Susan

http://community.webshots.com/user/svanco

The videos are crap but I'm in the process of trying to post them on youtube where they will hopefully be better quality (since they are really great quality on my computer, just crap on webshots).

Also, after seeing all the awesome photos I took, if anyone wants to hire a wedding photographer I am available ;)

Melissa Etheridge, June 28 in Albany. Jordan and I are going to go down and stay with my sister (who has an internship in Albany for the summer) and go see her in an awesome historical theater.
We got the fifth row back on the balcony. Pretty damn good seats.

It's so nice to be an adult and have a job and have that novel concept called "disposable income". Almost makes up for the "no summer vacation" thing.

Strange...

Also, the new raspberry 3 Musketeers are interesting but nowhere near as good as the mint kind.

I can't freaking wait until Indiana Jones comes out.
May 22!!!!!

Sophie has two valentines. She's scandalous. All the boy cats want her hot gray ass.

Sophie, who naturally keeps an eye on me as I clean her litter box, stared at it when I set it down. She sniffed it, and then continued to stare. Eventually I went upstairs to give her privacy, but she followed me and didn't use it. Maybe she just didn't have to go, but now I'm a little worried that she thinks it smells/looks/feels funny and she's not gonna use it. :-/

There is this one team, called Femme5, made up entirely of scantily-clad girls. They're pretty good dancers, sure, but you have to be to be on the show. They're not really much better than the dancers I saw at Julia's recitals. They're certainly not of the same caliber of the other dance crews on this show. Yet with their boring routine, overly sexual moves and skanky clothes, somehow twice now they've continued on to the next episode instead of far more talented crews. And it's not just me either, you can hear the audience's dismay every time they get through, you can definitely hear much louder cheering for the other teams than for this team.

What the fuck?

Thanks MTV for continuing to reinforce the universal truth that a good body and willingness to show it off always trumps actual skill.

After that excitement, I sat down and composed an email to a technician I've become friends with at work, telling him the truth about me and Jordan. Up to this point, no one at work knew I was gay. He's only one person, but he's the one I'm the closest to, so I'm really relieved to have done that. He was really understanding about it, and now I can't wait for us to spend some time with him and his wife and the other couple they always spend time with (I've been to their house and stuff by myself but it's not the same when you're sort of friends but still keeping secrets). Even after living here for a year and a half I don't feel like I've made any friends, so this is a huge deal to me and I can't wait to go out as a couple, with other couples, and feel normal again not like I am having to keep stuff from people.

After that, I went to sleep and when we got up we went out on a nice date, to Olive Garden (where I had seriously the best thing I've EVER had there- herb grilled salmon), and then to see the movie The Eye. I kind of thought I wouldn't like it that much, and I mostly went because I knew Jordan really wanted to see it, but I actually really enjoyed it. It wasn't just scary to be scary, it really had an excellent plot and a good ending. It is a remake, but I hadn't seen the original. Now we are just hanging out at home, I'm online (obviously) and he's playing tony hawk. Maybe we will go to wegmans in a bit.

eeeeewwwwww

How long does it take to get the results of the primaries? I want to know who wins... Not that new york is really in question

Ew ants on tv. I hate ants.

I guess I have nothing good to say I just wanted to update to get livejournal going again. Jordan, me, now Catherine-- yay for us.

I'm printing EVERYTHING. You can check-in on the Internet now, so I have our boarding passes. I have a printout of our whole itinerary, two copies of all our activity vouchers, and a full copy of all the rules and restrictions from our travel insurance (an excellent idea after the Pirate festival in Alex bay turned into a weekend in the hospital). But the boarding passes make it real. I don't know HOW we're going to sleep tonight.

We're taking Sophie up to Niagara Falls today, leaving her with Cleo and the kittens-- poor Sophie. But it's better than the alternative, to be boarded somewhere.

I hope that everything works out with the flights and all... I'm nervous that something will be late or a connection will be missed... etc. But we have the trip insurance so that helps.
I think for our next vacation I will pay more for a direct flight. If I can.

I got myself a set of pink luggage. :) I'm hoping it'll cut my chances of stuff getting lost, and make it easier to find when it comes around on the conveyor belt. Also, when you see pink luggage, you just kind of have to buy it, or else you may never see it again.

Anyway, I better get going. There's still things to do before we leave here. If you want a postcard, send me your address in a text message :) Other than that, we'll be in the sunny Land of the Mouse for the next week, so see you guys later! :-D

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THAT is sitting in front of our house right now :-D
Yep, I just went right out and did it. Traded in the damn sunfire (after talking about it for long enough) and I'm back in the land of the mustang

It's an '06 originally from Hawaii, where it was a rental car before getting shipped up here. It's in great shape and is totally loaded. So many cool features, I haven't even discovered them yet.

It's got a song already-- Saturday Night's All Right (for Fighting). It was playing as we walked into the dealership and I think it's an appropriately fun and tough song. Now it needs a name. I thought I'd stay with the pirate themes but I'm not sure of what I will pick for this one now that Anne Bonny and Mary Read are used up.

Anyway I just wanted to share that with you all :) hooray for mustangs :-D

But I decided I've had it with that stupid car breaking and being ugly. I have an appointment to test drive an 06 mustang tomorrow at six pm. I found it online and it's pretty much everything I want in a car, so we'll see how the appointment tomorrow goes... But I'd really love to trade in this blah sunfire for something so beautiful.

I actually just called the loan office and realized I owe a lot less than I thought I owed... a mere $1700. The car is totally worth more than that, so I can use part of it as a down payment.

Anyway I just wanted to update with that. I'll keep you guys posted with what happens :)

PS if anybody has had any good/bad experiences with Vision Ford in Greece, let me know! A pharmacist I know bought a car there a while back and he said it was all right, but if anybody has anything else to say I'd appreciate knowing.