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Monday, October 12th, 2009
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1:00 pm - Things noticed
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I am an autumn person in personality. Change seems inherent to me, mutable person that I am, but I dislike it. I notice things, especially as I watch out of the bus window to and from work.
A building being slowly torn down.
A hawk on an SUV in our parking lot.
A man with an accordian standing next to someone with a paintbrush. Is the accordian for visual reference or inspirational music?
Back in September, I got a chance to watch this being made. It was so cool and the rasping of the metal funnels were so soothing. You might not be able to tell from the picture, but there is even a 3-D-ness to the image, in that the sands aren't just placed in a flat manner but built up into hills and valleys to convey depth.
The nearby gardens of the Arboretum have a lot of different chili/pepper plants used in the ornamental borders. I liked the black ones and the shiny white and purple ones.
I made a fudge cherry-Dr. Pepper cake last week. It was good, although Eric didn't think he could taste the Dr. Pepper in it. I also made banana toffee chocolate chip cookies for my family who visited yesterday.
Okay, I could use some help. I happened to find out that there are now fractal cross-stitch patterns. And to quote Igor, (at least one) Must Be Mine! But I can't decide. So I would appreciate if anyone interested in giving an opinion would take a look here and say which ones they think would be cool to stitch. (If the link borks, it's Nordic Needle and their site search for 'fractal'.)
And for the Shadow Creek reading public, the second season finale has been posted, along with a DVD extra and a commercial for season 3. I'm still amazed that it's lasted 6 years now...
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| Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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9:37 pm - Law tidbit
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In my husband's law books, in the penal code:
Loitering to solicit deviant sexual relations (separate from prostitution)
At which point, I mentioned something about "Ah, yes, the famous 'Goldshire vs Cutiepie Nightelf'." He corrected me that it was 'Goldshire vs xxx69xxx'.
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8:56 pm - Tidbits
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Happy birthday to the lonewolf lady! Hugs and chocolate!
Happy marriage to Sara! Since she is now a Canadian wife, my husband states that she is no longer 'imaginary'.
Saw Rifftrak's Live with Josh and friends. Wished K could have been there. But still lots of fun. Given the laughter at the songs, not many people there knew J. Coulton. Had no clue who the supposed 'Queen of the Internet' was but meh, wasn't there to see her anyhow. Felicia Day would have been a better choice.
This week, Eric has started law school. He hasn't paniced yet (in front of me, at least) and we're working on the whole transportation thing.
As a future alumnus of my beloved institution, a few notes for my hubby (and any other Illini poking about):
1) Yes, the bright orange seen about campus (or town) can get bad. Yes, your past education places may have found it to be...uncool....to wear the school colors. Not at U of I. The construction-worker orange can be seen everywhere, the students like to wear it (and navy blue, got to get the other color in) and if you think it's bad now, wait till football season/basketball season start. Yes, the football team sucks (in my own collegiate time, the football team won once. In all four years. A decade has passed and I hear we're doing better...) but the student and town urge to wear orange and blue is Strong in This Town.
2) I am presenting a piece of my heritage in cooking tonight. No, it's not my Germanic heritage (although my specialities in cooking _are_ Casseroles and Baking). No, this is my collegiate heritage. I didn't like to drink in college (or after either), but I went to the bars with my friends. (I even got a free soda at times, thanks to being the designated driver/walker/pointer to the drunk which way back home). And there were favorite things about the variety of places we went. But the best bar food I ever had was the Irish Nachos from The Office. Unfortunately, The Office closed last year (?) before I could take Eric there to indulge. But tonight...ah, tonight. I have fried the bacon (inna wok). I am frying the waffle fries (in the same wok). I have the cheese shredded and at the ready (colby/jack. Forgot to get the cheddar when we were shopping.) The sour cream and chives are on standby. I hope that it is delicious!
