The good news is that I'm more or less over the cold. Still phlegmy and coughing but I no longer feel like microwaved death. It was kind of a revalatory moment sometime yesterday when I just had an "oh hey, I'm better" moment and started acting/feeling human again, whee.
I found out yesterday that I lost one of my aunts. Not one I was particularly close to, but still even though I rarely saw her she was sort of... I guess constantly present? I don't know. Still processing out how to feel about that. Anyway, no idea how things are going to fall out regarding services and whatnot, but since I'm heading to New York anyway to see Dad anyway I suppose that will get figured out when I get there.
Dad seems to be reasonably all right all things considered. Still not really sure where I am there either, other than my usual pit of stomach dread at going home. Graaaagh.
I took a fair amount of sadistic glee in making
cell23 sit through the Miss America pageant yesterday. Well, okay it was more a "if I'm making myself suffer through it, I require company." It was about as bad as you'd expect, though there was that extra special moment when Miss Arkansas broke out the ventriloquist dummies and started yodeling. What. If I were any of those girls, I'd have been pissed that she made it to first runner up. WTF. I was personally rooting for Miss Delaware, seeing as she has alopecia and competed in a series of nice but probably purposefully obvious wigs.
Oh also, the shoes in the DSW Miss America collection? awful. Yeesh. I'll be really glad when sleeveless formalwear and peekaboo toe pumps go back out of fashion because ugh, really?
I finally tried out Rock Band for Wii this morning as for some reason I'd been avoiding it since
cell23 brought it home at Christmas. Nah, that's a little disingenuous, I know exactly why I've been avoiding it, and it's a dumb emo reason. It's still abysmal trying to get it calibrated on Monstervision, but I can usually get it close enough to compensate for lag, and I actually was having fun playing it and talking to Kidzilla about The Clash and The Ramones and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (she's still too shy to actually try playing, but she likes the music a lot). I think I may pack her home with a mix CD later. :)
It's been a pretty good kid weekend overall despite everyone being under the weather/actually sick and cranky. (Both kids are getting over colds/stomach bugs, Kidzilla more than Lovebug). Poor
cell23 has had to take care of everybody this weekend. Have I mentioned I love him? *sheepish*
Pretty much the next day and a half are going to be kiddos and wrapping up business up here, because at this rate I'm going to be in NY until at least next weekend. *twitch* No help for it, but... yeah. Y'all have been here with me, you know how heading down without backup does wonders for my headnoise. Whee. Oh well. Meantime I'm gonna try and soak up enough squishy kid and manbeast vibe as possible to take with me and hope that'll be enough to get through the week.
I found out yesterday that I lost one of my aunts. Not one I was particularly close to, but still even though I rarely saw her she was sort of... I guess constantly present? I don't know. Still processing out how to feel about that. Anyway, no idea how things are going to fall out regarding services and whatnot, but since I'm heading to New York anyway to see Dad anyway I suppose that will get figured out when I get there.
Dad seems to be reasonably all right all things considered. Still not really sure where I am there either, other than my usual pit of stomach dread at going home. Graaaagh.
I took a fair amount of sadistic glee in making
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Oh also, the shoes in the DSW Miss America collection? awful. Yeesh. I'll be really glad when sleeveless formalwear and peekaboo toe pumps go back out of fashion because ugh, really?
I finally tried out Rock Band for Wii this morning as for some reason I'd been avoiding it since
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It's been a pretty good kid weekend overall despite everyone being under the weather/actually sick and cranky. (Both kids are getting over colds/stomach bugs, Kidzilla more than Lovebug). Poor
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Pretty much the next day and a half are going to be kiddos and wrapping up business up here, because at this rate I'm going to be in NY until at least next weekend. *twitch* No help for it, but... yeah. Y'all have been here with me, you know how heading down without backup does wonders for my headnoise. Whee. Oh well. Meantime I'm gonna try and soak up enough squishy kid and manbeast vibe as possible to take with me and hope that'll be enough to get through the week.
