Author: Melia

Cheese issues

The following is a silly conversation I just had with Shannon about cheese.

Melia: Hey, when did you buy my cheese?

Shannon: *blink*

Melia: Well, I thought I still had some cheese left but I couldn’t find it and I can’t remember if I ate the last of the cheese.

Shannon: *blink*

Melia: You were the one who bought the cheese for me. I thought if I knew when you bought it I could work out whether there should still be some in the refrigerator.

Shannon: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Melia: *sigh* I ate dinner early tonight and I was feeling munchy. So I went to look for the cheese sticks –

Shannon: OOOOHHHHH the sticks. Yeah I bought those on Wednesday after school, remember?

Melia: Oh. Hmm. *Does mental calculations… If I take 2 sticks a day to work and there are 6 sticks in the bag, And there were only two workdays left in the week, I should still have two sticks left!* I should still have two sticks – oh wait. Damn. I had two sticks the night you bought them.  So… no cheese.

Shannon: *Giggling* You are so weird.

Melia: You want to hear something weirder – well, funnier anyway?

Shannon: *Laughing* Always.

Melia: You know how I was complaining when you bought that cheese that you bought the sticks that are hard to open – the ones I’ve been bitching about on Twitter?

Shannon: Yes.

Melia: I found out why they were so hard to open.

Shannon: Why?

Melia: You know how they come in a bag? Well, I used scissors to open the bag. And I cut the tops off the easy-to-pull tabs only I didn’t know it.

Shannon: *falls off the bed laughing*

Melia: This whole time I’ve been mad at the cheese and it was innocent. I feel bad now.

Shannon: Ohhh Mom.

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Snaps

Ok so.

Snaps is now up and running. All I’ve done so far is pull in all the pics from my previous attempt at doing the pic-a-day thang and add my pic for today. Until my spanky new camera arrives (which apparently is going to take bloody forever. It hasn’t even SHIPPED yet) pics will be taken with my very crappy digital camera.

I’m not.. The design.. Ugh. The theme I found for Snaps does not please me but it was the best of the lot so far. I’ll keep it the way it is for now until I find something better. I don’t actually know why I’m blogging all this housekeeping stuff except that I’m bored out of my gourd right now and nothing is appealing to me. I’m all finished with all of my BBtL editing. Did my group scene as Geraldine in episode 4 last weekend so that’s done too. I’ve no more sites to muck about with. Nothing’s on telly, I don’t feel like watching any DVDs, the thought of going out to a movie or something doesn’t appeal. Maybe I should just go to bed.

I’ll tell you what I really want to do. I want to play with my new camera. *sigh* Damn Amazon. Ship it already!

Oh I did have one nifty thing happen today. Got a call out of the blue from a stringer for Presstime magazine which is an industry mag for the media. She ended up interviewing me for the June/July issue. Mostly it was about using the Cover it Live tool for our site redesign launch last month. For some reason everyone thinks that was a spiffy idea. Fine with me 🙂 Anyway, it was fun.

Any day now I’m expecting a nice pair of Jack Bauer PJ pants in the mail. I’ve been getting some fun swag for pimping a few things over on 24addict.com. Ooo I’m a whore 🙂 And I don’t care. I loves me some swag.

Ok, off to find something to unbore me.

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Snapshots

I read this story on Mental Floss about a man who took a Polaroid snapshot every day from 1979 to 1997. And I was in awe. It really is a wonderful way to tell the story of someone’s life. I tried doing it for a year (from 2005 to 2006, but I fell short by a few months) and found it difficult to find interesting things to take pictures of every day, considering that my daily life is pretty much routine. I thought it would be boring to look at yet another picture of my cat, or some video I bought.

But maybe I was wrong-headed about it. Looking at it from a different perspective, say, after I’m dead, even the boring pictures might have some kind of meaning for my family and friends. Something my daughter could have. Well I don’t want to go all morbid here, but maybe it would be worth reviving the pic-a-day thing. Yeah. I’m sitting here pondering this and the more I ponder, the better the idea sounds. Which is what I thought the first time I did this project, but I’m going to quit caring whether people think the pics are dull.

Plus, thanks to a fabulous birthday pressie gift card (Thanks dad!) I was able to get a very nice new digital camera that I have been wanting for a very long time now. So I think it’s fate that I found that article the morning after I bought my new camera.