3) Some advice for U of I students:
a. Get off campus at times, and I don't mean just heading out to Prospect and causing traffic jams. There are tons of great places to see and eat at in town. Get out there!
b. That said, if money or time allows, enjoy the places to eat in town, especially Campustown. If money doesn't allow, at least make sure to try out all of the different dorm specialty places to eat. I didn't till my senior year and that was a disappointment to me, that I had wasted time by not trying out all of the cool little places. (The shakes at the grill were awesome, made to order and just enough to last the long walk back to the Quad.) It's been a decade since I was an undergrad and Green Street has changed so much. Get out there!
c) Remember moderation. Don't spend all of your time in your room but don't spend all of your time partying either.
That said, some of my picks for great food around town. (If more than one option is listed, then none is a clear favorite.)
Breakfast: I-Hop, Illini Breakfast and Grill, Sammy's
Pizza: One World Pizza, Garcia's, Papa Murphy's if you have an oven.
Cheese breadsticks: One World Pizza, Prime Time Pizza, Gumby's
Calzones: Prime Time Pizza, research on other places still in progress
Cake: Cake Artist's Studio (she has free samples!)
Mexican: It used to be Dos Reales but now it is Mas Amigos. Sorry, but the green sauce and Jarritos tip the scale. Plus, chorizo in a lot of the dishes.
Asian: Eric's better at discerning between Asian food but we love the Thai iced tea from Basil Thai (moved, now, to closer to LAR) and I love the Japanese Lasagna from Sushi King on Green. We both love the Flattop Grill but it can be expensive and/or the seating can be murder to get.
Subs: Jimmy John's, Penn State
Diner food: Merry Ann's. Naturally.
BBQ: Lil' Porgie's
Gyros: Niro's, Wonderdogs
Iced tea: McAlister's Deli
Other types: Pita Pit, The Cookie Jar, Derald's lunch trucks
I hope to get out to the berry farm on the outside of the other side of town before blueberry season is over. I'm thinking of starting up a friendship bread baggie and having a bunch of blueberries in the freezer for popping into the bread when I get the urge would be handy.
current music: Daily Show theme music
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| Saturday, July 18th, 2009
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6:17 pm
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Timeline: It's now been a year since new people have been popping into Nobilis. (Unfortunately, the Curse of James has claimed all but the newest, Angelo. It could be that this brash new player will stay longer, especially since he used the L word _right in front of Entropy_! Angelo's awesome, if I do say so myself. :) ) And it has been three years since Sara joined my Shadow Creek game. Man...wait, a minute, that means that basically the latter half of Season 2 took about half of the entire real-time length of the game. @.@
Dan - one of my coworkers talked about Isle Royale and said that he saw a moose there! Made me smile and think of you. :)
The rest of this post is toward my littlest brother, Michael, who needs to hear various musics. So, shorty, enjoy these:
Elvis is Everywhere by Mojo Nixon
which leads to Punk Rock Girl by The Dead Milkmen
and Gone Daddy Gone by the Violent Femmes (Sorry, couldn't find the real video right away so this AudioSurf will have to do. Which is a pretty cool game to play with your music. And as much fun as it is to watch CGI bugs play instruments, I like the original Violent Femmes version better.)
Newer songs might be Caught in the Rain by Revis who are from Champaign if I remember right and Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus just because.
Okay, so Paul and Storm used to be part of DaVinci's Notebook and they did such songs as My Enormous Penis, Internet Porn, Another Irish Drinking Song and The Captain's Wife's Lament
and Jonathan Coulton rocks: The spiffworld videos are the best, with many many songs to choose from. (You will not be able to play First of May, sorry, dude, NSFW.) But stuff like Creepy Doll, re: Your Brains, Code Monkey, Betty and Me, Big Boom, Chiron Beta Prime, Skullcrusher Mountain and The Future Soon are all awesome.
And just for fun (make sure to share with Steve) Nun Fight!
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| Monday, July 13th, 2009
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5:46 pm - Update
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The computer room liiiiives!
