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We made it home from Canada. The trip back was good, although very tiring. We arrived home at around midnight last night (Saturday). Well, night before last, I should say, since it's now 4:30 in the AM on Monday.

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4:30 in the AM? What the hell am I still doing up? >.O

My dvd swag from the ADV sale was waiting for me when we got home. YAY! I was worried it would get stolen. I wasn't going to be here when they delivered, which meant the UPS guy would just leave it on my front step. We've had a few very odd thefts lately, which I think I mentioned earlier in here. A couple of our outside lights and the squirter thing off of my garden hose. I mean, seriously, what kind of defective person steals two outside lights and a squirter off a hose? It's beyond bizarre. Anyhow, the box made it through - YAY! I'm sitting here watching Devil Hunter Yohko as I type. This show so rocks. I can't believe I never watched it before. It's so campy and odd and full of strangely endearing characters.

I had planted some minature roses in the planters on my deck before we left. They hadn't looked so great at the time, but I thought it was because of the transplanting. Roses are odd. Sometimes, they need a bit of time to snap back. Luckily, that seems to have been the case. I braved the heat today to check them and trim them back. I transplanted six bushes, and only one seems like it won't make it. The rest look pretty good -- even the one that the darn squirrels dug up. They're cute little beasts, but still -- damn them to heck. I also managed to get a good jump on trimming the big rose bushes in front of the house. I'll need to finish tomorrow, but I'm over halfway done. I also managed to spray them. Well, courtesy of hubby, who did the actual spraying work. The poor things look awful this year. Something has been eating them up, and I'm pretty sad about it. It's the first year I've had this much trouble with them. The spray we use seems to help, though. I just have to keep remembering to reapply it every week or so.

I heard some upsetting news today about a former friend. I wrote about the situation in here a while back. I had done a cel deal with this person, and it ended up going really badly. She basically tried to cheat me out of the money I had paid her. Eventually, I got the cels, but not without a lot of effort on my part and the dissolution of our friendship. At the time, she gave me all kinds of excuses for her behavior, and I believed her. Now, I find out none of it was true. I'm so angry over it, and I feel like a fool for wanting to give her the benefit of the doubt and for feeling badly over the way our friendship ended. It's so disappointing and hurtful to find out she was just a liar, flat-out. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more, though. I got luckier than some people. At least I got the stuff I had paid for. Another friend of mine never did. *sigh*

I got a very strange review for one of my fanfics. The person seemed to like the story, overall, which is great. But they took pains to point out that a certain bit of phrasing I used was repetitive. Then, they went on to say they were going to remember that phrasing to use later on. (In their own work, I presume) Is it just me, or is that totally bizarre? First of all, if the phrasing is so repetitive, why would you want to use it? And second of all -- aren't they basically admitting that they are going to steal my work? I was pretty dumfounded by the whole thing. I haven't decided how to reply to the review. Or if I'm going to reply at all. Usually, I reply to all the reviews I get, even though it might take me a while to do it. But, this one ... almost doesn't deserve a reply.

I have tons of work to do around the house tomorrow. Bleh.

I'm sure I had more to say, but I can't remember what it was. Besides, it's now 5 AM, and I really should get to bed. LOL