Category: Miscellaneous

Ok, that’s not really true, I just have that song from Avenue Q stuck in my head today:

I’m not wearing underwear today,
No I’m not wearing underwear today
Not that you probably care
Much about my underwear
Still none the less I gotta say
That I’m not wearing underwear today

Right now I’m procrastinating getting dressed and out of the house to visit Miss Gracie. Not that I don’t want to visit Gracie, of course, ’cause she’s usually the highlight of my weekend; it’s the getting moving part that I always have a hard time with. It didn’t help that my morning started off with trying to figure out why my desktop wallpaper didn’t appear when I booted up. Usually that means my external drive needs rebooting, but this time the drive was fine. Turns out, when I went to properties, the only images in the wallpaper selection screen were the defaults, and oddly, the images I’d deleted yesterday. Weird. Still, not a great way to start the morning.

In other news of my terribly exciting life, I spent yesterday knitting my first Christmas gift of the season while watching Buffy dvds. No clue yet who it’ll go to–it actually turned out so nifty I might find it hard to part with it. At least that’s one I can check off, though. Friday night, I sorted my wool yarn by color and pattern so I can just knit through it all without much thought (a rip-roaring Friday night, that was!), so I’ll be starting number two when I get back from Gracie’s.

I also managed to get off my duff last night and took a walk to Best Buy. I was motivated to do so by a desire to go hiking today–I found a nifty site that describes hikes local to my area, and one of them seemed to be not too difficult. Sadly, even though the round trip to BB is barely over a mile, my injured hip was still pissed off before I got back, which means no hiking for me yet. It felt good to get out and moving, though; I’m planning to give it another try tonight (must remember to stretch this time, though). On the plus side, my knee, while tired and cranky after the walk, did not spasm like it usually does. This is very heartening news.

In blog news, I’m going to try to remember to post a photo every day. Everyone likes photos, right? This is a picture of me with my sister, my cousin Kerry and her daughter Korina, taken last month when I went home for my cousin Cindy’s son’s wedding reception. (Didja follow all that?)

Weather: 61F with an expected high of 73F
Breakfast: South Beach PB&chocolate protein bar, two cups of tea

4. My closest friends are people I met online, specifically at The Bronze and Buffistas (both Buffy the Vampire Slayer communities).

5. I first started wearing glasses when I was eight, and I was very happy about it, because the most popular girl in class also wore glasses, so I considered them very “in”.

6. When asked, I usually say my favorite color is purple, and yet my favorite nail polish (and hair) color is blue, and most of my yarn purchases are in shades of green, and my bedroom is decorated in pinks, oranges and yellows, so I’ve recently come to realize that I really don’t have a favorite color–I just like all of them!

Weather: 59F, with an expected 81F high for the day

Breakfast: Same as the last two days–protein bar and tea (only one cup so far, ’cause even though I remembered to pick up a box of Lipton yesterday, I didn’t realize how very low the milk supply was)

One of my favorite online comic strips is Unshelved, about life in a public library. I met the artist last summer at Comic-Con in San Diego–he was very nice, signed my book with a cute drawing of Dewey, the lead character. He said one of the things he’d learned that weekend was that Unshelved had a larger number of non-librarian readers than he’d realized, which I think is cool. After all, librarians aren’t the only ones who love libraries. 🙂

For the past few months, they’ve been featuring a contest called Pimp My Bookcart, which is exactly how it sounds–pimp your bookcart, send in a picture, and the best wins a brand new bookcart (actually, second best does too!). I’ve been ignoring this contest because, let’s face it, I may love libraries, but I don’t work in one. But today, they posted a link to a pimped bookcart that was featured in the news in Rockford, IL: Decked-out library cart is beyond cool.

Look at that picture! Isn’t that the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?? But more importantly–and this just proves what an enormous sap I really am–is the story of how the welding class at the school turned it into a class project, and worked together to create something so adorable–and functional–for their school library. I love stories like that; they’re the medicine to all the stories of the apathy of today’s kids that are usually more common.

You know that meme that goes around sometimes, the 100 Things About Me one? I’ve always had a hard time coming up with 100 things. I know there are at least 100 things to share, ’cause let’s face it, I wasn’t born yesterday–I’ve lived 38 years of things to share. So I think I’ll use this NaBloPoMo challenge to try to come up with at least 100 things, by sharing three new things a day. At least I shouldn’t run out of topics, right?

1. I am a Virgo. Sometimes I think I don’t fit the description at all–orderly, organized, reasonable and responsible. Sounds like the most boring person in the world. Then I look at my alphabetized dvds, and my sectioned sock drawer, and my to do lists with sub-categories, and think maybe it’s not *so* far off the mark. However, I’m a cuspy Virgo, so perhaps that explains my other, more childlike qualities that maybe I’ll get into elsewhere on the list.

2. I love balloons–big ones, small ones, round ones, long ones; and the more brightly colored, the better. They make me smile, and if there are enough of them, they can make me giddy.

3. I hate white foods. Actually, that isn’t as all inclusive as it used to be. When I was five, I threw up my macaroni and cheese lunch in the parking lot of a store where we were going to see Santa. Needless to say, Santa had to wait. Ever since then, white sauces and creamy stuff freaks me out. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to accept and even love some white foods–cream cheese and clam chowder come to mind. Cadbury eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream and white macaroni and cheese are still on the no-freaking-way list. (Orange mac and cheese from a Kraft box is ok, though–as long as it’s sticky, and not runny.)

There, that’s my three for the day. 🙂

Weather for today: 62F, with an expected 74F high
Breakfast: Protein bar, two cups of emergency backup tea (ran out of Lipton yesterday, phooey)

Today’s my day off. That’s one of the coolest perks at my company–we get every other Friday off, all year long. Normally, I’d have PT today, but I’ve been downgraded to “schedule as needed” instead of “once a week”, so it truly is a day off.

I toyed with going to visit Gracie today (my friend’s baby girl), but after thinking about it, I realized I was already planning to stop at the nearby yarn store, and that’s just too risky, so the Gracie visit will have to wait until Sunday, when the yarn store is closed.

Instead, I shall endeavor to wash more dishes (the situation is seriously out of control these days), visit Target (for necessities only, I promise!), and maybe photograph more yarn and projects for my Ravelry database. There’s a purse, many scarves, and 12 granny squares that need to be recorded for prosperity. I also have to choose what I’m going to make for the company’s Holiday Charity Auction. And perhaps I’ll watch the tv shows I missed earlier this week. My life is so exciting, isn’t it?

In other news, Big Papi was on Regis and Kelly this morning–woot! He’s so adorable. The players’ voices always take me by surprise, as they never sound as I expect them to. I watch them up close and personal on my tv, the camera shots so close you can practically count their freckles, but it’s rare that I hear them speak. Papi, on the other hand, sounded pretty much as I expected–except for the accent. I’d somehow managed to forget that he wasn’t born here. His English was excellent, though, and he said nice things about the fans, which is always nice to hear.

On a more somber note, please send prayers/warm thoughts/be safe vibes to Jimmy C., the best man at my sister’s wedding, who is currenty deployed somewhere overseas. Earlier this week a member of his team was killed 15 feet from him, which means Jimmy is way closer to the action than we’d like him to be. My condolences go out to the family of Jimmy’s friend, and my wish for a safe return goes out to Jimmy and the rest of his team.