Man, all of a sudden I have a wicked craving for Mexican food.  I think I'm going to stop by the supermarket on the way home and pick up the stuff I need to make salsa, guacamole and soft tacos. 

I forgot that I ordered another top hat online and it arrived out of the blue.  I'm not sure if it fits right.  I've tried on so many and bought two others (sight unseen) that don't fit, I'm not sure what fitting correctly actually entails anymore.  It doesn't matter anyway, I'm just going to pack the dumb hat away with the rest of the costume and put it in the closet.  Waaaaay in the back.

I need to go through and see if I have any other outstanding online orders due to arrive!  It's almost a compulsion now.  Not an obsession, a compulsion.  There's a difference!  When I see stuff that I think will work with the costume, I buy it (if it's reasonably priced).  I really don't have the room to store a complete Zatanna costume with an ever expanding list of options that I'm never going to wear again. Even though I did look good in it!!!!  LOL!  How many of you out there ever thought that you would see me admit that I ever looked good in anything, let alone a sessy Zatanna costume?  I do have to admit that I wish I looked as good in it as this woman (she's way prettier than I am!).  She's got the Zatanna look down!!!!:

http://www.meagan-marie.com/?p=290

That's about it for now.

Audry's wedding Saturday night was magical.  She was such a beautiful bride and Harold was a handsome groom.  The wedding colors were black, white and green, so it looked very elegant.  Everything took place at a friend of the brides house out in Whittier and it was beautiful!  I'm not that familiar with Whittier, so seeing the amazing house the wedding was at was truly a treat.  The food was great (Heirloom Catering in Silverlake, check them out!).  The lasagna cups with beef short ribs inside were truly magnificent.  I'm going to try and make them myself at home!  Pasta, ricotta (instead of robiola cheese), tomato sauce, short rib meat and a little cheese for the top.  I'm hungry now!

One thing though, I swear, I must look like crap when I go to work every day!  Seriously.  I've never received so many compliments or surprised expressions at how I looked before!  You know people, I CAN clean-up nice when the situation calls for it.  :-)  I'm not going to go to any trouble if I'm just going into the office (plus, I get up at 3:45-4:00am, what kind of glamour do you expect that early?), but when I'm outside work, I do.  I ended-up wearing a shiny semi-formal / formal burgundy and black sleeveless knee length dress with matching jewelry and black sling backs and hose.  I'd never worn this dress before and I was really happy with how it fit.  I guess everyone else agreed with me, LOL!  If I get a photo I like, I'll post it here.

Another bonus good thing from the weekend:  I found a new hair color and brand that I like.  John Frieda Precision Foam Hair Color in Dark Brown.  It doesn't stink, doesn't burn and doesn't get all over the place.  It was kinda weird using it as the process is so different from my normal hair coloring routine, but I much prefer it to the old way.  The color came out a touch darker than I'd wanted, but it's nice to be back to having brown black hair, as opposed to medium brown with faded red highlights.  My hair was getting way too light and I don't think it suited my skin coloring and eyes.

I feel like I accomplished a lot yesterday.  I spent most of the day cleaning the bathroom and rearranging closets.  I decided to move Gotham's box permanently from the shower to the tub.  He doesn't seem to care for the new locale and he REALLY doesn't like the fact that I put the top back on the box.  I just hope I don't come home to an apartment with crap all over it because he's mad at me for the change.  As much as I enjoy bubblebaths, I've really been in the mood for showers lately (probably because it's been so hot outside) and it was a pain moving his box out and putting it back in when I was done (plus having to wipe down the shower each time was a pain).  Now that I'm using the shower regularly, one weird thing I noticed is that it doesn't drain while I'm in it.  I don't know if it's because the water is on or the weight of me standing in it or what.  But last night I noticed that water wasn't going down the drain during the shower and I didn't feel any suction when I put my hand over it.  I thought "Damn!  I don't have a plunger and I've been meaning to get one!".  So I got out and when I turned around and looked inside all the water was gone.  Strange eh? 

The whole shower is weird.  It's fairly big and square shaped, but has a small door.  I mean, it's not so small you can't get into it, but it's narrower than any other shower door I've ever seen.  I think I need to get one of those pole organizers to put in one of the corners.  The only place to put anything up high is the soap dish on the wall and that doesn't cut it!  I've got all my potion bottles (shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, etc) lined up on the floor and I'm lazy enough that I don't want to have to bend over to get everything!

So now I have a super clean bathroom (it smells like bleach!...kind of), everything is dusted and the clothes in my closet are back in order.  Hooray!  The only things I have left to do are: vacuum the carpets and wash the kitchen floor / counters.  Maybe I'll do that this afternoon when I get home from work.  Oh yeah and I still need to go through my possessions, yet again, and cull stuff out, but I'm not in the mood to do that right now. 

