Merry Christmas! (belated)

I hope everyone has had a great holiday and all of your Christmas wishes have come true!

My holiday is great, but flying by. My Mother-in-Law is visiting and we went to her brother's house for the big day. Very fun. Hubby's cousins got Guitar Hero 2, which is an awesome game.

We got back yesterday and hung out. Last night we played Monopoly. But not any Monopoly.... Star Wars Episode 1 Monopoly. The board comes with this plastic edge for the property cards and apartment buildings to fit into. I lost horribly due to the yellow and red properties that I did not own. I referred to it as 'the Guantlet' and made it through a couple of times with no hits, but then hit both on one turn.


We own at least 4 versions of Star Wars version games - 2 different Star Wars Monopolies, Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and Star Wars Battleship. The Trivial Pursuit is rarely played and Hubby is always the overwhelming winner.

I am in the mood to add to our board game collection. I love Apples to Apples and Cranium, but they are only fun with five or more people. So I'm thinking I might splurge on SceneIt, probably the TV version or the Friends version. I saw a Marvel Comics version, but no one would want to play that with me.

And for anyone interested, our NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY is still a go! Hope to see you there :)

Well, here we are again

I'm at home and hubby up and leaves me the week before Christmas to travel for his job. That's ok though, because it is not a regular thing, like him leaving all week for four months. And it is worth it because he likes his job and his job seems to like him. People have even been complimenting his work!

My job situation on the other hand is still looking sad. My tutoring job is ok. I get one or two students an hour (soon to be three students) and just follow the prearranged outline. But I have to say that I am really missing teaching. I want my own classroom and my own students and to work with great teachers. I checked and the one math teacher position that was open was filled. And the library position was also filled. As a side not, way too many of you commented about how I would be perfect in a library. Why did no one mention this when I was in college?

So, I am looking into substitute teaching. I called one district today and a lady took my name and said she was going to pull my file and 'call me back in a few minutes.' She seemed pretty excited that I had a teaching license. Well, two hours later I called to check and this lady left for the day. Hm......

A big thank you to Ikkin for inviting me along to see the Nutcracker. I have never seen it, except for brief glimpses on PBS. I absolutely LOVED it, the scenery, the costumes, the music, the dancing.... I would love to take dance classes again, but have been to lazy to look up adult beginners dance in the area. Although I did see a ballroom dancing studio! And it's good excercise!

Now I have to question my whole life

So here is another quiz. I really thought I would come out geek. I mean between the x-men, Buffy, WOT and now Heroes, I definitely have some geeknees.But I'm normal.... I have to say I'm a little disappointed. And there were questioned I felt were skewed a little. Like asking about attending ComicCon, they didn't have an option of "No, but I'd love to go". And asking about for graphic novels there was no "Library" option. I think the kicker was saying I had a lot of friends. That was a reflection on all of the Christmas cards that need signed.

On a side note, I went to this site looking for the Pirate/Ninja quiz. Maybe I'll post that one tomorrow. Let me know how your quizzes look! The accent one is short, today's quiz is a little longer.

Joe Normal 30 % Nerd, 43% Geek, 26% Dork

For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal. This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast. I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal. Congratulations! Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness You scored higher than 99% on geekosity You scored higher than 99% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

No accents here, buddy

What American Accent Do You Have?



















I've always wondered about my accent since I grew up in small town mid-Ohio, lived in northern Ohio for about 8 years then moved to southern Ohio. I heard a segment on NPR once from some smart people at OSU studying accents and they said Ohio really varies from the northern to southern section.

There was a bunch of code next to my results, but I haven't figured out how to use it here, so I copied and pasted my results above. If anyone knows what I should do with this code, please leave me a comment.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North
The Northeast
Philadelphia
Boston
The West
The South
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

And in other news

Fashion News: Apparently this season, short nails with a dark red/purple color are in. And since nail polish is cheap and not an investment that will plummet to the depths of my closet (such as gauchos), I figured I would try it. And it looks good! I am in fashion! Of course, there is always the backlash. My backlash was last night while Hubby and I were putting up plastic on the windows and I had the darnedest time trying to get the backing off of the double sided tape. Stupid short nail fashions.....

