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[Nov. 4th, 2009|04:12 am] |
Why yes, I *am* awake at 4:00 in the blessed A.M. I have to be at the office at 6:00 to meet the carpet installers. Someday you'll have a glamorous job just like mine.
Truth be told, it wasn't that difficult to get up because I went to bed at a reasonable hour. More than reasonable, really. After Splash Class I was falling asleep on the couch at 8:30. I fought to stay awake until 9:15 and then wondered why the hell I was making myself stay awake. I remember talking to ragazz' when he got home from bowling.. but I went right back to sleep after that.
I used to be the girl who was the night owl AND the early bird. I wonder where that girl went?
There were a couple of new splashers in class with us - a woman and her boyfriend. It was pretty funny.. he was acting all cocky during the warm-ups. "This is EASY! How is this even a workout?"
HA!
He was huffing and puffing by 6:30, and I heard him say "This class is an HOUR long?" He finally gave up about 10 minutes later. There was no possible way he would have survived the crazy-teacher-Saturday class. Still, it was a noble effort. I'm guessing they'll be back.
And yes, you read correctly - ragazz' got to bowl last night. He left work at 5:00. He had to log back in and do a little work after bowling.. but the time of crazy 24 hour long work days might be done. God, I hope so. He's become a bit of a rockstar at the office. Everyone has heard about the insane hours he put in on this project. I guess this must be a rite of passage in the IT World.
Heh. Geeks are strange. (But he's MY geek, and I love him so.)
I'm procrastinating about taking down the deck furniture and inventorying my Christmas decorations. That's out of character. The mood will strike soon, though.
Better head out now, so the guys can get in and work on the floor before the rest of them world wants to walk on it.
Ciao. |
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| Features: Savage Love:November 4, 2009 |
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/november-4-2009,34946/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=type_savage-love I’m a 20-year-old girl, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend, who is 23, for two years. From the get-go, he has known that I am bi, and like most straight guys, he’s happy to be with a girl who likes girls.
The thing is, I am too shy to go out and hit on a girl. Getting a man was the easy part, but getting a girl who is willing to fuck around not only with me but also with my boyfriend is a daunting task. I encourage my boyfriend to talk to women since he is ... |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:20 pm] |
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why is it that if it's on men, it's a toupee and to be avoided, but if it's on baby girls, it's a fashion accessory?
(i personally think it's all WTF and that babies look perfectly fine in their natural state.)
thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dandelion_diva for this abomination. i think. <3 |
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| So when can we vote on YOUR marriage? |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|11:21 pm] |
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Apparently, Prop one has passed in Maine, albeit by a hair. So, no legal marriage in Maine, either. At least, not for now.
I found out about that because an old friend of mine from back home, who had friended me on Facebook, had been following the count and was celebrating. I've since de-listed her.
Wow, you really can't go home again, can you? Well, I can't, anyway.
I'm reminded of the manifesto written by John Shelby Spong that magicmarmot posted in his journal. Spong said that the battle was already won. I wish I could believe him. I mean, my former friend is not some old person who is going to die soon. She's my age. Because I surround myself with people who don't think that way, I forget just how many of them there still are. As a straight person, that's pretty easy to do because they're not directing their wrath at me. I can hold hands with and marry whoever I want and they won't say boo.
This hasn't happened in a while: I notice homophobia the most when I'm in a circle of people who suddenly think that I'm as prejudiced as they are just because I like guys. Or, they ASSUME (correctly, in my case, but still...) that I must be straight and assume all the rest from there. It's sickening and funny at the same time. It's similar to the racist fuckhead assuming that I share all his fear and hatred just because I'm white. |
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| Homeowners! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|11:55 am] |
As I already said on facebook... I'm super excited that azure_armand & I will be the newest residents of the Lowertown Lofts in St. Paul! We interviewed with the membership committee last night and found out the good news as we left the building. Hooray!
