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I got to do the best thing today, we went swimming for about an hour with the grand daughters, Haven and Anika. I haven't been in a pool in almost a year and it felt fantastic.

With the surgery coming up, it may be the only time this summer I get to go but damn, it was nice. The pool was about 90 degrees, warm and just fantastic.

I feel a lot better tonight, I think my "waterbaby" side needed feeding. I really wish I had a pool here.

Tags: summer
Current Mood: cheerful

Mom and I went up to see my grandparents today. It was actually a really pleasant visit. We got to spent all day up there, just hanging out and talking and chatting. Nana telling stories about when she worked in Washington D.C. during and after WWII. Stuff that I'd never heard before. And then it was out to dinner at a restaurant that served more food on one plate than any twelve people could eat. After that, it was a quick trip to see my uncle, aunt and cousin... finally gave cousin K. the dvds i promised her at christmast. All my concert video from the last few years and a few albums worth of music that I thought she'd like.

And now I'm home watching the end of Independence Day.

Tomorrow.... is planless. I'm going to see if I can't get in touch with my high school BFF and meet up with her for ice cream or something. And then on Tuesday it's going to be a "Hey, hey, the gangs all here" kind of night. Me, both of my parents, my dad's college BFF, and our old next door neighbors, their daughter and her daughters. I'm hoping it's going to be as awesome as I want it to be. These are the people who pretty much mean the most to me in the world. I'm a heck of a lot closer to them than I am most of my family, and it's kind of a big deal to be getting everyone in the same place since my parents divorce (thank god Mom and Dad can play nice most of the time.).

And after the dinner, I'm heading off to Dad's to stay until Monday. During which time, I will hopefully finish the cleaning out of his apartment of clutter that I started at christmas.

My vacations... so boring. But I like them.

Ugh.... but I do have to put an hour or two in on work tomorrow. Why, oh WHY did I agree to telecommute?

Oh, right. So I'd have plenty of vacation time left for Christmas and concert shenannigans.

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I was cleaning up playlists on iTunes and realized I hadn't posted this incomplete mix, for a game I was in last summer. It's short but covers several of the big events of the game from my characters' POV.

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There are definitely some events that didn't get covered: a lot of the Snape stuff, which is a shame since I thought the Snape play in Regulation was some of the best stuff in the game; the whole Quent plotline; and the rescue from Mysteries. Like the game itself, the mix was cut short early. But it's as finished as it's going to get, so I'm finally posting it.

Tags: mixes, rpg: regulation
Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: silence is golden

MySpace is now the ghetto of the digital landscape

Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats

in case you didn't hear, Palin is resigning, theoretically so she can run for the white house in 2012, however, Sarah Palin's decision to resign as Alaska governor was primarily prompted by her concern over the large sums of money being spent on ethics investigations into her background, Alaska's Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell said on Sunday

pibble calendar!

Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train's operator

A pro-reform Iranian clerical group said on Sunday the outcome of last month's presidential vote was "invalid," even though Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld the result, a sign of a deepening rift among Shi'ite clerics.

Twenty-two people are now known to have died after a train exploded as it passed through an Italian town on Monday night

Tags: links, news

Sarah Palin's recent twitter statement.

Current Mood: confused

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49GavdGWtac


And...should we laugh or cry?

Current Mood: moody

Ok, getting there was tough, and getting home was a long walk back to the car. And the kids were kind of difficult to deal with.

But there is nothing quite as magical as looking at fireworks in the reflection of your two year old's *amazed* eyes. Bri was fascinated, excited, delighted. She would laugh, cry, and go "WHAT'S THAT!" "IT'S BEAUTIFUL!" "DADDY WOW!!!"

That made it all worth it. Only happens once per life.

CZ

I like them. I like setting them off more than watching them. I prefer watching them to just hearing them (that can be unpleasant actually).

Tonight we (my father, sister, a friend of hers) went to watch the show on the river.

It was nice. It was a year ago that CG and I first met. It was at a party, and there were fireworks. Tonight I had the next best thing to her being here (well, no, second best. I would, perforce have preferred to have commodorified present, if CG couldn't be here, and vice versa).

I had CG singing on my iPod while I watched. The last bits of the show I was listenig to Fernando, while the mist of the river drifted like smoke over the hillside I was sitting on, and the crescendo of lights was being blanketed by the powder of the bursting charges.

Not as much fun as loading the tubes, and running the wire, but I didn't have to strike the frames either.

On balance.. a pretty good evening.

ok, so, I went to Intimacy to see if I could trade the bras that I got around xmas time for ones that were slightly different fit. They only have that one style in my size. It doesn't fit well - I'm too short.

but I might be able to solve two problems with one minor addition. An insert that absorbs sweat would push the breasts up a little and probably reduce my back pain a bit. Of course it would need to be washable.

I might try to make one with some of my scrap fabric. and maybe some form of stuffing, although I think the stuff in the hypoallergenic pillows would probably be the best, but I'm not willing to cannibalize my pillow yet (any of them)... yet...

Tags: clothes, feminism, ideas
Current Music: Pretty Fly For A Rabbi - Weird Al Yankovic

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Dammit, I've seen the lead chick from MURDOCH MYSTERIES before.

Where? Where??

(I am watching TV. As in a TV show being broadcast as opposed to a TV set, capice? This is a rare thing since FOX canceled TSCC.)

Tags: tv

Jeff was here this afternoon (da brother) and the topic turned to fireworks. I talked about the time where I put a roman candle in a pipe instead of holding it and the candle blew up, ripping apart the top of the pipe. Jeff then said:

"No Chris, you were going to hold it in your hand. Your girlfriend Christine insisted you put it in a pipe, don't you remember?"

And I did remember. Remembered her on the porch, telling me it was a bad idea to hold fireworks, inssisting that I put it in a pipe-holder. And so forth.

It's the first memory I have of her face in... oh a long time. Odd... I really did burn her out of my memories and my life. Kind of amazing. Only thing that remains is in the minds of others.

CZ

A clumsy word, a thoughtless phrase
and he's waiting for the axe to fall.
it probably won't rise to that
but the mind is a muddy place
and the heart is in hopless thrall

The lover is a foolish slave:
living by looks and dying by glances,
with so much at stake, and so much to lose
it amazing that anyone chances

So he sits by the phone,
and starts at the post
Looking for the reprieve
and dreading the warrant:

waiting for the axe to fall

Happy Birthday sorcel!

Tags: birthday

Oh this is a long 3 day weekend. Alex is out camping for some drumming thing, and I'm here with the kids. For the 4th of July. And so forth.

Not impossible, I'm going to see them with everyone tonight. Am teaming up with a neighbor to help with the watching kids. Last night Bec came over and helped out in getting the kids to bed. Which was nice. Then we watched the classic stupid movie: "Top Secret". Ah yes, the zuckermen brothers were stupid as hell but a lot of fun.

This morning I woke up, fed kids, and basically have been on since. Bri refuses to nap, so I'm going out tonight with a cranky baby.

No, being left alone on holidays is hell. Ah well.

CZ

I'm not quite sure what I want to do with the story of items missing from the National Archives, but there are at least two campaigns in there: one where the PCs are tracking the thieves down, and the other where they are the thieves--all in the name of saving the world, of course.

Tags: rpg: games i want to run
Current Mood: intrigued
Current Music: silence is golden