It's Friday night, and I have a long weekend ahead of me. I took Monday off as a personal day. It would have been the 38th birthday of a dear friend of mine, and I miss her dearly.

Today at work I spent most of the day filing. That's a good thing, because there's so much filing to be done. But it made the day go by slower than I would have liked. Things have quieted down quite a bit at work, not only am I free to do filing now, but two other people in my department (well three, but the third doesn't pitch in) also are helping with this filing. Between the three of us, it should get done pretty quickly.

Tonight, despite the extreme tiredness of Kerry (hey, that could be a story!) we got two cd's transferred. It was more like three, because one cd had 18 songs on it. And msn wasn't cooperating, the file transfers were going very slowly, about 7-10 minutes per song.

Tomorrow I have errands to run. I'm going to Target to buy two copies of Narnia (to give as a birthday present and a Christmas present) later this year, going to Big Lots because I am told they are currently carrying the laundry detergent I use, and it's getting harder to find so I buy it when I find it. I will also probably stop at Best Buy to pick up some blank cd's, since I only have one left. It's time for a haircut too; my bangs are long enough to be in my line of sight. Hopefully, after all that, Kerry and I will have time to transfer some more cd's. I still have to convert all the songs she's sent me the last few days, and move them to their respective artist folders. Plus I might go in to c2c tomorrow night to defend my title at NTT, lol.

I'm trying to type this during commercials for Nashville Star. All I can say so far is, Chris Young is awesome! I started out liking Matt Mason, but my allegiance is moving steadily more and more to the side of Chris Young every week. Two performers done on Nashville Star and I think there must have been some communication between Nashville and Hollywood this past week. The first two performers on Nashville Star sang the same songs as were sung on American Idol this week. Of all the country songs out there, what are the odds? I'm wondering if any more will be duplicated, lol. ( I bet Kerry liked Kristen's song)

OH yeah, and I just HAVE to comment on Naomi Judd being a guest judge on tonight's show! I just love the banter between mother and daughter! It's nice that the two of them have a better relationship now than they used to have, so people can see them together like this. It's really making the show enjoyable this week. Keeping having judges like this, instead of John Cena from last week, or Larry the Cable Guy from the previous week. I didn't care to listen to either one of them, I don't value their opinion, and if they're there for entertainment, don't make them a judge, just have them be a guest host or something.

Speaking of country...I picked up Rascal Flatts' new cd today, it's called Me and My Gang. If the first release off it is any indication, the cd should be just as good as their previous three. ( I also got a Jack Johnson cd and a David Gilmour cd, but they aren't country, so I won't mention them.)

Things might be slowing down just a tad at work, which is good, cause I have enough other things to do besides my regular stuff. And end of month is over with, so that makes things easier. It'll still be only in the 50's tomorrow, but the office is so warm, I'll probably wear short sleeves just so I don't break out in a sweat if I get the opportunity to do some filing tomorrow.

Ok, going back to the show. Hope everyone watching it is enjoying it as much as I am!

Happy Daylight Saving Time!

Is everyone appropriately messed up on what time they should go to bed? LOL It's almost 11pm CDT, and I'm just now starting to get tired, which is good. Now if I can just fall asleep when I crawl into bed.

Since Kerry was going to her orientation for school tonight, I thought I'd take the time to not only watch DooL, but to watch a show from Friday night that I hadn't watched yet. By the time that was done, and I got online, I didn't see Kerry anywhere. She was either in bed, or just not online and didn't see me, lol. So I went into AD since BillCal was streaming, and I usually like his streams. WildAngel was in there, and I remember Deb commenting to me that she thought WildAngel and Wendy were the same person. Turns out they aren't the same person, they are SISTERS! And Ticat was their brother, Mustang is their brother, and Foxybabe is their sister! Chatting...the new family affair, lmao.

Was another busy day at work today. I keep waiting for it to slow down again so I can get more filing done, cause it's still just piling up, lol. I got most of the file drawers straight so I have room to actually DO the filing, but now I don't have the TIME to do the filing! Argh!

