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Category: February 2004

Sunday weigh-in: Pound Zero -3 (that means I lost 3 pounds).

I finished up my tracks for the song I'm recording. Yesterday, I did guitars and bass. Today I did vocals. Vocals are my favorite... everything else is work. Although, bass can be fun sometimes when I get into the groove. I'm hoping my friend Boogaboo will record a guitar solo for it. He wrote the song.

Tonight, I'm listening to Nondescript Radio at Ampcast.com. It's John Ingram's last show. Boo Hoo.

I forgot to do the "Day In The Life" photography project today. Oh well.

That's about all there is to say about today...

First thing this morning, I headed out to run errands. First was the bank where I cashed in $75 worth of loose change I'd been collecting. Then to Walmart for Diet Rite Raspberry and Grape sodas. Then to Starbucks for an Iced Decaf Grande Super Breve Latte. I put Splenda in it to sweeten it. Last night I ordered some vanilla and caramel syrups from suzannesomers.com, so soon I'll be able to sweeten up my lattes with them. Yummy!

Then I went to the store where I bought $100 worth of great food. Just now, I ate some watermelon. Yum!

On the way home from errands, I saw a firetruck with its lights on turn down the street that leads to my street. I got scared for a minute until I saw that it passed my street. I couldn't help but think of LilyDawg and Little Bird in the house alone with a fire.

All was well, and she was real happy to see me when I got home.

My cable modem was out most of the day, so with nothing to keep me in my computer chair, I headed for the music studio corner of my bedroom and started recording a song. Weeeeeee!

For dinner, I made something sooo delicious. Cheeseburger Pie (baked ground sirloin, onion, heavy cream, eggs and cheese). On the side, I had spinach. I love me some spinach!

Now it's time for LilyDawg to start giving me orders. She'll want dinner. Then she'll want to walk. Then she'll want a giant dog biscuit with liver sausage smeared on it. Then she'll want something, and I'll have to figure out what it is. It might be more dinner. It might be another walk. It might be a game of hide and seek. It might be a belly rub. That's the hardest part of the evening... figuring out exactly what she wants. Because it never ends until she gets it.

The DJ from FM-Selfpit is playing Breathe in his on-demand internet radio show right now. That's pretty darn cool. He speaks in Japanese. Download the WMA file and give it a listen if you have a chance. He's got links to all the artists at the bottom of the page if you hear something you like.

Speaking of "Breathe," Peppermint Tina asked how we chose the name Raspberry Silk for our band. Milo noticed that I like raspberry scented and flavored things. Or as he would spell it... "flavoured." So the raspberry part came from that. The silk part came from a conversation we had about sexual content in song lyrics. I said that I probably wouldn't sing a song that was straight out sexual. You know, like... "C'mon baby, I wanna hump you all night long." I'd rather sing something more subtle and sensual. He replied something about "like a rustle of silk?" That summed it up. I hope I got that right. I suppose if you asked Milo, he'd have more details. My brain has a nasty habit of throwing out details. Anyway... there you have it... Raspberry Silk.

I'm listening to "Breathe" on FM-Selfpit right now... it really blows me away. Milo was good at doing that... blowing me away with his song arrangements. It's too bad we couldn't get along.

I've been sticking to my diet well. The only hiccups have been that I forgot to eat veggies with my breakfast a couple of mornings. It's just so unnatural to eat veggies with milk and cereal. haha I don't think it hurt anything, but I hate when I simply forget to follow instructions.

So glad it's Friday...

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I submitted my Raspberry Silk CD to iTunes through CDBaby, so I've been searching iTunes periodically to see if it's there. Everytime I search for "Raspberry Silk," it asks me if I really mean "Strawberry Milk." For some odd reason, that makes me giggle out loud.

That is all.

Sh1ft.org is having a photography project on leap day. I'm not sure if I'm going to do it, but it could be fun if I can think of something out of the ordinary to do. I've just not been in an "out of the ordinary" kind of mood lately.

