This is my arch enemy. Behold its vile form.



My short trip to DC was wonderful. I have pictures of interesting Korean desserts and illegal pictures taken in a Mattress King to share with you all.

When I called Unfriendly on Saturday night from my hotel he was all stuffed up. "I'm sick," he proclaimed. Not long after I got home Sunday afternoon, my cold symptoms started up. I thought they might just be allergies. On Monday morning, it was quite clear that I wasn't having an allergy attack.

I e-mailed in sick and watched my Buffy Season 7 dvds.

I put off taking that repulsive medicine until Monday night. It works. It does work pretty well..... but the TASTE. Blech! I'm shuddering right now thinking about the taste.

When I was little, they didn't make the vile red kind. They only had the more vile green kind. My mom wouldn't let me drink water after I took it because she said it wouldn't work right. Wouldn't work right?

Mind you, my mom grew up in a village in Guatemala, washed her clothes in a river and is convinced that pointing at rainbows is bad luck.

I now guzzle so much water after I take it. I also brush my teeth right afterwards.

Come Tuesday morning, I still wasn't right so I stayed home again and watched more Buffy, practiced knitting and slept. Later when Unfriendly got home, we watched Firefly episodes.

I took some more last night at 11 before I went to bed. I woke up at 2:30 and somehow figured that 4 and a half hours had passed and that I should take more. I did. After several 'bleahs' and 'oh gods' and 'yucks' and lots of shuddering, I stumbled back to bed. As I was climbing under the covers, I told UF that I had been dreaming of knitting for spaceships and that I took more Nyquil since 4 hours had passed since I last took it.

"Umm...three hours have passed since you went to bed."
"Oh fuck. You're right. I can't do math like this"

So, today I am the result of semi o.d ing on THAT and bizarre knitting dreams.

Labels: BtVS, Nostaigic Glitzy, Unhealthy Glitzy, Vacation, Whedonish

Heading to D.C. this weekend to visit my "little brother"* Guy. He's getting married in September and I haven't met his fiancee yet so I'm making a special trip out. Unfriendly gets to be somewhat on his own. The kitties will probably meow him to death. I have very needy, attention seeking cats.

I took these yesterday. Enjoy if you can. Camera phone color is wayyyy off


I-94 Eastbound exit to 23 to Ann Arbor


23 South exit to Toledo


Construction on Eisenhower near Boardwalk. Makes getting to the gym slow during rush hour.

*Not genetically my little brother but he calls me sis and I call him bro. :)

Labels: Ann Arbor, Guy Smiley, Photos

So, last night I was still just a horrible, cranky person. I also had a terrible headache. I tried killing many lashtail raptors as part of a WoW quest and that did not help.



Neither did the two Excedrin I swallowed prior to my raptor killing adventure. At 8:55 pm I decided it was time for bed.

I headed off to slumber. My faithful shadow, Pooky of the humungo paws kitty tribe joined me at the foot of the bed. All was good.

I woke up at midnight completely disoriented. At some point in those 3 hours I had inverted my sleeping position; my head was where my feet usually are.

I haven't done that in ages.

Consequently, I'm in a better mood. Maybe sleeping backwards helped.

Labels: Tales from SleepyLand, WoW

For the past two weeks I've been harnessing cranky moodiness. It seems to be what currently is powering me.

I am unsure as to why this is. Even Unfriendly pointed it out a weekend ago. I've been snappy toward him. Luckily, I live with the moodiest man in the universe. His state of being enables him to identify moodiness in others, so we haven't been all out snappy at each other.

I've even been waking up in a foul, foul mood. Très zarbi . Normally, my morning demeanor ranges between a beige-ish 'I am here. I exist.' mood to what non-morning people would find punch in the stomach worthy. I am rarely flat out crabby-ass-bitch cranky in the morning.

Except for lately.

Little things have been setting me off and causing me to fume to the point where I have to step back and wonder why I'm getting so furious over stuff that would normally just roll off my back.

