KMTT, let me explain something to you...yes, you get props for playing good songs on occasion. In particular, "Just Breathe" by Pearl Jam. Quite a good song, and one I am more than willing to participate in singing along with and generally enjoying.
However. Playing a good song four to five times a day?
FAIL.
In other news, the perfect murder of this particular cold is going rather well. The Portuguese garlic soup was a success (as were the leftovers), and there was much bad breath and nasal drip to be had. As well as a house that smelled to high heaven of delightful garlic and cayenne pepper. The Neti pot, as always, was a miracle. The BBC Comedy added good humor to the macabre affair of murder, and the wool socks were divine.
The bed time was not as early as it should have been, and that is where I faltered. I will not make the same mistake tonight.
Signing off to continue the execution (pun intended) of my plan by climbing into bed...
-The GLS
(PS: My exciting news from a few blog posts earlier is still in motion...and hopefully tomorrow night it will all be revealed!)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Perfect Murder...and why KMTT is meh.
Quick Note: This is why 103.7 The Mountain is no longer "my" radio station. I tuned over to them for a moment to see what was up (because KEXP had gone into one of their random forays into rap...). For those of you who are unfamiliar with The Mountain's programming, Tuesdays are "New Music Tuesdays", and every so often an automated message will come on saying, "New Music Tuesday...on the Mountain!" and new music will then commence to play. This evening, the automated message came on...right before playing "Sweet Home Alabama".
FAIL.
Okay, here's the important stuff. I woke up this morning congested, but overall fine. As the day progressed I got snottier...and achier...and I was not okay with it.
So, tonight, I am planning the Perfect Murder. Of a COLD, that is!
Ingredients Needed to Murder a Cold:
1. Portuguese Garlic Soup. No, you're not reading that wrong. It's pretty much a little bit of chicken stock surrounded on all sides by minced garlic and cayenne pepper. In other words, heaven. Nose-clearing heaven. (And yes, I DID just link to myself on my other blog. You gotta problem with that??)
2. Neti Pot. This is a marvel. It's basically a ceramic teapot that you put salt water in and flush out your nose. Which sounds gross...and it is. But feels SO good, and actually works!
3. BBC Comedy. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine. I happen to be watching "Mock the Week" right now, because watching English people poke fun at their politics is funnier than watching Americans argue about ours.
4. Wool socks. Just because.
5. The earliest possible bedtime. Which, for me, is going to be around 8:30pm. This is why I'm blogging early.
By the time we next meet, I hope to have done the dirty deed, or at least set the chain of events rolling that will end in my cold's ultimate demise. Wish me luck.
-The GLS
FAIL.
Okay, here's the important stuff. I woke up this morning congested, but overall fine. As the day progressed I got snottier...and achier...and I was not okay with it.
So, tonight, I am planning the Perfect Murder. Of a COLD, that is!
Ingredients Needed to Murder a Cold:
1. Portuguese Garlic Soup. No, you're not reading that wrong. It's pretty much a little bit of chicken stock surrounded on all sides by minced garlic and cayenne pepper. In other words, heaven. Nose-clearing heaven. (And yes, I DID just link to myself on my other blog. You gotta problem with that??)
2. Neti Pot. This is a marvel. It's basically a ceramic teapot that you put salt water in and flush out your nose. Which sounds gross...and it is. But feels SO good, and actually works!
3. BBC Comedy. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine. I happen to be watching "Mock the Week" right now, because watching English people poke fun at their politics is funnier than watching Americans argue about ours.
4. Wool socks. Just because.
5. The earliest possible bedtime. Which, for me, is going to be around 8:30pm. This is why I'm blogging early.
By the time we next meet, I hope to have done the dirty deed, or at least set the chain of events rolling that will end in my cold's ultimate demise. Wish me luck.
-The GLS
Monday, April 5, 2010
Bubble Gum Pie (Yum!)
Tonight, my gutsiness will mean nothing to any of you.
It only means the world to me.
