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[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
What I need is a new job. So much easier said than done, even in a good economy.
I've been here almost two and a half years. Sadly, that's one of my longest stretches at any job.
Schedule change is on the horizon. I'm hoping that will help some.
And it just registered this afternoon...I have to leave my house tomorrow at 5:30am to make my flight. Leave the house at 5-freaking-30. Ouch. I had thought I would read some while on the plane. I think I'll be sleeping instead. And I haven't packed yet. Oops.
I need to stop *thinking* now.
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|09:39 pm] |
I figure if I'm getting multiple phone calls checking up on me, I probably should update.
I'm still muddling through. Today at work wasn't awful. Still got another 20 minutes to go, but I'm cautiously optimistic...
The evil machine that would not be fixed is fixed, but I wasn't the one who did the final fixing. Odds of two usb cables crapping out at the same time? Yeah. Whatever. I think the OEM handled this one poorly.
Tonight was a conveyor motor in an xray. Right down there on the list of things I don't like doing. Thankfully I had Nick to help. Help, hell, he did most of the work. Or at least it felt like it.
I'm making a little trip this weekend. ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) ell generously offered up a change of venue, so I'll be flying out to DC Saturday morning to spend the weekend with her and her temp kitty. Timing happened to work out with synecdochic's monthly stich-n-bitch too. My cup runneth over.
Knitting... finished one mitt, started in on the second one tonight. Yeah, got enough down time at work to knit. Finally.
Fannishly there's nothing. Still no vidding. Of course no writing. Haven't even really been reading. Been watching Castle and Community, but not feeling *fannish* about either... well, other than really wanting to vid Castle, but I still haven't stumbled across a song yet.
One thing about Castle. A question.... Does anyone else get something of a Moonlighting feel from Castle? Or is it just me? |
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| Springfield, MO |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
Oh, look. Springfield again.
If not for the spectacularly crappy weather, I'd be on my way home. Instead, I'm at my usual hotel until a reasonable hour in the morning when the rain should be done. And then I get to go to work. *facepalms*
Oh, and I get to be on-call Saturday as well.
I'm tired and really close to overwhelmed right now. Think I'll knit for a bit then go to bed.
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[Oct. 25th, 2009|05:41 pm] |
Last weekend marked my fifth anniversary of living in the Kansas City area. Next month marks five years living alone.
I'm wandering around my house today thinking both how cool it is that I have this big old house and how sad it is that it's just me and apparently it's only ever going to be just me. Not so much a pity party, really.
I've been watching tv and knitting today. Rewatched a bunch of Community eps. I really enjoy that show. You should try it out. I'm taking a break from White Collar right now. I'd probably be done watching it if it were available On Demand on the cable. Alas, no. But hulu is taking care of me (Yes, it's available on usa's site, but not full-screen. I like full-screen) :)
The knitting is going really slowly. Much smaller yarn, much smaller needles. Adds up to much slower knitting. I'm considering getting rid of all the small sock yarn. I just don't know that I have the patience for it anymore. We'll see how this pair goes.
Although if I worked small things with small yarn... I'm thinking of making up some really wee socklets for my Christmas tree this year.
I bought new jeans yesterday. Yet another size smaller. At the beginning of the summer I was wearing size 22. My new jeans are size 18. Go me.
My mood.... up and down today. Pity the sun didn't see fit to show itself today. |
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| brief update |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|05:28 pm] |
Okay, so coming up with questions is a bazillion times harder than I thought. I'm thinking I'll be dealing with those over the weekend. Sorry.
Meanwhile, work is work. Getting some knitting done in between preventive maintenance slogging.
( cut for not-overly-large pic... )
Moving right along on the next knitting project. I haven't worked on size 2 needles in about forever, and this is really trying my patience. Not in a bad way, I think. No pics of this one yet.
I keep slogging along. Days kinda blending into one another.
I'm trying something new at work. Every couple of hours I'm getting up and walking the terminal all the way up and back. It's over a third of a mile long, so it's *something*. Better than sitting on my ass in the office.
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| Meme time. |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|08:09 pm] |
As seen over at ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) master_chatnoir...
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions edit - coming up with questions is harder than I expected, so no more. sorry! :(
I make no guarantees of the quality of the questions I'll ask. Sorry.
But here's some answers. Questions courtesy of the aforementioned Chat.
1. How did you learn to knit? - I taught myself from a crappy book when I was around 30. Had to relearn a few years later, again from a crappy book. I have since learned new things via the ever-so-shiny internet (like knitting backwards!).
2. If you could change careers right now, would you? And if so, to do what? - Oh, hell yes. If I could change to something that would make enough money to make ends meet, I would be there a month ago. To what, I have no idea. I've done a bunch of crap jobs in the past, nothing that would make ends meet now. I miss the night audit thing, but that pay around here is a joke. Once upon a time I was in college working towards being a programmer. Wish I could do that, but I'm so out of date it's not even funny.
