Just bought the Zune (thank you New Egg for having it cheaper!). I *have* learned to navigate between podcasts when the screen on my iPod cuts out, but... it's a little annoying. If I hit a button every 5-10 minutes, the screen stays on, but if I don't, there it goes again, and has to sit for half an hour idle before it will come back.

I looked at the Sony - no Audible. I looked at the Zen - a few things bothered me, and it was the same price point as the more-appealing Zune. The new Nano just pisses me off. And the Zune has wifi.

So, that has been ordered. Tom is all excited to have a new toy to play with. He seems to forget that it's ME buying it, not him.

Oddly, I am almost more excited about the skin I'm planning to buy for it - I'm getting one with this image on it. <3 I love the style, I love the colors, I love the wood grain.


...I've been very sleepy this week. Anytime my period comes along, it saps my energy levels, but it's a little ridiculous this time. The shift from a stunningly gorgeous summery day to thunderstorms of doom yesterday made my sinuses do all kinds of weird things. And I definitely stayed in bed too long this morning, but... Tom was pretty upset by whatever case came up during his jury duty yesterday.

He's on grand jury duty, once a week for like a month and a half. So they look at evidence and decide if there's enough of it for something to go to court. Which means less conscience issues, buuuttt, means the cases are pretty severe. No traffic tickets. Large-scale crimes, like murder rape larceny whatever. Last week, he came home somewhat depressed, and in definite need of cheering-up and reassurance that not everyone is evil. This week, it was a shorter day, but... he's been in need of constant distraction since he got home. Even sleeping hasn't shaken his mood - he's lined up enough tv shows and things to keep his mind occupied while playing Guild Wars today. For like the whole day, until I get home.

...so, even though I knew I'd be bleary, I stayed in bed extra-long this morning, since morning-snuggling is pretty much his happiest time of day. He seemed so content, and so reassured, there was no way I was getting up before I absolutely had to. (And, yes, I was pretty cozy and content myself. :)

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Now that I have dinner plans, I am allllmost motivated enough to go take a shower and make a run to the store.

Warm Chicken Ranch Wraps. I haven't made these since last summer, and they're a Tom-favorite. Generally delicious anyway, and I can make a huge batch of the filling to feed the Tom once he's finished off the pierogi-lasagna.

Broccoli with Mandarin Oranges. I wanted a side dish that would use up the half-bag of broccoli I have in my fridge, and while a general sesame broccoli sounded fine to me... I'd rather have something Tom might actually eat. This looks like it, but we shall see.

Jian Bing (Chinese Crepes). I want to have some kind of bread-ish munchie to go along with everything, and these sound awesome. And simple. And while it's occurring to me now that crepes and the tortillas for the wraps are, uh, kind of the same... oh well. lol. It's food. I'll have eaten half of these by the time Tom gets home anyway, I'm sure.

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The artichoke dip was a major success. :)

...I was also highly amused to see my surprisingly-healthy, tofu-laden dip get eaten up right next to Sam's chicken wing dip. Artichoke, tofu, yogurt, real cheese. Chicken from a can, cream cheese, blue cheese dressing. Both were super-delicious. Pretty much equal amounts were consumed. (By both me and everybody else.)

Heidi you are my hero.


...it was actually a pretty fun night over at Sam's. We managed to talk Tom into coming, which made me very, very happy. A handful of PF crew were there, an extra boyfriend or two, another friend of Sam's, maybe ten people tops. Half were drinking, half were not, but we all had fun playing drinking games anyway. Luke played up having to take another swig of Dr. Pepper just as much as Sam taking a swig of beer. Sam's dogs provided entertainment by way of getting underfoot and also sneaking out of the house when the pizza arrived. I think we got home about 1am - Tom has long-since decided that he is not going to let having to work the next day be any reason to curtail his activities - WalMart is not worthy of sacrifices. (I wasn't going in until 1pm, so all was well.)

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