"Life is like a sewer.

woot!

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:12:23 -0800

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Vacation Over :(

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:56:23 -0800

Well, my vacation is over - all ten days in a blink of an eye. This was the first vacation that I've taken since Evy was born and it was a bit of an eye opener. The biggest difference is that we couldn't simply drop everything - we had to maintain some kind of schedule and that kind of sucked. I was looking for that...vegetation period I've always had with vacations. But, no use crying over split milk - this is parenthood and I wanted it!

Tuesday we tried to go to Disneyland - but we were silly in thinking we were the only ones on vacation. The park was packed and we ended up leaving after three rides and a stroll around California Adventure. A big part was that I really wasn't feeling "it". I was initially excited to get out of the house just with Paul (we'd left Evy with my parents) but once we were going I didn't feel like talking much and I felt really "blah". Such a waste :( I also really missed Evy! Seeing so many cute cuddly kids at Disneyland while mine was at home was killing me. But the fact is that we can't ride hardly any rides unless we take someone with us, which we couldn't this time. Luckily, we got out of paying for parking because their credit card machine was down so I didn't feel that obligated to stay and make our $14 count. Unluckily, we hit traffic on the way home and after three hours of stop-and-go with our manual transmission we were pooped.

Thanksgiving went, in my opinion, REALLY well. My parents ended up coming as well, we all met at my sisters, and other than the kids making us start a little later than we'd like it was all amazing. Food was great, best candied yams I've had in awhile. I should have taken some with us, but I was so stuffed I had no eye for food as we were packing up the left overs.

My sister decorated for Christmas over the weekend and it's made me want to decorate as well. Last year we didn't decorate because we were moving ON Christmas Eve, and then Paul & I both got this really nasty stomach flu. The last time we did a live tree the mess was tremendous, so I think this year we're going to take a look at the artificial ones. However, if the price is too much then we'll probably do a live one and then take advantages of after Christmas sales in thought of NEXT year.

My Nook ships today!!!

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What to do, what to do...

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:21:23 -0800

I don't know if I've mentioned this - but the Nook is taking gadget
prone readers by storm this Christmas. The pre-orders sold out within
the first two weeks and now if you pre-order you wont get it until the
first or second week in January. I ordered mine in time, and it'll
still be shipped on Monday.

However, now the Nook is selling well on eBay. There are 10+ bids on a
single Nook causing the once reasonable price of $260 to skyrocket -
and in some cases double. So I'm now wondering if I should play the
patient one and put my Nook on eBay - and let it pay for itself and
just get it AFTER the holidays. But I don't know if I can. I've been
waiting well over a month for this thing and that's a long time for
me. The last time I waited so long it was for a doll who had to be
cast and sanded.

Paul's telling me I don't have to sell it, but I know that he thinks
we'll just make the money back and so it's foolish NOT to sell it. But
I don't know, the bubble may burst after the devices are officially
shipped and people are able to get real reviews on the thing. Then
again...I bought it blindly, didn't I?

I'd ask for everyone's opinion, but to tell the truth I don't think
anyone will be able to make this decision but me...

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Its all very random.

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:02:57 -0800

My hair's starting to grow back. Some may remember that awhile back I
posted about my post-pregnancy joy of loosing all the luscious hair I
developed while pregnant. Well, now its growing back and making me
look silly. I can hide the signs of the growth at my forehead hairline
with bangs, but another place that it happened was at my temples, and
I can't hide that. Oh well - looking like a mad scientist fits my
personality pretty nicely actually.

Today's my last day before my ten day vacation. I'm excited :) Trying
not to build it up though because as long as ten days sound, it will
fly by - my six weeks of maternity leave sure did - the holiday will
make sure of it. Thursday we're going to my sister's for Thanksgiving,
Friday we'll be going to the in-laws, and Saturday we'll be recouping
from the holidays :P

Found R2-D2 in Star Trek - nice Easter egg.

Been playing Dead Space with Paul, it's a good game - very scary. It
would be more scary though if the music let you know you were being
attacked from behind. Sometimes you can't tell until a random limb
appears around your head. Paul thought the game ended at Chapter Six
so imagine our surprise when we beat that boss and got another
objective. Oops, guess we shouldn't have spent all our money trying to
beat that guy.

