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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
12:15 am	I have a feeling it's going to be an interesting year. D and I were all ready with our sparkling beverages, waiting for the clock to strike midnight. We've been together for 14 years as of tonight. Unfortunately, we missed midnight by a few minutes due to a high speed car chase repeatedly circling our block several times, complete with SIX police cars and gunshots fired. We really need to move to a smaller town. Heh. Current Mood: worried Current Music: Blaqk Audio - Bitter For Sweet (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
2:51 pm	Yay, pod! Today is a great day! Elladan got something at Le Target that he has been wanting for years. Possibly he has been wanting it for decades. I'm not sure they've had them for centuries, or he'd have been wanting one for that long, as well. It has got clouds on. It is made of impossibly soft fleece. It is warm and snuggly. It is pod-compliant. Elladan is a very happy Elf indeed. This even fits properly, and you all know how tall Elladan is. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
9:08 pm	You know... ...my permanent residency visa doesn't actually sound like it's expired, as I sit here reading it. I wonder... I would so love to go back and live where I used to do. *sigh* It sucks sometimes, having lived so many places. I get homesick for the weirdest crap. Today was long and tiring, for a Saturday. Princess dog met the new vet and loved him, of course. Then again, she loves everyone. D and I also really liked the new guy, though. Plus, he lived and worked in CO for some time. The girl got a round of medicines. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to have to take more pills. I was down again, but not by much. At least I wasn't up. :) So far, I haven't had any up weeks. D has. Ha. Tomorrow, I am going to try to do some useful writing stuff. D is gone for the week now, so that ought to help. Anyone who's ever spoken to me on the phone probably knows what he is like. But I do miss him when he's gone. Tea is lovely. I might also have a cocoa before bed. Current Mood: recumbent (Comment on this)
Friday, November 14th, 2008
9:21 pm	Driving. Today I drove nearly the number of miles I used to drive at my old job. Only here, it's way more complex, driving. And takes SO much more time. Stupid large city. And I had to go from my little corner over into the opposite corner, then all the way up north and out of town. Blah. I don't know how I drove this much every day. Tomorrow, D is leaving for the week, going to a supercomputing conference. Lucky him. I get to hold down the fort. Huzzah. At least it ought to give me some uninterrupted transcription time. Mmm, longhand to word processor. It ought to be fun. It's about a week and a half until my mom gets here for Thanksgiving. I totally need to prepare for that, and for the inevitable disaster it's going to be for my weight loss. Taking my princess dog to the vet tomorrow for a check up. The emergency backup dog is staying home this time, the healthy little S.O.B. The princess dog is geriatric nowadays. I do worry about her. She's still bouncy and happy, though, and snuggly. I think her quality of life is still very good, in her opinion. She's the best dog in the universe. Now, at nine-thirty-ish, I am going to bed. Because I am an exhausted lump at this point. Evening, all. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
9:21 pm	Mmm. Food. Eating supper at Outback tastes so much better when you've not had it in quite some time and reeeeally appreciate it. D and I went and did that this evening. It was additionally remarkable in that we actually sat and ate supper at the same table together! It's been a while since we got to do that, too. Still writing mostly longhand on the lunch hour. Or, more accurately, on my lunch half hour. Or lunch fifteen minutes... It's been really disturbing lately that I am so tired of an evening. I find myself physically unable to stay up late these days. My eyelids droop and I start to nod off if I don't go to bed. I fear that this may be a sign of age. Ugh. For those of you who regularly mock me about being a lizard: It is 64F here right now. I am FROZEN. The high today was 73F. I was chilly all day and wore my jacket the entire time. I also ran the heater in my car tonight. I hate cold. Current Mood: full (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
8:11 pm	I need sleeeeeep. So tired. Work has been long lately. Long and too much. I may go in late tomorrow. I spoke with a certain birthday girl who is my sibling this evening. A decade and a half younger than I am, and way, way, WAY more sensible and awesome. My phone makes me happy. I have about a zillion applications on it now. The coolest by far is the bar code scanner thingie that compares the prices of stuff in nearby shops, online, and in the case of books lists public libraries, as well. My phone is my friend. It plays NPR to me. It has simulated bubble wrap. It has everything I could need from a PDA, too. I am actually going to go nap. Right now. In the middle of the evening. Because I can if I feel like it. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
