Emma, your iPod holder is finished. I just have to sew a button on it.
Aryana, your wrist thing is finished. I just have to sew buttons on it and block it so it doesn’t look like a curling scrap of fabric.
Maggie, your wrist thing is almost finished. I just have to crochet the edge, block it, and sew buttons on it.

So for February/Valentines Day, I thought that I would make a pair of pufferfish (one blue, one pink). I’ll probably be able to make two or three pairs.

Who wants one?

Maurine: (3:27:12 AM)

J: it’s how all the cool kids say it. maurine and tina smoke crack for sure
D: bay-oh
M: IT’S BIE YO DAMN IT.

that is the sickest thing i have ever read, tina and i are right, and you hapless bae-yo fools can kick it with rod stewert!
Denise: (3:28:20 AM)
what the hell were we talking about?
Denise: (3:28:27 AM)
… SCOTT BAIO?

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Are the files on your computer organized?

or are you like me?

My desktop: just as messy as my real desktop.

I think this week will be Backing Up and Organizing week.

Denise: (2:50:41 AM)
i like how our conversation becomes: “your turn”, “your turn” once we start playing scrabulous

Maurine: (2:51:25 AM)
haha i know.  it’s like ‘can’t talk now, i’m quietly plotting your UNTIMELY DEMISE’

Here’s the rule: Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8-10 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
mid-20s? late 20s? I don’t care.

2. What color do you like most?
Green, then red…

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
anywhere in europe

4. Which part of you do you hate the most?
… i don’t know

5. When you encounter a sad moment, what would you do?
Probably cry. I’m a bit of a crybaby.

6. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My life.

7. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Debt. House. invest. Charity. a car with a working radio

8. What’s your wish for the year ahead?
To find a good job

9. How did you celebrate the New Year?
i don’t remember. i think i was looking up yarn

10. Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
Ha! Like I’m telling teh internets that.

11. Which type of person do you hate the most?
Ignorant ones.

12. What is your ambition?
This is so broad. I just want to live my best possible life, what exactly that entails – I’m not quite sure yet.

13. If you had one wish what would you wish for?
$$$

14. i can’t come up with a new question

15. What is the best gift you can give someone this year?
i don’t know

16. List two of your Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions.
Eat healthier. don’t buy yarn until i’ve knitted through all the extra yarn

17. What do you need to do this year in order for you to be happier in life?
find a job in my field so that i won’t feel like i wasted all that money and the past four years.

18. What are the Top 2 things that you are most thankful for the year 2007 that made you even more happier for 2008?
i don’t know

19. What was the best lesson you learned in 2007 (be specific)?
i don’t know.

20. In this very moment, are you doing what you thought you’d be doing at this stage in your life?
i don’t know.

I’ve been living in this house located on a really busy road since I was two. I am used to the sounds of cars and trucks passing by when I sleep, but for the past 4 or 5 years, I have been interpreting the sound of really fast and loud vehicles (usually tractor trailers) passing by as WMDs. … which sounds really silly.

I am aware that I’m sleeping in my bed and that something big and noisy is headed for me. In those few seconds, I’m convinced that it’s a meteor or some sort of weapon used to destroy everything, it’s the end of the world, and humans will be extinct. Although I’m seriously terrified that I’m going to die, I don’t wake up and start screaming. I think, “This is it.” and I can feel my whole body tense up (fight-or-flight response?) and … when the truck passes the house, I go right back to sleep without any trouble.

I’m not so sure of the exact number, but I think it happens about three to four times a month. It also only happens when I hear things passing by. I don’t know if any of that can be classified as a night terror or just a three second panic attack… Whatever it is, it’s annoying.

I’ve accumulated a LOT of yarn in 10 months. (Projects I started and then took apart, leftover yarn, yarn i bought because it was on sale, etc.) I really want to get rid of all of it before buying new yarn, so I was thinking of knitting projects out of my leftover yarn and giving it all away here. I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to give away things because I tend to … get sick of projects.

Anyway… does anyone want one of these? I can probably make about three of them. If you want one and don’t mind that it’ll be beige/natural and beadless, comment with the style and size.

I noticed that if one thing breaks down, a whole lot of other things go berserk.

I haven’t used my car since mid-December. In October, I drove my best friend home and didn’t notice that the temperature gauge went all the way to Hot. Luckily, I noticed as I was leaving their driveway. Her dad checked it out for me, but nothing seemed wrong with it. I waited for an hour or two to see if it was just a mistake. I drove home and it never happened again. My dad, who also thought it was nothing, didn’t check it out. Anyway, fast forward to mid-December: my dad drove my car, came back, and a lot of coolant was leaking out of it. I don’t know if the incident in October had anything to do with it, but I should’ve got someone to check out my car anyway.

Meanwhile, our house is rotting away. Kitchen window, floors, bathroom… blah blah blah. We are going to start bathroom repairs tomorrow (today). We are replacing everything except the toilet. White tiles would look weird when there’s a beige toilet, right? The white tiles are cheaper and I only saw white soap holders and toilet paper holders available. White is just easier. I can’t believe our color choices are going to be based around our toilet. Oh, Beige… I hate you.

There’s also something wrong with my macbook battery. At least I think that there is. I used the power adapter 98% of the time. I read that doing that might not be so great for the battery. So here’s what I know:
A) When I charge it, it alternates between 99% and 100%. It never stays at 100%.
B) When I am just using the battery, it seems like it drains faster than it should.
C) My Full Charge Capacity (mAh) is 4582. I searched about this problem somewhere and read that it should be something like 5000-something.

Sigh. I bought ProCare when I bought the Macbook so it is covered until Oct 2009. Hopefully, I will be able to get a battery replacement. I just don’t feel like taking a trip to the Apple Store right now. (GASP!)

Maybe I shouldn’t…

Maybe I Should

Something I will try instead of 100 movies in 2008

The Next Big Project
Serious bathroom repairs. Our bathroom is scary. My dad wants to get the same color tiles as before, but our bathroom is possibly 30 years old. We can’t find the exact same color. We can’t even find anything close. He also doesn’t want to replace the upper tiles because they’re okay and those parts of the wall aren’t rotting away. We might have the old, lighter tiles on the top and the new, darker tiles on the bottom. In my mind, that looks strange. Is it strange?

Something that makes me wonder…
The new neighbors use Verizon High Speed Internet. Everytime I checked if Verizon was available for us, the website said that it wasn’t. So… What the fuck, Verizon? (Edit: Just read up on this. we might not have the right wires. still… WHAT THE FUCK VERIZON?)

Another annoying commercial
I don’t know if anyone outside the tri-state area will get this… but that IO Digital Cable commercial is like a cross between a smash mouth video and a fanta commercial. ugh.

Something Dumb That Has Always Bothered Me
I hated it when girls from my class in high school were like “OMG. I WAS AN 80s KID. I MISS THE 80s!!!”
Um… we only went through 4 years of the 80s. I don’t know about them, but I really don’t remember any of those four years. I don’t associate Rainbow Brite and Fraggle Rock with my childhood.