I discovered something this weekend that I knew Kerry would want to know about. On Tuesday nights, we both watch The Amazing Race, and Nashville Star. The problem is they are both on at 10pm EDT. Not anymore! TAR has now moved to Wednesday nights at 8pm EDT, which puts it opposite Bones, which I watch before the Idol results show. So now I don't have to tape TAR while I watch Nashville Star, but I have to either tape TAR or Bones on Wednesdays. I can't seem to win, there's either nothing on to watch, or I have multiple shows all on the same night.

Here's hoping I can fall asleep! Nighty night!

I just finished converting all the songs Kerry sent me tonight. We got 6 more cd's transferred! Most of the music Kerry still has on her computer is at 160 kbps, and I prefer my songs to be 128 kbps, because the file size is smaller, so it takes up less room on my hard drive. MM has a nice little function called "convert files", which I use after receiving music from Kerry or downloading files that are larger than 128 kbps. Yes, I'm anal, lol.

I listened to about 20 minutes or so of Alice's stream tonight, but then had to help Kerry get the country station back on her RP that she likes to listen to. And well, once I did that, I was listening to country music and never went back to Alice's stream. Sorry about that Alice. What I heard was awesome! I'm still listening to it, after converting and organizing all the music Kerry sent me. She went to bed about an hour or so ago. Now I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do. I have, I think, two days of DooL to watch, plus three hours of shows I taped tonight, but I'm not really in the mood to watch tv. Maybe I'll go read, something I didn't do last week when I said I was going to.

Trying to post this at the commercials during ER

What a beautiful day today! It almost reached 70F! Too bad I was cooped up inside all day. I did take some time to walk at lunch today, for about 15 minutes. When it's warmer, I'm going to try to spend more of my lunch time walking.

Work wasn't so busy today, which is good. It's almost end of month, and it's aggravating if it gets busy right when we need to make sure everything's done for end of month. So I'm trying to keep caught up on everything, so Monday and Tuesday won't be so stressed.

Another commercial, so I can continue, lol. So besides Friday being the last day of the month, yesterday we got four new fax machines in the office. One that sits behind me, one for A/R, one for the International Dept., and one for a general fax that's sort of used by various departments. With the arrival of the new fax machines, all the preprogrammed numbers need to be programmed again. As with all fax machines, they are slightly different, so there is a learning curve. Add to the fact that half the office, including IT and HR, are Japanese. Can you see where I'm heading? I have taken it upon myself to learn how to program the fax machine that sits behind me, doing a few numbers each day. There are 16 fast dial buttons on the top, but we can also have an additional hundred or more numbers programmed. We just need to figure out how to use them once they're programmed, lol.

ER sure seems to go faster when I keep busy during the commercials, lol. I got almost caught up on shows I taped this week. I have one episode of Days to watch, well...two after tomorrow. I finally saw The Amazing Race from Tuesday, I saw three days worth of Days, too. Other than that, I only have last weekend's Nascar race to watch. I'm planning on trying to get that done on Saturday. Will go quickly, since I can fast-forward through commercials.

Well, now that I've said a lot about nothing, time to finish ER and go to bed (hopefully).

I wasn't sure what I was going to talk about tonight...

but then the phone rang about 5 minutes ago. Keep in mind, the time was 8:58 PM. No one calls me that late unless it's an emergency! Fortunately, I had the receiver sitting behind me, so I picked it up. On the other end was a man's voice.

But not just ANY man's voice. It was a voice from about a month ago, when I received my first match from The Right One. You remember the one, he didn't want to meet me, and wouldn't tell me why. Yes, that one! He called to apologize, said he should never have treated me that way, that I didn't deserve it. Part of the conversation was difficult to hear because he has a cell phone, but his excuse was that he had some stuff going on (?) and wasn't thinking clearly...or something like that.

I accepted his apology; I'm not THAT mean. He then asked if I had received any other matches since then. I told him yes, I'd received a couple, but I didn't volunteer any additional information and he didn't ask further. His next question? Was I still interested in meeting him. I could have said yes. After all, we were matched up because we have similar interests. But I just don't think I could get past how he treated me on the phone those weeks ago. Yes, he apologized, and I'm not angry at him anymore. But I don't think I could get that conversation out of my head if I were to meet him. I would work really hard at keeping part of me closed from him, to protect myself from him, in case he pulls something like that again. And that's not how I want to approach potential relationships.

