New Years Meme thingy 1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before? I moved to Texas? And started school at a private school... went to an Evanescence concert... bought a house.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? So... I think I was too busy with moving and stuff to think about New Years resolutions. I might make some this year... haven't decided yet.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My boss... I guess that counts.
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. What countries did you visit? Mexico, Grand Caymen
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006? 26 hour days. More time to spend with friends. And the ability to be zen.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? September 1st. We closed on our house.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Bought a house. :-)
9. What was your biggest failure? not sure...
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? I got sick a couple of times, but nothing truely serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought? A banjo. But it wasn't for me.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Chad, who has been (as always) very awesome. And understanding. And stuff.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? no one specific?
14. Where did most of your money go? away. I have no idea where. Probably into the house.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Having friends.
16. What song will always remind you of 2006? Good Enough -- Evanescence
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier or sadder? Happier, I guess. Less apprehensive, anyway. ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner, I think. iii. richer or poorer? Richer. By a lot.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Being zen.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Worrying about everything in the world that I can't change.
20. How will you be spending did you spend Christmas? Running across the SouthEast trying to see/visit everyone before heading back to Texas.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006? I love my husband, I love my house, I love my dogs (even when I don't), and yes (as much as I bitch about it) I love Houston.
23. Did your heart break in 2006? Nothing Earth Shattering, but I had a few rough patches.
24. What was your favorite TV program? Still CSI... the original one.
25. Where were you when 2006 began? Southaven.
26. Who were you with? Chad, Brian, Chad's family.
27. Where will you be when 2006 ends? Southaven.
28. Who will you be with when 2006 ends? Chad, Brian, Chad's family.
29. What was the best book you read? hmmm... Probably "Falcon at the Portal" by Elizabeth Peters.
30. What was your greatest musical discovery? Em's music collection ;-)
31. What did you want and get? a laser printer, friends in Texas, a house, china dishes, a china cabinet, to see Evanescence in concert.
32. What did you want and not get? world peace, a trip to the moon, more house guests ;-)
33. What was your favorite film of this year? Either Stranger than Fiction or Superman... I liked both.
34. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I think I went out to eat with Chad, but I don't really remember. I turned 24.
35. How many different states did you travel to in 2006? 7.
36. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? somewhere between "Goth Chick computer geek" and "Rice girl"
37. What kept you sane? Chad.
38. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? haven't really kept up. Probably Christian Bale, or Angelina Jolie.
39. What political issue stirred you the most? tried to avoid politics.
40. How many concerts did you see in 2006? Only 1, Evanescence.
41. Did you have a favorite concert in 2006? Evanescence.
42. Who was the best new person you met? Alex & Em.
43. Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? not really.
44. What was your most embarrassing moment of 2006? like I'd tell you.
45. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006: ummm... no idea.
46. What are your plans for 2007? work hard at school, get more done to the house, be zen.
47. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
I had to learn the hard way... Um. So yeah, Bob the Builder. But now, make that a midget pr0n version of Bob the Builder. (Someone warned me that this existed, and I didn't believe them. I had to see it for myself, which was probably dumb, and has probably scarred Chad for life).
Anyway. Had a great night tonight. Ate dinner (ribs and chicken) with David and Nichole, went to see Night at the Museum, almost ate donuts, and now I'm killing itme on the internet, proving to myself that mankind truely has descended to a point where people find a reason to post pictures of midgets wearing bob the builder hats and posing in um, very interesting positions. I'm just saying, I didn't think we'd fallen quite that far yet... but I was wrong. The intarweb is a strange and scary place. And on that note (and before I see anything else scary or wrong), I'm going to bed.