The good news is that I'm more or less over the cold. Still phlegmy and coughing but I no longer feel like microwaved death. It was kind of a revalatory moment sometime yesterday when I just had an "oh hey, I'm better" moment and started acting/feeling human again, whee.
I found out yesterday that I lost one of my aunts. Not one I was particularly close to, but still even though I rarely saw her she was sort of... I guess constantly present? I don't know. Still processing out how to feel about that. Anyway, no idea how things are going to fall out regarding services and whatnot, but since I'm heading to New York anyway to see Dad anyway I suppose that will get figured out when I get there.
Dad seems to be reasonably all right all things considered. Still not really sure where I am there either, other than my usual pit of stomach dread at going home. Graaaagh.
I took a fair amount of sadistic glee in making
cell23 sit through the Miss America pageant yesterday. Well, okay it was more a "if I'm making myself suffer through it, I require company." It was about as bad as you'd expect, though there was that extra special moment when Miss Arkansas broke out the ventriloquist dummies and started yodeling. What. If I were any of those girls, I'd have been pissed that she made it to first runner up. WTF. I was personally rooting for Miss Delaware, seeing as she has alopecia and competed in a series of nice but probably purposefully obvious wigs.
Oh also, the shoes in the DSW Miss America collection? awful. Yeesh. I'll be really glad when sleeveless formalwear and peekaboo toe pumps go back out of fashion because ugh, really?
I finally tried out Rock Band for Wii this morning as for some reason I'd been avoiding it since
cell23 brought it home at Christmas. Nah, that's a little disingenuous, I know exactly why I've been avoiding it, and it's a dumb emo reason. It's still abysmal trying to get it calibrated on Monstervision, but I can usually get it close enough to compensate for lag, and I actually was having fun playing it and talking to Kidzilla about The Clash and The Ramones and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (she's still too shy to actually try playing, but she likes the music a lot). I think I may pack her home with a mix CD later. :)
It's been a pretty good kid weekend overall despite everyone being under the weather/actually sick and cranky. (Both kids are getting over colds/stomach bugs, Kidzilla more than Lovebug). Poor
cell23 has had to take care of everybody this weekend. Have I mentioned I love him? *sheepish*
Pretty much the next day and a half are going to be kiddos and wrapping up business up here, because at this rate I'm going to be in NY until at least next weekend. *twitch* No help for it, but... yeah. Y'all have been here with me, you know how heading down without backup does wonders for my headnoise. Whee. Oh well. Meantime I'm gonna try and soak up enough squishy kid and manbeast vibe as possible to take with me and hope that'll be enough to get through the week.
I found out yesterday that I lost one of my aunts. Not one I was particularly close to, but still even though I rarely saw her she was sort of... I guess constantly present? I don't know. Still processing out how to feel about that. Anyway, no idea how things are going to fall out regarding services and whatnot, but since I'm heading to New York anyway to see Dad anyway I suppose that will get figured out when I get there.
Dad seems to be reasonably all right all things considered. Still not really sure where I am there either, other than my usual pit of stomach dread at going home. Graaaagh.
I took a fair amount of sadistic glee in making
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Oh also, the shoes in the DSW Miss America collection? awful. Yeesh. I'll be really glad when sleeveless formalwear and peekaboo toe pumps go back out of fashion because ugh, really?
I finally tried out Rock Band for Wii this morning as for some reason I'd been avoiding it since
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It's been a pretty good kid weekend overall despite everyone being under the weather/actually sick and cranky. (Both kids are getting over colds/stomach bugs, Kidzilla more than Lovebug). Poor
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Pretty much the next day and a half are going to be kiddos and wrapping up business up here, because at this rate I'm going to be in NY until at least next weekend. *twitch* No help for it, but... yeah. Y'all have been here with me, you know how heading down without backup does wonders for my headnoise. Whee. Oh well. Meantime I'm gonna try and soak up enough squishy kid and manbeast vibe as possible to take with me and hope that'll be enough to get through the week.