7:57 pm	I do not have music cooties, nor am I evol. larian says that I am. Just because she hasn't sufficient shielding from Songs That Stick In One's Head. That is not my responsibility. So there. SHE, however, does indeed possess music cooties. Don't look at her iTunes library! You might be shocked! Even more important, don't listen! You might be afraid! Be warned! Heh. Tonight, D and I are attempting to sort through the additional crap he brought from our old house this past weekend. I am not looking forward to trying to find places for even more stuff. I think I will simply pitch a whole bunch of it. That'll solve a lot of problems. I'm on my fourth downsize in clothing. I can't believe it. Work is going to be the end of me. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
9:15 pm	Elladan is a very happy Elf. Yes, finarfiniel's fabulous Elladan costume got to be worn in public after all this year. No Dragon*Con, but today's ren faire was good fun in any case. Elladan also insisted upon way too much glitter and a new circlet. With ribbons on. He's a weirdo. We saw fairjennet for a little while, and she came and watched the fireworks with us after it got dark. She's the awesome reason we got to go again this weekend, anyway. Next week, I might actually attempt the Fingon costume. Although I haven't really the hair for it any more. Eh. Who cares? I know what it's meant to be, right? Also, kilts can sometimes be a fine thing. Or at least an amusing one. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
6:37 pm	Yay! I'm off to meet fairjennet for an evening of entertainingness. Hopefully, we'll be able to subsist off popcorn for the evening. Mmm. I d/l'd a bunch of apps for my G1. Even the dumb bubblewrap simulator. Hee. I can't believe that D brought another entire truck full of crap from our house. I had no idea that we'd left so much of our crap there. ARGH! I hate STUFF! The dog needs a bath. Luckily, I'm outta here, and D gets to give her the spa treatment! Current Mood: rushed (Comment on this)
Friday, November 7th, 2008
8:01 am	Oh, my goodness. Is Friday over yet? D got in from his trip at about 2 this morning. For some reason, I wasn't able to sleep well or the whole night through. And I had weird dreams. Today, the day is crammed full of work junk. Not just a regular work-y Friday, but a totally packed one. I so wish it could be over. Or that I could at least predict that it would be over at 5. *sigh* On a positive note, though, this weekend I'll likely get to see and pester fairjennet, and probably twice! Can you believe that I've been writing longhand during the day in an attempt to not fall too far behind before the weekend on that? So lame. When I get home later, I may have one or more whiney rants for you. Sadly, I have to leave for work now. Isn't there some rich person out there who wants to pay me to play Elf rpgs all day? That would be so much nicer. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
8:16 am	Phew. Alright. I got up at the crack o' dawn, ran down to the precint, and voted. Missed the horrific lines, only had to wait about ten minutes. I've done my civic duty. Now. Please, please, please, please, PLEASE let this all turn out well so I don't have to ask my sister to sponsor me in Canada. I'm reasonably hopeful. Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
7:18 am	Ugh. I so don't want to go to work. Blaaah! It's all Claudio's fault. Well, 33.4% his fault. And 66.6% Agustina's and Sylvie's fault. Damned Elves. A pox on Maglor's mini-driving orc gardener! Heh. It's also going to be a really long day today, so I thought I'd better post early, in case I don't make it back in time for posting! My mom is coming out here in a couple of weeks, with my stepdad. That ought to be fun. She's going to make Thanksgiving dinner. D says he's going off plan for that, and he doesn't care. Heh. I'm going to try to stay on plan. I think they're going to stay for a week? This house is actually big enough for guests. I can't imagine what we were thinking, getting four bedrooms, but it kind of rocks. Of course, it's just a rental. Which is good, in a way, because it's got some problems, fairly major ones, and I don't think I'd want to own it. Alright, damned work, and chores beforehand. Also, I have to drop the rent off on my way to work. (Our landlady lives about two miles away from us.) Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
10:33 pm	Ah, yes, wasting an entire Sunday. Mmm. I went out to the Renaissance Festival with some friends today. It was huge. Sadly, D is at our old house until Tuesday at the earliest, so he didn't get to go with us. Happily, this means that I get to go with him again next weekend. Eating is certainly easy at those things. Rar. But I think I did okay at keeping it somewhat low key. Somehow, role reversal has entered my life in a strange form. That wretch elvses has somehow become my procrastination assistant for the evening, keeping me from writing as much as I would like. How in the world did that happen?! And with Elves, of all things! Sheesh. Tomorrow is going to be a bleh day at work. I am not looking forward to it at all. I'm thinking that I will start out working from home. I didn't take photos at the Ren Fest today, due to the fact that I couldn't find the battery charger for my camera. That is this weeks mission, so that next week I will be able to post some photos. Tomorrows post might include some gushing about the G1. I suppose that's about it for now. Smarties are still gross, btw. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
