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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | ||
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kyuuketsukirui |
9:44p | Daily Happiness 1. Had a nice dinner today. I wasn't thrilled with my family, but at least we didn't have to stay too long. :p 2. I have managed to survive on only about an hour and a half of sleep. I thought I might crash when we came back from my mom's, but unfortunately I still had Naruto and Bleach to translate since I didn't get those before we left. And then it was like five-thirty or six and I was thinking, really, if I just push on for a few more hours, I can be on a fairly "normal" schedule, which is what I'm wanting to keep to while Erin is here, because while I usually love my sleep during the day/up all night thing I have going, it's not so great for company (and Erin is not back here until Saturday, but I'd rather not disrupt my schedule more than I have to). 3. I don't have to do anything tomorrow. I mean, there's stuff on my to-do list, but there's nothing urgent, and we don't have to go anywhere, and I can just catch up on my sleep and relax. There's something else that I have been meaning to put on the list for days and I only remember it when I'm away from the computer. D: And each time, I'm like, oh, I should totally put that on my happiness post! But now I have no idea what it is. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
9:16a | Daily Happiness 1. Well, I got most of my Jump translations done last night. For some reason neither Bleach nor Naruto are out yet. Hopefully they'll show up in the next couple hours so I can get them done before going over to my mom's for dinner... But at least I got One Piece (two chapters this week), Bakuman, and Psyren out of the way! 2. I went to Panera for the first time yesterday. OMG they have delicious pastries. I thought they were just a sandwich shop, but Erin wanted to go there for breakfast, so we walked down (nice walk, like three, three and a half miles round trip) and I got a gingerbread bagel and a orange scone. The scone had this icing on it that tasted exactly like those Pillsbury orange rolls. And the bagel was sooooo good (and cheap, too; their bagels are only $1.25). I'd definitely go down there again. 3. Erin's off with her sisters for a couple days, but she's coming back here on Saturday instead of Sunday like she thought, so that's an extra day to hang out, yay. Plus she's going to be renting a car, so I won't have to get my mom to take her to the airport when she leaves. 4. I'm cat/house-sitting for my former neighbors for a few days, so that means extra money, yay. |
| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | ||
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telesilla |
10:44a | simple yet tasty Take a bagel, slice it, toast it and put a generous amount of cream cheese on both slices. Then take a couple artichoke hearts and chop them up fine* and use them as sammich filling. Serve with Kalamata olives on the side. Speaking of food, we got our box yesterday; I was just too wiped to report it. Persimmons, tangerines, apples, kale, chard, lettuce, some other green and sweet potatoes. ( rambly stuff about greens and T-Day dinner ) |
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | ||
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telesilla |
10:40p | huh.... Due to a bit of stupidity on my part, I spent the day without internets. And you know...I missed people, but not the internets themselves. Lemme know if anything interesting happened. Actually, you all should be glad I spent the day offline; I'm grumpy and crampy and apparently someone, probably Og, slept in just the wrong spot on the bed, forcing me to sleep in a certain position, so my knees and back hurt. It's not that I wouldn't happily kick him off the bed, it's that he does it in the middle of the night and I automatically adjust without waking up. For those not on my NaNo filter, I'm declaring it a half win. I wrote 20,500 words and I'll probably manage another 5,000 before the end of the month. Or who knows, maybe I won't. Still that's 20K of fic I didn't have on October 31, so there you have it. I have to go to our local upscale grocery store to pick up the lamb tomorrow. That's gonna be fun. I also have to go to Coco's to pick up the pie so at least I'll have French Toast for lunch or something. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
10:26p | Daily Happiness 1. My friend Erin is here from out of town. I haven't seen her in almost three years, so it's pretty exciting to see her again. We've been friends since we were like six and eight or something ridiculous like that. She's going to spend tomorrow afternoon through Saturday with her sisters, but then be back at our house and stay until next Wednesday. We did two hours of karaoke this afternoon and hopefully will do more next week. 2. I got the last of the books I ordered for my mom for Christmas, so that is my Christmas shopping done! (That is really my only Christmas shopping, actually, considering Carla got her computer as an early Christmas present.) |
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telesilla |
