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12 February 2014 @ 01:49 pm

You can tell you have had insanely cold temperatures in winter when you go out on your lunch break and go "It's so warm/nice out here!" ... and it is 22 degrees (-6C).

In my defense it is also sunny. :P

19 September 2013 @ 03:08 am

Again, sorry for not responding to comments and other people's entries. I'm going to have quite the marathon commenting session when I'm around to do so. I wouldn't usually post when I owe so many comments, but this is Day 10, and no way am I having to start the challenge over.

Still sick. If anything, I feel worse than before, probably due to stress and stuff. IDK. I did all of the stuff with my mother and then went to take a nap when I got home. I remember shutting off my alarm at 10:30 or so and then woke up now. As I am not braining, and it is almost 3am, you get the dream I woke up during just now instead of any actual "real" post.

( Not all that spectacular as far as dreams go, but I need an entry, so...Collapse )

And then I woke up. And realized I had to post, so didn't fall back into the dream to see how it played out. And I am kinda sad about that, because I sorta wanna know what on earth was going on there. :P

Here's hoping that I start feeling better soon and that I'll be around tomorrow night to respond to things and such.

OMG, if I don't start feeling better soon, IDK what I'll do. It has been two weeks, and I almost feel as bad as I did that first Thursday/Friday. With added pinkeye!

I hope everyone is doing well. :)

18 September 2013 @ 12:05 am

So, I'm still sick. And now also exhausted. Work wasn't bad today, but as I didn't get home from the hospital until well after 3am and didn't get to sleep until almost 4am, it seemed longer than it was. And then I was at the hospital. So I'm not braining well at all right now.

Meaning I'm not doing any comment replying or post replying tonight, sorry. As I'd like for comments I make to actually make sense.

I wouldn't usually make a "real" post to my journal in this state, either. But I need to make some kind of post for the challenge. Kit told me to write poetry about kaiju, and Meg requested an ode to her toes, so... crack it is.

No one needs to read this. Really. I make no promises that any of it even makes sense. I'm sure it actually doesn't. So, yeah, just skip over it. Except Kit. And Meg. As they need to suffer the awfulness of this because they forced me to do it.

And warning for spoilers for Pacific Rim. Kinda. Better safe than sorry.

( But, if you are feeling masochistic, have 4 poems about kaiju and one about toes (but not an ode, though, because I cannot brain enough even for a crack ode)Collapse )

I don't know what time I'll be home from the hospital tomorrow. But hopefully it will be soon enough that I will have some time to write a real post and respond to everyone else. I love (LOVE) that everyone is posting. And that everyone is commenting to my posts. And I swear I will get to them soon. Really.

16 September 2013 @ 01:34 am

I had so many plans for today after work. But I woke up with my eye glued shut. When I managed to get it open, it was goopy and rather red. Yay, pinkeye? (Image if anyone else is kinda grossed out, but kinda fascinated by these things as I am. But, yes, gross-looking eye at that link. You have been warned.) I did make it to work (last time I had pinkeye, they said it was fine for me to work, as long as I didn't touch my eye and/or washed my hands frequently. I don't know if my primary job wants me to work tomorrow with it. I have a message in with my supervisor. My supervisor last time didn't want me to work, but this one might.

Last time I had pinkeye, the doctor at the clinic had me wash it out with baby shampoo (as it is antibacterial but tear-free/supposedly painless) instead of antibiotic drops (presumably because those cost money, and this being the free clinic, they like to work around that if they can?), so I tried that this time. However, that image is after I have done so twice today. (Granted, it was also after I woke up from a nap, so theoretically, the nap, like nighttime sleep, could have made it worse?)

Anyway, this means I am wearing my glasses from 1997 (I had ones from 2005, but the earpiece broke off and I hate spending $300 on new glasses when I only wear them when I can't wear lenses) that are just enough off from my actual prescription that they give me headaches. (On top of the headaches/dizziness/etc. of my current virus

THAT WON'T GO AWAY EVEN AFTER OVER A WEEK *sob*

.) Plus, it means that my eye is filled with goop, so it won't focus. Obviously, both together makes being on the internet difficult.

So, you get this instead of a real entry. Because I really don't need to think or focus to whine about it. (I wouldn't have bothered to make an entry at all, except no way am I breaking my streak on Day 7 of the challenge!) Sorry for whining two days in a row. I'm going to try to respond to comments in my LJ as I hate being behind, but I might not make it. And I probably won't make it to replying to other people's entries.

