February 9th, 2011
I had told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those web/blog people who started a site and then just disappeared off the face of the earth. Well, I suppose that’s true, because here I am, but it’s been three months. Several times I said, “I need to go make a post, but I just don’t feel like it.” and blew it off. I’m paying for this g-damned site, g-damn it!
Part of keeping a website/blog is to chronicle the things that happen (especially in my case, since my memory resembles nothing so much as a screen door…with holes in it…) and it would have been nice if I’d been on top of things…oh, well.
In today’s news, it’s cold. Friggin’ cold. I know those of you up in Yankeeland don’t think 23 with a wind chill of 10 is all that cold, but in Central Texas…for the record…that’s cold. And it’s icy. But it’s business as usual (BAU). Bleah. My van stopped blowing warm air halfway into work…I’m hoping it’s just a confused thermostat…we’ll see this evening.
My dryer has been eating clothes for some time now. The drum is loose and things catch in the space between the drum and the housing. Minor damage being rusty marks, major damage being holes in things, like a starving moth got hold of them. And now the washer has decided to stop running. It cycles, water runs and drains, but the drum doesn’t turn. The dishwasher conked out a year ago. So..I’m wondering who’ll extend credit to a credit weenie like me. Farg.
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November 13th, 2010
I can’t figure out if I’ve really been that busy or if I have a mental block against posting…or if there’s just so many ideas running around in my ADHD-addled brain that I can’t figure out what I want to post on. If I posted on every little idea that staggers along, there’d be a kabillion and one little, disjointed posts. I have a notebook with me, but usually when I’m thinking about such things, I can’t write…you know, potty breaks, on the bus, etc. (I can’t read, write, crochet, or use the computer in a moving vehicle or I get seasick).
Recently I’ve had posts in mind about obesity, politics, religion…huh…what else is new…but also my house, products, decorating, sewing, etc, etc. *sighs* I guess if I can’t actually DO those things, I can waste time writing about them eh?
In tech news, Microsoft has done some king of weird merge with Instant Messenger (IM) and all your social media. The result…crap. I use my Hotmail account for two things (well, three, if you count IM): Facebook and for those things online where you don’t want to put your REAL email account. I don’t want it, or FB connecting to everything else I have. It’s not that I have anything to hide, per se, but there are elements of my life I’d just really not like terribly public, you know? FB is my public face. I have friends who are co-workers, students in our department, relatives, friends who are not necessarily in my “inner circle,” as it were, and I’d rather the two worlds not collide. although a couple of my close family read this site, I’d really like to keep the rest of the fambly blissfully ignorant of it. R says-re work and the ‘net–to get ready for the “cloud.” WTF-ever the “cloud” is. I neither want nor need my life clouded, thank you very much. There is a sufficient number of people, were they to stumble across this site and read it, who could quite handily figure out who I am. That’s fine, I have no problem with that, but I don’t want to advertise.
I have an LJ account and I’ve not posted out there in ages. Every once in a blue moon, I go out and catch up on everyone’s posts (I have about 6 or 7 friends there), but haven’t felt compelled to post. I’ve even been half-tempted to delete my FB account recently, after a mutual FB/LJ friend (and a very close personal friend) posted that some of her FB friends should “shut [our] cakeholes” in response to a comment on FB, and a vicious attack by a guy I went to HS with. (Did you know, all you liberals, that we’re un-American, stupid, ignorant, uneducated morons? Makes me wonder how the hell I graduated from one of the top universities in this country in a fairly difficult degree, with a high GPA and how I got the job I have, with the military, no less…dang…I’m such an un-American moron. Ppfftt)
The cakehole thing is a perfect example of the anonymity of the internet. While this friend might have gotten testy with me in person for saying something (and trust me, it really wasn’t that bad), she never would have gone off on anyone the way she did on the ‘net. (To put my feelings in perspective, she said several people had made comments, but as far as I could see, I was the only one.) Perhaps I’m overreacting; it has been known to happen and I will admit the post was not directed at me personally, but I still was hurt.
(For the record, I find the terms “piehole” and “cakehole” to be extremely rude and offensive, so perhaps that added to the overall feeling of hurtness. Dunno. They’re just words I never use, kind of like “scumbag,” or “douchebag.” Just.plain.rude.)
I find, in general, that we say things–well type them–behind the shield of the ‘net that we would never, ever in a million years say person to person. Makes me wonder if WWIII will be caused by two or three heads of state going at each other via e-mail some day.
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September 13th, 2010
I’ve been very much neglecting my website. I suppose other “bloggers” have this problem. Do you ever have one of those periods where there’s a lot going on, but either you don’t really feel like putting it all into words and/or you feel if you did, it would just seem, I don’t know…kind of meh…? I suppose that’s a form of writer’s block, eh?
There’s also this: I just don’t seem to get anywhere. One of my friends just cooks along on her projects, and I go to blogs where people are doing cool things and their houses look so awesome…and mine is still craptastic. I have no time, no energy, and no money. I walk into a room, filled with ideas and take one look at the clutter and the dust and say fuck it and walk out to go read or play on the computer. I just don’t know where to start. My place has become like one of those little puzzles you had as a kid–usually numbers, but sometimes a US flag or other picture–where you had to move all the little tiles to make the picture. You’d get one part of it done and realize you had to back-track and move all those pieces aside just to get the corner in. That’s my house. I look at one project and realize the huge number of things that have to be done before I can even start. Fooey.