My answer to him was, no I don't think so. He said ok, and we disconnected. I'm wondering if my comments on the Feedback Survey prompted someone to call him. I don't want to use the phrase "chew him out" but I'm unable to formulate the proper words, lol. Maybe they suggested he call and apologize, since the way he treated me looked badly on them.

Meanwhile, the new match, Jeff, hasn't called. I'll give him until Friday evening. I'm tempted to play 20 questions with him. 1. Are you serious about finding a match with this service? 2. Do you believe in love at first sight? That's just for starters. I'll have to keep thinking of more questions to ask him. Suggestions welcome!

What to post, what to post

Had a nice conversation with AliceKay tonight. Been awhile since we talked like that. Too bad I couldn't send the fainting goats video to Kerry.

Got more music from Kerry tonight, she sent me 3 cd's, plus one song off a cd from yesterday that somehow got missed. We are making progress, slowly but surely!

I also was able to get through some of the stuff I taped that I didn't get watched over the weekend. Got two days of DooL watched, boring boring boring, plus the premiere of the new reality show called Unanimous. It was very weird! Then I watched InJustice taped on Friday night. I thought I taped Conviction Friday night too, but basketball was on, and I missed the re-airing of it on Saturday night. Oh well. Now I only have today's DooL and the race from Sunday to watch. By tomorrow night, I'll have tomorrow's DooL to watch, then Idol is on for probably an hour, TAR is on at 9, so a busy night tomorrow night. Don't know if I'll get caught up on anything or fall further behind. Probably the latter.

Oh, and by the way, I received another match in the mail on Saturday. His name is Jeff, he's 34, 5'11", brown hair, blue eyes, never married, likes relaxing at home and collecting comic books. What do you think?? (I haven't heard from him yet)

I really do enjoy reading comments left on my blog

I know my post last night was done when I wasn't in the best of moods, but maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it helps to know that other people aren't always in a good mood. Kerry, I'm sorry I didn't say anything to you about how I was feeling. It came upon me kind of quickly, and I wasn't sure how long it would last. The last thing I wanted to do was spend a bunch of time talking about it. Working through it seemed the best thing to do at the time. Alice, I do enjoy your games of NTT. And you should put some harder tunes in the list, to make it challenging. It was me last night, not you or your music. When I get like that, the best thing to do is to leave, which I did. Please say hi to Terri for me!

I saw V for Vendetta today. Very strange movie. I wasn't really sure what it was about, the previews didn't tell me much. Apparently, it takes place in the future, in Britain, after the U.S. has fallen into chaos and civil war. One man has taken over in Britain, become the High Chancellor, and has made absolute law the rule. There were so many things you couldn't do or say, restricted curfews, detention camps, etc. Natalie Portman is in the movie, she was also in the Star Wars movies, Episodes I, II & III. Apparently, the movie is based on comic books? It was ok, not great, kind of bloody, but not terribly so. The movie ends with the Parliament building being blown up, and pretty much everyone in London rebelling. The High Chancellor is killed, along with several other members of his corrupt ruling government. And the person that instigates all this, is a man in a Guy Fawkes mask, who calls himself V. Very strange movie. If anyone is interested in seeing it, I would recommend renting it.

Thanks for all the music you sent me this weekend Kerry. Have to check on some tracks that are missing, though. She sent me 4 cd's of The Beatles, one of the Backstreet Boys, one of Outlaws of Country, an Aerosmith cd, and a 2 cd set of CCR's greatest hits. I have almost 10,000 songs now!

Ok, spent too much time on the computer, time for bed! Nighty night!

Another Saturday Night And I Ain’t Got Nobody

Sitting here at the computer drinking wine, trading music with Kerry, and of course the wine is making me mellow. I was listening to LadyStyx's stream earlier, was enjoying it. Then I switched over to AliceKay's at 9 EST for NTT, and by 10:30, I knew I was down by at least 8 pts, so no reason to keep playing. Wasn't having fun anyway. It wasn't the music, Alice, it was me. Sometimes it just gets hard to be in chat with everyone in there talking about spouses or kids and I have none of that. And the wine doesn't help. I just wasn't in the mood to stay there and not have the answer to the songs, seeing everyone else name them.

