Sore Throats Suck. And Stuff.

Hi blog, remember me? Yeah, me neither. So I have not written anything in a ridiculously long period of time, partially due to being insanely busy and partially because I'm just lazy. But I thought I would get back into the swing of things before the new year. Best to start off on the right foot, or I might not start off at all.

In the past month(ish) I've been having some interesting things going on. There's been work, the buffin, Christmas, Evan, the general fact that I am broke as efk, and all that other holiday goodness.

Since there has been so much (or perhaps little) going on, I don't really feel like detailing it all, but a few highlights are in order, for posterity and such. Chase rolled over (yay! gross motor skills!), ironically while wearing a shirt with Santa and his sleigh on it that said "this is how I roll", by the way. Evan and I have been... 'talking', as we've put it. Whatever the heck that means. Hard to do much else when you live three time zones apart. I finally got off my lazy butt and registered for school and financial aid (which means that I should be getting a laptop next month. Mmmm tasty. My mom finally got a job, and she loves it. It pays very well, too. I am seriously needing to look for a new job, but I've been putting it off. Bad bad Dragon. Oh, and I've had a seriously awful sore throat for going on 12 days now, which I caught from Chase. Poor thing is sick too. Well, as far as I can think of, that's pretty much it.

So for fun and kicks, here's a picture of the Buffin.

Kind of fuzzy, but that's ok. He really likes it when I put his feet on his face. Silly kid.

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From Dwelling to Home

Been feeling like crap. Things around here have been sucking incredibly hard lately-- broke, sleepless, stressed out, effing moronic me forgetting to take my meds every day so I've been feeling even more crappy, and worse, the running is in my head again. Sometimes I feel stifled, like my skin is too tight and I can't breathe, and I just want to run. When everything is a mess and I feel like there's no use cleaning it, and I just want to start over with a clean canvas. Those times where I feel like grabbing my CDs, some clothes, and my journal and just driving until the gas runs out. This has been one of those times.

But today there is hope. Finally we got some good news- today we heard from the people at the apartment complex we applied to. It's a brand new complex (only a few people living in it right now), it's absolutely gorgeous and feels blank, no impressions or leftover unpleasantness from previous owners (I get impressions in places. I've turned down more than a few awesome apartments because they made me feel sad or creeped out. Wierd, I know.). We have to turn in a few things and we are pretty much guaranteed to get the place.

It's CHIP (Cali's low income housing program, for those who don't know), so the rent will be about the same or less than we are paying now for a beautiful 3 bedroom apartment. It's a really unique design, too: it's in a three story building and occupies the top two floors in a building with 8 units, 4 3 bedrooms and 4 2 bedrooms that are located on the bottom floor. The upstairs is accessed by a door leading to an internal staircase that is part of the upstairs apartment.

There are 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the top floor and one bedroom and one bathroom on the lower floor. The bottom room would be mine, and I'd have my own bathroom (OMG YAY!). It is awesome. Filled with light, all energy star appliances, a kitchen with a fantastic work triangle, and lots of storage space. It also has a large storage closet on the ground floor for things like barbeque equipment and the like.

I am so excited. I love moving, it makes me feel new and satisfies the nagging urge to run. Best of all, my mom will finally have her own room (right now she sleeps in the living room), so we will have a real living room and won't have to retreat to our rooms after about 9pm. Yay! Late night movies and all that when I can't sleep!

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

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Squishface

I thought perhaps I should post something happy and lighthearted to balance out all the negative sounding posts lately. Life is not all bad, really. I'm just having a sort of bad time lately thanks to boredom, poorness, and a lack of more than 4 or 5 consecutive hours of sleep (and that's on a good night). But there are a few good things going on. There's Chase, of course (the kid's going to grow up thinking his name is Buffin. I call him Chase maybe once or twice a day and Buffin about 4732913746984623967 times a day), and I've been working on the carriers when I get the chance (although 3 of the 4 of the sewing machines in the house have suddenly decided to go on strike-- without any forewarning by the way-- and none are working correctly except the serger), and my dear friend Zin has asked me to help her with her fantastic political blog, Locke's Closet. So some things are going well.

And now for the fun stuff- baby pictures, anyone?







--Dragon

BTW, for some unfathomable reason, I can't get the jump to work anymore. I have to go in and see if the HTML got screwed up somehow, which I don't look forward to at all.
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Just Who Do You Think You Are?

Yay! I've officially been tagged for a meme (Is it meem? Or me-me? Or perhaps mem?) by Cherylann. I'm so excited :)

The Rules: You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog-post containing your own middle name and the rules of the game. At the end of your blog-post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

My middle name is Corrine (pronounce Ca-reen, as in careen out of control, not Cor-rin)


Creative: I like to think that I am a rather creative individual-- I can draw, sew, write, sing, and act (yay! I'm like a one-man band!) and I'm great at coming up with creative solutions for problems that no one else thinks of. McGuyver has nothing on me :)

Obstinate: I am very stubborn. Once I make up my mind about something, it pretty much takes an act of God for me to change it. I am very argumentative when it comes to someone trying to change my opinion or disagree with me on how to do something (my way really IS better! I swear!), which can be pretty irritating to people around me, but it's also a good thing, because once I make up my mind to do something, I do it, no matter how long it takes.

Reader: I love to read. I probably spend at least 3 hours a day reading, either on the internet or actual books. If it has words on it, chances are I'll read it. I even read the shampoo bottles in the shower and the ingredients on whatever box or container is sitting on the table.

Razzle-dazzle: (isn't that a great word?) I'm very theatrical, I love being different, standing out, having people recognize me in public. I have a rather unique sense of style and I love to wear clothes that have personality. For example, in high school I made this wonderful light blue cloak lined with black leopard print material, and I routinely wore to school. (I know, I'm such a dork)

Independent: I could care less what people think of me, beyond whether or not it will adversely affect me (as in, will it keep me from getting a job?). I don't like being told what to do (unless you're paying me, or have a really good reason to). I never really enjoyed being in large groups of people and prefer to be by myself or with one or two other people. I guess you could say I'm kind of a loner.

Nerdy: I stole this one, too, because I can't think of a better thing that starts with N. I read like crazy, I play World of Warcraft often, and have been known to wear cloaks and corsets and other random period attire. So yeah, I'm a nerd.

Energetic: I'm very energetic, and quite often hyper. If I'm not bouncing off the walls, there's probably a problem.

Well, that's me! I don't think enough people read this to tag one person for each letter of my middle name, so I'll just tag the ones I know do read it. I'll tag Granny, Thordora, and Sam, though I'm not sure if Sam reads it very often. So have fun!

--Dragon
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Chucks

Few things are so good for the soul as a good pair of chucks.


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Roses

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I Am So Totally Awesome

Well, sometimes I like to think I am. Lookie what I made (yes, all by myself):

Not only is it lovely to behold, but it is also functional. Click on it! How supremely awesome is that?

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Firefox

Behold the supreme awesomeness that is my browser. I have all kinds of nifty addons that make it pretty :)



Isn't it 73 kinds of spiffy?

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10 Things

I'm bored and can't sleep. Damn pregnant belly and mooshed bladder. Oh well. So for my personal entertainment, I shall post a random list. Lists = Fun! :)

10 Things I wouldn't want to live without, in no particular order. I could live without them, but then what would be the point? :)

1. Bleach Pen-- Awesome. I don't have many white clothes, but I do have plenty of clothes with white on them, and I seem to have some sort of magnetic properties when it comes to stains. If it weren't for my bleach pen, I would have thrown away about half my wardrobe by now.

2. Spray butter-- As in "I can't believe it's not butter spray" With just this, lemon juice, and a little salt and pepper, I can make the best barbecued chicken in the world (a fact supported by everyone who has come to one of my barbecues).

3. Throw blankets-- I have a weird obsession with blankets. Anything really soft and fuzzy, or with a neat design, or some other novel feature (I have a fuzzy lime green blanket with the texture of a poodle), I have to have. I've gotten more blankets on clearance at Hottopic than most people have bought in their entire lifetimes.

4. Wireless Mice (Mouses?)-- I'm left handed (I'm a left-handed activist. That's right. I feel that us southpaws should band together to battle our right-handed oppressors. Do you know how hard it is to find a good left handed can opener or scissors? I rest my case.) and several other people use my computer on a regular basis. They all use their right hands to mouse (even my left handed brother... traitor!) and it's very handy to be able to move the mouse around the desk without dealing with a bunch of cords. Also good for long online gaming sessions where you get lazy and put a book on your lap with the mouse on it so you can slouch in the chair.

5. Parenthesis-- This is pretty self explanatory if you've read anything else I've written. :)

6. Shoeboxes-- I adore organizing things. Shoeboxes are fantastic for this purpose, and have the added bonus of being a generally uniform shape and size, good for stacking multidious (I'm pretty sure that's not a real word) shoeboxes in cupboards for maximum organizational fun.

7. Office supplies-- I always loved going back to school for the sole reason that I got to go shopping for school supplies. There is nothing better than organizing a fresh binder or opening a new notebook and writing in it for the first time.

8. Snapple Peach Iced Tea-- Tasty refreshing bliss.

9. Sharpies-- Need I have a reason? Sharpies are wonderful. It's great to take them along on roadtrips (when I'm not driving), to concerts, or anywhere that I'll be sitting still for a long time. I make fantastic "tattoos" on myself or others that come out looking really neat. (and yes my mother has told me on countless occasions that I'm going to get ink poisoning.) They wash off really easily (hint: hand sanitizer or other alcohol based product works wonders. just slather up the area, rub with a washcloth, and then wash with soap and water.) Example from my trip to Ozzfest:


10. Bittorrent-- I am poor. I am cheap. I'd almost never get any new music if it weren't for Bittorrent. Yes, I know, I'm a horrible person and a pirate. Actually, that's pretty cool-- Arrggggg. I'm a pirate :p

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New Template!

I was bored with the old template. I don't really like any of the stock templates, but my knowledge of HTML is terribly limited and none of the free templates I could find were what I was looking for. I found out how to add a picture to your header here, and so I messed around on photoshop for a while (Photoshop is fast becoming my new favorite program. And I thought I was awesome with Paint!), until I came up with this one, and just found the template that went the best. So Yay!

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