Kevin's Watch

thanks bublets!

now i can finally, in good concience, get that tattoo of a makita drill, eh?

cag, i don't hit, i pinch.

damelon i'll be cashiering. but the line manager has already ear-marked me for cross training cause she heard me saying i love power tools! lol! especially those pneumatic staple guns.

lucimay wrote:cag, i don't hit, i pinch.

Oh, well, then, pinch me baby! But don't leave a mark.

Sorus, I'm gonna make two pairs. You can wear yours or not.

Alas, I am unmotivated today. I need to get dressed and go to the grocery store and pick up the last few items for the marathon cookie baking session that will suck up most of the rest of my weekend, and on the way I need to get air put in my tires. So far, I've had breakfast and ordered a couple of things online. (In my defense, buying those two things in person would have required me to go to the mall today -- the last full shopping weekend before Christmas. Not a chance, baby.)

First day off for school break! Three weeks!! Had a terrible crash headache today but it went away eventually. I made a pumpkin cheesecake, which is like a 3-day project: I have to make yogurt, then make that into yogurt cheese, and of course the pumpkin is home-cooked and pureed and needs to be drained as well. Then I have to buy a sleeve of digestive biscuits which is the Brit-influenced version of graham crackers... anyway it BETTER come out awesome after all that.

Wow, so industrious, deer... go, you!

Me.. I've got some things I'm excited about, some I'm avoiding...

I had a great fun day at work. We were super slow so I was making paper snowflakes to decorate the window and got some of my fellow employees to join and then some customers. I ended up teaching small classes in snowflake making and the customers LOVED it. One old guy was laughing and said he hadn't done stuff like that since he was a kid and that was a long long time ago (probably in his seventies) and another guy said he was going to go home and teach his daughters tonight and was glad to have something new as a reason for quality time. He ended up buying scissors, assorted paper and double face attachment tape for the walls. I did learn that double face attachment tape does not stick to cold frost textured glass so I ended up making a garland out of them and hanging them across the copy center. The customers seemed to especially love the fact that no matter how badly theirs came out I would say "That's Awesome" and immediately add it to the garland when they were done. Then I would make a comment about loving the variety of artistic styling that my gorgeous garland was acquiring.

Sorus, I made one special for you. It has kitties on it. I made the kitty silhouettes and Julie insisted on drawing on kitty faces for you so it's super cute and the only one that has unique drawing. I started getting extra fancy towards the end and so I made a lion face one and one with the Celtic warrior symbol in the center and the best one, storm trooper masks on the ends of the snowflake arms.... yep, I'm just that silly.

Anyway, some of y'all know how I get when I get caught up in the moment of something and get all silly and gleeful and childlike joyful over something silly and I haven't done that since the last cupcakes so it felt good to just be silly and seriously the customers ate it up like candy. One guy who participated said, "Why the hell haven't I been coming here? F--k Staples, I'm coming here from now on." I'm not kidding.

Now that is the spirit of Christmas, Jenn-- sharing something freely that adds joy and laughter to the lives of strangers. I got too busy this year for snowflakes, but now that school's out I just might be able to make time.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I had a great fun day at work. We were super slow so I was making paper snowflakes to decorate the window and got some of my fellow employees to join...

...brings back fond memories of working at a call center, and we made a ton of decorations between calls. One of my co-workers' had her kids make a cardboard 'fireplace' at home & she brought it in.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:and then some customers. I ended up teaching small classes in snowflake making and the customers LOVED it. One old guy was laughing and said he hadn't done stuff like that since he was a kid and that was a long long time ago (probably in his seventies) and another guy said he was going to go home and teach his daughters tonight and was glad to have something new as a reason for quality time. He ended up buying scissors, assorted paper and double face attachment tape for the walls. I did learn that double face attachment tape does not stick to cold frost textured glass so I ended up making a garland out of them and hanging them across the copy center. The customers seemed to especially love the fact that no matter how badly theirs came out I would say "That's Awesome" and immediately add it to the garland when they were done. Then I would make a comment about loving the variety of artistic styling that my gorgeous garland was acquiring.

THIS is awesome! I'm not doin great and I ate this post right up! I need to ...play more too!

It really was quite fun and I needed that. I texted Derek in a preemptive move so he wouldn't get annoyed and rip the snowflakes down on Monday morning.

Sore throat, runny nose, coughing... ugh.

Still, the kitty is doing well!! (See the "Poor Kitteh" thread!)

Boo for sick.
Yay! for healing kitteh!

