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Monday, July 6th, 2009
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6:16 pm - Caution: Words Ahead!
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Lots of things are happening at the moment. Both good and bad, some are even neutral! Maybe I should break this down into chapters...
1. Luke's Birthday
2. Family Stuff
3. Work Stuff
4. Holy crap I have to email someone!
1. Luke's birthday was fun. I ran a GURPs game for him. It was just a dungeon crawl but it was a lot of fun to run. Luke could only get his present if they got to the end though so I had to take out a bunch of levels and rooms. Apparently it didn't seem too rushed, so that's a good thing. I'll know for next time.
2. My family is filled with apprehension at the moment. A few weeks ago my grandma was diagnosed with early stage dementia which was recently ammended to late stage. She's declining quite rapidly. This was followed by my great aunt announcing that she's had leukemia for four years and only has a few weeks tops left to live. She too is declining rapidly. My grandpa is distraught obviously because both his wife and sister look like they'll not be around too much longer. He had to get my dad to teach him how to make a sandwich because my grandma keeps forgetting to both cook and eat and my grandfather practically never stepped into a kitchen. Certainly not to cook!
My parents, older sister and nieces went to see them yesterday because we rarely do and we wanted to get some of the family tree stuff from my grandma while she remembered some of it. It ended up being "here, take this. We'll be dead soon anyway." and another family history lesson. It's a good thing my family is full of interesting people who did both great and scandalous things.
Naturally it ended up being a day that left my older sister angry and me feeling very uncomfortable as my grandfather kept proclaiming how "Kimberly must have inherited all the brains!" "Come and see where you get your brains from. Leave Rebecca to look at the jewelry." and so on. Of course, they came from his side. Naturally...More specifically, they came from the sole German four generations prior to him because the seven english ancestors at that point "never did much worth mentioning".
Don't get my wrong, I love my family history, but I've never liked my grandfather and how much of a dick he is, and how blatant he is about it too. He actually turned to my sister and said "You probably wouldn't understand all this, you missed out on the brains. That's why you didn't go to uni." She didn't go to uni because her interests lie elsewhere, specifically with her family whom she has raised wonderfully given the circumstances. But no, apparently it's me that should breed to keep the brains going. At least he softened after he had heart surgery...he used to be so much worse. He actually has a photo of me wrapped around the Magna Carta because apparently I "represent it's greatness". I'm a "product" of it.
I like to think I'm a product of my parents slightly odd parenting abilities honestly.
I like compliments obviously, but when they're made as a comparison and used to hurt others I really don't want to hear it. My sister was so upset. To make matters worse they're apparently using me as an excuse to convince my great aunt to keep her english porcelin collection in the family...
Yay, I'm an excuse. I hope Rebecca never finds that one out.
So I was proudly handed the portrait of the sole German ancestor (which I like), given a convict brick (because I'm the only one smart enough to appreciate it), and a box full of old porcelin dolls. I have hundreds of so-old-they're-almost-dust photos to scan in before giving them to my parents for storage.
Sigh...The coming weeks are going to be interesting. I'm keeping my phone on my desk at work and expecting calls at any point.
3. My boss was made redundant suddenly, which is sad because he's such a nice dude. So my contract is a bit up in the air. It was supposed to end in march originally then got extended to june then to september but I'm not sure if they'll decide to cut it short or not. I'm looking for something else anyway incase. Also I have my internship coming up so that's going to make things weird for a few weeks.
4. Done.
Blargh....
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(4 cake pleases | Cake or Death? )
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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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10:08 pm
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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6:49 pm - This looks awesome
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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10:51 pm
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I got home and opened the door only to come face to face with a giant inflatable penguin wearing a combination of my and Luke's winter clothing. He is very tall. He also makes certain people jump when they see him which is pretty funny. I have to admit to doing so too...
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(3 cake pleases | Cake or Death? )
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7:08 am
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Dear Luke,
Happy Birthday! I love you very much and hope you have a great day.
I can't wait to get home to see you tonight. It's the best part of my day.
Love Kimberly
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(1 cake please | Cake or Death? )
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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9:10 pm - Fish Print Canvas
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Fish Print Canvas by *kimichan on deviantART
The fish print on a canvas. The green is way off, it's actually a bright grass green rather than that minty nonsense in the photo. I'll take a better shot when it's bright outside (har har) and remove this one then.
