioned and went direct to the source online.
All hail Web Discounts! Yes indeed! Taking the EXACT same flights Dottie had given me, and looking them up and adding web discounts PLUS the PFD discount through America West, and flying into LAX instead of my preferred Burbank, and I got that down to a grand total of $2222. Who’s your daddy? UHN! That’s only 414+taxes times 5.
So. Borrow daddy’s credit card (since I don’t have one) and hand him cash so he could pay it off right away and get my email confirmation and we’re good to go for the flights. I even got to pick my own bloody seating, so it’s assured all 5 of us are sitting together. Arrange a ride with someone other then TBF to pick us up at the airport, and now he don’t have to deal with LAX and can take his time getting down to join us at the hotel and I get to spend a couple hours with E, which was something she’d requested so everyone’s happy. Whooo!
So – now, we move on to hotel. Anyone and everyone knows that staying at the “Disney” hotels costs an arm and a leg – like 160 a night at the cheapest. What some people don’t realize is that there are a ton of smaller less expensive motels tucked in and about those bigger baddies. TBF and I had stayed at one of them the last time I was down there for Gaydays, and I know he’s stayed there a couple more times since then, so we’re all happy with Super 8. So I give them a call and ask if they charge more for kids. Ha! kids under 17? Free. WHOOT. So, I ask their rate for the days we’ll be down there, and am quoted 52+taxes a night for one room, 2 double beds. Not too bad, and 1/3 of the mainline hotels.
Hit the web? and web reservations bump that down to $44 a night +tax, for two queen sized beds! Boooyah! Borrow daddy’s CC again to reserve that room, will pay cash there, and instead of 250+tax it will cost me 177+tax. Again I say – who’s your daddy? UHN!
So. Park tickets. This is where it gets REAL expensive. The only “child” I have according to disneyland is the pup, everyone else pays adult prices. Ouch. It is truely a huge human trap run by a mouse, as it will cost more then DOUBLE the hotel prices to be in the parks for HALF the time. I managed to find a place, thanks to TBF that sells tickets for 5 bucks off apiece. Not a LOT, no, but they also include coupons for area restaurants! including one 20% off an all you can eat buffet at the house of blues! TBF can do some SERIOUS damage to an all you can eat buffet. *L* And every little bit counts. Total for that, plus shipping, $463.95 on daddy’s CC and cash in daddy’s hand.
Whew.
So – total damage for 2 days of research and spending? $2862.95. This inlcudes flight, hotel and park tickets. This is also over $600 cheaper then my original estimates. See? it PAYS to do your research!
So – all we need now is spending money and food money. Heh. If anyone would like to contribute to the Lessa takes her kids to disneyland so they quit bitching and makes the Asshole tag along too trip, we are accepting donations. *L* Think I’m kidding? *Points to the little button over there at the left* What do you get out of it? Many stories and pictures and post cards too! Thats right! A post card from Lessa herself from the happiest place on earth. What more could you want? *grin*
Of course – you could always just Hire me instead! I’d MUCH rather do some work for you instead and earn my way! *grin*
The Best! Auntie! Ever!
Heh. heh.heh.
You see. His momma made a mistake. His momma promised me that when he was finally able to have french fries, that Auntie got to take him out and give them to him. She forgot and last night, gave that boy a fry without me even BEING there!
But I got her. You see, since he was ready for that – and the boy is 8 months old for heavens sake, Auntie took him out today and bought him a happy meal ALL OF HIS OWN – and not only that? we forced mommy to watch. Hell, we forced momma to DRIVE. MUHAHAHAH!
“So…whats in the pretty box auntie?”
“OOOOOOOH! French Fries! I remember these! Wassat sauce? Sweet and Sour? YUM! GIMME MORE!”
“Keep them nuggets coming, woman!”
“Wassis lovely orange concoction?!? Soda? YUM!”
“OH! what a pretty red box! what’s in there?”
“…..APPLE PIE!”
“Lemme at it! More!”
“Look momma! and is all mine mine MINE!”
“The TOY even tastes good!”
“Time to clean up – filled to the rim, I am!”
“Heh.heh.heh. Momma don’t know I got some extra fries tucked away in my diaper for later!” [he did, too – found them when we changed him later. *L*]
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Heh. The best auntie, and the most spoiled buglet ever. *shining grin*
Try to tell me he wasn’t gonna be hungry around lunch time? Try to tell me that boy needed teeth first? HAH! Total Damage: 4 chicken nuggets (minus the breading), several fries, a couple tastes of sweet and sour sauce, about 1/4 cup of orange soda and the better part of an entire apple pie. Yeah. Not hungry at ALL. Gummed the HELL outa that meal he did. *L*
My work here – for today- is done. MUHAHAHAHAH!
