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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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5:37 pm - Apparently Sarah Palin doesn't like Soft Batch.
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Sarah Palin answers questions from readers of People magazine:
My boyfriend doesn't think politics affects him. Is that a deal-breaker?
-- Samantha Harris, Boca Raton, Fla.
SP: The deal-breaker is that he may not be that sharp a cookie. Politics affects every aspect of our lives.
"he may not be that sharp a cookie"
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What? Did Sarah Palin start taking cues from John Mayer's tweets or something? Mixed metaphors make you sound dumb, Sarah. Cookies should not be sharp. He may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, or he may be a real dumb cookie, but he should not be a sharp cookie under any circumstances.
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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11:46 am - Want to see where I work?
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| Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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7:57 pm
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Pet peeve: now pizza delivery guys don't even bother to try to find your house on their own anymore. Tonight ours called to get directions before he'd even left, then again as he was driving. We live on a major street. Do they not have maps at pizza places anymore? I would understand if we lived someplace hard to find...
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| Monday, October 12th, 2009
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5:46 pm - Randomness.
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1. A Magic Eraser works pretty well on Lego baseplates to remove dirt and markers, but watch out, because if you scrub too hard, you'll take off the paint, too. (For the record, because I know Brian would want me to say, he is not the one who defiled the Lego baseplates. He once made the mistake of trading these Lego for G. I. Joes, and when he realized, he traded them back, but the kid he'd traded with had already played with the Lego in the dirt and colored on them. Lame. Also, how much of a good little nerd wife am I that I spend time figuring out the best way to clean these Lego baseplates? The answer is: toothbrush and dishsoap on the peg parts, Magic Eraser on the flat parts. Oh, you thought I was gonna answer, "how much of a good nerd wife am I," haha. Yeah.)
2. I am shocked it took Mattel this long to reclaim the song "Barbie Girl." It makes me want to sing it in karaoke, though. That song is hilarious in karaoke. Especially if you have a husband that can perfectly mimic that guy's voice. He can also perfectly mimic that guy from the B-52's. Brian prettymuch makes the raddest karaoke partner.
3. The IMAX theatre is going to be playing Aliens right before Halloween. Despite the fact that Aliens hasn't come out on Blu-ray yet, so the picture quality won't be the best possible, I'm going to go see it. With my daddy.
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| Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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11:52 am
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| Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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4:50 pm - I read these books so you don't have to.
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I recently fell prey to Books-A-Million's buy two get one free sale, and managed to buy three of the crappiest books I've read in awhile. Usually I have pretty good luck picking out books, but dang, I missed the boat with all three of these.
If you would like to read my impressions, go for it. You may not want to if these books are already unread on your shelf, because I spoil them. Actually, in my opinion, they're already spoiled, but what can you do.
( Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks )
( The Russian Concubine, by Kate Furnivall )
( Peony in Love, by Lisa See )
There you go. Read at your own risk! Haha.
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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2:53 pm - Highlights from September
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Because I know y'all care!
--Made an awesome camp dress for reenactment. I patterned the bodice the way I wanted it based on a pattern of Jenn's. When I bitched up the collar pretty good, I figured out a way out of it. The dress was damn comfy and I made some pretty smooth additions for functionality -- side seam pockets and a snap loop on the belt for carrying stuff.
--Got to drink Doc Bell's Birch Beer.
--Have received several much-appreciated bouts of praise at work. I think the new job is going great.
--I had enough money to go out and splurge on some new work clothes. I made some pretty good choices, I must say. I am quite the fashionista, haha.
--My birthday was rad. I got to go to Atlanta and eat at Dante's, one of my most favorite fondue restaurants in the whole world. Neighbors and their kids came along, so I got to see them enjoying all the craziness of the place, like the giant pirate ship and the inbred crocodiles in the moat. I wore my china blue and white ro kimono (the only time I've been able to wear ro this year!) with a new yellow sha obi that I hadn't had a chance to wear previously. I looked awesome and you know it. Eating fondue in kimono was a snap -- it's called a tasuke, ladies (and gents). I also got to stay in a really plush hotel called the Intercontinental.
--For my birthday I got two pairs of earrings: one pair was dangly bees that had sparkly silver bodies, gold wings, a pearl abdomen, and jet eyes. Sounds a little flashy, but in reality, they're pretty subtle. I also got some black jade hoops carved like bamboo, which are a nice replacement for the plastic versions that had become my favorite pair. Brian also got me that Earth, Wind, and Fire greatest hits album I wanted, gift wrapped with his drawing of the Akihara Storm Trooper dancing on Fuji san with a blazing fire kanji and Fujin in the backround. This picture is way cooler than anything you have in your house, of this I'm sure.
