Open the window to a larger world
I need to take more random videos in WoW… This was from M0nky sending me bunches of critter bits. And what better to ‘tame’ then lots of pengiuns!
Also! Wii Fit should arrive tomorrow. Which means I’ll be doing the lunges that make my legs wobbly. Wobbly = good! I hope 
.
Ok, none yet of this posting for the area. But SNOW!
30% chance.
*happy*
Below the pictures is a write-up of my sister’s wedding shenanigans. Here’s some pictures many haven’t seen yet from the wedding photographer and the disposable cameras! Oh yeah, and it’s cut because it’s really long.
I had forgotten how great the Record of Lodoss War music is. Now I want to re-watch the series.
On a more recent-in-the-last-couple-years anime note Hulu now has the first 12 episodes (out of 26) of Mushi-shi. Which means I’m finally watching it. Damn it’s good. Yes I should have listened to QQ earlier. Sorry, –insert lame excuse here–.
The soundtrack for Mushi-shi is also excellent.
It’s getting easier to tote my canvas bags wherever I go (provided I figure I’m hitting a store) even if it’s not a grocery store. On the grocery side though, I still use plastic bags for fruits and veggies – but I want to stop that and will likely place an order for some cotton net bags here near the end of the week. There’s also these cotton mesh bags but the net ones seem easier to see through for when you check out/look in your fridge for the delicious goodies inside. I’ve read plenty of reviews and blog articles about these and they confirm that they don’t add much weight, if any at all to the scale.
If you buy more than 10, they cost $3.25 each from this site, as opposed to $3.95 for up to 4 and $3.45 for 4 to 9 – I’ll check into others, but this is the place I’ve got bookmarked. So, if anyone local wants to go in on some of these bags if you need them let me know! We can save on shipping and save $0.20-$0.60 per bag.
I’m quite proud of my mom. She tried some new things — didn’t work out for her, but she tried them! She’s also a regular user of canvas bags, which totally kills my plan for her Xmas present. But, even with her new kitchen, she still is using old kitchen stuff. So when I go up there in October I can figure out what color items to make/purchase for her so she can start working towards an awesome kitchen once they get the new countertops in to go with her new fancy french doors in there and the less blue walls (they’re beige now).
Now my sister…
Sigh…
Scuse me while I give her dirty looks from NC…
She did, in fact, reserve her limo for her wedding…
A hummer…
NOW I CAN NO LONGER SAY I’VE NEVER RIDDEN IN ONE.
/cry
On another note, this weekend starts the first of the summer/fall of weddings. Jen’s getting married this weekend in Buffalo, so I get to head back to that side of NY for the first time in 8 years. I also get to see Colleen, Mary and Greg who I haven’t seen since we (well Colleen and Greg at least) graduated college.
This is my last free weekend until mid-September, and there are still many boxes that need to be emptied and many more to be recycled. Hopefully I’ll get those out and my apartment organized before Mark comes down in two weeks. He’ll get to fight Maya for the couch though, she’s taken to lying on the middle cushion.
Mel and I had great success in shopping today and I got Jen’s wedding present (only a week to spare!) hopefully she’ll enjoy the new additions to her kitchen. I also picked up a new game – Yamodo which looks like much fun, so locals — we’ll have to get together soon to play!
Tokyo Godfathers is also being shown on Ovation this week. So if you haven’t seen it yet… get to it!
Oh! And there’s a new thing on the comment box down there – you can enter your name in as usual, but you can also use an openID instead of your email to identify yourself. Wordpress.com and Livejournal.com blogs both work as an openID, just enter the address in the box (minus the http://) and you’ll be good to go. You’ll have to log in if you aren’t already.
I spent much of the evening on Tuesday – after packing up some stuff – sewing up these cloth napkins. They turned out really well, about 11″ x 11″ after hemming. Cutting them all was the hard part! The actual pressing and sewing took about 8 minutes per napkin. I’ll probably have to do some hand sewing on the corners, but that can wait until after I see how they wash up.
So I’ve got 18 napkins for a test run on Saturday! Try not to get too terribly messy because I won’t have any paper napkins.
(Trying out Flicker posting, seems to work well!)
I’m officially all graduated. Pretend I walked for commencement yesterday in a cap and gown (I was really at Hannah’s bridal shower).
So yay Master’s degree, boo no job in the proper field yet. Hopefully that will come before the end of the year – while website coding is fun, it’s definitely not something I want to do day in and day out. There’s at least one job posting that’s coming up in the next month that I’ll apply for, and one that’s “on hold” while they figure out funding before interviewing candidates.
Saturday I get to move into my own place and get officially settled in North Carolina. My bed is in the living room waiting to be unpacked, and I’ve gotta get to packing my slowly exploding boxes and suitcases back up.
So, for those not who haven’t heard yet, I found myself a job. It’s unfortunately, not in my field, but it’s something. I’m doing some css coding for a real estate website marketing place temporarily. In other words, if I find a job in my field, I only have to give them a week of warning and they’re cool, or if they think I suck, they can ask me to leave and I’ll do so gracefully. Three days though, and the work keeps coming, even got an account set up with a reseller. I guess I’m doing something right!
Hopefully though, as much as css coding is interesting and all, and I’m getting the chance to learn php here and there, I’ll be able to land a job in my field soon. But in the meantime, money is coming in and I can finally find my perfect apartment and get settled. Mel’s guestroom has exploded under my stuff since I can’t really put it anywhere. And I’d like to get my crap out of Steph’s house… although I’m sure she’s enjoying the dvds.