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| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
nicolemarieh
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10:50p |
i always make to-do lists at work, and then forget them there. bah. now what were all those things i had down to do tonight and tomorrow ?!! this is why i should make lj lists instead of paper ones. * cat vet 10:30 * new drivers license * call school - student loans ? * call fidelity * dog nails ??? go into work maybe. ok i think that was everything i had down. maybe. |
nicolemarieh
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8:42p |
Pretty soon my weekday off will be Thursday instead of Tuesday. I cant wait, for the simple reason that almost every dog grooming place in the whole damn city is closed on Tuesdays!! With my work + school schedule its almost impossible to do it any other day, and yet there is nowhere really to go on Tuesdays, so this has been a constant source of annoyance for the last few months. I will be very happy to be able to take care of this on my day off in the future. Of course, I have morning and afternoon classes on my day off starting in January, so that kinda interferes with my ability to Do Whatever The Hell I Want, but I guess that's part of being an adult. Hmph. In awesome news, I just realized that I have omg Friday off (New Years Day. We are open, but I get it off because I worked on Thanksgiving. Woo!) *and* possible Saturday off as well! But if so, would have to work on Sunday. Will have to confirm that with the scheduling people, but I think that's correct. awesomeeee ! Unfortunately, as of this coming Monday I am back in school. eep! I need to figure out what books I need... I think all I need is whatever for Biology, but I should check soon. Like tonight. But first, time to go home from work! |
faecat
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6:39p |
How do you know when you're a grownup? When you CAN have nothing but potato chips for dinner ... but you don't really want to :) |
joyce
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9:23p |
"Planes crash!" "And apparently clowns kill!" Current Mood: amused |
sheeplass
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3:52p |
Casual gaming
First off, my Wii Fit Plus is hilarious and surprisingly fun. Progress (minutes played) is tracked on a mechanical-electronic piggy bank, so I have joked that I am "appeasing the slotted pig" when I play. Supposedly the pig will get bigger, so I'm hoping to find out what happens to it. Does it get addons? New little whirlygigs? I can't wait to find out. My favorite game in WFP so far is this little thing where you steer a bubble down a river. I suck at all the Wii Fit games, by the way! Actually, I suck at all the Wii games, because this whole controller/console thing is so new to me. It's learning to game all over again! I don't mind, though, it's pretty fun. :) I said the words "Wii hacking" to Grant a few days ago (near the time we got the Wii -- I was curious if you could play DVDs on it, and the answer is "yes, if you hack it"), and since then he's done some research on the topic. :) He found out you can use the same trick (corrupted save file that causes a ?buffer overflow?) that you could use on the XBox, but instead of needing a game we wouldn't want to play anyway, it turns out that Lego Indiana Jones has the vulnerability. I loved Lego Star Wars for the XBox, so we just picked that up. No hacking has actually occurred (we also bought the Metroid Prime trilogy and are enjoying it, though we have to take turns, since it's single player), but I'm definitely curious what Grant will be able to turn our Wii into. He's done awesome things with the XBox, so as I told him, I trust him completely and he's welcome to give it a shot. :) I have been neglecting my knitting since Christmas, but I'm looking forward to getting back to it. I've been watching Due South and loving it, so I do have something to knit to. But I've also been reading (I had a yen to reread the Yarn Harlot books) and I've got some other stuff I want to do as well. Grant got me a tiny little game on Steam called Cogs, which is sort of a 3D version of the Very Clever Pipe Game, but with various forms of puzzles -- you have puzzles where you put gears together, puzzles where you put pipes together, and so on. The most hilarious part of the game is that the languages available are English and LOLCat. "U putz teh gears 2gether 2 turn teh shinee!" and so on. Very cute. :) |
sm101
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2:37p |
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joyce
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4:53p |
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear dear ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nderHappy birthday to you |
joyce
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9:27a |
Yesterday we went and saw the first showing of Sherlock Holmes up in Burlington (nice theater, early bird special, crowded but not badly, will go to again) and then Jeff's mom bought us a late lunch at Brixx Pizza (10 percent off with a ticket stubb, too.) Movie review: Jeff's mom liked it; her only complaint was that she felt like this wasn't Holmes and Watson as presented elsewhere. And true, there was much more violence than a Conan Doyle story would support, but underneath the fight scenes was a solid (nay, codependent) friendship, fun pseudo-science, Holmes' tendancy to deduction by the slimmest of threads. Watson wasn't presented as an idiot. They didn't clean Holmes up much - he was a mess when he didn't have a case, he was an ass and presumptous to those around him, he shot at the walls in his quarters. The women weren't there just to prop the men up. I liked it quite a lot, can't wait for the sequel, and think Conan Doyle would have approved. (Much better review than mine over here, spoiler free; hat tip to wiredferret for the link.) (I am also much more of a Laurie R. King Holmes girl than a Conan Doyle one, though I do love both.) (Oh, and we saw the Iron Man 2 trailer. Can't. Wait.) After