Last night Jessica got to meet one of her favorite authors, Janet Evanovich, who just released her 14th book in her “Stephanie Plum” series. While I’ve not read any of the books (not too big on the Romance/Mystery genre myself), Jessica is absolutely in love with them, so this morning I went and waited in line at the Borders store that she was appearing at. Seems they’ve been having huge turnouts (as she’s quite well known) and are making people wear wristbands to determine where they get to be in line.
Luckily we were one of the first people in line to see her (15th, actually!) so we were in and out real quick… based on how packed the place was there were probably people there for hours. You can see a pic I took of the crowd here (a lot of people showed up):
And of course, here’s a pic of Jess with Mrs. Evanovich and her signing her book:
All in all, it was an eventful night, but Jess is happy and she got to meet one her favorite authors, so that makes me happy I could do that for her. For any of you wondering if Janet will be coming to your town, check the site below for more info:
As part of Jessica’s “birthday weekend” she decided to get her hair cut, styled, and colored. The issue is that the place that she normally goes to (Xenon in Omaha) was booked solid. The solution? We went to a different stylist and had her hair cut and styled… then she let me attempt to color it (she decided to have no part in it)! Here’s what it looked like before (a couple weeks ago):
Now, after two boxes of color, plenty of cursing, and just a bit of trying to work with crossed fingers, here is the end result:
Not bad! In fact, I think it’s a pretty damn good job, myself. Maybe workin’ for a beauty company is starting to rub off some!
So, Jess was bugging me to get our “Wedding Video” done and as much fun as that would have been, I really didn’t want to. So, after her nagging and vetoing all of my music/picture choices, I decided to just go all out (or, as all out as I was willing to go in 45 minutes with little effort).
Long story short, she’s now making the video, but she decided to upload the movie I made to YouTube, so enjoy:
Guess where we’ve been the past 2 hours? If you guessed “outside in the 10 degree (-3 w/ windchill) weather”, you’re right! We were all gathered up by the cops pounding on the door because there was a fire in the building. Turns out, similar to the last time this happened, it was a furnace (this time on the 2nd floor). The fire department let us back in, but they’re still downstairs trying to get it all taken care of. Here’s some pics:
The entire apartment smells like smoke now, we’re cold, Mishka is upset at being taken outside (we couldn’t get Kisa in time, sadly… yes, she’s okay, but she wouldn’t get out from under the bed!!). It’s very annoying. They’ve turned off the furnace and now one apartment is without heat (they’re moving the family). I really wish this complex would take care of their apartments instead of waiting for them to break down first.
In other news, aside from all this fun tonight, today was a great day. I bought Jess some flowers, we went out to dinner, it was just nice (until this). So, let’s leave you with a nice image, a cellphone pic of the bouquet I got for her!
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“Welcome to the SD Card Menu! [...]
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