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And… in case you were wondering? The pup has gone from…. um. punkish glam lleaning towards goth:
To full on Glitter glam!
I’m…..so…. proud? *L*
It’s that time of year again!
UPDATE – 10-6-04
In case you were wondering…..
| Your Boobies’ Names Are: Dixie and Daisy |
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Halfway through the boobiethon And already raised over $5000! Ya’ll are AWESOME! Keep up the great work and keep plugging the site, and the cause!
Long Live the Boobage!
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That’s right! it’s the time where tits make headlines, where boobies are talked about over the dinner table, where ta-tas are the focus of EVERYONE’s attention, not just my dirty-minded friends….
it’s time for the 3rd Annual BOOBIE-THON!
Mikey has a write-up of how the Boobie-thon came to be here which …. ahem… bare’s all… *grin* and you can find more info here at Robyn’s page as well.
Everyone one of us has been touched by Breast Cancer in some way. I know there are women in my family who have had it, friends who have had it, some who have survived, some who haven’t. I myself have a smallish lump in my breast that they are watching for any change in size or shape – they believe it to be a cyst at the moment, but even the thought it might be something more makes one take pause. There is not a single one of us who has not been touched in some way by the disease.
Marn herself runs the Jog for Jugs in Montreal every year, and this year, she’s doing so after just having surgury for skin cancer, a scare in and of itself.
Bottom line is this – give for a good cause. If there is a cure, they need money to find it. All the proceeds (after the first 359 going toward a blogger-related chairity – this year, to Rock the Walk and Joelle for HIV/AIDS research) for the Boobie-thon will go to the Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation.
You’ll get to see boobies. All shapes and sizes and colors. Clothed, covered, un-covered (for donations of $50 or more you get the SECRET CODE to get into the HIDDEN pages for BARE boobies!) – even Man Boobs. Men get it too, after all! There will be a MYRIAD of boobies! A PLETHORA! a….
a whole freaking bunch o’tits n ta-tas!
Will you find mine there? Damn straight. I’ll be taking a picture for it tonight, and donating my basketball sized boobies to be oogled at, just like I did last year. Will I be peeking at all those boobies posted? damn stright! Gotta love the boobies! Will i donate money? Yes – as soon as I can. And not just to see the secret footage of bare boobage either.
But rather, because we will only find a cure if we band together and search for it. One meal for the family at home instead of McDonalds, one rented DVD instead of bought or one trip to the movies, one couch diving session to find all the change fallen under the cushins – that’s all it takes. If we all dig and donate, we can make a difference and help fund the research that might very well save your life. My life. Our friends lives.
The doors open tomorrow at Boobie-Thon. Go. Ooogle. Donate what you can. Every little bit helps.
LONG LIVE BOOBIES!!!
C’est Finis!
Today is the day! I received word earlier this morning from one of my favorite profs at the school who was chosen to do my portfolio review! 95% – and everything mentioned were little things here and there, absolutely nothing that said my work wasn’t top notch. THough, amusingly, the one he felt was weakest is actually a logo that is sold and in use and receives rave reviews everywhere else. *L* Made me chuckle a little bit for sure. He always was a fan of my more illustrative works, anyway, but! Dude. 95% – while not perfect? I believe I still finished first in my class.
So – It’s official! I is a college graduate! Whoot!
OMFG.
Mom let me know today what her secret is too! She’s the best! She is paying for a years worth of ads in the Alaska Women Speak magazine! Oh man. I’m just… speechless… that’s so cool!
I don’t think it’s actually hit me yet – i’m still kinda in the same school headspace, but it’ll settle in soon enough. I’m lucky I’m thinking at all after the week i had!
I knew things were going to well when mom and dad scored me a physical flat portfolio case for one sweet deal of a price – way cheaper then I expected to pay too. I knew better then to feel confident because I was sticking to my timeframe plan and everything was coming together and I was headed to turning in the final EARLY even… I should have know better!
