| Friday, December 4th, 2009 |
| 2:09 pm |
Grumble.
The house I am renting is going into Foreclosure... again. the Auction is 12/15. Clap and jump for joy. regardless of what happens, I'm not moving out until after the new year. I will squat until Feb if I can. For those of you keeping track - this is the second time we have had notice of the upcoming auction, and the third time we've gotten notice from a third party of impending foreclosure. Somehow it just isn't exciting anymore. Annoying more than anything. It really is time to move out. |
| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
| 2:02 pm |
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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 |
| 1:30 pm |
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 4:36 pm |
I feel better. (mostly) i've been working on this. poo! wont let me inset a picture. anyway it is a dress. the outside is dk blue with constellations the other part is a mid blue with snowflakes. It doesn't fit right. |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 5:28 pm |
Today I learned that chocolate does not go with everything. I also learned that bacon doesn't make everything taste better. Despite everything that my gaming group has been trying to tell me over the past few years. When you combine the two it tastes kind of like the way dog food smells only sweet a off and weird. The sad part is that I will likely try this again because I will try anything twice. Except Stinking tofu. It is an Asian delicacy. If anyone ever offers you stinky tofu decline. Then leave the room, you might smell it. I'm going to hunt this down and give it to all the boys for yule. |
| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
| 7:41 am |
holidays are fast approching
I was up till 1:30 last night carving a pumpkin. It isn't finished. but since I have Candle's camera. I figured I would take pictures. They are up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/textilejnki e/sets/72157622678878380/ I still need to finish him. I think he is looking pretty spiff. Also to do before friday: paint the white parts of the wig red. nit up target: decorations nerf gun & hairpins for wighit up the hardware store (d-rings, copper piping, sandpaper) hit up the craft store: paints, charms, hot glue gun, carving tools, acrylic top coat make up the bottles with the stuffs I got (I'm making 2 anyway) paint and accessorize the gun.put buttons and buttton holes on the shirt. figure out a plan for pants / skirtwonder why I waited until yesterday to come up with a costume idea. |
| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 |
| 12:48 pm |
meteor showers
For the next time I want to know which meteor shower is going on: http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/meteor.htmlFYI- it was the Orionids last night. No, I didn't see anything. but I did look up and see a planet while I helped James with wood chores (at 10 at night about all you are doing is stacking wood). |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
| 4:08 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 |
| 3:00 pm |
D'oh!
I just spent 3 HOURS trying to fix a problem that was caused when I forgot to fill out 1 line in the form! Head - Desk. |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 |
| 3:25 pm |
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| 2:25 pm |
Thursday is my one year anniversary at this job. My director just sent me an e-mail telling me how clever he was to hire me. Current Mood:  chipper |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 |
| 2:17 pm |
We just had roller chair races in the office. The person pushing the chair (me) was blindfolded. and had to navigate around the office. I ran my poor passenger into the wall no less than 5 times. But I did it in under a minute. We won. that was the most fun I've had in a while! I don't know how they thought a demolition track was a good idea. But no one was hurt and nothing was perminately damaged. |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 |
| 5:53 pm |
For Faekitty my dinner last night 1 butternut squash peeled seeded and cut into 1/2 in cubes 1/2 ramekin of bacon drippings (from roommate making bacon) and1 peice of bacon crumbled (same source) Salt & pepper to sprinkle 2 tsp paprika 1/2 bulb of garlic peeled (2 closed sliced) Preheat oven to 350 put the garlic and squash in the roasting pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper 1 tsp of paprika, stir, more pepper for the bottom layer and more paprika. drizzle over the bacon drippings crumble in the bacon. roast approximately 40 min, stirring 20 min form start. OR roast until fork tender. Tonight's dinner: goose-neck pumpkin and zucchini/peas risotto (or orange and green stuff mushy rice) |
| Thursday, October 1st, 2009 |
| 3:04 pm |
Do I have a sign on my back that secretly says, "Pester me, I'm not doing anything important." ???? seriously! |
| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 |
| 3:33 pm |
When did hand crafts, embroidery, knitting, and sewing become about making child-like hap hazard messes rather than being about executing your craft with panache and skill? ugly hacked together coats using up all your leftover yarn from any project you have worked on ever inthe past 20 years is fun. But is it art? Is it even wearable? I should take photos of this magazine and show you some of what I am talking about. "I adore contradictions of delicate beading and sloppy stitches..." Is the real message there that you are to lazy to take the time to do something right? "I feel great admiration towards the Ottoman royal art...products of an exquisite craftsmanship. ... Thus I started creating... paper mache ottoman jewelry." So you love something because of the craftsman ship and materials, and you express that by making cheep paper- mache jewelry that you decorate with plastic pearls and stick on Rindstones? But before you publish an article about what amazing art this is, sit back and think: Would I wear that? in public. Where everyone can see me. To the mall, grocery store, excetra. Really, I just want a clue as to what is the thought process behind this. The worse part is that this magazine is supposed to showcase the best craftsman and artist of the wearable art movement. All it is showcasing is how we are more concerned with cranking out cheep products to sell at premium prices. Current Mood:  pissy |
| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 |
| 12:45 am |
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| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 |
| 6:16 pm |
pet Squil
I like SQL. It is like my own little pet librarian. Of course it is a rather stupid librarian that only gets me exactly what I ask for, not necessarily what I want and never takes any initiative. but I like my pet and I will continue to feed it. Today my pet and I learned about BEGIN TRAN U1 ROLLBACK TRAN U1 and COMMIT TRAN U1 I don't actually know what U1 is, but I know it is important to my pet. OF course I hate how everyone insists that it's name is 3 letters and not some voweless name appropriate to a non human pet. In other news I am happy, and someone made a comment on their journal recently that really put me at ease and reassured me a great deal. I don't actually know if the comment was about me or not, and I don't care. I made me feel very calm and happy. Hey- I'll take it where I can get it. |
| Thursday, September 17th, 2009 |
| 9:01 am |
What price freedom?
I listen to the radio on the way into work some days. This morning was a piece about how narcotics routes into the country can be used to smuggle WoMD to be used for terrorist activities. This brings me back to the same thoughts that I have had since the our most famous non-domestic terrorist attack. The piece on the radio was saying that we need to increase security on boarder patrols because a determined smuggler could easily get a suitcase bomb or small nuclear device through the boarders without a boarder patrol catching it. This obviously introduces a rather large security risk, and is an avenue that narcotic smugglers exploit. But then again, since the narcotic smugglers are using the food berth of some planes to smuggle, I think they maybe have a few easier avenues into the US. (not the article I was looking for, but close enough: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-puerto-rico-drug-bust-091609,0,5238323.story the one I was looking for talked about how they had gotten the drugs onto the planes.) The problem is that to truly crack down on smuggling and prevent external acts of terrorism (because lets be honest, Americans spread enough hate around our country, we don't need help in that department) would involve a monetary and military expense that the average US citizen doesn't realize the extent of. In order to be 'safe' from external threats, and honestly the more dangerous internal ones it would quickly degenerate into a martial state. Is that something that we really want? It seems like every time you turn around we are begging the government to regulate something else for us. Regulate education and schools, provide for our silver years because we didn't think to save when we were younger. Enforce safety, regulate the health care system. When we ask someone else to run our lives and home, we give up the freedom to choose a course other than that. There is another (much less likely) way. If we as a species could get back to courtesy and the whole 'Do unto others'/ 3 fold law/ karma/ don't be a dick/ golden rule concept and live by it. That would allow us the freedom that we claim we want with the security that we demand. Ya- right. And tomorrow every driver on the road will use their signal. stop to let the truckers in, stop tailgating, speeding, running red lights, and generally being rude inconsiderate drivers. When we say we want a peaceful world we give up the freedom to treat each other with anything less than dignity and respect. When we embrace the freedom to put our well being before everyone else we give up the freedom to live in a safe world. 1000 unkind and selfish acts every day kill. A man selfishly decides to drive after drinking and kills 4 teenage girls. A woman succumbs to road rage, has an accident, blocking a major highway and causing hundreds of people to be late to work and in a poor mood due to the extended commute. We choose to drive independently of our neighbors clogging the roads and creating traffic so bad that we whine, bitch, and complain about, but never take steps to resolve. That is only behind the wheel! Think about all the selfish things that we do that hurt people around us every day. This is the freedom we choose. This is the world we choose to live in. Current Music: All the Pretty Litle Horses- Current 93 / Nick Cave |
| Friday, September 4th, 2009 |
| 2:40 pm |
Hope is a harsh thing. I have had an emotional week. All self inflicted I assure you. That doesn't change the fact that I have been having an overly emotional week that makes me want to hide from everyone in my life. Therefor it is time to go out and see people! That said- I am working fair this year. (ya I said I wasn't going to, what can I say, it pays for yule, or will hopefully pay for one present this yule, either way.) In a slightly different note: It is some of our 10 year anniversary. Happy anniversary us! (others of us have anniversary next month or the one after.) So happy anniversary my friends. Have a puppy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG1hS8fyevA&NR=1 |
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