Turns out that our wiring is hooked up to some other outlet on the outside of the building and said outlet there has rusted through, causing the short on our end. We now have power to all but one socket of our computer room. Our bedroom is still shot, though, as the person who fixed our bedroom wiring earlier this year (about a half year ago, the sockets in the bedroom went funky. Took a while but someone finally came by and ended up rerouting all of the bedroom sockets into sharing a wiring with the half-bath socket) did it _wrong_ and this electrician is going to fix it. (Me, I just want the sparky juice to flow, my alarm clock to work when I need it to and the soothing yellow light beat back the night.)
It was nice to have the extra time with Eric but on the other hand, we were both depressed and I felt like we were rerunning the Vultures from The Jungle Book into the ground. At least with the internet back, we can find things to point out to the other, we can watch tv shows together and be up later than sundown.
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8:29 am - Argh.
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So, Saturdya was so much fun...got caught in a downpour when Eric and I went out to the Farmer's Market. (Got three chocolate croissants for $1, though, good food.) When we came home, we were in our computer room and there was a buzzing sound. Then the lights flickered and went out. Sounded like the circuit breaker, so we checked and reset it. Buzz and breaker went off again. Tried it again and the circuit breaker just quit. We looked around the rest of the apartment and not only was the computer room out but everything else in the apartment except for the bathroom and the kitchen. Oh and the AC/hot water heater. Thank goodness.
So, we call maintenence. They say that they don't have the part and will come by on Monday. Grr! But that they might be able to find the part and will give us a call back to let us know what is going on. No call.
We're getting ready for church Sunday morning and there's a knock at the door. Maintenence! So he's working on that. We go to church and the cell phone that I told the guy to call if he had any questions decides to ring in the last 5 minutes of the service. *sigh* I scramble to turn it off and call the guy back after we're out of the church. Turns out that the new breaker that he put in also went *ZAP* so it's something in the wiring and we'd have to wait for an electrician on Monday. We come home and find the AC isn't working now either! But we did some looking around and there was a big button that was set to Off that when we turned it to On turned on the AC.
So, now we're waiting for the electrician. I had no internet to see if I had to come in to work today (I did), Eric missed out on Arena last night, I may miss out on Ulduar tonight and we have no idea on whether we'll have everything back for Shadow Creek tomorrow night.
I have gotten a large amount of cross-stitch done. Oh and the baked banana donuts did not turn out as well as I had hoped. Not quite Granny Weatherwax-quality baking but not far from it either.
current mood: Ticked
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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7:32 pm - Tiiired....
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Still not King..I mean, full time, yet.
Had dinner with AXE people last night. Was nice to see folks and get the compliment of how long my Buffy game has been going. However, I was not to _get_ to play Buffy as the electricity went out about 15 minutes into the game and was out till 11:30 pm according to the clocks the next morning. :P
Monday night was awesome. Went into Ulduar and killed Thorim for the first time...and one-shotted him to boot! Also killed Mimron for the first time as well! Did not get tier hat or gloves. Did get awesome staff from Freya last weekish thanks to the main holy priest in the raid passing (I'm a regular Disc priest.) and thankfully the staff that _he_ wanted dropped the next night from Iron Council. (But they totally misnamed it. Rapture should be the Disc staff's name. ^^ )
Our World of Logs page: http://worldoflogs.com/guilds/5487/
It's raining here again. My instrument blew up this morning and they sent me home (not my fault!). I am hungry and yet have not eaten yet because I have been _baking_. I have made a second batch of banana toffee chocolate chip cookies thanks to a recipe I recently saw on sockkpuppett's livejournal. The first batch went quickly. :) After the cookies, I made a batch of baked banana donuts. Will see how those turn out. Must eat leftover shepherd's pie now.
current mood: I mades a cookies.
