| I am unmotivated |
[Friday, July 25th 2008] |
I wrote a few paragraphs about how blech I feel right now, but really, who cares about my sinuses? I barely do.
DMV this afternoon. Maybe. Maybe not.
PetSmart. Same.
Dandy is settling in, although Lily is still unimpressed with the invader. Two nights ago they had a spat after lights were out, waking Ford up and freaking him up. I invited him to swap beds with me. I thought he'd be safer up on mine, farther away from the cats.
Yeah, Lily chased Dandy right up onto the bed and over his face. He ended up with a scratch on his cheek and I felt awful. Hopefully his dad won't go on another stupid bender about cat scratch fever. The last time he did that, I wanted to drop a safe on his head.
Ford's off to Legoland with his dad this weekend. I hope he has a fantastic time. Other hopes I may have about Legoland will be redacted.
One hour, forty-eightseven minutes.
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| Kittums! |
[Monday, July 21st 2008] |
I have a kitty
I rode the bus over to Santa Cruz after work this afternoon (wifi on the bus is pretty cool, btw) and met up with the cat rescue lady at the bus station. I didn't expect something so extremely informal, but she pretty much handed me the cat and her papers and said that the picture I'd sent her of Lily had sold her on me.
Dandelion (Dandy) was born sometime in April (which means she gets the same birthday as both me and Lily) and is another tortoiseshell. She's very, very thin, but I'm sure that can be remedied. She has a clean bill of health from the vet now.
So, an exchange of money ($40 for a kitten that's been spayed, chipped, vaccinated, and wormed is a freaking bargain) and I put Dandy in the carrier and we sat down to get to know each other for ten minutes before the bus came heading back over the hill into San Jose.
She rode beautifully on the bus, coming out to sit with me now and then before retreating back into the carrier for cat naps (I had her on a leash just in case she got spazzy, but she never did). Then the same for the light rail and again on the community bus that brought us to a block away from my house.
She hasn't made a peep at all other than to purr.
I let Lily go outside when we got home so Dandy could have a look around. She had a snack, drank some water, investigated the litter box, wandered around, typed a little to Pat, discovered the scratching thingy and crawled inside, and has overall just settled herself incredibly well.
Of course, Lily, upon discovering the interloper, was irked, but Dandy is something else. She is currently conducting a stareoff with a cat three times her size and weight (at least) and holding her own admirably. This cat is a freaking zen master among kittens.
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| Ooh, kitty |
[Sunday, July 20th 2008] |
I've been thinking for a while about getting another cat to keep Lily company. Lily runs around the house making growly "play with me" noises, but she has no one to play with but me and Ford sometimes.
This morning I woke up from a dream of getting a wee kitten and randomly decided to check craigslist about getting a kitten.
I found the perfect kitten. She looks a lot like Lily and is available to adopt immediately. I'm going to go look at her tomorrow and see what I have to do to move the process forward. If I get her, Ford and I agreed her name would be Dandelion (Dandy) to go with Lily's name, which was Tiger Lily when I adopted her.
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| Bleh |
[Sunday, July 20th 2008] |
Uninspired by and uninterested in crossover day.
I think I'll just play KH2 some more.
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| Simple pleasures |
[Friday, July 18th 2008] |
I'll write a bit of porn this weekend. Got to support the kink meme. C'mon kids, don't be afraid to at least ask and better still, do some writing for it. No one has to know it's you. ^.~ And PIMP IT!
Still working to finish my own stuff, too. I keep picking at the fic for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nessa5 that seems to be called "Bygones." Still picking at the next chapter of HtH.
I'm not telling who's getting porn from me on the kink meme, but at least one stood out as particularly easy to address and it probably isn't what you're thinking.
The simple pleasure to which the title of this post refers isn't precisely a simple pleasure, although the idea, for some reason amuses the hell out of me. Starting in the new year I can request a student discount for stuff. It's not the discount that amuses me, it's the thought of using my student ID to refute the inevitable "yeah right" reactions.
Yes, I'm easily amused.
I stayed up too late last night playing Kingdom Hearts 2, but at least I finally got out of that stupid town! Only to go back to it. Grrr.
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| Dragon*Con People |
[Thursday, July 17th 2008] |
What's our schedule looking like? I'm trying to block out my time off so I can put it on the calendar at work. (I also found a fantastic fare. Too bad I won't be able to snatch it up, but it gives me hope for paying less than $400 to get there and back.)