--Also I have a leopard print Snuggie in my future.
--Japanfest was unbelieable. I don't even know how to write about it.
Hanging out with Paul was so much fun, even though we mostly spent our time at the booth accepting the money people thrust under our noses. I sold some of my own kimono stuff that I didn't want, and overall Brian and I did pretty well over the weekend. We gave our savings account a good shot in the arm, which means we'll be better placed to put a nice downpayment on our house, whenever we get it.
We also loved hanging out with Kiana, even at Tin Lizzie's, which was delicious (fusion tacos and amazing margaritas) but too full of desperate white people. I bought a gorgeous obi from a fellow IGer, who turned out to be pretty coolies. Uh uh uh, I got to eat sushi and drink beer, and dress some people in kimono, including my mannequin Andrea. Okay, she's not a people, but you get it.
Saturday we ate Korean BBQ -- I had forgotten how much I missed yakiniku. Btw, this is a lot easier to do in kimono when the waitress cooks for you (is this the way it normally works? In Japan we did it ourselves). I also got to experience a really nice Korean beer called Hite.
The Shimazakura Fashion Show on Sunday morning was a pure hit of kimono craziness, like a big snort of kimono cocaine. We were all running around like chickens -- Kumi san had to recruit all kinds of people to replace missing models, including Brian and Kiana, but the show looked FABULOUS at the end! Kiana wore a yellow lace-trimmed yukata with her bright yellow galoshes, Brian wore his dark blue yukata hitched up over his jeans with a cool Japanese fabric golf cap, and I threw together an outfit that looked like a lounging samurai from a jidai geki. The hairstylist teased my hair into a huge fluffy mohawk that I would wear everyday if I didn't work at a military museum.
Afterwards I put on another kimono outfit and really made it work with the wild hair. I also got some Sapphoro mardi gras beads and Kathy gave me a cool teeshirt with a drawing of a kunoichi on it she'd done.
The funny thing about kimono is that although all I did all weekend was kimono, the two hours back from Atlanta all I talked to Brian about was kimono. Apparently I wasn't done yet. I have a bunch of pipe dreams about kimono-related stuff I want to do now, haha.
--On Thursday we went to the Junior League Attic Sale and got: an oriental styled wood and glass coffee table, a chinese curio cabinet, an antique end table on little brass wheels, an antique settee, AND the fabric to reupholster it. Brian also got a pile of Lego. Although an unfortunate proportion of the pile was Megablocks instead, he did get some nice base plates and unusually shaped pieces. And a crocodile. And a Frank Sinatra CD. But that wasn't in the pile of Lego.
Pics of various rad crap to follow eventually, haha.
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| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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8:11 pm
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| Friday, August 28th, 2009
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11:16 pm - Oh crap I didn't even realize
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I need to buy an Earth, Wind, and Fire Greatest Hits album because I like several of their songs
Clue ins:
Akihabara Dancing Storm Trooper
Night at the Museum
Okay, yes, I have terrible taste in music. It is my cross to bear.
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| Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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3:29 am
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Hrm.
There are a lot of blogs out there where people just post the crap they sew.
I could do that.
What do y'all think? Should I?
I would call it, "I see what you did there."
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3:08 am
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2:51 am
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Hey Naomi and Erica,
You remember how I said, "I'm only gonna buy more kimono if they're blue or green and hitoe?" You remember how I bought that "black, awase" kimono with the white ume and the kanji on it? I was all like, "I know I shouldn't buy more black kimono! And I don't need awase kimono at all!"
Well, it arrived yesterday. The surprise? It is actually within my resolution.
Instead of being black, it's a very dark green. I thought the hakkake was light green, but it was actually the dark green showing through the underside of the fabric of a hitoe kimono.
So, against all odds, I didn't break my resolution! :D
Now, honestly, you think I can get away with wearing it to Japanfest in late September?
