A Number of Things
21 Dec 2020 08:40🌲 Happy Anniversary, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
camelsamba!
🌲 Anniversary for me too, wedding rather than dating. 24 years, people. Nothing much planned on the celebration docket, but we'll go for a quick ramble through the woods at noon. We were supposed to be in Scandinavia and Iceland this year, sigh. Maybe next year for 31/25!
🌲 I am reading a book that is so cliché and so freaking bad I'm going to finish it just because. It's A Quest of Heroes. So far, awful is the best description, complete with overuse of words (strutting and sneering) and every single cliché you could imagine. It's hard to think of it getting any better. The writing is awful, but I'm also coming off of a binge read or re-read of Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, and these are gems of novellas, written with the delicacy of silk.
🌲 Jupiter-Saturn Alignment tonight. We've got socked in rain! :( It'll be visible for a few more days, but if I don't start to see weather improvements, I may have to drive over to Eastern Washington for some clear skies.
🌲 Had a dream last night: went to lunch with Anne-Chloe and Linnea and AC was talking about moving back into the dorms. Never said was the implication that she was leaving Dipshit. I hate those dreams. I get so happy in them, so reassured that she's not going to waste her life with that drip, and then I wake up to realize that it was a dream. I should have known. AC does nothing without him. Make plans with what you think is her, all couched in "I" and "me", like "I'll meet you at" or "That timing works better for me"? Doesn't matter. He shows up. Anyhow. If it were just me, I'd suspect that it was just me being a bitch, because I thought he was awful when I met him the first time, long before they started dating but it's pretty much everyone, from my crazy ass SIL to my aunt. Ah well. This just sucks.
🌲 When I grabbed my Kindle off my bedside table this morning to take it out to breakfast, I realized that... aside from my lamp and a box of Kleenex, it was the only thing on my bedside table. Years ago, there would have been four or five books at least, a bookmark or so, as well as the lamp and Kleenex. I am reading, to be fair, a hard cover book, but it's out by my computer.
🌲 The book I'm reading in book format? Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems. I was so very much looking forward to that book, and am thrilled that she wrote it. White fonting and leaving a few lines for spoilers.
I'm having a hard time getting past the chapter when she first talks about her cancer scare and then her sister. I feel cowardly, like I owe it to her to truly read her pain, in partial payment for all the laughs she's given, the Allie Brosh expressions and, oh I guess I'll call them memes, memes that I share with my family, but for now, in the middle of this pandemic, I just feel like I can't. I'm sure I'll finish it eventually, but right now, I can't.
End of spoilers and of my angsty rambling on the book and what I feel I owe the author.
🌲 Covid mutation in Britain, on the spike protein: Jesus Christ, that's scary. The spike protein is what the vaccines target so yeah. Also, about mRNA vaccines. You. Cannot. Catch. Covid-19. From. The. Vaccine. PERIOD. CANNOT. There is no freaking way. Your immune system can make you as freaking miserable as heck. I'm sad to say that I had that discussion last night with my SIL. Who is an RN. Nobody around her, at her hospital, is taking the vaccine because of rumours that it made someone sick. Dude, they only started vaccinating last week. Anyhow. I'm a bit disappointed because that SIL has always been my ally in the discussion on woo with my aunt (PhD in nursning) and my sister and BIL, all three of whom are into woo.
🌲 Linnea is on vacay, yay!
🌲 Dh has a glorious picture of Auri, but he didn't text it to me, grrr, so I'll have to post it later. I'd ask him to text it now, but he is in a meeting. He's talking off the week between Christmas and New Year and I am so looking forward to that.
🌲 If the weather holds at just 'wet', I may drive up to the lab this week, tomorrow or Wednesday. I need to do some plating to get stuff in place for January. My advisor volunteered to move the plates from fridge to growth room, so I don't have to go up just for that. OTOH, she did suggest that I pour new plates, because the ones in the 4C are probably almost a year old.
🌲 I'm a mean mean person. We're having prime rib for Christmas dinner. Only it's not prime, it's choice rib. Because I absolutely despise prime beef, it's too fatty with all the marbling. Next time we have steak, I'll make sure he buys himself and Linnea prime, and Perry and I choice to partially make up for it. Perry's the same way as me: cannot stand fatty meat.