I'm flexible. I'm thinking about getting in on Thursday the 28th and working remotely from the hotel room on Friday the 29th (all I need is internet), which means you all can go stand in line or something without me and I'll be free of work at around 4:00 or 5:00 pm EST. What's our hotel reservation for?
I'm also flexible about leaving. Either on the 1st, or the 2nd. What are you all planning/thinking?
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| Oh yes, why working for a tech company doesn't suck |
[Wednesday, July 16th 2008] |
My job isn't particularly interesting, but really, I can't complain about a job that fully supports me on only 25 hours a week and lets me take my many trips each year (I've flown four times this year and gone to five cons with one more flight and con coming up soon) and has the flexibility to consider college next year. (Working on it. Applications for the Spring semester open August 1st.)
And this morning is good, too. I'm currently attending a Corporate Marketing Organization All Hands meeting.
Yep. I'm watching it right now. I'm not onsite. I'm working at home right now, but they're broadcasting it on our company intranet, so I'm being a good little corporate lackey and I've also just finished up my college app, so it's ready for me to click submit on August 1st. *happy dances*
OMG. That really freaks me out. In a good way, but still. College. It's been forever. My classmates are going to look at me funny, I know it. Until they learn that they really want to borrow my notes.
And right now the speaker in the meeting is talking about the company's take on working from home. People apparently raised concerns about people surfing porn and the guy in charge said, "If you're worried about people surfing porn, check their desks because they probably already have porn there."
Okay, so my soulless corporate masters have senses of humor at least sometimes. Groovy.
ETA: The poly plagiarist? Wants to be unblocked so she can continue to "watch personally." Here you go.
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| Why am I doing this? I shouldn't be doing this |
[Monday, July 14th 2008] |
I shouldn't be succumbing to the urge I've had for forever to app Hiro Protagonist. Nope. I really shouldn't.
*eyes open google doc*
Shit.
Anyone got suggestions for a mixed Afro-Asian (that's the term google gave me, don't shoot me) PB? Hiro has tiny dreads, if that helps, so I think looking more African-American than Asian is kosher.
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| Mm... Infoporn |
[Saturday, July 12th 2008] |
One Machine right here, right now.
It's frightening and exhilirating and fascinating.
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| And the beat goes on |
[Thursday, July 10th 2008] |
Some of you know that I was concerned about today's All Hands staff meeting for my business unit. There'd been some rumors of layoffs, a bit of grumbling, a bit of concern - those sorts of things.
The meeting has just ended and I still have a job. I still own the Minor Edits program and the end of life announcements for our BU. Boring stuff, but they pay the bills and it means I'm certain to have a job for all of Q1 '09.
I'm still on for Dragon*Con. Holy Hell are plane tickets expensive. Mish, what's the hotel damage going to be?
That's all a huge relief. I wish I'd known sooner so it wouldn't have been in the back of my head the whole time I was on vacation. I have to say that our BU's manager impresses me with how committed she is in avoiding layoffs. It certainly makes me feel better.
On the train this morning I started writing up my notes for the sequel to Hunting the Hunter. I know that's jumping the gun a bit, since I haven't even finished HtH yet, but I realized that part of what's been holding me up on finishing has been an unwillingness to let the story go. With these notes (spoiler: Hans is in them) I feel a little better able to let go of the first part of HtH and hopefully to finish writing the damn thing.
First I want to finish Bygones, since it's it a one shot for nessa5 and includes AxW smut. ^__^ I've sort of stalled on my writing. Yesterday because I got distracted by the wank. *gives thanks that f_w was kind-ish*
Still crocheting, but I'm finding that the E size hook I have kills my thumb after just a few rounds on a body. I need to find a different, more usuable hook. My larger gauge hooks are no problem because I have an ergo handle that is really easy on my thumb. It's just at the smaller amigurumi gauge that I'm having problems.
Back to work. Since they're keeping me on, I should try to do something to earn that $$$.
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| Oh sturm und drang |
[Wednesday, July 9th 2008] |
Who would ever expect that rp_secrets would bring the wank? Edited, since the wank has been bahleeted, but lives on at fandom_wank.
I shoulda known better than to point out something hinky in the works. It's my curiosity getting in the way again. I frankly don't give a damn if lukkaya is vindaloo_curry. I don't think s/he/it is. Strike that. Call it a throwback to a certain mother's board I used to belong to (and which one whole member of my flist knows) that when shit like this goes down, if I see a peculiar connection, I don't just assume the best.
