Okay, all *I* may need is my ferrets, my Mac and fanfic, but my students need iPads. We have the most dilapidated, old, junky netbooks in the world. And as a charter school, my kids are not any part of that CPS iPad program.

So if you've got a spare $5 (or more) to spare.... http://www.donorschoose.org/project/upgrade-us-to-ipads/1038700/?verify= ( Read more... )

 So I have an LG DVD player.  It plays .avi files.  On occasion ( Read more... )

I have made candy!  They are in the freezer hardening, which is probably the only reason I haven't eaten all of them already, because OM NOM NOM pretzels+peanut butter+chocolate!  It's salty and sweet and crunchy and creamy ALL AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!

I have made adorable mini-cards for Halloween.  I cannot tell you how very much in love I am with ( Read more... )

Okay, I need to do my annual bitch about my blockparty. Which, fuddy-duddy that it makes me, I can't stand because the organizers are so fucking inconsiderate of those who, you know, LIVE on this block.

I need to bitch about Cricut not mentioning *anywhere* that you have to be on Mac OS 10.6 to make the software work right (Though I saw someone ( Read more... )

• The brand new Cricut is dead.  Everything I've seen on the internet says it's dead and not coming back.  Because apparently when you run the firmware update THEY TELL YOU TO RUN and it fails AS IT OFTEN DOES you can't come back from that ( Read more... )

• Woke up early to take the El to work.  Took the Red Line the ... I don't know 15 stops I need without incident and transfer to the Blue Line.  I only need the Blue line for like, 5 stops.  We get three stops in and the guy in the thing gets on the PA and says, "Oh and this is the last stop for this train.  Get off the train.  All of you.  Now.   ( Read more... )

OMG, never leave me again!

Okay, off to work on the Etsy orders that got a little backlogged when I couldn't print labels!

- Second degree burn down about two inches of my right arm.  Hot soap is hot.

- Gaia's meds delivered on time.  Happy ferret is happy.  Even better healthy ferret is healthy - or as healthy as can be expected..

- Laptop dropped off for repairs.  Dead screen is dead.  Here's hoping it's back in enough time for me to make my labels for my show on ( Read more... )

* holiday malaise.  Over Thanksgiving, oy.

* I now know what's wrong with my laptop - the LCD in the monitor has gone out.  Well, is on the way to going out. It still works *very* intermittently, but on Monday (after the OMG insanity of this weekend) I'll have to drop it off to be sent to Texas for repairs. I have no fucking clue where I'm getting ( Read more... )

• When I sell one more dollar's worth of stuff on my Etsy, I'll have had the most successful month ever in my shop.  And the month is only two-thirds over.  And it doesn't get *really* interesting until next week.  Today I had three sales.  I've had one other day with three sales, so if I can eek out one more before midnight EST, then I'll have had ( Read more... )