I’m actually remembering to do them on Monday this week

• I’m actually officially going back to school in the fall. I’m looking forward to it.
• I’ve rediscovered Squishettes. Amazingly, I still recognize a lot of the people who post there (and a lot of the topic titles!) from the old Squishy community. I’m posting over there as Larisa again, by the way.
• My muse seems to have found me again. I’ve been writing quite a bit these past few days and plotting even more. It’s been a while since I’ve had a burt of creativity like this.
• Less than two weeks ’till I get to see my family.
• The garden is growing and growing and growing.
• M built a deck for some people over the weekend. He got payed decent money for it, but even better he is quite proud of himself for doing a really good job. It’s always nice to look at something solid you’ve built and know that you did it by yourself. Now if he could just get some more done on his masters thesis…
• The weather has been beautiful. A little hot, but beautiful.
• I’ve got good books sitting around waiting to be read.

The battery in my laptop has randomly decided to start working again after months of refusing to charge. Strange. Good, but strange.

I forgot to do the Friday Five yesterday.

1. How long have you had a weblog? About ten months. My first weblog entry was September 17, 2001. I was a little late to the weblog game; all the journalers were starting them, but I’d resised the movement. I thought that blogging was the sort of lazy way out and that it would hurt my writing in the journal. Then came a time when I barely updated - I missed two months entirely and then found myself only writing once or twice a month, so I figured that I might as well take the easy way. I’m still not writing in the journal much, and I really should start since I put a lot more effort into my writing there than I do here, but I do write here every day, so it has been a good thing.

2. What was your first post about? My first post consised of “this is a test. Blah blah blah,” or something like that. My second entry was pretty much the same. My third entry was a link to a neat site a found where I guy talked about his time in Antartica.

3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one? No changes; I’ve always been here with this title. The only thing that could be considered a change would be my recent switch to a subdomain name. Speaking of which, please change all links/bookmarks to http://maybe.iotoeuropa.org.

4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? MovableType. I started with Greymatter and really liked it (I still do miss the purple design), but then when I switched web hosts I realized that it would be easier to start over and import my entries into MT than to get them into a new greymatter install. Now I’ve found that I really do like MT a lot better.

5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place? Yes, I don read peopel with both a journal and a weblog. Most people seem to use the two as I do. The weblog blurbs are quickly and carlessly spit out, but can be interesting, while the journal entries are written with a lot more care. It’s nice to have them separated.

Our zuchini has a female flower! Two, actually. We will be rolling in it soon.

The peas are also doing nicely. (or pees, Lanna, if you are reading this)

And the lettuce is fricken huge.

That’s Juliet the curious. Yes, she is an indoor cat. She just wanted to come out for a little bit to help in the garden, such as it is.

I’m actually really going back to school in the fall. I got my admissions package from the university today. I am once again a student. Whoo hoo. I knew that they had no reason to turn me down, but still it is such a relief to actually have the papers in hand.

Alas, I am a student with no transfer credit. I need to have course info sent up from past universities so that it can be evaluated, and I have absolutely no idea how to go about doing that. I guess that I will be making some phone calls.

M’s been spending a lot of time at the university lately working on his thesis. He’s been hit by a sudden bug of productivity. He spent most of yesterday there then came home for a few hours before going back and working all night. He came home around ten this morning and slept for a few hours before going back again. He’s insane.

Now he just came home and brought me a sandwich and ice cap from Tim Hortons. Have I mentioned lately that I have a wonderful husband?

I just went to dump out the orange juice so I could use the pitcher for lemonade, and the inside was all covered with mold. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yucky. I really need to clean out the fridge more often. Either that or stop making orange juice since I never drink the whole thing before it goes bad.

This pretty much shows why I’ve never had comments turned on. I don’t want to deal with people such as Kelley describes. It’s one of the reasons, anyway.

But lately, just lately, I’ve started to think that it might be nice to get comments here. So i’m turning them on.

