Say a prayer but let the good times roll

Writer's Block: B.Y.O.B. Holidays

2011-12-13T18:19:48Z

There's Yule, obviously, because helloooo, pagan! And then Christmas, because I'm surrounded by Christians. We go to Katie's mom's house on Christmas Eve and then do our presents to each other either at midnight or on Christmas morning, depending when we get back from her mom's house.

Oh, and does my birthday count as a December holiday...?

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-09-09T20:43:00

2008-09-10T00:43:51Z

Emily Okada talks too much and Katie and I missed part one of our bus journey. Now we're trying not to miss part two of it. And my girlfriend is being distracted by bunnies. We're never going to get home.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-09-07T20:25:00

2008-09-08T00:25:51Z

So, this is a test of my new phone. Which is a Sidekick, by the way. I'm wretchedly excited about it, as I have told chat and Katie repeatedly. I'm already getting pretty fast at typing on it too! Oh, and we have internet again finally but Katie's computer doesn't like it. Also, we're supposed to talk to the landlord about it because it's not working perfectly yet and it's their fault.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-09-01T22:47:00

2008-09-02T02:48:30Z

My yuppie is pasted on, yay.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-08-31T19:40:00

2008-08-31T23:41:10Z

Stop burning bridges and drive off of them
So I can forget about you.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-08-19T20:33:00

2008-08-20T00:37:19Z

Katie and I are in our apartment. Had nice but unhelpful interview with the bank today. Am looking forward to Mr. Copy tomorrow as long as the pay is liveable. They already know my name there, which is weird (I guess I'm the only one who was supposed to call today?).

Our real internet doesn't get installed or whatever until Wednesday. I'm on someone's slightly faily internet that keeps going in and out so I won't be mooching too much.

I guess that's all I have to say. Hopefully I will have a job tomorrow.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-08-08T16:57:00

2008-08-08T21:59:02Z

So, some of my sims 2 characters are corrupt and I don't know which ones because I can't get the game to load. I'm backing up what I can and uninstalling the game now, so any of you who were watching for Sims updates don't expect anything for a loooooong while.

Picture Spam

2008-08-07T05:23:02Z

So, I have temporarily inherited some 50's/60's dresses. They belonged to Katie's grandma and I'm her size and ... yeah. So, pleh: picture spam.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-08-05T17:20:00

2008-08-05T22:21:31Z

So I think I'm done. I can't handle having to be nice and friendly with everyone all the time and never being able to tell people what I really think, or have an argument with people.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-07-11T06:25:00

2008-07-11T11:27:04Z

Why did this show just become "Whoo yay America?" stupid Vietnam-error BULLSHIT. ( Dragnet. stupid bloody Dragnet.)

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-07-10T05:34:00

2008-07-10T10:35:17Z

I might kill my psuedo-beta before I get through editing this book.

That is all.

Meme stolen from ... all the sporkers?

2008-06-27T20:48:51Z

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I never did read the 7th, but I'm counting this anyway. I went to the 7th book release and everything!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
~~6 The Bible~~
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I wish there was a way to underline more)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read a lot of them, but not quite all...)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
~~33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis~~
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
~~36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis~~ (Isn't this kind of redundant with 33?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Hate so much hate)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Once again, redundant!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</div>

This thing lies.

2008-06-25T00:27:13Z

Your Birth Month is December

You love life and exude an outgoing, cheerful vibe.

Blessed with a great sense of humor, you can laugh at adversity.

Your soul reflects: Celebration, success, and wealth

Your gemstone: Blue Topaz

Your flower: Narcissus

Your colors: Indigo, green, and blue-green

What Does Your Birth Month Mean?

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-06-06T05:06:00

2008-06-06T10:08:36Z

Oh, love

Yet another Umbrella cover, this one by Manic Street Preachers

Not embedding because I don't like embedding. Also, it's just audio, even though it's on YouTube.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-06-05T05:27:00

2008-06-05T10:28:09Z

Wow. I just realized how callous I am.

Huh.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-06-01T01:20:00

2008-06-01T06:21:48Z

We are stuck at Tony's and Tonya's. Katie's mom called and told us we couldn't leave because there was a storm on the way.

Win, y/mfy?