So, the day before my final portfolio was due, I turned on my computer, and everything SEEMS fine, until I open up MIE – and everything on the computer screeches to a grinding halt. Uh. not good. So I check the task manager, and MIE’s opening is sucking up 99% cpu usage! this is not supposed to happen! And then, when it finally loads? there are no menu bars, no address bars, no nothing, which means one cannot oh, surf! or get to the schools FTP sites in order to turn in/post/download/critique everyone’s portfolios! ACK! So I shut it down, and run ad aware and spybot and come up clean. I run my virus scan and come up clean. I rebooted 18 million times. I reinstalled MIE overtop of the current installation. Nothing. I ran chkdsk. Nothing. I did everything I and everyone else could think of! I called my computer gods – they have never HEARD of such a problem. I spend hours with my buddy online and we do our best to uninstall MIE (a pain in the ass, mind you, and it never DID uninstall completely) and reinstall.
Nothing. Worked. General consensus – needed to disconnect the HD and take it to my computer gods so they could see what is wrong.
Lessa? Was in QUITE a panic, totally flipping out, complete breakdown time. Actually did have a minor breakdown where I cried and threw things and just generally fell apart. I cannot afford not to have a computer at the moment – and I have to have MY computer!
So I sniffled a bit, sucked it up and installed mozilla. The problem was, I didn’t know that Mozilla would let me post at school, because the programming they use is based, naturally, on MIE, and well – I don’t HAVE mie at the moment.
(god i miss my matching scroll bars and transparent windows! *SOB*)
Fortunately, Mozilla did allow me to post – it does NOT allow me to get to the FTP sites, however, so I had to get access through my seperate ftp program and use it that way. Whew. Ok, so still not happy, but able to finish putting things together and get things posted and stuff. Of course, still, no one has even HEARD of the problem I have with MIE – so if someone has heard anything like this and knows how to fix it? please please PLEASE let me know!
So anyway – i got my final crits from people looking at it – including this gem from TBF who went through this process just 9 months ago:
All in all babe, those are all just terrible little details I’m probably
the only one to ever notice. Hell… probably best that I notice this shit
and the profs don’t? *smirk* Hell…. it apparent enough that I’m
critiquing the presentation…. and not the works themselves? Grammatical
errors, spelling, few little documentation glitches, little vestibules of
formality. That’s really it. You done good.Told you so.
Yes – he told me so. It’s all his fault I did this to begin with – I didn’t want to, swore I couldn’t, and he swore I could. Man – I wonder if he ever gets tired of being right? *grins*
Anyway – managed to get everything turned in to rave reviews and we’ve come full circle to how I started this entry. *L* I is done! finished! Whoot!
and one of the FUNNIEST damn things anyone said to me this week? I showed a friend the portfolio, and this was the conversation:
[08:06] M: Oi! 25 minutes. (laughs) Yeesh.. I thought it was a web-site. (is… er.. dense)
[08:07] M: Oh, wait, 14 min.. that’s better.
[08:07] Me: *LOL* pdf file… *L* it’s worth it. gives you all you’ll ever need to stalk me. *L*
[08:07] M: (dies) SCORE!
[08:08] Me: *grins*
[08:08] M: Since, you know, stalking you is VERY high on my to-do list. Right up there with buying tampons.
[08:08] Me: WOW! I knew I rated high, but THAT high! *preens*
[08:08] M: (blushes) My secret is out!
[08:08] Me: *litterally laughing out loud*
[08:09] Me: me and my fat ass with my skanky slippers and approaching
d-esque grunge look, ranking THAT HIGH on a stalkers list. I can totally die happy now… *L*[08:11] M: Well… I might ask you to bathe at least. I mean… I like nice smells. (reasonable) BUt you can keep the slippers on…
…baby. (waggle waggle)[08:11] Me: *LMFAO*
M gave me some WELL NEEDED laughter that helped me get through the rest of the week. *chuckles*
So anyway – that was my week, how was yours? *chuckles*
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My rp friends would be proud. heh.
Today’s “Pup Moment”
[07:47] me: om my god. The pup.
[07:47] me: we were stuck at the band meeting for the Girl, right?
[07:47] me: and she strikes up a conversationw tih the daddy sitting next to her?
[07:47] me: and she’s being pretty quiet about it, so I don’t shush her.
[07:47] me: And he stands up and moves over to me – and says “Is that yours?”
[07:48] me: and I nod and chuckle and say “yeah, she’s very shy, as you can see.”
[07:48] me: and he nods and says. “That – and apparently she has a grandpa that farts a lot.”
[07:48] me: I.
