Zombie Mom

run away! run away!!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:36:47 GMT

Does anyone else sometimes get random monty python gifs when trying to access livejournal or am I just crazy?

Bad mood

Mon, 11 May 2009 18:40:33 GMT

I'm irrationally moody and I just stuffed three fun sized 3 Musketeers in my face. It is NOT time for this, god damn it. Seriously, i just had a period a week and a half ago. My cycle is completely fucked, lately.

The unending, constant, torrential rain isn't doing me any favors either.

And my site is down. Which is my fault but there are extenuating circumstances. Our bank sold out to Wells Fargo at the end of last month and they issued new check cards. I forgot to change my hosting account information, so the old card didn't go through this month. They sent me an email giving me a week or so to update it, but being the ohsodistracted crazy person I've been for, say, the last 6 months, I neglected to do this. I can't even fix it from work because of security measures at linode.com. This IP address isn't whitelisted to be able to log into my account info. I like this, but it's very annoying as I also can't access the email account that would allow me to whitelist this IP address due to security measures at work. Grrr.

I have so many other things I could bitch about, too. But I won't. Because they all annoy the piss out of me.

ye olde birthday post

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:06:48 GMT

And just like that, I'm 37. This bothers me to an irrational degree. I mean, it's no different than 36, really. I don't know. I don't like saying outloud or writing down that I'm 37. It's ick inducing, somehow. I can't explain it to all you youngsters. ;p

My birthday was kinda meh. I'd spent both Sunday and Monday feeling like death warmed over from a stupid head cold. I took the day off work, but Shane woke me up at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. so we could all eat breakfast together before he left for Arizona. It was nice, after my first cup of coffee. The kids loved it. Ali wanted to do it again this morning, but I burst her bubble on that pretty quick. After breakfast, I took Ryan and Ali to school and then came home and made another pot of coffee. I vegged and played on the internet all morning and then did a little shopping. I picked up The Secret Life of Bees and The Vampire Chronicles. I'm working on the former now and really like it so far.

The MIL called later that afternoon and wanted to buy me a drink, and hey - free liquor! I'm all about that, so I met her at a bar close to the house. Then I went to the grocery store (second home) and Blake and I cooked enchiladas for dinner. After a shaker of martinis (grapefruit pomegranate juice + vodka), I played around some more on the internet and went to bed at 10:30 like the fucking old person that I am. *Aside to Beth: I really, really tried to stay awake, but I am old and lame and fell asleep like a loser. :(*

So yeah, that was my birthday. It was actually a very nice day, even though I'm bummed about being 37. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be more immature than ever to make up for it. ;)

Geek

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:16:12 GMT

So, I've been wanting to try it for a while now and I finally broke down and installed linux on Shane's old laptop. The one he dropped. The one that's seriously messed up. And I got it to work for a whole 24 hours before it crashed again. :)

I went with debian because that's what a friend of mine uses so I knew if I had any questions, he could help me. I loved it. So much. If it weren't for photoshop and my camera software, I'd switch this computer over. I can't even explain what it is about it that I love so much, but I do. So, now I need to buy a new hard drive for the broken laptop so I can reinstall and play with it some more.

I had to install from my usb thumb drive because the cd/dvd drive is also broken. That's not really a big deal, though since the usb thing works so damn well.

I had to go to a brunch bridal shower this morning - an hour out of town. It was ok, though. There were mimosas and there were not any stupid shower games. I got some cute pictures of Ali (she's going to be a flower girl in the wedding this summer) that I will upload and process at some point tomorrow. Unless I get bored tonight. Whichever. ;)

I steal from Jen!

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:33:33 GMT

70 words

Typing Test

Tortellini with White Wine and Mushroom Sauce

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:02:42 GMT

cross posted from nineteenwords.com

I cooked tonight. I love to cook, but I don’t do it often anymore.