Sigh... I hate being sick.

13 September 2013 @ 11:12 pm

I dropped a lot of shows last year (Once Upon a Time, Castle, Bones, NCIS, Grimm, Suburgatory, etc.) so I was really hoping there was going to be a lot of new television shows I'd want to watch this season, but, nope! It doesn't seem like there will be. Thus, my television viewing is going to be a bit sparse this year, I think.

( What I'm watching this coming season, at least for nowCollapse )

So that is 10 definites and 5 maybes/going to see how the first episodes go. I used to watch like 30 shows at one point, so seeing my list getting down that low seems really, really, really odd to me. Oh well. Maybe I'll luck out and a show that I didn't think I'd like will end up being one I really enjoy. (Like Hannibal last year.)

13 September 2013 @ 01:16 am

When I was a kid, I adored Wonder Woman. I had the Wonder Woman underoos, I dressed up as Wonder Woman for Halloween (I totally wish I'd grabbed a picture of me as such. Maybe I'll add it when I go to my mother's tomorrow), and I watched every episode of the Lynda Carter television show when it reran when I was a kid. I also have always adored books. As such, I tried Wonder Woman comics at least twice, about when I was in fifth/sixth grade. However, I didn't care for them. It might have just been the issues I had access too, but I didn't care for the art style, as it was too jarring to me, and I didn't care for the story, as there just wasn't enough of it for me.

( Fast forward to the Avengers movie...Collapse )

To the surprise of probably no one, my favorite character is Emma Frost. I want to read more about Magneto and his family, as they have potential (especially considering what I've seen in the cartoons that Kit has had me watch), but they haven't really been in too many of the books I've read. I also want more Daken (my library only had a couple of them), as I think he has potential to be a character I like reading about. There are a few characters that I'm not thrilled with (surprisingly, I'd consider Charles/Professor X to be one of them at this point, which I wouldn't have guessed considering the movies I've seen of the X-Men), but overall I think I've enjoyed what I've read so far and want to read more.

There are many other series I am interested in, both past and current. The problem is getting my hands on them, as I can't justify spending the money on them, so I am limited by what is available at my library. I might end up getting desperate when I've exhausted my library and buy some. Although part of the issue is figuring out which titles I'd want to buy and where I'd need to start them from and all of the logistics involved. Comics are a convoluted entity!

(So sorry for the TL;DR. It really is a ramble. You really only need to know that I read a lot of various X-men titles from the cut text.)

10 September 2013 @ 09:57 pm

So as some of you are aware, I don't tend to sleep much. Which means I tend to read a lot. In the last couple of weeks (maybe week and a half?) I've read The Memory Collector by Meg Gardiner, Phantom Evil and The Killing Edge by Heather Graham, Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs, and Hide by Lisa Gardner. All were reasonably interesting and perfectly fine ways to pass the time, but I probably wouldn't recommend any of them, really.

This is why I don't generally do book posts! :P

I'm currently working on hello, darkness by Sandra Brown, which I'd guess will be about the same, but then I next have Making History by Stephen Fry, which queer_theory recommended, so I'm looking forward to that one, if only as something different.

( Some series that I've read semi-recently that I'd recommend are....Collapse )

As a related aside, if anyone has any mystery, thriller, urban fantasy, or high fantasy books they'd like to recommend, I'm always on the lookout for new things to read! :)

09 September 2013 @ 06:45 pm

So, for universe_the, we have to post on 10 consecutive days.

If I do that, I will have surpassed my post total for all of last year, I think.

I'm going to ramble for today, but like others doing this challenge, if anyone has anything they want me to talk about (like top 5s or other random Tumblr memes), feel free to poke me with them.

Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes for my kitty. He was in very dire straits (the following week the vet looked at the lab results and marveled at how bad they were), but he pulled through. Now I have to keep him on prescription food (that costs more per day than I spend on myself for food!) for the rest of his life, but he should be okay.

School this year is going well. I have slightly older kids this year, and they are doing well with a lot of skills. I also love my co-teacher. So it seems that this year will be smoother than the last few have been. Sadly, however, I'm not really appreciating it, as I am working multiple jobs. My only scheduled day off from the start of August until the end of October was Labor Day. (I did get sick last week and call out one day, but considering I was absolutely miserable, I'm not sure I should count it. :P ) Fun times.

