Last night I went out to dinner at Regina’s with Mr. Brett, Joe, Bo, and Tahmi & Jason. I had two cocktails, tuna medium rare with wasabi aoili, and a slice of key lime pie. Delicious!

I had lots and lots of fun, and I’m really glad all those fine folks came out with us. It was really great! Several random people walked by during the course of the evening and wished me a happy birthday. Birthdays are so fun! I wish I was having another today.

It was especially great that Brett was willing to go out; week night outings to Regina’s aren’t really his idiom, if you see what I mean. What a great hubby. We didn’t get home until ten, which is way past his bedtime! I love him oodles.

All in all, a lovely birthday. And now I’m 36. Whodathunkit?

In which there are two Wisbar Advance 2.0 themes.

It’s fall! Leaves are turning, the nights are crisp! (Farmers are running heavy equipment all hours of the day on all sides of the farm…) To celebrate the season I bought McDeb’s great Autumn 2004 theme pack yesterday to help my PPC get into the autumnal mood. (Five bucks, ten themes, plus two wallpapers? Who could resist?)

I made WisBar Advance skins to go with my two favorites, numbers 2 and 10. Download custom Wisbar Advance skins for two of Deb’s ten Autum Themes here!

What on earth did I do to deserve this? Honestly. I was just sitting in my Jeep, reading a few pages of a book, and, needing to adjust my hair I looked in the mirror on the back of the visor.

What I wouldn’t give for perfect skin! You know the kind, blondes usually have it: tiny pores, smooth, and typically the same color everywhere.

I have bumpy, splotchy, oily skin. I have huge pores. Probably it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things – I manage to get love and be happy – but wouldn’t it be lovely to be cursed with, say, giant ears and teen-model skin rather than giant ears and my skin?

(I think my ears are from my maternal grandfather. The nose, of course, is from dear old dad.)

On the bright side, I still get carded for everything. *grin*
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Oops, I just bought myself a birthday present! Behold: my new PPC, the Toshiba e400.

It’s basically about the same as my iPAQ in terms of processor speed, RAM, flashRAM, and ROM. But I haven’t dropped it yet so the buttons all still work and there aren’t nasty looking hairline cracks all over the chassis. Snort! The screen’s an industry standard, all bright and nice, and it’s new of course. I should have my sweaty little hands all over it tomorrow. Whee!

There’s an update to ActiveSync: Windows Mobile – ActiveSync 3.7.1 Download. I wouldn’t know this except I tried to sync my plam to my work desktop and ActiveSync wouldn’t boot. (I have lots of damaged DLLs due to the nifty problems with IE and all that glam spyware.)

I’m gonna reboot, install the upgrade, and go to lunch. Wish me luck. (All I really wanted to do was copy a freakin’ .TSK file onto my PDA with a nice autumn theme. Jeesh.)

I made a few blinkies today. Why?

I can’t really say; must be because I’d gotten a request for a free one and had all the files open anyway. They’re obnoxious, no doubt, but I love them the same way I love Christmas lights!

More blinkies >

I worked Wednesday and Thursday. I had every intention of working on Friday too, but slept until noon instead. I am soooo tired! There’s nothing more tiring than vacation; Brett and I have both been sleeping tons: sleeping in, napping, going to bed early. Zzzzzz. Fun is so exhausting!

Brett’s back is still messed up, and he’s feeling frustrated. He wants it to get better and go away now, but getting aggro just isn’t the way to deal with it. The poor baby. I feel really bad for him; chronic pain is no joke and he’s been remarkably pleasant considering how irritable he must be feeling. We bought freezer packs and Arnica gel this afternoon and I hope they give him some relief. I believe he’s watching the Stevie Ray Vaughn freeview right now – that should cheer him up a little.

As for me, I’m getting sympathy back pain; I’m almost as stoved up as he is! My lower back is a mess, and my neck is too. Wah! (…you don’t suppose I could be a little dehydrated too, do you?!?!?)

Yesterday Brett and I hung out at Steve & Misty’s most of the afternoon and had a really great time. Misty always keeps the cutest house; she’s got such great stuff! We were going to go out with them last night too – Steve’s band was playing in the bar at Iris Bowl in Mount P. and a Fairfield posse were rolling up for the party – and I was really excited that maybe we were going to start doing things socially again, but of course Brett lamed out on me at the last minute. As always.

I was dressed and ready to go when Brett suggested that I should go with Joe instead, because he thought he wanted to stay home and rest his back. Not a problem except for the fact that Joe had left an hour before.

I was really pissed off there for about ten minutes, I admit it. I was! Mostly because I felt stupid. I should have known better, I really should have. The fact that he was interested and interesting on vacation doesn’t mean that’s going to continue now that we’re back in status quo land.

Sigh.

I had asked him at least three times if he was sure he was going to go out last night, and he assured me he was. But he wasn’t. He had no intention of going at all, and I’m gullible for believing him in the first place. He’d had a plan: to send me with Joe and stay home himself.

He just didn’t bother to tell either me or Joe.

So I drove myself. And I had a good time, even though I only bowled a 79 and I was exhausted driving home!

You might think I’m being uncharitable; after all, he does have a ruptured disc and he has been in constant pain for at least a month, longer if you count the sprained ankle he had first. But his back pain didn’t keep him from doing anything at all in Colorado, and so I can’t help but wonder how bad it really is, you know?

SnoopSoft, Inc. releases Dashboard v2.5! I’m downloading mine now and will report on its usefulness soon.