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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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10:28 pm - wow, it's thursday already?
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synchro: in the middle of a vertical, my goggles broke. )-: luckily i had another pair in my bag. the team routine is coming along nicely. there are only three areas where we fall apart. unfortunately, they're in the beginning, middle and end. some of us are too fast and some are too slow. hmmm. luckily, we have a few months to work it out. the nice lady from the Cascades agreed to help Mom and me and MzC work on our trio. that means i need to be at the pool at 630 monday morning.
things on my list that i did:
* cut the outlet holes on the boards for the short wall.
* shopping. got new goggles, supplies for tomorrow, and food.</a>
* "Monsters vs Aliens" at the Crest during the first scene when the underling said "SuperNova this is Red Dwarf," the lady next to me gave a little squeal of delight. i was happy that i was sitting next to a fellow geek. (besides GeekBoy on my other side)
things i didn't do:
* knit. although i spent an obscene amount of time on Ravelry, looking at projects and following a couple of drama threads. oh, and i placed my first KnitPicks order. i bought yarn for a sweater for wing1 and for a shawl for my aunt (she has Leukemia and is starting a four week infusion treatment this month. i hope to finish the shawl before her 50th birthday which is at the end of this month.)
* clean the kitchen.
news:
* mom told me this morning that babci, my father's mother, was taken to the hospital last night with pneumonia. mom said she was fine and would probably be out today. dad texted me around dinner time to repeat the news but said she'd be in the hospital all weekend. she has congestive heart failure, probably due to the pneumonia. he said she's on extra oxygen and iv antibiotics. dad says she'll be fine.
* mom is getting frustrated with waiting. she has a multi-nodule goiter on her neck, pushing her windpipe. she'll have the surgery to remove it within the next month or so, but she'd rather it get done sooner than later.
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i don't know if i'll post tomorrow. we'll be across the puddle for the fireworks show (and i've been commissioned to paint a mural (*cough* 'Dine asked me to paint some dancers on the windows of her new studio in downtown Poulsbo.)) the plan is to head over fairly early, drop me off at the studio, have GeekBoy and the girls hang with my family, watch the fireworks, and then come home. saturday we're putting up the walls (adhesives and screws, woohoo!) and then heading to the Duchess' for dinner and watching the fireworks there. sunday we finish any and all work regarding the walls. (goal is for weds and thurs to be Paint Days, and next weekend unload the storage unit so i can spend the next week preparing for freakin' MedFest)
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9:28 am - blub
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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10:26 pm - hey, it's july already
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on my 'to do' list:
* read and comment on dthon's latest. done. wow. wish it was published so i can buy some dead tree copies and give them to several people who i think would enjoy it.
* knit an hour. done. finished the ribbing on the secret swap project.
not on the list but accomplished anyway:
the girls had a friend over last night. somehow in the midst of reading the abovementioned novel, i agreed to take the three of them to open swim. so at just before 2, we walked to the pool, they swam and i knitted. then we walked home. exercise AND i got out of the house. (-:
read some library books. two graphic novels and two lace books. i'm thinking of knitting a shawl, once i finish the WWM.
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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10:58 pm - another month over
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synchro: coach was there! yay! after warmup we ran through the team routine with her. MzD was on deck to give us feedback and play the music. Mom had to leave early so she could catch the ferry for her doctor's appointment. the lady from the Cascades came and gave us advice, too. we might change the ending of the routine. plus, the Cascades lady helped me with my verticals. i was able to support scull without freaking.
came home, had cinnamon Life for breakfast. mmmm. i bought them for GeekBoy but i think i like them too. zoned sleepily in front of the computer (Ravelry, ftw! joined the "WIP Wrestling Mania" on team LSG; tagged several wip to be finished in July) until the girls got up. i started thawing the dough in the oven for buuuuns. i must be reading the package wrong because the dough came out dry and not puffy. )-: while the dough was in the oven 'thawing', i knit for an hour. i'm that much closer to finishing the secret project for the Guild swap (which happens to be one of the wips for the WWM) made buuuuns with bbq beef. they didn't turn out fabulous, but even non-fabulous buuuuns are tasty. had some for lunch, bagged the rest for future bento lunches.