I'm vaguely amused by the drama, though and that I'm getting the blame from lukkaya for the emails s/he/it has received now. I just have a name attached to my "things that make you go hm..." unlike the anon a few posts down from me. That would be because I have no axe to grind, nor any actual investment.
If rp!s disappeared, I would just consider it one less source of poly stress.
And now, back to formatting this fascinating release to inform our customers that we will no longer be selling or supporting X product.
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| HOME |
[Monday, July 7th 2008] |
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But more importantly, Solid this week is Walter.
I'll update more later. I'm trying to finish this AxW smut for nessa5 and then I need to get my pics off my camera.
I had a great time, saw lots of people from poly and LJ in general, and rocked Disney from open 'til closing. Well worth the trip. Hi all, I'm back.
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| The joys of travel sans current government-issued photo ID |
[Wednesday, July 2nd 2008] |
Just in case you think the TSA has a clue what regulations are or how they should be enforced, let me just say, nope. Not so.
I am travelling today, due to an interesting snowballing of events, without a current picture ID. (Thanks DMV.ca.gov for listing the location and hours of my nearest office, but not the fact that said office closed for renovations days before I went there for a new ID. That was just the icing on the snowballed ID cake, but I digress.)
I flew in late May and managed to do it without much in the way of a clusterfuck. I just got treated like a suspicious person, isolated, strip searched patted down, etc. Inconvenient, but really, no big deal in the scheme of things. I knew it was coming and planned accordingly.
This time I checked online to ensure that I was still meeting the standards in bringing my non-government ID. I have an extremely expired drivers license, (I have no idea where my not-so-expired DL disappeared to - I have bad ID karma?) my picture ID from work, my bank card with my picture on it, my social security card, my birth certificate, and my marriage certificate to clarify why my BC name doesn't match my SS name.
First the Delta check-in person says I can't fly. Then she says I can. Then the Delta guy who checked my bag says I can. Great. Stamp my boarding pass and I'll go run the security screening gauntlet.
Security ahoy! Go through. Smile smile. Here's my boarding pass. Here are my various forms of ID. What? You don't think I can go through. Yes, please do call over another person to consult with. I'm a selectee? Goody! I knew that was coming. I get to go stand in a glass box until a female screener can come over to feel me up pat me down.
Female screener wants to see my IDs. She thinks they should suffice and I don't need to get the "may well blow up the plane" treatment. She checks with a supervisor. Supervisor says no, this woman without a current plastic rectangle with her picture on it is a threat. Screener rolls her eyes and starts the groping pat down.
Supervisor Number Two comes over to see my IDs. Oh, she has three things with her picture on it, two government issued proofs that she's a US citizen and a third one proving that this woman came by her last name as honestly as one can with a Reno wedding.
Supervisor Number Two decides we've all done our due diligence and pronounces me unlikely to blow us all up in a random act of the Pagan Liberation Front.
So, here I am. Huzzah! Less than 24 hours 'til Disneyland!
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| No wonder my throat is sore |
[Monday, June 30th 2008] |
"Areas of smoke." That's part of the freaking weather forecast. It's been like this for a week, but this is the first time I've noticed them actually including smoke in the Merc's weather report. (The San Jose Mercury News, not something for mercenaries.)
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| Um... |
[Saturday, June 28th 2008] |
Stop me before I finish plotting out a crocheted Scrabble set.
It's all because of the pattern I found for a crocheted checkers set.
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| Update-y |
[Saturday, June 28th 2008] |
Just a few more days 'til AX and Disney!
I've been doing girly things the past couple of days. Yesterday I got my hair cut, bought a new top, a hat (for Disney, not because of the haircut,) and skivvies. Today I had a manicure and pedicure and spent a couple of hours going through my makeup why do I have so much of it when I never wear it?! and painting myself up. WTF? It didn't matter how subtle it was, I still felt as though I was wearing way too much. I'm also a bit self-conscious about the fact that I bought a makeup book because I'm so sick of feeling way behind the times on what's current and unsure of just what's actually useful. Feh.
I have a ton of stuff to do this weekend.
I spent a few hours working on a backpack today. I still need to finish up a couple of Cthulhus. I have some glass eyes ordered, so I'm not going to finish the Cthulhus until after mail delivery on Tuesday, in case the eyes arrive in time for me to add them to the dolls. They'll be superior to the glued-on googlies. But the googlies will do if need be.
