I have a new blog. If you want, you can friend it on LJ using this jenmccain. I just friended it and it looks like it'll show up just like a regular LJ post. But there won't be any LJ cuts. So if I write a lot or post a lot of pictures, it's all going to be on your friends page. So just keep that in mind if you friend.

The actual URL for the blog is JenMcCain.net. I'm using wordpress and I realllllllly like it so far.

Zombies! I love Sarah Jane. It's a 15 minute zombie movie. I liked it!

Chris and I went to Fort Worth to get a bike from craigslist on Saturday. A short summary of the trip: I was fascinated by the fancy bathroom sinks at a gas station. I saw some camels. I ate at Jack-In-the Box. I like how the scenery changes in between Shreveport and there. Enough that I feel like I'm some place new. There are wide open spaces and I like being able to see a long way. Going from Dallas to Fort Worth takes forever. A lot longer than I always think it should take. We got sort of lost, then we got unlost. We stopped at a fire station where the craigslist guy works. Chris road the bike around. We got back in the car and went back home. VERYVERYLONGDAY.

I think I'm just going to lay here in bed all day and watch Fringe on Hulu to see if it's any good.

Survive the Outbreak is a choose your own adventure short zombie movie. Chris and I watched it last night expecting to kick some zombie ass and survive to the end the very first try. But this did not happen. Mostly because the choose your own adventure choices aren't as good as they could've been. So the whole thing was kind of disappointing. But the idea was a good one.

I am always surprised when I find out that something I think that is done all over the U.S., is not in fact a national thing but may only be a weird southern thing. Or maybe just a Texas thing? Not that I live in Texas, but sometimes things ooze over from Texas since they are right there. Anyway, what I am referring to is the giant homecoming corsage. When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be in high school just so I could get one of those giant homecoming corsages. I wasn't interested in dressing up or going to a stupid dance. I just wanted the giant corsage with my name in glitter on a ribbon, and bells and whatever other little things they hang off of them. What other states do this? I always thought everybody did.

It's OCTOBER! YAY! YAY!

I won't be airing up any more bike tires ever again. At least not without some kind of ear protection. Friday I was taking the air pump off my bicycle tire and the inner tube exploded. It was loud. That doesn't really make it sound as loud as it was. IT WAS REALLY LOUD! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUD. So very very loud that it made my right ear hurt, like I'd gotten punched inside my ear. I wasn't expecting it to happen at all, so it scared me and I screamed and then sat there holding my ear for a while. And then my ear felt windy inside and I couldn't hear very well. It's taken all weekend for it to go back to feeling mostly normal. It still has a little bit of a stopped up feeling. That was my exciting adventure on Friday.

WEDNESDAY IS OCTOBER! *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

I watched True Blood. It was nothing at all like the books. The books are girly vampire romance mystery novels. The tv show is full of annoying characters and white trashy people having ugly sex. The story line in the series is similiar to the book, but it's like they managed to suck all the fun and happiness out of the story. I was hoping for happy fun naked vampires and I am very disappointed. :(

Today I took some pictures of mushrooms.

I applied for 7 jobs at the library. A billion positions are open right now. In my cover letter, after pointing out all my good qualifications, I asked them to please let me know what other education and/or experience I need in order to be better qualified since I'd been applying for jobs for years. I'm not sure if I should've said those things or not, but at this point I don't see how it could possibly hurt my chances of getting them to hire me.

I really like having facebook in Pirate English! It makes Facebook much better. :-)

Right now there is a strange looking little guy staring at me from outside the window in the hall. He's talking on his phone. I just spelled phone - fone. I have never done that before.

I am scared of Bjork. I think she's creepy.

I learned how to change a flat tire on my bike. I have practiced this about 3 times this week so I am now an expert.

Chris got me a fancy Brooks seat for my bike. It has flowers on it. I haven't been able to put it on my bike yet because I need something called a seat sandwich for it to work.