2:36a | I don't know... I'm just not in the mood for much of anything. I'm having my period and I think I'm coming down with a cold and I'm all with the grumpy. I might be scarce for a day or two. |
| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | ||
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kyuuketsukirui |
10:24p | Daily Happiness I feel like I haven't got much done today because I didn't get much done on the computer, BUT! I did do a ton of housecleaning, because Erin is coming to stay tomorrow, and plus this weekend I want to put the tree up and would want to vacuum and stuff before that, so two reasons to clean means I actually got off my ass and tidied, dusted, and vacuumed. Plus we finally made a decision on how we want the living room organised, so it's no longer in a half-assed state since we moved the furniture around. I thought of taking pictures tonight (both of it and the rearranged bedroom, which has also had some finishing touches put on it finally, like plugging the clock properly in so it's not got the cord stretching out across the floor), but I think I'll just wait until after I've got the Christmas tree up. Anyway, so yay, house clean(ish). And now I am super tired, so I'm going to try and get some sleep and that way I'll be on a more "normal" schedule while I have company (and for Thanksgiving, too, since dinner will be right in the middle of when I'd normally be sleeping). Also I loved today's Dinosaur Comics. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
12:06p | Amazon deals This is for people in the US only, unfortunately, but a code for Amazon has $3 off digital purchases, plus some new albums like Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment and Rihanna's Rated R are on sale for $3.99 each, so you could essentially get a whole album for 99 cents. There's also some good stuff in the 50 for $5 each section, including The Crane Wife and a Flight of the Conchords album. I already downloaded a copy of For Your Entertainment, but I figured for that cheap, I should buy the official version as well. I also apparently had $12 in mp3 credits already (they give you $5 whenever you buy anything to do with music (such as the headphones we ordered a few months back) and then I forget to use them), so I bought Rihanna's, too. I still have $8 left, so I should see if there's anything else I want. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
3:14a | Daily Happiness 1. Helped my mom and Tom move some furniture yesterday, which earned us $50 off the rent. Woohoo! 2. My hair is blue! It was really a huge pain in the ass, made even worse by the fact that we no longer have a bathtub faucet (well, the faucet is there, it's just broken so you can no longer switch from shower to bath; it's on shower permanently), so I couldn't rinse my head under the faucet, but instead had to do it in the shower, getting blue all over everything, including myself. But I like how it turned out, so yay. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
12:56a | Book 67: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Title: The House on Mango Street Author: Sandra Cisneros Number of Pages: 110 pages Book Number/Goal: 67/75 for 2009 My Rating: 4.5/5 This is a series of vignettes about Esperanza, a pre-teen girl growing up in a latino neighborhood in Chicago. It's very, very short, even shorter than the 110 pages it appears to be, because each story starts halfway down on the page, and often end with just one paragraph or a few lines on the next page, so there's a ton of empty space. The stories are all just little ordinary things, like reading somebody's memories rather than A Novel. I enjoyed it a lot. Mooch from BookMooch. |
| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | ||
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ratcreature |
4:20p | SGA canon questions Because my memory is crap, do we ever see the team camping offworld, i.e. see what kind of tents they use and such, or is the offworld camping a pure fanon thing? Unrelated, I remember the team sitting together in their mess hall in a couple of episodes, but I can't recall which those were. Argh. My memory, worse than a Swiss cheese. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
4:34a | Daily Happiness I got hardly anything done yesterday. I was really tired and went to bed early, then ended up napping a couple times during the day, too, and then have been tired for the last several hours which means I just sort of sat here not really getting much done (but I didn't want to go to bed until I had finished a few things). :( Also for some reason there's some sort of fuckup between Verizon and T-Mobile, so when people with Verizon call our phones (T-Mobile), they get a message saying all circuits are busy or something. D: Anyway! On to the happiness... 1. The excerpt for this really bad gay romance is hilarious. I am almost tempted* to pay the $6.99 for the full book because I know it would provide much enjoyment in ways the author never intended. 2. This whole hair-dyeing thing is going very slowly because I am lazy, but I did use the toner on my hair yesterday, and here is a picture of me post-toner. My hair's still pretty yellow, but it definitely took out the worst of the orange. I meant to do the blue today, but that didn't happen, so hopefully tomorrow. 3. There is a World of Warcraft version of Peggle! It's only ten levels, but I will take anything I can get! Also it's free, yay. (And it's not an add-on for Peggle or Peggle Nights, but a stand-alone edition, so you can play it even if you don't have the others.) 4. Carla's going back to Indiana to visit her folks (and friends) in January and her parents are actually paying for the ticket! This is pretty rare for them, and not due to any lack of money. *Not really, but maybe if it were half that price. |
| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | ||
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kyuuketsukirui |
2:02a | Daily Happiness 1. Carla got her new computer today! My old laptop (which she's currently using) is really starting to die (looks like it needs a new hard drive), so instead of saving the new computer til Christmas, we decided she'd just start using it now. 2. Had a nice walk tonight. Four miles, which is longer than we've done in a while. She's been busy with school, I've been busy with work, there's yoga two nights a week interfering with our schedule, and then for the past couple weeks she's been sick. But tonight Alexander wanted something from the Apple Store, so we walked down to the Promenade and back. Stopped at El Pollo Loco on the way, yum. 3. Speaking of chicken, I was boiling a whole chicken earlier today for use in enchiladas and I kind of forgot about it on the stove and so it got cooked way longer than I meant it to...but that ended up being a good thing! The chicken was just falling off the bones! |
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | ||
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kyuuketsukirui |
1:19p | Supernatural 5x10, Modern Family 1x08 ( Supernatural 5x10 ) I also watched Modern Family, but I don't really have anything to say there. There wasn't anything wrong with it, per se, but it was the weakest episode so far and I just wasn't finding much to get excited about. (Probably because the main storyline was about Phil and Claire and I just don't care about them.) |
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kyuuketsukirui |
2:59a | Daily Happiness 1. Thanks to the people who recommended Sally's, I have hair dye! We walked down there last night and it turned out they had quite a large selection of non-natural colors by four or five different makers. I ended up gettin Manic Panic, so we'll see how that goes. Last night I did the bleaching (here's a pic of me all bleached) and later today I'll do the toner and then the dye itself. 2. We got our Walmart order in the mail today with this nice lined sweatshirt. It's so cozy! I really wish there was a Walmart near us because it's so nice to find clothes in large sizes that aren't horribly expensive. But if it's something we're pretty sure is going to fit okay, the website is a good option (I love the 97 cent shipping). |
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kyuuketsukirui |
12:05a | Book 66: Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith Title: Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet Author: Sherri L. Smith Number of Pages: 167 pages Book Number/Goal: 66/75 for 2009 My Rating: 3/5 When a pipe bursts during Ana Shen's middle school graduation, flooding the field and cutting the ceremony short, it doesn't seem like things could get any worse. Then comes the announcement that the gym is flooded, too, and the graduation dance is cancelled. The dance was going to be Ana's big chance to tell Jamie Tabata she likes him before they go their separate ways for high school, but when her best friend Chelsea ends up inviting Jamie and his family over to Ana's for a graduation dinner, it looks like there might be hope after all. Assuming Ana can keep her grandmothers' rivalry from ruining everything. I'd seen several reviews for this on ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) 50books_poc and wasn't really that interested, but after reading and loving Flygirl, I decided to give some of Smith's other books a try. This...is definitely no Flygirl. It's cute enough, and it's nice to see a biracial main character (or any character!) who isn't half white, but I wasn't wowed or anything.I really think the book could have used a lot more editing. Most of it is fine, but it starts to fall apart at the ending, which seems really rushed, plus has a couple of chapters that don't really fit. At one point her grandfather starts telling a story and instead of just making it quick or summarising, we actually get a random flashback chapter in his POV about the event he's relating. We also get a few paragraphs in one of the grandmothers' POV towards the end, in a story that has otherwise been very tight third person with only one POV. It just seemed sloppy. Also I was really excited about the story being set in LA at first, but it ended up being more frustrating than anything because the author gave all sorts of conflicting details. The kids have gone to school together since kindergarten, yet for some reason they all go to an elementary school in a totally different zone than where