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January 1st, 2010
 | 11:48 am - Happy New Year everybody
May 2010 be a good one.
For future reference, what the heck is up with the lack of west coast celebrations on the TV? All we could find were repeats of New York. (We watched a "Friends" marathon for about 15 min -- which is also repeats of New York, technically -- before we gave up and went back to playing WoW.)
2009 had some interesting bits, including Worldcon in Montreal and a last-minute trip to Joshua Tree. I finished a big stitching project from 2008 and hope to finish the sequel in less than 1 year. We had some fun visits from friends. I lost some weight and hope to keep it off this time. Work lost a LOT of people (some of them voluntarily). The cats all survived, although in Zoot's case we could have done with slightly less excitement. And at the last possible moment, I finally met a cheese I didn't like (cranberries in cheddar? Really, Whole Foods, what were you thinking?!)
Ah well, out with the old, in with the new. I might resolve to post more pictures this year. Some deeper resolutions will be forthcoming at some point. :-)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/mellow_sp.gif) relaxed
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November 4th, 2009
 | 11:31 pm - Started the new big project...
... okay, I haven't made any actual stitches yet, but the fabric is cut and framed and the centerlines are in place. Oh boy is this stuff flexible. I am doooooooooooomed again.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/sleepy_sp.gif) sleepy
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October 21st, 2009
| 10:41 pm - Holy crap, I finished something!
Started back in February, which now seems like several lifetimes ago. Put down in early August before vacation. Just picked it up again this evening and... if I'd realised it was that close to done, maybe I would have picked it up earlier. (Or maybe not... the metallic fractional backstitches are SO EVIL!)
( clicky here! )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/awake_sp.gif) relieved
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October 3rd, 2009
 | 06:33 pm - New toy!
Today we made a road trip to Oceanside to pick up the new telescope. It's a Celestron Omni XLT 150R 6-inch refractor and it is very spiffy.
We also walked around Oceanside a bit. It's a pretty beach town in San Diego County, it was a gorgeous day and we'd just driven 80 miles so we thought we'd have a look round. We had lunch and watched the surfers wipe out. Now we're back home waiting for it to get dark.
Stuart has helpfully taken a picture of the telescope with me standing next to it for scale.
... My bad, apparently it's dark enough now. More later.
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September 11th, 2009
 | 08:38 pm - The new kitchen is FINISHED!
Time from start of work to end of work: 3.5 weeks. (So the time from start of design to end of work was more like 3.5 months... we'll ignore that part...)
I can't stop squeeing long enough to put anything away! I'm making hard boiled eggs in a real saucepan and I am going to drain them in a real kitchen sink! Also, holy cow those sinks are deep. I may have gone a bit overboard on that part. (Now if I could just keep the damn cat out of the sink...)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled wild evening of chasing cats around and putting cones back on their heads.
Current Mood: pleased
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September 2nd, 2009
 | 10:56 pm - yay, that's better
Mt Wilson has been declared safe.
Also, we have discovered that XM Classic Rewind puts the kitten to sleep. Now if we could just sleep through that we'd be all set...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/happy_sp.gif) amused
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September 1st, 2009
 | 10:05 pm - Bah. :-)
Rumours of Mt Wilson's imminent fiery demise are apparently greatly exaggerated. A sensible person is blogging about the fires here:
http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php
I got sucked in to LA Times' hysteria? I must be more tired than I thought.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/hot_sp.gif) hot
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August 24th, 2009
 | 09:49 pm - Zoot is home!
Zoot is home from the kitty hospital! Huzzah!
She's confined to the big cage, with the "no jumping" rule in force, and she is currently sulking; but home nonetheless.
Current Mood: relieved
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July 20th, 2009
| 07:20 pm - Happy moon day!
40 years ago today, my parents & my big brother & I watched people walk around on the moon.
That's *still* really cool.
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June 18th, 2009
| 11:32 pm - Holy ...
