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| Crafty Craftison. |
[09 Nov 2009|03:57pm] |
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I kind of want to learn how to knit.
That is all.
Actually, wait, that's not all. I'm incredibly irritated at the fact that the clay heads I made are too heavy for the clay bodies and therefore I will have to start all over again making the heads lighter by using a paper ball as the base. Problem with this, outside of the time already wasted, is that the first redo I did didn't look nearly as good as the original so now I fear that I have the same "cannot duplicate" problem with clay as I do with drawing. Bugger.
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| Horsies! |
[09 Nov 2009|12:42pm] |
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While going through boxes that had lived 15 years in our rafters, we found the other half of my vintage Breyer horse collection! Yah!
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[09 Nov 2009|10:15am] |
My sister and I chatted for an hour last night. I hate talking on the phone, but I love my sister. I have the best sisters EVA!
She is going to Germany soon and she had originally planned to hit a weekend in Paris on the way home, but decided she didn't want to tour the city on her own. I'm kicking myself, I should have gone with her. :D
We talked about her future plans and she does have another trip to Germany next fall. I'm going to show up at the end of her trip and we're going to spend an extra week touring some of the continent for her 40th birthday.
Wow... Middle sister is 40. And I promised her no black balloons.
So we might hit Italy, or maybe Greece. Either way, I'm good. I suggested only hanging out in two cities/towns/villages. Maybe one city and one tiny village. I love hitting those smaller towns in Europe and just getting to know the place.
So... Next year is Japan and Europe. I'll be strapped for cash... imagine that. My financial consultant (aka NK) is going to kick my butt.
  
If my blue stripe genders correctly, my blue stripe egg is up for grabs if anyone wants it.
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| Amazon time again! |
[09 Nov 2009|04:32am] |
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I finally spent the gift card that mom, Keegan, and Karina sent for my birthday. I know you're all dying to know what they got me. Well, what their money bought. Whatever... First off, I used it to buy Brian's Christmas presents. Hey, why not. Between them and Brian I have $125 worth of gift cards. I have about 5 or 6 books lined up already. I always want more more more books, of course. But sharing is nice. And, well, Brian already told me that really all he could think of for me to get him were the two Avatar books. Easy. Done. He's getting James Cameron's Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook and The Art of Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Adventure . I was tempted to get him James Cameron's Avatar: The Reusable Sticker Book to be funny, but I decided it wasn't THAT funny. I might still order it before Christmas though... Because even though it's not funny, he'd probably actually sit there playing with the stickers. Seriously. Don't worry, I wasn't gonna spend all of my birthday money on Brian! No No. I ordered myself some things from my wishlist. To add onto my to read pile -- Beautiful Creatures , Tempest Rising (Jane True) , and Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate) . And Brian wonders why I've decided that perhaps I need a Kindle for Christmas :p He never orders books and thinks sometimes that ever he wants one. HA! I keep Amazon in business. Time to re-organize my bookshelf again maybe... I think I really am out of room probably. Also, I still have Brian's birthday gift card left to spend. Oh how I love Amazon. My only real shopping addiction. They're ev0l and good both.
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| Yet another random entry. |
[08 Nov 2009|04:46am] |
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Actual conversation we just had:
Brian: You know I love you and shit
Me: You love shit?
Brian: And you.
*insert my raised eyebrow wtf? look here*
Brian: Hey you got top billing.
*insert same look here again*
Brian: You know you give me that look a lot when I speak. Indeed I do.
Random thoughts:
In this OMFG Obama is a 'Kenyan Socialist Nazi Terrorist-loving threat to freedom' world, 1 Republican voting on anything that Democrats support is bi-partisan. So The House did indeed pass a bi-partisan health care bill. I'm still against mandates. But it's nice to see the parties finally working together. Now we know who will be the next person to be kicked out of the big tent that is the Republican party. ;) The daughter of one of the victims of Fort Hood is calling for everyone to not blame Muslims. She says, basically, that this was just a man with issues. Not a group of men. Not a Muslim. But a man. Bravo to her for being one of the few voices of reason. A victim. One of the only people with true reason to be angry. And she is wise enough to see things for what they are while others are not, even through her own pain. My CC is back! I missed him. This will mean nothing to any of you. I'm just glad. I've not talked to him in ages. 11,551 words so far. I'm almost caught up to where I want to be, even if it means lots of re-writes later. It could be worse. Way worse. Could be way way better too. Poor Ivel does not like having his world rushed. I feel like hell. Didn't go pick up meds today. Put it off til tomorrow. Woke up feeling like I had been hit by a truck. Muscle aches etc. Brian said he didn't do it. Head is all stuffy. Thought I had a fever but then it went away if I did. I need sleep. zzzzzzzz.