I ordered the cutest coat from ebay. I am now in love with my coat and want it to be winter today.

I really like reading the updates from the Mars Rover on twitter. Today MarsPhoenix said: "I can't pass up Talk Like a Pirate Day just because I'm on M-AAAAARs! Now it's back back to work digging for treasure. Arrr!" I'm not sure who's writing the tweets for him, but it makes him this cute little adorable robot rolling around on Mars.

I need to get my hair cut. I'm going to do that on Sunday.

I really really wish it was time to leave work. This has been such a long week.

At least 3 times a week, somebody is having trouble at the machine where I pay to park. And I either end up getting their parking receipt for them, or showing them how to do it. This is how I start my morning. Today, I saw a very confused man standing in front of the parking machine. When I got closer he smiled and held out his hand full of coins that the machine had given him as change and he said, "What are these coins? I have never seen these before!"

So I explained that they were dollar coins that would either have presidents on them, or possibly sacajawea.

"Do I cash them in somewhere?"

"No, you just spend them."

"Like real money?"

"Yes, just like real money."

And he laughed and laughed and laughed like this was the funniest thing he had ever heard in his entire life.

Right after I blogged on Saturday the wind started blowing and the power went out. And then the wind started blowing some more. My mother and I heard a loud crash in the back yard and we looked out her window and saw that tree down.

Then my dad went out side and got hysterical and started screaming about how he was almost blown over by the wind and how this giant tree in the back yard was swaying and he was certain it was going to come crashing down at any moment and kill us all and that we had to leave the house immediately.

This is the tree he was worried about:

So in the middle of the crazy strong wind. More wind that I have ever seen. My mother and I tossed the dogs into the car and drove down the street to the truck stop and sat in the parking lot for over an hour while the wind was blowing. I entertained myself by text messaging Chris about what I was doing. Being in the parking lot was far better than being at home. The parking lot is huge and there is nothing that could fall on us. lol. And also, my dad wasn't there freaking out. So my mom and I just sat and watched the storm and the police direct traffic at a light that was out.

Our power came back on last night. But Chris still doesn't have power at his apartment. :-(

And after messing up my weekend plans, the hurricane went all the way to PA and harassed euclase! Evil wind!

hurricane ike knocked a tree down in the front yard. And we have no electricity and it might be days before it comes back on. Booooooooooo.

So my weekend started off with me slipping and falling in WalMart on Friday after work, but then it got better because I saw a rainbow! and had Taco Bell. And I laughed a lot. And watched some TV. Oh, and I got a sword! And I baked a cake!

Today, hasn't gone as expected but that's ok, because I've spent all day in my pajamas and eaten pizza and played Scrabble and watched a lot of tv and occasionally gone outside to look at the wind.

Tomorrow is TARDIS CAKE DAY!

I woke up in a bad mood this morning, which seems impossible since I had this amazing dream starring a singing Jack Harkness saving the world from an evil museum and then getting turned into a giant silver exhibit. I don't know where the Doctor was.

Other reasons why I shouldn't be in a bad mood: TARDIS CAKE MAKING DAY STARTS TOMORROW! It's a two day event. Friday, we will bake the cake in the old SCARY OVEN! The oven has never been used! Some people are worried that turning it on will produce a mini-black hole that will destroy the earth! Or maybe it's just me that is worried about that. I will also put a lot of food coloring into white icing and see if it is enough to turn it the proper color blue. Saturday will be the fun decorating the cake and eating it day! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures! "It will be LEGEN.....wait for it...DARY!" (Actually, it probably won't be. It'll probably just be a giant pile of blue cake. But that's ok. It'll still taste like cake.)

I've been watching all the episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I really like it! It's funny! And Barney is funny! And so are Lily and Marshall! I am all the way up to the last few episodes of season three. So I should be caught up by the time the new episodes for this season start. Woo!