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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10:13 pm - Updates
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Yet another Nobilis game and I'm tabbed out while my GM is working on something... (I at least admit that I look at icanhascheeseburger.com and cakewrecks.com and gaijinsmash.net.)
The Chemistry department at the U of I helped me go over my resume today. The head of the Career services said that my resume was not the worst she had ever seen. She didn't even have to scribble too much on it.
Sent it out to two places tonight once I got home. I'd like to work at the University because a) it's here in town and I might be able to keep up on technology and b) if I get on (full time, I think), Eric gets his tuition for free. At the moment, they have a hiring freeze but jobs paid for via research grants don't fall under that.
My mom sent us beef stroghanoff (my fave. And Eric even admits that my mom's tastes better than mine.) and strawberries that she had picked herself. She and my dad had come up to visit us as well the week before and we were at least able to cheer them up with the news about Eric getting into U of I. (Oh and it's official that we're staying here. Paid the deposit and even took the College of Law tour. It's a very nice building and only about a mile and a half away from here.) Mom also brought us strawberries then too. She knows how to cheer me up. ^^
And Tuesday, my friend Jenny took us out to eat ice cream and we talked about the job thing and law school and her trip to Italy! She had sent us a postcard and has promised me a picture link.
And Wednesday was Eric's and my third wedding anniversary. We got a brown sugar oatmeal cake from http://www.thecakeartistsstudio.com/ who also did our wedding cake. (My family doesn't like coconut all that much so we couldn't have that as our cake and they don't carry 'our' flavor anymore.) We hung around the apartment, then went to see the movie Up (awesome, although if you're married or in a serious relationship or just a romantic softie, you _will_ cry) and then went out to eat. And then Eric fell asleep as his sleep cycle is off yet again and he had stayed up over 24 hours just so we could spend our anniversary mostly together.
3 years, wow. The first year, we dealt with moving to a new apartment (and a failed attempt at trying to find a house). Second year, two surgeries and various trips to the ER. Third year, law school and losing my job. And from the tales we've been getting about the first year of law school, the next year isn't going to get any easier.
*sigh* I love you, sweetie. Thank you for putting up with me. And I put up with you. I'm glad I have you in my life. I know that I didn't fail you and you didn't fail me. I wouldn't know what I would do without you...although there may be more sleep involved. Still, I have trouble sleeping now without you next to me, so I might not get all that much more sleep anyhow. Still, love you. And I am paying attention to your game.
current music: When You Say Nothing At All
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| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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5:51 pm - Unfair
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Eric shares his birthday (not the year but just the day) with Hugh Laurie.
Me, I share mine with _Bella Swan_ of Twilight.
Eww, I feel dirty now...
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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10:09 pm
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So, part of this is in case my friend Jenny is looking for me. (I am collecting a number of Jenn* peoples over the years.)
Law school update - Well, we didn't get in immediately to U of I. We got offered the waiting list, which was kinda a bummer. Until we found out that the waiting list isn't offered to everyone-that-doesn't-get-in. We have to wait till April 24th which is the deadline for the first deposit for the accepted students and hopepraypanic that enough people don't accept so we get in. Prayers are always welcome!
Anniversaries - It's almost been a year since my last surgery. Married for three years in June. Been at my current job for ten years in August. (Lots of ups and downs there. Have I mentioned that my anxiety triggers are winter and money? Yeah...) My Buffy game turns six this October. I hope to get to Season 3 before that...
Monday is the 4th anniversary of Eric's Nobilis game.
( Quotes! )
Warcraft update - waiting for the patch. Got exalted with Sons and am working on everyone else. Almost to max with tailoring/enchanting. Really want Soul of the Dead. Have enough money for Duel Spec for both me and Eric. Don't know which glyphs I want. I enjoy reading my long list of blogs, mostly priest oriented. Although it is a bit sad to see some really fun people bowing out due to real life concerns.
Cupcakes of Awesome
Doll clothes for the gothdoll in your life
Time killer. Steve, my brother, if you can read this, I want to see what your score on this is!