that, Jeff and I went back up into Greensboro to feed our friends' cats. I put together salad for dinner, to balance out the late pizza lunch. I goofed off a bit online, and then went to bed early and finished inhaling Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting. (You'll like it if: you want to hear about country life [or more specifically, you want to hear about how someone who grew up on a farm realizes that it's not nearly as easy as his parents made it look - and he never said it was easy in the first place; he knew it was work]; growing up; learning how to relate to your parents as adults; having a child; if you don't mind laughing and crying in the same chapter; and if you aren't going to mind the fact that he refuses to condemn his fundamentalist upbringing [that's a sticking point for one reviewer on Library Thing]). I loved it, slurping down the last 120 pages or so in one fell swoop last night. Jeff is a solid Michael Perry fan, something that I totally get now, and I'm going to go read the rest of his books. This week needs to be about working on the house. Current project list:
- excavating the living room and the kitchen
- setting up Jeff's mom's craft area
- putting up the rest of the pantry shelves in the stairs to the basement
- unpacking (and unpacking and unpacking)
- getting my dad's trailer back to him
- putting up a clothes line (started today: got the materials, dug the holes, poured the bottom layer of concrete)
- starting the garden beds
- researching what we need to do to keep chickens
- figuring out what we want to do with one of the out building bays for a chicken coop
- rearranging the bedroom
This whole holiday break thing is nice. :) Re-entry next week is going to suck, but at least it'll be slow. (The high school online classes pick back up next week, then the community college the next week, then the university the week after.) |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
faecat
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10:35p |
By my_fair_kadie's request, the netbook sleeve I finished knitting and felting on Friday. It's not very interesting, I suspect :)  It's about an inch too long, but the perfect width. Still need to figure out a closure; in that picture, the opening is on the right-hand end. |
joyce
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11:34a |
Yesterday morning we ran into town to cat sit for a friend and run some errands. We'd been home about 5 minutes when Hope called me and said "come play!" So I did (Scrabble, Phase 10). About the time they were sitting down for dinner, I got hit with the tired stick. I hung out while they ate (I wasn't hungry yet), then loaded up the car (we hadn't brought home our presents on Christmas, due to the rain), and came home. I pulled out leftovers for our dinner, chattered at faecat a bit, and was falling asleep on a book by 9:00. Nice day. |
| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
faecat
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10:20p |
My Christmas haul included another flash drive. As I was formatting and naming it, I cannot help but be amused by my current naming theme for my electronics. Computers: Rikki (netbook), Khan (MBP) and Nagaina (media box) Extraneous hard drives: Bagheera (external), Nag (Nagi's secondary internal), and Hathi (Khan's Windows partition) Flash drives: Kaa, Akela, Louie and Darzee iPods: Mowgli (touch), Karait (shuffle), and Raksha (classic) I keep thinking, perhaps it is time to rename the wireless network, since nobody but me uses it anyway. All the names are from stories in Kipling's The Jungle Book -- Rikki, Darzee, Karait, Nagaina and Nag are characters in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi". Almost all the rest are from the Mowgli stories, including "Mowgli's Brothers," "Tiger Tiger," and "Kaa's Hunting," many of which were consolidated into the Disney animated movie titled The Jungle Book. (Exception: King Louie was a Disney-created character for said animated film, and did not appear in the stories.) The original short stories are good reads though, and are available on Project Gutenberg, as they've long since passed into the public domain. |
sm101
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10:04p |
Today's ferry ride
Ferry ride was Awesome! Jeff and Sue & Nemo were able to make it to the ferry ride. Beach combing in Kingston was awesome and Sue found several vertebrae - non human .... we think ;-) on the beach. The ultimate .... Lavender Honey Ice Cream which we finished on the ride back to Edmonds while the sun finished setting. Nom Nom Nom ... Ahhhh Yeah! Doesn't get much better than that. |
lycantras
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10:01a |
:D
Happy Holidays everyone Current Mood:  cheerful |
joyce
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8:41a |
It was a lovely Christmas. :) Yesterday morning was nice and low key - we got in to my parents' a little before 9:30. We opened up family gifts, then Santa gifts, then sat around and chattered until it was time to go to my aunts'. We did our normal potluck lunch, at which a lot of us tried politely not to fall asleep - a lot of us were really tired this year. (It didn't help that after a few days of sunshine, and with a week's forecast of lovely weather ahead of us, it was raining in Biblical proportions). Jeff and I ran back to our house for the supper food, and to just sit for a few minutes, then headed over to my aunt Diane's and uncle Doug's, where there was supper and more visiting and eventually Apples to Apples and Phase 10. I fell over into bed a little after midnight. My cousin Michael made it in from California, we gave presents that seemed to be well recieved (and got some very thoughtful things, including money at both Home Depot and Lowes, and a bunch of kitchen stuff from Val, including a lovely bread board), there was a pile of good food, and we all had a good time. That is a lovely Christmas. |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
nicolemarieh
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11:43p |
NYE ??
