Archive for August, 2007
August 31, 2007 at 11:17 am · Filed under knitting, life, websites, work
Today’s my last (half) day at work. Can’t actually do any work of course, since everything has been transitioned to the poor guy who’s taking over for FIVE of us. Lovely. And he’s not in because his grandmother passed away.
Anywho, just wasting time on the interwebs. Uploaded the two pictures I took at the Spin-In last weekend, signed up for YouTube so when I get home I can add in the videos I took at the retreat this past June.. I might get started on some of the web design work I have too.
Two of my clients paid for websites four+ years ago, then things kinda fell apart. I’m not sure who owns one of the domains, or where it’s hosted (it’s registered to the business owner, but he is NOT technical and doesn’t know what any of this is). The other one is similar, but the domain expired, the website is gone, but she has none of her assets anymore, and the person who did her website didn’t keep them either.
Oh well! More fun for me. Having grown up with the internet, I do forget that many adults don’t know the difference between an ISP, a web host, and where your email is.. and explaining it all really isn’t that simple.
In knitting news, I bound off the Wisp I’m making, and it’s blocking. I like it. It is my “something blue”.
August 28, 2007 at 5:31 pm · Filed under craftiness, friends, life, movies, sewing, spinning, work
I had a really fabulous weekend.
Friday night.. we watched The Goonies, which I had only seen once before, last year or the year before.. so I enjoyed myself.
Saturday, Alan had to work and I had some plans. As usual I got up around 7 and took Bella to the dog park for a few hours. It’s really fun watching the dogs interact without human intervention. It’s like watching National Geographic. Afterwards, I showered and went to get a facial (the Lounge Spa is the best), then ran back home to get my spinning stuff and then head to Synergy for the Spin’n'Knit-In.
I ended up parking right behind Rain, which was good because she had my old Ashford to give back to me (damn it! it’s a dust and dog hair magnet!). I figured out what the wheel is good for:
Convincing you to buy a new wheel.
It’s worked on two people so far – if anyone else has been thinking about getting a wheel, borrow the Scholar for a week and you’ll be ready to drop your paycheck for a new one.
To be fair, the Scholar is approximately thirteen years old and hasn’t been used or well-kept for many of those years. The wheel is warped, and it doesn’t have a lot of ratio options, and it just goes. It’s like a really old sewing machine. Or a Kia (which probably doesn’t make sense to anyone except catdfox and capnlot, who were forced to rent a Kia and discovered it had two modes: Go and Stop. No easing to a stop. No speeding up slowly.).
Anyway at the spin-in, I spun and spun and learned to Andean ply and practiced Navajo plying (I need to slow down my treadling for that – when I don’t pay attention to my feet, they start going of their own accord). I forgot all my drop spindles I meant to bring, oh well, Rain had brought hers to teach so I was off the hook for the day. : )
So, I met a couple of other local crafter-folks, which was great, and we had such a good time we’ve already got another one scheduled for next month. Yay!
Saturday night was a Tacky Hawaiian Shirt Party, which I ended up not making it to because I was tired and I knew I had to drive to Monrovia on Sunday as well.. so we watched Pan’s Labyrinth which was sad and haunting and beautiful and gory. Would’ve made a great anime movie too.
Sunday, dog park again, showered, made breakfast, did some sewing, watched our weekly Ask This Old House episode, then headed down to Long Beach to pick up catdfox to go to Monrovia to get our hair done, and I got a hair cut. Lora as usual was a flippin’ RIOT and kept us entertained. It was actually pretty fast – my haircut and then curling my hair and deciding how it’ll be done for the wedding, plus a similar curling & styling for catdfox took less than two hours! Then we went to Joann’s to pick up some tulle and ribbon for my veil, and I went home and made dinner and Alan and I watched more movies until bedtime.
Now I’ve started my last week at work. I am a little sad, although most of my coworkers have been gone for months, there are still a few people I’ll really miss when I leave. I will also miss the paycheck, but I am not worrying about that until we’re back from the honeymoon.
Also, I have two more phone interviews tomorrow. Hee!
P.S. My eyeballs are perfect. My vision is awesome. Best investment I’ve ever made in myself.
August 27, 2007 at 2:46 pm · Filed under life
I try not to blog while I’m at work, but when I’m home I can’t think of anything to say.
Proposed Solution: Blog in emails to myself, post at home.
August 17, 2007 at 10:47 am · Filed under fashion, life
So utterly brilliant: Yin-Yarr
Also, I had 20/20 vision the morning after my lasik surgery, which shocked my eye dr.. the light halos are nearly already gone as well. So I am quite pleased indeed. Love it. Highly recommend it.
August 9, 2007 at 5:43 pm · Filed under tech
See what an awesome world we live in?
August 7, 2007 at 1:03 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Okay, so it’s an adaptation.. fairly heavily adapted, in fact. But it doesn’t look like the travesty that Nancy Drew was!
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
Yay!!
August 7, 2007 at 9:37 am · Filed under life
So I went to visit the Lasik guy (Dr. Assil) yesterday, after having been told by my regular ophthalmologist that you can’t go swimming for 30 days after the procedure, so I was basically just feeling things out to see how it’d be.. seeing as how I’m getting married in a month and then we’re going swimming and scuba diving for a week, I’d figured that I’d have to wait until afterwards to get Lasik.
Not so! Dr. Assil said seven days – and with my short schedule, was prepared to give me an appointment on Thursday.. but I have an interview on Friday, and I’d rather not chance things that much.
So, I’m getting Lasik next Tuesday. Eep! I am excited.
Of course, my mom says “Yet another thing to be worried about right before you get laid off, and the wedding, and looking for a job, and traveling to Tahiti, and….”
But honestly? To me, it’s one less thing to worry about. No traveling with glasses + contacts + extra contacts + contact solution + eyedrops + glasses case. No being blind when I wake up at night. No worrying about contacts when scuba diving or swimming (OH MY GOD I CAN OPEN MY EYES UNDER WATER AND SEE).
And when my mom heard, she said, “I hope you don’t go to some quack because he’s cheap.” Dr Assil is NOT cheap, but every person I dealt with in his office was stellar, and I wasn’t just sloughed off on some jr dr there, Dr. Assil came in himself to check things out, and he does the procedure. That alone speaks volumes to me. Go click on his website. He’s the furthest from a quack I could find in LA, I think.
