What made you frown today?

You have a UPS system? Nice!

I have a UPS system...it delivers my packages everyday at 9:30.

I also have some TNT.

Got greeted by my roommate this morning the second I rolled out of bed. This roommate goes by the term Five-Minute-Splitting-Headache, hence the frown. He was very quickly followed by his two brothers: Back pain and neck pain. DX

Even though I'm a longtime listener of Delilah, and usually enjoy the stories she shares, and the advice that gives out, I was bothered by what she had to say in regards to a girl's story tonight:

So anyway, this girl was telling Delilah that her boyfriend went with the age-old tradition of asking her parents for her hand in marriage, and that she was so taken by that, that she decided to do the same, and ask his parents for his hand in marriage... Delilah had a fit over that. She said that it's not the woman's place to ask the man's parents for his hand in marriage, and she basically went on and on about his this guy is apparently a mama's boy if the girl asked his parents for his hand in marriage, and how he has no backbone, and isn't man enough for her and everything, etc, etc, etc.

Not that I'm a mama's boy or anything, but still, I found Delilah's reaction rather bothersome tonight.

That seems rather uneccessary on Delilah's part. I think it is a very nice gesture to ask both sets of parents for "permission" to get married, it sends the message that the couple wants both sets of parents to know they love and respect them and what they have to say. For her to go jumping to conclusions like that isn't fair to the girl.

(PS I never realized Delilah was syndicated nationally until recently. I thought she was just someone that Connecticut listeners had to suffer through.)

Confound my shyness and fear of rejection...

Yes, here in K-Town, Tenney, she's broadcasted on B-97.5 (a station that plays mostly pop tunes of today, but also occasionally mixed with tunes from the 80s, 90s, and even occassional Christian songs as well) from 7pm to midnight. Then from midnight to whenever in the morning, they broadcast John Tesh as well.

John my buddy, lemme share a story with you...

Once upon a time, there was a snowth by the name of me. Throughout his high school years, he had a crush on a girl who was in his science classes from Grades 9 through 11, she was a cute little blonde girl with a lot of intelligence, and a rather outgoing personality; however, the snowth had this problem: in the past, whenever a girl had found out he liked her, the girl would in return, hate his guts... needless to say, the snowth didn't want to have to put up with that again, so for three years, the snowth never spoke to that cute little blonde girl. The only words that were ever exchanged between the two were when he was the first one in class one day, and she arrived shortly afterwards, and greeted him with a hi, while he did the same. Still, the snowth had such a crush on her, even going so far as to basically name the leading lady of his cast of puppet characters after her somewhat. During his senior year (her junior), the snowth was invited to a formal dance party, that she also happened to have attended, but much like yourself, nervousness, shyness, and a fear of rejection kept the snowth from asking her to dance with him... even with his best friend going so far as to literally shove him over to her to get him to ask her... at the end of the evening, he never did ask her, and they never did dance.

It wasn't until a couple of years ago, that the snowth, out of curiosity, decided to try and see if he could find out anything about her, just to see what she's up to... he found out that she was in college, studying politics, and was planning on moving to the nation's capital after she graduates to continue a career in politics; after reading this about her, the snowth said to himself, "What did I ever see in her to begin with?"

The moral of this story? Well, okay, there really isn't one, but at least you'll know you're not alone, and everybody goes through these kinds of problems.

Yeah, but I've had so many chances to really tell her and I blow every single one! I wake up every morning saying "Today is the day I'm going to ask her out!" and I never get the courage to.

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*suddenly has "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" playing in head*

You have NOTHING to lose by asking, dude. Really. When I was engaged and about to leave one college and transfer to another state after the wedding, a shy guy in one of my theatre classes came up and told me he'd always liked me and never had the nerve to ask me out. I told him quite honestly I WOULD have given him a shot had he approached me before I was involved with someone else! And as someone who usually had to be the one to do the asking (and suffer the subsequent getting-shot-down-painfully)...honestly, it's not the end of the world if your crush says No. Or even H-ll no. Or even die, you creepy scumbag, no! Really. It isn't. Billions of people in the world, dude. Doesn't hurt to ask. And "no" only hurts a little while. Go for it!
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Oh man, Delilah and John Tesh! What a one-two punch! We get John Tesh's show up here too and I just find it really boring. He doesn't have a lot of personality, but I suppose that's why he's popular.

I get a kick out of John Tesh's show, mainly because I remember him as a gymnastics commentator (and not a very knowledgeable one). I'm just happy he found something else to do-- besides his recording career phase.

Well... I was just tryin' help ya out and make you feel better.

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Yeesh...yeah, the bland-pop station here plays Delilah and Tesh in the same order every weeknight. Bleh. If I wanna listen to someone other than just music, I'll take Alice Cooper, thank you...he's a killer DJ with WAY funnier stories than those two!

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Guh, I love making puppets but I hate how working on the heads messes with mine.

What an amusing image that conjures up. Do you look at yourself in the mirror afterward and think, "I should add horns?"
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lol, not yet but I'm not counting anything out at this point.

Well, my headphones decided to die on me a few minutes ago. I'm upset. I only had them for like two months. They were only cheap 5 dollar headphones, but they sounded great.

Now I have to use some old headphones my friend gave me. One of the ears is missing its pad and they don't sound as good, but I guess its better than nothing. Its either these or those horrible ear bud things that all need to go burn in a hole

I'm desperately clingy with headphones myself, because I've found that no two sets sound the same, and it seems like any time I do buy a new pair, they sound muffled compared to the last pair... I've been clingy onto my current pair for about four or five years now, but I rully need a new set, because with these, the left ear piece will get really staticy/buzzy if the volume gets too high, or if there's a lot of bass in the music or whatever.

Didn't realize that neither Wal-Mart nor Staples carry Mac products before I went there looking for a laptop charger. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to go to Best Buy to get a charger.