okay enough of this christmas bull! what's going on for NYE ??!! seems like everyone threw a holiday party this year, and no one opted for the new year. i wish i could do the NYE party but it doesnt work so well in an apartment. Who has a big house we can crash for a night of dancing? ;) ok fine, or where is anyone planning to go out? Am i gonna be dancing alone on NYE ?? (dont make me do it, cuz i will!!) |
faecat
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5:12p |
All hail enjoyably low-key holidays. I woke up, opened all my Farmville presents, ate pancakes with brown sugar, talked to my mom and dad, and watched part of Love Actually, one of my favorite Christmas movies. Then Dan woke up, we opened the presents Santa left us (I got a box of fudge and a four-pack of the pre-Christian-Bale Batman movies, to go with my four-pack of Christopher Reeve Superman movies), I finished the movie, ate some leftovers, took a short nap, and watched Die Hard, my other favorite Christmas movie, while I finished knitting and felting a sleeve for my netbook, which turned out really damn well, if I do say so myself. Then there was dinner, and I am now watching Aliens and working on my brother's blankie. |
sheeplass
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1:48p |
Happy Winter Veil!
Wii have a current generation gaming console for the first time. ;) Back in the day, I used to see people listing off their Wii console codes (it's like an email address/phone number for my Wii, right?), so here is ours: 3851 8624 1227 1134 I'd take game recs, too! So far I just have Wii Sports and Wii Fit Plus, and I'm trying to decide if I want to download something. :) Many thanks to Mom & Dad Lindsey for the Wii; Grant and I are going to have a lot of fun with it. (Wii Tennis may be the best thing ever. I love it! Also, to those of you familiar with an infamous YouTube vid, there will be no video of me playing the hula hoop game...) Other gifts included a variety of sheep-themed bedding from Grant, wine from my parents, books on wine and tequila from my lovely sister-in-law, Heart DVDs and the first season of Castle from my parents (whee!), and a fun little pedicure spa thing from Grant, which I eagerly anticipate trying out. :) I finished one of Grant's sweaters and have promised the second by New Year's. :) Also, I have already stolen the copy of Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" that Grant got. :D |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
nicolemarieh
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10:11p |
If you ever wonder who those crazy last minute shoppers are, I can tell you who. ME. Not always, not usually, but this year, yes. Although I was thinking about gifts in November, I only got around to getting a couple early. All the rest happened within the last week. And I just bought all of my groceries tonight. Thank you thank you Albertson, for being not only the only store I could find open at 7pm, but for also staying open until 9pm, AND for helping me to not panic, by assuring me that you would be open again on Christmas Day. I hope the employees arent too grumpy. I like to think they arent, because I don't really mind working holidays so maybe some of them don't either. I *especially* dont mind working holidays when you get holiday pay, as I assume all the Albertsons employees do. In any case, I figured out a way to likely improve their day: every employee that I had to interact with I was very cheerful and after they helped me I caught their eye and sincerely said "thank you for being here today!" with a genuine smile, and then I either said I hope you have a good night or Merry Christmas depending on whatever words fell out of my mouth next. Every employee I said that to got a big appreciative smile on their face, and returned with Merry Christmas or similar and seemed to really mean it. I left the store feeling super happy and cheerful because they were cheerful back to me! yayyyyyy. I learned this method because a customer at work today said that to *me* (thank you for being there to answer the phones when it's Christmas Eve!) and i thought awww what a nice thing to say! So I'm glad I got to pay it forward, in a sense. now to sit in my empty apartment and twiddle my thumbs, bahhh christmas eve. jk, i have lots of cooking to do, and i know multiple people out at different bars tonight if I get too lonely. now if Craig would just stop texting and calling me, i could enjoy my night in peace without being distracted by stupid boys. |
joyce
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10:44p |
Church with various and sundry family members at my cousin Andrew's church, and then dessert and chit-chat at his aunt on his other side's house, with some of his family on his other side (his dad is my dad's brother; this was his mom's family) and Andrew and his brother Michael and my sisters. Very nice evening. I have a few more presents to wrap, and then sleep to have; the rest of the cooking can (and mostly should; make-ahead gravy? Eww) wait until tomorrow. Current Mood: mellow |
