I saw my first robin of the year today!!!! :D That's exciting. I always kind of use the day of the year that I see my first robin as the first day of spring. Well, early spring.
The rest of my Christmas present from Andy finally arrived. It's a fleecy orange hat with, best of all . . . kitty ears! XD XD XD It's sooooo awesome! I wore it on Sunday when I visited Andy and I wore it yesterday to class too! Sooooo cute! It certainly got some looks, but most people seemed to like it. My UCOR professor was opening class and stopped right in the middle of a sentence and looked at me and said, "Nice hat. Are you cold?" She was slightly surprised. And it fits really well which most hats don't. :) I had a really nice time with Andy even though I sucked it up at Guitar Hero. I'll just never have enough coordination for that kind of thing. It's like trying to rub your tummy and pat your head while winking and hopping on one foot. Well, that's what it's like for me anyway. For Andy I'm sure it's more like . . . breathing.
Speaking of my UCOR teacher, I swear that woman has an ongoing battle with spell check. Last week when we were learning about China during the Middle Ages, we were learning about Confucius. However, several times throughout her powerpoint, "Confucian values" was replaced with "Confusion values" which made me smile to myself. And yesterday on her powerpoint, she had written that someone had written a book "anomalously" insted of "anonymously." Apparently this book was quite an aberration from the norm. ;)
The greenhouse has been hard to keep up with. Lots of stuff going on and sadly, lots of procrastination on homework too. :\ But I'm doing my best to mend my ways. The banana tree had a pod on it that I discovered a couple weeks ago and wasn't sure of what it was. Turns out, it's a flower! The banana tree is going to produce bananas. :) I'm going to have to take pictures.
I'm also having fun with Moog and Andy and Steve on an online game called ogame. It's a game where you start out with a planet and get to build more and more stuff and raid other planets for their resources, etc. etc. :) Quite addicting, but fortunately, not excessively time-consuming. Not for me anyway.
Okay, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll be riding my bike soon since things are starting to warm up around here.
The Gaming (to a point) Girl ;)
It's me, happy!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Artifice and Edifice (Pride and Prejudice Quote)
Sheesh! Things have been moving so quickly around here! It's been hard to find a moment to spare. As I'm writing this, I should be preparing to leave to go and sequester myself in the library so I can finish my homework before Andy visits tomorrow. I'm even the caffeine-jolted state of alertness that will allow me to get as much done before dinner time as possible.
I now have no idea what is actually news and what isn't because it's been so long since I blogged last that I'll pretty much just have to tell everything and assume that some of you have heard it already. I'm working in the greenhouse again. This time for pay instead of credit. (I got an A last quarter. Yay! :D) This is great news for me as I'm excited that I'll get to stay on and watch the plants grow and change. The sad news is, however, that Dr. Nelson, through a slight bit of negligence over the break, killed one of my favorite plants, the maidenhair. ~Sniff, sniff~ :'( I even made it a headstone that I am tempted to put in it's planter. ;) Heh. Well, maidenhair ferns are tough old weeds and I still have hopes that this one will resprout. Everything else seems to be going fine. Although I do wonder what happened to my small clippers . . . it's hard to prune back a sensitive plant using loppers. ;)
Yesterday was an oil-painting day put on by Siri. It was sooo fun. :) I still haven't quite finished my painting because I had to go to work at the library after only about an hour-and-a-half, but it looks pretty good so far. It's a lake with some pine trees, and I've been utilizing the power of Bob Ross to create it. ;) The guy actually has some pretty solid, easy-to-use techniques if you watched enough of his show. Even though it was a little hard to paint on the canvases we had since they bumpy, not flat. Some things don't work quite so well. But I am looking forward to my next opportunity to paint. Siri was so nice to put it on for us . . . I also saw Save the Last Dance and X-Men 1 for the first time ever this weekend. What cinematic progress I'm making! ;)
I'm kind of broke right now or I would be taking more random pictures. I got a check from Energizer a while back for my freakish broken batteries and charger. They sent me $25 and I'm pretty sure the charger cost less than that, so I'm okay with how things turned out. But until I can get a hold of some more batteries, and quite possibly a new charger. I'm saving my camera for the major things instead of doing silly things like taking pictures of my plants in the greenhouse, or that sign up in Queen Anne with the pedestrian flying that says, "Think of the impact you could make", or taking a picture of my painting, or of my latest artworks. I drew a picture of several of my friends as a superhero team. It's awesome! Laura is my favorite . . . :) . . . . Man, I wish I had a battery charger . . . :\ Darn electronics and their expenses.
