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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
7:17 pm	Tonight, my boss Caitlin was driving me to my other work downtown, when we heard a honk, and noticed quickly approaching headlights in the rear-view mirror. The thought process went kind of like: "Hey, I don't think he's going to--" *BAM!* Rear-ended. Caitlin and the other driver (who was driving a work vehicle, an ATCO suv) exchanged information and we sat, waiting to hear back from the cops. The cars were both drivable, but Caitlin's wee orange car got quite mangled up in the back. As we were sitting, listening to the happiest music Caitlin could drag out of her Ipod, we hear another horn and *BAM!*, another rear-end collision, just ahead of us. (Fortunately, those guys didn't even scratch each other. They pulled over and checked, and Caitlin went over to ask if they needed a witness, but they decided to just drive it off.) "Well, now you can come to the Theatre Junction show with me!" she said, with some positivity. She'd been having trouble finding someone to give her spare ticket to, on account that Theatre Junction kind of blows ass. We heard back from the cops. Verdict was, we had to go into a station and report the accident, because the cars were both drivable. So off we went. Pulled up to the station, sat waiting for a while (there were a few people ahead of us). "Who's next?" asks the cop, a largish fellow with a nice face and a sensible haircut. "Us," says Caitlin and steps up, with me and the guy in tow. "So what happened?" "I rear-ended these two nice ladies," the guy says. "Weeeeell," Caitlin quips without missing a beat, propping her elbow on the desk. "I'm not really nice." "And I," says I, propping my elbow up in an identical fashion, "am not really a lady." "Ah," says the cop, sounding somewhat resigned. "This is going to be one of those reports." In the end, we're all alright. Both Caitlin and I have some whiplash, and a headache, but such is life. I'm surprised it's so little, considering how fast the guy was going (we were almost stopped when he hit us). I just look on the bright side. At least I'm home now, and not at work, nor watching a Theatre Junction show... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
12:34 am	So my penpal Jenn, who lives in Australia, and whom I've been distant buddies with for about a million years posts this on my Facebook wall: So I am using your coffee icing for these wedding cupcakes right. And here I go to find the recipe... and the instructions include lines like "beat like a pimp does a disobedient ho" and "whip icing until stiff as a teenage boy on a first date." And this is how I know, KNOW, in my heart of hearts, that we are soulmates. ♥ I do not remember writing this recipe at all, but I musta. "Beat like a pimp does a disobedient ho" is definitely a phrase of mine (especially when talking about baking). Now I'm curious about the whole recipe... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
11:23 pm	James (who is a different James from Stalker James, I should point out!) forced me into the 21st century by gifting me an MP3 player at archery tonight! It has Abba on it. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
4:03 pm	I'm feeling a hankering for doing something tonight. I'm game for pretty much anything (I SAID 'PRETTY MUCH', YOU PERVERTS!). My phone is dead. Reply to this post before 4:30 or so if youse wanna do something downtown. Otherwise I'll be home around 5:30, with my phone plugged in again. I love work. I really do. I just want to forget about it tonight. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
1:31 pm	So in the props shop where I've been working, there's a corner with hardware. That is to say, if you need any sort of screw, bolt, nut, hinge, wire, or wooden nobbly thing, you go to this corner to get it. Needless to say, there's a number of those tabletop units with the million plastic drawers in 'em, for hardware and shite. So I needed a handful of TINY bolts and nuts, and I was scanning these little plastic drawers. Until I came across once labeled 'Teeth'. Me, being me, pulled the drawer out. It was full, and I do mean full-full, of teeth. REAL TEETH. So I says, I says: "Hey, Lillian--" Who's been here for about million years. "--are these real human teeth?" Kind of hoping they're not. She looks at me, deadpan. "Yes," she says. "Put them back." I don't know why they're there. She didn't elaborate beyond muttering something about the holocaust. I mean, it's a props shop, and there's a lot of weird shit in the props shop, but...a whole box of human teeth? Eeeeaaaaaaghhh. I got the heebie jeebies now. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
1:16 pm	So, sometime last week, I went to turn on my writing laptop (which is a beast that my father pulled out of a electronics recycling bin and gave to me), and it was all: "Uh, yeah, about that turning on thing...how about no." And I was all: "WTFOMGBBQ." mostly because I hadn't backed up any of my files. I tried, fruitlessly, throughout the course of the day to get it to power up, and it wouldn't. The battery on it isn't great, so I always use a power cable, and that was all fine and dandy, so I figured my power supply was shot. So I proceeded to rant long and loud about it, to anyone who would listen, whether they cared about it or not. (Sorry, guys.) And today, I walked by the thing, and thought, what the hell, I'll beat this dead horse one more time. And my computer was all: "OH HAI." and booted up. Perfectly. I don't know why it wouldn't boot up before, but damn, let me tell you: I promptly backed up all my files, and will continue to do so every time I'm finished writing. Stoopid computer. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
