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[Jul. 7th, 2008|11:51 am] |
i'm spending my summer doing crafty things over at my other blog.
www.kirstimadethiswithherhands.wordpress.com
you should come and hang out.
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| and i'm so much better than before |
[Jun. 20th, 2008|03:15 pm] |
it always amazes me the rush i feel when I actually do the work that I'm procrastinating from. I don't understand why I make myself sick over avoiding things when it actually feels good to do the work in the end! Not just the complete-ing but the do-ing.
i mean really! things are never as bad as you make them be by avoiding them. WHEN WILL I LEARN!?!
ps. also- why do all my subject lines seem to be weakerthans lyrics? :) |
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| most awesome i've seen/heard in a long time....yes i do live under a rock |
[Apr. 21st, 2008|09:58 pm] |
They Might be Giants new weekly podcast for kids
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/new-they-might.html |
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| For Emily |
[Dec. 14th, 2007|09:18 am] |
....Morley looked over at her husband. He was following a plate of shrimp around the Anderson's library. One of his shirt tails was untucked and he was wearing a sweater his mother had knit him for Christmas last year. It was blue. With a map of cape breton on it. And a giant red dot where his hometown was.
http://weloveholidaysweaters.wehatesheep.com/ |
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[Dec. 7th, 2007|10:07 am] |
This is my comment in response to this post here.
I just wanted to share this with you.
I love this time of year for the same festive/positive/friendly spirit.
I find it so strange that when people wish me Merry Christmas and I wish them a Happy Hanukkah and it makes them feel uncomfortable. It's almost as if they were caught being un-PC or insensitive. I don't think that they are at all. I wish people the joy of my season and they wish me the joy of theirs. I don't like how people get all out of joint over this.
I love reading about people's advent traditions and plans for solstice etc... I love the fact that there are these traditions. The beauty of it. the lights, the colour, the excitement, the anticipation. It's not about the specific holiday, its about the feeling. it's about tradition.
Although, I do have to say, I kind of like when people wish me a happy holidays instead of merry christmas. it makes me feel like they are acknowledging the fact that i celebrate a different holiday than the masses (i live in the middle of a very christian prairie!).
I want to wish you all a happy non-denominational winter holiday. |
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| is this week over yet? |
[Dec. 6th, 2007|09:03 am] |
I slept in through my alarm (it got bumped and was in between stations on white noise) on monday and instead of getting up, i really should have just gone back to bed for the week.
Tuesday I was hit in a head on collision of a woman who turned left from a stop at a red light. She hit myself and another woman who where going through the (very well) green light. Both the other woman and I were okay but our cars are smushed and they may end up writing lydia off because of the damage. The crazy woman had a 4 year old in the front seat (!) with no child safety seat and only had the lap belt on him, not the shoulder strap. I hit the passenger side of her vehicle and could have killed him.
I think that the woman had a mini stroke. she was all stoned and floopy,not in a 'shock' kind of way she didn't even care about her grandson. I called the EMT's and the police and they came and sorted everything out. Apparently this woman had an accident last week, she put her car in 'park' in a mall parking lot, but it was actually neutral and she tried to get out of the car and her foot got stuck (?) and she got dragged by the car and smashed into someone else. Can we all spell multiple mini-stoke? The police are going to press charges and I really hope that she gets a CT sometime very soon. She very nearly killed 4 people and she needs help.
i went home afterwards to deal with SGI and I realized that I had locked myself out of my house. Our front door is an old (1928) door with the original lock that locks automatically when it is closed, so I always have my keys. But the night before, I had woken up to a weird (probably imaginary) noise at 3am and locked the lock from the inside. I forgot that I had done this, because now the car is in the garage and I don't go out the front door. I went out the back, locked the back door (of which I don't carry a key) thinking I was fine because I have my front door key. My front door key was useless, because i had locked the lock. By this point I got really angry and grabbed mike's hockey stick to break the glass on the back door. I just wanted to get into my freakin' house! I knocked on Dawson's door to tell him what I was doing so he wouldn't be freaked out about the noise and he asked me what was going on. I told him what had happened and i just started to cry. He took the hockey stick away from me and went and got a crowbar and hammer from the garage. he then removed the wooden striping on the old door window, removed the window and unlocked my door. I paid with weepy sobs and sugar cookies. Honestly, I was kind of disappointed that he solved my problem. i was really looking forward to breaking the window. :)
Anyhoo. Yesterday I get up to go to work and take the car to SGI and the garage door opener is dead. completely. So my broken car is trapped in my broken garage.
Did i go back to bed? nope. I just started laughing and caught the bus to work. I had a great workshop yesterday with the Volunteer Management Group and Volunteer Saskatoon about recruitment, retention and rewarding volunteers. Volunteer management is part of my job description but we desperately need a Volunteer coordinator because the CDA is so messed up and our volunteers are so uncoordinated so I've decided after yesterday's amazing and inspiring sessions that I'm going to ignore the rest of my job description and tackle this job instead. I think that this will actually go over well with our new Regional Director when she comes back from mat. leave next week.
