| Meh. |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|01:09 pm] |
Seemed to take forever getting home last night. I must have just missed bus 70 because I waited a good 40 minutes before one showed up. ... In my upset mood over Nekopan, I ate nearly an entire bag of peanut butter M&Ms before finally getting to bed, and my stomach is punishing me for it today.
This lunch break is going way too fast, what the hell?
Today is Lexi's last day. She doesn't move to Oregon immediately, but she won't be back to the shop. She made Jason and Tom's birthday cake in advance, haha. I'm certain the whole thing is gone already.
I need to make cheesecake tonight. |
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| THIS DAY IS TOO LONG!!!!! |
[May. 29th, 2009|01:29 pm] |
Oh please, please! Work needs to pass more quickly!!! Dave Matthews Band tonight, asdfeoi1s!!!39i33987sd;flkajaljew1!!!!!!!! *Spazzing out*
I'm so glad it's Friday and only an 8-hour day. |
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| Haha, locked doors cannot stop me!!! |
[May. 24th, 2009|02:25 pm] |
Turns out that the Waltham library is closed today as well for the Memorial Day holiday... But I'm still picking up the wireless internet from outside, bwahahah! I just have to be fast because I know I don't have much battery power on this laptop. Plus this screen is hella hard to see in daylight.
Yesterday I rented a Zipcar and spent my day tearing around Massachusetts running errands... JoAnn's Fabrics in Burlington to buy fabric and a pattern for the new Nekopan Sweets costume... went to IKEA in Stoughton "just to look" and ended up spending $70 anyway on random shit... hit up PETCO for a betta fishy to go in my second tank (which has been sitting empty for a long time now)... and made a massive grocery shopping trip. So yesterday was expensive, but good.
Tonight, I'm meeting up with Becky to see Freezepop at Great Scott in Allston!! Woot! That'll be awesome! |
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| I am still alive. |
[Apr. 5th, 2009|03:50 pm] |
Hey everyone. Prompted by a concerned called from Jenny, I just want to make note here that yes, I am alive and well. I haven't been online for a long time, partially due to a week-long illness. I caught a nasty cold last weekend and ended up missing two days of work over it. So I spent all my free time sleeping rather than going to the library or other such places to use the internet. I'm much better now. I think the coughing is nearly over with. I'm hanging out at George's place right now, playing some Guitar Hero and stealing music from each other.
Hope everyone out there is good. |
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| Medieval Manor tonight! |
[Mar. 14th, 2009|04:19 pm] |
Going to Medieval Manor tonight with a big group of people. I guess it's a sort of medieval dinner theatre thing. Hopefully it'll be cool!
In other news, it's GORGEOUS outside! |
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| Cut my hair! |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|02:24 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Waltham Public Library | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | "I feel pretty, oh-so pretty!" | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Even Rats - The Slip | ] |
No pictures at the moment, but I hacked off 7-inches of hair and gave myself bangs... about 45 minutes ago, haha. It's still a little more than shoulder-length. And it looks good. I'm shocked! I scrunched it and misted it with hairspray as it dried, so now I've got wavy curls like, woah. It's the hotness. :-P So I tarted myself up with red nail polish and a little make-up, just to come to the library. Heehee... Of course now I'm squinting because I didn't want to ruin my look by wearing my glasses. *Rolls eyes*
I downloaded iTunes for my laptop and spent a lil' too much money yesterday buying music (for the first time in ages!), and then I remembered that I still have $45-worth of iTunes gift cards from my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Wayne that I haven't redeemed. SWEET. Guess what I'm about to do, haha.
I ought to be outside though! It's WARM! And sunny! I walked here without a jacket! And in flip-flops (HURRAY!). The pair of swans has appeared on the river again. Lord, they're huge...
Hope everyone else is doing well. |
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| Don't we all? |
[Mar. 6th, 2009|05:40 pm] |
"Do you have an immediate need for a mannequin?"
... I love the shit I come across while researching things at work, haha.
In other news... Poker tonight. Here's hoping for more good luck!
Also, I am wearing an awesome Hello Kitty shirt today.
And I have two very unfortunately placed pimples on my forehead... looks like a vampire bit me in the face, haha.