Tomorrow I'm going to my adoptive aunt's house (ant/darlene), we're then going to her sister's house for a birthday celebration. Ribs and presents, then out to see V for Vendetta. For some reason everyone thought I wanted to see it, but I'm the only one who doesn't want to see it, so I'll go since I'm the only one who doesn't want to see it.

As soon as Kerry is done with what she's doing in MM, I think I might go read or do something on my own. Completely got out of the mood to talk to anyone.

Listening to the end of Alice's stream, lyrics stick with me...Save me from the nothing I've become.

Tomorrow is Friday!

Happy happy, joy joy! This week feels like it really dragged. Oh well, at least it's almost over.

Today started out kind of boring. At work, I experienced the same problem as yesterday regarding the magically changing coil numbers. The IT guy never told me if he fixed it, guess I'll have to ask him tomorrow. I noticed it happened with the same order as yesterday too, so there is something weird going on just with this one order. Fortunately, we have maybe one more coil to ship against this order, so it's about done.

This afternoon I got really busy, 33 orders were plopped on my desk about 11am. Well, there were more than 33, but some were duplicated, so I was able to combine them and narrow it down to 33. By the time I got a couple questions answered by my outside salesman, it was about 3pm, so I worked like mad that last hour to get them all done so I could give them to the coordinator who double checks them before I send them to the mill. They should be waiting for me on my desk when I get in tomorrow morning.

Tonight Kerry got only one cd sent to me. MSN was acting slow again, which means it takes longer to transfer songs. Plus I didn't get online until after 7:30 her time, then I had to read emails, I d/l some Idol songs (omg they did so good this week), and finally transferred some songs from Kerry. At least it's one less on our list!

I watched Tuesday's episode of Days of our Lives tonight, and Nashville Star from Tuesday, I still have Wednesday's DooL, Bones, the premiere of Unanimous, and Thursday's DooL to watch. By tomorrow night, I'll have added Friday's DooL to the list, lol. For now, I'm going back to get myself all ready for ER at 9 (10 est).

Crossing my fingers that this works.

I tried posting a comment to Kerry's blog a minute ago, and it wouldn't let me. I think there's a problem with the word verification. All four attempts gave me the same word verification to type, and all four times blogger told me what I typed was wrong.

Short post tonight. I just got home from my friend Wendy's house. She invited me over for dinner tonight, because her husband is out of town for his new job. We watched the Idol results show, woooooooooo hooooooooooooo Kevin "Chicken Little" Covais is GONE!!!!!!!!!!

I know there was something else I was going to mention here, but now I can't remember what it was, so oh well! It's almost Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March Madness has lived up to it's name

Boy does it make you mad when your favorite team is eliminated in the first round. Then, a couple lower seeded teams beat better ones, and you never expect it. So far in this online game, I'm at about 60% accuracy. Basically that puts me way down towards the bottom, but it's been interesting. Better than trying to make all my picks for the entire tourney. If you miss one in the first round, it screws you for every round after that.

Kerry and I didn't get very much accomplished tonight, lol. I sent her the last cd I had for her, Bon Jovi's Have A Nice Day. But then I was showing her something in Musicmatch, and it brought in a bunch more songs into her MM, including all her Christmas songs she never deleted in December/January. That wasted about 30 minutes, lol. But she did get the one Rush song I like sent to me, and she sent me the songs I needed off a 4 disc set of Led Zeppelin. She actually only has 3 of the 4 discs, and they're Mike's not Kerry's, lol. And because I already have I, II, III, Physical Graffiti, and Houses of the Holy, I had at least half the songs on the discs. It's a good start to the 56 cd's!

Nothing new to mention regarding my lack of love life. Tomorrow I need to send the feedback form advising them that I am available for another match. I tried to call Deb tonight since she never called me on Saturday, but no answer. Maybe she was out celebrating the arrival of spring, lol.

