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For all the Happy Birthdays yesterday. :)

Special thanks to whoever nudged the ex-girlfriend to e-mail me a happy birthday message (whether it was a person, or just the universe in general). I'll just say that it really meant a lot, and leave it at that ('cause there were enough tears yesterday...poor 'Yote, he looked so lost trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with me).

You guys rawk.
Just sayin'.

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• 02:17 @rizendemon why? #
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• 03:19 On this day in history the Bill of Rights was ratified. A shame it did not last #
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• 10:27 @rizendemon for world domination? #
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• 14:53 tuesday off..how odd..trivia and legal shrooms..what a plan #
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First of all...after giving me a fabulous adventure, and making sure I got prezzies along the way (like going to Borders in Kent so I could spend the gift card from his Aunt & Uncle - yay for the 75th Anniversary Edition of The Wizard of Oz!), I came home from work to find a beautiful red rose, chocolate, and a very sweet card. *happy tears* He is *still* the bestest birthday present I ever got (the anniversary of the first date is Thursday), and our life together is more happiness than I ever asked for. Gods I'm blessed.

( Okay, enough with the mushy - I promised you LOLCats, so here ya go! )

I kind of want to delete my LJ, but I really, really, really hate broken links.

LJ to force selection of male or female gender at account selection and remove the Unspecified option.

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ETA: I have 146 unused invite codes, so if you need one, ask. I have set the comments to this entry to screened, so please don't munge your e-mail address. Alternately, you can PM me.

ETA-2: Backpedal has begun

hi Virginia,

thank you for your feedback.
However, the code update that you refer to is not live and did not have any chance to go live. That was a beta release, we always push code to beta to see if everything works correctly. In many cases it does not and we either fix bugs or pull the code from the final release plan.
We were going to add a gender field to the sign up user flow, which is fine, but by mistake it became a mandatory "female/male" field for everyone. This is why this is not going live. And this is what beta releases are for, to see problems and solve them before any user faces a problem.

I would appreciate if you share this information with your friends that are also concerned. I am sorry that you were misinformed.

Best regards,

Anjelika Petrochenko

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• 01:45 Close to the truth. It took me Years to get those souvenirs #
• 15:54 @seelix huzzah! #
• 16:07 @gojiro i remember smoking at my desk. Drinking..not so much. #
• 19:40 how can I have chest pains when I have no chest to speak of? #

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And the last year has been quite the year for self-examination and facing down demons. And dredging up truths about myself I'd rather not have had to face. Painful, but good for me.

SO...this is your chance. Be honest.

If I came with a warning label, what would it be?

(If you want to play along, post this in your own journal.)

Note - the original meme suggests screening comments.
I am NOT going to screen comments (other than those that are screened naturally if you aren't on my f-list, which is an open invitation for anyone who may be ghosting...particularly since I *haven't* gone all "friends-locked" on everything of substance). I don't really see the point of screening comments on this one anyway - I figure if you're brave enough to say it to my face, you can say it in front of everyone else.
Good or bad - I'd like to hear it.
Thanks.

Okay, I know you've all seen the billboards on I-71 just south of Columbus (I've posted pictures myself before).

A friend posted this on their blog yesterday - and though far be it from me to be happy for someone else's misfortune...

I really can't quite help but snicker at the juxtaposition...

Gotta watch out for those karmic lightening bolts...

Thanks to wherever for this one!

The Secrets of the Sparkle

A hilarious recap of the Twilight books from an (ex?) Mormon, outlining some of the barely-veiled LDS dogma in the books.

I give you....

A Twilight Saga/New Moon Review via LOLCATS!

LOLCat Tuesday okay with everybody?
I mean...we just drove 6 hours. And I have to work tonight.
Vegging my way through e-mail is about the best you're gonna get. :)

Tomorrow - promise!

A friend sent me this info, and I wanted to spread the word.

Operation Brighid's Arms, run by the folks at paganparenting.org, is a program that sends care packages to families with an infant in the NICU: http://paganparenting.org/brighidsarms.html

In other cool news - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL WOOD!

sunniwood's & routerninja's baby boy was born yesterday (so he gets to share his birthday with Karin Berquest of OTR - lucky kid!)!

