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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries November 28th, 2009elke_tanzer @ : Pray for me, people, I'm tipping my toes into Freeform tags... This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/101712 Current Mood: Baffled ngaio @ : Day 28 OMG I hate this blinking Mastercard ad, a tumbler does not cost £4, an energy saving light bulb £6, or a reusable plastic bag £1 - if that's what you're spending on stuff you're going to need the damn card. Or alternatively, shop sensibly. Sorry, I'm not ranting today it was just that that advert came on just as Semagic opened! Today I have: Bought some cards to send out in the next few weeks.
Been charity shopping and bought some steampunk-able trousers. Looked for wellies for Sprog. Failed. If her feet were two sizes smaller or larger we'd have been fine but they aren't so we weren't. Bought a surprising number of pairs of knee-high socks. I'd love to buy tights but given the combination of both my height and my weight, plus my refusal to pay more than about £2 per pair of tights means I just can't get any. Ah well, tights are annoying anyway! Dropped my boots into Timpsons to be re-heeled. (And completely failed to remember to pick them up again - whoops?!) Had my contact lense check-up - everything's fine Picked up a prescription (don't ask - way TMI) Received through the post a) an appointment for an ultrasound (which luckily falls on one of the days I'd already booked off work, though I do slightly resent the loss of the planned lie-in) and b) a battery for my (old skool, actual film) video camera which we're going to use at The Steampunk Soiree in about a fortnight (oh God, it's in a fortnight, I need to plan outfits big time) Eaten a very nice pasanda and rice takeaway and watched Strictly Come Dancing ... mmm, mellow evening ... Current Mood: mellow the_willow @ : Those People STILL STILL they play this shit. I suppose I should be grateful or something that 2009 is bringing some of the muck all out into the light. But this is some BOLD ass racist shit. And everytime I want to stop giving Obama a break, I see one of these oozing white thought sores and think, nah dread. Let him settle some more. Cause those people have lobbyists and who knows what shit dem a pulling behind the scenes. IJDEK! Tags: racethulu cometh November 27th, 2009the_willow @ : -- ETA: On the one hand, I want to go 'I have trauma from shopping?!!' and then y'know, I remember my child & teenhood. Tags: wth? ngaio @ : Day 27 Today I have mainly been in a *really bad mood*. I wish I knew why, today was no worse than any other this week/month ... I'm just very *argh* right now. (And rather wanting to cry and/or other bad things.) So here, have a whole bunch of my pet peeves (and sorry that this is pretty much the opposite of Thanksgiving): People who don't recycle. I'm sorry but stop throwing cans and plastic and paper away - how hard is it to remember to recycle them? Relatedly - companies/offices (including my own) which have no recycling policy/facilities - we're trapped in one place eating and drinking and doing paperwork, please give us the ability to recycle our waste Bullies - I'm surrounded my people who bully others in a variety of ways and it's very very frustrating not being able to shake them and say *do you not see what you're doing?!* People who park in the bus stop space - where do you think the bus is going to stop to pick me up if you're in the middle of the available space, I'm not standing here for the good of my health you know Very nice people who are narrow-minded bigots. So annoying in several levels. People with a sense of entitlement and/or the very childish attitude that life should be 'fair' - it's like communism which is a perfect system if people were perfect but we aren't so it isn't. Gender biased everything. People who say 'I hate Christmas' but who refuse to change how they celebrate Christmas because that's not how things are More broadly - people who hate the situation they are in but refuse to change the situation (this one I'd better clarify, I know some situations are unchangeable but some are. For example I work with someone whose mother is ... odd ... and there's rarely usable food in the house, but my colleague doesn't go and buy her own food she just goes hungry and then complains. She's 25, it's perfectly possible for her to get a bus to the supermarket, or to walk, and to buy food. But she doesn't.) ... sorry. Tomorrow I'll be merry. Current Mood: bitchy the_willow @ : *shaking, shaking more* I know I researched this for most of the year. I know that my experiences with TigerDirect were positive several years ago, and chances are they'll be positive again. My mother's experiences are not my own, especially given how she tends to complicate a situation. Still, logic? Ain't no friend of anxiety. Logic gets the 'Talk to the Hand' and Anxiety sashays off and owns the place. PS: Waited an hour and a half to add a $7 mouse to my order. My order? Already processed and in a box. And thus I'd have to pay shipping. So uhm, guess I'll mosy down to Target or something - if I find the energy, and see what I can do and hope things last out till then. PPS: The Media Player of my dreams, ie, with features I've been dreaming about? Just became available. Of course I just spent money on myself. So I have difficulty seeing me spending even -more- money on myself. Guess I should take comfort knowing it is -here-. (ETA: OMG it has ... ok, this would just be boring tech gush. But it has unexpected tech gush. Seriously, if they threw in a camera, I'd likely end up buying it right this second) It has a camera. A camera people. *puddles into amoeba of drool* *Willow knows what she's getting herself for the holidays, even if she has to call it an early birthday present* ETA: There are WEP vs WPA complications. But not enough to keep from all 'Oooh' Tags: anxiety scale 9, omgwtfbbq! zing_och @ :