We get to be homeowners in a way we can afford, and we get to be neighbors with spacebug and s4, as well as lots of other cool artist people. The loft is smallish (900 square feet) but has gorgeous high ceilings, natural light, and hardwood floors.
We will move in sometime in December. Yes, we be asking for help when the time comes. :-) |
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| This isn't work related. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:57 am] |
My computer is still down and I haven't gotten off my ass to get it fixed.
Mom is recovering from knee surgery which should help her walk a little. She's suppose to be wearing a brace but doesn't like it.
because of last week I've started a veggie bender with a batch of cabbage soup.
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| Flat. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|06:25 am] |
I have returned! Here's a picture of Fargo for you:
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Yeah. It's just all flatness. Flatty, flatty flatness.
The guys at the office are really nice, though, and I think this will be a fairly straight-forward project. So andiamo, yo. I have to go back up there again in a month. Please, God, I hope it isn't snowing.
Eight hours of my day was spent in a car, so there's not much else to report. I did finish two dishcloths and got a good start on a third one. I went to bed at about 8:30 last night because just sitting is, evidently, exhausting.
Tonight there will be Splash Class and I will wear my new, non-skirty swimsuit. My water shoes should be arriving any day now, and with that I have completed the transformation and I'm now a water-jock girl. Heh.
Okay! Gotta go. Ciao. |
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| clickies |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|10:19 am] |
thanks to bkwrrm_tx, mactavish, nightdog_barks, reannon and tsuki_no_bara
donations needed after fire in texas animal shelter might be a good idea to send this one on.
music makes the difference excellent article about music therapy for disabled and autistic kids - and as a bonus, that's reannon's mother in the article! i wish we lived closer. i'd love to find someone like that to work with Sean. i think he'd really respond well to music therapy (unfortunately 90% of the therapists of any type in Seattle are actually in the suburbs, because no one has children in Seattle of course. bah.)
life on white: belgian team photograph animals on white backgrounds these are SUPER cute. fair warning, #20 is a rather large photo of a spider (!) and #22 is a green tree python.
DNA 11 portraits: science as art i REALLY want to get this done. (i'm actually considering getting my DNA mapped, partly because OMFG AWESOME and parly because i really don't know much about my medical history at all, what with my father being an unknown and my mother's side of the family allergic to talking about anything.
ganges river dolphin population stabilizing YAY. EXCELLENT.
'twin towers' warship enters NY it was made with steel salvaged from the world trade center.
have some minor errands to run today /early tomorrow, but still tired and ouchy just now. time to relax and enjoy the quiet for a bit. |
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| On the road. |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|06:08 am] |
In a little less than an hour, I'll be on my way to scenic Fargo, ND. You wish you were me. I'm riding with the lead installer and the designer. Luckily we all get along well, or that could make for a long 8 hours in the car today. I'm bringing my knitting and hopefully I won't get too antsy. We have to tour the old and new sites, take field measurements and notes, and meet all the players.
All in all, I'd still rather work at Starbucks, but I guess this job isn't THAT bad. Heh.
This means I'll miss my regular Monday night cardio workout. Which, in turn, means trips to the gym on Tuesday - Saturday. Oddly, that doesn't seem as daunting as it used to.
Short and sweet this morning, because I have to get ready. Have a good day, Bellas. Ciao. |
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| roundup post - october 2009 |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|06:08 pm] |
i am trying to be more zen about this. (i am trying to be more zen about a lot of things. this is one of the biggest.)
i am glad at the very least that i wrote SOMETHING last month. because it would be bothersome (to me) to have a month where I wrote NOTHING, esp. since I've been tracking these things since december of 2007 and have done at least one thing every month.
so.
hero by mistake: an angsty (yeah, i know, i do it sometimes) Jack Harkness ficlet that kind of edges into Dr. Who as well as Torchwood. it has spoilers for Children of Earth (even though I never watched it, I do know what went on) and the end of Dr. Who season 3.
