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December 17th, 2009
05:39 pm - I have a sinus infection :(
So I probably shouldn't be sitting out by the train tracks with no coat and no socks, but I couldn't find either and it's gonna be dark soon. My email is totally swamped because I'm never on line long enough to go through it all properly anymore. Major suckage.
On the bright side, my stats in Freecell are now a C across the board-- one hundred-strong winning streak out of one hundred games played. It's a stupid thing to be pleased about, but I didn't even really know how to play Freecell until this month. I also learned to make banana bread, which has proven much more productive.
But enough about all that. I finally have holiday cards to send! Anyone who wants one, just leave your address. Comments are screened, but you can drop me an email if you'd rather.
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December 9th, 2009
05:15 pm - YAY
I finally found a place nearby my house where I can get internet access-- and it serves good food! I am pleased as punch, I can't even begin to tell you.
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November 28th, 2009
03:37 pm - OH, INTERNET, HOW I HAVE MISED YOU
Hey, everybody, hope you're doing well. Birthday did not bring me internet but it did bring me cake and a laptop. This is my first time getting online with it. I've got all these windows open trying to make it count because I don't know when I'll be able to get on again. Woe is me. I'm off to give more attention to my friend page, here's hoping I'll find majority good news.
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November 1st, 2009
04:18 pm - procrastinating? me? :O
Hope all of you who celebrate Halloween had a good one. It rained here so there were no trick-or-treaters and the little people got soaked when they went out. My sister had spray-on hair coloring as part of her costume and ended up getting her face, neck, back, chest and arms mottled with it; she looked like she was waring the beginnings of camouflage makeup.
Circumstances conspired so that I ended up not being able to dress as a hillbilly vampire like I wanted, so instead I was a porcelain doll. Anybody else dress up?
Anyhow, with Halloween over, it is now the first day of November. And of NaNoWriMo, obviously. As you may have noticed, I tend to procrastinate. I'll probbly post every once in a while to let you know I'm alive and all that good stuff, but aside from that I would highly appreciate it if, should you catch me lollygagging around online, you greet me with a stern "get back to work" or "WHAT'S YOUR WORDCOUNT, MF?" Whatever works for you.
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October 30th, 2009
October 27th, 2009
03:49 pm - bye-bye, birdie :(
My sister's parakeet died, poor thing. Her cage was covered, but I guess the blanket got caught rucked up in back by the window and we didn't noticed. Even worse? My sister thinks she heard her die. The bird always made a little cooing sort of sound before she fell asleep, and my sister heard that just a few minutes before checking in on her and finding her huddled up in the corner. She held her for almost an hour hoping that she would get warm and wake up, it was so sad.
In less depressing news, I've decided I'm definitely on board for NaNoWriMo. Problem is that in the time that I've been thnking about it, I've been figuring that I'd finally start in on a big thing that I've been thinking about for years or else work on something else that I've had in mind. Only now I'm for some reason beginning to think it's a good idea to start from scratch on a novel about ninja pirates from space. Yeah, I don't know either.
Re: latest Naruto spoilers since I'm here anyway:
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October 11th, 2009
05:39 am - It's that time again XP
Urgh, the red tides are rising. Next two days are gonna suck. At least I know why I've been so sleepy and moody lately. Irregularity sucks.
On an unrelated note, pretty sure I'm gonna go ahead with NaNoWriMo in November. Not sure I should be deciding just now, but it's not like I have to sign anything in blood so no harm to be done.
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October 10th, 2009
10:18 am - Oh, hey, it's November next month
Not that I didn't know that, of course, I just hadn't been giving it much thought. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm still not sure if I'm going to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I did it last year and enjoyed it, but even though I hit my word count I ended up never actually finishing my novel. Whoops. Plus I knew for months in advance what stoy I wanted to work on, which is not the case this time around. I dunno, maybe I'll do a lite version where I just sit and write some stuff I've been meaning to write or something. Can't say for sure that I could get myself going on that, though. So... I dunno. I guess I'll look at my To-Write List and see if there's anything I'd like to tackle for it; even as I'm typing this things are coming to mind.
Anybody on my flist taking a stab at it?
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October 9th, 2009
05:37 pm - HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT?
Slurs are totes okay as long as you didn't mean them like that, especially if it was just a joke, duh.
And when you use a word to mean something that it doesn't actually mean, or isn't widely considered to mean, people should know what you mean.
And if you do have to explain yourself to simpletons, they should agree to abide by your superior definition.
And if they don't, it's because they just don't understaaaand.
