tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676087305484495692024-02-07T01:05:07.295-10:00Puna's Pish-PoshNo, this is not a vagina monologuePunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-77486922399168656192012-05-24T06:28:00.000-10:002012-05-24T06:28:18.501-10:00Big League Brains<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
So you know how one great idea leads to someone stepping all over said idea and trying to put you down which makes you put up your dukes and make some kind of sarcastic remark which leads to a completely random remark which leads to ANOTHER great idea? Yeah, that's what happened to me yesterday. What's so cool about it is that my latest idea is a freakin' awesome idea for the upcoming Zombalypse (or Apocabie, whichever way you want to go with that).</div>
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So...what if we take Big League Chew and mold it into a brain shape? It really shouldn't be that hard because it already looks a little like ground beef (the original flavored one, not the grape one) and should be easy to mold and to get it to stick together.</div>
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Then whenever the zombies start to get close to overrunning us we lob the molded gum, just like little brain grenades, into the press. The zombies will see them and think "yummy brains" and then they'll try to eat them and then they'll have a hard time eating them because it'll be all chewy, you know, because it's like a huge wad of gum. (I know you know how this feels because when you were a kid you completely ignored the "stay-fresh pouch" part of BLC's sales pitch and totally tried to eat that whole packet of gum all at once, didn't you?) Then, while the zombies are busy chewing their jaws off, you could easily run away or take the chance to start picking them off. </div>
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The Ford Gum & Machine Company should totally market this shit with zombies in mind. They could even make a version that tastes and smells like brain to make it more appealing. Dip the whole wad of brain into peanut butter and we'll have zombies gumming around for hours. It'll totally be the gum of choice for zombies and zombie slayers alike and revolutionize post-apocabie life. All I ask in payment for this innovation is for my reader (yep, that's you again Brent) to, when the time comes, let everyone know that I was the first to come up with it. Hubba Bubba eat your heart out.</div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-87462412705515147802012-05-17T07:26:00.001-10:002012-05-17T07:27:19.478-10:00Crochet, You Moody Whore, You<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
I wanted to have another project all finished and ready to show Tuesday, but unfortunately I'm having a very, very hard time making the damned thing. This is what it is supposed to look like:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So yeah, screw you crocheted wrap. I don't understand why I'm having such a hard time making this pattern because it really should be John Edwards' mistress easy. Yes, THAT easy. All you have to do is crochet a large rectangle and then sew the short ends together to make little elasticky sleeve-holes. Pffftt! I can do that with the lights off and my toes tied behind my back! Sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only problem is that I can't get the sides to be even. My first attempt had both short ends getting larger. Don't know what happened there, but I pulled it out. My second attempt had both ends getting smaller. Obviously I over compensated for my largeness problem, better pull it out. Then finally my last attempt had one side getting larger and one side getting smaller. What the freak? Pulled that one out and started praying to the almighty goddess of crocheted things to just help me to make it even.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have to warn you, though. You really have to be careful who you pray to because you never know what you're going to get. (You especially have to be careful Googling things like "crochet goddess," or really anything with goddess in it, because you'll never be able to unsee anything you find. Just like amoeba lady up there.) Also, the stupid answer I got was one that I already knew but was too lazy to do: counting stitches. I REALLY don't want to count to 115 for every row to make sure that my rows are all even. Besides, I'd probably screw up the counting and still have the same problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So...pretty, pretty, please crochet Kali, help me to change my crochet for the better instead of making it worse. And please don't get the blood from that severed head all over my crocheted wrap. Thank you. Shun-ti-day!</span>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-15199576883431747812012-05-07T08:18:00.001-10:002012-05-07T08:18:13.297-10:00Monday Is The New Tuesday<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So normally I would've had a post ready for everyone (or just Brent) to read last week Tuesday. Unfortunately, I spent my whole day making these flowers because I agreed to work on my day off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then I spent the rest of the week being completely thrown off because I was constantly two days behind in everything. Luckily it was for a good cause. Well, not really. It WAS free, though. Here's some step by steps just in case you want to learn too.</span></div>
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something to make uniform circles out of wire. No, it doesn't have to be
"craft twinkles". It can be that container of painkillers you've been
hiding in your medicine cabinet because the dentist always gives them to
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes, there are places that sell fake flower stamens like this. They have
the little stamen heads on both sides so you have to wrap them around
one petal so both sides are sticking up. Yes, I did say to wrap the