Sims Update 5/29 - 5/30

2008-05-30T07:45:05Z

Today in the Sims I played roughly 2 seasons with Dustin and his new girlfriend Kimberly. She's a dancer, and he's in the military. They both keep getting ridiculous amounts of promotions because the game is set up for much faster play.

I sent them downtown to get engaged about halfway through spring, but my game crashed before they got back home. I'll probably try again on Saturday. (Not later today/Friday, though. I'm going to St. Louis.)

(The real mystery will be trying to figure out why the game keeps treating Dustin like a teenager. He can't initiate sex, or a proposal. Probably one of my hacks. I'll have to play around.)

Only 2 or three more families to go before I can get back to playing more interesting people.

I really need to make an "add pictures" tag so that when I'm finally ready to properly go through my Sims screenshots, I can fix these dull posts.

(Oh, and for those of you wondering why I'm suddenly playing again so much, the reasons are these: the game crashes less often since I reinstalled, and I'm using it was a reward for writing.)

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-29T16:38:00

2008-05-29T21:42:01Z

So, I just locked myself out of my online payment account for one of my loans. I won't be able to get a new password for, like, a week. I would call right now and do the payment that way, but they're in Louisville which is in EASTERN TIME and thusly they have been closed for an hour. I'm not entirely sure I'll have time to do it tomorrow, what with the driving to St. Louis, but maybe I can do it on Katie's cell phone while I'm in the car.

*makes sure to copy down all the information they could possibly ask for.*

I don't think a check would get there in time. Yes, it's Louisville, but ... well, I don't trust them to process it in time.

Sims 2

2008-05-29T07:20:29Z

So, after many weeks and even more game crashes, I have finally brought Daniel (danielefton) through his first year in the Sims.

He's got a steady boyfriend (Greg Baena, a Townie), a business (Used & New Cars), and a semi-crappy apartment that he's more than ready to move out of. I am still mourning the fact that you can't purchase a second home in PleasantView - only the actual vacation areas. I wanted him to buy an empty lot and start building on it.

There may be pictures later but right now, I am lazy.

I don't really know why my game is crashing so much, but so far it's been behaving tonight - I think I played for something like two hours, and I'm going to play some more once I quit babbling, and figure out who I'm supposed to be playing next.

...And the answer to that is "I don't know" because I can't find my notebook in the dark. I'll just have to guess.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-26T21:22:00

2008-05-27T02:24:05Z

So, there are two hacks in my Sims game I can't live without. One of them finally updated after 3 months ... so if you don't see me, I'll be catching up on my game.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-24T01:35:00

2008-05-24T06:36:15Z

Apparently? What brownies have been missing all my life is ICING (frosting?)!

Also, I am getting cupcake underwear for my half-birthday!

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-23T01:41:00

2008-05-23T06:46:27Z

I just read 46.5K in an hour and 45 minutes. I was not aware that was possible. That's 442 words a minute.

*boggles a bit*

Laura you have to read it: Take a Sad Song And Make It Better by femmequixotic It's Harry/Draco and Epilogue compatible.

ATTN: Heather, Kate, and other Sporkers.

2008-05-22T19:12:51Z

My leaving the Spork Room (in a posting capacity anyway - I'll still probably check the threads now and again) last night had very little to do with KD. Though she made me frustrated - mostly because everything I ever learned in Sociology told me she was wrong and she kept throwing out red herrings and non-sequiters everywhere - it was mostly just a catalyst for me doing something I've been intending to do for a while. I've been pretty darn active on the site for 6-7 months or so, but the last month (or more), every time I log in, or go on chatzy, someone does something or says something to set me off, to the point my girlfriend had noticed.

I'm not going to name names, because that won't help. It's nothing they can really change anyway. And it's not KD, for sure. She's usually the sanest one there (for certain values of sane, anyway).

I guess I didn't make it clear enough that it wasn't really the argument with KD that caused this, and I'm sorry for that.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-22T00:42:00

2008-05-22T05:49:57Z

*runs around in circles trying to work off nervous energy*

OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO SO SO RETARDED.

Also, my juvenile delinquency class is rearing its oh-so-ugly head.

ktprincesswitch @ 2008-05-20T17:35:00

2008-05-20T22:38:17Z

I wanted to show you all this:

Katie's mom made it, and it's called "Faire Hair." It's made of nifty types of yarn. (I have a lot of eyelash yarn in mine, as you can see.)