REMEMBER, IF YOU DIDN'T INTEND TO INSULT ANYONE, THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD HAVE. NOTHING IS EVER YOUR FAULT AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT MORE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU THAN FROM YOURSELF. I KNOW THIS NOW THANKS TO MY INTERNET LEARNINGS.
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October 3rd, 2009
06:22 am - AUUUUG D:
Well, I just started going through my folders for the first time since our old computer got backed up onto a notebook and we got a new computer. Turns out I'm missing quite a bit of stuff. Not just miscellaneous this-and-that I've collected off the internet over the years either, stuff I've actually worked on and made myself. I'll be the first to admit that none of it was especially stellar, but still. If was just page crops (of which I'm missing several) I wouldn't mind so much, but it was also cut-outs and manipulations (many of which were an epic pain in the neck to do) and a few colorings that I'd hoped to be able to improve.
On the bright side, there's a good bit that survived. Because who cares about the dozens of icons and banners and wallpapers that I slaved over to even make decent when at least my crappy macros and demotivational posters are still at my fingertips. Thanks, technical error! *muttermutterpissmoan*
Seriously, though, I may just check our old computer, which is still laying around in storage. I hopped on it for a moment before our new one was set up and I know for certain that I was missing files from it that I have on the back-up, so maybe the reverse is true and some of what I'm missing is there.
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October 2nd, 2009
09:33 pm - HI, EVERYBODY :D
Well, we just got finished moving the other day and now we're on to cleaning up the mess we made in the process. I unearthed so much stuff I forgot I had. OH, INCLUDING SOME OLD WRITING ASSIGNMNTS. I was looking through them an, just, wow. I don't even know. I'm seriously tempted to type them up and post them so I can share the pain laughter pain with you.
Also, the snake got lost again and we didn't even realize it. He spends most of his time under his little log so we're used to not seeing him for stretches of time. Plus his lid was weighted down, so we weren't really worried about it. Only the dictionary holding the lid down apparently got moved at some point and wasn't replaced. Anyway, his tank used to be on a stack of boxes of movies, and teh time came when the movies needed to be moved out to the garage. Since the tank only needed to be set aside and we were too busy to play with him just then, it didn't seem worth it to take him out. So I wrapped my short, scrawny arms around his tank as well as I could and moved it off to the side-- and immediately heard my mom make a surprised squeaking sort of sound. Boy Snake was curled up in a groove on the top box. We're not enirely sure how he got there (or why) but he's unhurt so all's well.
I've only been here on a scattered basis so I'm off to see what I've missed. Love you all, hope you're doing alright.
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September 9th, 2009
12:07 am - *happy sounds*
Omg, you guys, you'll never guess what!
*glances at last couple journal entries ad title of curent one*
Or... you already have by now. THE POINT IS, my snake has been found!
pay no attention to the text within the confetti
\o/ \o/ \o/
My mom caught him coming out of a hole in the wall behind the water heater. He's back in his tank-- with a couple heavy books resting on the lid-- and has been fed and watered and will be loved on and watched very carefully.
Thanks for the well-wishes and sorry if I depressed anyne ♥
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September 7th, 2009
10:11 pm - still no snake :(
We've looked all through the house several times over now. Outlook is not good, especially considering how long it's been since he last ate and how prone certain people are to leaving the doors open. I'm turning into a big baby over the situation, too; I just cleaned out the rat tank and noticed that one of the rats is now the perfect size for him and nearly cried. We're lucky in that there are no vents that he can get into and we're pretty sure, based on previous behavior, that the other animals will tweek out rather than attack him if they see him, but that just floods me with thoughts of him curling up somewhere we can't find him and starving to death. Packing is still underway so we might come across him yet; I just can't shake the idea that he'll be stiff if/when we do.
Blah, sorry to be depressing. I've actually been pretty good with keeping my mind off the darker possibilities and focusing on keeping my eyes open for him, but the smallest things hit me with the fact that if I go to get him out to play with, he won't be there.
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August 29th, 2009
04:15 am - p___q
Our snake is out of his tank and missing. He was actually found just yesterday morning after being gone for almost a day and a half, but when I went to go check on him he was gone again. My brother's friend, who was the one to spot and return him, didn't think to weigh down the lid (we figure the only way he could have escaped was pushing it up) and I didn't think to ask him to. We think the snake is probably looking for food, since his last meal was smaller than we've taken to feeding him. He was last found outside my sister's bedroom door, and I'm worried he'll go back there for whatever reason and get lost in the mess, or that he'll go into the bathroom (right by my sister's room) and get into the wall where the pipe from the water heater goes through. Or else that one of the cats or the dog will get him. He isn't really prone to hiding for the sake of being hidden when he's out, though, and we're starting to pack up to move back upstairs, so I'm pretty hopeful that he'll be found relatively soon and in one piece. Obviously he'll be getting another rat once he's back where he belongs.