K, done being ramdom! Bye bye now! |
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| ZOMG |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|04:00 pm] |
Crazy Jen and Teepa have joined Ponystars too!!!!! *Spazzing* I have FRIENDS now!!!! :-P |
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| I'm okay after all. |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|08:56 pm] |
Not an ear infection after all. Turns out that a freakin' huge blob of earwax had completely covered my eardrum, rendering me temporarily deaf. I waited ages at the urgent care clinic in Waltham for a doc to look at me for 30 seconds and tell me this. Then I had to wait ages again for a nurse to come in and flush out my ear with warm water to clear out the blockage. Heh, I was amused when she said, "Oh, wait 'til you see what just popped out to visit!" ... she was speaking of positively gigantic mass of grossness that came out of my right ear. I swear, it looks like it could have been a living thing. I would never imagine such a thing could fit inside my ear in the first place.
Anyway. Problem solved. My ear is hella sore from being prodded (and the water flushing was far from comfortable), but I can hear just fine now. |
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| Pay to play... again. |
[Jan. 3rd, 2009|04:32 pm] |
It seems that none of the "free public wi-fi" networks are functioning... or they're overloaded. So I've paid for another hour of internet time through Boingo. I have nothing else to do. My flight to Boston leaves at 6:15.
So I'm in New Jersey. And now I'm finally looking forward to going home. I just don't want to be in an airport anymore, haha.
I slept through most of the flight here. And I was out of it enough to completely miss the breakfast service. I woke up to find everyone else with breakfast sandwiches. But I didn't really care all that much and immediately passed out again. I did have to pee on the plane for the first time!! Those little bathrooms are interesting, haha. And I was next to a kid again, but this time it was a really well-behaved child who kept himself entertained with a little handheld hockey game and playing Uno with his father. |
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| Another hour to wait. |
[Jan. 3rd, 2009|06:31 am] |
I'm in the Sea-Tac airport. I forked up the money to get on their AT&T wi-fi network.
Well, I'm going back to Boston today. I don't really want to go yet. I feel really tired and I'm not looking forward to working on Sunday. I do want to see my cat, though.
This vacation felt too short--partially because of the NekoPan thing, but I'm still glad we did it. I think I'm also dreading returning to Boston because I know I'll be super busy in the next couple weeks, dealing with The Seagull load-in and trying to crank out my Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls design and a model before the 12th. They'd even like a preliminary design by the 6th, so I have to get on the ball immediately. I have something partially drawn up in AutoCAD already.
My bro is a sweetheart. He randomly gave me $15 bucks. I protested, but he wanted me to take it to buy my Seattle airport shot-glass and maybe some food. Heh, I really am doing the airport shot-glass collection. I've missed out on a lot of cities already, but at least I have Boston, New York, New Jersey, and Seattle now.
Alrighty. Gonna dink around on a few other websites until boarding time. I may or may not be able to get online again in Newark during my layover.
Ciao! |
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| M.E.W. Con, here we come!! |
[Dec. 30th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Castle Rock | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
In about 15 minutes, I'm gonna roll outta here in my dad's big-ass truck to pick up Teepa and head to Jen's!! I've got all the Nekopan gear loaded up. Cookies, tarts, costume, booth, etc. I'm just waiting on some painted mugs to bake... I made a couple really cute sets of Nekopan fruit coffee mugs using Pebeo glass/ceramic paint, which has to be baked for a bit in order to make it food safe.
Tonight is going to be a whirlwind of cupcake decorating and packaging! Hopefully we won't let ourselves get too stressed out. I'm still really looking forward to New Year's Eve--we intend to get wonderfully wasted.
Edit: Aw, sad. One of the coffee mugs cracked. All the paint turned out just lovely (except the blue... it faded some). But one of my cranberry mugs has hairline cracks all over it. So we can't sell it, but I bet we could use it for something else... throw it in the case for additional decoration or something. |
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| Merry Christmas!!! I HAZ NEW COMPUTER!! |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|01:29 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Castle Rock | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  chipper | ] |
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!! I am back in Washington--we got home to Castle Rock at 3:30 this morning, uff! My luggage is delayed yet again because of a flight shuffle yesterday, but at least I had all my Christmas gifts in my carry-on. So I'm writing from home, wirelessly, on my NEW COMPAQ LAPTOP!! (Thank you Santa!) :-) If you're thinking, "My god, Kristin! A non-Mac???!!!" Yes, well... This "bastard cousin" as I've already named it will be my AutoCAD workstation. And it'll be handy having a laptop again once I get into grad school. I suspected I was getting this, heehee... My parents were saying things that made me nearly certain I was getting some sort of computer. Woot-woot for new electronics! :-) Now I can put my AutoCAD disc to use... *shifty eyes*... and finally get awesome games like Portal, bwahaha! I bet I could play Spore now too. Score!
