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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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10:15 pm - AAALLLLVVVVIIIIINNNN!
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It's officially the Christmas season: I heard the Chipmunk Christmas song on the radio.
Oh, and the recalcitrant DVD drive? Appears to have been caused by the PRINTER DRIVER DISK. So, to the fine people at Brother, SUCK IT.
Ok, have to go break up a cat-ass-trophy in progress.
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| Monday, November 30th, 2009
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8:58 pm - Teh Endz
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Well, finally, end of November. 31 days til the end of 2009. One tick closer to 2012. ;)
It took me a ridiculous amount of time to make dinner tonight, which basically amounts to salad with chicken. Somehow took me an hour to make. Doesn't help that the chicken took FOREVER to get done in the center, which means the ends are probably shoe leather by now. Bah.
I wonder what my ipod "thinks" about the fact that I rarely skip Monty Python mp3s while the pedometer is in use. ;)
I'm having a hell of a tech support week. The new DVD drive in the laptop that was working just fine yesterday has now crapped out, to the extent that Windows doesn't even pretend to see it. So once I'm done stuffing salad down my gullet, and breaking up cat fights, I get to sacrifice a goat in order to get the laptop working again.
Bah.
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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9:54 pm - Final days!
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Last few days of NaBloPoMo, after which I'll probably go mysteriously silent for weeks. And you'll all breathe a sigh of relief.
Had another quiet day to round off the four-day weekend. Nap, laundry, changed the sheets, football, exercise, and shower. I have a feeling the next couple of days will be brutal, in terms of being back at work after 4 days of sleeping in.
Speaking of football, the Bears didn't just lose. I think the score qualifies under "raped and pillaged". I hate football. Ready for baseball to come back, and it's going to be a long four months til spring training. And Spring.
One of my cats is alternately rolling around on the floor and bathing himself, and the other cat has gone into loaf form and is shooting sleep rays at me.
Yesterday I was cleaning up some random objects in the house, and found an old high school photo of myself. I think it was my junior year class photo. If I ever reattach my scanner I'll be sure to post it online, just so we can all point and laugh. My lovely peaches and cream complexion (assisted by makeup) and high cheekbones (the collagen hadn't started drifting southward), etc etc. Maybe in 40 years plastic surgery will restore me to my 16-year-old face. Damn, that'd be creepy.
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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009
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10:37 pm - Ouch
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I'm trying to go thru as much of today as possible sans Motrin. Neck does not appreciate this concept. I have a feeling I'll cave in at some point.
Ran around like a bunch of crazies today. Dropped off two concert posters to get framed as gifts, stopped at the in-laws' house to pick up some microphone stands, went to TigerDirect/CompUSA only to find that we went to the wrong one, drove all the way across suburbia to the other one to pick up a replacement CD/DVD drive for DH's uber-laptop, stopped by a friend's workplace to say hello, ran through Whole Foods (and forgot to pick up more empty teabags) and then home. Replaced the DVD drive, put away laundry, cleaned out the laptop's registry, organized a bookcase, got halfway into pajamas (the pants part), unloaded the dishwasher, and now... cat food time. After which, sleep. Hooray!
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| Friday, November 27th, 2009
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11:13 pm - Narf
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Why is it I always remember to post just as I'm trying to go to bed?
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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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11:11 pm - Gobble gobble!
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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10:46 pm - Owie
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I managed to tweak something in my neck/shoulder/back. Sadly, while just reaching back to pull my coat hood over my head before going out into the rain. Apparently muscles were just waiting to spaz out at the first non-desk movement. Blahhhhh. Hurts to turn my head to certain degrees, look up and down, etc. Hoping it's not going to pester me for weeks.
On the happy side, made the apple pumpkin pie tonight. The center took forever to firm up (like an extra 10-12 minutes past the recommended baking time) so I hope the crust isn't too zorched. It was a frozen premade crust so I'm not expecting miracles, but something that's remained edible would be nice.
I didn't get any cool whip / whipped cream. Hope that's not going to be a tactical error.
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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10:50 pm - MMM
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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10:46 pm - To make room for the cupcakes!
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I think the one thing that's going to get me through this work week is the constant self-reminder that it's only a 3-day work week.
In happier news, I just bought tickets to see Patton Oswalt live the day after Christmas. Hooray!