So, I've been trying to figure out if there is something in my life that is bothering me that I'm not addressing.

Stay tuned for the results or for possible tales of crazy. For example, I almost yelled at a lady with a teenage kid and her kid's boyfriend at the grocery store last night because they kept ending up hogging almost every aisle I happened to be shopping. And they'd push the cart ever SO slowly down the MIDDLE of aisle while maintaining a blissful lack of regard for people traveling at either direction down said aisle. People needing to move past them? Why would other shoppers need to do that.

And I'm getting all peeved again just writing about the grocery store trip last night.

*sigh*

Labels: Glitzy: Crabby, Glitzy: Francophile

...and mitten paws that are freakishly large in these shots.

So alexis was wondering about what I was knitting. I've been trying to get the hang of working on double pointed needles to knit circular items. In particular, my babies need their own kitty beds so I'd like to craft a couple of these for them. A gal named Wendy crafted this pattern which I found at her blog a while back. Click on the picture for the pattern :)


However, I've never knit with wool or tried to felt it so I figured I'd start small and work on making Pumpkin a new felted toy. She has at least ten of the animal kind that are stuffed with catnip and bells. She 'hunts' these in the evening or when she feel she's being ignored. The apartment will suddenly resound with caterwauling and the jingling of bells as the huntress Pumpkin skulks around - prey in mouth. She eventually brings them to bed as presents or to our 'computer room' if Unfriendly and / or I are there.

Labels: Kitty Kids, Knitty Glitzy, Photos

Knitting on double pointed needles is much trickier than it seems.

Labels: Knitty Glitzy

This week I discovered that Winamp has Winamp Music and Winamp Video as a part of their online media. I'm not sure if it's been there for a while. I tell you, my powers of observation in relation to the world around me are not good. Unfriendly once 'hid' an unwrapped Christmas present in plain sight because he knew I wouldn't see it. Sad. I am but a sad, sad example of the lack paying attention to detail in life. Can I debug a program? You bet! Proofread a paper for grammar and spelling. No problem. Can I find my keys when they are right in front of me? Sadly, no. Not without a good amount of time passing.

Anyway....here is the playlist I generated with my newest musical media find. I think it represents how all-over-the-place my brain is today.

1. Oasis - Lyla (4:14)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Maps'(In-Studio)
3. Fatboy Slim - 'Don't Let the Man Get You Down'
4. Fatboy Slim - 'Wonderful Night'
5. Ciara - 'Goodies (Remix feat. T.I.&ampJazze Pha)
6. Ciara - 'Oh!'feat. Ludacris
7. Maroon 5 - 'Harder to Breathe'(In-Studio)
8. Mystikal - 'Oochie Pop'
9. Daddy Yankee - 'Gasolina'
10. Daddy Yankee - 'Gasonlina'Remix feat. Lil Jon and Pitbull
11. Gorillaz - 'Feel Good Inc'
12. Joss Stone - 'Fell in Love With a Boy'
13. Kumbia Kings - 'Fuego'
14. Garbage - 'Bleed Like Me'
15. Robbie Robertson - 'Shine Your Light'
16. RuPaul - 'Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous'
17. RuPaul - 'Workout'
18. Audioslave - 'Be Yourself'
19. Ricky Martin - 'I Don't Care'feat. Amerie and Fat Joe
20. Audioslave - 'Your Time Has Come'
21. Le Tigre - 'TKO'
22. Nine Inch Nails - 'The Hand That Feeds'
23. Pussycat Dolls - 'Don't Cha'
24. The Killers - 'All These Things That I've Done'
25. The White Stripes - 'Blue Orchid'
26. Missy Elliott - 'Lose Control'
27. Missy Elliott - 'Teary Eyed'
28. Robin S - 'Show Me Love'
29. Kelly Clarkson - 'Breakaway'(In-Studio)
30. R.E.M. - 'Man On The Moon'(In-Studio)
31. 50 Cent - 'Candy Shop'(In-Studio)
32. Jack Johnson - 'Sitting, Waiting, Wishing'(In-Studio)
33. Queens of the Stone Age - 'Little Sister'(In-Studio)
34. Ciara - '1,2 Step'feat. Missy Elliott
35. Lucero - 'Vete Por Donde Llegaste'
36. Olga Tañon - 'Como Olvidar'

