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celticknotter took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Longs for a tender and sympathetic bond and for a ..."
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And yes, I'm back to using livejournal. I'm just not happy with my other blogs, among other things, so I'm back to where the good communities are. I have a full-time (read: 45 hours a week, including lunches, plus 2 hours a day in transit) job, so I find I don't blog much anymore, though I like to have the option to blog occasionally.
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| Girlie Girlie |
[27 Jul 2005|04:09am] |
Note: I saved this from another blog of mine that's disappearing very very soon. Considering it has so many LJ links in it already, it seems like a good place to put it.
For the Guys: This is a post you probably won't want to read. I'm not saying that I don't want you to read it. It's entirely up to you, and wouldn't bother me in the least. I do think you should be sending your female friends here to read it though. It's got some good info they might be interested in. But if you do decide to read it, know that you'll likely be completely squicked out and wish you had heeded this warning.
WARNING: This post will squick out most guys and some girls too, but I'm not about to keep my trap shut about a product this good. And please, pass this URL to all women you know. You never know who might be interested in this.
( It's long, so I'll hide the Divacup raving behind a cut. )
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[18 Jan 2005|05:57pm] |
The Great LiveJournal
Outage of 2005
During the outage I didn't know there was an outtage, so really.. I didn't care.
What did you do?
Brought to you by geek-foo
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Yes, I'm still keeping an eye on my friends page, but I've foundi update a lot more now that it's on my own domain. If you're interested - it's here
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[01 Jan 2005|04:11pm] |
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I've been finding lately that my journal background has not been appearing. I can only assume that it has something to do with the interaction between livejournal and photobucket, where I have my image hosted. This makes me grumpy. Of course, I won't be bothered fixing it at all because, with the prompting of a certain person, I have decided to switch to blogger and set it up to appear on a new subdomain that I am creating for my site. I think I have settled on ramblingbabbles, but it's undecided. Until I get that set up, I'll prolly do most of my updating through my blogspot.
I'll still be keeping this account, so I can keep up with the communities I've joined, and the journals I read.
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| Swiped from Ben |
[30 Dec 2004|02:03pm] |
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I stole this from Ben -- so blame him, it's all his fault....
(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album
(B) Ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Answers will be posted next week--great time for strangers to say hi.
(C) Then go back to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything; say that you stole it from me.
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| Unconscious Mutterings again |
[26 Dec 2004|03:30pm] |
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the movie (White Christmas) my parents &grandma are watching |
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Christmas commentary and all that crap to come later (when family isn't hanging over my shoulders, in other words)...
- holiday:: yesterday
- fault:: mine
- beep:: noise
- bubble:: gum
- needle:: thread
- fare:: bus
- treat:: baking
- express:: post
- webcam:: voyeur
- capital:: city
go get it here 
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[24 Dec 2004|08:47pm] |
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[21 Dec 2004|07:11pm] |
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So lately I've been working on a sleep for a bit, work for awhile, sleep for a while, more work, etc. People say that we need longer days, but splitting each day into two separate days seems to be working for me...until today that is. I was chatting about celtic music with some random guy who messaged me on yahoo (he's in Scotland - pretty cool, actually), so I didn't crawl off to bed as early?late? as I usually do, which meant I didn't get to bed at all. I had placed a call to another recruitment agency here, and they suggested I come in today. Of course, this meant that I had to cancel my plans (you know, those super-important ones that involve sleeping and lolling around in my wonderful flannel sheets) to get all suited up (literally -- a dress suit even, which required shaving my legs....again. Damn I hate that job, even though I love the way smooth legs feel...but I digress) and head to the agency. Over two hours later, I finally left. I had lots of fun taking tests to show my skills in various computer programs, and even in proofreading, plus the interview thing. I think it went well, though they haven't any positions I'm suited to, at the moment. Annoying thing was, as I finished each test it was supposed to print a report at the receptionist desk in the other room. Instead it popped up with a LPT1 error (your standard print error, basically). And the friggin thing kept popping up as they tried to figure out what was wrong with it. The more tests I finished the faster it popped up, since it was doing it for more than one print job. It got a little crazy, to be honest, and likely screwed up my score slightly (but not enough that I would say anything about it. Besides, that would just sound like a cop-out). I have to say, I don't know a whole lot about networking computers and shared printers and such, but there was no printer cable coming from the tower. Like I said, I don't know a whole lot about it, but I'm fairly certain no printer cable means you will not be printing from that computer. But I could be wrong.
