Fantastic day. Pictures and all that jazz tomorrow. Right now I’m too depressed.

The TiVo let me down for the first time today. It’s set to record all “new” episodes of Big Brother 6 (shut up). For the first time in a month of recording three shows a week, for some reason this week it didn’t. It WAS on at a special time because it’s a double elimination week but OMG the drama that’s started happening the last two weeks and I MISSED THE DOUBLE ELIMINATION WEEK EVICTION.

It was Jennifer and I KNEW it would be Jennifer but I so wanted to see Janelle call her a bitch on the way out the door.

To continue my reality TV rant… Why in the hell would you take a popular show like The Amazing Race and screw the format all up? This year instead of teams of two they will have families of four with kids as young as 8, 9 and 12!! I don’t see how this could make for a better race and really don’t see why they had to go and screw up the best reality TV show out there.

*humph*

My little brother, (who is now several inches taller than me, thus making the ‘I’m gonna kick your ass’ threats kinda of pathetic on my part) is 17 today. Next Tuesday he’ll be a junior in high school. That’s the year that I told the principal of my private catholic school to shove his school in an orifice of his body I don’t think proper catholics usually discuss and walked out of his office never to return. Hopefully he has as much fun the next two years as I did.

One of the things I got him for his birthday is a bottle of “demi-permanent” BLACK hair dye. This present has two purposes. 1) Cause my mom undue stress and, 2) make Cameron the happiest 17 year old on Earth since my mom has always put her foot down when it comes to this. It’s gonna look awsome and there will be pictures.

We are spending most of the day at Great America so have a nice Saturday and I’ll catch ya later.

I’ve decided to take Kristen’s advise and see a counselor before going back to a psychologist again. I might need medicine again and I might not but I’d like to try the ‘not’ approach first.

The problem with this is that my HMO doesn’t cover “counseling”. So today I put my foot down and told the poor soul that happened to take the 5th call I’ve made in three days, “Look, you are either going to pay for me to see a counselor or in the next month you are going to have a very hefty bill from the psych ward at the hospital. Because I AM CRAZY. You can decide which you’d prefer to pay.”

They pre-authorized 10 visits. I know I’m not “crazy” but it’s amazing what depression can do to a person…

Anyway!! In other unrelated news: I finally got Cassidy’s PC set up in her room. Then Ben and I decided she needs a new case, a wireless PCI card, speakers, a chair, and I’m thinking a beanbag for when she want’s to watch movies on it. She and I are going to have a mommy/daughter geeky computer building day on Sunday.

We had a discussion today about how lucky she is to have her OWN computer in her bedroom at just under seven years old and how much responsibility comes along with it. And then I spent 2 hours researching parental control programs. Make it stop. Stop the growing of the child. For the sake of the crazy mom.

I finally got around to throwing up Cameron’s subdomain. I mainly did this so he can start showing off some artwork. By “throwing up” I mean I took a pre-made theme and made a nifty Marilyn Manson masthead for it then proceeded to butcher the code a bit to what I thought was better organization. I mean, who puts a search box at the TOP of a side bar?? Anyway…

http://www.aflux.net/paleo/ or click Cameron over there —>

So even though there are a few things I want to still work on, it’s live. I just couldn’t take the old extremely GAY LOOKING layout. It was fun. But it also gave me a headache.

Hope ya like it, there will be slight additions to content and some changing around of menu font’s and the such. I’ll let ya know as they happen.

Welcome to layout 17. May it have a longer, more wonderful, less nauseating life than the last.