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Been a while since I posted. This will probably be a haphazard rambling of scattered thoughts, not one of my epic-length posts.


Thursday we watched our recording of this week's new South Park episode. The one where Matt and Trey kill off Chef in response to Issac Hayes' decision to quit the show because they dared mock Scientology.

All I can say is, wow. Just, wow.

Remind me to never ever piss off Stone and Parker. Ever.



Baby Doscher is still playing merry havoc with my digestive tract. Thanks kid. ::sticks her tongue out at the contents of her uterus:: In addition to making it hard for me to eat, you just had to go and be different, didn't you? This isn't nausea, it's hardcore indigestion, along with intestinal pains reminiscent of diarrhea and constipation - at the same damn time. Nausea at least would get me understanding and sympathy from people; it's normal for women in their first trimester to be nauseous. But this? Blank looks and an utter lack of useful advice, from your daddy to my mother (how she conveys a blank look over the phone is a mystery, but she's perfected it) on down to those of my co-workers who've been previously pregnant.

No wonder I'm not showing yet. ::sigh:: I just hope baby Doscher's effect on my nutrition isn't stunting his growth.



Dav went to base this morning for a study group; he's taking evening classes twice a week. While he was gone, I indulged in a marathon of The Learning Channel and HGTV's home decorating and organizational programming. :D Inspired by this, right now I'm cruising the web looking for things for the house.

I stumbled across Bed Bath & Beyond's modest slection of matching appliance covers. ::slight eyebrow raise:: What, are these meant for the consumer demographic that also thinks uniting a plastic doll head and a couple square feet of brightly colored crochetwork are the perfect way to conceal extra toilet paper in the guest bathroom?

Seriously. Appliance covers? Edna Mode would have heart palpitations over the lack of style these things exude.

Need to find some decent hampers somewhere. The current wicker hamper has seen better days. Unfortunately, the only hampers K-Mart currently sells are a woven rope hamper that's too small for our purposes, and these cheap looking collapsible mesh things that our cats would shred in seconds. BB&Y also seems to only have the mesh things in stock.


E-amiled my favorite little brother, currently stationed in England, about our good news. As I thought, Mom hadn't told him. He's all excited about becoming an uncle. :D He seems to be doing well. He's plotting getting a passport so he and his buddies can take a few days of leave to ride the train and terrorize the local frauleins and mademoiselles. ^_^;



That's it for now I guess.

Edit: The Container Store's website has attractive, sturdy-looking hampers - in the 99$ range. O_o I don't think so, cupcake.

Can't we produce something sturdy *and* affordable America? Please? The rich aren't the only ones who need something well-made. :p


Spastic pregnant woman edit: Dusted off my bookmark to the University of Maryland Medical Center's website. Their Shockwave tool is a lovely thing. I estimate I'm at week 13, so I feel a little bit better. I probably won't be showing for another four weeks. Still a bit worried about the little one possibly being malnourished, though. ::sigh:: Eating meat, and eating anything in the evening, seems to cause the worst symptoms. Unfortunately, my work schedule prevents me from eating lots of small meals all day to make up for this. Snacking on peanuts has so far been a good way to sneak protein in.

I really can't wait til April 24th. Maybe the nutritionist can offer some good advice.

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This *was* going to be a chipper post. I actually managed to eat my entire dinner tonight. \o/ No indigestion symptoms til I was almost done with my stew and *two* slices of bread and butter. The kid actually let me eat a complete meal, after five pm, with protein. Behold the power of Dinty Moore.

Unfortunately, my chipper mood has hit a snag.

There being nothing much on tv, I pulled out my counted cross-stitch project. It's going to be lovely. A little buddha sitting under a bonsai tree in a pot, with a small yellowish-white moon overhead, and some half-stitch shading here and there, and about eight different kanji for prosperity and good health and other nice things on the borders. I plan to frame it and hang it in our bedroom when done.

I finish a segment, threaded with one dark green strand and one black strand, which eventually will become part of the bonsai's pot, and paused to check my number of stitches against the diagram.

Hmmm. Last green-black stitch (x) is four blank squares to the left and one square down from the last stitch of this section of terracotta half-stitches (d) I did weeks ago. It's supposed to be five squares to the left and one down.

I recount the green-black stitches (x), and recheck their positions against the chart. Nope. Green-black are all correct. I check again, making sure this time that the buddha, which (x) touches, is in the right spot. Nope. That's fine too.

I check the half stitches (d) in question again. They seem to be fine, apart from being one square too close to the green-black ones. Very, odd, because they're also in perfect alignment with the segment of terracotta half stitches (c) a loooong way above them..... Crap.

Recheck that segment (c), and the terracotta segment to the left of it (b). Those are all in perfect relation to each other.... Check the terracotta segment to the left of *that* one (a).

Segment a is in precisely the right spot. Segment b, however, is one stitch too far to the left. Thus completely throwing off my counts for c and d, which will make them overlap segments of the bonsai's leaves which are as yet unstitched. It also throws off my count for yet another section I'd done, which will be part of the border around some of the kanji.


Gorram... frelling....... GAH!


It's not a lot of extra work, true. It's certainly not the insurmountable problem I would have had if I'd decided to fill in the rest of that elaborate border for the kanji instead of starting the bonsai's pot and not discovered my error so soon. If that had happened, I'd have wanted to commit seppuku with a spork. ^_^;

It just pisses me off, is all. This snafu has been lurking for weeks, and I just now find it out. I was feeling so proud of my progress. ::sigh::

I really hope I have enough extra thread to fix this and still finish the project.

In response to Dav's most recent post

Been meaning to post about this for a while.



For the record, Robotech's version of Minmei is why I have "stabbling Minmei" as one of my LJ interests.

It is thus far a unique interest. ::preens::

Now that they're follwing the original storyline, she comes across as slightly less of a manipulative skanky ho, and more of a complete naive twit who wouldn't get a guy's overtures if she got whacked with a clue-by-four the size of a sequoia.

I mean, come on! A man gives her his newly awarded medal, as a desparation move to avoid her wrath for being late getting her a birthday gift - late because he was helping to save the lives of everyone on board, again, and how does she respond?

"Oooooh, shiny thing! Don't know what it is, but what do I care? It's shiny! Yay!"

No appreciation for the depth of that gift at all. I so wanted to throttle her.

She does the same thing in Robotech mind you, just comes across as more "I am deliberately denigrating this special gift so as to keep you further in my thrall, flailing helplessly to please me somehow".



One of the biggest improvements so far has been the alteration in Roy's character. Evidently, the people in charge of Americanizing Macross into Robotech back in the 80's were so desperate to save America's youth from Roy's blatant skirt-chasing and lechery, that they turned him into a creepy pedophile with unsavory intentions towards Rick.

How this was an improvement in their eyes escapes my comprehension.



The overall plot seems to flow better, too. It's a pity they couldn't do something about "Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, my boyfriend is a pilot", but I don't think anything could have saved that song. Not anything that wouldn't have incurred the almighty wrath of the fanboys, anyway. ^_^