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Saturday, July 19, 2008
11:53PM - Depressing Saturday
Not that anything bad happened actually, but I was depressed.
No blowback from yesterday though, that was good.
After work we watched the end of Banner of the Stars. Had a family spat, but made up.
Then The Kid and I took a brief walk to the all night store. And now I will read.
Gratitude List:
1. Days over.
2. Good anime.
3. Cats.
4. made up fight.
5. Jello pudding cups.
6. Going to bed.
rushedFriday, July 18, 2008
10:57PM - I survived the Imperial Visit
She doesn't like me though. Hardly spoke to me. Oh well...
She only stayed for part of the day.
After she left, guess who phoned me? Chris! Yay! Just before closing though, we hardly had any time to talk. But still!
Came home, had sushi for dinner. cause nothing says "almost vacation time" like eaw fish on rice! Then watched Banner of the Stars.
Going to bed now.
Gratitude List:
1. Ursula leGuin.
2. Survived the day.
3. Did good.
4. Going out with out The Kid to mail her voter registration form
5. Air conditioning.
6. Voting rights.
cheerfulThursday, July 17, 2008
11:28PM - A very mixed day
The visit by the person of Importance went well this morning. Mostly. That is a Good Thing.
I got an e-mail from Steve B, which is always a Good Thing. I spoke to him on the phone, which is a Better Thing. The e-mail was about Arleen G getting rid of S&H 'zines, and did I want them, which is an AMAZING thing.
And The Husband got a raise. Small, but a Good Thing.
So what's the downside?
I did a Very Stupid Thing. I protested to the Evil Overlordress about a staffing problem tomorrow. I protested Very Vociferously. She did not Like My Tone. She does not like me. And in response to our staff shortage, she is coming herself tomorrow. This is all Very Bad.
I am not in a good place. Even after watching The Kid's prom dvd which came today and also watching several episodes of Banner of the Stars and taking a short walk.
Pray for me tomorrow.
Gratitude List:
1. She can't cook me and eat me.
2. Heard from Steve.
3. 'Zines from Arleen!!
4. Anime.
5. I was Right, damn it.
6. Going in to read now.
nervousWednesday, July 16, 2008
10:59PM - Short staffed
So what else is new? Bah humbug.
Aside from that work was OK. Pretty quiet. I read a Mercedes Lackey book. The Boss was annoying. Tomorrow I have a Visitation of a Higher Up coming. Should be OK I hope.
On the way home from work I reread Le guin's The Other Wind. So beautiful. I need to reread all the Earthsea books.
Very tired. Don't think I slept well last night.
The Kid spent the day out at Cody's.
We were just watching something quite odd but very funny on PBS. Clik and Clack, or some such name.
Now we are going to bed to read. And that's about all.
Gratitude list:
1. Quiet day.
2. Pretty colored glass.
3. Good books.
4. Ursela Le Guin.
5. Amusing animated programs.
6. Bedtime now.
tiredTuesday, July 15, 2008
10:23PM - Day at home
So we were all here today, The Kid didn't have anything she was doing, so we had a sort of family day. Her graduation pictures that we ordered came, very cute.
We spent a lot of time reading Tales of Future Past which is a site a adore.
And then I went to my meeting. I chaired, the topic was trust. I need to remember to keep trusting my Higher Power, that I'll be taken care of.
Came home, watched "I survived a Japanese Game Show", and then called Oldest Brother.
And now we'll go to bed and read Square Meals.
Gratitude List:
1. My meeting.
2. Something that worked out well today I don'twant to write about.
3. People like my birdie pics.
4. Tales of Future Past.
5. Family time.
6. Air conditioning!
cheerful10:54AM - Fawkes pictures!
Tried posting this last night but had trouble. So here we go now.
Fawkes from the front, taen at Mom's sitting on The Kid's hand:
And Fawkes from the back, so you can see his pretty blue tailfeathers.
My pretty birdie!
Monday, July 14, 2008
11:25PM - A late night.
But I don't have to work tomorrow!
Work was... blah.
Survived it, came hom, watched the very end of Antiques Roadshow, then The History Detectives.
Then The Kid and I took a walk, down to her old grade school and back.
And that's really all.
Oh, I found another novel about the rescue of the Danish Jews today, a kids book called Hitler's Canary. Some more interesting stuff I didn't know. Rescuers fascinate me because they are the reminder that, just as odinary everyday people can be monsters, so can ordinary everyday people be heros and saints. If we lose sight of the rescuers it becomes to easy to believe that all people would fall to evil given the chance, and have no reason to do better yourself.
Anyway, The Husband and The Kid are watching an anime that we've seen before, Karas.
I forgot to bring the picture of Fawkes to work so that I could post it from there, but if I have time now, I will tonight.
Gratitude List:
1. Rescuers.
2. Walk with The Kid.
3. Fun time watching TV.
4. The day was survivable.
5. I'm off tomorrow.
6. My bird.
tired10:13AM - The whole computer froze up last night
So I gave it up as a bad attempt and went to bed. Updating this morning instead before I start getting ready for work.