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Dec. 17th, 2010 07:01 pmWEEELLLP that ain't getting unstuck from my head anytime soon. Especially since
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Presented Mostly Without Comment
Dec. 17th, 2010 07:01 pmWEEELLLP that ain't getting unstuck from my head anytime soon. Especially since
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Thanksgiving Weekend (finally)
Nov. 30th, 2010 09:38 amThanksgiving day
Black Friday
Y'all saw the pictures. Fuck your Black Friday.
Saturday
Other than the movie and poop debacle at the end if the night, lol, Saturday was kind of an easygoing, visit-the-other-grandparents kind of day, which we did - we spent a quiet afternoon over at the Geoffroys (and had another Thanksgiving dinner/lunch that couldn't be beat). Shortly after we arrived home The Internet pounded on our door baying for
cell23; he later spent a little time hanging with them while me and the kids had movie night (ha ha ha ha ha). After they got put to bed,
lysscat pinged me asking if she could escape The Internet's invasion of her house, so she came over and we chilled and bitched and ate leftover pumpkin bread. I need to hang out with her more often. :)
After
cell23 came back, Lovebug woke up wanting a glass of water. Not sure what happened then but
cell23 ended up bringing him into our room to fall back asleep; I spent the night being adorably snored at and snuggled by both of them. *squee*
Sunday
Anyway. That was my weekend. Now I feel all caught up in LJ (publicly, anyway, lol). Time to go catch up in other departments.

- Was up at eight to bake loaf 2 of pumpkin bread and to make breakfast before turning into a parade zombie for three hours and then running out the door. Managed to do all of it and my butt was on the couch with a plate of pancakes and a mug of coffee precisely at 9am.
- Watched the parade. If you read my tweets from the 25th you'll know that I completely FAILED to resist the temptation to livetweet the last 2/3rds of it, but there was so much to squee and snark upon this year.
Two special things of note: This year's Rockette tallies - 1 Asian, 2 Black, and one Latina girl this year, all shoved to the back of formations while the blondes got to be in front. Also I feel the need to mention this guy, his outfit (it looks like the Grinch, Flavor Flav, a Muppet and the NBC peacock had a bastard furbaby), his scary balloons, and the fact that I realized last night that he's the same guy who did this particular $15M statue (not safe for work OR life). *dot dot dot* well, at least he looked both warm and like he was having the time of his life, but I'm still kinda surprised (in a sort of good way) that they let a guy who sold a life size hentai statue of a boy wielding a cum lasso design (creepy cute) balloons for the parade. Either that or Macy's parade committee hasn't figured out how to google yet. Still, oh, Japan. - I joined
cell23's extended family for Thanksgiving, much to everyone's apparent delight. We met up with the kids there, pictures were taken, whack a mole was played, and I discovered that Kidzilla likes to giggle over silly pictures of her father as much as I and her grandmother do. Dinner at
cell23's grandparents was delicious. I failed to weigh in on the Great Stuffing Debate. I liked both of them, sorry boys. The pumpkin bread I brought seemed to be a hit, and there was pie and the carrot cake
cell23's mom made for my belated birthday. So NOM NOM NOM. We also had an entertaining round of Apples to Apples which Kidzilla did quite well in despite us playing the grown-up version... this led to some hilariously awkward moments.
Black Friday
Y'all saw the pictures. Fuck your Black Friday.
Saturday
Other than the movie and poop debacle at the end if the night, lol, Saturday was kind of an easygoing, visit-the-other-grandparents kind of day, which we did - we spent a quiet afternoon over at the Geoffroys (and had another Thanksgiving dinner/lunch that couldn't be beat). Shortly after we arrived home The Internet pounded on our door baying for
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Sunday
- Dragged myself out of bed at ass-o'clock for bell rehearsal at 8:45 and got a warm welcome back from everyone. I guess they missed me! We played some kinda expansion on "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" which came out quite nice and I hummed carols on the quick drive home.
