Cyclamen

It looks dead, but it's not. I've had this plant for 7 1/2 years, and it looks like this when I forget to water it. But I'd water it more regularly if I knew it would die if I didn't. It's its fault for being resilient.

Happiness is...

An open window.

Movie-ing Out

I'm more seriously thinking about ditching cable. Now seems like a good time to bail since lots of shows are in repeats. I've been loading up my TiVo with movies in case I cancel my subscription. Today I recorded "My Mom's New Boyfriend" -- yes, I'm serious.

I think I'll be okay since the Food Network has shows online and Hulu has the entire first (read: only) season of John Doe.

Rearranging the Gaming

My catchall third bedroom, AKA the game room, is in serious need of an overhaul. I've decided it's my project of the week.

Earlier today, I went through my VCR tapes. I found four that can be taped over, one that needs to be recycled and two that have shows I want to watch (My Name is Earl, Dr. Katz and Passions to name a few). Tomorrow I'm going to re-rearrange my CDs, which got disorganized when I added songs to my iTunes library.

I think the project might spill into next week since there's a lot going on in a small room.

Dia-logical

Do you ever wish you could use dialogue that people use in television, movie and book worlds? Some dialogue you just can't say in real life. Certain phrases aren't said in America like "who's she, the cat's mother?" which as far as I can figure out is the response when someone calls a woman in the room "she." I wonder why there isn't a corollary phrase for when a guy in the room is called he? I also like the phrase, "I'll bite," which I've tried to use (unsuccessfully) in everyday conversation.

Internet Connection

I'm not sure when it started, but my Internet connection at home likes to "freeze" and stop working. All the lights on my router light up, and the connection is lost. The only way to restore it is to unplug the router, wait for a little bit and plug it back in.

Last year, I tried to fix the problem by calling the manufacturer's 800 number and talking to a customer representative for over an hour, which got me nowhere. Anyone know why this happens or what I can do to stop it from happening?

Garbage Day Eve

Tomorrow is my garbage day and since today is Sunday, a lot of people set their garbage and recycling out earlier than the 7 PM mandated by my city. I always wait until Monday morning to set mine out because I hate when the critters rifle through my trash and I have to clean up their mess. And on blustery days like today, the bags blow all over the place. I like to be neat with my garbage.

As I was driving around this morning, I noticed three or four couches on the curbs. Am I crazy or is that an unusually high number of couches for one garbage day? Maybe the city only picks up couches once a month? Maybe there was a furniture store that delivered new couches today? I hope I didn't miss a good sale.

What will be the hot new garbage item next week? I'm hoping it's refrigerators.