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Day 840: Thanksgiving
Nov. 26th, 2009 10:48 pmSo...I may or may not be done with song titles as post titles. Maybe I'll use song lyrics or something. Or maybe today my brain is just full of dead.
At any rate, today was Thanksgiving, so I was lazy as all hell. I slept in even though my internal alarm clock is still on trial team time. I went to the grocery store, which honestly wasn't that crowded, to pick up a vegetable platter for today's big meal, and then I came home and baked a pumpkin pie.
While the pie was in the oven, I worked on my armor. Armor, you might ask? Why yes, that scale maille I've been working on, er, since I started law school. That's not yet done three years down the road, although it has more size to it than I originally thought. I cannot remember how many scales the website said it'd take, but it occurred to me that I must be around that limit by this point, between the scales already used and the scales remaining. What I'm running low on is rings, to be honest. I should finish Christmas presents before I go nuts with the armor, but I am enjoying it nonetheless.
I went to Angela's place, and it was kinda crazy. There were kids running around, and the kitchen was cramped, but the food was wonderful, and Angela's family is amazing. After we got done eating we sat around and talked about...everything. Stories we'd heard from war veterans we knew, politics, global warming, and the rest. The children played in the den while we talked, and I realized that what we were talking about was more or less what the grown-ups talked about when I was a kid and playing in the den after a big family dinner.
Today, in a fit of geekiness, I realized that I can have custom mood themes on my LJ. So what did I do? I went and found me a Merlin one. Spent a while getting it all set up. And then realized that, due to mental laziness at the end of an entry, I'm set on pretty much ten different moods or less (drained, tired, accomplished, bouncy and the like) and that's pretty lame. So...from here on out, I am determined to be more creative in choosing my moods, if only to take advantage of the super-awesome new mood theme.
Also, I don't know what it is about the holidays, but I have started to run into random old friend online. Last night I ran into K-san, someone I've never met but to whom I wrote letters for a long time while I was in college. He seemed melancholy a lot of the time, but now it sounds like he's been having a lot of fun, traveling the world teaching English and the like. And tonight I ran into Niko and Chibi Scott, which is random. I've seen K and Niko online before but never really felt like we had anything to talk about, but now we've spoken, and it's been pretty good.
I got a call from Ericka, and we talked Boondock Saints and life. I called my mom and we talked Thanksgiving and life. I also talked to my dad in China (poor dude got dim sum on Thanksgiving), and that was good times. I'm so sad to realize that I may not be able to see my family on Christmas next year due to work and all that.
Growing up is kinda scary.
All in all, however, today has been a good day.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
At any rate, today was Thanksgiving, so I was lazy as all hell. I slept in even though my internal alarm clock is still on trial team time. I went to the grocery store, which honestly wasn't that crowded, to pick up a vegetable platter for today's big meal, and then I came home and baked a pumpkin pie.
While the pie was in the oven, I worked on my armor. Armor, you might ask? Why yes, that scale maille I've been working on, er, since I started law school. That's not yet done three years down the road, although it has more size to it than I originally thought. I cannot remember how many scales the website said it'd take, but it occurred to me that I must be around that limit by this point, between the scales already used and the scales remaining. What I'm running low on is rings, to be honest. I should finish Christmas presents before I go nuts with the armor, but I am enjoying it nonetheless.
I went to Angela's place, and it was kinda crazy. There were kids running around, and the kitchen was cramped, but the food was wonderful, and Angela's family is amazing. After we got done eating we sat around and talked about...everything. Stories we'd heard from war veterans we knew, politics, global warming, and the rest. The children played in the den while we talked, and I realized that what we were talking about was more or less what the grown-ups talked about when I was a kid and playing in the den after a big family dinner.
Today, in a fit of geekiness, I realized that I can have custom mood themes on my LJ. So what did I do? I went and found me a Merlin one. Spent a while getting it all set up. And then realized that, due to mental laziness at the end of an entry, I'm set on pretty much ten different moods or less (drained, tired, accomplished, bouncy and the like) and that's pretty lame. So...from here on out, I am determined to be more creative in choosing my moods, if only to take advantage of the super-awesome new mood theme.
Also, I don't know what it is about the holidays, but I have started to run into random old friend online. Last night I ran into K-san, someone I've never met but to whom I wrote letters for a long time while I was in college. He seemed melancholy a lot of the time, but now it sounds like he's been having a lot of fun, traveling the world teaching English and the like. And tonight I ran into Niko and Chibi Scott, which is random. I've seen K and Niko online before but never really felt like we had anything to talk about, but now we've spoken, and it's been pretty good.
I got a call from Ericka, and we talked Boondock Saints and life. I called my mom and we talked Thanksgiving and life. I also talked to my dad in China (poor dude got dim sum on Thanksgiving), and that was good times. I'm so sad to realize that I may not be able to see my family on Christmas next year due to work and all that.
Growing up is kinda scary.
All in all, however, today has been a good day.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