March Madness

I won't bore you with all the details, cause I know no one reading this is as "into" the games and the NCAA Tournament as I am. I will say that I am participating in an online game, each matchup you get right gets you points, your score is compared to everyone else playing, there's a tiebreaker score for each round, and at the end, whoever has the most points wins something, not sure what. I'm not concerned about it, because my chances of winning are like a couple thousand to one? LOL Anyway, I've been keeping up with the games so far today, watched a little bit on tv before coming online tonight, just to see who's winning which games. It's something else for me to do, other than the Nascar stuff. Did I mention that in addition to the fantasy league I participate in, I'm also in two other online games too? LOL That's how I found out about the basketball one.

Other than basketball, and work, my life is pretty boring right now. I still haven't heard back from Brian, I REALLY doubt I will now. I'm half tempted to call him up and call him a hypocrite, but that could start a conversation that won't be productive for either of us. So probably on Monday, I'll fax my sheet back to the service and tell them it didn't work out. At this point, I'm pretty disappointed, but I don't know what I could change to get better prospects. It's not necessarily that I'm being matched with men that I have nothing in common with. They're just not being upfront about their expectations or their committment to the process. I'm almost tempted to not answer the phone, for fear of what will happen when (and if) the next guy calls.

Speaking of the phone...here in Illinois we're having a primary election next Tuesday. So for the last week or so, I have been getting several phone calls every day (that I know of) from candidates, or people stumping (supporting) a candidate. They leave recorded messages on my answering machine, or they call me during the evening when I'm trying to watch Idol. It's gotten so I won't answer my phone until after the 21st.

Anyway, ER is about to start, so I have to post this and get in to turn the tv on. Happy Friday, and Happy St. Patrick's Day! Wear green, even if you're not Irish!

Note on Friday morning...I tried several times to post this last night, but I kept getting an error message. I never lost the post, luckily.

Monday night and no phone call

After meeting this guy Brian for an hour Saturday night, we spoke last night for a few minutes. He was trying to decide what to eat for dinner, but he said he'd call me back. A little while later, he did, only to ask me a question. The question was, "What do you think of my looks?"

Now, so everyone understands the importance of this question, when he and I first talked on the phone Saturday evening, before meeting, he asked me if looks are important. I told him, very honestly, that I'm more interested in personality than looks. He agreed and said he felt the same way.

So back to Sunday night's question, which threw me for a loop. Here's a guy who tells me looks aren't important to him, and knows I told him looks aren't important to me, asking me what I thought of his looks. I didn't know how to answer him. I felt like a guy being asked by his girlfriend, "Does this dress make me look fat?" There's no right answer.

I reminded Brian that looks are not most important with me, and I don't judge someone on their looks. He was persistant, he wanted to know if I thought he was good looking, average, or bad looking. I felt I needed to be honest, but was trying not to make it sound negative. I told him that he wasn't "Hollywood drop-dead gorgeous" but that he wasn't bad looking. And again, I reminded him that I'm looking at someone's personality, not judging them on their looks.

Then he asks me if there was any spark of attraction. Hello! I know sometimes it happens instantly, but we were only together for an hour. I didn't go into this expecting to meet someone and have an instant spark. Sometimes it takes a little bit for it to develop. I tried my best to tell him this, that I would want to get to know someone a little bit better than a one hour conversation before I made any decision on whether there was interest there.

I must have done a lousy job, or else he's more shallow than he let on. He said he had to go because he was outside trying to walk to his truck, and it started pouring out, but that he'd call me back. That was I think before 9pm last night. It's now about 10pm the next nite and I haven't heard back from him. And he very clearly said he'd call me back.

So my only thought here is that he didn't feel any "spark of attraction," and/or didn't find me attractive, and will probably not contact me again. I will wait until the weekend; if I don't hear from him by then, I will submit my follow-up, stating that I am available for another match, that we will not be dating.

And I still haven't heard back from the service about my first match that wouldn't even meet me. So I don't know if I will only have 4 more matches, or if they will give me credit for the first jerk who wouldn't even meet me.