Thanks to Mike for the tip.

Today, I started my diet. I didn't start first thing, though. I had a box of belgian chocolates that I bought on sale recently, and I couldn't bring myself to get rid of all of them. So I ate the ones I liked best (the cream and caramel filled ones) and threw the rest away (the solid ones with nuts embedded in them). I'm calling it a good thing because it kinda made me feel icky, so I won't be wanting chocolate anytime soon.

I went to the store to stock up on diet food. I bought way more fruit than I intended, but most of it is frozen, so it'll keep. I also bought some Santa Sweets grape tomatoes. Ever seen those? They're tomatoes, but they're tiny and shaped like grapes. Way cool!

When I got home, I cooked 3 scrambled eggs and cut some Santa Grape Tomatoes in half and tossed them together. Then I put some cheddar cheese on top. I also sliced an eggplant and pan fried it in olive oil and put some provolone cheese on top. That was all yummy.

Tonight I cooked a whole chicken and ate part of it with asparagus and some of the leftover eggplant with provolone cheese. Before I go to bed tonight, I can have some fruit if I want. I probably will.

I was thinking about breakfast tomorrow, and realized I need to eat a veggie with my cereal and nonfat milk. Eeek. I forgot to prepare for that. If I'd thought of it, I would have gotten some celery and nonfat cheese. Or maybe some cauliflower. Oooo... I just remembered! I got a cucumber! That would be good for breakfast, I think.

Anyway... food food food, right? That's what happens when I diet... all I think about is food!

I weighed this morning, but I'm not telling how much poundage I saw. It was less than I thought I'd see, though. We'll mark today as Pound Zero (PZ). I think I'll just weigh once a week. I used to weigh everyday when I was on a diet. It didn't discourage me like other people say, but I think I'd like to try something different. So next Sunday, I'll report in how much I've lost, if anything.

This morning, on one of the boards I frequent, I continued a discussion about the new music distribution system called Weed. It's a thing where people can legally give a music file to someone else. The file will play 3 times, then the person has to pay for it. There's a whole complicated pay system, too. The artist gets a cut, Weed gets a cut, and the seller gets a cut. Then if the purchaser turns around and sells a copy, he gets a cut as well as the artist, Weed and the person who sold him the file. It goes one more generation with the first seller continuing to get a cut on the sale.

Since I give most of my music away for free, I'm not interested in getting it "weedified" and put into the system. But I really don't like the system anyway. To me, it encourages people to sell files to people who want to sell files instead of to listeners, you know?

It also touts itself as the way to share files and respect artists rights. Puhlease... it's not "sharing" files. It's sharing samples of files that have to be bought. The whole filesharing thing started because people could get music for free, not because people had a nagging urge to share music they'd bought.

I'm not saying the whole idea is bad... it's the only distribution system that truly independent artists can get into easily right now. But it just doesn't sit right with me.

The rest of the day, I read up on Suzanne Somer's diet in preparation for starting tomorrow. I also cleaned out my refrigerator of foods I won't be able to eat. I don't mean I ate it all! I threw most of it away.

I think I'm going to like the diet. It's along the same lines as low carb, but I can have some carbs. In fact, I'm encouraged to have carbs! Good carbs, though... the whole grain kind. And I can have fruit! I think I've said before, that my main problem staying on the low carb diet before was breakfast on work days. It's just too much of a pain to cook a low carb breakfast every morning. On this diet I can have some fruit when I get up and then some grape nuts and nonfat milk after I get ready. I can even stop at Starbucks for a decaf nonfat latte on the way to work. Then I have to wait 3 hours, and I can eat a true low carb lunch. That's easy. The diet also encourages eating lots of veggies. I think I'll love it! Thanks, again to Karlyn, 'The Wife' of BrykMantra for getting me started.

Now I'm off to bed to read. I started Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series again. If I finish it in my lifetime, it will be a true accomplishment!

