One of my new year goals is to update more often. I haven't actually been successful with that anywhere, yet. No, wait. I did update my Livejournal with my Flickr retrospective. And I've uploaded pictures to Flickr in 2009. I guess I'm getting there.
It seems like vox.com may have done some upgrades since I was around last, so I should probably check that out. And see if anyone is active that I know. And all that other stuf. Maybe after lunch.
What's your favorite appetizer to order at a restaurant?
At the Taphouse Grill across the street from work, I love their explodey cheese. It's actually called "Volcano Goat Cheese", but when I read "Volcano", I think "Explodey". It comes in a spicy tomato sauce, with toasted bread.
Now, I'm hungry!
I've been away. I'm not caught up on reading my neighbourhood. I apologise. It's been busy and hectic and a little bit stressful, though I'm hoping that I'm more or less coming out on the other end of that now.
I spent last weekend at a local convention, meeting up with friends I basically hadn't seen since last year (and a few I hadn't seen since the year before that). The picture on the right is a little bit of dressup I did while I was there. I look sort of cranky in the picture, but it's just because the sun is in my eyes.
It's funny, because I bought all of the pieces separately, but they ended up matching each other. Coincidence. But a good coincidence. I really love those wings. Also, I bought the corset that weekend. My sister has a few corsets but I'd never gotten one myself. You can't really eat much in them, but they hold your posture up perfectly! And they're not as uncomfortable as one might think. I wish I'd thought to get pictures of the ensemble from the back. Maybe next time.
I had been taking more photos (you can see some at my Flickr page) but I started to slack off in March. I need to get back in the habit of taking more. And uploading them. This weather isn't helping. It's like the weather system can't decide if it's spring or maybe still winter. One day it's beautifully warm and the next day it's practically freezing. I don't like to wander about taking pictures if it's too cold.
These guys on the left were at the convention last weekend. One of them actually was out on the dance floor one night. I think the costumes are made of fleece, so they must be really hot.
For those of you who are perhaps unfamiliar, they are alien characters from the children's show Sesame Street. In the show, they had a small segment where they went around saying "yipyipyipyipyip.... uh-huh...uh-huh..." As a child, they freaked me out. These ones were taller than me! Still, the costumes were cool and I liked that they did it as a group. My sister got some video of the dancing one.
Sorry for the disorganised ramble. I'm pretty tired and a bit out of sorts. Hopefully more posting here, more often, soon.
I have a severe battery problem. I can never keep them charged. I always forget to plug them in. This is part of the reason I have three cell phones -- the likelihood that I'll have one operational when I need it is higher. It's an interesting problem, since I'm such a gadget girl. Often, my gadgets are out of power.
The other night, he looked over at the nightstand and said, "Battery problem: solved."
Went to Vancouver for the day on Saturday, with my Mum. We stopped at Pacific Centre, as well as Tim Horton's. Yum, junk food.
She did manage to get us pulled over at the border on the way back though. She insisted they were just bored, though, and they wanted to train the girl at the counter. It didn't take too long, though, and then we were back on our way.
For all the time I spent in Canada growing up, I don't really have many memories of it being sunny. Ever. I'm convinced it never is.
I played in a poker tournament at someone's house. I placed sixth. Not bad for a person that doesn't know what hand beats what over a set. I probably could have done better, but I was tired, bored, and grumpy, then decided I just wanted to go home. I went all in with Ace/4 off suit, or something similarly retarded. Someone called with Ace/Jack, I think, and I got to go home. I couldn't leave fast enough. Men, they get so annoying when they're losing to a girl.
And I completed Crackdown on "tough". Yay for that!
Show us your eyeball.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it, so I just been letting it grow out over the last few months. Within the last week or so, it started to get annoying. It was taking too long (in my opinion) to dry. Sometimes, it wouldn't pin up the way I wanted it to. I was getting irritated. It should be noted that this is the longest my hair has been in years - since high school, I think. I'm used to shorter hair now!
I went to the mall on Monday night. The mall has three salons, one of which is my regular salon. Alas, I could not get a walk-in appointment scheduled at any of them. They were all booked for the night. I was able to get an appointment the next day, but not until 6pm. I left, disappointed. (I'm an impatient girl. I don't like to wait!)
