décembre 2011
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Got at least 4 possible new students coming to...
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
I love New Year’s resolutions sometimes,
Happy birthday to me!
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dancingfrogger reminded me that I should make the disclaimer that if your friends don’t drink or smoke, don’t try to pressure or embarrass them into it, or invite them to places you know they’ll be miserable because getting shitfaced is basically the whole point of the event. It’s mean-spirited and a bad friend thing to do. People would do that to me when I was not...
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~*~ordering mah skates & equipment~*~
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(In case y’all missed the context of this, since we don’t all follow the same people, someone got a large “sXe” tattoo and posted it to fuckyeahtattoos or summat and added this obnoxious preachy commentary about his “morals”. When someone responded to him saying that drugs/drink != immoral, a bunch of straightedge assholes basically said to her LOL WELL UR...
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I don’t have any beef with people who choose not to smoke, drink, or ingest drugs. In fact, yours truly was straightedge for about 2 years after my friend died in a drug-related incident. I felt like I was going down a bad path with my various substances and I needed some time to clear my head and do something in her honour. After that time, I felt comfortable trying to find a nice middle...
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lol sXe
Yeah, my tattoo artist back home got that one done, too.
Luckily, it’s on his thigh, so when he got over himself, it wasn’t too embarrassing to have it around forever.
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There is a FY Alexander Siddig Tumblr. →
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Mystery solved
We got a third package today, and thankfully, this one was labeled. The gifts have been from my stepmother (not my mom’s ex, but my dad’s), and the last one she sent was a very cute “Boogie Monster” set, with furry legwarmers, a storybook, and a kids’ dancing CD. This box actually had a packing slip in it and a gift note, so we could finally find out who our mystery...
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I really need to go to bed, because I have physical therapy in the morning, but I can’t stop looking at skates and equipment. SO MUCH COOL STUFF.
I mean, LOOK AT THESE. I was planning on buying the Riedell Diablos because I got to try those tonight and they were well-rounded, comfortable skates, but they only come in red, which I’m not super into. Which I know is a pretty stupid...
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I think the best part, really, is that I got about 8 friend requests tonight, and I’m just like YESSSSSS FRIENDSSSSS MY PRECIOUSESESESES because Jesus Christ, man, I need to meet more people. I’m too isolated. I have been having this long-ass, babbling conversation with two of the derby gals and I feel like I’m in high school all over again (but not the crappy parts) and you...
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In other news, while I was skating, Logan made matzoh ball soup and latkes (a day late and a dollar gelt short, I know) and while I didn’t have anyone around to confirm whether or not it would pass muster with my Jewish friends, it was pretty damned good and welcome after a hard practice. He cooked the matzoh balls directly in the broth, rather than in salted water, so they were very...
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Roller derby totally fucking ruled and I’m already going to buy a pair of skates, because all the loaner skates seem to be for gals with teeny feet. Honestly, the only downside to the whole night was my poor toes being crushed to death in the boots—I wear a women’s 10, and the loaner skates were an 8. Oof.
I was really, really wobbly at first, and I am not very good about...
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Okay, now this is getting weird. I got a second package addressed just like the towels package. It’s a container of “Grow Snow”, a powder that turns into fluffy fake snow when you put water in it. No clue who sent it. O_____o
WHO ARE YOU, MYSTERIOUS GIFT GIVER?
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My mother just sent me a mysterious e-mail with a PDF attachment. Turns out it’s a scan of the receipt for my (late) Christmas gift, currently on the way: three Steven Halpern CDs!
(And since they were on sale, she bought herself some as well. Sheesh…tattoos, running, New Age music…I think I may be a bad influence on my ma!)
I am excite.
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“I took the capoeira class for the first time tonight. It was amazing…and...”
– MySpace blog entry about my very first class four years ago. It’s giving me a major case of the giggles, for some reason.
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Well, I missed it, due to Reasons, but the 26th was my four year anniversary as a capoeirista. It’s been a long, strange trip, but I’m proud of myself for sticking to it. I feel like I’m nowhere where I need to be for the time I’ve been practicing, but this is one of very few of my Wild New Things I’m Always Trying that I have ever kept up.
