Tired Girl
I’m pretty zonked today… but my new hard drive is installed and my machine is up and running. (thank you IZ!) In theory, this means I should be posting with more regularity… well, it would if I were most people. But since I’m not… no promises.
Ok, so no real news from me at the moment. I’m busy working on projects that I’d rather not explain. (Such as convincing the 7 year old that I’m not pregnant and all his “wishing won’t make it so!” )
Inching closer
Well, it seems that the University Senate (of the UMC) has decided to yank SFTS’s credentials. Fun. As of the 23rd of January, I am attending a non-authorized Seminary. Which makes me a true renegade… heh. I suspect that those of us who are already admitted will have our degrees honored… despite the rumor mill. I find myself untroubled by the news, however. I figure it like this: when I know that it’s time to be ordained (and that moment is coming) I will do my thing. If the UMC doesn’t ordain me over where I got my degree… their loss really. I’ll be Methodist in my core for a lifetime… but ultimately, you answer to God before the Denomination. Even a Methodist Geek like me understands that.
When it rains…
At present moment, while sweetie is chatting with his boss, I am using his computer. Why? You ask?? Because I’m damned. I am. Cursed. Actually, I am cursed, but that’s another story. Bottom line is my hard-drive crashed and DIED. Its replacement is on its way and should be here by Wednesday. When I will get it installed is a completely different issue. So… in the meantime, I’m typing away in stolen moments on IZ’s computer. Good thing he talks on the phone for a living.
In other News…
My Physician informed me today that I had a 1 in 200 chance of being pregnant. She’s just a bundle of information, that woman! I think she says those things just to see my reaction.
Quiet in here
Since I rarely blog anything worth reading even when there is news… this recent lapse of blogging should come as no surprise. Life is just chugging along. It’s January, not the most impressive month in the calendar, now is it? I mean, do you really want to read a list of my New Year’s resolutions or the ever growing to-do list this month?
Catch My Fall
Well, I started the New Year out with a … fall. Yep, fell into the recycling crate in the kitchen on New Year’s Day… in front of all my guests. Don’t even have the excuse of being drunk… dang it! I seem to be doing a lot of that, falling, these days. I took another tumble two days before landing on the same side. Grace is my middle name. I now have a bruise so hideous that it made the little man cringe and say, “Ouch… don’t show that to me again, it’s so gross.” Typically, he goes in for this sort of gore. I’ve decided NOT to post a picture of it… since it would mean showing off my ample thigh in order to make my point. And then you would know what my New Year’s resolution is… and that would ruin the surprise! Just imagine a salad plate sized bruise on the outside of my Marilyn Monroesque thigh and you have the idea. Seriously, though… I can honestly say this is the worst I’ve ever been injured. Fun.
Sweet is my surprise
Ok… at the moment I’m grooven to Venus Hum (Soul Sloshin presently in play) and just a little hyped on the win at monopoly (putting it mildly, I ROCKED!) and the bottle of Champagne I basically consumed myself. Hmmmm…. let’s just say I’m feeling fine. It’s been a quiet holiday… couldn’t have ordered a better week. I plan to drink my fair share of Champagne over the next few days…consider that my first New Year’s Resolution.
What the !!!! were you thinking???
While things have been slow around here on the home front… my site had a great deal of activity during the holiday. It turns out, if you want to be popular and drum up lots of interest in your site, you need only to do a few simple things. The first is… use the words “GONE WILD” in a heading or title and watch the porn seekers find you. So far I have been viewed by people seeking: Nerds going wild, Seminarians going wild, people with pets… you get the idea.