Ingredients:

all measurements are approximate. I kind of eyeball everything

1 package 3 cheese tortellini
1 package hot italian sausage
1 package dried porchini mushrooms
2 cups sliced cremini mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped green onion
1 clove chopped garlic
2 tbsp fresh thyme
2 tbsp butter
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup drinkable white wine

Soak dried porchinis in white wine - 30 minutes

Remove casings and brown italian sausage, chop coarsely
set aside on paper towels - reserve fat

Boil water for pasta

In the pan with the sausage drippings, add in butter
heat until bubbly and add in garlic
saute for a couple minutes
add creminis, green onions, and thyme
season to taste with salt and black pepper
saute for 5 or 6 minutes or until mushrooms are browned
add porchinis and wine
bring to a boil and reduce by half
add heavy cream
whisk until combined
add sausage back in

Pour sauce over cooked pasta

Top with shredded cheese (I use a 6 cheese blend)

Eat until you pop.

Baaaa...

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:30:44 GMT

For Beth

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:40:55 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594743347/

:D

I won't remember to do this on Saturday.

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:33:03 GMT

25 Random Things

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:37:11 GMT

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

This is making the rounds on facebook. I’m not tagging anyone.

1. I’m older than I look. I still get carded all the time and it still makes my day every single time it happens.

2. My hair is naturally curly. I straighten it most of the time, so people are always surprised when I don’t and usually ask me if I’ve gotten a perm.

3. On the subject of my hair, I started going grey at 21 and color my hair religiously for that reason.

4. I am addicted to caffeine and twitter.

5. I didn’t finish college.

6. I am almost obsessive about how things are arranged on my desk, but I’m not a “neat and tidy” person by any means. Its more like organized chaos.

7. I love my job.

8. I was a stay at home mom for 10 years.

9. I usually have music playing, if only for background noise, unless I’m sleeping.

10. I go out of my way to be grammatically correct when I write things.

11. AIM-speak drives me insane. Don’t use numbers in the place of words.

12. I have impeccable telephone etiquette.

13. I’m way more social on the internet than I am in person. I have shyness issues.

14. If you hurt my feelings, I’ll probably never tell you.

15. I am very sarcastic.

16. I ramble when I get nervous or scared.

17. I’m afraid of most insects. Spiders and wasps especially creep me out.

18. I’ve never been on a rollercoaster.

19. I can’t go into an office supply store without buying something.

20. I want to decorate my living room with my own black and white photographs, but I feel like that’s too vain.

21. I wish I’d stayed in piano lessons as a child. I also want to learn to play the cello.

22. I’ve never lived alone. I went straight from my parent’s house to being married.

23. I have 8 pairs of boots.

24. I hate ketchup.

25. I chew gum almost constantly. I also have a bad habit of cracking my gum and catch myself doing it unconsciously all the time.

For beth

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:36:04 GMT

My IT department must know you...

Quizness

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:14:27 GMT

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Romantic Extroverted Builder

Extroverted? Not so much. The other two I can agree with.

...Do you even remember?

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:25:03 GMT

I was in the mall the other day, looking for something I don't even remember now, when I noticed our Waldenbooks is closing. I hate to see a book store of any kind close. Makes me sad. I went in a picked up a few bargain books. One being a Tapas cookbook.

Oh my. I want so much of this tapas!! Seriously. I want to have a tapas party and cook all kinds of little spanish appetizers! With booze! Lots and lots of booze! :D

The problem I have is that no one here would really appreciate it. They would like the booze, of course, but they wouldn't understand the premise of a tapas party. Superbowl party? Oh yes. Tapas? What the hell is tapas and what's this in the chicken? Is this steak? Lamb?! Who eats that?! Where are the hot wings? etc., etc. You get the picture. Don't get me wrong, I'm a great fan of hot wings and beer, but I'd like to have something a little more sophisticated, I guess. Maybe once the house is finished.

In other news, I have been incredibly lazy today. As in, still in my pajama pants lazy. It's shameful, but I don't care. I've really enjoyed vegging out and listening to music all day. I need to be trying to figure out why my .htaccess file isn't banning the ips I specified like it should be, but that would take more effort and brain power than I want to expend. ;p

So does finding a good ending to this post, apparently. ;)

I'm having way too much fun with this...

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:17:37 GMT

jacked meme

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:44:52 GMT

Your rainbow is strongly shaded green.

