| Music Meme |
[Aug. 25th, 2005|02:04 pm] |
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| |  amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | 1984 Top Forty on Shuffle in My Head | ] |
Whee! An update! I must be feverish! *g*
My evil twin has been busy in other corners of fandom, but it's about time I finally got around to posting something here, isn't it?
From my beloved ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) odogoddess (isn't it nice we're so musically compatible...most of the time?), who got it from sio (Heya, honey - more 80's tunes ahoy! *g*)
When I graduated from high school, I got a summer job working at the brand new Mervyn's in town. The paint was barely dry, and we had to stock the store from the ground up. They played the local Top 40 station incessantly. Some of these were seared into my neural pathways.
( ...ah, Summer of '84... ) |
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| It never rains, but it pours. |
[Jun. 15th, 2005|05:33 pm] |
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| |  worried | ] |
Aunt T's back in the hospital. odogoddess has already posted about it here. I talked to the nurse a bit ago, and Aunt T's had an angiogram and some other work to deal with a blood clot, and apparently she was cracking jokes right after the procedure, so the outlook's pretty good.
Now, if we could just convince her to quit smoking.
I have to admit that arguing the health risks of cigarettes with an 87-year-old woman who's been smoking since she was 16 or so is rather an exercise in futility. Maybe odogoddess and I should take up smoking and drinking {{{shudder}}} Budweiser, too. It might be the secret to longevity! (Well, okay, probably not. Just as well. Nasty stuff!)
In other news, I have some nice, detailed notes on a couple of the costumes we saw when we visited the Harry Potter museum on the Warner Bros. Studio tour. I'll have to transcribe and post them soon. I wish they had let us take pictures, even if it was without flash, but being able to get within a half-inch of the costumes was absolutely amazing, anyway. |
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| Cat Psychology 101 |
[May. 9th, 2005|11:58 am] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Hey, Jude" - The Beatles | ] |
Ever since odogoddess and I brought Percy home from her mom's house to live with us, I've been learning fascinating things about the workings of the feline mind. For example - everything is a cat toy. Things which the cat does not play with are only cat toys that have either become boring, or which have not yet been discovered by the cat. Simple things like that are fairly easy for the lesser-evolved human brain to grasp. It's the higher workings of the feline psyche that really fascinate me...
( Percy and the Empty Bowl )
ETA: I really should have noted that J's allergies - which include a very severe one to cat fluids - made it impossible for her to handle the feeder disassembly, cleaning, etc, without gloves, which we didn't have on hand and which I kept forgetting to pick up. Even with gloves, she really shouldn't be breathing in the combination of pesticide, kibble dust, cat spit, soap and bleach that cleaning that thing involved. Sorry, chere! |
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| Hm...well, I wouldn't toss him out of the kitchen... |
[Apr. 12th, 2005|11:14 pm] |
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You are MING TSAI, host of "East Meets
West" and "Ming's Quest"! You
are one of the most celebrated avant-garde
asian-french fusion chefs in the world.
Combining your Asian roots with your studies in
France gives you a bold spirit, which helps you
take chances. Youre adventurous, free-spirited
and creative. Who cares if youre popular or
not? Youre doing what you want, in your own
way, and loving it!
Which Food Network Personality are you?
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I dunno about the avant-garde asian-french fusion thing...unless you interpret it broadly enough to mean I'll throw all sorts of things together and call it "dinner." *g* |
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| The where've you been? meme |
[Mar. 21st, 2005|02:48 pm] |
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| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Don't Fence Me In" - Cole Porter | ] |
Gacked from odogoddess
Meme instructions: bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C. /
Hm. Well, 13 out of 51 isn't too bad. Sadly, for some of them, all I've seen has been the inside of an airport and whatever showed through the windows, but still...
ETA: Make that 14 out of 51. As odogoddess pointed out, I forgot about Missouri. My bad. I shouldn't ought to forget Missouri, my grandmother was born there. |
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| Gone Through a Gate... |
[Mar. 17th, 2005|02:13 pm] |
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| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Drops of Jupiter" - Train | ] |
André Norton passed away this morning. She was 93.
There's a nice obit here.