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| Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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3:03 am
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"Swoll," as in, "His knee is swoll," is totally a Southern word. SO WHAT. We all say "dude" now as if it were a real word, and that just came into the common lexicon because of California surfer bullshit! If a word like that can become mainstream, then y'all can let up when I casually say a word like "swoll" or "fixin to" or "might could." I can case switch with the best of them! So I won't use words like that when it's important that I sound professional. When I want to sound businesslike, I can use SAT words that will make y'all wonder if you ever were awake in English class. I can use vocabulary that will make y'all go find a dictionary. I sometimes use Southern dialect as a way to connect with other people from my region -- they know that I am right there, with them, that we are a team. I know when to shut it off when I'm conversing with someone who lives outside of the South. I know how to sound "Midwestern" when it's required. My mom was from Ohio. I spent four years in Japan suppressing my natural accent and teaching "standard" American English. But I am not gonna bother with that when I know that, a lot of the time when I am doing my job, my natural accent will function as a way to make myself more sympathetic, more approachable, and *warm* to the people with which I deal with on a daily basis. So yeah, when I answer the phone, I'll regale you with Midwestern tone that you're so used to in movies and on TV. But the second I want to connect with you on a personal level, you are going to hear that warm, generous, gorgeous Southern accent I have. And you will want to do more business with me because you love the sound of my hospitality. So y'all who are outside of the South, just stop a minute and listen! Is the way I speak actually "ignorant," or is it that modern media has conditioned you to believe that I am ignorant? Am I actually conveying a lack of education to you, or is it the tone of my words that incorrectly suggests to you that I am not as educated as you are? Listen to me, give me the same attention that you would want me to give you, and I will show you that my accent is nothing but a soft way that I want to draw you into my confidence, a way that I want to connect with you, a way that I want to help you. Don't you want to be helped? When you call me, I will help y'all.
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| Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
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6:25 pm
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Back from beach. Caught horrible cold / flu while there. Waterproof sunscreen lied and I'm sunburnt, too. Absolutely incoherent. Will miss first day of new job, but at least Vickie is understanding. That sucks; I'm excited to start. :(
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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10:06 am - Holy Moses. Blue food dye may help those with spinal injuries recover more quickly.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/bluerats/
Pertinent quotes:
"Animals who received the blue dye recovered much faster than animals who didn’t: By six weeks, the treatment group could walk with a limp, while the no-treatment group never recovered the ability to walk."
"Nedergaard agrees that more research is necessary, and her group hopes to pursue a phase I clinical trial as soon they can get funding. Unfortunately, because blue food dye is so cheap, they’re not likely to find a drug company to sponsor the trials. “There’s no commercial interest because you can buy it by the pound,” Nedergaard said. “We’re planning a clinical trial here in Rochester, but we’ll have to wait for funding from the government.”
What.
This shit could potentially help spinal cord injury sufferers recover the ability to walk, and they can't get funding?
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| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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1:20 pm
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At risk of getting stoned / flamed to death, did anyone else think that Star Trek sorta played out like angry fan fiction from someone who really liked Spock and really didn't like Kirk? I'm just saying.
Why yes, I am late to this party. It's because the IMAX is a second run theatre, thank you very much.
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| Saturday, July 18th, 2009
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4:57 pm - Stuff I Want to Buy
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1/18/09 Disclaimer: I am not asking any of you to buy me this stuff. There is just a bunch of things flying around in my head that I want, and if I write them down, maybe they'll go away. And then when I have money I can look back on this list and be like "Oh yeah, that's what I was wanting to get!" so that I don't forget and buy shoes or something.
3/18/09 I bumped it.
6/29/09 bumped it.
7/18/09 bumped it.
Flickr paid account
Handbag organizer for closet; hangers that hold several of the same type of clothing; maybe a tie rack for Brian
Favorite movies from childhood
Sewing supplies (more sheets? zipper for red and white dress, wooden buttons for camp dress, snap tape for couch)
serger, even if used (eBay or pawn shop?)
Work clothes, Christy -- pants or skirts, more black flats, maybe a cute vest
Work clothes, Brian -- everything, esp. shoes.
Mineral foundation powder whatever it is.
BOOKS (Library card!! :D )
A Tivo account
A station wagon or a pick-up truck.
A new cooling pad for the laptop
Performance overhaul for the laptop.
A HOUSE.
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4:51 pm
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I was offered a position as the event coordinator's assistant at the museum. I formally accepted on Friday. I think this particular job is gonna be really in-tune with my personal skills and an intriguing direction for my professional life to take.
I'm sad that I won't be working directly with the folks at the IMAX anymore, but at least we'll still be colleagues and still get to see each other.
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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9:57 am - Let the Luaus Begin!
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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1:19 pm - Wow!
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