Adventures In Nerdery
I was woken up this morning at 3 am because the kitten found a bottle cap and was chasing it around the living room, and at 7 am because my mom wanted to drag me outside to see the three inches of snow we got last night. Oh New Mexico, how did I ever live without you?
Yesterday hanjuuluver hauled me off to the mall for an afternoon of mocking the tweenagers and flailing around the Disney store in glee at all the Princess and the Frog stuff, and then my mom and the boyfriend and I met my grandfather and his girlfriend for dinner. Not only awesome food (grilled shrimp stuffed with crab and covered in parmesan, I thought I'd died and gone to seafood heaven), but wonderful conversation - his girlfriend M is one of the most charming, entertaining, and fascinating people I have ever met. When I told her about some of the readings I did for my anthropology class, she countered with a story about the four months she spent living with a hunter-gatherer tribe in Peru. She and I and my mom spent the rest of the evening discussing alloparenting and marriage structures in different cultures, like the enormous sociology nerds we all are, while my grandfather bonded with the boyfriend over having no idea what any of us were talking about.
In true New Mexico form, the snow was melted by lunchtime - not that I expect my mom's new (well, "new") truck would have had much a problem with it. Since it was L's birthday last week, we picked her up to take her out to lunch (reasonably okay Chinese food, although they did excellent dumplings and some halfway decent hot-and-sour soup), and then to Mama's Minerals, a huge rock and bead store in Albuqerque, so she could get her craft geekery on.
My attempts to gather supplies for the Boostle Hairstick Projects met with disappointingly little success - oddly enough, I found a very nice blue scarab bead quickly enough, but an hour of searching and hitting up the sales clerks exposed not a single gold star bead in the entire store. I don't understand it at all! I think I'm just going to have to give up and invest in some polymer clay, honestly. On the bright side, I did get a lovely spiral goddess pendant made out of bone; some cord and a few spacer beads and I should have a new necklace to wear on the once in a blue moon days I take my pentacle off.
Having impressed upon my father the extreme lack of need for us to go anywhere or do anything the next few days, I now have Very Srs Plans to spend the rest of my weekend sleeping and playing computer games, like the properly useless bum that I am.
Yesterday hanjuuluver hauled me off to the mall for an afternoon of mocking the tweenagers and flailing around the Disney store in glee at all the Princess and the Frog stuff, and then my mom and the boyfriend and I met my grandfather and his girlfriend for dinner. Not only awesome food (grilled shrimp stuffed with crab and covered in parmesan, I thought I'd died and gone to seafood heaven), but wonderful conversation - his girlfriend M is one of the most charming, entertaining, and fascinating people I have ever met. When I told her about some of the readings I did for my anthropology class, she countered with a story about the four months she spent living with a hunter-gatherer tribe in Peru. She and I and my mom spent the rest of the evening discussing alloparenting and marriage structures in different cultures, like the enormous sociology nerds we all are, while my grandfather bonded with the boyfriend over having no idea what any of us were talking about.
In true New Mexico form, the snow was melted by lunchtime - not that I expect my mom's new (well, "new") truck would have had much a problem with it. Since it was L's birthday last week, we picked her up to take her out to lunch (reasonably okay Chinese food, although they did excellent dumplings and some halfway decent hot-and-sour soup), and then to Mama's Minerals, a huge rock and bead store in Albuqerque, so she could get her craft geekery on.
My attempts to gather supplies for the Boostle Hairstick Projects met with disappointingly little success - oddly enough, I found a very nice blue scarab bead quickly enough, but an hour of searching and hitting up the sales clerks exposed not a single gold star bead in the entire store. I don't understand it at all! I think I'm just going to have to give up and invest in some polymer clay, honestly. On the bright side, I did get a lovely spiral goddess pendant made out of bone; some cord and a few spacer beads and I should have a new necklace to wear on the once in a blue moon days I take my pentacle off.
Having impressed upon my father the extreme lack of need for us to go anywhere or do anything the next few days, I now have Very Srs Plans to spend the rest of my weekend sleeping and playing computer games, like the properly useless bum that I am.