I don’t know why, but anytime I’m sitting here at my computer, I smell gasoline.  It’s not on me (I didn’t buy any gas today and I’ve washed my hands a gazillion times).  It’s not on anything on the desk.  And the aroma totally comes and goes. It must be coming in from outside the back window, but they’re not doing anything out there.  Either way, it’s driving me crazy!

Let’s face it, there are other things I’d rather be focusing on then trying to find the hidden source of the gasoline smell.  Important stuff like where can I find warm gloves for me and a hat and scarf for the hubs that aren’t crazy expensive, but still somewhat cute.  And like why the hell there’s a TomCruise.com site advertised on my LJ page?  And how can we  possibly have a $650 dental bill carrying over from September when the hubs only had a cleaning and a filling?!?!  How much does that shit cost WITH insurance???

Though to be completely honest, I have tons of work I should be doing to gear up for the upcoming batch of giveaways before we leave.  But I think I’ll worry about that tomorrow.  Fiddle dee dee…tomorrow is another day*.

*love, love, love Gone with the Wind.  One of my all time favorite books and movies.

I finally got around to catching up on some of the new fall TV shows. I thought I might take a moment to share some of my thoughts.

Gossip Girl – I was really, really, really looking forward to Gossip Girl’s return.  The couple of episodes haven’t really wowed me me much though.  Maybe things will heat back up again once everyone returns to school.  Here’s hoping anyway.

Privilege – I’m liking this so far.  I think it’s a cute premise and slightly more believable than Gossip Girl.  Though really, who in the world gets to drink alcohol at such a young age?  Is that even possible?  It took a while to realize who the main character and tutor is – if she were still a blonde I probably would have figured it out sooner.

Grey’s Anaotmy – What a lame return.  That episode just dragged on and on.  It’s a shame too, as I was really looking forward to the return.  I heard there’s going to be some good character development coming up, so I hate the season improves.

Heroes – All I can say is WOW!  Did you see that season premier?  Even if they’d stopped after the first hour, it would still have been totally on the edge of your seat excitement.  I can’t wait to see where it’s all going to go.  Who is a hero and who is a villian?  And what about people  who previously didn’t have powers getting them?  And Linderman, what happened to him again?  Did Nicki kill him?  What about Claire, is she different now that Sylar got a hold of her?

Fringe – I’m quite liking this show.  I should admit though, I’m was a huge Alias fan.  And while I can see the comparisions, I keep waiting for it to be as good as Alias was when it was great.  I don’t mean that Fringe isn’t good, just that it’s not Alias, so I need to stop watching it looking for signs of Alias.  I’m loving Joshua Jackson, but that lead gal, I’m not quite so fond of.  She doesn’t seem to have that zing that JJ Abrams other lead women seem to have.  I’ll keep watching though, as I do believe I’m hooked and need to learn more about The Pattern.

The Mentalist – I just watched this about an hour ago.  I’m not quite sure if I like it.  It was okay, but if I’m watching someone pretend to be a psychic while being a detective…well, I’ll just watch Psych (and I do).  That Simon Baker though, he is a cutie with an awesome smile.  So I have a feeling I might just be watching to keep an eye on him.

Lipstick Jungle – I was actually surprised to see it return.  I don’t think it’s bad, but it’s not exactly much see TV either.  I find it interesting that they killed off whats-her-name’s husband.  That was one thing in the old season that make her character a little less believeable or relatable for me.  Well at least now she’ll get to play with Kirby out in pubic.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the shows coming back over the next couple of weeks.  I’m definitely ready for the ABC Wednesday night line up, especially Dirty, Sexy, Money. When does Lost return?

So what have you been watching these past two weeks and what are you still looking forward to?

Seriously, pumpkins are everywhere from our clothes, to our home decor to our food & drinks, but um…the cool weather just up and disappeared.  It’s seriously 96 degrees right now!  It was only predicted to be 90.  How does this happen?

The heat is just sucking everything out of me.  I have no will to do much of anything. I’d give in and take a nap, but even just sitting on the couch (with our whimpy AC blowing) is too hot – must be those damn feathers!  Yet another reason why I need to slipcover that damn thing already!  Even writing this my arm keeps sticking to the desktop.  What’s up with that?

There’s so much I should be focusing on.  I have tons of business-realated stuff to get to and a teleseminar to create.  Like I have time for this heat.  My pumpkin ice blended didn’t even help (ooh, but I do have some great CBTL news for my local readers…can you say gift cards? Stay Tuned…)

Maybe I’ll just settle for polishing my toes.  I bought a new chocolate reddish color from the fantabulous OPI, I’m Fondue of You.  Then again, I’m already wearing a fantabulous OPI shade, 20 Candles on My Cake. Oh, decisions, decisions.

