posted on March 28, 2009 at 6:58 pm by Khali
I have to say that I really like the fact that I have to approve comments on my blog. So far I have had 5 spammers try and sell me what my old boss called ‘dick pills’. Sorry. I don’t need to enhance my performance in that manner, thanks.
I do have to improve my performance in other circles, however. (How’s that for a segue?) Anyway, I’ve been slacking in many areas of my life and I think that has a lot to do with how I feel about myself - which, honestly, isn’t stellar. I think it’s been painfully obvious to most people but me that I suffer from a lack of self-worth. And if it hasn’t been obvious then damn, I have been hiding it well. Anyway, I am attributing my inabilty to complete projects, in part, to this particular flaw. I have an Eeyore voice in my head that says: ‘what’s the point?’ Well. Fuck you Eeyore. Seriously. I’m tired of you.
In other news, I have had some unwanted visitation on my site. I’m sure those of you who actually read my ranty little page know that that is one of the reasons (other than the fact that J was so fantastically excited about having our own host) that I moved in the first place. I have since blocked that IP - or rather J has, but I see that this person has been visiting me via links from my friends. Granted I may have cultivated the attention in the first place and I have partial blame for even being on the internet like this in the first place, and if you think that way you can keep that to yourselves because I know it’s true. But this has become tiresome. Said unwanted visitor has been following me around the internets and it’s got to the point where it should stop. End of story.
Now, on to more intersesting things. I got to see Bill and Caralee on Thursday. We went to have tea and we chatted about random stuff. I don’t do this often enough with the nice peops in my life. They made my day. And today, I spent with the lovely Lindsie being crafty. SO two awesome things in one week.
I did read Twilight though, finally. I have been told by every female I have come across (well, almost every one, but when the tellers at the bank are all talking about the same book and recommend it to me, as well as all my coworkers… well there has to be something there.) Since The Kiddo has the set I read the first one. It IS easy to read. I can see the appeal of Edward Cullen and I like several of the less conventional aspects of Meyer’s vampires, but I am not as much a fan of these as I am of Harry Potter or The Golden Compass. I may read the rest of them, but I’m not dying to know what happens next the way I am with the last of Green Angel Tower, or Gravity’s Rainbow.
Sadly though, I have only written a total of 507 wds on le novel this week. I hope to rectify a little of that tomorrow, provided that I wake up at a reasonable hour and that my brain doesn’t refuse to work. I have a feeling that my characters have been sneaking around and changing things on me in my absense…. and I also think there is a new character wanting to get in on the game. Part of me wants to tell him to screw off, but the rest of me, most of me, wants to know what the hell he’s up to.
listening to: Collide - White Rabbit
reading: Stephen King - On Writing
eating: BLT
drinking: something with ice in it
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posted on March 22, 2009 at 3:41 pm by Khali
3609 words today. This makes me feel pretty good.
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posted on March 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm by Khali
You know, I hate when I have something I need to do in a day and I can’t do it right away. I tend to spend my day waiting for the time that I have to do that one thing - which, in this instance was work - so I can’t really get started on anything else. So I slept in a little, puttered a bit and then pulled out the novel for a while. I had to stop though, because I was getting distracted by other things.
That started when the kitten coughed up a hairball on the carpet and I stepped in it. We all know how pleasant that is. I think we’re going to have to shave her again, she won’t let me pin her down long enough to get rid of the mats she’s managed to get on her flanks. It’s much warmer here than it is at Mom’s place, so she’s shedding all the hair she grew while she was living there. She’s lost the massive ruff she had, but I think she’s happier because she has that double coat and it must be hard to be that hot all the time.
In other news: still sick. Starting to think it’s more than just perpetual cold exacerbated by constant stress and insomnia.
On the up side, I spent most of my day in my PJ’s and I wrote more. (yay!) I think also that I made more than one important connection between two or more threads in the story, so I’m feeling slightly pleased with myself about that.
Mmm, there are strawberies in the fridge and I had sushi and tempura for dinner. Yum.
It’s windy and nasty outside. I think I’m going to go cuddle under the covers with J.
listening to: The Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels
eating: strawberries
drinking: iced tea
darling du jour: Arika proves she has extraordinary aim
word count: 1324
feeling: overtired
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posted on March 14, 2009 at 11:01 pm by Khali
I purged the last of the old site’s archives and spent some time redoing my archive files from as far back as 2002. Soon, soon all of my crap will be in one place.
