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[Nov. 22nd, 2009|07:27 pm] |
Went tromping around to fabric stores--well, two of them--with sister today, seeking a purple and pink plaid fabric to make a costume vest. Alas, no such thing to be found! There is pink plaid and purple plaid but no combination of the two. Found one through Ebay but the seller didn't have enough of it so there went that idea. I, on the other hand, found a funky pink printed fabric for sister to make me a shirt, I will post pic of it once I get her to make it.
Sister was kind enough to take me to Red Robin's for a "business" lunch. Damn, they make good burgers! And fries. But DAMN they're also expensive burgers so when the waitress came round asking if I wanted a refill on the fries, you bet I said yes lol.
Word of advice to self: don't be cheap and buy the chuck roast when the recipe called for a round roast, as the chuck roast will indeed be quite chewy, even though the temp says it's well done. Woulda worked much better to simply toss it in the crock pot. Ah, well, ground it up in the food processor and will use it to do...something. Maybe add to mac and cheese? Or toss it on mashed potatoes with gravy. And the food processor leads to another piece of advice, which is NOT to press finger into serrated blade while thinking merrily that it's not gonna cut me like the flat one does, 'cause my mind is going OH HO so you think it will cut you? Let us test this by pressing HARDER.
Got the Doctor Who Fourth Season DVD set yesterday, along with Overlord II, which will go back tomorrow, as I still do not like the controls, and you'd really think I'd learn from playing the first one. Is there ANY game out there not made to exploit the smallest bit of motion sickness one might have? Played Doctor's Daughter on the Xbox360 and don't know if it's a fault of the disc, or the Xbox, but the PS3 plays DVDs much better, and even just regular DVDs.
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|10:16 pm] |
FUCK ME...two MONTHS till the next Supernatural ep? January 21st for crissakes.
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:08 pm] |
Previous post was premature, forgot about waiting for Sons of Anarchy. Ah, well, gotta exercise this journal, right?
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|09:16 pm] |
Slow beginning to the week. Hopefully post Thanksgiving sales will pick up. Gonna implement a couple sales to get things moving, start up the tights/shorts club thing to generate more sales. And going to do clearance sale on the fourth anniversary to get some of that stuff GONE. I am tired of looking at it lol.
Got my Sears card but have managed to refrain from a spending spree, go me lol. I will use it to buy the Bluray player for sister's family Xmas present and get a pair of decent shoes, then get it paid off before buying the home theater system I've been wanting, to complement the TV and PS3.
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|10:38 pm] |
Good day today. Went shopping with sister and niece, hit Kohl's first. Kohl's is a lot like JCPenney's price wise, and in that once you get to my size section, the stylishness fades while the price goes up. Unless you're junior size, like niece, where there's lots to choose from, and the prices aren't so bad. Looked in World Market, nice stuff but overpriced and geared mainly for people with more disposable income than I'm likely to have. Some pretty towels but $15 for one towel? YIKES. Though their bottled spices are very reasonably priced, $2.99 for a standard size glass bottle. Got a bottle of Pink Himalayan Salt and will remember the store for any future purchases of more exotic spices. Then we went to Best Buy and I quickly regretted requesting the Doctor Who Season 4 DVD set, because they had the complete set of Samurai Champloo for $57. Ah, well, I can probably find it cheaper online.
Cooked dinner, got my hair cut, hung out for a while, then headed home to bake a cake. Lemon cake with lemon frosting, yummy! And a new Doctor Who special to download soon as I got home.
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[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
Maintenance came to the apartment at 9:45 to do their quick inspection. Didn't waste any time getting started as the notice said they were going around between 9:30AM and 5PM. If they'd come by just fifteen minutes later when I was in the shower, I would have been PISSED, especially since they let themselves in before I realized someone was indeed knocking on the door. All they were doing was shining a light along the walls and ceiling to check for termites, they were gone in a couple minutes.
Naturally the cat hid and once she came out, she had to creep around to make sure the intruders were gone. She wanted to climb up on the sink, even made fussy noises at the cabinet door under the sink, AS IF the intruders were hiding in there for cripes sake lol. She even had to check out the shower stall JUST to be sure. I imagine when I get home she'll probably be hiding somewhere, in case the intruders come why mommy's gone.
Glee continues to be fun, though I'm getting tired of it being the Finn and Rachel Singing Hour, rather than Glee Club. Sure, Rachel's a strong, talented singer but I'd like to see more of the other young ladies take the lead. Tina, for one, only got one chance to shine, and ended up losing out to Rachel.