they live. (One person going to a far away public school might have some excuse, but not a whole class.) Then the high school mentioned is not the high school that middle school feeds into. Neither is it the high school she would actually be going to for where she's supposed to live. Which being less than a mile from the beach would be Santa Monica and she'd go to SaMoHi, not Uni (also everyone keeps saying University High and I'm sorry but I have never heard anyone call it that; it's Uni). Plus the author gives a freeway exit that they're supposed to live near, which is not less than a mile from the beach, either. I really don't know what she was thinking. The jacket flap says she lives in LA, so it's not just that she didn't know what she was talking about. It's like she wanted to use real names of stuff, but didn't want to be specific, so she ended up taking bits from all over. If you don't want to be specific, then either be vague or make up names of school and stuff. But if you're going to be specific then you have to get your facts right! Of course most of the people reading aren't going to know or care, but it really took a lot of fun out of it for me. |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | ||
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kyuuketsukirui |
7:39a | Daily Happiness 1. I got all my Jump translations done yesterday, instead of just One Piece (which usually shows up late Wednesday nights, but was already up when I woke up at noon). So today I can just relax, no set schedule. Woohoo! 2. I got more writing done! 3. I got Super Mario Wii in the mail. So hard to wait til Christmas! 4. Speaking of things I ordered from Amazon, last month or so my mom was talking about wanting some books she used to borrow from my aunt, but now my aunt lives in Oregon, so that's not so doable. Anyway, I told her about BookMooch and said I had a ton of points if she wanted me to mooch her something. So I got her a couple books and then she remembered another author she wanted to reread and said if I found anything I could just give them to her for Christmas. I found one, then decided to look on Amazon for the others and I finally remembered to do that last night and found four of the five I needed being sold used through Amazon fulfillment, which means just like any other Amazon purchase, if you order over $25, you get free shipping. The books were like $3.50-4 each, compared to the ones from other sellers that were just a few cents, but shipping for a book is $3.99 now, so since I got enough stuff (we had one other thing to order that we'd been saving until we had enough to get free shipping) and got free shipping, they ended up being cheaper (plus I get them altogether from one place rather than a bunch of different sellers). |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | ||
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telesilla |
6:24p | Ick. And also, Ow. So, ever since the gall bladder mess* I've had pretty serious acid reflux issues. Normally this isn't a problem since I'm on medication for it. However, even with the medication, if I eat too much before sleeping, I end up with this thing where acid backs up into my throat and since I'm asleep and not exactly noticing, I keep breathing. You know how sometimes, if you breathe at just the wrong moment while drinking a glass of water, you get water in your airway, which then freaks out because, oh hey, turns out you're not supposed to breathe liquid? Yeah, it's like that, only a) it's acid and b) you're sound asleep when it happens. Obviously the answer is not to eat right before sleeping, but last night, I'd been up for over 24 hours and hadn't had food for something like 10 hours and I was getting shaky and weird. I woke up after breathing in acid three different times because, while I wanted to stay awake after the first time, I simply couldn't thanks to exhaustion and medication. I feel like death warmed over and I have a massive migraine. *short version: it wasn't stones so it took six weeks, during which I had three ER visits, to diagnose. On the plus side, the time between the diagnosis being made and my surgery was something like 10 hours. Also, Medicare doesn't suck. |
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kyuuketsukirui |
4:03p | Book 65: Push by Sapphire Title: Push Author: Sapphire Number of Pages: 192 pages Book Number/Goal: 65/75 for 2009 My Rating: 4.5/5 Precious is sixteen, illiterate, and pregnant with her second child by her own father. But when she gets kicked out of junior high and starts attending an alternative school, her life finally starts to turn around. This is written in an experimental style, very stream-of-consciousness, with lots of dialect to mimic the way precious talks. Some parts are even written as if Precious had written them herself, complete with spelling errors, which gradually improve over the course of the book. I didn't find that a barrier at all, though. It was really easy to read (I zipped through it in two sittings). The last fifty pages or so of the book are essays and poems written by Precious and the other girls in her class. Pretty much everything bad you could imagine happening has happened to Precious and it sometimes seems like overkill, but overall I really enjoyed the book. And I'm glad the ending was optimistic but realistic and not all magically wonderful. I'm definitely interested in seeing the movie, though probably not til it's out on DVD. I was looking at the cast, though, and um...wtf? The teacher is described as dark with dreads, yet somehow in the movie she is really lightskinned and has wavy hair. It's like they made her as close to a Nice White Lady as possible without actually casting a white actress. D: (This is something else I would totally have nominated for yuletide! Damn it! I'd especially love fic about Jermaine.) |
