So yesterday in History I notice I have the wrong edition of the spine book we are using (spine book the main book which the rest of the books in the class spider off from). So I figure maybe there weren’t many changes.

I head to the bookstore since I need to check on the Econ book because I really don’t want to spend 60$ on the computer program only when the whole package is only $100. Of course they don’t have the package, so no package for me it looks like I’ll have to spend that $60. I also check out the history book and learn that yes in the past 9 years it has been majorly updated and I do need to get the newer version.

So I pick up the book for $40. Which was not high on my list to spend, on the plus side the last edition of the book which I did buy was only $4.50 so I didn’t really lose money, I just spent money I didn’t want to.

So in otherwords I get to spend an extra $100 on books for my classes that wasn’t in my originial plan. Which sucks, but in the end since my Dad more or less pays for my books I can’t really complain too much.

On the plus side I am getting money back from refunds, though mail in refunds are a pain because you spend the money and then get back the refund 8 to 10 weeks later.

So Hubby works somewhere where he gets a lot of interesting e-mail especially about ways to stop natural disaster type things. Anyways today he got the following two e-mails:

Would it be possible to drop a bomb, especially a thermal bomb, in the eye of the storm, thus disrupting the flow pattern and destroying the hurricane? I was wondering if such an idea has ever been analyzed or tried before. Could this therory be also used on tornatos, or, are they sustained differently.

He gets the e-mail about bombing hurricanes everytime one hits the US. It is rather amusing how many people come up with this idea.

my idea is to create a machine that can slow down the hurricaine. this machine is like a fan, maybe we could disassemble a helicopter, or a few, and i guess flip the propellor over so instead of lifting the helicoptor, it would be pushing air away. now what if we were to channel that air into a finer stream…and punch several holes into the clouds that make the hurricaine. would this slow the hurricaine down?

As my hubby said, Why didn’t we thinkg of this before? We can stop hurricanes and typhoons with a GIANT FAN!!!!

Okay so I am a member of a messageboard for various games I like. On one of these boards there are a ton of teenagers. There are some older people in their twenties etc. The majority is probably in the 15 to 20 range.

Anyways with teenagers you tend to get a higher concentration of idiots. Unfortunately it seems a sterotype, but I have noticed it to be true. Anyways there is a girl in the community and we’ll call her Purple Duck (names changed to protect the idiots). Anyways most people in the community think she is a twit, she has done numerous twitish things.

So Purple Duck decides she doesn’t like her reputation and creates a new allias which we’ll call InluvwGerard. Now InluvwGerard fairly quickly makes it obvious that she is Purple Duck. Let’s be honest it is really hard to mask yourself and pretend to be someone else. Normally you are found out.

And she isn’t very good at. So in AIM Chat we unmask her and point out that Purple Duck and InluvwGerard are using the same IP at the same time. Since she isn’t very smart, and they claim not to know each other she can’t even claim they are in the same house and sisters. So we tell her we know who she is. She gets affronted and attempts to claim otherwise, those of us that have at least a basic bit of intellegence laugh at her (I’m mean so shoot me).

Anyways I mention a number of new names she can come back as when she creates a new persona for her multiple personalities the next day. Fast forward to this morning. First InluvwGerard has posted she is leaving the community last night. This morning there is a new post from a new person we’ll call Hillary. Hillary posts and I feel the need to check between her and InluvwGerard off her first three posts. And shock they have the same IP.

Hillary also comes into the chat room, where me and another person who we’ll call hanger are. She attempts to be a new person. Both of us knowing better, play with her for awhile. So I am now the grandmother of hanger. It is nice to have a granddaughter before I’ve had any spawns.

I don’t know who she is trying to fool, but it obviously isn’t working. I still find it amusing though and I am having fun making fun of her multiple personality problem (yes I have fun making fun of 15 year old girls, we all have our vices).

Went to the other bookstore today and they are out of the Micro Economics Packages to, so looks like I may have to bite the bullet and spend the extra 60$ blegh.

Went to the applestore as well and got my nifty keyboard cover thing for the laptop. Had lunch at the Jungle Cafe thing which was nice and got a sparkly glass. Also went to William and Sonoma, they had a sale on the stand mixers. So we got this one:

It was over 30% off so we got a really nice deal on it. Dan has been wanted one for a couple of years, so I’m glad we finally got him one.

Not much else going on it is a quiet holiday weekend. We watched the end of season 2 of Law and Order last night from NetFlicks and will start on season 3 this week. I have a bit of reading to do for homework but nothing major for any of my classes yet.

Oh I still don’t have my glasses fixed hopefully I will by Tuesday, since the sunglasses look just isn’t me.

Have a good day all I think I am off to play some Sims2.

Well I’ve made it through my first three days of classes go me. So far my classes all seem fairly interesting. My Math class’ professor is a bit odd, but what can you expect from a math professor.

Both my Micro and Macro Econ teachers appear to be interesting enough. Of course the fact those classes have over 400 people in them does not help at all. They are both in the same lecture hall and the discussion class is held in the same hall and not broken into smaller groups. I’m not really sure why they call it a discussion when there are over 400 people there, since 400 people do not discuss anything all together.

