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12:10 pm
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Bad week, better now
I had a bad week. Last week was the dreaded KCAs, which makes my job an increasing pile of hell from early february until the end of March. The event itself was last Saturday, went well, broke all the records, blahblahblah. Back to work Monday, trying to clean up all the piles of nasty that KCA left behind. Tuesday had a meltdown. Not feeling great. I'm having trouble sleeping and having dreams about work. Wednesday out sick. Nap and catch up on Dollhouse. Thursday try again. By the middle of the day, I was having trouble forming words. People kept asking me if I was spaced out on cold medication. I wasn't. My brain was just shutting down in self-defense.
Friday, thankfully, was a day off.
I think most of the badness can be chalked up to exhaustion. I'm feeling a LOT better, after a little rest and a little time away from work. Got new contacts. Got a nifty hook-thingy to hold up the brooms and things in my closet so they're not piled everywhere. Cleaned. Did some laundry. Bought some shoes for Spring. Packed away all the boots.
Went through the backlog of mail I'd been ignoring. Found out that not only are my common charges going up, but I have to pay them twice in April. That didn't help. Having all of my bills paid and six months of paper recycling taken out did.
About two weeks ago I started some indoor gardening to preserve my sanity. (I really think the picture of my plants on my desktop at work was all that got me through the last week before KCA.) I'm wondering how I can find out when the all-important moment happens when 'danger of frost has passed'. I've really never tried outdoor gardening before. I'm tempted to try growing tomatoes or something.
Today is a glorious day out, so I have my windows open to get some fresh air in the house. I may go for a walk outside later.
Tomorrow I have to go back to work. I'm trying to avoid thinking about that just now. ;-)
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11:08 am
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Improvements
90% of the wallpaper in the bathroom is gone. There's just the little bits that are hard to get at - behind the medicine cabinet I'm going to remove, behind the toilet, between the doorframe and the window frame in the corner. It didn't seem like it was that much work, or like it took that long, but, the day went by in two-hour shots with falling-down-tired breaks in between. Today, My brother comes to help me put up mouldings around shower where the wall is damaged (Yes, I know - I should replace the drywall. I just can't afford that at the moment and this is better than nothing.)
I got a little farther towards level 77, but not much. The bigger news is that I've discovered the joys of selling herbs at auction. I made almost 200 gold with yesterday's listings and I stand to do it again today. MUCH easier than running dailies.
I removed my 'single' status from my facebook profile, in order to not get served behavior-targeted ads anymore. (If I see one more '35 and still single?' or 'he didn't call?' ad, I think I will scream). Unfortunately, the way Facebook alerts these things to all my friends, caused a rash of speculation on why I was no longer single. I am mostly amused. ;-)
I think my DSL filter stopped working. I get no dialtone with it on, and a 'line is busy' with modem-noises when it's off. So if you've tried to call my land line in the last few weeks and got no answer, sorry. I'll be getting a new one today, hopefully. (Not like anyone but my mother actually calls me on the phone - but she's pretty pissed about the situation, so I need to fix it.)
Also? I got a retraction and and apology for the the post on my Facebook page. :-D
And all I used was mild, polite snark. Hooray!
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10:59 am
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Sunday Morning Musings
I'm lousy at updating LJ. Especially lately. I'm slightly better at updating my facebook status. Requires less thought and fewer words. I feel like I should have something important or meaningful to say here. This is not that post.
As I type, my cat is trying to take over my desk. I'm not sure I'm going to win this one. So far she's claimed the mouse and a small portion of the keyboard - fortunately I don't need those at the moment, but it could get ugly when I do.
It's snowing. Or, it snowed. I'm feeling to lazy to look outside my window and see which. I distinctly remember the first time I saw it snowing this season outside my window at work. It was magical and wondrous, and I was a little kid again for a few minutes. We've reached the part of winter where that is completely gone, and my only reaction to snow is, 'oh, man, I'm going to have to shovel off my car AGAIN'.
(The cat has ceded the keyboard but claimed possession of the mousepad.)
I started working on a new home improvement project yesterday - making the master bathroom not be disgusting. A few minutes in, and I almost gave up and called the professionals in. If I actually manage to do this myself, I think I will take a vacation with the money I'm not paying to the contractors.