It's funny what you know and still go on pretending With no good evidence you'll ever see that happy ending
Christmas in Huntsville So... made it to Huntsville. Had christmas with the cousins. Fixin' to get some sleep, then tomorrow have christmas with the parents/siblings, eat yummy breakfast (biscuits and gravy, and Robbie is cooking the gravy... mmmm), eating yummy lunch (grilled cheese, cooked by Mandie), and eating yummy dinner (ham, which will claim to be cooked by mom but will relaly be cooked by a joint effort of the entire family, minus mom, who will boil some water or something). Have you noticed a theme here? :-)
Should be relatively free on the 28th, 29th, and 30th (although we're taking family pictures sometime in there, and we still have christmas with one grandmother to schedule). Leaving on the 31st.
Cold! So... it's currently 13 degrees colder here than in Houston. In case you wondered. It actually feels really really really cold. Like, super-cold. I might have to brave Target/Walmart tonight or tomorrow to buy more socks (silly me, I brought mostly sandels, and not enough socks to wear boots everyday).
Otherwise, things are cool. We have something along the lines of 6 christmas celebrations/gift exchanges left. I think I'm oging to be christmased out by the end of it, but I suppose that's the way it works. :-)
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues / in the middle of the pouring rain Well... it was raining. When we got here, between 1 and 2am on Friday morning.
And now it's kinda cold (as in, it's colder here than at home in Houston). But right now, I'm just thankful that I'm back in the land of Sweet Tea, Memphis Style BBQ, and Abner's Chicken. I mean, really, what more could a woman ask for (besides immunity to eat all of those things without gaining weight)?
Speaking of which... on my way to eat ribs today, got to ride in Michael's 350-Z... it's pretty sweet. But kinda small. :-) Also got to play a Wii, at someone else's house. And it was fun, but (as is typical for video games) I suck at it.
Also... fighting with one of Amazon's toy shops atm... ordered a black knight for Matt, had it shipped to him... but funny enough, when it got there, it wasn't a black knight, but a "Fun with your dog" science kit. I called them... the shop is closed from Dec 21 to Jan 8. I am not amused by this. Matt, however, is.
Anyway. Still no real info about what is going on in Huntsville... other than that we'll be busy with family on the night of the 26th and the morning of the 27th. I'll post more, when I know more, I guess.
Yay! Done with Stats. Finally. Used my way awesome new printer to print all 174 pages of the final (in like, 5 minutes... it was awesome).
Now, I must clean house, do laundry, and figure out how we're going to fit all the chrimma stuff and two dogs and a cat into the truck (and still have room for us). So why am I blogging? (Because I'm addicted, or something) :-)
School, Christmas, and Life in general. So I'm alsmot done with my last assignment for the semester... I have two problems left on my stats final, and I've done about half of each of them. It's due at 5pm tomorrow, so I should be in ok shape to finish it on time and stuff.
Santa visited my house last night... he left me a printer (not just any printer, mind you, a Dell 5110cn laser printer). Oh yeah. prints really fast, duplexes, and weighs like, 95 pounds (hence the reason it didn't get dragged to Memphis). Sanata rbought Chad a Banjo, which he says he really likes ;-)
Life in general... not so bad, today. Although I'm probably going to freak out tomorrow, trying to get everything ready to leave. *sigh*. I don't know... going home this year seems different for some reason. Probably because we live so far away, and don't get to go home as often. Who knows.
Office politics, part V So yeah. it continues. Now I'm not allowed to work from home. So, stuff isn't going to get done over the holidays. And I get to do it all when I get back. Which is lovely. Meanwhile, someone else will have to deal with irate developers, who will not have their icons by the end of the year.
I'm actually thinking that if this doesn't fix itself by the time I get back to work in January... I might walk. I mean... I like what I do, I like the people I work with (with a few exceptions)... but the corporate politics is killing me. I don't get paid enough to deal with this kind of crap.
Who can decide what they dream? / And dream I do... Blah. Stayed in bed until like, 2pm today, with the exception of getting up around 8:15ish to take a shower... still don't really feel like I slept. I feel more like I wasted like, 5 hours that I could have been doing something productive.
Work is becomeing a wild and crazy game of politics that I would really rather not play, but am somehow stuck in. But at least I don't have to deal with it (in person) until January 3rd... I'm working remotely from now until i get back from Memphis/Huntsville.
