Moving. This is the last Blogger blog entry for me - they will no longer support FTP here in a few weeks, and I don't want to mess with their new system. You can find my new blog (inlcuding all of this content!) at http://lydaalexander.com/wordpress/.
Rolled in late about an hour / No cup of coffee, no shower
Brianna is now 4 months old. This is amazing to me... Where did the time go? She's happy and healthy (except a cold that we've been fighting), and learning new things every day. She's teething (yay!) and eating solid food (baby oatmeal and Gerber 1st foods veggies and fruits). Her favorite food, to date, is probably Sweet Potatoes. And just today, she moved from just using vowel noises, to using the "b" sound... so now she sounds like "bub-bub-bub-bub" - which is funny. She even does it with her paci in her mouth, which is even funnier.
Moms don't get sick days. I don't think I fully groked that concept until this past week. But we survived :-) With lots of help from Chad.
I am badly in need of a routine. And a few extra hours in the day. But if anyone has any great advice for morning or evening routines to make sure that baby and I are both fed, bathed, and get to sleep/work/daycare on time, that would be awesome. If the house could be kept clean in the process, that would be better. Maybe I'll try to FlyLady system again...
Chad and I are doing a Biggest Loser challenge. We started June 1st, and we're runnign until Oct. 1st - hopefully I'll drop this baby weight. So expect some updates here, as maybe it will keep me motivated (we put a large amount of money on the line, so you would think THAT would keep me motivated, but I can probably use all the help I can get). Hopefully, but October, I'll fit in a clothes size that only has one number. Or at least one that I can buy at Ann Taylor without ordering online.
As part of the losing weight thing, I've started working out at the Y. They have free childcare, and lots of workout classes, so it's seeming to work out ok (except it takes even more time out of my day). I've gone to two Yoga classes so far... and OOWW. I mean. I *knew* that when Brianna was born, they cut my abs apart and stapled them back together... but I didn't really think about it until I started trying to do these yoga moves, and i went to use my ab muscles... and they weren't there! I mean, they were gone! So I have a lot of work to do to get back to my pre-pregnancy hotness (pre-pre-pregnancy, I guess). Or something. Meanwhile, I'm just sore. But there's a Zumba class tomorrow, so maybe that will help (lol).
I joined Twitter. Sadly, I joined only because I found a cool app for it on my phone and I wanted to use it. But now I'm addicted. Although my tweeting waxes and wanes as I have time/interest (like my blogging!).
Chad and I are trying to convince some people to move out here. What else is new? But this time, it might work? Really, though, with our luck, everyone will come at once, and we'll be stacking friends on top of each other when they stay with us while looking for a place of their own :-) Actually... thinking about it, that would be awesome. So. Yeah. Please move here? We need more people from back home. :-)
In lieu of real content... A meme. I have real content, in my head, but it hasn't made it into blogger yet. Blame the plague or something (Brianna and I have both been sick off and on for like, two weeks).
I am... really tired. All the time now, it seems.
I want... to magically lose all this baby weight. :-)
I have... a beautiful daughter.
I wish... that I could spend more time recording these moments with her... they're going by fast.
I know... this too shall pass.
I hate... feeling inadequate.
I fear... being a "bad" mommy (whatever that means).
I hear... Nothing. Stupid ears are plugged up, I've probably been shouting at people all day.
I crave... Starbucks.
I search... for more time in my day!
I always... worry about stupid little things.
I usually... miss the forest for the trees.
I am not... patient.
I miss... time with friends.
I love... my husband. :-)
I never... say never?
I rarely... get everything done.
I cry... way too much, it seems.
I lose... at most games :-)
I should... work on being more healthy.
I worry... about everything.
I dream... of sleep, lol.
I was... reading blogs when I found this :-) Go check out One Thing.
Slow dancing in a burning room... So school and work (but mostly school) have kind of been ruling my life lately. Which is to say, I have had no life, as I'm still dog tired from whatever it is I'm getting over.
But. Today I finished my Stats midterm. Yay! Now all I have to do this weekend (school wise) is write a presentation, write some part of my first year project paper, write a paper proposal for linguistics, and write a results section for stats. And something else, I'm sure, but I can't remember it.
Also, in the realm of annoying, it looks like I may end up spending my birthday giving make-up exams. How lovely.
And... you may have notice the I implemented the labels feature... it's really more for my benefit than yours, so I can find stuff kinda quickly. I'm trying to figure out if I can make the labels less prominant, but don't hold your breath as I don't have much time to devote to it. And it may take me a while (read: possibly years) to get all of my archives tagged... there are like, 1060 some-odd entries. Seriously.