For the backpack, I'm using this pattern (picture here since who wants to sign up for the yarn site?) using a different yarn than the one suggested on the page. Instead of spending $30 or so on the wool yarn, I bought closeout yarn of this type in purple, charcoal, and magenta for $1/skein. I'm crocheting two strands of yarn together to get it closer to thick enough for the pattern and the purple and magenta together make a really cool jeweltone. I'm planning the purple and charcoal together for the stripe and I'll use all three together for the straps. I think I'll have it done before my trip and I'm hoping it's actually cute. It's certainly soft and fuzzy.
Also today I got started on a bit of Alucard/Young Walter semi-PWP. This is in addition to HtH, which I keep picking at, but this one has a bit of a deadline, since I want to have it done before Thursday. Preferably before the end of this weekend. If I get it finished, you guys don't get to see it until nessa5 has first look. XD
Poly related, I have a big thing to finish typing up and put up for review. Always fun and fascinating and stuff. I'm not apping any new characters this app week. Although after dropping Rincewind and Metatron, I may app Nanny Ogg in the not-so-distant future.
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| Ford's First Con |
[Friday, June 27th 2008] |
Fanime:
The zombie is Karu, who plays Nill in poly.
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| ARRRRGHH! |
[Friday, June 27th 2008] |
Yes, the medicine tastes bad.
Yes, it tastes bad.
Yes, you're going to take it.
No, I'm not going to take "I don't wanna" as enough reason to let you cough your guts out for the rest of the day.
Yes, I really mean it.
No, I'm not going to take "I DON'T WANNA!" as enough reason to back down.
Yes, I really mean it.
No, I don't want to watch you reach out and jerk your hand back as though the cup is on fire for the next hour.
Yes, I really mean it.
No, you do not get to dump it out in the sink.
Yes, I will get angry if you do.
Yes, I really mean it.
No, I am not turning on the TV until you take it.
Yes, I really mean it.
Kid, I'm about to throw the freaking TV away if I have to hear five more seconds of whinging.
TAKE THE DAMNED MEDICINE!
I am putting the cup in your hand. In your other hand I'm putting your juice.
Don't drink the medicine and then go "Wuuuuuuu uhhhhh" without actually washing it down with the juice in your other hand.
This is not how I want my day to start.
We have to leave in five minutes and you aren't dressed and haven't eaten.
Why yes, that would be because of your insistence on medicine drama.
You're going to eat now?
Great. Wonderful. Fantastic. Outstanding. What a big boy and all that supportive smiling mom stuff.
Someone shoot me.
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| GAH, PMS week migraine |
[Thursday, June 26th 2008] |
I'm not digging this monthly pattern of a migraine in the week before. I'm not digging it at all.
Especially not when it comes out of the blue like Norman Bates in my shower to suddenly stab me in the right eye.
Kill me.
Dear Poly Player: Please to not be being less than brilliant* when my head is doing this.
*Was that PR-speak enough?
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| Random Question: RP |
[Monday, June 23rd 2008] |
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If you stalk an RP, why?
I'm curious. I hear about it all the time "Oh, I stalk this character over on that game." "This is the best/worst/smexiest version of X character, but I don't play there." "I love/hate this game, and I read it all the time, but I'd never play there."
So what's the deal there? I typically play pretty blithely, not even thinking about the idea that people other than who I'm threading with might be reading it.
Hell, feel free to respond anonymously if you feel weird about the question. I'm just honestly curious.
I'm also really tired, but I can't seem to actually sleep when I try to nap, so thus I'm asking a random question. Maybe I'll actually manage to sleep.
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| Disneyland |
[Monday, June 23rd 2008] |
I can't get a good Disneyland discount. I can get one through work that would result in a one-day parkhopper being 76.01, but I would have to be a SoCal resident. That's not quite working. Someone in SoCal want to be my sibling? I can share my work discount with immediate family. XD
Anyone else have any Disneyland discount suggestions?
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| Writing |
[Sunday, June 22nd 2008] |
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Hurrah! The weather really was nigh on 20 degrees cooler here today than yesterday.
I've gotten about a thousand more words (bringing me to nearly 2000) written on what I think may actually be the next chapter of HtH. I have one segment to write, which of course, unfortunately, is the opening narrative segment of the chapter.
I may change my mind. I don't know whether I want to wait one more chapter for some of this to come out or not. :/
Dunno. I think I'm going to take a nap (if that doesn't turn into going to sleep insanely early) and try to get back to it when I wake up.