Wow! They're actually going to do it!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8108488.stm
F1 teams drop breakaway bombshell
Formula 1 has been thrown into chaos after eight of its major teams said they are now planning to set up a rival championship for the 2010 season. ...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/achy_sp.gif) surprised
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June 9th, 2009
May 21st, 2009
| 11:11 pm - Crazy new exercise thing, day 2
I like it! You can set up a routine and just go. The trainer is WAY less annoying than the Wii Fit one -- at least so far (and you can turn down the chattiness, I checked).
There are still only so many exercises you can do whilst clutching a Wiimote, but these people are pretty darned creative about some of them.
I don't think the sporty games have a lefty mode, which will be irritating for some people.
Also, I suck at catching baseballs, even virtual ones. I'm not actually surprised. (I do apparently have a mean backhand though! The tennis and boxing are awesome for taking out one's pent-up aggressions.)
Current Mood: hot
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May 20th, 2009
| 11:33 pm - EA Sports Active....
OMG, it's Wii Fit for grownups!
No yoga, but the rest of the exercises are damned impressive. My squat muscles are sore already. (-:
Current Mood: impressed
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May 17th, 2009
 | 08:44 pm - WHEE!
5.0 in Torrance. That was exciting.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10410337.html
Current Mood: shaken
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April 28th, 2009
 | 11:50 pm - I need a new WoW icon...
A totally unrelated character has finally made it to level 80. Woo freakin' hoo.
/falls asleep in chair
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/exhausted_sp.gif) exhausted
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March 4th, 2009
| 07:14 pm - Progress
Good news: I have finished all of the regular backstitch.
Bad news: There is now nothing standing between me and the metallic backstitch. I'm really not looking forward to that.
Pics soon.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/working_sp.gif) accomplished
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March 3rd, 2009
| 07:15 pm - Oh all right
I've joined the herd that is Facebook. It didn't occur to me to stick my maiden name in there until it was too late, oh well.
Come find me and tell me what there is to do there.
p.s. I am now going to step AWAY from the computer!
Current Mood: sheeplike
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March 2nd, 2009
 | 07:40 pm - random bits
Did some more stitching on the cross stitch lady of dooooooom. GAH, someone needs to be slapped for recommending doing this on aida. Sadly I've already agreed to do the same picture for a friend in shades of pink. Maybe for the next one I'll make up some art deco mittens. :P
Started trying to play Rock Band 2 songs on Hard mode. Ow. Only got booed off the stage once (that will teach me not to trust "simple" mystery set lists!). Am occasionally adopting the strategy of just skipping all the orange notes. Sigh.
Have realised that work stress is getting to me way too much. There's too much ambient stupidity; I never seem to discharge the current Mad quickly enough before the next one comes along. Oh well, awareness is the first step. Silly post-its are the next ("stupid happens"), we'll see if that helps.
The new CJ Cherryh book ROCKS. I might need to go back and re-read Cyteen, but I'm not hopelessly lost. Yet.
Had a ton of sushi for lunch today. I feel like I may never get hungry again. We stopped for boba on the way back. I have tentatively decided that beverages should not be chewy.
DAMN YOU KENKEN!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/hyper_sp.gif) perky
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February 18th, 2009
| 09:18 pm - and in other news
I have become thoroughly addicted to KenKen puzzles. (The ones at kenken.com are more challenging than the ones on nytimes.com on the crossword page.)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stuartc and I got out of the house last weekend and saw Coraline in 3-D. That was .... I'm sure "lovely" is the wrong word, but I can't think of a better one right now.
In other other news, my spell checker is happy with the name "Coraline" for some reason.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/hungry_sp.gif) hungry
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| 09:01 pm - Accomplishments for the evening
Tonight on the Wii Fit, I did "Perfect Moves" at the advanced step aerobics. I also rather thoroughly trounced my previous high score on the advanced Table Tilt balance game, which is still incredibly evil (but which has me wondering whether there's one more "expert" stage...).
Go me!
Current Mood: accomplished
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