A random post of randomness
Apr. 26th, 2007 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wahleeI've been meaning to writeup my California trip, but I haven't yet uploaded my pictures (can't find my cord again, dangit), so I'm still putting it off. In the meantime, here's a few random thoughts that have filtered through my mind lately:
Heroes rocks. NBC especially rocks for doing a marthon on Saturday night, showing the exact three episodes I'd missed, thereby enabling me to be completely caught up for the return from hiatus on Monday. YAY! (Although must admit that I was rather glad that I only had 2 days instead of several weeks in which to hang off the edge of that cliff.)
It's so nice to see Luke and Lorelai bickering on Gilmore Girls again. Fills my soul with glee, as it were. And Paris continues to crack me up.
There's been a commercial on the radio station I listen to on the way to and from work (gotta love the traffic and weather together on the 9s!) that reminded me of one of my pet peeves: the phrase is "Grand Re-Opening," not "Re-Grand Opening." GAH! And sometimes the Utah accent really, really gets to me. It's a really big sale, not a really big sell. Sheesh. (It's even worse when this pronunciation variant ends up working its way into print, and people actually say "It's on sell!" in their newspaper ads.)
I'm half done with the center panel of the "rectange with diamond pattern" shawl from Victorian Lace Today, and I'm loving lace. Only 12 more 10-row repeats, and I get to figure out how to knit on the edging. Yay! Once I'm done with that, I'm going to start on the "shoulder shawl in cherry-leaf pattern" in 100% silk yarn that I bought on eBay from India for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
susy_gwen's wedding present. Then I've got to make Gryffindor and Slytherin sweaters and scarves for my nephew and niece (respectively) and finish thelittletwin's Hufflepuff scarf before July. :P I love knitting.
Found a blast from the past as I was getting hot chocolate at 7-11 on my way to work today: Hostess Chocolate Pudding Pies. Yum!! Although as I ate it, I found myself longing for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle vanilla pudding pies (with lime-green glaze) that they had when I was younger. Wish they'd bring those back.
I haven't been doing Weight Watchers for the past few weeks, as you might guess from the above post. :P
Those of you who love Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and New Moon should try reading The Goose Girl and other novels by Shannon Hale. They're even better, IMO. The Princess Academy was even a Newbery Honor Book.
Speaking of books, I picked up L.M. Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard last night to fall asleep with. I don't care that Kilmeny is one of the Sueiest Mary Sues that ever lived, or that Eric is one of the Stuiest Stus (his initial description is "Eric Marshall, tall, broad-shouldered, sinewy, walking with a free, easy stride, which was somehow suggestive of reserve strength and power, was one of those men regarding whom less-favoured mortals are tempted seriously to wonder why all the gifts of fortune should be showered on one individual." Yeah. . . ). I don't care that the storyline is sacharrine, predictable, and absolutely soaked with Deus ex machina. I still adore this book. Is it possible for a story to be wonderful if it has a crummy plot but gorgeous language? 'Cause that's what Kilmeny is.
In case you didn't get the oblique reference in my last post, my part-time receptionist job has become a full-time (with benefits after 90 days!) receptionist job. The other gal they hired at the same time as me got a full-time job, and they decided that the convenience of not having to cover lunches for the receptionist was outweighed by the inconvenience of having to repeat the same information twice, so they offered me the job full-time instead of hiring someone new. Plus, they love me here. :P So, yeah. It's been good thus far, now that I've adjusted to getting up at 6:30 every morning again. I'm spending insane amounts of time online (because as long as I'm here to answer the phone, they don't care what I do to occupy my time), but somehow I still don't post. Must do something about this.
My thesis is still stuck. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a literary equivalent of dynamite, to get it un-stuck.
My family is heading out on Monday for a week-long trip to upstate New York. We're mostly going to visit Palmyra, where the LDS church was founded, but we're also going to hit Niagra Falls and Buffalo. My sister-in-law's dad has a cabin on Lake Seneca that he's renting out this summer, and he said he'd let us stay for free. :) It's my whole family, married couples and babies and even my grandma included. So excited.
I'm almost done with the .pdf version of HarryPotterSeven.com. I've put 80+ hours into it so far. Now I'm scared that no one will download it.
