It Hath Arrived

Well, we are basically at christmas now, ready or not. Not a lot to say as I need to get some other stuff done here *cough* wrapping presents etc.
I leave you with a holiday photo of piggies, hopefully soon to be more after tomorrow! *grin*


And a holiday link: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/map/index.php
The NORAD santa tracking website, not of much use unless you are somewhat pathetic like I and perusing blogs late into Christmas Eve but yes.
Hermit

The Taste of Freedom!

Yes, I am free, well, have been for some number of days now (perhaps explaining my abscence) and it is wonderful! Hehe, today I registered for next term though which wasnt such a happy event but it doesnt start for a while yet so I can revel for a bit longer.
I have kind of been avoiding posting because I wanted to take pictures of things and kind of do a photo montage type post of what I have been up to as of late but evidently *note the lack of photos* that didnt happen.
Maybe later but for now I shall leave you with my holiday link and song guessing game:
Some website linked to OfficeMax that has a bunch of different random holiday things (hooray for stuff to do when you're bored) if you run your mouse over the OfficeMax thing down at the bottom you can see the other websites to visit:
www.elfyourself.com

Guess the song:
dadadadada dada dadadadada da daaaaa dadaaa dada dada dadadadadaaaa dadaaaaa
Hermit

Recap

Argh, so yes, shopping trip was not great, not terrible but rather similar to what I expected.
We basically ended up splitting up as there were five of us, which was two, two and a tagalong (moi) which was grand. Them = peering into mucho expensive stores (most of which I have never heard of before and were the kind that have security guards at the door, yeah, not what I usually inhabit) and purchasing things at semi expensive but rather fashionable stores. Me = traumatized by brand nameness and price tags and generally not horribly interested at all in much that was there (I did get to go into this one card type shop that was interesting and this bodyschlep place that had this tasty mint lip stuff/breath freshener that I liked but was expensive so didnt get, just used sample hehe)

Some choice moments:
-'ugh, lets go somewhere else, this is all the crappy cheap places (ie. Sears etc.)'
-Hermit spying a lovely fuzzy sweater, price tag=$1, 070.00-Hermit vamoosing out of there topspeed
-'FUR! I love fur, ohhh, soooo nice *touching*'
-After one such fur episode, Hermit looking at tag= 100% mini rex rabbit fur (this actually made me quite upset, twas spiff, but really thats MY bunnies relatives, argh! I am rather peeved about that actually *gets uneccesarily emotional*)
So yes, on the way back though we played games which was fun although every once in a while I said something that was evidently not quite 'right' but mrph.


Needless to say, I am quite excited about the prospect of being home and around folks who are a LOT more like me. I think one of my big problems though, is that I dont feel the need to make new friends because the ones I have are GREAT (see comments of previous post for good example) erg, but not seeing them hardly ever is crud.

Anyhow, a glorious thing has been found in my vicinity:

Meet the Peppermint Bark Ghirardelli bar:

As you are probably aware, despite my attempts, it didnt last long...

The song was Silver Bells, I rather like that song! Now for one that I quite agree with the sentiment of at the moment:

Daaaaa dadaaaa dadadaaaa daaaa dadaaaa dadaaaaa

Holiday linkage: The history of the advent calendar. http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm

And random thing that I learned today that I think is swell: The saying 'mind your P's and Q's came from Old England. When patrons got rowdy, the bartenders would tell them to watch their pints and quarts.

Hermit

What a Dissapointing Realization

So much for updating early today, the time went by really fast before I had to leave to go see The Nutcracker and then it took rather long to get back (haha, we are SO skilled-got lost twice getting there and 3-4 times coming back!) and now I am here.
Basically though, I have come to the realisation that I dont fit in incredibly well, and that the main reasons why are because I am not a super commercialized fiend and stuff like appearance is not the top of my priority list. I miss not being around people who I dont feel are going to judge me based on my clothes, or the way my hair looks etc. and I really miss being able to just say whatever I want without having to worry about how it is going to sound or be taken by someone else. Oh well, only a few more days. This comes at the same time as my realization that our shopping trip tomorrow is to some huge mall that appears to only contain really high class stores (ie. A Louis Vuitton store)

Anyhow, enough negativity. Oh wait, not quite haha, skip down to the next paragraph for cheerfulness. I am having issues again about what I want in life and if I am doing the right thing. or just wasting my time. This stems from two teachers telling us that in January Marcia is planning on moving some people up to even up the levels so she will be watching us etc. Teacher # 1brought this up by telling us that the only person she recommended to be moved up was Jessica (this girl that she has been utterly enamoured with for a while) and that some people in our class are really pulling away from the rest of us. Teacher #2 decided not to give us a 'fun' class and informed us that in January Marcia was going to be watching us and that she is scared for us and that we need to work. So yeah, basically we are all crap *sigh* and I know that I am not the specific favourite of any of the teachers so its likely that I wont get moved up which doesnt really matter to me except that if all of the other older, new kids get moved up I will be rather upset because I dont think I am THAT bad. Its incredibly tempting to ask one of my teachers if I am wasting my time. The problem is, that if I am not cut out for this, I dont know what I want to do.

