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[Dec. 23rd, 2009|03:44 pm] |
Two more cards arrived today. Thank you, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tinted_glass and saena17! They were both incredibly cute cards. :D
My blanket somehow vanished out of the washing machine. It's not in the dryer, it's not in the laundry room, and no one seems to know where it is.... this is distressing. I need that blanket, it's the warmest and most comfortable one I've ever owned!
Thanks to the list of prompts at Yuletide, I know that my recipient has already been taken care of. I'm glad someone twigged onto her prompts quickly, because honestly I still don't know what I'm going to be doing. I have kind of an idea for a scene or two, but no actual reason for the events to take place. :/
It's all grey and snowy outside and I just want to go back to bed. Come on, self, consciousness can be fun too. |
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[Dec. 23rd, 2009|01:16 am] |
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Seriously, I love reading in the tub. I just polished off Living Dead in Dallas... and I have to say, I like True Blood as a series more than I like the books it's based on. Not that the books are bad, they're just.... not as good as the series.
I'm kind of laughing at all the Godric fangirls now, though. xD
My plan for tomorrow: writing the hell out of my Yuletide story, although now I don't feel pressure to get it done so it's less of a "crap, I have to do this" and more of a "gosh, I hope I can do this well" situation, and cleaning my room. This includes hanging all the holiday cards I've received, wrapping the last of my family's gifts (those would be Rachael's), finishing my laundry, and vacuuming again because I'm pretty sure I didn't get all the catnip out of the carpet.
While I was gone Butcher found the plastic baggy of catnip sweetxtc666 sent us, and ripped it to bits in the corner between my computer, my bookshelf, and my crafts drawers. I came home to find Oreo looking very pleased with herself in the middle of the mess, but I know Butcher's the one who committed the mayhem.
Also tomorrow I have to do a lot of downloading for my brother, see what I can do to make his laptop work better, get in some time with the Wii, bother the hell out of my cat, and do whatever I can to help my mom with whatever she needs.
So it'll be a busy kind of day. Which is good. Because busy days are productive days.
Oh, I got a D in Wellness Center, so my final GPA for the semester is 3.571. Not too shabby. |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|10:03 pm] |
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I'm home! The drive wasn't too bad. Long, but Dennis's dogs behaved themselves in the car, and we made pretty good time.
I got a whole bunch of cards while I was away! Thank you, thirdsouthobbi, ozfroggirl, dragynflies, captainemo411, takhallus, and taliatoennien!
Now, I am supremely tired, so I'm going to take a bath and go to blessed sleep in my own comfortable bed... after I do some laundry. All my stuff smells like smoke. |
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| real people on the internerds? |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:55 am] |
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Kelly is now on LJ: tryin2bdecent
Teaching someone who's used to Myspace and Facebook how to use LJ is challenging! Explaining icons is kind of trippy. I'm so used to the way Livejournal is set up that it seems first nature to me and hard to explain why we only get 100x100 pixels (that's just how it is! it's always been that way!) or why interests are limited to four words...
A crash course in icon making in Irfanview ftw. xD
Shaun of the Dead is on Comedy Central... it's kind of bizarre without the swearing in. |
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| that's almost incontrovertible proof |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|11:15 pm] |
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I got 23 out of 50 of the "are you smarter than a grade schooler" questions... Lacey got 7 and Thomas got 8. I am a shining example of the public school system, for reals.
I can participate in Yuletide again, I just have to finish my story for this year and write a New Year's Resolution fic and I will be golden. So hopefully I will get a creative spike and knock a couple of stories off. That would be ideal.
Kelly wants me to help set her up with a LiveJournal. We'll see what gets done with that before I leave tomorrow.
I have had a lot of fun here, but I am really looking forward to my own bed again. I'm not sure what time I'm going to be leaving-- whenever Dennis is ready, and he's having a bonfire tonight so I'm not expecting him to be awake bright and early in the morning.
I'm seeing White Collar as being the last thing I do tonight. We'll see how close my vision is to reality. |
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| made of holiday-flavored fail |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|05:58 pm] |
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OH MY GOD THE YULETIDE DEADLINE WAS TONIGHT AND NOT THE 23RD LIKE I THOUGHT
SHITSHITSHIT
I've never defaulted on Yuletide before... oh my god, how was I so stupid as to not make absolutely certain of the deadline before I left?
