Yearly : 2007

in Art, Design, Photography, Life of Giang

End of the year!

My brain is so powerful that it remembers the one time I got car sick from knitting in it and now when I try to knit or crochet (anywhere!), I get nauseated. My brain is an asshole. Still, I managed to almost finish crocheting a cute little beret – purple, not raspberry! – that I will probably never wear anywhere. I’ve not finished it yet. I want to not throw up right now. I wish I were kidding. I’m really not: Needlecraft makes me sick.

In other sicknesses, still sniffly and nose-itchy, so no festivities for me. Curt (the old battle-mace) and I have spent a quiet evening watching MSNBC’s mildly inappropriate “To Catch A Predator” marathon (I mean, we’re watching it, but it’s very strange to have a pedophile-catching marathon on New Year’s Eve, huh?).

Curt turned his pretty green eyes towards me tonight, told me it was the best year of his life, and kissed my hand – the one with our engagement ring on it.

That pretty much sums up the last year for me, too. ;)

Here’s my 43 Things list, tailor-made for 2008. Happy New Year, monkeys. Much love to you all!

(PS – the 3 happy things are permanently nixed, but the photos are still going. Just need to catch up – hopefully tomorrow or the next few weekends!)

(PPS – I know it’s crazy, but I sort of want to see the Dungeon Siege movie. What! It was a good game…)

in Movies, Music, RANT

Grobanitis

The other day, Ai asked us what the deal with Josh Groban is – why is he so popular, why is he selling so many CDs? I used to be a Groban fan. I used to think he was cute. I now think he is tainted. Tainted with his weird, Oprah-blessed success. So now, whenever I look at the kid, I think, “That guy’s gotta be the biggest asshole ever.”

I wonder if he’s a skirtchaser. I wonder, are there little Joshie Grobanitos out there?

This assessment may not be entirely fair, but there’s a much better chance of it being right on than off! Poo, man. Why does money make people assholes so often?

in Life of Giang

Bette Davis Eyes

I didn’t take any nighttime cold medicine before going to bed tonight, so here I am at 4:28, wide awake and watching another Bette Davis movie, Mr. Skeffington, from my raft of new Bette Davis movies given me by the Burdettes and my little brother.

I love old black and whites. Something infinitely soothing in their funny little plots and their funny little characters. Anyway, off to bed to try to sleep again. The laptop is dying. /wave

in Life of Giang

Cattywumpus

Christmas was a lovely time! Everything was great – except I am still sick and all I can do is daydream about crawling into our warm bed and napping for…ever.

There’s more to do, and more to be blogged about, but I’m so tired and it’s only 1:36. Curt’s got some harebrained idea of taking us out to some loud concert tonight, during which I can imagine I will be sitting outside, huddled up in a corner by a plant for warmth, soothing my frayed nerves by reading The Zombie Survival Guide I got for Christmas.

If I weren’t broke, I’d totally have a zombie survival kit. You just never know.

in Life of Giang

Duuuuuuuuude!!1!!!, Part II

I have the most brilliant idea for the wedding, and it’s all thanks to this fellow here:


See, about a year and a half ago, I attended a murder mystery live action role playing thing in Big Bear. The host of the evening had rented out a mansion in Big Bear to accomodate the people there for the event. While looking for venues tonight, and despairing slightly over the massive amounts of planning and fussing it would take considering the small number of people we’re planning on inviting to the wedding, I ran across a similar rental website, and it’s perfect! It’ll be a snug house party, with plenty to keep people occupied, and very informal, which I love. There’ll also be tons to do nearby, since it’s Big Bear, AND we’ll be able to stick to our budget, since we can spend everything after the rental fee on yummy foods to feed everyone!

If this works out, I’ll be totally stoked. It feels more like our personality than a big, formal wedding – plus, now I can have activities. ACTIVITIES.

BAHAHAHA!

in Life of Giang

Monstrous

Things I Want
An organ file to keep appliance manuals in / ~$15.00
A tripod (or Gorillapod) / ~$40.00

Things I Actually Bought
(Over several days)
Shipping / $4.60
Magazine Subscription payment / $17.00
Birthday lunch for Coworker Joe / $13.35
Bananas / $1.33
Various Fuses to fix Aerogarden / $16.45
Movie + Popcorn, etc. / $34.50 (SONS OF BITCHES)
Cat litter / $26.93
Sundries and Christmas gifts / $162.00
Lunches for the week / $9.45

So, maybe it’s a bad season for this little fiscal experiment of mine. In good news, I am one gift certificate away from being done with Christmas shopping. There remains some crafting to be done, but that ought to be relatively painless. So I think.

Tonight is concert night! :) Powla, Curt and I are off to the Pond to see Diamond Dave and Van Halen, whooOooooo! Beers and Nacho!

The last beer and nachos I will be having for six-ish months. Dude, getting married is stressful, and it’s only like three days in. I’m getting stressed thinking about planning for it.

The parents are ostensibly Catholic. I don’t know about my extended family, but my grandfather certainly is Catholic. Curt’s an atheist, and I’m agnostic. Not only would it be a filthy, stinking lie to have a Catholic ceremony, it’s a lot of trouble and expense. Curt has agreed, if it comes to it, to take the Catholic classes so we can do the Catholic wedding, but I can’t see him handling it well if they prod too deep. Plus, I don’t really want to do it, and I read that people have been FAILED out of Catholic wedding classes.

Really? Way to support happy marriages. We don’t want to be in your stinky-finky Catholic club anyway.

That’s me, being optimistic before-the-fact.

in Life of Giang, Things That Are Awesome

DUUUUUUUDE!!!!1!!!!

So today was our two year anniversary. We went down to San Diego to the zoo, since we’re members and it seemed like a fun way of spending the day. We get there, and Curt suggests the Sky Safari. We get on – I’m looking around, staring at the ground, enjoying the view, and suddenly Curt says, “Want to get married?”

I sort of blink, and say, “What?”

“Will you marry me?”

I sort of blink, and say, “What – are you serious?”

And he says, “Yeah – I have a ring!”

And HE SO DID.

I’m totally getting married! :)

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Sneezy

Shit, it’s 1:00. Guess what I’ve been doing? ;) It’s still in a shambles. I’m not sure how long I’ll like this design – it’s feeling rather tenuous, although I do like the color scheme. Perhaps it will suffice.

I’m sneezing a lot. Sickness is going around. People have been sniffling. This is not good, however, it’s not very often that I succumb to colds and things. My ailments almost always tend to be gastro-intestinal. That basically means they are mostly self-induced, caused by My hand stuffing things in My mouth. * tsk *

Today I wanted to buy:

1. Fuel Injection fluid
2. T-shirt Iron-on stuff (Instant gratification vs. the work and dubious results of screen printing on the cheap)
3. A cute animal crochet pattern from Etsy

I actually bought:

1. A full tank of gas / $32.08
2. A regular Coke for Curt at the movies / $4.50

Curt bought the tickets so I picked up the refreshment. Goddamnit, I hate buying stuff at the movies. Left to my own cheap-ass devices, I would never buy anything. Unfortunately for me, I found one of the people who almost always needs to have popcorn and a soda. * grar *

Alright, more work around here tomorrow.