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kyuuketsukirui |
7:13a | Daily Happiness 1. I was really good yesterday about doing a little bit of each thing on my to-do list when it came to large projects that couldn't be done in one sitting. I so often feel like I have to do a huge chunk and then I stress out about not having time for it and it makes me avoidant and then I don't get anything done on it. I'm trying to train myself to do smaller chunks. A page each day will get done eventually, but if I never have the time to do the whole thing, it will never get done and then I'll hit a deadline or be super behind and argh. More stress. 2. Speaking of which, I got some writing done! I find it really hard to get anything written when there's no deadline these days, because it always seems to be lowest priority on my to-do list, but I actually made myself write and got about 300 words done. It's not much, especially compared to NaNo folks who are writing like 3000 words a day or something, but for me it's a lot, and it's progress. 3. I finally got like six hours sleep yesterday evening. For some reason when I have insomnia, evening seems to be the best time for me to sleep. Unfortunately it's my least favorite time to sleep, and I don't like to get on that schedule, especially now with yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6.30-8, because that means I'm tired during class or have to be woken up for class. I'm feeling tired right now, though, so I'm hoping I can get some sleep this morning. 4. Yesterday I told my mom I had some cash for her for the rent and when she came over she asked if I needed anything at Costco first, so I was able to have her get toilet paper and laundry detergent and bread, yay. I wish I had known earlier, though, as I went to the little market nearby and got a gallon of milk for $5, when I could have gotten two for the same price at Costco. :-/ 5. I got an email from Amazon saying because I ordered Super Mario, I now had a $10 credit for any video game! So I'll see what I get for Christmas in terms of Lego games and whichever one I don't get, I'll buy that from Amazon. (The credit is good til the end of January.) |
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4:51a | Vagrant Story, Batman, The Joker, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. Pending/WIP.And, Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker. It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans. Two important polls need to be voted on, as seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, etc. This asylum will continue to be WIP until further interest is shown. I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs. Current Mood:  hungry |
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | ||
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telesilla |
9:01p | take a good hard look! And then maybe, open your wallets? NSFW or other places where "motherfucking" is inappropriate. Thanks to Salixbabylon for the link! |
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telesilla |
2:33p | I know...I know... I'm spammy today, but sometimes I just need to mention how much I love the junior Senator from the great state of California. Hint: A lot. |
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ratcreature |
11:10p | young rats are exhausting It's not exactly that I had forgotten already how much energy and destructive initiative young rats have once they've gotten over their initial shyness, but there definitely was rose-tinted nostalgia blurring those memories. In any case I now remember why the free playtime outside I give younger rats has always been only an hour or two at most, whereas I let older ones out as much as they like as long as I'm home. I also need to come up with more entertainment to occupy them now that they feel secure outside. Currently Noah in particular expends most of his not inconsiderable energy trying to get out of their play enclosure (simple wood panels held together with cable binders), that I put up for their safety while they are this young and reckless. Though even with the escape attempts, it still makes watching them easier. And the ferret climbing tree I bought for them has been a big hit, but clearly I now need to do some more landscaping to satisfy their exploratory drive. |
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telesilla |
12:57p | I know it's an old one.... But it was linked from one of today's pics and I think it's hilarious. I also haven't slept all night so I think a lot of things are hilarious.  |
