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Name: Devo
Location: Arizona, United States
Birthday: 8/28/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: Anything related to religion is interesting to me (or lack thereof). My greatest interest is people. I find them fascinating. After that would be art.
Expertise: Probably art. Not really, though. More like the programs used to create art. Also pretty good with paganism.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Consulting
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/22/2002
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| So I'm finally back. I apologize for the delay, I've just been lazy. Xanga keeps getting ignored because almost no one reads it, and I have so many other journals to keep up with.
Anywho, I think I left off around Thanksgiving, so allow me to pick up there. We went down to visit the fam, and had Molly over. Overall it was a nice exp. It was good to see ppl again, though I was sad that most people didn't arrive until waaaaay late. I got to cook, and it seemed to go over well, which was nice. And my granmother gave me a ton of dishes and pans, all of which I have made use of since then lol. Also went to Walnut Canyon, but it wasn't that exciting (boo!). There were only two trails, and they were pretty short in my eyes. Most of the canyon is off limits, which I can understand because people treat ruins like shit. But all the same, I'd have liked it more if there was more to see. Ohwell, you win some, you lose some.
The main thing I didn't like about the weekend was that having someone over gets expensive. I bought a lot of food that weekend, and used a lot of gas. I'll be thinking twice before having more people over lol (or at least broke people). The other downside was that I didn't get a chance to relax. I was so busy playing hostess, that I pretty much had no time for myself. Ohwell.
The following week, I don't remember. I know I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to not be stressed. Ironically, the solution as we figured out was oranges. Wtf oranges are doing for me, I couldn't tell ya. But they seem to level out my mentality, and make me more relaxed. However, as the stress disappated, it was replaced with frustration and anger- both of which I still have (I'm thinking maybe I need orange foods- for my chakras). Anywho, Why am I frustrated? Mainly with work. You see, coders are bad with deadlines. And our bosses aren't being bosses. The coders set a deadline, and miss it, then set a new deadline, and miss it. And it continues- until games are 1-2 months behind schedule. As an artist, this is frustrating. Art is based on deadlines (we call this the "LA style"). In the art realm, if you miss your deadline, you're fired. No ifs ands or buts about it. So shit gets done, and it gets done on schedule. However, these guys don't get fired (or even repremanded) when they miss a deadline. The bosses say they're gonna buckle down on it, but it has yet to happen. So it pisses me off. A lot.
Since then, we've decided to come up with a few ways to try and get it across how bad the situation is. We've set up a chart on the company white board, documenting where we are with art, the deadlines, and how many deadlines have been missed. We're also setting up an online form, with much of the same information elaborated. So hopefully this will open some eyes, and not cause too much trouble for us lol.
Lately, I've gotten hooked on Saints Row 2. It's a fun game, and i like driving like a mad man, shooting things, etc lol.
I recently managed to get a nice cook book- Better Homes and Gardens, and their huge book that has tons of recipes in it. Made some of their bread, holy crap, that loaf was huge, and turned out to be the size of a dinnerplate. Seriously, slices are as big as, or larger, than your hand. Scary. Made cookies this week, but didn't have brown sugar, so I subbed it with white sugar. Bad idea. I had pancake cookies lol. Still tasty... but flat.
I'm thinking of making Buckeyes this weekend, to give out as christmas gifts. We'll see how the weekend goes, since Jeff wants me to come down to shop for mom, but there is a projection of snow... which might stop me from going. I also need to get my christmas shopping for britt done as well... so it'll be busy.
That's it for now. Ta ta.
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| I feel like shit this morning. My eyes and head are killing me.
Last week's baking spree went alright. I didn't make noodles or udon, though, because I just flat out ran out of time. It was a bumpy weekend, where sugars ran low, and tempers ran high. But in the end, it worked out. I've pretty much finished my wardrobe goal for this season (only needing underwear), so that's good.
What I did end up making last weekend was jelly. Raspberry jelly at that. I chose the freezer method, but it has yet to set properly. Ugh. I think next time I'll use the liquid pectin instead of the liquid, and see if that helps any. I can't remember if I made anything else last weekend. Probably only apple sauce lol.
