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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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11:34 pm - C25k Week 2
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Week two playlist:
Flirtin' With Disaster-Molly Hatchet
Swordfish-The Dead Milkmen
Wild and Untamed Thing-Gametime
Punk-Gorillaz
B.Bumble/Nut Rocker-B. Bumble and The Stingers
American Waste-Black Flag
La Bamba-Ritchie Valens
Sunday Bloody Sunday-Richard Cheese
California Sun-The Ramones
This Can't Be Love-Rosemary Clooney
Little Darlin'-The Diamonds
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?-The Beatles
Clint Eastwood-Gorrilaz
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| Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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8:06 pm - Writer's Block: Repeat After Me...
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Hahaha, this amuses me because no one can pronounce my name, no one. So Hallace. It looks like Wallace with an H, but sounds like Alice with an H. Hollis is also a man's name. I get phone calls all of the time for Mr. Hollis, people misread the H as a W. I even had a Discover card for a while made out to Wallace. But Hallie, that's where it gets hairy. I have known people for fifteen years, since freshmen year high school, and they still say Hailey, like the Parenttrap broad. It's Hallie, pronounced like the comet, yeah, that's right, Sir Edmund Halley pronounced his name like that Monster's Ball broad Halle Berry. It's just the uninformed ignorant public whom refuses to learn that insists on calling the comet the Parenttrap lady name. I will only excuse the masses who call me Holly like the Hobbie girl if their native language is not American as we have the harshest way of shouting out the a's on occassion. The Brit's might speak English but they do not belch out the letter a quite like we do, and the belch is how I like my name. I always remind people, pretend you are throwing up while you say Hallie and it will come out just fine. And once you've mastered Hallie a little logic might prevail and you may figure out how to say Hallace as well. Hmmm, I guess I could just tell people it rhymes with Malice!!
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| Sunday, December 9th, 2007
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10:25 am - Temptations
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I just want to knit. I find this law project to be a painful taker-awayer of my knitting time. I see what ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fstrpussycat has been up to and I get insanely sad because I want to put on some boots and hike down the hill and fondle her felting while chatting up hat patterns. Instead I am here in Equitable Conversion hell. At least I know it'll be over soon, if I finish the project or not! I guess that means I should go finish the project...so I can work on exciting projects, like hats and slippers and stuffed animals and the like.
Sigh.
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| Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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8:34 pm - Christmas Knitting
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Gah! I am broke and have soooo much yarn that when we one day move will become a huge pain in the tushy (I am suddenly imagining insulating the attic with some pull down stairs (even though that will require much remodeling) and then having a crafting attic! maybe I should focus on the faucets all working and the crap cleaned out first :( )
sooo, I will knit everyone gifts for the holidays. I have a month and zero time and so what have I decided to do? Embark on new knitting techniques. This is slightly laughable that I even think this is possible. The fact that I almost broke my hand at work and keep cutting the crap out of myself is not helping either.
I think as soon as this lame semester with professor Munster and instructor Dipwad is over I will be harassing knitting friend to motivate me to knit like I've never knit before! I see it now, "Hi, this is Hallie *cough* I can't come into work today *sniffle sniffle wheeze* because I'm sooo very very sick" clank clank clank "that noise? No, that wasn't a stack of knitting needles dropping! You must be, ummm, crazy, yeah, that's it...gotta go bye!" Well, that might not work, but I can hope!
Fingers, don't fail me now!
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| Monday, October 15th, 2007
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2:14 pm
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These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of 10/1). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything physics
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : A Novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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| Friday, October 5th, 2007
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9:19 am - GEESE!
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I just heard the sounds of geese and looked out the window to wee a huge flock flying by in the reflection of the neighbor's window. GEESE I tell you! Do you know what this means?!? It means fall. Crisp cool clean colorful Coloradan fall has arrived. That makes me so happy. I can't think of what could really bring me down right now. I love the fall.
current mood:  calm
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| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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8:49 am - I Miss Knitting
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I never get to knit anymore it seems. As I play with ravelry today I am reminded all the more how little I have been knitting. Maybe I shouldn't use my few spare moments of the day on the computer and should go knit! I wish I didn't need to take notes in my classes and then I could knit there...or if I could knit at work, but that would probably be some sort of health violation.
I just miss knitting, that's all.
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| Saturday, September 8th, 2007
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7:16 am - Smoke on the Water
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While doing some quick calculations and trying to divide fifteen seconds after waking up, which doesn't work very well, I have determined that about 80% of the time I wake up with the opening chords of Smoke on the Water going through my head. I do not wake up to a clock radio by the way, just a lot of different buzzing and beeping and honking (I'm a hard sleeper and therefor have many alarm clocks!) Just beeping and honking and buzzing though. But almost every morning I wake up with that guitar, bah bah bah, bah bah...be bah. Well, you know. And then I realized as I lay there figuring this out that I try to label all of my photos with Smoke on the Water references.