And speaking of the Hammon's Great American Christmas Tour 2006... We'll be in Memphis at some point (late) on the 21st, leaving (early) on the 26th for Huntsville, leaving Huntsvile for Memphis (early) on the 31st, and leaving Memphis to come back to Houston on the 2nd. So yeah, if you want to see us sometime in there, call me, or e-mail me, or something. We'll work it out.
Back to the doing productive things. I htink I'm oging to go arange icons and work on Stats stuff, whilst blasting my eardrums out with some combination of Eve6, Evanesence, and Indigo Girls (and maybe some other stuff thrown in there somewhere).
Pardon me sir can I use your eraser / To remove my brain of unconventional nature It is December 16th. It is like, 80 degrees outside. Running the air conditioning in my house is not terribly condusive to having Christmas Spirit. Just in case you wondered.
In other news, I've now lost like, 25 lbs on the "Mt. Dew Diet" (my own invention, I guess). I'm htinking now that I should market this to Movie Stars and women's magazines. Bought new jeans today, since my other ones are getting a mite too loose.
And now I will go back to wat I hsould be doing instead of blogging... working on my Stats final. I hate stats. But at least it's almost over... oh wait, I have another stats class next semester. Great.
eh... Another Quiz.... not that I thought the result was particularly fitting, but I thought it was great that Envy wears a Punisher t-shirt.
Which Seven Deadly Sin are you?
Envy- You hate everything about yourself. Everyday you wish you were a different person.You will become a stalker, wanting parts of people you can never have. Take this quiz!
It's just enough to be strong / in the broken places... yeah. Working on that. Today isn't the best day for it...
Anyway. I forgot to mention that my last post was the 1000th post. Yay for me! or something.
Working on Stats, listening to Lily Holbrook, talking on the phone... yeah. Supposed to be doing lots of other stuff, but I'm not moving fast enough or something... who knows.
the ice is thin enough for walkin' the rope is worn enough to climb throat is dry enough for talkin' world is crumblin', but i know why world is crumblin', but i know why
storm is wild enough for sailing bridge is weak enough to cross this body frail enough for fighting i'm home enough to know i'm lost home enough to know i'm lost ~Jars of Clay
I know, I know... I finally fixed the corset pic. (as an interesting note, check out the little imp who snuck into the picture with me... I really should send that to Manda).
Now I have to kill 45 minutes, and go take a final. Yay for finals?
You know what makes me mad? People. Specifically, people who have no concept of time. (Yes, I know my concept of time is a bit warped, but really). For example, people who ask me like, 13 days ago if I could, when I get around to it, make some icons for a peice of software. I explain that it will take some time, the process, yada yada...
And then get an e-mail this morning. Where's my icons? Why don't *I* have icons? Billy has more icons than me! (Who's Billy? I don't know, but he has more icons than me!).
So yeah. If you catch me in an odd mood today, blame icons.
Icons are driving me crazy. But we all knew that. I am 1 (only 1!!!!!) icon away from being bale to close out a 175 icon order… but I don't have the last stamp of approval on that icon. So I'm stuck, sitting on it, waiting. I hate waiting.
But I did close out one order over the weekend. Yay! Only 4 open icon orders!
Oh Chrimma tree... Oh chrimma tree... So yesterday I:
Went Christmas shopping (for real this time).
Finally bought Chad's big present. Yay!
Ironically, hid Chad's presents in the same closet where he was hiding mine. Managed to do this (somehow) without seeing my presents, and to figure this out before he went in there and saw his presents. They are now safe in one of the other mostly unused closets in our house.
Dragged Chad to the departmental Christmas party. Suddenly, he understands what I've been talking about for like, an entire semester. All in all, it wasn't too bad, but I realized (more than ever) that I have very little in common with my classmates. Except, you know, shcool.
Finally, finally, finally decorated the tree. But I think somehow we're short a couple of ornaments... I'm not sure where they got off to. They might be in the same box as the creche for my nativity set (which is also hiding).