William Hung has his own website. Yay!!

"I have no professional training of singing or dancing." --William Hung

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Today I went to work.

When I got off work, I went to Starbucks to ask if they made drinks with heavy cream. I'm planning to start a low carb diet soon, so I'd like to know I can go to Starbucks and get *something* that could satisfy my incessant Starbucks' cravings. The answer was yes. YES! The plan is to get an iced venti half heavy cream half water latte. Then I'll sweeten it with Sweet n Low or Splenda.

I got Suzanne Somers' Fast & Easy diet book today, so I'll be reading up on her version of low carbing (Somersizing). Karlyn, 'The Wife' of BrykMantra, has been so helpful.

LilyDawg ran outside as soon as we got home and started eating grass. I think that means her tummy aches. Poor poochy.

Now I think I'll put a frozen turkey dinner in the oven. After all... I don't to eat it frozen!

I've relegated my Yay! Movies! post about Amelie to draft status until further notice. Yet another blankety blank insulted me just because I don't like to read subtitles. This one says, "i hate non cultural low-end people like you." Poor person... all that hate is going to eat him/her up alive.

Let's work backwards today...

LilyDawg took me for a walk just now, and we saw something sitting up on a wall by the post office. I thought it was a cat, but when I looked closer, I saw it was a possum! I was like, "Hi Possum!!!"

Before that, I added a radio.blog thingy to my site. You can see it over in the sidebar, but if you don't feel like looking right now, I'll post it below. If you click it, it'll open a new window with a Flash playlist of some of my songs. I'm excited about it. The only problem I've noticed is that sometimes it gets stuck between songs. You just have to click on a different song and click back on the song it got stuck on and it'll start playing again.



I filled mine with my songs, but most people have popular music in theirs. I'm not sure if that's legal. Someone would have to be paying ASCAP and BMI licensing fees. So either radio.blog is paying them, or it's up to the individual sites. There's no information at radio.blog about it. I'm steering clear of the legal issues and just using my own songs. Before that, I added a new section to the sidebar for links to some of the radio show chats I frequent at Ampcast.com.

Before that, I was practicing a song I want to record. I tell ya... 'A' Chords are hard! They shouldn't be so hard. I can never get my fingers on the strings in the perfect position, though. I need to stop being such a perfectionist and hit the durn record button. haha

Before that, I collected all the bedding I had scattered throughout my house. Then I figured out what I didn't want anymore and put it in a pile to give to charity. I kept more than I should have, but I can always prune away some more later. I kept 4 sets of queen sized sheets, 2 sets of full sized sheets (for the old futon), two comforters, 4 blankets, and tons of pillow cases. I found a place to store all the sheets and pillow cases, but I don't have a place to store the extra comforter and the blankets. Boo. And now I want to splurge and buy some really luxurious high thread count sheets. If I do that, I pledge to get rid of at least one of the sets of queen sized sheets.

Before that, I slept late. And tomorrow's a holiday, so I can sleep late again. Weeeeeeeeeee!

When I find a link that's cool, and I don't want to lose it, I put it above my blogroll for later. The list is getting too long, though, so I'll archive some of them here:

Today was great! I woke up around 3:30 a.m., and decided to see if the weather man was right about the snow. I expected to see a whole lotta nothin', but when I looked out my window, the sight took my breath away. Snow everywhere! So Lily and I went outside for a walk. The field was beautiful... there was a stream of water running the length of it and snow everywhere else.


I went back to bed, but set my alarm to get up about sunrise. When I got up again, I went outside to play some more and saw one of the girls on my block. She's about 11or 12 years old, I think, and she's never seen snow before. So we made snowmen on my car.

They're pretty sparse, but we don't get a lot of practice.

I went back to bed again, and got up at noon. All the snow was gone!

This afternoon, I filed my taxes (can you say REFUND!). I wrote a letter to my Aunt that I should have written over a month ago. I suck at writing letters!