Just kinda bored. I'm enjoying various readings, the Secret Life of Dolls. My Buffy game had a great session Tuesday night. Sometimes I think of writing again but I feel a bit embarassed about some of my earlier characters. They don't act like real people or real relationships. And now that I've had a relationship I see how superficial, for example, Diami/Tome were. *shrug* Such is life and growing up, I guess.
current mood: Blargh
current music: Caught in the Rain - Revis
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| Thursday, February 12th, 2009
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10:29 pm
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Let's see...we're playing the waiting game with the law schools now. Prayers that we get into U of I (and thus don't have to move, break our rent agreement, and me get a new job) would be beneficial.
( Happy early birthday to Dan! )
Work sucks. Stupid economy. I am thankful for my meds that are at least keeping down most of the terror.
Coraline rocks! Go, see it! Well, why are you still here?
Bacon Explosion
I am now reading a new webcomic A Girl and Her Fed. I like it. I can't tell exactly why I like it but I like it.
Warcraft - I finally have a title! I am now Elder Malcheza (and I picked up Ambassador Malcheza as well but Elder sounds better on a priest, I think.) Other than that, not much else with Warcraft. Slowly improving my gear sets and my rep. Still Disc. Have one piece of tier 7 gear but that's okay. Need better wrist, legs and feet. Have went through all of Naxx 10 & 25, all of Obs. 10 & 25 but not with any of the drakes up yet and have gotten to phase three of Malygos 10-man.
Let's see, what am I reading...not much. I'm poking at this and that from the library. Oh, I'm reading the PS238 online pages and am considering getting the collections. I am also enjoying Need More Rage and BigRedKitty even though they don't have stuff to do with my class. They're just really funny.
current mood: Blah (Blah!)
current music: Detachable Penis
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| Friday, January 9th, 2009
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9:28 pm - Random Links
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So, randomness...Eric is working on his law school application and has received some fee-waivers from some places due to his high score.
Links I Like:
Advice for the Recently Deflowered Girl - I love the dress in the Chinese Detective page.
Dragon cake! - Look at the cute dice!
Dr Who Toys - I don't even watch Dr. Who but even I admit these are so _cute_!
Other than that, I am slogging through C-U winter weather, trying not to think about the law school stuff, realizing that my one year anniversary of my first surgery is coming up in a couple of weeks and I am trying to make my Disc priest a viable raid option. (I am also on an Arena team with her but as I get to measure my life span in seconds (and less than triple digit seconds, thank you), I'm just trying to learn how to survive longer than 'Oh hey, is that a death kni' *dead*)
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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2:04 pm - New Year...
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So, I hope everyone has had a quiet 2009 so far. :) On a happy note at the end of 2008, Eric got his LSAT results...172, which put him in the 99 percentile! ^^
Now, the hard part of getting into the place we want...
Thank you again, everyone, for all of your prayers and well wishes!
current music: Watching Naruto
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| Friday, November 14th, 2008
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4:22 am
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So, a quick update for the pre-Wrath timing. (We got the regular Wrath tonight after work. We have seen the starting zones and have tossed a coin for where we start. Garrosh is still a whiny dick of an orc.)
I was quite low level when Burning Crusade came out, so I don't remember much pre-BC. I also wasn't high enough in priesting to care about the Frisbee Riots. I got into raiding when Blacksky had just gotten Prince down in Kara but nothing was on farm. I was there for downs of Gruul and Mags (prechanneler nerf!) along with downs of Void Reaver, Hydross, Lurker and Leo as well as eventually all of ZA. Then the patch came in and it was lolraiding...
October 21st, all of SSC except for Vashj.
October 27th, Vashj, Alar, Void Reaver.
October 28th, *reset* All of TK except Kael.
November 3rd, Kael.
November 4th, 4 bosses of BT!
November 5th, All of MH, except Archimonde
November 11th, Finished off 3 more Black Temple bosses, leaving only the Council and Illy himself.
