Monthly Archives: August 2007
First post from my iPhone!
Yes that's right. I have an iPhone! My awesome husband, bound to make sure I have the newest gadget for once (since he always gets the new stuff), got me one for my birthday. The big one even! I'm still getting used to the keyboard, but OMG is it awesome - I love it and fully recind every bad thing I ever said about it. Yes, I was so wrong about you dear iPhone; you're everything they said you would be and more.You may be wondering why it took me this long to blog about it. Well, I have been spending most of my time on the train knitting, but due to some unfortunate circumstances, my ball of bamboo silk turned into the goddamn gordian knot with which I have been battling since last night. Obviously, I'm not knitting this morning, but I will conquer that damn yarn and rule all of the scarves or something like that.
In keeping with my 10 year old tradition of naming my computers and other devices after Beatles songs, I named my iphone " Hello, Goodbye." I thought it was appropriate.
08.30.07 8:04am(1 comment)
Grrrr!
Tom and I have rearranged our bedroom so that the headboard is against two side by side windows on the north side of our apartment. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but the dogs have really taken a liking to getting up on the bed and then either putting their little wiener paws up on the window sill or getting their entire wiener selves up on the window sill to look out the window and growl at the occasional passerby. We find this incredibly adorable. And we are so lucky to have two little doggies who protect us from all of those bad people outside.The other day, Tom was playing with the doggies on the bed and I was laying there watching them. It was a nice day and so the windows were wide open, letting a cool breeze in for the doggies to sniff at and plenty of access to growl at the people and other doggies who dare pass below our window or across the street outside. For a bit, the breeze wasn't as strong and there wasn't anyone going by so the doggies abandoned the excitement of the window and rediscovered their love of burrowing in the covers. Tom, not pleased with this development, started trying to get the doggies to come over to the window sill and, you know, be cute at us. His strategy was to put his front paws on the window sill like the doggies had and perhaps they would follow suit. He did it once and no dice, so he roughed around with the doggies a little bit and went back to the window.
Without looking to the street, Tom puts his paws on the sill and lets out a big GRRRRR!!! Just as he looks outside he sees someone on the street below looking up at him with a very puzzled look on their face. I see him rebound back on the bed saying, "Oh! There was someone out there!"
It was incredibly adorable. So now I try to get Tom to put his paws on the window sill and growl at people outside, but fortunately I haven't growled at anyone yet.
08.28.07 9:04pm(2 comments)
Everything’s coming up Kristy
Wow - it seems I've had a streak of strange yet incredibly awesome stuff happen to me lately. Now, my birthday is on Sunday, so I shouldn't be so surprised that good stuff has happened or that I've received some great stuff in the mail. But this is borderline strange.It all started yesterday with one of the worst storms Chicago has seen in a long time. Tornado and thunderstorm warnings - wind, downed trees, rain, more rain, and still more rain. Tom and I come home to no electricity but set ourselves up with some candles and thai delivery, so we were all set. Never thought I'd knit by candlelight, but it was quite fun and very Old Timey feeling, you know, Tom and I sitting in our parlour, he reading, me knitting. Then my Mom confirms that she is indeed stranded at the Chicago airport for the evening and there are no hotel rooms to be had. So around midnight, I head out to O'hare, which is bustling like christmastime because the storm had finally passed over and planes were landing while Tom stays at home to setup our massive, full-size, air mattress with the heated mattress pad. I got home having rescued Mom from sleeping in a terminal. We chatted for a bit, giggled like school girls, went to bed late and got up early the next morning so that she could make her flight back to Tulsa. Mom had a short visit, but it was a really nice one.
Work today wasn't all that great, but it was a blessing that I was busy. I would've likely face-planted into my keyboard on more than one occasion had I not had constant activity and also that EXTRA LARGE SUPER OH MY GOD BE ALL AND END ALL OF ICED COFFEE from Dunkin' Donuts, coconut flavored with milk and splenda. I got a present at work from Tom's parents of some earrings (that will go perfectly with all the brown stuff I've been wearing lately) and this charming little ceramic pot with a lid that is painted in bright colors, says "be happy" on it, and is just the right size for me to put my diet pepsi money into :) I've had it all of 5 minutes and I put it to one of the most important jobs on my desk - holding my key to maintaining caffeination. That's like right up there with the computer and phone.
