Freedom.

I have a week off, and I am not taking any grad classes this spring semester. With all this freedom, I'd best find something constructive to do. I'm going to upgrade the 4 y/o desktop, I think, so that I can run SW:TOR when it is finally released.

Otherwise... the internet is strangely empty for me.

I sliced the end of my finger off on Christmas Day and spent the whole evening in the ER. Want to see a picture?

The flu started Monday. I maxed out with a fever of 102. I took off work.

Tuesday, I forced myself to work and was feeling a little better.

Wednesday, the flu moved into my head so I couldn't breathe. It then moved into my intestines about mid-day, and I left work early.

Thursday, although miserable, I was feeling 'better.' The sinus pressure was gone. My left eye started to leak a weird mucus, but I hadn't worn contacts in awhile, so I thought it might be dry eye.

At 3:00 AM Friday morning I wake up unable to open EITHER EYE. Both are crusted shut. The left is worse than the right. I assess the situation. The doctor will not be available until Monday. Even if I called his emergency number, he could not call in a prescription until Saturday. That and, could this eye thing be a complication related to my flu?  I would spend the ENTIRE CHRISTMAS with crazy gross eyes seeping puss. Not going to work. I drag myself blindly into the shower to uncrust my eyes, blowdry my hair, throw on jeans, and hoof it across the street to the ER.

In my hoofing it across the street I manage to wipe out on the ice. I get into the ER in a manner of 5 minutes, and I wait maybe 10 minutes in the waiting room. I get the full assessment and all that business. I'm told the flu hasn't moved into my lungs (thankfully) despite the fact that I'm still congested and coughing.

The doctor does the eye-dye deal, tells me I have conjunctivitis in both eyes. Not only that, but I have a corneal lesion. It's a sore on the cornea... probably for wearing contacts... which I haven't done since Sunday because I'm so damn sick.  So, he gives me the Cipro eye drops and a prescription for me and six tylenols with codiene for the pain. Odd. When they asked me for my pain rating between 1-10 and I said 2 or 3... really just discomfort and blindness.

So I went to three Christmas festivities unable to breathe due to lingering congestion, with eyes swollen and pink, unable to hug anybody, loopy on codiene.

Happy Holidays! Here's to a healthy 2010! You'd never know I take C, Zinc, and D every freakin' day. Gah!

sleep.

I did not mean to .

I did not set the alarm as when I do not set the alarm I will wake on my own around noon.
This did not happen I ended up waking up around 8:30pm ish.
I am not sick nor do I feel as if I am getting sick, so I have no clue why I sleep that much.
It is raining out at the moment and I am about to go back to sleep.


So there you go.


We are about a week away from this year being over, and with how much this past year hurt, sucked, almost killed me. I cant be more happy about it , next year better be better where things go some where after all this work or I am just I don't know.

Ladies and gentlemen, a Merry Christmas to all.

As you are all no doubt aware, today, December 25th, we celebrate a cultural holiday known as Christmas, wherein families and loved ones come together to buy each other gifts they can't really afford in a valiant effort to keep the economy afloat. More to the point, it gives our secular culture a festival day to rally round and focus on in the depths of winter, which in the northern regions can get pretty nasty.

Now I hear you shout "but Christmas is a religious holiday!" You're quite correct, and I would never argue against that. In spite of secularization by modern society, Christmas is intimately tied to religious beliefs and practices. It is the time when we celebrate the fact that, yes, the days are starting to get longer again and we won't spend the rest of eternity in a dark and frozen wasteland (which I know some of you were starting to get worried about). Apparently it's also the day when we celebrate the birth of the god Mithras, but to be honest I'm not actually a regular practitioner of Mithraism.

So whether you believe in the Unconquered Sun or not, Christmas is something we can all celebrate as a secular holiday with an important cultural role in modern society. Even followers of those wacky monotheistic religions are welcome to set their prohibitions aside and join in a pagan festival that everyone can believe in.

After all, the sun really is coming back after a long, cold winter, and that's the only thing we're trying to sell you today. That, and lots and lots of presents.

Or as some call it Xmass.

Here is my card from me to you.




Yes.. I am weird but we knew that already.

so it's the 24th.

Happy Christmas Eve.

*flings snowballs*

*wanders off to start wrapping what presents she does have*

Do not muck about with me,cost me money, waste my time or else I will bite your head off and make you cry for your mommy.


I think thats a good one?

Wait wait wait wait. Wait. What?

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THEY RELEASED A GEORGE CARLIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY A WEEK BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY!?!?!?!?!

Despite the initial groans when I assign my "Winter Solstice" project in which every single student in my classroom must write ONE NICE THING about every other student in my classroom... it seems to have gone off as splendidly as ever. Yes... even jaded, hormone jumpin' 13 y/os can get into the holiday spirit even when it has nothing to do with getting the latest Ipod contraption or whatever the latest 'it' thing is for these guys.

Makes me smile despite having contracted another flu bug. (Fever of 102 yesterday... REALLY? Is that necessary this week?)

no job for me. next chance this fall.

For the record my last name is spelled

KRIETE

Its Evelyn Kriete

Not how it is spelled here
http://steampunkworldsfair.com/

I did'nt event pick up till I saw it miss spelled on another site dew to this typo and was like FUCK.

Jeff if you can get that fixed as soon as can be that would be great .

Sigh.

Also are any of you having issues with that site on your web browser I keep getting emails that its not loading right or all screw ball.

