Yubsie's Yammerings

Dude, where's my layout? (Seriously, it's randomly vanished :p)

We bought a kitchen table yesterday. It came with four chairs. We only really need two, so one is being used as my sewing chair and the fourth is in a corner somewhere to be pulled out when entertaining (because it would get in the way of the fridge normally. :P

I also tried out my new sewing machine yesterday and I heaaaaaaaaart it. I finished up the hood, so today I'm hoping to get started on the rest of the cloak.

We also watched the Fifth Doctor's first arc. I quite like him. Of course, I've yet to meet a Doctor I didn't like. :p Teagan is also really cool. :D Also, I want to see Deadpool, because David TEnnant sings and dances. :p

And I found Photoshop! It was in my drawer thingy. Sometimes known as my other boot. So I can make icons again! As soon as I rebuild my font collection. :p So I can have Doctor Who icons! And all those other things I talked about wanting icons of. :p

I have a weird hobby of looking at every list of wedding song ideas that I come across. This frequently leads to me WTFing and wondering if people even READ the lyrics. I mean, I love "I Will Follow You INto the Dark" but it's kinda DEATHTASTIC (and I don't mean super cheery like I usually do when I say that. :p) Also, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" as a father/daughter dance? NO BAD WRONG. "A Whole New World", while fine for a bride/groom dance, is not father/daugther material. I mean, wasn't Jasmine's father the one KEEPING her from seeing the world, shining, shimmering, splendid? "My Heart Will Go On" just makes me think "They're like that couple from Titanic, only no one dies, omigod you guys!"

And "Memory" from Cats? Do people just not LISTEN to these songs before they suggest them?

And yes, I look at these lists just for the WTF factor, since we already have both those songs picked out. :p

EDIT: Well, my layout's back. :p

I've been doing illicit chemistry the past two days. Not only is it fun to say, it's fun to do and gives me something TO do. :p

See, we're not SUPPOSED to work in a lab until we've had WHMIS. We can't take WHMIS without an employee email account. Grad studies is being slow about putting in appointments. Grad studies doesn't understand the need for WHMIS.

Thus, illicit chemistry. What's my supervisor going to do, tell the department head? :p

Right now I'm making starting materials to get used to where everything is and how to use a Schlenk line. I'm doing a Grignard reaction, which is pretty exciting since I've used it as an answer in class plenty of times, but never actually done one before.

I had another safety training thing today, which was not ENTIRELY useless. I found out where the Occupational Health and Safety office is. :p It's in a cavelike corridor. The point is that I now have a form for prescription safety glasses. Now I just need to get an optometrist appointment and I can stop doing the safety glasses over regular glasses thing. :p

AND I found out vision care is covered by the grad student health plan. :p

The stuff my mother was sending UPS arrived yesterday. So now I have my books and movies and fabric. It will be interesting making it all FIT. :p

Oh, and did you know there are themed Star Trek boxed sets? I may kinda sorta have a Q collection now. :p

We amused the cashier at the grocery store today by playing rock-paper-scissors to see who was paying. We'd forgotten whose turn it was. :p She informed us that next time we're at her till, Ryan had better be the one paying. :p

Most importantly: Our bed is supposed to get here tomorrow, praise be. :p

We're moving in to the apartment today. While I'm super excited to have a place to live, I'm teh sad that I'm not sure when we'll have internet. Though I'll probably try to find a place with wireless access that I can take Puck to in the meantime.

Also, I finished Inferno. I actually... liked it! I breezed through it in a day instead of a tedious slog.

( Spoilers... Tess, why weren't you online for this?! )

We actually went in to London today. It seems like a pretty nice city. We applied for one apartment. It's a really nice location, but of course I don't want to get my hopes up. It was quite an adventure getting everything we needed to apply, including trying to track down a TD and a Scotiabank and trying to find a Shoppers with a post office. And then the photocopier was out of order, and the library is closed on Mondays...

But we managed to get the application in, and that's the important part.

Also, I am ASTOUNDED by the price of gas in Ontario. It's well under a dollar a litre!

I am a z shaped Tetris block. We (mostly) got everything in the car through Tetrisy means. :p So I feel like a Tetris block, something else that has to be fit in. I'm enjoying this whole being at the motel and thus able to move my feet thing. :p

We forgot my winter coat. It made it to the garage, but not the car. :p I'm actually really relaxed, because now I know what we forgot and I can stop trying to figure out what we forgot. :p

The McDonald's in Fredricton is a pain. No one has EVER given me a hard time about ordering my fajitas only cheese and chicken, but the cashiere had to ask the manager if they could do it, and then I had to convince the MANAGER that I've ordered it, I've rung it up for other people, McDonald's DOES it. :p

It poured rain most of the way, which was less than ideal driving conditions. THere was also a lot of crazy low clouds and intense fog. :p

Oh, there is a town in Quebec called Saint Louis du Ha! Ha! I was amused. :p

Finally, when your brain is mush, ordering supper from a waitress speaking rapid fire Quebecois is tricky. :P Of course, the other problem was that she would just stand there expectantly instead of actually asking me questions.

Oh, and a meme. :p

Name a fandom of mine and I'll answer these questions:

01. The first character I first fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag anytime
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

EDIT: I forgot the REALLY weird thing. It only just occurred to me that we're going to be living in the Eastern timezone. The times on the tv are going to be right! And I won't have to stay up as late to catch people online. :p

I bought Civilization III several months ago when I found it for ten dollars, but I just got around to installing it a couple days ago. My first game, I was stupid and trusted the manual for traits, when it had two of the tribes switched. So I was playing as the militaristic, industrious Chinese when I wanted to be the SCIENTIFIC, industrious Persians. So I wound up losing at mandatory retirement. It didn't help that I started at the south of a continent with two other tribes right near me, so my early expansion was limited.

I also took FOREVER to find a source of iron. I had the technology for railroads, but I couldn't BUILD them. So I found a source JUST inside enemy territory, built a city right outside the borders, speed built a temple and then waited for my cultural influence to do the rest. :P Cultural influence is definitely the coolest thing in this game. :p

When you lose, there's a screen where all the other leaders (even the one's you scored higher than, no fair!) make fun of you. INcluing informing you that "All your base are belong to us". I was amused. :p

This time I'm the Persians on a huge map. Hopefully it'll go better. I'm going for either cultural or spaceship victory. I was CLOSE to having enough tech for the spaceship victory last time, but not quite.

I also had lots of *look at clock* "How does this game DO that?" moments where I realized how absurdly late it had gotten while I played. :p

Packing suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, why do I have so much stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff?

I finally managed to quit my job. This had been proving quite difficult because every time I called or stopped by, there was no one in the office. But I finally managed to put in my notice today. :p

I'm no closer to having an apartment, but at least we'll manage to save a bit on hotels since a friend who lives about an hour from London has offered to let us stay with her for a couple days. The joys of Facebook. I had my status as something to the effect of hating moving and she offered. :p

I still need to get a bunch of stuff packed up to figure out moving. UGH my books. SO many books. They can't all come, obviously, but there's an awful lot that I don't want to part with. Moving is annoying. :p

Also, I'm all allergy-y today. Not fun.