| The first lawnmowing of 2009 |
[May. 29th, 2009|12:45 am] |
One of the mowers has been fixed! I mowed my lawn for the first time this year! (other people were mowing it in the meantime, but NOW I AM IN CONTROL OF MY OWN YARDWORK DESTINY!)
Other notes: "Glee" - VERY excited.
Memorial Day Weekend Family Trip: Very fun. Lots of driving, slight backache thanks to all the time in the car, but worth it. My Great Aunt Elizabeth is totally awesome, and I got to see her twice.
Parents are back from Malaysia (and the Philippines...and China...and Bali) and they had an awesome time.
Yay! |
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| you know that one guy? |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
The one I rant about? The one I wish I could erase from my personal history because I'm so embarrassed that I thought he was a good idea? He's up for a major award! The normal human person in me wants to congratulate him, but he's never been able to get that my communicating with him does not mean that I want to sleep with him, so I guess I'm just going to go "Huh! Well, that's surprising, but good for him."
Congratulations, dude! I'm something akin to proud of you, but still not interested in sexin' you up ever, ever again.
Hooray! |
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[Mar. 29th, 2009|04:24 pm] |
Is it weird that I really like the free credit report band? I think their songs are cute! It's almost like a Magnetic Stripes album. "20 songs about the importance of credit reports!" I would buy that album. Well, I would *listen* to that album. Probably repeatedly!
We had our last (please) winter burst yesterday. As is typical in Kansas City, there's always some snow or ice storm (or combination) that pops up out of nowhere after weeks of lovely spring weather. We got five inches of snow or something like that - it snowed for six hours. One of my neighbors (not the OCD lawnmower, either) turned on his driveway lights and shoveled his driveway around 9 PM last night. I decided that I had a bus pass and didn't need to bother clearing my driveway. As of 3 PM today, it had mostly cleared itself! It's really, really nice out, with water everywhere, clear skies, grass poking up from the snow on the lawns. I *should* go walk around, but I'm having a very lazy weekend, with most of my time spent lying on the couch and watching television.
I don't usually cook (I don't often feel the need to cook) but sometimes it makes the house feel much nicer when there's something on the stove. Is that weird? My parents have left for Malaysia, so I went through the cupboards and freezer to see what I had to work with. Not much! I made rice with ginger, garlic, shallots, then added in some ground pork, peas and broccoli. It's pretty great. Basic, but the house smells like dinner. (I make everything I can make in the rice cooker. I'm lazy. I cooked the pork and vegetables on the stove, but the rice and the rest were tossed into the rice cooker and that was that. Didn't have any white wine on hand or I would have used that too. Oh well)
So: TV! Snow! Minimalist cooking! |
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| weeeekend! snooooow! |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|09:30 pm] |
It snowed for most of the day today. It made the 5 AM drive to the airport trickier than usual, but I don't mind driving in snow (when it's a front wheel drive car...driving the Solstice in the snow is such a bad idea I don't even bother with it anymore. I take the bus whenever possible). I hate being around other drivers in bad weather because this is Kansas City and people get very nervous in the snow, which makes them drive erratically, which makes me nervous in turn. Nervous driving is bad driving.
Later, I walked to the drug store in the snow, picked up "Stardust" (used movies at Blockbuster!), walked around the mall with my parents, and took a much needed nap. I'm going to take it easy tonight and tomorrow. Over the last week, I've played lots of video games. I made it through Green Grass and High Tides on bass on Hard AND I *totally* made it through Cliffs of Dover on Hard! IT WAS AWESOME.
Things are good. I should shovel my driveway, but I'll get to it.
"Things are good" is kind of an understatement. Things are awesome.
Things I've been watching:
"Fired Up" - I love me some cheerleader movies, and this one was really entertaining.
Burn Notice
NCIS
BSG (HOLY CRAP, YOU GUYS...My Season 3 dvds showed up this week too, so I know what I'll be doing tomorrow!)
Things I've been playing:
Street Fighter IV (Rufus is shockingly effective, though far too jiggly)
Lumines (every bit as good as I'd heard)
Prinny (cute, potentially annoying but we'll see)
Left 4 Dead
Things I've been eating:
Green Turkey Sandwich from Planet Sub (the only other sub I get from there aside from the tuna melt)
BBQ Sundae from BB's (favorite thing from any BBQ place ever!)
Delmonico from Capital Grill (ordered the lobster mac and cheese but DID NOT GET TO EAT IT BECAUSE I HAD 22 oz. OF STEAK IN ME. I'm still irritated. It looked so good...) |
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| Oscars' musical numbers |
[Feb. 22nd, 2009|08:54 pm] |
I love Hugh Jackman in song-and-dance mode more than anyone, but WTF. PLEASE STOP.
