Snippets from my life

[cjsmith]

Went to the fabric store the other day. I had run out of white muslin for a project I'm doing. Found some purple and blue paisley fabric that would look good with jeans, which doomed me to about an hour at the patterns table deciding which "basic shirt" would NOT have the problems the green one has. Step one: I am now at least a size sixteen. My, that fabric is pretty though, and at only four bucks a yard I almost don't mind the cost of a new pattern.

Signed last-day paperwork at my old job yesterday, then went out to lunch with the team. Glanced at the check with my unused vacation in it. How the bleep did I wind up with that much vacation? Wow. I guess the only big trips I took were before I'd accrued any vacation, so those were all unpaid time off... Still. Wow.

This morning, scrambled eggs with some onion and bacon cut up and thrown in, with the leftover bacon strips just to eat. MMMMMMMMM. Wish I'd had a bell pepper, and I coulda gone lighter on the onion, but hey, MMMMMMMMM. Filling too. I'm only now getting around to thinking I could use some lunch.

My library is woefully undersupplied with technical books. Also woefully inadequate is their supply of "A Feast for Crows". I suppose that'll keep me focused on technical stuff pretty paisley shirts for a little while. :-)

Comments

[callyperry.livejournal.com]

If you start feeling they're not long enough, just try reading them out loud. I'm most of the way through A Feast for Crows, reading them to Elaine.

I'd read the first three to myself before I started this project. Whenever we'd get to a new character, Elaine would ask did I like them? She found some of my answers hard to believe at first, in particular that I did like Jaime and the Hound, and didn't like Cat.

On the other topical topic, the first word my father ever heard me say was "bake", an attempt at "bacon". It was decades before I realized that was why he always shortened it like that. My mother heard an earlier word, "Good." Are you detecting a common theme?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh man, out loud must take ages!

I liked Cat in the beginning, then didn't like her, then started to think she was only pathetic. At this point in the series, sadly, I'm not sure anything's left that isn't simply pathetic to me. I've lost a lot of my caring about most of the characters and most of the situation. :-/ I still want to see what happens with Bran, though, and what happens at the Wall.