And coolness news - I signed up for an online course in medical terminology. It was kind of spur of the moment, but kind of not. I had wanted to take a medical secretary program coming out of high school, but everyone kept telling me to 'aspire to something more' so I did, but lately I've been thinking about it again. Well, the jobs that I've been seeing a lot of require medical terminology, so I put in my application form and cheque. It still seems really spontaneous though, since I just learned about the course today and I've already registered for it. It feels right though.
Man, I need sleep, I can barely focus on typing this. But tonight is Scrubs night, and I can't miss that. Methinks I'd best plan on setting the vcr timer.....*yawn*
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[21 Dec 2004|12:07pm] |
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I was just reading the official J.K. Rowling website and found a reference she made about the wood used in certain wands being based on the trees that the ancient Celts had assigned to the part of the year in which the character's birthday fell. So I thought to take a look for my birthday and found that the Birch tree was somehow correlated with my birthday. I've always loved the birch tree more than other trees, so it kind of caught my attention. This could be worth looking into the next time I'm trying to kill some time.
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[19 Dec 2004|08:36pm] |
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It's about time I did a proper update, so here it is. Last week my mom was talking with the mom of one of my brother's friends from high school (how's that for convoluted relationship to somebody?), who was nice enough to offer to put a good word in for me at the Town Hall HR department. I spent a pantload of time creating an awesome cover letter for it and went to take it in on Wednesday, only to be told that they don't accept resumes in person, it all has to go through the website. Cute. Especially considering that the website says they don't accept email resumes either. It was so frustrating and had me rather upset (though I never got around to actually writing about it, though I hinted at it) because it seems like everytime I get something starting to go my way, I get screwed over again. Well, this same wonderful person ran into my mom again, and said that she would come and pick up my resume from my mom at work, and personally deliver it to the HR manager she has already spoken to on my behalf. Apparently, they are looking to recruit some new people, and things are being reorganized and such, so fingers crossed that something comes of this.
We went to visit my grandfather yesterday. I would like to say it was fun and I enjoyed the visit, but it wasn't, so I won't. I will blame it on being very tired and having that restless legs, must move kind of feeling while I was there....except it wasn't in my legs, but in my back, which is a lot worse. We picked up swiss chalet on the way home and watched a cute little Christmas movie -- Karroll's Christmas -- that I taped earlier this week while we ate. Of course, I was so tired I fell asleep and missed a big chunk of the movie. I wasn't able to get a whole lot in the way of sleep leading up to the visit, so I'm not terribly surprised. I think I'd had about 6 hours sleep in the preceding 48 hours. Ick.
Reading this makes me realize just how un-entertaining my life is. The most thrilling thing to have happened recently was the death of my computer monitor. You really had to be here to know why this was thrilling. The sounds it made were really quite remarkable. We now have my monitor on Dad's computer and we'll look at getting a new monitor once the Christmas rush is over. We knew the monitor was dying, based on the loud whine its had for the past, well, year, almost, but we didn't realize how bad the display on it was getting. The colour was just dreadful. Of course, this means that I now have to update and redo some of the stuff I've done lately (like the background for my lj) because I really don't like how it looks now - the colours just aren't what I thought they were.
But this updating may have to wait for a bit. In trying to prevent myself from falling down the stairs when I slipped on them in the middle of the night, I grabbed the hand rail, which wrenched my wrist and thumb, and of course, it would have to be my right hand. Typing isn't too bad (as long as I remember not to use my right thumb for hitting the spacebar), but using the mouse is a little on the painful side at the moment because of having to move my wrist. I was hoping to work on my newest celtic knot project (called Fire Brothers, I think), but I'm not sure about holding the pencil for it. Ick. Sometimes it really stinks to have all my hobbies requiring the use of my right hand. Every single year, I'm either sick or injured at Christmas. I'm hoping this is it for this year.