Now I’m having “what if I threw a party and no one came” thoughts. I don’t have thousands of readers like cool people such as Judy and Heather do. I do get email from my email forms (especially when I have strange girl-sex dreams), but will any of you write here?

I’m going back and turning comments on for pretty much all the entries that should be appearing on the main page right now. Please use those comments, or I will start to feel unloved.

Why do I always start on the produce end of the grocery store? Okay, I know why; it’s because that is the end that the in doors are on. It’s really annoying, though. I spend the rest of the shopping trip shuffling everything in my basket around so whatever new, heavy item I’m adding doesn’t crush the peaches.

Peaches. Mmmmm, peaches. I’ve had such cravings for peaches.. Alas, they are not ripe yet.

My first positive positive for this week is that my site is finally back up so I can post these. And the others are:

• I might actually be making a little money from some of my sewing. Not much, but every penny counts. More details later.
• It’s nice and cool out today.
• The pea plants are really growing.
• The zuchini is flowering like crazy. I hope to have actual zuchini appear on it one of these days.
• M. went out in the middle of the night last night to get me a sandwhich from Tim Horton’s. I have a sweet husband.
• We live in a nice apartment. Really, we do. I know I complain about thin walls all the time, but it’s big and we don’t pay much rent.
• Have I mentioned enough yet how much I love my new computer?
• I’ve been playing with Paint Shop Pro a lot this past week, and I’ve learned how to do several new things with it.

Hmm… I seem to have misplaced Saturday. Strange that I spent most of the day on the computer and yet didn’t post even once. I’m not sure where the day went.

There isn’t really much going on in my life right now to write about. I should run down to the school tomorrow and check on my application status.. it’s making me nervous that I haven’t heard back from them. I still haven’t found a job… see? Nothing going on.

Today I’m spending the day sewing and re-reading Fried Green Tomotoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe which I really should return to the library. Perhaps I will even get some writing done.

I dreamt that I was pregnant last night. This dream was probably the result of an.. um… indescretion that occured yesterday afternoon. I really need to get back on the pill.

So in the dream I was pregnant and had been to the doctor and everything, but then I started to feel cramps and realized that my period was coming and that perhaps I wasn’t pregnant afterall. I felt really foolish for jumping the gun and was nervous about telling people that I wasn’t pregnant afterall. Then I thought that perhaps the cramp was due to ovulation rather than my period, and so if I got pregnant really fast then no one would ever have to know that I’d made a mistake. I woke up at about this point, and in the haze of still being half asleep I thought that I had better hurry and have unprotected sex so that I could get pregnant before anyone knew that I wasn’t. Fortunately my mind cleared before I got my husband awake.

Okay, so I’m reading the quotes at QDB again. Yes, I do need to get a life. Anyway, this one

Deth: dont drink open soda cans that are a week old
o|ooo|o|: not only was it flat, but it had a layer of dust

reminded me of something that happened at summer camp once.

There are no flutes in this story, and I haven’t even seen that movie anyway.

At the camp I went to for several summers as a kid we were allowed to buy one item from the store each night either candy or a soda. I usually went for the soda. One time I opened mine and took a quick drink of it before heading out to some activity or another. I left it sitting inside the cabin on the shelf next to my bunk. I came back an hour or so later and took a sip out of it. My soda crunched. Ants, there were ants in my soda. I had ants in my mouth.

I sitll get sick thinking about it.

And I’ve almost forgotten the Friday Five again.

1. Where were you born? Seattle, Washington.

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don’t live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? I might. I really, really, really want to live in Portland again, but I like Seattle too. Except I hate driving there. Whoever decided where to put the roads was on crack.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest? Still my bedroom in my parents house in Portland. I know I’m a big baby, but it was my sanctuary for fifteen years or so.

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled? Nope. Not at all.

5. Where is the most interesting place you’ve been? Peru.

What Was Your PastLife?

It’s all Lanna’s. A few days ago she linked to this site with quotes from IRC chats, and now I am addicted to it. Funny stuff.