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• 00:56 @gojiro dr horrible is quite worth the trip #
• 04:34 After 3 hours I got email back. Not that there are people out there to write but the concept is good,nu? #

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I'm number 12 on the Dreamwidth high scores list, with 96 points. I would really, really like to crack 100, but….

There just don't seem to be that many simple help suggestions to field. I can't figure out if the help documentation is good, or people just aren't using the service enough in order to run into weird problems, or if people are so used to flistwankenobi'ing it that a lot of problems are not coming to our attention.

In any case, support is slow, particularly in the stupid too flustered to think clearly user tricks category. Please to report any problems you may have, especially if a cursory search through the FAQs reveals nothing. Number 13 is catching up to me. :(

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• 04:12 Migraine and fresh blood. How tasty can you get? #
• 13:33 @seelix trivia tuesday? #
• 13:33 @gojiro Harlan writing about short people? what? #

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So many things to mention. We bought Freja's first Christmas dress today. Remember when you were a little girl (Apologies to the couple of guys who read this. I'm sure you were never little girls. Or maybe you were. But that's none of my business. Anyway...) and you got a new dress for every major holiday? You always had your Easter dress, with the hat and the tights and the little white shoes. And you always had your Christmas dress, usually black or red and green - some rich color, often velvet - with the black mary jane-type shoes? Well, Freja's dress is all gold and shimmery, and it comes with a little sweater, and I SWEAR it looks like something that a politician's wife would have in her wardrobe. It's like it came from the new Jackie Kennedy Baby Collection. All I need is a pillbox hat and she'll be good to go.

(I should post a pic of the dress for you guys. Just wait a day, because I need some new batteries for the camera.)

We're also going to put up the tree this weekend. We'll have last year's ornaments (the Leaders of the World shrinky-dinks, the sausage garland, the bacon strip ornaments) and a few new ones this year (we're thinking about doing some Freja shrinky-dinks and handing them out to the grandparents, maybe glitter 'em up, make 'em all fancy...) and we also have some little photo frame ornaments that we painted up today. Some Christmas wreaths, angels, fat reindeer and equally rotund penguins. All so festive. :)

(I'll also snap a pic of the tree when it's done. My boy is of German descent, so the tree tends to end up being a collection of lights, garland, and ornaments piled into a conical shape.)

We also hit the local Barnes & Noble today. Seriously, if I had the spare cash, I could just walk through that place with a shopping cart. It's like going to the grocery store when you're hungry. Except that when it comes to books, I'm always starving. But even my boy mentioned how large the teen book section is getting, and also how everything looks like Twilight now. But kids are reading. So that's good. Thank you Harry Potter for making reading awesomely fashionable again.

Okay, baby's waking up from her nap. Off to feed and do a diaper change.

And Happy Hannukah!

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• 00:56 @kelbardi is there a difference? #
• 00:59 @kelbardi perhaps they have already eaten ..which could also explain your coworkers? #
• 02:18 Is Cincinnati ready for a Flash Mob? #
• 03:08 @kelbardi and keep a cricket bat at hand #
• 04:01 do wolves tell cautionary tales of human girls in red cloaks? #
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• 04:37 @ElementalAmber for some reason I hear kettle drums beating a tattoo while a line of bosoms parades down the street #
• 04:38 @Wiccy I shall take your word for it. Although I am glad some people do have them. #
• 04:39 @kelbardi and terracotta ninjas #
• 12:17 this appears to be a good day to be off work? #
• 12:36 Why am I looking at MIG welders? #
• 12:59 @gojiro amen sir, amen #
• 16:07 @kelbardi all you need is the soundtrack on your ipod? #
• 19:21 @kelbardi REM songs? #
• 19:36 @kelbardi @kelbardi oddly tasty #
• 20:46 @seelix how could it fry in these temperatures? #
• 20:51 @ElementalAmber I'll be in my bunk #
• 22:43 @kelbardi still say REM #

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Can memories be dangerous?

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