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Right now is the second power restoration we've had in the last two days. Who knows how long it'll last? I'll try to respond to comments and e-mails right now in case the electricity goes out again.
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This is what it looks like from our front walkway right now.
But our 12 hours without electricity or heat seem to be over. Not that it mattered much -- we'd all gotten a bit antsy, but not suffered otherwise. Keeping a pot of water simmering on the gas stove and something or other cooking on same every once in a while kept the ground level of the house warm enough, and we have windows enough for plenty of light. Plus candles, and the hot water heater is gas, so we weren't in bad shape, though I wasn't looking forward to several days' duration of the same conditions.
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Ever find things you've written in the corners and along the edges of perfectly reasonable notes on daily stuff that would seem to indicate that you live in a reality that doesn't quite perfectly align with that of the aforesaid daily stuff?
Like, for instance, this, which I quote from the upper left corner of a list of phone calls made on 12/08/2009:
"Lex Lutheran Ministries: Taking over the world to help one person at a time"Current Mood:  amused |
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My voter registration has finally arrived in the mail, on it the information for in which districts I can choose which candidates I approve and so on. So there's this list, see. District/precinct. Okay, sounds good. Congressional district. All right. Legislative district. Mmkay. School board district. Makes sense.
And then Councilmanic district.
Hmm.
Yep, Councilmanic district. Still there when I look again.
HEYguysvoteformevoteforMEEEEEandIpromisetherewillbeprogress!!!!!Progressprogressprogressprogress!onlocalthingsthatyoucareaboutvoteformememepleaseI'llbeoverhereandoverthereandeverywhereworkingforyouandyoursjustvoteformeeeeeeremembertovoteformeYES!!!!!!!
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I have been extremely tired all the time! For days!!!
Maybe exclamation points will help!!!!!!!
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...Merry Christmas! To those who celebrate it in whatever way.
I have not managed to write cards and put them in the mail yet, so instead I'm going to send non-holiday cards with personal short letters by the end of January to everyone who was on my holiday card list.
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I just attempted to step into a bra. Not even with the hooks done. I held out the bra, lowered it toward the floor, raised my right leg a little, and went wait a minute.
This one wins. I'm not sure what it wins, but it wins.
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Model monstrous Lovecraftian architecture and landscape -- sculpted in cheese!
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( Thursday - some angst )
Friday was excellent. I finished up the 18 hours or so of cooking our Friday feast required by around 3pm, though we started eating by around 2:30. By "we" I mean myself, Dad, Evan, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) seishonagon, thespooniest, and their housemate S, a good number that left room to get back and forth between the food in the kitchen and the areas of eating. Between Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday morning/afternoon...
I made:
Turkey with white wine and butter to baste
Fruit and nut stuffing and pan gravy, using a recipe acquired from rushthatspeaks
Mashed potatoes with butter, heavy cream, and fresh garlic
String beans lightly steamed with butter and fresh garlic
Baked macaroni and cheese, including a previously made and baked seasoned cream sauce
Caramelized carrots
Mincefruit pie, including the crust
Apple butter pumpkin pie, including the crust
Apple pie, including a different crust that didn't turn out as well as I'd have liked
Baked brie with almond slivers and parsley
Candied yams
Corn muffins (from a box mix)
Cranberry sauce (from a can)
And Dad made:
Two pumpkin pies with prepared crusts
Mincemeat pie with prepared crust and prepared mincemeat
Waldorf salad
...so we had plenty of food, and several of us fell into food comas or became barely-walking food zombies. Yay, brains. ...I mean, yay, food.
Saturday there was a mobiuswolf visiting seishonagon and thespooniest. Since I was able to get down there for the day, we took a few hours to have the first D.C. area Sassafrass rehearsal that wasn't in frantic preparation for a con, a practice I hope will continue. The rehearsal itself went pretty well, too.
Aaaand now I go back to what I've been doing the rest of the time, which is preparing things for other things, looking for things, filling out forms for things, and finding out how to get to things. Whee.Current Mood:  cold |
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Madness approaches. I'd better go see what it wants. |
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This is more for my reference than for you guys, so cut.
