monumental post! [24 Dec 2009|11:00am] maladroital YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. I woke up hungry. Breakfast time. --> Happy Holidays 10pm edit Is it weird to acknowledge that a younger cousin (5 or 6 years) grew up to be cuter then I thought he would? Ah well. He seemed nice enough, and aloof like the rest of us late teens/early 20s/mid 20s folks. MY COUSIN (YES THAT ONE) IS SUCH A DOOFUS and talked to me for 2 minutes tops, like usual. Christmas is normal. The one picture I want to post to sum up the night has Mike in it, and he hates when I post pictures that feature him, so I guess I'll pass on it this time. My godfather/uncle called me his "little gothling" because my fingernails are painted black and I wore my fingerless (Freddy Freeloader!) gloves most of the night. Ohhh family. 1 comment|post comment

and some light for the day! (for me, at least) [22 Dec 2009|09:57pm] maladroital LOOK AT ME AND MY FAMILY. I am the cute wittle blondie and this is the 80s so forgive my mom of her choice of hair and shoulder pads. Also, I am basically my dad but look at my mom! I came from that tan pretty woman. I really am half puerto rican. And it's weird to think back but before we were teens me and my sister we pretty close. Now? HAHA. We get along, but nothing like the innocent kiddy love from back then. (When I look at these I'm really wondering how I will look when I'm eventually 40lbs lighter, especially in the face. Since I've more or less not grown out of that goofy face~) post comment

great feelings [22 Dec 2009|07:16pm] maladroital how great does it make me feel that my grandmother wants to give up on life when i'm the one that gets to stay home and make sure she gets whatever she wants, does whatever she needs to do. great bonding time. great. i can't imagine how hard it must be for her, being totally independent before the stroke and then becoming 80% dependent on the people around her. i think the thing that frustrates her, and us, the most is the lack of speech. it's like learning a whole new language for us, and her stubborn/impatient personality makes it really hard for both parties to reach amicable conclusions most of the time. today i can't get her to eat. at all. yeah. i feel great! if you ever have a loved one go through a serious stroke, don't give up on them. it's heart-breaking to see the family around me write my grandmother off as an invalid. it makes me feel like the effort this house is putting forth to get her back to being herself is a total waste of time. there are the days like today where she feels she can't be strong, and these are the days that we have to pick up the slack and be strong for her. it's hard. i have this fear that once she's gone we'll start getting comments like "well, now life can go back to normal!" from people. that's bullshit. this is a rather life changing experience. i've learned to appreciate my mobility, speech and independence a lot more then I did before. 1 comment|post comment

Snarf [21 Dec 2009|12:05pm] maladroital [ mood | awake ] Next time I make these I'm going to stray away from the garter stitch and try something new. I'm not a fan of how the stitch looks, though its simplicity makes it okay to do, especially after some of my other failed attempts. It's my default-I-can-do-no-wrong stitch, and it's the easiest (for me) to add increases to. But this is why I need to learn more techniques, like intarsia. (I'm afraid, very afraid.) As a giant fan of color blocking and other things, intarsia is my only hope to make what I really want to make, especially when it comes to making the Soul Reaver Cowl Mike requested. (Because we both like Raziel a lot. A LOT.) (Spike avoided getting eaten by the snake by calling to the giant hand to put him on his perch underneath the computer monitor. All is well in Desk-topia.) 60 inches from tip of tail to tip of head, 4 inches wide. Not sure who this is going to, I don't want to keep it. Selling or giving it away. Photos are not great. Ah well. post comment

