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Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
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( Baby's due in eight days. Eep! )In non-baby news, the sellers want to move up the closing date of the house. They're going to be completely moved out by the end of the week. If all the paperwork goes well, we could be homeowners by the 17th!
There are currently two different ideas circulating about moving. Option A is to rent a U-Haul, load it up, and make a mere one to two trips across town with all our stuff. Option B is to have everyone bring their cars over and we make a million little trips. I'm personally a fan of Option A, because I think it would be easier, but no one wants to pay for a U-Haul for the afternoon. Whatever. If they want to do a million little trips, that's fine with me, because my job is to sit at the new house and direct traffic. My in-laws'll just have to make sure that they take the 1,300 pound rock out of their truck bed before the big day. (Yes, they have a 1,300 pound rock in their truck. It's eventually going to be a tombstone.)
The other bit of good news is that we bought a new camera! Our previous camera has been around since 2002, and we decided that now was a good time to get a camera that doesn't take a million years to take a picture. Also, it's tiny! And blue! I'm planning to break it in by taking pictures of lots of stuff tonight, including my new whale-like proportions, so expect pictures at some point! |
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There's a lot to worry/be sad about at the moment. And what better way to deal with things than by not thinking about them? ( So I rented Ghostbusters for the Wii... )
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Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 10:58 pm
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I'm getting really, really tired of my monitor forgetting that it can display images at 1280x800. Rather, the 1280 it can remember just fine - it just occasionally thinks things would look much better at 720 than 800. And then, just for kicks, it takes away the 1280x800 option on the slider bar in Display/Settings and pretends that it doesn't exist until I restart a few times.
All I want to do is watch things that are stored on my desktop by routing them through the laptop and into the TV. Is that so wrong? (Also, it sometimes likes to pretend that the TV doesn't exist either, but enough swearing and poking at it generally fixes that.) But no, every time I pop in the cable and play with the multiple monitor settings, it spazzes out and forgets how to work.
Well, fie on you, technology! I...oh, I can't stay mad at you. Just don't do it again.
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Jun. 22nd, 2009 @ 11:36 am
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Jun. 17th, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
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We just made an offer on a house!
And it was accepted!
Yay! Homeownership!
Provided that the inspections and loan and everything go well, we'll be moving in during the first week of August. Yes, moving with a two-week-old!...yay.
Here's the outside:
And here's the backyard:
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I've been traveling since April. Being home is good. Being home and knowing that I don't have to go on any more road trips for a few months is friggin' fantastic.
(Seriously - I love visiting people, don't get me wrong, but getting there is about -39% of the fun nowadays.)
Let's see, other news...
In five weeks I'm going to be a mom. Eeep. (Oh, and we named the kid. He's now Jonathan Patrick. not like the Scarecrow or NPH or JoCo or Patrick Stewart or any of the other trillion fannish references out there I swear to you every single name is TAKEN and this was our favorite option.)
In a couple of months we'll have a new house! Hopefully. I mean, we're thinking about maybe putting an offer down on one of them. Yeah. We're decisive like that.
Facebook officially sucks, but you knew that. (Let's offer a bunch of features and make the site crash every time I try to use one! Yay!)
Tomorrow's project (aside from purchasing a crib mattress) is to make strawberry popsicles! I'm excited. I picked up some popsicle molds from the store, and now all I have to do is mince a bunch of berries, toss in a little sugar, and voila! Yumness!
Oh, and for someone who aspires to one day be a published author, I really really suck at scheduling writing time. I think I need someone to stand over me and poke me with a stick whenever I start slacking off.
And with that, I'm off to level my CoH blaster. Zzzzap!
Jun. 9th, 2009 @ 10:35 pm
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So...
I'm seriously thinking about going to Trekfest this year.
http://www.trekfest.com/
Am I a Trekkie/Trekker? Well, not really...though I used to be quite fond of ST:TNG.
Nevertheless, a combination carnival/parade/demolition derby/duck race/pet show/rodeo attended by hordes of geeks should not be missed. And, as a bonus, it's only an hour away, so I'm actually allowed to attend it! Yay!