shockwave tuesday. wing1 watched and chatted with me while i played 'wedding dash'. meh. then it was couch time, to read the newspaper and watch Olberman. made dinner (salmon and rice) which was done a few minutes after GeekBoy came home. while dinner cooked, i got sucked into a really addicting game. one of the winglets' friends, our former neighbour, came over. they ran off to the park after dinner and i headed off to class.
practice went well. ran overtime, actually. we warmed up for two songs, then danced the three songs, then walked through them sans music, blocking where everyone was going. then danced once more to the music, where we forgot a lot of the blocking. *eye roll* we have three more practices before MedFest. i think we can do it. if not, well, it's an experience. (-:
came home, admired GeekBoy's mudding skills in the sunroom. we talked about our timetable. if all goes well this weekend, i'll be able to put on the primer on Wednesday and paint on Thursday. read sinfest and ravelry and got sucked into PvZ. on the endless 'i, zombie', i made it past 11 levels. a personal best.
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i set a goal at the beginning of this month to post every day and to write down what i do every day. the hope was to figure out what i did with my time. well, i know what i do. i waste a lot of it reading websites or playing games. )-:< and not enough time spent on the computer doing productive and useful and important tasks like emailing friends or writing. i think i'm going to have to limit my computer time, and make sure i do important things first, *then* check websites. *nod nod*
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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10:37 pm - monday monday
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after our *delightful* conversation this morning, wing1 was in great spirits. she helped me win a couple of levels of PvZ (endless challenge). the two winglets and i went to the library and then Costco. one of the shawl books i placed a hold on came in. to my great surprise, it's the same book my sis-in-law gave me for xmas. small world.
we came home and i made the girls shower before their doctor's appointments. the doctor saw them at the same time, which was very nice as their appointments were scheduled 40 minutes apart. wing1 has a deep, thick wart (plantar's wart) on her foot. prescription: mediplast for the next month. wing2 has the start of a bunion and thick callous on her foot. prescription: pumice. wing2 also has folliclitis under her arms. prescription: her own damn razor. they also got the first HPV shot. we picked a number for the pharmacy (for the mediplast) and then checked in for the shots. wouldn't you know it? as soon as they called our number, the girls were called for their shots. thankfully, the winglets are old enough to get their shots without me.
stopped at the grocery store to get the little things that Costco doesn't carry (my favourite brand of pickles, for one) wing2 was in a giddy mood. it got to the point that we would just *look* at her and she'd dissolve in giggles. (-: i like moods like that.
came home, put away stuff. the computer GeekBoy ordered last week arrived today. the thing is smaller than a paperback book and more powerful that a couple of the computers we already own. it's going to be our new 'MEvo' and record our shows.
OH! i got a great package in the mail today, too. from Texas. XD magnets and candies as a return gift for the green knit hat i made for uncle bebby. love it, babe. *mwah* i'll take pictures tomorrow and post 'em.
caught up on my websites. (is it really legal for Texan law enforcers to enter a bar and arrest citizens for 'public intoxication'?) took a quick nap. watched Olberman while waking up. headed to class.
no one signed up for my intermediate class this session. *shrug* my beginner class is really cool, though. three students, one of whom already knows quite a bit but doesn't mind reviewing. very comfortable class. i don't feel that panic of 'omg i'm a bad teacher i can't explain it properly and they hate me!!!!'
cereal for dinner, again (usual monday fare) played PvZ for a while before i realized i hadn't done Animal Crossing. i was archeologist today. bought a turban (awesome!) and got 'cracked earth' design from the hungry walrus. read a library book - a manga that i have to hide in my bedroom to keep it away from the girls. while i accept their interest in yaoi, i'm not comfortable with them reading one about an s/m relationship between a vampire and a dhampir (in this book, half-demon vampire-hunter).