Some of my favorites:

ohm damn
ohm FUCK
ohm DAMN
ohm i was just in an AIM convo with a chick, and my grandmother’s window pops up
ohm FUCK
ohm i go like this to her
ohm “i want to suck on your clit”
ohm FUCK

And I am bracing myself for the bad search engine hits (begone, ye pervs) after posting that one.

Hiroe he was dressed as a big fuckin devil
Hiroe like, HUGE costume
Hiroe 8-foot lizard wings, giant horns on the head
Hiroe at some anime con in california
Hiroe they were double booked with a southern Baptist group in the same hotel
Hiroe he’s riding the elevator down to the con space
Hiroe doors open, little old baptist woman standing there
Hiroe he just says “Going Down” in his best evil voice

@Logan I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident.
@Logan I was thinking “What the hell is this guy doing?”

I’ve done the last one. Been looking at some code or some writing and been wondering what the author was thinking before realizeing that it was mine. Always a very sad occurance.

*** Signoff: Morpheus (Connection reset by peer)
*** Morpheus (vanford@host-209-214-188-107.clt.bellsouth.net) has joined channel #relax
Morpheus argh.. that wasn’t my speaker cable

Raize can you guys see what I type?
vecna no, raize
Raize How do I set it up so you can see it?

That’s so how I would answer that last question. Hee hee.

serluny: how long did it took u to learn c?
ReDPriest:4.5 minutes
serluny:how did u do that?
ReDPriest:i downloaded it into my brain..i got a program to do
that
serluny:what program
ReDPriest:download shit into your brain v3.1
serluny:how do i download it?
ReDPriest: go to www.downloadable-shit-for-your-brain.com
serluny:i cant download it something is wrong

Lanna quotedteh above one too.

:: .enter@6.53p> _YOU (harpeet@149.99.97.190)
~ _YOU HAVE RECEIVED A FATAL ERROR, PRESS ALT + F4 TO REPAIR THIS IMMEDIATELY
::: .signoff@6.53p> _YOU (harpeet@149.99.97.190); …
::: .signoff@6.53p> BlueBold (me@tnt01dla202.winnipeg.escape.ca); Leaving
::: .signoff@6.53p> ic3d (ic3d@64-59-140-156.ivideon.com); Leaving
::: .signoff@6.53p> CoolJeff4 (LoKv70@anolas01-p88.mts.net); Leaving

Some people are just evil. I love it.

Alcaron You should set yourself up a webcam. I don’t know why, but I get this feeling we’ll catch you doing something stupid.
Longi Alcaron: thats exactly the reason i wont set one up, the high probablity of me doing someone extremely embarassing
Longi err?
Longi THING
Longi someTHING!

Bizzy say Æ Ø Y
DAL9000 Æ Ø Y
DAL9000 easy to say
DAL9000 f00
DAL9000 ¸ß
DAL9000 say that.
Bizzy ¸ß
DAL9000 õ þ
DAL9000 now that
Bizzy õ þ
DAL9000 now say this:
DAL9000 ß|ZZ¥ |§ ª е/\/\ߪ§§
Bizzy ß|ZZ¥ |§ ª е/\/\ߪ§§
DAL9000 bahahaha
Bizzy what?
Bizzy damnit

And you are all perfectly capable of looking at the site yourself, so I’ll stop now.

It’s strange sitting here at the computer at 12:03 at night and hearing the sound of a car starting and thinking that it sound like it’s coming from right in front of our apartment. So I get up from the computer and stand at the open window and watch as my car backs out and pulls out of the lot and leaves into the night.

I have no idea where he is going. I wish that he wouldn’t do that. I’ve complained and nagged but still he just disapears without telling me he is going.

He’s probaby just going to 7-11 for a snack or something, but that’s not the point. It’s common courtesy to let someone know before you run off in the night.

Gah. I thought I was being econmocal and saving money by not buying overpriced blades (and really I was) but now my legs are a mess.

I bought generic blades for my sensor for two dollars instead of paying ten for gillette ones. Never again. I’m bleeding here. Bleeding.

Why does being a girl have to be so expensive?

what’s your inner flower?
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