- Which was just as well because LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TIS THE SEASON FOR ALL DAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS ON THE RADIO.
- oh my god you guys, so to celebrate (and catch up!) with
cell23's,
aliwings', and my birthdays,
cell23's family treated us to buffet brunch at this place. Yes, go look at the menu, I'll wait.
Done? Yeah. I ate myself SILLY to the point of actually being too full to breathe properly. Don't care it was DELICIOUS. And then there were birthday cards, presents (belated birthday money and the last two books in Scott Pilgrim for the win) and these individual chocolate cakes that were so rich that once we cut up enough to let everyone have a slice there was still a cake and a half that went home with us afterwards. oooof. So yeah that happened.
ALSO SO MANY DUCKS. I should have brought that end of a stale loaf with me. Though I imagine those ducks are fat enough from all the kids feeding them. - After taking the kiddos boot shopping with Grandma,
cell23 and I drove them home, came back and hung out at
deliriumdeva's and
renegadethumper's for a bit and watched their cat valiantly try to eat their Christmas tree. We returned to find we had no internet. OH NOES. After doing the usual swearing and router cycling and cable jiggling and checking if the TV still worked (it did) we gave up and tried to piggyback one of the networks in the general vicinity... to find that they weren't connected either. So I wandered over to
verbena76's and
aersi's to confirm that yes indeed, pretty much everyone we knew had lost their internet. I'm honestly surprised that the outcry of deprived nerds wasn't louder. *shakes fist* COMCAST. Apparently they had a DNS server fail that took out a good chunk of their East Coast customers. O_o Wow. FAIL.
Anyway. That was my weekend. Now I feel all caught up in LJ (publicly, anyway, lol). Time to go catch up in other departments.






Thanksgiving Weekend (finally)
Nov. 30th, 2010 09:38 amThanksgiving day
Black Friday
Y'all saw the pictures. Fuck your Black Friday.
Saturday
Other than the movie and poop debacle at the end if the night, lol, Saturday was kind of an easygoing, visit-the-other-grandparents kind of day, which we did - we spent a quiet afternoon over at the Geoffroys (and had another Thanksgiving dinner/lunch that couldn't be beat). Shortly after we arrived home The Internet pounded on our door baying for
cell23; he later spent a little time hanging with them while me and the kids had movie night (ha ha ha ha ha). After they got put to bed,
lysscat pinged me asking if she could escape The Internet's invasion of her house, so she came over and we chilled and bitched and ate leftover pumpkin bread. I need to hang out with her more often. :)
After
cell23 came back, Lovebug woke up wanting a glass of water. Not sure what happened then but
cell23 ended up bringing him into our room to fall back asleep; I spent the night being adorably snored at and snuggled by both of them. *squee*
Sunday
Anyway. That was my weekend. Now I feel all caught up in LJ (publicly, anyway, lol). Time to go catch up in other departments.

- Was up at eight to bake loaf 2 of pumpkin bread and to make breakfast before turning into a parade zombie for three hours and then running out the door. Managed to do all of it and my butt was on the couch with a plate of pancakes and a mug of coffee precisely at 9am.
- Watched the parade. If you read my tweets from the 25th you'll know that I completely FAILED to resist the temptation to livetweet the last 2/3rds of it, but there was so much to squee and snark upon this year.