What's wrong with me? Why am I obsessed? I do not own any Deep Purple on CD, I don't think tape, if vinyl is part of the Sally Ann stash that I still haven't worked all the way through. My dad had no Deep Purple. Why am I obsessed with this song? I couldn't even remember that it was Deep Purple until I looked it up this morning! It's like I'm receiving signals from the mothership every morning!
On that note, I will go drink coffee, and to reward you I present you a little Smoke on the Water before you return to your regular programing.
current music: Smoke on the Water
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| Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
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4:06 pm - The kitchen is out to get me
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So I have a while until a dinner date so I don't have enough time to go out and get any real work done so I do something even better and bake! Mind you, I consider myself a pretty fine cooker, but when it comes to baking...I toot my own horn, I don't care about modesty in that realm! So I pull out a new recipe, one for Green Tea Muffins. Not really thinking about the fact that the recipe says to cream the sugar and butter together, probably since I made banana bread a couple of days ago and I sift the sugar and flour together, so I dump the sugar in and start using my hand sifter. It's not as sturdy as the one my parents had for years put it has three layers of sifting goodness! And when the spring broke and snapped against my hand it hurt like hell! hmph. So I get out a sifter big soup draining metal device and dump the dry ingredients, plus sugar, into the sieve and dump some out the side...then I look at the recipe and nowhere does it say anything about the eggs called for in the ingredients! So I figured I'd improvise, and as I pulled the eggs out somehow I threw one half way across the kitchen, well, on the floor nearby at least. Too bad the recipe also didn't give me a yield. I thought it kind of looked like six, so I pull out the six cup muffin tin, well, it takes more than that! So frustrated at this point I shoved it in the six as well as three silicone cups on a tray, so they'll be really big. Whatever. They better taste damn good for all of this trouble! The way this little excursion is going I'll probably burn them while typing this rant!
Argh!
current mood:  frustrated
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| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
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12:49 pm - Timeshares
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As I sit on hold for the third time in two days I felt in necessary to say:
NEVER NEVER BUY A TIMESHARE! Argh!
Oh, and if you ever plan to be the executor of a will or anything like that you tell that close to your heart person to get rid of their damn timeshare NOW before anything ever happens to them!
Evil evil timeshares.
I hate timeshares and I hate being on hold.
*EDIT* and I REALLY hate lawyers right now too.
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| Monday, June 11th, 2007
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11:22 am - Best Birthday Gift EVER!
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So if you didn't know this about me, but, I wish it was 1985. If I could have my way it would be, minus Reagan. For my birthday Andy took me to the True Colors concert! WooHoo! Red Rocks seating has changed since last time I was there, or last time I was there I was stoned enough I don't remember it, though...last time I was there Abby and I were babysitting a couple of way hungover I don't know how to handle my booze friends. good times. I guess that alone helps one forget. So last night...The music was great and the people watching was prime. Many different groups of people came to this concert making for a wonderfully diverse group of people to watch!
My incredibly brief review:
Margaret Cho as emcee, fucking hilarious. At one point in the night some full on Cyndi and nothing else fans get all confused near us, "I don't understand why she's laying it so heavy on the penis jokes." Um, er, aside from the posters everywhere do you not note that she's also chatting with a couple of awesome drag queens as well? Two and two honey. I just wish I could remember the group the person with the blue glitter mustache said she belonged to...Denver something or rather? Mile High something or rather? Damn.
The Clicks were okay. Typical opening band, you're trying to watch while everyone around you is chatting it up...rather yelling it up. Much fun watching Maraget Cho make out with one after their set because as she said "they are all so fucking fine I'd fuck any of them. It doesn't even matter which one!"
The Dresden Dolls: YAY! Last time Andy went to one of their shows I had to work so I didn't know how great they are! Wonderful performers! The fact that Brian was sporting the Zip and Pip look though (think Freaks, the hair, the nightgown...there...you've got it) was slightly disturbing. I think what was disturbing was I was finding someone who was dressed like one of the pinheads pretty hot! Musically speaking, great! Real performance!
Debbie Harry: Sigh. Her voice was completly washed out. I've never listened to her much solo wise...obviously no Blondie songs. It wasn't impressive. Didn't make me want to go running out to buy her latest album.
Erasure: Apparently Andy and I have lived in a bubble, or so you'd think as we couldn't name a single one of their songs when we got there. Afterwards a couple had been familiar. The rest of the venue, however, I think showed up just for Erasure! It was great watching this guy dance and shake his rump and almost smack Andy in the face with it! That shouldn't amuse me, but it does! It was just weird to have all of Red Rocks jump up screaming while we're sitting there going "merph??"
and of course
CYNDI!!! Can I even tell you how much I love Cyndi Lauper?!?! Her purple hair matching her purple dress matching our purple wristbands! I was in love! She sang the Goonies song! I started crying a little I was so happy! She stopped the show in concern over a huge moth that ran in to a light and stunned itself. That in itself turned her from superstar in my book to fucking iconic awesomeness! I love her. ahhhhh. Total coolness and a birthday gift I'll never forget!
