ugh....

Whenever I stay up too late I always get a sleep deprivation hangover the next day. I was up until 4am, then went to breakfast at 9, then sleept from around noon until 3pm, and I still feel like ass. and I still have some work to do. :( Hoefully tomorrow i'll feel ok for a long drive to go visit my parnents for the holidays.

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone's having a good wind-down towards Christmas or whatever your holiday of choice is. I went caroling with some coworkers through the hallways today, it was lots of fun. One of our member sdidn't join us b/c she's Jewish I think unfortunately, but I'm an atheist and the songs don't bother me, they're fun music. :)

not much to say, just wanted to let y'all know I'm still alive. If you need something to do, click on the links elsewhere on this page, or check out my other blogs on blogger, Zandperl's Fancies which is about my craftsy side, and Modern Science which is science-y. This's my lazy blog. :-P

new blogger

I'm not too happy with the new Beta Blogger thing. When I'm surfing websites via Blog Explosion and I go to comment, the new Blogger closes the frame that BE puts it in, so I don't get the credit for visiting if I want to comment. :(

So if you're here and you use Blogger, switch back to the old format, or you won't get any traffic from traffic sharing sites.

Just when you thunk you seed it all...

Man I'm tired. I just had a few drinks with friendly coworkers. It's a fun crowd, and we managed o not let the organizer pay, she always tries to steal the check from the rest of us.

NYC bans trans fat

Trans fat is artificially made, and NYC restuarants now have until sometime in 2008 to stop using them for frying foods and such. Wow. At first I thought they were banning all fat in food, which would be impossible... They also said that if a resturaunt's gonna show any ingredient info, they have to do ALL, and right on the menu, which some are worried will make them do none instead.

For more of these science-y things, go to my other blog Modern Science.

bird

I want to adopt a second bird. Gabe gets lonely, and he likes the budgies (parakeets) that my neighbor next door owns. I also want a second bird for myself, as I want someone more playful than he is. I'm moving next summer I think, so this gives me plenty of time to start looking at bird rescues. there's not that many, or that much choice, around where i live though, so I may just end up buying from a pet store - I'd rather not buy from a chain like PetCo, as they tend to come from massive breeders which don't always take the best care fo their birds, but I can check out small local pet stores, and also breeders.

scarves

today I got a bunch of Christmas-y gift bags for 50¢ each at AC Moore crafts, and a package of 100 sheets of tissue paper for something like five or six bucks. I'm going to make a few more scarves and stick them in these bags. I'm thinking of hopping back over to the fabric store tomorrow to get more colors of fleece. We'll see. I should do work too, maybe I'll do scarves and errands tomorrow, and working Sunday.

Scarves

Earlier this week I went to a fabrics store and bought some fleece and some remnants. The fleece will make warm scarves, the remnants will make fancy scarves. I figured out how to use my sewing machine, and I can now hem up the edges, and I'm planning to give them to friends as gifts. However, I'll have plenty of fabric left over and want to see about selling more scarves, like thru eBay or something. Anyone have much luck selling things?