In other news... Snow like crazy! I've never seen so much snow in Washington! Our back deck is two feet deep in it! Getting home last night took forever because my father was driving sooooo slowly. New Englanders would scoff, but here in the Northwest, any amount of snow freaks us all out. It was dumping snow this morning too. My family is delaying Christmas dinner until tomorrow. Partially because we're all too exhausted to spend the day cooking, but mostly because the weather makes it difficult to get over to my grandparents' place.
Hooray internets!! I really HAVE to get it going again when I return to Waltham. I think I'm going to call RCN and see what they can do for me. Fuck Verizon. |
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| NOOOO!!! All my 3D modeling work!!!!! |
[Dec. 11th, 2008|06:30 pm] |
W. T. F. !!!!!!!!!!!!
AutoCAD has shit all over my work from earlier this week!!!!!! It fucking FORGOT everything I did last time I worked on the file (which is retarded because I was constantly saving my work) and it did something bizarre with the 3D solid that made up half of my house... It's like nothing I subtracted went away... it all came back and grouped itself into a giant mass that I can't fix without completely remodeling that section!!! So now I have an assload of unfinished windows again. My lovely fence is gone... the building in the background is gone... BUT my layers manager still shows the layers I created for both the fence and for the background building!! So AutoCAD kind of remembers that it existed. And the thumbnail preview for the file is just fine. It shows everything as I left it last. But once I open the file, it's all fucked. Both copies--both the one on the school server and the copy I put on my jump drive. I tried running the back-up file--and it also created a correct thumbnail image, showing the fence and the completed building. But if I open it, I get the same whacked out drawing.
OH I'M SO PISSED. That was hours of work!!! Oh dear lord. I mean, I've still got my renderings to prove that I did it, but my DWG file is all messed up. What the hell went wrong? Obviously it was fucked before I copied it to my jump drive that day. I WANT TO KILL.
I hate Windows machines. *STABS*
Look at what it thinks it's supposed to be!!
GAHHHHH!!! WHY? I spent so long on it and it looked so perfect!!!!! I'm trying very hard not to start bawling at this moment. |
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| Sneak peek at my AutoCAD project... |
[Dec. 7th, 2008|05:07 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  productive | ] |
I've created a new Scrapbook gallery for my AutoCAD projects. In my current class (AutoCAD II: 3D Modeling), we're all working on a model of a house our instructor designed. Here are a few quick renderings of my work so far...
One side of the house is still unfinished and I've got a couple missing windows. We haven't learned surface textures yet, so pardon the boring, flat colors of everything, haha. My next task to focus on creating some landscape around the building... maybe even some other simpler buildings in the background. Anything to give it a sense of environment.
Anyway, just wanted to share! It's lots of fun! |
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| Quarter Century (and two days) |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|09:52 am] |
Well, as of Thanksgiving, I am 25 years old. Whoop-dee-doo. :-P
I am posting from the shop... yes, it is Saturday. But I'm here to do an extra project painting the upstairs offices for Eckel Industries (they're the folks who rent us our shop).
I did have a nice Thanksgiving/birthday. Both York and I ended up joining the festivities at Jerry's house, which I would write about right now if I had the attention span to do so, haha. I feel all scattered today and I really ought to be painting right now so I can get out of here.
But anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving and thank all the lovelies who sent me birthday wishes. ^_^
One very unhappy note I'd like to make--my Uncle Wayne just found out he has prostate cancer. It's weird, it's like a bunch of my family is suffering health problems all at once. This is coming right at the same time that my grandmother is dealing with a long recovery from knee replacement surgery, my great-aunt Marjorie in Sioux Falls (who turns 90 tomorrow) fell and broke her leg, and my mother's cousin Danny suffered a massive stroke last week... and he's only in his upper-50s. So now Uncle Wayne too... the poor man has had a terrible year already with his work basically forcing him to retire early. *Sigh* Luckily they seem to think it's still at a point where the growth can be removed and he can just get a few radiation treatments... hopefully avoid chemotherapy all together.
Time to paint... before I get myself all depressed.