The timing the next day was odd. I ended up wanting to try to move my appointment back an hour because I wanted to eat beforehand. (I'd left werk a little bit late.) I called the salon, but again, they were booked for the rest of the night. I skipped dinner and went in. It was at this point that I realised everyone was busy due to Valentine's Day. Oops. Next time, I should probably think these things through.
Sadly, I don't really have any decent pictures of my hair cut afterward. I took Thursday and Friday off from werk, in honour of my birthday. (Since we get Monday off for President's Day, that means a five-day weekend for me!) I decided to get the oil changed on my car on Thursday. It was slightly overdue. What better time to get an oil change than during the day when everyone else is at werk! Less wait time. I hate going and having to wait in a line of people. It can take forever, and again, patience is really not one of my virtues. (I know I need to werk on it.)
I drove to the place I normally get my oil changed and they only had one other person in their garage, so I was able to get in right away. This is me, waiting for them to finish up with my car. It didn't actually take them too long, which was nice. (I'd brought a book, just in case.) You can (sort of) see my hair is about 3.5 inches shorter now.
Afterward, I went out to my beach to have a little thinking time and take some Pinky:st pictures before I had to meet everyone for dinner. I managed to get some pretty good shots, some of which I haven't quite gotten online yet. Despite the fact that it was pretty overcast and quite windy, it wasn't actually very cold. I was wearing a skirt and a jacket, but didn't need gloves.
All in all, a good time. My family bought me a new camera (the Canon a640, which was the one I'd been looking at) for my birthday. I'll have to break it in soon. (My sister, who spoils me, also got me a little Louis Vuitton case that fits my camera or that I can use as a wristlet. It's so cute! Pictures to come.)
How do you pass the time during a flight? What do you bring in your carry-on?
I hate to fly. I hate it so much that I avoided it for years. I just don't like the idea of being way up in the air in a huge chunk of metal that someone else is controlling. It stresses me out because it seems like so many things can go wrong. I know that this fear is irrational, but it doesn't stop me from having it. (You stop trying to think about something sometime! It's not as easy as it sounds.)
When I had to start flying regularly for lasertag tournaments [hi, yes, I am a geek], I initially tried to overcome my fear by staying up all night the night before so that I would sleep through the flight. Eventually, that drove everyone around me crazy (because they'd end up staying up with me), so I talked to my doctor and he prescribed medication for what he called "anxiety", though I really felt like that was selling the feeling short.
Regardless, the doctor's prescriptions werk. These days you'll find me quietly drooling in my sleep as I fly. Usually I bring my ipod, some gum, a book and magazine, just in case I don't fall asleep... but I've noticed I don't tend to use them much.
I still don't like to fly very often, though. Which makes me
somewhat sad, since I do like to travel. I just don't like the
process of getting there.
Mostly she bought it because she knows I like tokidoki. And she likes tokidoki. And she knows I collect toys like this. (I have a few others Trexis in my collection.) So, now she's started a little collection of her own.
I have all the tokidoki Trexis now, but I haven't taken pictures of them yet. Hopefully I'll get some this week. I'm really behind on the whole picture taking thing.
On Friday, I went out and grabbed some of the new tokidoki Moofia mini toys. I ended up also grabbing Gloomy Bear keychains for my sister and I. (Everyone needs more cute killer bears!) I exercised restraint and did not buy out the entire store. I probably shouldn't go shopping on pay day, though.
Show us the best picture you took in 2006.
I wouldn't say it's the best picture I took in 2006, but it's one of my favourites. I looked through a lot of my pictures from last year when I was thinking about this vox hunt question. I hadn't quite realised how many I took last year (and especially how many I never got around to posting to Flickr.)
I think I took a few good pictures, but I'm really loathe to say which one was "best". I wouldn't know how to quantify it. I couldn't even tell you what my absolute favourite was. I have a few that I really love, but there's not one that I look at with absolute certainty and say "That's the one."
This particular photo was posted as part of a set of 4, plus there were a few that I never got around to posting to Flickr. In all of the other photos, there is a second Pinky:st figure. This is the only one I took of one of them alone. I think that might be why I like it best out of the set. I like the mood it sets in my mind. It reminds me that every once in a while, you just have to stop and take a moment to yourself.
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