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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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6:30 pm - KWIZMMIZ
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It's officially the Christmas season in our household. The Christmas decoration bin came out last night, I got to untangle and test a bunch of light strings, and today I bought a bunch of cheap clear lights at the grocery store, and we spent about an hour making angry faces at each other and putting lights on the birch tree out front. Of course, half of one light strand ended up being out (one of the strands I tested last night, even); fortunately, it happened to be the very last segment at the base of the tree, so it doesn't look awful. But we won't plug the lights in officially til after Thanksgiving. At which point, the front garage lights go from orange to green too. ;)
I apparently have a wrapping paper obsession. I have an underbed bin full of paper, ribbon, cards, stickers, etc. Most are Christmas / seasonal (ie you generally don't get away with using silver and blue swirly paper in midsummer). I seem to keep buying new rolls and forgetting what I already have. I need to buy people big, bulky presents this year so I can use a lot up. Or... I could give people normal presents in GIANT BOXES. That might be hilarious actually... ;)
Last night I watched the MST3k version of Parts: The Clonus Horror. It was entirely mediocre. It could be that the movie itself was just that terrible, but after a while the Peter Graves / Biography jokes wore thin, and there just wasn't enough remaining to make it spectacular. Then again, according to IMDB, the original Clonus movie was made for $257,000. That might have something to do with it.
One hour til the Bears game. Holding out very small hope they won't crash and burn like in previous weeks...
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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11:13 pm - Egads!
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Nearly forgot to post. Would have broken a 20 day streak...
I tested Xmas lights today. Welcome to Holiday-o-Rama! Also found a cute stamped metal cat ornament that I have no recollection of ever owning. And the evil metal Santa thing that poops melted wax.
And now I sleep!
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| Friday, November 20th, 2009
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10:30 am - Stumpy!
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Ok, an entirely silly post. As usual.
My sister-in-law's wedding photos finally made it online, so this is the first time I've seen them. Rumor has it I cleaned up nicely, but I wanted to see the actual damage. ;)
The result: I'm short. Entirely, without a question, short. It shouldn't come as a shock to me, since I've been this height since I was probably 13, and I realize that I have to buy petite clothes, I can't reach high shelves, etc. But these pictures are like "YE GODS!" It's like that old sci-fi show Land of the Giants. Granted, my husband's family is all unusually tall; I think the shortest of the bunch is 5'9" or 5'10". But as I look at the group pictures, my eye travels across in a relatively straight line, and then when it gets to me, down like a full inch!
Call me stumpy!
It helps in the photos where the niece and nephew are present, since they're still a good foot shorter than me. But also < 1/3 my age. Hopefully they'll never be twice my height. ;)
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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8:16 pm - Ok, this illness can stop now
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Not sure when I became such a wuss about being sick. But I've been sick for 4 days and I'm damn tired of it. Congested and headachy now, with a tiny bit of fever (98.8 instead of my usual 97.6). Ready for sinuses to not be full of porridge.
Sitting and watching Blazing Saddles and sipping decaf tea, because one of the cats laid claim to my entire pile of clean and warm laundry.
I took one Sudafed last night, and it gave me really odd dreams about walking through a large, empty dancehall-type room. Tall ceilings and hardwood floors and big windows but nothing else. Woke up in the middle of the night when the decongestant part of it wore off, broke up a crazy cat fight in the loft, spent a few minutes attempting to breathe through my nose, then back to more restless sleep. Woke up with the the low temp and the medicine head hangover. Wish there was some kind of effective decongestant that didn't make me simultaneously jittery and disoriented. If anyone was able to come up with it, they'd make a freaking mint.
Tomorrow I have the day off. It was finally approved Wednesday EOD. Not traveling to Michigan though, sadly. Instead will spend many hours trapped by cats, maybe look into getting new tires put on my car, change a lot of random light bulbs in the house, rescue laundry from the cats, pay bills... sounds like a great vacation day, right?
I was half tempted to load myself up on sudafed, advil, and alcohol and go see a midnight showing of New Moon, and infect a room full of squeeing teens with this horrible plague. In that mental state, the movie (given a whopping 1 star by Ebert) might be viewable!
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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8:28 pm - Content!
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I feel a little guilty about my short, useless LJ posts. It's mostly because I don't remember that I'm supposed to post until it's the end of the day and I'm desperate to get the cats fed and myself into bed. Not that sleep has been very obliging the last few nights, but that's another matter entirely.
So I'm still sick. Sore throat finally disappeared, mostly, by this morning, but now it's the agonizing sensation that my sinuses contain 30 gallons of napalm and that my skull is just short of bursting. Oh joy. I tried to nap on the couch when I got home, but I was basically unable to breathe through my nose, and I despise having to mouth breathe, so, much to the cat's chagrin, I bailed on the couch idea and went and soaked myself in a bathtub full of steaming water and some lavender oil. So now I feel like a sack of mashed potatoes, but at least I can breathe a little better.
