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Second Weird Dream
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Dec. 7th, 2009 @ 11:03 pm
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Pierce Bronson (sometimes morphing into Tom Selleck) and the Petrelli Mother from Heroes as spies, then former species dealing with a daughter with a disability (dream is never clear if it's neurological or not); with a bit of that old 'Mother hid existence of child from father'. And in the end the girl worked to get her parents together (at least as friends, though she was more successful than that) before she died.
Weird dream. A little sad, but not too much actually, which just made it weirder.
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Two dreams in one day? Why yes I went back to sleep today and now I feel a little better.
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Dec. 7th, 2009 @ 03:07 pm
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Speaking of odd dreams, mine last night was: Kenny Rogers as a Chuck Norris Santa, searching down kidnappers on a mountain with trees with yellow leaves. And he. was. not. pleased.
pseudo tag: white ppl be invading mah dreams
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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
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Made it out to the booksale for the last day. Feel pleased with the results. Now comes wondering how to weight the books and then will come 'But where shall the boxes come from?' - though I think I've got a lovely and generous offer there. So mostly it's 'hmm, scale'.
In other news I had the awkward experience of being surrounded by Glee fans today. That was... weird. Actually it was weird to have so many people eagerly consuming first run media and I felt some relief that there was one other person watching at a remove. I could totally start rewatching Leverage again if I heard things about it that would signal it's the show I want. But yeah 'happy fun time' with Glee and a skipping over of the issues surrounding it.
I mean, there was a mention that the official cast download of the song with the deaf choir apparently removes them completely, there is no hearing impaired/deaf speaker of the words before the main group butts into another group's performance for their moving moment. I hadn't known Glee was doing official downloads of their songs. But I sat there kind of stunned that someone could complain about the erasure of the hearing/non-sign speaking portion of the performance and how that affected their enjoyment of said download, to the point where they'll hunt down the episode audio, but there was no ping about what that erasure meant in terms of ableism and deafness and more.
And there was no way to say something without 'making an issue' of things and adding stress to the flow of conversation.
Human interaction, face to face, is tricky. It's uncomfortable as heck to feel as if just the very reminder 'the shiny' is excluding and hurting a whole bunch of people would be akin to you spitting in their drink. Then again no wonder there are some who think discussing these issues is a new fandom in itself where certain people want to be/are or have created themselves to be BNF but none of it is real, it's all play and posing. If public, face to face interaction leaves one counting spoons; do you have the energy to deal with turning the tide of the conversation and having people react like you just gutted their pet dog in front of them; then it's easier not to confront in that space and the clueless never realize they have sat beside someone with a strong alternate pov and vision.
Of course I'm talking as if the intersection of clueless and trying to be aware and informed individuals is out of the blue moon. But that's just my social schedule of near hermitage. Maybe with enough interactions there's foundation for a quiet 'Well, y'know...'
Now want to stay up, likely for stubbornness sake. Am doubting that'll happen though cause I feel I could pitch forward into bed and sleep comfortably for a couple of hours at least. |
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Issues with notifiactions
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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 09:23 pm
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There have been a lot of issues with notifications with several email providers for the past 2 weeks. Seems that a spammer has been using insanejournal.com as a landing page for their spam. This is causing some email providers to either delay or completely block mail from insanejournal.com.
There isn't anything we can do about this besides continue to be vigilant in suspending these accounts. If you own an account that gets suspended with no notification it is because your account was mistakenly identified as a spam account. Due to the shear volume of accounts being suspended we cannot review each individual account so some mistakes may be made.
Please understand we have been and will continue to do anything we can to stop this spam and therefore restore the ability to send email to a number of providers. |
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Oh Dear
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Dec. 5th, 2009 @ 01:46 pm
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Unhappy Pet News ( Family related. )Current Mood:  indescribable |
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Permanently Insane accounts
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Dec. 3rd, 2009 @ 09:55 pm
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From now until January 3rd we are going to be selling Permanently Insane accounts for their regular price of $50. In addition we are selling Permanent Extra Userpics for $25. This will bring the userpic total of your Permanently Insane account to 500 for the life of your account. |
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Dec. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:49 am
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I can't remember what I'd intended to buy. I just remember that somehow underthings became something to bump up the price for free shipping. And then the underthings disappointed me.
Oh how they disappointed me.
Next thing I knew I was on an online search for underthings! And I checked Hanes.Com (They're having a sale like whoa) And I just bought myself 23 pairs. *glees*
I feel pretty. Oh so pretty. I feel pretty and witty and GAY!
Electronics buying, freaks me out. Underthings buying apparently equals total uncontrollable smiling, glee and squee. Then again I found stuff everyone liked.