There's a planned gathering in the "Star Wars Saga" room on Sanguine Draconis starting Christmas Eve Day for the holidays. The premise is Fete Week for those interested. I'm not running this show, but JD dropped me a line, and I figured I'd drop another line so that those interested with spare time off during the holidays might drop in and see old friends and old faces. My only suggestion is that for one holiday, all those SW RPers drop the issues and the drama and the grudges and ... well, I'm sure most know what I mean here, and stop in to say hello. It doesn't mean you have to say hello to the people you don't like, after all. I'll probably be around after Christmas is over to putz around with some of my free time if anyone is around. With grad class over, and a highly stressful work situation, I really need some escape... and with 18" of snow on the ground, there's not much getting out around here. Anyhow... consider yourself informed.

1. Elaborate on your default icon.
Taken from a Beetlejuice screen shot - and besides making me giggle it's how I feel most days.

2. What's your current relationship status?
Content - married for 7 years, together for 10.

3. Ever have a near-death experience?
Driving when I was 16/17 with my friend Mike in my '79 VW Scirocco - hydroplaned on a side street, and spun around a couple times. Missed every car and pole only to stop facing the same direction we were traveling to begin with. We stopped - looked at each other and cracked up laughing straight for 10 mins.

4. Name an obvious quality you have.
Grey hair

5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
B.E.P.'s Tonight's going to be good night (damn you Matt!).

6. Name a celebrity you would marry.
Assuming I'm allowed a harem - Ann Hathaway - cute, hot...smart. Like my wife.

7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Does it really matter?

8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
Only when I'm at the post office and little kids point out how I resemble faces on the wanted posters.

9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
Yes - Polar Heart Monitor - very good for increasing stamina while running.

10. Do you have anything pierced?
Nope - had my ear pierced once, but that just didn't work for me.

11. Do you have any tattoos?
Two - both Oriental Dragons. Plan on adding to the collection in 2010.

12. Do you like pain?
Define "like"? I have kids who I love immensely...but to be a parent is to endure pain.

13. Do you like to shop?
Not really. I like buying things, but usually end up with buyer's remorse.

14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Coffee at Borders, which isn't anything to crow about. They are only slightly better than Char-bucks. What's with over-roasting coffee beans and telling coffee snobs "this is how coffee is supposed to taste like!". Like what? Burned??

15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit/debit card?
Given that it's very close to Christmas - I cannot say.

16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
D. Scott. He wanted phone sex, but I denied him. I have a wife now and can't live that lie anymore.

17. What is on your desktop background?
A very cool picture Krista found of an old ferris wheel completely overgrown with kudzu.

18. What is the background on your cell phone?
Marion covered in squash.

19. Do you like redheads?
Yes - I have two at home. Krista is more auburn, but Lillian and Ethan have a claim to fame.

20. Do you know any twins?
I did in high school.

21. Do you have any weird relatives?
If you know me, without even knowing the rest of my family, then you have your answer.

22. What was the last movie you watched?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

1. Elaborate on your default icon.
This picture was taken by Jim to be used as my picture for the Changeling forums. I liked it so much that I use it for both this and my Facebook.

2. What's your current relationship status?
dating for nearly 4 years and in a state of cohabitation.

3. Ever have a near-death experience?
I was driving on Rt 2 at one point and I think that a van would have hit me if I hadn't sped up and gotten out of the way. It was changing lanes and would have hit the side of my car. It wouldn't have been good. Then there was the time I was rear ended by the tractor trailer. Had we been going any faster I would have been done for.

4. Name an obvious quality you have.
I'm short. I really don't need to say more than that.

5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
Love Fool was the last thing that I listened to.

6. Name a celebrity you would marry.
Probably Neil Gaiman. He's shiny and awesome. Also smart.

7. Who will cut and paste this first?
No idea.

8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
I've gotten Winona Ryder in the past.

9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
My biomagnetic field kills watches within about a year in most cases so if I do I wear an inexpensive watch like a Timex, knowing that I'm just going to kill it.

10. Do you have anything pierced?
I currently only have one hole in each ear. I used to have a second hole in both ears and I used to have the cartilage in my right ear pierced. I also used to have a third hole in my right ear lobe, but they've all since closed up.

11. Do you have any tattoos?
I have two. The first one is a blessings symbol and its on my right shoulder blade. The second is a pentical and it's on the small of my back. It is textured to look like it's made of rock and there are vines on it.

12. Do you like pain?
Sometimes, but mostly not.

13. Do you like to shop?
It depends on my mood and budget. The second one can certainly affect the second.

14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Dinner which was a sandwich from Panara.

15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit/debit card?
This afternoon I bought silver glass ornaments and an under the bed storage box from Target.

16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
Jim.

17. What is on your desktop background?
I think that it's a picture from the Hubble telescope. At any rate, it's space and its nifty.

18. What is the background on your cell phone?
the outside is flowers from my grandmother's funeral and the inside is a picture of mixed dice which I took while playing D&D.

19. Do you like redheads?
Well I certainly don't dislike them. And I dye my hair reddish brown.

20. Do you know any twins?
Well, I know that Ben S is one, and Jim's mother and aunt are, but other than that I'm not sure.

21. Do you have any weird relatives?
My brother David.

22. What was the last movie you watched?
Wanted, which was really good.

on the positive:

1. got a B+ in my first grad class, and the first formal schooling attended in 13 years.

on the negative:

1. no word on the e.hartford job. as i interviewed over a week ago and they'll have a decision by the xmas break...not a good sign.

2. two long-term sub jobs seem to have fallen through.

3. don't think i'll have an acceptance letter from hartt for the spring semester. this means i can only take 1 class and have it count towards my degree. was hoping to take 2, but i'll take what i can get.

It snows.

We have 8+ inches... and it's supposed to snow for the rest of the day.


This looks like the kind of snow that's going to hang out for awhile... we're definitely going to break 12 inches... maybe 14.

Perfect winter weekend. I'm glad I have all my holiday shopping done.

Damn straight!



Heh.

Do I do a good job?