Tom and I, tired from the previous evening and having just endured an hour and twenty minute train ride headed to Tank for some excellent sushi and then home. This is where it starts to get really good. I notice a small box above the mail slot and grab it while Tom fetches the mail. I also received a few cards and then head up the 3 flights of stairs to see the puppies and open my loot. So at this point, I have two cards, a box, and then Tom grabs a bag from the kitchen with another present left by J & A, our lovely friends and daily dog walking divas. They got me some fancy soap, and uglydoll, some nice roundy glass magnets that say some cool stuff, and a card with a dog on it! How did I get so lucky to be friends with such awesome thoughtful people?
Next it's the box. Now I've already noticed that the return address says "Hot Topic" so I'm not quite sure what it could be, so I naturally rip open the box. On top is a notecard from Torrid (a plus size funky clothing store that is owned by Hot Topic) that says, " Thank you for entering our contest! We're so excited to tell you, You've won an.... IPOD NANO! xoxo (torrid logo)" WOAH! I won something! Wait - I entered a contest?! I don't remember entering a contest. Still! I won something! Yay! So I unwrap the torrid wrapping paper to find none other than a HOT PINK 4gb ipod nano!!!!1111!!1111!! How cool is that! I <3 Torrid. Seriously. They have super-cute stuff and they give me pink technology. What is more to love?
After I get over the shock of winning something as cool as an Ipod, I open my cards to find two very sweet ones from Gramma and Grampa and Tom's Mom and Dad. And on top of that, the wieners were being absolutely adorable. I was being killed with kindness. I had no idea what to do with myself. So naturally, I decided not to hit the bed as I had previously planned, put my cards up on the fridge with my new magnets and loaded up my Ipod. I mean what else is a girl to do in that situation!?
If that's not all, Tom and I were chosen to be extras in the filming of the latest Batman movie. Tomorrow we'll head downtown bedecked in our subdued, earthtoned, navy or black attire suitable for late fall / early winter and try to get a glimpse of the Bat, the batmobile, somebody famous, and possibly to be in the movie ourselves - if not noticeable. Happy Baturday! The only other downside to hanging out in winter attire (free food!) in 80 degree, humid and possibly rainy weather is that it starts at 6 am. S'alright. I was going to bed early anyway.
This is turning out to be the start of a very awesome birthday weekend :)
08.24.07 8:49pm(6 comments)
Happy Birthday Mom!
I know that you're somewhere on a ship off of the shores of Alaska, without internet access or cell phone service, but when you get back, you might see this. I hope that despite being away from everyone, in icy waters, with a bunch of oil goons on a boat, that you're having a good birthday regardless and that they wrastle you up some cake and perhaps a balloon.Love you,
Kissy
P.S. I still have pink hair (just highlights though)
08.19.07 6:20am(0 comments)
On being perpetually 10 years old
I admit it, deep,deep inside me somewhere there's still a very young Kristy. I envision her to be very much like I was at 10 years old, with a curly mullet (grandma curled bangs and a long, straight 'party in the back'), Lettermanesque buck teeth, glasses with the stems at the bottoms, wearing paint-splashed, stone-washed jeans from the "Husky" section at Sears, a hypercolor top, and white, silver, and purple L.A. gear hightops with woven shoelaces. She's probably spending her time laying on her rainbow beadspread covered bed (because her favorite color is purple and the only way to get purple stuff for a kids room is to have it be part of a rainbow) reading some Saddle Club, Sweet Valley High, or V.C. Andrews, watching old musicals, waiting until the 15 minutes before Mom gets home to do her list for the day, playing on the computer or pulling on some black patent leather tap shoes with really big bows before class, dreaming that someday she'll get to be on star search, listening to the culture club and wham, almost regretting that she never got into NKOTB but not really, riding her bike up and down the long gravel driveway from the ramp up to the barn doors and through the puddles in the bit before the road, really angry she has to get up early on Saturday mornings not to be back before Soul Train signals the end of all the cartoons and wondering WHY OH WHY did weight watchers make you eat liver once a week (seriously - wtf).This is the girl inside of me that perpetuates my interest in comics, toys, cartoons, sugared cereals, spaghettios (oh my GOD do I LOVE spaghettios) and rainbows. She is awesome, reminds me that I'll never really grow up and I'm glad she's there. She also giggles uncontrollably at immature and off color jokes and yesterday she was in full effect.