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<span style="font-size: small;">The stamens get sandwiched in between two petals and you use regular
thread, doubled-up on itself, to wrap around the two petals and keep
them together. If you wrap tight enough you won't have to knot the
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shown, one from each side, and then the last one wherever you would like
to stick it. However, when you start to wrap them up with thread, make sure that they all sit nicely, one on top of the other, like the picture below.</span></div>
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and then use floral tape to cover all the wire and thread. Hint: floral
tape is only sticky when stretched, so you have to pull as you twist it
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is what the flower should look like when finished. To make smaller flowers like the little blue one in my first picture, just use a smaller form to make the petals. Try it with animal print duct tape too, they come out really cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Why was I making duct tape flowers, you ask? Well, because here in beautiful Hawaii, May Day is Lei Day. On Lei Day you teach people how to make leis. OK, not you exactly, but I do. I mean I teach people to make leis and you don't. You probably twirl girls around a Maypole or something. And anyway, I was SUPPOSED to teach people to make leis but other people were already doing that and I didn't just want to sit there and do the exact same thing. So I made duct tape flowers and then the other people gave me weird looks because I wasn't making leis. It's okay though, a lot of people liked the flowers, which is why I decided to post the instructions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">P. S. I didn't make this up, my friend Brandon did. You should buy some of his <a href="http://www.brandoncakes.com/">cupcakes</a> to thank him for being such a creative crafter. Or just because his cupcakes are so delicioso.</span></span>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-35577784515756807152012-04-29T13:22:00.001-10:002012-04-29T13:22:31.137-10:00Bumptious Driver<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other day, I was driving home from work and secretly wishing that the ass-wipe that just cut me off had actually hit my car. Strange right? Not for me. I've just realized that I fervently wish for this to happen a lot. A lot. Let me explain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My commute to and from work consists of fifteen minutes of driving on small roads through residential neighborhoods. Great, isn't it? (I do realize that I am super lucky on this point because most people have to deal with gridlock traffic hell and their commute usually takes days and days. I'm lucky and yet I still complain.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The unfortunate thing is that people here seem to think that the other cars - you know, the ones with the right-of-way and no stop signs for miles - are supposed to stop for them when they decide to suddenly pull out from behind the stop sign which they've been sitting at for at least an hour. It's almost as if these idiots have decided to lay in wait to ambush innocent car drivers as they unassumingly cruise by on their way home from work. I seem to be the perfect target for every single last one of these freakin' people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, this guy cuts me off, makes me hit my brakes, (one of my biggest pet peeves when driving is having to brake needlessly) then proceeds to drive incredibly slowly. Very, very slowly. (And before you ask, no, I was not following a retiree.) Now I'm thinking, "Really? Do you have ANY clue that there are other people on the road?" To which he responds by driving even slower. And this is when, completely out of the blue, I think, "Mother fucker, you should have just HIT me in the first place!" It's not a death wish, I assure you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a kind of twisted logic in this scenario. My thinking is that, one, I am a good driver and would not be at fault if this ass-clown hit me; two, this guy's a horrible, stupid driver and doesn't even know it; and three, my car is pretty much a piece of shit. In my rage-induced, dysfunctional logic, adding these three things together equals the perfect vindication for me and the perfect lesson for him. With foreordained righttitude, as if it were handed down by God, this accident would, in my mind, remake the world into a better place. Everything would now be perfect because this guy hit me, proved me right, realized that he was wrong, decided to reform his driving etiquette, and was appropriately punished for being a jackass, all in one fell swoop. Some times I can really be an idiot when road rage is involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately in my case, none of this ever happens. I never get hit with a jackass' car, the heavens never open to reveal the hand of God sweeping down to deliver justice upon obnoxious drivers, idiots never EVER realize they're wrong, and the world is never made into a Utopia of unmolested driving. I'll keep wishing for it, though.</span>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-14046973749706913162012-04-24T17:48:00.001-10:002012-04-24T17:48:35.573-10:00I'll Double-Tap You in Your Ugly Monster-Lookin' FaceSo, I got to thinking that there might be some unexpected side affects due to my attitude toward the Zombie apocalypse. If you read my post last week, which I'm assuming you didn't, you would know that I vowed to immediately shoot everyone who even remotely looked like they were bitten or infected.<br />
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Although, in all honesty, my zombie slaying weapon of choice would not
be a gun. It would probably be a katana or nodachi. (A nodachi is a
sword, like a katana, but bigger and more bad-ass. Look at Wikipedia for
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodachi">description</a>, and before you ask, yes, I did watch a lot of anime during my teenage years.) <br />
