Our land lord bought us a brand new dish washer this weekend! The guys from Sears came over and installed it yesterday.
I took some before pics of our old machine but they seem to have disappeared from the camera 
This is a shot mid-removal.
And here are a few shots after it was installed. Oh look the dogs have made cameo appearances in the shots. I’m sure we’re all shocked.
Abe
What a wonderful (though hot) weekend. Friday night felt like another whole day. We went shopping for the last few items for the HSKS5 thang. I also got the yarn I need to make the Dream Swatch Head Wrap (down on the left) for the KAL (Knit A-Long) that the Hufflepuffs started. I have not been added to the list of participants, though, so I don’t know if they are still working on it or if I sent my email to the wrong person or what… Acorn Street Shop did not have any variegated bamboo yarn, so I got two colors of yarn and will switch EOR (every other row) or so. Oddly enough, the two colors I liked the most were basically Ravenclaw colors. I think it will be really pretty.
Also this weekend, we had a GREAT time at Allison’s going away party. Hung out at the park with le Poops for a while eating really greasy hot dogs (well, part of one until it made me sick) and talking with everyone. Le Poops were really happy, though too hot. Jim gave Nisa a watermelon rind and I had to struggle for a minute or so trying to pry her jaw open to get it from her so she wouldn’t release some fowl liquid all over the car. That morning we had given the dogs a bath and vacuumed the car. Too much dog hair. It was finally starting to get to me. Nisa has been shedding like crazy because the Addison’s was making all her hair fall out and we have to wait until her next hair cycle for it to stop. She she about a puppy’s worth of hair when we gave her a bath.
Also on Saturday morning, we went to Get Smart. Very funny. There were a couple scenes where we were all laughing so hard (the two of us the the 2 or so strangers that were there too) that no one could breathe. And I LOVE Dwayne Johnson. That is all I have to say about that. It is not particular to the movie, but I wanted to point it out for Abe again. Hehe.
Then on Sunday we went to the Lake Forest Park Farmer’s Market with Abe’s mom and it turned out to be just that. They only sold veggies and the like. And since it was only 11 and already so hot out that I stopped at every vendor just to get out of the sun, we promptly went home. Well, we stopped at Michael’s so I could buy another tatting shuttle since I lost one somewhere in the apartment, but they no longer carry them. All I can say is “What kind of Bull Crap is that!” They had tatting thread and no shuttles. And no green tissue paper. Granted, neither did Fred Meyer’s. But then we went home and I melted on the couch, watched a disc of ER and finished the shrug from the pattern I got at Spin A Yarn in Edmonds on the LYS Tour. It looked weird open loose, so I closed it in front with a saftey pin and it looks really nice. Busty, but nice. I am glad I chose these colors and not some crazy bright pink colorway. Though I did get to see some of the new Noro sock yarn color ways at Acorn Street and there is a beautiful green, blue, and black one that I am dying for. I think there is a little purple too, so I bet it is gorgeous. Can’t wait to figure out what I would like to make with that.
And now I have started Bad Juju. It is a small knit voodoo doll. I am going to pin him to the side of my cubicle through the neck with a long T pin. I think it will be adorable. And maybe it will get QA to shut up. Hehe. Then I am going to make a shrunken head. Also for my cubicle. I think I will hang it like I did the snitch I made.
The bad news though. Isaac can’t make it the weekend of the 4th for Harry Potter weekend. So he is trying to get the next weekend off to come down instead. If he can, we will be going to a dyeing class at my oh so favorite yarn shop Acorn Street on Sunday. Or just buying the dyeing kits and dyeing it in my kitchen. I am sure Abe would love that. But the class is a bit pricey and I have to have $175 to buy a kit to make the Imogen sweater for the August Olympic Knitting Trials. This kit, but I have not decided on a color. Maybe the Hercules or Merlin or Origin colorway. I am thinking Hercules. I want something kind of colorful, but not bright. Or Victoria for something less colorful but will still show the stripies.
Yep it’s tuesday. Not a lot happening. I did a bunch of laundry today. And I washed the dishes.
