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alenxa_classicChristmas with family: v. calm, unexpectedly so. Must remember that it's a good thing to meet with them when they're sick, as it appears to take the fighting spirit out of the whole proposition.
Holiday baking: sapped my time/energy for Y!PP, which has yet to fully return. Some cookies in freezer, others in Tupperware awaiting distribution. Still. Also learned to temper chocolate, which came in handy for making of candystuff for K's family's New Year's party. I had previously melted a bunch of chocolate for dipping candy centers for Christmas purposes and had to leave it, which meant it bloomed spectacularly. When I got it out of the bowl it had solidified in, the whole mass was made of little trilobite-like crystal formations that crumbled under a knife. V. cool-looking; half still left, must post picture. Still have some undipped centers in fridge. Bug me or I'll forget to finish them.
Decided to take up crochet rather than knitting, as crochet hook less likely to cause internal damage in a car accident. Also crochet is easier, having been taught to me when I was about 9 and still retaining 90% of all input. Afghan is about 40% done and I'm still gaining speed. On the minus side, my improvised project bag (medium-sized Hot Topic drawstring bag) is getting a bit small for the yarn and the afghan together. Looking into a slightly more permanent model.
Saw Brokeback Mountain. Was good. Gets better in mental retrospect as time goes by; I may need to see it again. Viewing was on a Sunday; K dropped me off at the 3-screen across from South Coast and went to work for some catch-up. Movie let out at 6:45ish, at which time I went across to the mall to try to look for a trenchcoat (brown, of course). Nordstrom was unquestionably open, but as I continued down the mall, I saw almost nothing but dark stores and metal gates. Finally picked up a brochure and learned the place closes at 6:30 on Sundays. WTF? Cooled my heels at Starbucks reading Prince Caspian until K arrived.
2 pm on 1/9: started feeling like proverbial crap. Stayed home with general malaise on 1/10. 2 pm on 1/10: started feeling relatively normal. Baked muffins and pillaged 3 hours. Worked 1/11 and was frighteningly productive. 2 pm on 1/12: started feeling as if I were walking in another dimension. Not lightheaded, light-bodied. Stayed home 1/13, feverish all day (and owing Prophecy but unable to think clearly enough to write it). 2 pm on 1/14: started feeling normal-ish again. Back to work 1/16, feeling slightly weak, which resolved at about......2 pm.
Huge depressive muse attack 1/17, pivotal miserable scene on P. Also got carsick on the way to work (WTF?), presumably due to looking up while crocheting, in a reaction similar to that I get from reading in a car, looking up for a bit, and trying to go back to reading. Didn't crochet on the way home and still got carsick. Resolved with dinner. Didn't crochet next morning and still got carsick. Hypomania hit about 5 pm 1/18 and lasted through evening market trip until about a minute down the road, when soul-crushing, gut-wrenching nausea hit. Dinner: toast and water after Lost. Followed by bed. Had LMP not been 1/9, the situation would have worried me more. As it was, I blame the muffins and have disposed of same. Nausea continues randomly but is waning.
Saw Munich. Highly impressed; probably would have thought differently of it had I come to the theater with any sort of an opinion on the state of affairs of Israel. Random info on this movie: it may make you paranoid, so if the floorplan/orientation of your living arrangement creates a wind tunnel outside your bedroom wall, and/or your insulation lets in substantial random noise, be prepared to wake up many times during the night just after seeing the film, wondering if the place next door is being bombed.
Holiday baking: sapped my time/energy for Y!PP, which has yet to fully return. Some cookies in freezer, others in Tupperware awaiting distribution. Still. Also learned to temper chocolate, which came in handy for making of candystuff for K's family's New Year's party. I had previously melted a bunch of chocolate for dipping candy centers for Christmas purposes and had to leave it, which meant it bloomed spectacularly. When I got it out of the bowl it had solidified in, the whole mass was made of little trilobite-like crystal formations that crumbled under a knife. V. cool-looking; half still left, must post picture. Still have some undipped centers in fridge. Bug me or I'll forget to finish them.
Decided to take up crochet rather than knitting, as crochet hook less likely to cause internal damage in a car accident. Also crochet is easier, having been taught to me when I was about 9 and still retaining 90% of all input. Afghan is about 40% done and I'm still gaining speed. On the minus side, my improvised project bag (medium-sized Hot Topic drawstring bag) is getting a bit small for the yarn and the afghan together. Looking into a slightly more permanent model.
Saw Brokeback Mountain. Was good. Gets better in mental retrospect as time goes by; I may need to see it again. Viewing was on a Sunday; K dropped me off at the 3-screen across from South Coast and went to work for some catch-up. Movie let out at 6:45ish, at which time I went across to the mall to try to look for a trenchcoat (brown, of course). Nordstrom was unquestionably open, but as I continued down the mall, I saw almost nothing but dark stores and metal gates. Finally picked up a brochure and learned the place closes at 6:30 on Sundays. WTF? Cooled my heels at Starbucks reading Prince Caspian until K arrived.
2 pm on 1/9: started feeling like proverbial crap. Stayed home with general malaise on 1/10. 2 pm on 1/10: started feeling relatively normal. Baked muffins and pillaged 3 hours. Worked 1/11 and was frighteningly productive. 2 pm on 1/12: started feeling as if I were walking in another dimension. Not lightheaded, light-bodied. Stayed home 1/13, feverish all day (and owing Prophecy but unable to think clearly enough to write it). 2 pm on 1/14: started feeling normal-ish again. Back to work 1/16, feeling slightly weak, which resolved at about......2 pm.
Huge depressive muse attack 1/17, pivotal miserable scene on P. Also got carsick on the way to work (WTF?), presumably due to looking up while crocheting, in a reaction similar to that I get from reading in a car, looking up for a bit, and trying to go back to reading. Didn't crochet on the way home and still got carsick. Resolved with dinner. Didn't crochet next morning and still got carsick. Hypomania hit about 5 pm 1/18 and lasted through evening market trip until about a minute down the road, when soul-crushing, gut-wrenching nausea hit. Dinner: toast and water after Lost. Followed by bed. Had LMP not been 1/9, the situation would have worried me more. As it was, I blame the muffins and have disposed of same. Nausea continues randomly but is waning.
Saw Munich. Highly impressed; probably would have thought differently of it had I come to the theater with any sort of an opinion on the state of affairs of Israel. Random info on this movie: it may make you paranoid, so if the floorplan/orientation of your living arrangement creates a wind tunnel outside your bedroom wall, and/or your insulation lets in substantial random noise, be prepared to wake up many times during the night just after seeing the film, wondering if the place next door is being bombed.
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Date: 2006-01-26 03:53 pm (UTC)Also my brain is trying to convince me to cast Kristen Bell as Zari, but I'm doing my best not to listen. Too short.
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