And how was that for the boring update of updates?
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| Voice Post |
[Saturday, June 21st 2008] |
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| DRUNK COMMENTING |
[Friday, June 20th 2008] |
RIGHT HERE BABY!
I might even have one more post in me today. Sick of my cluttering your flist yet?
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| It is 101 degrees |
[Friday, June 20th 2008] |
And I just had orgasm in fruit form.
Nothing is better than a plum that you take directly from the tree. A plum that is so ripe that it almost gives itself into your hand, obviating the need for anything as crass as picking it. A plum that has just a tiny bit of tartness in the skin to pair with the warm sweetness of the flesh. A plum that with its warmth feels alive as you drink it down.
Yes. That was good.
And the best purchase I have made in years is humming away in my window, meaning that the insane heat outside is only a problem if I actually go outside.
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| Boooorrrrrrrrrrrreeed |
[Thursday, June 19th 2008] |
It's a slow work week and I am bored out of my skull at the moment. I don' wanna archive.
I'm working on a side chapter for Hunting the Hunter. It's gratuitous and won't fit into the flow of the overall fic, and even if I get it done soon, no one will see it until I get at least one or two more chapters of the actual fic written because of its spoiler factor. Wah. I have to stop working on it here soon because it will wander into NSFW territory soon.
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| Stuff, including writing |
[Sunday, June 15th 2008] |
Yesterday didn't get a hell of a lot better until late evening, but it ended quite well, so we'll go with its last impression rather than its first.
Now I'm multitasking my tiny little brain out. I just re-read all of Hunting the Hunter and my notes on it in the hopes of getting myself re-motivated to write on it. I really enjoy that fic, so I would love to get back to it.
In the meantime, I am reminded that I really do enjoy Gorillaz. I was way behind the curve on discovering them and plenty of people were already over them before I started to really enjoy them, but that's pretty unrelated to my own enjoyment. I may have to switch the music out if I can't write while listening to it, but I'll try the 300 soundtrack and see how that works as writing music. I've done quite a lot of writing while listening to various soundtracks - Carnivale, Fight Club, Sin City.
I'm turning over ideas for just how the next chapter should go in my head. While they churn, I'm working on a little Medusa doll from that crochet book I love. I accidentally made two bodies for this doll yesterday (it's possible, shush, the base and body patterns are on the same page and I wasn't paying attention and followed the body instructions twice. Duh me.)
Somewhere in there, I'm fitting in just a bit of spam for my characters on this second HP curse day. Metatron is acting as potions master, Pup is taking the place of the hound in Sorceror's Stone, and Rincewind hates everyone. I've read some apps. I do wish that more apps would come in from canons I know. I'm lucky if I know four or five well enough to feel confident on reviews without a bunch of research; the rest are total blanks.
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| I am so utterly out of sorts |
[Saturday, June 14th 2008] |
I woke up from a dream sobbing this morning. I don't know the last time I've done that. Years? Decades? However long it's been, it's left me utterly twisted up. I can barely remember anything of the dream, but the feelings are still there. Thanks, subconscious.
I need to cheer myself up, but my house is a mess, so that means Saturday cleaning spree instead. Feh.
I'll feel better once my house is clean. I'll take Ford out later today to do something to celebrate the end of the school year and his awesome report card.
I was going to say that I probably wouldn't play in poly this weekend because of the Hogwarts curse, but dude, I have to get some Snape icons for Metatron...
That will probably help my mood, too, come to think of it.
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| Friday the 13th |
[Friday, June 13th 2008] |
I just got back from shopping and I'm just so glad to be home. I don't know what it is about today - Friday the 13th, I guess - but the shambling idiots were out in force. It seemed like every third aisle in Target had someone just stopped there, staring blindly at the shelves. Saying excuse me resulted in more blank stares and I swear one guy drooled when I tried to get past him. Ugh.
The bus ride home was odd, too. Randomly stopped cars, ambulances and sirens on most blocks. I don't know, maybe it's something to do with the wildfires. I could see smoke drifting down from the mountains. It's been a bad fire season.
I bought some summer clothes. Not so much for the bottoms but I did get four tops at Marshall's.
I'm booked for AX now. Locked in with registration, hotel, and plane paid for. I'm looking forward to that.
I think I'll spend the evening crocheting and watching some movies I DVRed earlier in the week.
