Lara and I went off to a gem expo in Chantilly yesterday. It was exhausting, but fun. There were tables and tables and massive amounts of beads and jewelery and unset gems for sale, and we were both rather proud of ourselves for not spending too much money. I got some beautiful crystals at a very nice price, and an amber necklace that I just thought was lovely, fun stretchy shiny bracelets, and a pair of earrings that I saw and thought "I just get those for Rebekah." (So, I have earrings for Rebekah, which, at some point, I will give to her.) And then we went off to Lara's favourite wine store, where they were doing wine, beer, and champagne tastings, which was fun. And then I went home, sort of, vaguely, looked for my bread cookbook, gave up, and made spaghetti and watched TV and was very tired and spent.
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04:18:49 PM,Sunday 21 May 2006
I just ordered a new computer. I'm so very very excited. It will be sleek and shiny and black and lovely.
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10:28:09 PM,Wednesday 17 May 2006
David Tennant gets kissed too much.
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01:56:55 PM,Monday 8 May 2006
I thought it was my computer, or the DVD, or something like that, but then I thought, all right, I'll try getting my Dr. Who off the drive onto a DVD, we'll see if that works. And it's burning. So, apparently, it's just Cassie's stuff that sits there for 8-10 fucking hours going "processing data" and gets nothing at all done.
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11:28:05 AM,Sunday 7 May 2006
I started a DVD burning of Cassie's stuff two hours ago, and it's still not done, and I don't even have a progress bar. This is going to take forever. Stupid Cassie.
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01:52:41 PM,Saturday 6 May 2006
I couldnt see Sam's eyes, so I trimmed his hair around his eyes. Then I still thought he looked like he had a mullet, so I trimmed the hair on his ears, and trimmed it to short. So then I cut the hair around his nose, to try to make it look better with his ears. He looks so bad I don't really know what to do.
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01:50:49 PM,Saturday 6 May 2006
The new Mac virus ad with the Mac guy and the PC guy was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV in a long time.
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10:48:04 PM,Wednesday 3 May 2006
I realized yesterday why I was so sure that yellow ribbons had been for cancer, not bring troops home safe, or whatever it is they are for. Lance Armstrong's Livestrong bracelets are yellow, and so I though, okay, so yellow is for cancer.
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10:42:56 AM,Sunday 30 April 2006
So, apparently, something went wrong with both Citibank and my office's internet last night (ours we were all aware of, as we could get neither email nor internet most of the afternoon, and the DSL people were telling us it was "clearly the router", until, I'm told, they realized they had also supplied us the router, and so they were blaming themselves), and we weren't paid this morning, as we usually are. While we were all vaguely glad that it was only our immediate office of 8 that wasn't paid on time (we were all given the option of receiving a check today instead of waiting for the direct deposit on Monday) and that the pay for our centers had gone out already, so those 1000+ people received their money, it is quite a surprise when you are expecing money in your account in the morning and then for it to not be there. And Brianne and I were going to go shopping this weekend, because I need new work shoes (I have destroyed the heel on my one shoe and it makes my left leg hurt; it is for this reason more than any other that I have started leaving my work shoes under my desk and wearing my Docs whenever I am outside), and summer work shirts. Perhaps I will stick to the Gap and Old Navy for shirts, where I have a credit card, and feel like I am splurging on shoes only. I have money, but I am vaguely worried about getting paid on Monday when my rent is due.
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08:20:12 PM,Friday 28 April 2006
It occurs to me that it has been a long time since I actually bought a CD. I have been in a holding pattern with my music, and I listen to the same things over and over (with even less variety, as I haven't restored rather a lot of the songs to my iPod in it's current, fourth, incarnation). And, suddenly, I want to go out and buy a CD. I almost bought Rabbit Songs the other day at Barnes and Noble, but I only had cash, and got a book instead; and I want the thing Tori Amos is doing about Neil Gaiman.
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06:49:25 PM,Thursday 27 April 2006
I found my keys. They were in my backpack all along, just in a small pocket I never use.
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07:53:53 AM,Wednesday 26 April 2006
Note to self: when you do something exceptionally clever like tying your keys to your purse so as you won't lose them, don't think to yourself "but I'm not taking my purse today" and rip the yarn. Because, invariably, you will lose the keys, which was the whole point in the yarn in the first place.
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02:50:55 PM,Tuesday 25 April 2006
I am in a holding pattern, it seems, right now, of rereading young adult comfort books. I tore through The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown in the past few days, and that has to be the proper order to read them, as The Hero and the Crown is far superior, and now I am at a loss. I don't really know what to read next. I don't think more Robin McKinley is right (particularly as all the guys are, really, the same guy, although Brianne tried to argue Deerskin as different than the rest, but I think I've only read that one once, and that was a while ago, and I don't have it, and I don't remember the Robin Hood one at all). I don't really know what I want to read, or reread, and it distresses me.
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09:30:55 PM,Friday 21 April 2006
Brianne and I watched the Pride and Prejiduce with Keira Knightly in it, and, besides thinking taht Judi Dench made a rather wonderful Lady Catherine (or is it with a K? For Katherine and Cassie's sake, I will spell it with a C, so as not to associate her with them), we generally disliked it. It was too grotty. There should not have been a pig in the house, and their walls should have been painted, and their hair was too poorly done. And we bitched a lot, and laughed almost as hard at it as we did to She's the Man, for similar sort of embarrassed reasons.
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08:52:04 PM,Thursday 20 April 2006
Brianne and I, in watching our recently discovered Next Gen reruns, have determined that Riker is cuter and more charming and less annoying than we remember him being. Possibly it's the fact that we watch a lot of Voyager, too, and Chokatay drives us a bit batty. Or maybe we are just older. And when we are, say, 40, we will truly understand why so many women on Star Trek throw themselves at him.
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08:39:48 PM,Thursday 20 April 2006
I am willing to relinquish the idea Eric Idle 30 years ago as Crowley in favour of David Tennant. I think it would be better. Also, possible without time travel, if Gilliam ever decides to go back to making that movie. I don't know who I would want to be Aziraphale. But I think Mr. Tennant would do a very good job as Crowley.
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10:58:57 PM,Monday 17 April 2006
Having spent probably far too much time trying to make Quark act like Word, I am now trying (and failing far more than I ever did the other way round) to make Word act like Quark. And it's just making me want to cry and hurt Microsoft products.
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05:01:43 PM,Monday 17 April 2006
Tomorrow is Free Cone Day. I wouldn't know this if I hadn't gone to Peg and Jyles's this weekend.
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08:00:23 AM,Monday 17 April 2006
Here I was, all excited to see Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet and I got the wrong version of Sense and Sensibility. And it sucks. And I was depressed. And so we tried to watch Brianne's movie that we've had out since before Cassie left, and that sucked too.
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10:31:12 PM,Thursday 6 April 2006
My iPod has broken again. It makes me very sad. It also frustrates me that, apparently, the life of a $300 piece of gadgetry is about 4 months, because that's about how long it takes for my iPod to break, each time. And that the Apple warrenty doesn't reset when they give you a new iPod. It's pretty totally dead, the guy on the phone really wanted me to go online to send it in for "service," but I think I'll head over to Pentagon City sometime this week. 45 minutes I was on the phone with tech support, trying random things, with my computer never seeing that the iPod was there, and getting the sad, dead iPod icon. I really hate the dead iPod icon, just about as much as I hate the dead Mac (do they even still have that? I haven't seen it since OS 7 or 8 when we broke a machine doing the yearbook at two in the morning and cried).
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11:21:15 PM,Tuesday 28 March 2006