I have used quite a lot of exclamation points in this post. I'm wrote it trying to cheer myself out of my bad mood and I THINK IT IS WORKING!

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This is a blog for Chris. I could've just emailed him the link to the collection in my flickr account, but I can't get the pictures in the correct order so I am putting them all here. It's just pictures of a road in the middle of nowhere, and a couple of really awesome pictures of donkeys.

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No work for me today because of Gustav! YAY! I've laid around in my pjs all morning and after lunch I'm going to go to Chris's and hang out with Darwin the cat! YAY for lazy rainy days! The billion inches of rain and scary wind that the weather guys were talking about as late as last night just didn't happen. It's just raining some here but nothing bad. My boss has now realized the weather isn't bad so she went into work and now she keeps calling me. I asked her if she wanted me to come in after lunch and she said no. She can't even get the computer turned on. *facepalms* So I might be making a stop by there anyway.

* Hurricane Gustav is supposed to be tropical storm strength by the time it gets to Shreveport. But that's still scary windy. And it's going to rain for days and days.
The local weather guy just said Shreveport should expect:

40-70 MPH winds
10-20 inches of rain.
Major flooding and tornadoes.
Power outages and trees down.

I don't really like any of those things. Especially the power outage part. I need electricity. My dad has a generator that he will plug into the refrigerator to keep our food cold if the power goes out. The rain starts Monday night. And the big scary wind on Tuesday. But it's not supposed to stop raining until Friday. That's a lot of crazy rain. I'm hoping their forecasts are completely wrong and it goes somewhere else.

* In other unrelated news: I really love the bike bag I got as an early birthday present. And I also love my bike trainer. I can already tell that I'm riding much better after using it regularly for the past two weeks. Chris and I are going bike riding tomorrow morning. YAY!

* A guy I didn't like in high school just friended me on Facebook. He was mean to me. I friended him anyway, because I'm hoping he's nicer than he was when he was 16. There are suddenly lots of people I went to high school with on Facebook. I haven't decided if I like that or not.

* Yesterday, I tried to get an ewok in my happy meal at MacDonalds. The guy taking the order asked: "What's an Ewok? Is that a monster?" I found that very amusing.

* I had a good time this afternoon eating lunch at Olive Garden with my cousin and aunt and mom and sister. That's the first time in I don't know how long that all of us girls have done something together.

My sister's wedding reception party was last night. My favorite part of the entire evening was walking to the car in the rain when Chris and I were leaving to get there. ha.

The air conditioner was broken in the main banquet room.

THE AIR CONDITIONER WAS BROKEN!

WTF! I have only one requirement! JUST ONE! TO NOT BE HOT! (actually, I think I have two, because I also don't function without sleep. I'm going on 2 hours sleep right now and my brain is fuzzy and I don't want to move and I feel yucky.)

Anyway, the air conditioner had stopped working the day before and the people didn't bother to have it repaired. No, I did not put on my ice vest. Instead I sat in the room near the bar where the a/c was working and was anti-social from the main gathering all evening. My friends expect me to be a weirdo, so they all sat in there with me. I loved seeing them, but I knew it wasn't going to be fun because I don't want to see all of them at the same time. They should've skipped the reception and come to Shreveport each separately on different weekends so I could talk to them properly.

Other things that weren't so bad:

* I really loved my dress. And Chris wore a suit. We were the best dressed people there. Unfortunately, I do not have photographic evidence to back up my claims because I didn't bring my camera. 10000 other people took pictures, but who knows when/if I'll ever get them. So you'll just have to trust me on this one.

* THERE IS A TON OF LEFTOVER WEDDING CAKE. I just ate a huge piece of it. YUMMMMMM.

