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Sunday I decided I needed a new light fixture in my living room. The lamps I have are cute but don't cast off enough light (black shade, I wonder why?) and they take up a lot of space on my little end tables so if I'm using a big water bottle there's no room because of the lampshade. So off I went to IKEA. I wanted a hanging lamp because I have a hook over the table from when I had a hanging plant that unfortunately bit the dust relatively quickly, LOL. So I might as well utilize the hook I shoved into the ceiling. This is the lamp I decided to get.It was between this and another lamp but I thought this would give me plenty of light. You know I love IKEA but I hate putting their shit together. Yes, the lamp had to be put together and it wasn't til I got it all put together and hung that I found out one of the light fixtures didn't work. It was actually too long for the space I wanted to use it in but would have kept it cause I'm lazy if the fixture worked, well it did keep blowing my outlet but that could have been cause of the broken fixture, LOL. It took me a few more hours to be motivated enough to go back to IKEA! I know, twice in one day was amazing! I did take a nap first and a couple of hours after my nap I dragged my ass back. So I went with choice #2. Which looks better and was cheaper! The worst part was I had to put it together! I had to snap in each of those leaves and it took me awhile to figure it out but damn it, I did! So now I have much more light in my living room so I'm happy and I got the Franklin gay seal of approval.

Sat night I noticed a big old stain in my ceiling. I was like, did I just not notice it? Of course not! I had been hearing a drip but couldn't find it, that would be because it's in my ceiling and nothing was hitting the floor. So Sun I go ask my neighbors if they recently had a leak or do they have one now? They weren't in but their housekeeper was and we didn't see anything so I called the landlord and he didn't answer. I left him a message. When I came back from IKEA (the first time) the housekeeper came over and said he was looking around and it looked like the leak was from their a/c and the owner would look at it and get back with me. He doesn't. So on Mon I email my landlord and tell him the stain is growing and I'm worried about rot. It smells totally musty in my place, ugh! He finally calls me back, he didn't call me on Sunday because he said it's Sunday afternoon what could I do? This is why I called the plumber myself! What a jackoff! Anyway, he said he was handling it, calling the upstairs landlord (I live in condos so they're owned by different people) and the condo board, etc. Good, I wasn't planning on doing shit. Finally they had someone in today to fix the a/c and this stain is now about 4 feet across and 2 feet wide on my ceiling and looks gross. Now we have to wait for it to dry out before they can paint it. Let's hope the ceiling didn't rot. There are parts that bubbled but hey, I told the landlord about it.

BTW, the Nordstrom's semi-annual sale for women and children begins tomorrow (Wed). Even though I'm poor I'm totally going, LOL.

Rosie, rumor has it that CBS will be bringing back Jericho for 8 eps mid-season to wrap everything up, the fan outcry was so vocal so that's cool for fans of the show.

I decided I can't let Nancy show me up with all of her working out and crap. That and the fact I totally pigged out on my cruise (was there any doubt that was going to happen?) meant I have to start getting off of my lazy ass. Yesterday I went walking. The good news is, my joints are fine, I wore different shoes and no hip problems, the bad news is, I wore short shorts and my thighs totally chafed! I was trying to work on my tan while walking, I guess I'll just work on the upper body tan, LOL. And today I went to workout with my neighbor Shannon! It was rough, neither of us wanted to go but we made ourselves go which is a good thing we did.

While there, working up a sweat Shannon was reading the paper and asked me what vampire books I read and I look over and I see there's a story on LKH. I was like oh yeah, I read her and her new one is coming out this week. Then she says she's at Barnes and Noble and I was like yeah, she's huge, she'll be sold everywhere. Duh, no, she's doing a signing at BN! What?!?! I had no idea! The signing started at 6pm and it was 8:15pm when I found out about it. Shannon drove and I didn't have my purse so I couldn't even leave. By the time I got home it was after 9pm but I decided to call the bookstore to see if she was still there, I know she has a large following and she was! The guy told me to hurry so in my sweaty clothes (you know I sweat) I rushed off. Now I enjoy LKH's books but Nancy loves them which is the only reason why I rushed out the door. I am a little irritated with the guy I talked to on the phone since he had me rush and there were still plenty of people waiting to get their books signed. Oh well, at least I got my books. I talked to the people in front of me and turns out there are a lot of authors that they have not read, including KMM! So I wrote down a ton of authors for them to try. I am bummed I missed her talk but she was really sweet and I told her a Nancy fan story that had her laughing. Of course I had to get a picture of us. I took out my pony tail while in line and put on some lipstick but I was still sweaty. I told her not to touch me, I didn't want to gross her out, LOL. She wears shades if you take pics with the flash and since I'm all about getting the best quality possible I went with the flash, LOL. It was a thrill to meet LKH and so totally unexpected it made it even more fun. It's already late but you know I have to at least read a couple of chapters before I go to bed, LOL.

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I love to eat and sleep. One thing is more fun to blog about than the other. In between eating and sleeping I love to travel, spend time with my family and talk about myself. :)