tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61765592024-03-23T10:54:55.249-07:00Walking BackwardsThrilling experiences from a rather uneventful life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-76189454444128261982009-06-02T16:43:00.000-07:002009-06-02T18:40:53.651-07:00Coolest categories that I have gotten on my Netflix recommendations. Talk about specific, eh?:Violent Mad-Scientist Sci-Fi & FantasyGory Cult Horror moviesCritically-Acclaimed Visually-Striking Dark MoviesSuspenseful Foreign Horror MoviesSuspenseful Horror Movies From the 1960sGory Horror Movies From the 1980sRomantic Dramas Based on Classic LiteratureCerebral Dramas Featuring a Strong Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-31138531147770226402009-03-19T19:25:00.000-07:002009-04-11T20:00:31.280-07:00Nicholas just pretended to eat my brain "like a zombie" and claimed he could then speak Latin. "Oboltuus beep bop" came out of his mouth next.It's Latin for "Aren't I clever?" ;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-15691698590370025622009-02-27T22:10:00.000-08:002009-02-27T22:11:23.084-08:00Research paper is done!! I am so excited to print out all 18 pages and get the damn thing out of my life!!I just had to get that out :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-62912697447233702392009-02-23T19:44:00.000-08:002009-02-23T19:46:18.463-08:00Levity in a world of stress and studying and paper writing. No way applicable to what I am studying, but it makes me laugh amidst the tears :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-20142739543646337042009-02-22T19:11:00.000-08:002009-02-22T19:25:56.957-08:00So, my new years resolution this year is not going as bad as I feared, but it is not going as well as I had hoped. January's 'Blaxploitation' went okay, though I don't think Joe got it. Now we're almost all the way through the month and I have not gotten my theme night down yet. This month, I think we're going with 80's technology. I'm going to try to scare up some New Coke if that is even Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-59242241027304158342009-02-16T18:34:00.000-08:002009-02-16T18:42:10.348-08:00I am not doing so well this semester. It is my own fault, I know myself and, if trends are to be followed, this is when I reach burn out phase. I push myself really hard and submerse myself completely in school to the point of excluding all other interests. As you can imagine, this can only be sustained for so long (a year and a half history will tell). I start missing bad movies, concerts, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-5618430285322429412009-02-13T07:23:00.000-08:002009-02-13T07:44:30.295-08:00A random list of stuff I am getting done this today, kind of a "today-in-the-life" if you will:1. Head out to Sears to pick out a new sewing machine2. Eat a cookie from the food court3. Go to Lowes to buy air filters, random scrap wood and spray paint4. Hit up Costco and the grocery store to provision myself and my family5. Clean the damn house (this is purposefully vague because there is tons toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-17382323568867986402009-01-15T07:29:00.001-08:002009-01-15T07:55:11.891-08:00I should be cleaning right now. I know this because my house is filthy and "clean house" has been on the top of my to-do list for three days running. The start of the new year always brings with it a huge amount of aspiration on my part to revamp most areas of my life. My house will be cleaner! I will make every dinner from scratch! I will stay on budget! I will spend my free time studying Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-8056094264244128432008-11-01T18:30:00.001-07:002008-11-01T18:34:35.620-07:00After experiencing some problems trying to explain the democratic process and hurtful politicking to my 6 year old, I am elated to find out that television will be coming to my rescue yet again!! Okay not really, that is overly dramatic. I tried my best to explain to my son how politics works and I think he gets it, BUT WordGirl has a new episode on election day about politics/elections and it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-43745115335163379782008-10-14T16:03:00.000-07:002008-10-14T16:26:41.022-07:00I made an unusual stop today on my way to pick up Nico. Not unusual in the sense that I never go to this place, but the timing was off. I am a Monday morning thrift store shopper having learned that that is when they restock from the weekend and the crowds are lighter. The staff is also less "involved" with you and your purchases. I braved it though, and thank goodness I did because I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-39737027334848381302008-10-12T22:06:00.001-07:002008-10-12T22:12:43.905-07:00I just had to write this. Joe and I were watching Star Trek and didn't have the chance to switch the channel before the teasers for the 700 club (or some other evangelical show) came on. We now are going to have to watch it. According to them the collapse of GM is a sign of the coming apocalypse. Good to know, I was betting that our end was going to be in the form of violence cause by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-35208795413076959652008-10-01T08:49:00.000-07:002008-10-01T08:51:32.456-07:00I was too wiped out after Saturday and Sunday to give a proper rundown of ACL, but I did remember my camera! You can see some of the photos in my Flickr stream to the right over there ------>I did record a movie of one of my favorite (if not my absolute favorite) shows of the festival. I didn't get a good shot at recording my favorite song, but here is a good one:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-87681968603645794772008-09-26T20:25:00.000-07:002008-09-26T20:47:26.421-07:00I just got home from the first day of the Austin City Limits Festival. Which is tragic because this is my 500th blog entry and all I have to mark this milestone with some exhausted, nonsensical ramblings equivalent to "that band was awesome". So, fair warning.I parked at the end of the Barton Hill greenbelt and walked to Zilker, which wasn't too bad. It took about half an hour from door to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-54471924101792042212008-09-23T15:40:00.000-07:002008-09-23T15:55:41.701-07:00I've