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
Random rantings So. I managed to put a miniature green staple through my thumb just now. I'm not sure how I did this, but it caused me to bleed on the stupid journal article that I was attempting to staple, and to jam up my stapler to such a point that I had to resort to needlenosed pliers to unjam it (why I have needlenose pliers in my desk as school... who knows). This also caused me to discover that I am probably anemic (I know, big suprise there), and I probably take way too much Advil (which is odd, since today was the first day in a week that I took any?). Long story short, I was beginnning to wonder if my blood would ever clot.
But it's all good now.
Also, updated to the new blogger. Not that I can really tell a huge difference, but at least now it's tied to my gmail (is this a good thing?).
Domain Change So lydaalexander.com is officially up. And by officially up, I mean that my blog is on it, but not hte rest of the site, since I backed it up ages ago and have no idea what hard drive that backup is on (not this one). I'll find it, it just may take time. Also, pictures are still hosted remotely, but that's a problem for another day.
lydaalexander.com So lydaalexander.com is on our server, and up and running (Chad's blog, also on our server and running, although just over a year out of date). But my blog isn't there right now, because I backed it up to my laptop and haven't had time to move the backup file structure and images to the server.
I'll try to get to that next week. I have access to the server at work, but not the laptop... *sigh* I'll let you know.
At any rate, I should eventually be back in business, so to speak.
My Rouge hit 7th level last night. Just in case you wondered.
And we'll be in Memphis this weekend. Hanging with the family, and doing lots of fun stuff (like what? we have no idea).
The Cruise is finally scheduled... June 19-23. Yay! I think we got like, the last two ocean view cabins on the boat. And we're going to Islands of Adventure, which is the awesomest park ever.
Oh yeah, and I fixed the broken stuff on the sidebar... and the link to David's blog.
Sever issues omg. I hate this stuff. I move to blogspot and now, everything is broken. lydaalexander.com is broken, so no hope of moving back there until we host it. This will have to do, I guess.
Mirrors k. So lydaalexander.com now mirrors my blog. it'll just take some time to publish each time. And if (when) the server breaks, my blog will still publish to pluto. Ha.
New things: I am now in possesion of one 4gb black iPod nano. Yay for me! (Been waiting on it for like, a month).
I cut all of my hair off. Well... to be fair, not all of it, I guess. I was just tired of getting my hair stuck in doors and accidentally setting it on fire and stuff... so I cut like, 11" off it and am sending the cut-off hair to Locks Of Love. I wasn't sure how I would adjust to short hair again, or how Chad would like it, but all seems to have turned out well. :-) Yeah. New hair length: just almost to my shoulders.
The server where lydaalexander.com resides is apparently back up. ANd has been for like a week, but no one (including Chad) bothered to tell me, so I haven't done anything about it. That being said... until we get possesion of the site (read: January at the earliest), I think I'll leave it here, and just post a redirect from lydaalexander. Or maybe a mirror or something. I don't know. This webspace will be deleted in January, so I have to figure something out before then. I'll let you know.
Chad and I are like the only two people in the world not doing NaNoWriMo. But that is fine... we always have next year to jump on the bandwagon, I guess.
We still have no idea where we are going to live when we get to Houston... although we now know we will *not* be buying a house in Clearlake proper... although renting there is certainly still an option. I've interviewed for some jobs, all in like, central Houston... but no word back yet. And I decided to apply to Rice for a psychology degree... no idea if they'll accept me, or anything like that. We'll see, I guess.
Anyway... That is all I really have to say, I guess. I'm so counting the days until graduation....
Tupelo here we come! I think we're going to tupelo for dinner tonight. At the very least, we're going out for steak.
Richard has happy news, news that apparently made him dance around the room when he found out (and I don't blame him)... he has a job offer, doing something he likes to do, working for a big well-known company. (as no one who reads this knows Richard, besides me and Chad, I don't think I'm really stealing his thunder here).
The only problem... it's in Seattle. No so much of a problem for Richard, but you know, kinda sad for us (although the logicy side of me admits that we are moving to Houston in January anyway...). At least now I guess we have an excuse for traveling to Washington (I've never been there).
Anyway. A yummy steak dinner will be enjoyed by all tonight. Yay!
Change is good Made some badly needed updates to the layout and stuff. Let me know what you think.
I'm not sure about the rule seperating the title and text... it looked stupid going all the way across the page, but I'm not sure how much better it looks going halfway.
New URL... for now. I'm tired of not having a blog (or at least, you know, one that is accessible and stuff).
