What Entertains Me

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Shopping for Furniture in Second Life

It's happened...I've found a Second Life partner, significant other, boyfriend...what have you. :) He's asked me to live with him in this amazing Greek-style open house on an island, and he's asked me to help find some furniture for it. Says a woman's perspective is almost always better, haha! Anyway, shopping for home furniture in Second Life is rather challenging, because you can't exactly measure it like you can in real life. What looks great in the showroom might be too big for the place you've got.

The Neverending Search for Quality Pet Food

My poor kitty, Valencia, has feline IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). I've narrowed it down to a grain allergy she has. She cannot tolerate any grain whatsoever...or any dry cat food, even the ones that say they have no grain in them. It's all very frustrating. I'm always on the lookout for a pet supplies place that carries Natural Balance wet food, which she absolutely loves. My local pet food place is going to be discontinuing it, so I'll have to order it online (or from them...but I have no idea for how much).

All This Exercise Is Making Me Hungry!

Seriously...ever since I started back at the gym, I'm soooo hungry! Guess now I might need to find something to control my appetite, as I am trying to lose weight...which is hard when you can't seem to get enough to eat. Read about Tenuate, which is supposed to be an appetite suppressant. But usually with me...appetite suppressants either make me MORE hungry, or make me very jittery. So, I try to stay away from them. But this is ridiculous. I ate breakfast at 7:30 this morning, and I was hungry before I got to work at 9! Ugh. Not fair. Hope this one works!

Internet Censorship

My company has started blocking certain websites using Websense. It's rather annoying, really...as I usually like to surf during lunch and read some of my favorite blogs. One of them is tagged as "adult content" which sleighs me. Next thing you know, they'll be bringing in a telecom consulting firm. I dunno. I can see the need to band some websites...but really, an entertainment blog? That's all it is. At least they haven't banned blogs alltogether...not yet anyway. Guess I'll be doing mobile blogging if they start that.

Slave to Beauty

Every morning, I have to "put on my face" before going out into the world. That is, I have to put on makeup, lest I appear a bit pasty and ill. Last time I forgot to put on mascara, people kept asking me if I felt ok. Sorry, can't help having blonde eyelashes, folks! My bathroom mirror has nice, bright lights above it...but what I really need are some makeup mirrors with lights on the side. Sometimes, I just can't see everything I need to see in my current mirror. I only see it when I look in a mirror in broad daylight. That's always fun to find out something doesn't look as good as it did when you put it on, just due to bad lighting. Oh well.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

My Father, The Antique Collector

Since I mentioned my dad in my last post...I just had to bring up the fact that he's bought even more antique stuff, mostly silver. It's truly astonishing the amount of silver, china, and crystal the man owns. But, he collects it...so more power to him! I'd rather him collect stuff like this than have a ton of grandfather clocks, all going off at the same time (the two smaller ones he has are bad enough). It's just going to be very interesting...and very time consuming...when it's his time to go to the life of the world to come. I mean, my brother and I will keep some of it...but since it's not my thing, I can't see keeping all of it. Anything that has sentimental value or a family heirloom will definitely be kept, but if it doesn't...it'll get sold. Hate to do that, but since I'm not a collector of stuff like this (and neither is my brother), it's what will probably happen. Oh well, c'est la vie!

My Dad the Card Shark

My dad loves to play bridge, so it's a good thing there's a bridge club at his condo complex. Every now and then, he hosts the weekly event, which of course requires folding tables galore since this bridge club is actually quite large. He's always worried if he'll have enough chairs to go with it, not to mention enough food (although that's rarely a problem, since he makes enough to feed 50, it seems). What I love about his playing bridge is...he's terrible at math, yet he has this sort of sixth sense about bridge. He just knows what to bid, and usually comes in first or second with his partner. I've never played him for that reason...no sense in causing a family feud over a card game, haha (we're both rather competitive, in case you were wondering). Think he's not playing this Friday, due to it being Good Friday...and my brother going in for yet another lithotripsy for yet another kidney stone. But I'm sure he'll be back at it next weekend.