miss_tress

It was a tough battle but after two days of intense voting the man who can grow a better beard is...

( Drum roll please! )

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote and double thanks to claudia79ad for daring me to do this in the first place.

Cable install today!

Washer and dryer delivery tomorrow!

Close on house on Friday!

All our things from Las Vegas delivered next Tuesday!

If that ain't "WHOOT!" I don't know what is!

Bad news: Didn't get selected for promotion. I cried for 30 minutes after I found out.

Good news: Dave was here to cheer me up. And I graduated this morning so I am now an Education and Training Manager in the USAF. And we're leaving to go home tomorrow morning.

Just got back from volunteering at a Red Cross blood drive. My job was to mind the Kid Zoo, where parents could leave their wee ones while they gave blood.

There were some tears when the kidlets were left behind but I was able to dry them quick like.

We all drank juice and watched Finding Nemo and The Little Mermaid. Fun was had by all!

* Learned promotion results come out the same day I graduate
* Watched Georgia Rule on DVD
* Regretted it
* Saw Get Smart yesterday
* Busted a gut when friend Joy dropped an entire box of Lemonheads in the middle of the movie
* Fought a cockroach in the bathroom last night with spray air freshener, a flip flop, and the cold water tap
* Was forced to listen to the guy in the next room cough like he was trying to bring up a lung for 10 minutes
* Did laundry

What did you do this weekend?

It's raining again! It smells wonderful outside.

Yayz!

And the Planet of the Apes remake is on TV right now. It amuses me to try and remember what all the actors look like underneath all their makeup.

I want to giver everyone on my Flist BIG HUGS for all the wonderful things they've said lately. It really means a lot to me.

My speech went well today. Everyone had fun and my instructor said I didn't leave out anything and I didn't say "Uhm" that many times.

Today I learned about: how to make coffee filter butterflies, how different chess pieces move, how to speak some basic Filipino, how to construct a sentence in Spanish, how to make chocolate covered strawberries, and how to write basic HTML. That last one was fun because I kept throwing the other tags I know in.

I'm usually pretty easy going when it comes to fandom. I know everyone has different opinions and I know that's going to cause arguments. I usually only put my two cents out there when it's something that really riles me up. I'm pretty sure the last time I felt like this it was the stupid Smut Box.

But the shit I've been seeing over the past couple days is just wrong, spiteful, and mean.

I'm not going to call anyone out or name names. You know who you are. And I know this post probably won't sway you at all. And I'm not asking for that happen. You're entitled to your opinions. But right now you're going to hear mine.

What you've been doing isn't right and it's not doing the image people of have people in fandom any good. You're giving yourself and everyone else a black eye.

So could you please just drop it. We're all in this together. There isn't an "enemy" out there you need to destroy and drag through the mud.

It's just a show. They're just fictional characters. They're just actors.

That's all.

I just needed to air this out because it's been festering in my brain for awhile now. I won't be responding to pleas to know exactly what's going on so don't bother posting here asking for them. And I don't want anyone else posting the details here either. But I'm not turning off comments or screening them because we're all adults here. Right?

Good.

The message light on my phone is blinking.

But the front desk assures me I don't have any messages.

They say it's a glitch in their system, that they're currently having upgraded.

So the red light just keeps on blinking.

Dave has been trying to send me this picture from the email on his phone for a whole week. Today I finally just told him to send it from the same account but from his computer instead. And it showed up right away.

Anyway!

Here is the picture of my Smallville poster that Deb the realtor so carefully shot around when taking pictures of our house.

One blurry Clark