So here's this, a temporary mirror until such time as my domain is permanently up and running.
As an interesting side note, I'm not dead. Although I had an interesting tornado experiance today, wherein a tornado apparently went right over my head while I played (what else?) D&D. When we heard the change in wind and rain, we decided it *might* be a good idea to check the weather... at which time there was a loud crack (the tornado taking out the power lines) and, of course, no electricity. About 2 minutes later, the sirens went off (you know, after it was all over).
So yeah, we're all safe and fine now, no serious damage to us or our stuff, although parts of campus got it pretty good. (Nothing destroyed, but some damage). And we have power back. Which is happy.
But, it is 2am, and I have classes tomorrow... and I still have to grade labs.
Yeah, so we're mostly moved now. Long, stupid story. Very frustrating. Involves two sets of asshole landlords. So yeah.
But the new place looks kinda nice, after we got our stuff in it. Haven't tried the dishwasher (they swear it no longer will leak all over the floor)... but the stove and oven seem to work (as in, they come on when I turn the knob, and turn off when I turn the knob the other way)... the fridge is still up for debate.
The washing machine and dryer (that we bought) work very nicely.
The new place will take some getting used to... but I think I like it. We should finish the moving and the shaking tomorrow, rest and finish organizing on Tuesday, and go to school on Wednesday. Yay!
ok. So there have been some complaints about my last post. So I have some things to say.
One. This is not, nor has it ever been, a G-rated blog. For the most part, I try to keep it "work-friendly" so that my friends in the real world can read it. However. If I have something to say, I'm going to say it. And if you have a problem with it... deal with it. Or don't read. I have not the patience nor the want-to to make my personal weblog conform to whatever standards other people wish to impose on me.
Two. I chose that statement to make a point. Because I am fast burning out on people who spend all their time hanging out and goofing off, and put off their homework until the last minute, don't get it done, and complain about their bad grades. Especially when the same people complain that I never hang out with them anymore. (Before you get all pissed and take this personally, there are several people who fit this description). I thought the language in the statement, unaltered and in the form I heard it, made the point very nicely. Sometimes bad language (when used in small doses) can provide the emphasis needed... and, although I hardly think anyone will change their homework habits over it, I thought this was something that I wanted to emphasize.
Three. I have a very very short fuse this week. Consequently, I feel the need to make my points very clear. And I have very little problem saying exactly what I mean. This is not a typical thing for me. So... I will take advantage of it, while it lasts. I'll be over it eventually.
Four. I am not responsible for anyone who reads this blog. Yes, I know that people link to me. Yes, I know that younger people, ie, middle and high schoolers, have the potential to read this. However. I cannot censor my thoughts here so as to not offend or corrupt whoever may happen to come across this site. I am linked on Google. This is a public blog. That means that anyone has the possiblity to find and or read my blog. If this offends you... I'm sorry. I really am. Go read Yahoo News. It might offend you less.
I guess that's about it, for now. The main point is... although lately this has been a link repository, it is in fact, and will always be, my personal blog. So treat it as such. If this means you have to delete all your links to me because I used the words fuck and masturbate in the same sentence... then do so.
k. So I posted buttons for some of the webcomics I read semi-regularly (that is, I read six months of posts... about every six months) :-) The list is not complete, but it's a start.
And just for kicks (and because I really don't want to write my next paper):
Five Questions for Bloggers:
1) Why did you start a blog?
It looked like and interesting way to keep in touch with all the people I don't get to interact with in person... like the ones in Huntsville and Memphis.
2) Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
Hmmm... possibly Chad? He had one before me... but I think it was a combined effort from Chad, Amanda, and possibly Krys. To tell you the truth, I really don't remember.
3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
No effect on my professional life... but then, I guess for now I'm a professional student.
4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
All but the ones I talk bad about on here... (and it's not like they can't find me in google...)
5. Do you have a blog crush?
Um.... I'm married to a fellow blogger... Does that count?
I Left My Wallet In El Segundo, in addition to being a real song, with real lyrics (that, strangly enough, are about a guy who left his wallet in el segundo), and a real polyphonic ringtone... is also a blog. Who'd have thought? Not only is it a blog... but it's a political blog. Conservativish politics, too. Wonders will never cease.
So. In recent Deedee news. We won our football game against Tulane (yay!), a victory made even more sweet by the fact that Memphis beat that other school :-) Also, encountered my first ever truely defective DVD. Like, nothing on the second layer will play. Weird. As usual, homework is keeping me busy... And Chad and I are doing laundry today. Yay for clean clothes.
Anyway... more forthcoming. Maybe. if I feel like blogging later.
