| I broke down and bought a year's membership for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) laurelverse so that my LJ, my homepage and my email address will finally all match up by the end of the month. Friends who want to read my blatherings should switch today. Tomorrow I start posting under new journal.
No links for home page or email deliberately. I need to clean out the later and build the former this week. I'll link it all from new journal. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| LJ wouldn't let me post earlier (grrs about it going into 'read only' mode more & more often).........
THEY GAVE ME A $4000/year raise!!!!!!!! That was more than 10% raise, not the 5% I was hoping for. Let's hear it for an extra $250 a month take home pay.
I now make $40,000 a year which is more than Marissa (for a couple of months, until she gets -her- 2005 raise. Now, to pay off those student loans before Mariah starts college. *eyes them* | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| I have my annual review here at work today in about 45 minutes. I've already read all the nice things my boss said about me on paper. I'm hoping this year's raise is another 5%, which would bring me up to $37,800 a year in salary. The stocks continue to suck though, even though the company itself makes a fine amount of profit and meets guidance almost every quarter.
Cancelled my check card because I'd used it for 3ish years and picked up way too many "mystery" charges a month for services I signed up for: LJ, web hosting, image hosting, blah blah. I want to track who I'm giving $ to, and why. Marissa is all happy about her credit report-- to be honest, I'm scared to look at mine, even though I need to.
Apparently there was some minor OL drama last night. Don't know what it was, wasn't there, don't particularly care to know the details. Its not my bussiness: I wasn't there.
"Subway Walls" is picking up traffic and this is a nice thing. I really like being able to wander into a public room and see friends, toss in a quick scene, take off again, and the RP goes on with or without me. Yay! People certainly don't have to get along but when they don't... they aren't going to see as much of me. I want to play with people who can and will play happily with others, and don't act like elitist thin-skinned drama queens. Enough said on that topic.
Tonight we take Dave Hershey out for his belated birthday dinner. I'm leaving work at 1:30 pm this afternoon and running to the dentist, so I probably won't be around one way or another if people are trying to find me. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | All our house guests will like the sectional couch. Ghost certainly does. She's shedding as much white cat hair on it as she can, our little darling. Mariah is coming next weekend, so we'll find out how comfy it is to sleep on. I'm a mere 188 pages into _The Poisonwood Bible_ and Paula comes tomorrow. Eep. But WoW is so addicting, and I'm working on a white paper for work regarding malware detection. Go me. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| She cooked dinner tonight -and- washed the dishes. These have been my responsibilities for the last four years. Heh. Dinner was tasty, though not quite what she envisioned. I'll make her chicken enchiladas later in the week and show her how to do it.
I have a radical idea. Every time Marissa and I ~don't~ eat out/order take-out when we have the impulse, we should take $20 and put it in a jar. This money can be whipped out every quarter and put into buying stuff like a nicer vacuum, a better microwave, new desk chairs and so forth... housewares and goods that go a lot longer than dinner at Costas or the Cheesecake Factory every week.
I did not manage WoW with Dave & Ryan tonight. Instead, I attended to my Laurel-starved circle and took care of getting the groceries for the week. I am heading to bed now with _The Poisonwood Bible_. My reading partner, Paula, flies into Seattle from Minnesota on Monday and told me today in email she's looking forward to discussing it with me. Yikes! I hadn't started. Its 649 pages.
I meant to pick it up from the library- but when I got there, although the computer said two copies were shelved, they were nowhere to be found. So I ended up in Borders, where I did not want to be.
I hate Borders. Whenever I am in there, the impulse to buy things overwhelms me. My eyes glaze over at the manga/graphic novel collections and I ~almost~ made it out with only _The Poisonwood Bible_ but alas, I failed and picked up the Warcraft d20 Monster Manual.... I am a pawn to my obsessions, the bread and circuses provided by the modern Corporate Empire to keep us citizens in line by distracting us from what goes on outside the borders of the "city".
Want to know how much water you really need to drink every day? There's also a kinda cool Calorie Counter and an Activity Counter.
I drank my 2 liters of water today.
I walked my 1000 steps.
I ate small-portioned, healthy food.
I did not have salty/sweet/fatty snacks.
I went to work and was constructive there.
One day down... a lifetime to go. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| back to work
back to diet
back to exercise program
Marissa is being very inspirational.
But I still feel very weak and tired and blah. I should have been Catholic or Jewish; I felt really guilty that I was feeling not only sick but unsocial and reclusive the last few days. I knew there were people who wanted OL time, but I just didn't pull it off.
On the bright side, I made it to work and I'm feeling better than I did two days ago. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Good= going to work an hour late to fold laundry and make a decisive start in cleaning room.
Bad= having a major asthma attack at said bus stop, going behind building to throw up all over self.
I'm not going to work today. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| Weekend was fabulous in a "geek" way.