Quiet Monday morning of what will mostly be a quiet Christmas work week. In the past 7 days I have watched both Krull and the original Dune movie. Winter is my hunker-down-and-watch-movies-and-play-games-that-invoke-nostalgia time of year, and the weather is just now starting to think about cooperating. It wasn't that cold yesterday, but I put a fire in the fireplace anyway, just to create that winter mood. Along with good friends, bourbon slush, pumpkin cheesecake bars, and a new super-easy jalapeno jelly cream cheese dip that is addictive like crack, it was a great day.

DotD, pumpkin cheesecake is a wonderful creation, but I must say I got a chuckle out of reading the description of the extensive prep you underwent to pull it off... I have eaten 'digestive biscuits' before, so I know they are quite tasty, but I am put off by the name, because they invoke not-so-inviting imagery in my literal and American-cultured brain.

dw

Stressed out. This year has been one long slow-motion trainwreck, and I'll be glad when it's over. Not that next year is looking any different from where I stand now.

I'm tired. I was busy in the copy center pretty much all day and it was one of those days that the customers tended to leave things for pick up later so I would actually be working on two jobs at once almost all day but because there wasn't anyone immediately in front of me, customers were slamming their crap on my counter and interrupting me to ring them up on a register and walking up to me and asking me to show them where stuff was. Very frustrating but I did have some fun customers and I'll quit yammering here and continue at my other place....

Crazy day. I spent the day at work booking travel and ordering gifts for clients, then came home to make the last two edible things for the holiday gifts for my bosses. And oh yeah, in between I was a guest on a podcast. Here's the link, if you're interested in hearing it:
www.blogtalkradio.com/bookbagsandcatnap ... t-an-indie

I think the holiday madness will die down a little now. After I drop off the gifts for my attorneys tomorrow, I'm off the hook 'til Batty and Shara_Lunison arrive Friday. Altho I found out today that I'm hosting the ex and his wife for Christmas Day brunch. At least I got more notice this time than I did on Thanksgiving -- "Hi, we're here for dinner!"

Haha, Krull rocked DW.

I'm enjoying my holiday by doing nothing but play games really so far. But the damned cat persists in waking me at 5 every morning, as though he thinks I should go to work.

--A

Avatar wrote:But the damned cat persists in waking me at 5 every morning, as though he thinks I should go to work.

As someone who is woken every morning by dastardly feline, may I suggest a water sprayer? And may I also wish you better luck with it than I had!

Morning #1: Sharkie wakes Shaun at dawn, Shaun shoots Sharkie with water gun, Sharkie leaves, Shaun sleeps.

Morning #2: Sharkie wakes Shaun at dawn (she does this by scraping her claws repeatedly down the wall! ), then runs immediately down the stairs! Repeats this procedure at regular intervals.

Cutting a long story short, for the 'water sprayer' tactic to be successful, I actually have to get up and chase her around the house with the water gun, until she is wet and sulky enough to leave me alone for a couple of hours. Of course, this kinda wakes me up

And please, don't tell me to just shut the bedroom door. When I do that, she scratches and when that doesn't work, she takes a running jump and launches herself at the door.

I had a cat years ago (RIP, Timothy) who would jump and hang on the screen door when he wanted to come in. Every year we had a treat when we removed the screen. He would jump up expecting to hang, only to slide down the glass storm door with a loud nails-on-glass sound. We would laugh for about 15 minutes.

Timothy would wake me up at 5 am too. Re-run the above sequence substituting "Timothy" for "Sharkie", but end with "Deer drop-kicks Timothy out the front door".

Avatar wrote:Haha, Krull rocked DW.

I'm enjoying my holiday by doing nothing but play games really so far. But the damned cat persists in waking me at 5 every morning, as though he thinks I should go to work.

--A

Maybe he just wants you out of the house.

deer of the dawn wrote: I had a cat years ago (RIP, Timothy) who would jump and hang on the screen door when he wanted to come in. Every year we had a treat when we removed the screen. He would jump up expecting to hang, only to slide down the glass storm door with a loud nails-on-glass sound. We would laugh for about 15 minutes.

Timothy would wake me up at 5 am too. Re-run the above sequence substituting "Timothy" for "Sharkie", but end with "Deer drop-kicks Timothy out the front door".

Shame Timothy was, by the sounds of it, before the days of youtube

I would try your variation on the sequence but I doubt the neighbours would be impressed when Sharkie starts 'knocking' (otherwise known as bashing loudly) on the grill door at the front of the house. (Shared wall, townhouse situation). She also combines the 'knocking' with very vocal cat-meow-speak for "Kindly open the door NOW!!!" She is a very badly behaved cat <-- read entertaining and adorable.