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It's most certainly not the perfect weapon for me, considering how ungraceful I am and the very high likelihood of my doing all the work for the zombies and lopping off my own limbs and the limbs of my surrounding loved ones. (I consistently rolled critical fumbles on those few occasions when I played D&D.) But I would much rather have a weapon that is not going to misfire at the crucial moment or run out of bullets. Also, then we could play Highlander with the zombies and constantly yell, "There can be only one!" while cutting them into tiny pieces. <br />
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What was the point of this again? Oh, yes, the unforeseen byproduct of trying to get a jump on the zombie hoard by killing off people who look like they may possibly be infected. Or a little under the weather. Or turned into a newt.<br />
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Anyway, I have decided that the repercussions of this plan of attack could have a very adverse effect on the aesthetically challenged population. Or in other words, ugly people.<br />
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Here's my reasoning. If you look like this:<br />
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I'm probably going to kill your ugly zombie face. You don't want to look like this. Ever. <br />
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I'll probably double-tap your face just in case. Just to make sure that you won't try to eat me. Or sing off key at me. Or have a bunch of white trash kids.<br />
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So, in light of these new revelations, here are some tips to help you get along with the good looking survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse, like me.<br />
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<li>Don't shave your head to make a statement because the statement ends up being, "I want to eat your brains." </li>
<li>Use sunscreen to avoid the wizened corpse look, also known as twice-tanned leather.</li>
<li>Apply makeup correctly and stay away from green, purple, and blue shades; and foundation that is too light.</li>
<li>Subscribe to post-apocalyptic-chic fashion mags to stay on the cutting edge of zombie killing fashion.</li>
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Personally, I'm planning on being the most well dressed zombie killer ever. Or the person who shoots first.Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-62771689653344653822012-04-17T18:16:00.001-10:002012-04-17T18:17:40.026-10:00Monsters, Meet My Boomstick<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Hubbie and I just finished watching "Evil Dead" again for the like upteenth time. It was good campy, as always, although we spent the majority of the film yelling at Bruce Campbell to "just cut them down with the axe already!" I'm still surprised at how long it takes for him to actually kill someone. Honestly Bruce, how did you think this was going to end? The minute you guys walked into that cabin and saw the wide assortment of tools that can also be used as weapons, you should've known that you would eventually have to use them to cut all your friends into little-bitty pieces. With a name like Ash Williams, that should just be how you roll. Also, the chick under the floorboards is TOTALLY going to try to attack you later on; how many times are you going to save her life? And the minute that your girlfriend goes scary, demonic kid psychotic, you need to immediately blow her ugly, flour-dusted head of with your shotgun.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I swear, I would be the most awesome monster butt-kicker ever because I have no qualms about taking my boom-stick to something that is trying to kill me. Let this be a warning to all my friends out there, i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">f we're ever stuck in a scary movie together, I will NOT hesitate to kill off anyone looking remotely sick, infected, possessed, or bitten. You bitches are SO not gonna deter my last ditch effort at escaping by suddenly tripping me as I walk by or jumping on my back as I'm about to flee. You'll all be dead and I'll be running for the hills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What's that, Mom? You've got a fever? Well, it may just be the flu like you think, but I really can't take the chance of you being a carrier for the T-virus, so I'll just have to take you out right now. There's no way I'm letting anyone bring you back later on as a genetically altered she-hulk who can cook a mean Zucchini Munchie and actually follow through on your promise of "taking me out of this world" if I so much as put a foot wrong. (By the way, remind me to share that Zucchini Munchie recipe with y'all some day because that stuff is freakin' yummy.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also, when the zombie apocalypse comes around, I'm not waiting around for you to turn before I try to kill you. There will be no long, drawn out, emotional scene where I have to have an equally long and drawn out inner debate about whether or not I should kill my friend, dog, sister, lover, or whoever. The minute I find out you've been bitten, you're dead, unless you volunteer to go down in a blaze of glory by fighting off the zombie hoard before they get to the rest of us. Keeping zombies off the uninfected people is heroic; being the zombie attacking the uninfected is just bad form. Just be heroic, fuckers, and do everyone a favor and die.</span><br />
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Brent has recently been having a conversation with an imbecilic
lunatic. Now, just for clarification, when I say “conversation,” I mean
drop-kick schooling her on how the real world works, and by “imbecilic,” I mean
oh-my-fucking-god this lady is brain-bleed stupid. The funniest thing about all this is that Brent is having the time of his ever-loving life trying to fix stupid.
