Moonlit Jazz

Josh Duhamel! 😀 Hope has a lovely day. Just had to mention his bday. I’m silly, I know. 😉

1. Using one adjective, describe your current living space.
cluttered

2. Using two adjectives, describe your current employer.
uncaring, oblivious

3. Using three adjectives, describe your favorite hobby/pasttime.
exciting, fun, wonderful

4. Using four adjectives, describe your typical day.
busy, frustrating, fast, demanding

5. Using five adjectives, describe your ideal life.
relaxing, enjoyable, creative, knowledgeable, understanding

And thank you always for the comments:

Krisann – you’re a super sweet person and a wonderful friend. 🙂 Maybe one day I’ll get Greg to come up for a baseball game and he can introduce me to his friend. Wouldn’t that be a killer? Oh, and somehow you will have to be there!

Jen – I have a friend who thinks IE is evil, but I’m going to have to agree with you that Netscape is evil with websites. I try and make my sites look the same for all browsers, but I guess I failed with this layout. Sorry to those who use NS or AOL or CompuServe. And very weird about how we both started out on AOL. I wasn’t a computer nerd in college. I’m an English major! 😀

Chelle – You make me feel old! LOL! But it’s cool that you’ve been online since you were a youngster. You’ve definitely got design talent and your websites are a joy! I started off as “Kiari” because I knew AOL wouldn’t let me use “Valerie” as my screenname. When I started posting at the Xena/Herc message boards, I used Kiari again. I didn’t start going by Valerie online until I put up my soulDecision site. And now most of my fellow baseball fans know me as Valerie. It’s all very weird…

Sharon – Trevor Guthrie is the blond guy! 😀 Actually, he has brown hair now. And yes, “Faded” was their song.

THE SHORT VERSION OF MY SOULDECISION/TREVOR GUTHRIE STORY…

I actually met Trevor a month before he called me. It was a Christina Aguilera concert. I was there for soulDecision, the husband was there for Destiny’s Child. Before the concert started, we were walking around and I saw this tall blond fellow and realized that it was TREVOR GUTHRIE! My husband said, “Go talk to him.” I was like, eeek! But I took my nerves in hand and approached Trevor. I said, “Are you Trevor Guthrie?” He crinkled his eyes and said yes, then asked if he knew me. I laughed and said no, that I was just a fan. I asked for his autograph. While he was signing my little book, I asked him about Ryan Gosling. I wanted to know on what song Ryan sang background vocals. Trevor replied by singing a part from the song “Feelin’ You.” Awww!… When Trevor called a month later (I won a phone call from one of the guys), I mentioned that we had met. He remembered! And he remembered something I didn’t remember. LOL! We talked about Ryan (because his birthday was the day before Trevor’s call) and Trevor told me how he reminded Justin Timberlake to call Ryan for his birthday. (soulDecision was touring with N*Sync at the time.)

Can you tell I just love telling my soulDecision/Trevor Guthrie story?

HOUSESITTING AGAIN WITH SIX DOGS…

We’re housesitting again this weekend, so no pictures until at least Tuesday. Maybe I’ll have some from this weekend. Maybe I’ll even do some familial venting here. We’ll see how it all plays out.

Listening to The drip drip of water?

I changed my mind, I want to vent. First, a disclaimer.

DISCLAIMER: If you are one of the parties involved and you feel offended by my opinion, I do not apologize. Do not bring up anything I write here. Although this is a public weblog, it is a private forum. This weblog is my way of venting and expressing myself. I do not in anyway mean to create rifts. But I do want my opinion known and I do want to know what others who are uninvolved think.

Bottom line: READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

Yeah, that should do it.

My husband’s sister (let’s call her SIL [sister-in-law]) decided to have a party on the very weekend her parents would be out of town. The party was to be held at the house in which she rents a room. When the e-invites went out sometime after Halloween, the party was revealed as a birthday celebration for her.

For whatever reason, the owner of the house decided that she didn’t want a party at her house, so SIL had to either cancel the party or move it. She talked it over with her mother, who offered her house (even though she would be out of town and WE were going to be housesitting), if it was okay with my husband (since WE were going to be housesitting). When my mother-in-law talked to my husband, she mentioned that SIL would probably talk to him about it.

Wednesday of this week, I (along with all the rest invited by e-invite) get an email saying that the party has been moved to her parents’ house. Am I surprised? Well, yes. And can I say slightly ANNOYED?!