Friday night, I stayed up allllllllll night playing WoW. Then on Saturday afternoon, I chatted to swordfox until I literally passed out with the phone in my hand. I took a two hour nap, woke up and guess what? That's right- I played more WoW until Mary van Ry came by. We went out to dinner, Starbucks, and to see "Cursed". Home at midnight, I passed out for a good long time.
Life's only dissapointment was Werewolf on Sunday. Nobody except Dave showed up and at 4 pm, I ended up calling it off completely. Marissa had wanted to not play this weekend any way, but I think we both would have preferred knowing in the morning what was going on. I like to think I would have been more productive yesterday afternoon. Finally in the late evening, I watched "King Arthur"- last year's version and I'm so glad I didn't see it in the theater.
"Cursed" is a bad movie with some good scenes and Christina Ricchi looking well, hot.
I've made a commitment to playing a supporting character (well two characters really) in The Daily Prophet on Warp1. I need to get in to HM and play with Cat n Robin. My RP Circle, including my Mery, has been severely neglected for the last week. Fortunately they have each other to rely on. WoW with Dave and Ryan is just plain gamercrack. :)
Tonight I -should- do my taxes, watch I Heart Hucklebees, wash dishes and laundry. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I bought a m*therfucking dust pan and feel like a huge burden has been lifted off my shoulders.
I also got our tax forms.
I ate fresh strawberries at my desk for lunch.
I replaced my missing library card.
I bought Easter cards to send to Draggy and Mariah.
I purchased a Laurel-brand personal organizer and I'm going to start to use it.
My Marissa is feeling tons better than she was feeling yesterday.
I'm spending tomorrow night with Mary van Ry and going to see "Cursed".
I've committed myself to:
cleaning the stove and refrigerator tomorrow morning.
cleaning my room Sunday morning before Werewolf.
Next week- I'm taking Monday March 7th off and there will be no werewolf on Sunday March 6th. I'm going to Ebay off those books that are taking up so much space in my room if it kills me. I'm taking the money made from said book sale and buying new furniture. If there's anything left over, its going into Mariah's birthday, like an IPOD.
*gives inner grown-up a fierce kick in the ass* | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Of course, I would mispell my own damn character's name. The new WoW-specific LJ is going to be pr_lamashtu and not what started below. Dave is feeding me WoW crack in email and should be stopped. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| As most of you might have guessed, it only took one evening of me playing WoW to get pretty hooked. It was my addictive-compulsive-gamer-geek personality that kept me away from MMORPGs for so long; I knew crack when I saw it. But to spare all innocent parties of any further posts about "World of Warcraftness" I created a separate LJ account as pr_lamshtu in honor of Lamashtu, my currently 4th level troll priestess.
As for my other rambling yesterday, I'm tenatively calling the potential room and game system SIN or VII. The premise is basically that of _Constantine_ and would be set in NYC about six months after _Constantine_ ended. PCs could be normal humans, psychics/mediums/priests/witches/exorcists, or ghosts/half-bred angels/half-bred demons but nothing of a higher celestial or infernal echelon... the Balance is holding again, at least at the start of the game. Of course, there are lots of times I've gotten ideas for games and rooms and never actually stepped beyond talking about them in the abstract. ** This means I'm still thinking about opening a new public room this spring on Warp1 or WBS and not a promise that I will **
But if I did open a new room, it would be for mature players, heavy emphasis on writing and pretty heavily steeped in Catholic dogma as window dressing. Not everyone's cup of tea. I have no faith in my OL friends' ability to be friends with each other and I think I'm finally ready to simply not give a shit. That sounds harsh, but invariably what drives me out of public rooms is the fact that most of the people *I* like end up hating *each other* and I retreat with a couple of individuals who don't, for the emotional security of being away from the psychodrama and toxic atmosphere. Unfortunately, private play is also limiting, and I end up missing everyone I left behind. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I hate having new toys and not being able to play with them. Blizzard was having some issues last night, and I couldn't set up my WoW account. I did so when I woke up this morning and that went smoothly... but the US servers went down for weekly maintenance at that time, so I couldn't actually make a character before leaving for work. There are many things I get away with at work that I probably shouldn't be able to, but WoW is not one of them. :)
Avatar brain-pain for Constantine. I spent time making an Eddie Izzard picture, but I'm just not feeling it. Even if Keanu a)sucks b)does not remotely look like the originally envisioned character c)will make others groan d)already my avatar for Carma... I think I'm going with Keanu.
Universe brain-pain for Constantine. One of the things I find appealing about the movieverse for Constantine is its simplicity. I'd really rather start a new chronicle from scratch with the character than enter into an on-going one, especially *my own* on-going one, the Storm/Benedict/Damiana/Jeremiahverse that I originally created in 1994-1995 while setting up NPCs for Werewolf. I also don't want Anne Rice/Constantine cross-over, Buffy/Constantine cross-over, so forth. Its not because I have an issue with any of these other universes at all. Not because I feel one "belongs" or does not "belong" in HM (or any other room).
