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martin and bob and tom will appreciate this how to kill a mockingbird
oh, and bob, this site has videos!
edit 12:31 pm:// sorry, my typing caused that link to not work. it do now.
edit 12:53 pm:// i'm cleaning out old emails at work cuz have too many seems to make outlook run slowly. i found this awesome link: household cyclopedia circ. 1881
the long weekend went waay too fast. wednesday night was spent watching handsome daddy paxem at the crystal for a little bit (it got loud and crowded, so i had to skidattle prematurely). then i woke up thursday and knitted for a bit and commenced to make mushroom pesto lasagne (which i'll be having for lunch for the next week). friday was almost a normal routine. we went to la hacienda, as per usual, and then to best buy for the vacuum experience, and off to grocery shop. saturday was pretty regular. i just knitted and watched tv, then down to the tavern for some pool with kurt. sunday, we met mom and george at the Nauti Gal for brunch. it was pretty good once again! i love the make-your-own omelette bar. then kurt's mom came up and watched fahrenheit 9/11. omg, depressing. now i'm listening to wish you were here, to drown out the workdin.
again, the long weekend is going way too fast. but, i've been up since about 8:30 with sam.
i made a mouse from stitch n bitch nation for the ferrets. i don't know if they'll use it as a plaything, or take care of it like a baby. they have some favorite balls that they keep in their secret hidy place, so it might end up there. i started on the loopy chill pillow, too. i've had a 14" pillow form for over a year, waiting to be covered with something. luckily, the pattern calls for a form that size. the loops aren't hard to make, but i'm picturing my conch piercings getting caught in them if i actually use the pillow. oh well.
we tested out the dyson as soon as kurt got it all put together. it pulled up sand and grossness from the carpet right in front of the door. i can't wait to see the reservoir after kurt does the whole apartment. yicky!
no yarn yet.. but if they ship via usps, the mailman rarely gets here before 4.
had my first panic attack in over a month at woodman's just today. perhaps it was the mexican food mixed with the best buy crowd and then the grand finalé in the checkout line. i think the checker thought i was gunna pass out. he kept looking at me weirdly. or else he's seen me on friendster or something. i seem to be fine now, but i feel like someone popped me one in the stomach.
kurt and i got a dyson vacuum. their website is pretty cool. we get to hang out with sam tonight. he has new booties to keep the floors from getting yucky. i get to go try and put them on him now.
i forgot to tell you that i'll be off work starting around 4:30 until next monday. i hope my order from webs comes soon so i can work on the 6 pairs of bittens that people want.
workmate colin says i should write a book. i told him that my revocabularizations seem most effective when audible.. but i think i should keep a list of my word substitutes. maybe they'll be dictionaried some day.
college cheese n. (it'll make you smart!) cottage cheese
besidedown adj. anything that is sitting on its opposite end
tormado n. used to describe a twister, or the tornado room steakhouse
permater n. tomato, esp. when sliced, on a cold sandwich
pistashabos n. pistachio nuts
al desko adj. the practice of eating lunch at one's desk
commuter n. those newfangled contraptions on people's desks
nalgenes n. anything inside my (or others') nalgene bottle
non't v. a combination of "no" and "don't"
spendy adj. an expensive item, restaurant, or adventure
hairs cutty n. haircut
yarms n. yarn, plural
jigesting v. digesting
breffiss n. breakfast
i taught my friend judy how to cast on and she managed about 7 rows of the knit stitch before i sent her on her way. she's making a garter st scarf for herself. we were gunna start with something smaller, like a square, but she might not have been as motivated. :)
i also got this done while she was here:
it looks like a firecracker!
a while ago, i ordered some Griffin EarJams. these puppies attached to the factory iPod earbuds to increase bass and deliver improved sound. so, i ordered them mid-september.. the product page claimed they'd be shipping by the end of september. to make a long story short, they kept changing the ship date until, early nov, it said "now shipping". in the middle of all this, i emailed their customer service (which, by the way, is the opposite of those two words) asking if everything was still on track to ship end of sept cuz i couldn't wait to hear them! the only response i got was "yes." so i wait and wait until it says "now shipping!" so i emailed them again. "did you lose my order? just checking." no response. until 3 days after that, my card was charged and 2 days after that, they arrive.
they're shite. if you know anyone who thinks they want to support one more of griffin's stupid iPodified products, tell them to go buy some sony in-ear phones.
i don't lie about knitting. these don't look fabulous, but they're the answer to my winter work problems. i already have orders for 5 pairs.
i'm also working on using up the rest of the orange by making a cabled heaband:
i feel like i've got the knitting bug back again. i was sure i had lost it over the summer. with no desire to knit, no inspiration for stash-busting, and the desire to be outside sure put a damper in my knitspirits. well, yesterday i ordered yarn, and got my two new books from amazon; stitch n bitch nation and last-minute knitted gifts. there are some cutie projects in both of these books. i'm excited about the instructions that debbie stoller added to the front of her book because i have a sweater that's falling to pieces and i'd like to "reproduce" it, but since it's machine made i'll have to substitute everything from yarn to needle to size to result. i'm excited to do it. maybe mid-winter, after i get back into the knitswing.
i just found the worst piece of consumerism. the brand is moo roo. note the product name and price.
i made some fingerless mittens (i was too lazy to do fingerless gloves..) so i ordered about 10 skeins of lamb's pride worsted to make more for friends for the cold months ahead. pics to come when i get home!
i just had my first cigarette of the day, and it wasn't wholly satisfying. i feel like i'm just about ready to quit.
i'm feisty today. i need to watch what i email so's it doesn't come back to bite me. i am also cursing people outloud where they might hear me. i will not do that anymore, too.
after stumbling upon this very helpful site, i found a script to close comments on a non-mySQL server with mt 2.6. so! i think i might have them beat.
i'll stop talking about it as soon as i figure out a good way to deal with it. between leaving work at 1 and getting home from errands at 5:30, i got hit with about 10 spams. i've tried mt-blacklist, but my server seems to choke on the sheer size of the blacklist file, so i can't actually delete and rebuild my entries. i've also been adding the ip addresses to the banned list in mt, but they're obviously faked and random, cuz the activity log has never stated that a comment was blocked. so, as i have to go back into every entry that gets spammed, i just close the comments on that particular entry. they seem to target a select group of entries, so i'll get them all closed eventually. then i'll go back each week or two and close the ones from previous weeks; no one reads my blog all the way back anyhow. except me. :)
colin followed me home last night with his radio station tuned to 91.5 wbke. he and i both enjoyed the tuneskis of jack white.
in case anyone was wondering, i've been panic attack free since about the first weekend of october. the bee pollen, even if psychosomatic, works well. it's not even expensive. i can get 2 months worth at the coop for about $3. this leads me to believe that it was work related, since things have settled down, for the most part. however, next year is looking more like this year; so i have to prepare for that.
something's wrong with me. you know how your mouth feels all salivatey when you're going to throw up? mine's doing that, but i don't feel nauseous.
sorry the blog's been so lame lately. i wonder if it's run its course? nah. i'm just boring around the time changes. and i wake up at weird times. i've been playing a /lot/ of sims. actually, yesterday, i probably played at least 6 hours of it. i finished the clapotis last weekend.
work's going okay. we're in the midst of planning for next year, which means a lot of meetings about projects that aren't really scoped, trying to guess how many more people (or hours) we might need to get each project done. not a lot of it is really out-sourceable, considering the size of some of them. i guess it's job security; which is never really an issue for me. i'm malleable at work. i'm working on clearing out my stash. everything is pretty hidden by the couch, so it's not as much of an eyesore. i'm doing a cord-pull closing bag that i'll probably felt. unless it's superwash wool. i should make sure before i get my heart set on felting it. we attended our annual lutefisk dinner on saturday, in barneveld. the comment was made that i'm the only grandchild who attends anymore.. i like our little outing. it's not a huge family thing where it's hard to get everyone together. i'm gunna go try to fall back to sleep.
that's about it.
i've been so boring lately. work's been kinda up and down, and things were a bit crazy at home. i'm meeting with someone about doing a website after work today, hopefully we'll get done with enough time for me to get home and watch the election results all night.