The other option is to stump the truly elite of the cyber world: Linux geeks. It appears that my (!) in my URL is a non-standard character–which should not have been allowed by Blogger in the first place. This means little if you, like the countless millions who ardently read my page, use Windows. But if you are of the tiny percent of geeky rebels who use a Linux based approach (or something similar) then you are fucked because the page won’t load. Your OS won’t recognize the non-standard use of an (!) in the address. IZ, being the techno militant that he is, posted this little anomaly on the Mozilla board for bugs (adeptly named “Bugzilla”… those boys are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo creative) and the debate raged for a few days. One side thought that it was a bug in Windows and its antichrist cronies to allow a gaf of great proportions such as an exclamation point in an URL. The other side was convinced that if Windows could do it, then so should Linux and what the fuck was their problem in the first place. This means little to me…except every last one of these guys had to click on my site to see for themselves. (I had 30+ hits on Christmas Eve alone!!!) I find myself strangely turned on by all this attention. The conclusion… that the lovely line with a dot should be banned and that this is just another attempt by the monster that is Mircrosoft to expand the cyber universe by breaking rules. And for crying out-loud…. the rules rule, damn it. Get with the program. Already.
Frankly, I was completely astonished that Blogger allowed me to use an non-standard character… but that was ages ago, and my guess (now that they have have been consumed by Google) is that they play by the rules these days. Then I was just being a bit rebellious… screw your codes and the IDN… who needs ya anyway? Now… I just think the ! is a pain in the ass to type. I never got that far in typing 101 anyhow… But after all this discussion on Bugzilla… I’m so tempted to rename the new domain: EVIDENTLY! Heh.
So, for the brief moment of popularity, I must thank the cutting edge anarchists out there who run Linux and assorted systems for your attention. Even if you just clicked to see if your system could handle me. All I can say is be thankful you only found my website. In real life you couldn’t handle this.
“They’re more like ‘Guidlines,’ really.”– Jack Sparrow.
tip of the day: Don’t know what to do with the last of the bubbly? Can’t finish that 5th bottle? Never fear… next time you open a bottle sparkling grape juice, just reserve the plastic cap. The caps are universal and will fit snuggly on most Champagne bottles. This way, your bubbly is ready to go when you wake up the next day at 2pm. Can you say, Mimosas??? –W e n.
Joy to the World
Sometimes you get the best gifts–from people you don’t even know. Tonight, a solo trumpeter serenaded the neighborhood with several Christmas carols. He was at the elementary school and the acoustics there are such that they amplified his music to the entire neighborhood. After every song he would shout, “Merry Christmas” and then voices would ring out: “Merry Christmas to You!”.
Who ever you are: Thank you.
Ho Ho Ho
It’s finally Christmas Eve here. Most of the presents are wrapped. A girl can wrap just so many presents before she poops out… and so, I’ve taken it in steps. The small man thinks the two presents (from relatives) under the tree are the only things he is getting this year. It’s pretty cute to see how hard he is trying to manage his disappointment. He has NO idea! A package arrived via UPS this afternoon and Jack met the delivery man (we were all watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Which, has reached cultural Icon status in this household!). Poor Kid, he asked what it was and IZ said, “never you mind” and I squeeled, “presents for Meeeeeeeeeeeee”. Which, was true. But slightly mean. I have my reasons. Most of them are already wrapped and hiding in my prayer closet.
Our Traditional Chocolate Pie is baked. I opted to encourage the sin of gluttony this Christmas and baked two. However, I thought my pie pans were 9″ pans so I made filling for them accordingly… turns out they are only 8″ pans and I had tons of extra filling. So the Pies are a bit overfilled… made topping with meringue an hands on experience. Lots of fun. I don’t think I have much steam left in me to bake anything else. Good thing we like Pie for breakfast around here. However, I suspect I could be enticed to rustle up coffee… if bribed.
Anyhow… now it’s time to just sit back and hang out. Wrap that last gift and light a few candles. (the neighbors are at it again with the Curry Fest… There are not enough candles in the world to drown out that smell!) There apparently isn’t going to be snow this year… but lots of rain instead. Oh well. Things could be worse… my lemon tree won’t mind the warm rain. Evidently, “dreaming of a white Christmas” is going to be far too literal of a sentiment this year.
Well… off I go. Merry Christmas.