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Go to this page. Under the big red heading, "Audio," play segment 1. Go to 28:02 in play time.Current Mood: amused |
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I have had no Internet since Saturday. Now I have Internet. Oh, look -- I also have e-mails and posts and comments and things like that. That's nice. Did I mention that it took two trips to get the remainder of my stuff to Maryland? And that I've been hauling stuff around the room and unpacking and putting it away since? Fall down go thud now. More soon. |
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So so so... I haven't studied Naginata in years, and I'd given up on ever doing so again because it's rare to find an instructor in most areas of this country. I left my practice Naginata in the care of Bryn Mawr College's martial arts club, thinking I'd never use it again. I'd never even gotten a chance to apply for membership to the East Coast Naginata Federation, which I had planned to do at one point, because I lost my contact with that group.
Years later, i.e. a few days ago, I came across the ECNF-logo helmet cloth a visiting instructor had given me to encourage me to join. It would have felt disrespectful to put it to another purpose or throw it out, so I just sat down to look for the Federation's contact information: maybe I could give it back with an apology.
What did I find? Naginata is alive and well in the D.C. area. ::facepalm::
Maybe I can get my practice one back from the college? Before Saturday?
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I made it to level 13 on the expert (70 wpm) difficulty! |
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I've been playing Typer Shark a lot lately between other errands and tasks because hey, at least even though I'm putting things off by a few minutes, I'm making my typing faster and more accurate while I'm doing it.
I've now gotten through up to level 20 in easy (20 wpm) and normal (30 wpm) and level 17 in hard (50 wpm). These levels are well past the point in the game at which it stops doing new things and just makes everything it's already throwing at you faster and faster.
I can tell I've improved a lot in just a few days, but I almost wish I weren't getting better quite so fast. The game is fun! |
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It is Tuesday. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>drink tea
You drink tea. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>drink tea
You drink tea. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>write cards
You write some cards. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>drink tea
You drink tea. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>make phone calls
You make a few phone calls. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>go to appointment
You go to an appointment. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>drink tea
You drink tea. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>heck with this
I do not understand.
>lie on bed
You are lying on the bed. You are very tired.
>wait
Time passes. You are lying on the bed. You are very tired.
>get up
You get up. You have phone calls to make. You have appointments to attend. You have cards to write. You have rooms to clean. You have errands to run. You are very tired.
>drink milk
You drink some milk. You are feeling much more awake now.Current Mood: discontent |
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Hey, everyone, I'm moving on the 31st. I think we decided that two weeks ago, and I forgot to mention.
Friday:
Packing, lunch and visiting with Mom, who drove down from upstate. Next to Grandma and Grandpop's, where we made sure all my stuff there was portable and in the same place so aunt and uncle could come by and put it in storage later. Told Grandma about my upcoming move to Maryland, which she took perfectly well - not sad or angry, but really curious, asking me about a half hour of rapid-fire questions about what and how everyone in my Dad's side of the family is doing now and how they'd been treating me. Left late afternoon; Mom stayed on to go to bingo and make sure everything stayed okay.
Saturday:
Realized everything I had on my agenda for the day could technically be done later, and didn't know what time a phone call I had planned was to go through. Also realized it would be my last chance to hang out in person with Becks for a long time, so I called her up and caught the train faster than I've done in all my time here. Hung out at the Concord Mall with her, her cousins, her aunt, and her wee cute baby, then got a ride home.
Sunday:
Went to High Table brunch at Bryn Mawr, passing some old May Day gifts back to a current senior. Then half an hour of Quidditch, which was sadly underpopulated, but marvelous fun nonetheless. I walked back to the house, spent some time on the phone with seishonagon, and headed back out to run some errands. Later D took several pictures of me holding Primrose, then took her to NYC, agreed upon beforehand so that Primrose will not have to see me move out. D has been sending me periodic updates on how the cat is doing.
Today:
Slept the entire night without getting out of bed for several hours in the middle! Though I did come to consciousness a few times, so I was still tired and needed a (shorter!) nap earlier and so haven't managed much productivity. Have a phone call and therapy scheduled today, so I'll probably put off dealing with that problem I'm still having with a bank account despite the bank claiming to have fixed it in June until tomorrow and do some shorter, less involved things the rest of this afternoon and evening. |
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