This past week I ended up talking with my coworkers about my color vision issues. I was having a problem distinguishing two colors and one of my coworkers helpfully informed one of our new coworkers that I was "color blind." This meant I then had to correct my well-meaning coworker to make sure things were clear: I am not fully color blind. I don't ( Read more... )

It used to be that I didn't go anywhere without a book. I went through books like Kleenex, devouring every page. Then, some point around when I started graduate school, I became "too busy" to read much. I was reading for class by my for-fun reading tapered off. Then after I graduated, I was still somehow "too busy" for reading for pleasure ( Read more... )

Today was ( Read more... )

oh Livejournal, I have been neglecting you so badly ( Read more... )

You know, I think it's been waaaay too long since my hair was blue.

I have some good Manic Panic that Heather brought me from Portland. Now all I have to do is acquire some bleaching stuff and I'll be good to go. Expect an update in the next week or so!

So my vague resolution to make 52 flavors of ice cream in a year is limping along slowly ( Read more... )

Since I discovered my love of making ice cream I frequently offer to make ice cream for my friends for their birthdays or for holidays&etc. Every once in a while I encounter someone who tells me thank you but that "ice cream is sooo fattening" or "I'm on a low-sugar diet" or "oh wow, I'll have to do so much work to burn off all those calories ( Read more... )

bleh ( Read more... )

I'm discovering that I may be a smidge too nice to effectively participate in this holiday.

In the winter, since I don't like/can't get outdoors much I tend to focus on domestic things a lot more. Cooking, sewing, cleaning, etc. (when I'm not hibernating with a book, that is ( Read more... )