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wow, long couple of weeks to be gone. i've read all the lj posts i can get to from here, but apparently the friends-view won't allow me to look longer ago than 300 entries. [shrug] it appears that, on balance, most folks' solstice-equivalent and new year's celebrations were on the positive side, for which i'm glad. (and for those that were nothing of the sort, i'm sorry.) my own christmas was lovely; new year's was also smashing, apart from the raging sinus infection i'd managed to acquire on about the 30th. feh.
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darthhellokitty and kingchiron, who gave me a yellow stuffed hurt-comfort plot bunny that had been tended (one ear had wee stitches and a bandage) by a 'dr. foxx.' rock on. we met for lunch at 1:30 and schmoozed (schmoze?) until 5:00, when i realized oh my goodness i should get to my friends' to start helping fix dinner.
delighted to seecesperanza here -- welcome to the jungle, dude. and i'm vaguely bummed to have missed the elf challenge, but i don't speak tolkein well enough to write characters i do know in the elvish paradigm, so i wouldn't have been able to play anyhow. i'll have to get over there and read it some time, though. :-)
curling: friday, played excellent well. my whole team was missing, so i had two subs and we played as a three. technically, i should have skipped, and the subs should have thrown three rocks each, but one of the subs is quite a good skip and i'm just not ready for that kind of responsibility, so he skipped and i viced and the other guy (brand new this fall) threw lead. we did very well. saturday, drove up to new jersey for the same friendly-sort-of-thing i did in philadelphia last month, and played like veritable crap. something just wasn't coming together. i'll need to work on this.
intended to stay up in dc saturday night, catch TTT with some friends sunday afternoon and then curl sunday evening, but felt like utter shit so i drove home to sleep in my own bed the sooner instead. paid the rent on my way to my apartment, and a good thing, too, because sunday i barely left my bed, much less the building. woke up at 11 am after twelve hours of sleep, took two advil and two advil cold & sinus, and went back to bed for another seven hours. oy. (plus, it turned out they canceled curling on sunday. so i made the right choice.)
today, sinus infection continues to clear up, thanks to mmmdrugs; retrieved mail, which included prezzies and cards and also a jacket i'd mistakenly left in florida; discovered that car, which suffered nasty flat tire on friday (due to running over a pothole in which one could have planted a tree; would have dodged it, but this would have caused collision with traffic coming the other direction), needs not only a new tire but a whole new wheel. ugh. ordered wheel. winced.
am now about to make some dinner, and either watch a little FOTR-dvd action, or read a bit and go to bed. last few days without family obligations but before semester begins again = v. nice.
oh! and update on le boy: he seems not to have gotten the earlier fox-isn't-a-fraidy-cat-let's-get-a-beer e-mail. over the break, i got [paraphrase] "i still have your book; i can either give it back to you spring semester, or if you can't wait, i can send it right away, in which case i'll need to know where to send it. (clever way to get addresses, eh? i'm so artful.) hope you're well, [signed]." [/paraphrase] i cursed and spat and consulted with my friend and her fiance, and ultimately (between having been access-less and travelling and then contemplating, it had been about a week) responded with "i'm sure spring semester is fine -- give me a call and we'll arrange a drop-off. i'm at [number]. (now who's being artful?) happy new year, [signed]." within twelve hours, i'd gotten back "you're so artful. [signed]." so i'm doing my best not to wait for the phone to ring. ;-)
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darthhellokitty and kingchiron, who gave me a yellow stuffed hurt-comfort plot bunny that had been tended (one ear had wee stitches and a bandage) by a 'dr. foxx.' rock on. we met for lunch at 1:30 and schmoozed (schmoze?) until 5:00, when i realized oh my goodness i should get to my friends' to start helping fix dinner.delighted to see
cesperanza here -- welcome to the jungle, dude. and i'm vaguely bummed to have missed the elf challenge, but i don't speak tolkein well enough to write characters i do know in the elvish paradigm, so i wouldn't have been able to play anyhow. i'll have to get over there and read it some time, though. :-)curling: friday, played excellent well. my whole team was missing, so i had two subs and we played as a three. technically, i should have skipped, and the subs should have thrown three rocks each, but one of the subs is quite a good skip and i'm just not ready for that kind of responsibility, so he skipped and i viced and the other guy (brand new this fall) threw lead. we did very well. saturday, drove up to new jersey for the same friendly-sort-of-thing i did in philadelphia last month, and played like veritable crap. something just wasn't coming together. i'll need to work on this.
intended to stay up in dc saturday night, catch TTT with some friends sunday afternoon and then curl sunday evening, but felt like utter shit so i drove home to sleep in my own bed the sooner instead. paid the rent on my way to my apartment, and a good thing, too, because sunday i barely left my bed, much less the building. woke up at 11 am after twelve hours of sleep, took two advil and two advil cold & sinus, and went back to bed for another seven hours. oy. (plus, it turned out they canceled curling on sunday. so i made the right choice.)
today, sinus infection continues to clear up, thanks to mmmdrugs; retrieved mail, which included prezzies and cards and also a jacket i'd mistakenly left in florida; discovered that car, which suffered nasty flat tire on friday (due to running over a pothole in which one could have planted a tree; would have dodged it, but this would have caused collision with traffic coming the other direction), needs not only a new tire but a whole new wheel. ugh. ordered wheel. winced.
am now about to make some dinner, and either watch a little FOTR-dvd action, or read a bit and go to bed. last few days without family obligations but before semester begins again = v. nice.
oh! and update on le boy: he seems not to have gotten the earlier fox-isn't-a-fraidy-cat-let's-get-a-beer e-mail. over the break, i got [paraphrase] "i still have your book; i can either give it back to you spring semester, or if you can't wait, i can send it right away, in which case i'll need to know where to send it. (clever way to get addresses, eh? i'm so artful.) hope you're well, [signed]." [/paraphrase] i cursed and spat and consulted with my friend and her fiance, and ultimately (between having been access-less and travelling and then contemplating, it had been about a week) responded with "i'm sure spring semester is fine -- give me a call and we'll arrange a drop-off. i'm at [number]. (now who's being artful?) happy new year, [signed]." within twelve hours, i'd gotten back "you're so artful. [signed]." so i'm doing my best not to wait for the phone to ring. ;-)
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Meeting you was a major high point of the Tampa trip -- it's true, the time FLEW by (despite the hovering waitress, who was probably just trying to tune in on the TMI), and I felt like I'd known you for ages -- which, of course, I *have*, online-wise, but ah, would so love to hang out, go to movies, mock le boys, etc. You are the rockingest of rocking things.
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some time we will hang out, go to movies, mock, etc. there's all this future in front of us, you know?
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So, wait, he actually said that? About artfulness? Ooh!
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there she is!
--stripeytail