So earlier this week, I went, “Hmm. Auriane’s au pair was so nice to her, and I know she wanted a hat… I should go ahead and do that. But on the other hand, Vaeldriil’s going to have her baby soon, and I have something I want to knit for her. Naah, I’ve got time for that.” Then I started the hat, which is more than halfway done.
Then Vaeldriil had the baby early.
D’oh!
Sorry, Auriane’s au pair, you’ve been bumped back down on the list. Durned overeager babies!
Because I have to look on the bright side of everything, I am focusing on the fact that having to sit in a room with my sleeping daughter and be on “vomit patrol” gave me time to finish up the scarf my mom wanted. She picked out Berocco Optik and said “can you make me a scarf with this? But I don’t want it to look knitted.”
Ooookay.
Anyway, it’s done! Finally, I can get on to all the other projects backed up! Whee!
On a side note, I have noticed that each of the two times (both rather recently) my daughter has gotten very sick to her stomach, it has been the morning after a very long tub bath. I disinfected the tub pretty well last time, having suspected her of drinking tub water when I wasn’t looking, but now I am even more suspicious of a link. I think we may have a germy tub toy. Yuck.
Scarf! Focus on the scarfy positivity!
Time for a stupid quiz!
http://www.okcupid.com/personality?type=DGLM&g=2&o=3&h=162
Dropped the kiddo off at kindergarten this morning, then came back home to paint the inside of a cabinet. We’re trying to figure out if we can just paint our 1960’s era cabinets and still achieve the look we want (namely, a kitchen that’s not stuck a time warp) as opposed to getting them refaced or something more expensive. (I was going to take a picture of the cabinets, but the digital camera seems to have gone missing. That’s not good because I was gonna eBay some stuff later. Phooey.)
Note: Do not use oil based paint unless you have turpentine standing by. The paint got all over my hands. I tried to wash it off as best I could, but that wasn’t very well. While it dried on the cabinet, I thought I’d try to play a game of Katamari Damacy on the new PS2 my hubby got for my birthday (call it a gift to us both) but I managed to crack the CD with my sticky hands. Okay.
But worst still was that when my daughter’s kindergarten teacher called to say that my child had thrown up in the hall on the way back from music class, I had no way of getting the white goop off of my hands. Olive oil helped some.
You remember that episode of the Simpsons where Lisa gets gum in her hair and everybody’s got a suggestion? Yeah, it was like that. Anyway, it’s mostly off my hands, and I feel certain that my daughter’s stomach acid has managed to loosen a good portion of it as well.
Add to that that I had to cancel my optometrist appointment – my glasses are currently down to one earpiece – and you have a not so hot day.
Well, at least there’s “Lost” tonight, right? Right? No?
Well, crud.
ETA: Yes! There is Lost tonight! Yay!
Why the heck did my layout suddenly change?
Tvini no like!
February 23rd, 2005
admin
In case anybody isn’t on houseofdanie (the former Tessima)’s LJ list, let me point you toward it. She’s making crazy cool plastic stuff to support breast cancer research. After getting some much deserved sleep, you can bet your keister I’m dropping her a line to order something.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/houseofdanie/87147.html
February 23rd, 2005
admin
This one’s pretty easy, and you don’t get too many dishes dirty. I like it because I always have cocoa powder around the house, since I like to make hot cocoa from scratch whenever snow’s in the forecast.
BODACIOUS BROWNIES
1/2 cup butter or margarine (whatever it is, it should be solid, not in a tub.)
1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 8×8″ baking pan.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
Melt butter in saucepan. Remove from heat, stir in sugar and cocoa. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, then stir in vanilla.
Stir dry ingredients into chocolate mixture until just blended. (This may be a workout for your arm!) Spread into pan.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool in pan, preferably on wire rack.
Eat!
February 22nd, 2005
admin
In other news, too many projects and not enough time make Tvini something something.
February 14th, 2005
admin
My daughter’s favorite game to play is Sims 2. She loves to create the same families over and over, giving them identical appearances and names, and make insanely large houses for them, all in the same neighborhood. This leads to five identical people all visiting at one house, which is difficult to keep track of, to say the least.
She also likes to create swimming pools and make the Sims dive in repeatedly even when they really just want to lie the hell down and go to sleep. Pee on your own time, pal, you’re diving now!
But the thing she loves more than anything else is to make the little kids do “Miss Mary Mack” with each other. If kids could die in Sims 2, she would have Mary Macked some of them to death by now. This creates a problem, as they skip school to Mary Mack, they neglect their homework to Mary Mack, they don’t eat to Mary Mack. I keep having to find ways to thwart her so that I can stop the social worker from taking the kids away, which would be a bit upsetting, I think. It’s like she’s some capricious god, or that uber-powerful guy in that old Star Trek TOS episode – if you’re a geek, you know the one I mean.
Pity the poor population of Pleasantview, and their families of Starbucks employees, Madeleine replicants, Groovy Girl families, and ragged, Twilight-Zoned out kids. May God have mercy on their digital souls.