*nods to self*
onward. <3 |
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[Nov. 1st, 2009|02:13 pm] |
feeling a good bit better today: fever seems to be gone, as does the little one's. cough is still there, pain is epic and i'm still tired out pretty easily, but i'm going on an uphill swing at least.
clickies! thanks to gizmometer, jenk, mactavish, nightdog_barks and tourmaline1973
spanish woman finds 'guardian angel' on a bus who diagnosed rare disease there's a housefic in that possibly (modifying the 'guardian angel' part rather drastically.)
moscow stray dogs are the smartest the dogs COMMUTE. no, seriously. i am blown away by this. <3
gizmometer carved the coolest pumpkin ever. esp. if you're a Whoniverse person. or even tangentially know much of anything about Dr. Who. LOVE EET.
it's becoming more difficult to boycott companies who are treating gay people like equal human beings.
fantastic article about Joan Roughgarden and sexuality in the animal kingdom joan roughgarden is a transgendered christian evolutionary biologist. i love this so much. she's got a book, Evolution's Rainbow, where she goes into it in more detail with a LOT of examples. the theory makes so much SENSE and it makes me crazy that so many supposedly impartial people don't see it or don't want to see it. at least consider it, you know? a lot of theories sounded initially crazy and they turned out to be true.
police quash nude pumpkin run
GORGEOUS antarctic photography
why do we have daylight savings time? see, i LIKE it. because it doesn't get dark as early, and it's not like Sean lets me sleep in anyway. and there are other benefits (as they mention in the article)
also: arhh sucked me back into dragons again. click please? <3
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[Nov. 1st, 2009|02:12 pm] |
There are many topics to be covered today.
Here is an important email lesson. 1. Always check the "to" field in the email very very carefully. 2. Never mix work and personal contacts. 3. Never send email in the early morning when you might be slightly chemically altered.
The reason for this little PSA? I received an email at my work address from a vendor. An email that was not meant for me AT ALL, and that contained information that I didn't ever need or want to know. Yikes.
Something else from Splash Class: One of the exercises that the crazed hyper teacher has us do is to crab walk (shuffle on toes, knees bent and to the sides) to the deepest point in the center of the pool. Once we get there, she has us tread water for a minute, then crab walk back. Yesterday was the first time in my life that I was able to tread water and stay afloat. True confession - I don't know how to swim, not one bit. My parents were deathly afraid of water, so they never made us kids take swimming lessons. So in the past when she had us go to the middle to tread water I'd tread a tiny bit, but I always ended up having one foot touch bottom. Not yesterday. I started treading and realized that I was staying up. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it was a big deal for me.
PSA #2: If you have a child, make sure that child goes to swimming lessons as early as possible.
I played Nancy Drew Girl Detective on the internet this morning and discovered that my mom's house - the house in which I grew up - was indeed sold in January and to people whose names I did not recognize. No one ever even tried to contact me. I have no idea where any of my stuff that was still left in the house went. My baby book with all my baby pictures and original birth and baptismal certificates, my dolls, pictures and momentos of my dad.
I'd heard that the house might have been sold, and thought that one of my sisters might have snapped it up. In that scenario there was at least a chance of my getting back in there someday and getting my stuff out. Now it seems that won't ever happen. Every last tie that I had to my childhood is gone. Did they throw it away?
PSA #3: That saying "You'll always have your family" is sometimes not true. Luckily, I have a much BETTER family now.
I am going to try making homemade crackers. I came across a couple recipes and now I'm obsessed with doing this.
No PSA for that. I just wanted to tell you.
Almost time for the foosball game. I don't really care who wins or loses, it's just good background noise.
Have a delightful day! Ciao. |
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| MissFattyFoodie's Special - Golden Mushroom and Asparagus Bacon Rolls |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|05:31 pm] |
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Had some leftover slices of pork belly from korean bbq so missfattyfoodie decided to make two of her favourite dishes in japanese restaurants.
This is really easy to make and it looks nice too, so it is perfect for parties!
All you need are:
Teriyaki Sauce (the thick kind as I like them sticky)
Thinly sliced pork belly (available in korean supermarkets)
Enoki/ Golden mushrooms or asparagus.