November 12th, was going to go into Sunwell but a) Had Buffy and b) the server went kaboom.
For posterity, I save my stats here, unbuffed, the stats I care about, for my healing set:
Stamina - 615, Int - 621, Spirit - 466, Spellpower - 1001, MP5 OOC - 584 (forgot to check my While Casting, but I think it's about half that or so.) About 149 achievements or so, but nothing that gives titles (no squashling for the Hallowed) or special mounts or such.
Best memories of Burnings Crusade - Being Shadow spec and healing Black Morass for the first time, never having been in there, having no clue and the MS crap would stack to 10. And the tank praising me for keeping him alive the whole time..and then being surprised that I was actually Shadow spec. I felt like a _healer_ and walked on air for a bit.
Back when I used to have many 'of Stamina' gear in my PVP set, I once made a Warrior swear at my total health.
Boss-downs for the first time...'and I was there'.
First time I got through Hex Lord. So very very proud of my class, gear and myself.
The first time my Arena 5-man won a match. And also the first time I survived a 5-man match.
The Greatmother Quest and the baby murloc quest. Those were fantastic.
Here's to another ten levels, a lot more dungeons and raids and the weirdness that is actually leveling at the same time as my husband, as opposed to being cheesed through Scarlet Monastery, Scholo and Strat many many times with just the two of us. Just to see if we could. A priest that is 20 levels below the recommended for the instance has quite the aggro range...
current music: Irish Drinking Song by Da Vinci's Notebook
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| Friday, November 7th, 2008
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4:16 am - Blacksky Company
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So, in the course of the time since the new 3.0 patch, my guild has done (with me present and with the hubby present as well. I've also done a full ZA clear because they didn't give me my achievement, darn it!)
October 21st, all of SSC except for Vashj.
October 27th, Vashj, Alar, Void Reaver.
October 28th, *reset* All of TK except Kael.
November 3rd, Kael.
November 4th, 4 bosses of BT!
November 5th, All of MH, except Archimonde
Three hours each of those nights. Not bad for a 'casual' guild, huh? :) And I am greatly enjoying heavy Disc on my priest. Shiny hampster balls of healing for everyone!
current music: I Tanked a Boss and I Liked It
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| Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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10:40 pm - Meme and updates
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Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
I've been married for over two years now and the only way that George Takei getting married has 'hurt' my marriage is the fact that he looked better at his wedding than I did at mine.
Updates!
So, it's been a year now since the whole bleeding-for-a-month which lead to surgery 1 which lead to menopause and surgery 2. At the moment, all of the various family members are doing well recovering from the multiple surgeries, radiation and chemo that have plagued us all year. In total, we have had one death, five surgeries and three types of radiation.
As of tomorrow, my student loans for college will be paid off.
My Buffy game celebrated its fifth birthday this month! Hard to believe that it's still going...and that we _still_ haven't finished Season 2 yet. Then again, we've had to take lots of time off due to surgeries and computer troubles this year.
Ebony - happy early birthday. Look up the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain on YouTube. Or read through the PS238 series online. Or Dr McNinja. Cleolinda's Movies in Fifteen Minutes are awesome!
Warcraft-wise, I have been enjoying being a Disc priest. Penance is pretty with its thwop, thwop, thwop of Grace-planting goodness. Since the new patch, Blacksky has been on fire. (Yes, I know, combo raid-nerf and player-buff, but still.) We cleared out all of SSC and all but Kael in TK. We're planning on taking Kael down on Monday and then seeing how far we get in Mount Hyjal. Then Black Temple Tuesday night and Mount Hyjal again on Wednesday. (Yep, busy week. But hey, my record is five raid nights in a row. I was kinda punchy by the last one...) The gear changes are great as my heal set now has enough damage to it to be useful and the mana regen that can keep me up and going while soloing. A few pictures from Brewfest in the bottom of my Bucket.
