amand_r

Hello all, it's been a while, so I shall UPDATE BY NUMBERS.

1. Cookies have been awesome. I am taking a break. I have many new things that I want to try, but they aren't going to ship well in this heat. That said, if you ever want some cookies, feel free to drop me a line. I am now making shit on demand. Except the chocolate caramel shortbread. They are a pain in the ass.

2. Kidlet is done with preschool! Well, for this year at least. I have embarrassing video, but I am too lazy to upload it.

3. My computer died recently! It was horrible. I was trying to log on, and it kept telling me my user profile couldn't load properly. After shedding bitter tears, I managed to save all my files from safe mode onto an external drive, and then I had to reinstall the OS from factory settings. Strange how everything runs now. On the other hand, there's something cleansing about getting a fresh start.

4. I have been reading a great deal. You can find my reading on Goodreads. Right now I'm reading about the monster of Florence.

5. I MADE PASTA FROM SCRATCH. IT WAS AWESOME.

6. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS AWESOME? HOT DOGS.

7. Here is the story of how I am bitter:

One day I started watching Wire in the Blood. I watched 2 eps and then forgot. Then a month later I was all, “I should check out Wire in the Blood”, and lo, I already had. I resumed my watching. BY THE WAY the special with Tony in Texas was the best thing ever. I lolled so hard. Anyway, I got to the end of season 6 when [spoiler] and it ends with [spoiler] and Then I click ed the “Next” button on the Netflix streaming screen.

Nothing happened. I looked and saw they only had up to season six. Never mind, I will download the torrent somewhere.

That's right, in my head I had convinced myself that there are 8 seasons.

Oh wait, no, that's Waking the Dead.

It became increasingly difficult to locate the season seven torrent No one had it. I was going to do a shot out to my flist. Then I decided to see when it was released. So I checked wikipedia.

Boy, am I bitter. WHAT A FUCKING WAY TO END. NOT TWIN PEAKS EPIC, BUT JESUS.

8. I read the new Sookie Stackhouse. Yeah.

9. I had so many things to say! I have no idea where they went.

10. Lastly, I have a novella/thing coming out in October, and the publisher, Candlemark and Gleam was nice enough to send me promo postcard things to distribute. I was thinking of handwriting some short short stories and offering to send them to people for postage. Would anyone be interested? Want one? I guess if you sent me five bucks, I could send you the card and a half a dozen cookies. Or something.

Postage has gone up package wise, by the way. That's how they get ya.

Off to read more about excising vaginas.

this netbook has no word program, and it is very very wee. It has no cd drive for me to install from disc. Is there a good free word processing program out there? googledocs is fine and all, but i want to be able to work offline.

1. This morning, my coffee, TO WHICH I DO NOT ADD SWEETENER, tastes reminiscently of Sugar Smacks. It's my fault. I let that goddamn Dig Em frog in here last night and now everything tastes a little bit like shitty cereal.

2. So, I was "fixing" a laptop for my dad, who boned his and had to reinstall Windows XP and all that shit. What he did was run the install disk, and then he couldn't get online. So here I am, fucking about with all kinds of shit in the settings, deep into the BOWELS of the computer that requires commands prompts and the recitation of the Holy Writ of Microsoft or something, and then I'm like, "Well, if I could dial up from the laptop, I bet I could download the drivers you're missing." Off to my house comes the lappy.

( The Ballad of Driver Quest Idiocy )

3. How did I miss this? Let Me Borrow That Top. No Jack, no.

Also? I have to admit that I found the editing in this charming: Ianto Jones's Diary

4. I am pleased to sat that ask_captainjack's Red Nose Day Charity fundraiser exceeded our fundraising goal of £50, and is now at £75. That's sweet. The page is here: where some people left nice comments. I particularly like the one that mentions that A_CJ caused the greatest OTP of all: soda/computer screen. Apparently Comic Relief says that with that amount, we can help an African family open a small business, which I am all for, because I like entrepreneurship. And also, people owning shit.

OTHER THINGS THAT I AM FOR INCLUDE:

1. Puppies
2. Cheese
3. FREE STEAK
4. I'M THE BOSS.

THINGS THAT I AM NOT FOR INCLUDE:

1. My screwed up knee.
2. My messy desk.
3. NOT FREE STEAK.
4. ( Mrs. Goodbee's Scary Eyes )

5. It's a week until…what do we call it now? Aunt Flow comes to town? Riding the cotton pony? I dunno. Anyway. My boobs hurt, and I have to hold them when I run down the stairs. It's like bikini cops in slow motion. No. Anyway, none of this happened to me before the baby, so I get to blame her for my PMS woes. ::sad panda face::

6. That is all. You may go about your day now.