Nisa is returning to her normal self as she starts to feel better. In fact I think she has been feeling crappy for a while because she seems like a different dog in a lot of ways. She’s making different facial expressions and her ears are pointing out at the top rather than straight up. She’s also only peeing like three or four times a day which is TOTALLY awesome. I was getting tired of running up and down the stairs 15 times a day.
Jeez, I probably need to start some kind of exercise now that I’m off the Nisa’s bladder plan.
I don’t have my grades yet but I’m sure that I did very well.
I’ve been playing eq2 lately and I really enjoy it for the most part but it seems like there are fewer people playing it now than I’ve ever seen. Most nights on my server there are only 10-20 people playing that are in the 20-30 level range. I haven’t been able to get a group together for anything at all since I came back two weeks ago. It’s pretty depressing.
I am also getting original EQ for free until august and I started playing that last night. It was amazing how many people were running around in tha game in the lowbie areas let alone how many were talking in chat. I saw more players in 30 minutes in EQ than I’ve seen in the last week in EQ2. That’s just sad.
I’m downloading the 14 day free trial of Dark Age of Camelot because I suspect that I’m just burned out on Norrath. Basically I just need a change of environment. I can’t afford to buy the game if I do like it though. Ah being poor blows.
I was going to say something about Blooms Day but I don’t really have anything. I’ve started to read Ulysses three or four times and I’ve never made it more than about half way through. I really like Joyce’s earlier writing, in Dubliners especially, but Ulysses and Finnegans Wake pretty much just leave me cold.
I much prefer Celine to Joyce. He writes about retards and whores. My kind of guy. Except for the whole Nazi collaboration thing.
Abe
Our dog Nisa has been sort of sickly for the past while. She’s had bouts of vomiting and has been drinking extreme amounts of water and has had problems with having accidents in the house. Over the weekend she seemed to be getting a lot worse. I was taking her out to pee every 45 minutes and she was drinking truly huge amounts of water. On Sunday night we noticed her shaking. On Monday morning she was shaking even worse.
So I called the vet and made an appointment for her. After x-rays, blood work and a urine culture the vet came to the conclusion that the blood test might indicate Addison’s Disease and so we gave him the go-ahead to do a test on her that would confirm his suspicions. So yesterday we got confirmation that she does have Addison’s and I took her for her first shot. For the rest of her life she needs one of these shots every 25 days.
She seems to be feeling better now but she’s mostly sleeping. She was wagging her tail this morning though. And she had enough energy to chase the birds too.
On a lighter note, June 10 was my half birthday and Angela made me an awesome card.
My piano final is tomorrow. Then I’m done with school until the fall. I’m going to miss my classes though.
No lolcats today. Instead here are some pictures of Nisa that I took a few days ago.
And this is whats she’s spent most of the day doing today.
Abe
So for the last few days Nisa hasn’t been eating much of her food, she’s been shaking a lot and she’s had to go out for bathroom breaks like every 90 minutes. Yesterday it got so bad that I took her to the vet. After an hour and some pretty expensive tests we really don’t know what’s wrong with her. They took some blood and urine samples and the vet is calling me back today to tell me if there were any bacteria in her urine.
The vet gave her a prescription of pain drugs and antibiotics. So she’s doped up.
He’s worried that she might have diabetes insipidus. But he was careful to warn us that at this point it could be any number of things.
Finals week is this week. I have my theory final tomorrow and my piano final on Friday.
Angela and I played EQ2 together last weekend for the first time in a few months. We had SO much fun. We have very similar play styles and enjoy the same parts of the game so we really have a blast when we play together. We made new characters. I made an Ogre inquisitor named Dennika and she made an Iksar necromancer named Stierska.
I’m doing something different with Dennika. One of my goals is to make as much of her gear myself as I can. Right now she’s a level 21 weaponsmith and is only a level 13 adventurer. I’m also trying to do as many quests as I can and to that end I’ve turned off combat experience so she only gains experience points from turning in quests and discovery of new areas.
I’m really enjoying playing this way. Dennika has some totally awesome gear and has almost as many AA points as she has adventure levels. She looks awesome too 
Angela gave me the rare ingredient that I used to make the armor pieces.