And Dollhouse was canceled. It's more a surprise that it got a second season, than it being canceled, as the ratings were low. I've seen posts calling FOX to task for not giving it a chance but Dollhouse certainly got more of a chance than Firefly did, and to my mind at least Firefly was the better show. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
Moved out of the old apartment three damn months ago and just today I get a letter saying I owe them $53 in damages, after them applying the $120 deposit paid when I moved in all those years ago. I figured that if I hadn't heard from them by now, there wouldn't be anything. The $53 is not that bad, considering. Big hole in the screen, some cosmetic damage throughout, and they dinged me for staining on the cement patio. ::rolling eyes:: Almost dinged me for a hole in the bathroom door and to be honest I don't know if it's something I did, or was already there, because I didn't keep the original walk-through paper from, what, fifteen, sixteen years ago?
Guess I can't get really upset about it, 'cause I was thinking the damages would be more than that, if they were getting nitpicky. And these are folks that GET nitpicky, so I'm thinking they found as much as they could. Given how long I was in the place, a certain amount of "damages" is wear and tear. AND GAWWWD they dinged me for ICE TRAYS, can you believe that shit? SIGH.
( Sons of Anarchy spoilers! )
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[Nov. 10th, 2009|05:59 pm] |
Lady, you spending $90 does not make me any less irritated that you let your kid upend a bag of Cheezits under one of the racks, spreading crumbs and whole pieces on the carpet. Which I will have to get down on my hands and knees to vacuum up. GRRR. Also annoyed at the mom and daughter team who bought a leo and shorts, declined my suggestion for daughter to try them on, only to return it the next day because it "made her butt look big." GEE if you'd tried it on in the store as I suggested, then you wouldn't have had to bring it back, would you? IDJITS.
Bulb out one of the headlights and MUST be replaced promptly, for I am the person that gets pulled over by a cop because the little light over the fucking license plate was out. You're behind me, you have your headlights on, you can SEE the fucking plate, okay? It's not like I put out the light and smeared the plate with mud or whatever to make it unrecognizable. Got the wrong kind, OF COURSE, and must return to get correct ones, sigh. Thank goodness for the Internet, I get more customer servcie from Google than the damned auto parts store.
USPS tricked me with its seeming promptness in updating tracking status on package, now it's still saying the package is in "transit" from FL. I am not entirely sure WHY a package going from the Pacific NW to New York would go down to Florida first. So, sorry, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) usa_p , it looks like it's taking the full three days to get there. Any other time, if I wasn't concerned about it arriving, it would have gotten there on Monday, like it's done in the past.
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[Nov. 7th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
Kitty duty today! And my erstwhile partner decided to show up this time. She apologized for not being there last time and said now she's got it on her alarm or whatever to notify her the next time she needs to be there. UHHH as if it's really hard to figure out when it's supposed to be? It's every other Saturday so it's not that difficult to figure out which week you go. Did you go last week? No? Then you go this week. Stayed after again for a little bit to snuggle with one of the kitties they keep off by herself, poor thing's all lonely in the office. One of the cats adopted out was brought back due to continual peeing on the new home's carpets.
Gamefly apparently got my game back quicker this week and made up for the speediness by sending me a notice they have to ship my next game, Trivial Pursuit, from PITTSBURGH. Because certainly don't want me thinking them to be speedy or some such. Honestly, it was just a filler game and I didn't want it so badly they had to send it from Pittsburgh, for crying out loud.
Brother in law was reading about new homeowners tax credit, even for people who've had their homes longer than five years, and also thought he read something about a credit to help small business owners, where the government will match a year's profit? Anyone heard of such a thing? Thinks he read it in the Oregonian but might have been Columbian, so might have to hit the library to check out the papers, as their websites don't provide any story like that. Don't have a huge amount of profit, $20K, according to sister, but $20K would be useful to have, for sure!
While checking out bluray players on Sears' website--especially the Samsungs that stream Netflix--I applied for a charge card on a whim and, unless someone in the home office wakes up and goes NO WAYYY, I will be receiving a Sears charge card with a credit limit of $900 in two weeks. WOO HOO! I lied on the income portion of it but who doesn't fluff up their income numbers when it comes to charge cards? Not gonna go whole hog on it, I will use it to buy the bluray player for sister's Xmas present, the present for the whole dang family, and pay it off, like I would if I was doing layaway on it. It would be a good card to keep due to the automotive department, handy for any kind of repair thing needing to be done, though KNOCK ON WOOD that it wouldn't be needed. Their plus size department is even smaller than JCPenney's and as expensive, but they got a better kitchenware department and unlike JCPenney, the kitchen electronics selection is not skewed to their own store brand.