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| Update |
[08 Nov 2009|08:53am] |
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My grandma died this morning, peacefully as far as we can tell. My mum and uncle got the "get down here NOW and say your goodbyes" call at about half seven. I sat with her for about an hour last night, chatting aimlessly about knitting and sewing (she did a lot of knitting, and I've got a bunch of beautiful embroidered dresses she made for me when I was little), and getting weird looks from the other visitors and sympathetic ones from the nurses.
Dunno if I'll get around to responding individually, so I want to thank everyone for their kind and thoughtful comments on my last post. I mean it. They help.
I'm going to go to work now. Hanging out with a bunch of animals is good when you're trying to sort out your feelings. They don't demand much of you barring food and non-predatory body-language.
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| Word count + nn world |
[07 Nov 2009|05:55am] |
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NaNoWriMo update: 10,124 words so far. I skipped a day, or was it two? Plus I did some minor tweaking. No, no major editing -- I know I'm still supposed to have crap. Just a little tweaking as I had screwed up a bit so bad, I had to fix it enough to be able to keep writing the crap even ;) I'm sure when I finish this my main character will be happy to know I'll re-write his world -- probably next year. After I finish holiday stuff anyway. Me update: I'm almost expecting to experience Night Twitches soon, aka Myoclonic Jerks. I don't usually attempt to predict these as they happen so rarely. But, I've actually had something similar happen a few times while awake the last two days now. So, I'd say it's a good bet they're coming for me -- soon. I'm overdue for them anyway. They suck. But I've not had them much since on the higher doses of anti-seizure pills either. So, maybe I am wrong. Maybe the similar things I experienced while awake made up for the falling asleep ones I've not had happen in ages. *nods* Speaking of sleep. I feel so sleepy that I could fall asleep right here, right n
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| Stewart does Beck |
[07 Nov 2009|01:39am] |
Mom had sent me a link to this video, with a simple sentence "You are going to laugh". Oh, she knows me. Except I'd already seen it as it aired the other night.
Thanks to mom I grew up around hospitals. Nursing homes. Etc. I can't help but think of one thing. Oh how I hope that Glenn Bleck is an actor. Or isn't. Oh which to hope for? If he's as nutty and whiny in person as he is on his show? See I've had bad bad bad experiences in the medical system. But here's the thing -- the biggest douchebags are in administration. The second biggest douchebags are over-egotistical doctors. But the people down in the trenches who will actually take care of you? They're almost all good people. Unless YOU are a douchebag. Then they'll make your life hell. Trust me, a lot of hospital staff are going to be liberal types who want the system to change. Let him start ranting to them. Fun fun. Perhaps they can drug him real good. People say fun stuff when they go into surgery, I hear. Hospital staff used to like to talk about that. I bet they'll be talking about him for years to come.
Me? Believe it or not I mean it when I say I use my blog to vent all of my MS rants etc. I was an ideal patient. The nurses would ask me and mom if I knew that I could ask for stuff. I really only whine about how much pain and stuff I have on here. I'm TOO good of a patient, I never complain. It's probably my biggest downfall actually.
At least we know they can call on Jon Stewart to fill in for Glenn Beck.
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| Racism fail. |
[06 Nov 2009|10:49pm] |
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So I'm working on homework and the discussion board question for the week is on racism. It asks if racism is still prevalent in America. So I write my piece and then go on to look at some of the other threads, and come across these gem:
Racial tension between black and whites is becoming more prominent by the day in certain areas, and some of them aren't too far away. I personally worked at xxxxx mall for a year and saw some of the most extreme racism i have ever seen. It seemed like some people went out of their way just to be racist, and i don't just mean towards black people. I worked at Gamestop and I was referred to as a "White piece of (expletive)" because i could not take in someone's obviously stolen Xbox 360. It had nothing to do with the customers race, i simply wasn't going to accept that console.
Really? Really? You're calling a black person racist for calling you a "White piece of shit" and then in the same breath stating that they were trying to return "obviously" stolen equipment? Had he stated how he knew for certain it was stolen that would be one thing, but as it is...yeah...you're missing the point, dude.
The stereotype the blondes are dumb and Asians are intelligent might give a job to a fairly qualified Asian person over a highly qualified white Caucasian woman.
Wow, that is actually a whole new twist on the "Affirmative Action hurts whites!" argument.