I think André Norton was my first real exposure to science fiction. My grandfather was a huge Norton fan, and as a little kid, I could hardly wait until I was deemed old enough to read Grandpa's books (Without any pictures! Amazing! *smile*) He tried starting me off with Ice Crown, and I read it, but it really didn't hook me.
So the next one was Here Abide Monsters. Now that one...that one hooked me good. Probably because the main female character had a Pekingese, and there happened to be two of the imperious little mutts running our household at the time, but I loved the concept of people from different places and times falling through into a different world and having to learn to live together. And it taught me something about human nature, when I wanted to smack some of the characters for being so adamantly against anything unfamiliar and different about the world in which they found themselves.
Grandpa gave me Witch World to read, not long after that. I think I went through the whole Witch World series (or as much of it as had been written by then) in about a week. Possibly less. I think it was Summer, and I could stay up reading half the night if I wanted to. And then Forerunner, and The Crystal Gryphon, and Beastmaster, and the Time Traders books, and Octagon Magic and so many more.
I moved on to other authors and got my exposure to "heavier" fantasy and harder science fiction, but Norton was my first, and she was gentle and loving with me. She showed me the Gates into worlds uncharted, and I'll always be grateful.
I hope she and Grandpa have a marvelous time talking and visiting all her myriad worlds. |
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| Why they say "No news is good news" |
[Jan. 26th, 2005|10:24 pm] |
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| | worried | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Some song I only know two lines of, looping in my head... | ] |
Wow. Been a long time since I posted here, hasn't it? It only stands to reason that the only reason I'm getting around to it tonight is to pass on news that's not any fun at all. :-P
odogoddess is sick. She's been feeling kinda lousy since last week, then on Sunday she got a killer headache, body aches and other assorted goodies to go with it. Since she'd already scheduled an appointment for today (the soonest they'd had, when she called last week), she decided to tough it out until then.
Yeah, I know, I probably should have dragged her to the ER...but neither one of us was raised that way, and it's a hard decision to make. More on that philosophy in some other post.
So, anyway, we went to the Dr. this afternoon and the Dr. was unpleased, to say the least. She also gave us holy whatfor for not going to the ER, and said if odogoddess's oxygenation levels weren't up to snuff, she was going to send her there right away.
Well, they were okay...by .03.
So she had a breathing treatment and was given some sample meds and prescriptions and enjoined to get a chest x-ray first thing in the morning and then come back to the Dr. Herein fail not, at your peril. Or something like that. We both think she suspects pneumonia.
(I've had a dringk, just in case it shows...)
So.
So we got home and got her back to bed and fed and medicated and now she's trying to sleep. I called Aunt T and odogoddess's mom, just to keep them in the loop. And e-mailed my office I'd be out tomorrow. And fed the dog and fielded a follow-up call from the Dr, who wanted to be sure that if she got any worse we'd go to the ER. Yes, I promise!
And then I had a drink. Just one. I figured I was tired enough that two woudl knock me out. Which doesn't sound like such a bad idea, right now.
Lordy, I'm tired.
Anyway, more news as soon as it's available. odogoddess says "Hi!" and waves feebly from her bed of sickness to all her online friends, so if you care to pass it on to any of her-and-your mutual friends who won't see this, please feel free. And if you've got an extra erg of good intentions or prayers or reiki or whatever else that might be helpful, just lying around the house, taking up space and getting dusty and all...we'd certainly appreciate it.
Take care guys, I'm going to let the dog in and go sack out, myownself. |
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| Tired makes you cold... |
[Dec. 20th, 2004|10:19 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the hum of the computer fan | ] |
Well, that was really not the way I wanted us to spend the last weekend before Christmas.
We were invited to submit a Phase II bid for the project I'm managing at work, which was cause for much rejoicing, all around. The only catch was, we hadn't got the data we needed to make significant progress on Phase I yet, and we didn't get it until the second week of December.
The Phase II proposal is due today.
So the last couple of weeks have been...busy. And this weekend...ugh.
Here at work until 10:00pm Friday night, then more proposal work at home until the wee hours.
On Saturday, J came into the office with me around 2pm and we didn't leave (other than to go eat, occasionally) until nearly 6am Sunday.
Caught a few hours of sleep and headed back to work Sunday afternoon.