;__________; This is the most epic fandom fail I have ever committed. |
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| kids aren't going to know what phone booths are! |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|05:10 pm] |
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I am failing at downloading Enterprise. It's going to have to wait until I get home.
Kelly is not coming with me for Christmas. :( I'm sad that she can't, but it's probably for the best-- I stand a shot at actually pulling through on Yuletide this year if I can just sit down and do nothing but that once I get back.
Yesterday was spent mostly watching Big Bang Theory with Jim and Kelly and White Collar with just Kelly. I am spreading the good TV as quickly as I can.
Today the big thing is babysitting. We're watching a most-likely-autistic four year old. Except for breaking a glass bulb off the Christmas tree he's been remarkably well behaved. So there were fragments of a few Disney movies and now we're watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Keanu Reeves was once full-on adorable, long ago.
Tonight Kelly is putting together a trivia game from her "What Your _____ Grader Needs To Know" books. Last night's impromptu game proved that I am as smart as a grade schooler. :D Hopefully tonight I can keep up my one-woman defense of the public school system.
My fortune cookie today said, "You are the architect of your own destiny." I dig it. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|03:10 pm] |
Kelly is loving White Collar. :) Go team awesome! |
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| don't let it snow |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|01:49 pm] |
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My brother drove down to New Jersey today to see the Jets play the Falcons. I don't know if any of you will be watching the game but if you do look along the goal line for a guy in a green jacket and orange hat. xD He wants me to watch it and look for him, but I'm not sure I can get it here. I really hope that 14 inches that's supposed to fall waits for him to make it home safely...
Last night was fun. Amanda and Scott had a big holiday party and Kenzie wouldn't let go of me for most of it. She called me "Amelia Bedelia" all night and pulled out the books I gave her in August. She and Hunter really loved their blankets! I actually had to tell her about Noah's Ark because she didn't know what the quilt print was.
Apparently George told the kids that there are eggs and an Easter Bunny because when Jesus rose from the dead, the Jewish people had been hiding eggs near the tomb and there was a rabbit guarding them. I am pretty sure he had to come to church enough to know that isn't true... Kelly asked some bellringer yesterday at the mall, he told her it was because they're fertility symbols. I want to know why she asked some random bellringer and not me. xD
At the party we had a gift exchange and Amber got the necklace and bracelet I made! She really likes them. ♥ I'm really happy she's the one that got them. They look good on her, too.
After the party I came back to Kelly's and we ordered a buffalo chicken pizza from Pizza Bono. It was divine. Divinity does not excuse eating half a pizza, and I'm pretty sure that that's why I don't feel all that well right now.
I didn't make it to the show last night because I wasn't expecting there to be only one sober person at the party... and because I had a four year old attached to my leg. (Cute pictures will be forthcoming as soon as I reclaim my camera.) victoriansquid, I still have a gift for you and I'd really like to see you... maybe at the Koffee Kat?
I asm going to catch a little nap now and hope I feel better afterwards. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|02:35 am] |
I have been convinced that I need to watch Star Trek Enterprise. George and Scott made it sound sufficiently interesting to overcome my doubts... So that will be my thing for the new year? I'm going to get Kelly into White Collar while I'm here. |
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| why is russell tovey so adorable? idek |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|12:20 pm] |
Holy crap, has it really been like almost three weeks since I updated this? Wow. :O
Nothing really to say, though. Haven't found a job. Hanging around the house every day. It's colder than a witch's tit right now. Plattsburgh is above that winter storm that's going through. It was like twenty below zero or something the other day with the wind chill. Right now it's 14, so. Not as bad. Yeah I'm still not going outside for anything though.
I've been watching Big Bang Theory. And I love it.
At some point my LJ paid time expired, but since I haven't used the thing lately that's not exactly a problem?
