election day...

since its election day and i work for a news organization, i'm here at work still at 10pm. the polls closed here in NY at 9pm, and now all the interns are scrambling around entering data into our systems. it was kind of nice though coming into work a little later. i got a bunch of stuff done before work.

it kind of amazes me the voting process.. apparently i have been registered to vote at my parents polling place since college. i haven't voted there in at least 12 years, in fact, i've registered at 2 or 3 other places since then. mike and i went over to the polls after my morning walk and there were about six 90 year old women behind the books. i pulled out my license and they looked at it like i was a freak. no ID required to vote. i bet i could have gone back and voted again at night claiming i was SB. then they asked me if this was my first time voting. i've decided that old people are a really bad judge of age. getting carded or asked how old you are by a senior citizen has lost its thrill, they are too out of touch. next time i get carded by someone in their 20's will be an accomplishment...

besides needing no proof that you are of age or actually a registered voter, another thing that amazes me is how they tally the votes so quickly, esp when the people thre are well into their 90's. we didn't have fancy electronic voting machines, they were the typical booths, walk in, pull the handle that shuts the curtain, flick the little knobby things, and push the handle back to register the votes. how the hell does that ancient machine count the votes?

pics...

Here are some pics of the new couch.. it comes tomorrow. cath had to put it to the "brown test", of course. here are some more pics of the shopping trip to raymore and flannigan.



here is the pic of my busted camera, it is pretty f'd up. now its going to be my back-up...


and here is a pic from jenny p's taco night/girl dinner.. it was hidden on the internal memory card of my old camera. i never posted it did i?

i got some new things!!

my camera came in the mail!! wooooot! it seems to take fantastic pictures.. i got all the accoutrements for it too! i didn't have to buy them separately! hahah.. the coolest thing so far is that when i take a pic vertically no matter which way (turning the camera left or right) it rights the picture in the viewer. so neat! since its the same camera almost, my memory card easily fits right into it! i'm so excited!

another thing that i am so excited about is i got the dvd recorder working. i've taped 2.5 episodes of dog whisperer now. and i can add titles to the shows. wooot!

my roommates and i went out to the movies tonight with my fisching friends, and their friend beer. after seeing borat we went to dinner with my halloween gift certificate. it was great. borat was pretty funny. i still am a little partial to 'da ali g show', but the movie was a lot funnier than i expected.

we cleaned out the shed today in preparation for the 2 tons of pellets that are coming for this winter. now i am afraid to go into the basement, my roommates moved a bunch of stuff from the shed into the basement. :(



tomorrow i have a bunch of things to do!
- i will continue to tape the rest of the crap off cath's dvr. i love this new dvd recorder!!
- i will go to target and buy myself a camera case.
- i will get my prescription and various other items at eckerds
- i will go couch shopping with my roommates. (very excited about this)
- i will go and see the fischers new house! wooot!
- laundry.

i was on tv...

i'm on tv... i was in a little skit yesterday on our tv show here called "bridge street". its kind of like regis and kelly. b*ll and i played "fans" of julies for a day in the life of skit. it brought me back to the day when the brown sisters would put on all sorts of productions with our video camera. i felt like i was reporting and in the background "the bandit" was going to run through the shot and then i could run over and maybe get an exclusive interview.

my camera is on its way!

my ebay friend says that my new camera is on its way! wooot! i can't wait! then i can take some pics of my poor broken camera. i better buy myself a case stat!

last night i went to this outlet of sorts with mike. he had already been there earlier in the day and scouted out a dvd recorder for $51. (cause the one he doesn't use in his room can't be transferred to the front room tv). we tried it out in the store cause the store is not really a new merchandise kinda place. its more like, come see what fell off our truck, kinda place. the packages have all been opened at some point, serial numbers are filed off things, etc. but the prices are pretty dirt cheap. i've bought a couple of old skool label makers in the past few months for my mail art, and i saw the same one there for 99 cents. :( i should have bought it just to have so when i break the new one i bought i'm not stuck..

tonight is cath goes to bingo and mike and rebecca eat pizza and chinese food respectively. however, cath is NOT going to bingo tonight, so she's partaking in take-out night. i think i might set up my painting studio in the living room next to my office and paint a little tonight while cath catches up on her shows.

tomorrow is the big borat viewing. i can't wait!! anyone else planning on seeing this?

i couldn't resist..

You paid attention during 80% of high school!

68-84% Pretty good, you know that there are libraries and newspapers, and you remember what you've read. You were a child that wasn't left behind!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?
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woo who ebay!

this weekend my camera started acting really strange and taking fuzzy pictures. (you might not have noticed in the photo album.. i might have deleted all the REALLY crappy fuzzy ones.) at one point last weekend my camera even stopped taking pics, just black screens. i had to throw it on the ground (thus cracking the viewer even more) to get it to work again.

nipping that camera disaster in the bud i am the proud winner of another ebay auction. its a nikon s5 (my old one was the nikon s1, for those of you keeping track). they are making the s10 now. so, don't fret nay-sayers, i didn't get the most expensive one i could have. the one thing that made me consider buying the s9 was the wifi picture transfer, how sweet does that sound? this s5 has a pretty sweet "curve" design to it. that was one of the main selling points for me.



the next ebay purchase i make will be a beer bottle resistant case.

in other random news, i got a haircut, i won "1st place most original" for my candy corn costume in an office contest. i got a $25 gift certificate to an area restaurant for that. i was on our morning show called "bridge street" dancing to the monster mash in my costume yesterday. this morning i was part of a skit they did about one of the cohosts, i played the part of an autograph seeking fan. i'll let you know if it becomes available as an internet clip. tonight i am going out to dinner with my roommates and then we are going to an art opening for the figure drawing group i have been going to. i'll be in the next show don't you worry. then i get to watch LOST in real time, not on thursday.

this weekend a cath and i and a few friends are going to see 'borat'. i have some pretty high expectations, so i hope i am not disappointed.