I finally finished the proposal around 6 this morning. We've been here all night and poor J is now sleeping in the car. I've just got to wait for one of my colleagues to get here, read the damned thing and give me any edits he comes up with, then we can submit the bloody thing and go HOME.
God, I'm tired. My fingers feel like ice, and when I walked down the hallway a bit ago, it was far closer to staggering than actual walking.
And I have almost all my Christmas shopping yet to do... |
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| Seriously in need of something or other... |
[Dec. 6th, 2004|05:07 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "The First Noel" | ] |
A stiff drink, possibly, or a swift kick in the rear.
I was miserably sick from last Wednesday through the weekend, trailing off to sinus annoyance on Sunday evening and now just a few leftover snurfles. My poor, beloved J looked after me and has now caught the foul plague herself. {{{J}}}
But now I have no energy. I have all sorts of stuff I need to do, both at work and at home, some time-critical and some downright urgent, and I have absolutely zero impetus to do any of it.
This is ridiculous! I mean, how can you have @#%^@#$% writer's block on a damned technical proposal? It's not as if it needs to be creative! :-P
:sigh:
I guess the cold took more out of me than I'd realized.
All I want to do is go home, have a bowl of the soup that's been simmering in the crockpot all day, curl up into a ball and ignore everything.
Mmmm...soup... |
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| I don't believe this. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|09:33 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | distressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Fallen" - Sarah McLachlan | ] |
I really can't believe it. Can it really be true that more than half of this country really thinks that sh*thead should be running things? Do they not hear the lies he's told? Do they not grasp the hate-filled, divisive agenda he has? Do they not see the terrible things he's done? Do they not count the lives he's squandered? Do they not understand how hated he has made us throughout the world? Do they not comprehend what further damage he still intends to do?
I can't believe it.
Is it better to believe that this result is due to massive vote-tampering and election fraud?
I don't know.
I don't want to believe that so many people could truly want that man to lead our country, particularly after these past few years. I don't want to believe that anyone could get away with rigging the election, either.
Today is the first day I've really actively wished we could afford to move to Canada.
And that may be the saddest thing of all. |
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| The Big Day Is Tomorrow! |
[Nov. 1st, 2004|06:50 pm] |
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| |  determined | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Let the River Run" - Carly Simon | ] |
Tomorrow is Election Day in the US. This is probably the most important election of our lifetimes, so, please, everyone - GET OUT THERE AND
Let your voice be heard! |
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| What Tarot Card Are You? |
[Sep. 21st, 2004|07:18 pm] |
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| | tired | ] |
Gacked from odogoddess
You are the Empress card. The Empress is the
archetype of the Mother. She creates and
nurtures life. She represents the abundance of
Mother Earth. The Empress is capable of using
nature in a productive way. She espouses art
for art's sake. Her planet is Venus, and she
embodies love of beauty and a strong value
system. Here is also found initial sensation.
This is the first really physical experience of
the world that The Fool has entered. The
Empress has a rich understanding of the world
based on her five senses. In a reading, The
Empress represents pregnancy, actual or
metaphorical. She indicates an act of creation
and a sensual experience of beauty. The Empress
is a nurturing force that wishes to see the
product of her experiences reach the next stage
of development.
Image from A Photographic Tarot
http://www.bluewitch.com/healingtarot/healtar.htm
Deck
Which Tarot Card Are You?
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| Adventures in Cookery |
[Sep. 20th, 2004|04:19 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hungry | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "You Send Me" - Sam Cooke | ] |
Well, we bought the concrete, but didn't get around to pouring it over the weekend, after all. I conked out in the middle of Sunday and what was supposed to be a 20 minute nap turned in to a two-and-a-half-hour siesta. Alas.
Still, we had a couple of interesting adventures in cooking, this past week. I can tell Autumn's around the corner; I'm wanting to cook, again...
( Couscous )
( Split Pea Soup ) |
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| Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go... |
[Sep. 16th, 2004|10:15 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "I'm Still Standing" - Elton John | ] |
So, the guy from DWP came out to inspect the new meter box, tree-trimming, and concrete work they'd required we do, and gave J the proverbial good news and bad news.
( The Good News )
( The Bad News )
It'd be nice if we could get everything finished up before Saturday; there are more than enough things I'd like us to be working on over the weekend, without adding a concrete pour to the list. |
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