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8:50 am - yucky teens
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me: quit biting your nails.
wing1: i'm cleaning out under them.
me: *wrinkles face in disgust* you eat nail jam?
wing1: *points to nose* and these too.
me: *turning away* go eat breakfast.
wing1: *happily* i already did!
iiiiiiiiiiccccckkkk!!!!
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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10:21 pm - again with the not so productive
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while GeekBoy made dutch babies for breakfast, i cleaned the table and had the winglets start the laundry. then, while the winglets started cleaning hteir room, GeekBoy and i went to work on the sunroom. he encased the wood beam (ex-support for the old eaves and gutter) in wallboard and i cut the doorskin for the other walls.
this is why i love my GeekBoy. he assumed i was capable of measuring and cutting (with power tools, even!) the relatively expensive doorskin. guess what? i was. he answered any questions i had without making me feel like an idiot, just inexperienced. and i didn't have all that many questions. i made one mistake, but it was easily fixed. (all that 'measure twice, cut once' crap doesn't count if you're measuring wrong each time)
by lunchtime, he had half the beam covered and i had the south wall cut. (including the doorskin that was going *behind* the metal beam) we had a quick lunch and went back to the sunroom. the girls kept on the laundry, and did as little as possible in their room.
by the time i finished the doorskin that slid behind the north beam, GeekBoy finished with his area. he went to Home Depot to get something so we could mud and tape the corners. i kept measuring and cutting. when he got home, i had started measuring for the area under the windows. that's when it happened.
i had just cut a 4x8 in half (-ish, it was 23 1/2 inches by 8 feet) and was releasing the clamps to rearrange the second half to be cut smaller when my hip gave out and i fell to the floor. it took a while to stand up and i couldn't put any weight on my right foot. GeekBoy helped me to the tv room (carpet floor) and let me writhe in pain for a bit. i did the PT that should have stopped the pain, but really, nothing but staying still and wimpering helped. while i rested, GeekBoy finished the cutting. i had done most of the measuring (and wrote it on a scrap piece of wood) so he would come in and ask me questions. that was nice, helping him even a little bit, but i still feel awfully guilty for not finishing *my* job, and laying on the floor while he finished it. because of me, the sunroom won't be mudded until next weekend. )-:
i had graduated to the couch by the time GeekBoy cleaned up the sunroom. we ordered pizza for dinner. it was an hour wait so we had some popcorn for snack and watched tv. with dinner, we watched "Holy Grail". heehee, the winglets had never seen it before. they liked it, although they made sure to let us know that it was a weird movie. they had heard a lot of the clips before, through us or AMVs. once the movie was over, we channel surfed and found 'MiB' and Ninja Warrior. woot!
GeekBoy had downloaded a game on his phone in which you rearrange shapes into a square or rectangle. i downloaded it to mine and *bam* we're addicted. wing1 wanted to play it and now she's solved most of the levels for me. silly girl. silly GeekBoy. silly me.
anyway, i'm still hurting so i'm going to see if sleep will make it stop.
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| Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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11:03 pm - tried not to be useless
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got up late and had a nice leisurely breakfast of sugar cereal with GeekBoy (winglets were at a friend's house) mid morning we finally left the house. dropped off some dvds at the library, went to Bartell's for some pads, and then to Home Depot where we bought drywall sheets, doorskin (or really thin wood) and all the goop needed. i was helping GeekBoy as much as i could; stretching on my tippy toes to grab the doorskins as he slid them out (from their perch on the fourth shelf - he had to balance himself on the second shelf just to reach the wood) on the second to last load of doorskins, they were yanked out of my hands. a guy decided to help the little woman and took over. he and GeekBoy finished loading the cart while i just stood there feeling kinda useless. *sigh*
once we got home, i helped unload Gus. it took several loads but we found a balance - it works so much better if we're both on the same side (heh, like so many things in life) we only paused for lunch after screwing in the second drywall board. after lunch we went back at it. the first two didn't have much cutting needed, just 2 inches to fit the wall. the rest required more altering. but we got the entire wall boarded by 4 o'clock. wow, does it ever change the feel of the room. one more step away from 'garage-type room' and towards 'living area.' we cleaned up and showered because Queenie was coming over.