Now I'm sitting back on the couch, just starting to watch The Tale of Desperaux, and debating the merits of having chili or scrambled eggs or frozen pizza for dinner, and that I should really get down to some serious knitting work on the washcloth I want to send to my cousin in Texas who's due any minute now with a baby boy. But I may just stare into space and wait for my brain to unboil.
This movie has a kingdom that has a celebrated Soup Day. I approve.
It took 13 days for my PTO request for one day off work to be approved. That kind of blows. I guess I have to put my request for days off in January in now.
This is the interesting thing about being sick: I've had a sore throat, stuffy/runny nose, and the occasional cough. Minor achiness, a little tired, but generally, it says to me "seasonal head cold". I've been operating under the thought that, since I'm not running a fever and I don't have the expected "been hit by a truck repeatedly" fatigue that you usually associate with flue, that it's certainly not H1N1. But yesterday I saw on the CDC website that they updated the symptoms to say "The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with the flu, including 2009 H1N1 and have respiratory symptoms without a fever." So, in other words, if you have typical flu symptoms, you most likely have H1N1. But if you just have a head cold, or a touch of food poisoning, you may also have H1N1. Well, WTF? Seriously! Well, if I do have HINEY, then it's a crazy mild case, and I'll take that over a burning fever and bone-wilting fatigue any day.
Ok, enough blather for the day. Time for food. :)
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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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9:53 pm - I am not a prisoner!
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Watching the first 2-hour lump of The Prisoner on the DVR. Apparently there are hazardous Hubba Bubba traps in the desert. And Two eats cake with his hands. Who knew?
current mood:  amused
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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10:47 pm - Meh
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Took an actual sick day for the first time in a long while. Technically a half sick day, but the underlying crap is all the same. Basically overtired and congested with a sore throat. Yuck.
I can handle being sick for most variations (coughing, sneezing, stomach iffyness, etc) but having a sore throat just makes me feel entirely incapacitated. Like I'm afraid to breathe and swallow. Not so fun.
Hopefully I don't wake up with it in the morning. :(
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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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8:57 pm - Roadhouse!
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Driving (technically riding shotgun) to Indianapolis for the football game. Welcome to other parts of America's heartland!
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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10:32 pm - XIV
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It's been a very uneventful day. Partially due to having an evil sinus headache for most of the day, and partially from having a sick and inert husband. Hoping it's just a head cold. Either way, I stayed unshowered and in my pajamas until about 3:00, which was a rare luxury. Spent bits of the day organizing piles of paperwork in my home office, and doing some laundry and minor errands.
My cousin in Texas is expecting her first baby around Thanksgiving, so I've tried to knit up something to send. I did actually knit up a cute basketweave burp cloth in variegated yarn, but right after I finished it I found out she was having a boy. Since the cloth, while largely green, also has a wide strip of hot pink in the middle, I've decided to give it to friends who have a little girl (and the baby blanket made of the same yarn). So now I'm looking for another pattern to knit up in pale blue cotton yarn that I have in my stash. I've started three different things in the evening hours today; one was a really nice diagonal basketweave that would have turned out much to large for the quantity of yarn I have, one had a lot of errata that made no sense, and one I messed up the pattern on the second row. I'm on the fourth attempt, which is another basketweave that I've done before, but I think the needles I've started on are too large, and will probably rip it out and start over yet again. But maybe tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, we're supposed to head out to Indianapolis to see the Colts / Patriots game tomorrow night with some friends. If the DH has a fever tomorrow, we're going to bow out and just mope at home. Hoping he's feeling better tomorrow, no matter what.
Ash cat has a timer in his head that goes *ping* right at dinner time. But he's still adjusting from the time change, and his internal timer often goes off somewhere around 15 minutes early. Right now he's insisting that FOOD NOW would be a good idea, despite the fact that he got breakfast a little later than usual, since I slept in for once.
We're watching a show on cats, and Ash went and sat right in front of the screen and started meowing. Silly cats. :)
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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9:42 pm - Cognitive Dissonance
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I'm looking up the whole Disney "Alice is the new black" viral-ish marketing, while watching the Good Eats episode on Japanese foods, and attempting to amuse my cats.
Alice-themed couture could be awesome, or could be horrifying. Apart from jewelry, I can't tell what it all entails. Guess I'll find out more come Spring.
I'm glad my week is now more than half over. Every morning I wake up and think about how I'd gladly take 1-2 more hours of sleep. I figure by Saturday, I'll need 5-10 hours. I smell naptime.
I bet my cats would kill for a bucket of warm bonito broth. They pilfered some carrot cake last night and left it all over the house...
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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9:47 pm - Dic!
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Our recording of V seems to have ended prematurely. Bah.
Band name invented while watching the show: The Lizard Spectrum
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