By Popular Demand....

I will create a new post! ;D
I've been meaning to write one, but I had the worst day on Sunday and have been in a funk most of the week because of it. We have tournaments for this game called Heroclix. They're little plastic dudes from DC and Marvel comics. You battle against other players. We've been doing them for a couple of years now. All of my players are really nice, friendly people. We encourage fun playing. Well, we had a guy show up at our last tournament that was a complete and total dick. He was mean and rude to everyone. He won the tournament and got the big prize. A figure worth about $200. I told him his attitude wasn't appreciated, to take his prize and go. Instead of leaving, he decided to start a big argument with me and my players.
You know how bad I am at confrontation, so this was really hard. Luckily, I didn't break down in front of him. I stood my ground and was firm. My players backed me up too. But after he left, I was a mess. I didn't want to stay at work. I didn't even want to go back for the next couple of days, but someone's got to pay the bills. Rick didn't really help me out much either. I don't think he realizes how bad this kind of thing messes me up. I wonder if there are classes you can take. Assertiveness classes or something.
So now, I've got two weekends of Halloween parties. I'm sitting here right now with bright orange hair dye on my head. It's some weird brand I've never even heard of before. I've been having the hardest time find a place that sells my brand of hair dye. I called all the hair supply places and even a couple of music stores (which there aren't very many of around anymore). There was a record store that used to carry it, but they went out of business. So, if anyone knows where I can get Special Effects (other than Hot Topic), let me know! I think I may have to go to the internet to get some.
It's been freezing here lately. I've been trying really hard not to turn on the heat, but I think we may have to start now.
I got the pictures from my mom from our vacation. I haven't had time to process them. Hopefully, I'll have some time next Friday.

Blog Action Day

I just found out that today if Blog Action Day. It's a day for everyone to post about environmental issues to raise awareness. Emiko and Sabbath both posted things that they do to help with the environment. They have given me some great ideas of more things I can do.

• Since Barry was a vegetarian for so long, we still eat lots of vegetarian meals.
• I reuse plastic grocery bags at the store (but I might invest in some canvas bags).
• During the winter, we rarely turn on the heat. We just load up on blankets and snuggle.
• I use cloth pads and sea sponges for that time of the month.
• Recycle and reuse items. Rieser's containers make great tupperware!

Business as Usual

Not much is going on, but it's been a while, so I thought I'd give you an update.
I've been watching this great show lately. I think you'd like it. It's Veronica Mars. They did 3 seasons and I'm watching the first one now. It's about this girl, Veronica, that's a junior in high school. She's the daughter of a private investigator. He used to be Sheriff, but then there was a botched homicide investigation and he got booted from office. But, the homicide wasn't really botched, it was set up. I'm not quite sure why yet. It's got great humor and it's very witty. Kinda like Gilmore Girls but solving crimes. Hmmmm....like CSI meets Gilmore Girls. Fantastic!
Barry started a blog too. He's been commenting on mine. Have you noticed? I didn't until he told me!
We went out to an English-style pub last weekend for one of his friend's from ECS's birthday. His name's Jim. Nice guy. Anyway, there was this crazy guy running around in too tight pants singing and dancing to the music that was playing (please note it was a jukebox, not a live band). He was pretty hilarious....from a distance. The group I was with eventually talked to him and brought him to the table. Not as entertaining up close when you're sober. He started telling me about his lady troubles. At least I think that's what he was telling me. He had a really strong accent. Later on in the night, he came up behind me and started rubbing his butt on my back (I was sitting). The conversation went as follows:
Me: I hope that thing's clean.
Him (in a drunk, barely understandable irish accent): What do you think I did? Put a dildo on me ass and dunked it in a toilet?
Did I mention he mimed that part out? Yeah. He mimed that part out.