The lunch table at work is quite the hopping place and we have many a lively, random, hilarious and interesting conversation there such that eating lunch with my coworkers has become my favorite part of the day. Yesterday we got onto the subject of interesting names, and one of the ladies mentioned a housing contractor that she knew who's name, while spelled E-t-t-e-r was pronounced as "Eater" and enthusiastically introduced himself as "Dick Etter!" No, he wasn't there for the plumbing (tee HEE), but still OMG that was high-larious. My cohorts and I continued to speak as if we were Dick Etter, having a really good time and laughing our asses off. Sorry Dick, if you're googling yourself. Really, your name sounds like a sex act. Recognize.
Inner 10 year old Kristy also is the one that believes that one of the many, many perks of owning dachshunds is that you get to call them WIENERS and then also make off-color statements about them. For example, I often say that I'm going home to play with my wiener or when I'm rubbing their little bellies I say that I'm rubbing my wiener. When it's cold outside, we have to put sweaters on the dogs and, you know, you just gotta wrap your wiener. Often in the evening, there's a wiener wiggling under the covers. I love my wieners! Seriously, the possibilities are endless and cause me to break out into a hysterical fit of giggles.
Ahhh. Youth! What it is to be young! Come on, don't tell me you don't have a young person inside of you too.
08.15.07 3:57pm(6 comments)
Kristyland and t3h Quest for the Perfect Template
Oh everyone seems to be changing their blog templates these days (or getting new blogs and making their own nifty templates). Naturally, I'd like a change of scenery too. The templates I've had on kristyland really haven't felt quite right since I had the postcard on the self coded blog site.
And that postcard was f-in awesome. The background was aqua and retro - it felt very *me*. Then I switched to word press, mostly so I didn't have to keep going into phpmyadmin and editing my posts straight from the database (I never did get around to coding an edit function, but I didn't need it that badly and was WAY too into geek-pride to use blogger for my blog). Then I fell in love with pink and decided to reclaim it in the name of all that is the intersection between feminism and geekiness, so the aqua had to go. A few templates have come and gone since then, but they all seem to be lacking something. This one is alright, but there are about a jillion little nitpicky things wrong with it. I want geek and pink with a little chicago / wiener / knitting thrown in and definitely a whole heapin' helpin' of awesome in one template. Is that so much to ask?
So I will continue to search and what will probably happen is that the weather will get bad one weekend and Tom and I will go into one of our "Hey lets do a geeky project this weekend" and we will arise from our geek lair after a few days with a glorious pink/geeky/awesome template in triumphant hands (or uploaded on the website or whatever).
08.10.07 1:37pm(7 comments)
You’ve got me in stitches
I <3 yarn. I really really love it and I blame it all on my Gramma who passed her knitting mastery on to me along with a yarn obsession common among knitters. Recently, I've discovered how awesome natural fiber yarn is and have sworn against purchasing any acrylic yarn (and I donated a bunch of fun fur to the thrift store. Bye bye fun fur!). In other words, my red heart days are over.And there's a knitting convention in town. I'm going to Stitches 07 this weekend at the rosemont convention center to check out a bunch of demos and hopefully not blow my life savings (HA!) on yarn. Wish me luck.
08.10.07 11:08am(1 comment)
“What is that? Some sort of gay muppet thing?”
Yay! Avenue Q is finally coming to Chicago!Hopefully, I'll get to see it in the whole two weeks it's here.
08.09.07 4:51pm(1 comment)
Dropped it like it was hot.
Remember that accounting class I was taking? Well, after my performance on the first exam and a week of being sick, I decided to withdraw. I was already overwhelmed and getting sick just made me fall too far behind. Don't worry, I'm taking it again in the fall when I have 10 weeks to do it instead of 5.Lesson Learned: even if challenges are exciting and fun, don't take on more than you can handle. Oh yeah, and don't be a dumbass.
08.07.07 8:10am(2 comments)
Straight from the Horse’s Ass
Upon the recomendation of Tom's Dad Ben, I added my very own my lttle pony to my sidebar. Her name is Princess Galaxy Dreamdancer and she is from the land of CuddlesnLollipops..berg, where she reigns benevolently. You can pet her and comb out her mane and tail, which are often messy (you know, from all that star walking and dream dancing).Unfortunately, my sidebar only had enough room for Princess Galaxy Dreamdancer's butt, so enjoy that as much as you can.
08.07.07 8:03am(5 comments)