I did a dumb thing this weekend. I shut Graysie into my laundry closest for more than a day. Saturday, I had gotten into it to grab some clothing. She got in while I wasn't looking. Scooter did, too. However, I saw him and chased him out of it before shutting it. Graysie, due to her coloring, couldn't be seen. When I got home the next day, I was greeted by a meowing laundry closet. I felt so bad about it and hugged her. I thought she had learned a lesson, but this morning, as I was swapping laundry between the washer and dryer, she got in the dryer. I made sure neither was in the closet prior to leaving to work.

I spent yet another weekend with Joey and family. This weekend was to help Joey prepare a portfolio of web design work for a position he's hoping to get a callback for. Lord knows he needs a job. We got that done. As we were working on it, I told him he needs to just come to my place one weekend, and we'd reformat my old laptop I used for my Senior Project. We could play around in Linux and learn things we should have learned in our IT program. We both feel like he didn't learn enough in that program. And we aren't alone. Others I know feel the same.

We went out for the night as well. We hadn't done that since just before my job interview in May. We had dinner, followed by spending the rest of the night at a karaoke bar. I didn't sing. I was asked why I didn't. My answer: I can't. Even Joey can back that as an answer after my attempt with Shannon. Joey sang a few songs. We both thought of "Suspicious Minds" as one he could sing. Just as I turned it on from the music file I have on my phone, he asked me about listing it as something he'd sing. Our brains must have been in sync Saturday. Not only did we both think of the same song, earlier in the day, when I arrived, he mentioned using my senior project files to use as guidance for his portfolio. Just before I left my apartment, I thought the same thing and brought the project with me. When he mentioned it to me, I laughed.

Once we got to his place at God knows when, we watched The Last Samurai. I saw most of it. I think I had passed out at prior to the last scene of the movie. I enjoyed it. I knew it was historically wrong, but that didn't distract from the lessons Tom Cruise's character learned.

The next morning, I woke up and spent time with Harold, Joey's step-father. There is a dynamic in this quasi-family that has developed between Joey, his parents, and me. Joey is closer to his mother than Harold. I am closer to Harold than his mother. I needed to get things off my chest and felt most comfortable with Harold. He's the closest person to a father physically near me. After my time with Harold, I returned to finish the portfolio work with Joey and played some Xbox with him. Mary Ellen and Harold asked if I could stay for dinner, so I had dinner with them prior to coming home. While I had been out with Harold eariler, he misspoke and referred to Mary Ellen as my mother. I laughed. I'm honored they see me as a daughter figure. The conversation at dinner ended up being about my siblings' significant others. It didn't mean to be get that way. I think Joey enjoyed telling his mother about them more than I did. After tying up some loose ends at the house, I came back to my place.

Friday, I didn't have a chance to post, but I got my hair done. I had another highlighting job done as well as a trim. My hair was cut a little too short for my liking, but I needed. It should grow to the length I wanted in no time. I got a picture of it on Flickr.

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I'm working on it. From my research on it, it's a server issue I can't control. I just don't have the time at the moment to find a work around. And goodness knows half the time my server doesn't work like it should.

[♪ Listening to: "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley]

Posted by Shawn at August 18, 2008 10:35 PM in Flickr Photos, General.