3. What would be your dream meal? - I love food in general. This question is too hard. The Thanksgiving meal from last year would be right up there. Alternatively, a couple Godzilla rolls from Stix with a salad and a big bowl of cut watermelon would be mighty tasty.
4. What are you dressing up as for Halloween (and if you say you aren't, then what would you be if you did dress up)? - I'm not dressing up. I do have my generic Darth NoVacancy costume that I really should take to Escapade.
5. Which would you rather have: 1. An unending source of money; 2. Perfect happiness; 3. The knowledge of what life after death is? - I'll take the happiness, please. Partly because it would probably include a good source of cash. ;) And oddly enough, I'm not all that curious about life after death. Oh, and I only choose the happiness if it's unlimited. |
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[Oct. 20th, 2009|12:24 am] |
I just want this day to be over.
Ruined a shirt and pair of khakis today. Had a machine fail to come back up properly after preventive maintenance.
It's 12:30 and I'm still at work and I just want to go home and cry and crawl into bed for a week.
edit - home by 1:30 or so. Shirt and pants went out to the curb with the rest of the trash. My hands feel like they're never going to be clean again.
There was one bright spot ---> A postcard. I think it was elayna88 (judging from the handwriting and the postmark). Jack O'Neill *and* Michael Westen. How could I not smile? And then want to cry because I really don't feel I've done a damn thing to earn the fucking awesome friends I've got.
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[Oct. 3rd, 2009|06:04 pm] |
I just vacuumed the downstairs (omg the nastiness in the dirtcup! it *really* hasn't been that long and still... ew). So now I think it's meme time.
01. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked.
These are courtesy of batagur.
( cut for length... ) |
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| *Monday* |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|12:31 am] |
OMG. Can I please not have another work day like that for a while, please? Nick's sick, so I had to hit the ground running a half hour early... and didn't stop running until a half hour after my shift should have been over.
I got all kinds of filthy and sweaty. Really gross. Ew. Oddly enough, I'm not feeling it in my joints. Probably will tomorrow.
Did I mention I had to work Saturday night?
Oh, I didn't mention going to the Renaissance Festival with Karita Saturday afternoon. Quotage! "Nothing says Renaissance like Dumbledore and a steak sandwich." And then there was the kilted swish. And, of course, the half-naked Gypsy dancing boys.
Ah, thinking about Saturday afternoon has helped my mood. :)
Now it's time to take out the trash.
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| vid - Stay Up Late (Leverage gen, Hardison-centric) |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
Nevermind my mood, here's a vid.
Music by Talking Heads. (I originally felt a Hall and Oates song would be perfect for Hardison... but I had forgotten that notion by the time this one seized me.)
Thanks to paian and linda3m for the always wonderful support services.
Download links (right-click, save as) -
~44meg wmv
~92meg avi (not actually any higher quality, I just am inept at getting the darn avi filesize down)
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[Sep. 15th, 2009|02:37 am] |
Okay. How about this...
I think I may have a mouse in the house.
Eep.
And it's apparently hanging out in my upstairs bathroom and in the closet around the corner.
I *think* it's a mouse. I've only spotted it a couple times, but it's been late at night and it moved *really* fast. |
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[Sep. 6th, 2009|08:14 pm] |
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Store brand peanut butter is all fine and good for a sandwich, but it's seriously lacking when eaten straight off a spoon. |
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| question! |
[Sep. 5th, 2009|11:51 am] |
Once upon a time, I started watching Farscape. Got distracted around the beginning of season 3 and never got back to it.
I'm wanting to get back to it, and while I feel some need to go back and review, I really don't want to rewatch the whole first two seasons right now.
So. Can/will anyone tell me which episodes I need to watch again before diving back in where I left off? Please?
Thanks! |
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[Aug. 30th, 2009|08:45 pm] |
It is 8:45pm and I have already crawled into bed. Oh sure, I'm on the computer. But why am I in bed already? Boredom. Lack of motivation to do anything.
My folks came over today. Daddy installed a new ceiling fan in my office. How lacking is my brain? I did not even notice that this particular fan I picked out and bought doesn't have a light kit. The second top reason I'm changing it out is because the light kit on the old one was broken. And I did not even notice the new one didn't have one. My dad pointed it out. *facepalms*
Mom cracked the whip on me and got me to sift through some stuff so it could all be put away. My living room is so very close to being done.
I've got a serious mountain of crap to take to the curb tomorrow night. Ugh. But it's about time I got that crap out of the garage. Okay, technically mom did it while dad and I played the "is this the right breaker?" game in the house.
My basement is... well, for starters, it's really not a basement. It's a cellar. And it's fucking creepy. And right now it's damp. And filled with cobwebs. Going down to the breaker box umpteen times today really wasn't fun.
Crap. Just realized I forgot my meds. They're downstairs. Bugger. |
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| Wednesday already? |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|03:17 pm] |
But I just got to work, so the midpoint of the week is still a few hours off.
Tomorrow is a day trip to Kirksville.
Work is work. I smashed one finger and took a chunk of flesh off another yesterday while repairing an xray. Oops. Not a major injury, no, but it does kinda hurt to turn a screwdriver now (and given how much of my job is turning a screwdriver? not fun).
