Why Voodoo?

Okay, so somebody just asked me, 'What's up with you and this whole voodoo thigh?  Why voodoo?'  I can't really explain why.  I suppose that Voodoo (the word) stuck with me after reading an Anne Rice novel called The Witching Hour. This particular book made such an impact in my life, that from the moment I read it, I pretty much became obsessed with anything and everything about the supernatural and anything and everything related to it. For many many years, since like, 1997 I think, I've been known around the internet as Voodoo Banshee. I always refer to Voodoo Banshee as  my alter ego, because... it really is. And before you ask me: No. I'm not a narcissist.

After that, I went OCD with the whole voodoo thing. In 2003, I decided to make a second LiveJournal account for myself under the username and after that, I went as far as purchasing my own domain name. Unfortunately, voodoobanshee.com was already taken. Imagine my outrage at that! LOL. I did inquire about purchasing it, but I did not have the appropriate funds for that (yeah, right, like I had $5,000 just lying around somewhere at the time.) So then, I started thinking... maybe VoodooBanshee can just be my alter ego/username for everything and I can purchase a separate domain name that has the word voodoo in it. And that's how Voodoo Envy was born.

How did I come up with the name? Easy. I had a running joke with someone on LiveJournal who always made fun of my Voodoo username, so I would always tell him: 'You know you just got voodoo envy, you wanna be like my voodoo when you grow up.' HA! So that's how I got the idea. And snagged myself a .com, .net, and .org.

Later on, I found that Hewlett-Packard had a line of PC's and Notebooks called Voodoo Envy 133 notebook PC and Voodoo Omen desktop PC. I remember that I almost bought a voodoo notebook. They were way cool... signature colors, tribal designs, the works.

That'd be how my voodoo came to be; *tee hee* just my little piece of voodoo history for y'all. And now you know, why voodoo. Why not?

*the end*

Secret Lives of Condoms

Condoms... the things they do when they think no one is looking...

Wordpress/LiveJournal Cross Posts?

So I finally got around to to fixing the cross-posting feature on my personal blog and LiveJournal.  Now I won't have to go back and forth!!! No more missed posts, or blah blah stuff like that. 

I'm so excited.  I know- I know- it doesn't take much these days to make me happy.

On to life events...

So I've been playing Guitar Hero World Tour like crazy.  My little munchkin has gotten a real kick at watching mommy strum her stuff.  Its fun, but I think she just likes the noise though, and watching mommy make a fool of herself.  But it's hilarious to watch.  I still suck though, I just don't have enough time to play like I want to.  I'll never be any good at this rate.  I so wanna play against my friends online. HA!  [loves PS3 just for that reason].

Work has been hectic as always.  My desk is back to looking like national disaster zone.  At least I am not sick, like everyone else seems to be *knocks on wood*.  It's like bio-warfare here at the office.  Everyone's desk is a biohazard zone.

In other news, I did end up getting my 'WTF?' stamp.  HA!  Lots of people got a kick on that one.  Now, every time I get some B.S. document that makes no sense to me at all... I send it back with a 'WTF?' stamp.  Everyone wants one now.  I think I started a trend.

OMG!  And what's with everyone using 'meh' these days?  That's like my word!!!! LOLS!  I use that more than I really should.  I know it's not really a word and what not, but heck, it's fun to use when there is really no comment or I just feel like whatever.  And while we're on the subject of words... you should check out this post (Friday Fun Meme) on my blog.   It's a little word play deal.  It's fun.

Personal life has been good so far.  Health wise, it was a bad year for me last year.  I had to deal with a lot of issues that had set me back not only emotionally but also physically (damn that weight!), but after finishing physical therapy (not to mention countless chiropractor visits) I got the clear from my doctor to go back to the gym.  I start next week.  So I'm excited.  The people that are in the 'know' have been very supportive and I will forever be grateful to them.  Had to quit Japanese class unfortunately because of this, but I've been keeping up with it.  I got to Japanese Meetups and the whole nine!  Its really quite funny... yes indeedy.

I've been also hanging out a lot with my friends.  In fact, we went to a karaoke bar a while back, went ice skating (which I should have NEVER done), movies, bars, Hollywood, and this Friday my gal-friends and I are hosting a tea party/wine tasting/cheese tasting party.  Yes, I know, we are corny, but heck- it's fun.  We had a movie night last time, we had to do something different this time. (Dana-chan!  Frenchanine!  I love you :D)

So all and all, things have been good so far.  I guess I should have seen this post coming.  I didn't post anything for a while and I had been itching to talk about what had been going on in my life.  So there you have it folks.  That's my story...  so far.

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Hello world!

Wow... I've been MIA for so long I don't know where to start.  I've been so busy lately with life and such, I haven't had a chance to update anywhere. *sigh*

So what have I been up to?  Well, I guess I've been dealing with a little bit of everything.  I've been trying to focus on family life, mostly spend more time with my baby girl and my husband.  It's been really nice, and I can't wait for the holidays.  It's my favorite time of the year.

Icons!

I downloaded a plugin for icons, so I'm just testing it out.  It works just like the avatars on LiveJournal. Anyway, I'm still tweaking... still trying to get this layout to work for me.  It does have many bugs, but I really like the design and I want to make it work.  The other thing that I am working on is trying to get the smilies to work propertly on the site.  For the longest time I couldn't get the smilies to work, but they half do now.  So that's some improvement.  *go me!*  :)