Slept in, which was awesome. I woke up late with the light coming in the bedroom window at a strange angle, and with both the girls curled up with me.
Also, after a bit of a bad moment last night which J pulled me out of, I actually managed to write a few hundred words on le novel today. *Happy dance*
Tomorrow, staff meeting. El suck.
listening to: Martina Topley-Bird - Baby Blue
reading: scenes from my novel
word count: 1001
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posted on March 12, 2009 at 6:01 pm by Khali
Yesterday I was surprised to find in our mailbox one of those little flyer things that tell you there’s a package waiting for you at the post office. So I was kind of excited, I mean this is the first actual mail addressed to me that’s come to this apartment. Not a huge deal, but one of those things that makes a place feel more like home than just a place you’re living, you know?
So anyway, J has his boss’s truck so he offered to drive us over to the little plaza where the post office outlet is. So we scooted on over there before the office to close to pick up my package. We go in and the lady asks if she can help us, so I pass over the little card and she scans it and then disappears in the back room - and comes back out with a phone book.
A fucking yellow pages phone book. I mean that the hell?
We got a phone book the first day we moved in because there was a stack of them in the foyer of the building. I mean I suppose it’s a nice gesture from the farking phone company (who, by the way, took seven - yes, SEVEN - days to move our phone over to the right address and then a couple more to even figure out that they had to flick a switch so we could also have the internet we paid for…) upon our move from one place to another. But come on. Leave the thing in the apartment foyer, it’s not like anyone is going to steal the stupid thing is it? And if they did, I doubt I’d really miss it.
Total letdown. Cripes.
As for the phone company that hosed us on the transfer? Yeah, toast. We decided to move to the cable company for digital phone and cable internet. Of course, that means we now have basic cable and that the bloody TV is now on almost 24-7.
listening to: PMDawn - Paper Doll
reading: Stephen King - On Writing
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posted on March 10, 2009 at 5:28 pm by Khali
It snowed yesterday. I think it was the prettiest snow I’ve seen in some time. Nice fat flakes floating down in such profusion that it was hard to see too far in front of you. It made the world so much quieter. I kind of liked being inside at work, watching it fall all over the world outside. I could barely see the parliament buildings.
Today I saw a guy outside the mall with a mohawk. He had slightly kinky hair and he had died it in red and black stripes so that it looked like he had a red and black fuzzy caterpillar sitting on his head.
listening to: ZZ Top - She’s Got Legs
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posted on March 8, 2009 at 2:29 pm by Khali
So.
It’s been an interesting couple of months. After months of apartment hunting we finally found a place not too far from where we were to begin with. The Kiddo and I found it and so far it’s perfect. It’s much larger and has the space we need to be saner individuals than we were when we were all crammed into a one bedroom - not to mention the fact that the rent isn’t going to break the bank. I also like the colour scheme, which is something altogether a bonus since it wasn’t something I was really concerned with when we were hunting - at least not after the first however many places we looked at and rejected. (And we have seen quite a variety of places for all manner of rents over the last several months.) It’s green. A pale green that would not look out of place in a hospital, honestly, but it works with the way the afternoon light comes in the windows. And did I mention we actually have room for a dining room? That’s right, we have a table. With light! The Master Bedroom is also huge, so I feel like I can actually have some space. (One of the bookshelves is in there, a couple of large pillows and a lamp… a nice cozy little nook.)
Now, just to finish unpacking. We’ve done very well with that, actually. We really only have maybe a half-dozen boxes left. Now I just wish we had a storage closet somewhere where we could keep the pet carriers and Christmas decorations.
In writing news: only about a thousand words in the last couple of weeks, but it was a complete short story, which I have posted on a couple of forums for critique, so we’ll see how that goes. I figured that since I’m not at the uni and forced to have things ready for critique, forums might make me more motivated to just write stuff, regardless of what it is.
Listening to: Alanis Morrissette - Crazy
Reading: Tad Williams - To Green Angel Tower, Part 2
Eating: Chili
Drinking: Pepsi and Captain Morgan’s
Word Count: 1020
Feeling:
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posted on March 8, 2009 at 9:17 am by Khali
So I’ve spent the majority of the day trying to find a template that doesn’t make my eyes hurt too much because css and I don’t seem to be on speaking terms yet. There is no garuntee that this one is the one I will stick with, but for now, it’s what I’m logging off with. Comments are appreciated. Cheers until later when I have my brain back in my head. Right now I have to go and fold laundry so that I can crawl into my nice warm bed and hide from the nasty sleety weather.
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