I finally reached the 6" mark on mere's sweater, however I have an issue now, in the picture it kind of looks like the ribbed section basically makes up the entire stomach covering portion and in my mind six inches for stomach coverage makes for a rather short sweater. However, I dont want to just decide to make it say 8" and then find out that my assumptions based on the picture were wrong, and so it sits awaiting its fate.

Now for the guessing game:
Daaada daaaaa daaada daaaaa dadadadaa dadadada dadadaaaa dadadaaaa dadadada dadadaa
and my holiday link:
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/holidays/index.jhtml;jsessionid=Z2DFF04HD1MSXQFIBQPR42Q
This being the holiday page of Better Homes and Gardens, they have this 100 days of holidays thing that I (the self-created ideal housewife sort) rather appreciate.
Hermit

Freedom!

Yes, I am finally free! Okay, well maybe not quite, but that darned assignment is off my list now. I still need to finish taking notes for the last of the botany units, only a few pages though, and the last floral unit. The bulk of the work is done though, no more assignments, only notes and studying and his time next week I will be done done done! Lalala!
Anyhow, I need to be in bed, two hours ago, so this update is short and not profound (ha, like any of mine are) but tomorrow I shall update since I finish at 12:30 *gasp*
But lastly, yes, twas Frosty the Snowman aaand three full days until I come home!
Okay, now off to bed with this little Hermit.
Hermit

Re-entering the land of photos

Well, not a lot has been accomplished lately other than major amounts of procrastination which is great. Anyways, since pictures are back, here are the results of my short-lived snowflake making expedition. Can you guess which one was made with a template and which one was hand-crafted, er, mangled?

Progress on mere's sweater, I am thinking more and more that it is fairly unlikely it will make it to christmas being completed but you never know, once I dont have some stupid 10-15 page assignment to do I will have more time. *sigh* Tres interesting I know, but there is 6" of ribbing to start it off, almost done that now, hooray! I am getting tired of ribbing as that is where I am at on my sock (yep, still plodding away on it)


I caved, $10 for a beautious little fibre optic christmas tree was just too much temptation, especially when I could be doing things like working on said assignment as opposed to trecking to walmart to buy aforementioned tree. The time spent setting it up and subsequently being distracted by several TV shows roommate was watching also assisted in the amazingly sparse amount of time spent on the assignment. But wihout further ado, I present to you, un crappo picture of le tree:


As for my holiday madness, the song was guessed, We Wish You A Merry Christmas it was. Now for another one:
Daaa da dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa dadadadadadadadadada dadadadadadadaaaaa

My link for you: http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Xmas/Midi/midi.htm
A whole shwack of christmas songs to download, and plenty of variations.

And now, back to work (ha, yeah right, so far this stupid paper is a bit past 2 pages, I am aiming for 3 before I head to bed tonight, er this morning)
Hermit

Not much to say...

Yep, so basically just posting for the sake of posting, well actually I have suspicions that my little procrastinator in my brain is tyring to make me do anything but the huge paper due on friday. Thanks. Anyways, not much to say and the post I just wrote up got killed so yeah.

I finally managed to fix the photo aspect of blog. Some kind sould randomly posted a thing on their blog saying that if you were having issues posting pictures to press F5, and voial, my picture posting abilities returned. How grand. Unfortunately (see previous post title) due to computer issues involving the internet refusing to open new windows etc. I can't actually use my newfound abilities but nevertheless the button now exists which is good.
I am coming home soon, very soon. Seven days or so although I am having troubles deciding on a specific date since I leave late on the Tuesday, but yes, not much time at all. Hooray!
Smidge of holiday was acquired; LED christmas lights now adorn my desk, how lovely.