EVERYONE.
Do you have any idea how rare that is?
There really wasn't much compromising, I just doubled the things everyone liked the most cause -SALE- and when would this alignment of personality ever happen again?
Huh, I might even call my mother so as to BORE HER WITH MY GLEE and make her listen to me go on and on about the pretty.
Oh yeah and the Tigerdirect stuff got here last night and I opened it, and I think I'll see how I'm feeling when the cleaners arrive/leave in terms of hooking up the electronics.
*twirls*
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Stuff
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Dec. 2nd, 2009 @ 01:41 am
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Well, would you look at that. It appears the HD I bought is coming at just the right time. Because I apparently have a virus and my attempts to get rid of it, has resulted in my firefox bookmarks disappearing, an inability to use system restore (though seriously can anyone -actually- use system restore? Feels like it won't work at the slightest sniffle).
And actually I appear to have had the virus for several weeks now. I just thought I'd accidentally done something to settings to totally hide hidden files and folders. But no, there's actually a hidden files and folders virus and mucks with registry etc, etc etc...
Have managed to find my bookmarks using search (bookmarks*) and saved the pages so I can maybe try to import them or do something manually or who knows. They're there at the very least. Not quite sure my attempt to save my session folder will turn out favourably - but I can handle that mostly.
I am really going to miss Foldermaker which makes my life so much easier. There's supposedly a freeware version, but I'm unsure if it has everything the GOTD version has. Still when I've done the whole 'fixing hardcore/reverse time' thing, I'll dwl and use it because colour coded folders (with icons) helps make things better.
In other news:
Could not find chocolate ship, walnut cookies. And I couldn't look more than two places because that'd use up a lot of spoons. But really Superfresh? Still they had Pillsbury 'New! We Took Out All That Crap We Put In & Now We Have An 'Organic' Decour Line!' And it was on sale. So I get to have fresh cookies, when I go to bake them, without high fructose cornsyrup and a whole lot of BS.
Did I mention the sale? So I got regular chocolate chip and then paid too much money on walnuts (which I will attempt to stick into the cookie rolls before baking) and I got peanut butter. Kept seeing Danish Butter Cookies everywhere. And yes, they are also 'Xmas/Seasonal Cookies' but chocolate walnut chip brings up much stronger emotions and memories. (Maybe I'll pick up a tin for new year's).
Cleaners show up on Thursday. Arrgh. But I got lead in time and just have to load the dishwasher, basically and then get out of their way.
*contemplates middle of night baking*
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The Up In My Day
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 08:31 pm
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As mentioned on my Twitter, ran into a total bookworm in the library. I was all 'ooh, the #1 woman's detective agency' and she was all "oooh, The Ward Chronicles' (That's The Last Apprentice/The Spook's Apprentice to all y'all who don't know).
And then she was all 'Yay Vampire Academy.' And I was all 'Huh?' And she was all 'Succubus Blues' and I was all 'With the tail and horns and the geek in the basement!' And she was all 'Yuh huh!'
It went on like that for quite a bit, in fact she walked me to the grocery so we could talk more. And then in the middle of it, she went 'Oh, I hope you don't think I'm stalking you, I just live surrounded by people who don't get why I read'. So of course I gave her my email.
There was Twilight snark 'Fade to black! Vampire baby. WTCrap?!' And also murmurs of stamina admiration. She's tried to read Pullman 2 twice and is still trying.
Also, odd thing? It is less hurty to be recced a book with white protagonists by a black woman discussing the story, than to randomly pick one up off the shelf myself. But also? Voracious reading Dinocorn in the Wild.
I can't wait to tell her there's a whole damn herd.
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Cookies & Meds
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 10:02 am
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I am leaving the house today purely to get chocolate chip walnut cookies (my grocery store didn't have them) and to get my pain management meds. Then I'm going to crawl home. I had thoughts about shopping for sweat pants. But I feel like a golem trying to move underwater, with spasming muscles all over the damn place like it's a competition.
Just making it out the house will be an accomplishment.
Do not I have library books due and I am not even putting it on the list.
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-ugh-
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 05:30 am
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My utorrent is crawling at less than dialup speeds. And everything I've done to try and fix it, only made it worse. Went to bed, woke up and I still can't figure out wtf is wrong. Or rather, it keeps telling me no ports are open - but I can't find my modem on any of the help sites to figure out what to do. I am either not parsing well, or it's crap-all confusing.
I am also hungry and too effing sore to cook - wait , I have soup. Will go feed myself soup now.
Sore, throbbing pains, muscle cramps and spasms, sharp pains. And my fingers are freezing. Ugh.