I’m not good at...
(I’m not normally a sweets person, but I love sour, fruity candy and salty/sweet things.)
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@beckyc
It’s a delicious Mexican candy. I don’t know why they call it Gusano, because the mascot on the front is a bird. Maybe because it’s brown?
It’s a sweet/salty/tangy/spicy tamarind-flavoured liquid candy and ughhhhhh sooo gooooood.
(The Salsagheti is something like thin strings of watermelon-flavoured Sour Punch straws that come with a small packet of the Gusano and...
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MexGrocer.com, please stop it. I bought one case each of Salsagheti and Gusano from you four years ago and nothing else since. TAKE A HINT.
(I might actually buy something else if you’d ship to Guam.)
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h8 u speedwork
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beckyc is fucking great, y’all.
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Thank you, anonymous sender of papaya-coloured towels. They are lovely. Now please tell me who you are.
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A couple of the capoeira kids wanted to throw me a surprise birthday party and cook me a spaghetti dinner, but since I basically have the only proper party space and cooking facility in our circle, they had to un-surprise it a bit and ask if they could use my house for the festivities. The fact that they want to do something nice for me on my birthday (and it could still be a surprise, because I...
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Sam is starting to get too fat to play or jump on some of the counters and looks kind of miserable about it. I welcome recommendations for diet cat foods and how to help her (and Sandi as well—she’s starting to get up there) drop some weight so she can be back to her ol’ kitten-energy self.
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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their...”
– Michael Pollan (via misswallflower)
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I think it would be a funny thing to do one of those “hey, ask me some shit” reblog memes where you anon “troll” your friends with gentle poking of fun at things that they talk about all the time. For instance, if your friend is a chef, you could say “I wash my cooking knives in the dishwasher. BLADE DOWN.” Or maybe “Say what you want, David Tennant...
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Okay, so I changed my gamertag for real. Is that something you post publicly? Or what you only share with friends? I feel like a little kid getting on the internet for the first time…no idea what I’m doing with this scary new toy.
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Let me know where I know you from and if I should be following you back, okay?
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Oh my god, trying to play Kinect games with my kids might be even more frustrating than trying to clean the windshield.
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“CurdledSleet707” was the default gamertag that Xbox Live gave me and I kind of don’t want to change it.
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Time to start thinking about my birthday resolutions. 2011 wasn’t my worst year, but it wasn’t my best, either, and I want to do 2012 better. I think things will measurably improve once we leave Guam, but that’s not for another 6 months at least, so I need to find ways to make things work in the meanwhile.
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oh god he got me a kinect and dance central 2 for christmas just tried it out o help brb never leaving my house again
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(Hopefully, I timed it right, so my picture will come up when y’all are having your Christmas morning.)
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9 miles
I really, really needed this run today, though I was tired and unsure if I could make it all the way through. The wedding reception for our friends turned out to be much more crowded, claustrophobic, and anxiety-inducing than I thought it would be. The groom said it was to be a small, low-key affair, but even though he only invited 12 or 13 people, the restaurant holding the reception was packed...
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The choices for getting this week’s long run in are Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I think I’m gonna suck it up and do it today, even if I’m full of gyoza from my friend’s wedding, because I want tomorrow to be a nice, relaxing day with my family.
Alrighty then, 9 miles.
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I hate Westerns...
mistoroboto:
Usually, but Brisco Country Jr was an exception to the rule. The acting was a little campy in places, but Bruce Campbell really knew how to sell the character overall along with Christian Clemenson (who also played as Jerry in Boston Legal and one of the cops in the Big Lebowski). Today I can thank Marie for a chance to relive this awesome series. THANKS DUDE!
Okay, yeah,...
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I need your favourite matzoh ball soup recipe.
Logan put it on the list this week, figuring he’d find a recipe on the side of the matzoh meal box, but alas, they only listed their other fine products. There’s ten million varieties online, but I’d rather hear from my Tumblies, because so many of you have excellent cooking skills.
ETA: I’m specifically looking for the soup recipe, not just the matzoh ball...