she arrived just as we got out of the shower. she likes what we've been doing. she brought her newest 'baby' - a little dog named Olivia. (long haired pomeranian, i think?) we sat on the deck and chatted. GeekBoy started dinner and wing1, Queenie, Olivia and i went to the store. dinner was bacon cheeseburgers. mmmmm. we watched "Real Genius" with dinner. Queenie hadn't seen it before. she liked it.
after dinner, we loaded her car up with the remaining HipDrops. i have a box of each flavor, but once those are gone, they're gone. yay! Queenie is going to hand them out at the opening of her new studio in Poulsbo as well as handing them out in the 4th of July parade. we're going over on the 3rd for the fireworks; i'm going to go early and paint her windows. eventually i'm going to do a mural in the studio for her.
once Queenie left, we went into vidiot mode. AC, got our K.K. songs. i rearranged my main room, swapping the exotic theme for the classic theme. Ninja Warriors was on g4 so we watched that until i got so tired i couldn't sit still. i'm bloggin' and then i'm beddin'. 'night all.
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8:29 pm - cooooool knitting video
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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10:39 pm - what day is it again?
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aaaaaand summer vacation has hit Stately Wing manor. that was fast. after GeekBoy left, i read some sites and sipped my tea. at 10, wing1 finally got up. i put us to work cleaning the house since the Duchess was coming over in the afternoon. wing2 cleaned their bedroom, wing1 'cleaned' the tv room and i cleaned the rest. i got the girls to mow, too.
the Duchess came over as i finished baking some gluten-free chocolate chip cookies (from a mix; they were good; i'm going to have to stock up on that mix towards the holidays) she complimented the work we've done on teh sunroom so far. i made her a drink of tonic water and St Germaine. then we sat and had tea and cookies and talked and talked and talked. i sent the kids into the shower one at a time; they needed it. i offered the Duchess one of our hutches - she's been looking for one but had to use the money she had set aside for it towards a new fridge; the one she has now keeps trying to kill her or Moke. i had been worried about where i'd put all the furniture in the rearrange; this solves both our problems. um, once we figure out how to get the heavy damn thing out of our house and into hers.
after she left, the women of Stately Wing manor turned into vidiots on our respective computers. i managed to get the girls packed for their slumber party, though. GeekBoy came home early (yay!) MzCorey picked up the girls. GeekBoy went out and got sushi and yakisoba. after dinner, he capped the (ex)outdoor spigot. then we played AC for a while. the computers called but after about an hour, the bed called even louder. as i was getting ready for bed, i discovered one of the winglets used the last pad and didn't tell me. grrrrrr. luckily, i had one in my purse. also luckily, it's towards the end so the need isn't as frantic. we'll get some on the way to Home Depot tomorrow for the drywall stuff.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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10:22 pm - now that song is stuck in my head. punishment?
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because i'm 'on deck' this week, i didn't have to be at the pool by 6, so i got to sleep in. made it to the pool by 7 and tried to get the team going on the routine. the real coach had been there and gone. she's moving jobs and has to be downtown by 7 now, so it looks like she won't be our coach anymore. hopefully my favourite 84 year old can be our coach (with me stepping in when 'on deck')
came home, had breakfast, showered, headed to Writers Group. knitted and listened to chapters. got my "Catherine the Cursed" back with the Fearless Leader's notes. she thinks there's too many negatives and not enough positives. hmmm.
came home, picked up wing2, went and picked up wing1 from her slumber party. we went to Fred Meyer's to get them black notebooks ('no, mom, really, i'm not obsessed with DeathNote, just because i'm quoting it all the time and cosplaying as Misa and trying to create my own death notebook and...') we had golden arches for lunch. i tried their third-pounder with mushrooms and swiss. Kidd Valley's is better.
totally wasted the afternoon away on rav and plfm. had to yell at wing2 to leave it when she came in asking for a haircut to get bangs like Misa for the fourteenth time in three days. seriously, what makes her think that i will say 'yes' if i keep saying 'no', with increased anger, all the other times? i explained that to her (after shouting NO to her) and i think she got it.