Nobody got my song from yesterday so you get hints:
-not religiously affiliated
-an upbeat type song, but not one of those disguting new age ones or anything, still good ol' traditional music
-my writing has some words in syllables, because this is how it is sung, in my head anyhow
Now, for my holiday link, I am pretty sure you have all seen this before but I think it is swell and so you get to be reminded of it anyhow in case you forgot about it: www.snowflakes.lookandfeel.com
And maybe, just maybe, I will now steer away from the precipitation related holidayness, I vote this is due to the distinct lack of said precipitation here. Today was better temperature-wise though so we are getting there!

And lastly:
This is seriously the best resume ever! I want mine to look like that! *grin* http://www.ochenk.com/ochenkres.pdf
Hermit

Technology is not my friend

Not much to report for today since all day I have been trying to fix my STINKING computer! *glare*
This virus dealy is EVIL I tell ya, pure evil, whoever creates these things are terrible people with no soul. Yes I am feeling a mite bit frustrated in case you were wondering.
Basically, it killed everything, whenever I opened an internet window it would open a bazillion more and just keep opening stuff and then my computer would start informing me that it had found spyware etc. Well thanks, how about you DO something about it. Anyways, one day later and maybe the problem is semi-reduced. Spent mucho time on the phone with little brother involving many programs to scan and kill viruses, adware, spyware and the like and from the looks of it my leetle machine had quite the following of evil friends.
Anyhow, enought about that, shall update you as necessary. Oh by the way though, that would be the reason for my absence from MSN, if you have gmail I can speak via that but MSN keeps trying to send out the lovely virus to people on my friends list, so yep, no MSN for now.

As for my contest, yeppers, Wulfy was right, twas Deck The Halls!
Now for todays:
Daaa dadadadadadada daaa dadadadadadada daaa dadadadadadada dadadaadaaa dada

Aand, my holiday link for folks:
http://www.papersnowflakes.com/patterns.htm
Patterns for those who, like me, can't make pretty paper snowflakes. Yes, that is one of the things I did today during the endless waits while various virus scanners perused the inner workings of my machine.
Okee, off to do some more virus fighting.
Hermit

Bye bye pictures

So no more pictures for now, I seem to have lost the capability of adding pictures to my posts, how sad. Oh well, maybe it will encourage me to be more creative in what I write instead of relying mainly on the visual assistance the photographs provided me with.

Oh! So I seem to have managed to acquire a virus *glare* how lovely, it also just so happens to be one of the Trojan form which is apparently exceptionally evil/difficult to get rid of. So yes, thanks so very much internet.

Sweater is plodding along, still working on the ribbing, yeesh though, I need to speed up the process here if I want to finish it in time for Christmas.
Sock is coming along too; I think the ribbing is going to be awfully long if I use this entire ball. I am beginning to have thoughts of finishing it up here soon and using the excess for little mini socks for Christmas ornaments. I guess we will see.

I have been perusing other blogs today, as usual and came across this idea which I think is rather spiff. Idea being that one creates a Christmas 2006 journal; I like this idea, being a festive kind of person and all. Maybe tomorrow a trip to a crafty type place can ensue and I can work on that and goodies for my Secret Santa.

Since I am an uncreative person, I vote contest type things are a good plan (any guesses who this idea has been lifted from?) so here goes mine, in the festive spirit!
I am going to write out a small portion of a Christmas song and you get to guess it (Tyger has an unfair advantage though as we do this via email somewhat regularly) so yes, here goes for today:

Dadada da dadadadaaaa dadadadadaaaaa dada da daa daaadadada dadadadaaaa dadadadadaaaa da da daa da

Lastly, I have decided you get a holiday related something each post, so here goes. An online advent calendar that I have visited the past few years, quite enjoy it so hopefully you shall aussi.
http://www.harpold.com/advent/index.html

Enjoy!
Hermit

Pinch, punch first day of the month

Die!! So I had my post all written up and it got killed *glare*

Mark your Calendars!
Thats right, you just saw the beginnings of me ma's Christmas present (hopefully, it is a sweater and what you see is all there is right now, so I guess we will see how speedy a knitter I am) as of this writing, it is at 3".
And in other monumental events, my Soils course is complete. done. fini. Hooray! 1 down, 2 to go.

I do feel rather accomplished today though, sent off my Soils assignment, (finished it last night, yay!) did some laundry, vacuumed my room, (for the first time in three months hehe, brought back my vacuum with me because sorry folks, the Swiffer Carpet Flick just doesnt cut it for me)worked a bit on my sock and a bit more on le gifty sweater and went to class.
Anyways off to bed with me.
Hermit