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<b>Imbecilic Lunatic Lady (we’ll call her ILL from now on):</b> I
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<b>Brent:</b> Sorry, no such thing as a perfect world. Here are
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<b>ILL:</b> I’m offended simply because you said body fat, and I
slightly resemble that remark. Plus, I love the Partridge Family. I’m going to
tell everyone that you’re a horrible, evil person who wants to sacrifice
children to Kali Ma, just like they did in that Temple of Doom movie, by making
them work in mines filled with Styrofoam and melancholy.</div>
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<b>Brent:</b> Why are you my
friend on Facebook again? You do know that I’m only here to make you look like
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<b>ILL:</b> I can’t figure out how to unfriend you, and I’m losing friends
because what you’re saying actually makes sense to everyone but me. Since I
seem to be the only one who doesn’t get it, I’ll just try to make you look bad
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<b>Brent:</b> What if I said I was possibly wrong about Kristen
Stewart? (I would just like to interject here that he is so NOT wrong about
Kristen Stewart. She is the perfect example of all that is unnatural and evil
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<b>ILL:</b> Oh my god, Brent! I’m so sorry if I offended you. I
didn’t know that you could possibly be on the side of shiny, Adonis-like
vampires. Unfriend me if you think I’m being intolerant and cruel.</div>
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I told Brent that I would’ve unfriended her the minute she
said “I love people,” because who freakin' loves PEOPLE? But that just goes to show how intolerant of idiots I’ve
become. Also, that Brent is so much better at putting up with this kind of
crap than I am just because he has fun showing other people how horribly wrong they are.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you think we live in a perfect world? Are vampires actually shiny? Should I have put a goatee on Kristen Stewart? You can always leave feedback, if you like.</span></span></span></i></div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-31097921240164814452012-04-10T22:19:00.002-10:002012-04-10T22:19:34.997-10:00Was it Writing All Along?<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Looking back, I think writing has always been <b>it</b> for me. You know, the big <b>it</b>. I only really started thinking about this today, but now that I've started, I remember wanting to be a writer for most of my life. When I was ten I wrote two mystery books (without much mystery in them) for my English class. I don't remember too much about them, but I remember the main character was a mouse who acted a bit like Sherlock Holmes, only she was a she mouse and not a he mouse. I also remember my Aunt saying that the ending was a bit of a let down. I'm not really sure what she expected from a ten year old; the most mysterious thing I could think of was that someone had lost something and Mystery Mouse had helped them to find it, which she often did just by poking around in their house.</div>
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There were also many books which I started to write and never finished. Many, many books. Most of them were initially inspired by books like "Black Briar," by William Sleator, "Jacob Have I Loved," by Katherine Paterson, "The Babysitters Club" series, or anything by R.L Stein.</div>
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For some reason my books always started with the main character, who was usually a girl, looking out her car window and watching the trees go by while her parents drove her to a new home. Her family had always made her move, and she was always obviously and loudly upset with them. Ten years old and I was already completely unoriginal. How sad for me.</div>
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Thankfully, now I've learned a little about blogging and can write about anything, not just girls displaced by their parents' wanting to move to a new town. I'll probably still continue to be unoriginal, though.<br />
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The good thing is that instead of taking my cues from young adult romance novelists, I now get my inspiration from other bloggers who are usually very good at writing and often very entertaining. I follow these wonderful writers around much like that shy, dorky girl in high school followed the popular kids around, except I most likely will never be noticed because I'm the super shy girl who, at every school event, is hiding behind the big, fat guy and no one will ever know I'm there because no one ever wants to look at the big, fat guy. That and the popular people are now regular, everyday people who are gifted with exceptionally healthy doses of humor, probably from being an unpopular high school stalker. So we've come full circle, and THAT'S why I've finally decided that I want to be a writer like the cool kids.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Were you an unpopular high school stalker? Have you recently found your own big IT? Do you have any writing tips? Can you tell I'm fishing for comments? You can leave one, if you like.</span></i></span></div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-63070486063186556052012-04-06T07:00:00.000-10:002012-05-22T23:43:49.900-10:00Bicycling Irritants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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People on bicycles annoy me. Make that adult people on bicycles annoy me. I'm not talking about kids who randomly ride their bikes in the street, or have someone on their handlebars, or have no idea what is going on around them while they are riding their bikes. All those things are pretty irritating but I know what to expect with kids. No, I'm talking about grown men and woman who know better and honestly need to come off it. Take a look at this news story, which was aired on KHON2 last week, and which helps to explain some of my loathing. <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.khon2.com/mostpopular/story/Elderly-woman-dies-after-being-hit-by-bicyclist/IpUKhKW5zESyZ5aY58rY1w.cspx"><i>"Elderly woman dies after being hit by bicyclist"</i></a>. <span style="font-size: small;">That's right you pedaling reprobates, a bicyclist in downtown Honolulu blew through a red light and hit and killed an elderly woman who was walking through a cross walk.</span></span><br />