Duchess called for a sanity check. yes her life is so bizaare that talking to *me* is a sanity check. made arrangements for her to come over tomorrow afternoon for a pleasant visit. tried to watch the news but all it was was coverage of Jack-o's death. (i'm a baaaad person. when i heard about his death, i texted my twin "first macmahon, then fawcett, now michael jackson is dead. R I P, it's easy as 1 2 3")
GeekBoy came home as i was looking for something to make for dinner. we ended up having the good ramen. introduced the girls to Daria, 'coz we got "is it fall yet?" from NetFlix. Mr Watt texted me then called 'coz he can't text while driving home. i hope i get to see him while he's stateside.
did some AC and then decided to go to bed at a fairly decent time.
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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10:48 pm
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wii fit: -2.9lbs, wii age 39. i either youthen or lose weight; can't seem to do both at the same time. *shrug*
after wing2 caught the bus, i sipped a cup of tea, did my wii fit and PT, and bummed around on the computer until 10ish. i was sweeping the sunroom floor in preparation of applying the next coat of grout sealant, totally zoning on my zune, when this strange lady walked into the sunroom. i screamed. it was wing1. *her* school got out way early and she was home by 1030. took me quite a while to get my heart rate down. maaaan, that was freaky. to help calm me down, i showed her a sweater pattern that looked easy enough to knit and modify, then showed her the yarn i was thinking of knitting said sweater (mud season, for you rav'ers, in knit picks Wool of the Andes bulky, in coal, long sleeves with a cable down each arm and extended neck ribbing. the sleeves would go over the fingers, and have a thumb hole)
wing2 came home after i finished applying the sealer. she crawled on my lap and cried because she didn't want to leave her school. she liked that elementary school.
wasted a lot of time on the computer this afternoon. i hurt my back applying the sealer so i really didn't feel like moving all that much. played "Cradle of Persia", one of the new Shockwave games (meh), read ravelry. took wing2 to an 'end of school' slumber party. came home, finished reading the manga i bought on monday ('Clover' is weird because the first two books happen AFTER the third book, which happens AFTER the fourth. nice art, though.) did my AC, read my newspaper, watched tv, read the first book of "DeathNote" since wing2 is getting obsessed about it. i read it a couple of years ago just as the sensation started. bleh. why would anyone like this story? i don't like *any* of the characters. wing2 wants to get her hair cut into bangs so she can cosplay as "Misa" (whom i call 'miso' much to wing2's annoyance) ("but what about Ed?" "well, even Ed likes to cosplay now and then." i don't even question the idea of a tortured manic alchemist boy cosplaying as a vapid model girl.)
too lazy to do anything for dinner for just wing2 and me. GeekBoy went to a client's house after work to diagnose a sick computer. he didn't get home until after 9.
managed to call my mom and ask about her ultrasound yesterday. yep, she has a multinodular goiter threatening to crush her windpipe. nope, don't know what they'll do to it until her next appointment, next Tuesday. surgery or drainage. also found out that my aunt (mom's youngest sister) has to start treatment for her leukemia next month. maybe i will go with mom at the end of July to visit her.
this is pretty cool. and those on rav? go to the LSG forums and check out the "Nerdy Guys I'd Like To Bang" thread. yummy pictures. (-:
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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10:44 pm - *hugs*
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no wiifit today.
principal called to touch base with us. boys were being dealt with. no class party for them.
'Moving On' ceremony was nice. the speeches were short. the representative of wing2's class had what i felt was the best speech, and spoke clearly and entertainingly. she was James in last week's production of The Giant Peach. i fully expect to see her on stage or screen in the future. after the ceremony, the boys' mothers came up to GeekBoy and i. wow, that was a hard time. they were both devastated at their sons' actions and concerned for wing2. i hugged them both and gave them tissues to wipe their eyes. we assured them that wing2 was okay, that she was angry at them, and that we knew it was a one time thing. the boys understoood the utter wrongness that they did and i highly doubt they will be doing it again. ever.