Been trying out new recipes. Haven't been sleeping well. Dislike the cold. Taking Citalopram. Looking forward to Wrath of the Lich King. Going to vote next week. Enjoying seeing Little Shop of Horrors on the tickets that we won last year from the Murder Mystery Theatre.
Hope everyone out there is doing well. :)
current mood: Blargh
current music: Eleanor Rigby
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| Friday, August 15th, 2008
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12:05 am - Tidbits
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Hello all! Bethhealth update - sonogram found some more fibroids but they're small...er than the ones they took out of me. At the moment, my estrogen is at about half of normal women my age. They may put me on something in a couple of weeks. *sigh* Can I have my body chemistry to work right, now, please?
On the other hand, I was so proud to see that my fibroid got a speaking role in Hellboy 2. *proud sniffle*
Eric and I have celebrated 5 years together now. Five years ago, you could not have told me that I would be suffering sleep deprivation, airplanes and more to see a guy all the way out in South Carolina. You could not have told me that I would be married. (You couldn't have told me about the fibroids either because that just adds even more to the unrealness: "You say it was how big? Yeah, right...") I love you, sweety. With all of the crap we've gone through over the past five years, I still wouldn't want to have gone through it with anyone but you.
On a related note, Sara has been in my Buffy game for two years now. Gosh. Crud, that means that the last half of Season Two has taken over two years real-time. *facepalm*
Happy birthdays to the people I missed. Happy anniversary-coming-up to Jenn and Scott and sorry you didn't get the Hugo, Scott. But you have Jenn and that's more than most folks can put on their mantle. *grin*
( Warcraft break for the people who find that sort of stuff boring )
And that is the state of the Beth life at the moment. Pretty quiet, work is as usual and everyone seems to be doing okay as far as I know. My brother Steve is teaching Science to high school students this year and has requests chem demo ideas. Anyone out there have some I might not have though of? Liquid nitrogen is cool but I don't know if he would get access to some.
And now, sleep.
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| Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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11:01 pm - What's...
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22 cm by 16cm by 11.5cm?
The thing they took out of me. :)
Had my post-op check-in yesterday and actually got to keep the write-up about my surgery. Apparently I lost 500+mL of blood during the surgery...no wonder I got lightheaded trying to stand up later. I get lightheaded just after giving _1_ pint of blood...
I didn't get to keep the pathology report, but the information I got was that the mass was first frozen a bit during the surgery and then sent to the lab. Lab says from the frozen bit that it's a fibroid. Then they get the whole thing taken out of me and confirm that yup, that's a fibroid. (Apparently the frozen bit could have been a tumor as they look similar when frozen but when they had the whole thing, confirmation.) I got the dimensions above about it and there's a 6 pound difference tween when they weighed me before the surgery and now, so I'm taking a guess at how much it weighed.. I was talking to a different doctor about all of this, as my surgery doctor is on vacation, but she too went "Wow!" and that this fibroid is the biggest she's ever 'seen'.
I can go back to work next week. Will go back on Monday. Kinda want to and kinda don't.
Today is Eric's and my second wedding anniversary. Wow, two years. We have continued our tradition of getting cake to eat from Cake Artist's Studio in Champaign, who also did our wedding cake. Here Ashley (? on spelling) is awesome and I hope that she competes more so that she can share her designs with the rest of the world. (And I'm not just saying that because she gives free samples... Honestly, folks, if you're getting engaged and are near Champaign-Urbana, they have a free tasting party at the end of each month (except June/December because those are the Busy Seasons).) Other than cake, we are enjoying time together with movies and food and other sort of Eric/Beth bonding. (Bonding, you pervs, bond_ing_... ;) ) It's been a rough six months. Tween the stuff with his mom, me, varied grandparents... *sigh* Oh and Eric's grandma was doing fine after the surgery but it appears that the lump is cancer and it has spread, so she too will be doing the chemo/radiation tango. *sigh* But still, wouldn't want to be married to anyone else. Not even Depp. Eric puts up with me, ya know? :)
( Warcraft blatherings, feel free to skip )
current music: Eric playing the harmonica
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| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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2:27 pm - Back home...