Then I recorded some radio spots for a couple of Ampcast radio shows. One for Dennyvan's Old Time Radio and one for AndyV's Box of Chocolate Radio which officially starts broadcasting Mondays 7:00-9:00 EST on March 7th. Yay!

This evening, I spent my time at Song Planet listening to Swannie's SwanSpirit radio show. I used to go to radio show chats all the time a few years ago. I even DeeJay'd a few myself. Not live, though... they were pre-recorded. It was fun!

So it was a full day. Thanks to all of you who had Valentine's Day wishes and encouraging words for me today.

I've got quite a few other things I want to do this weekend. I'd like to record a song. I just need to stop procrastinating and do it! 'night all!

Let it be known on this, the 14th day of February, also known as Valentine's Day and what would be our third anniversary, that I hereby declare myself dumped by virtue of neglect. That my now ex-boyfriend has ignored me for 11 days straight and many days before that.

As such, I am also declaring that I'm on the lookout for a new partner/friend/lover/companion.

One who will be open and honest with me.
One who doesn't smoke.
One who will be loyal to me, defending me against mean people, even if the mean person is a best friend.
One who will tell friends and family that I exist.
One who will be friends with my dog.
One who will love me the way I am. Not just say it, but mean it.
One who will buy me flowers. At least once.
One who won't stand me up without a reason.

I don't think that's too much to ask. I think I have a lot to offer, too. I think. Maybe I don't. I'm not good at this relationship stuff. I mean... every relationship I've ever had has failed.

I'm an optimist, though... a fool for the thought of love. I'll never be like some who refuse to have another relationship for fear of being hurt. My fear is getting sick or having a crisis with no one to help me. I want to be there to help someone else, too.

So here I am world. A 40 year old CPA/java programmer and animal lover who has a nice singing voice and can keep a clean house. A Texas girl who isn't afraid to assemble her own furniture, but can't guarantee it'll be sturdy. A Starbucks Coffee lover who yearns to cook a chicken dinner and share it with someone special. A webmistress with a brand new cushy queen sized bed who wants to love and be loved.

To those of you who have someone to celebrate with today, give them a hug and a kiss and strive not to take them for granted. I salute you. If your boyfriend or girlfriend is too wrapped up in him or herself to do something nice for you today, then do something nice for yourself. I bought myself flowers. Maybe that's pathetic. I don't know. I just know they're awfully pretty, and they make me smile.

It's not often you see this in the Austin weather forecast:

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The bad news this morning was I forgot to set my alarm last night. The worse news was... I woke up anyway and had to go to work on time.

I went to lunch with one of my coworkers. He drove us over to the east side for some Mexican food. It was great! I had chicken enchiladas with tangy tomatillo sauce. They had the best corn tortillas I've ever tasted. Mmmmmmm!

I wasn't feeling so well after lunch, but I don't think it had to do with the food. I had a dizzy spell, and then my head felt thick. I left a little early and took a nap when I got home. Now I feel like a zombie. Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow.

This weekend, I finished watching all the episodes of Cupid I have on tape. So last night, I started watching Titanic. Ooowee! I love that movie.

LilyDawg slept in the new bed last night! Yay!

I can sum up work today with one word. Bleh. Wait... that's not even a word.

Okay... so American Idol... I never get to vote because I never finish watching it until after the voting closes. I agreed with the general sentiments of the judges... the first and last singers were best. Diana and Fantasia. Man... they were working it! I liked that guy Matt, too, but when they did the review at the end, I agreed with Randy... his voice wasn't strong enough to beat out the girls. So when do we find out the results???

Lily didn't sleep in the new bed with me again last night. She's not afraid to come in there and wake me up if she wants something, but she won't lay down and go to sleep. At least not while I'm in the bed. She napped there while I was getting ready for work. ha!

I moved my cheap little stereo unit from the old bedroom to the new bedroom last night. It has a remote, so I can load it up with 5 CDs and control it from the bed. Tonight, I figured out how to connect my iPod to it, too. That new bedroom is getting to be awesome!