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Now the reason why this got me so upset, beside the fact that someone actually got killed, is that there are so many cyclists who ride around my town like they are God's gift to anything with wheels. Hell, they even think that they're better than four wheel users. I can almost hear them thinking as they peddle by, <i>I'm so cool because I'm being healthy and Eco-conscious by riding my bike around and you suck because you're walking, or driving a car, or plain just not me. </i>Earth to stupid snob on a bike, your being a pedal pusher does not give you the right to disregard the laws!<br />
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Now don't get me wrong, I love riding my bike. For a while I was even biking my way to work because I wanted to be healthier. I also understand that it's a fairly cheap mode of transportation and totally better for the environment compared to all those icky cars. I get all of that, okay? The only thing that I take issue with is that many bicyclists do not know that by choosing to ride a bike they have agreed to the responsibility to obey the traffic laws just like any other operator of a vehicle. Which means no blowing through red lights, signaling before making any turns, using a bike lane when available, paying attention to your surroundings (like not texting while riding), and riding on the correct side of the road. All pretty simple stuff. If you can do these things than good on you, go ahead and pedal for all you're worth..Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-79509043553763161852012-04-03T17:05:00.001-10:002012-04-03T17:05:03.653-10:00I Need a Skyrim PatchWhy oh why am I not doing productive things like figuring out some crochet patterns, crocheting stuff, learning how to knit cute little
baby beanies, keeping up with Pinterest,
furthering my cooking skills, learning about new games, making cards, or starting
on that DAMN scrapbook? Because I can't stop playing Skyrim!<br />
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Also, have you noticed that everything on my to-do is either very
sedentary (that's your word for the day, look it up bitches) or has
something to do with food? This is why I have to make time in my
extremely busy schedule - read SHED-jool - to go to the gym and work out.<br />
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If I could do TKB and crochet at the same time without somehow getting my work all covered in stinky sweat I would totally do it. But alas, it is nigh impossible. Maybe if I completely covered myself in latex?<br />
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Anyway, I did manage to spill stuff on Brent’s pants that will make it look like he’s peed all
over himself the next time he puts them on. I guess I could put THAT on my list of things accomplished for
today. That + Skyrim = pretty loser day, if you ask me.<br />
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weird otherworldly Farmvillesque kind of way. Skyrim is all about life as usual where your usual life includes killing monsters and undead; crafting armor, potions, and food; and killing dragons who show up randomly as you're adventuring.<br />
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It's the little things that make playing Skyrim the stupendous and engrossing experience that it is. Take for example the bard's college and the burning of King Olaf.<br />
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The bard's college is located in Skyrim's Solitude and is filled with broke, artistic, eccentric people; much like our Art Institutes.This special needs college calls to the outcasts of Skyrim, those without the ability or nobility to do anything but recite or sing. The best thing about joining the college is the opportunity to do some quests for the instructors. The quests themselves are not necessarily special, however the rewards are very, very worthwhile. Because these bards are completely broke your payment for services rendered comes in the form of experience (and no it's not THAT type of experience, you sick person you). Each instructor will give you different types of knowledge and you can gain skill levels in things like stealth, various schools of magic, and combat. Honestly some of the best rewards in the game.<br />
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The only way to enter the Bard's college is to save the ritual "burning of King Olaf" festival. This entry quest is not really important except maybe for the amassing of some good loot; what IS important are the correlations between "The Burning of King Olaf" and "Burning Man". Actually there are only two parallels here but I think they have significance. One, in both "King Olaf" and "Burning Man" they set an effigy on fire. Two, both are festivals put on by the dangerously artistic. See? I'm totally on to something here.<br />
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Did I mention that Skyrim also has great music? Here's a video for all of those people out there who, like me, need someone to invent a Skyrim patch so we can cope with the withdrawals. Also for anyone who looked up "Skyrim soundtrack" on iTunes.<br />
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hour now trying to get them to crochet something comprehensible. I ended up
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Some days it feels like my hands have been taken over by a
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How can I possibly be
this effin' clumsy after 12 years of doing crochet? Now granted, I have
been sick off and on for the past week and I am trying to do some extremely
delicate thread crochet, but come off it hands! There are no excuses for this
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All of this hand-hating made me think about other people whose hands might have
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First, I have George Washington. Good 'ol Georgie could not tell a lie and chopped down his dad's cherry tree, but he left out the part about his hands being under the control of a cherry hating demon.</div>