Other than that schoolwork rules my life. Dr. Bartlett, my organic chemistry teacher, assigns a lot more homework than Dr. Mouser did last quarter. I am endeavoring to use my Palm Pilot this quarter in order to keep track of things since I will have a lot of simultaneous assignments from different classes (all three are heavy on the homework). We'll see how that goes. So far I've just gotten myself readdicted to all its games and forgotten where I've written my math assignment twice . . .
In other news, I have a semi-resolution this year that some of you may not have heard about. It is to try new things. So far, I have tried a Royal Red Robin burger (WAY too greasy with its combination of hamburger patty, bacon, egg, AND mayonnaise) and the biscotti in Gwinn. (The other resolution was to actually get some real exercise time in this quarter but THAT has yet to happen.)
Well, that's all that's going on for me right now. Dan, my brother, and my sister and her new husband all cross my mind often. I wonder how Dan is doing at bootcamp and what my brother is planning in order to finish his education before he ships out and how Bethany and Shay are doing in their apartment. ~Sigh~ . . . Everyone is moving on into their new lives. Separation is a part of life, I suppose. I'm looking forward to being reunited with my family during spring break and summer so that I can see my brother before he ships out. :( Well, I better take off to finish my paper. I'll blog when next I can take a breath. ;)
The Active Artist
I now have no idea what is actually news and what isn't because it's been so long since I blogged last that I'll pretty much just have to tell everything and assume that some of you have heard it already. I'm working in the greenhouse again. This time for pay instead of credit. (I got an A last quarter. Yay! :D) This is great news for me as I'm excited that I'll get to stay on and watch the plants grow and change. The sad news is, however, that Dr. Nelson, through a slight bit of negligence over the break, killed one of my favorite plants, the maidenhair. ~Sniff, sniff~ :'( I even made it a headstone that I am tempted to put in it's planter. ;) Heh. Well, maidenhair ferns are tough old weeds and I still have hopes that this one will resprout. Everything else seems to be going fine. Although I do wonder what happened to my small clippers . . . it's hard to prune back a sensitive plant using loppers. ;)
Yesterday was an oil-painting day put on by Siri. It was sooo fun. :) I still haven't quite finished my painting because I had to go to work at the library after only about an hour-and-a-half, but it looks pretty good so far. It's a lake with some pine trees, and I've been utilizing the power of Bob Ross to create it. ;) The guy actually has some pretty solid, easy-to-use techniques if you watched enough of his show. Even though it was a little hard to paint on the canvases we had since they bumpy, not flat. Some things don't work quite so well. But I am looking forward to my next opportunity to paint. Siri was so nice to put it on for us . . . I also saw Save the Last Dance and X-Men 1 for the first time ever this weekend. What cinematic progress I'm making! ;)
I'm kind of broke right now or I would be taking more random pictures. I got a check from Energizer a while back for my freakish broken batteries and charger. They sent me $25 and I'm pretty sure the charger cost less than that, so I'm okay with how things turned out. But until I can get a hold of some more batteries, and quite possibly a new charger. I'm saving my camera for the major things instead of doing silly things like taking pictures of my plants in the greenhouse, or that sign up in Queen Anne with the pedestrian flying that says, "Think of the impact you could make", or taking a picture of my painting, or of my latest artworks. I drew a picture of several of my friends as a superhero team. It's awesome! Laura is my favorite . . . :) . . . . Man, I wish I had a battery charger . . . :\ Darn electronics and their expenses.
Other than that schoolwork rules my life. Dr. Bartlett, my organic chemistry teacher, assigns a lot more homework than Dr. Mouser did last quarter. I am endeavoring to use my Palm Pilot this quarter in order to keep track of things since I will have a lot of simultaneous assignments from different classes (all three are heavy on the homework). We'll see how that goes. So far I've just gotten myself readdicted to all its games and forgotten where I've written my math assignment twice . . .
In other news, I have a semi-resolution this year that some of you may not have heard about. It is to try new things. So far, I have tried a Royal Red Robin burger (WAY too greasy with its combination of hamburger patty, bacon, egg, AND mayonnaise) and the biscotti in Gwinn. (The other resolution was to actually get some real exercise time in this quarter but THAT has yet to happen.)
Well, that's all that's going on for me right now. Dan, my brother, and my sister and her new husband all cross my mind often. I wonder how Dan is doing at bootcamp and what my brother is planning in order to finish his education before he ships out and how Bethany and Shay are doing in their apartment. ~Sigh~ . . . Everyone is moving on into their new lives. Separation is a part of life, I suppose. I'm looking forward to being reunited with my family during spring break and summer so that I can see my brother before he ships out. :( Well, I better take off to finish my paper. I'll blog when next I can take a breath. ;)
The Active Artist
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