My grandfather came here from Italy when he was a boy, he always said; There are White Niggers, and there are Black Niggers. What does Nigger mean? Most people think it means a dirty black person. The word actually mean: A person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc. (dictionary.com).
Except for the fact that white people aren't called the N word unless it is likening them to a black person as an insult.
This is still a problem; because, the main reason, and I am not judging; but, In America, and other parts of the world, such Calgary, we are Worldly, instead of Godly. Look what Jesus went thru (sic) so many years ago, he was put thru (sic)crucifixion of the worse kind; he died for our sins, so we may have a better life, and how to we pay God back, by being mean, selfish, and being rasist (sic) with everything that is not our way, or the way we think
Jesus? Really? Granted his point is about how we treat other people in the world, but saying "Look at what Jesus went through!" in a conversation about racism when he was killed by his own people and not because of being another race, but for his ideals makes no sense in context.
*headdesk*
...Does anyone else see what's wrong with these statements? Evan assures me that there has to be some way to respond and explain to my fellow students where they are going wrong with their analogies without calling them idiots, but I'm not so sure...I kind of just want to like an explanation of white privilege to every one of them but I know it will probably do no good.
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| And because bad luck, like vomit, arrives in messy chunks... |
[06 Nov 2009|11:28pm] |
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My grandmother was admitted to hospital yesterday. Sudden general deterioration and difficulty breathing. She's 91 and, given her general health (most elderly people in her circumstances apparently die within a year, and she's lasted several), pretty much on borrowed time anyway. She hasn't regained consciousness, and my mother said the doctors said if she was likely to, she would've by now.
I had a bit of a cry when I went to visit her today. We weren't exactly close. Recently she hasn't been recognising me, even to yell at me about my haircut. We had to move her into a home a few years back. But you know. She's my mother's mother, and she's always been around. She's got a hell of a lot more frail in the past ten years, though. Now she looks like when an animal goes downhill suddenly at the end of its life.
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| Update |
[05 Nov 2009|06:20pm] |
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Live Army press conference -- the suspected shooter was not killed, he was shot and is in custody and in stable condition. But the name that had been released was correct. I'm sure he wishes he'd been killed or he will...
No reason to believe terrorism the motivation.
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| Fort Hood... |
[05 Nov 2009|04:45pm] |
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So I slept for 10 hours, not too bad given I'd not slept for a day. I come downstairs and do my wake up routine -- turn on the tv which had been set to MSNBC before sleep, head to the kitchen to pour myself a cup of chocolate soy milk mixed with iced coffee, head to the bathroom to grab an anti-seizure pill, and plop down on the couch to see what the news is. Breaking news -- a press conference. Now in this day and age, EVERYTHING is BREAKING NEWS with red text. But, no this IS breaking news. 40 some people shot at Fort Hood. *blink* What? How? Huh? MSNBC is saying that there are possibly three involved but they've gotten the name of one, he'd been a Major, and oh, hell... an Arab sounding name. Well, I'll do what I never do, I'll find FOX News. Surely that will be fun. The guide says that Glenn Beck is on. Doubly fun. Except that Shepard Smith was on air. If anyone on that channel is actually "Fair and Balanced" it is him. He was saying they'd just gotten the shooter's name and unlike the other networks he was not going to release it until the Army released it officially. *blink* Go Shep. He would say that he had been told that the man was an Army Major who didn't want to go to war, because Kay Bailey Hutchinson confirmed that to him on air. If Shepard is ever let go from Fox, I'd not mind seeing him on MSNBC. He's good. So an Army Major psychiatrist shoots 40 some people with handguns on the biggest Army Base we have (or one of the biggest -- is it the biggest? I think it is). Good advertisement for guns. War. Etc. Apparently he didn't want to go war. He was one of the people that the ones going to war and coming home from war talked to. The reports are that he dealt with many PTSD patients. And then we tell him it's his turn. And this is what happens. I hope that the victims who are wounded heal quickly. I hope the families of the dead get the support they need. The man who did it, he was a murderer and a coward. If he wanted out, he should have only taken himself. But, I can't say that I'm surprised that someone like him would snap. Even doctors are human. Do we really think it's wise to sit someone down back here at home with people who are telling them horrific stories of war day after day after day after day and then announce hey buddy, time for you to go over there? I'm fairly certain that it's actually not uncommon for people like psychiatrists to counsel one another -- because of the things THEY take on in their jobs. What a tragedy all the way around. For someone who was devoted to helping people to take such a turn. For all of those lives to be lost. Sad, sad, sad.
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