sunday

urmmm…yeah…pretty sweet hunh?

You know, above everything that happened (or didn’t happen, rather) over Thanksgiving break, I got a speeding ticket on the way home Thanksgiving. Here’s how it went:

I went to the gas station to get some gas and wash my car before heading home. We all know that after you wash your car, you drive around really fast to get rid of the water. So I’m on the freeway, and conveniently going pretty fast, drying my car and what not. I finally get ahead of the pack and kinda speed ahead of everyone, and by speed ahead, I was apparently going 90mph, which is really nothing for me. Well anyways, I get pulled over by the cop, who’s like “any reason you’re going so fast?” Of course, I give the wrong answer, which is “oh, I didn’t really notice I was going that fast, I wasn’t paying attention, just kinda driving ya know?”

cop: You were going 90mph at one point, but you were definitely going 80+.
me: really? I didn’t know.
cop: You were speeding in the very left lane, the fast lane.
me: (no shit….the fast lane…speeding….) OH…REALLY??
cop: I need your driver’s liscense and registration and proof of insurance.
me: Sure…here.

So at this point, I KNOW I’m getting a ticket, cuz I gave the wrong answer to begin with. But seriously, why did he point out to me that I was speeding the the very left lane…the “fast lane”…I mean…isn’t that what I’m supposed to do?? Would I have gotten off with a warning if I was speeding in the middle lane or something? WTF? Needless to say, I think I’m going to court for this one, cuz it was pretty much bullshit, the answer he gave me. That and I’ve never been to court for a speeding ticket, so I think it’ll be an interesting time. If anything, I’ll have something to blog about.

So this past Thanksgiving holiday was a dud. First of all, there was no fucking pumpkin pie or corn at dinner. AND the damn turkey was cold too. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed–I got pretty used to the traditional midwestern Thanksgiving meal. I mean, what is this meatball shit covered with rice?? The pilgrims and Indians didn’t have this for Thanksgiving….LAME. And who brings COCONUT PIE for Thanksgiving?? I mean, apple, pecan, I can understand. But COCONUT?? wtf mate…

The weekend wasn’t any better either. I did see Walk The Line with Chris, and picked up some long johns so I wouldn’t freeze when I went snowboarding. But seeing as it’s too fucking warm for Tahoe to even MAKE snow, I don’t think I’ll be using these anytime soon (although I am wearing them right now along with my new snowboarding pants). Well I had this entire agenda of stuff to get taken care of when I was in the city tomorrow, and basically everything went downhill from there.

First of all, I couldn’t find any damn parking in Union Square when I went, but that’s not too big of a problem.

I wanted to go to Neiman’s to find that Vera Wang dress for the company Christmas party. Of course, no dress there.

Went to Gucci to get my shoes fixed. Check–and waiting for them to call back so I can pick them up.

Coach, to see if they had those aviator sunglasses that I wanted. That was a no-go–they didn’t have any left in the store.

SPCA, to see if we could adopt a puppy. No check–can’t adopt the lab mix puppies until after they got neutered/spayed, went to the Macy’s display window, and back to the SPCA.

In my state of rolling donut, however, I did manage to land a new fleece something-or-the-ther and snowboarding pants from North Face for early Christmas present :). And yes, I am wearing them right now.

xamples

Position:relative
This example demonstrates how to position an element relative to its normal position.

Position:absolute
This example demonstrates how to position an element using an absolute value.

Set the shape of an element
This example demonstrates how to set the shape of an element. The element is clipped into this shape, and displayed.

Overflow
This example demonstrates how to set the overflow property to specify what should happen when an element's content is too big to fit in a specified area.

Vertical align an image
This example demonstrates how to vertical align an image in a text.

Z-index
Z-index can be used to place an element "behind" another element.

Z-index
The elements in the example above have now changed their Z-index.
CSS Positioning Properties

The CSS positioning properties allow you to specify the left, right, top, and bottom position of an element. It also allows you to set the shape of an element, place an element behind another, and to specify what should happen when an element's content is too big to fit in a specified area.

