Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?

Vacation is almost over and I have done essentially nothing useful. It was kind of nice.

Skulked around the house Monday. I had an invite to go to the Marathon with Steven and his kids, but crowds and I aren't such good buddies. Ultimately, it was kind of chilly too, so I passed. The jackhammer fairy visited us that night, too. I assume there was a gas leak and it better have been worth it because they kept me up until 2am. Not Awesome. Originally, I was supposed to do UMass shit Tuesday, but after a lot of crankies, tireds, and a frakking jumper on the train we were on, I said the hell with it and came home to nap.

Dear UMass, I hate you lots. Please die. As of right now, I still have two IFs instead of the Ws they're supposed to be. I suppose it shall be back to ringing them.

Yesterday was great. It was warm and sunny and made of win. jesheckahlynn sent me tea, which arrived right before I headed into the city for the day. I hit all the trains perfectly. The ride was nice, my iPod was spitting out good music, and it wasn't crowded. And if I didn't mention it enough before, the weather was GORGEOUS. It had to be in the mid-80s.

I caught the last 20 minutes of Steven's classes and then we headed down to the Common and the Public Gardens so I could take pictures. As it turned out, the line for the Swan Boats wasn't bad (nor is the cost!), so we wasted a few minutes in line and took a ride. They're pretty fun, especially for the price. I also got a few nice pictures from the boats.

Because it was a game night, we opted to loiter round the city for a bit so we could avoid the influx. We ended up having dinner at Chacarero's, which we haven't been to in ages, probably since before Filene's Basement closed. It was great, as always. We still had time to kill after, so we caught up with Sam at the Green Dragon for beer and really good calmari. It was, in fact, some of the best I've had.

Today, I kicked it around here. I took almost 200 photos yesterday and dumped them today. I didn't get as much done with them as I wanted because, for some reason, iPhoto and Photoshop aren't friends this week and I can't drag and drop. I have to manually open them and the library is also being hinky, so I need to actually copy them to the desktop before I can edit them. Joy. It looks like there are some beautiful ones, though, so I'm happy. I'm going to try and post some tomorrow.

Since I walked over 2 miles yesterday, I figured I'd go out for a walk today, since it was also nice. It was a quick mile and I've walked it before, no issues. My achilles tendons did not like it at all today. I felt like I had spikes jammed up my legs. I don't know what was wrong, since I've walked it in crappier shoes before. I grabbed a coffee to ease my suffering, then came home and made with the yoga. My knee isn't exactly thanking me, but at least I haven't fallen off the exercise bandwagon this week.

Mum's first anniversary was today, so I have to get their card to them soon. Less drama about that this year.

Tomorrow is Battlestar night and Saturday, we're going to go to Grandpa's and seed his lawn/play with kittehs. I need to do laundry soon and I also need to buy shorts/capris because nothing I have either fits or it's old and I don't like how it fits. I don't know if I feel like doing that this week-end.

New icon, at least.

It disturbs me a great deal that soy cheese singles actually taste slightly better than Kraft singles. There is something fundamentally wrong with that...

That said, lunch was good. In my brief kick of eating somewhat healthier and partly because I really like soy products, I bought Nayonaise yesterday, along with aforementioned soy cheese, with the express intent of making tuna melts. I kind of fail because I used real tuna, but fish is the whole reason I would never be able to be a vegetarian. I love the cow, but I could live without it.

Anyhow, so it was actually fairly tasty. Nayonaise tastes better than I remember it tasting a good decade ago and it's still better than Miracle Whip. Christ, I hate that shit. Plus, it didn't make me feel queasy like regular mayo normally does. My stomach, apparently, has decided that it will no longer handle greasy/oily/fatty foods and, since I am actually listening to it for once, perhaps I will actually lose some weight instead of just being sick all the time.

I still totally lack motivation today. I cleaned up the hard drive on the PC yesterday and I'm going to try and do the same here today. New(ish) computer is coming on Friday, so maybe I'll be able to get more work done faster for once. Still haven't started my painting, mostly because I figure if I'm really unmotivated, I shouldn't screw around. I also still need to clean my paint tray.