The print didn't transfer very well on this one because the lino hadn't been flattened properly first so it moved a bit when I was rollering it. Luke likes it though XD I'm considering doing the border in orange too looking at it now...
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(1 cake please | Cake or Death? )
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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3:30 pm
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Why do I continue to get myself so excited about things that have a distinct possibility of not happening? Hopefully it will happen. Stranger things have.
I'm talking about the osteology field school at flinders. I just wish they had some kind of table laying out all the info about how much each course was worth in comparison to other unis. It would be helpful.
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(1 cake please | Cake or Death? )
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3:02 pm - Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill in a vampire movie. I may yet turn religious.
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1:02 pm
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Also, three cheers for UNESCO. Their funding for the underwater archeaology museum in Alexandria is off to a flying start. This makes me happy in my core being.
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(Cake or Death? )
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1:00 pm
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Last night was awesome. I've missed hanging out with friends. I really want to see the rest of The Spirit because it started off fantastically. There needs to be more appreciation for Frank Miller's humour as it seems to be left out of his other movie adaptions for the most part.
"Toilet's are always funny."
I'm looking forward to next weekend so much. I'm running my first GURPs game for Luke so hopefully it'll be fun. I'd have fun if I were playing it XD The plans, they are big, my friends. Way huge.
Speaking of which, I should start writing stuff up for it.
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(3 cake pleases | Cake or Death? )
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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8:02 pm
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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3:43 pm - All four
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3:38 pm - Fish Print
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1:27 pm - I love the feeling of achievement in the morning
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...okay, afternoon. But it feels good at any time of the day.
I got my Japanese art exam result back last night and then my two essays arrived today. I got a 92 for the exam and the essays were 89 and 83. I'm happy with that. Hopefully that means my overall mark will be good.
Just waiting on my European essay results now.
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(4 cake pleases | Cake or Death? )
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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5:55 pm
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I'd like to watch some documentaries. Must see if my dad has any recommendations.
I've had a really good weekend. It was refreshing after the hell that was friday at work.
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(1 cake please | Cake or Death? )
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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11:49 pm
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So it's uni break but since I'm still working it doesn't feel like much of a break. I have two days off mid week and so many things I want to use them for but I still have to maintain crappy (ie, not condusive to my kind of life) sleeping habits for work. I have enough trouble sleeping as it is but night time is when I feel the most energetic and creative. I kind of feel like I'm some chick and time is one of those novelty water snakes. Or perhaps a lubed up bar of wet soap (extra slippery!).
And there's so very many things that I want to do. I just never have the motivation to start because I know I'll have to stop again soon.
I need to fix a dress so it's not just a dust collector but the event I was fixing it for I might not get to go to now anyway so I'm kind of unenthused about that. I have a whole bunch of block print designs that I want to do too but unlike my first one they won't just be an experiment and will require actual skill so I'm too nervous to start.
I'm not relishing the idea of taking all my library books back either, that'll be heavy.
I can't seem to turn my brain off lately. If I'm not thinking about archaeological theories it's art, and if I'm not thinking about art it's writing, and if not that then travelling, and if not that then memories of travelling, and if not that then it's back to archaeology. I just want to write and explore and learn and, above all, share what I know. My brain refuses to let me go to sleep because it's too busy thinking about all the wonderful things I could be doing instead. The biggest problem, aside from wanting to do a bajillion things right now is that for most of them I don't even know where to begin.
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(1 cake please | Cake or Death? )
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| Monday, June 15th, 2009
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5:57 pm
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In other news, last night I watched Bones for the first time cause my brother keeps raving about it. I think they knew I was coming. It was about a nerd convention and it had Kynt and Vixen in it as background characters. I love those guys. I now wish to watch more, anyone have season one?
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(13 cake pleases | Cake or Death? )
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5:54 pm
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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12:35 pm
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1:50 am
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I love Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so much. I need the Mutt Mighty Mugg...Indy needs more represent, yo.
Had some really good games of L4D lately. Nothing quite like shooting zombies to relieve uni/work stress.
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(Cake or Death? )
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