GeekBoy and i went out to lunch at a Thai restaurant in Richmond Beach. it was pretty good. not quite Thai Heaven but better than most Thai restaurants i've been to. we found the class on the beach and sat next to the teachers, chatting with them and other parents. once the kids were rounded up to get on the bus, GeekBoy and i said our goodbyes. we stopped at Home Depot on the way home to get a thermostat for the future sunroom heater, and checked out the prices on the supplies for drywall and roofing. (ow, nearly $300 for the supplies for roofing materials and we're not even sure it'll deaden the noise)
while GeekBoy fiddled in the sunroom, i played PvZ. this month's period is harsh and draining (in more ways than one, ha. ha.) and i have very little extra energy. i taught tonight so i reserved my energy. watched Olbermann for a bit. played a new Shockwave game.
class was fun. we walked through the last song over and over. the last time we danced through it, i made us turn away from the mirror. whee, that's always a blast. at least i'm starting to do it a month before MedFest - last performance, i forgot to turn us around until the practice BEFORE the hafla! (and one of the dancers doesn't do well with surprise changes) i gave them homework (lotus hands, while pretty, are frellin' difficult to learn, and to teach! i can't figure out how to deconstruct the move to step them through it)
came home, collapsed on the couch. GeekBoy 'made' me dinner of a bowl of Honey Combs cereal. yeah, i eat healthy on dance nights. did AC because i was the archaeologist. at about 945, i went into the computer room and did sinfest and ravelry. now i'm going to bed.
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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10:10 pm - *sigh*
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wii: + 1.1lbs, age 32.
caught the bus downtown. the bookstore in Uwajimaya held my interest for a while - ended up buying some FMA figures for the winglets and a manga for me ("Clover"). at the grocery store proper, i bought more of the best ramen ever and some water for dance class tonight. cramps were really bad so everything was an effort. ended up at Suss' building an hour ahead of schedule, so i sat in the ground floor lobby and knitted and looked at the garden.
we ate lunch in the bottom-bottom floor of the building and chatted. (lunch: mini bagel with roast beef and wow-wow sauce, cucumbers, fresh fruit salad) after she went back to work, i meandered to the Market. i was really full from lunch and wanted to sit somewhere. but i didn't want a drink. so i ended up in the squid atrium, down the ramp from the Chinese herbalist, listening to music on my zune. i bought doughnuts and headed to the bus stop. i stopped at the Starbucks on the west side of Benaroyal and read my manga until ten til 3. luckily there was a graduation being held at Benaroyal so i could use the restroom before catching my bus home.
wing2 came home from school to tell me that her ex-boyfriend paid another boy in the class to grope her breasts. there were witnesses and the recess monitor was told. wing2 told me that the principal will be talking to the two boys. i don't know when - tomorrow is their "Moving On" ceremony. ('graduation' from elementary school to junior high) *sigh* the teacher was absent today, so i don't know what talking to him will do, but i will make it a point to talk to the principal either before or after the ceremony. wing2 is ... fine. embarrassed that it happened. both GeekBoy and i told her that if it happened again she would have our support if she slapped the groper (Geekboy's suggestion) or kicked him in the taint (my suggestion)
the summer session started tonight. of the three beginner students signed up, only one showed. she had previous experience, so it was more of a private lesson/refresher class for her. it was quite fun. i like her. (kistha, she says there's hula being taught at the Spartan Gym (by my house) and there might be a new class starting up at the end of summer. when i get more info, want me to post it?) no one was signed up for the intermediate class, but one of my advanced students showed. we spent the hour working on the performance routine. she's admitted she's out of her comfort zone but willing to make her debut at MedFest. i admire that a lot.
came home, ate cereal for dinner. watched GeekBoy do AC. then wing1. then me. did some internetting but now i'm ready for bed.