[07:48] me: about.
[07:48] me: DIED!!!!!
[07:48] me: *L*
[07:48] her: omg. (LOL)
[07:48] me: I just laughed and nodded. “well, she’s honest.”
[07:48] her: hahah.
[07:52] him: *DIES*
And you can be sure the first thing I did when I got home was call her grandparents. *chuckles* Thought mom was gonna hurt herself laughing over that one, i did… and dad found it highly amusing as well. Life with the pup – ever amusing. *chuckles*
So the girl is joining the band. Playing the clarinet. oh. good! *L* I’m so glad we have the ManSpace – she can practice out there. *chuckles* It’ll at least put a bit of a buffer between me and the screeching thing. of course, we have to rent an instrument. We can do so from the school for 75 bucks, though they’re not the best quality. We can do so from a music store, and its 25 a month. or we can order one, and it’s 10 a month. oy. The last one, though, is rent to own. That might be the way to go if she really likes it… and I think she might. She’s quite musical and talented that way. We’ll see.
The boy – he’s got his good days and bad days. He and I had it out a bit last night about his grades. he’s got a B in 3 classes, and D- or F in three, and of course he doesn’t know WHY he’s got those F’s… I tell him to talk to his teachers and it’s excuse after excuse. After the asshole goes back to work I’ll have to go in with him and make sure it gets done. Trying to nip this all in the bud EARLY this year to avoid the stress of possibly failing a grade next year.
And he’s 12.5 years old. that means he’ll be 13. THIRTEEN! in march. OMFG.
I’m still getting used to the quiet while all the kids are off at school, but I’m certainly loving it! I’ve gotten a bit of sleep, I’ve gotten a hella lotta work done too. Including the cleaning up of a site I took over when the old webmaster took off for college in England. Yes! England! I’ve spent the past two weeks stripping all the flash out of it in order to make it easier to update – you know, since I don’t know flash. *chuckles* That and the amount of ‘animations’ they had just REALLY did not justify the use of all that flash! It could have been so easily done in html – and was done so, easily, by me. Looks fantastic now, if I do say so myself. Specially when one considers I had to do the redesign using screen shots, since I didn’t have any source images at all. It looks remarkably like it did before, but with 1000 nitpicky things changed to work better and look better overall.
And you need to go see, and subscribe for that Hunter/Fisherman in your life, so that you can help support me as it’s an “in trade” kind of deal. No cash up front, but cool things like stock and advertising. Heh. So – check it out, hm?
Portfolio is going well, I think. I’ve got a nice 34 page layout currently, that after the final tweaks to the wording should be ready to go. On time even! Whoot! Thanks to mom and dad I got a killer deal on my physical portfolio case and will be spending time at dads soon to get that all printed out and ready to go. Hopefully tomorrow.
Asshole’s home, and naturally driving me nuts. heh. Just want him to get the hell outa my hair. i swear, tell the boy that no, we don’t have any cash right now, and he gets pissy. and then not even 30 minutes later “i need this, we need that, I want this” etc. It’s like what part of NO do you not understand?!? good god.
gah. I’m so tired. I’d love to go back to bed and nap, but well, with asshole home I got to monitor the calls so he doesn’t get any from collectors I don’t want him to know about just yet. *smirk*
That and he refuses to LET me sleep. even if he OFFERS “go on back to bed…” then he’s banging around the bloody house making all sorts of freaking noise and shit. and bitching that theres “nothing” to eat [there is, he just won’t cook] and generally makes a nusance of himself. heh. I’ll sleep in tomorrow.
and hey, some funnies:
and this one cracks me up every time I see it. *snickersnort*
and OMFG. This one had me and a friend just CACKLING all day.
lalalallalalalalalallalala oohHOOHOO
(bipalipalip SQISH!)
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And you know – I’ve never been really fond of Bill Maher, but I guess I just didn’t listen to him. He had me totally cracking up last night on Carson Daily. Everything from marijana to fat ass people publishing diet books. Common sense and it all made me chuckle. Remind me some time to go on my typical rant about “protecting kids” vs. “sufficating the little deviants”
And is it just me, or is Paul Bettany the cutest and funniest thing? Oh my god. the accent, the jokes, the fact that he named his kid Stellon after a friend because he’s “one hella drinker, and i felt that was something for my kid to aspire too…” *LOL*
Anyway – back to portfolio and other works. hee. and maybe I’ll even manage to take a shower. whee!