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My next subject is another president, Richard Nixon. According to the <a href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24433909.html?dids=24433909:24433909&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+26%2C+1992">Chicago Tribune</a>, Nixon supposedly got in trouble one sunny day in Brazil when his hands flashed the OK sign as he was stepping off the plane. In Brazil, OK means "up yours" or "fuck off," whatever you think the equivalent to the middle finger is. I think Tricky Dick can reliably blame this faux pas on demonically controlled hands.<br />
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After these two worthy candidates I can only site characters in fiction and movies. Lady Macbeth's hands betrayed her murderous intentions. The poor lady not only was unable to get a good night sleep, but her hands totally gave away her guilty conscience by constantly trying to wash themselves of her role in her husband's act of regicide.<br />
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In "Idle Hands" Anton Tobias' evil right hand kills both of his best buds before he manages to cut it off. He still has to follow the creepy thing around for the rest of the movie because it keeps trying to kill Jessica Alba's character, the super cute spunky girl across the street, whatever her name is.<br />
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And lastly, but most certainly the bestly, Ash from the "Evil Dead" films. Not only does Ash's hand, and the rest of his body, get possessed by a murdering devil thing, but he manages to cut off his own hand and bionically attach a chainsaw to his bloody stump.<br />
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my palm, since my fingers keep disobeying me. Although that may make me more like Edward Scissor hands
than awesome evil-whatever slaying Ash Williams.</div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-58646712866639566512012-03-20T23:48:00.002-10:002012-03-21T07:45:07.013-10:00This IS The Doily I'm Looking For<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh happy, happy day! I FINALLY finished that doily that, about two
weeks ago, I said was only supposed to take a couple of days. Take a
look! It actually turned out to be a doily instead of a sock or a beanie
or a basket or some such thing. Coincidentally, you know what else was
only supposed to take a few days and ended up taking WAY longer?<br />
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My "brief" tour as a clone in Felucia. (Hello Battlefront III? We're
going on like 7 years now.) Thank goodness for Aayla Secura's chicky
Jedi awesomeness.<br />
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Anyway, the main reason why this doily took so much longer than I
expected was because - well, the further along you get in a doily the
more stitches you have to make, and that means that it takes longer and
longer for you to complete each subsequent row. It almost felt like I
was creating some kind of wormholish paradoxical doily where the closer I got to completion the farther away I was from actually being
finished. Honestly, I just SERIOUSLY underestimated the time involved in a project like this.<br />
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That being said, the end results were, I think, pretty well worth it. The doily came out beautifully despite paradoxical wormholing and its constantly trying to change into a pair of leg warmers. There were a couple of things, however, that I really need to work on.<br />
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First, I need better tools and a better proficiency for blocking my piece. I learned that washing and blocking are very important for the sizing and shape of the work and I'm sure they can be done a tid bit more conveniently than my method of sticking pins randomly into various stitches in the vain hope that they will magically give my doily a prettier shape.<br />
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Second - I can't really remember what my second thing was. Never underestimate the power of a time-warping doily? Don't lose your crochet hook by sticking it into your messy hair and forgetting about it and then taking a couple of days to find it under the bed? (The hook wasn't in my hair for days, mind you. It fell out eventually and ended up as a dust bunny's jousting lance.) Maybe I should just try again. I think I'm almost ready for my next one.<br />
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So yesterday was hubbie’s birthday and also a Monday night,
which is our regular turbo kickboxing night.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://weightlossandtraining.com/cardio-kickboxing" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="454" src="http://wlat.wlat.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cardio-kickboxing.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I kind of wish I had her pants and obvious ninja skills</td></tr>
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Brent is funny because he didn’t even think about skipping
out on TKB for his birthday. Instead he decides that he wants to give everyone
in our kickboxing class a special birthday treat – cupcakes. That’s right, we
took cupcakes to our local 24 Hour Fitness. You should’ve seen us walking up to
the gym with two trays full of 80 mini chocolate and vanilla cake batter
cupcakes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sprinkles mean birthday goodness</td></tr>
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We picked up a ponderously
large group of drooling gawkers on our way in the door, not to mention a crap
load of dirty looks. The most popular question of the night was an outraged,
“Why would you bring cupcakes to a gym?” Brent’s birthday was obviously not a
good enough excuse for most people. Fortunately, the workers at 24 Hour saved
us from having to stand with trays in front of the treadmills, cupcakes held
enticingly out of reach. Thank goodness for people who work out enough that
they don’t worry about eating a mini cupcake or two.</div>
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As for the rest of the people in our class, you would think
that a cupcake was the end of the world. It was like by giving out this one
small treat we would send people down a never ending diabetic spiral of binge
eating, glucose overdose, and straight fat injections. On the contrary, in my
experience with my recent weight loss, it helps to do everything in moderation.
