mizarchivist

First off- it's quite nice to be able to catch up on the internets while still in bed. My laptop lives in the kitchen 99.9% of the time, and when I woke up it was that half an hour in the morning that is unpleasantly bright. Bed is warmer and more tolerable. Apparently I hadn't read LJ since Friday night, but still a manageable number of posts to get through. :) This is not a repeatable task in Facebook in which there will be some half-hearted skimming.

quiet_elegance has been in Las Vegas for a union conference-y thing since Thursday. He doesn't do a lot of travel and even less on his own. I think the last trip he did solo was when his grandmother died and I couldn't go to the funeral. I, being a creature of habit and patterns, am not used to this sensation of him being gone. I am usually the one gone. It's very different. Next time, I'll make sure he packs the phone charger, as not getting to have a sedate conversation with him has been heightening the weird. Yesterday was technically his birthday. Not that he celebrates it in December any more - as I may have mentioned in previous years. He chooses to do so in June when it's grilling season and his nearest and dearest can manage better an actual birthday present that's not lumped or diminished by Christmas. He picked this trick up from my Dad who just hated December that much the year he turned 39. So, he was 39 for 3 months.

I got to hang with evila and shut_it_already yesterday evening. I'm doing some custom work for Mz. SIA, so she pointed to beads at Michael's. I ended up spending 3/4 of my meagre Christmas bonus. But, I have the prospect of several sales in the next 2 weeks. I got caught up in the fantastic options they have in "forged" and "natural" metal findings that I want to use for steam punk projects. I got a hideously designed cameo that I can use as the base of another mold for more elegant and steampunky works. Hee! Still no luck getting size 0 circular needles, though. I have to go to a knit-specific shop for that, but I am lazy. It can wait.

So, I signed up for Wave (thanks docorion) - but did so via my professional gmail account since that will make work-use less weird, so if you want to add me to your contacts or whatever, it's FULLfirstname dot lastname at gmail.

Also- I now have 8 invites if anyone wants.

So LJ just told me about this guest feature that lets me know who looks at my journal and shows others who I look at.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm also only 1/3 of the way through my coffee. My first reaction is distrust. Have you already run across this - what do you think?

It's Dr. Horrible's 1 year anniversary. It's been a good year for the Whedon brothers & cast, I think: Dollhouse came out and got renewed, Castle premiered and is awesome and renewed, NPH seems to be coming up in the world what with his award show hosting, and The Guild is getting more popular and starting its 3rd season. Go, team! I celebrate with finally putting up a thematically appropriate icon.

My garden is quite amazing. I've been a bad plant parent to this current season and not documenting with pictures hardly at all. So not surprised. If ever I have 2 kids, there probably won't be any pictures of the second. OK, maybe not. But it feels like that ;)  I'm waiting for the broccoli to start showing signs of florets, though. Hmph! But the beans are totally nuts and climbing anything that stands still long enough to get caught in their tendrils (eee!)- They've got flowers now in parts, so edibles to arrive sooner than later. My Topsy Turvey (TM) is now out along with the homemade one- a drywall mud bucket with holes in the bottom - well, the plant is getting scary big. The "official" one was just planted on Saturday outside so it hasn't taken off. What I found so cool was that it almost immediately started to grow towards the sun. Plants are bendy!  Oh, and the red leaf lettuce has loved this rain so much. And there are too many bunnies in my neighborhood. Every time I see one near my garden I yell in a grumpy mom voice, but in the exasperated I still love you way.

lifecollage  invited me over for dinner last night, which was as excellent as I expected. Holy crap, is their veggie farm share huuge. I don't think I could handle that much all in one week. Especially since I don't have a chest freezer like she does (I totally would if our *&^%$ house's electricity in the basement could withstand the juice it would require. Trust me. It can't.) I need to see if I can recount a conversation we had about interacting with those who've survived a geek childhood and have the scars to prove it- the bit in question was about why it can be so damn hard to get proactive conversations/actions from these very lovely people. Anyway- I know I'm not up to the task of the recounting and pondering at this point, but I want to so this is the bookmark for later.

