Aside from some unexpected stress, this has been a good week. Monday I had a lot of fun MUXing. I finally got to unleash the evil horror that is Rick-Roller onto the MUX, and he's already found a young disciple of Astley in Over Kill. It's going to be sad for me not to temp Blaster anymore, but our new Blaster sweems pretty cool. Now we just have to lure Snoop out of her cave to play with said new Blaster.

Tuesday I'd planned to log onto the MUX again to attend a meeting, but when I stopped to take money out of my ATM I got a nasty shock -- I was unexpectedly overdrawn. I ran home to log onto my bank website, and it turns out that AT&T charged me $770 for my cell phone bill last month. I called them, and it turns out that when I re-upped my contact last month, it broke my family plan and my second line ran up $550 in charges instead of sharing my minutes.

AT&T said they'd get back to me about fixing my account, but it's Sunday and I haven't heard back from them yet. Since I was unexpectedly broke, lildomino was sweet and brought over cash and food to hold me over until payday. Since I was stressed, she also provided snuggles until I felt better, although by that point my second MUX night was ruined. She did lend me cash to buy Star Trek RPG books from eBay, so at least the high-priority items were covered. >B^)

Wednesday was a much better night in terms of stress. lemur_lady came up to see me after work, and while I was waiting for her I managed to get some things done around my apartment to make up for Tuesday night's lack of productivity. lemur_lady and I ran up to Barnes & Nobles for some late-night chai and cheesecake, and then back to my apartment to cuddle and catch up.

I haven't seen lemur_lady since March (my plan to see her for her birthday got pwn3d), so while she was in town I took Thursday off so we could have more time to hang out. We both work up realtively early, so we went to IHOP for breakfast, and then hit the yarn stores. We went back to my apartment so she could exercise and we could cuddle, and then we showered and met icespark for dinner before lemur_lady headed back down to Bloomington.

After dinner icespark and I went to see Weird Al in concert. icespark had never seen a Weird Al show, so she'd bought us tickets for my birthday so the two of us could go as a date. icespark said she had a surprisingly good time, and I of course had a great time as always. We both had Thursday off for Independence Day, so after the show we stayed up until dawn watching Dexter.

Five minutes after we turned off the TV icespark's alarm went off, so I reased her about going in to work. icespark and I actually wound up sleeping in really late, and then icespark grilled yummy burgers, corn, and sausages for lunch. We hung out a bit longer and then I went over to lildomino's so we could walk up and enjoy the fireworks from the park next to the Speedway. After snuggling and watching the fireworks show lildomino and I headed back to her house to sleep.

Saturday lildomino and I slept late, got up long enough to eat cereal and yogurt, and then took a nap. We could have probably spent all day in bed, but I had plans to meet mishiell. lildomino brought me home, and about five minutes later mishiell showed up to pick me up. mishiell and I went out to eat, and then went to The Retreat for an Independence Day party complete with naked swimming *(woot!)* It was too cold to swim much, but the fireworks were pretty.

Today mishiell and I got up early enough to run out for breakfast and for me to run up to my work to see if my flash drive is there (since I seem to have lost it again). No dice, so we dropped my her apartment so she could grab a few things, and then we're stopping my Half-Price Books and then back to my place to do laundry and make Star Trek RPG characters. Ah, geek love!

I had a long pleasant weekend that was productive and quiet. Friday night I went over to Mika’s apartment when I got off work. She cooked us dinner -- chicken stir fry (not tofu as she’d originally intended) and French-cut green beans with mushrooms, which were quite tasty. We sat on her couch and ate while watching Bones and House M.D. After we finished eating and watching TV we wound up going to bed pretty early, since I had to work Saturday morning.

Saturday I’d thought about trying to track down people I never get to see, but as the weekend approached I decided not to try chasing down people and overplanning, and to just go with the flow. After I got off work icespark and I had dinner, and then built a pillow fort and watched Angel season four. We’d wound up getting extra iced coffees from the coffee, so we stayed up until almost done finishing out the the rest of season. It was good to have a weekend night to just stay in and snuggle.

Sunday icespark and I planned to get up semi-early and go to Le Peep, but we wound up sleeping too late and went to IHOP instead. When we got back to my apartment, though, we set out of a day of productivity, so I took most of a four-hour online driving school I needed to take four points off my license (it was that or have it suspended), and icespark used the time to rearrange my living room and go through a lot of the boxes of crap that clutter up my apartment. I got a ton of laundry done, which icespark was sweet enough to fold and sort. Finally we went to bed and started Angel season five.

Monday I had off work, so icespark took off as well to spend more time with me and help me keep up the productivity streak. I finished the drivers’ course, painful as it was, and we snuggled and straightened a bit more before heading to her apartment, grabbing food on the way. At icespark’s on got on the MUX, and got some admin stuff done as well as roleplaying as Blaster, Dr. Greer, and Typhoon. Like the rest of the weekend, my night on the MUX was both fun and productive, and an excellent way to start the week.

Sir Warwick Harrow: “You didn't have to wound that man.”
Mal: “No, but it was funny.”