My sister is engaged. I like the guy a lot, but I'm so not looking forward to being in the wedding. I'm going to do it, because she wants me to and it is her day, but I wish I didn't have to.

I guess that's it for now. I'll do books and television and movies and stuff on other days. This was thrilling, I know. :P

10 August 2013 @ 10:49 pm

I know, I haven't updated in awhile. And I have things I could talk about, whether it is RL or television or whatever, but somehow I never get around to it.

This is basically just a plea for some good vibes. As one of my kitties, Eliot, was "off" when I woke up Friday morning, but we were short-staffed and I couldn't afford to lose a day of work, so I went in, instead of taking him to the vet right away. He got worse, so I got him to the first appointment today and it turns out that he had a urinary tract blockage. Which is what killed my other kitty, Midnight. He had the surgery ($500 that I really couldn't afford, but how do I not?) and he is home now, but he peed on my bed instead of in the litter box when I was babysitting tonight, and I think peeing in other places is not supposed to be a good thing. (But it wasn't bloody, and it was a decent amount, so maybe that is a good thing? IDK.)

Anyway, I'm really worried, as I can't handle losing one of my kitties right now, so if any of you get a spare second to send some good wishes his way, I would very much appreciate it.

Happy Dyngus Day everyone!

(And no, it is not an April Fool's thing. It is an actual holiday. That my sister's fiancee got us into, as he is Polish-American. It is mostly just fun to say, though. :D )

16 December 2012 @ 09:01 am

So, Angie talked me into playing mafia this round, but I can't decide who I want to be. As I have a handful of minutes before I have to leave for work, I figured I would enlist your help.

( Poll and stuff behind the cutCollapse )

And now, off to work. :)

15 December 2012 @ 02:22 pm

26 moments that restored faith in humanity this year, aka sometimes you need a reminder that people can do wonderful things.

Obviously there are many more moments like this that have happened, and if you have links to them, I would love to see them.

30 September 2012 @ 11:42 pm

So, I was looking for Natasha video clips because my Avengers DVD does not arrive until Tuesday and I was trying to find her "voice". Somehow I ended up watching a bazillion (roughly) Avengers videos set to This is War. Which is actually a decent song for the movie, if, apparently, way over utilized. Anyone who is familiar with the song (or the TV_Realm challenge that used it as one way to sort characters) knows that there are several types mentioned in the song. And while I found it interesting how people classified the Avengers among those types (Natasha was civilian, victim, liar, and I think one more in the vids I saw, for example), I also found it frustrating. Partially this was due to some of the vids being made before the actual movie came out. Partially this was due to people having radically different views of the characters from me.

All is fine. People are allowed to view things whichever way they want.

However...
I can't get it out of my head now. The song is running through my head a lot (which happens to me; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik was once stuck in my head for months for no reason), and I keep debating how I would sort the characters. Even though I have absolutely no reason to care about that, as I am not planning on using it for any challenge or vidding the song or anything.

Make it stop? Please?

This message brought to you by Meredith's brain that has had little sleep the last few weeks, is crazy stressed with inspection and Parent/Teacher open house, and is fighting off a cold. You're welcome. :)

25 September 2012 @ 07:12 pm

So, I could talk about how stressed my job is making me (the administration this week has made me want to pull my hair out... and it is only Tuesday *sigh) or how stressed I am about the city inspection of my house this week or how much fun I am having RPing or about the television I am watching or any of a million other "real" things.

Instead? I wanna share that the McDonalds down the street from me was offering free coffee. So I got some. Which, for anyone who knows how much fun I have going to sleep on a normal night will recognize for the absolutely

insane

awesome idea that it is. :D

19 August 2012 @ 07:06 pm

This was the Snopes question/answer of the day, and it interested me a lot...

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word -- from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word? And what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

There are apparently several answers to this. I looked at the answers before trying to figure it out. If others want to do that [**the viable words are behind the spoiler tag**] they are: startling, stringier, strapping, scrapping, and splitting. If you include the "cheat" of having the first letter removed be the "s" of a plural noun, there is also: cleansers, splatters, drownings, wrappings, starvings, and trappings.