So expect a new section of ukmelia soon for the photos. And if some of them are boring, well, that’s life 🙂

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Ugh. Facebook.

Well I got myself a stupid Facebook account. I don’t know why I have such an aversion to Facebook. But for some reason I’m just not very fond of it. Perhaps I’m too old to appreciate the ability to send imaginary “chocolates” across the intertubes to people I’ve never met.

I don’t know. I consider myself about as far from Luddite-ness as you can possibly be without knowing how to compile C++ code and yet maneuvering around Facebook befuddles me. I just figured maybe I should join up lest I be considered Unwired by the masters of the online newspaper industry like Steve Yelvington or Howard Owens.

As an aside, I totally love the word ‘Luddite.’

I’m actually a pretty wired chick. But I’m not a journalist, so I don’t think it counts. I belong to wiredjournalists.com, I’m MySpaced, Twittered, I have more blogs than I can keep up with, I’m now Facebooked,  I keep up with the industry, I heart liveblogging, and it’s nearly 10pm and I’m online, blogging. I do not, however, own a blackberry. I suck at txting. I had a palm pilot once, but I’m afraid it collects dust in a drawer now. Sometimes you just need to disconnect, you know?

Anyway, yeah. I’m in Facebook now and I do not wish to share my political or religious views, nor do I feel strangers need to know my educational background unless they plan on hiring me or dating me. So far I’ve added a Buffy application and become a fan of Whedon’s Dollhouse Facebook page. I looked at users who went to my high school and only recognized one guy, who I always thought was hot, but he was far too popular and good-looking to even remember my name. Though I was pretty popular in high school too. But it was a huge school and we moved in slightly different orbits and now almost 20 *gulp* years later, I really don’t give a toss what he’s up to.

Man, I sound like a shrew 🙂 Facebook’s ok, I guess, but I doubt I’ll be using it much. I’m also thinking I should maybe buy a domain of my real name. What I would do with it I don’t know because my online presence is pretty established at this URL. But I’m feeling this overwhelming urge to buy it “just in case.”

I’ll mull it over. Now if you’ll excuse, me, I’m going to check work email one last time and then climb in bed with my Dresden book.

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Bellydancer

The kidlet had her first bellydance recital last night and it was wonderful 🙂 I love watching her dance. She really has a natural grace and beauty when she dances which surprises me because I am a clumsy oaf. So I’ve no idea where she gets it from.

The organizers said no videotaping during the performance – mainly so they could film it and sell the DVDs but hell with that. The entire program of fluffy tot ballerinas, bellydancer, cloggers young and old, and hiphoppers was 2 and half bloody hours long. Of that, Shannon was on stage for one song.

So I tried to be stealthy girl, only to discover later that quite a lot of other parents were stealthily filming their kids’ sections as well. Besides, I’m not exactly worried about the YWCA cops booting me out. I stayed for the whole show damnit 🙂

So here is my little girl, shining on stage 🙂 For those of you who know her, you might be able to pick her out (I had to sit near the back with my grandparents who are too wobbly to manage the downhill slope to the closer seats) but for anyone who doesn’t know her, she’s the second dancer to come out front and perform, wearing a green top, black skirt, and she’s the one spinning when the music changes to a faster tempo.

Looks like fun doesn’t it? If you listen closely, you can hear my gran ask me if I thought Shan was going to lose her skirt 🙂 This really worried her. Hehe.

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Revamp-a-thon

Well I caved. I ported 24addict to WordPress. Man the guilt is killing me. Poor Blogger. I threw it over for something shinier. Oh well. I wanted categories damnit.

It’s been a big job and there’s still tweaking to do, but this is the sort of stuff I love to do 🙂

Watched the Smallville finale. It was meh, even with James Marsters in it. I don’t think the writers are even trying anymore. I used to love this show. Somehow, somewhere along the line they lost the plot entirely and I stopped caring about the characters. And I loved Lex too but Rosenbaum isn’t given much to do other than talk menacingly to flunkies and taunt Clark. I was happy to hopefully see Lana finally go. I think that storyline should have ended a couple of seasons ago. And I just might be biased, but for what little he was in it, I thought James stole every scene he was in.

Ok, it’s been a weird week and I’m knackered, so bedski for me.

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