51 posts tagged “geek”

sometimes i wish i had that magical, twitchy nose like that samantha from bewitched. ah - when t.v. shows were a league of their own. in a good way.

and as much as i wished i had powers to make my closet, or any space in my house, either big or small, become instantly organized and clean in matter of a milli-second, the reality is, of course, that i can't do that. and even if i could, would i really be using my powers just to clean closets?

anyway, this is something i have been wanting to do since september but something always came up. and as we had no plans today, i decided to go for it.

two hours later, i am left with just my cd case and one half of a shelf piled of magazines to go through. and i just can't do anymore. two hours in a closet is enough! i will do that half a shelf and cds another day.

most importantly, i organized all the christmas presents that i bought. yes, that's right. you heard me.

not only do i organize my christmas shopping lists into spreadsheets where there is one spreadsheet for each - my familly, doug's family, doug and chaeli and misc. gift... not only do i create another spreadsheet to correlate with the other four, but this one being by store, either online or off, so i don't end up running all over town, hitting stores more then once... but at some point, i organize my gifts so that all the gifts going to thunderbay are in one or two large shopping bags, and i do the same for presents for chaeli, doug and my own side of the familly.

there is a chaotic period where i shop and just pile everything in the corner of my walk-in closet, still in their bags/boxes.

it was driving me crazy. now, they are all organized. all i need to do is pull them out in the order that they need to be wrapped - doug's family being the front in line.

yup.

i'm psychotic.

last night, we went to hamilton, which is just over an hour away from toronto, for a very fun potluck dinner party.

doug made pulled pork in a slow cooker. there was little time to cook so we figured something we could slow cook overnight would be our best option. we brought some fresh dinner rolls so people could make their own sandwiches. it turned out to be a hit! thankfully, we made so much that we have leftovers for tonight.

the hosts were anthony and kay, plus their two boys and their very anxious and shy chihaha, coco. poor thing was out of sorts with so many people on her territory that she spent a good majority of the beginning and end of the night, yapping away. i tried to get her to warm up to me but everytime i offered my hand to sniff, she would run away.

we spent some time playing rock band - i got a chance to try out the beatles for the first time. excellent - very well made! i was especially impressed with the animated intro to the game.

the only problem i have with rock band is that everyone has to sing at least once. and to be honest, none of us from the posse can sing, really. some of us are not too bad but i definitely can speak for myself and say that i'm a tad tone-deaf. and my range in octives is pretty limiting. so unless it's right in my range, it actually hurts to sing. i think it was hoa that turned to me and said, "cool - you guys can sing in harmony for the beatles" to which i said, "yeah... okay, hoa... because i just got better in the past 30 minutes!" :p

one thing about going to hamilton is cross over the burlington bridge. granted, it's not an incredible bridge when compared to the golden gate in the bay area, but there's something i still love about it.

it was a fantastic night. we had a great time catching up with a few people we don't get to see very often.

it's weird to be happy about something like this. except that it's been well over a year (maybe two?) where i wanted to replace our really ugly napkin holder. it was this tacky, silver holder in a shame of a napkin, folded over with a bow on one side. it didn't even hold the napkins very well because the height was just half the size it was suppose to me. all the napkins, then, would flop over. and then when we would take one out, the whole pile would come out at the same time, for whatever reason. probably because they were all bent over.

it was so ugly that i can't even bother to take a photo of it.

anyway, i finally got around to replacing it yesterday with one that takes up little room, works and is, if i do say so mysefl, very pretty. :)

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in the quest for raising a geek-child, i decided to introduce chaeli to x-men through the animated t.v. series.

i recently did buy the trilogy on dvd (only $14.99 for all three!) chaeli happened to find it sitting on our tv stand.

she asked, "is batman in it?"

i answered, "no... this one doesn't involve batman."

"how about spiderman?"

"nope. no spiderman."

"then who are they?"

"they're superheros like batman and spiderman but they are called, the x-men."

"cool."

"cool indeed."

"can i watch it?"

"mmm... i don't know. it might be a bit scary."

of course, i have no idea if it would scare her or not. after all, my child can sit through the 2008 and 2009 transformers without batting an eye. maybe x-men wouldn't be that scary. i don't know. my only reasoning is that she doesn't seem to be afraid of robots. humans that transforms into super-beings can seem to be more like monsters to little ones.

however, she is showing interest in the comic-world genre and i'm excited about this!

sooo... i'm hoping we'll have time to watch an episode of the animated x-men series tonight.

more and more people are coming up to me at the gym, trying to strike up a conversation. why? why me? i mean, seriously - what the hell is up with the universe?