So we went to Mom's yesterday. It was a nice time, very quiet. The Husband barbacued, The Kid made strawberry shortcake, I read outloud from Square Meals, which is a great book.
We used up the sparklers that we had left over from the 4th. I love sparklers.
I bought Fawkes, and got a couple of nice pics, so I'll post one later.
After we came home we watched another film noir, The Stranger. Excellent!
Gratitude List:
1. Family.
2. My bird Fawkes.
3. Lovely time at Mom's.
4. Good movies.
5. The computer is working now.
6. Gettig problems straightened out.
cheerfulSaturday, July 12, 2008
11:19PM - Film Noir
So the day started with me going to my meeting. The topic was anonimity. An important one to keep in mind. Awfully easy to fall into bad habits!
Got a ride home, which was nice.
The Kid was leaving to see a movie with Heaven. her sunburn is better, bte, though still painful. They saw the new Hellboy movies, and The Kid was quite impressed. Can't wait to see it myself.
Then we watched film noir. The Husband had ordered a five movie set. We saw DOA, which is about the guy who's been poisoned and is searching for his killer before he dies. Yes, the movie that generated the idea for A Coffin for Starsky. So now I've seen it. it's ok. Then The Kid and I took a little walk, and then we watched Detour. Which was really not too good.
And now it's time for reading ghost stories.
1. Ride home.
2. Nice day.
3. Got a llittle writing done.
4. Movie time with family.
5. The Kid feels better.
6. Going to Moms tomorrow.
cheerfulFriday, July 11, 2008
10:40PM - Pretty good day
The day went quickly. That's the one good thing to be said about working 9-5. I got a good bit of stuff done that needed doing.
The Kid went to the beach with friends today, and has come home with a horrible sunburn. Oldest Brother, don't mention the sunburn to Mom, OK? Aside from the sunburn, she had a great time though.
So she took a cool shower and I sprayed her with sunburn stuff, and then I read a funny thread from Ship of Fools out loud to everyone. And now we're going to bed and I'll read ghost stories.
Gratitude List:
1. She hasn't gotten burned very often.
2. Got some relieving news today.
3. The Husband talked to Reema's father today about her coming to the cottage with us.
4. Feel better than yesterday.
5. Weekend!
6. Nice evening.
cheerfulThursday, July 10, 2008
11:13PM - Just quick
It was a stressful day. Had a program, 10 attendence pretty good.
Now time for bed.
Don't want to write any more.
Gratitude List:
1. Carrot cake.
2. Family fight settled OK.
3. Cats.
4. Bedtime now.
5. Friday tomorrow.
6. Catharsis.
drainedWednesday, July 9, 2008
10:31PM - Just another day
The Boss was back, and as annoying as always. But the day was quiet for the most part. Busy, but good-busy not bad-crazy-busy.
Got a little bit, just a teeny little bit, of writing done during lunch.
Got home, The Kid was out shopping. She just got back. Went to discount clothes stores in Manhatten.
I called Mom, and the Oldest brother to arrange going to Mom's on Sunday. Should be fun. I think I'm going to bring Fawkes, I know I haven't posted anything about my lovely birdy lately, and no pictures for over a year! But I promise if I do bring him I'll get a nice picture and post it.
The Husband has been playing Oblivion. And soon we will go to bed.
Gratitude List:
1. Family.
2. Quiet day.
3. The Kid bought nice clothes cheap!
4. The red panda that's being raised by a cat in Amsterdam.
5. It didn't rain while I was on my way home.
6. Pandas in general.
contemplativeTuesday, July 8, 2008
11:33PM - It was a hell of a day today
Work SUCKED. Three different problem people, and trouble with fellow staff.
Came home to unhappy financial news.
Then went to my meeting, THANK GOD! Even that was a little wonky, with some disruption from the disruptive element that I've mentioned before, but all in all good. The topic was sanity and insanity, which went right along with the rest of the day!
Afterwards The Kid decided to take me on another walk! She is getting me to exercise. Which I need. So we walked up to her old grade school and back. And talked. Very plesant!
Called Oldest Brother, probably going out to mom's on Sunday again.
Now to bed!
Gratitude List:
1. Survived the day!!
2. My meeting!
3. Nice walk with The Kid.
4. The Kid found the long missing wireless card for her laptop, so once she passes it on to me, I'll have wireless access!
5. People with cactus growing in their yards in Queens. That makes me happy.
6. Bedtime now!
cheerfulMonday, July 7, 2008
11:50PM - A walk in the park
So I had to go back to work today, boo. And 12-8, double boo.
But halfway through the day The Kid called me up and asked if I wanted to take a walk when I got home. Now how could I turn that down?
So we went to the park and all around, talked a lot, and watxhed fireflies. Very nice. Made me feel good.
And now we're going to bed and I'm going to read Gastroanomalies out loud.
Gratitude List:
1. She wanted to take a walk with me.
2. Nice night.
3. Fireflies!
4. The big park.
5. Books by James Lileks.
6. Bed time.
happySunday, July 6, 2008
11:18PM - Quiet Sunday
The Kid went out with on of her friends who has a drivers license. And a car. This means the first time she went out driving with someone her own age. This is a scary thing! But after a nice and productive day she is home.
