dang girl, you sure got a lot to say today don't cha?
I had a subway 6 inch roast beef + a bag of chips for lunch at noon. Why is it that I am still hungry?

friday five
At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song?
Sarah McLachlan - Push

Every time I look at you the world just melts away
All my troubles all my fears dissolve in your affection
You’ve seen me at my weakest but you take me as I am
And when I fall you offer me a softer place to land

You stay the course you hold the line you keep it all together
You’re the one true thing I know I can believe in
You’re all the things that I desire you save me you complete me
You’re the one true thing I know I can believe

I get mad so easy but you give me room to breathe
No matter what I say or do ‘cause you’re too good to fight about it
Even when I have to push just to see how far you’ll go
You won’t stoop down to battle but you never turn to go

Love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me
There are times I can’t decide when I can’t tell up from down
You make me feel less crazy when otherwise I’d drown
But you pick me up and brush me off and tell me I’m okay
Sometimes that’s just what we need to get us through the day

2. ...food?
Dungenese Crab Legs - was watching Good Eats last night and now I have an intense craving for it.

3. ...tv show?
The original las vegas CSI

4. ...scent?
Boy cooking in the kitchen ;)

5. ...quote?
Pain is weakness leaving the body

this is not the first time I'm complaining
Weekdays morning would be so much easier if I can wear jeans to work. My mirror is tired of me staring at it with a frown all the time. Sigh.

recommendations needed
The relationship between my hairdresser and I have come to an abrupt end. She told me she's moving to another hair salon and I lost her new phone number.

So all you ladies with gorgeous hair, throw me a name and phone number of a good hair salon / hairdresser and tell me why you like him/her. The price range I'm going for is about $100 for cut and double process color.

Thanks in advance.

punks
Reading this and this just pisses me off, big time.

The crime actually happened at the same apt complex that Holly, Elaine and I used to live at during our first year of school. The place was real nice from outside, but the tenants sucked, and the management is a big bully.

We have had ceiling lights fell on us, a bloody drunken guy chased by policement trying to hide in Holly's room, security deposits that weren't refunded and tons of nightmare stories. The three of us moved out immediately after our lease ended.

I'm glad to have move on from my college days. *shudder*

radio rivalry pt 2
Wow! It seems like Sirius is on a very aggresive expansion plan. First the signings with NFL, now satelite video? Apparently Sirius is planning to offer satelite video in the near future, whilst XM radio is contending that the technology is still to young for mass usage.

It'll be interesting to see how this move will seperate the two rather similar companies. Whilst satelite video sounds exciting, it's usefulness is still more limited than the radio.

SUPPLIERS: Satellite rivals split on video plans Sirius sees market, but XM is cautious
By Gail Kachadourian
Automotive News / January 19, 2004

The nation's two satellite radio providers have opposing views about the market potential of in-vehicle video service.

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. of New York plans to offer satellite video within 18 months.

But its prime competitor, XM Satellite Radio Inc. of Washington, which says it has similar technology, doesn't believe satellite video will be commercially viable anytime soon. It will continue to concentrate on adding radio subscribers to reach profitability.

Whoever is right doesn't matter to Delphi Corp. The Troy, Mich., supplier has deals with both companies to develop the technology. It also supplies automakers with receivers to pick up XM and Sirius stations.

Sirius and Delphi this month showed off a vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that could receive satellite video signals. The technology adds a decoder for under $100 to the existing satellite radio system. Delphi has sold 1.05 million satellite receivers for production vehicles since 2002.

The technology lets Sirius transmit video and audio programming over the company's existing satellite network.

Sirius has not sold the system to automakers, but says it is focusing on its audio customers: Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG, BMW, Nissan, Infiniti, Volkswagen and Audi. Vehicles must come equipped with rear-seat entertainment systems.

Sirius won't be alone in its efforts.

"We're in partnership with Sirius, and we're trying to sell it to them (automakers), too," says Bob Dockemeyer, advanced technical manager for satellite digital audio radio at Delphi.

Delphi says development work is being done at Delphi's Kokomo, Ind., plant and Sirius' engineering site in New Jersey.

Sirius' Doug Wilsterman, senior vice president of OEM and dealer, says the company expects to launch the video system with three to four channels.

"We feel that an OE with some kind of normal product development timing and validation timing could have it available in 18 months to the consumer," Wilsterman says.

What this would add to a subscriber's bill is unclear. Sirius charges $12.95 a month for satellite radio. The company says it has not decided if it will charge extra for video service.

Thilo Koslowski, an automotive analyst for Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., says Sirius' strategy makes sense. "They (Sirius) will certainly need this to compete with XM because XM has this huge lead," Koslowski says.

Sirius ended 2003 with 261,061 subscribers, up from about 30,000 at the end of 2002. XM finished 2003 with 1.36 million subscribers, up from 360,000 at the end of 2002.

XM also showed an in-vehicle video system at the Consumer Electronics Show. But it has no plans to offer the system to customers.

"We have to look at the investment, the market, the demand and the ability to deliver a high-quality product," XM spokesman David Butler says. "Those are all factors that today suggest it could be viable down the line, but it's not viable today."

Just for girls?
To keep myself entertained over the next few winter months, I am embarking on a quest to find the perfect jewelry organizer. Well, let me start off at a smaller scale ... earring organizer. (There's probably not a perfect jewelry organizer anyway, one that perfectly stores all of your nine hundred and ninety nine necklaces, rings and earrings.) I've seen too many jewelry boxes out there that are nothing but mini compartments inside a pretty box -- useless, unless you expect to store 1 pair of earring in each compartment, and you realize you very quickly run out of space. I like the idea of earring homes (with the little v-shaped grooves so you have a nice display of all your earrings), but some of the ones I've seen only hold like 12 earrings, and are shaped like a mini bread box (curves down), so you can't really buy more and stack them. And I've seen the kiddy ones at Claire's, basically just a piece of beautified mesh wire ... those just don't suit my needs -- plenty of earrings, don't need something kiddy-looking on my sink, ends up being pretty disorganized at the end of the day anyway because of awkward mesh wire shapes (star shape, round, etc.) Anybody have any ideas? Don't let the title fool you ... guys are certainly welcome to comment as well, if they have any great ideas.