March 7, 2009 by Avy.

I can’t believe it’s been nearly two months since I’ve posted here. I’ve been twittering away when I should have been blogging.

I’ve been up to more than one would think. My soap-crafting has turned into soap-making. Right now I’m on pause because I changed NaOH distributors and FedEx is being a pest about shipping the caustic to me. The last company I ordered from used UPS. I wish this guy did. I’m not trying to make meth, people! I’m just making soap. SOAP!

My jewelry-making has slowed due to my higher rate of enthusiasm with soaping. I really enjoy making necklaces and such, but until I take up lampwork, soaping is number one.

Since I’ve been laid off, i’ve gone back to school. The joy of that is that I’ll be a teacher eventually. Right now I’m just bored. I’m taking my courses online, but only signed up for one this semester (as I was supposed t still be working). I’ll be taking two next time. The reading part is boring, but I love to write so that’s a plus.  Hooray for that. I have a plan and am sticking to it. As it stands I have an A grade and I’m sure I’ll keep it.

I’m participating in a Play-by-Post roleplaying game. It has a post-apocalyptic setting with NO ZOMBIES. I like it so far. My character is good and so is her history. We use the GURPS system (which is very different from White Wolf) and I had the worst time trying to get everything just right.

What else? Nothing much I guess. I may start up with Dagorhir again this month (since it’s warming up). That’s all I’ve got for now.

Here. Have a video. (unless I embedded it incorrectly)

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November 7, 2008 by Avy.

I got an e-reads account and downloaded an ebook  so I could be proud of myself for not contributing to the cutting down of trees even moreso than usual.

That was dumb.

If I had this novel in book form, I would be at least halfway done by now. In pdf format, I’m only on page 13. Page 13? Really?!! Sheesh.

I’m afraid I’ll be buying books from Amazon again. My eyes are not so happy.

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October 21, 2008 by Avy.

 I hate that little piece of slang yet I love to giggle at it. ah well.

I went back to work yesterday. I miss my son, but it’s all good. We’ll live.
now that I’m sitting on my arse most of the day, I’m back on Calorie Count at least until the next Weight Watchers session starts at work. It’s too easy to stuff my face all day in this place and I’m tryin to get MILFtastic. A girl can dream. I’m already below my pre-preg weight (not by a whole lot though) so all should be well.

I’ve also started wearing make-up regularly again. Yay! It’s a good feeling. Once finances allow, I’ll buy a few new articles of clothing. In the meantime, I’m back in the office and selling Mark for extra cash. Buy stuff!!!

Oh and, Google opens the floodgates, open-sources Android - Engadget

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October 17, 2008 by Avy.

Johnny Rockets
Originally uploaded by avytech

My darling husband bought me a Flip Mino. I must say I LOVE this thing. I only see two cons:
a) There’s no hold button and the buttons are all touch-screeny sensitive. I see accidental deletion in my future.

b) The file sizes are big… I can change them in-computer so it’s okay.

Anyway, I have tons of videos on flickr now. Yay. Lots of Xavier, too. I go back to work on Monday so there will be more more stuff on Monday night/Tues am of non-baby life. I’ll probably leave it with Erik Tues-Fri since he’ll be home with X.

Oh so last night my mom babysat again.
Erik and I went to Passional (it’ll always be Fetishes Boutique to me) and I got some nice stuff. This includes an awesome black corset with pink pinstripes. Yay.
Afterward, we headed over to Johnny Rockets. Mmmmm Streamliner! I love a good soyburger. Our waitress looked just like a young Tori Amos. We told her. She blushed. It was good.

Uh oh. I think someone pooped.
Adios

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September 25, 2008 by Avy.

So who wants to buy me one? Seriously. I think it’s do wonders for my back. And I think we all have heard and felt my knee by now.

These things are pretty cool though. I think Erik’s the one who first told me about them. Apparently the infrared part removes toxins that a regular sauna doesn’t get to.  I ended up getting even more info from this  Infrared Sauna site. I didn’t even think about this before, but you can burn 900 calories in 30minutes with these things! i knew regular saunas did a little, but this seems like something I can get behind. I wish my gym had them. I only burn like a third of that on the elliptical machine.

So far infrared saunas seem to be the way to go. I dunno why anyone would buy a regular sauna over this kind. I need money so we can have one

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