Two special things of note: This year's Rockette tallies - 1 Asian, 2 Black, and one Latina girl this year, all shoved to the back of formations while the blondes got to be in front. Also I feel the need to mention this guy, his outfit (it looks like the Grinch, Flavor Flav, a Muppet and the NBC peacock had a bastard furbaby), his scary balloons, and the fact that I realized last night that he's the same guy who did this particular $15M statue (not safe for work OR life). *dot dot dot* well, at least he looked both warm and like he was having the time of his life, but I'm still kinda surprised (in a sort of good way) that they let a guy who sold a life size hentai statue of a boy wielding a cum lasso design (creepy cute) balloons for the parade. Either that or Macy's parade committee hasn't figured out how to google yet. Still, oh, Japan. - I joined
cell23's extended family for Thanksgiving, much to everyone's apparent delight. We met up with the kids there, pictures were taken, whack a mole was played, and I discovered that Kidzilla likes to giggle over silly pictures of her father as much as I and her grandmother do. Dinner at
cell23's grandparents was delicious. I failed to weigh in on the Great Stuffing Debate. I liked both of them, sorry boys. The pumpkin bread I brought seemed to be a hit, and there was pie and the carrot cake
cell23's mom made for my belated birthday. So NOM NOM NOM. We also had an entertaining round of Apples to Apples which Kidzilla did quite well in despite us playing the grown-up version... this led to some hilariously awkward moments.
Black Friday
Y'all saw the pictures. Fuck your Black Friday.
Saturday
Other than the movie and poop debacle at the end if the night, lol, Saturday was kind of an easygoing, visit-the-other-grandparents kind of day, which we did - we spent a quiet afternoon over at the Geoffroys (and had another Thanksgiving dinner/lunch that couldn't be beat). Shortly after we arrived home The Internet pounded on our door baying for
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Sunday
- Dragged myself out of bed at ass-o'clock for bell rehearsal at 8:45 and got a warm welcome back from everyone. I guess they missed me! We played some kinda expansion on "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" which came out quite nice and I hummed carols on the quick drive home.
- Which was just as well because LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TIS THE SEASON FOR ALL DAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS ON THE RADIO.
- oh my god you guys, so to celebrate (and catch up!) with
cell23's,
aliwings', and my birthdays,
cell23's family treated us to buffet brunch at this place. Yes, go look at the menu, I'll wait.
Done? Yeah. I ate myself SILLY to the point of actually being too full to breathe properly. Don't care it was DELICIOUS. And then there were birthday cards, presents (belated birthday money and the last two books in Scott Pilgrim for the win) and these individual chocolate cakes that were so rich that once we cut up enough to let everyone have a slice there was still a cake and a half that went home with us afterwards. oooof. So yeah that happened.
ALSO SO MANY DUCKS. I should have brought that end of a stale loaf with me. Though I imagine those ducks are fat enough from all the kids feeding them. - After taking the kiddos boot shopping with Grandma,
cell23 and I drove them home, came back and hung out at
deliriumdeva's and
renegadethumper's for a bit and watched their cat valiantly try to eat their Christmas tree. We returned to find we had no internet. OH NOES. After doing the usual swearing and router cycling and cable jiggling and checking if the TV still worked (it did) we gave up and tried to piggyback one of the networks in the general vicinity... to find that they weren't connected either. So I wandered over to
verbena76's and
aersi's to confirm that yes indeed, pretty much everyone we knew had lost their internet. I'm honestly surprised that the outcry of deprived nerds wasn't louder. *shakes fist* COMCAST. Apparently they had a DNS server fail that took out a good chunk of their East Coast customers. O_o Wow. FAIL.
Anyway. That was my weekend. Now I feel all caught up in LJ (publicly, anyway, lol). Time to go catch up in other departments.






Fuck your so called "delicious cake."
a) the cake is and always was a goddamn LIE. Tired old meme or not, in this case it applies. Any cake there was to be had was mine and if anyone ran away with it giggling, it was you.
b) I don't need your goddamn vegan gluten free treehugging hippie cake, so roll it up, shove it up your ass and light it on fire. My dollar ninety nine betty crocker shit tastes so much better it's not even funny. But I'm sure that self-righteous smugma (not a typo) you and the others bukakked all over it by way of frosting tastes like... something.
c) "delicious cake" is another term for severely underage jailbait. Research your metaphors before using them.