And her’s a lolcats for you. This one made me laugh out loud.
more cat pictures
I found audibles.com a while ago and have been meaning to write about it. I was hoping for Edgar Allen Poe by Vincent Price, but I didn’t see any. I am really excited to pick something out though because you can listen to a sample of I think everything before you get it. Which is really important in case the reader is a heavy breather or something else that is like nails on a chalk board.
I also just found this ring from the Naughty Secretary’s Club and I need it. Adorable. I also saw the horsey-poo ring, and I couldn’t see the picture, so I thought it was a ring with what looked like horse poo, but lo, it is not. I also saw these cute hair clips and since I can’t afford to go to the salon, my hair will be growing. Probably until October when I have to finish paying off for the Fall Fiber Arts Retreat. So I will be needing things to hold my hair out of my face. I am this close to cutting my bangs myself though. I really like my bangs. I think they look awesome with pigtails and whatnot.
I am working from home today and tomorrow because I am still recuperating from getting my wisdom teeth out and it is just too noisy at work. Plus I can work from my couch and not holding my head up on my own seems to lessen the pain. Love the laptop. Though for some reason my power cord doesn’t work any more so I have to use Abe’s. I guess it is a good thing we have the same laptop.
Oh, and Abe has been really nice while I have been getting my wisdom teeth out. Buying schtuff and bringing me water and letting me lay on the couch instead of falling all over the apartment. My wisdom teeth must have weighed a lot because I had no sense of balance for a few days there. Haha. We watched most of season 2 of SG1. All of Season 1 and 2.0 of (the new) Battelstar Galactica. Which I really like and Abe is starting to really like. I never saw the old one. I also watched a disc of Boston Legal, season 2, which is awesome because it has James Spader and William Shatner. It doesn’t even need to be good for me to like it because they are so awesome, but fortunately it is great. I also watched a double sided disc of ER, season 1. And slept a lot. I knit a hat Thursday after getting my teeth out for the Dueling Club at HSKS5, but I lost. I got my duel partner’s hat on Saturday. Quick Mail. I also knit a thing for my spoilee at HSKS5. I tatted something for her. And I have done nothing for the required items yet. Well, I bought supplies. The rest is easy. I can’t find the email that said what she wanted, though. blerg. I also finished knitting a shrug that unfortunately doesn’t fit. And a hair thing out of silk from one of the one skein patterns from the LYS Tour - Destination Yarn! I accomplished alot for not being able to even sit up for longer than a couple hours.
And the fluid story for my mom, I ate a bunch of ice cream on Thursday and have of it dripped from my bottom lip to my sweater shirt. It was loverly. I also drooled a lot and it took me a few days to figure out how to squirt my mouth with the syringe thing without it dripping all over my hands and arms. But I stopped using gauze by dinnertime on Thursday. And as of a few days ago I don’t think I can eat another liquid meal ever. I am so sick of soup. And juice. Not ice cream though. Never ice cream.
(That would be Anita, the Angela side)! Excited to have snow so close to your birthday? (Oh yeah, over last weekend it was like a blizzard just north of where we live.)
Today is my mom’s birthday so I thought I would share a fond memories of her. It is short and it isn’t of a specific time. But when Isaac and I were little, she would make us lunches. She was a school bus driver at the time (though now she is a graphic designer). She would put our lunches in brown paper bags. Which sounds really boring. But she made it awesome by drawing a picture on each of our bags. And she draws the cutest ugly stuff you will ever see. Gnarly pigs that you just want to cuddle with and what not. My friends even started to ask to see the picture each day. I wish I had kept them so I could show you an example. They were truly awesome. Later she drew a cresent moon for me that is now a tattoo on my left shoulder. It could not be a more perfect tattoo for me. What should my next one be? *wink*
So anyways, thanks, mom. Keep up the good work and keep trying to publish the children’s picture book. I just know that it will become somekids’ favorite book from childhood. And I hope you like your cardigan.
P.S. Mom, if you look in the category section to the right, you will see that ‘fluid’ is now a category. There are none in there yet, but I made it just for you…