Finally got in touch with the head med doc. I started on welbutrin today. I've had luck with it in the past.
Did the Wii Fit today and was very pleased to be merely overweight today instead of obese. :)
Speaking of the Wii... does anybody have any easy game recs? I lost my Wii Sports and recently replaced it with Wii Sports Resort, which is fun and all... but that's all I've got. I'm thinking I should get the Wii Play if only for the extra wiimote. :)
Fannishly, I'm catching up on Eureka. I hadn't watched in two years (almost exactly). I'm now three or four eps into season 3. I figure it'll be winding up its current run by the time I catch all the way up.
Well, that's not exactly fannish. I don't read Eureka fic (though if you've got slash recs, I'd love to hear 'em) or follow any comms or anything. Oh, and at this point I have no intention of vidding it either.
Been reading some older Jack/Daniel recs. I am apparently in a persnickety place right now because I'm not liking many of them. And these are recs by people I trust! But really, when I read "The view stretched as far as the eye could see." I'm not holding out high hopes (I backed out of that one within a page or two). But I don't know if I'm being cranky or just holding up impossible standards right now.
My vidding mojo is apparently on vacation on another planet as I haven't had any urge to vid or even to think about vidding. Which is weird if I think about it.
I think I've blathered enough. |
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| Springfield, Missouri |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|11:22 am] |
I realized that I was getting ready to leave without having updated from here. Not my usual routine.
I find myself getting increasingly forgetful lately. Leaving my pager at home. Forgetting to make necessary phone calls. Not remembering for sure if I correctly closed up that xray. It's starting to interfere.
And at the moment I'm paranoid. I am done here, but I'm afraid to head on home... afraid that one of the machines I did maintenance on is going to crap out.
I went to bed at 8:30 last night. I was exhausted. I had had only three hours sleep Wednesday night.
I should go. Stop in Clinton for lunch.
Oh, was anyone else bothered by the treatment of mental illness (in general) on last night's Leverage? |
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| vid - The Way We Get By (Leverage OT3) |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|04:18 pm] |
So I've been wanting to do an Alec/Eliot vid for some time. But as much as I love that pairing, I love the OT3 with Parker even more. Alas, I did not have a song. I just wanted to vid. So I'd been playing the iPod on shuffle. I figured that surely with nearly 6000 tracks, there had to be something that was right.
I started clipping while shuffling the music. And then the other day...
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[Aug. 9th, 2009|01:38 am] |
It's been a month since I've vidded, and can I tell. It was a struggle and a mess. I'm wanting a pair of critical eyes to take a look, but at the same time not so much because I don't know if I could handle a complete overhaul.
*facepalms*
Had a farewell bbq tonight at my parents'. My youngest brother and his little family are moving to San Diego in a week. I am sad. My mother is not taking it well.
Connected to this... I'm buying my brother's second car - a '99 Honda Civic. Urgo needs a break (rolled 30k miles last week). And while it's not the sports car I still desperately want, maybe just having something *different* will help quell this stupid car buying urge.
Work was not hell this past week. Yay.
George (the eeepc) and my router have quit getting along. They both say they're connected, but no pages will load. Grrr. It's just at home. George connected fine to the wifi at the rv park. Bastard.
My meds... I have no idea.
Almost two in the morning, and it's still 84 out.
A handful of things make a post.
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| vid - sex, violence....and care bears |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|07:12 pm] |
Yes, Care Bears.
Music by Marilyn Manson.
Clips from The Care Bears Movie (1985)
Yes, I am under psychiatric care.
download the ~23meg avi file here (right click, save as)
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| week from hell |
[Jul. 30th, 2009|04:56 am] |
And I swear it feels like it's never going to end.
And right here in the middle-ish, I woke up at 3am for no reason. Boom, I'm awake and can't get back to sleep. I eventually gave up and did some laundry and played a smidge with the wii.
But work hell. Xray generator on Monday. Only one covering Tuesday, and of course *two* xrays had to go down then. Yesterday, everything that needed to be done couldn't be done early, I had to wait. Today I'm the only one covering again. Tomorrow is the "easy" day, finally, when I do the monthly maintenance in Topeka.
My meds are in the process of being adjusted. And I took them early last night. I'd imagine both things combined to have me awake entirely too early.
I guess it's a good thing I just happened to pick up a couple sugar-free Rockstars yesterday.
OH. And I was supposed to have a furniture delivery Tuesday, but I had to cancel when the xrays went down. Rescheduled for Friday, so Topeka has to wait until my chifforobe arrives. *facepalms*
Still no vidding. I'm blaming depression.
Have I mentioned that my living room is almost all unpacked and put together? Well, the bookcases are merely loaded, not organized, and I still need a chair in there, and a tv stand. But! Relatively speaking, it's almost done. I even got rid of the huge pile of broken down moving boxes (Love craigslist). There's curtains even!
Okay. Going to try the sleep thing yet again. :P
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