Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please, oh PLEASE let the Ravens get their asses kicked by the Colts this weekend.  Ravens fans are so annoying in general, but are especially obnoxious when they make it to the play-offs.  If I hear the phrase "Festivus Maximus" one more time, I think I might do serious damage to myself or someone else. 

I was reminded that I am long overdue for an update, and right now I'm in procrastination mode, so now is a good time for that.

Classes start up again on the 23rd.  Until then, I'm just here at home working on my thesis, which has to be defended and complete by March 17th.  I haven't really made much progress since before Christmas, and I'm having a ( Read more... )

Blue thing pie is now syndicated on LiveJournal.

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I think part of the reason I really like the 4th of July is because I have a secret love of marching band music, especially Stars and Stripes Forever.  I played the tuba in HS (yes, the tuba) and the tuba part for Stars and Stripes Forever is about as close as a tuba player ever gets to a chance at showing off.  I like Pomp and Circumstance for the ( Read more... )

Now that I work from home for a good part of the week (when I'm not working at Rick's or at meetings w/ Rick), I listen to music all the time.  But I've decided that I'm bored with the music I've been listening to.  We have a subscription to Rhapsody (an internet music service), so I have access to pretty much any music I could want, but I've ( Read more... )

Our swiss chard is ready to harvest.  I had never had swiss chard before we grew it last year, and Brian only knows one way to cook it (cooked in a skillet w/ potatoes).  So since we probably have enough swiss chard for at least 8 (maybe 10 or 12) meals, we need some new recipes to try.  I'm going to collect them here so I dont have to go hunting ( Read more... )

ETA: I used to have images of what the different plants will eventually look like, but I got a message from LJ reprimanding me for linking to outside images.  So I took them all out (even though their problem was only with one image).  Sorry.

So, here is what we had before...

That picture was from either the first time we looked at the house or the ( Read more... )

The landscape guys are here and have cut all of the shrubs down to the stumps.  Now they're working on grinding the stumps out.

Watching them cut everything out was kind of ...I don't know...like shaving your own head or something.  Kind of liberating, but with an "OMG, I can't believe I'm doing this" feeling at the same time.  I'm glad we're doing ( Read more... )

This is a parody of the SNL skit "Lazy Sunday".  One of my friends sent me a link to this about a week ago, and I wanted to post it here.  Muncie is the town where I went to college, and these guys have captured it very well.  You can't truly get it without knowing Muncie, but I'm sure some of you from the midwest will identify with some of the ( Read more... )

Following the leads of  congogirl and jak326 I'm going to join the knit_olympics.  ( Read more... )