For baking this weekend, I made bread, and I figured out my problem! Yays! I have tall bread (lol). The problem is- the pan size. Most people must use a smaller pan than waht I've got, so what I do, the recipes that say 2 loaves, but only use about 4C of flour- put it all into one pan. Because most loaves you buy from the store are 1lb, which is approx 4C of flour. So there you go. I made a oat wheat loaf. Pretty tasty, And it's tall and soft. Bwahaahahahahaha. However, I'll need to make another batch/loaf, because we're plowing through bread. Why? because they took our free lunch away at work. Fun. Basically, I guess they finally realized that you need to advertise in order to make money, and that lunches are exp. and decided to stop doing them. So now we have to make our lunches again- which requires bread.
However, because of that, I am nervous. I'm really hopeful that things start to pull together for us. I think we need a team that works harder, that that's our largest problem. Many of our coders can't seem to make a deadline for the life of them. I'm not sure what to do about it.. if I should start looking again, or if I should just wait it out. I've talked to Setekh about it, but I imagine until I directly ask, he'll just let me stew over it. I have no idea. I'm just tired of moving, losing my jobs, etc. The economy pisses me off because it causes the youngsters- the people who are coming out of college with no work exp to get shafted. In the ass. It's annoying.
Outside of that, I'm hoping that it snows today. Or/and tomorrow. I have things planned, and those things go better with snow, or rain. Something falling from the sky (lol). And I hope that my head stops hurting, along with my eyes. Makes it hard to work. I also hope we make this deadline, but I have my doubts (sigh). Annoys me. I hate people who are lazy, people who are afraid to get their hands dirty to get the job done. People who avoid responsibility, or try to delay the inevitable. Blame it on Setekh (lol). But in all seriousness, I don't like people who have those traits, and it seems that many of the people here have those traits. But then again, most of the world does, and it drives me bonkers.
Stark raving mad.
Anyways, that's about it. Back to drawing christmas related whatnot.
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| I return!
So what have you missed? Not too much, although, at the same time, a lot. I've slowly been sorta working on my crocheting. I've finally learned how to read a pattern so that should help. I personally think I need a smaller hook, and need to work with making my stitches larger, to allow them to be used with cluster stitches. Either way, I'll be taking another stab at it again shortly. Why the delay this week? Well there are a few reasons for that. One, I've been playing Hellboy with Brit. It's been a nice detour in the daily goings on, and it helps her to relax better.
But alas, we finished the game. It was rather short... and now I have nothing else to play. I guess it's back to reading and chrocheting every night.
Aside from that, most of this week has been spent debating what to do about our eating situation, and our bodies. Based off of the reading that's been done, I'm pretty sure both mine and Brit's body is in the process of detoxing. How can that be, since I never set out to detox? quite simple, really. I quit eating processed crap. Except for the days when we goof up, we don't eat a lot of processed foods. Almost everything is homemade. Along with the fact that we can't afford a lot of meat, we eat more veggies, which is also condusive to detox.
So apparently, that's part of the reason my body has been acting funny lately. So lately, we've been trying to find ways to facilitate this. This is particularly hard, because in teh winter months, all there really is in season is frikking squash and tubers. Ugh. I'm so tired of squash and potatoes. So finding good meals has been a challenge. I imagine we'll find something, though.
Along with this, we decided to try some reflexology last night. We procured a book on it, and went through the basic movements and routines on eachothers feet, and holy crap! You could tell something happened. I'm not sure what, but something. After having my feet done, I could feel my left side light up. My knees burned, my kidney (only the left) burned, my stomach hurt, and my back was trying to straighten things out. It was pretty crazy to feel such a difference within 30 minutes of doing it. I'm sure most of you are thinking "why do that if it causes pain?" I say because removing blockages isn't easy. Usually things feel worse before they get better. I take it as a good sign that something got somewhat fixed.
Now just imagine if a professional did it. Hoo boy.
And lastly, the weekend update- this weekend's baking list is rather long. I'm not sure how I'll get it all done. I need to bake a few more loaves of bread, I have Udon to make, Noodles, jelly and butter are all on the list. I still need to figure out what I'm taking to mom's house for Thanksgiving. I'm tossing btwn pie, apple sauce, and pumpkin bread, along with bread, rolls and butter. I'm not sure what I'll make, but I'll figure it out.
Till next time.
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| Ahh... so it's another Monday, and a new month to boot. Hurrah.
