Seismic Twitch

I can hardly wait until we’re able to afford a house of our own. Our landlord is a weirdo. He doesn’t like our messy basement and wants to come and “look at the condition of the house” and talk to us about lawn care. Yes, we’re slobs and tomorrow we have a serious amount of work to do so that the basement looks acceptable, though I’m not sure what he considers that to be.

The snow has hardly melted and he’s aleady on us about the lawn. However, we’re one step ahead of him. We have weed killer and will be buying lawn seed and fertilizer later in the month (or when student loans come in) and will be creating a nice lawn. He’s so weird. The year before last he tells me to water because it’s looking dry and brown. So I water the lawn. Then he tells me to not make the city rich by watering too much.

All I want to do is throw up.

We, Bran and I, went into the centre and chatted. We used the coupon he got for volunteering at Safewalk to have lunch. I ordered the Vietnamese noodle bowl. Oy! They’re quite generous with the hot peppers in the sauce they made. I ended up having to give it to Bran to eat because It was too spicy. I finished his french fries and gravy. I also had a glass of milk in a wild attempt to be able to eat as much of my noodles as possible. Considering that it was made in a bar-restaurant and the rolls weren’t made with rice paper wrapping, it was quite good.

I laid down and had a short nap while Bran went off to look at the computer store and other things that I have no idea what he did. We came home and I tried valiantly to stay awake, but alas, I couldn’t and I laid down at 3 to nap until 6.

Now it’s very nearly time to eat the pizza that was ordered for supper (chicken garlic) and I quite look forward to it. There’s no tomato sauce on it.

Ta-Ra

I’ve set up a Flickr account with my knitting pictures on it. It seems fairly easy. I’ll probably upload all my pictures from the Imageshack.us site so that I have them in two spots. That reminds me. I should download them to my computer as well since that’s the only place many of them are since my old computer kacked it.

Right now Bloggers being a shit because it’s not letting me add a Flickr thing to my elements. In fact, it’s not letting me do anything with elements right now. Bummer.

Here is the first knitting pictures.

This first one is the back of the shawl that I knitted. I was going to keep it but decided that shawls aren’t my thing. I’m giving it to the nearly former (today is her last day) centre director.

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This is one of the gauntlets that I knitted for Boy this winter. Sadly they tend to “grow” as he wears them and they get in the way. I’m going to have to get some finer yarn (probably single ply) and knit some glovelets that have only part fingers. That way he might actually wear them.

Well, we’ve got a lot of it figured out. I haven’t figured out how to attach pictures to email on the phone, but I have figured out how to get the photos off the phone and onto my computer. It’s amazing just how things work when you actually read the directions correctly.

It would have been really nice if Motorola (that’s the brand I got) included a better owners’ manual. It would also be nice if it were easier to find things on the Motorola web site. It would also be nice if what the manual has in it (supposedly for the same beast as my phone)had correct instructions in them. I had to up my learning curve for this. Good thing I can think.

Bran set up my account and did the hard stuff at the beginning. I’m doing the fun and easier stuff like setting ring tones, making sure the clock is right, and other such play things. Well, just playing some more helped me to figure out how to send pictures via email.

I’m so cool!

Let’s see. Today’s been a rather busy one, all things considered.

I got to bed sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I think it was a about 9 am. Bran came in and woke me up to go shopping at 2:30 or so. I didn’t really want to go and I waffled about for a little bit until my bladder told me that if I didn’t get out of bed it would explode and create all sorts of self-control and self-esteem issues.

I sat down on the couch and began watching some murder and mayhem and continued knitting on the shrug that I’ve started for Bran. We talked about going shopping or not going shopping. Then he made me a couple of easy over fried eggs and 2 whole wheat buns. Then not long after that I finally decided on going to at least get some garbage bags since we’ve run out of kitchen bags, large bags and the roll ones that I use in the bathroom.