Ancient History looks interesting. I like the professor he seems like a nice guy. He spent the first class showing us the difference between his dog princess and humans. Well 5 minutes of the class but it was still entertaining. That class has 140ish in it but at least those discussion sections are broken down into groups of 20 which can actually hold discussions on things.

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Well I got my new laptop for school today, yay! It is really pretty, it is a powerbook 15 inch. I got 1 gig of Ram in it. It is really pretty and I’m thinking of naming it Dante.

I have installed a couple of programs on it and it is really easy to use which is nice. Everything installed easily and it was a painless process to get it to work. Overall it is a great machine and I’m enjoying playing with it a lot. It should be really useful for school.

I also got 2 of my last 3 books for school today. So only one left to go yay!

Now I’m getting ready for school tomorrow. laundry is done, bags are packed and I just need to make lunch. Hopefully tomorrow will go well and my classes will be interesting.

Anyone interested in donating money to help out those who were in Katrina’s path can donate to the Red Cross. Remember your donation is tax deductable and can help out a lot of people who no longer have homes thanks to the huricane.

And yes we’ve already donated.

Erin Elizabeth (Ellie) Mee was born August 27th at 1 am, she weighs 7 pounds 1 ounce. Ellie is the first great-grandchild for my grandmother. And the first grandchild for my Mom’s older sister. My mom is one of 8 and she is second oldest.

Ellie was born to Emily and Daniel Mee. Daniel is my cousin he is the younger of the two kids in his family, Ellie was named after his older sister and my cousin Erin. Daniel is only 9 months older then me, in fact he is 9 days (I believe) younger then Dan (hubby).

So congratulations on being born Erin Elizabeth Mee I hope you have had a good first 36 hours.

On other family news my Uncle Tim and Aunt Jenna are pregnant with their first child. The baby is due in March, which is a great month to be born if I do say so myself (okay so it is my birth month). Hopefully Jenna will have an easy pregnancy and delivery and I will in a few months get to meet a new cousin.

All these births and expected births kind of make me hope to one day have one of my own. However, I am waiting till I finish getting my bachlors degree. So I guess it will be another 2 and a half to 3 years for me.

Thursday we went to Borders. Dan needed to pick up the next two books in a series he was reading and I’m always up for the bookstore. While we were there I picked up a book with Sudoku puzzles in it. If you don’t know what Sudoku is just click on the word and it will link to an explanation. A basic explanation is it is a number puzzle.

Now it may come as a surprise to some of you, (not sure who, but I am sure it will come as a surprise to someone) I like numbers and math and logic. So a number puzzle is right up my alley. I don’t like crosswords, just random info to throw in here. I do like logic puzzles and the such and Sudoku is sort of a catagory all its own. I am finding getting the numbers to work in the puzzle is a lot of fun. I need to work on it some so I can go faster on them but it is definately a nice way to spend some time and enrich my mind.

On another note. Two more of my books from Amazon Marketplace have arrive. The best part of this is that the two books include the first book I will need for my history course this semester so I am really glad they have arrived. I am still waiting on three books. One of them I have gotten an e-mail about it shipping, but they shipped media mail, which I’m not a great proponent of because it can take awhile for it to get through. The other two I have not recieved info about shipping, but I am hopefully they will show up soon. One of the ones I am waiting for is my logic book for math and I would like for it to arrive so I have some time to read through and review it. The other two are history books, one of them being a book that sells new for $40 give or take, which I was able to purchase for $4.50. So great savings just need it to arrive now.

Friday we headed back to Borders because we had a coupon for 25% off and I wanted to buy Milton’s Paradise Lost. I found a nice copy of it, well two nice copies, but the Penguin Edition was a bit beat up and the hardback edition by some other publisher wasn’t. Unfortunately I didn’t pick it up because the coupon was for 25% off a cd or dvd. Oops, need to remember to read the fine print next time.

Otherwise, I am still working my way through Dante, I hope to finish The Inferno soon and start on the next book and I should finish all three books by the end of the month. I’ll probably start Don Quixote or The Count of Monte Cristo next, but I may just pick up Milton and do him next instead or maybe Chaucer I’ll just have to wait and see what I’m in the mood for.

So we are painting the kitchen this weekend so that at least the base color is down when they finish up the construction in there. We had to decide on a color for the kitchen. The living room is a color called Soft Wine.

I really like the color. We needed to find something that would contrast it but not be jarring. We finally decided to go with a green color and chose Sea Scent.

We also chose a color called Carolina Strand.

We decided to use the Soft Wine and Carolina Strand colors as an accent. We are going to paint the kitchen Sea Scent and then around the top of the kitchen above the cabnets stamp butterflies in both Carolina Strand and Soft Wine. We figure that should help pull the color of the living and dining room through the kitchen.

We thought about using stencils but they are a pain to use and don’t look quite right so we found a cute butterfly stamp that was put out by Disney and are going to be using that. I think it should look really cute.

Dan did the first layer of paint this afternoon/evening and it looks really good. There are some spots and it definately needs a second layer of paint, but overall it is a very nice color for the kitchen and should keep it looking open and light.