Hang on. Let me submit this and I'm going to go see what that siren on my block is for. I'll update later.
[B L I T E O T W]
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| Passive Aggression and You |
[Wednesday, June 11th 2008] |
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I am just reminding myself how much wadewilson rocked my world with this post: http://wadewilson.livejournal.com/11285.html Saying you're doing the opposite of what you're doing. As if acknowledging the bad impression someone might be getting from you excuses you from making that impression.
"I know I'm partially to blame here, but you caused this yourself."
You are not actually taking any blame.
"I know you want to do this with that other player. It's okay, I don't mind."
You are implying that you should get to approve how other people spend their time.
"I know I have made mistakes, but you people are all ratpacking on me by telling me I've made them."
The problem is the mistakes, not the people pointing them out.
"Oh, I don't care. You decide."
You had really better not care, and you can't complain if you don't like the decision. Putting the choice in someone else's hands does not give you the right to bitch at them if you don't like what they choose. Because I've had enough bloody passive aggression to last me the rest of the year today.
There are days when I would really like to be done modding. It's not even the passive aggression or psycho hosebeasts. It's things like the fact that yesterday was the first time I've really played in weeks and had a real post today and I felt guilty that I was playing and not reading fucking apps.
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| This would be where I proclaim my newfound love for the Dresden Files |
[Sunday, June 8th 2008] |
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( LMFAO )
I'm sorry I came to this series a bit late, but on the upside, ten books to devour.
Ten more minutes, mom. 3:00 a.m. is a decent time to call it a night, but I don't really want to stop reading.
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| This is what happens when you lose track of rows... |
[Saturday, June 7th 2008] |
( GIR's head gets a bit long )
That took way too long. Now I sleep.
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| Fun Meme |
[Friday, June 6th 2008] |
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Ganked from shini02
Comment with a sentence from one of my fanfictions. Without looking, I have to try and guess which fic of mine the sentence is from. If I fail, the challenger wins a drabble request. Post this in your own journal and let me challenge you!
FF.net
AFF.net
My stories tag here (holy crap it has 206 entries?)
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| Anon can bite my pasty white ass |
[Thursday, June 5th 2008] |
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| Gentlemen, I love war |
[Wednesday, June 4th 2008] |
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But I can't aim for shit.
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| I haven't embroidered in years and it shows |
[Sunday, June 1st 2008] |
There's a jacket half made for this little doll, but I was foiled by the lapel after I needed to dim the lights so Ford could sleep. It'll have to wait until tomorrow.
I made a few notes about things that I would change in making my next one, but for now, ( Spider Jerusalem's Nightmare )
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| Oh R'lyeh? |
[Saturday, May 31st 2008] |
Ya R'lyeh.
And Cthulhu has an ickle buddy.
It's rough, but it was a learning experience and I'm proud of myself just because that pattern was labeled "intermediate" and I do not consider myself an intermediate crocheter by any stretch.
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| Don't mind the dust |
[Thursday, May 29th 2008] |
I finished the original beholder, which Ford has now claimed for himself, and made it a little friend.
( Behold<s>ers</s> )
So, that's my success of the day. Cthulhu's half done. I think I've figured out the "magic ring" method of starting crochet in the round, but I worked on the eyestalks rather than on Cthulhu to practice.
I've also worked out how to make a little amigurumi Spider Jerusalem. That's on my list after Cthulhu. ^_____^
Actually, my other success of the day is that, barring minor tweaks for consistency of capitalization in headers and the like, the new poly website is DONE! Orrrrr at least the 1.0 version. The 2.0 version is on my calendar to have done by the next HMD. My trip back to PA ruined my groove as far as getting the dynamic data done, so it'll just have to wait a quarter.
To balance that is the fact that my elbow is throbbing in pain from an utterly inexplicable fall I took today, landing on my knee and elbow in a manner I associate far more with being a gangly ten-year old than with me now. Then later I burned my fingertip with hot glue while I was gluing the beholder's eyes on.
Ah well. Onward.
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| One last post and then I'm calling it an early night |
[Tuesday, May 27th 2008] |
If you have to constantly apologize, there are two options - either you have issues that mean you apologize for everything which I understand, since there was a time in my life when I would apologize to the wall for bumping into it, or you keep doing things you need to apologize for.
If it's the latter? And it keeps happening? And it's variations on the same damned thing each time? I would like to respectfully suggest that ur doin it wrong.