(plus a sci-fi swap meet! drooooool...)
May. 28th, 2009 @ 09:15 pm
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Guess who just saw Star Trek? ( It was me! )
May. 24th, 2009 @ 12:43 am
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My computer won't boot!
Yay.
So far, it's given me three different error messages and refused to let me boot it in safe mode. I don't want to reinstall Windows!...mostly because the disc is somewhere in the pile of boxes, and I can't dig through them because they're quite heavy and I'm not allowed to lift them.
Rackafrackin' Windows.
May. 9th, 2009 @ 07:48 pm
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A for Alabama, where crimson tides roll
B for Brown Spiders who will eat my soul
C is for Campbell with Chainsaw and gun
D is for Depp who makes murderin' fun
E for the Egos that spawn subpar fiction*
and F-Frankenstein's presidential eviction
G is for Ghosts which we never did mess with
H is for Hockey which Olly's obsessed with
I is for ice cream of moose bear and pony
J is for Justice - the pants we both own-y
K is for Kennedy's Villainous fate
L is for Lai Lai with food I don't hate
M for Momentum - through portals we're thrown
and N is for Nightmares with game overtones
O is for Orange, whose future is bleak
P is for Puppets in high girlish squeaks
Q is for Qube which I'm forced to misspell
R for the Riddler in fanfiction hell
S is for Sitcom - a floor full of foam
T is for Tardy, with sad squeaky moans
U for Unhealthiness of our obsessions
V is for Vigo and Venkman's transgressions
W is for West and for We-animation
X won't exist 'less you count X-citation
Y is for Yummy, the food from all over
and Z's for the Zzzs that I'll need to recover
Poems are fun, particularly when you allow yourself to use fake rhymes like 'own-y'. In all seriousness, though, I had a rockin' time in Alabama and I'd definitely love to drag Techie and the Captain up to Iowa one day for round two. (You can leave the Spider Mafia at home, though, guys.) ;)
*Note: egos referenced do not reside in Alabama
May. 8th, 2009 @ 08:00 pm
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I'm in Alabama!
There are spiders! And movies! And comics (ohgodthecomics) and sandwiches made out of people and people who need sandwiches and BatmanBatmanBatman and wheeeee I'm so tired because it's one in the morning and we just had a Johnny-Depp-a-thon with a side order of Cillian Murphy and wow it so does not feel like I've already been here for five days.
Um.
Yes! Having a good time. Slightly incoherent, but hey - at least I'm not wearing my murderin' hat. I do, however, want some corn. Yummy, buttery people-fed corn...
Oh! And I kind of cursed the plumbing. Nothin' like a broken toilet and a dishwasher that sprays foam all over the floor!
There's an awful lot of cannabalism in this post, isn't there?
Erm...
Yes. Going to bed now. Sleepy.
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Senor PHOOOOOOONE!!!
Apr. 26th, 2009 @ 01:01 am
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Things that are awesome:
-being organized. I know it's kind of a dumb thing to be happy about, but I spent years in Disorganized Slobville and being able to find things within two minutes of wanting them is kind of like magic. I can't wait until I have a house where I can store things on shelves instead of in box-piles! (i'm such a boring nerd, i know...)
Things that are not awesome:
-the inch-long gash in my kneecap thanks to a mysterious sharp bit lurking under my bedframe. Bleeding is fun!...or not. I wish I had a bigger band-aid.
So! Tomorrow is the big Ohio trip, which segues nicely into the Alabama trip...provided that a certain email went through, of course. The eagle may have landed, but he's being mighty quiet up there in the nest, if you catch my drift. Hint. Hint.
Apr. 15th, 2009 @ 11:59 pm
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Our schedule has become delightfully manic.
In three days, I leave to visit Ohio (and Alabama - squeedles!). In two days, Ben leaves to spend two weeks to a month working onsite in Kentucky.