Browser support: IE: Internet Explorer, F: Firefox, N: Netscape.

W3C: The number in the "W3C" column indicates in which CSS recommendation the property is defined (CSS1 or CSS2).

So I was thinking about my Christmas list since I get a $500 budget, and I’m thinking about forgoing everything (including the Gucci!) for the Xbox 360. Well I wanted to do some more research before I made this decision so logically I peruse the xbox website. Well, as you all know, the 360 comes in 2 versions, and if I were to get any, I figure it’d be the super-loaded version….even though I don’t really play live and use the headset, but if I had it maybe I would actually play on Live. But anyways, I get to the bottom highlight of the souped-up 360 which reads: “One Month Xbox Live Gold Trial, plus free Xbox Live Silver Membership*” and I’m like…okay so there’s a catch, obviously, cuz there’s an asterik at the end of the silver membership. I scroll down to the bottom of the page and find what the asterik reads. To my pleasant surprise, I found this next to the asterik:

*Free Silver membership requires a broadband Internet connection and an Xbox 360 storage device (hard drive or memory unit). Korean players under the age of 14 and players who have previously been banned from Xbox Live are ineligible.

Tell me, is that not funny or what?

So we all know I’m not exactly the girlie girl, but I decided that I needed to touch up my brows and get them tweezed professionally (last time I had them done was over a year ago). So where else to go other than Benefit’s famous Brow Bar at Macy’s? My first attempt was Saturday at three in the afternoon. That was probably the dumbest thing I could have done. I had to wait an hour and twenty minutes before the next appointment, so I said, “fuck it I’ll come back another time.” Since I had to pick up my brother from school today at three, I decided we could go kill the rest of the afternoon at the mall and grab some dinner at CPK. (By the way, the rum-filled tiramisu was deee-licious.) Well first of all, I didn’t even have to wait in a damn line to sign in on the clipboard, and there really isn’t a second. But anyways, the lady waxed and tweezed my eyebrows, shaped them, highlighted my brows, put blush on me, and freaking, did everything to make me look good. I’m like, I don’t even wanna wash my face tonight cuz I look so good right now. But I’d just like to say that the Benefit brow bar is probably the best thing ever next to….Halo and BMWs. I’m definitely going there anytime I wanna get all prettied-up, and I defintely recommend it to anyone who wants a 10-minute spa. Yes, that even includes the metrosexual men.

Well I was *almost* impulsed to go to the Warriors game tonight, but when I called home my dad told me he just got back….with a brand new 48″ sony lcd tv. So I’m like, SWEET, see you guys, I’m going home and checking out our new mutha fuckin tv. (Mind you, we had a rinky dinky 23″ before. Well I’m not sure if it was 23″, but it was so fucking small I had to sit three feet away in order to see anything properly.) Well, we got everything set up, and I’m watching Bourne Identity as we speak, but I have to admit, I’m kind of disappointed. It looks grainy up close and it’s only FORTY INCHES. I mean, geez, my dad could have at least settled for plasma and gotten something bigger.

I’m pretty sure this is the sweetest animation site I’ve ever seen (courtesy of RonZ). Check it out and play around. It’s meant to be interactive, so yeah, interact with the dude.

And I dunno why I have the Napolean Dynamite quote up there as the title to the post.

I don’t think I spelled “assessment” right, but whatever. So anyways, I’ve been assessing my situation, and it just hit me that my friends are getting married. Like, holy crap! Marriage life, settling down, no more dating, wtf?! That’s pretty crazy, seeing as right now I’m still contemplating how long my current relationship is going to last. I’m making a bet that I’m going to be the last of my friends to get married, and by the time I do settle down, my friends will already have kids. Pretty reasonable, right? Hey, I’ll even throw in a number to make it interesting: 28. Anyone wanna take the under on that?

Yup, I did the nerd search. And you know what?? You’d think it’d be just as easy as a word search, but I surprisingly struggled on two of them. And I’m embarrassed to say that I still need to count on my fingers :P. I guess that kinda negates the nerd part.