More about this when I'm back from work. Almost the weekend! Whee! Current Mood:  rushedNovember 26th, 2009ngaio @ : Day 26 I love to bake. I don't know why I prefer baking to making actual meals, I don't have much of a sweet tooth really, will almost always pick crisps over chocolate, but I love to bake. Possibly because I resent meals and being hungry, and baked goods are a *treat* and therefore fun. I like being able to take stuff into work and feed the masses (did I tell you? entire tray/dish of brownies gone by 11am a few weeks ago - gannets the lot of 'em) and make people smile and enjoy the food. But it's not important food, you know, if people don't like it it doesn't matter because I'm not feeding them a meal which has to get them through a third of the day, whatever it is I make it's *extra* and fun. I have issues, I'm aware. Whatever! I make several standard recipes: Lemon cheesecake - this is a very very simple recipe which I've posted once before here and I love it because it is very very adaptable. Dark chocolate brownies - this recipe here. I have much appreciation for this site, it breaks down recipes in a way I understand. And this recipe is, say it with me, very very adaptable. I have added all sorts of things into this one, not sticking with nuts (though I've done nuts) but lots of different fruit, sometimes all at the same time! Last time I made them I had dried cherries, raspberries and strawberries in there - yum. I'm thinking of trying it nearer Christmas and taking out the vanilla essence and adding in some blackcurrant brandy. I used to make some simple cookies (a Jamie Oliver recipe) but I've gone off them recently and am planning on experimenting with different cookie and biscuit recipes a bit in the New Year. I also used to make a (forgive me German speakers for mangling this spelling) Marmorgugelhupf which was a ring cake marbled cocoa and rum cake with pale sponge with lemon rind/juice with a lemon icing which was a complete devil to make and I loved. But I lost the recipe. My problem now is that I don't know the basics, and the science. For example I've just made some chocolate fudge (using ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} trulybloom's recipe - thank you (ps had to leave the marshmallow out as I can't get it here - sorry)) and now I'm wondering - if I leave out the chocolate do I need to add something else or will the sugar/butter/evaporated milk 'be' fudge in their own right? If I leave out the vanilla essence and add some blackcurrant brandy instead will it do something fatal to the consistency? If I use caster sugar, or light brown sugar instead of the granulated which I had on hand what difference will it make? (I have a feeling the only answer is experimentation and some very sugar-rushed colleagues.)But I would like, somewhen, to find a good explanation of the balance of ingredients required to make cake, or fudge, or biscuits, because the more I play the more I risk complete failure and if I don't know what I did wrong then I can't put it right and play even more. And I like playing with baking! Current Mood: thoughtful the_willow @ : More Zvi ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} zvi_likes_tv available via Twitter. (Either DM's or @Zvi_likes_tv)She says she's bored, so anyone willing entertain her with tweets, feel free. beck_liz @ : Glee & etc. While I'm talking about squick-inducing things, TCM is running a Fred Astaire marathon today, and Swing Time is on. I love this movie, not least for the completely awesome white dress with gorgeous full skirt that Ginger Rogers wears when she dances on the stairs with Fred. However! I believe that this movie is also the one which has Fred dancing in blackface. *facepalm* When I fell in love with this movie as a child, I didn't know any better, but now? Ick. And while I'm here, I'd like to wish all who celebrate it a very Happy Thanksgiving! Current Mood:  contemplativeNovember 25th, 2009the_willow @ : Head's Up zvi_likes_tv) is currently inpatient (and doing better for it) and accessible only via her cellphone.Good wishes appreciated. Tags: my boo the_willow @ : Update On Me I want to cry in relief. It lowers so much remaining tension with dealing with people. Really. Meanwhile I want to attempt to tidy up some in the apt, and see if I can't cook myself a turkey breast for Thursday. Tommy Icon for Self Oh yeah, in Dreamwidth Isn't Archiving My Comments With LJ Archive News? I deleted all but my race rants from imported LJ entries. LJ-Archive still can't sync properly even though it now says I have 14698 comments instead of 70k something. Also despite using LJ-Sec to delete posts, some just randomly stayed and had to