joy and shadows

Dissent of the testis

Never let it be said that doctors don't have a sense of humor.

Let's see... what's new...

I might be going to Sweden in February on an audit trip. This would be extremely awesome, especially if any or all of the following happen: 1. I get to fly business class 2. my boss lets me stay a couple extra days to visit fireceremony 3. my boss lets me fly home from seeing fireceremony on the company dime even though I'd be flying home from a different country 4. that homebound flight is also business class.

We are taking my little cousin Alicia to New York on Saturday to go to the American Girl Place as a Christmas present. Looks like serious business. My husband and I have both been sick, and I was pressuring him to put the trip off a week, but he thinks he'll be well enough to go.

The Giants play Dallas on Sunday, and if you think I will be anywhere but parked in front of the TV screaming my head off, YOU ARE SORELY MISTAKEN. I don't expect them to win, but wouldn't it be exciting if they did? AND THEN I WOULD HAVE TO SCREAM MY HEAD OFF NEXT WEEKEND TOO, YES.

Looks like another year will be spent wasting a perfectly good Saturday sitting on the couch to watch the NFL draft. So sad that Ray Rice is leaving RU, but I want to see where he goes.

FFT is addictive. Good storyline so far, too. The cut-scenes are gorgeous! It almost makes me want to cosplay again. *sniffle*

Still not over this bug that's been going around. It's been almost two weeks of yuck. How annoying.

I have to stop procrastinating on this presentation. Back to work.

I wish I could tell you all that I did something interesting for New Year's, but my husband and I are at an age where all of our friends have toddlers, so our usual party pack has turned into a bunch of party poopers. So, we stayed home and had a wild and crazy evening using the pasta roller on the Kitchen Aid for the first time to make sheets of pasta for homemade ravioli. Husband found a half-bottle of champagne, and we had a toast and went to bed just after midnight like the old farts we are.

Just as well, because I have managed to catch my usual post-Christmas bug (which brings to mind the miserable sinus infection I had at Ohayocon last year) and it makes me glad I am not getting on an airplane in a few days. Husband spent the day moving a phone jack for me and has been bringing me soup and tea and I love him very much. :)

Besides New Year's anticlimax, we have been busy. After my parents left, there was a Q family party, and then we went to the Giants/Patriots game. It was a good game, even though the Giants lost. The downside was that my aunt, who owns the two seats next to us, had donated her seats to a charity auction, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing. However, the winner was a real dickhead. He arrived drunk with his brother-in-law as the designated driver, and he continued to drink through the entire game. Partway through the second quarter, he thought it would be fun to scream, "CHEATERS!" and "CHIESELERS!" as often as the impulse made it to his brain through the alcoholic haze. It got old in a hurry, and he didn't quit until the game as over.

Just to make the game more fun, husband discovered on the way back out to the car that he had lost the car key. At midnight. At the end of a football game. Needless to say, it was an unhappy and tense time until husband got back into the stadium and discovered that the usher had found the key. Thank goodness, or we'd still be there.

Then it was husband's birthday, as he is one of the unfortunates who has a birthday around Christmas. I went for the esoteric this year and bought him a bottle of absinthe from France. We haven't tried it yet, because the glasses and spoons are still on their way. But, I hope it will be drinkable and not too bitter!

Back to work tomorrow, unless this bug gets worse. Let's hope not, it sucks to be sick.

...and to all a good night.

I have a new PSP and a new digital camera, among many other lovely presents. I hope the fat man was good to all of you and that you have been enjoying your holiday with friends and family!

fadingembers, the Hero of Canton has been wearing his new hat all over the house.

I misplaced my Official Red Swingline Stapler on the copy machine the other day. This morning I realized it was missing. I would have gone around asking about it except there was no way to do it with a straight face. (It was since found in the secretary's office.)

Teens use IMs to avoid embarrassment

ETA: Phone call to Jimmy Dean from disgruntled customer

You all need to listen to this.

If you put the plastic container from a Corning sterile filter into the sonicator/heat bath to warm your mobile phase up from being in the refrigerator, you will melt the neck of the container. Srsly. Even though I'd only set the thing to 27C!

Maybe I should take the top off next time.

I haven't updated in a while.

1. I no longer has kitchen floor. After hearing how much it was going to cost us to rip it up and the dispose of the rubble, husband decided he/we were going to do it ourselves. Some parts have been painless, but the part where we poured methylene chloride-laced floor stripper all over and then chieseled up floor paper was not.

2. We went to the opera to see Madame Butterfly for the first time on Friday 10/19. It was a good experience, but next time we will try to be more careful about the location of our seats. We were aaaaaaaaaall the way over to the right in the orchestra.

3. Wine pressing over the weekend. Imagine my excitement. Ate myself stupid.

4. Learned to fake a taiko knot by following a tutorial at the Immortal Geisha forums. Now I have a Halloween costume, w00t.

5. Thursday we leave for Florida. ...Yay?

It's been a good weekend for all my teams

Rutgers beat USF, to the general joy of the stadium. We went to the game and had a very fun time, although it was not the euphoric high of a year ago.

Ferrari's Kimi Raikonnen won a three-way shootout with the McLarens to win the F1 Drivers' Championship by one point. He's had terrible luck for his whole career, and he certainly should have won by now. Kudos to Kimi! He actually smiled during his post-race interview, a real true big grin.

The Giants won against the struggling Niners. They'd better enjoy it, because the next big test is the 'Boys.

We walked around our neighborhood tonight. It only took us two months to do it. And finally we have a bed that's not on the floor.

All in all, good times.

Time for pot roast.

We went to the Rutgers game tonight and it was awesome and they won, but I'm just posting to say that MY HUSBAND AND I WERE ON SPORTSCENTER WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Okay, it was kind of a "Where's Waldo" moment, but we spotted ourselves in the crowd on the field! Go us!