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|08:49 pm] |
Working my way through my Gamefly list. Tried Fable 2, not interesting enough to keep longer than a night, also did Left 4 Dead and though I'm not a big fan of first person shooters, I think I'll get it once it goes down to cheap, like $20 cheap. Also got Dragons Age on the list, for when it comes out, and gonna try Uncharted 2, when that comes available. Demon's Souls and Fairytale Fights, plus Overlord II. The first Overlord was fun, though I didn't finish it, and the second should be fun too.
( Now for the requisite Supernatural spoilers! )
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|04:07 pm] |
Bleah, being picky doesn't work well with low funds. Trying to find shoes and it's hard when you have wide feet and need to have a size 11, because there's not a lot to choose from, and Famous Footwear for one doesn't stock crap in the way of size 11. Nothing at Sears, found ONE pair I kinda liked at Payless but only the one pair and when it's BOGO I feel obligated to get a second pair.
Was parked by Macy's so decided to go in there and take a look around. I found a cute light purple top for FIVE BUCKS. There was this other top I had great love for but even at 40% off it was $35 and my love for it was not that great, I decided. Also decided that I need to regularly hit up the 75% off rack to find more bargains. They have a lot of really nice stuff but it's also expensive and when I look at the tag to see where it's made, it's generally in the kind of country where a worker's weekly pay is probably the same as the retail price of a T-shirt. And when you grow up in lower middle class, where money was always tight when it came to clothes and shoes, you tend to be frugal with your money. Clerk asks if I want to apply for a Macy's card and, DANG, even if they did give me one, it'd be one shopping trip to max it out. Their clothes are expensive but their cookware has some nice, reasonable prices so it'd be a toss up between clothes or nifty cooking pans lol.
The remake of V is on tonight, Syfy ran the old miniseries over the weekend and it'll be interesting to see how the new version stands up. Watching the old one, it's also nteresting how so many young members of the cast didn't do much of anything acting wise past the series, basically dropping out of Hollywood sight. Of the cast Michael Ironside is probably the only one who was been working consistently. Just goes to show the craggy character actors generally last longer than the pinup-pretty ones.
STILL got this dang cough, am ready for it to GO AWAY. It's been more than a week, dang it. It's annoying to cough so hard the bladder lets loose just a little bit, requiring a change of pants.
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[Oct. 31st, 2009|09:34 pm] |
Happy Halloween!
And...BORED. Hadn't been horribly slow, did a decent amount of sales, but in between was bored and wanting to go home. The desire to go home was only increased by a repeat visit from a mom and her two little ones, dad tagging along this time but NO USE AT ALL. Little brat kid tossing his orange tic tacs all over the floor, or if not tossing then just dropping them and apparently picking them up is beyond him and parents.
Had pizza delivered to store while still there, too lazy to pick it up afterward. Then to continue my oh so exciting Halloween I took a nap when I got home lol.
What's up with no horror movies on HALLOWEEN??? You'd think at least HBO would be playing something horrific, and I'm not talking Australia. Oh, sure, they're doing True Blood, but each night they seem to be playing the same eps from the first season, and of course ones I've seen already. Only decent horror movie playing is the ultimate classic, Night of the Living Dead.
"V" starts up on Tuesday. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, compared to the original. I saw the original way back when, as it aired, and then followed the short lived TV series it spawned. It was a darned good show, even if the plot did have a tendency to veer into soap opera territory, especially with the backstabbing antics of the Visitor commanders, but then it was the heyday of prime time soaps. No new Glee till...when? A few more new Supernatural and then hiatus.
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[Oct. 29th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
Ahh this time of year, it's all about people looking for obscure things to add to their costumes. And it's the time of year where I mentally compile a list for next year, but inevitably it's not the same things they want year to year, so what can you do, huh?
Bought candy to hand out and will probably end up eating more of it than what we hand out lol. Though not right away, as my stupid stomach is in that post sickness state where it's not sure if it's feeling nauseated or hungry so it does BOTH. Hungry and vaguely nauseous, lots of fun, 'cause I get to feeling a little shaky due to not eating but stomach isn't always super cooperative. Better get it straight by Saturday, stomach, 'cause I wants me Halloween pizza!