I dumped the photos of Kitteh and the beach yesterday, so I'll be posting those later on my my DeviantArt later today. Still working on the website and toying with new things for the gallery aspect, so hopefully I'll get that done this week.

I wish I weren't do cranky.

More art: http://devilgrrl.deviantart.com

If you're interested in any prints you see, let me know.

Here's a novel real update!

I've been working fairly steadily the last couple weeks, so this is a good thing. It's also allowed me to get a good chunk of princessbunny's blanket done. Getting up at 6am every day, however, is not so good, especially when I'm still recovering from bronchitis. I've pretty much been sleeping whenever I haven't been at work, so that's part of the reason for no updates. I actually am kind of considering napping now, but I'm doing about 47 other things, so I probably won't get a chance to.

Dawn and Mike came down this week-end on Sunday. She wasn't sure she was going to be able to come because she's had a couple bouts of preterm labour, one of which had her spending the day in the hospital. She felt ok, though, and Steven, Nicki, and I met them in the city at Faniuel Hall. We walked around a little and ended up going to Cheers for booze and food. I actually was surprised how reasonable the prices were, considering it's a huge tourist trap. We walked them down to the Garden for their Celtics game before heading to the North End for pastry. And, of course, once we were there, we were seduced by the lure of good coffee at Cafe Graffiti. Nicki'd never been, so that was even more of a reason to stop in. We hit Modern on the way to South Station, but I'm thinking we should have gone to Mike's instead. They didn't have the florentines that Steven likes and my tiramisu was only so-so. We have a box of cookies no one's looked at either. Lesson learned.

I finally finished all the pro wedding photos we have Monday, so now I'm working on the two CDs of candids. They won't get done for a bit, though, since right now I'm helping out with the Arts Festival. I volunteered a couple hours today gluing down little kid artwork and so far, it looks like I'll be doing the same tomorrow. Hopefully, though, it won't be snowing tomorrow. Stupid New England weather.

I just looked outside. It's actually accumulating. Dammit.

So now, I kind of have a headache, I have too much stuff to do over the next three days, and I'm tired to boot. The only really good thing is that I've gotten quite a bit done on my painting today. Steven still hasn't moved his shit off the table, so I hadn't been able to work on it. I finally got sick of waiting and shoved a few things around so I could put the painting on top of things. So far, so good.

I think, in fact, I'm going to go do a little more work on it before he gets home.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am frugal, often to a fault. This isn't so much because I hate spending money, but often because I have no money to spend. As in EVER. I haven't worked since September, when I was sacked from Barnes & Noble. I decided to work on going to school instead, which was fine. Then came the knee incident and you have me out of work (and probably school, thanks to my  idiot advisor) until April.

But I digress... I predominantly use my laptop, as it's more comfortable to sit on our couch, as well as I can put my leg up easier. Unfortunately, though, I have only basic programmes on here-- no graphics editors. Both Photoshop and PSP are on the bedroom computer, which is in stasis right now, and Steven's computer. (Yes, we have three computers. We're not total geeks. The laptop was a school requirement, the bedroom computer was mine, and Steven's is a hand me down.)

This has kept me from working much on the new layout for the massive DevilGrrl update I want to do. I have Photoshop and PSP back ups on CD somewhere, but I can't find them in the jumble of crap in our room. Hence, things are going nowhere.

So tonight, I was lurking around nakedgirlparts  and I noticed a lot of people talking about something called GIMP. Evidently, it was a GNU graphics programme, which I believe is related to or in cahoots with Mozilla, whose Firefox/Thunderbird programmes I use. I figured I could always delete it if I didn't like it.

Well, I'm glad I did! It's a little different than Photoshop, but very close. I just started playing around with it tonight, but it's great, especially since it's FREE! If you're short a graphics editor or just plain broke, you should totally check it out.

Bleh, I didn't mean for this to be so rambly, but my painkiller has kicked in. In fact, I think I am off to bed now so I can be dry oiled before I go to sleep.