When I got home from work tonight, I let Lily out in the backyard. She promptly found something really stinky to roll around in. Harrumph! So I had to give her a bath. She's so funny after a bath, though. She shakes and shakes and then runs around like a mad dawg!

After we had dinner (chicken salad for me, dog food for Lily), I surfed over to Ampcast.com and listened to the radio show and chatted with some of the regulars. I'll probably do that more often. Tonight I heard songs from my friends Antnee and boogaboo. I even heard one of the songs I did with Jon Solo, Best Without You.

Now I think I'll head back to my new bedroom and watch TV or listen to music or read a book in my comfy new bed. Yay!

I had a hard time getting to sleep last night. I think it was partly the excitement of being in a new bed and partly because my allergies were acting up. I got to sleep eventually. I can't say my sleep was any different in the new bed... not deeper nor more restful. But when I got up (or should I say rolled out of bed) I wasn't stiff! Yay!

There will be no more "getting up." The bed's too high to "get up" from it! I didn't want a high bed because I like to be able to sit on the edge of my bed and do things. Play guitar. Put my shoes on. Stare. I guess I could still play guitar and stare, but it's not the same if my feet aren't firmly planted on the floor. The nice thing about having a high bed, though, is that it's easy on my knees when I do get up, err... roll out of bed.

So I'm very pleased.

LilyDawg, however, was not pleased last night. She alternated sleeping on the futon in the other bedroom and on the floor in the bathroom. Today, I threw a kink into things... I converted the futon from a bed to a love seat. She doesn't know what to think. This afternoon, though, I caught her laying on the new bed. hee hee Maybe she'll sleep with me tonight.

Time to go to bed! In my new bed!

At Starbucks, they've started putting out signs that show a staff person's drink recommendation. The other day, one of the girls recommended an iced soy caramel machiatto. The soy part didn't excite me, but I thought an iced caramel macchiatto with regular milk might be good. So this morning, I had one. It was kinda weird. Since it was cold, there were globs of caramel in the liquid part. It's pretty strange to suck up a glob of caramel through a straw!

I might try it again at another Starbucks. The Starbucks near me isn't very good. Like how I ordered a slice of lemon pound cake, and they gave me regular pound cake. I had to go back inside to get that straightened out.

Then I went home to wait for my new bed to arrive. The Room Store guys brought it about 1:30. Five minutes later they were finished assembling it! Wow, they're fast!!

Lily got really nervous because I closed her in a bedroom while they were here. When they left, she demanded to be fed canned dog food! Then she wanted to go for a walk. After that, she settled down, so it was time to go shopping for bedding and a night stand!!

Walmart had a bedding set including comforter, sheets, pillow cases, bed skirt and pillow shams with gold moons and stars and suns. I got some clippy things that hold the fitted sheet on, too. And they had Raspberry and Grape Diet Rite. Woo-Hoo!

Then I headed over to Bed, Bath and Beyond because I had some coupons. I ended up getting a couple of three drawer organizer things to use as a night stand. The bed is pretty high, and I noticed that night stands are pretty low. What's up with that? I like to be able to see my alarm clock.

Here's a picture. I didn't use the pillow shams. I hate pillow shams!



I'm excited! I hope I sleep good tonight. Lily's not too sure about the whole thing. I think she'll warm up to it, though.

This morning, I noticed two messages on my answering machine. I knew one was the Orkin man from last night, but I didn't realize I had another call. I checked the caller ID and saw the other call had a 210 area code. That's San Antonio. My thought... could it actually be my boyfriend calling me?? But no... it was The Room Store calling to verify my address for the bed delivery tomorrow. He read my address, then told me to call if it was wrong. It was right, but he didn't leave a number for me to call if it was wrong!! He also wanted to confirm that the delivery would be "February 7th which is Sunday." Errr.... February 7th is Saturday! I got another call this evening, though, that said they would be here between noon and 4:00 p.m. so things are good to go!