But coming from the land of Good News: I sold my flute. It's actually a little bittersweet because it was the first really big purchase I made and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to sell it or not. Of course, I haven't played it in at least 5 years, though it may be longer than that even, and I feel crappy knowing that such a beautiful instrument is just sitting in my closet. When I switched from Clarinet to Flute, my music teacher (in a public, elementary school, no less) went out of her way to make sure the rental company gave me a really good flute, as opposed to the Gemeinhardt flutes that they usually gave to young rental students. After renting for a semester, I bought it, and it saw a lot of use for a few years. It's an Armstrong, closed key flute. It'll be nice to know that it will finally be in use again, and I like it even more because it is my cousin buying it for her daughter. Instead of them paying each month to rent a flute, they will pay me the installments and get to keep the flute. Little do they know the penalty for paying in installments....they have to take all the sheet music that I've accumulated over the years!
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| Unconscious Mutterings again |
[19 Dec 2004|08:24pm] |
I didn't really like this list all that much but here goes anyway...
- Perfect Gift::impossible to find
- Santa::Christmas
- Lucy::Charlie Brown
- Buckets::water
- Recital::music
- Stamp::pad
- Teacher::education
- Matchbox::20
- Spit::gross
- Feeling::emotion
go get the list
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| Musical Choices |
[17 Dec 2004|02:16pm] |
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I saw this one while I was flipping through a new site I came across last night (the same one that huge long survey was from) and thought it was a neat idea....soo....
( Clicky here for the survey-y thing )
Yeah, and I will actually update with something other than online time wasters one of these days...I mean soon, yeah, sooon...
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| Bah Humbug! |
[15 Dec 2004|10:35pm] |
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Clickety clicked for the quizzy thing, and it just suits my mood perfectly, so BAH HUMBUG!
Your Christmas is Most Like: How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
You can't really get into the Christmas spirit...
But it usually gets to you by the end of the holiday.
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I should probably be updating with why I'm in such a grumpy mood, but I'm still in such a grumpy mood that I don't feel like it. And this is the second time I turned on the computer with the sole intention of updating with how crappy today has been, and couldn't be bothered typing it out. Again I'll say it BAH HUMBUG!!!
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[15 Dec 2004|04:40am] |
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So I saw this over on Oliver's Blog (wow, it's been so long since I actually typed the code for a link I had to actually think about it! yipes!), and have decided to gank it, because, well, just because I can, actually. Plus it seems interesting. You know what...I use that word all too often. interesting Must figure out why I always default to interesting, though I suppose it could be worse, like...ummm *fails to come up with a worse example....Ok, without further ado..some Free Association (list brought to you by Unconscious Mutterings). Ok, maybe a bit of 'ado' first. The idea is to write the first thing that pops into your mind when you see the word on the list.
- Plot:: story
- Farce:: Royal Canadian Air
- Unexpected:: surprise
- Siren:: police
- Ben:: Brodie
- Freshman:: Newbie
- Quicksand:: sinking
- 24 hours:: day
- Spunky:: *giggles*
- Vicious:: circle
Go get the list:
Also -- I was looking at all the creative stuff I've been doing lately, and how much I enjoy it (heck, I even want to do another re-do on my lj just because it was fun and a bit challenging) and it reminded me of a convo from last night. My parents were both science majors in university. My brother and I were both arts majors. I wonder how that happened, and gee, is that perhaps why I don't see eye to eye with my parents so often. Of course, I see eye to eye with my brother even less.
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| Good Times |
[14 Dec 2004|08:56pm] |
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The family friends have been and gone and it was actually a rather nice visit. Lots to talk about, totally relaxed and rather like having family members you actually like come for a visit. They left this morning to catch their train west to visit their son for the holidays. We'll see them again on their way back (they leave their car at our house over the holiday season so they don't have to worry about it sitting at the train station, and we start it occasionally for them so they know that it won't be frozen into a state of not-workingness by the time they return). They might even stay for New Years Eve, so it will be more than just the three of us watching movies and munching pizza. Ahhh yes, such thrilling new years' eves....
We got an RSVP of sorts from my great uncle last night, and he will be coming for Christmas dinner, which is really nice. He was also passing along the message that Pam and Nial have accepted the invite as well, so looks like I won't be the only person under 55 (Nial -- and his wife Pam -- is my dad's cousin's son, but I consider Nial and Pam my cousins, along with all Nial's siblings. I'm closer to them, and like them a whole lot more, than my 'real' cousins).