🌲 Perry turns 20 in a week. Holy hell. My baby boyo, 20? WTF?
camelsamba!🌲 Anniversary for me too, wedding rather than dating. 24 years, people. Nothing much planned on the celebration docket, but we'll go for a quick ramble through the woods at noon. We were supposed to be in Scandinavia and Iceland this year, sigh. Maybe next year for 31/25!
🌲 I am reading a book that is so cliché and so freaking bad I'm going to finish it just because. It's A Quest of Heroes. So far, awful is the best description, complete with overuse of words (strutting and sneering) and every single cliché you could imagine. It's hard to think of it getting any better. The writing is awful, but I'm also coming off of a binge read or re-read of Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, and these are gems of novellas, written with the delicacy of silk.
🌲 Jupiter-Saturn Alignment tonight. We've got socked in rain! :( It'll be visible for a few more days, but if I don't start to see weather improvements, I may have to drive over to Eastern Washington for some clear skies.
🌲 Had a dream last night: went to lunch with Anne-Chloe and Linnea and AC was talking about moving back into the dorms. Never said was the implication that she was leaving Dipshit. I hate those dreams. I get so happy in them, so reassured that she's not going to waste her life with that drip, and then I wake up to realize that it was a dream. I should have known. AC does nothing without him. Make plans with what you think is her, all couched in "I" and "me", like "I'll meet you at" or "That timing works better for me"? Doesn't matter. He shows up. Anyhow. If it were just me, I'd suspect that it was just me being a bitch, because I thought he was awful when I met him the first time, long before they started dating but it's pretty much everyone, from my crazy ass SIL to my aunt. Ah well. This just sucks.
🌲 When I grabbed my Kindle off my bedside table this morning to take it out to breakfast, I realized that... aside from my lamp and a box of Kleenex, it was the only thing on my bedside table. Years ago, there would have been four or five books at least, a bookmark or so, as well as the lamp and Kleenex. I am reading, to be fair, a hard cover book, but it's out by my computer.
🌲 The book I'm reading in book format? Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems. I was so very much looking forward to that book, and am thrilled that she wrote it. White fonting and leaving a few lines for spoilers.
I'm having a hard time getting past the chapter when she first talks about her cancer scare and then her sister. I feel cowardly, like I owe it to her to truly read her pain, in partial payment for all the laughs she's given, the Allie Brosh expressions and, oh I guess I'll call them memes, memes that I share with my family, but for now, in the middle of this pandemic, I just feel like I can't. I'm sure I'll finish it eventually, but right now, I can't.
End of spoilers and of my angsty rambling on the book and what I feel I owe the author.
🌲 Covid mutation in Britain, on the spike protein: Jesus Christ, that's scary. The spike protein is what the vaccines target so yeah. Also, about mRNA vaccines. You. Cannot. Catch. Covid-19. From. The. Vaccine. PERIOD. CANNOT. There is no freaking way. Your immune system can make you as freaking miserable as heck. I'm sad to say that I had that discussion last night with my SIL. Who is an RN. Nobody around her, at her hospital, is taking the vaccine because of rumours that it made someone sick. Dude, they only started vaccinating last week. Anyhow. I'm a bit disappointed because that SIL has always been my ally in the discussion on woo with my aunt (PhD in nursning) and my sister and BIL, all three of whom are into woo.
🌲 Linnea is on vacay, yay!
🌲 Dh has a glorious picture of Auri, but he didn't text it to me, grrr, so I'll have to post it later. I'd ask him to text it now, but he is in a meeting. He's talking off the week between Christmas and New Year and I am so looking forward to that.
🌲 If the weather holds at just 'wet', I may drive up to the lab this week, tomorrow or Wednesday. I need to do some plating to get stuff in place for January. My advisor volunteered to move the plates from fridge to growth room, so I don't have to go up just for that. OTOH, she did suggest that I pour new plates, because the ones in the 4C are probably almost a year old.
🌲 I'm a mean mean person. We're having prime rib for Christmas dinner. Only it's not prime, it's choice rib. Because I absolutely despise prime beef, it's too fatty with all the marbling. Next time we have steak, I'll make sure he buys himself and Linnea prime, and Perry and I choice to partially make up for it. Perry's the same way as me: cannot stand fatty meat.
🌲 Perry turns 20 in a week. Holy hell. My baby boyo, 20? WTF?
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