I think I'm going to get a salad for lunch. After the hot chocolate and the pudding pie, I'm feeling a bit heavy. Now, to get it from Wendy's, or Rumbi? *ponders*
Heroes rocks. NBC especially rocks for doing a marthon on Saturday night, showing the exact three episodes I'd missed, thereby enabling me to be completely caught up for the return from hiatus on Monday. YAY! (Although must admit that I was rather glad that I only had 2 days instead of several weeks in which to hang off the edge of that cliff.)
It's so nice to see Luke and Lorelai bickering on Gilmore Girls again. Fills my soul with glee, as it were. And Paris continues to crack me up.
There's been a commercial on the radio station I listen to on the way to and from work (gotta love the traffic and weather together on the 9s!) that reminded me of one of my pet peeves: the phrase is "Grand Re-Opening," not "Re-Grand Opening." GAH! And sometimes the Utah accent really, really gets to me. It's a really big sale, not a really big sell. Sheesh. (It's even worse when this pronunciation variant ends up working its way into print, and people actually say "It's on sell!" in their newspaper ads.)
I'm half done with the center panel of the "rectange with diamond pattern" shawl from Victorian Lace Today, and I'm loving lace. Only 12 more 10-row repeats, and I get to figure out how to knit on the edging. Yay! Once I'm done with that, I'm going to start on the "shoulder shawl in cherry-leaf pattern" in 100% silk yarn that I bought on eBay from India for
susy_gwen's wedding present. Then I've got to make Gryffindor and Slytherin sweaters and scarves for my nephew and niece (respectively) and finish thelittletwin's Hufflepuff scarf before July. :P I love knitting.Found a blast from the past as I was getting hot chocolate at 7-11 on my way to work today: Hostess Chocolate Pudding Pies. Yum!! Although as I ate it, I found myself longing for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle vanilla pudding pies (with lime-green glaze) that they had when I was younger. Wish they'd bring those back.
I haven't been doing Weight Watchers for the past few weeks, as you might guess from the above post. :P
Those of you who love Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and New Moon should try reading The Goose Girl and other novels by Shannon Hale. They're even better, IMO. The Princess Academy was even a Newbery Honor Book.
Speaking of books, I picked up L.M. Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard last night to fall asleep with. I don't care that Kilmeny is one of the Sueiest Mary Sues that ever lived, or that Eric is one of the Stuiest Stus (his initial description is "Eric Marshall, tall, broad-shouldered, sinewy, walking with a free, easy stride, which was somehow suggestive of reserve strength and power, was one of those men regarding whom less-favoured mortals are tempted seriously to wonder why all the gifts of fortune should be showered on one individual." Yeah. . . ). I don't care that the storyline is sacharrine, predictable, and absolutely soaked with Deus ex machina. I still adore this book. Is it possible for a story to be wonderful if it has a crummy plot but gorgeous language? 'Cause that's what Kilmeny is.
In case you didn't get the oblique reference in my last post, my part-time receptionist job has become a full-time (with benefits after 90 days!) receptionist job. The other gal they hired at the same time as me got a full-time job, and they decided that the convenience of not having to cover lunches for the receptionist was outweighed by the inconvenience of having to repeat the same information twice, so they offered me the job full-time instead of hiring someone new. Plus, they love me here. :P So, yeah. It's been good thus far, now that I've adjusted to getting up at 6:30 every morning again. I'm spending insane amounts of time online (because as long as I'm here to answer the phone, they don't care what I do to occupy my time), but somehow I still don't post. Must do something about this.
My thesis is still stuck. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a literary equivalent of dynamite, to get it un-stuck.
My family is heading out on Monday for a week-long trip to upstate New York. We're mostly going to visit Palmyra, where the LDS church was founded, but we're also going to hit Niagra Falls and Buffalo. My sister-in-law's dad has a cabin on Lake Seneca that he's renting out this summer, and he said he'd let us stay for free. :) It's my whole family, married couples and babies and even my grandma included. So excited.
I'm almost done with the .pdf version of HarryPotterSeven.com. I've put 80+ hours into it so far. Now I'm scared that no one will download it.
I think I'm going to get a salad for lunch. After the hot chocolate and the pudding pie, I'm feeling a bit heavy. Now, to get it from Wendy's, or Rumbi? *ponders*
