winged orange

Scott always tells me that the universe seeks balance (which I’ve always sort of believed, just on my own terms), and he seems to be right. After my bad mood on Tuesday, I’ve been trying to focus on the good things. And so I present to you a happiness list, a la Aubrey. Hopefully she doesn’t mind me yoinking her format. ;)

• Creamy tomato soup in a breadbowl from Panera
• A new episode of Criminal Minds and Scrubs
• Cadbury mini-eggs
• Being caught up on my reading
• Having the house to myself most of the weekend whil Scott’s at ComiCon
• Knitting

Happiness would always be a warm puppy, if I had a warm puppy. How about a chubby birdie instead?

I feel like such a slacker, because I’m contemplating not going to class today. I know I should go, but…yesterday was such a bad day in the city that I feel like I can’t face going in today. Anymore, it’s to the point where I hate being in New York for school, because something always goes wrong and fucks me up. Not to mention that I’m about 120 pages behind in my reading because the book for my Adult Psychopathology class was late, and he assigned nine chapters for the first three classes, and I just haven’t had time to read it all, plus go to work, plus do my stats my homework and the reading for my other classes. Scott says it’s not slacking if I stay home to do more work, and I’m really not missing much. I just feel rather guilty for skipping out on classes that I’m paying for, for no real reason other than my sanity, although they’re classes I’ve basically had already.

This program makes me so unhappy so much of the time. It’ll be such a relief to be done.

I’m back at work today after the snow/freezing rain day. I really do hate winter; Scott and I spent some time yesterday cleaning off both our cars. We didn’t get so much snow as we did sleet/freezing rain, so what was on our cars was sort of ice frozen onto the hoods/windshields. Lovely. Also, our apartment complex doesn’t seem to understand the concept of “plowing”. They did indeed have two snowplows in the parking lot – one of them blocking my car, actually – but no actual plowing has taken place. Backing my car out this morning was real fun, between trying not to hit the snowplow and backing over the foot-high mound of ice behind my car. Poor Sadie got a little beat up this morning, I think. She just had her fan belt fixed; I hope the snow/ice-bank didn’t do anything to her undercarriage or anything.

As much as I was vaguely annoyed about missing work yesterday, the snow day was helpful. Of course, there was no yarn organizing/photographing, but I got caught up on all the reading I didn’t do over the weekend, plus did the homework that I had scheduled for today, which is good. That means I’m a day ahead, and Scott and I were planning to go out on Saturday to the flea market and to visit with friends, so now it sort of won’t matter if I get any work done that day or not.

Didn’t get my soup yesterday – Panera closed early. *shakes fist* I’ll probably go Friday. I did get some “Reid-ing” done after my reading; new Criminal Minds was on. All in all, kind of an “eh” episode, but at least it was new. Next week is the last new one before the hiatus, and then I start to twitch, although it means I can knit through the repeat episodes. My carpal-tunnel gloves finally came in, so I can knit without numbness now.

I’m really not very interesting, am I?

Or is that “freezing-rain” day? Either way, I’m staying at home. :) Scott got a call last night saying his school district would be closed today, but I was firmly expecting to get up and go to work, until about 9:00. My office called and said that my boss wasn’t coming into work and that I shouldn’t either, because she didn’t want to worry about me driving on crappy roads. Woohoo for concerned employers!

So today will be a day of mad homework, and perhaps some yarn organization/photographing, followed by Panera in the evening if the roads are clear, and topped off with a brand new Criminal Minds. We’ve already sort of had our Valentine’s Day celebration/gifties, so today is all about the relaxing. :)

So, yeah. New theme. I edited the FastTrack theme (the info and the link is on the “About” page), and now my icons work properly. I’m not entirely sure that I’m 100% in love with it, and I have my red autumn theme on backup in case I decide I can’t take it anymore, but I am 100% in love with the “ooh, magic!” look on everyone’s face in my header image. :D And my icons.