Only two more weeks until I get my Nook. With the gift card fiasco
cleared up I'm getting more and more excited. I got a sample of Ron
Paul's book, "The Revolution", and was really inspired by the snippet
I read. I think I'm going to check that one out from the library
though because it doesn't seem like a book I'd read more than once.
Now to just find my library :)

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Coming Soon: Gift Card Purchases for eBooks - Barnes & Noble Book Clubs

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:28:52 -0800

Coming Soon: Gift Card Purchases for eBooks - Barnes & Noble Book Clubs

http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t...

More good news on the eBook front: We'll soon accept Barnes & Noble gift cards as payment in our eBook store.This change — effective in mid-December — will allow customers to use physical gift cards and online gift certificates to purchase eBooks through our site, through nook, and through other devices using the B&N eReader software.We'll have full details (including the specific launch date) in mid-December.In the meantime, we want to say thanks for your suggestions and enthusiasm. We were able to accelerate this change due in part to the customer feedback.Thanks again for your support. And happy reading.

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Its Star Trek Day!!!

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:25:53 -0800

Today Star Trek is supposed to be waiting for me at my house when I get home – I’m so excited!!! Once the baby goes down, that puppy’s going IN.

I’m having a hard morning. The audio portion of our A/V setup in our LARGEST conference room wasn’t working today. I wasn’t really in the best of moods and just couldn’t seem to get myself to a mental standing to figure out a solution. At last another person from my department (my company’s IT department) figured to bypass the system with a set of desk speakers and amplify it using the microphones that were already in place and for some odd reason working when the rest was not. I feel like I really dropped the ball – perhaps I should track down the meeting organizer and apologize? The guy’s nice but gives me the creeps, so I’m not sure.

I’m taking an impromptu vacation next week! This week is going to be kind of short because I’m taking Friday off (along with my regular Wednesday) and then next week I already had Thursday & Friday off (along with my regular Wednesday) so I only had to use two days of vacation to make it a full week. So in essence once Thursday of this week is over I’m not going to be at work again for another…TEN DAYS. Awesome Paul and I are REALLY excited, I think I’m going to ask my sister to still watch Evy on Tuesday like always so maybe we can have a day to ourselves – not sure when we’re going to get time off together again.

I’m feeling creative today, I just wish I had something to create One of these years I’m going to do NaNoWriMo – I’m thinking once Evy is not so dependent on me and can entertain herself for more than five minutes – like when she’s my nephew’s age. Of course, if I stay on track with my “family plan” I’ll be prego again come January 2011 so…

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STAR TREK HAS SHIPPED!

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:46:32 -0800

I'm so excited! It's going to be here on the 17th - in all it's
Blu-Ray goodness :) I'm so excited!!!!

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Plinky Question: List the advice you give to a friend getting over a bad breakup.

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:57:00 -0800

There are many fish in the sea.
I'm not one to believe in "soul mates" - meaning there is only one person in the entire world that will understand me and love me.

Life goes on.
I'm also not one to believe in tongue a sore tooth. I understand that it takes time to grieve but it shouldn't be a lifetime.

Remember your friends & family.
Your friends & family will always be there for you. ALWAYS. That's why I think it's so important to have strong friendships OUTSIDE of a relationship. There's and Angels & Airwaves song that says it best, "your best friend is not your girl friend" - or at least it shouldn't be your ONLY best friend.

Its better to face the truth, then to live in a lie.
Be glad you pulled off the band-aid and made the hard decision - even if you weren't the one to do it. If either of you were unhappy enough to want to break up then be glad you did.

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Plinky Question: If you had to wear one color for the entire next year, which would you pick?

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:50:25 -0800

Landscape -
Green View, Halla

I'm assuming that this
is any "hue" of any color - and I'd choose GREEN. I
think green looks best on me, even though most would assume blue given
my blue eyes.

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Plinky Question: If you could have any vanity license plate you wanted, what would it say?

nobody@vox.com(maura_ea) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:46:52 -0800

I already have my dream
vanity license plate :) My car is red, and I wanted something having
to do with Spiderman and I was able to pull out enough of the vowels
and still make it legible so SCORE! Its a dull purpose plate actually,
because people who don't realize it's Spiderman assume it has
to do with the web and I'm a big techie so it all works out
:D

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