connor looks pissed there
Let's see if this will actually post...
LJ, stop futzing around! You're still running at the speed of really slow mud.
Unlike the car that did this! I drove past right after it happened last night, as the cops and fire truck just pulled up as I was approaching the stop light right before this building. Figured someone had to be dead but apparently exterior walls are now made of tissue paper.
I've been quiet the last couple of days, mourning. I will be watching the Final 4 games this year because I will root on whichever team, Butler or VCU, that makes it to the final game. Still, sadness. We just lost that game. We played horribly. VCU played as they've been playing and we fell apart. Blech
Baseball starts tomorrow which is weird because it usually starts on the same day as the NCAA championship game. I need to pay for another year of audio on the computer. Just did that. How on earth are the Royals in first place in the American League preseason?
*ponders*
I spent Sunday on the couch watching basketball and reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I enjoyed it a lot, I think more than the other two, primarily because it wasn't about Catholicism (not that I have anything against it) and was set in America and about the Masons. I was a Rainbow Girl (Masonic youth group) and my brother is a Mason, though not active. Their religious tolerance and willingness to be open is very Unitarian.
Now I'm reading Kim Harrison's Black Magic Sanction. I have the most recent one as well in this series.
Mom got my diamond heart necklace appraised--it's going in the church auction--and it came back at a rough appraisal of $135.00. So, yay. I'd never wear it. The chain was damaged and so fine that they weren't sure they could fix it so they paid me $12 for it. Also yay!
Next year I think I'll put up my great-great aunt's china. I'll never use it--it's yellow and pink floral Noritake. I've been trying to find out how old it is and the backmark was registered in 1933 and was pretty much only used pre-war. By the 1950s the backmarks had an "R" for registered and bore an "N" instead of an "M". Mine has the "M". During the 1940s the backmarks all had Imperial Japan or then Occupied Japan on them. The pattern was discontinued ages ago and it's very hard to find pieces. I've never found any in casual searches on eBay. I'm guessing it wasn't a popular pattern. The Noritake pattern book I found online only goes back into the 1950s and doesn't include it. So eighty years old or so.
I could sell it myself but eBay is just so overloaded and almost impossible to sell on unless you're a huge business. I've thought about starting to use etsy to unload some of my vintage stuff because it's smaller. Right now I have no energy to do anything. My sinuses are killing me. :P
I finally did the dictation tape that's been sitting here since I got back from vacation. Blech. Now all I have to do is make phone calls which I'm not in the mood for, so once the boss is gone "out with his client" (ie drinking) I'm going to watch Secret Life of the American Teenager and hole punch invoices. Ooooh exciting.
Still so happy that Fringe got renewed. Waiting eagerly for SPN to do so. *crosses fingers which makes typing hard* I'm enjoying The Event but if it comes down to it or Chuck, I'm rooting for Chuck.
Oh, and not happy about the news about Mad Men not coming back for nearly a year. :P Not that I've watched all of last season yet...
Just realized/remembered that I have a huge stack of stuff to go to court which means copying, writing checks, filling out stupid forms, actually physically going to court, so I'll be doing that this afternoon. :P
Remembered on Monday that the Spiritual Celebration Team is serving dinner next Wednesday at church and back in January I agreed to wrangle it together so I spent a lot of time the last two days getting people to commit to cooking and serving. It came down to two people last night going back and forth over who is bringing bread, salad and fruit. I told them to figure that out between them because it didn't matter to the menu that was needed by today. Sheesh! I'm making vegetarian spicy tomato bean and pasta soup and another woman is making Spanish rice with some meat (I assume chicken or sausage) and another is making four bundt cakes. The rest of the stuff can be purchased--bagged lettuce, bakery bread, cookies for the kids. Hopefully I can get more than two people to commit to being there to heat up stuff and serve so I don't have to show up until clean up time.
I'm not volunteering to wrangle this next time we agree to be guest chefs!
I'm also on the Program this Sunday (that's the non-spiritual service) on a panel discussing the Spiritual Celebration, the team, how we develop services, in the hopes of recruiting for next year's team as we're losing a couple members and we could really use some more men.
Got to work today to find my parking spot taken. The one with the sign on it saying basically no parking from 7-5 except by us. So, I had to park in my boss' spot and by the time he got here all three of our assigned spots were taken so he had to park in the 'no parking' gravel lot. I just don't understand why people think signs don't apply to them!
I have left over chili for dinner. The last couple of times I made it way too spicy. This time I didn't put any tabasco sauce in, wasn't overzealous with the cumin and chili powder, and added garlic powder. It's very yummy!
Last night mom made comfort food of pork chops, mashed potatoes and milk gravy. The woman is a gourmet cook and retired caterer and she cannot make gravy without lumps. I don't get it. I should have jumped up and volunteered because my gravy is always perfect.
