That was today. I woke up to a quiet house. Boy was at school, Bran was out at Manitou (I’d changed my mind about going and wanted to stay home instead). I got up and showered. Then I headed to my computer to read a few comics and watch some tv. It was then I started to contemplate supper.
So I headed out to the kitchen and started dicing up some onion and garlic for curry chick peas. I like them a lot. We had 3 cans of peas and one of tomato. I figured I could make do with that. So I did. It’s now simmering away, the flavours melding into the joy that is curry. Bran phoned to let me know that he’s picking up Boy and gave me instructions about how to run the rice cooker. That means that rice is now cooking too.
Yesterday we headed to Work Warehouse for some pants for me. Boy got some cotton pants (like sweats but made of t-shirt material) and I wanted something like that. Instead I got a couple pairs of scrub pants. All I have to do now is hem them. I also got a new blouse. We’ll be headed over there again. There’s a big sale on and Bran needs some new jeans. They sell jeans. Hopefully there’ll be more stuff there for me.
Some kids are at the door. I don’t feel like answering it, so I’m going to ignore it. Hopefully they’ll go away…and they are. Yay!
Bran is on his way home now. He’s bringing me a large double-double (two sugars, two cream) from Timmy’s. Supper is on the cook and it’s murder and mayhem night.
I stole this from Gayprof the educated blogger that all worship and adore. Make up trivia about yourself.
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Dykewife!
1. Dykewife can clean her ears with her tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
2. Dykewife is the only bird that can swim but not fly.
3. Dykewife will give a higher yield if milked when listening to music.
4. An average beaver can cut down dykewife every year.
5. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are dykewife.
6. Dykewife is picked, sorted and packed entirely in the field.
7. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than dykewife.
8. In a pinch, the skin from a shark can be used as dykewife!
9. If you don’t get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have dykewife for the rest of the day.
10. A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted dykewife.
I’ve been silent these past days because my computer has been in the shop. The fan has been making a terrible racket for the past couple of months, but because I needed my computer I tolerated the noise. Since I’d finished classes and my exams last week we took my computer in for the techies at the store we bought it from (they actually know what they’re doing) to see if they could do anything about it. They thought maybe they could give the fan a quick lube and avoid having to send it to the manufacturer for repairs, but alas, whatever’s wrong with this thing is something that the manufacturer has to fix lest the warranty be voided. Damn. So now we’re setting things up on Bran’s computer for me to use, I’ll be printing out all the user codes for the programs i’ve purchased online so I can re-get them and doing back ups of my data to ensure that I lose as little as possible from this pain in the ass nonsense.
I’ve passed one class so far. I got 78% in theory. I knew I wouldn’t do spectacularly because I’d not done spectacularly before, however since my mark went up that must mean I did fairly well on my final. Yay! The marks for the other two classes haven’t come back yet.
I’ve been knitting of late. I’ve got one and 1/4 socks made. One of my classmate’s mother knits and makes socks a lot. She has a really good pattern for heels that I want to use so she (the daughter) is going to get her mom to give me the pattern.
I started a book today that I’ve very nearly finished. Keeper ‘n Me by Richard Wagamese is a wonderful book that everyone should read. It’s gut splitting hilarious, poignant, maddening, sweet and cool. It’s a really good read. It’s written as colloquial so you have to hear what you read, if that makes sense. I highly recommend it to everyone. After this one I have a few Thomson Highway books I want to read. Both Richard and Thomson are award winning Canadian Aboriginal writers.
As well, I’ve been doing crosswords and watching television and the odd movie. I know that’s nothing new, but being able to do that without the obligation of studying is totally and wonderfully liberating. Of course, sometime next week I start reading books as my theory references for my research proposal but that’s next week. Even then, it’s going to be interesting reading.
The car is now in running condition. We’re going out to Manatou on Thursday. That’s a hot springs mineral spa that is, I think, east of town. We’re going to enjoy the pools and possibly a massage. I’m quite looking forward to that. I’m going to be looking like a blue potato.
That’s about it from here. I’ll be keeping in touch with my computer life through Bran’s computer and the computers at school. I try to avoid doing much from work. Though my boss says he doesn’t have a key logger on the machine there, they’ve said a lot of things that turned out to be less than truthful, you know, like me working 32 hours a week at my own job. So I’ll avoid that issue.
The exam is done (it’s shit, but it’s done) and I’ll be handing it in tomorrow morning. I spent the evening wanting to eat something. There was nothing in the house I wanted. Actually, despite there being a whole lot of food in the house, there’s nothing I want to eat.
So to sublimate my wanting to eat I tried to think of things I wanted to do. Knitting came to mind a couple of hours ago and I went hunting for my yarn and needles. I found both but couldn’t find the pattern I’d started last summer. That meant I had to go on the internet and hunt up a sock pattern I could do. I had to find my folder of knitting links and refound Ravellry.
So I got a pattern, I got started knitting and then I decided to do a bit of computer stuff again. So off I headed to Ravellry again and updated my profile some (listing my new blog – testing to see if the RSS feed will work – the snapshot doesn’t) and listed the new project. That’s one way of ensuring that I’m going to get it done…at least trying to.
Anyway, despite Dead Like Me playing on the television I’m going to go to bed soon.
I had a close one today. First off, I lost my blog bookmarks. I have them all unorganizedly organized. At least I did. Then I got to work and realized I didn’t have them at all!!!!!! Even worse, my browser synchronized my x-marks (Foxmarks for those who use Firefox now renamed) to not having my blogs either. I checked Explorer and it lost them too!!!!
