I am feeling very Olympic today, how about you?

12 February 2010, 11:08 pm by Giggles
Categories: Olympics

Yeah! Olympics again! Love them.

Amanda and I are looking forward again to the crazy commentary. We might even get you another play-by-play of our commentary while we “watch” together from different time zones. Anyone else want to “watch” the Olympics with me? Brett will sit on the couch with me for some of them, but for some reason he’s not really all that excited about them. Maybe we can get him into curling.

The snowboarder at the beginning says “Welcome to the 2010 Winter Games, Welcome [in French]!” and Brett asks, “In the nude?” Apparently we need to learn French.

My heart goes out to Georgia. You could see it on their faces. Someone give them a hug. ;-(

No Jamaican bobsled? What’s the world coming to?

Kazakhstan has cool hats!

The iceberg thing after the big bear – THAT was cool!

The fiddle segment is fun! I should find a fiddle competition around here. The one I went to years ago was fun. My fingers will never move that fast. I really liked the maple leaves on the ground during this part. They’ve got sparklers on their feet! And their bows!

How is a “broken hallelujah” a song of peace? It’s broken.

Opera singer – Gorgeous dress! Big hair!

Gorgeous cauldron.

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Why socks?

11 February 2010, 10:10 am by Giggles
Categories: Random

The bus is a never ending source of stories about strange people. Last week was a good one. A drunk man got on in the evening. When there were just a few people left on the bus, he started to cry out. After a few random moans he started to repeat what to me sounded like, “WHY SOCKS?!?” That sounded like a strange thing to be crying out to me, but I figured he must have a reason to be questioning socks.

As he kept repeating it though, I realized he was actually saying, “Life sucks!” which makes more sense. But what I heard first made me laugh. So we’ve been wondering, “why socks?” ever since.

I know one reason I have socks though. I have REAL cold toes. 😀

So “why socks?” in your life?

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I am not a teenager

6 February 2010, 7:35 pm by Giggles
Categories: Books, News, Random, Science & Tech

According to a recent survey, the mere fact that you are reading this blog, that there is a blog here for you to read to begin with, means I am not a teenager. In fact, it means I’m over 30. (I actually really like being over 30.)

Great! Now my own blog is calling me old. :annoy:

While I do agree that concise writing is definitely a skill to develop (when the assignment says to turn in a 3-4 page paper, and you turn in an 8 page paper, you better believe you won’t get full credit on it), my thoughts tend to vary in length. Plus, I like making it easy for those who want to read my thoughts (Hi Mom! :silly: ) to do so. So tweeting or simply using social networking “status updates” doesn’t really appeal to me.

I am also the type of person who fully plans to celebrate tomorrow’s “Send a card to a friend day” by writing at least one letter on paper that will then be put in an actual envelope, have an actual stamp stuck to it, and then sent physically to its destination.

But see, this might actually be the real problem:

One student said teenagers had lost interest in blogging because they needed to type quickly and “people don’t find reading that fun”.

Reading not fun?!? What kind of blasphemy is that?!? 😮

Kids these days. What is the world coming to?

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Six words

3 February 2010, 1:29 pm by Giggles
Categories: Books, Challenges, Life

If you’re still working on my last “writing challenge” (telling a story with emoticons), keep working on it. I’m waiting with baited breath for what you’ll come up with.

In the mean time, here’s another one for you to start thinking about. And this time it’s real short. But that doesn’t mean it’s real easy.

NPR today did a review of sorts on a new book “It All Changed in an Instant.” The editors asked all kinds of famous people to write their memoir in six words, tell their life story in six words.

So your challenge is to write your life memoir in six words. Just six. Not seven. Not five. But six.

Related, I saw this guy recently who will write your life story on a postcard. A bit more words, but still a challenge.

I’m going to think about this and get back with my six word memoir.

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A touch of feminism

2 February 2010, 9:41 pm by Giggles
Categories: Education, Science & Tech, Venting

Monday evening myself and another friend were trying to get the computer up and going for the professor for our class. And it was not working. The monitor was not coming on. At all. Pushing the power button didn’t do anything. Pushing the other buttons didn’t do anything. All the cables on the back of the monitor were plugged in. And it would’ve taken a very deliberate act to unplug the other end of those cables. The station had power because the tower came on. But for some reason the monitor was not registering at all.

Except then a guy in the class basically assumed that the computer wasn’t working because it was two “girls” trying to make it work rather than the fact that the computer wasn’t working. He only decided it actually wasn’t working when he’d checked it out himself. He couldn’t trust two “girls” to know anything about technology. Guys like that don’t win points with me. And I’ve run into several of those guys in the past. And in the end I’m generally better at computers than they are.

I emailed my friend my feelings about him, and in the exact same email shared some of the recipes I’ve been cooking lately.

Because I’m just that kind of feminist. :computer:   :daisy:

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Yummy food!

29 January 2010, 4:19 pm by Giggles
Categories: Food

I’m bound and determined to cook original meals for as long as I can. And it’s kind of fun.

Last week I cooked some chicken in the crock pot. I got the idea from a former roommate on her site – A Charmed Life: Roasted Herbed Chicken with Lemon Slow Cooker Recipe From Crock-Pot. I used five chicken breasts and sliced the lemon and put them on top of the chicken. I used three potatoes because that’s all we had. And then since I don’t like green beans (icky texture and my dad says they are poisoned), I put green onions in it. I seasoned it with pepper, garlic, and some chicken bouillon. It was super yummy.

Last night I made homemade pizza. We used the bread stick recipe I got from another former roommate many many years ago. We put garlic powder, basil, and oregano in the dough. The recipe made enough to make a cookie sheet sized pizza. Then we topped it with tomato sauce, salami, Canadian bacon, peperoni, pineapple, tomato slices, and lots of cheese. It was super super yummy!

Both of them made great leftovers for our lunches too.

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Book Lover’s Questionnaire

25 January 2010, 9:55 pm by Giggles
Categories: Books, Meme

1. What are at least 2 of your favorite genres? I seem to read a lot of fantasy, but that does not mean I like all fantasy, because I don’t. I only like specific types of fantasy. I also still really like historical books and historical fiction.

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