be deleted by hand. So I'm pondering that LJ-Sec is yet another tool that doesn't quite work with Dreamwidth. ( It got longer that expected ) Tags: +deewee, state of me, stress scale 4.5 ngaio @ : Day 25 I know I have several good topic suggestions left from when I asked a week or so ago and I am planning on using them but not tonight. Tonight I have worn my body out (well, tonight and last night) and my brain has followed. Today at work I got asked if I was OK by Allegra. And Hugh. And Lucy. (Lucy also informed me that I looked 'worn' which really, yeah, probably!) I'm kinda interested in exactly how I looked so bad ... did people expect me to produce an axe and start slashing at other people or myself?! Or was it more a case of any minute I may hide under my desk and whimper? Anyway it hasn't actually been a particularly bad day, or even week. No amazingly stupid edicts have come down from on high, the customers I've spoken to have been surprisingly mellow and helpful and appreciative, I've made some inroads into the mountains of paper which are my desk ... yeah, not particularly bad, especially compared to the last few months. Huh.::shrugs:: Dunno. I do know that in addition to the two days off I have early December where I'm heading to Oxford a-steampunkin' I also have an additional three days I need to take off before the end of December. Frankly I wanted to be able to carry them over to next year but the PTB have ruled that no leave can be carried over (a bit of a bugger for Wizard, my boss, who has 22 days left!) so I need to take three random days off in the next 5 weeks or so. Maybe I'll just have the next three Mondays off and have some long weekends. Possibly then I'll look less 'worn' and more ... something. Current Mood: tired November 24th, 2009ngaio @ : Day 24 mabiana suggested I write about my cat. So I shall!Actually I have two cats, brothers, who are around 11 years old. They are rescue cats who were abandoned, rescued, re-homed and then had to be rescued from the home because the woman who took them couldn't cope with them. We got them when they were about 14 weeks old and we went to the rescue place looking for little kittens (like a lot of people do) and these two ... one of 'em just decided we (especially Henry) were theirs. That was it. Done. So yes, two cats. One is ginger and white and I refer to him here as Thing 1 though I don't think it matters if I reveal that his RL name is Jacob. Or Hobbit. Or Hobbos, Jack Hobbos. He's the cat who rules outside, he has his territory and he patrols it religiously. Once when it snowed we could see he followed the exact same route each time he patrolled from the footprints in the snow. He's a very very purry cat and likes to sleep up my right arm onto my chest which makes typing tricky. His brother is Thing 2 who is black and white, has the longest whiskers in the world, and 'rejoices' in the name Isaac. Or Whizzle. Or Whizzle-kit.He rules the indoor arena. He is very very stupid and does not learn. He is the cat who fell out of the upstairs window three times in one weekend and still does fall out of the window whenever he's decided that's where he's sleeping. He also falls off sofa backs, tables, sideboards, the piano, the computer table ... you get the picture. While Jacob is getting slightly less reliable when jumping because I think he's getting a little old in the legs as it were, Isaac has never been good at any kind of physical activity. I would sympathise as this is very much my attitude too if it weren't for the fact he does not learn. At all. Isaac is Henry's cat. Entirely. I can feed him and stroke him but Henry wins his attention every time. Actually by virtue of the fact that my lap is almost always full of laptop Henry is the person of choice for both cats when they're in a lap (rather than a right arm!) mood. Often this results in one cat settling on Henry's lap and the other settling up his chest by sitting on the first cat. Surprisingly neither of them seem that fussed about being sat on by the other one. I don't know how they sleep at night because they're shut in the kitchen but I do know it involves pulling clean clothing off the airer and sleeping on it. Thus making us wash it again! Blinking cats! Current Mood: calm the_willow @ : Sh*t, P*ss, Damn Too much anxiety at confronting her about the lyrica. Just left voicemail saying I couldn't come in and explaining why. Now maybe my womb will stop hurting just a little bit and I'll stop shaking and my chest will stop hurting and I can stop crying. Y'know? Sometimes, I am brave. At other times, I worry my anxiety might cause me to shiv someone. Ok maybe not cause me to shiv someone. But shving could seriously happen - I get violent or terrified when I'm very anxious with no real way to tell. And seriously, if a treat of Peanut Butter Cups shaped like Christmas trees couldn't get me to leave the house, and the threat of a library fine, then I need to pay attention and not try to walk, outside, when my lower half feels all TMI. Meantime, I'll be over here curled up in a ball, trying not to should or 'you are such a coward' myself. Oh yeah, also no SI - have to remember to focus on that. Tags: anxiety scale 8.5 the_willow @ : Little Ball Of Ow But, I've realized where my current pain is coming from. Yes it is raining. Yes I do have joint