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| I love my job. I love my job. |
[Tuesday, May 27th 2008] |
Clueless Project Manager (CPM): What's the name of the tool you use to put stuff on the site?
Me: Web Publisher.
CPM: But what's the name of the tool you use to put stuff on our website. You know, in HTML and PDF.
Me: Web Publisher.
CPM: No, what's the name of the tool? The client wants to know.
Me: I can't tell you anything else. The name is Web Publisher. *provides link*
CPM: Oh. That's what I thought. Thanks.
Me: ...
Yeah...
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| Geekiness for great justice |
[Tuesday, May 27th 2008] |
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I need to make it to the craft shop for a big eye to put in the center, but ( BEHOLD: )
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| *insert gimme hands here* |
[Saturday, May 24th 2008] |
This is exquisite and I want all that she has. But I'm not advanced enough in the (laugh with me at this pretentious term) "fiber arts" to use it to its full potential. That doesn't mean I don't want it. I'd set it in my yarn basket and touch it and covet it and think about it while I practiced crocheting until I was actually able to use it.
I had a pre-lasik eye appointment yesterday. For a mere $2800, I can go from vision so bad I can't see the big E on the eye chart (literally guys, I can barely see a black smudge that logic tells me must be the E) to 20/20 without glasses. No guarantees about the 20/20, but my eyes are healthy, my corneas are a good thickness, and my astigmatism is fully correctible. For as bad as my vision is, I am actually an ideal candidate. Other than that whole problem with pulling $2800 out of thin air.
On a different note, Feo is ready to have a seizure because I keep saying, "No. No. Noooo."
What he doesn't understand is that it's not addressed to him, but this comm
On the other hand, I have to make this. I have to. I had already decided I was going to give amigurumi a try, so why not a beholder, hm?
Yes, I should be doing other things, but being lazy and surfing for weird is fun.
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| Way to start the day |
[Friday, May 23rd 2008] |
I am feeling quite out of sorts this morning. Yesterday was a mixed bag, but Ford was happy with his birthday gifts and the cake I got for him, and I bought a two-player PS2 game so we would could play together, which he loves, so I was ready to give Thursday a net positive score despite the possible death of my ipod within hours of my buying it a new case.
( And then... )
Leaving that part of yesterday off the ticket, Ford is seven now. My little boy. He's seven. Ash is 19. It's amazing.
I got him what he asked for for his birthday, which included one of those "make goo into bugs" toys.
I also got myself some presents - new shoes. Well, sort of new. I already owned them in black and it made me wibble to think of them wearing out, so when I saw them on sale to the point that I could buy two pairs for less than I paid for the first pair of black ones I had gotten, I bought a backup pair of the black and a new pair of the brown. Yes, I am that kind of woman.
I've also made progress crocheting. I can now successfully crochet flowers. ^_^ Which was my goal in learning to crochet so I can make this scarf for myself and probably some other people while I'm at it. Christmas ideas anyone?. It's not very fast going yet. One flower takes me my whole one-way commute on the train, so about half an hour, but I assume I will get faster with practice. Still, I'm learning, and that makes me happy.
Time to gird myself for my telecommute. I'll leave this on a positive note, I think, in that I have have the germ of a HtH PWP started. I still need to get back to Hunting the Hunter to move the story itself along, but I may just have to say fuck the story for a little longer and just write a bit of the pr0n the damn fic was supposed to be about to begin with. Especially now that glass_bullet is back online and I can finally show her the smut her one pic inspired.
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| Icon Meme |
[Wednesday, May 21st 2008] |
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four/five of your userpics.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
ariyanaforever tagged me with these five:
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1. I saw someone using this icon and had to snag it. It hit on so many of my pet peeves regarding word usage, particularly "baited breath." That one always makes me want to smack someone with a tuna.
2. Another snark icon. This one I snagged from journalfen. It seems to be a rare useful opportunity for that annoying Microsoft office assistant thing.
3. Strangely, I just added this one this morning because of something where someone misused a word fairly obtusely and I couldn't find a good (to me) Inigo Montoya "You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it does" icon.
4. Another one I saw randomly. There's an artist here on LJ who does a booby webcomic and someone had made this icon for it. (I'm glad I credit in my comments, since I never remember names.)
5. This one I made. (Amazing.) I saw the quote in someone's icon - I forget where - and was amused by the quote itself. I wasn't too overwhelmed by their icon, so I made a version for myself. I gather the quote is from some comic book - Runaways or Young Avengers or the like.
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