On a side note, I saw the movie 16 Blocks yesterday, with Bruce Willis. I don't believe it was advertised much, I only saw one advertisement for it. It was pretty good. Not great, but not terrible either. Some parts it moved slow, but in general it was a good movie. I'd recommend it as a rental.

Posting before The West Wing

It starts at 7, so I figured now would be a good time to post, since I may not get back here afterwards.

I was feeling pretty yucky after Thursday night's experience, as you can tell from my last post. But things are looking better today. Yesterday I was being lazy, just sitting at the computer sending music back and forth with Kerry. I hadn't even gone outside to get the mail. So the phone rings about 5:30pm. It's some guy named Brian who got my name from this dating service! Boy was I surprised, since I hadn't received any information on him yet. We talked for a bit, and decided to meet for a late dinner at Portillo's, a Chicago-based hot dog chain. We agreed to meet at 8pm, so I go jump in the shower to clean up and get dressed. I decided to dress casually, since it wasn't a fancy restaurant or anything, more like fast food, wearing black jeans and a plum-colored v-neck 3/4 sleeve top.

We met up at the restaurant, ate, talked...he's a really nice guy, not gorgeous, but to me looks aren't number one priority, I'm more interested in personality. He has a great sense of humor, and he was willing to do a lot of talking! What people may not know about me is, I'm a shy person, and when I'm around people I don't know, I clam up and don't talk much. We were there for about an hour, then I came home. We didn't make any promises to call each other, so I thought I'd call him this evening, before The West Wing starts to thank him for a nice evening.

Anyway, he seems like a nice guy, we'll see where it goes. And we all head off into another adventure we call Monday!

My life sucks right now

I called this guy Paul back. He didn't want to even meet me. And he wouldn't give me a reason why. I know HE'S the asshole and the one with a problem, but it sure makes me feel like shit to get treated that way. Right now I can't decide if I want to go through with the rest of this or just cut my losses now. I don't even know if I'd get my money back now, since I technically haven't even "met" anyone. Maybe I'll feel differently in the morning. On the feedback form I'm going to fax tomorrow, I'm requesting that he not count as one of my guaranteed matches, since he wouldn't meet me. I don't know if it will work, but I have to try. All I can think about right now, is an episode of Days of Our Lives where Samantha Brady makes a comment to Lucas, I think, where she refers to her future self as a lonely old lady with lots of cats.

Why does life treat me like I don't belong??

Rain, Rain Don't Go Away

Yes, it's raining. That's a sign that spring is on the way, right? I mean, it could be snow!!! Right now, I'll take some rain; we need it desperately.

Hmm, what to talk about next. Boy am I at a loss for words. I guess today was too boring to talk about, lol. I watched The Amazing Race tonight. I was so happy when I saw who was eliminated! There are a couple teams I'm rooting for, one is really struggling right now, but things could change. Unfortunately, there are a couple of really good teams in the lead, and it will be difficult (or will take a lot of luck) to get ahead of them.

I was going to call Paul tonight, since I haven't heard from him since he and I talked Saturday night. But between 7 and 8, I just got too tired and didn't have the energy to get up, get the phone and call him. I'll do it tomorrow night. I can't not try this, I have too much invested to not try. Whatever happens, I'll deal with it, and go on.

Unbelievable all the people that have died in the last week. Don Knotts, 81, best known for his portrayals of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and as Mr. Furley on Three's Company; Darren McGavin, 83, who portrayed Mike Hammer in the 50's, and a reporter on Kolchak: The Night Stalker in the 70's; Dennis Weaver, 81, won an emmy for his acting in Gunsmoke as the Deputy, another lawman in McCloud, and probably the role I remember best, an average joe being followed and attacked by a mystery truck in Duel; Kirby Puckett, one of the most, if not THE most, beloved baseball players for the Minnesota Twins, after suffering a stroke yesterday at the age of 44; Dana Reeve, also 44, wife of the late Christopher Reeve, just seven months after announcing she was battling lung cancer. Every year it seems we lose more and more legendary and talented actors, actresses, and people who inspire us all. Please say a prayer tonight for the families of all these people.