But as I have no Intar-web at the apartment until tomorrow... the evil bloggage will have to wait a day or two.
Interesting project afoot, though... any java programmers out there? Looks like a few of us are going to try to code a card game... kinda as a warm up to programming something big that someone else has been planning for awhile :-)
And I got a spiffy new AI book... specifically targeted at game AI (as in, rpg and first person shooters), but applicable to such mundane things as Shanghi. *sigh* Life is good.
The good news: The blog shold be fixed soon, so you can read this.
The bad news: It's not fixed yet.
In other news: Went to a wedding this weekend (the last before mine...). It was fun. And interesting. And different. Basically, it was a big excuse for a bunch of people to get together and get drunk, all while making jokes at the expense of the bride and groom, and cursing everyone within thoring distance with engagement, marriage, and children, in turn. (I would like to point out that no one actually hit me with any of these, but as the first two are true anyway... we'll wait on the last one. Sorry, Mom). We all had a good time, but Chad and I left earlier than a lot of people... We left when the drunk Aunt of the groom stuffed lavender down our clothes and told us to go enjoy each other's lavenderness... it was then we realized that *everyone* at the reception was, in fact, mostly drunk (this would be due, in part at least, to the really good homemade sangria that was masquerading as punch).
So we went back to Chad's apartment, where everyone (there was a party there, too) was also mostly drunk... and all underage. And watching porn. Great combonation, let me tell you. Haj made it back at some odd hour of the morning, totally drunk. Left before 8am to go home, though... Chad nad I left Starkville between 11:30 and noon... now I'm back here in Huntsville, trying to find a day this week when it's not going to rain, so as to schedule my bridal pictures. Ha.
Another post on the broken blog... I am truely hopeless.
I'll be in Starkville this weekend... but as to whether I actually get to see anyone there... eh. We'll see. Going to a wedding. Again. This is the last one until mine, though. Which is nice.
Ho hum. Off to go do housework. And maybe get to visit the office later.
I'm blogging... but the server is broke, and thus you won't be able to get to the blog for a while, all you'll get is the stupid white wolf thing my domain now points too... But krys has promised to fix it, so it'll be fixed at some point (Amazing that people should have to take time for like, family and jobs that actually pay money and stuff).
Anyway. Went to a really nice really expensive wedding this weekend... had a lot of fun. Saw lots of things I liked, nothing I could afoard for my own wedding :-)
And I'm staying here most of this week, and doing more wedding stuff... less than three weeks to go. Yay!
put up a splash page to hold until I get the real thing up and going... links to my blog right now, but I should put some more stuff up in the not too distant future. For now, it works.
I hate the new blogger. But I don't feel like ranting about it. Actually. I ranted about it for a minute to David, who has similar feelings on the issue. Feeling much affirmed, I have lost the need to rant at length.
In other news. The last week of school was good... I finished up finals (yay!) and passed everything (double yay! They'll actually send me my diploma!). Hillary came into town for graduation, and we got to catch up on old times... interesting to see how two people can chage so much, and yet not really have changed at all. Went to a party that reminded me why I don't go to parties like that (everyone was way too drunk, and girls in next to mothing were playing water Twister... oh yeah. My idea of way too much fun). Parents came in for graduation too....
So I'm graduated. and stuff. Getting geared up for the wedding. And school in the fall. Cleaning the house. And eating and stuff. And playing some Kingdom Hearts (I just want to do like, a couple more cool things before I beat it).
So. I'f you're in Huntsville, look me up. Socialization is good.
One more thing. A catchy song. *does a litte dance* Where can you see lions... *stop dancing* Ok... enough of that.
So I patched the comments thing to work in Mozilla (since that's what I use...)...
And in the process lost all my comments. Bummer. Maybe Krys will figure out a way to get them all back. But then again, he's a busy person... so I'm not holding my breath.
So yeah. Here I am. Like, a week and a half from the end of the semester. Very very close to finishing. Very very ready to finish.
I got a really cool really fast new laptop! 2.4 gHz, 512 RAM, 30 gB hd... It's nice. Thanks to Chad, who's financing this endevor into technology. :-)
This means, though, that i may have more itme to blog, as I can plug in during class and stuff. Which is cool.
Anyway. That's it for hte present moment. I have blogged ;-)
So... Since I blogged last... I went home, and had peices of me removed... I came back here, and basically slept for a week... and I've been running ever since to make up for it. Note: Do not have surgery the week before all of your pre-midterm tests. It causes undue levels of stress, and lots of knots in your back.
