Sunday, June 29, 2008

Damn it.

What do you do when you have a party, and a friend brings someone you don't like?

All this guy can talk about is how "dope" his rapping is and how his metal band is going to kick ass once they get a gig. Normally I think musicians are great people... But this guy is just a boring, drunk moron. He went on my computer and brought up his MySpace page so we could hear his music... Now, I think I have a pretty varied taste of music, but this stuff bites. And he can't stop talking about how awesome it is.

Hopefully he won't stay all evening...

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Sadness

My great-uncle Bob passed away last Sunday. It was so long ago since I'd seen him, something like 15 years. I didn't spend much time with him, but he would sometimes call my mom and start chatting with me -- I can hear his voice, in the sweet Minnesota accent: "Hey, Lulu, it's yer uncle Bob." We couldn't go to the funeral because last-minute airfare was a fortune, and we didn't qualify for a "grievance discount" because we're not immediate family. My mom's cousin Fran; Bob's daughter, sent us the eulogy. It was really nice and spoke about what a kind, friendly man he was, and this was the last paragraph:

After a two-week decline in the hospital, he yearned to be reunited to his beloved wife. Last Saturday he returned to the Veteran’s Home for one last time—happily residing with Betty once again. The next day during the late morning while sleeping in his bed, he simply stopped breathing. He passed away like we all pray we ourselves go—no long fight with cancer, no painful disease, no suffering—he simply stopped breathing and quietly slipped away. It was Father’s Day, and he returned to his Father in heaven.


I'm in tears now. I suppose partly because he passed away in such a gentle way, the way we all want to. I'm not a religious person by any means, but I hope Bob is in a special place now.

Frustrated...

God F$%^$ing dammit... I just logged into my LiveJournal account and my photo galleries are GONE. TONS of pictures, disappeared. My paid account lapsed and I didn't get notice, because it was attached to my old email address, which I don't even remember the password for. ARRRRGH...

Well, I think 90% of the pictures I have on cd. I'm pretty sure. So, okay, calming down. But it's still frustrating...

My Mom drove me home from dinner tonight and tried out the Wii Fit. She is in SUCH good shape. Her BMI is like 21.7, or something. I'm jealous! Need to lose weight...

I'm going to go watch Buffy and work on knitting my market bag... *Sigh*

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Wii Fit... And the job for John!!

So, the city investigative job that John has been waiting and waiting to hear about (and was really starting to doubt he would get it) finally called... And he GOT IT!! He is thrilled and has been telling everyone. He starts training on July 7th.

Unfortunately, this means probably no Hawaii trip in August. :-( We'll have to see, maybe he'll be able to get time off between training and starting the actual job, but it seems unlikely.

In other news, I have been working my ass off on the Wii Fit for the past week. I've only missed one day (Monday), and made up for it by working out for an hour and a half yesterday! Still haven't lost any weight, but that probably has something to do with the big dinners I had Sunday and Monday night.

I'm about to start this blanket for John's nephew Andy, who's just a month old. It's okay to give them a blankie in August, right??

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Air Conditioning and The Boy.

I have a problem. John doesn't believe in air conditioning.

We don't actually live together, but we're always at each other's apartments, and it's rare that we spend more than one night apart. At his place, it's bearable, because somehow his apartment stays relatively cool. And he has a fan in the window. And besides, it's his place -- I can't really demand that he get an AC just for me.

My place is a different story. I live in a kind of crummy, pre-war apartment building, that gets UNBEARABLY hot. So I installed my AC a couple weeks ago (well, actually he did it for me, because it's a big heavy thing). Now, I know we are going through an energy crisis. Plus, my roommate and I are totally broke, and can't afford an expensive electric bill. So even though I'd LIKE to keep the AC at 72 all the time, I can't. I think 79 is a good temperature, and I put it on "Power Saver" when we go to bed, which regulates the temperature of the room and goes off when the room goes above 79. And with this, he gets COLD. I just don't get it.

The one thing I miss about the apartment I lived in last summer was the air conditioning. My landlord was ripping me off on the rent, but everything was included - So I would set the timer on my AC to go on an hour before I got home from work, at like 65 F, and I would come back home and open the door to my room... And it was like a nice cool refrigerator. Mmmm.

Am I never going to get that again?? What am I supposed to do when I move back in with John?

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Photography and yarn

Note to self: Design a knitted camera.

I woke up this morning and found myself bitten by the photography bug. I might even want to go back to school for it, at least take a continuing ed course.

I'm going to go through all my photos and find 15-20 to make a portfolio with.

I'm using this yarn to knit the Dream Swatch Head Wrap (warning: PDF). It should be very pretty and soft!

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