Derek and I bought a pet today. After going through the reptile show with him I asked him to go look at fish with me. We’ve tossed the idea of getting a fish around and we finally got one today. Just a really generic beta, mostly for ease of care and lack of the need read more

I’m really weird about music. I love it. But I go through spurts where I don’t listen at all, and other spurts where its the only thing that keeps me going. I also go through cycles of living. I own somewhere around 150 or so cds (I used to have them catalogued extensively, but I read more

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I love the muppets. So when I started seeing the commercials for new diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper I was definitely intrigued. I also absolutely hate diet soda. I am definitely willing to make an exception to my hatred for this one though. Derek picked some read more

So, TheBoy and I used up the last of our trade-in credit at Blockbuster today to buy movies. We got a coupon in the mail to get 3 previewed movies for $25. We settled on Saved!, Jersey Girl and X-Men 1.5. TheBoy and I watched Saved! tonight because although I had seen it before, just read more

…And we’re both still alive. Turns out that what I had was a nasty horrible case of the flu that’s been going around. At very nearly age 24 I have never before had the flu and I would really really like never to have it again. Afer spending 4 days in bed myself and being read more

So, being in school and being sick have really made me have little time for knitting. Being sick has also made it impossible to sit at the computer and post these photos. But here they are, the first progress shots of Rogue. I’m just a few rows short of reattaching the pocket. Cables are really read more

I went to Portland on Saturday for a lecture and in the afternoon I developed a cough. Thinking it was just from someone’s cigarette smoke, I shrugged it off. Well, now I’m running a fever and alternate between sweating and freezing, so that should about sum up how I feel. New skin is up, select read more

The Chipperz came from a college friend who is now living in Missouri. It didn’t even dawn on me that he (Shaun) had asked for my address less than a week before I got them. Apparently there was a note option in the ordering process (he ordered them online) but he didn’t discover that until read more

…than a 5 button mouse. Being as that my work computer is an old emac (i’m getting a new, G5 with a 19″ flat panel monitor pretty soon) I’ve been working with a one button mouse since I started here in September. When we picked out my new machine, I asked for a 5-button. Even read more

The director’s cut version of Donnie Darko came out yesterday. I reserved it online at Border’s and went to pick it up on my way home (the bus stop I get off at is across the street from the Border’s in town). I go in, picked up the latest issue of Popular Science for TheBoy, read more

I am opposed, on principle, to people naming food items blankity-blank delight. Or even worse, delite. I realized this today while making case signs for a sandwich named “vegetarian delight”. Well, that’s all well and good that someone didn’t have enough creativity to come up with a better name for it, but come on! What’s read more

TheBoy opened the door this morning and found a box waiting there. A box addressed to me. A box from Widman’s Coffee and Fine Chocolates, a candy company in Fargo. I asked him if he’d ordered me something as we had been talking about Widman’s and the fact that they make Chipperz–chocolate covered potato chips–while read more