P.S. Gah, it's freezing in this shop!!!!! |
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| From the B.A.C. again... |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|07:49 pm] |
I just finished working on my AutoCAD homework at the BAC. So I figured I'd quickly post...
Things are good. I was tremendously relieved when I woke up and heard the election results (although I got crap from my coworkers for not staying up late to find out!). Since I have no internet or TV at home right now, I'd intended to keep tabs on things old-timey style with my clock radio, haha... But I had several pleasant distractions last night which kept me occupied until I found I was too sleepy to care to stay up.
First of all, I found an early birthday gift from my folks. ^_^ Big box at my mailbox! They didn't warn me of it coming, so I was like, "WTF!! I didn't order anything!!" I thought, "That box sure looks like it came from Musician's Friend..." And I was right. A few weeks ago I'd mentioned to my mother that I didn't want anything expensive for my birthday and suggested something like a guitar stand or a spring-clamp capo (because accessories spur me to practice guitar more often, haha). So my father ordered both things, plus a pack of picks (so now I'm swimming in guitar picks because I had a lot beforehand). :-P Maybe I'll make myself earrings, haha.
Then it was pie-making time. Last week I made pumpkin pie and took it to work... but I had failed to realize that paint intern Hayley is strictly vegan (partially due to digestive intolerance to dairy and egg), so she couldn't eat pumpkin pie (it has egg and evaporated milk in it). So I felt bad and asked her what her favorite fruit pie is so I could make one for her this week. She asked for apple. The only thing I had to change in the recipe was to swap butter out for margarine--oh, and you'd be surprised how many margarines still have dairy in them somehow. Shaw's only had one brand that was completely vegetable and soy based. Anyway...This pie turned out so good! I was nervous because my first apple pie was tasty, but not quite what I wanted... it had been a little soupy and I'd used Granny Smiths (because I prefer tart apples) which didn't soften up enough during baking. So I used Golden Delicious apples because they've always seemed squishier, haha. I figured the consistency would be better, but I had no idea about taste. And then I didn't have enough brown sugar... I probably only had a third of what I should have used. So I ended up throwing in some dark corn syrup and some extra granulated sugar. And somehow it came out perfect! It even looked gorgeous. The crust was just right and I'd gone all fancy with it by using some extra crust dough to make decorative shapes on top. :-P Everyone who tried it at work said it was fantastic. *Proud Kirky* ^_^
And my final distraction was watching a few episodes of Hell Girl thanks to Netflix. I mostly put it on my list because it seemed to have potential to be a pretty-looking anime. And I think I like it! We'll see... I'll finish off the first DVD tonight when I get home.
Speaking of which, I need to get out of here. It's already after 8:00!! I've been at this computer for two and a half hours. Oooh, but first I have to stop in Newbury Comics if they're still open because I want to look for the new Shiny Toy Guns album. I got an email notification from iTunes about it, but of course I don't have frickin' internet at home to purchase anything on iTunes. Apparently the chick singer left the band and they have a new girl. So I'm all curious now.
Love to everyone out there!
P.S. I had a huge lunch of pineapple fried rice from the Thai place in Belmont today, and I'm STILL stuffed. I keep burping the flavor... haha, not that anyone wanted to know that. :-P |
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| Quick note from the B.A.C. |
[Oct. 30th, 2008|06:30 pm] |
I start a new AutoCAD class tonight in, oh... about 45 minutes. So I'm quickly posting from the Boston Architectural College to say that I'm well. No plans for Halloween night. Probably a good thing, actually.
Well I'd better get AutoCAD running and see if I remember how the hell to use the program! I haven't touched it since my last class and that was way back in spring.
Edit, a few minutes later... Oh bugger. New version. 2009. I had a moment of panic because it doesn't look the same AT ALL. But I found a way to revert it to "Classic" mode. Still... a lot of the buttons are different looking, which doesn't matter all that much because I mostly use key commands, but it's a little unsettling. |
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| Waiting for teh internets to come to me! |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|06:12 pm] |
If UPS tracking is correct, I should get my DSL modem tomorrow. But I got an automated message from Verizon yesterday saying that my service is estimated to start on the 24th. :-( So I may be trekking to the library for a bit more.
I only have like seven minutes left on this computer so I can't really write about anything except to say I'm alive and well and I can't wait to see Tearsa!!! Tomorrow will be a mass cleaning day and I'll go grocery shopping so I can cook her something tasty when she arrives!! |
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