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A 'Three Things Make A Post' Post
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Nov. 30th, 2009 @ 11:10 am
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1. I made a nice luscious turkey breast and am ever so pleased.
2. People using nicca as a substitute for a particular racial slur? Ain't foolin' no one.
3. Parboiled rice is 80% nutritionally similar to brown rice? Really? I need triple confirmation from other sources Wikipedia. Cause that much just save my wallet.
Oh my. It is! I never knew that. I grew up around parboiled rice. I always thought it was beige because, well, we had peas in it :) Or it was in peleau etc, etc... I've been paying close to health food prices for brown rice ever since this summer when the rice prices soared. And I thought my attempts at cooking regular rice in the past simply sucked cause I was doing something wrong - not cause I was trying recipes on the wrong kind of rice!
*boggles*
Also talking to Fickle and she's stunned at the whole 'On the package it is advised not to wash the rice because it washed off the nutrients'. And she was all 'But the gravel!' And I was all 'Yes! I remember washing rice and picking out the occasional bit of gravel. But in the US Rice is apparently -really- processed.'
I can still remember being shouted at that I was 'Washing out the vitamins!' *smh*
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Zvi Update
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Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 10:57 am
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![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) zvi_likes_tv had surgery at 8am this morning. She's out now and her doctors are so confident about her recovery, she may be home by this evening (Sunday, Nov 29th 2009). |
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Those People
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Nov. 28th, 2009 @ 02:39 am
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Those. People. Be. Trippin'
STILL
STILL they play this shit.
I suppose I should be grateful or something that 2009 is bringing some of the muck all out into the light. But this is some BOLD ass racist shit. And everytime I want to stop giving Obama a break, I see one of these oozing white thought sores and think, nah dread. Let him settle some more. Cause those people have lobbyists and who knows what shit dem a pulling behind the scenes.
IJDEK!
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Sales Over
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Nov. 28th, 2009 @ 12:18 am
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All of the IJ holiday sales have ended and prices are back to normal. We will be putting Permanently Insane accounts on sale for their regular price before Christmas. |
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Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 08:36 pm
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That anxiety this morning? Knocked me out for the -whole- day. Now to see if I have a brain for food making.
ETA: On the one hand, I want to go 'I have trauma from shopping?!!' and then y'know, I remember my child & teenhood.
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Black Friday Sale is here
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Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 08:05 am
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I have turned on today's special Black Friday sale.
Until 4:00pm(EST) we will be holding a sale on Permanently Insane accounts, Permanent Extra Userpics, and Insane Userpics the prices are as follows.
Permanently Insane account - $30
Insane Userpics - $70
Permanent Extra Userpics - $5
At 4:00 today all prices on IJ will go back to their normal amounts. |
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*shaking, shaking more*
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Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 06:27 am
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Have just bought myself an external hd enclosure, and a internal hd. Cost just over $100. I can buy books. I can buy food. I can buy groceries. I can pay my bills. But when it comes to certain purchases I end up like this, wanting to pee and vomit on myself in total fear that I made the wrong choice, didn't do enough research, didn't do enough number crunching.
I know I researched this for most of the year. I know that my experiences with TigerDirect were positive several years ago, and chances are they'll be positive again. My mother's experiences are not my own, especially given how she tends to complicate a situation.
Still, logic? Ain't no friend of anxiety. Logic gets the 'Talk to the Hand' and Anxiety sashays off and owns the place.
PS: Waited an hour and a half to add a $7 mouse to my order. My order? Already processed and in a box. And thus I'd have to pay shipping. So uhm, guess I'll mosy down to Target or something - if I find the energy, and see what I can do and hope things last out till then.
PPS: The Media Player of my dreams, ie, with features I've been dreaming about? Just became available. Of course I just spent money on myself. So I have difficulty seeing me spending even -more- money on myself. Guess I should take comfort knowing it is -here-. (ETA: OMG it has ... ok, this would just be boring tech gush. But it has unexpected tech gush. Seriously, if they threw in a camera, I'd likely end up buying it right this second)
It has a camera.
A camera people.
*puddles into amoeba of drool*
*Willow knows what she's getting herself for the holidays, even if she has to call it an early birthday present*
ETA: There are WEP vs WPA complications. But not enough to keep from all 'Oooh'
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More Zvi
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Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 04:06 pm
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zvi_likes_tv available via Twitter. (Either DM's or @Zvi_likes_tv)
She says she's bored, so anyone willing entertain her with tweets, feel free. |
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Head's Up
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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 07:30 pm
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Zvi, (zvi_likes_tv) is currently inpatient (and doing better for it) and accessible only via her cellphone.
Good wishes appreciated.
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