14 November 2010 @ 12:21 am

Sorry I've been absent. In addition to RL work stuff (which I won't get into detail about, but I've almost quit my job several times), I also wrenched my back (such that sitting for longer than 5 minutes makes me want to chop off my leg). I know I say it all the time, but I really do intend on catching up! I've since stopped my second (and third) job, so I should have more free time now, hopefully.

Now, on to what I am really here for. I'm a member of femslash_land. (I recommend it for anyone that loves female characters, as for most of the challenges you can use whatever female characters you like. It's awesome!) Currently, I'm working on my big bang. I've decided to do gifs, because there can never be enough gifs of strong female characters.

And this is where I'd like input. I'm going to ignore the "big" fandoms/characters, like Legend of the Seeker and Battlestar Galactica for the most part (although I may gif Admiral Cain) as they tend to be already fairly well represented. I have a ton of other characters that I'd love to gif, but I figured I'd see if anyone had anything they really wanted to see.

So far, I've had a request from xdawnfirex for Kate from NCIS. (However, she didn't really have any specific scenes that she wanted to see, so if there are some that you would like to see, let me know.)

Does anyone else have any specific requests of characters/scenes that haven't really been gif'ed much? I have the source material for a lot of shows, and I'm sure I can find other material if I don't have it.

08 September 2010 @ 01:05 pm

Signs that you need a life outside of work/land comms/mafia games and/or more sleep...

1. You snooze your alarm for 4 hours (4 hours!!!)
2. During that 4 hours you have a dream that you are an innocent with at least 2-3 other innocents with you, being pursued by shadowy assassins, and you have to hide in deserted warehouses while trying to figure out who is hunting you. (In defense of mafias, the Rizzoli & Isles I watched before bed also had this theme.)

I had so many things to do this morning, and none of them happened. And it's not like snooze sleep is "real" sleep anyway, as I was awakened every 7 minutes for that 4 hours. *headdesk*

I looked at the calendar this morning and realized that from August 9th to September 11th, I had two days where I did not work at least 3 hours. (3 days a week it is 14 hours.) And both of them were me in bed with a stomach virus. Sigh...

Off to work. Again. I hope everyone is doing well. I keep thinking I'm gonna go through my flist and catch up. Hopefully it will actually happen this weekend, as I'm only babysitting on Saturday. I just felt the need to comment, as I feel like I've totally lost touch with a bunch of you.

So, I ended up joining scifiland. It turns out that La Femme Nikita is on the list of approved shows to use when writing/making graphics/whatever. Yay!

For my first task, I have to make a picspam of a favorite character/episode. I at first thought I'd do Madeline, as I adore her. Then I thought I might do Nikita, as she evolved so much over the course of the show and it would be interesting to highlight that. But I thought those picspams might be spoilery, as I'm making this for a general community. Then I thought I might pick a favorite episode, as that would be easier and potentially less spoilerific; however, I had a hard time choosing one. (Plus, it seems a lot of my favorite episodes would likely be spoiled by a picspam, so IDK.)

As there will probably be icons related to the picspam, and I know that some of you are still LFN fans (I have all of your meta saved, nell65, and will respond to it soon, hopefully), I figured I'd get your opinion. It will end up being at least 20 pictures, most of which I will turn into icons afterward.

This is for a general community. What do you think might draw people in and possibly get them interested in watching the show? Should I do one on Madeline? Should I do the many faces of Nikita? Should I pick an episode? Which one? War? Hard Landing? Nikita? It's really hard to balance interesting with non-spoilery.

There are so many choices I don't know what to do with myself! Help? Please?

Current Mood: contemplative

I'm thinking of joining scifiland. I have, however, found that I do best when I know and like people on my team. (The Disney failure taught me that!) Thus, before I sign up and request a team, are any of you going to join, and if so, which team will you join?

Current Mood: curious

I've been having a crappy couple of weeks. as Dana is moving out and our house has been filled with boxes, such that there is only a path from the front door to the back bedroom. It is really stressful. Plus, I've been working a ton of hours. However, one of the kids said something adorable this morning that made me laugh, so I felt the need to share it.

He brought in a stuffed Luigi doll this morning and was telling me all about it. Then, in all seriousness he said, "He keeps asking me if he is alive. I keep telling him he is just a doll."

This is why I like my job sometimes. :)

Current Mood: stressed