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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10:16 pm - happy daddy day
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made scrambled eggs, bacon and english muffins for breakfast today. (usually, GeekBoy makes Sunday breakfast) we ate in front of the tv because !! Ninja Warrior !! (damn, i'm pathetic, and GeekBoy is an enabler) laundry was started.
i picked wing2 up from her party/sleepover. made lunch for GeekBoy who was happily doing all the wiring in the sunroom (at the end of the day, the room was completely wired, including the back door outside light. just a few minor cosmetic touches and the room is ready for drywall.) i cleaned the kitchen, made the mushroom essence, made wow-wow sauce and roast beef and mashed potatoes for dinner. had to run to the store mid-sauce for the final ingredients (which i'm totally amazed we didn't have) dinner was yum yum good. cleaned the kitchen. the girls took care of laundry all day. did a little AC, of course.
i'm heading downtown for the June lunch with Suss, so i thought i'd update my Zune. i hadn't done it since rebuilding the system so i had to reinitialize it. ended up wiping the silly thing and spending the last hour or so creating a playlist. it's not the same as what i had, but it'll do for tomorrow.
now for something new and unusual... going to bed before 11pm.
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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11:00 pm - yatta!
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breakfast in front of the tv; Ninja Warrior weekend! i tried to be productive, but *sigh* i really love this show. managed to get a shower in. got my hair cut. more than six inches were taken off. my hair, which reached to below bra strap level, is now just brushing my shoulders. came home, had lunch. made a fruit salad for the party.
dropped wing2 off at her friend's house for their 'end of school' party. went to TJ's for the birthday party. greeted people then hid downstairs watching/playing 'Guitar Hero' with the nieces and nephews. came upstairs pretty much for dinner, the opening of the presents, and cake. i guess that's why no one noticed my haircut.
came home, cuddled on the couch. we took turns getting on Animal Crossing and banging rocks and getting a song from KK. watched more Ninja Warrior until we all just kinda gave in. bed time.
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wii: gained .4lbs, wii age 26. whoo. did some balance and aerobic exercises.
went out shopping for the party tomorrow. four birthdays - two nephews, a bro-in-law and a niece-in-law. hit Northgate and managed to get everything except something for the bil. headed to Costco. got bil's gift and bought fruit for the fruit salad. came home, bitched to no one about the messy kitchen, had lunch. cleaned said kitchen. read some websites.
wing2 went home with her friend to decorate the house for their party, so wing1 and i went out on our own. library, yarn store, Daiso, the Bon, and then the grocery store for the tidbits Costco didn't have or i didn't feel like buying a gazillion of. arrived home about twenty minutes before GeekBoy did, and he stopped for take-out. wing2 arrived about ten minutes after GeekBoy did.
after dinner GeekBoy did his AC, then i did. banged rocks, met the new inhabitant, tried to find a tarantula. while wing1 did her AC, i did some forum hopping.
g4 is playing a marathon of Ninja Warrior, so we settled on the couch and flipped between that and Ghost Adventures/Most Haunted. (hmmm, green video and questionable research vs highly athletic semi-nude Asian guys? and i have the remote? why are we even looking at the ghost programs?)
sent text messages to wing2 all evening. yes. she was laying on the floor at my feet, reading the latest Yen manga-zine. and yes, we texted each other. yes, we talked out loud, too, but it was fun sending texts. i like it when we get along.
wing2 gave up first, about fifteen minutes into Most Haunted. GeekBoy followed ten minutes later. so wing1 snuggled with me on the couch and we watched until midnight.
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at the yarn store, i bought the shawl book i had ordered for my Guild swap partner and a skein of Cascadia to make her fingerless gloves/mittens (like what i made for GeekBoy this past winter). using a $20 discount from filling up a stamp card, the entire purchase was $6. now, which total counts towards the $40 cap on the swap? the amount i could have paid or the amount i *did* pay?