6:09 pm	Anybody doing NaNoWriMo this year? Add me to your contacts, eh. My username is Othelianna. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
11:05 am	I had a party last night! It went swimmingly. I shall definitely have to have another one. I spent the latter part of the afternoon leading up to the party wracked with irrational fear that nobody was going to show up. As it was, I had a good turn out. My livingroom was comfortably filled. It's probably a good thing more people didn't show, cause almost everything got eaten. (Note to self: make more next time.) I had punch fixin's and a lovely punchbowl (a birthday present from Kaja), and never ended up making punch! I was all poised in anticipation, but then everyone wanted to drink liquor. I think I will make punch today, just for me, because I like punch. I also made the worst tzatziki EVER. (Seriously. It was gross.) My fruit dip was really good, though, and all the fruit got eaten (more fruit next time). James brought cookies (OMNOMNOM) and Bruce brought chips, both of which got entirely eaten. All the cucumbers and tomatoes got eaten off the veggie plate, and that's just fine with me, 'cause I can turn the rest into spaghetti sauce for lunches this week. The only downside is that someone found and rebooted my writing laptop in an attempt to access the internet (which it doesn't do very well on the best of days), thus forcefully closing all my writing, some without saving. Fortunately there is auto-recover, so nothing actually got lost, but I had a bit of a panicky moment there. Next time I'll have to hide that thing better. And now? Now to clean up my basement! Then maybe play some Nintendo...(Dr. Mario is really hard when you've been drinking. Just so you know.) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
12:23 pm	I have two free tickets to Blood Relations (which is playing down at Vertigo Mystery Theatre) for this friday. I cannot go (hooray, Golden Swan!), but I don't want them to go to waste. The play is about Lizzie Borden, and I've heard (from theatre people even) that it's a good play. Did I mention they're free? Comment or call me, and they're yours. I don't care who they go to, a friend of a friend, what ever, I just want them used. EDIT: They're gone! Hooray! (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
4:08 pm	The new formula, said to combine Vegemite with Kraft cream cheese, is allegedly easier to spread and is milder in taste than the original. I like Vegemite, but I think that sounds naaaaaaasty. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
1:20 pm	I went on a magical adventure yesterday with Halfdane! We started in the mornin' (barely) and hopped thrift stores for FIVE HOURS! Okay, there was a pause in the middle for eating fish at the Asian mall, and buying weird things (AND PORK BUNS! :D) at T&T. It was amazin'. I picked up a fuzzy green blanket (my fuzzy yellow blanket is getting sad and less fuzzy; I've had it for as long as I can remember), a number of jars for organizing my baking cupboard (including a nice large one for my brown sugar), a small wire puzzle, a bowl, and a candle holder. Yeah, it isn't much for five hours of thrifting, but it's enough for me. And I finally got Halfdane watching The Imposters! I am happy to say it has lodged in his brain as much as it did mine. Damn, I love that movie. Now I am home and putting things away and getting ready for sewin' mittens. Mittens and mittens and mittens and mittens... (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
11:06 pm	So the other day I found myself bumbling around Chinook area on my bike and, because it was about 4pm and I couldn't take my bike on the train 'til much later (and I was tiiiired) I decided to go see a movie. I woulda invited y'all, but my phone died. :( But anyway, nobody else seemed much interested in seeing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs last I talked about it, so I figured it wasn't very likely I would've found anyone, especially in the middle of the day. I went to see it...IN IMAX 3D!!!!11!11!1OMGWTF!!1111 I really liked it. The storyline was ENTIRELY predictable. Entirely. There is absolutely nothing unexpected in the bare bones of this story. But! But the characters themselves and the comedy was really brilliant. My first thought upon the credits starting was: "Wow! That was a well written movie!" even for all of it's predictability. Also, what other movie stars Bruce Cambell, Neil Patrick Harris, and Mr. T? Really. Go see it. Go see it because I laughed consistently through the whole movie. Go see it because the writing and the animation are great. Go see Neil Patrick Harris voice a possibly mentally damaged monkey. Go see it for the really creepy rat-birds, or the swarm of sentient roast chickens. Go see it because I say so, dammit. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