What is says about you: You are an intelligent person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Oh my...

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:32 GMT

http://engrishfunny.com/2008/08/22/engrish-wryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy/

Dear god, I think they've been reading cream lemon. o.O;;

Trick or Treat!!

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:40:50 GMT

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
lisapaloosa goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as slutty catholic school girl.
abenomaster tricks you! You get a rock.
cloudkucooland tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
coldwrapped gives you 18 brown apple-flavoured gummy worms.
dreamsy gives you 14 milky white cola-flavoured gumdrops.
emilyadi gives you 8 mottled green tropical-flavoured gummy bats.
ferretclaw gives you 13 green lemon-flavoured gummy bats.
jenhime gives you 1 mottled green cherry-flavoured wafers.
kleykulele tricks you! You lose 34 pieces of candy!
lbeth gives you 5 teal banana-flavoured nuggets.
lime_margarita tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
lisapaloosa ends up with 25 pieces of candy, a rock, a piece of paper, and a scratched CD.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Happy Halloween!!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:18:47 GMT

I still need to buy candy. I always wait until the last minute on that so I don't eat (so much of) it. My ass thanks me. ;)

Well hell, I got all caught up in twitter and forgot I'd started this. XD I'm such a scatterbrain.

I'm going to watch a friend play at this deuling pianos thing tomorrow night. I'm really looking forward to it.

Tonight is trick or treat. I was going to dress up, but decided it would be too much trouble. I'm wearing halloween socks right now, so that counts. A little. ;)

/randomness

Ap-happy

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:25:19 GMT

Posting from my iPod. Cool! XD

Yeah. That's all I've got today. ;)

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Color Meme

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:10:55 GMT

you are lightcyan
#E0FFFF

Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well.

Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working.

Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Stoled meme

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:10:29 GMT

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Extroverted, Progressive, and Intelligent

6 Cubist, -9 Islamic, 1 Ukiyo-e, -5 Impressionist, 4 Abstract and -17 Renaissance!

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It revolutionized European art and inspired changes in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism. It was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 mainly in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, (using synthetic materials in the art) the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919.

People that chose Cubist paintings as their favorite art form tend to be very individualized people. They are more extroverted and less afraid of speaking their opinions then other people. They tend to be progressive and are very forward thinking. As the cubist painting is like looking into a shattered mirror where you can see different angles of the images, the people that prefer these paintings like looking at all angles of a problem. These people are intelligent and they are the transformers of our generation. They look beyond what is seen into what things could become. They are ready to leave the ideas of the past behind and look at what the future has to offer.

Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy

Can't. Stop. Playing.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:33:32 GMT

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/

Time suck, extraordinaire. ;)

Brunettes have fun too

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:19:36 GMT

I think this is generous... ;)

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:32:36 GMT

35 seconds

Me and Mr. Heston

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:40:59 GMT

Your result for Reincarnation Placement Exam...

Deep Space Explorer

51% Intrigue, 71% Civilization, 41% Humanity, 53% Urbanization.

Hmm... You're a tough one to place. Your answers indicate that you like technology and education. You enjoy intrigue, adventure and chaos. You're fine with hard work and civilization. This all bodes well for an interesting, adventurous life.

What makes it difficult, however, is that you don't seem to be much of a 'people person.'

If you were more of a people person, we would have commissioned you aboard the Starship Enterprise. But since you don't care much for the complications of dealing with your fellow man... we have another deep-space mission, more tailored for your tastes... a way for you to enjoy the benefits of high-tech civilization without having to put up with civilization itself. Let's set you up to pursue the solo career of a deep space explorer. You can go ahead and hibernate through the boring parts of your mission, and not worry so much about being a few decades out of touch with your fellows by the time you get home. In fact, you pretty much don't have to deal with people at all, but you can still enjoy a high-flying adventure of a life. Far, far away from the madding crowd, you get to play with your scientific instruments, serve your glorious civilization, and do interesting things with strange discoveries in exotic places.

The career might work out all right. Look what it did for Charlton Heston.

Take Reincarnation Placement Exam at HelloQuizzy

Yeah, this would be fun for a while, but then I'd miss all you freaks. ;)