OMG - It's been so FUCKING COLD here the past few weeks. Last week we were graced with an ice storm. It couldn't just snow, it had to sleet. Now the temperature is popping above freezing during the day, so we get ice melt, which, of course, refreezes in the evening. Leaving us with a very nice sheet of ice in the parking lot...
Oh, and when it is about 20F outside, having no electricity is not a Good Thing. At least it was only for one day.
That being said, I leave in 58 hours for someplace warm. New Zealand! Oh I will be so happy to wear shorts and sweat and not have my toes freeze. I've been looking up all sorts of fun and interesting things to go do. I somewhat feel sorry for Dibs, as I will most likely have him so worn out he'll be looking forward to me going back to the States. *evils*
This past weekend I went to my first SCA event in 4 years. It was lots of fun. Cooking based, so I learned the basics of Cordial making, how sugar was refined in the middle ages, and quick and easy cheese. I bought a bunch of books from my all-time favorite, Poison Pen Press. I worked for them at my last Pennsic and said Hi. One note about cheese... I will never EVER eat the lazy-cheese made by leaving the milk out to curdle. It just smells... and makes me want to gag. Nasty! The people who tried it say that it tasted ok... But I just can't get past the smell.
I'm still losing weight. I'm not quite sure what my weight will be after this trip. Dibs is plotting the foods to make me eat while I am there. I'm not sure if the extra food and the exercise will all balance out or not. I'm still caffeine-free as well. Woot. :D One of the pairs of shorts I will be wearing on my trip I have not work in about 4 years or so. hehe.
On the Rick-Front, I removed him from my ignore list, and he felt the need to say hello. I think he had been checking on a regular basis to see if I was taking him off. He asked me if we could possibly salvage our friendship, to which I told him he needed to be honest and transparent with me. So... He tells me that he felt that we were incompatible and he realized whom he truly loved. Sounds like more bullshit to me! At any rate, I finally told him what I hadn't told him yet [It was rather hard when he refused to discuss anything involving the two of us and our relationship back then] and he said he'd leave me be unless I approached him. I put him back on my ignore list. I may eventually forgive him, but I will never ever trust him again.
Lesson learned.
Jerry keeps bringing more and more of my "junk" up. Cripes. I think I know what I'm doing after this trip. Some of it just needs to be disposed of in some way. I'm a pack rat and I hate getting rid of stuff that I may need "someday". Like... Weekend before last I went to my parents with the kids and went through a couple of my bins in their basement. They'd been there for 10 years. Old clothes I'd saved, but they haven't seen the light of day in 10 years. Most of them wound up being thrown out, as the bottom bin had cracked and the basement flooded. Some of the clothes I could not even identify. Oh well. Nothing I will truly miss at all. I need to be ruthless with my old clothes and various hobby stuff.
And I was successful finding the Twinkies for Dibby. The box changed a bit from the last time I'd seen them. I think I stared at the shelf in Target for 5 minutes before their existance registered. I wonder if I'd actually seen them in the other stores but just didn't recognize them.
Oh, and when it is about 20F outside, having no electricity is not a Good Thing. At least it was only for one day.
That being said, I leave in 58 hours for someplace warm. New Zealand! Oh I will be so happy to wear shorts and sweat and not have my toes freeze. I've been looking up all sorts of fun and interesting things to go do. I somewhat feel sorry for Dibs, as I will most likely have him so worn out he'll be looking forward to me going back to the States. *evils*
This past weekend I went to my first SCA event in 4 years. It was lots of fun. Cooking based, so I learned the basics of Cordial making, how sugar was refined in the middle ages, and quick and easy cheese. I bought a bunch of books from my all-time favorite, Poison Pen Press. I worked for them at my last Pennsic and said Hi. One note about cheese... I will never EVER eat the lazy-cheese made by leaving the milk out to curdle. It just smells... and makes me want to gag. Nasty! The people who tried it say that it tasted ok... But I just can't get past the smell.
I'm still losing weight. I'm not quite sure what my weight will be after this trip. Dibs is plotting the foods to make me eat while I am there. I'm not sure if the extra food and the exercise will all balance out or not. I'm still caffeine-free as well. Woot. :D One of the pairs of shorts I will be wearing on my trip I have not work in about 4 years or so. hehe.
On the Rick-Front, I removed him from my ignore list, and he felt the need to say hello. I think he had been checking on a regular basis to see if I was taking him off. He asked me if we could possibly salvage our friendship, to which I told him he needed to be honest and transparent with me. So... He tells me that he felt that we were incompatible and he realized whom he truly loved. Sounds like more bullshit to me! At any rate, I finally told him what I hadn't told him yet [It was rather hard when he refused to discuss anything involving the two of us and our relationship back then] and he said he'd leave me be unless I approached him. I put him back on my ignore list. I may eventually forgive him, but I will never ever trust him again.
Lesson learned.
Jerry keeps bringing more and more of my "junk" up. Cripes. I think I know what I'm doing after this trip. Some of it just needs to be disposed of in some way. I'm a pack rat and I hate getting rid of stuff that I may need "someday". Like... Weekend before last I went to my parents with the kids and went through a couple of my bins in their basement. They'd been there for 10 years. Old clothes I'd saved, but they haven't seen the light of day in 10 years. Most of them wound up being thrown out, as the bottom bin had cracked and the basement flooded. Some of the clothes I could not even identify. Oh well. Nothing I will truly miss at all. I need to be ruthless with my old clothes and various hobby stuff.
And I was successful finding the Twinkies for Dibby. The box changed a bit from the last time I'd seen them. I think I stared at the shelf in Target for 5 minutes before their existance registered. I wonder if I'd actually seen them in the other stores but just didn't recognize them.
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