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04:02 pm
[Link] | No posts since March, no real posts since January. Lotta dust.
Lots of stuff's happened. Mom's in an Adult Family Home in Bellevue, not living with Paul & Corde in Raleigh. Joy & I are still living together in Bellevue.
It's hot, at the moment.
I lost about 50 pounds and am slowly gaining it back. Still working at RHI.
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09:06 am
[Link] | Viciously stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) adarascarlet
Pick Your Artist:
They Might Be Giants
Are you male or female?
Mr. Me
Describe yourself:
Mammal
How do you feel about yourself?
Don't Let's Start
Describe where you currently live:
Mainstream U.S.A.
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Destination Moon
Your best friend is:
My Evil Twin
Your favorite color is:
Purple Toupee
You know that:
I Should Be Allowed to Think
What's the weather like?
When It Rains It Snows
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called?
Snail Shell
What is life to you?
Road Movie to Berlin
What is the best advice you have to give?
Turn Around
If you could change your name, what would it be?
S-E-X-X-Y
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11:28 am
[Link] | 
Get your own valentinr
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11:55 pm
[Link] | Poll #1345695
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 74I've been considering purchasing a new game, but I'm having trouble deciding on one.
Oh, I was also considering Bioshock.
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02:50 pm
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Babylon 5 pun
Delenn opened her door to find Captain Sheridan standing there. "I got you something." he said, holding out a red heart-shaped box.
Delenn opened the box. "It's a fork."
Sheridan grinned. "Not just any fork. I gave this to Commander Sinclair to take back through time to the Minbari homeworld. It's just been returned to me."
Delenn looked at it again, then back at Sheridan. "I'm sorry, John. I am still confused."
Sheridan threw his arms open and shouted, "Happy Valen tines!"
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01:39 pm
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So much for every day. But I'm still going to keep trying. That's the biggest lesson I've learned from trying to lose weight, is that if you're trying to do something on an ongoing basis that if you miss a day or whatever, you just have to pick up where you left off and keep going. Or maybe I learned it from Joy first. Hmm.
The gap around the depression post make it seem worse than it really was. There were a bunch of things up in the air at that point, and I couln't see where any of them were going to land well. But things really did work out. Mom is going back to Crossroads, of all places, after telling Diane (Mom's cousin), "We'd love to have Sarah back!" Punctuated by the sounds of multiple jaws hitting the floor. So she's moving to a room in the Assisted Living section (which isn't quite ready yet), and that gives Paul & Corde a little more breathing room to get prepared for her arrival.
The apartment's shaping up nicely. We picked up some hanging storage units from IKEA that are really useful. We're going to acquire Mom's couch when she switches rooms. She's taking the piano and the recliner she sleeps in, we'll take back my dining table, the rest depends on how much room there is, I think. Hmmm, this paragraph wasn't supposed to be about Mom. Curse my inability to follow through on a topic sentence!
I may go see a movie after work. Drove in because I thought my regular bus wasn't running due to the holiday, then I just checked it again and discovered that it was running normally. Oh, well.
Still not King.
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11:35 am
[Link] | Might be a little depressed.
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11:03 am
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Mom is safely ensconced in [insert name here when I remember it], a Skilled Nursing Facility in Kirkland. I'm not sure if that should be capitalized, but it sounds like it whenever anyone says it. Currently the plan is for Mom to move to Raleigh to live with rechercher & Corde. Corde has training in geriatric care and is not currently working, so she'll be available full time. Everyone seems okay with the plan. Now we just have to figure out the logistics. And the timeframe.
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08:50 pm
[Link] | Here is the triumphant post from my home computer! Now 'scuse me, I've got internet to play with. ;)
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11:39 am
[Link] | I'd intended to make a triumphant post from my new, speedy home internet connection yesterday, but I couldn't get the wireless router to cooperate. I need to fiddle with it some more tonight.
I'm leaving work early to tour a "trained nursing facility" (IIRC) with Joy that they want to transfer Mom to. Crossroads Retirement Community has decided that she needs a higher level of care than she currently has, and while I agree with that, I'm less happy with their telling Joy in so many words that Mom can't come back to her room in the Independent Living section. It's frustrating and stressful.
*goes back and reviews last post* Oh, I guess I haven't mentioned it yet, Mom's in Overlake Hospital at the moment. Apparently there was an incident where she was sleepwalking, or crawling at least. While she was crawling around she hurt her knee, so they took her to Overlake to check it out. While she was there, Joy called Crossroads about the possibility of moving Mom to the Assisted Living section, and it was at that point they told her that Mom couldn't come back.
Joy and I keep telling each other it'll all work out. And it will. It will.
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08:11 am
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Oh, I guess I should follow up on my post from the 3rd. Joy was headed up to Canada for the weekend, and was subjected to more intense scrutiny than usual at the border. After being asked the same questions by three different people, she got fed up and said, "Forget it, I just want to go home." She walked over to the US Customs station and waited for the next bus, which got her back to Seattle around 9ish, IIRC.