SYTYCD (US version) - not as impressed this season. not to say there haven't been a couple of very memorable routines. i just hope the canadian version will kick ass. as they did last year.

the 'children of the corn' are back full force this summer. they now come with friends. every day after work, we have to monitor about five of them (sometimes more). balls fly into our potted garden, noise level involves high-pitch screams and they also tend to wander over to our glass door, knocking on it as they try to get chaeli's attention. both doug and i are constantly telling them to stop it. stop ALL OF IT. they listen. but come next day, it starts all over again. their parents don't seem to care. and some of them are as young as four - the oldest one only being around 7 or 8. it's not like they should be left alone. anyway - we'll be speaking to management about this soon. there is a rule that they are not suppose to run around in the common area.

am i that out of it? is jeff goldblum really part of law & order - criminal intent? what happened, jeff? what happened?

why can't i just be a super hero for just one day?

i really do love my new shoes and as this is the first day i am wearing them, i've recieved a lot of compliments.

the problem is the height. i haven't worn heels this high since my early to mid 20's. i can still do 3 inch heels but these are 4 inches and man does that 1 inch make a difference!

example - i just came back from the loo. i guess i didn't realize how much taller i am because when i sat down on the toilet, i almost fell as the toilet was much lower then expected.

when my rear landed on the seat, i sort of made an *omph!* sound.

and i wasn't alone in the ladies room.

i've had my new nine west shoes for four days now and i have yet to christen them. i'm not even planning to wear them tomorrow.

but thursday - oh yes... i will most definitely wear them thursday. for i have the outfit planned for them.

okay, the truth is, i'm actually afraid that i'll wear them to work and then embarrass myself with a nasty trip. i'm so not use to small, stiletto like heels. heels are not a problem, but the heels i usually wear are a bit thicker. not completely clunky but definitely wider then the ones that i got.

and since i'm being honest, this is the first time i've ever purchased heels like these for myself. i didn't think it would be a problem until i walked around my living room in them.

WOBBLY!

oh my god i was so totally wobbly on them! and the last thing i need this summer is a sprained ankle.

still... i'm determined to wear these shoes. i've searched long and hard for them... okay, another lie... i've dreamed and thought about searching for them but took awhile to seriously shop for shoes, which when i did, spotted them almost immediately.

but still - i HAVE been dreaming of owning a pair like these as i've taken so long to finally girl-a-fy myself since i came back form maternity leave what... almost 4.5 years ago? i deserve this!

and look how pretty they are!

i'm amazed whenever i see some one (not including those just learning to use a computer - we all have to start some where) use the copy and paste from the file-menu, edit-menu. the least they can do is learn to select the word, right click on the selection to make the drop-down menu appear.

better yet, just use the shortcuts on the keyboard; ctrl-c for compay ctrl-v for save. and while we're at it, some other common keyboard shortcuts = ctrl-x for cut, ctrl-s for save, ctrl-p for print, ctrl-o for open (a document within an already open program), ctrl-w to close a window and alt-F4 to control a program.

i don't expect people to know and/or use all of these but the ctrl-s, ctrl-c and ctrl-v should be pretty common knowledge by now. try it - will save you from carpel tunnel syndrome if you tend to rely on the mouse heavily for whatever it is that you do.

i remember i would painfully watch my previous co-worker do the copy and paste the long way and it just killed me. i tried to teach her some easier alternative but she didn't understand the whole highlighting and right-clicking on the selection. she kept on clicking beside the selection or double-clicking on it thereby deselecting it. after 10 years, she still just did not get it. oh... it's painful just to think about it.

so i tried to teach her ctrl-c and ctrl-v without any luck. apparently, it was too much for her to remember.

my weekend (actually, OUR weekend), was so lazy and laid back that i actually feel like i need to get productive as soon as possible before my brain melts.

i think i needed this weekend though. while i spent it with doug, chaeli and just a little bit with my aunt and uncle (who are pretty laid back people), it felt good to be away from... people.

in fact, i'm not looking forward to being around people tomorrow. yes, i want to do work and be productive, i just hope i don't get too many interruptions.

it's going to be one of those 'i'm plugged to my mp3 player as a way to tell you nicely that i don't really want to talk to you' sort of day.

(on a side note, i've also been watching so many high school musical dvd's that i can confirm that i didn't like the 2nd one but loved the first and last one - how sad is that?)