AVATAR [20 Dec 2009|12:06pm] maladroital THREE HOURS OF GIANT BLUE KITTIES ACTUALLY--Loved the scenery, CG was spot on, the Pandora environment (the living creatures, plants, etc) was actually really, really neat and well-developed in my mind. It's worth seeing in 3D (and keep the glasses, stupid ticket prices). Some things about the story were pretty predictable, but in the end that was okay. A giant twist wouldn't have fit in with the feel of the movie. There was ~love~ and adventure and a little bit of sad and a lot of bio-luminescent plants which I liked looking at. There are times the movie tried really, really hard to emotionally manipulate you into hating a character. I hate that. I was kind of worried that I would be seeing a movie that was going to be overly preachy about a few different subjects, but it's more or less making the military and corporations look like assholes. Mike and Justin had to convince me to see it in the first place, and I'm glad they did. I guess time will tell if James Cameron's Avatar is the ~AMAZING MASTERPIECE~ reviewers think it is. It's an amazing movie, but masterpiece? Hmm. I dunno. post comment

More cookies! [17 Dec 2009|08:10pm] maladroital [ mood | indifferent ] Snickerdoodles. Dootily dootily doot. This time for family, and a couple of friends. With more cinnamon than before because it smells good and I went overboard when I rolled the dough in it. 5 comments|post comment

All my energy [14 Dec 2009|08:21pm] maladroital All my energy goes into searching for game and movie news for 8dag, and I still don't post everything I want to post... I get to livejournal and I am tired and no longer want to type. As it is my eyes are closed and and my chin is resting on top of this diet green tea bottle. The season finale of Dexter is haunting me. I loved it in ways I can love no other show. My heart was actually beating a little faster than normal when I watched it and realized what was probably happening. MICHAEL C. HALL, THIS IS WHAT YOU DO TO ME. And also, that's a credit to all of the writers and other actors. All in all I made 3 dozen chocolate chip cookies, 3 dozen snickerdoodles and 2 dozen sugar free chocolate chip cookies. Mike took them all! I didn't get any photos. The snickerdoodles were very pretty though, in that covered-in-cinnamon way, and they tasted good. I really want to scrape all of the letters and symbols off of my keyboard. I want to see if it will help me remember where the keys are better and type faster. I type 80 or so wpm as it is, but my accuracy can be really crappy if I'm not careful. And I want to type faster! Maybe that triple digit WPM will be the thing I need to make me stand out from the others when I apply for jobs as a glorified typist slash organizer. AND I AM SO EXCITED FOR BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM 2 AND PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE FORGOTTEN SANDS AND A COUPLE OTHER THINGS I AM PROBABLY FORGETTING. In closing, I am really sad Dollhouse is ending the way it is because if the show would have performed like it is now it could have at least a four season run. (I keep noticing all these misplaced modifiers in my sentences yet I do not go back to correct them.) 2 comments|post comment

DEXTER [14 Dec 2009|11:29am] maladroital [ mood | satisfied ] WHAT THE WHY I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING SEASON 4 YOU WERE SUCH A COCKTEASE AND THEN YOU GAVE ME THAT ENDING I AM FEELING SATISFIED time for pancakes. (but unfortunately now that nice scene in the middle makes total sense as a closure moment.) post comment

cookies [13 Dec 2009|09:20pm] maladroital 3 dozen chocolate chip, nestle tollhouse style. (thin and crispy.) 2 dozen sugar free chocolate chip. (splenda style.) none of the stores had s.f. chocolate chips so I had to buy some s.f. hersheys chocolate bars and chop them into chunks. ended up with a little over a cup, so the cookies aren't very chocolaty. working on 3 dozen (plus) snickerdoodles. the dough is made and chilling until tomorrow. i'll roll them into balls and coat them with sugar and cinnamon tomorrow. i'm not used to working with shortening, but i did it anyway! and i might even try to make a shortening/butter pie crust with the rest of the jar. i'm also not used to creaming butter. i prefer melting it, as I'm a little lazy. but the fluffy dough was fun to spoon and throw onto the cookie sheets. no pictures. and i found out one of my aperture science coffee mugs has a chip in it. now i'm going to have to order a replacement one whenever i eventually move out. which will probably be never, at this rate. post comment

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