When I dropped Lily off for day care, the girl/lady/chick/female person asked me if I would like them to take care of Lily during Spring Break which caused me to exclaim, "Oh Thank God!" and hold back tears. You see... I got an email saying they would be booked up with boarding and closed for day care that week. Gak!! A whole week of leaving LilyDawg by herself at home. I'd be a nervous wreck!! I'd probably have to take some time off that week, and I hate to waste my annual leave just to stay home with my pup. Anyway... I'm extremely happy they'll be open.

A big group of us went to Olive Garden at lunch. It was a goodbye luncheon for a guy who is moving to Iraq to work for Brown and Root. What are they doing there? Rebuilding Iraq? I dunno... but he's going. I had the soup, salad and breadsticks with Chocolate Lasagna for dessert. Oooo... luscious!!!

Tonight I'm just going to chill out. Maybe move some furniture around to make it easier for the bed delivery guys. Maybe write a dear john letter. I'll just take it as it comes. For now, I'll sip on my Diet Rite Red Raspberry soda.

My friend Michael at work told me about a dream he had that I was in...

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After choking on my water first thing this morning, I thought today would be a doozie, but it turned out okay. I was real busy at work with meetings and web site updates. There was one break where the people in my cubicle aisle were talking about other people who got caught having sex in a parking garage a few years back. Can you imagine?

I'm really looking forward to Saturday. I get my new bed! I have sheets and a comforter for it, but once I get it all set up, I might need to go shopping for a bed ruffle or whatever you get to make a bed look nice. I don't have a headboard, either, but I doubt I'll get one of those this weekend. I think I'd like to buy a sleigh bed at some point.

Tonight I was roaming around the iTunes music store. I put two songs in my cart: "A Nurse Who Loved Me" by A Perfect Circle and "Rain and Snow" by The Be Good Tanyas. I really love iTunes.

In case I do a "What I Did Today" post tonight, I wanted to jot this down so I'll remember...

One of the first things I did today was try to drink a glass of water. Half of the first mouthful went down the wrong pipe causing me the cough like crazy, and the other half went down the front of my shirt. I guess I have a drinking problem.

The mailboxes for the houses in my neighborhood are all grouped together at the end of my block. This weekend someone posted a sign on the side of the boxes that said, "Meet Your Trashy Neighbors." It listed addresses found on mail that had been thrown to the ground in that area. That happens a lot... people get junk mail and drop it on the ground. I never do that... I trash the inside my car instead!

I looked to see if my address was on there anyway. Whew!! Nope!! I thought it was funny that someone had made that list.

For a short while today, the crystals in my windows threw tons of rainbows over the walls and ceiling. I posted some rainbows before, but the ones today were even better. Here ya go...

I bought a bed today. Yay! It'll be delivered next Saturday. It's a Simmons Beautyrest. It's made with that techology that if you're sleeping with someone who tosses and turns, it won't bother you. That's good because I think I bother LilyDawg!

I rearranged the room again when I got home, and I think I've got it so I'll be able to see the TV good when I'm in bed. That's really important. ha!

The thing that got me motivated to go get a bed today was that The Room Store is right next door to Chik-Fil-A. I'm extremely food motivated. But when I got there I remember... Closed Sundays. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Tonight I colored my hair. Nothing extreme... I just made it bolder. I tried to take a picture, but I'm not having any luck getting one I'm satisfied with. Sorry.

Poop! I was hoping the Panthers would win the Super Bowl. I was excited when they tied it up. I might like the Patriots better if they got a new logo for their helmets. I hate that patriot head that looks like a comet.

I wanted to watch Survivor All-Stars this season, but TiVo says it's normal time is the same time as Tru Calling. I can't turn my back on Tru... she's so cool. Guess I outta get ready for bed. Sheesh this weekend went by fast...