Enemy of Entropy

Still Thinging; Date Night

9 February 2008, 11:50 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under College, Critters, Family, Fun, Geekery, Health, Home, Needlework, Podcast, Writing.

I am, in fact, still keep­ing up with Thing-​​a-​​Day! I need to go post over there, though. I do wish I could auto­mat­i­cally cross-​​post, but if wishes were fishes and all that.

I stitched tonight while Sam and I gamed. I also wrote for a while, ear­lier. Sam and I have recently begun par­tic­i­pat­ing in a forum that does a great job of encour­ag­ing intro­spec­tion, and being a safe place in which to express one­self. It’s a pow­er­ful thing, and I’m in awe of the peo­ple who cre­ated and run it.
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SBQ: Other crafts?

6 February 2008, 11:56 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Needlework.

Melange by Calico Crossroads
This weekend’s Stitch­ing Blog­gers Ques­tion:

Are there other crafts that you have tried and aban­doned? Why do you like stitch­ing better?

Short ver­sion: Because it’s one of the few visually-​​beautiful things I’ve ever been good at.
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Happy Car Day!

4 February 2008, 11:46 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Family, Health, Needlework, RPGs, Reading.

Well, that’s what it felt like. Poor Sam had to take time off from work, because it was Pain Doc Day. The pain doc­tor is off in the wilds of Cobb County, because that’s where we lived when I started see­ing a pain doc­tor, and it’s darn near impos­si­ble to get a ref­er­ence to a new one (much less trust that a new one will, in fact, keep writ­ing pre­scrip­tions for the meds that actu­ally work). Then we headed to Big Ware­house Store to get the RXs filled, and also hit the bank and the post office because they’re just so much fun! And then it was time to go see the friendly ther­a­pist lady.

Hap­pily, we were able to game off and on dur­ing the day, which made the whole busi­ness far more pleas­ant than it would have been oth­er­wise. And we picked up a great big bag of fat-​​lady clothes from a nice freecy­cler! Some of them are so cool the girl is eying them cov­etously, so I need to be sure they go to my room and don’t wan­der off to hers.

While we were gone, though, a sweet fairy girl washed our quilt and com­forter! Sam put fresh sheets on the bed, so I’ll be crawl­ing into a nice, clean bed next to a freshly-​​showered, cud­dly man soon. That part of the day, I’m look­ing for­ward to!
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Thing-​​A-​​Day 1!

1 February 2008, 11:49 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Art, Needlework.

If there’s a way to auto-​​cross-​​post rel­e­vant entries from here to Thing-​​A-​​Day, I haven’t fig­ured it out. Doing it man­u­ally feels inelegant.

I don’t have a photo to post, but I got out the draw­ing tablet for the first time in an embar­rass­ingly long time, and worked on a cross-​​stitch design. It split into two designs, some­how, but I’m hop­ing to post pics tomor­row. I dis­cov­ered that Pat­tern­Maker isn’t installed on this machine, so I’ve made graph­ics that have to be trans­lated into graphed designs.

I feel that I’m really in the “get­ting orga­nized” stage, which I should have done last week. But the tablet is attached now, and I know where my stitch­ing bag is. I’ll find out in the morn­ing just what my daugh­ter did with my col­ored pen­cils and such, and locate the Pat­tern­Maker install CD. And the cam­era, that would help. Yep.

It did feel great to have time on my sched­ule devoted to “being cre­ative” and noth­ing else!

Happy Friday!

18 January 2008, 11:22 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Family, Health, Home.

The girl is gone this week­end. I’m start­ing to feel like the house is just a place where she keeps her stuff and does her laun­dry! I sup­pose that’s nor­mal for any par­ent of an older teen, and good prac­tice for when she goes off to col­lege. It doesn’t mean that i have to like it, though!

Sam has been Mr. Pod­casty tonight, record­ing a round­table dis­cus­sion for some­one else’s show, then record­ing a new Square One episode with Bill Wal­ton. I’m tempted to do a Fibrant Liv­ing again. It’s cer­tainly been long enough!

I have hopes of rear­rang­ing the liv­ing room to some extent tomor­row, to make the house more invit­ing for guests and make it eas­ier to play the piano. I’m really tempted to reclaim the back bed­room as “office space,” but Sam will kill me if I ask him to move the big sofa again. I just have this feel­ing that as long as our com­put­ers are out here in the pub­lic area, we aren’t going to be very suc­cess­ful at keep­ing the pub­lic areas unclut­tered. I’d need a desk to move my com­puter in there, though, or we’d need another table.

We really, really need to improve the light­ing in the liv­ing room. One of the torchiere lamps has a bro­ken switch, and we don’t really have any task light­ing at all. I’d much pre­fer the sort of lamps that have those adjustable heads, so some point up and another points down at what­ever you’re read­ing or stitching.

Yep, I’m totally ran­dom tonight. This is Cyn on break­through meds. Whee!

 

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