Luckily for me, I downloaded and installed Opera (another free web browser) and got it up and running and it picked up most of my bookmarks from wherever bookmarks are stored. I lost a few…Rhonda, if you’re willing, could you let me know where your blog is again please? Thanks.
I just spent an hour and a half getting my blogs back.
So now I’ve stopped all automatic synchronizations of x-marks. I’ll remember to make sure that all my folders are where they should be and then allow it to do that.
That’s the first time I’ve totally lost a whole file of files of bookmarks. Yes, I read a lot of blogs. But there are a whole lot of interesting people out there to read. I hate missing out on the news.
The family is sick. Boy has a nasty cold. Whatever Bran has he gave to me, nausea, lack of energy, general pissiness…that’s what I woke up to this morning. Except for my pills and water I’ve not ingested a single thing today.
I handed in my theory exam this morning. It sucks, but it’s handed in.
Now it’s time to work on the criminology final. I’d like to have it done on Friday or early on the weekend. That way my time becomes my own, at least for a little while. The exam isn’t that hard. So I’m going to go in tomorrow and work on the answers, then tomorrow night I’m going to type up those answers and hand the exam in on Friday. Yeah, that sounds good.
Joe.My.God reports a Twitter revolution against Amazon for actions they are taking against the LGBT community. You need to read his entry to get a better gist than I can give you here. The point is that Amazon is now backing down, but for me and my account, it’s too late. The fact that the people at Amazon felt it was ok to remove books by LGBT writers from the hot sellers list and blanket all with the “adult material” label despite the content of the books.
They’re now saying it was a “glitch” and that wasn’t their intent. Sorry. A glitch is when it’s random. It wasn’t random, this was targeting LGBT authors and attempting to muzzle them by removing them from general readership review.
I cancelled my account tonight. I wasn’t a huge profit for them, but one less customer is one less customer. That they even thought an activity like this was appropriate lost them my business.
Dad was up today and after I got a crossword book at McNally Robinson we went to the Mendel Art Gallery and the riverbank near it (where the tour boat dock is) and took photos. I had the unipod to help steady the photos and such. I have tons of lovely photos but they’re huge and need some editing (brightness and some such stuff) before I’m able to post them. I have to put my priorities where they belong and actually study and write up my exams. After next Monday I’ll be free to do what I please, including bead, edit photos and read a book for pleasure (what a concept!).
They are complete and we get a nice refund back! Hello, repaired car! It took more than a few hours to prepare because I had to find all the receipts from 2004-2008 for the education credit amounts. In Saskatchewan graduates who chose to remain in the province get a nice hefty tax credit to a max of $1000. It didn’t matter why I chose to stay in the province, just that I did.
Boy is cooking pasta and I’ll be teaching him to make cheese sauce for it for supper. Then we’ll eat while watching Conan the Barbarian. After that I’ll continue on with reading my theory books.
Tomorrow I’ll be going to the university about 9 to continue to study until noon. Dad will be coming up so I can only study until noon. I’ll spend the afternoon and early evening connecting with Dad and then Sunday I’ll be at the university all day. I want to start writing the exam on Monday.
Last night was the big Easter supper at work. All the residents got to invite someone (or someones as the case of one who invited 12, all of whom showed up). Needless to say it was a bit of a crowd. Not as large as the Christmas dinner, but large enough. That meant ensuring that we kept track of a whole lot more people who might/mght not be up to something nefarious. Supper was really good. Turkey with all the trimmings, ham, a marvellous spinach salad (the dressing made it go from ok to marvellous – I’m getting the recipe on Monday), potatoes and gravy, sauces and cupcakes large and small (the little ones were dairy free for a couple of kids who couldn’t do dairy products).
Because I don’t do crowds as soon I could I went behind front desk and took care of the administrative stuff. It kept me from being surrounded by people too much. My coworker attended to the kids who wanted to look at and handle the pets. Leather gloves were gotten out so the kids could hold the hedgehogs, the turtles crawled on the floor and the chinchillas were oohed and ahed at (but not handled because they don’t like strangers much). Bodie, the Sun Conure was also admired enormously.
Finally, at 9 the last of the visitors left and the house was quiet again. The cook spent an enormous amount of time putting away leftovers, some for Sunday’s dinner, others to make soup. I finished off the spinach salad because there was only enough for a single snack. I realized as I was eating it that Bran probably wouldn’t like the dressing much. Then again, he’s done a lot of changing around sweet salad dressings. He liked the sweet vidalia dressing. He might like this one.
Dutchess has taken to scratching (well, pawing really since she has no front claws) at doors. She spent a lot of time today doing that to Boy’s bedroom door. She got let in once and then Boy’s friend closed it again so she was closed out again. She was just pawing at the front porch door. Bran’s halter/leash thing makes her happy to go out. I think she figures that she should be able to go out whenever she pleases. She’s funny.
I finished up my research proposal tonight at work. When I got home I went to print it and my computer lost the printer…again. I had to email it to Bran to have it printed out.
So it’s done. Now all I have to do is the two final exams, one for Theory due next Wednesday, and the one for Criminology, due on the 20th. I think I’ll see what I can do about getting my Crim exam done early so that I can get this stupid laptop into the shop and get the fan or whatever is making that noisy rattly hum is fixed. Damn it’s annoying!