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me: you like vampires, right? (we're talking about the Shojo Beat i bought them that had "Vampire Love" as a cover story)
w1: *pauses* *matter-of-factly* all except the Cullens who are a disgrace to the vampire race. *emphatically* vampires should NOT sparkle!
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me: describes to GeekBoy the bus stop incident.
w2: where did you get that phrase anyway?
me: a British comedian.
w2: *goes back to reading the manga-zine*
me: you'd like him; he dresses in drag.
w2: *gives me a slow look, bordering on an interested grin.*
if she could remember the comedian's name, she'd be googling him before breakfast.
i have weird children.
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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9:39 am - forgot my friday filter, apparently
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this morning, wing2 and i were waiting for the bus and talking about her classmates and their email addresses.
w2: {girl}’s address is m.ache at {isp}. heh, it would be funny if it was i.ache.
me: if they named her Isobel?
w2: or Izzy. *giggles*
me: COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!! *nearly falls down laughing*
w2: *backs away from me rapidly with a very confused look on her face*
i've never even seen Eddie Izzard except what i've learned from lsg on Rav and here on my flist.
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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10:27 pm - it seems going to bed before 11 is just not possible this week
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synchro: i really dislike backstroke. i'm not going to go into my paranoia of hitting the wall at the end of the length (even using the flags as a guide, i still count outloud and wince as the end nears) no matter how i hold my head, the water seems to find a way into my head. in the space of the first 100 yds of the backstroke part of the warmup this morning, i managed to a) inhale water and b) get some water up my nose and into my inner ears.
anyway, we worked on the team free for a while. the cd i burned yesterday helped because we could go straight to the end bit. we ran through the team tech (ick. i call it the 'xlana watches everyone else because she can't remember the routine' routine. this weekend i'm going to watch the video and refresh my memory.) then Mom, C and i worked on our trio. it's a fun song and the routine is fresh and cute. after land-drilling what we knew of the routine so far, we decided to swim it. Mom said "kick off the wall and go for distance" so i did. after the first 8 count, i look around to spot the others and make sure we're in line still. uh, i'm several body-lengths ahead of them. so i spend the next two 8 counts backing up to join them. the rest of the team laughed and called me a torpedo.
mom won't be at practice next week. thursday she and dad are flying to Minneapolis with my twin for an underwater hockey tournament. tuesday, she's getting an ultrasound to determine what can be done about the 'multi-nodular goiter' that has been discovered on her neck and is pushing on her windpipe.
wii: -0.4lb, wii age 36.
in writers group, i finished the turquoise hat and started a powder blue one. the chapters read today were: the psych student in the early 70s doing dream interpretation on her friend/ex-lover, a fire at the hotel on Thanksgiving in the frontier, a recent widow visits the priest but can't get the words out for help, the world traveller visits an island resort on the India Ocean. next week is the last meeting until September. i hope the Fearless Leader reads my submission then.
after writers group, i got to spend time with dthon and kistha. it was a lot of fun. kistha, i apologize for all the puns and jokes i said. your self-restraint was admirable; i should have followed your example and restrained myself. especially after the 'sealing trout for scale' comment. *scoots away*
i got home literally one minute before wing1 did. it's been really nice these past few weeks; when the girls come home, they seek me out and talk to me. then they ignore me for the rest of the evening. (-:
after catching up on my sites, i grabbed the paper and sat on the couch. once again i fell asleep in the middle of olbermann. the ringing of the phone woke me up; it was GeekBoy wondering if i was okay since i wasn't answering my texts. um, the phone was on the charger and i was asleep, dear. oh, sorry.
the winglets made dinner (tomato soup and noodles, with goldfish crackers for those who wanted) after dinner, the girls played on their computers, GeekBoy worked in the sunroom and i did Animal Crossing. then i played PvZ for a couple of levels, admired GeekBoy's work, and watched him play AC.
oh, just a note for myself: towards the end of synchro this morning, my finger tips were going numb and the back of my hands tingled. i suspect it's because of my neck and shoulders being really tight. i need to fix that before tuesday.
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