pain. But I also have womb pain. A particular type of womb pain. A panic induced womb pain. Oh how I did not miss it. And yes it's related to my mother. Anyway it explains why I didn't want to go to bed when it came on - fears of nightmares no doubt just under my subconscious. I will get to my doctor's appt in the rain today, but this kind of pain is even more debilitating when I'm out of the house. So eff la de dah brain, you craven politician you. ============= Backtracking January, possibly doing exposure to the harmful stimuli therapy for desensization or something around those lines, I came across this line, from someone who'd had several people patiently explaining to them their ass was showing. Note stopping conversation for a family emergency - totally valid. It's just sigh + eye roll when they decide this is the best response t things that had been pointed out to them: "Praise is MORE IMPORTANT when dealing with the -isms, even though it's true that we shouldn't HAVE to praise people for doing the right thing." Apparently some of us in this world need to walk around with backpack ovens so we can hand out fresh baked cookies all the time as a first impulse. Tags: #social justice issues, bite my flat arse, pain scale 7.5 November 23rd, 2009ngaio @ : Day 23 I am declaring today a skip day. I'm knackered, I have no brain power at all and am planning to go to bed at the same time as my nine year old which is 7.30 which is in just under an hour and boy does that seem a long time to have to stay up. I'll do an extra day on the end, 'k? Current Mood: exhausted beck_liz @ : The Prisoner Remake? My question is, as someone who has never seen the original, is the remake worth it? It's got Ian McKellan, who almost makes it worth it in and of himself for me. However, I've been hearing not-so-good things about the remake, albeit from fans of the original, to the point where I'm not sure even Sir Ian will be able to save it. Should I bother trying, or just delete from the DVR unseen? Current Mood:  curiousthe_willow @ : The downside of actually showing up last year Considering how...odd I feel right now? Like I don't even know if I want to to Zvi's for Thanksgiving, because I'm on edge, in pain, out of sorts, pondering spoons, etc? I just... It feels superstitious to say I feel pre-warnings that this will be a bad holiday season and instinct tells me to hunker down and wait for it to be over. But that's how I feel right now. Find some books I can enjoy, have pizza and wait for January 2nd. Obviously I'm depressed and it's cranking my lack of sociability ever upwards, yes? Tags: about me, holiday visitations, mood scale 3 November 22nd, 2009elke_tanzer @ : George Lucas Totally Owes Me A Drink On the AO3, there now exist fandom titles for: Star Wars (Comics) Star Wars (Video Games) For all of the book series' various eras, using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_St - Star Wars: Sith Era - Various (synonym: Star Wars: Old Republic Era - Various) - Star Wars: Rise of Empire Era - Various - Star Wars: Rebellion Era - Various - Star Wars: New Republic Era - Various - Star Wars: New Jedi Order Era - Various - Star Wars: Legacy Era - Various For the films: The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Original Trilogy are currently: # Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi # Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope # Star Wars: A New Hope # SW:ANH # ANH # Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back # Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back # A New Hope # The Empire Strikes Back # Star Wars: Return of the Jedi # Return of the Jedi # SW:RotJ # RotJ # SW:ESB # SW:TESB # ESB As soon as we get metatagging capability, Star Wars will be a separate tag which encompasses all of the component Star Wars fandoms under its umbrella, so to speak... all of the movies and expanded universe tie-ins and books and videogames and tv shows and whateverthehellelse... and we'll all be able to breathe a little easier. The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Prequel Trilogy are currently: # The Phantom Menace # Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace # Star Wars: The Phantom Menace # Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones # Star Wars (TPM) # Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith # Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith # Revenge of the Sith # Star Wars: Attack of the Clones # Attack of the Clones # SW:AotC # AotC # SW:RotS # RotS # SW:TPM - Fandom (this is a slight glitch that we'll have to deal with tomorrow related to when the rake process rakes; there is also currently a freeform tag TPM which should ultimately possibly be a fandom tag synonym instead, but I'm not sure, since it's being used as a timeframe-type freeform, like pre-ANH or pre-TPM) # Phantom Menace Additional references: http://www.imdb.com/find?q=star+war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_U http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Pag http://www.njoe.com/index.php?id=vi (Also, should anyone feel the need (I will not be held responsible for what may result): Star Wars Holiday Special (TV)) ETA: My tag wrangling process has been ficced. OMG. Love. This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/101672 Current Mood:  busy |