A Few Random Words

I am using this laptop as a radio to listen to NPR. Specifically, I am listening to WHYY out of Philadelphia. I also listen to WYPR out of Baltimore, but I just happened to decide to turn it on around 9am this morning, when WHYY has the BBC Newshour. That was the deciding factor this morning.

I <3 BBC News.

I am supposed to be cleaning house today, but it isn't going as well as I would have liked. My allergies and my toddler are both acting up.

I Need to Fix My Template and Other Tales From the Lazy Side

I changed my layout some time ago but haven't yet finished editing the template to my liking. I have links to add and maybe a little more customization to add. I just can't seem to make myself do it. In the grand scheme of things, it's pretty trivial, but I'd like to have it done. I just haven't felt like doing it.

I think I have driven away what few readers I had from my Yahoo 360 blog. I set it to be readable by "friends", which kind of limited my audience right out of the gate, but then I went through a string of posts that were essentially screenshots of my Lineage 2 character with commentary on my outfit in each. I just got another set of armor upgrades, so it may be time to go annoy my Yahoo "Friends" some more. I realize it is a stupid thing to post about that has no meaning in the real world or to anyone at all but me, but posting about it means that I am not talking about it "in real life", so it keeps me from being as boring as I could be.

I was going to write poetry for my myspace blog, but after the first post of bad haiku, I got distracted with writing stories elsewhere instead. I started a story about the joy of marriage, tentatively titled, "Why Do I Need A Mirror When I Have You?" and then last night, I started a second story about aliens stranded on Earth.

I have a sick toddler sleeping on me. I need to take her to the doctor. I was up half the night with her, so sleeping seems like a good idea to me. I guess I'll get dressed and drive up to the doctor's office to get an appointment. Experience has taught me that calling would mean getting a busy signal til noon, then the answering service from noon til 1, and then I might get an appointment some time after that. Going in is faster and more productive.

Off I go!

Captured Lightning: 2.2 million volt Lichtenberg Figure

Milk Miracle Aug 21 2006

I am just a sucker for weird, cool stuff that happens out there in the world.

Spore 35min Demonstration from The GDCe

PS3 Song

This made me giggle.

Friends don't let friends post drunk.

Luckily, I don't have any friends here right now. I had a little Guiness with dinner at the local Irish pub and then we went and picked up some tequila, orange juice and grenadine,and I demonstrated how to make a tequila sunrise. It's been a good long time since I mixed drinks, and the only time I've made this before was when I ended up bartending at the bowling alley for a while.

I've never actually had tequila before. This isn't half bad.

I was trying to post some videos from YouTube, but it didn't work. I tried putting in the Google account info, since I migrated everything to "The New Blogger", but that didn't work either. I've decided I'll just post links with commentary for now.

Lineage 2 "Cotton Eye Joe" video ... It makes me smile. It also makes me want to go play L2.
This (WoW) video is pretty mediocre, but Elaina loves doing the chicken dance, so... I put it here so I could find it for her again.
Pure nostalgia for us oldtimers. Original EverQuest intro movie from 1999.
Some people apparently thought this was inappropriate, but I thought it was cute ...

Before Nap

I haven't been posting too much here lately, other than the occasional bellydancing video from YouTube, so I thought I would toss a couple of lines out here before I go take a nap with Bubbit.

I am feeling a little overwhelmed with the amount of work around here that needs to be done, but I think I may get more done if I take a little time to plan out what I am going to do. I think that's what I will do after my nap.

I am sleepy because I didn't sleep well the night before last. It was just one panic attack after another all night long, and now I need to catch up. Anyway, I have a warm, sleeping toddler on my lap, and I can't think of anything that would be more pleasant than to go snuggle up with her and go to sleep myself.

Rachel Brice performs at Tribal Fest 6

Who's the Fairest?

I love watching someone who is obviously having a good time doing whatever they do...

inFusion Tribal Bellydance - Bhangra Fusion Improv at TF06

Ok, I've changed my mind...

My crappy job at the mall isn't as crappy as I'd originally thought. It's CRAPPIER. OMG, I hate it so much.

I can do better.

Not so bad...

My crappy mall job isn't quite as crappy as I had originally feared. I've gotten a raise already, for one thing. Raises tend to make all kinds of work more bearable. But it is generally easy and mostly fun, too, so that's a bonus.

I haven't yet started to be able to scrape up money for school. I am not sure how I am going to handle that. I'll be very upset if I don't start back ASAP.

It's the middle of the night, getting on toward morning, and I have to get up in the morning, so it is time for me to cruise on to bed. I just thought I would drop an update here, since it had been over a month.

I'm a bad blogger. No biscuit!

Got one of the plankton jobs

I start at the DQ/Orange Julius in the mall on Monday. It's not my dream job, but it is a paycheck with opportunities to advance. The most important thing about it is that it will help us pay our bills and make it possible for me to go back to school in the Spring. I am still going to apply other places, in case it doesn't work out or in case a better opportunity comes along. I don't want a better opportunity to get away from me.

It's only 7:21pm, and I am dead tired. I have reached the point that I can't even think, so I am just sitting here watching "Ros na Rún" on TG4 WebTV.

In the Dark, No Escape

I am tired beyond words, and frustrated beyond even primal grunting. My head hurts. And yet, I don't really want to complain. I want to fix this. That's the story of my life, always trying to fix everything.

I have some applications for bottom-of-the-foodchain jobs. The application from Dairy Queen in the mall basically just wants to know if I have a name and a pulse, while the application from the Hallmark store is so long that I am wondering if working there requires some sort of government clearance. I may try applying for some jobs a couple of links up on the foodchain, but I am pretty sure I am the plankton and those jobs are for fish.

Tonight, though, I am not going to think about it. Right now, I am going to brush my teeth, wash my face, and go to sleep.

Izzy's Impish Encore

bellydancing + dueling banjos = something between intriguing and hilarious.

Bayou Shimmy Hafla

Another video that I am adding because it looks just plain FUN!

inFusion Tribal Bellydance - group improv and solos



This looks like so much fun!

Tribal Style Bellydance

I rather enjoyed this. Just thought I would share.

In the Raw!

"Sugar in the Raw" sounds like porn, but it is actually a brand of turbinado sugar. I thought I would mention it because I have a box of it in my cabinet. I like it in coffee and tea, but what it is really great for is gingersnaps. I use regular sugar in the dough, and then roll the cookies in the turbinado sugar before baking, and they come out with lovely big sugar crystals on top. It looks good, it tastes good.

I am going to have to check out the recipes on that site.

(And don't YOU want some sugar in the raw? Isn't that just the best name for a product?)