No matter how much stuff you have when you move, it always seems like you spend the first few weeks buying stuff. Or acquiring stuff, at least. Sunday we drove down to IKEA and picked up some organization/storage items, as well as a lamp and a coat tree. Then last night I met Joy at the Verizon store and upgraded to a BlackBerry Storm, which is really cool! But a little fiddly. It's going to take some getting used to, but I think I'm really going to like it.
We came home to find more water on the floor in Joy's bathroom, so she put in another call to maintenance. I really like the new place, but there's quite a bit that needs to be dealt with. The dishwasher isn't secured, so we haven't used it yet, there's a couple of decorative pieces in the bathrooms missing that I couldn't care less about, and we still haven't gotten our mailbox keys yet. I'm really getting annoyed about that. We're coming up on two weeks of occupancy, if it isn't resolved soon I'm going to complain to the Postal Service.
But only one more day till internet! :D
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08:47 am
[Link] | In all fairness, I tried to do a phone post yesterday, but clearly it didn't work. I have yet to successfully post from phone/text. Grump.
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06:33 pm
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Happy Perihelion!
Not a lot going on today. Did some laundry, played on the computer. Going to pick Joy up from the train station later, she's coming back early. Don't have the full story, but it sounded like they wouldn't let her across the border. More information as it comes in.
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08:35 am
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Day 1/Day 2
Happy New Year! And already I've made a mess of my only resolution. Best of intentions, but when I got home last night I remembered that, oh yes, I still don't have internet at home. (only 6 more days!) But someone told me that resolutions don't actually start until January 3rd anyway, so I'm filing that under Plausible and forging on anyway.
New Years Eve at MikeK's was fun. We usually get off work a little early before a holiday, but what with all the time off from snow they didn't close the office till 5. I'd intended to go home & change, but I decided to drive up right after work. Since I was still in work clothes, and my jeans have been getting baggy anyway (yay!), I decided I'd stop at Casual XL and get a new pair. I mention the name of the shop because I used Verizon Navigator on my phone to search for and navigate to their location, and it quickly and precisely directed me to a location that wasn't there anymore. I used the mobile web to find their phone #, and got the address of another location that was on my way. I got there at 6:01, just after they closed at 6 for NYE.
Being a card carrying Paranoid Driver, I checked the weather before leaving. Dramatization follows:
Me: So, what's the weather going to be like in Seattle?
National Weather Service: Rain, rain, rain.
Me: What about Bellingham?
National Weather Service: Rain, rain, rain.
Me: So, no snow, then?
National Weather Service: Rain, rain, rain. Would we lie to you?
*2 hours later*
Weather: Oh, I see that you've passed Everett. I guess that means it's time to SNOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!
Me: @#$&@!!
*later still*
Weather: OK, you're almost to Bellingham. Time to switch back to rain!
National Weather Service: See? We weren't lying!
I arrived at Mike's safely. I played ZenDo, followed by nickel-ante quarter-limit poker (I finished up $5.60, very unusual for me!), then went downstairs to watch the Space Needle get blown up. Then Rock Band till 3AM. Crashed on Mike's couch, slept well, but my back decided it was going to be cranky anyway.
Next day we went to Arlis's for breakfast, then back to Mike's for one last game of Munchkin Quest. Four hours later, we finished and I went home. Much fun was had by all.
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11:47 am
[Link] | Might as well start the posting resolution a little early. At work, which is dead because of the snow. Fair amount of calls earlier as people called in to say A) they couldn't make it to their assignment because of the snow, or B) they didn't need their temp today because they were closing their office due to the snow. But those tapered off and now it's very quiet.
Moving to Redmond on Saturday. Movers have been arranged, which will be interesting if there's still snow. Better them than me, though. I made the decision to hire movers after the fiasco of the last two moves. Still need to do a lot of packing.
If they close the office early I may try to see a movie, if the theaters are open.
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08:34 am
[Link] | http://dooce.com/2008/12/15/and-chuck-will-teach-her-about-mascara - read the whole thing, but especially the last line.
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02:14 pm
[Link] | Post the first sentence of your first posts from each month in 2008:
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On a related note, I've decided to try to post every day in 2009.
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02:02 pm
[Link] | So, cithra & I are going to be moving into a 2-bedroom apartment together. We looked at a place today, liked it, and put down a deposit. It's a great location, walking distance to Mom's apartment, Crossroads Mall, and Trader Joe's. It'll mean switching from a 2-block commute to an hour on the bus, but that's the only down-side I can see at the moment. I like the place I'm in right now, but the only thing I'm really going to miss is the location.</lj>
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06:31 pm
[Link] | Joy would like me to let people know she's back in town. She'll post more later.
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11:50 am
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A vision for the future
Lest you get your hopes up as high as I did, this is the New York Times for July 4th, 2009.
ETA: Since this is pretty clearly not the official NYT, I don't know how long the site will be up.
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