And just cuz it made me laugh. We had a call from my brother yesterday...They have a foot of snow and the snow and ice meant he couldn't get up his driveway. *giggles* In his defence, it must be about a 45degree angle, and runs off another very steep hill. Probably hard to imagine unless you've actually been to New Brunswick.
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Lisa Loeb - Do you Sleep? (my response...umm no) |
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I'm a little giddy and giggly here tee hee tee hee giggle giggle giggle snort...ok, so maybe staying up all night playing on the computer isn't a bright idea, but I had some fun fiddling with the overrides for my LJ. It's a little intimidating making changes in the overrides box, I must admit - who knows what I could schmuck up, but I'm really bored with how my lj looks, so...it was time to take the plunge. From what I was reading in the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) howto tutorials, it's basically playing with CSS, so it is kinda neat that I made it this far because none of the other CSS stuff I have looked at made any sense for me. Am I becoming an even bigger geek? So far, I'm quite pleased with the way it is starting to look, though there are a couple things I'm going to continue to work on (they might even be done by the time you read this!). I'm just trying to get it to fit in better with how my website looks and so far, I think I'm succeeding. Of course, I've only seen how it looks on my monitor, so could ya please tell me if it looks like crap on your monitor, and let me know what you think needs changing? I'm not guaranteeing it will get changed (or that I'm even able to change it, but feedback is definitely welcome. Sooo, ummm, yeah.
Back to photoediting.....
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Just another blah day to add to another blah week. My mother had a full roast dinner in the crock pot all day. Just like being back in the 1950s with veggies cooked around the potroast. The only thing missing is the fake smiles, perfect clothing, and the apron. As I was laying in bed, trying not to gag on the smell, I realized that the smell of roast beef, parsnips, carrots, onions, potatoes and whatever else she had in there is quite possibly the worst smell. period. I was up all night again last night, so it made perfect sense to stay in bed and sleep all day. Nothing quite like crawling out of bed at 7pm. Staying in bed, all cuddled up in nice, warm flannel sheets all day is bliss. But if it is so wonderful (which it is) why do I never want to go to bed at night? I never want to go to bed at night, but I never want to get out of it in the morning either. I must be nocturnal. It's the only thing that makes sense.
This could be interesting for tomorrow. Family friends should be arriving Monday sometime, and will be staying overnight. Which means my parents are sleeping on the pull-out couch in the living room (cuz I'm sick of being the one to give up my room for guests. Sounds mean, but I would have to thoroughly clean it to my mother's standards, which means no little bits of paper anywhere, nothing piled on the desk...so clean it's positively oppressive). Of course, that makes things a little challenging for me. I usually hide out in the basement at night which is ok, but I would risk waking them every time I have to go upstairs for something (like washroom, food, and when heading to bed). Looks like I had best plan on spending Monday night in my room. Ick. I should probably make an appearance during the day, I guess. I would be kind of rude not to, considering what good friends they are and stuff. Ugh.
And just for fun...look I taste like lemon. People taste me and make that nasty, puckering face....I wonder if this is why I love to suck on lemons? Mmmm, leeemmmmmmoooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
 Mmm, I am Lemon Flavoured.
I am bitter and twisted. Expect from me acerbic humour and sharp commentary. While I may seem nasty at first, I'm actually quite good company if I like you, so long as you don't mind a bit of cutting to the chase. What Flavour Are You?
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| Christmas Cards |
[06 Dec 2004|08:51pm] |
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Mom was asking me if I'm going to send Christmas cards at all this year, so of course, I've been thinking about it. I've come to the conclusion that I really don't want to send cards to anyone. At least not anyone from RL. All the folks that I want to send them to are online folks. So I'll send a couple cards to family members (brother, grandparents, a couple cousins, fav aunt), and then send e-cards to the people I really want to send cards to. Which reminds me that I don't actually have email addresses for some of the people (how odd, huh?). I'll have to remedy that.
In other news -- I think I'm heading in to a fibro flare. The sound of fluorescent lights isn't bothering me yet but I'm so incredibly sore and my sleep for the past couple nights has royally sucked. It would be about the right time of course, since I'm always miserable for Christmas (it's just usually a really bad cold, the flu, strep throat, or something of that ilk). A flare would be new, but just as sucky. Oh well, not a whole I can do about it.
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