I got home in time to watch week 2 of Dancing. I think last week was a bit stronger (the whole first week adrenaline), but I'm ever so pleased to see choreographers back, particularly Shane Sparks. Yay, the dancing!

So, I'm going to Wisconsin for work in a week and a few days. For one reason and another, I need to get a pedicure before I return home, and I managed to find a relatively close salon and got the appointment. I love the interwebs! Thank you Google Maps. I'm fixated on trying a gothy French manicure style: black with white tips. How very Druscilla, eh? 

This weekend's plans are going to be awesome, I think. If all goes according to plan, I'll have sushi with quiet_elegance  on Friday. Until I started going to Teppenyaki with him and sitting at the sushi bar, I thought their fare was pretty ho-hum. Now I love it. But really, it's all about spending time with q_e- getting out of the usal distractions of being in the house. /schmoop. And Saturday is going to be non-stop. As always: diner for breakfast with purple_terror  with the requisite snark given and taken from our favorite waitress, Grammy. Then the long anticipated pool party. Looking at the weather makes me a bit sad, though, as it looks to be a bit chilly and almost certainly damp. Meh. I depend on the finer weather to keep me in what is otherwise a seething horde of humanity. Dinna want to be stuck inside! Let's hope things change because I want to see the spinning. And I want to see weegoddess  and everyone else, but especially our Actual Size redhead. The end of the evening will be at the charity screening of Serenity at Coolidge Corner: Can't Stop the Serenity- all proceeds go to Equality Now. They're starting the screening this year with Dr. Horrible, so bonus. Since it's a midnight screening, I suspect I'll be doing a whole lot of nothing on
Sunday.

ETA:
Oh! And I almost forgot that I have to thank jasra  (again) for pointing me towards greasemonkey for Firefox and facebook purity. I had been spending a lot of time being irritated with otherwise lovely people who kept spamming me with their effing quiz results and application crap. So. Don't. Care. That add-on blocks all that. Thank you, internet gods for this! I'm clearly not the only one spending more time on FB (and probably Twitter, which I still only stalk via RSS) because when once not that long ago I'd have to page back quite a bit to catch up after being gone for many hours/ a day, I sort of don't have to, however I really do with FB. Well, hey. FB for the mini posts, LJ for the more thoughtful commentary. I hope!

home.
tired.
will try to catch up on the past few days' posts tomorrow.

So, a friend posted a link to a Sister Salad video that parodies Sir Mix a Lot. It was so awesome, I went to go find more Sister Salad, and it continued to be watch-worthy. Sister Liz has a great bit of commentary about why you shouldn't read Twilight. A bit choppy, but she's adorkable. Because of the Sisters, I was exposed to Nerd Fighers! Note, it's a Ning community, which amuses me a great deal. Yay nerds loving who they are and making interesting videos. So, I joined up with NF and feel very optimistic knowing that this community and those sets of video bloggers exist.

...until vacation starts.
In the meantime, I'm sharing some of what's been somewhat diverting. You might have lost your work ethic, too.
For deadwinter : a toaster he must acquire asap.
An open letter to Joe Six Pack from the Liberal Intellectual Elite of Pink Raygun
Movies I want to see: Repo, Quantum of Solace, Tru Loved, Dark Streets.
A Capella Star Wars filk. With wookie calls.

In the meantime, if you have something neat you want to share with me, please do so. 1 hour and 49 more minutes....

I'm likely to use my health/weight filter more now that I've joined a gym. If this prattling interests you and you didn't see this morning's earlier post, let me know. Contrary-wise, those who are on and don't wish to be just lemme know. I expect I'll probably write once a week about it for a month or three, then lose interest in posting about it at all. That's what's happened before at least. I just hope to not lose interest in the gym :)

Also, purple_terror is made of awesome for volunteering to shuttle my must-take-every-day drugs to me. The ones that will soon be living in my purse- at least a backup set. (headdesk)

I had been quite keen on RSS as a way to clean up a lot of my regular read sites. However, the past few months, pretty much since I was teaching the online class in Feb., I haven't been so interested in reading the celeb blogs (Wheaton & Gaiman particularly) in that format. Anyway, that's my 2 cents on that thing there.