Shallow Kid
Saturday, October 31, 2009
8:18PM
As a lot of you probably already know, my IRL name is Tamerlane. It's a cool name, I think. Different, at least. Never met anyone else with it, you don't confuse me with other people, I don't have to be identified by my last name, etc. But it has its disadvantages.
NO ONE CAN PRONOUNCE IT.
It's not hard. There's no trick to it. Tam - er - lane. It sounds exactly how it's spelled.
For my entire godforsaken life, every time I've ever met new people, started a new year at school or started a new job I go through the same motherfucking ordeal without motherfucking fail.
Them: What's your name again?
Me: Tamerlane.
Them: Whaaaaat?
Me: TAM. ER. LANE. Tamerlane!
Them: Tam ... Tamalyn?
Me: Tam ... er ... lane.
Them: Timbalan?
Me: You could just call me Tam.
Them: Tammy?
Me: NO. Just Tam.
Them: Okay, Tanya!
Me: SIIIIIIIGH.
Or pretty much any variation of something starting with a T that has a R or a B sound in it. At my current (new) job, I'm known as Tamra. This is the reason I started going by my middle name after the 4th grade. Of course, people even managed to fuck Rebecca up or call me Becky. I hate people.
In other news, I'm at a 16-year-old's Halloween/Birthday party because ... I don't know, because God hates me, I guess. Were we this annoying when we were teenagers? Probably!
P.S. I'm a Trill from Star Trek.
Monday, October 26, 2009
8:34AM
Is it bad that I laughed REALLY HARD at this? If I'd been fortunate enough to be an employee at that store I'd have utterly lost my shit.
Monday, October 19, 2009
11:39AM
We're collecting addresses for wedding invites and in doing so I discovered that one of Tim's friends lives on Raper Springs Road. Raper Springs. I just ... how else would you pronounce that?
Sunday, October 4, 2009
3:35PM
My sister-in-almost-law has to turn in a report for school (COLLEGE) on a 3.5 inch floppy disk. WTF?
Sunday, September 27, 2009
6:31PM - Weddings, weddings, weddings
We're all in the midst of wedding planning, yey! Shooting for May 1st, 2010. Wedding colors are black and white. We're having mixed wedding parties of two guys, two girls each. There will be a loose Roaring 20's theme. Tim Tams will be included in the wedding favors since he's Timothy and I'm Tamerlane and we're just gonna go ahead and make the joke before too many other people do. So long as there's not a horrid storm system coming through we're going to do everything outside, at night.
Eeep! Advice, thoughts, opinions, cool wedding stuff?
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
7:20PM
My friend's youngest son has just been diagnosed as having swine flu. So if for some godawful reason you're rolling through Mississippi, stay out of Attala county.
worriedMonday, August 31, 2009
10:13AM - True Blood
Back in March or thereabouts I decided to see what this vampire show everyone kept talking about was and streamed the first season of True Blood. Then I downloaded the pdfs for the first eight books and read them all. Then Tim bought me the box set and the ninth book when it came out so I wouldn't have to sit in front of the computer. He ended up reading them, too. Now we're both huge dorks for the series, book and television.
And that's my opener to complain about Sophie Anne as played by Evan Rachel Wood. Don't like it. She's all flaky and weird. And has hair the color of a brass knob.
Friday, August 21, 2009
8:31PM
Tim proposed! I said yes! Down on one knee and all while I was checking movie times! He was going to wait until dinner tonight but ended up popping the question about fifteen minutes after he got home from buying the ring! Eeeeeee! Pics when his sister gives us our camera back.
OMG.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
10:46AM
Like, not that the sentiment isn't appreciated, creepy guy sitting in your car in the store parking lot, but calling to random girls who pass by your window and asking them to get into your running car and "talk to" you probably isn't the best way to chat up girls. Best way to rape them? Probably, yes. Best way to not get yourself arrested? Not so much.
Do I look stupid or something? WTF?
Monday, July 20, 2009
5:37AM
Went to see HBP Saturday night yay! Like all Harry Potter movies it was exciting to see but ... eh. Not the books, you know? I don't have any serious complaints but H/G could have had a tiny bit more build up. If you hadn't read the books you probably wouldn't have guessed that Harry had a pretty big thing for Ginny up until Hermione asked him how it felt to see her kissing Dean. The one time where he did it was kind of like, "Oh hai, there's Ginny and Dean. Huh."
Also, Tim's never read the books and seeing the movies with someone who hasn't always makes me want to pause and explain shit to them because things get breezed over really quickly and sometimes might not make too much sense if you don't know what's really happening.
Went with Tim and a couple of his friends and all they could talk about was how some day soon Emma Watson would go off to college and some very clever guy would sleep with her, secretly video it and throw it up for sale and ZOMG wouldn't that be awesome!? That guy would be a hero! Men.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
5:57AM
Awwww yeah, I'm rocking 4 shiny new gigs of RAM, as much as my computer will currently recognize. Tim needed it to run the monstrosity that is photoshop and I wanted it for the Sims 3, which I have yet to "buy" and install. Hopefully I should "purchase" it sometime today. Looking into new video cards now. I'm running the nVIDIA 6150LE my machine came with damn near three years ago, so it's time for something new. Any recs?
Tim has another fight coming up August 1st against John David Shackelford. Ehs a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything. He was on this past season of The Ultimate Fighter but got tossed off in the first episode due to a rash on his face. When guys are sweaty and rolling around on top of each other they come home with all sorts of shit. I'm eagerly awaiting my first staph infection.
Friday, July 10, 2009
5:50AM
Internets at the house! Woooo! At long last. We ended up with an AT&T aircard which is working out surprisingly well (aside from the day's worth of crap we went through to get it working). Cant' tell the difference between this and, say, broadband. I am reconnected to the world and it feels so good! Internets, never leave me again.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
1:58PM - Kre8tyve
For the past two and a half years I thought my buddy Adam's daughter's name was Olivia. Only today do I find out it is actually Alyviya.
SIGH.
Monday, June 22, 2009
11:27AM - I'm Still Alive!
Fuck, I miss having the internets. Holy hell. Besides not being able to get a decent connection (I might break down and get dial-up soon) life is pretty good. A few weeks ago my parents had their 50th (or 49th if you believe my dad, ugh) wedding anniversary and I got to do their cake! It was exciting and nerve wracking since I've never done a wedding-type cake before but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
( CAKE! )
Friday, May 29, 2009
7:10PM - Spike, Kitten of Commitment
To offset the weirdness of having a babby scavenger, here are kitten pictures!
( Cutty McCutterson )
Monday, April 27, 2009
8:23PM - Internet Fail
It's 2009. We're not living in a huge place, but pretty close to one.
WHY?
WHY!?
Why can we not have broadband internet!? Well, we can, but I'm going to spend a few hours tomorrow jumping through hoops to see if we can get it through Direct TV without actually having satellite TV and, apparently, a house phone.
Fuck you, Mississippi.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
1:26PM
I'll be without internet for a few days due to moving. In. With Tim (the Twilight guy).
What can I say? It's been rollercoaster-y and now we've both decided it's time to nest. God help me. Will have pictures of Mutual Kitten of Commitment soon.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
11:43AM
I've found the most beautiful, succinct, perfect review of Twilight that has ever been written.
Nothing happened in this book. Especially editing.
Zing!
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