Rants of Procrastination and Fatigue

Thank you to everyone on my lovely f-list who wished me love for my op. I'm still feeling it not surprisingly and still only eating squishy foods or hard foods that I can eat like a demented rabbit or granny with new dentures. Of course, I soon found that chocolate melts in the mouth quite easily. XD Uni is a mess as I've had a bit of a ME/CFS crash, as was expected. I'm applying to get my exam and assessment defered so I can catch everything up. Anyway, don't stress little f-list and I'll talk to you all soon. Drama free hugs.

Have had migraine for past two days.
Am on my hardcore pain killers.
Going in for surgery tomorrow at 7.30 for wisdom teeth extraction.
Sorry if I haven't gotten around to your latest entry or reply. 
See you all when I see you.

Be thankful I don't do this for a living. XD


moar funny pictures

Just got an email from uni. My exam is to be held in a uniting church in town. Shall be interesting.

Meme from seaivywhich I suspect I've done before but just tickled my fancy.

1. ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet, current car): Mia Laser

2. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite Kind of shoe): Strawberry Croc

3. HIPPY NAME: (what you ate for breakfast, fav tree): Chocolate Cherry

4. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born): Evelyn Adelaide

5. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Broje

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (favorite color, favorite drink): Green Tea (Ha!)

7. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers/grandmothers): Audrey Effie

8. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Chanel Raspberry

10. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 4th grade teacher’s last name, a city that starts with the same letter): also too long ago for me, but the earliest female teacher I can remeber was Shimmen Sydney

11. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Winter Rosemary

12. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now) Apple Pajamas

I'm amused.

Just something I had a little fun with - in fact I remember doing this a some other point but can't seem to find the post in my tags. Anyway, I just got an email from Dymocks advertising their Top 101 or "Booklovers' Best" - a blatent rip off of Angus and Robertson's Top 100, but I like lists and A&R doesn't have a rewards program so ner to them.

Bold = read and own
Italic = own and intend to read
Underlines = don't own but want to read eventually
* = "can't live without" favourites

Saw this fun vocab site on some American talk show this morning and thought I'd take a look. It's quite fun. For each word that you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to a United Nations program to end wolrd hunger. Or so they say. I think it has something to do with the ad banners at the bottom of the page. I managed to get up to level 40 (not bad considering I've only been awake for half an hour) and donated 8100 grains of rice. Go me.

www.freerice.com 

It's rather adictive if you keep going long enough. XD

I'm probably behind the time again, but I just found this website and I love it. 43 Things combines my love of making lists and dreaming of the future. It's supposed to be interactive so you can meet people with the same goals as you, but it looks to be pretty quiet. One "thing" I looked up hadn't had an entry for over a year! So anyway, visit my user page here if you've nothing better to do. I tried to use the javascript or whatever to get the list to show up in this post on its own, but my fu is weak so you get a link instead.

Speaking of organisation, I'm thinking of giving Ravelry another try. I've been keeping records of yarn and project finished and those to be done in a word doc, and it's doing ok, but it's not as organised as I'd like. I'll see how I go. It's not like you have to wait for a month of Sundays for an invite anymore.

Oh and Library Thing too.

*shrugs*

I know this is probably old news for many people, and it's already been slathered all over my F-list, but I am truely shocked!

I got up only about an hour ago to be greeted by "HEATH LEDGER DIES" plastered all over my homepage.

It's so incredibly tragic - he was 28 years old for crying out loud!

Wow.

I finished my first tarot pocket - a birthday present for my cousin to whom I gifted my Rider-Waite deck at Xmas. I'm quite happy with it, despite the curling edge on the inside. I might try blocking before finishing next time, but it's not a major spanner in the works or anything - you can't see it when it's closed and got a deck in it. Anyway, here's the pattern, babble and all. If there's anything looking a little hinky or in need of clarification please let me know as this is my first pattern and first write up. XD

22nd January 08 - I've adapted the pattern into a Version 2 after another attempt at Button-Up. I found that starting right from the beginning with the garter stitch border resulted in minimal curling, unlike Version 1 which only included the border on the flap. 