I don’t care anymore, just bring back my cooler fall weather please!!!

I downloaded my new ringtone yesterday.  Thing is, I wasn’t able to access it.  So while I was able to purchase it, I couldn’t find it anywhere on my phone.  So today I tried to see what was up online. Only, um I can’t recall the login info.  Of course I managed to get myself locked out of the account.  Again.

Tthe account, while my phone, is all under my husband’s name since it’s all bundled in with the phone, internet and dish, and I can’t follow up with anything.  Or at least I can’t access anything without the main account password.  Which of course, brings us back to square one…I can’t recall what that might be and they can’t give any hints (like mother’s maiden name, city born, pet, etc).

I’m over all these passwords.  Especially when I can’t pick the questions myself like on my student loan account.  They ask questions that I don’t care about and are just plain asinine…favorite food or drink?  Hello, doesn’t that change depending on your mood?  And let’s face it, my favorite food or drink at 21 will surely be something different than my favorite food or drink at 40…pizza and beer vs a filet mignon and a merlot or a well made martini or cadillac margarita?

The other day I accessed our joint banking account and was once again asked to pick my security questions and answers.  All I can say is that I sure hope my husband remembers our basic relationship history or well, he’s screwed and won’t be able to get into our account.  That’s just wrong.  If you’re going to ask for security questions and answers, at least let us create them ourselves so they make sense.

Is anyone else over all these stupid passwords and security questions or am I just getting old?

Apparently, discussing family medical issues is not such the hot topic…my visits are way, way down since I’ve been blogging about this.  Guess I should find something else to talk about 😉

So here we go, totally unrelated to fathers, strokes or even families…how ’bout some random thoughts?

* I sat down today to watch the Coco Chanel story on Lifetime.  Can’t say it was all that exciting.  I’d have expected much more out of a 3 hour movie.  I will say that now I’m quite curious about what her life was really like.  I think I’ll be checking out a biography on her.

* I love minestrone soup and Progresso makes a damn fine one.  Unfortunately, they either don’t sell all too well at my local Pavillions, or they sell out on a regular basis.  Either way, they  never have any in stock.  The other day I found some cans, but they were 50% less sodium.  Man, that stuff tastes like shit.  Even when you add back the missing salt, it still tastes like crap.  Not cool.

* I should’ve spent today confirming my Ireland reservations.  Instead, I watched the stupid Coco story and took a very long, very uncomfortable nap.  The kind of nap that you only half-slept through, all while having funky dreams and fighting to open your eyes.  Very uncomfortable indeed.

* I still haven’t slip covered the couch because I need the hubs to help me move the couch so I can get behind it.  And well, if I’m going to move it far enough away from the wall to get behind it, then I may as well vacuum while I’m back there.  So of course, I can’t do that late at night once the hubs gets home, when it’s cooler.

* Next weekend I have an invitation to my friend’s Baptism (and possibly the baby’s 1st birthday as well) and book club all three hours apart.  Now, in theory, this is doable.  But, travel time alone (assuming no traffic and well, in LA, that’s never a guarantee) is two hours.  So now I have to figure out how best to handle this.  There is a brunch prior to the actual service, but we were hoping on skipping that since it’s so early.  Now, we just might have to do the brunch instead of the service.

* I want an iPod.  I have a Shuffle, and it works just fine for going to the gym since I make playlists to work out to.  But it sucks on airplanes because you can’t see what you’re listening to and you don’t know what’s next.  Not nearly as convenient. So now I’m thinking that I’d like a new iPod in time for Ireland.  Any idea how to justify this as a business expense?

* I have a small biz meetup tonight.  I’m actually looking forward to it since there will be someone there from Constant Contact. I figure I’ll grab a card and pass it along to the LWL group and maybe they can speak at one of our events (or at least at one of the OC events since they couldn’t come up and get in on tonight’s opportunity).  I have no idea what to wear.  It’s late enough (7:30) that there’s no need to look biz-like.  But really, I’m not in the mood to do the whole hair, make-up and wardobe thing…must be that awful nap.

* I’m refusing to buy any more shampoo, conditioner, soap or lotion, until I finish up the bags and bags of the travel size products I’ve either purchased or taken from hotels. Of course, I’m not liking any of the conditioners, so I might still need to keep some good conditioner, like some Terax Crema, on hand.

* I need to tighten the screws on my chair.  I don’t know where my little, handy phillips thinga-majiggy is.  I think the hubs borrowed it and never gave it back.

* I dyed my hair myself last night to save some money.  Big mistake.  It’s now too dark. Maybe I shouldn’t have taken Pamela Anderson’s advice and left the crap on my head for 45 minutes.  Face it, she’s a platinum blonde, what does she know?!?!  But hey, I did a decent job of cleaning up the rug…you can barely see my drop spots.