Ugh, Another Monday

It's March, and Spring should be coming, but you can't convince mother nature of that. She came and dropped some wet heavy snow yesterday. The good news is, it was wet, so the streets stayed pretty clear. The bad news is, it reminds me that winter is still here, and we still have a while to go before the warm weather comes.

Finally getting caught up on some shows I taped Friday night. Ghost Whisperer, InJustice, and the new show Conviction. Kerry also sent me some more music tonight before she headed to bed. It sucks to not be able to sleep the night through.

I haven't heard from Paul, so tomorrow night I will call him. The point of all this is for us to meet, right? Well, we ended the conversation on Saturday without discussing meeting, and because he hadn't been "matched" with anyone in a while, for all I know he already has a girlfriend. So I guess I have to call him AGAIN and find out if he wants to meet, or do I need to contact The Right One and tell them he won't cooperate so I can get a new match? LOL

Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 40's and up near 60 by Saturday. If that's the case, I'll be spending my day outside!

Sunday snowy Sunday

Just checked the weather map, and it's supposed to start snowing any minute now. What a weekend I've had so far, and it's only half over.

Friday night, Kerry and I spent several hours on the computer going BACK over what music she had been planning to send me, all thanks to her dear husband. She sent me a few cd's worth of music, then we both went to bed. Once I receive music from Kerry, I use a feature of MusicMatch that allows me to convert (compress) the file down to 128 kbps to make the file smaller. For some reason most of the songs on Kerry's computer are at 160 kbps. The higher the kbps, the larger the file, the more room it takes up on my computer. Supposedly you lose some quality the more you compress, but I've listened to songs before converting and after, and I haven't noticed any difference in quality.

Yesterday I was going to convert all the files Kerry sent me on Friday night. I was part way through, but it was taking so long because my From Kerry file was getting pretty full. So part way through, I start making subfiles in From Kerry, one for each artist. That ended up taking all day and all night, but only because I got distracted doing something else, lmao. I thoroughly enjoyed the chat in msn yesterday with everyone. And I finally got all the subfiles made, songs converted and moved to the appropriate file. The only ones I didn't move are the ones I have just one or two songs for an artist, the oddball ones I don't know if I'll ever have more songs by them, like Tebey.

About 7:30pm last night, I also decided I was going to call this guy Paul who was "matched" for me by this dating service I joined (see post from Monday Feb 27). He answered his phone, lo and behold he knew nothing about our "match." Apparently he hadn't opened his mail for the last couple of days and didn't know there was a match waiting to be contacted, lol. He was at his mom's visiting for a bit, he said he'd call me back later. So later, about 9:00 or so, the phone rings, it's him calling me back. We talked for about an hour. Very nice conversation, we talked a lot about bad drivers here in Chicago, and family stuff. Apparently we talked his whole drive home from his mom's. He lives in Streamwood, which is only about 15 miles north of me. Unfortunately, we ended the conversation not confirming if he would be calling me back so we could arrange to meet. I'm not so good at this stuff, lol.

Then I had the craziest dream last night. Too much stuff going to get into details, but I was at some guy's house who I had been "matched" up with, and after being there for several hours waiting to spend some time with him (he kept doing other things like talking on the phone, or talking to a friend/relative), as I was leaving I asked if he was going to call me, and he said he didn't feel anything for me, and I hope that's ok. LMAO, maybe just my fears coming through in my dream??

Today, I'm going to see a movie, Ultraviolet. Not sure if it will be good or not, I'll let ya know, lol.

Happy Spring!

Wonder why I'm saying that? Well...have I got an answer for you! On the news last night, the meteorologist was saying that Feb 28th is the last day of meteorological winter. March 1 is the beginning of meteorological spring. Not sure WHY that is, but it is. So, happy spring!

Tonight was kind of a boring night, didn't do a lot. After a rough day at work, I came home, ate some food, Kerry sent me one cd, I watched American Idol, then got caught up on Supernatural taped last night and my soap (Days of Our Lives) from today. The episode of Supernatural was supposedly taking place in Chicago, but I don't recall seeing any landmarks to prove it was filmed here, lol. Odds are they didn't go on location to film this episode.

Tomorrow will be pretty busy at work tomorrow, so as soon as DooL is over, I'm heading to bed.