My short temper has always been one of my trademark qualities. I'm not proud of it, and have been working on it for the last 14 years, so it's still a work in progress.

Well, today it nearly snapped. I could feel the anger bubbling up within me like a volcano on the verge of eruption. Why? Here's the phone conversation (reminiscent of other marketing calls I got in the past) where I nearly bit someone's head off:

Some of you know that I performed some minor surgery on my trusty laptop before, upgrading the CD burner to an internal DVD burner. Everything went smoothly, thank goodness. But today is a huge milestone -

The left touchpad button is gimpy now. I have to hit it EXACTLY in the middle or to the left. Hitting it to its right just makes it go in, but something sounds broken, and it doesn't actually select anything. :(

Will have to see if there is a viable minor surgery solution ...

YOU CAN'T DIE ON ME NOW!!! NOT AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH!!! I WON'T LEAVE YOU BEHIND!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!

</end overly dramatic response to situation>

I use Digital Image Mover (DIM) to copy pics from my flash cards to my computer. I have it set to copy the files over while automatically renaming them to be YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS_ihatepink_filename, according to the internal photo info on when it was taken. Well, today it gave me the weirdest error message:

Copying from h:\DCIM\234CANON\IMG_3412.JPG to C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\1969\12-1969\31Dec1969\1969-12-31_18-00-00_ihatepink_IMG_3412.JPG
ERROR->h:\DCIM\234CANON\IMG_3412.JPG (The system cannot find the path specified)

So basically, something went wiggy and told my computer that the pic on the card was taken on December 31st, 1969, at 6pm.

Must be some Y2K remnant thingy. ;)

as the truth rang upon my ears
my tears fell freely
suddenly at my weakest
yet also at my strongest

my wings are damaged
but with courage i can fly.

...

Thank you for letting the truth ring.

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Happy birthday, bro. Sorry, no crazy group drunk dialing like last year. :) I got a msg on my cell phone tonight: "Hey girl, I guess I'll have to catch you at another time since it's Saturday night and you're probably doing your wild thing." Hahahaha. Such a rep. Unfounded, I say! :)

Oh yeah, an online chat conversation with my bro we had the other night:

	1:55:19 AM						have you met my friend who looks like lucy liu? http://ihatepink.com/content/binary/2006/08/31/vcbouncer.jpg
	1:56:14 AM						the one on the left?
	1:56:26 AM						duh! the one on the right is ME, you doofus!
	1:56:40 AM						didn't recognize ya, actually
	1:56:44 AM						HAHAHAHAHAHAH
	1:56:50 AM						never seen ya with makeup on
	1:56:58 AM						i'll let her know.. she did my hair and makeup that night, and i borrowed her clothes to go clubbing
	1:57:10 AM						i wear makeup only for clubbing and weddings

Good one, Howard. :)

I didn't take as many photos as I usually do, but I did find my favorites of the night, featuring not the bride nor groom, but the groom's adorable nephew.Note: No children were harmed in the taking of these photos. No, we did not feed him beer!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised how crazy things got, since this weekend was all about the wedding of our favorite party-throwers, Carol and Alan.

QUIZ: Two of the following statements are false. Which are they?

1. One of the girls who came to the bachelorette party got so drunk she eventually had to go the hospital and get an IV drip.
2. A 4-month-old shihtzu puppy attended the bachelorette party and peed on my carpet.
3. The big red 15-passenger van we rented for the bachelorette party garnered 2 instances of sleazy guys rolling down their windows and indecently propositioning us at red lights.
4. I was a designated driver for the bachelorette party.
5. There were unclaimed articles of clothing left behind at my apartment from the bachelorette party.
6. What with the open bar at the wedding, Alan got totally wasted.
7. We got kicked out of 3 different places in the hotel after the wedding because we were being so loud.
8. I got carded at the open bar.
9. The bride couldn't find her undergarments after the wedding, so I lent her mine.
10. I got over 1000 pictures documenting the whole weekend's events.

Click through to see the answers and some pictures!

My favorite photo from the weekend (stolen from the sexy V). We had to flirt with the Crome bouncer more than I would've liked, but hey, he was kinda cute in a Russell Crowe-ish kinda way, so it wasn't SO bad. :P

I haven't been clubbing in forever. My hair and makeup and clothes and shoes (basically, my extreme makeover) was courtesy of V. That was fun! Thanks girl!

Today I learned that Hasbro has made it easy for you to print your own Monopoly money! Who'da thunk? :)

This past week, I've experienced several major epiphanies. I'm sure many of my peers know them already, but I guess it's better late for me than never. They're common sense and very cliché, but when they present in my face, I can't necessarily call on them to guide me in my actions. After what happened this week, I will never forget them.

- Nobody's perfect.

- Just because two people love each other doesn't mean they're right for each other.

- The truth often hurts.

- The truth shall set you free.

- Doing the right thing is usually the hardest but best way to go about things.

- Breakups always suck, regardless of who initiates.

- Talking about it helps. A lot.

- Crying helps. A lot.

Today's the last day of my billing cycle and it seems that I now have 4 minutes left before going over my monthly allotment. AND it seems that my phone has just been ringing non-stop off the hook ever since 7 am. Doh!

SO: friends, if you must contact me today, do not be offended if I do not pick up. Leave a voice message, I can check it from any phone without using my minutes, thus lessening my overages (what, it's like 50 cents per minute or something? Oof ...). OR you can e-mail me and get a faster response. :) (clarification: I am of course picking up all patient calls!)

Oh, and speaking of cell phones, yesterday I went to a T-Mobile store and played around with the cell phones I was lookin' at in my last post. I was there for a good hour. Well, I discovered another couple functions that I need. I don't know. Neither of them are looking good to me right now. Maybe I'll just wait until I go to Asia later this year and pick a little sumpin' sumpin' up there - they'll have really cute phones there for sure! :)