Hey, do any of you guys know anyone who wants to buy some Tick action figures?  I have a bunch still in their packaging that I want to get rid of.  I'd put them up on Ebay, but there doesn't seem to be much of a market for them.  How about a talking Dan Marino figure?  Anyone want one of those?

Yay, it's Friday!  It took a looooong time to get here!  I can't wait for 3:15pm to get here so I can go home and relax!  I've been up since 2:12am this morning (exactly!) and, I tell ya, an afternoon and evening of lounging around my apartment is looking pretty good!

I'm going to a wedding tomorrow afternoon / evening (congratulations Audry!!!).  Should be super nice, but I hope I get home early.  It's at 5:30pm...... I wonder what the appropriate length of time to stay at a wedding is?  The whole thing is at a residence, so there won't be any driving around from place to place, which is nice.  I hope this doesn't sound really bad, but I'm hoping to be home by 9pm at the latest.  I figure the ceremony will take, what, 30 minutes?  Then there will be the usual commotion of settling everyone at their assigned tables, serving of food, eating, toasting the bride and groom (diet coke for me!), then cake, right?  That should take us to, what, 8:00 - 8:30pm?  Then it shouldn't take more than 45 minutes to drive home (it's out in the San Gabriel Valley). 

I probably sound kinda calculating, but there are going to be co-workers at this wedding and I'm the supervisor of three of them!  Including the bride!  They'll probably be way more comfortable when I'm gone anyway!  Once their supervisor has bailed they can drink the night away and get crazy!  At least I hope they do!  I've got a really good staff and they work really hard.  They deserve to cut loose and have a good time.  Okay.... and I'm not taking a date and weddings are no fun when you don't have a date to be romantic and dance with.  Pathetic, party of one?  RIGHT HERE!  I feel really flattered to have been invited to the wedding at all since the guest list is so small.  It makes me feel good that the bride thinks enough of me personally to ask me to share in this big day.  She didn't invite a lot of her co-workers and didn't invite my boss (who is also her boss).  I guess I'm not such a hard ass meanie afterall?  Damn!  I gotta work on that!!!!

Now the question is: What do I wear?  It's afternoon / evening, so should I wear my wine and black semi formal dress (if it still fits)?  Or can I wear lighter, more summery colors since it's going to be light  out part of the time?  What would Emily Post recommend?

Maybe I'll just get something new tomorrow.  I still have gift cards for Nordstrom and Macy's I can use. :-)

*UPDATE* Hawaii 5-0 Season One just arrived!  Jack Lord!  Yesssssssss!

Wow, I spent all day yesterday in bed.  I went into the office for about three hours, but ended-up going home around 8am.  I took a shower, threw on some boxer shorts and a t-shirt and went to bed.  I thought the left side of my head was going explode.  The jackhammering in my neighborhood didn't help things, but I managed to tune most of it out.  Now the right side of my head hurts, but it's not quite as bad as the left was yesterday.

Gotham was great, he stuck by me all day.

I think he got bored with Quincy and Rockford files DVD's though.  We switched back to his favorite, Gilmore Girls, Season One around 3pm.  Hopefully he will be more excited about Season One of Hawaii 5-0 when that arrives than he was about Rockford and Quincy. 

With all the sleeping we did, I'm kind of surprised that I could still catch a few more hours right now!   Off to sleep............

I still don't feel well.  I think the best course of action would be to rest, which is what I plan on doing for the duration of the day. 

Yikes, I don't feel well today.  Actually, I haven't for a couple of days.  I've got a lot to do at work today, so I don't know if I'll be able to go home early or not.  I'm going to try and leave around 1pm if I can.  I wonder if it's the heat or if I'm really getting sick?  This is not convenient.  At all.  I don't have time to feel unwell.

The weekend was quiet.  I spent most of Saturday cleaning and waiting for my Rockford Files Season One DVD set to be delivered.  It didn't arrive until almost 7pm!  Thank goodness the Quincy DVD's I ordered got there on Friday, so I at least had something new to watch. 

Weird thing - I slept walked Saturday night.  I haven't done that in a while!  I found a bunch of stuff re-arranged around the apartment and I put stuff in the kitchen that you wouldn't ordinarily have there (pillows, shoes, etc.).  It was weird waking up Sunday morning and finding everything misplaced and wondering how it happened.  First thing I did was check all the doors, windows, etc. to make sure they were still locked and that I didn't wander around outside. 

I didn't do much on Sunday since that's when I started to not feel well.  Pretty much watched DVD's with the lights off and blinds / curtains closed.

Have I mentioned that I got a 97% in that class I took?  Our entire grade was based on the final and I only missed one question.  Out of all 12 quizzes I took, I only missed a total of two questions (they didn't count towards our grade though).  Too bad I have absolutely no interest in the subject matter, so it doesn't do me any good.  :-(  This reminded me how much I hate school.  I mean, I REALLY don't like studying, quizzes or tests.  Ah well, at least I have a certificate that I can look at.  At least the dumb class is over.