been trying to post this for days, but I keep forgetting whenever I get home. The call of the couch is strong. As is the call of blog surfing and the love my remote control gives me.Next month is October and I am so excited. Joe can barely be contained. He has quite lofty plans of decorating the house this year in a spooky and black-lit fashion. I have some reservations, but I'm not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-6558945620673388422008-09-15T16:39:00.000-07:002008-09-15T17:27:31.807-07:00So, I have recently become obsessed with Twitter. Blame it on the fact that it gives me a way of breaking down my day in addition to elevating my mundane tasks into something worthy of documenting. I like it. But it does have it's short comings. I hate updating from my phone - it's a pain in the ass. I have to link to pictures instead of including them. Sometimes when I do upload from my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-70376228051910427862008-09-12T16:44:00.000-07:002008-09-12T17:16:49.161-07:00I need to be that pretentious person seen sitting in a cafe, hunched over their moleskin and recording their observations of the world. I need to be this person because, despite being struck by motivation multiple times over the course of the day, I sit at the computer in front of this exact screen in the evening and cannot remember what I was going to say for the life of me.So today, since I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-73767002217618351972008-08-20T12:04:00.000-07:002008-08-20T12:31:12.501-07:00If I could figure out titles I would call this one "Where I don't show you my nose before and after". Don't worry, it isn't as bad as it sounds. There are no sutures or incisions or blood, just my nose looking a little . . . different. I wasn't expecting change, so it took me a little by surprise. The husband tells me when the splints come out and the swelling goes down my nose will look moreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-25071114126468205662008-08-05T19:34:00.000-07:002008-08-05T19:45:05.455-07:00So now what do I do? I have been working on this top for a bit a it is just not turning out. Either that or I am under some serious delusions about my personal appearance. So the top is Simplicity pattern 3751 and was really easy to throw together and I used some of my favorite fabric from my stash. Black and white, really easy patten, similar to several tops I own and really like . . . thereUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-77039104396107370762008-08-01T21:47:00.000-07:002008-08-01T21:59:49.273-07:00Bennett, Calum, Morris, and Oliver. Those are the names I am bringing to the table in a couple of weeks when we go visit my in-laws and see my sister in-law for the first time in months. When last I left her she was still in the throes of her first trimester. By now she is really far along. And because of this, I am bringing names. They have already picked out their babies new moniker, but, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-79643632825263991272008-07-31T19:57:00.000-07:002008-07-31T20:06:14.269-07:00While I am probably bordering on too much information, I am just too excited to hold it in. Guess what surgery I am having two weeks from tomorrow? Well, the image below should give you a gross and disturbing idea . . .I am so happy about this. Really, insanely happy. This is probably going to bring an end to my debilitating, mind-numbing headaches. I will be able to breath through my nose Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-20574202100450910122008-07-25T12:55:00.000-07:002008-07-25T14:18:38.767-07:00I find it hilariously funny that in attempting to get a photo for today's post, I could not find a single clean and uncluttered surface in the whole house! Go me and my slammin' housekeeping skills! This is the time of year that I play catch up with all that I have let sit neglected around here for the remainder of the year when I am in school and shuttling the kid back and forth and trying to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-820816138381643552008-07-22T11:16:00.000-07:002008-07-22T11:26:11.672-07:00There are few things that are more difficult to resume than the regular chronicling of one's life. So I accept that this is fleeting. I accept that I am not in here for the long term and that I will eventually give up this and go back to ignoring the button in my toolbar that indicates that blogger is still there and waiting with baited breath for me to return to my misplaced commas and run-on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-81197694360523532552007-01-27T20:07:00.000-08:002007-01-27T20:10:23.763-08:00What a day we've had. I was hoping that by only scheduling two things today and nothing tomorrow that I would have a restful, un-stressful weekend after my crazy first week of school/nico preschool. But no, not really. It is all about my car. This will be the sixth time I have taken it in for the same problem and they are completely unable to fix it. Now, unfortunately, that does not keep Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-14709570656844787932006-12-06T23:50:00.000-08:002006-12-07T14:25:22.659-08:00In an effort to inspire myself to create, I went out this evening with a group of mamas to a local craft studio. It is actually a regular gathering that I had heretofore been unable to attend and was quite eager to break down the door, so to speak. I'm not regularly a very social person, but I felt an affinity with the spirit of the group and decided to give it a try. Originally, the group wasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176559.post-45581256686295157832006-12-06T23:29:00.000-08:002006-12-07T14:24:47.305-08:00I've been following the new voraciously the past few days because of the search for a missing family I found out about through several blogs I read regularly and a friend who is one of the family's clients. Tuesday I refreshed my news pages every half-hour anxiously awaiting any updates on the father who had trekked out to find help and was adrift in the dense wilderness in the backwoods of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0