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| this is hallowe'en |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|01:40 pm] |
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due to the sick we are not going out trick-or-treating. Sean doesn't really 'get' it, and i think he may still be fighting off the last bit of sick as well (i just heard him sniffling) so i don't think he'll be sad, which is good.
i feel like hell; chris feels like lite hell.
clickies from mactavish and nightdog_barks.
florida man stole ferret by shoving it in his pants.
fossil hunter finds 140 million year old spidierweb in amber woah.
OTTER WIF A JACKOLANTERN!
BUNNY WIF A HAT! (i LOVE this <3 so hard.)
i was going to write something about joe lieberman feeling 'relevant' for blocking health care reform, but i'm too tired and too incoherent and can't think of anything to say other than a lot of bad words, so i'm going to put the link here instead.
(okay, i thought of something. regardless of your views on the issue, what he's doing is basically lying down on the floor of a grocery store and kicking his feet because he believes he should have Cocoa Puffs and the majority opinion (the public, or to go with my analogy, his mother) says that he should pick something more nutritious. and if we don't put up with that kind of behavior from our children, why are we putting up with it from our elected officials, who are ostensibly adults and supposedly know better? that's all i'm saying.)
canada sets aside its boreal forest as giant carbon vault yay for canada!*
disclaimer: i don't hate america. i really don't. i like it here a lot; i've spent a lot of money trying to stay here. if i really hated it here i wouldn't be staying. but at least one person is convinced that i do, and so i have this disclaimer. (well, really part of it is my tongue-in-cheek poking fun at it.)
current thoughts:
I'm thinking about doing NaNoWriMo, but possibly a modified version. Really I want to write every day. but i don't know whether i want to write toward some sort of goal or not. i'm walking a line between being really stressed out over the deadline and exploding over that and not being able to cope vs. stretching my abilities. Not sure what way to go there.
seaners got suspended from fail!transit again. for taking off his seatbelt. for a week. *headdesk* am starting to be at a loss what to do here. I can't ride the bus with him alone (he won't fit on the wheelchair lift with me, he won't take directions reliably enough to where i'd be comfortable telling him to get on the bus: chris doesn't get home until after seven as it is), we don't want to take him out of the program. someone suggested getting the program put in his IEP and then maybe the schoolboard would pay for transportation. we might be able to find someone to carpool him with but i'm not sure. we can send him in a cab (we've done it before) for a few days at least while we try to figure this out ... ugh. i don't need this now. (i don't need it ever, but now i feel like complete crap.)
the dog across the hall is driving me crazy. i can't step out of my apartment without it going nuts and it barks all the way down the hall.
I'm learning kanji one character at a time with this and am very satisfied so far. <3 i found several different colored brush pens in my art supplies box (i don't remember buying them, how crazy is that) so i have a very colorful practice pad. (i'm also scribbling them all over my notebook so i can try to remember them independently of that.) this is a smallish big deal because i usually resist doing things slowly and i find it difficult to do things a little bit at a time regularly every day (i only recently usually remember to take my meds every day) so this is kind of a big deal even though it may not seem like one to some, yk?
(momentary pause as i buy $40 of japanese writing learning materials. hi, i'm back. even tiny stupid little things like that - learning one character a day, doing wee little worksheets - make me feel somewhat better about the day. I find learning the writing somewhat easier than the times i've tried to learn the language - maybe because I'm approaching it differently? or maybe because I have a more visual memory? something.)
incipient projects:
i bought a lunchbox (yes!) full of fabric (fat quarters, ends, remnants, etc.) for a song off of ebay - there are some awesome things in there but my favorite is BUNNIES IN KIMONOS OMG. seriously.
got two books about making handmade books and 'art books' in different styles out of the library. have some old-school kids' 'writing' paper - the fat-lined stuff for schools - from mantofev so i thought i'd make a book with that. something thematic there. not sure what.
still fevered. ugh. |
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