(My box of cables is a casualty, but the desk wars are now over. The sound of the box hitting the floor precipitated an unconditional retreat.)
I finally installed my fist WoW mod, at level 76. I'm not really sure what took me so long. I think I was afraid that installing a mod was the first step down the slippery path to true WoW addition. (I felt that way about professions for a while, too - and I'm not sure I was wrong about that.) But the mod (Carbonite) has drastically sped up my leveling. Probably halved the time it will take me, because I don't have to spend time figuring out what's where. I'm not convinced it doesn't remove some of the fun of the game, but, dammit, I want to get to 80 already.
It's interesting posting political things on Facebook these days, as some of my ultra-conservative relatives are now on and posting replies that deeply piss me off. ("Pundit X has a Jewish surname, so therefore they should support Bush unconditionally because Bush is supportive of Israel." "Why do Leftists make common cause with extremists (terrorists) within the Islamic religion who are diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for?") I'm exercising a great deal of restraint for the sake of not alienating family members.
I'm grateful for the extra day off. Today will involve a lot of cleaning, organizing, and stripping wallpaper. And maybe some TV and WoW. You know, a nice, lazy day. :-)
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07:13 pm
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Really?
Larry Summers? THAT Larry Summers? The guy who said that the reason there weren't more women in the highest ranks of academia was because they were genetically inferior as a whole?
Really?
He better be really good at economics.
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11:31 am
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Shiny
I can't ever remember feeling so optimistic and happy about the world.
( Read more... )
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12:28 am
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OK, so this is cool.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801856.html?hpid=topnews
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01:17 am
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Prop 8?
No news yet, right?
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12:56 am
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Really?
It's for real this time? I'm not going to wake up tomorrow and find out they took it back?
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09:19 pm
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New pics
Some new pics of the house. This is what I did last weekend.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisaf373/sets/72157608607615667/
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10:07 am
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If you haven't seen this yet....
This is hysterical.
http://somehedgehog.livejournal.com/245807.html
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05:00 pm
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( silly memeage )
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10:00 am
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Spoof!
So, my primary email account got spoofed last night. It appears to be from a German mailserver trying to distribute a Claudia Schiffer video. So, until the bounces die down, I may not see any emails you might send me.
:-/
Facebook, IM, or my work email is probably the best way to contact me. Or, of course, here.
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10:28 pm
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Settling in
So, the new place is awesome and wonderful and all, but in the back of my mind, I still have this nagging sense of, 'this is a very nice hotel - when am I going home'?
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11:43 pm
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RAWR!
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10:06 pm
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More house pics - move-in state!
A bunch of new before-and-after pictures have been added to flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisaf373/sets/72157606170456475/
(Too tired to write more - better writing in the morning...)
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11:02 pm
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define interesting
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.
First of all, my cabinets are in, and should be delivered *sometime* tomorrow. Could be 8AM, could be 8PM. Don't know. The kitchen lady forgot to call me back and tell me. So, I have to be there at 8AM just in case, because my backup can't make it that early.
Tomorrow's my last day of work before the long weekend and the move, so I have to work out all the fun issues with the stuff launching on 9/1 that I just heard about today, by, oh, tomorrow.
And tomorrow I have a video conference with the LA office to go over some stuff my team put together that is being forced on them and they really don't want to do. Won't THAT be fun.
Whee.
THEN I get to finish packing. Fun stuff.
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10:47 pm
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So. Tired.
I am finally done with painting. And home improvement repairs. At least until after I move.
The kitchen has been sanded, primed and painted, and is now just awaiting cabinets.
I've made some change to almost every room in the house. The walls are all patched and touched up. The light fixtures are in. About 50% of the walls of the house have been painted. The wallpaper is mostly gone. The painting debris has been cleaned up and packed away.
The half-bath downstairs still needs to be redone. I'd like to have that done before my housewarming. But it's functional, and in acceptable shape for moving in.
And now, I go pass out.
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11:25 am
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VP
Isn't Biden the one who called Obama "articulate"?
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11:23 am
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I want one.
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11:23 pm
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more
plastering today. it's coming out ok, I think, but it's time consuming. and I apparently need 3x the plaster I thought I did. whee! soon I get to paint.
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