We have tickets for a 12:10AM showing. I am so excited it’s slighty embarrassing. Well, more than slightly… really. Of course the girls here at work didn’t even KNOW it was coming out today. *shakes head*

Anyway, after work I’m gonna swing by Hot Topic and pick up a tshirt to wear. I have a feeling if one of us doens’t have SOMETHING on we’re likely to get jumped by a battalion of storm troopers. There better be people there in full garb or I will be really disappointed.

And there will be pictures for sure! All that geekness in one place HAS to be captured and shared!

An email thread from yesterday between Ben and I:

I forgot that the Survivor Season Finale was last night. I know I set the box to record the Thrusday Night Programs but I hope I set it to include all “new showings”. *crosses finger*

I didn’t realize it till I opened up MSNBC and in huge letters across the top of the page is “SURVIVOR WINNER IS …* WHAAAAAAAAA!

Fortunately, I checked this morning, and the world is indeed still spinnning! Yay!

Why do you mock me you heartless fool?!?!

you’re just so mockable you blond-haired nerf-herder

NERF-HERDER!? You call the person who helped you SINGLE HANDIDLY take down an arch villan a NERF-HERDER.

Well, I never.

You…. WEINER!!

I’m sorry, The Judges have spoken…

That was a starwars quote, the correct response would have been to quote something starwars back to me, I’ll need another response, this one doesn’t qualify.

I have in fact conferred with the judges and we have come to the agreement that you can not in fact use ONE WORD from a Star Wars “quote” and then call your answer a “quote” when the entire quote was not quoted correctly.

The correct quote would have been: “Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy looking nerf-herder!”

Anna - 1
Ben - 0

Still, while the judges convey heart-felt sympathy for your weak and utterly baseless claims of inappropriate Starwars quoting, they still find you in contempt of Starwars Lore. There can be no escape from this contempt.

As a duly designated representative of the new republic, I order you to cease any and all inappropriate Starwars quoting activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

Oh, and

Anna -1
Ben +1

I’ll have you know that as an official member of the followers of the Royal Court of Alderaan (as witnessed by all those who were privy to the aquiring and wearing by ME of the official robes and hair-do) you will surley suffer punishment for your blatant disrespect of the House of Organa.

I have oficially summoned the Princess herself to order a swift and not so comfortable punishment. Perhaps by encasing in carbonite until such a time that the Royal Family feels you are able to properly address those in positions above yours.

I have you now!

I started at the big S last year on July 12th. It hasn’t even been a year yet! Sheesh.

I started out doing plain old secretarial stuff. It sucked and I knew that I could do twice as well as the girls who were working above me. All of them were doing SO MANY EXTRA steps for evey task they had.

Now, less than a year later when my boss leaves town for a few days I’m in charge of 80% of the tasks he normally does (the tasks he does for OUR department, he has a few) and 100% of the ones that are mandatory, time sensative and important. Kinda feels good that I’ve been there less than a year and I see so many of my suggestions being used by everybody. And knowing that by speaking up I’ve seen new processes in place that are saving all of us LOADS of time.

I’m so totally not a slacker!

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
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I am an atheist. I’ve found for a long time that being a non-believer is about as bad as being a child killer. When you tell somebody that you don’t believe there is a higher being out there, you automatically become a bad person.

I believe in science. Prove it to me. Show me the proof that “it” exists. I want facts. Timelines based on carbon dating, actual written documents (not copies of copies of copies of some scrolls that nobody has every really seen), etc.

I was recently introduced to the Invisible Pink Unicorn by Marie. Marie rocks.

Taken directly from their site:

The “believers” famous sayings about faith in the invisible pink unicorn is that, like other religions, it is founded in science and faith. Science - that states that she must be invisible, since we cannot see her. Faith - because we know in our heart that the invisible pink unicorn exists.

I have emailed Ben’s dad and my dad and Cherie to find some good books to start learning more about Buddhism. It’s more a belief system than faith that an all mighty (and very vengeful) God is out there watching us somewhere.

I believe in karma. From Wikipedia

Buddhism teaches followers to perform good and wholesome actions, to avoid bad and harmful actions, and to purify and train the mind. The aim of these practices is to awaken the practitioner to the realization of true reality and the achievement of Nirvana.

Buddhist morality is underpinned by the principles of harmlessness and moderation. Mental training focuses on moral discipline (sila), meditative concentration (samadhi), and wisdom (prajñā).

Religious people don’t sin for fear of punishment from God. I do nice things because it’s nice to be nice. And there is no fear based motivation to do the “right thing”. So really, isn’t it more meaningful when I do something nice? Rather than the Christian that only does if for fear of going to Hell? (I’m am certainly not saying that ALL Christians do this.) And is it really okay to tell somebody after they’ve raped and killed a child, “Oh it’s okay, ask for forgiveness and live an eternal life of peace and happiness because you are forgiven!!”

I don’t know. Marie is an anthiest too. I really love Marie. It’s so good to be able to tell somebody that you don’t believe and not have them look like you aren’t worth associating with.

And she goes shopping with me!

It’s Friday the 13th. Every Friday the 13th since the one in June 1997 has been bad for me. On that one I found out Ada had cancer. There were THREE in 1998. On the first, I found out I was pregnant. On the second I had to put my 20 year old cat to sleep. On the third one I was convinced to get married.

Anyway, you get the general idea. Today I tried everything in my power to pretend the day did not exist. I even dated all my work documents 5/14/2005. It seems to have worked so far. But the day is not over…