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I'll also post this over in Tangency as soon as the forums start to work again...
I'm home. :) Got home yesterday, actually.
For those who don't read the RPG.Net forums, the details of the surgery:
Had to be there very early (again) with Eric and my mom and this time the knock-out drugs weren't working as quickly as before. The surgery was actually about a half-hour late and I got the fun experience of feeling everything that was pumped into my IV burn into the veins of my hand and arm. (Yes, I'm a wuss.) I also spent more time in recovery, wondering why I wasn't seeing anything when I thought I was telling my eyelids to open.
Good news: Got to keep the uterus. :) Detailed news: The tumor that they took out had the size and consistency of a brain. Had the color and look of a brain too with the wrinkles. (I don't know how much it weighed. And I haven't been near a scale since.) Also interestingly, the middle of the tumor was dead/dying. Apparently, my uterus is enlarged because it was trying to grow up and around the tumor. Hopefully it will shrink down to a 'normal' size. They also got three 'tendrils' from the tumor, including one that had wrapped itself around my left ovary. There wasn't a lot of scarring inside, thanks to a wrap that they had put on my uterus last time that dissolved over time into sugars.
It doesn't hurt as much this time around. Have more bruising though at every place that they stuck me. I wasn't able to get up and walk around as soon as I did last time. I tried sitting on the edge of the bed Monday night and got light-headed. Not surprising, as the doctor told me that I lost a good deal of blood in the surgery but not enough to need a transfusion. I am back to being anemic again. Eric stayed overnight with me again Monday night and I hope I haven't ruined his sleep cycle. Watched the House finale.
Tuesday was boring as there is nothing on TV during the day. I spent my time bouncing tween Discovery Channel, History Channel and Spike TV watching the patrol car video shows. Eric came back to visit me (I had sent him home to sleep some) and we enjoyed the NCIS finale. Oh and I highly recommend the dining service's grilled cheese sandwich. It's not just that it was the first 'solid' food I had had in about two days but it was just a really _good_ grilled cheese.
Took a while to get discharged Wednesday. I was hoping to get to go to Pathology to see what they took out of my abdomen but, in the time frame that we gave them (we decided to grab lunch in the coffee shop), they were too busy or something and I'll just have to wait till my post-op to whine for details. :) No pictures were taken at the surgery this time as all of the cameras were in use elsewhere. Came home, took a nap, went out to see DeathNote one of the local theatres, came home, went to sleep.
My sense of time is shot. I have trouble knowing what time it is without looking at a clock or, even at times, what day it is. Eric's at his temp job for a while longer so I have home all to myself. The scar looks less intimidating/huge/purple-wound-y this time around. I feel differently this time around too, as if this one isn't hurting as much or something. I am still kinda depressed, still having hot flashes (which I'm trying to make sure that they are not fevers that are signs of infection) and have, at times, this kinda detachment like I'm about three feet away from what I'm actually doing, like typing on the keyboard.
Eric's grandma also had her surgery. She had the top lobe of one of her lungs removed and the lump was found to be malignant. She's currently in intensive care.
Thank you again to everyone for your prayers and vibes and everything. This has been quite the rough half-year or so and we wouldn't be able to get through stuff without all of you. :)
current music: Teakettle whistling for making chai
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| Monday, May 19th, 2008
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9:58 am - Freaking Early
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Arggh...having trouble getting around because I am so not a morning person, it is just over the line of being not funny. But I'm getting my stuff all straightened out to bring and then heading over to the hospital. Eric will let folks know (possibly in Tangency) about how I do, when he can, and I will hopefully be out of the hospital on Wednesday. Thanks for all of the support, everyone! :)
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