The husband and I went out for lunch! To a real restaurant! Well, OK, it was just the diner at the end of the street, but it's a real restaurant anyway.
And after that we did some shoping, including getting new cheap luggage for our trip to the cottage.
Then we came home and tried to do some stuff around the house, but unfortunetly it ended up causing more trouble than it solved. *sigh* I hate when that happens!
I wrote some more in the crossover story. I hit a block when I realized that I couldn't think of any way to get out of a situation I'd gotten Hutch and my OC into that wasn't annoyingly cliched. So I started a thread on the ff.net forum that I hang out on occasionally, and someone had a suggestion that works out pretty well. So that was good.
And then The Kid got home, and soon we're going to go to bed and read ghost stories.
Gratitude List:
1. The Kid is home safe. Not that I was really worried but you read so much about teen drivers...
2. Good story advice.
3. Time out with The Husband.
4. Got some writing done, and some ideas.
5. In the home repair debacle today, no one got hurt.
6. Whichever of our birds it was that did something very dangerous and annoying didn't get killed in the process.
cheerfulSaturday, July 5, 2008
11:44PM - Meeting day and shopping
Started by going to my meeting. It was a step seven meeting, I need to take action to help work on my character defects.
Anyway, got a ride home again with Pat, so that worked out nicely.
After i got home, I puttered on the computer, then went and watched The Husband play Oblivion.
Then in the evening The Kid and I went out clothing shopping. It actually worked out better than I was expecting. She managed to find me some nice stuff, and I've gone down a size in pants! We had a pretty good time.
KFC for dinner, and then I took the leap of faith and let The kid trim my hair. My bangs had long since ceased being bangs, and I had more split ends than I like to think about, but she trimmed my bangs and cut off most of the split ends, and it looks good! Better than it did before at any rate.
Anyway, now it's time for bed. Ghost stories!
Gratitude List:
1. New clothing.
2, Nice time out with The Kid.
3. Got my bangs back.
4. Meeting.
5. Program people!
6. Dropped a size in pants.
cheerful2:55PM - A catch-up post
I meant to post yesterday before we went to my mother's because I knew there wouldn't be time after we got home, but I forgot. So here's my 4th of July post.
Happy Independence Day!
Went to Mom's, Oldest Brother picked us up, and we spent the whole day. Not much happened, The Husband barbacued, The Kid made strawberry shortcake, we had some party poppers for noise and sparklers for shiny. We watched fireworks on TV. Oldest Brother had a chance to read what I've wrtten so far in the crossover story and liked it. We watched three episodes of the Twilight Zone marathon in the late night before Oldest brother got back from work to take us home.
And we got home by 2 am this morning. All-in-all a very nice, if quiet, 4th.
Gratitude List:
1. Independence Day!
2. My country (yes, I am secretly patriotic)
3. My family.
4. It didn't rain badly.
5. Sparklers.
6. Fireworks!
Edited for pathetic typos.
cheerfulFriday, July 4, 2008
12:24AM - Happy Anniversery to Me!
And The Husband, of course. 24 years today!
So we didn't actually do anything special. But we ordered Chinese, and we exchanged cards, and I bought some anniversery balloons.
You may ask, why did you get married on July 3rd? It's a family thing. My parents were married on July 3rd. My aunt and uncle were married on July 3rd. My grandparents were married on July 3rd. And my great-aunt and great-uncle were married on July 3rd. So it just seemed like the thing to do. It works out nicely, you always have a holliday the day after your anniversery. *sigh* of all those anniverseries, the only one where both parties are still alive is me and The Husband. It would have been Mom and Dad's 54th anniversery today...
So aside from that, The Kid applied for a job at Barnes and Noble today. her first job application!
And she brought home some dvds. And we watched Jesus Camp. And I am very disturbed.
But now it's time to go to bed because we're going to Mom's tomorrow...
Gratitude List:
1. 24 years for better or worse.
2. Still pretty hhappy.
3. The Husband is still alive, (unlike my father or uncle Jack, leaving mom and Aunt Helen to have their anniverseries alone)
4. Family tradition.
5. Not being a member of a church like in Jesus Camp.
6. A Kid who's a free-thinker.
confusedWednesday, July 2, 2008
10:04PM - Most of the paperwork done
Just a little left to do tomorrow.
Tomorrow is my 24th wedding anniversery, btw. Yes, The husband and I have been hooked 24 years. Wow!
Not much else going on. It's been quiet at work, we had a good-bye party for one of the student workers today, that's about it.
The Kid apparently spent the day at Heaven's, and now she's on her way home. Once she gets here I'm going into the bedroom and read more ghost stories.
OK, she's here so I'm just finishing this up...
Gratitude List:
1. Quiet days.
2. Summer!
3. Finishing projects.
4. My mood's better than it's been.
5. Old pictures.
6. I can stay out of fights I have no stake in!
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