Am generally not pleased with myself at the moment. See, since moving to Madison, I've made a bunch of excellent friends. This has allowed me to have the active social schedule and friendly support I always wanted before, but usually was unable to get due to social anxiety. Fighting the latter has gone well, also :-) Summer's an especially fun ( Read more... )

Just realized that I, as the reigning WORST BLOGGER EVER, never did get around to telling you guys that Patrick and I are engaged! We are getting married this August and it is going to RUUUULE. In an attempt to get myself blogging more often AND make you guys vomit, I will now start a series: Signs I'm Marrying the Right Person. Here's one to ( Read more... )

So Patrick and I have been learning to scuba dive! We figured it'd be cheapest to get certified here in Wisconsin, and the certification is for life, so we can go dive all over the place afterwards. After five weeks of watching videos and practicing skills in the diving well at the university pool, we were supposed to meet the rest of our class ( Read more... )

What the hell? I woke up this morning with four itchy, red welts on my ass. Neatly lining the gray area between cheek and back-of-leg, to be specific. They're definitely some kind of bites, probably spider bites. They itch like you would not believe, and nothing I do seems to help. Damnit, I am going to die of spiderbutt! Currently, I am ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS IT'S ME! I'm here! It's crazy! Not really!

Anyway, for 2011, I am going to try to start blogging every dang day. Never mind that it's already January 3rd. I am the BEST AT RESOLUTIONS! This will totally work! OK, no it won't, but at least I'll be writing some. Hooray!

Have just returned from "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World." Which I enjoyed, but at the same time, I feel like I had no choice. It's not that I felt marketed to in the traditional advertising sense; it's that the movie is so directly aimed at my generation that I couldn't help but enjoy it. I guess I'm not used to close-hitting cultural messages ( Read more... )

Woooo, Patrick's birthday party today! Ended up quite well, though it began disastrously. We had just over an hour to grab board games, pick up the ice cream cake, pick up the person who needed a ride, grab lunch, and get to the party site. Earlier was better, of course, as we still needed to do basic party setup. It's a casual deal, but I like ( Read more... )

Yes! It is exciting! After twenty years of increasingly-worse vision, I can finally see clearly ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to finish up a batch of about 200 chocolate truffles, which Patrick and I (with the help of some friends) are making for a Valentine's Day party tomorrow. Four of the six flavors (hazelnut, whiskey-vanilla, curry peanut butter, and bacon-rosemary) are dark-based. They get finished by dipping them in melted bittersweet chocolate. I ( Read more... )

My sweetheart is a bit like a dog: He eats all the leftovers, likes to randomly hump things, loves being petted, and would totally spend hours licking his junk if he could reach it. (I made this comparison while in the car, and he immediately rolled down the window, stuck his head out, and started panting.) He also needs daily walks, regardless ( Read more... )