Spent another nice quiet evening at home. I've been watching a lot of the Hallmark Channel on tv. Last week, there was a different Mystery Woman movie on each night. It stars Kellie Martin as the owner of a mystery book shop, who helps the police solve, what else...mysteries! This week the channel is showing Jane Doe movies, starring Lea Thompson as a secret government agent by day, wife and mother by night. It's part of the August Files, mystery movies and shows all month. Last Saturday I taped a movie with Valerie Bertinelli in it, called Claire. She's a psychic who helps the police catch a murderer. And tomorrow I believe I won't have the Hallmark Channel anymore, as it's being moved to a higher cable tier, and I'll have to pay more to get it. Waaaaaaaaaa!

The nice thing about watching these movies, is that I can sit here in front of the computer, and while I'm watching the movie, I can work on my music. I'm still trying to get all my files "converted." Meaning, I am taking all my files that are at 128 kbps or larger, and what Musicmatch calls converting is actually shrinking the file size (compressing?) to a smaller kbps. It makes the files smaller, so they don't take up so much room on my hard drive, and I will have more room for my music! I'm all the way up to Barbara Mandrell. But as I come across a song that is from a cd with various artists, I just do all the songs from that cd at the same time. So by me saying I'm only at Barbara Mandrell, doesn't mean much, because there are a LOT of songs in other letters that are already done.

Tonight I stopped at Target on my way home (oh that's ANOTHER story) and bought a couple new country cds. Luke Bryan and Halfway To Hazard. I've never heard of Luke Bryan, but he's listed on the CMT website, so they must have played his video at least once, lol. Halfway To Hazard is another new group I just heard about Sunday. I was driving home from my aunt's house, listening to the country music station in the car, and there was a promo for one day this week when the afternoon dj was going to be someplace, can't remember where, and she was going to be talking to Halfway To Hazard. Well, when I saw that their cd was out this week and on sale at Target, I figured why not buy it! Maybe tomorrow I'll get them ripped so they can be added to the stack to send to Kerry. Oh damn! Forgot to send her another cd tonight! Oh well.

While at Target, I also bought a new phone. The battery in my current phone, although rechargeable, finally is about charged out. It happens. In the past, when I tried to replace a rechargeable battery in a different phone, it never worked right after. The buttons didn't want to work, and I eventually had to just toss the phone and buy a new one. So I figured I'd save myself the hassle and just buy a new phone. It's the same brand as what I have now, Uniden, and when I compared the battery in the new one to the battery in the old one, they are identical. So what I might do is insert the new battery in the old phone, see how it works, and if I have any problems, I have the new phone that I can always hook up instead, and switch the battery over to that one. Haven't decided, and I got distracted watching the movie and reading blogs, and working on my music, and and and...

I also have a story to tell to AK. If you don't want to read about a spider, stop reading now and go to another page. This morning my alarm goes off, I get up, go into the bathroom to start getting ready to take my shower. I'm naked as the day I was born, going potty, after I'm done I stand up and turn around to put the lid down to set my towel on the lid, and there, on the lid, right where my back had been was a black spider! I barely held back a scream, I jumped and wiggled and got all jittery, went quickly into the kitchen (still naked mind you), grabbed the flyswatter cause there's NO WAY I'm killing a spider that big with anything else, go back into the bathroom and swat the spider dead right into the garbage, lol. I don't know where it came from, and I don't care, I just didn't like seeing it right by where I had been sitting, where it could have crawled on me. Ewwwwwwww.

Tomorrow I'll tell everyone about my exciting trip home from work tonight, lol.