My gutsiness is to dare to hope that a deeply shallow and materialistic yet important (to me) prayer may have been answered, this evening.
Hope, hope, hope.
I dare to hope. And smile while I do so. :D
-The GLS
PS: Sorry to be cryptic. I WILL shout it from the rooftops if it comes to pass. Don't you worry. (No. I'm not dating/engaged/preggers. So don't waste a thought on that.)
It only means the world to me.
My gutsiness is to dare to hope that a deeply shallow and materialistic yet important (to me) prayer may have been answered, this evening.
Hope, hope, hope.
I dare to hope. And smile while I do so. :D
-The GLS
PS: Sorry to be cryptic. I WILL shout it from the rooftops if it comes to pass. Don't you worry. (No. I'm not dating/engaged/preggers. So don't waste a thought on that.)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Unlikely Greeting Cards.
(The title is courtesy the BBC comedy show "Mock the Week". I can't exactly recommend watching it, because it's not for the sensitive....but parts of it are very funny.)
Alrighty, here's the thing. Today was (obviously) Easter, so not a lot of gutsiness occurred.
However! There is a lump of orange yarn sitting next to me that was the victim of a rather unfortunate...well, I can't call it an accident.
I can call it my first attempt at crochet.
My sister-in-law (whom I affectionately refer to as Sister Bear, because my bro is Brother Bear...see what I did there?) and her mother are both extremely talented crocheters, and we got to talking about crochet vs. knitting, and I wondered if perhaps I ought to give it another try.
I'm...not sure what I did could really be called crochet. It came out looking more like an orange worm with a glandular problem. But, you know, practice makes perfect?
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Easter.
He is risen! He is risen indeed.
-The GLS
Alrighty, here's the thing. Today was (obviously) Easter, so not a lot of gutsiness occurred.
However! There is a lump of orange yarn sitting next to me that was the victim of a rather unfortunate...well, I can't call it an accident.
I can call it my first attempt at crochet.
My sister-in-law (whom I affectionately refer to as Sister Bear, because my bro is Brother Bear...see what I did there?) and her mother are both extremely talented crocheters, and we got to talking about crochet vs. knitting, and I wondered if perhaps I ought to give it another try.
I'm...not sure what I did could really be called crochet. It came out looking more like an orange worm with a glandular problem. But, you know, practice makes perfect?
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Easter.
He is risen! He is risen indeed.
-The GLS
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Gutsy Enough Not to Use An Ampersand.
Oh my gosh!!
Yeah. I decided I was in a title rut. So the ampersand is going to take a little break.
Today I realized I had too few knitting projects going on. Basically it's just a re-start of this adorable elfin hat that I've been inching my way through for weeks. And the "Pippin" scarf that I started but never continued because I realized I'd been reading the pattern wrong the whole time. Phooey.
So I spent some time this afternoon re-winding all of my messy skeins of yarn into nice little balls and then organizing them in the antique hutch they should live in (they tend to spill out all over my workspace). I also now have a paper bag full of yarn scraps to use for stuffing, should I ever need it, and a jar for varying balls of scrap yarn. One for larger scraps, and a smaller one for scraps that are too long for stuffing but not long enough to make anything bigger than a coin purse.
Having organized my yarn, I came across the red yarn that I got from a hat I bought in Galway. It was a cheap (like, 3 euro) hat that I really liked the style of, but it melted a day or two after I bought it. And by melted, I mean unraveled. In an epic fashion.
So I spent WAY longer than I needed to unraveling the yarn from the hat so I could use it for something else. It's a bright, cherry red and oh-so-soft. So I'm making a pair of handwarmers with it! It just seems right. Add a pair of red-and-white flapper buttons and we're in business!
The pattern for the handwarmers was one of the first patterns I ever tried when I first started knitting, and I've wanted to make these with this yarn for several months now, but I'm only now getting started. I think this is going to be a norm for me, unfortunately.
Pics when I finish. Perhaps even a before and after...hat to handwarmers. :)
-The GLS
Yeah. I decided I was in a title rut. So the ampersand is going to take a little break.