( Supernatural spoilers! )
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[Oct. 26th, 2009|03:16 pm] |
Am home, having my very first sick day in the four years the shop has been open.
Started up Saturday with a tickle in my throat and excessive coughing, building up to coughing hard enough to make me gag and try to bring up whatever it is stuck in there. Still coughing on Sunday but moving around, did some cleaning, cooked dinner. Breaded pork loin chops with sausage gravy and mashed potatoes, should have been a sign that while I was cooking it, stomach wasn't all that interested in what I was doing. Only ate half of what was on my plate, and that felt too much, and then later...Toilet, meet Dinner. The flu has apparently commenced. Only threw up one more time though, and was trying to this morning but nothing to throw up, just a pounding headache from the coughing and attempts to retch. Feeling better now, after resting, and had a piece of toast, will have some soup and crackers later on, I think.
It's going around, niece has apparently also got it, as well as sister's friend, showing the same beginning symptoms I did, but thankfully it's short lived, for me at least. Just wasn't sure how well I'd do at the store so called sister last night and she agreed I should stay home. Will get back there tomorrow, as I'm sure I'll be ready by then. The headache seems to finally be ebbing and moving more into runny/stuffed up nose cold kinda thing. Think I had a bit of a fever too as my face felt hot and I wasn't flushed at all, I was overheated enough to open up window to get cool air in or at least to make it cool enough in her so I can snuggle under blanket.
Saturday did the cat shelter, ALONE again, because apparently my "partner" has a thing about remembering to go somewhere every other week. Last time she didn't show up till I was about ready to leave and gave me her phone number to call her and remind her but, hell, I'm not her mommy and I can slog through it on my own. One of the kitties had appointed himself Snack Monitor and followed me around as I collected plates, to make sure everyone licked theirs clean. Stayed over an extra ten minutes to snuggle with the one kitty they keep separate in the office, as she apparently doesn't get on well with others. There was another new orange colored kitty named Goldy, who I've dubbed Grumpy instead, as kitty is wandering restlessly around growling at others and just being grumpy. She might be another case for isolation as she also doesn't seem happy to have others around.
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[Oct. 23rd, 2009|05:40 pm] |
Almost Halloween and one's fancies turn to scary films and what is really scary about a film.
Scariest movie I've ever seen? Burnt Offerings. I saw it when I was...gahh...twelve? I'm too lazy to look at IMDB and see when it came out, I just know I saw it when it was originally released in the theaters so I was still young. It was one of those movies that scared me so very fucking bad I HATED it lol. I couldn't sleep that night, because I kept seeing images from the movie, and the scariest was the chauffeur with his death head's grin. Years later, I watched it again and, yeah, it failed to scare as much as it did that first time. It was always stick in my head for how very scary it was, for my pre-teen self.
In my early years with horror films, "scary" was the popping-out-at-you things. An overused staple of horror films, to be sure, but it still works if you learn how to time it just right. Zombies were never terribly scary, as I cut my horror teeth on repeated viewings of the original Night of the Living Dead, shown with loving dedication every summer on Creature Features.
Nowadays, it's the subtler creepy things, the flash of something out of the corner of the camera's eye, the lengthening shadows and distorted shapes they make. GHOSTS, because I still sleep with the light on. Maybe it's always been ghosts, ever since my grandpa died way back when and I used to have dreams about him, scary only in that I knew in the dream he was dead and shouldn't really be there. Even then the thought of someone reaching out from the other side was not a happy one for me lol. Blair Witch Project succeeded in its approach of hinting and not really telling or showing, just playing on our fears of the dark.
The pop-out-at-you thing still works and though I hate it, like any decent masochist, I like the idea of confronting this fear/hate and going to haunted houses, watching scary movies. Though I think I'm gonna avoid Paranormal Activity, though I don't think it's going to be as scary for me as it seems to be for everyone else.
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[Oct. 22nd, 2009|11:11 pm] |
WHERE IS THE DARKER THAN BLACK SUB?? Me WANTS. Watched the raw and need the subbed version to really know what's going on.
Will probably stay up too late waiting for it to come out.
Dinner was a highly nutritious fried spam and cheddar cheese sandwich. YUM.
( Spoiler cut for Project Runway, of all things... )
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