Oh. The Archive and Links index pages are blank until I can figure out how to fix them. But it’s 3:00 AM and I’ve spent FAR too much time on this tonight, so it’s time for sleep now and page-fixing will sit until later. :)

I had a ton of LJ icons I wasn’t using, and I found a ton more today, most of them featuring everyone’s favorite Behavioral Analysis nerds, Dr. Spencer Reid (*points to icon* there’s Reid. I love him. He brings out my inner and usually dormant squealy fangirl) and Penelope Garcia. So I downloaded the Post Avatar plugin so I could use them with WP. *squees and trots off*

I just need to play with it a little so that my icons actually show up in the left corner with the text wrapping around it. Clearly, I am dunce-like, so this is difficult for me. For now, enjoy ol’ Reid, geekin’ it out in the center of my post. ;)

Edit: I figured it out; the icons won’t float in this theme, but they’ll float in FastTrack, and I’m assuming the default Kubric theme as well. I’m going to play with my themes this weekend because I kind of want to do a Criminal Minds one anyhow (even though it’ll mean giving up my snowflakes, which I sort of like). Meh, we’ll see. For now, though… I <3 Geeks.

You know it’s cold when you’re happy that the windchills are only producing temperatures at zero, rather than -5.

I would be okay with this if there were snow. But North Jersey hasn’t seen any, and I don’t think Manhattan knows what snow (actual snow, like, accumulated on the ground) would look like.

I would at least quit bitching if all this cold weather wasn’t drying my skin out. But it is, and now I look like the amazing crocodile woman.

Anyway. Aubrey has graciously offered to try to fix the theme for me, because she’s awesome, so it’s staying up until she reaches a verdict on the traveling sidebar issue. I just won’t look at it in IE. ;)

For a quick update, I’m starting the hand part of the second Christmas glove today on the train. Two of my new classes annoy the stuffing out of me. And I’d like to draw your attention to the Valentinr in the sidebar. Show me some love? ;)

I promise I’ll send a more descriptive update when I’m not trying to eat, get dressed, and leave to catch a train.

So I upgraded to WP 2.1 Ella; it’s very awesome. :) Apparently not all themes work with WP 2.1, though – my theme, Red Autumn, looks alright in Firefox, but the sidebar’s having issues with IE 5. If I can find a theme that’s as easily customizable as Red Autumn was, I’ll probably end up switching, just because the sidebar thing bothers me whenever I look at it in IE. I’m going to miss it; this theme was really foolproof – I changed the styles and stuff probably 10 times and didn’t screw anything up. ;) Yay for Aubrey, who designed the theme in the first place.

(The stash-flash is still coming. I just have about 100 pages of reading and grocery shopping to do first. :P)

…a production of “Little Bunny Foo Foo,” starring the three Crafty Alien kits after which I lust the most: Bunny, Hedgehog, and Fox. We ask that you please keep your seat while the actors are performing; there will not be an intermission due to the shortness of our performance. Concessions are on sale in the lobby. Finally, our production this evening is rated G, for, “God, how frickin’ cute are these things?!” Please enjoy our show. :)

Little Bunny Foo Foo,
Hoppin’ through the backyard,
Scoopin’ up the Hedgehogs,
And boppin’ ‘em on the head…

Little Bunny Foo Foo Hoppin’ through the backyard,
Scoopin’ up the hedgehogs,
And boppin’ ‘em on the head.

Down came the Fox Fairy, and she said,
Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don’t wanna see you
Scoopin’ up the hedgies,
And boppin’ ‘em on the head!
I’ll give you one more chance
To treat those hedgehogs nicely,
And if you don’t shape up,
I’ll have to turn you into a GOON!

Little Bunny Foo Foo didn’t listen, of course, and kept on his merry way. The Fox Fairy, watching from above, shook her head in disappointment.

Little Bunny Foo Foo
Hoppin’ through the backyard,
Scoopin’ up the hedgehogs,
And boppin’ ‘em on the head.

Down came the Fox Fairy, and she said,
Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don’t wanna see you
Scoopin’ up the hedgies,
And boppin’ ‘em on the head!
I gave you one last chance
To treat those hedgehogs nicely,
But you didn’t listen,
And now all the poor little hedgehogs have headaches.
I’m sorry, but I’ll have to turn you into a GOON!

And, as promised, the Fox Fairy waived her magic wand and Little Bunny Foo Foo turned into an awful, clumsy GOON:

The moral of the story? Always treat others nice, especially animals. If not, you turn into a goon. And nobody wants THAT.

This production has been brought to you by the Wingedorange Theatre and the Crafty Alien Players. No animals were harmed in the production of today’s play. Your regularly scheduled blogging will return tomorrow.

There will be a more interesting post coming tonight (a contest entry to win me some knitting stuffs), and a post coming this weekend that will hopefully include a full flash – of my knitting stash, my gutterminded friends.

But this morning, before work, I would like to say that I PREORDERED HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!

Squee!