But I think I'm *almost* caught up... except it's 9:10am, and I haven't started on the homework that's due at 11am... but I just finished the homework that's due at 12:30pm, so that's got to say something. :-) This weekend will help, a lot. I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing this weekend, besides homework... I'm tempted to go to the ballgame, as it's the one this semseter we're least likely to lose (braces for barrage of football jokes from David) :-) But I may just go tailgate, and then sit at Wesley and do homework. We'll see.
Ha ha ha... I hunted people down in LiveJournal. They cannot escape me.... now the question is, how long until they show up here? And will they comment when they do? :-)
Ah. My new and interesting blogger interface was simply due to platform differences. Apparently blog for Mac is much differnt than blog for WinXP. Go figure.
Anyway... fun and exciting aside... apparently, my butt is recognizable and identifiable as belonging to me at 100 yards. By other females. Interesting. I haven't figured out exactly how I'm going to use this information, but I'm sure it will come to me. *eVil grin*
I'm trying to get lots of work done, while still "taking it easy", and managing to go home for the weekend.... [FYI: I'll be going home sometime on Saturday, I think, and returning Tuesday morning, if all goes well]
Anyway...
Quote of the day:
Programs don't have morals... they aren't considerate of other programs needs for processor or I/O time...
-- Dr. Baca
So David just pointed out to me that another blogger linked to my blog... which was cool, because they thought I was cool (actaully, they thought that David was cool for thinking that something I thought was cool was cool, and creating appropriate links)... It was the Penny Arcade Matrix comic, of all things. Hm. Interesting... You really should check the blog out though, it seems to be pretty cool (not that I've read any of it or anything. I'm at work, I have better things to do, right?)
ok... something weird is going on with my comments.... yeah. They're all there, the number just doesn't show up on the link. So yeah. Check them anyway, I guess.
ok.... Changed link to Williams blog... you no longer need a password. Yay!!
Today has gone pretty well, considering I slept through most of it... Guess I'm storing up for Statewide this weekend. I'm spending the weekend in Oxford, actually... or right outside there.... Camp Lake Stevens. With Wesley people from all over the state... it's gonna be awesome!!
And then next weekend, I'm chillin here in Starkville.... and then the weekend after, it's down to the Coast for Mardi Gras!! Yay!!
Anyway.... must find food. Be back maybe... dunno, though. Today is belly dancing day *grin* And then i have choir... hompefully I'll have time to write more.
For those of you using IE, you may have been experianceing technical difficulties with my site... namely, it wouldn't load... if you still can't get to it (how will you read this?), I think the problem lies in your cookie settings... try accepting more cookies... or something like that.
Anyway... now that that frustration has been dealt with...
Life is still good. It rained all day yesterday, a cold dark rain... it was awesome. I went puddle jumping... which was even awesomer. And I cooked some of the best lamb chops ever... I love lamb. But it's so expensive.... I prolly won't be able to buy any more until Passover, at least. I suppose I should be happy they even sell it in Starkvegas... that's an imporvement over last year.
Tonight I'm cooking again, stroganoff, it looks like. For Me and William and whoever else shows up... Matt, Sbbn, Greg... dunno who's going to be able to make it. but it'll be good. :-)
Meanwhile, I need to shower and clean my room and stuff so I can have company over tonight. I may post later.... we'll see.
AAAAGGGGGHHHHH.... I hate blogger. It's giving me a... well... I guess it's an error, but it doesn't say anything (ie, no error message)... it just gives a link for more info, and nothing on the link makes sense with what my page is doing. But it's not publishing. Grrr.
I'm thinking about a redesign.... possibly something Spaceish... I have access to all kinds of cool space images through NASA... they're free.... and I'm sure I could manage something cool with them. I may start with redesigning my blog.... then, it'll be time to begin my evil plans! *evil laugh*
I mean, eat lunch... it will be time to eat lunch. Yeah.
By the way, this is a really awesome comic. Especially if you like pc-based rpg games... it's a classic.
So I made it work... I am way too awesome :-) Now if only I could get my cam to work..... Imagine that, a computer engineer that can't install a webcam. How sad is that?
And what's up with these templates? I couldn't find one that fit me... I settled on this one becasue it was decidedly less pink than the first one I set up.... and I am not really a pink person *grin*. Don't they have ready-made thundercats templates or something? I mean, really... Some of us are too lazy to design our own templates :-)
I guess that's it for the moment... (real exciting, huh?) It's 6pm, so I can finally leave my roomwithout worrying if my mom is going to call while I'm gone. I need to make a Wally-World run... I may post later tonight..... I dunno yet.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