5:55 pm	I was poking around online and came across a mention of the Jung personality test. It had been a while since I'd taken it (I can't remember what I was before), so I took it again, and came up an INTJ. It popped up a few links to interpretations of the INTJ personality, and here is the most in depth one, in case you care. It basically boiled down to: INTJ's know what they know and know what they don't know. They're private people, who have difficulty getting into romantic relationships (because they just want people to make logical sense, and people don't generally make sense). But what struck me most was: They are very particular about efficiency. And I was reminded of losing my temper at Stampede, in which I may have yelled something like: "THIS IS AN INEFFICIENT USE OF MANPOWER!" and sent myself on time out. Needless to say, it was an eerily accurate personality reading. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
10:48 am	Hey peeps. I find myself in need of a couple short lengths of clean PVC pipe. They gotta be at least three inches in diameter. The narrower the diameter, the shorter the pieces can be (no shorter than four inches, though). Anyone? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
6:57 pm	So, I've been finishing projects lately, so I've been taking pictures, and I figured I'd do a picture post. Except when I went to upload my photos from my camera, I discovered half a dozen projects I documented, but never posted about! So...going back, here are pictures of the Red Gryphon that was given to HE ya_inga. Unfortunately I didn't stop to take in-progress pictures of this one, so it's just final shots (minus signatures and seal). ( Lots of pictures and enormously long ramblings behind the cut. ) And Th-th-that's All, Folks! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
1:01 am	A Queen in Her Own Right BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And suddenly from the left, a surprise literary assault, spraying wildly and indiscriminately like poop from a monkey! Part 1 Part 2 ( Part 3 ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
12:11 am	I'm trying out my goat cheese recipe. It seems to be progressing nicely. I will know more by tomorrow morning. I am also taking pictures. Like a dress diary, but more of a cheese diary. Anybody like goat cheese? Want to try my cheese when it's done? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
3:26 pm	Some very belated pictures from my trip to LA, back in June. We went to a German renaissance faire. I had a surprisingly good time, and I wish I was appropriately dressed and could have spent the whole weekend. (Yes, I saw a fairy. But only one. And I only saw one couple wearing very early English garb. Most people were German, or at least pseudo-German.) ( For Narissa (and one at the end for James) ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
11:16 pm	Things my body can do that I've always wondered whether you can too: I can blow air out of my tear ducts. Only a little bit, though. It feels weird, so I don't care much to do it, but I still can. I can wiggle my ears. Only when I'm not smiling, though. I can intentionally blur my vision, and hold it like that. I can't hold it indefinitely. My eyeball muscles get tired, I guess. When my fingernails break, they always break across the nail, not along it. When I clean out my ears with Q-tips (I know you're not supposed to, but I do anyway), I almost always cough twice after each ear. It's entirely involuntary. When I sit cross legged for too long, my entire left leg goes to sleep, from the top of the buttock on downwards. It's only the left leg, though. After I shower/bathe, whether I wash my hair or not, I get chilled and clammy for at least eight hours afterward. I avoid bathing in the morning, because it's such an unpleasant sensation. If I lay down on the couch to watch television and get up again, one eye sees everything tinted red and the other eye sees everything tinted blue (this usually happens when one eye is covered, or is receiving a fair bit of pressure from the cushion). When I look with both eyes, the colour balances out and everything looks normal. My body does these things. Does yours? I'm just curious. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
2:03 am	The Betty Awards was fun! Different, but fun. I wore that dress my mother bought me, the beige and blue sparkly-polka-dotted one. There are times I am grateful that I am a theatre person, because it meant I knew how to dye a pair of old black character shoes to match (warm beige), make my own hair accessories (cream daisies with sparkly blue centers, two of which I pinned to the buckles of my shoes), and jewelry (gradiated gold/brown glass pearls with sparkly champagne spacers). I threw a soft knitted beige wrap around my shoulders to balance out the crazy sparkle of my dress, and it came off really nicely, I think (I bought it for cheap at H&M this afternoon). I looked pretty good, I think. Hardly ANYONE I wanted to win did win, but that's okay. A couple people got special recognition awards, including one of my favorite actresses, and the front of house manager of Vertigo Theatre (a grandmother of five who works because she loves it, and always remembers everybody's name; she knew mine before I even knew who she was!). Tried to flirt with my favorite stage manager. Flirting with him is like flirting with a fencepost. If only he knew how delicious he was! Agh! Sometimes I just want to shake the man. Anyway. It was a good night. I am going to bed now. (Comment on this)