Things are looking up.
i hope. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2007|01:48 pm] |
it might look like i'm avoiding the innernets again, but really i'm not.
i have a new blog.
it's a crafty-blog since that's mostly what i'm all about these days.
check it out if you like!
http://kirstimadethiswithherhands.wordpress.com/ |
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| tired inside |
[Oct. 29th, 2007|04:42 pm] |
After such a busy but good weekend, I think all tonight can be is:
go home.
walk dog.
eat pirogies and spinach.
watch smallville until comatose. |
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[Oct. 26th, 2007|06:10 pm] |
http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/333
You scored 69%. You are a recreational knitter. Although other people accuse you of addiction, you are not addicted. Nope. Knitting is just fun. You could quit any time. Really.
this is so wrong. i'm such an addict. and don't think that acknowledgement is going to lead to recovery. acknowledgement will only lead to more yarn. |
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| because it's 5.06pm and i'm still at work. |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|05:05 pm] |
My pirate name is:
Captain Bess Flint
Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparkly. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org network |
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[Oct. 17th, 2007|01:08 pm] |
hi livejournal.
i've been avoiding you because things have sucked. I hate moaning to you.
I am no longer a graduate student. Things here have been difficult. After spending 95 days, no weekends,
10+ hours a day in the lab, dealing with evil/crazy supervisor bitch from hell who treated me worse than a lab tech, I snapped in September and went to the dean of graduate studies. Needless to say, I'm not working with my supervisor anymore. Ihave walked away from that project, even though I was half way through. I'm still taking classes and I may be moving to another lab in January to start a different project. Unfortunately this means I am without funding until if/when I start in the new lab in Jan.
So it's back to the real world for me for awhile.
I just got a job today with the Canadian Diabetes Association as a diabetes educator. I will be creating programming, coordinating volunteers, doing outreach and running around the province with the resource 'van'. I am actually excited about this. I think it will be good. for now. I still don't know what i'm doing. I really want to continue with schooling. I like working in education but it isn't enough of an intellectual challenge for me to do forever. I'm very much 'we'll see' right now. But atleast I have a good job (with benefits! and vacations! and very few colleagues!)
I raked leaves today and put the front garden beds to sleep. All the trees are bare. Everything is getting ready for winter. |
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[Jun. 10th, 2007|09:04 am] |
friday i walk into the lab and allison says- there's a message for you. We never have messages. nobody leaves messages.
Apparently, Cameco leaves messages.
They are closing their plant for scheduled maintenance (formerly scheduled for august) now on July 20-August 1. Right over 2 weeks of my three week experiment. This means that i have no mining effluent to kill my fish with. this means instead of starting my experiment June 15th and being done august 3. I am now starting my experiment august 6th and finishing August 27th. This means I don't get to take that vacation (aka. sit in my own yard for a week) after all this summer.
yay science....
well at least mike and i can go to ness creek now.
on a better note- I had a great (drunken) discussion about whether sex should be considered sacred or not last night. it's nice to have found some awesome new people to hang out with.
it's also great to have finished my dad's father's day present. ( but i love it and i don't want to share ) |
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[Jun. 7th, 2007|12:30 pm] |
SO I'm a bit overwhelmed as of late.
My project/experiments are underway in a very short order and have alot of logistics (ordering, shipping, setup, animals) to coordinate before then. I was feeling very frustrated with my project because I didn't have alot (re:any) input on what I was doing or how I was doing it. I basicly walked into a pre-proposed project. Things are getting better, I've had a bit of input on adding another component to the project. It's more work, but it fleshes out what I want to look at and it came from my brain so I don't mind the extra work.
Living with my parents has been super stressful. Our new house is so lovely though, it kind of makes the last 2 months of ick okay. I've got a bit of a garden in- tomatoes, beans, peas, chard, basil. I might have to wait until next year to put in another garden box for carrots, beets and radishes. It's a start anyway. We (meaning mostly mike since I'm a crazy person a work most of the time) are in the process of gutting the basement and ordering new floor and ceiling. I ripped up the lino upstairs in the kitchen and the carpet in the bedrooms to expose gorgeous (although covered in black gluey ook) hardwood that will buff up quite nicely I think! I think we are both just desperate to move in and start enjoying our own space again.
I haven't been knitting as much as I like (see above paragraph 1 and 2!) but I did manage to make socks for mike. I feel so bad, because of the car accident, he has to wear heavy hiking boots ALL THE TIME, summer and winter. So I made him another pair (he has 2 already) of short-y socks to wear with his shorts. He's got good taste that boy! I told him to pick out a ball of yarn and he hands me the silk/wool blend. "I like these colours, and it's so soft!" what's a girl to do.
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| YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I'VE GOT VEG IN MY TUMMY |
[May. 22nd, 2007|12:22 pm] |
As I mentioned at sn'b 2 weeks ago,the Saskatoon Buddist Alliance has a 8 course feast every month at their temple on 20th street (and avenue Q? V? waaaay up there) and this month it falls on saturday may 26th.
The meal is AMAZING. 100% vegan, following the buddhist tradition, and GIGANTIC. The cost is 15 dollars and you pay at the supper, but I need to let one of the organizers know in advance so they can plan for #'s, if there are going to be a bunch of us.
So far, My partner and I are going.
Let me know by posting here, by email at (kirsti ziola at gmail dot com), on facebook or at Sn'b tonight at the Yard. |
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