Labels: Music

So there's this newish radio station called Doug FM (wtf?) whose claim to fame is that they 'PLAY EVERYTHING'. I started scanning stations when I started up my car to head home from work and happened upon Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking". Talk about blast from the past! So, I let the song play out and then heard the Doug FM ' we play everything' station check.

Next song?

"Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash. I don't think I had heard this song on the radio here in MI until today. The volume was cranked up in my little Saturn.

Next song?

"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. I didn't realize I knew the lyrics to this song. I was hitting I-94 at that point and jamming away to that tune. I am but a product of the 70s.

As I pulled into my parking spot, the last song I heard on Doug FM was "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.

The call letters are WDRQ ... who is Doug why is it his FM?

Labels: Driving, Music

Labels: Photos

Ingredients:

• Ouifm at http://www.ouifm.fr
• The classical music Choicefm radio station Unfriendly was playing all weekend
• Glitzy's and UF's mp3s
• Channel 95.5 at http://channel955.com
• A Hard Day's Night on DVD

Directions:

List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're no good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

Results:

"A Million Ways" - Ok Go
"Largo Al Factotum"- Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - Rossini (This is the famous 'Figaro, Figaro' aria)
"Au conditionnel" - Matmatah
"Don't Cha" - The Pussy Cat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes
"Feel Good, Inc" - Gorillaz
"Breathe (2am) - Anna Nalick
"Comme Je Suis" - A.S Dragon
"Lose Control" Missy Elliot featuring Ciara & Fatman Scoop
"New Order" - Regret
"If I Fell" - The Beatles

Passing along to:

Anyone who feels like it. My past foray into tag land was met with mixed results.

Thanks for tagging me, Ian!

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Glitzy: Francophile, Memes, Music

Reason 1) No need to evacuate my apartment yet.

Last year in May the Crown Paper company building was being torn down to make a new apartment complex. Seeing as how I didn't have to drive by it to get to and from work, the construction didn't really affect me.

One day, I noticed everyone was being stopped by policemen maybe a quarter of a mile before the turn in to my apartment. When it got to my turn, the cop checked my license to verify my address and told me I had to park along side the road where he was.

"There's been a gas leak. We have to evacuate the area."

I had just come from the grocery store and had salmon and ice cream to put away so I walked what ended up being a half mile to my apartment, put my stuff away. I was super exhausted that day and really just wanted to nap. I called Unfriendly about what was going on before heading off to nap land so he'd know what to expect on the way home. I didn't smell gas. There were still several people in the apartment complex too, so I didn't think I really HAD to evacuate. Unfriendly turned serious when I told him what was going on,

"You have to get out of there RIGHT NOW"

Mere seconds later, there was a knock on the door. It was another police officer. She told me they were busing folks out to EMU's Bowen Field. I asked her if there would be any facilities for people with pets. She wasn't sure.

No way was I going to leave my cats to suffer any possible peril so I was faced with these 2 challenges.

- Where the heck was I gonna go?

My work schedule was and is 7:00 am to 3:30 pm provided I take a half hour for lunch. It was about 4:15 pm when the officer knocked. The couple of friends that I have locally weren't going to be home until maybe 5:30 - 6:00 pm.

Solution: I called Unfriendly back and told him I was headed toward his work parking lot since I had no place to go, really.

- How to transport 22 pounds of cat half a mile to where I parked my car?

Solution:

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Neither of my cats are really fans of the cat carrier but at least Pumpkin is more good natured about change than Pooky. I loaded them both into their carriers and took them both out into the hallway along with the handtruck.