Okay, this is rambling all over the place...
LJ, stop futzing around! You're still running at the speed of really slow mud.
Unlike the car that did this! I drove past right after it happened last night, as the cops and fire truck just pulled up as I was approaching the stop light right before this building. Figured someone had to be dead but apparently exterior walls are now made of tissue paper.
I've been quiet the last couple of days, mourning. I will be watching the Final 4 games this year because I will root on whichever team, Butler or VCU, that makes it to the final game. Still, sadness. We just lost that game. We played horribly. VCU played as they've been playing and we fell apart. Blech
Baseball starts tomorrow which is weird because it usually starts on the same day as the NCAA championship game. I need to pay for another year of audio on the computer. Just did that. How on earth are the Royals in first place in the American League preseason?
*ponders*
I spent Sunday on the couch watching basketball and reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I enjoyed it a lot, I think more than the other two, primarily because it wasn't about Catholicism (not that I have anything against it) and was set in America and about the Masons. I was a Rainbow Girl (Masonic youth group) and my brother is a Mason, though not active. Their religious tolerance and willingness to be open is very Unitarian.
Now I'm reading Kim Harrison's Black Magic Sanction. I have the most recent one as well in this series.
Mom got my diamond heart necklace appraised--it's going in the church auction--and it came back at a rough appraisal of $135.00. So, yay. I'd never wear it. The chain was damaged and so fine that they weren't sure they could fix it so they paid me $12 for it. Also yay!
Next year I think I'll put up my great-great aunt's china. I'll never use it--it's yellow and pink floral Noritake. I've been trying to find out how old it is and the backmark was registered in 1933 and was pretty much only used pre-war. By the 1950s the backmarks had an "R" for registered and bore an "N" instead of an "M". Mine has the "M". During the 1940s the backmarks all had Imperial Japan or then Occupied Japan on them. The pattern was discontinued ages ago and it's very hard to find pieces. I've never found any in casual searches on eBay. I'm guessing it wasn't a popular pattern. The Noritake pattern book I found online only goes back into the 1950s and doesn't include it. So eighty years old or so.
I could sell it myself but eBay is just so overloaded and almost impossible to sell on unless you're a huge business. I've thought about starting to use etsy to unload some of my vintage stuff because it's smaller. Right now I have no energy to do anything. My sinuses are killing me. :P
I finally did the dictation tape that's been sitting here since I got back from vacation. Blech. Now all I have to do is make phone calls which I'm not in the mood for, so once the boss is gone "out with his client" (ie drinking) I'm going to watch Secret Life of the American Teenager and hole punch invoices. Ooooh exciting.
Still so happy that Fringe got renewed. Waiting eagerly for SPN to do so. *crosses fingers which makes typing hard* I'm enjoying The Event but if it comes down to it or Chuck, I'm rooting for Chuck.
Oh, and not happy about the news about Mad Men not coming back for nearly a year. :P Not that I've watched all of last season yet...
Just realized/remembered that I have a huge stack of stuff to go to court which means copying, writing checks, filling out stupid forms, actually physically going to court, so I'll be doing that this afternoon. :P
Remembered on Monday that the Spiritual Celebration Team is serving dinner next Wednesday at church and back in January I agreed to wrangle it together so I spent a lot of time the last two days getting people to commit to cooking and serving. It came down to two people last night going back and forth over who is bringing bread, salad and fruit. I told them to figure that out between them because it didn't matter to the menu that was needed by today. Sheesh! I'm making vegetarian spicy tomato bean and pasta soup and another woman is making Spanish rice with some meat (I assume chicken or sausage) and another is making four bundt cakes. The rest of the stuff can be purchased--bagged lettuce, bakery bread, cookies for the kids. Hopefully I can get more than two people to commit to being there to heat up stuff and serve so I don't have to show up until clean up time.
I'm not volunteering to wrangle this next time we agree to be guest chefs!
I'm also on the Program this Sunday (that's the non-spiritual service) on a panel discussing the Spiritual Celebration, the team, how we develop services, in the hopes of recruiting for next year's team as we're losing a couple members and we could really use some more men.
Got to work today to find my parking spot taken. The one with the sign on it saying basically no parking from 7-5 except by us. So, I had to park in my boss' spot and by the time he got here all three of our assigned spots were taken so he had to park in the 'no parking' gravel lot. I just don't understand why people think signs don't apply to them!
I have left over chili for dinner. The last couple of times I made it way too spicy. This time I didn't put any tabasco sauce in, wasn't overzealous with the cumin and chili powder, and added garlic powder. It's very yummy!
Last night mom made comfort food of pork chops, mashed potatoes and milk gravy. The woman is a gourmet cook and retired caterer and she cannot make gravy without lumps. I don't get it. I should have jumped up and volunteered because my gravy is always perfect.
Okay, this is rambling all over the place...