Cutting out treats like cupcakes and cookies completely from my diet only leads
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Anyway, our awesome friend Brandon was gracious enough to
supply our diet sabotaging stunt with his amazing cupcakes. You can order your
own from <a href="http://www.brandoncakes.com/">BrandonCakes</a> if you happen to be in the area. My favorite flavors are Ice Wine, Bubblegum, Li Hing Lemon, Tie-Dye, Vanilla Cake Batter...</div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-44056484100079882702012-03-10T08:45:00.000-10:002012-03-10T08:45:39.233-10:00Generation Y Are You Such Sissys?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Have
you ever been chilling on the internet and had an obnoxiously stupid turn of
phrase pop out at you and say, “Hey, look at me! I’m a horrible, horrible
phrase and I’m in your face with my horribleness?” This happened to me today.
It doesn’t happen often (I think the last time was either retrosexual, emo, or Twilight
lover) but when it does this shit sticks with me. The thing that really pisses
me off about stupid words is that once I see them they are stuck in my head
forever! There is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no </b>going back, dammit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">So
today I was looking at Pinterest and this thingy popped up:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">(Find this infographic at <a href="http://kellyashworth.com/">KellyAshworth.com</a> with information from </span><a href="http://thinksplendid.com/">ThinkSplendid.com)</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Um…what
the<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> hell </span>is a millennial?
Am I an idiot for not knowing this? Because this “infographic” seems to imply
that I am. (Don’t ask me how a graphic can imply anything about me, my
husband asks me that question all the time and I’m tired of it. Many things,
including inanimate objects, can make horrible implications about you as a
person without even knowing that they’re doing it…just like my husband.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> Of
course, after looking at this poster a bit, I finally realized that they are
talking about the generation supposedly after my generation, and that made me
even more irritated. Firstly, if I’m Generation X, why aren’t we calling them Generation Y? Well, according to Wikipedia, which also prefers to call them Generation Y, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y">“millennial”</a> is a phrase which the
generation coined themselves. So millions of kids just spontaneously started
walking around saying, "I’m a millennial?" I'm pretty sure that it was people in
my parent’s generation that coined the phrase Generation X and that we had no effin'
choice in the matter. I've decided to call the millennial generation, Generation Y are you such sissys? There you go sissy generation, you suck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Secondly,
my husband is considered a millennial and I’m not. How can you consider someone
who was twenty at the turn of the century a millennial and not someone who was
twenty-two? If you're going to use the word millennial to describe a group of people, shouldn't they be a group of people that were born <b>around</b> the millennium, say 1990-2010? They double suck.</span></div>
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- you have to actually read the infographic for thirdly. “They prefer whole
foods over processed foods. They will spend more on ethically sourced meats
& farm-to-table experiences.” Farm-to-effin-table experiences? How about a
my-foot-to-your-face experience? Bigoted foodie hippies are what these kids
are. They are the Hitlers of gastrointestinal anything; they want to take out
all impure foods and leave only the “pure” Anglo-Saxon food. That's what I'm taking away from this infographic, at any rate. What’s next Generation Sissys?