Now, this horribly crappy apartment were we all lived had no ramp for handicapped tenants. Our apartment was garden level so we had a flight upstairs to go up to exit. So, I took the hand truck out first and figured that Pooky would freak out less if I took him out last. Wrong. He saw that Pumpkin and I were vanishing from his line of sight, the emitted the most horrible and loud meow ever. Poor guy probably thought I was abandoning him.

I proceeded to stack the carriers on top of each other and strap them in tight and then I wheeled my way down the road to get to my car. By this time, all of the other residents had been visited by Lady Cop so they were also evacuating. And boy was I getting some funny looks. A group of students from Nigeria in particular thought I had lost my mind and one of the guys started joking with me

"Can I buy one of your cats? Please? Come on! "

I imagine if Pooky wasn't meowing his head off, I might have been less conspicuous.

Ok, maybe NOT.

I finally got to my car and loaded the felines in. The hand truck was a bit cumbersome but I finally managed. I did stop somewhere to buy a new litter pan, litter and some conciliatory canned food along with a bottle of water. When we got to Unfriendly's work parking lot, I let them out of the carriers to wander the car. Pumpkin had a ball. She is really the coolest cat on the planet. She was purring away excitedly. She kept darting away to check out each windowed area of the car and then coming back to me to head butt me in gratitude. Weird cat.

Pooky thought it would be stellar to try to hide under the car pedals and close his eyes because this couldn't be happening to him. His kitty cat world had been shattered. He was freaked out. Not even canned food won him over (Pumpkin ended up eating his share). By the time Unfriendly got out of work, he was slightly calmer and ever so confused as to why 'Daddy' was in this new freakish hell environment.

I had been listening to NPR on EMU's radio station because during breaks, they were updating all on the gas break. It was here that I found out that the construction crew that had been tearing down the paper company caused this mess by breaking a gas line.

Unfriendly went to grab some Wendy's and returned. We sat in his truck and ate dinner. I had parked right next to him. The kitties were so confused as to why we weren't with them. Pumpkin had successfully covered my front passenger seat with fur and eventualy decided napping was more worthwhile than pondering about the situation. Pooky made sure to keep looking at us to make sure we weren't leaving him for good.

Finally a little after 9:00 pm we heard that all was clear and made our way back. Talk about a tiring day.

I did some research to see if anyone ever reported on this and they did (http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?1616 ) However, the apt. complex where we all lived in at the time is not mentioned as having had to evacuate in this article. We did.

Huron View Apartments, I do NOT miss you at all.

Labels: Ann Arbor, Article Link, Kitty Kids, WTF

...and in need of a manicure!

Labels: Nail Check

My blog buddy thephoenixnyc has asked his readers for help in promoting his business' visibility on the Internet. Since I don't have a links section yet, I am posting it here.


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http://www.chinabrightstar.com

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*I've been programming wayyyyyyy too long.

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Programming

It's been brought to my attention by a couple of folks that they can't comment on my blog meaning that the links don't appear as links to them. So...because I can, here's another poll thingy.

Please comment (if you can) or e-mail (if you can't...glitzier_numeraryATyahooDOTcom) what browser and version you're using. I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 and have javascript enabled and can see 'em. An anon with the same settings can't :(

Can you click on the Haloscan comments or Blogger comments links in this post?
	I can click on both and the trackback link in the middle.
	I can't click on jack squat. Those aren't links for me.
	I can only click on Haloscan comments.
	I can only click on Blogger comments.
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Labels: Blog Update

One thing I notice about folks around here in cube farm land is that about 60% of them walk with their heads hanging down or they look downward when they walk. I don't walk like that. My head is usually held straight unless I'm rifling through print outs or something. Maybe it's due to folks being uber busy and preoccupied.

It's a mainly quiet day today in cube land. Well, it's quiet now. Earlier it sounded like my cube neighbor was going to hack up both of his lungs. I think he has allergies because that horrid, horrid sound is not an uncommon one.

