Remember the poem meme I did a couple weeks ago? The one where I used the poem my boyfriend, now husband, wrote for me on IM’s?

Roses are #FF0000.
Violets are #0000FF.
You’re a geek girl.
And I love you.

Well Stretsh took all the poems and put them on his Poetic Bloggers Contest Part 1 post today.

You can go read all the entries, and vote for your favorite one. But if you vote for me, and I get the most votes, I will win a 2GB flash drive. Nice!

Go vote for Julie’s Journal.

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I do a lot of searching online for lyrics when I hear a song, or I’m trying to remember who sang a song, or the title. There are a couple of pretty extensive web sites online that have a huge collection, but the banner ads, and popup ads, start to get really annoying after awhile. I came across LyricWiki, and got really excited. It’s free, no ads blowing up in my face, and there is already 214,792 pages of lyrics. Sweet! This one gets bookmarked, and I will be visiting often.

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Back in the day, my kids were really into paintball guns. JR got a Spyder for his 12th birthday from a paintball store online. I remember searching and searching for this particular one he wanted, and I finally found it. It was either that one or a Tippmann, but he finally decided on the Spyder.

He really got into it, and there was a paintball park near our house that I use to take him to. He would get so beat up by the older kids playing in there, but he had a blast. We bought him all the paintball gear he would need, a paintball mask, gloves, the hopper, and all the paintballs he could possibly need.

I remember the first time we took him to the park, and he wasn’t allowed to use the paintballs he brought. We had to buy them there. The manager told me the reason they did that was because some people would freeze the paintballs, so they hurt badly when you got shot with them! Not something you wanted to hear as your 12 year old son was heading onto the battle grounds, but it was a good safety measure they followed, and it made me feel more comfortable.

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Jim acts like Dwight, then Dwight acts like Jim. Yes, we busted out in hysterical laughter, and rolled around on the floor.

Have I ever mentioned that You Tube is the greatest thing EVER!

EDIT: This video is no longer available. Thanks a lot NBC! You’re only hurting your ratings by trying to sensor You Tube!

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We went out shopping today and please someone we need a couple loans now! We spent way too much money than we should have, and a personal loan would come in real handy right now.

But no really, we bought things we needed, we just haven’t been able to stock up lately, but Michael got paid, and my Paypal account is so sweet right now, that we figured now was the time. We went to Trader Joe’s and got all the nuts, dried fruit, my organic bread that I am addicted to, and the black cherry juice that Michael loves. About that time I knew we were in the need of a secured loan, but we kept going. Next stop sushi for lunch. Who spends $40 bucks for lunch? UGH! It was good though.

Then the dreaded Walmart. I ran out of laundry soap, dishwasher soap, the little scruby things that go on my toilet brush, Swiffers, Dawn, and all that stuff that seems to run out at the same time. And everyone knows the cheapest place to buy these kind of products in the Walmart hell store, so we had no choice.

Once we found a place to park, we sat in the car, almost as if to psych ourselves into a state where we could go in there with no homicidal thoughts. It worked! I actually was happy in a that store for a change! I just smiled and strolled my way through the store. It was amazing what a little zen psych can do for a person.

I shopped and shopped until my cart was overflowing, and I was even sucked into their latest Pirates of the Caribbean promotional items. I got myself a pajama set; a black tank, and melon colored booty shorts, with the movie logo on them. So cute! I also bought two pair of pajama shorts that read “Pirate Booty” across the, you guessed it, the booty. Now where’s that debt consolidation loan I was asking for before?

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