So let’s recap. The husband and I are housesitting for his parents. His sister is going to have a party in the middle of our housesitting time here at the house we are housesitting.

Does that make sense?

I guess this is where I vent.

First off, I do not at all mind housesitting for my in-laws. This house is closer to my work and my dogs get to socialize with other dogs. Always a good thing. And it’s the very least we can do for my in-laws, who have been a tremendous support in our lives. So what they do with their house is not up to me or my husband.

Second, I understand that my husband is not going to say no to his mother. If she wants to offer her house to her daughter, cool with him. He gives up responsibility to the house for Saturday night.

What I do not understand is:

1) why schedule a party knowing her parents are going to be out of town and the party is for her birthday?

2) why can’t she have the party at her own place or at someone else’s place?

3) why avoid her brother after the updated e-invite has been sent out? Shouldn’t she coodinate with him on the details for Saturday?

4) why am I the only one in this family who thinks it’s a bunch of crap that she’s not the one who’s housesitting? Wouldn’t that make sense? She has a party, she can housesit.

Of course, being the person that I am, I will not bring this up to her or her parents. As I said, her parents can do as they please. I did bring it up with the husband and we had a “lively” discussion about it. Bottom line for him is that you just have to do things for family. Even if it doesn’t make sense.

READ ME – a disclaimer better said…

[note: I did write this post AFTER the previous post, but it shows before the post because I’m weird like that.]

I met Greg Lee! 😀 Wow, it doesn’t seem that long ago. I can still remember most of that night. Super sweet.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN GOSLING!

Ryan is 23 years old today. Still a freakin’ baby! Hope he had a lovely day. 🙂

THREE YEARS AGO TOMORROW…

Trevor Guthrie (of soulDecision) called me! A special moment. A very special weekend all the way around. 😉

Listening to The washer washing the darks…

A’s 2004 season schedule

Can you tell I’m anxious for baseball or what? LOL! They’re not playing on my birthday. 🙁 I could always take the next day off, except New York is in town. BLAH!

I turned on my CompuServe and checked out this weblog and was SHOCKED to see that it looked different. So, I need to know what’s wrong, but I also need to know what you all see.

This is how this weblog should look:

In Netscape and CompuServe, this site looks like this:

The right column is not there. 🙁 Instead, it’s at the bottom of the page. And it looks BAD! Well, maybe not bad, but definitely dorky. Help!

The problem, from what I can see, is that Netscape and CS’s browser are not reading the table correctly. I’m not good enough with my html to know what’s wrong. Is this my punishment for using FrontPage? 😛

I guess I just need to know what all of you are seeing. Is Mark Mulder on the right side of the page for you or at the bottom? If most of you see it correctly, then I suppose I won’t worry too much about it. But if most of you are seeing it INCORRECTLY, then I need to tweak the code somehow. Or maybe someone can figure it out for me? Yeah, let me know. 🙂

Listening to “Can’t Lose What You Never Had” by Westlife

My domain, kiari.com, has been up since 1998. But I have been online (as “Kiari”) since 1997. Kiari’s Corner, the name of my domain, was also the name of my first website when it was hosted at AOL. I bought my domain in 1998 because I was tired of the free sites, specifically Xoom, which went down for a whole weekend. I was outraged! 😛 So even though my domain has only been up for five years, I’ve actually been online for almost seven. Holy crap! LOL!

Krisann, thank you for the good wishes. 🙂

Meesh, you didn’t get the holiday off at all? That sucks!

Lauren, I wish I got BOTH days off. If I had thought of it, I would have put a card in for yesterday. 😉

Jen, we’re just internet nerds, eh? What made you start the online thing? For me, it was Xena and Hercules. Well, specifically Kevin Smith (“Ares”) and Erik Thomson (“Hades”). Yes, it was for the MEN. LOL!

Sunlight through the leaves…

And I thank all of you who’ve commented on my photos. I love taking pictures and I like trying to be artsy. 😀 In case anyone wants to know, I use a Sony Cybershot DSC-P71. I’m sure I haven’t utilized all its features, but I still wouldn’t mind a new camera. 😛 I’m a sucker for technology. LOL!

Meggie in the backyard…

Oooh, I figured out how to blog on my friend’s domain. It works! Hmm, maybe she’ll want to move her blog there and she can upload pictures if she wants. 🙂 I have to email her about it…

Listening to “Hunting High and Low” by A-ha