Random news for the past week:

Last week on Tuesday I donated blood. I hadn't since October of 2004. Like the dumbass that I am I postponed dinner since I wasn't hungry from the post bleed juice and cookie fix. As Unfriendly was fixing his dinner (about 3 hours after I donated), I started seeing spots, almost blacked out and went through what I guess is a bad sugar crash (nausea, cold sweats, dizziness). I was so peeved at myself for being so mentally blank. I am fine, albeit a bit airheaded from time to time.

I have decided to take up jogging. My current goal is to be able to jog a mile. Right now I am alternating between jogging for a minute and walking 90 seconds. So far, so good. I've gotten a bit bored with the elliptical machine at the gym and need a challenge.

One of Unfriendly's former bosses from the Evil Pizza Corporation has a blog of funny anecdotes. He's not sure if the stories are funny if you don't know the folks involved but I'm of the opinion that they can stand alone. If you'd like to expand your blog horizons (and maybe leave some commentary), you can check him out at Bars, Dives and other places of beer

I recommend reading this first to learn about the characters. My personal faves are...

• Tales From the Urinal - The Conversation
• Beware of the Brownies!
• Strip Clubs!!
  

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Type A+, Work MI

On Saturday Unfriendly and I went to Chaz's annual pig roast which was, as usual, a good time. My dish to pass was my version of Sandra Lee's Peanut Butter Fudge Cups. I use cream cheese frosting to mix it up and this time did them with chocolate chip dough as well as sugar. Nothing like a mellow afternoon of good food and good conversation.

After we got home we greeted the kitties who acted like we were gone for ages and ages so we chilled out with them for a bit and watched some "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

I tuned into radio darth afterwards and UF and I logged in to play some World of Warcraft. We've been up playing for a bit. I finished what I set out to do and took a picture of my toon, Chouette, flying back to her base camp.

Cow beauty is such a sullen, taciturn beauty.

Labels: Nerdy, Video Games, WoW

I seriously have to update my blog roll. Here is a blog kept by my longest running friend. I say longest running because we've been friends for 21 years. Hey, our friendship is a legal adult in the States. Amazing.

Her name is Sameena and she's preggers. Check her out at http://www.babywhaley.blogspot.com/

Labels: Blog Spotlight

Not the best picture. They all have a diagonal stripe like my thumb. I'll update the colors later as I don't have the bottles with me today.

Labels: Nail Check, Photos

Once upon a time, Glitzy had the desire to make something with Mole sauce. She had a hankering for it and got some from the local grocer.

Glitzy got her tacquitos ready and tried to open the sauce jar. It was the kind of lid you just pry upwards and was proving to be a very difficult lid.

Now, Glitzy has a black and white kitty who loves hanging around the kitchen when she cooks. At that time in Glitzy's old apartment, the kitty cat food bowls were in the kitchen. While Glitzy was cursing at the lid and trying to get the Mole sauce open, Pumpkin, Glitzy's kitty, was nibbling at the kibble in her bowl.

When Glitzy finally pried the lid open, she did it with force that it caused the Mole sauce to fly upwards and then down into Pumpkin's bowl and onto Pumpkin turning her into a calico.
So, Glitzy tried to bathe her and only succeeded in getting Pumpkin wet and somewhat cranky. Glitzy tried to appease her by putting some catnip on a heating pad and offering her some light reading.

Pumpkin gets her revenge every morning by waking Glitzy up at 4 am. Glitzy just puts her in the basement and goes back upstairs to sleep for 2 more hours.

Labels: Kitty Kids, Photos, Pumpkin

I have actually heard these come out of his mouth over the past 3 weeks.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger married into the Kennedys?"
"How often does that Live8 thing happen? Once a year?"
"I just finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She has definitely made it so there can be a sequel"

He knows she's made books after the fourth one. *sigh*

His wife bought them. He's TOLD ME ABOUT this.

Kill me now.

Labels: CNfH, Work MI