Yeah, that's all I've got. I really want to see Sherlock Holmes. Since it comes out on Christmas, I'm betting I'll at least have money to go see it yay. I want RDJ and Jude Law to make out. :O |
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[Dec. 19th, 2009|10:54 am] |
So yesterday I saw my badly hungover brother graduate from college. As he was walking in to sit down I noticed that he was pale as a ghost and I knew something wasn't right. The boy does not know how to moderate his partying. But he did it, hooray, and as soon as I dig my laptop out of the massive pile of stuff I brought there will be pics to confirm it happened. xD After that, I went home with Kelly to get all our ducks in a row for the night, which unexpectedly involved bowling courtesy of Kevin's parents. I have a confession to make, guys: I think I'm biased against rednecks. They confuse and frighten me. I can't explain why... It's got a lot to do with hunting, I think. ANYWAY. After bowling (I rolled a 99 game!) we made it over to Dennis's party... Which was typical for one of my brother's parties in that there were an assload of people there drinking beer and the music was loud and bad. I am ashamed to admit that I fell asleep in my brother's room instead of partying. xD It is cold as fuck in Plattsburgh. It was -1 degrees when I changed for bed at 1:30. I'm kind of freezing just sitting in the kitchen poking my iPod. This means I should go back to the warm bedroom. Today I am going to the mall with Amber and Kevin and Kelly to get socks on sale. Yay for socks! After that, idk what until the coffee camp show at 8. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2009|10:51 am] |
Peace out, cub scouts. I'm off. |
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| yes, let's all talk about Neal |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|01:48 am] |
WHAAAAT
OKAY WHITE COLLAR JUST BLEW MY FUCKING MIND
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
skdjhfkjhslkjhfjhd when does this come back? I need to mark it on my calendar. WHAT THE HELL, SHOW, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING TO ME |
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| tonight, I sleep with a pig named Olivia. all hail the queen of swine. |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|12:30 am] |
Okay. I'm all packed up. With the exception of the blanket and pillow I'll be pulling off my bed as I leave tomorrow, everything that's going with me is stuffed pretty much to the brink of not being able to zipper up my duffel and Bag of Holding which, uh, totally doesn't live up to its name, I should have been able to fit everything in there without it bulging! xD But it does an admirable job. I have presents... very little ones, for a couple of people, and the quilts for Hunter and Kensie because kids get my love more, lol. I hope they like the quilts as much as they liked the books I brought last time... or more, because I don't think a couple of books suddenly turned Hunter from an X-Box kid to a reading kid. xD
I'm excited and worried even though I know there's nothing to worry about. More excited. I know where I'm staying, I have a vague idea of what I'll be doing while I'm there, hopefully I'll get to see everyone and spend at least some time with each of them. I'm kind of apprehensive about seeing one or two people... mostly a "do they secretly want to see me or am I the only one who cares?" kind of thing.
You know, fuck it, I'll come out and say it: I'm worried about seeing Kristin. This is worse than seeing an ex because for five years she was pretty much my other half and then there was the messy breakup that left me feeling more raw and hurt than any romantic relationship ever did, and last time we saw each other we pretty much agreed that it was stupid to be mad still but we're not friends any more and sometimes I still wake up and think "wow, weird dream, I should tell kristin--oh right, not." So I'm going to see her, more likely than not, and she'll be all unaffected like she is and on the inside I will be five years old holding out my hand waiting for my best friend to take it and that's going to pretty much ruin me for social interaction that day unless I get too stoned to care, which, honestly, I probably will anyway. Hooray for drugs.
So there's that one little problem with my whole gleeful little trip. But aside from that I'm just excited and happy because I miss everyone so much and I want to hear everything they've been doing even though I don't have a lot to say for myself because, hello, my life is pretty much interesting only on the internet and even then it's not a sure thing. "I got into a bunch of new fandoms" isn't going to cut it for small talk with... pretty much anybody except Kristin and maybe Amber, and Amber already knows because she reads my LJ.
Really, I just need to shut up and go to bed and stop worrying because my friends love me and everything is going to be fine. Right? Everything is going to go just fine.
Maybe if I keep telling myself that, I will start believing it, and then I won't have a panic attack instead of going to sleep, because I really need one of those like I need a hole in my head.
