Wow, a total lack of fandomy stuff.

[sarea]

For the past week or so I've really felt like baking, so yesterday I attempted to make a pound cake. I love pound cake, but I don't think I've ever made one that I actually liked (restaurants and the supermarket serve much better ones). I have not broken that tradition. I got too caught up in playing WoW and took it out of the oven 35 min late. *facepalm* It wasn't burnt or anything, and the inside was still quite soft and moist. But I'll always wonder if I would have liked it if I'd done it properly.

My Canon PowerShot A520 arrived! W00t! I haven't had a whole lot of time to play around with it, but from what I have experimented with, it kicks ass. The only thing I would have preferred would be for the LCD to be one of those that you can open and close (like Robbie's camera), because it seems so vulnerable. Knowing me, it's so going to get scratched. I also probably need to buy a larger memory card; I'm just not sure how big I really need it to be and what a good buy would be.

I've just booked my flight for LA. I wasn't sure a) that I'd be able to get a good rate this late; b) that I had enough vacation time; and c) that I even wanted to go home, considering I'd have to either take Talis with me or stick him in a kennel. But a) Alaska was having a special for flights from here to there; b) it turns out that I have way more than enough vacation time; I'm not quite sure how that happened, considering my trip to the east coast. But we're only allowed to carry over one year's worth of vacation time, and if you don't use the rest, they're forfeit. After using the calculation tool, I will be carrying over a *full year's* worth of vacation time, so theoretically next year I could take 30 days of vacation (we get 15 days/year) O.o; c) taking him with me is cheaper than the kennel, and my mom is so excited to see him again. (He'll stay with my parents while I'm at Jade's.) The unfortunate way she boiled down my options: "So yes, either bring Talis with you or don't come home at all." Me: "..... Oh, I see how it is." Her: "What? Those are your options, right?"

Remember when I asked, if you could be the star of your own show, what your theme song would be? Well, I never answered it myself, but I've decided that it's "Push Jump (I'm a dork, I put down the wrong title!)," by Madonna (from her new album). Not that Madonna would ever allow her music to be used as the title theme for a TV show (I don't think), but since it's my fantasy world, it's my theme song. (My CD's not here or I'd link to it. I'll add it once I'm home.) Here's a YSI link if you'd like to have a listen. It'd be a futuristic show about a young woman who's trained as part of the government's elite crime-fighting forces (of course), but she's dying of some disease of the future. While she's looking for an unlikely cure, she's going to take down the people who did this to her (the government) so they can't do it to anyone else. That'll be the larger story arc, but on a weekly basis she'll help other people who have been screwed over by this corrupt government (it wasn't until she realized what they'd done to her that her eyes opened to what they truly were), so that she'll at least have done some good before her time is up -- especially considering that as part of that elite crime-fighting unit, she actually was hurting innocent people without really realizing it. It's so Alias crossed with Equilibrium crossed with Universal Soldier. :))

My dad is going to be here on Thanksgiving, w00t! He's excited about seeing Talis. Oh sure, everyone loves and misses Talis, and yet he's living with me and is home by himself 9 hours out of the day. Poor little thing.

Do you find that your body temperature drops dramatically when you're on your period (those of you who get them :p)? These things happen every month during That Time: 1) I start drinking water like a camel; 2) I crave chocolate (when normally I'm 'eh' about it); 3) I break out; 4) I get super tired (and bitchy); and 5) I get really, really cold. It can be 85 degrees outside and I'll be wearing a sweatshirt and still be cold. Unfortunately for me, it's so not 85 degrees out right now. *weeps*

And that is all for today's TMI. Tune in next week!

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Re: Body temperature

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Wow, interesting! That does explain a lot -- thanks for telling me about that!