 

I just read this truely...umm...true...line on a sig over at Mystic Wicks and couldn't resist passing the love along: 

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots."

Tickles my fancy.

Speaking of MW, I attempted to put my first user on my ignore list today but was unsuccessful. Sad I know. Turns out they're a teacher in the COT forums and thusly classed as a moderator (who can't be ignored naturally). Quite the bother. When they first popped up, I thought they were some annoying and ranting little troll. But they haven't disappeared like normal trolls and now, despite my best efforts to ignore their every word, they're starting to piss me off. Nothing offensive or anything - just really, really, really, really, really annoying and bothersome. Oh well, no drama or anything, just irksome, as things are wont to be.

Again speaking of MW, I'm quite liking it there. I've found that a community in itself isn't usually fluffy or emo or academic or snarky or what have you - it's the members. And MW has quite a nice and well balanced mix of members - the fluffs, the noobs, the ranters, the down-right-weird - and one element doesn't over power the other. It was strange that I first came across the site from another that was using it as an example of fluffdom. *shrugs*

I just finished my "Almighty-men's-scarf-of-heat-exhaustion".
It's 150cms long (longer than I am tall) and 30cms wide.
I threw the pattern out the window, so my nect project must include pattern reading and adhering to.
In fact, the only specification that I stuck to were the 7mm needles and fluffy tassels on the ends.
I widened it, shortened it, used a cheaper and softer acrylic yarn, and only used one colour rather than stripes.
Baby steps, says I.

And without further ado:

Woot! I might give the knitting a rest until the heat settles down a bit, then decide on what to take on next.

It's 43 degrees celcius outside!
That's 109.4 degrees fahrenheit, I think.
The hottest temp on record in Adelaide for the past 110 years!
I'll bet money that we'll get more bushfires after tonight.
New Years around here is a notorious time for illegal fireworks displays.
In fact, I heard something explode earlier today. 
Either there was a really bad prang out on the highway or someone's gas bottle exploded or something.
Suffice to say I heard the boom loud and clear through my iPod earbuds jammed in with the sound way up.
So I quit.
I'm moving to Alaska.

1. What is your favorite animal?: 
Domesticated Cat.


2. Use 3 adjectives to say why you like this animal. (Example: pretty, wild, fierce, strong, mysterious, cunning, sly, etc):
Affectionate, independent and utterly devoted. 


3. You are in a white, bright room with no doors and no windows. How does it make you feel?: 
Safe, peaceful, clean.

4. You're standing on a balcony looking at the ocean. What are the waves like? (You can imagine this any way you like. Any type of scenery, anything. Just describe the waves): 
Soft and gently lapping at the shore.

xfirefly9x is the queen of randomly generated stuff. Today's randomly generated stuff is brought to you by the letter "X" and the number "4":

 Warning: Prone to prolonged absences from reality. Please slap to reboot.

Hee. Procrastination  = Fun.

Ahem.
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I'VE BEEN ACCEPTED TO CURTIN!

*bounds around the room like a lunatic*

That's right. 

I've been made an official offer to the Curtin BA (Media and Information) degree, in which I intend to major in Librarianship and Information Managment. Woot!

I was told offers wouldn't be made until late January/early February.

Talk about a surprise.

The damn package sat out in the letterbox all day because I had a headache and wasn't up for braving the heat in case it made it worse.

There's a slight hiccup.

There's a mandatory enrolment information session that I'm supposed to be attending...in Perth.
And according to my letter of offer, attendence by proxy isn't permitted.
*is confused*

So I've sent of the standard hysterical email to the department, screaming for help, and am back to my ecstatic celebrations.

Woot again!

More news when I get it.

 

xfirefly9xwas having fandom fun with the drabble-matic and I wanted to join in so prepare yourself for:

 

*Dies of laughter*

A book meme I snatched from a random persons LJ that I don't know.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.


So, all in all, not very widely read, but well intentioned. I suppose that counts for something. XD

I hope this works. Found this on 

fibromyalgia and had to share with F-list.