(but on the plus side my dad loaned me money against my book buyback funds so maybe I can get my semicolon tattoo after all. Nothing fancy. Times New Roman, about a font 36, simple and clean and classic and right behind my right ear. At this point it's as much for the pain as it is for the symbolism, which is probably a little bit fucked of me, but at least I'm not hurting myself, right?) |
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[Dec. 17th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
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So I have a desktop computer that works fine. I really never needed a netbook of all things. I got it because I like little convenient portable things. I don't really use it. It's not faster than my desktop, I can't run anything on it that I can't run on my desktop, it's a stupid frivolous purchase I shouldn't have made in the first place because I don't even use it.
Rachael uses it.
Rachael uses it like she owns it, because now the entire thing is filthy with country music and pictures of her friends. She changed the desktop to a picture of her and her boyfriend! I don't even want to see what the bookmarks in Firefox look like. There's the little bit of music I ported over from Arthur, a couple of BBT eps, the Criminal Minds DVDs I ripped for my dad's friend, and the entire rest of the computer is Rachael.
I realize that this is my fault for letting her use it all the time, but. Ugh! I have never been so disgusted by a piece of technology I own. I know it's not Spock's fault that I can barely stand to use him now.
:( Is this freakish and possessive of me, or is KILL IT WITH FIRE the right response to finding Keith Urban and Taylor Swift as the most-played on iTunes? Because that's my instinctive reaction. |
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| driving with my speed demon sister in the snow is kind of scary! |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|08:30 pm] |
Christmas shopping is finito~! I got my brother a sweater, a very nice cable-knit green sweater, and I incidentally purchased the sweater vest I wanted to get for myself on Black Friday but they didn't have it in my size at the time, for the same price they were on the most evil of shopping days. Double-score. :D I also got myself some Bed Head hair taffy, which should be all kinds of fun to play with, and some eye makeup from Victoria's Secret, and a pajama set from Aerie. Julia bought me panties for Christmas because she's all Sheldony about equitable gift pricing and I got her a gift card to Sephora for the same price as 5 pairs of panties, so it all worked out neatly for everyone.
OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST FRIDAY. I have to double-check my packing, and pick an outfit for tomorrow (hello new sweater vest), and watch the last episode of White Collar and Monday's BBT and some more of my Yuletide source and I am so not going to have this story finished by the time I leave so I'm resigned to working on it in between hanging out with everybody, undoubtedly there will be lulls in the action in which I can write about girls looking at the stars and stuff along those lines. And I need to experiment with this hair taffy so I can look spectacular when people see me for the first time in half a year.
Yes, I am way too concerned with how people are going to view me. I have been doing well for myself lately, physically and scholastically if not so much emotionally, and I am vain and want people to notice. My friends are not as shallow as all this posturing probably makes them sound. I'm doing it for myself more than for them, honestly.
But finally, and most importantly: moorishflower I GOT YOUR PACKAGE TODAY! ♥! I have named the pig Olivia and she holds a place of honor on my bed now. Your absolutely lovely picture is now hanging out in the middle of all my Star Trek action figures. One of the books will be coming with me to Plattsburgh-- haven't decided which one yet-- and I really can't wait to plant the morning glories and see all their tye-dyed beautifulness! ♥ ♥ ♥ Thank you so much, love! |
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| seriously, I thought I was going to lose them |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|04:36 pm] |
Okay, screw that, I am never ringing when it's below 20 degrees out again. It was 14 degrees and I lost feeling in my toes within 45 minutes of getting out there... they're still numb and achy. :(
Now I'm going to the mall and I am going to treat myself to Starbucks and maybe some eye makeup because I want to look nice while I'm in Plattsburgh. Which I will be, in 24 hours or so. :D |
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| one of those days you need to wear pants under your pants |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|11:12 am] |
In about an hour I have to go stand a kettle in front of Walmart. This is the first time I'll be doing it outside this year, and I'm not complaining because I only have to do it for two hours. It's freaking cold out, and snowing, though. Standing in the snow is a special kind of fun.
At some point after that I'm going to the mall with Julia, which will be a whole other kind of fun, because being at the mall with no money is awesome. I still need to get Dennis a Christmas present... so I'm hoping Old Navy has their sweaters on sale. >.>
This is my mantra: It's almost Friday. Which means so much more this week than any other week. Except next week is a pretty significant Friday too, isn't it? xD
Now: to figure out how many layers I can put on before looking like a cartoon version of myself. |
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