Music News: My amazingly talented husband does the best cover of "SexyBack". I'm telling you, he has a knack. And he's only heard about a ten second clip of the song. And the dancing, oooooooh the dancing.

Literary News: I have been reading the Confessions of a Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, so far the first two. I like them, they are funny and zany. I did however spend most of the first book exclaiming to Hubby about how moronic it was to just keep lying and spending money. I think it was mostly jealousy because I don't know half of the designers that are mentioned and I am somehow missing out because I don't understand the joy that a Denny and George scarf can bring me. The third book is apparently about her wedding, so I'm sure more mayhem will ensue.

Holiday News: I swear, the Christmas tree is going up tonight! And I'll do more shopping this week. But NOT this weekend, because just trying to drive by the mall is nuts.

Cooking News: Last night I made chili. This is the only food I have ever made without a recipe. I am usually absolutely paranoid about measuring and times and all that jazz. But that marvelous man I call mine taught me how to make chili and how to improvise. I throw stuff in, I shake the seasonings until I'm content, I look at how soupy it is rather than the time on the clock! And! It's edible! The Jiffy Corn Muffins I measure and timed to a tee though.

Unexcitement

The last two times I have been to the gym, there have been women in the locker room on their cell phones. This used to never bother me (except the time at UT where someone was swearing obscenities at the top of her lungs and there were kids in the locker room). However at this gym there is a sign saying 'Cell Phones Prohibited in the Area.' And today the lady turned down the tv so she could continue her conversation. The tv is right above this sign.

So it's not really a problem, I'm just spoiled and it's a small locker room. I'm used to some casual conversation, but not one-sided, loud conversation. Then the lady followed me out of the locker room up to the cardio equipment still talking away. Fortunately she went to the bicycles, otherwise I would have had to have strong words for her. And I would have tossed her phone off the second floor landing. Really, I would have.

That is about as exciting as my life gets.

Game night tonight! My marvelous husband has arranged for people to come over and even hinted that I can pick the game! He actually phrased it as "we'll let Hugs pick which game she wants to win tonight." ......so true.....

Hugs, Illustrated

So here is what I spent the noon hour doing today.


This was actually much more difficult than it looks. Especially without my fabulously tall spouse. I had put some of this garland up over the weekend, but it was half-hearted and slumped by the next morning. So today I went out armed with a hammer and nails. Then I had to lay four garlands out because they were all different lengths and find the two long ones. And due to the lack of spousal height, I had to bring out a chair and then had to wear my Birkenstocks so I could kick them off every time I stepped on the chair. I'm sure the neighbors were entertained. It looks really pretty with the lights on it though!

And because Dandy asked, here are picutres of our new bedroom set.



Huge! And still very Orange! But I do like all of the space in my dresser.

And for those of you who read my manly husband's blog, here is the Flying Monkey meeting Min and Ainsley.




Min totally freaked out and tried to kill Flying Monkey. Ainsley, being more used to these hijinks, simply glared and then curled up and went to sleep with her new friend.

As for the last ScreenCap, Hubby's officemate figured it out by following the clues. The show is Misfits of Science, on tv when I was in 2nd grade. I don't remember much of it except that this is where my super hero obsession began. I think it was Courtney Cox's character (who I didn't realize was in it until I got the picture) was telekinetic and my mom explained how it was moving things with your mind. I sat at the dining room table for at least 25 minutes staring at a pen willing it to move. I gave up on have tk power pretty quick, but I'm still confident that something else will develop. I'm well past the age of getting Slayer powers, but I did have a serious case of precognition the other day. I'll let you know if it develops into anything.

And so here is today's screencap. Much easier, I know someone will get this pretty quick.


note to self: to make illustrated blogs easier, load pictures then type