I hope you enjoy your shiny new computer! Are you a Mac or PC person? I'm running my laptop with Windows 7 until they pry it from my cold, dead hands haha.

I had a roommate with me for the past few months which was difficult to really be online. I tended to work and just hide in my room. Sharing space was difficult. Plus they were out of their element which was even more difficult for them. and they wanted to be around me...which sadly cus of work and other things i didnt want to be around them.

so is yours! I am trying to work it in with Angler virus.

tis okay, hon. My ENT has pulled the swelling down drastically and on Tuesday I had another contrast CT to see where exactly the bump was. Good thing it's nothing super serious (no abscess or anything else) and he was able to see that it was my lymph node right under my chin. Gave a new round of antibiotics to take hoping it will help clear it out. Told me to keep an eye on it and let him know if anything changes. Said to continue the warm compresses. Thankfully, I don't have pain anymore from it but I still get creeped out by the hard area when I sit my chin on my hand or run my hand over the area.

How are you doing?

raises hand Yup, that's me haha! Used to be bluenocturne1998, then changed it to Hollis, and now I'm Merlot :P

I think my first wine was a Riesling. I wasn't quite ready to branch out to other wines back then, but now I'll try them all.

huggles Glad to see things are slowly getting back to normal with that bump! I also wouldn't want to meet your HA in a dark alley or woods :P

I like both but prefer PC! I used Windows 7 as long as I could too... my old laptop actually forced me to get windows 10. :( So when this PC came preloaded with Windows 10 I was used to it for the most part, but I do miss 7 sighs

Thank you! Mine is actually just a recycled HA from last winter, I haven't really come up with anything new lately. Yours does look like it should work very well with Angler! I'll be curious to see how that one progresses!

Oh yes I know those feelings well. Me and bf had roommates a couple times and I don't do well with roommates. After work I just want to go to my room and be left alone to read or get online or something and that's hard to do when roommates always want to be all like.... social and stuff. Ick.

Oh I love Riesling! That's currently my favorite wine! I'm always down to try new wines too, they're awesome. Have you ever had chocolate wine? It's definitely not wine in the traditional sense but it's delicious!

It was just tough. So now I am back alone and it better. Think better for them going back home too.

bahahaha, yeah I'm feeling a bit savage right now and I'm not entirely sure why... Could be the weather (rain... bah) or just the universe giving me an edge since I've been fairly meek due to everything. How was your week?

Chocolate wine sounds interesting. I'm sure I've seen it on the shelves, but I haven't tried it yet. Maybe I'll pick it up this weekend and have it after dinner. It sounds like a dessert wine.

It's short day today, so we're all getting off work at noon! I'm counting down the days until I get be done with this job and start working at Michael's :) They are waiting for my background check to go through and then I'll go in to fill out new hire paperwork. It'll be part time too and maybe there'll be discounts for working there.

We have two days of no rain and then Sunday it's supposed to start up again, but end by Monday. We'll see.

I recycle my HAs quite a bit too. Sometimes I just don't have time to make a new one ;)

I remember that sneaky update they did to force the Windows 10 onto people. I was fortunate enough to read about it before it happened and was able to block it. That was such a nasty thing to do to people.

Aha! Hollis rang a bell but not Merlot :P I love it though- it's classy and it fits your HA really well!

that's awesome that you have half a day! :) Woo, Michaels! Excited for you girlie.

Thanks and it does lol. I don't think I'll be hanging my name anytime soon.

I tend to recycle HAs too. This is one of them, even though it's a pretty recent one.

I'll be able to tell you and everyone else when all of the new stuff is coming in!

woo! Might even have to have you be our secret shopper, hahahahaha.

And on that note I think my nap did me zero good. Woke up one hell of a cranky bitch. Like wtf.

Yeah I could!

Ahhh that sucks about your nap! I saw pictures from the circus that you went too. How was it?

yeah unfortunately I've been cranky again all damn day. Doesn't help that it felt like people were just looking for a reason for me to snap today... Almost snapped at Levi and hell he might still get snapped at cause I'm feeling like I need to let someone have it. Heh.

It's was good, I guess. I've never seen any cirque but it wasn't what I was expecting. They didn't exactly describe it properly (mish mash of this or that going on) and felt like false advertising. Definitely feel like we overpaid for our seats (as the seating is nothing like we expected it to be). IF they came around again I would pay as little as possible per seat. I feel like asking them what makes it Italian because there was next to no Italian theme going on and the water, hah, it was more like a freaking water fountain show.

Edit @ 5 am CST March 6

I have two trades up currently with CWs available for purchase in CSC or Pure. Discounted for ASP/LRVT Members.

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I need these items gone asap. If you have an item you think I'd trade for comment or make an offer. Not sure if I will trade but I definitely will not be haggling, I am offering a generous discount as is. Thank you.

I agree, I don't understand why they did that. But meh, I've made my peace with it for the most part.

Alone is nice. Much less stressful. I'm sure I'm a difficult person to be roommates with because I get overly anxious about things that really arent that big of a deal.

Oh yes it's most definitely a dessert wine. I occasionally see chocolate raspberry wine too, not sure if maybe it's seasonal but I really want to try it sometime.

Me too. Or I'm just not feeling creative enough to come up with something new that actually looks good. :(

Well I still prefer them and they normally make very reliable products. Everyone make fun of it, but I have a Nokia Windows Phone and it's lasted over 5 years w/no issues-there's just a lack of apps available for it, but for everything else it's fine :)

afternoon all! I'm lost in the conversations floating back and forth so I figured I'd jump right in!

I'm interested in the Rose Branches of Dawn, the first trade.

It had come to where I live, but we never went, so I'm glad you told me about it! It probably won't be on the top of my to do list. Maybe we can go to Vegas to see a real Cirque show.

waves Hey! How are ya?