Anyway, that’s not the big news this week. Everything’s kind of been put on back burners. More on that later…just wanted to let my adoring fans (all two of them, both related to me no doubt) that I hadn’t fallen off the edge of the world. (That got me to thinking if the tea baggers and the flat earthers and the birthers all got together…oh, wait, they’re all pretty much one and the same, aren’t they? Never mind….)
‘Til tomorrow, little buckaroos.
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August 31st, 2010
First off, I’d like to say how disappointed I was to find that this lady is no longer keeping this blog smoke and ochre. Rats. There are so many nice, nice pictures and all on it. But, you know…a kabillion, bazillion, and 93 blogs on the intarwebs and so little time.
Now that the energy devil is not sucking my aura away every day, I’m finding I have enough get up and go to get a few things done. After we decommissioned the old building on Friday, I skated. R had the day off (LBJ’s birthday, doncha know), so he took me to work, went home, slept in, then came and picked me up. We didn’t do much..picked up Taco Bell and came home. I crashed at some point and foo…what did we do Friday evening. I don’t even remember….OH! Crap, of course! Sylvan‘s party! Oy, such a knucklehead I am. Her first novel is coming out, officially on Tuesday! I’ve read the first…second?…draft, but changes were made after it went to the publisher…anyhoo, her BFF, the self-same Laura of Pushing Furniture fame, threw a surprise party. R, W, and I went. It was fun, and we totally surprised Ms. Author. 
Then we came home and I was kind of sick at 4 AM. Nauseous…and for awhile didn’t know which, erm…end….would be a problem (hoping that it wouldn’t be one of those, ah…double-ended things. I HATE that). But as soon as I “went,” the nausea went away and I was able to go back to sleep. Got up about 9:40 yesterday and spent a good bit of the day washing dishes and general clean-up, then went to Lowe’s and Tar-Jay. Spent way more money than I should have. Dammit. But I had most of the $50 GC Laura’s BF gave me for my birthday left. I bought a composter thingy. Now to get it set up. I had made a really cool FREE composter out of hardware cloth and a hula-hoop, but the dog can knock it over too easily to eat the scraps and eggshells. I’ll use that for grass and weeds before adding to the bin.Dorky dog. I got some plastic potted plant pans, a nifty cobalt blue glass mister (on clearance for $1.62!), and some hose parts to repair hoses. At Target, I got some groceries, another pair of black leggings, and a few items of make-up. Yeah, make-up. Gotta problem with that? 
I also picked up a metric-ass-ton of paint chips at Lowe’s and then sat on my bed and played with kitchen design until two AM!
One of the reasons I never get anywhere is…well, it’s a many-layered thing…like an ogre. It is my decorating ogre. I can’t make up my mind…then I have no money…and I change my mind…things go out of style…I have no money….I get more craptastic hand-me-down furniture that needs “fixing” (refinishing, etc.) and just looks like early Salvation Army meanwhile….then I change my mind…and I can’t decide on a color scheme…ad nauseum.
I’ve gone from warm, earthy tones in the great room to working off the grey and charcoal palette in a print I have, back to the warmer tones. I want a mind of Mexican feel to the kitchen and since the two rooms are, um…rather linked, to suddenly go to greys and blues would be weird. Also? I have this olive fabric, like 22 yards of it, for a slipcover for the sofa, and it wasn’t fitting in with the greys in my mind. Well, it would, but there are tones of blue, charcoal and a deep, deep red-brown in the painting. I dunno, it might still work. Otherwise, I’m not sure what to do with that piece. Feh.
So anyway, here’s the latest grouping, sort of, of colors. It seems a bit washed out on my monitor. paint link
There’ll be more of this, but I started this post three days ago, so I’m posting now.
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August 26th, 2010
I was doing quite well last week, with the blogging. And then it all went pear-shaped, as they say.
I did actually make some progress with “things” over the weekend, but you know…two steps forward, 19 back…and here I am again. Still with mounds of clean clothes to be folded and put away; I’d done all the dishes and spiffed up the counters, and there it is all to do again. Damned dishes…what is it with having to be washed every day? I mean, really? And then I tried to do myself in this morning.
I go now?
This cat, Valentino, who is very prone to urinary issues, has decided that even the soft wheat cat litter is not to his liking, so he’s been peeing on the garage floor next to the box, instead of in the box. *headdesk* So, this morning, he’d done it again, so I grabbed what I thought was the hydrogen-peroxide kitty destinkum gallon jug. The stuff foamed up like it was supposed to and it usually has an odor, so I wasn’t too horribly concerned over the odd smell and the burning, tingling eye-thing.
Do you know what the major ingredient in urine is? That’s right, Baby Bop, it’s ammonia!
Do you know what was in the white gallon jug? That’s RIGHT, chlorine bleach!
Now…who knows what happens when you mix chlorine and ammonia?
Are we going to read the label first from now on? You betcha, Red Rider!
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