faecat
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11:37a |
For another 25 minutes, each comment on this post will be a dollar donated to a Christmas celebration for Seattle's homeless youth, including food and gifts of warm clothes and other necessities. Edit: Time's up. Final count at noon was 577 comments, plus another person agreed to match the first hundred at a dollar each, so $677 raised to provide necessities for the homeless youth of Seattle. Pretty impressive, given the normal attitude of the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) seattle community. Happy holidays to all, whatever your holiday of choice may be! |
faecat
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10:11a |
For investigation purposes, my winter quarter second class options as of today and their book requirements, plus prices as per the school's bookstore: ( Read more... )Unfortunately, my two top options are problematic -- my first pick would be the Women's Studies course, which is on Thursday nights. Just like my Rainbow meetings, my OES meetings, and my Rainbow board meetings (for which I have just been elected secretary). My second would be the chemistry, but that's a lot of price on those books, and there's not much wiggle room as they're not exactly books, but access to a specialized online instruction system. Barring those two options, the Bioethics course is my top pick of what remains, though again that's potentially a lot of book. I'm trawling Google for cheap books; anyone have any specific suggestions for finding them? ISBNs are in the post. |
joyce
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9:59a |
I have made our first mortgage payment. Woot! :) Current Mood: butt wiggle |
faecat
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6:56a |
Melatonin night 2: Again, 3mg SL 9:10pm. Lights out 9:30pm. Result: Same as if I don't take it, hours to sleep and then tossing and turning half-awake most of the night. Uuuuuugh. |
joyce
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8:42a |
Yesterday was a good day too. We ran the last of our errands in the morning (and Target etc. was a zoo; even the co-op was a zoo, filled with people who don't know how to do things like use bulk bins). I ran over to the parents' for some Scrabble and Yahtzee with Hope in the afternoon, came home, made some awesome homemade pasta, and then crashed out with a book. :) Today is cooking day. I'd made a nice neat plan to start it yesterday... and then got very lazy. The cheese ball is already down. :) Current Mood: happy |
| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
sheeplass
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9:44p |
yay sweaters!
I finished a sweater for Grant today. It's a good sign when the person you've just knit a sweater for puts it on, says "Ooooh, warmth!", and then refuses to take it off until you point out that it's a CHRISTMAS PRESENT and it should therefore be wrapped and under the tree. :D I'm working on another, but I took a quick detour to finish off my own knitted Christmas stocking. Grant got his last year (it's for-real argyle), but mine is a smaller, bright sun yellow, gansey-style stocking. I like it okay, but as much as I thought yellow would be the perfect color for a stocking at first, I find myself kind of wishing it were more green-and-white-and-red. Perhaps I can find a nice pattern for an entrelac sock which I can then blow up to stocking size. I do so love entrelac! Anyway, I suppose it's back to the second sweater. I had these grand plans to make him three, but it will definitely just be the one, then a second by New Year's, and the third for certain by Valentine's Day, but probably sometime in January, unless he decides he'd rather have a flat of new socks instead. The V-Day sweater is going to be made out of a wool/silk blend, probably with lots of cables, but it may require a custom pattern -- due to wanting a finer-gauge sweater, this one is in fingering weight yarn. o_O I will put up pictures at some point; our camera that we bought for our 2005 trip to New Zealand finally gave up all hope of working, so we're researching new camera options. As long as it has a USB plug or a SD card (which are both super easy to use to upload pictures to my computer -- the SD card is actually a little easier), I'll be pretty happy with it. Perhaps something that can handle low-light conditions a bit better than the last one, or something where the flash doesn't wash out the image quite so much. It's hard to take good pictures of knitting when the flash either eats the entire image or you just can't get a good picture because you don't have enough light... |
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