Okay the review wasn't too brief, but it's my party and I'll blab if I want to! Now to try and find the pussy song lyrics.
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| Sunday, June 10th, 2007
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2:47 pm - Notes on my wardrobe
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As I get dressed for a concert I have thrown on a purple short sleeve shirt, you know, a t-shirt that could be worn under a cardigan and pass as casual Friday wear...a pair of army green pants, five pocket style, and a pair of skecher knock-offs in tan and pink (the ones with elastic instead of shoelaces) all over some cutesy little dragon holding puffed out balloon socks. Now the problem (aside from my lack of fashion sense)? These are my former work clothes. Teachers get to dress like crap and it's okay. I don't know what I'll be in life now but it probably won't be this casual so I have to integrate and then assimilate my former work clothes into casual clothes.
To me, that's a weird concept. Oh, and I guess I should find myself some actual work clothes. If only I knew what I was going to be...
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| Monday, June 4th, 2007
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4:21 pm - Doing the Happy Making
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As per previous post I am working on finding the happy. I have found the happy in the weirdest place...pho. This wasn't just any pho, though it was an awesome way to get aquainted with the food. The pho had a food I swore I'd never eat. Tripe. Yes, stomach. And...it was good.
And now I am happy right now which is all that matters, so yes, I eat stomach and I like it.
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| Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
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10:42 pm - Goals Made vs Goals Met
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Today's goals:
laundry
grocery shopping
find a job
finish knitting presents for baby born June 1 and his sister
at least look for a job
Completion rate:
zero
Stupid LJ...I sure spent enough time screwing around over here! oh, and ummmm, I talked on the phone for a bit and felt strangely unsatisfied from talking to a friend, in fact put out and put down. Oh well. Maybe if I hadn't been playing around on livejournal the call would have been better.
And it hit me this evening. For three more days I have a temp job and then I have nothing at all...the credit card doesn't seem to think that's a good answer.
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4:47 pm - Cleaning Up
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Argh. So I never seem to post in any manner that I ever even intended to. I suppose that is because the people who were once reading the journal disappeared and then I got in such a habit of not writing anymore that when new people came along I just wasn't doing anything anymore. Well, it makes sense in my head what I'm trying to say. I realized last night why I don't do as much as I might here. I have a terrible tendency to add myself to every group I can find I think! So the goal is to delete some groups so that reading the friends page doesn't take all day! I know exactly where I'll start, goodbye teaching groups. I need a good diversion from trying to establish my place in the adult world anyways.
So I suppose what I'm saying here lj world, expect to actually hear from me on an occasional basis...I hope! Hmmm, knitting, gardening, my impending nervous breakdown...so many things to talk about!
~Hallie
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| Friday, April 13th, 2007
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10:05 pm - What I love
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I love zombies, I love knitting, I love wine, I love not working in the morning, these are things that make me happy especially when put together! Only one thing could top the moment and that would be a Sammycat or a Tabbycat on my lap as well. sigh.
Zombie brains make me smile. Zombie brains splattering while I knit baby booties makes me happy.
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| Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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6:48 pm - Amusing myself...a little
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A new fun game I've discovered. Type in random phrases, in quotes of course, into google that describe what I am thinking, what I am feeling, what my current mantra crappy or otherwise is.
Right now I apparently feel about my life what many people feel about Bush's Iraq decisions. Hmmm. Not so great!
current mood:  crappy
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| Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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11:28 am - Spring Satchel!
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5:56 am - Oana's Knit Gifts!
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| Thursday, March 1st, 2007
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9:39 pm - The Oana Project
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I'm almost finished with Oana's gift, a scarf of a super soft wool/alpaca/acrylic blend in blues, purples, and greens in a reversible stitch. I just need to weave my ends. I have been fretting over a hat or headband all day long though. I was going to jump on the Caliometry bandwagon, because it seems that every knitter under forty is being required to make it. In the end I have decided that for some reason I really don't like the pattern that much! I think in part it's because I want to keep my stitch so it will match the scarf. I'll try again in the morning. Although it's a Christmas gift I have two weeks to complete it I think. I was hoping we could get together this weekend as I wanted a shoulder to cry on, come to find she can't because she needs a shoulder to cry on, and it will be taking up this weekend. It is also about four and a half feet tall, maybe weighs ninety pounds, think "ma" on The Golden Girls, but meaner and with no English skills. Maybe I can finish the project this weekend and then convince her to just have a cup of coffee after work this coming week to get her mind off of her "stuff."
The quiviut hat? We're not friends. More on that later...I hope.
Pictures after I clean up the picture files and have a little room to upload more photos!
As a thought after reading this over, I will finish the Abby Project this weekend. It has been determined. Apparently I can only finish gifts in a timely manner if they are for babies! Well, at least one baby, as he's the only person who's gotten a timely gift from me!
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