I'm so effing tired. For some reason, last night, I just couldn't fall asleep... so i'm dead tired today.
Last week, I didn't really ever drop back in to update, so allow me to do so now.
I managed to find a jacket last week. It took until nearly 9pm, but I found it. And it's warm. Too bad it's a poof coat, too bad it was expensive. But seriously, I wasn't finding anything. I've found that I have a medium sized waist, and XLG sized shoulders in the world of jackets. And 'lo! They don't make jackets in that style. Not to mention I apparently have long arms. However, because I bought that jacket, I got $10 in Kohl's cash. Which I used to buy two pairs of jeans and some sale jewelry. An asymmetric long necklace, and a swallow- for Aset/Herhert.
So yay! Jeans and jacket. My list is slowly getting marked off.
As for baking, I tried to make pasties this weekend, and it was kind of a flop. The dough didn't stick well- I needed more water. Britt said it was like a short bread, which wasn't the kind of dough she always had with pasties or some crap like that. Either way, the altitude is totally fucking with my ability to make stuff. Ugh. I went to the book store in an effort to find a high altitude book for cooking, to which I Found nothing. However, Taste of Home has this huge cook book that talks about how to make bread at high altitude, and that I need to add the flour last- slowly, to make sure that I don't put too much flour in. So that's my next attempt. I would have loved to have bought the book, but it was $30... and I'm not willing to part with that much right now. So we'll see.
In other news, I decided to re-pick up crochetting. I actually wanted to try my hand at knitting, but after messing with it, running through book after book, I just couldn't figure it out. So I decided to stick with crochetting, which I already know the basics in. So now I'm working on crochetting a scarf. We'll see how that turns out :P
And lastly, I've been irked... or saddened, or something. You know, when you live a state or 10 away, it's really easy to forget you have a family. You understand that you can't go to every function, that you won't see you family again for potentially years. If ever again.
However, now that I live back in state with my family, I had hopes of joining my family for more get togethers. I hate feeling like the outsider, like no one gives two shits about me because I no longer live in the valley. Save for my parents and my grandparents, I feel like most of my family doesn't realize I exist. I guess I was hoping that by finding them online, moving closer, etc. that might change. But it hasn't. Still, I'm forgotten for a lot of things. Yeah, I was invited to the last bday party (which I couldn't go to because of deadlines. Figures). But still, things like Halloween, I guess I'm just not cool enough. Nothing like going onto FB and seeing a picture of your father with your aunt... and going... wait a minute... when did that happen? And finding out, oh, it was last night. You were just ignored again. For some reason it hurts, and I can't figure out why. I mean, hell, I've always felt like the outsider. I don't act like most ppl in my family, I picked the odd path, thereby singling myself out, but still, it stings and burns, despite all of my attempts to harden that part of me. To realize I may never fit in with some of my extended family, and may never be included in their affairs.
Ugh. I'm sure my parents, Britt, others- they'd tell me to get over it, not to worry about it. That it's not worth worrying about, but still. I guess it's the Virgo in me- the par that wants to feel a part of something. And I guess since I have no friends (since I left college they've all moved onto their own things) and therefore no social life.. Brit and my family, that's all I have. And my family.. I hardly even have that.
Just hurts, and it won't stop. I guess it's time to harden up that outer shell again, cuz if it hasn't changed in this amount of time, it's not going to.
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| It snowed XD
Too bad it'll probably all be gone by the end of the day *cry* I miss it already.
I did manage to find a jacket this week. Took me until about 8:30 at night, and going to every store in town to find one... more expensive than I wanted, but I needed it. That's for sure.
I worked on melting down my "syrup" last night into a jelly. It worked pretty well. Put it in the fridge, and took it out this morning to have with my toast. I place my knife into the jelly to place it on the bread and I hear
"Clunk!"
Turns out my jelly probably sat too long on the stove and hardened to what could have been candy. Sooo.. I throw it in the microwave, and bam! Instant jelly :P It was still pretty damned good.
Other than that, nothing else is up. I am having the green poo again, which is a symptom of the illness/stomach bug I just got over. So it's my guess that either the Chinese food place or the Mexican food place is doing it. Ugh. More and more I don't trust my stomach with other's foods. Too bad there isn't any way to cook foods here at work, or I probably would.
Anywho, that's it for now.
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