We walked to the mall and went to Zellers. There we looked at possible sandals for Boy, but they didn’t have a size large enough. Then we wandered off and Bran looked at phones for me. All they had were the ones that involve committing to a plan. Since I’d just gotten rid of that with SaskTel, I wasn’t about to get into another plan with another company.

As we strolled through, I picked up a large skein of dark green yarn for Bran’s shrug (because I’m sure I don’t have enough other bulky yarn to make the whole thing (his arm span is at least 2 metres). I also got some shower gel stuff for Boy and for me. I’m nearly out of what I have. I like Boy to have shower gel because that’s a sure way of knowing that he’s washed himself at least minimally. He’s been known to stand under a shower and not use soap or shampoo or both. It’s sad, but that’s happened. With the shower stuff I can smell him and therefore know that he’s at least opened the bottle and washed his hands with it.

Happily, we also remembered garbage bags. Yay us!

Then after much debate, discussion and indecision, we went off to London Drugs and I picked out a new phone for me. I now own a camera phone. It also plays Mp3s but since I already have a player, that’s soemthing that’s not going to be used. Besides, I’d have to buy a new memory card thing. It’s a flip phone (I’ve always wanted one) and my first call is going to involve something about saying “beam me up Scotty.” Yeah, I’m easily amused.

The first thing I’m going to is learn how to text message. They’re much cheaper to send and since I’m on an evening/weekend plan, it’ll be a whole lot cheaper than phoning during the day. I’m going to become a texting maniac. The phone is a pay-as-you-go things. I have $100 credit to put on it and that’ll be good for a year. I already have $20 that will be good for a month, so I’ll wait until next month to put the $100 on. Having the pay-as-you-go means that I don’t pay a shit pile of money monthly only to not even come close to using my time.

The phone has a camera for still pictures and videos. I guess you know what this means, right? Yes, that’s right, I’ll finally be posting pictures of my knitting. It also has caller id, voice mail, text, call waiting, call forwarding, a note pad, tracks call costs and times, games and applications, calculator, datebook (I wonder if it’s compatible with Outlook), alarm clock and other neat things. I’ll be doing some playing this evening while I figure it out and put phone numbers in. Woot!

The phone is Bluetooth compatible and came with some plug in ear buds for hands free. The ear set is really nice and sturdy but they’re huge. They take up the entire ear space and stretches out my ear shell. Bran really likes them. I could use them, but they’d eventually become too uncomfortable.

Such excitement.

Ta-Ra

I wrote the very last exam to complete my third year of university. I got there at 8:30 thanks to a ride offered by a fellow student. I began writing the exam at 9 am and finished at 9:55 am. I was home by 10:05 am. I think that’s a new record for exam writing for me. Of course, 60 multiple choice questions don’t take that long. I’m pretty sure I did fairly well.

This is the class that I did so poorly on the midterm because I over thought the exam (no professor has that many e’s in a row – right). I’m pretty sure I did much better this time…I think.

I have the three other class marks, but I don’t want to tell what they are until I have all four. Since this exam was multiple choice on an opscan sheet, I should have the mark by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest. I’ll let you know then.

That being said, I’ve decided to reread the Bruno archives. It is one of my all time favourite comics. Sadly, the writer/artist finished the comic earlier this year. He does another comic that I read, Little Dee. This one has a limited archive at the site, so if you are interested in reading the archives then do so. Christopher Baldwin is quite a brilliant writer and a good artist.

That’s it for now. I’m waiting for murder and mayhem to begin on the television to entertain my rather tapioca gooey brain. I’ll do another entry with the quote of the day later today.

I have such troubles with background colours of my tables showing up the way they should. I spent nearly 1/2 hour trying to get the damned thing to work. Then, when it does, I have no idea what I did right other than to not preview it. However, I didn’t preview it the first time and it didn’t show up.

I think that Blogger has a few bugs that need to be worked out, especially the part where their site changes my coding (very simple html) to whatever crap it is that they use. It always changes things and I hate that.