Passing a law against McDonalds? Oh wait, didn't they just<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/mcdonalds-happy-meals-banned-in-santa-clara-county-california.html"> ban the Happy Meal</a> in freakin'
California because mothers are afraid that their millennial children won't get that farm-to-table experience? (Totally not the reason but whatever.) They triple, quadruple times a billion suck. Screw you Millennnials, I don’t like your name.</span></div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-10659129596242053322012-03-07T07:43:00.003-10:002012-03-07T07:43:44.390-10:00Twas a Dreary and Doily Day - Hooray!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's been so incredibly rainy here for the past few days. I mean like thunder and lightning, flash floods, and raindrops the size of peas kind of rainy. It's the rainy that makes you wanna curl up under the blankets and crochet. (Yes, we do have blankets in Hawaii; add to that electricity, rock music, and bad drivers, and you've got everything you need for a full and eventful life.) Well, you might not want to crochet. You might want to curl up inside your Tauntaun and read, for all I know, but I really like to crochet. Speaking of Tauntauns, check this out:</span></div>
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Yes, it's an <b>adult </b>Tauntaun sleeping bag. They have a kiddie version, but who wants to shove their kid in a smelly Tauntaun? I've absolutely got to get one of these for my summer vacation on Hoth, otherwise known as Alaska. By the way, you can totally buy this at <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/?i=frontv">Think Geek</a>.</div>
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So, back to rain and gloom and non Star Warsie things. The only bad part about curling up under said blanket and finishing said crochet project is that I'm having said bad crochet day. Wait, I didn't say that until now. Anyway, I've had to pull out one and a half rows of my stitching two times now because of the same mistake. The same <b>stupid </b>mistake! Some days you just have to suck it up and crochet on. Here's the project I'm making:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It looks exactly like this only I'm using Knit-Cro-Sheen size 10 crochet thread in white and the doily is not quite finished yet. I am currently working on row 17 out of 22. It's coming out pretty well so far, but it's my first doily, so I could be completely wrong. I might be crocheting a leg warmer or a bra and just think I'm crocheting a doily. At any rate, I'll post whatever it is I end up with as soon as I'm done with it, which should be in a couple of days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pattern for the legwarmer-doily-brathingy came from this book. It's got pictures of some pretty good pineapple doilies in it. The ultimate goal for these doilies (because just having a doily isn't enough anymore) is to turn the finished ones into pillows. I've seen a few being sold on Etsy by </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/90174706/granny-chic-throw-pillow-16-x-16-cream" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Betsy Bell</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and I decided to make my own. Of course I need to actually </span><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">make</b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> a doily first. Here's hoping.</span></span>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2967608730548449569.post-17470565898987890392012-03-04T14:22:00.001-10:002012-03-07T07:20:30.524-10:00The Dreaded Blank Page of a First Post<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
So, here I am, staring at the extremely blank page of my first blog post ever. Actually, I take it back, I often do blogging for my job. Just about every Monday, to tell you the truth. This is completely different. I wonder how many people started up a blog and just stopped right here? Anyway, if you are reading this, I am amazed. It would be nice to have someone take a look at what I have to say, but I'm really not expecting it. I think it will work out better this way.</div>
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This blog will encompass many things. It will talk about the absolute joy I find in gaming, even though I've been trying to stay away from Skyrim for a little over a week now. I will wax eloquent regarding my inability to make a specific craft work. For example, any card I am currently making, a knitting pattern I have recently thrown on the floor, or the scrapbook that I can never seem to get started. My blog will also go in depth into my love/hate relationship with movies and learning how to cook. I may mention my husband once in a while. (By the way, he was the one who thought this was a good idea - now you know who to blame.) I'll probably never mention Taylor Lautner, except for right now. If you find his name in this blog more than once, please let me know, so I can find a suitable punishment for my mind.</div>
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Who does a mediocre-esque looking person (I think this is me) have to sleep with to get a good game studio to finally put out Battlefront III?!?!? HELLO, the PlayStation 3 needs this! My 2 is only about 8 years old, but in gaming platform years that's like 80! By the way, I can't actually sleep with anyone to get this done, but I can try to find someone to do it. Maybe even pay them some money. I think I've got 40 bucks in my pocket right now, so how does a 30 dollar hooker sound, person who will take on Lucas Arts? Please get back to me about my offer, you're our only hope.</div>Punahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485749433183239621noreply@blogger.com0