this can't be right

This is the most unhelpful box of all time. The left button ended up downloading shockwave...


And then we tried to research how to get a marriage license. How frequently are people in Melbourne really asking to marry their nephew?? http://199.241.8.125/index.cfm?FuseAction=MarriageLicenses.FAQs (for a bigger look)

p.s. i'm done with work yay

what i've been up to

So as most everyone knows, we're moving to Seattle. My last day of work is Thursday unless the hurricane comes and then who knows. No day off until Friday =(
On Tues night after I got off work we drove to NC for wedding stuff. This was the only chance we're going to have to go there before the wedding so we had to make sure everything was taken care of. We arrived about 4am Wed morning and at 8:30am we started our vendor meetings. Faye, our wedding planner, was amazing! She lined up back to back meetings that lasted until around 10pm. Nate and I had packed lunchables which we shamelessly assembled in front of one of the DJs. The next morning we drove home and then I started my final (yay) 7 day stretch of work. I am not working another job without weekends again.
Before work yesterday we went to go buy our wedding bands but apparently platinum has tripled in price so my affordable wedding band is not so affordable anymore. Nate is pretty flexible on his but still I hate paying so much for something when it was so much less a couple months ago.
We still haven't found a place to live but we have a good idea of what we want. Renting is very popular in Seattle so the places that we've liked are already taken. Everywhere we look already has a washer and dryer, but we really want to bring ours.
Has anyone ever traveled long-distance with cats or know what shipping a cat involves? I will feel bad sedating them but I think they will be too scared otherwise. That is my only concern with moving because we'll have movers to deal with everything else. It's going to be nice not dragging boxes up and down stairs!
I think that's all for now. The wedding planning is pretty much taken care except for invitations. We just can't order them until we have an address. The moving is fairly under control. The rings are not under control but I can always just get a solid band if we run out of time before we move to get the one that matches mine. There is not too much to be stressed about but my doctor won't refill my birth control until I go in to see him which I really don't have time for so my hormones are a little out of whack. I will be taking a week off. After I get to seattle. =)

a quick update

Because I've been busy!

- Wedding planning is going well. We're going up to NC next week to finalize some stuff.
- Nate comes home tomorrow!
- Moving to Seattle at the end of the month!

Ok that's all I have time for.

this is why i still digg

You've probably all heard about the boy who climbed over 2 fences to retrieve his lost hat only to be decapitated by a roller coaster. If you haven't, read here or at any other news site. Yes- this is tragic. Yes- I'm probably going to hell for this but... I couldn't stop laughing this morning when I read the Digg comments. Click on the detail for a larger image and try not to laugh.

custom receipt maker

I found this on Digg today and it's somewhat amusing. You can make your own receipt. I'm not sure what the purpose is but it kept me occupied for at least 2 minutes.
Try it if you want: www.customreceiptmaker.com

download day

Yesterday Firefox tried to set the world record for the most downloads of a software package in a single day with their release of Firefox 3. They had over 8 million downloads including Nate and me! If you weren't part if it, you probably aren't as nerdy as us and should stop reading this blog. All of us on the tubes will have to wait patiently while Guinness reviews the data.

seattle trip

I'm back from Seattle! We had lots of fun, including finding this passive aggressive note a short walk away from the market. I posted a ton of pictures on my Facebook. The temperature never got above the 60's and it barely rained. We ate twice at the crumpet shop and spent hours in the sci-fi museum. They had a whole case devoted to Dune. It was spectacular. Nate's apartment is nice and he has a scenic walk to work. I'm still exhausted and don't have a day off until next tues. Until then...

is it fixed now?

The AC.... broke again today. I hurried into the office before it closed and the poor maintenance guy had to work overtime because I refuse to be inconvenienced a third time in just a few weeks. It's too hot to not have AC and it doesn't just turn off when it breaks. It runs constantly so my power bill goes way up and I'm still hot. When I got home from dinner, my apartment was at 70 and now I'm freezing. Well played, maintenance man, well played.
In other news wtf is going on at babcock and palm bay? I tried to get home from dinner and got detoured of course with my gas light on. I finally got to the citgo on us1 and exclaimed "eww hugo chavez gas" and kept driving, not even thinking about how far the next one would be. SPOILER: I made it home.
that's all for now.

seven minutes of terror

NASA's Phoenix Lander touched down today in the northern polar region of Mars to search for frozen water. This is a big step in determining if life exists or ever existed on the red planet. The blog title refers to the time the space craft had to hit the brakes and make a smooth landing. Nerds everywhere are rejoicing because over half of similar missions have ended in failure. Check out more pics from the surface and the blog: here

rain

-ac is fixed
-nate left for seattle =(
-it's raining for the first time in forevs
-we hired a wedding planner
-stella is on a rampage