#1. Yesterday we broke a record low high temperature! WOOO!
#2. I rode 5 miles on my bike this weekend! YAY!
#3. I read a lot about .22 caliber pistols.
#4. I watched the Olympics.
#5. I knitted on Licia's hat.
#6. I watched my mother undress a mannequin at the store. She really wanted the shirt that the mannequin was wearing. And the naked body underneath even had nipples! WTF!
#7. I bought a pushup bra to wear with the dress for Erin's wedding reception. How much fun are these bras! I keep looking down the front of my shirt and going, "woo hoo! Boobies!"
#8. I ruined my first attempt at making marshmallow fondant icing.
#9. I'm about to eat a homemade pizza! YAY!
#10. I drove all over Shreveport today hoping to get my haircut but every place I went to I would've had to wait for 2 hours. Blah.
#11. I lost at Scrabble.
#12. I played some of Braid on Chris's Xbox. I really love that game!
#13. It's supposed to be rainy all week again! YAY!

Good weekend! Not long enough.

It is 3:37pm and it is 76 degrees.

76 degrees? On an August afternoon in Louisiana?

This morning when I was bike riding I was almost....COLD. COLD.

THIS JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN EVER.

Obviously, it's the end of the world.

In Best Buy a Cyndi Lauper song was playing.

Then Erin calls to tell me that she's going to the New Kids on the Block concert.

And now I see an ad online that said: Introducing Teddy Ruxpin!


WTF!

If you like dogs, DO NOT EVER WATCH the episode of Futurama where Fry finds his dog from the past and tries to bring it back to life. DO NOT WATCH IT! It's the saddest thing I have ever seen in my life. And I never ever ever want to see that episode again.

I also really wish that the commercial about abused animals with Sarah McClahlan on it would just GO AWAY. I hate that commercial. It doesn't make me want to give money to help the dogs, it just makes me want to cry. So Futurama and the sad dog commercial within the same 30 minutes was just tooooo many sad dog stories for me.

TARDIS BAKING HAS BEEN POSTPONED AGAIN! Until September 13th, when I am celebrating my birthday. But it really is going to get made. REALLY!

The Lawyer has her kids in the office today. So far I've been given a couple of little aliens to put on my desk. and one witch. I'm pretty sure that's all the toys they have at the office.

My parents are back home from California. NO MORE DOG SITTING FOR ME! HOOOOOORAY! HOOOORAY!

I was happily curled up with the dogs, watching TV, and talking on aim, and a bird flew through the living room and landed on the top of the curtains. So I did what anyone else would do and I started freaking out on aim about it.

macelhany: THERE IS A BIRD IN THE HOUSE. WHAT DO I DO! WHAT DO I DO!

Chris and Licia both told me to catch it and throw it out.

This was not so easy because, I *HATE* BIRDS. They are like rats with wings! I covered my body from head to toe and grabbed a blanket. The bird sat on the kitchen table and I tried to toss the blanket on top of it, but it flew towards my head and I screamed and ran away. After telling Chris that there was no way I could possibly catch the bird, Chris said he would come and catch the bird for me! OMG! YAY! YAY!

While waiting for him to arrive, I went and got food to eat. When I came back, I ran straight to the back of the house to the bedroom where I knew it was safe because the bedroom door had been closed the whole time. I sat down on the bed. And got out my food.

AND THE BIRD CAME OUT OF NOWHERE AND STARTED FLYING AROUND IN THE BEDROOM!

I screamed and ran away. And trapped the bird in the bedroom.

Chris came over. Put on some gloves. And very calmly went into the bedroom. I was hiding outside the bedroom door. I was going to peek in the room by keeping the door cracked just a little, and then the bird flew towards the door and I started screaming again. (I usually don't scream like a girl. REALLY I DON'T.) Instead, I just ended up waiting outside the bedroom door listening. I heard Chris say a few times: "Stupid bird. Stop flying around, bird." Then he trapped it in the bathroom and waited until it got tired of moving around and just picked it up.

HE IS THE AMAZING BIRD CATCHER!

He took it outside and let it go.

I gave him a hug and a cheeseburger.

THE END.