Melodramatic Fool

http://thedailywh.at/post/3187829029/re-design-of-the-day-pepsico-is-set-to-unveil-a

My addition on my tumblr reblog:
…I’m sorry, but this short, fat woman is going to keep using short, fat cans. I may not be beautiful and confident, but I don’t need any goddamned soft drinks equating “tall and thin” with “beautiful and confident” for me. Keep your social conditioning and objectifying out of my fucking beverages, TYVM.

Not that I drink soda often, but when I do, I think it'll be anything but Pepsi products (though wtf do I do about all the Mtn Dew the husband likes? >_< )

SHOW PRE-EMPTED BY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL?? WTF IS THIS. IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, EVEN. THIS IS NOT IOWA, THIS IS NEBRASKA. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH. Stupid KXVO-CW has it scheduled tomorrow. >_< AS IF.

Son of a...asdfkjk >_< I guess I have to search for downloads after. FFFFFFFFFFFF.

So when leaving the grocery store, got caught up in some congestion in the parking lot. A lawn service truck and trailer cuts in front of me, but can't completely make the turn, so the dude just makes the congestion worse. I honked at him when he cut me off...and the dude turns to us (mom was in the car, too), and through his open window makes crying motions at us. When we're stopped at the intersection to leave the parking lot, he sat there making more taunting gestures at us.

I'm trying to get ahold of the business, since I could see the name of it on the truck (uh, hello), as well as make note of what the truck and trailer it was pulling's license plates. Haven't been able to get ahold of them though, just a machine. Sounds like it might just be a family business, so I hope to hell I get the woman who did the answering machine message and not the guy (who I'm assuming was the dude driving the truck WAY TO BE A BUSINESS OWNER SIR).

So not like anyone on my flist is from Nebraska, much less from Omaha or the areas that truck screenprinting indicated the business covered (Fremont, Blair, Lincoln), but I figured it was worth noting the business name since this ends up on the internet and can be websearched. Landmark Lawn service who from what I could tell was from 29 county (truck plate 29-8266 and trailer plate ending in -X6654), has an employee/potential owner with extremely poor professionalism and who frankly is a prick while driving his company's vehicle.


Still v. irritable about the extended family situation, now pissed at this (I'd be just annoyed if it were some person in a private car, but a business owner in the business vehicle? PISSED.) And late this afternoon I get to drive to my brother's MFA (creative writing) graduation. Yay for him (his 4th damned degree, christ), but it's an hour drive either way, plus the ceremony time plus the fact that we're supposed to get there 45 min before it even begins. Lovely.

[Edit: I love getting the impression that a parental unit doesn't think I know how to dress appropriately for a graduation. I am, you know, nearly 37 and have attended many official ceremonies and I do have some common sense. I may be a loser slacker-slob, but I'm, you know, going to change into a nice shirt and not stay in this worn out Warcraft shirt. I've still got a few brains left.]

Oh, WoW. They've added a new mount for the Valentine's Day-type holiday. It's a "Big Love Rocket". .../facepalm And yes, it's pink. Bright, bright pink. Egads.

What Was I Thinking, part Eleventy-billion: I have signed up for spnland, and have been sorted into Team Hell. And now I'm nervous and intimidated and mentally flailing and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa \D:/ I so have no idea what to expect. :< *panicpanicspazz* Oy.

Finally got my character in Leslie's D&D game to a level where I can start on the Deepwoods Sniper thing. Hopefully that'll re-spark my interest in that character a bit--and only a few more levels (which take forever since it's just a once-a-month game) until I can get him started on the Order of the Bow Initiate prestige class.

Nearly had to do a 10man raid since the guild was looking short of people. Then they had extra folks log in, and they were all "Are you sure you're okay with sitting out?" and I was like "OMFG YES I MUST GO WATCH SUPERNATURAL!" Anyway. :| Shooooooooooow ♥♥♥

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Definitely is October Cold II, just seems a not as bad case of it, I think. I hope?

Main sewer line from house to street blocked up again from the front tree's roots, like it did a few years ago. \o/ Discovered this by the basement drain and old basement shower stall drain flooding during James' shower. Currently have RotoRooter here, and like the other plumber did the last time, they're having to go in through the roof access to clear it out (since previous owner drywalled off where the basement access is). Going to schedule with RR to have them send a rep to give us an estimate for installing external access, which would make future iterations of this a lot easier/cheaper (because of the access to the line then being ground level and thus a one-person job instead of two).

Strongly considering leaving current WoW guild. It's only been a couple months, but I just don't *like* a big chunk of the people. I'm really not comfortable there. And a certain person is developing from guild bitch to queen bee and I don't think I want to be around it. Also, coming to the realization that I enjoy completing/farming regular content, but this hardmode/heroic mode shit is for the birds. I just don't find that stuff *fun*. I know I can play on Sas and Impala (and maybe even Ohia, put her in DotH?) casually, but am trying to figure out what then to do with Ak. I wonder if DotH is allied with any 25man guilds, will have to check.

1. Life, the universe, and everything: Got flu shots last weekend, was whiny about the resulting muscle-knots (didn't help that I got my allergy shots at the same time); naturally the usual him forgot and grabbed the worst spot, and I rather wanted to hit him. Ulnar nerve thing in my left hand started flaring up badly again, back to wearing the tendonitis armband thing again, blah. Also, still putting out job apps (not a ton, but some : / ), still no interviews. I am awesome \o/

2. Wowowowow. Has gone as usual. Still not a member yet, but vote should be this week? I do ok sometimes, utterly suck other times. Guild peoples have teh dramaz on and off. After a freaking year of working on stupid holiday achievements, got the uberspecial violet protodrake for Akseru. And...that is not violet. Not even close. It is fucking fuschia.

See? http://pics.livejournal.com/whitereflection/pic/00052x6h/g14 I call it Big Gay Akseru's Big Gay Protodrake. :| I suppose it's rather fitting since I consider Ak rather flaming (lolz), but...criminy, it's so...pink. Ish. What it is not, is violet.

3. Yotsuba&! 6 is out \o/

4. I was hit with a very strange idea for fic, and not sure I'll ever do it, but I got the Spark Notes for Dante's Inferno just in case (wanted them for Purgatorio and Paradiso, too, but those don't exist : / Wtf, why not just put out one for the entire Divine Comedy? And what the hell happened to Cliff Notes? Or does B&N just not stock those?) I'd want to call it "I've never been to heaven (But I've been to Oklahoma)", and it would be...Dean and Sam, on a road trip that appears to be in the normal world but is actually a journey through the circles of Hell and fffffffff it would be *fun* to do. >_< ! Got the idea somehow from looking at Anj's book of Gustave Dore art. Thing is, I couldn't do it too serious-like...I would need to give it sort of a Pratchett feel. Not sure I could pull that off. However, this is all probably well better than my ideas for a WoW based DeathKnight!Sam and WarriororHunter!Dean thing, or the related J2 idea about the guys who play those toons getting to know each other in real life. :| Anyway, at the least it's an excuse to pull out my copies of the Divine Comedy (from back when I used to be smart and collect real literature) and look them over again.