Today I realized I had too few knitting projects going on. Basically it's just a re-start of this adorable elfin hat that I've been inching my way through for weeks. And the "Pippin" scarf that I started but never continued because I realized I'd been reading the pattern wrong the whole time. Phooey.
So I spent some time this afternoon re-winding all of my messy skeins of yarn into nice little balls and then organizing them in the antique hutch they should live in (they tend to spill out all over my workspace). I also now have a paper bag full of yarn scraps to use for stuffing, should I ever need it, and a jar for varying balls of scrap yarn. One for larger scraps, and a smaller one for scraps that are too long for stuffing but not long enough to make anything bigger than a coin purse.
Having organized my yarn, I came across the red yarn that I got from a hat I bought in Galway. It was a cheap (like, 3 euro) hat that I really liked the style of, but it melted a day or two after I bought it. And by melted, I mean unraveled. In an epic fashion.
So I spent WAY longer than I needed to unraveling the yarn from the hat so I could use it for something else. It's a bright, cherry red and oh-so-soft. So I'm making a pair of handwarmers with it! It just seems right. Add a pair of red-and-white flapper buttons and we're in business!
The pattern for the handwarmers was one of the first patterns I ever tried when I first started knitting, and I've wanted to make these with this yarn for several months now, but I'm only now getting started. I think this is going to be a norm for me, unfortunately.
Pics when I finish. Perhaps even a before and after...hat to handwarmers. :)
-The GLS
Friday, April 2, 2010
Home & Pasta Genovese
Best song of the day: "Home" by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Loved it so much I broke my new "rule" and went ahead and bought it on iTunes (I've been unofficially sworn off of iTunes, realizing that my money could probably be better spent elsewhere...but this song was worth breaking the rules).
In fact, go check out Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros anyway. They are SO epic. Ten-piece band, and the above song has sort of a "Johnny Cash with full orchestral backing" sound to it. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pump it loud in your car. Wonderful stuff.
I'm currently six pages into my screenplay.
And I tried pasta Genovese for the first time ever tonight! Gosh, it was amazing. Pesto, pine nuts, parmesan, spaghettini, and fresh basil. Yes!
Okay. I gotta go write a screenplay with an Edward Sharpe & Co. soundtrack.
Toodles!
-The GLS
In fact, go check out Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros anyway. They are SO epic. Ten-piece band, and the above song has sort of a "Johnny Cash with full orchestral backing" sound to it. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pump it loud in your car. Wonderful stuff.
I'm currently six pages into my screenplay.
And I tried pasta Genovese for the first time ever tonight! Gosh, it was amazing. Pesto, pine nuts, parmesan, spaghettini, and fresh basil. Yes!
Okay. I gotta go write a screenplay with an Edward Sharpe & Co. soundtrack.
Toodles!
-The GLS
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Hollywood & Bad Special Effects
Couldn't think of a better title, as I just watched a movie that I can place firmly in the "I want that 98 minutes of my life back" category.
"The Black Hole" by Disney from 1979 is...aptly titled. And that's all I'm going to say, because my parents and I almost wet ourselves we were laughing so hard. And not in a good way. I can handle badness...but this was bad.
Nuff said.
In another intrepid adventure, I am about to embark on Script Frenzy 2010!! It's going to be interesting. I don't think I'll get too far tonight, because I'm starting a little late (thanks, homework!). But I'll keep you posted on my progress. At least I have an idea and two main characters. From there...Hollywood!
-The GLS
"The Black Hole" by Disney from 1979 is...aptly titled. And that's all I'm going to say, because my parents and I almost wet ourselves we were laughing so hard. And not in a good way. I can handle badness...but this was bad.
Nuff said.
In another intrepid adventure, I am about to embark on Script Frenzy 2010!! It's going to be interesting. I don't think I'll get too far tonight, because I'm starting a little late (thanks, homework!). But I'll keep you posted on my progress. At least I have an idea and two main characters. From there...Hollywood!
-The GLS
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