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August 8th, 2009
03:53 pm - ...
Yeesh, I've been gone a hile. Well, okay, not gone. Every so often I would open a bunch of tabs and then go on to for the most part close them without reading. And I'm sure I commented on something fairly recently... Anyway.
I have been in such a weird mood lately, I don't even know. Plus I've been plagued with this sense of having forgotten something. Not anything important, I don't think, or it would have come up one way or another, it's just driving me kinda loopy.
And, yeah, I know I promised baby pictures and haven't yet delivered. I've got them laying around on a camera somehere, I just need to locate the camera and upload them and everything. Might include more pet pictures for the baby-uninclined, dunno yet.
Um, so. Have been skimming my friends page more than actually reading it for the past... however long, will have to rectify that. Hope I haven't missed anything important and that everyone is doing well.
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July 5th, 2009
12:11 am - on the off-chance anyone was worried
posting from my phone because the computer is down. this is so weird... anyway, having a good time so far. my niece was born just before we left. pictures later. hope you're all well. happy 4th to whom it applies.
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June 30th, 2009
01:37 am - I LIVE
Hey, guys, miss me these last few days? :D
*crickets chirp**
... Yeah, no one noticed I was gone XD Haven't quite gotten up on my flist yet; I hope everyone is doing well.
Quite a few celebrity deaths lately, huh? Usually I find out about this kind of stuff before my mom does, but I actually heard most of it from her these past few occasions; the only one I scooped her on was Farrah Fawcett. I don't know why I bothered to mention that, it was just something that struck me. Some of you are surely aware of my backspace laziness, so here we are.
Some of our rats got loose and have set up base in my room. They appear to be in a fairly isolated area, so I'm going to try to nab the lot tommorow. I actually think it will be less frustrating than the time there was a mouse in my closet. See, it had actually started out in my brother's room, and we caught it easily enough. Thn it somehow got loose and got into my closet, where it managed to evade me for several days. Then it managed to get under my bed. I lifted aside the matress and box spring and hunted through the accumulation of miscellaneous crapola to no avail; I looked up to see the mouse get free of the door. Cue a fruitless hunt through the game room. Never did see that thing again. Too bad, it was a real cutie. On the other hand, I did go a bit loopy trying to nail the sucker, so its disappearance was probably for the best.
I'll be going to Chicago in a few days and I'm not sure how much computer time I'll get while I'm there. We (my mom, the little people, possibly my brother and his girlfriend and myself) will be staying ith my grandparents and uncle as per usual, and this year there will be quite a bit more family also staying. I'm sure you'll all have your noses to your screens waiting to hear from me XD
Oh, hey, my brother finally coughed up a bunch of kitchen stuff he's been holding onto. He was supposed to hand it over months ago and he made the little people carry it all downstairs, but at least we finally have it. I'm totally making muffins tomorrow, now that we have the tray.
Um... I seriously have nothing more interesting to say. Oh, except that I finally saw Holes for the first time last night and it is awesome. I really need to get my hands on the book now, although I've heard the movie is actually really faithful to the story. SPEAKING OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BECOME MOVIES. Have any of you ever read Jaws? It's... just... wow. Wow. Like, as in yikes. I'll stick to the film, mkthnx.
* I have as yet been unable to find a sound effect a la instant rimshot or the sad trombone. You would not believe how much this disappoints me.
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June 22nd, 2009
07:05 pm - a few memes
Yikes, I'm slow. Meant to do this first one something like a week ago!
1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
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And here are a couple I snatched from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) banditjoeykuba:
Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
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LIST 25 OF YOUR FAVORITE PAIRINGS AND ASK PEOPLE WHAT TRENDS THEY NOTICE. TRY TO PICK DIFFERENT FANDOMS.
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June 14th, 2009
11:50 am - yes, it's another meme
Snagged from palvereverie
1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks.
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June 9th, 2009
09:09 pm - LOLWHUT
Did you know that Naruto fandom is "full of wank and stupid peolpe"?
What's that? You didn't? Dude, seriously?
Well, lucky for you that pheonixxxphreak is here to set the record straight! Go on, read the comments. I mean, you weren't actually using those brain cells for anything, were you?
On a happier note, DSL is still awesome.
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