If there is one thing I miss about New York, it’s the pizza and buffalo wings. People here in Philly just don’t know how to make either! The one good pizza place we go to is only ‘pretty good’ pizza (havent tried their wings) and they are a half hour away, close to the city (ick) so we don’t go often. Last night I wanted a new york pizza. So we called up this local little pizzeria around here, since Papa John’s pizza just isnt that great, and we ordered a large cheese pizza and some buffalo wings… Now we had hopes for this place, even after they told me that the sell the wings by the half dozen, with FRENCH FRIES. So I drive to the pizzeria, pick up the pizza, it’s a decent looking place, the people there are really nice and the food smells GREAT. I get home, look at the pizza and it looks really really good, nice thin crust, yummie looking cheese… so I pull out a piece and I try it. The bottom is fairly dark… so it tastes a little burnt… %(!!! I HATE it when my pizza is burnt *sigh* I guess i could give this pizzeria one more chance, I mean they cant burn ALL their pizzas, maybe I was just unlucky. But the wings smelled good, they must be good right? I should have known from the french fries. They were sorta buffaloy … mostly coated in sauce, but they just didnt have that fried/dripping with sauce taste that i love! … It’s like an experience a few weeks ago when we were at Unos pizzeria, and they had “boneless buffalo wings’ … sounds good right? They turned out to be chicken nuggets with a little bit of buffalo sauce on them… and they were a bit soggy. *sigh*
Anyway, I miss New York pizza. There was this place in Seneca Falls that had some pretty good pizza, you know the kind with thin crust, lots of cheese, and just the right amount of grease, and their buffalo wings, oh man, so dripping with sauce and grease that they would soak through the styrofoam container. Thats some good eatings %)
With cravings like this it’s really amazing that I am still thin, LOL… In other news I think I might cut my hair. Not trim. Seriously cut, like maybe a little longer than shoulder length… I think I have grown out of the long hair thing. I dunno, I am still thinking about it, and I have no idea what Myk will think about it, heehee, I guess I should run it by him and get his opinion… anyway *wanders off*
It’s really hard to describe how perfect Christmas was this year. I didn’t really *get* very much; Myk’s present to me was the upgrade on my computer last month, and all I got him was a cd and a dvd (Dune dvd, which was for him as much as it was for me, hehe)… but it wasn’t about the gifts at all. For once I had a truly happy, pleasant, non-stressful christmas. I ended up calling my father yesterday evening while Myk made a fire, spoke to him for about 25 minutes or so, luckily he didnt dwell on me moving up to New England much… he tries to tell me about how is life is there each time I talk to him, but I never know what to say… I mean saying “awww” to your dad just doesnt feel like an appropriate responce, and it sounds weird when I say “dad, it’s great that you’re hanging in there” Hmm, doesnt sound so weird now that I write it, I dunno, it’s just a difficult situation. I havent mentioned the possibility of my moving to Florida, although I did tell my mother, I think I will wait until I am more positive, that way I wont have to deal with his “omg noooo!!!!” and then not end up moving, hehe.
I did learn some bad news yesterday, my cousin’s wife (who I have never met) recently lost her sister. Her and her sister are from Peru (where my cousin met her), and she moved to the US with my cousin, and her sister ended up being accepted to a very highly rated ballet school in Russia (these girls are from a VERY wealthy family in Peru…). Well, around July they stopped hearing from her sister, they were very concerned, filed a missing persons report in Russia, and they tried to find her. Unfortunately, a week before Thanksgiving, they found her body.. she had been murdered. Again, I have never met these people, but they are family now, and it’s a terrible terrible loss… and put a bit of a ‘black cloud’ over their thanksgiving.
I guess that’s it for now, I need to go take a shower (i slept most of the day today, hehe) and then go out to the grocery store since we are frightfully low on food “oops” Hehe… *wanders off*
I kept changing my mind about whether to post or not today… I guess I will write until I dont feel like it anymore…
Merry Christmas!!!
Yesterday we ended up getting out of bed (i went back to after I wrote yesterday morning) around 4 to the sound of the phone ringing. It was our friends that we bought the case of lindenmen’s for, and although we never made concrete plans, we *did* say we would meet them sometime that afternoon to exchange gifts *oops*. So we told her that we’d swing by their house in about an hour. We packed up some cookies, I grabbed Snow Crash to return to them(i finished it) and got all ready to go out. We got to there apartment and ended up having a nice time. Mike and Nita got me a Stitch stuffed animal from the Disney store *huggles stitch* he so cutey!!! And they got Myk some herbal tea to help him sleep. They also gave us some yummie cookies *oh i feel so fat* hehe. We didnt stay too long, it being xmas eve and all, but it was nice seeing them.
My father called sometime while we were out last night, I feel sorta bad for missing the call, he said he’d try back later last night and this morning. But of course I wanted to have a nice peaceful evening, getting drunk from duvel, so I couldnt have my father calling me then! We unplugged the phone. Ok, so I feel guilty about it a little, and it is after 11 and he hasnt called yet (or called before I plugged the phone in around 10. I have no doubt that he’ll call this evening if all else fails, or I’ll just end up calling him.
We had planned on taking some pictures of the livingroom all decorated last night, but, well, we ended up bringing our computers into the livingroom so it doesnt look the best right now, hehe. See last night we did the riff of “Santa, Baby” … it was fun, but instead of moving the tv and cable stuff we moved our computers, hehe. It’s actually really great, comfy couch, snuggling, and computers! We had fun doing that riff last night too, the movie was sooo bad! We’re going to do another one tonite, on a christmas movie on CBS… so we’re keeping the computers in here til after that… maybe I’ll have xmas pictures to post tomorrow… hehe.
Uh anyway, last night, yeah we did the riff on the movie, and drank lots of duvel, ate lots of cookies, and cheese and crackers, and then had some seriously spiked eggnog… I am hurting %) Hehe. We pretty much spent the rest of the night doing that, with the tv on and chatting… then it started snowing out. Fireplace with a roaring fire, all our xmas decorations, so much love and happiness here! I am so happy.
On that note I guess I will wander off (back to bed, hehe) *wanders*
I made more sugar cookies yesterday, yummie! Also did a bit of reading of course… have about 50 pages to go in Snow Crash, I want to finish it today so we can give it back to it’s owners this afternoon. We went to the good beer store in Hatboro and bought some of the Lindenmen’s Raspberry as an xmas present for the couple who loaned me the book. I made chicken parmesean for dinner last night, mmmm, and we watched The Mothman Prophecies, which was recommended by a friend of mine, it was really quite good. I read a few reviews this morning, and apparently all would not be lost by reading the book *after* seeing the movie, since there is so much more to the book.This is good, since I really did want to read the book, s’just that I have so many books now that I havent read that buying a new book right now would be silly. Ah, Myk also went out and bought some wood yesterday while I was making cookies, so we’ll have nice fires going for tonight and xmas %) This afternoon we’re probably going to go over to Mike and Nita’s to give them their present, hopefully not too late ’cause we have to be back at 8 for our xmas eve riff of Santa, Baby on FOX…
The irssi scripts I submitted are up on the irssi.org scripts page noew, YAY!!!:
emaildb 1.0
gimmie
Maybe someone somewhere can use my scripts, that’d make me happy %)
Oh! I finally got my recipe for sugar cookies onto a page on my website… of course it’s not linked to anything as the recipe section is far from done…PrincessLeia2’s X-Mas Sugar Cookies
I am going to go read noew. *wanders off*
I made yummie chocolate chip cookies yesterday afternoon, I’m going to make sugar cookies today yummie! We ended up ordering in some Indian food last night, mmm, then watched The Devil’s Advocate… which was actually quite good (ok, so I am a Pacino fan…).
I was sitting on the couch yesterday sewing the two buttons that fell off my coat this week (a strange occurance all it’s own, I have had this coat a year and two buttons fall off the same week), and I found that I was very relaxed. Now I’ve never been one for sewing… I have tried, but my sister Heather was always much better than I, most of the ‘clothes’ i made for my stuffed animals came apart within a week, even if i didnt touch them… but it got me thinking that I need a new hobby. See, when Myk is home, I dont get on the computer much (unless he is sleeping late, like now) and I tend to get bored reading for hours and hours… so I have been trying to think of things i did *before* i had a computer, and that pretty much is “playing with stuffed animals and my little ponies” … not really an option now %) SO I think, oh, well I like writing… but I HATE writing unless it’s on the computer! Hurts my hands to write a lot, GAH! Anyway, I was very content while sewing those buttons on and started thinking that I should take up some sort of hobby similar to that. I am thinking of taking up knitting. We have a friend, Rae, who is really into knitting and I think when we go to her house for a lan party (set up by her fiancee, she doesnt play computer games) I am going to ask her to give me some pointers and suggestions on where to begin. Should be an interesting experiment, and it has nothing to do with computers!!! Hehee…
Anyway, I am going to go get a couple things done before I make the cookies *wanders off*
o/` Stabbing Westward – Sleep o/`
I was a bit bored yesterday… ended up going out around 10:30 last night and went to rent a few movies. A co-worker of Myk’s suggested we see Brazil, it was directed and written by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) so we figured it would be pretty good. After doing a bit of research this morning I discovered that we rented a ‘shortened’ 131 minute version, and the diretors cut (142 minutes) is much better, and also, on imdb.com, it’s listed as #161 in the top 250 voted by users… The first thing I noticed about this movie as that although it was in the comedy section, I REALLY think it was far too dark to be considered comedy, I’ve seen funnier movies put in the drama section where this should have been. About 1 1/2 hours into this movie I was ready to turn it off. It’s full of symbolism and metaphors which makes it terribly hard to follow, and when you finally grasp onto the plot, it’s not very exciting. It’s the story of a man who works at the Ministry of Information in a world where paperwork has gotten to an absurd point, and everything from your job to fixing your air conditioning is controlled by the government, and wonderful technology is everywhere, but of course, never works properly. His only dreams are of a beautiful mystery woman in his dreams that he is meant to save, and once he finds her in real life he finds it difficult to do anything but find her. Uh, this entry is turning into a movie review. Anyway, I wouldnt recommend it unless you were in an introspective mood and were wanting to dissect a movie, and dont drink while you watch it, it’s surreal enough.
Anyway, after renting a couple movies we went over to the grocery store in the same plaza and we notice that this car in the handicapped spot has it’s lights on. so we go into the store and tell the woman at the counter that a man in that space left his lights on, and some co-worker says “oh, yeah he’s in aisle 9, did he have handicap plates? dont even think he’s handicapped let his battery die.” Whoa. What kind of additude is THAT!? Especially around this time of the year… so a bit startled we go and get what we needed (popcorn and advil) and go to check out and this clerk is still bitching about the guy in the handicap spot! Seriously, it’s 11 pm on a saturday night, there are _6_ cars in this big parkinglot and he’s bitching up a storm about this older gentleman who may or may not have handicap plates and was in the handicap spot. We didn’t wish the clerk a happy holidays.
I got my IRC bot (R2D2) running yesterday evening with the email database script… set up the databases and the user and everything seems to be running nicely, I’m really happy with it, now I just need to email the rest of the “#13thhouries” to get their permission to put their info into the database and stuff.
I think I am going to start putting together a recipe section of my webpage today… I know there are like 50 sections of my site that I start working on and never finish, but I really wanna finish this one! Hehe so I am gonna go do that noew… maybe I’ll even make some cookies this afternoon %)
Oh! I talked to a friend in #deep13 yesterday and he’s trying to get a bunch of us together for a xmas eve riff (like on MST3K when they make fun of movies) of a bad chrismas cartoon on that night. Myk and I are gonna move the TV into our computer room to watch the crappy movie so we can join the chat %) Should be fun.
*wanders off*
Heh, so much for success! I just found a huge flaw in that emaildb script *UGH*!!! I had to fix it and resubmit… heh
o/` Frank Sinatra – Mistletoe and Holly o/`
Myk has off until January 2nd, YAY!!! It should be a really nice week %)
Well, my ignoring irc and focusing on scripting yesterday paid off and I actually got some work done! Done, as in… I now have an irssi bot that can search a mysql database for information and return it, I even have a userlist it can go by for restricted access, YAY!!!!!!!!! I thought early on that I wouldnt be able to do it, Perl is difficult, but in the end I suceeded, you can see the script here:
emaildb 1.0
I even went ahead and submitted it to irssi.org … we’ll see if they take it or not, and while I was at it I also cleaned up r2d2’s !gimmie script and submitted that as well (gimmie 1.0)
So I had a good day yesterday %)
Got a few xmas cards too… one from my penpal in England, one from my Grandparents, and one from my mother… it was nice of them, grandparents sent a check for $100 like usual (YAY!), mom sent me a gift certificate to barnes and noble, YAY! And I actually sent xmas cards to all of them too, so I dont feel guilty, hehe.
Finished When True Night Falls last night, it was much better than the previous book in the series… I’ll type up the review later. I got a couple pages into Snow Crash, slow beginning, but with it’s popularity I have no doubt that I will enjoy it.
Don’t really have plans for today, we might call a local place to get some wood delivered for the fireplace (have to have wood for xmas!) … and I think I’ll hold off til monday before making more cookies, I shouldnt have made them so early, should have known we’d eat them all/ give away them all by xmas… we have like 10 cookies left from the 9 dozen, heehee.
Anyway, I am gonna go get a couple things done, prolly will end up reading most of the day *wanders off*
o/` Desperatly_Wanting – Better Than Ezra o/`
I wish i could do a locate in physical things. I picked up my mess of a notebook today that I use to write down everything I need computer-wise, the silly thing is almost completely full, and the first thing I thought to do? locate password … hah! I need to get out more.
I am gonna really work with perl dbi today, if i have to close all my irc clients and kill everything else distracting me! Today is Myk’s last day of work for the year! He has off til jan 2nd, woohoo! And while he is home I have trouble getting work done, so I NEED to get something done today. And as it is already 11:30 (did the weekly cleaning of the apartment this morning) i should get going. *no more writing in weblog* hehe.
*wanders off*