What I'm trying to say is the musical montages only work if they're good. This is *not* good. It is aggressively not good. It is so bad it may ruin musicals for me, much like the Star Wars prequels ruined Star Wars TOS for me, and the Matrix sequels ruined The Matrix.
(just kidding, musicals. I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU) |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2009|07:59 pm] |
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Dustin Lance Black's Oscar speech made me cry. No kidding. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2009|09:53 pm] |
I suggest that you go and listen to Alphabeat RIGHT THIS INSTANT. It is really excellent pop. Usually when I find a new band to listen to, there's something slightly horrifying about it (Lordi, anyone?) but this one is just delightful.
Things have been going well. There have been various stressful things, as there always are, but overall, I can't complain. |
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| It was bound to happen eventually |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|04:34 pm] |
I totally deleted my MySpace account today. Why? Well, even the most douche-y blogs refused to link to TMZ photos of a battered woman. A good thing, yes? I don't want to support blogs that sensationalize this or put the spotlight even more firmly on the person who was assaulted. MySpace? MYSPACE HAD THE PHOTO ON ITS FUCKING LOGIN PAGE.
Fuck you, MySpace. I'll see you in hell. |
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| holiday holiday holiday |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|07:27 pm] |
It was certainly a Christmas! I did some very minimal decorating (mantle full of Christmas candles!) and drank hot cider and ate duck. I also got a book and a heated mattress pad. These things made me happy. I have to wait until Sunday to open my birthday present.
This year, we ordered all family presents from Amazon in one big batch. This means that we all knew *exactly* what we were getting, and I actually picked out my own presents and my parents wrote me a check. Then, today, we opened the box from Amazon and got our stuff. It was very cute. |
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| NOOO! |
[Dec. 9th, 2008|08:08 pm] |
I laughed at a GEICO commercial today.
VERY, VERY SAD. |
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| TV! |
[Dec. 7th, 2008|10:20 pm] |
I want to watch this "Shatner's Raw Nerve" show, bu I don't have that particular station. Perhaps the internet can help me? I don't actually care enough to look this up.
Things are going well. The house is fine, the job is fine (we have a fitness center in the new building! I've started working out again, which is nice), taking the bus to work continues to be cool - sometimes I nap on the bus! Is this a terrible idea? Not yet!
Mom baked cookies and brownies on Saturday, which was neat because I woke up and the house smelled like chocolate.
I got the new Britney Spears album, Circus (of course I did). It's not as good as Blackout, and, from a musical standpoint, sounds like tracks that they didn't *include* on Blackout. The lyrics are obviously from after the meltdown. I still like it, though, and I'm going to listen to it while jogging on the treadmill. I get really, really bored on treadmills. I can jog for an hour if I'm outside with no problem, but on a treadmill, fifteen minutes is a challenge. SO BORING. Music helps. There are televisions all over the fitness center, but I don't like watching TV while I run.
I've blogged a lot more than I remembered since August! |
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| whew |
[Nov. 8th, 2008|01:53 pm] |
My parents are getting back from their 2-month road trip on Tuesday, so I've been cleaning the house, and catching up on laundry. Having a washer and dryer in the basement continues to be amazing.
I've been sick since Wednesday but I'm starting to feel better. I'm trying that whole "feed a cold, take lots of Vitamin C" thing, which seems to be working.
I've also been cooking in the laziest way possible - mostly I put a bunch of things into the rice cooker and turn it on and hope for the best. It takes about 5 minutes of effort and the result closely resembles the sticky rice you can get at Chinese restaurants. Of course, you often have to add more water and re-cook until the consistency is correct.
What I made this week:
Rice with Chinese mushrooms and Chinese sausage, a splash of white wine, oyster sauce, sesame oil and soy sauce. I literally threw everything into the rice cooker and cooked (and added liquid and continued to cook) until it was done. It's really good. If you start with glutinous rice, it's even better, but I didn't have any in the house. |
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| Things that make me go "ew" |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|10:00 pm] |
Toby Keith's "Beer For My Horses" (damn you, Eckert!).
The comment section on this: http://jezebel.com/5075140/suze-orman-says-couples-should-keep-accounts-separate
and the fact that the person writing the article can't see how this makes a ton of sense, but mostly the comment section. It...as many things have before...makes me want to stop reading Jezebel because it seems to be populated by fiscally irresponsible, lying teenagers. "Waaa! Why won't he marry me and let me DRAG HIS CREDIT DOWN TO MY LEVEL!? SO UNFAIR! I guess I'll just continue lying to my fiance about my debt!"
WTF. |
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| Halloween Haunt |
[Oct. 18th, 2008|04:08 pm] |
Cori and I went to Worlds of Fun on Friday and rode the HELL out of those roller coasters! The best part of Halloween Haunt is the fact that all the kids get distracted by the spookiness, so the coaster ride lines are super short. We were there for almost five hours, and it was awesome. I also had a Cinnabon for the first (and last) time ever. It was a very disturbing/delicious-but-in-an-immediate-regret-inducing-way experience. I now know what I've been missing. Never again! There was a very long funnel cake line, or I would have gotten one of those instead.
It's definitely Fall. My lawn hasn't been mowed in weeks and still looks acceptable (aside from the dandelions - you know, their root systems help aerate the lawn! My lawn is great! Can I start a grassroots campaign for dandelion acceptance, or would that be shallow?).
Now I'm watching a "Bring it On" sequel marathon. I love cheerleading movies because I support any medium in which spontaneous public dancing is a legitimate means to solve conflict.
I'm headed to New Orleans on Tuesday, and I can't wait. My weekend, aside from today's laziness parade (which will eventually become super busy, what with pizza party tonight (to celebrate my friend Morgan's running a marathon today!), brunch party tomorrow, then six hours of cosmic board games, then Foo's Fabulous Frozen Custard, then much-needed massage on Monday!
"If you want respect that badly, just be a bitch!" Thank you, cheerleading movies! I shall take your eternal lessons to heart! |
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| UGH |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|12:50 pm] |
Cannot read Ctrl+Alt+Del anymore. The comic is too annoying. The characters are all too insane. I can't even get into why - it's just maddening. Hooray! One less thing to read!
I got my first HPV vaccine shot today. My arm is still functioning normally. This is a good thing. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2008|12:02 am] |
I slept until 3 PM today. It was awesome. Then I spent most of the afternoon on the couch, watching television. I had just about convinced myself that I didn't need to mow the lawn or do laundry, despite the fact that I hadn't mowed in *weeks* and the laundry was getting out of control, then I got weirdly motivated around 6 PM and ended up doing both. The lawn looks much, much better. It actually looks really good. It will continue to look good until the dandelions start sprouting. This will happen tomorrow. Damn you, dandelions!
This week, I saw a stage production of "Night of the Living Dead" at Crown Center. It was fantastic. If you live in the KC area, you should go. I also went to some sort of happy hour thing at the Nelson, hosted by the Young Friends of Art (or something like that). It involved expensive drinks and awkward social mixing. There was some nice art, but it was undermined by super shitty commentary. "This piece is telling us that sometimes, technology can be good, but sometimes it can also be bad." Stupid. I'd recommend Cultural Cocktails at the Nelson, but I'm not sure that I can recommend the YFA mixers. It's probably just me - it was a nice setting to meet new people, I was just having a bitchier-than-usual day. I also got dinner at Cantina Del Rey, which is where Swizzle used to be in Waldo. It was okay. It was very, very busy, but the Ward Parkway Blvd. Burrito that I ordered was delicious. Tomorrow is a board game day with Willie and Brenda and Ryan. I'm going to bring Zombie Fluxx, just in case. It's a wonderful game. I need to go back out to the Olathe game store to pick up a copy of Once Upon a Time.
I'm headed out to New Orleans in a week and a half - I'm wondering if I can get away with not mowing my lawn until I get back...if I can, then could I not-mow until my return from NYC? (I'm going to New York for Halloween, and I'll get to see soooo many people! Mostly Jessica. This is part of why I want to pick up "Once Upon a Time," AKA "Pretty, Pretty Princess." I know that people are cooler than Pretty Pretty Princess, but you never know. It's good to be prepared.) Should I take a Halloween costume to NYC? I'm not getting into town until late on Halloween, and then I'll have subway adventures for about an hour to get from LGA to where I need to be. Maybe there will be enough going on without worrying about a costume, eh? I think so.
The Red Sox just need to score. Right now. |
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[Oct. 6th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
In the last week I played board games, card games, Magic: The Gathering (which I'm going to go ahead and put in a category all by itself), went to a Five Guys (delicious!), watched all of Pushing Daisies Season One, was one member of a two-person team in a local Beerfest competition (everyone else had four-person teams! We did very well!), went to First Fridays, picked up a copy of Zombie Fluxx (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/29387), let someone else drive my car (this never happens) and ordered pizza for the first time in years.
It was good. |
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