car my car is now legal again; I got it inspected this morning. It needed a couple side lights but that was an inexpensive fix; thank goodness.
Chris's car is being serviced so we're a one (workable) car household today. We went by the mall; Chris wanted gloves to match his coat (blue & black) & I'm almost out of moisturizer with spf (did you know that it's really hard to find one with higher than 15, I've failed so far). Plus, Chris had a gift cert for Williams & Sonoma. We hit Wilson's first but they didn't have the gloves that he wanted. They did have the jacket, for him & for me. And the new back-friendly bag (it says it can hold a laptop but not mine), and the new camera bag. It was a good sale. My jacket was only $40 after the assorted discounts. Sweet.
I bought two tubes/containers of vitamin E moisturizer with spf 15 from The Body Shop. Since they had a buy 2 get 1 free (face products), I also bought a container of face scrub.
At W&S, we shopped around. They have lots of neato stuff. No appliances today or knives, just kitchen knick-knack & tools (tea ball, tea egg [make a pot o' tea], etc).
books: I finished Not Another New Year's & Howling Moon. I read a little farther in Pillow Book.
clothes: Trinic-con 2006 shirt, blue jeans, brown belt, blue loafers, grey ribbed shirt (it's warm but that wind is pretty sharp), flower fairy necklace, ~rope band, fem-power ring & feather (real feathers) earrings.
Labels: Chris's car, Howling Moon, Not Another New Year's, shopping, The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
iPod Disaster
My iPod mini remains blank. It charged not at all in 24 hours. I weep, I moan, I wail. I may be about to spend $60 to get the battery replaced.
Car Update:
They have ordered the parts to fix the AC in Chris's car. They can get 6 of the 10. The other 4 are on back order. Guess who's renting a minivan to go to Tallahassee. Time to make phone calls & double check websites.
New Taste Sensation (for me):
Nestle Crunch Dark Stixx; I bought a package last night on the way to my Mutants & Masterminds game at David's house. I finally ate it for my morning snack. They're small but tasty. I love dark chocolate, that makes a difference.
Today's Outfit:
Burgundy slit/keyhole neck tank with a double row of single seed beads lining the neck under (indoors where it's cool enough) a v-necked, black, crochet sweater with diamonds of 4-petal flowers on the torso & closely crocheted rows on the sleeves, over lightweight black, cotton slacks and the leather sandals again. The sandals don't really match, they're buff & tan but until my heels heal.... Right now, my hair is loose but I will braid it again later. I'm wearing the silver Celtic knot earrings (the dangles, not posts) with the smaller Celtic knot ring (4 loops), silver flattened, ~rope band, and the silver pendant with Celtic knot, tree, moon & star tangled up together on a short silver chain; so the pendant rests just at my clavicle.
Tatting
I did some tatting last night. I started the tea cup from Contemporary Tatting by Judith Connors. I made the saucer from variegated blue (the same blue that I used for Dad's cross for Father's day). I didn't have enough thread on the shuttles to start the cup so I made some flowers instead.
I worked on it again at lunch (after reading a little of Oath of Swords by David Weber). I've wound thread onto the shuttles & done 3 of the 6 rings that go up one side. That leaves the top, the other side & as a separate stage, the handle.
CC, a gentleman who works for facilities, came by while I was working. So I showed him what I was doing. He had never heard or seen of it before. I also gave him a little 6 picot/7 knot flower.
Mugged?
The squirrels & sparrows around here are quite bold, almost tame. A squirrel came up to my table while I was eating lunch. He was about a chair-length away and kept watching me, to see if I was going to drop anything. Then another diner started throwing bits of the tortilla from her wrap and the birds went wild. I was busy tatting so I don't know if the squirrels manage to grab any.
Labels: animals, Chris's car, Food, iPod, Mutants and Masterminds, Oath of Swords, tatting, tatting book
Another hot one, what a surprise. First thing, had a run to South Building. Too bad I had to detour, very much, to avoid construction. By the time I was done, I was soaked.
Today's outfit: black jeans, forest green Duchy of Geoff polo (Living Greyhawk thing; embroidered white letters around silver/black griffon shield), braided hair, black loafers, emerald pendant & earring set (2 of my very few pieces of gold jewelry).
Yesterday's shoes really tore up my heels. I wore, or tried to wear, bandaids to cover the raw spots with little success. I even went barefoot most of the day & that mildly helped.
Convention planningI've almost finished preparing my characters in case they level at the con. Only Nadia is left, and I just need to pick a 4th level spell & two 5th level spells. I still need to plan what clothes I'm going to wear; shows my priorities, huh?
Problem?I have a potential problem. My iPod isn't charging. This is bad. I have it plugged in, we'll see how it looks in the morning.
Car Update:Hopefully, we'll know on Thursday. The company is paying for parts, Chris just has to pay for labor. His entire AC system has to be replaced. Once more, he's gotten a malfunction that has a bigger cost in parts than labor. We just need to see if the parts are available.
TV:Watched
Biography channel's show on Robin Williams. I did not know that he came from an afflucent, conservative family. The commercials mentioned that he's a gamer but nothing in the show did so.
Then it's
Criminal Minds followed by
CSI: NY. It's gotten late and it's time for me to go to bed.
My incipient headache has dimmed without medication this evening. It's still there, just subdued.
Labels: Biography channel, Chris's car, Criminal Minds, CSI: New York, iPod, Nadia, TV, weather
Car NewsChris's car's AC is still out. And it's not the simple little fix with parts on hand. Instead, it's the 'replace the entire compressor+' type fix. Ugh.
So, it's possible we may be renting a car to go to Tricon. Not great, but better than trying to go to Florida with no A/C. Thanks to my employee discount, we can get a minivan for a little over $200. Better than $400 from some agencies.
Today's outfit: blue jeans (duh, it's the weekend), tan 'Battle for Gorna' t-shirt (if you don't play Living Greyhawk, you won't understand) and either barefoot or loafers. The t-shirt has touches of blue (a giant's skin, banner, etc). Quartz chips & silver feather charm earrings, quartz point carved with a feather pendant on a longish silver chain, flat twisted braid/rope silver band, silver ring set with paui square & braided hair.
Soda Pop News: Okay, I love vanilla sodas, preferably diet. Straight vanilla soda is a little sweet. So I fell in love with diet vanilla Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper & berries & cream Dr. Pepper. Now, it's getting hard to find any of them. They're 'fad' drinks. *snarl* Oh, black cherry vanilla coke; I don't like cherry so it's out. However, Chris found diet strawberries & cream vanilla Pepsi. It's yummy.
Recent books: I read
Wizard of Karres last night. I stayed up way too late to finish it, but it was good. It's by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & Dave Freek. It's the sequel to
Witches of Karres by John Schmitt. Today I read John Moore's 3rd book, I just can't remember the title. It's about a country needed a bad prince. I've already read
Heroics for Beginners &
The Unhandsome Prince.
Now that I've posted for today; I have to go back & edit the picture of the blue roses so it's not ginormous. Which, by the way, is pronouced Ji-nor-mus.
Labels: Chris's car, Heroics for Beginners, soda, The Unhandsome Prince, Tricon, Witches of Karres, Wizard of Karres