Thank you, move along.
And no, I'm not explaining, so don't ask. No exceptions.
a) the cake is and always was a goddamn LIE. Tired old meme or not, in this case it applies. Any cake there was to be had was mine and if anyone ran away with it giggling, it was you.
b) I don't need your goddamn vegan gluten free treehugging hippie cake, so roll it up, shove it up your ass and light it on fire. My dollar ninety nine betty crocker shit tastes so much better it's not even funny. But I'm sure that self-righteous smugma (not a typo) you and the others bukakked all over it by way of frosting tastes like... something.
c) "delicious cake" is another term for severely underage jailbait. Research your metaphors before using them.
Thank you, move along.
And no, I'm not explaining, so don't ask. No exceptions.
Fuck your so called "delicious cake."
a) the cake is and always was a goddamn LIE. Tired old meme or not, in this case it applies. Any cake there was to be had was mine and if anyone ran away with it giggling, it was you.
b) I don't need your goddamn vegan gluten free treehugging hippie cake, so roll it up, shove it up your ass and light it on fire. My dollar ninety nine betty crocker shit tastes so much better it's not even funny. But I'm sure that self-righteous smugma (not a typo) you and the others bukakked all over it by way of frosting tastes like... something.
c) "delicious cake" is another term for severely underage jailbait. Research your metaphors before using them.
Thank you, move along.
And no, I'm not explaining, so don't ask. No exceptions.
a) the cake is and always was a goddamn LIE. Tired old meme or not, in this case it applies. Any cake there was to be had was mine and if anyone ran away with it giggling, it was you.
b) I don't need your goddamn vegan gluten free treehugging hippie cake, so roll it up, shove it up your ass and light it on fire. My dollar ninety nine betty crocker shit tastes so much better it's not even funny. But I'm sure that self-righteous smugma (not a typo) you and the others bukakked all over it by way of frosting tastes like... something.
c) "delicious cake" is another term for severely underage jailbait. Research your metaphors before using them.
Thank you, move along.
And no, I'm not explaining, so don't ask. No exceptions.
WORK THROUGH THE PAIN
Aug. 3rd, 2010 12:41 pmMore Leslie Hall lulz:
This woman is insane. I think I'm in love.
Also for epic lulz, I suggest you check out her instructions on how to deal with zombies.
This woman is insane. I think I'm in love.
Also for epic lulz, I suggest you check out her instructions on how to deal with zombies.
WORK THROUGH THE PAIN
Aug. 3rd, 2010 12:41 pmMore Leslie Hall lulz:
This woman is insane. I think I'm in love.
Also for epic lulz, I suggest you check out her instructions on how to deal with zombies.
This woman is insane. I think I'm in love.
Also for epic lulz, I suggest you check out her instructions on how to deal with zombies.
bewb trolls
Apr. 26th, 2010 04:28 pmYou know... the fact that there was actually an earthquake in Taiwan on the same day as boobquake does not prove whether or not God exists. However if God does exist? He/she/it be TROLLING.
Speaking of troll-lololol... I have this stuck in my head and have all damn day:
...damn, nice to know the 70s were lol-tastically awful in the Soviet Union too. D:
Speaking of troll-lololol... I have this stuck in my head and have all damn day:
...damn, nice to know the 70s were lol-tastically awful in the Soviet Union too. D:
bewb trolls
Apr. 26th, 2010 04:28 pmYou know... the fact that there was actually an earthquake in Taiwan on the same day as boobquake does not prove whether or not God exists. However if God does exist? He/she/it be TROLLING.
Speaking of troll-lololol... I have this stuck in my head and have all damn day:
...damn, nice to know the 70s were lol-tastically awful in the Soviet Union too. D:
Speaking of troll-lololol... I have this stuck in my head and have all damn day:
...damn, nice to know the 70s were lol-tastically awful in the Soviet Union too. D: