What a party girl am I! It's Friday night. I just got home from work. These are my plans for the evening.
1. Watch Dr Who while sifting through my starred items on Google Reader.
2. Make myself Thai stir fry.
3. Watch more Dr Who.
4. Take a hot bath (hopefully soothing the pain in my hip.)
5. Watch more Dr Who.
6. Read a little.
7. Go to bed early.
Are you jealous of me? 'Cause you should be. This is what counts as an Awesome Night in GinaLand.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Sunday
I am spending the whole day knitting, eating jelly beans and watching Dr Who on the Roku.
Because I can.
Because I can.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Injuries
Yesterday was a bad day for injuries. We had three dancers injured at work, not including the one who broke her foot last week and is out for four weeks.
Then, I came home from work last night to find The Boy™ sitting on the chair with his foot up and an icepack on it. He stepped on it wrong taking his bike outside after doing some repairs. This morning, there was a nasty bruise and a lot of swelling. Two hours at the doctor's later and the xrays reveal it is definitely broken. He sees the orthopedist on Monday.
For the time being, he is in a boot with crutches. We'll see how long that lasts. One of the crutches has already been abandoned and he's more or less just hopping around and limping.
Then, I came home from work last night to find The Boy™ sitting on the chair with his foot up and an icepack on it. He stepped on it wrong taking his bike outside after doing some repairs. This morning, there was a nasty bruise and a lot of swelling. Two hours at the doctor's later and the xrays reveal it is definitely broken. He sees the orthopedist on Monday.
For the time being, he is in a boot with crutches. We'll see how long that lasts. One of the crutches has already been abandoned and he's more or less just hopping around and limping.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Things I'm Working On
I finally replaced my set of size 0 double pointed needles. The first pair I had were so twisted and warped, they were unusable. The new ones were only $4 (about.)
I splurged and got some sock yarn while I was at it. The total still came to under $20. I think that's the major reason I've taken up knitting socks. Sock yarn is so much less expensive!
I'm not sure what to do with the yarn. The colors are more manly than they looked on the website, so maybe I'll knit up a pair of socks for The Boy™ for Christmas. We'll see.
This is the sock I'm currently working on.
It took me a while to find a pattern that worked with all the colors. I think this one is working. We'll see when it's done, I guess.
I splurged and got some sock yarn while I was at it. The total still came to under $20. I think that's the major reason I've taken up knitting socks. Sock yarn is so much less expensive!
I'm not sure what to do with the yarn. The colors are more manly than they looked on the website, so maybe I'll knit up a pair of socks for The Boy™ for Christmas. We'll see.
This is the sock I'm currently working on.
It took me a while to find a pattern that worked with all the colors. I think this one is working. We'll see when it's done, I guess.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Two Kinds
I evidently only know two kinds of people:
1. The people who post on their Facebook page some sort of expression of sadness at the death of Patrick Swayze.
2. The people who post on their Facebook page some sort of expression of disappointment that the Bills lost.
Regarding the death of Patrick Swayze - This makes me sad. I'm not surprised, of course. The poor man had been quite sick for quite some time. I'm actually more sad over his death than Michael Jackson's death.
Regarding the Bills losing. Seriously? You're surprised? That team couldn't win a game if they were the only ones playing.
1. The people who post on their Facebook page some sort of expression of sadness at the death of Patrick Swayze.
2. The people who post on their Facebook page some sort of expression of disappointment that the Bills lost.
Regarding the death of Patrick Swayze - This makes me sad. I'm not surprised, of course. The poor man had been quite sick for quite some time. I'm actually more sad over his death than Michael Jackson's death.
Regarding the Bills losing. Seriously? You're surprised? That team couldn't win a game if they were the only ones playing.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
My New Dresser
The Boy™ and I recently made some furniture purchases. We got a side table for my chair (which I sorely needed,) a new shoji screen for the bedroom (to separate The Boy™'s office area from the sleeping area) and a new dresser for me.
The dresser I used to have we got for free from a friend who lived upstairs from us in our first apartment in NH. This was almost 10 years ago now. It was about 4 feet tall, contained four drawers and was a piece of crap (but it was free!)
I've needed a new one for a while.
The one we bought is a very well constructed, unfinished pine dresser. The sort of dresser meant for an adult instead of a six year old.
We got some hardware (it came with none) and some Bombay Mahogany stain and stained it last weekend. After a week's drying/airing out time in the apartment, today it was finally time to put all my clothes in it. It's awesome!
Here are pictures of the process.
Unfinished dresser:
Unfinished dresser and unfinished drawer:
Drawers with 1 coat of stain:
Dresser with 1 coat of stain:
Final product in place in the corner of the bedroom:
The dresser I used to have we got for free from a friend who lived upstairs from us in our first apartment in NH. This was almost 10 years ago now. It was about 4 feet tall, contained four drawers and was a piece of crap (but it was free!)
I've needed a new one for a while.
The one we bought is a very well constructed, unfinished pine dresser. The sort of dresser meant for an adult instead of a six year old.
We got some hardware (it came with none) and some Bombay Mahogany stain and stained it last weekend. After a week's drying/airing out time in the apartment, today it was finally time to put all my clothes in it. It's awesome!
Here are pictures of the process.
Unfinished dresser:
Unfinished dresser and unfinished drawer:
Drawers with 1 coat of stain:
Dresser with 1 coat of stain:
Final product in place in the corner of the bedroom:
Saturday, September 12, 2009
First Week
The first week of the new session is almost over. It went well, I think. The daily transitions from Private School to Our School went surprisingly smoothly. The kids in the Private School are a good group and help to clean up and clear out every day. I'm wondering how much it'll change by June. But for now they're good.
Rumor has it, BossMan and BossWoman are looking to hire someone else at the front desk. This will actually be kind of nice. It'll move my weekday hours earlier (11-6 instead of 12:30-8,) and I'll have someone to alternate Saturdays with me or cover if I am sick or have to go out of town.
I've sent in a resume to the School of Music at the college. They're looking for a Stage Manager. I'm kind of in two minds about it. Part of me really wants the job. I miss SMing, and the extra income will be nice. Part of me is worries I'll be exhausted working the dayjob all day and then SMing evenings and weekends.
I'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Rumor has it, BossMan and BossWoman are looking to hire someone else at the front desk. This will actually be kind of nice. It'll move my weekday hours earlier (11-6 instead of 12:30-8,) and I'll have someone to alternate Saturdays with me or cover if I am sick or have to go out of town.
I've sent in a resume to the School of Music at the college. They're looking for a Stage Manager. I'm kind of in two minds about it. Part of me really wants the job. I miss SMing, and the extra income will be nice. Part of me is worries I'll be exhausted working the dayjob all day and then SMing evenings and weekends.
I'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Monday, September 7, 2009
E-mail Guidelines
I saw this at Lifehacker and got a little chuckle from it. Feel free to pass it around to your friends and loved ones who annoy you with e-mail forwards.
This is not humor. I share it with you because you probably get at least as many stupid email items as I do and may want to have a handy way to tell otherwise nice people they're blundering as email newbies.
I humbly suggest that you may wish to share this with all of the email lists in which you participate. You may also wish to keep a copy send to correspondents who forget these suggestions.
Email Facts Of Life
1. Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true". Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit", does not actually make it true.
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin.
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have." That's "none" as in "zero". Not even your friend's cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy here. Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light bulb.
5. Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with virii. TryNorton or Symantec.
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you're probably going to Hell.
8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times - we've probably already seen it.
10. Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either. Nor can you get into the Guinness Book of World Records this way anymore (the rules were rewritten specifically to prevent this.)
Some of it may be a bit outdated (does anyone really still believe the bullshit about the kidneys?) but it is a good starting point. If your friends or relatives forward you an "OMG!!! Don't let this happen to you!!!" e-mail, forward them a link to Snopes so they can actually verify if it is true before they send it on.
A good rule of thumb: if you read it in an e-mail forward, it's probably not true.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I receive an e-mail with FWD: in the subject line, I delete it without even reading it. Sending those things to me is a waste of keystrokes.
This is not humor. I share it with you because you probably get at least as many stupid email items as I do and may want to have a handy way to tell otherwise nice people they're blundering as email newbies.
I humbly suggest that you may wish to share this with all of the email lists in which you participate. You may also wish to keep a copy send to correspondents who forget these suggestions.
Email Facts Of Life
1. Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true". Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit", does not actually make it true.
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin.
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have." That's "none" as in "zero". Not even your friend's cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy here. Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light bulb.
5. Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with virii. TryNorton or Symantec.
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you're probably going to Hell.
8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times - we've probably already seen it.
10. Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either. Nor can you get into the Guinness Book of World Records this way anymore (the rules were rewritten specifically to prevent this.)
Some of it may be a bit outdated (does anyone really still believe the bullshit about the kidneys?) but it is a good starting point. If your friends or relatives forward you an "OMG!!! Don't let this happen to you!!!" e-mail, forward them a link to Snopes so they can actually verify if it is true before they send it on.
A good rule of thumb: if you read it in an e-mail forward, it's probably not true.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I receive an e-mail with FWD: in the subject line, I delete it without even reading it. Sending those things to me is a waste of keystrokes.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Arg!
I'm kind of annoyed that here it is, Sunday night, and I still have no idea what I'm working next week.
The dance teachers have known their schedule for weeks. Front desk has no clue.
Is it really that much to ask to get our schedules in enough time to actually plan things? Just because they don't plan a damn thing in advance doesn't mean that the rest of us don't.
Gr.
The dance teachers have known their schedule for weeks. Front desk has no clue.
Is it really that much to ask to get our schedules in enough time to actually plan things? Just because they don't plan a damn thing in advance doesn't mean that the rest of us don't.
Gr.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Study Update
6 week weigh in the blood test.
I've lost 4.5kg (almost 10lbs.)
I also lost cm off my hips and waist. I don't remember how much, though. I was too busy trying to convert kg to lbs in my head and I missed what she wrote down.
I don't know if or how the bloodwork has changed. I don't get those results. My veins cooperated, though, and the nurse got all the blood she needed on the first poke. That's good for me!
I've lost 4.5kg (almost 10lbs.)
I also lost cm off my hips and waist. I don't remember how much, though. I was too busy trying to convert kg to lbs in my head and I missed what she wrote down.
I don't know if or how the bloodwork has changed. I don't get those results. My veins cooperated, though, and the nurse got all the blood she needed on the first poke. That's good for me!
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