Slept for a glorious 10 or 11 hours... straight. Which is awesome. Now all i want to do s curl up and read a book... all day. But I have to go to work for a ocuple of hours, and get some studying and stuff done, so I don't have to skip karate on Tuesday night.
So yeah. Productive day, I suppose. I only have a little more shopping to do, and a whole lot of wrapping. *sigh*.
Rant(s) of the day. So. Why is it that no one seems able to read?
I share an office. There's a note, on the door, that says that my office-mate is working from home today (same as every Tuesday and Thursday). Yet 3 people in a row just felt compelled to stick their head in my office, and ask if she's working today. No, she's working from home. Like is says on the sign. The bright yellow sign.
2nd rant: I am not a god. I wish I was (sort of, I guess), but I'm not. I'm also not a demi-god, a magician, or a time traveller (although that would be cool, maybe). Or a graphic designer. So why, oh why, do people feel the need to ask me to do the impossible? Like, say, design and deliver a new, as of yet unrequested batch of icons... by Christmas. Ha! At this point... yeah. Might instantly teleport to Denver, kick some developers around, and instantly teleport back. Oh wait... not a magician. Forgot for a second.
I love my job. At least I'm not coding PDFs by hand, I guess :-)
She keeps running into herself... She keeps running into herself Trying to find somebody else She keeps running into herself Hoping to find somebody better... ~Plumb
While we pray to the god of the lesser things... I talked to my mom last night... which is always interesting. Apparently, Chad and I have caused a stir with the relatives (that is to say, my dad's relatives) by not planning to be in Huntsville on December 25th. So now, the whole world (which is to say, the Glasscocks, the Jacksons, and the Cambpells) is in an uproar, and Christmas is in the process of being moved. To some unknown time. I have an equation for this...
(5 Glasscocks + 5 Jacksons + 2 Campbells + 2 Hammons) = (10 fulltime jobs + 4 part time jobs + 3 full time students + 1 business owner + 5 sets of in-laws) = impossible to find a time when we can all be together.
My mother seesm to think I really have my life in order, too, which is funny... I guess she just sees her little girl, grown-up, married, owning a house and going to school somewhere that no normal person can afford (hell, I can barely afford it, and I'm not paying tution). And I see... I don't know. Someone who's still wondering how she got a license to be a "grown-up" in the first place... I mean, who really thought that was a good idea? Someday, someone will figure out that I'm really a little kid running around pretending to be a grown-up... and they will revoke my grown-up card. And then where will I be?
I guess talking to my mother makes me introspective or something... who knows.
So I finished my final paper for I/O at like, 11:30 or so last night. Yay for meeting deadlines (by the skin of my teeth, but still). And now I have to go turn it in... this is the last week of class. Yay! (or something).
Um.... yeah. interesting image from PostSecret, sums up my thought on lots of things.
And the lyrics (or portions of them) from the song I took my title from.... one my mind since the wind has been blowing like crazy (cold wind, too.... brrrr).
It looks a lot like givin' up Peace we bring is a bitter cup Set our bodies down like offerings While we pray to the god of lesser things
If the wind should shake this house apart The cradle hits the ground with a broken heart Will we say we never knew a thing? While we pray to the god of the lesser things
Ash to ash and dust to dust Steel on steel or rain to rust What mortal breath blood money brings Forth from the altar of the lesser things ~ Jars of Clay
Brrrr! Um, yeah. So I heard a rumor that it doesn't get cold in Texas, except in like, Febraury.
They were wrong.
It is so cold... so cold it almost made Chad swear! Which would have been funny. Anyway... My missions for the day: Survive the next hour an a half at work without killing anyone, or screaming out loud. Go home, find pictures of the mostest awesome haircut eVar. Take said pictures to the hair dresser, and get a hair cut that (hopefully) resembles the pictures. Maybe watch a movie. Stay warm. Work on term paper... due Monday. Yay!
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
