For Meghan, on her 35th Birthday.

Today, Meg turned 35. When I woke up this morning, well after her I’m sure, she was sitting in front of the TV, in her chair, playing Skyrim on Xbox, with her headphones on, so she wouldnt wake me up. I woke up eventually, and picked on her a little. My usual attempt to get her to squeal, giggle, and smile. Of course, I succeeded. I have that talent. After some morning fumbling, we rolled out of the house and headed to Lowe’s. 2 years ago, when we were house hunting, we were also developing an obsession with home improvement stores. Home Depot, Lowes, Harbor Freight…If they sold tools, fixtures, etc, we were there. Anyway, Lowe’s had this art deco stained glass pendant chandelier that Meg loved. For $200. Not cheap, but gorgeous. It was on our list of “when we have the money” items. Well, that was a while back. Almost 18 months ago. And truth be told, we both hated the chandelier in the dining room. It was an afterthought, cheap, and hung poorly. With the rest of the house coming along nicely, and becoming more and more art deco, it was the clear choice. So, today, I got Meg into the car, and we went to Lowe’s. We found the chandelier, just as expected, for the price we’d expected. After putting it in our cart, we wandered Lowe’s in order to check for anything else we needed. Satisfied that it was all we’d come for, we paid and took it home.

As soon as lunch was complete, we promptly pulled the dining room table out of the way. It took almost no time to pull down the old fixture. To my surprise, the old one was wired correctly. This is a rarity in this house, as almost every electrical project so far has been a nightmare, since whoever did the previous electrical work was apparently a moron. Regardless, I pulled down the old fixture, sized up the new one, hung it, ran the electrical, switched on the breaker, and done. The dining room chandelier now looks much better. It fits the house, fits our taste for this house, and is much more pleasing as a focal point to the dining room.

Now, this whole lighting fixture business is very much not the end. Also for Meg’s birthday, there was even more lighting. For those of you who dont know, I’ve always installed cabin lighting in my car. Typically red neon in the foot wells. Well, I upgraded my red neon to red LED tubes, and added custom rocker switches. As one does. Much brighter, much better. Meg of course loved this. So a trip to Radio Shack, and a trip to Fry’s later, I had all the components. I wired custom lit switches into her center console. I then ran blue LED tubes to each of her foot wells. I connected them to the power source for her new stereo (the one from my car) and hooked it all up. Her car now has a super awesome custom blue glow, with toggle switches. It doesnt get much more awesome than that.

But the awesome doesnt end there. Tonight, we met up with Sooz, Chris, Jim, April, Katie, Aaron, Anita, LeAnne, Mick, Jane, John, Rachel, and Batman™ at Mellow Mushroom Pizza for dinner. Awesome foods were had all around. We then segueway’d to Thatch Tiki Bar to see our favourite Mixology Girl Heather for drinks. This of course, was a good time, and we shut the place down. We took Sooz home with foods for her Tom, and rolled home.

Now, Chris is downstairs asleep. I’m in my office typing, and Meg is in bed asleep. I hope she’s had a good day. I very much tried to knock it out of the park. I got her the chandelier she’s been wanting. I hooked up her car with custom lighting and stereo. There was dinner and drinks. I even went so far as to print out tons of “Happy Birthday Meg!” stickers, that I stuck to stuff all over the house. I hope her birthday was awesome. My girl is awesome, and she deserves a super good birthday. I think she got that. And now, I’ll netflix while I process my alcohol. Lots of water, then bed for me too. All in all, a good day. Nooch.

Birthdays

Meg’s birthday is today. So I decided she needed a good present. We went to lowes and got the chandelier she’s wanted in the dining room for almost 2 years. It’s now wired and hung. And as one would expect, she loves it.

Tron?

Today, I procured two blue LED tubes for Megs car, as well as wire and rocker switches. 90 minutes of work later, I had everything soldered and installed in her car. The cabin footwells now glow blue to match her stereo.

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test of the wordpress crosspost system. Hiya!

Oh yeah, I have a website…

I’m reminded of a conversation with David a while back, where he was giving me grief for all the times I’ve mentioned how I need to write more. In thinking about that, I’ve seriously begun to ponder it. I’ve been more and more of the mind that perhaps it wasnt a matter of losing my written voice, or being to busy, etc. Maybe more than anything, my problem wasnt a problem at all. Maybe I’d said what I came to say. Maybe I’d done what I set out to do. I cant necessarily say that I feel the need to write epic monologues about my life at this point, as I once did. At the same time, I feel the need to write things down once in a while. However, I’d rather not feel that FaceBook is the place for this. Just as LiveJournal wasnt, Myspace isnt, and Google+ wont be, so to should FaceBook not be.

I’m making an effort to get the LJ crosspost plugin working again. I’m also making an effort to try and crosspost to FaceBook. Google+ can go and feel dumb in the corner. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be able to leave FaceBook behind, as well as all the other social networking sites I wish to unplug from. Because honestly, I really dont care what all of you do with your spare time. I have no interest in the funny pictures you post. I’d rather post here, and have it show up there, should you have an interest in me. We’ll see how this all works out.

I’m just sayin…

Its 2:22 in the morning. I cant stop coughing due to some kind of lung thing I’ve caught at work. Or possibly from Chris. I’m not sure. I made baked Spaghetti for dinner, hung out with Jim, played some Forza, and am about to go to bed. I’m supposed to go to Ikea with Katie and Meg tomorrow, but I’ve no idea how I’ll feel in the morning. Judgement call upon wakeup I guess. While I’m typing this, I just heard meg cough as well. We all may well have the plague.

Okay, off to bed. I feel like shit.

For the love of cat.

Three thousand miles away, this kitty still loves me.