8:15 pm	Yay! I have all sortsa crap to do! Well, here we are on November 1. I have gone completely insane and have signed up for all sorts of things requiring self-imposed deadlines for the entire month. I don't know what I was thinking. Let's start things off with a random, rambly update, shall we? On Thursday night, we went over to some friends' and carved pumpkins all evening and ate chili. So much fun. But I was totally exhausted on Friday. I'm too old for socialising. We had more trick-or-treaters last night than the combined total of all the trick-or-treaters who've knocked on our door in the past 13 years. We handed out bags and bags of candy. It was great. Then we went to the Museum of Natural Science and danced, watched belly dancing, ate free stuff, ogled people's costumes, hung around the exhibits, and ended the evening in the planetarium show of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It was very amusing indeed. You could tell how old people were by whether they walked in during the Pink Floyd thing and went, "Oooh!" or whether they kind of sat down, looked perplexed for a few minutes, and then left, having no idea about planetarium laser shows of a bygone era. Pf. Whippersnappers. Today I went to my meeting and found out I reached my 10% goal. That's a total of 24.6, for those of you who care. The 10% goal was 23. D made his 10% goal last week. I started writing for NaNoWriMo at half past midnight or so, but we'd just come home from the party, so I could barely stay awake long enough to write a couple of paragraphs. I felt better having started though. And now I'm going to do some more of that, thank you. Renaissance Festival tomorrow. Woo! Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
8:36 pm	So much YAY! Current Mood: enthralled (Comment on this)
Friday, September 5th, 2008
9:34 pm	Holy heck! ANXIETY! Something majorly important is happening tomorrow morning. I totally don't want to jinx it, so I'm not going to go into much detail tonight. I'll simply say that I am having a major freakout of the worst sort. I am not exaggerating. Any positive/hopeful thoughts would be much appreciated. Argh. Current Mood: scared (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
7:19 pm	Yay! Lunch! It was my distinct privilege today to go to lunch with fiarjennet on her birthday. At the Hobbit Cafe, which was a somewhat appropriate choice, que no? We had a nice lunch, and then we made the mistake of going to the bookstore, which is bad news, so money disappeared there. I bought a book that I'm vaguely ashamed to own, so I won't mention it here. It is total cheese. No, like so bad that I almost couldn't buy it with a straight face. We had fun, though, and hopefully we'll get together again soon and do something else Interesting. Oh, and just as an aside, on my way home, I had to pick up a cable for my iPod. While I was trying to accomplish that simple task, Elladan forced me to look at items of clothing that cost $3,500 and in that range. But he wasn't interested in the Versace store. He said the stuff in there is way more Rumil's style this season, larian. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Thunderheist - Bubblegum (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
10:20 pm	Happy happy cell phone. O Virgin Mobile, how I love thee. Service that works everywhere it's supposed to. Instant messenger, both flavours, on my phone! All sorts of internet dinking for very cheap! International dialing for ridiculously low rates! Lovely little QWERTY keyboard. No dumbasses from Alltel with whom one is forced to deal. Elf screensavers and wallpapers tailor made. Ludicrous ringtones and ringback tones. Ah, Virgin Mobile. You are making me a very happy bee. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
11:05 am	I admit it. Weather Pixie and Yahoo both confirm it. Right now it is 76 degrees Fahrenheit outside or about 24C. It is going to be a high of 80F or around 27C. Now. I have to say, that people (read elvses) have accused me of being a weirdo for being cold in the wintertime and turning the heat up above 50 degrees. Well, fie on them. D is one of those people, too, actually. But, seriously, this is ridiculous. Right now, I am a bit chilly. My fingers and toes are cold, and my nose. And no, I don't have the AC on. So I went and unpacked Elladan's pod and here I sit, wrapped up in a giant fleece pod in 80 degree weather. Mmm. Warm. Now I will continue watching The Colour of Magic. Am NOT a lizard. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
7:22 pm	Oh, hell. Save me from a bunch of crap I don't need but feel too guilty to throw away! Save me from stuff I don't need but to which I seem to have formed an unnatural emotional attachment! Save me from STUFF! I think that in the next day or two I will make and post a list of all the majorly weird crap I've found that is going away without any agonising. D's weird crap is especially fun to mock. MY things are not weird at all, as most of you know. I have impeccable taste. Current Mood: silly Current Music: The B-52s - Funplex (2 Comments |Comment on this)