Resolutions

HOUSEHOLD:
- renovate kitchen
- finish bathroom renovations
- get chimney fixed
- paint house
- throw house "rewarming" party

PERSONAL/HEALTH
- ( TMI )

- start regular exercise
- start cooking 80% of own meals
(the hope is that this will cumulatively also turn into weight loss)

CRAFTS
- knit 4-6 washcloths for Mother (unless asked to stop) Finished 4, now working on hats and scarves for friend with cancer
-- Broken Rib 2 x 2
-- Broken Rib Ticking Stripe
-- rib and garter pattern
-- garter
- Therapy project: Who'd Want Me for a Flatmate scarf
- knit 3 scarves for SOS (probably all in eyelet lace with moses lace edging)
- complete current knitted throw (mitered squares in Remix's brown tone range)
- find a Sherlock team and join Ravelympics; project TBD
- preemie caps?


OTHER
( classes )

- 12 clinic shifts (4)
- load "cook nook"
- cancel Discover card (paid off and replaced)
- learn to roast chicken and perfect 3x stuffing recipes (one bread, one cornbread, one rice, optional 1 fruit)

ACCOMPLISHED DURING MONTH:
Jan:
-- Wrote essay for Robert Smith?'s next anthology
Feb:
-- Got first dentist appointment in 15+ years
-- Signed contract for complete chimney relining
-- Learned Russian castoff
-- Paid off Discover
Mar:
-- Attended Philadelphia International Flower Show
-- replaced Discover
-- started estate notebook for self and parents
-- went back to dentist for first time in over a decade
-- attended Rally for Reason (atheist rally)
Apr:
-- began new contract
-- chose housepainter
-- peer edits, 2 Racism and Doctor Who essays
-- edit, Greatest Show in the Galaxy essay
-- perfected stock recipe
-- attended Malice Domestic con
May:
-- attended Sheep & Wool Festival
-- modified Watson (Flatmate) scarf pattern for mock cables
-- learned mock cables
-- decided on new kitchen appliances
-- entered "lemons and landmarks" tribute
-- created official "wine cellar" in hallway
-- determined window treatments (actual work to be done later in year)
-- signed up house painters/had house done
-- researched the kinds of countertop I can afford
-- bought/had refrigerator installed
June:
-- Precious Metal Clay class

Randomly liveblogging the Jubilee

I may be an unrepentant American, but I'm just riveted to the Jubilee on BBCA.

ETA: WTF is that on Kate's head? Honey, don't take hat advice from the in-laws.

Can anyone explain the train? Wouldn't have been hilarious if it was the Hogwarts Express?

Hello, John Barrowman!

The Gloriana is STUNNING! Oh, how beautiful. The whole river pageant is amazing, but that craft is just lovely. I hope they give a lot of air time to the Dunkirk boats. I assume they'll be towards the end (based on where we put the Pearl Harbor survivors in the local 4th of July parade.)

GIVE THE DUNKIRK LITTLE SHIPS MORE THAN .7 SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME!!! They've more than earned it.

I am more than amused that there's a floating "flaggin' wagon." Of course you need one, anything asking for that much manpower needs to have something to help people who tire, but that anyone is *discussing* it makes me giggle more than it ought.

Loving the National Theatre salute.

Outsourcing medical question to LJ

Last night, I went to grab something leaning against a doorframe and ended up with a massive splinter under my fingernail. I mean, like a quarter of an inch long and a full millimeter or more thick. I pulled out what I could get, but instead of sliding back out in one piece, the outside portion broke off and then shattered into several pieces.

Further attempts to get the remaining chunk out failed, so I drove to the ER, where I was seen a lot faster than I had a right to expect for something that stupidly small. (Note: I was still there, from walk-in to walk-out, something like 3 hours. I had a book.) I think I got bumped up a tad because I was quiet and apologetic and not howling about how THIS WAS THE WORST PAIN EVER AUUUUGGGGHHHH!

Not that it was pleasant then. Or now.

But! ( Cut for icky-ness )

Any words of wisdom?

On a side note, I note that in these anti-vaccination days, they've lumped two of the kiddie vacs into the tetanus shot because adults can't rely on herd immunity anymore.

"I shall look at everything with my special subtitled gaze"

To make up for grossing everyone out earlier: That Russian Sherlock Holmes parody that Gatiss tweeted (Sherlockology mirror). You've probably seen a dozen links already; it's spreading like wildfire and rightly so. Canonical, BBC, and Ritchie Holmes walk into a crime scene...