Therefore, tomorrow we'll be visiting nine houses in order to find a place to live by August. Gah. Out of the houses we've seen so far, we've liked only one, so hopefully we'll end up with two or three other contenders to pad out our Seriously Trying To Buy This list. Then we can start actually buying one of them, and who knows - maybe we'll be able to move before our nameless kidlet makes his triumphant appearance!
So...yes. Ohio and Alabama, and then I'm almost immediately turning around and going to Michigan for Penguicon, and then two weeks after that is a baby shower in Ohio, and two weeks after that is my cousin's high school graduation in Ohio, and then I'm not allowed to go anywhere else for a long time...which means that you should come and visit me!
In other news, we now have a baby room crammed with free furniture! Yay for inheriting things! (And yes, I spent quite some time making sure it met modern safety standards, wasn't recalled, and will not fall apart in any way.) There's something neat about knowing that my kid's going to be sleeping in the same crib that I slept in when I was tiny.
Apr. 13th, 2009 @ 08:15 am
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FOOLED YOU!
I actually did get my hair cut yesterday. However, it doesn't look a thing like this:
In fact, that's not even my hair! I gave myself some fake hair with the help of taaz.com (which is fun to play around on in a let's-see-what-I'd-look-like-with-dreadlocks kind of way...incidentally, it looks like ( this...) )
It's a silly thing. My real hair, however, looks pretty much like it used to look. It's about four inches shorter, and it's got layers now (oooooooo...) but yeah, nothing too out of the ordinary. I had short hair once and I hated it, and the odds of me hacking it all off like that any time soon are very slim.
Ain't I a stinker? *eats a carrot*
Apr. 10th, 2009 @ 02:28 pm
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On a whim today, I decided to get my hair cut. One thing led to another, and I kind of got sweet-talked by the hairdresser, and, well...unexpected things happened. ( Snippity snip! )
Apr. 9th, 2009 @ 05:53 pm
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I ended up at a casino tonight with my mom and her friend. (Yes, yes, I am that cool.) As we walked in, the door guy asked to see my ID.
I knew it was coming. I always get carded. Nearly every person on this planet looks at me and sees someone much younger. I was asked to join the middle school reading group a mere month after I graduated high school. At Kings Island, my coworkers were visibly astonished to learn that I was not, in fact, attending high school, nor had I been in such a place for well over seven years at that point. I look young. I'm used to it.
Nevertheless, this night is special, for tonight was the first night that anyone has ever thought my ID was blatantly fake!
Okay, so the casino was in Illinois, and my ID is still from Kentucky. Okay, so I've got a rather unlikely last name. Okay, so my sweater looks kind of way too low cut in my picture (my stupid under-sweater-shirt slipped right before photo time and I didn't notice).
We strolled into the casino. My mom and her friend easily bypassed the doors. I, however, was almost instantaneously summoned to the counter and asked to surrender my identification. He looked at the ID, then at me, then at the ID. He studied both it and me in intense detail, like he was going to be quizzed on this later. But I was wrong, for it was I who was to be quizzed!
"How do you pronounce your last name?" Okay, well, it's Nee-dur-guh-says. I got it right! (Never mind that I was tempted to say 'McLovin' instead.) He scowled and studied the card again.
"Now, I'm 5'4"," he pointed out, perking up as he catches me in my obvious lie. "Your card says that you're 5'5", and you're clearly not." Ah! I gestured to my footwear, which this evening was a pair of three-inch heels. "Oh." His face slumped in dismay as I passed that test too.
And then, the ultimate test - he looked up a copy of a standard Kentucky driver's license on his little computer and compared them with his brow furrowed like someone taking an exam on advanced physics in Mandarin. And yes, point by point, they matched!
He was so certain that it was fake. However, he had nothing else to call me on, and so he reluctantly handed over my card and let me in. Oh, it was obvious that I wasn't a welcome customer, though, since none of the waitresses offered me a drink (and yes, they had soda and water as well). My mom? Sure! Her friend? Absolutely! Me? Nope.