Right now, I'm just finding myself attracted to the simplicity of the cosmology created by Constantine. God loves good Catholics. Suicides go to hell. The Last Rites *work*. It goes to follow that everything in Catholicism that is a mortal sin is therefore somthing that will damn PCs in Constantineverse. Angels and demons are supposed to be indirect, influential, players behind a human chessboard.
This isn't how I view the universe. Its not how I played my own WoD-based cosmology. But it is how I'd like to launch a new chronicle. All that "Millenium" that Marissa and I have been watching, with its own similar themes has also been an influence.
I'm feeling the game design bug. Eek. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| Dave slapped in the extra RAM and tested WoW on my computer. During lunch today, I'll go pick up my own copy and be setting up on the Feathermoon server, where Dave plays. Its my first MMORPG. I am a MMORPG virgin. I never set foot in Everquest, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars Galaxies and so on. Werewolf was a little slow yesterday, there were just four of us and we lacked intensity during some of the game but still had several memorable scenes and there is one less Gangrel ancilla in the Savage Garden universe. We miss Sonny and Sonny's Ryan. *sniff*
I Heart Hucklebees releases on Netflix today, and we should be getting that and Raging Bull shipped off right away. Napolean Dynamite and King Arthur are already at home waiting to be watching.
_Constantine_ is putting me in the mood to play the character. I knew it would. So I'll be spending more time in HM to do just that. I think I might break down and use Keanu. I think he's a crappy actor, but he's sexy and thanks to the movie, its a recognizable avatar. Blar. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Came in to work late. Boss was just glad to have me, but I'm in midst asthma attack and my coughing and wheezing is annoying the database engineer on the other side of my cubical wall who's trying to push a code fix and I'm distracting him by making too many hacking noises.
Moodwise, I'm all over the map. Work stuff is stressful, did a lot of stressful RP right before bed that left me jittery, Mery's mom is having money issues that are adding stress to the home life, and I feel raw, sensitive, easy to provoke which is convincing me I should avoid others until I snap out of it. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| LJ Friends Meme by coolerq• You must tell 32 people about this game.
• Draggy is the one that you love.
• Mery is one you like but can't work out.
• You care most about Marc.
• Jen is the one who knows you very well.
• Candice is your lucky star.
• You Light Up My Life is the song that matches with Draggy.
• Bloodletting is the song for Mery.
• Purple Rain is the song that tells you most about YOUR mind.
• and Puff the Magic Dragon is the song telling you how you feel about life
Take this quiz | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Since most of my friends hate or loathe V-Day, I won't act all gleeful and cheery. But I'm counting down the days until the end of April, and will be giving my Shelly a very special welcome to the West Coast. *insert cheesy grin*
Dave came over on Saturday night and installed WoW on my computer. The last thing I need is a Warcraft addiction, and my 256 of existing RAM isn't enough to make the game playable, but it was close so I just need to slap more RAM in my machine and a monster-splatting I go. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| And anyone else who has lost track of me over the years and wants my life in a nutshell.
I left Olympia in Jan 1999 to move up to Seattle and got hired by N2H2 as a Web Analyst. I've kept my job even though the company got bought out and my department as a whole went from 160 people to 5 to 13 over the last six years. Its a dead-end job I'm not bored with, and I make as much money as I would if I'd become a teacher, with a lot less stress and more freetime.
My best friend who I met OL, Marissa Sanchez, mery, moved up from Texas in May 2001 and we've been living in quirky harmony ever since. I avoid calling myself a kabbalist much any more thanks to Madonna, but I continue to play around with it, and have a pretty happy life. Somewhere in 2003, I began a long distance relationship with Shelly aka spikeddragoness and she too is moving my way, from the outskirts of Halifax to Vancouver. I don't see a lot of the old Coven House crowd, though I hear about Christian and other Olympians through Dave Hershey all the time.
You guys have both been terribly missed.
Marissa is another Virgo and has many Cat Kenney-like aspects.... if Cat had been born hispanic. Even your moms are a lot alike :) | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yesterday, I made it to a lunchtime swim at the YMCA. 20 minutes in the pool, 10 minutes in the hot tub, then back to work feeling a ton nicer. Today is going to be so beautiful and warm (mid 50s and sunny) that I'll hit Pike Place Market for lunch and maybe go buy Marissa and me some carmel apples and fresh vegies to go with dinner.
One of my bosses is feeling lonely and unempowered as a woman. She tapped me to provide some intelligent sisterly companionship as a reading buddy and I'm going to start "The Poisonwood Bible" this weekend. This woman is one of the folks who will have influence in the company over the future of my career. She's also a right of left but reasonably moderate evangelical Christian who mistakes my knowledge of Christianity as belief in Christianity, although she's well aware that I'm a leftwing nutjob in the political sense. :P | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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