New Poll: Have you caught World Cup fever?
Month: June 2002 (page 7 of 10)
It’s meme time again, kids! Here’s “Me From A to Z”, courtesy of TD.
A – Animals/Pets: Four goldfish, all named after Star Wars characters (Admiral Ackbar, Porkins, Aurra Sing, and Grand Moff Tarkin). Unfortunately Salacious Crumb, our snail, died last week. *sniff*
B – Best Friend: Snookums. I’m not just saying that to be cute, either.
C – Cohabitants: Snookums and the fish.
D – Desire(s): To get paid well for doing stuff I like. To get fit and lose some weight.
E – Eye Color: Brown.
F – Favorite Food(s): French fries, risotto, Thai green curry, my Aunt Berb’s chicken and dumplings, cheesecake. (Basically, if it’s fattening, I love it.)
G – Games: Ms. Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros. 1-3, euchre, Trivial Pursuit, JewelToy.
H – Habit(s): Clenching my jaw and squinching up my forehead when I’m concentrating (Snookums calls it my “constipation face”), cracking my knuckles, quoting Pride and Prejudice.
I – Interests: Blogging, quilting, watching TV, reading, baking, Roald Dahl.
J – Job: After nearly eight months of unemployment, currently contracting as a web designer and developer.
K – Kitchen (Wonder or Blunder?): Somewhere in the middle. I’m good at some things, but others I really have to work at. I can generally produce edible, non-poisonous fare, though.
L – Languages: English (American, UK, and Australian varieties), German (conversational), and a smattering of Korean.
M – Most Valued Possession(s) (an item, not people/pets): My iBook. That sounds cold, but I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it. It’s my connection to the world.
N – Name (Named after?): Kristine Michelle. The unusual spelling of my first name was apparently inspired by my mom’s best friend.
O – Outfit You Love: I don’t really *do* outfits. I like jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers.
P – Pizza Toppings: Meat (any and all), onions, green peppers.
Q – Question Asked To You the Most: “Do you have a job yet?”
R – Relationship/Partner: The Snook and I celebrated our two-year anniversary last April. My Australian Permanent Residency was granted on the basis of us being in a “defacto” marriage, but as far as actual ceremonies go, my ring finger is still unadorned.
S – Sport: Currently limited to running and working out at the gym.
T – Television Show(s): Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Buffy, Days of Our Lives.
U – Unsavory characteristic(s): Tendency towards inertia (staying home and being lazy), never answering e-mails, whinging.
V – Video (Favorites): Pride and Prejudice, Office Space, Clueless, The Stand, Mallrats, A Christmas Story.
W – Webpage (Favorite–not your own): Ahh, too many to list. The ones on my home page are the ones I visit every single day.
X – Xylophone (or other Instrument?): I used to play the trumpet, but it’s been years since I touched one.
Y – Year Born: 1977, the year of Star Wars.
Z – Zodiac Sign: Pisces. It suits me.
Good luck to Tara D, who begins the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk tomorrow. Sixty miles! I know you can do it, TD!
Hey Dad, I found an interview with Ted Nugent you might like. I read it figuring I’d loathe the guy, but he actually comes off pretty cool. I mean, he stands up for what he believes in. I had no idea that he was such an environmentalist. Plus he’s hilarious. I’m going to start “Nugetizing” my own speech. And his constant ranting about The Osbournes was priceless.
(P.S. Hey Pop, you want this Nuge cookbook? Sounds like a great Father’s Day present!)
Take heed, children, of Brigita‘s wisdom. It reverberates through all time and space. (Yeah, I’m just jealous that I’ve never spawned a MeFi catchphrase.)
“That which doesn’t kill us…”
In running news, I’m ridiculously happy to report that today I managed to run the entire 5K (3.1 miles) without stopping! That is seriously, like, a Lifetime Best. My pace is still pretty slow, but at least I managed to finish. Only four more days til the race! I figure I’ll try to run the full distance again Thursday and Friday, and then take Saturday off to rest and hydrate. I’m still nervous, though. My registration stuff came in the mail today, with a map of the course, the T-shirt I ordered, and my official race number. (7929 in the hizzouse!) I guess I can’t back out now. I’ve caught myself secretly hoping for rain a few times. It’s not that I’m worried about physically being able to do it anymore. It’s more like I’m afraid I’ll chicken out mentally and end up being disappointed with myself. Snookums has been very encouraging and has promised to be there cheering me on. Today he even dangled the promise of a skiing weekend if I run the entire race! Mostly, though, I just want to make him proud of me. Being unemployed for eight months isn’t the best way to feel great about yourself. If I can do this, though, it’ll go a long way towards making this last year of upheaval and change feel like it’s heading in the best possible direction.
Since Snookums is home this week, we happily accepted his sister’s invitation to accompany her and her son Kurt to Sydney’s Taronga Zoo yesterday. We figured it would be a pleasant morning of pushing the baby around in his stroller and pointing out animals to him. Man, we were so wrong. I had no idea how much energy two-year-olds have! We chased him up and down that place. (Our legs are sore today!) Everybody had a great time though. Here are my favorite three pictures from the day:
  
  
The first one is Uncle Rodd and Kurt in front of the chimpanzee island. What a bunch of monkey boys! The second is me, Rodd, and Kurt as a family of penguins. And the last is Kurt at lunch wearing my new red hat and giving us his beautiful big boy smile. Isn’t he a cutie?
In case you’re interested, here are some more info and links about my problems with that latest OSX update. This guy got the same exact error I did.
Great news! Boudicca (my computer) is back up and running. (Well, she’s not 100%, but she’s getting there.) Always remember to backup your hard drive before updating your operating system. Just a helpful tip there, kids.
CRAP. I was trying to install the latest Mac OSX update today (10.1.5) and it completely killed my machine. Kernel panics everywhere. I can’t even boot up into OSX anymore. Now we’re frantically trying to back everything up in OS9 before doing a total reinstall. In other words, I might be MIA for a little while…