I'm really hot and standing by the sink washing dishes makes my back ache, so I'm sitting here taking a brief break. The cookies I'm making smell good. Hope they taste good. Considering my non-fannishness of honey and all... should be interesting.

Spot is out in the sunniness outside. Dan is fixing something on his car.

Hmm. The cookies are... very sticky. I think I messed up on the liquid proportions, perhaps. *sigh* Going to let them sit in the turned-off oven to dry out a bit before attempting to remove them from the tray.

At least I'm being semi-productive today.

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

If it were not for the snow-capped cars and the random footprint trodden every so often in dirt-laced snow, I might not believe it actually snowed here last night. Still, this is why I love Texas- it snows...and then it disappears! Gone is the flurry of white, here to stay is a typically blustery day. And me without my scarf! What's a girl to do? :)

At the moment I'm trying to remember why it is I decided to torture myself by going back to school after earning a Bachelor's degree. On only four hours of sleep and one psychological statistics class later, the reason has all but left me. Hmmm. I'm sure it will come back to me on the hour and a half drive home.

Or not.

As much as I love sociocultural anthropology class discussion, I have a feeling I'm going to fight for every minute in that class. Good thing I sit on the front row. It will shame me into staying awake. :D

It is FROSTY outside. Thirty degrees.

Cold, my friends, cold.

I think the Giant Puffball of Doom look is in order this morning for my walk, because that's going to be the coldest walk I've had yet. :-p

Today is laundry day. Going to involve a little more work than usual because it's due time for all our white stuff to go through a load of Tide with Bleach (which stinks, which means that I'll probably have to wash that load twice and hope my good friend vinegar gets rid of the stink). Don't want to put it off though, because if GooGoo decides to come in the next day or so, I'd like to have as much clean laundry as possible. I'm OCD about my laundry being done a certain way. Not that Dan isn't perfectly capable (and probably far less illogical about the whole procedure than am I).

Better get out on the walk. I always feel so horribly stiff after my walk. But I do it anyway.

Hi everyone! I'm writing you about this post: I'd like to thank all who answered the questionnaire and announce that I'll close its link by the end of December/beginning of January. The last season is almost here (ARGGGH!) and it's time for fase 2: data analysis.
I'll be back when everything is done to share results and news! :)

Once again, thanks to everyone and if there's still someone out there who hasn't shared their theories, I'd be very happy to receive more questionnaires (here)! ;)

I can't sleep. It's 5:30 am (almost). I don't understand. Last night I went to sleep at before 11 pm, like most self-respecting adults. This has become a really bad habit with me! I really want to blame something, but I keep coming up short. Oh well. In place of the blame, I'll just make a few observations in my sleep-deprived state.

I have officially stayed up later than Tash. We might have said I'm not an insomniac, I'm just practicing for keeping kiwi hours, but alas... now she has gone to bed and I'm all alone. Then again, maybe I'm just a kiwi night owl in the makings? *stifles a snicker*

Lemonade is good at 4:30 in the morning.

Sleeping pills should have been my best friend tonight. Instead, they dumped me to hang out with the missing Aleve I can't seem to find anywhere. No matter. I didn't want them anyway!

Coffee might be my best friend in 5 hours. I haven't decided yet if we're ready to take our relationship to that next level, though. My green tea might get jealous.

I haven't bothered checking the weather. It's rainy and cold. Why depress myself by confirming these facts?

Pandora is amazing.

Wikipedia truly does answer all of Life's questions - or at least mine. I've researched everything from the White Christmas cast's lives to the history of Ethernet cables. Why? Simply because I could.

LiveJournal stalking is easier than Facebook stalking. It is also more fun.

Apparently, the subject of my entry on Dec. 1, 2004 is identical to the one I made a few hours ago. I seem to like welcoming months, as if they wave 'hi' to me on their way in.

I wish I could sleep. I foresee a nap in my car in the future.

Oh, and apparently I use words like "mollify" and "erstwhile" when I'm tired. I wish my vocabulary were as varied when I'm awake.

Must...work on...that... ZzzZzzz...

Where, oh, where did the year GO?! It's like I just woke up and November was gone and in its place was the realization there's only a month left to go in 2009.

Oh wait, that did happen.

Well still...

I've held off listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. It just seems wrong to me to begin celebrating one holiday before another. Without the definition between them, it feels like holidays start to lose their special moments. I don't know. It's just like eating too many sweets- after a while, you just get sick of them and don't want to think about them for quite a while! That being said, now I'm enjoying my Christmas season and I've decided it's not complete without Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole.

In the forecast, I'm told we might be expecting snow. This also makes it feel more like Winter and Christmas time. Now, truth be told, as pretty as it may be, I'm hoping we DON'T have snow. (I really, REALLY don't want to trudge across my large university's campus in wet, cold, possibly icy weather! Especially not when I also have an hour and a half commute one direction. Over several bridges. Yeah.) But snow is still a nice idea to a Texan girl who rarely sees it. :)

Lastly, even though it's somewhat silly and I almost never watch, I have to say I'm excited about ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas! Just having the option of watching some hokey Christmas special makes me smile. And as part of MY 25 Days of Christmas, I'm determined to post on LiveJournal once a day - at least - because I miss it and miss you.

"A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas" by Kristin Chenoweth came in yesterday! I do believe I tried to make myself sick of it today. lol.:) It helped me when I was working on writing up article summaries for extra credit in Conservation Biology (Andrew laughed, saying I was one of "those students" who does the extra credit things in a class when they don't really need to. Just because I did well with the last test, doesn't mean I will in the next! A morbid way to look at it, I know) and then my work cited page in English Comp. That gives me a headache.:P (don't forget the period. at. the. end. of. everything!. Fun.)
I will have to put together my reading list when I am done with homework...:)

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I finished Nano... not with any legible words at the end, but I think that's acceptable ;)

Now I get to focus on FINISHING this novel.

CONGRATS to everyone who finished, better luck next year for those that didn't. I'm off to Portland until Saturday. I'll post my Nano wrap up post from there =)

I am so bored this morning. Just tired enough to not be able to focus on reading, let alone anything more mentally demanding, and very achy every time I get up and try to move. The kitchen needs to be cleaned up and I haven't got it in me.

So I listened to a couple sermons and basked in the glowing ghettoness of my blue and white light job in my room. Literally, I tossed a pile of lights over my bookshelf so it hangs down on either side with the excess clumped up on top. Ghetto. But that's okay.

And now I'm downloading more sermons because I think today is going to be a sermon day. Listening, I can do easily while lying down with my eyes closed.

Spot was sure being a pest last night. He's been so good for probably over a week now and apparently decided it was time to freak out. Jumping in and out of the window above our heads and rattling the blinds, climbing on my nightstand, clawing the carpet, mewing, anything he could possibly do to disturb us. Highly annoying, but eventually he got bored with this game, I guess, because he disappeared. Finally around 5.30 this morning he came in and wanted to snuggle. I suspect this had something to do with the fact that his food dish was bare.

First of December already. So much for November baby.

Need to come up with something for breakfast that sounds good. Blah. Fried egg on toast maybe?

Current stats:
2 books total
.5 books average per week
140 pages (.25 pages per day)

Genres:
Nonfiction: 1
Fiction: 1

67. The Magician's Nephew, CS Lewis

68. The Darkness of Twilight, Steve Wohlberg

This day is the slowest. Take my poll, why don't you? ( Okay! )

EDIT: I forgot to mention that in the question about your Thanksgiving dinner, "mom" and "dad" can also refer to mother-in-law and father-in-law.