The best part of the evening, hands down, was seeing all of those old women nearly spit out their drinks at the sight of a seemingly-16-year-old pregnant chick wandering around inside a casino. (I'm not much of a gambler. When the penny slots got boring, as they frequently did, I amused myself by looking up to see who looked away with a guilty twitch, as if they'd been staring at someone in the general area...) The best, I'm told, is an old lady who was staring at my stomach as if she expected me to pop out the kid right there amidst the slot machines.
Thank goodness I didn't opt for the pigtails today...
Apr. 8th, 2009 @ 09:50 pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/ap_on_re_us/iowa_gay_marriage
"The Iowa Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling Friday finding that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples, making Iowa the third state where gay marriage is legal."
I'm so happy! I'm not gay (er, obviously) but this is still something I've wanted to see for a long time.
I've never understood why it was such a big scary thing in the first place. I mean, two people who want to make a lifelong commitment to one another and have it officially recognized - what could possibly be wrong with that?
The best part?
"Court rules dictate that the decision will take about 21 days to be considered final, and a request for a rehearing could be filed within that period...But Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said the county attorney's office will not ask for a rehearing, meaning the court's decision should take effect after that three-week period. "Our Supreme Court has decided it, and they make the decision as to what the law is and we follow Supreme Court decisions," Sarcone said."
Today, I can honestly say that I'm proud to be from Iowa.
Hooray!
Apr. 3rd, 2009 @ 09:56 am
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So...this year, we may end up acquiring a baby, a house, and a car.
Yeah, we're a little crazy.
Did I mention we're hoping to move by August? Y'know, when the baby's due in mid-July?
...we're completely crazy.
Oh! And I'm going to be spending most of April out of town, and then there's at least two road trips in May, and we have to actually find a house yet...
But when we pick a house, and buy it and stuff, it'll be so nifty! We'll have a yard! And I want to buy a Moonbeam couch (seriously, she's got the most awesome couch ever) and...
oh my god adults are the most boring people on the planet. If you catch me waffling on about how awesome mortgages are, shoot me in the head.
erm...oh! I know! Something interesting!
(there are more. the storyline starts here: http://gunshowcomic.com/d/20090309.html and you should read them all because lil' Rorschach is adorable in all the wrong ways.)
Apr. 3rd, 2009 @ 09:04 am
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I've been thinking a lot about names recently, for fairly obvious reasons. So, whenever I hear that someone has a new baby, I demand to know the name. I've heard a lot of...interesting names coming up recently (would you name your child Nevaeh?) but today I found a pair of names that entertained me in a different fashion.
Ben and I have been watching the Biggest Loser. (Y'know, aside from the obvious shilling and the occasional had-to-be-scripted outcome, it's a pretty fun show. Watching people shed 100+ pounds in three months is amazing.) Anyway, the hostess of the show just recently had her second child!
What has she named her two children, you ask?
Ben and Megan.
bahahahahahaha...
(for further name-fun, her husband's name is Dave, which is my dad's name.)
We are still looking for the right name for our own little burrowing parasite kidlet, though. I'd ideally like to find a name that's not revoltingly common, and yet not outlandishly different. I was in a classroom with three other Megans at one time - imagine how fun that was. On the flip side, naming him the male equivalent of A-a (pronounced a-dash-a - I know, what the hell?) seems like a ticket to future resentfulness if ever I've heard one. Some names are out simply because of the fandom connection - for example, I was thinking Alex would be nice until I realized it could (would) be shortened to Al, and that's a bunch of accusations just waiting to happen.
Meh. The kid will get a name before he's born. In the meantime, he's alternately known as Dash, Jingles, Jasper, and occasionally Rorschach. (Because he likes sugar, that's why.)
Apr. 2nd, 2009 @ 02:18 pm
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We saw a heavily graffiti-strewn billboard today. On the right, crammed into a tiny space, was this:
'so i herd you liek mudkips'
The internet is invading reality! Run! Women, children, and dramatic chipmunks to the lifeboats!
Mar. 28th, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
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