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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Today we started pulling out Christmas decorations for our first Christmas at the HOB. The Christmas season officially starts when you see Santa at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, you know.
It's also chilly enough out that I've been knitting lately. I went a little nuts and bought myself a ball of the Misti Baby Alpaca Chunky in Peacock Melange, to match the stuff I used for my ponytail cap from last winter, and I'm making myself a scarf to match. Because I don't have enough scarves, apparently.
Why's it so much easier to knit for myself than for other people? What's that called?
Ah, yes. Greed.
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It's also chilly enough out that I've been knitting lately. I went a little nuts and bought myself a ball of the Misti Baby Alpaca Chunky in Peacock Melange, to match the stuff I used for my ponytail cap from last winter, and I'm making myself a scarf to match. Because I don't have enough scarves, apparently.
Why's it so much easier to knit for myself than for other people? What's that called?
Ah, yes. Greed.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
I saw Role Models again today. Second time in the theatre. It was even funnier the second time. Those L.A.I.R.E.* people remind me so much of my dad and his friends.
*Oh my god. It's a REAL THING?!? I just discovered that when I looked for the link above. I thought it would take me to a movie-related website... but it's real, all real...
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*Oh my god. It's a REAL THING?!? I just discovered that when I looked for the link above. I thought it would take me to a movie-related website... but it's real, all real...
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Friday, November 28, 2008
My new purse arrived. Yaaaay.
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Semi-reconciliation?
More Thanksgiving pics here.
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More Thanksgiving pics here.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Throgsgrafen, blogosphere.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
It's almost Throgsgrafen. This is the first one in years that my whole family lives in the country, and the first one in years that I'll enjoy with my entire family sitting down at the table together. (The last one was buffet-style in Japan, in 2005.)
Unfortunately, there's some personal drama going on between me and my sister, so it's also the first Thanksgiving that I'm sort of dreading.
Nevertheless, I am hungry for turkey. So I cross my fingers and hope for happy, peaceful family togetherness and yummy food at my aunt's apartment in Brooklyn Heights tomorrow.
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Unfortunately, there's some personal drama going on between me and my sister, so it's also the first Thanksgiving that I'm sort of dreading.
Nevertheless, I am hungry for turkey. So I cross my fingers and hope for happy, peaceful family togetherness and yummy food at my aunt's apartment in Brooklyn Heights tomorrow.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Happy birthday, my Cheryl!
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Putting it out there:
I have a Direct TV DVR, and a Mac. The Direct TV box has a USB slot in it.
How do I get saved digital video off of my DVR and onto my computer so I can burn DVDs of it? Anyone know? Do I need special equipment?
I'm asking you, nerds.
Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:40 PM | shower me with attention
I have a Direct TV DVR, and a Mac. The Direct TV box has a USB slot in it.
How do I get saved digital video off of my DVR and onto my computer so I can burn DVDs of it? Anyone know? Do I need special equipment?
I'm asking you, nerds.
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Obey Andre meets happy Obama graffiti in the bathroom at Boca Chica.
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Twilight is a very bad movie. Laughably bad.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
I don't mean to go so long without posting. I guess I've got very little to say. Or, rather, nothing that I have to say is appropriate for this venue.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
It's wintertime out there, you guys.
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Enjoy some new videos: Scott in a horrible mood flees to the back of the tour bus and Scott has a bad flight to St Louis!
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Monday, November 17, 2008
OMG. OMG. They wrote a Simpsons episode with all my favorite people in it: Will Shortz, Merle Reagle and Scott Thompson!
The Simpsons meets The New York Times Sunday Crossword meets The Kids in the Hall. Nerdgasm. Holy cow. This is the greatest pop culture event in Tavie history.
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The Simpsons meets The New York Times Sunday Crossword meets The Kids in the Hall. Nerdgasm. Holy cow. This is the greatest pop culture event in Tavie history.
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Speaking of the holiday season, all, I have just updated my Amazon Wish List., all 7 pages of it, re-prioritizing and deleting any obsolete items.
Every item on the list, regardless of date added, is something that I do not have and would like. Sort by priority to see what I prize most.
And if you don't care to go the Amazon route, here's an alternate list of non-Amazon items:
Create-your-own Muppet (this may be temporarily down)
Lavender apple scrub
Typographic scarf (any color, prefer lowercase)
Aimee Mann tickets
IPHONE!
Because everyone reading this is dying to buy me presents.
Also, everyone update your own wish lists! I'm feeling Christmas-y and I want to stimulate the economy.
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Every item on the list, regardless of date added, is something that I do not have and would like. Sort by priority to see what I prize most.
And if you don't care to go the Amazon route, here's an alternate list of non-Amazon items:
Because everyone reading this is dying to buy me presents.
Also, everyone update your own wish lists! I'm feeling Christmas-y and I want to stimulate the economy.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Oh, I went to a place this weekend that was like a wonderful dream. I was sleepy in the car so I wasn't sure if it was a real experience or not, but it's real: a restaurant where they give away free books.
It was insane. Delicious prime rib, and shelves and shelves of books. I went away with a full belly and an E.M. Forster.
Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:02 PM | shower me with attention
It was insane. Delicious prime rib, and shelves and shelves of books. I went away with a full belly and an E.M. Forster.
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Didn't go online all weekend, and so didn't get a chance to say online happy birthdays to Beth and Andrew. Happy belated birthday, my dears.
Today, out of nowhere, I started getting excited about Christmas. I'll kick off the holiday season by changing my faerie.
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Today, out of nowhere, I started getting excited about Christmas. I'll kick off the holiday season by changing my faerie.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
EEEERRRRIIIIINNNNNNNNN!!!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
And, courtesy @StephenFry:
November
No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
Thomas Hood
1844
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November
No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
Thomas Hood
1844
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Just when I thought there was nothing left on the internets for me, I discover Stephen Fry's Twitterfeed.
I will never go hungry.
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I will never go hungry.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Alina Foley + Jackie Chan = BFF. Adorable. (Gina won't read any links unless I post them to my blog, apparently.)
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
I pulled a muscle in my back today at BJ's, lifting kitty litter. It's the gods' way of telling me to get into shape.
The gods also say I should start drawing again, so I've started drawing again. It makes me feel peaceful.
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The gods also say I should start drawing again, so I've started drawing again. It makes me feel peaceful.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Check out this amazing photoset of the Obama family watching the election results.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
I'm going to be candid now and document the hell that this week has been for me-- completely aside from the joy and relief of that whole election thing-- in the hopes that I'll remember this in the future, and that it may help someone else.
I finally let my doctor switch me from Effexor XR to Pristiq, the new patent-extender that's supposed to be so like Effexor that you can allegedly switch straight to it without tapering off Effexor. Effexor has been targetted several class action suits because of its widely-known withdrawal severity hell. I've been on the drug for 11 years - pretty much my whole adult life- and every time I have missed or skipped a dose, symptoms have been almost immediately noticeable: dizziness/lightheadedness, nausea, mood swings, confusion, crying jags.
A couple weeks ago I complained here about my doctor pushing this Pristiq stuff on me, trying to get me to coax my health-insurance company to get it covered. I went back for my appointment with her and, tired of fighting, let her give me two months worth of free samples. Hey, the economy is bad, money is tight, if this medical professional was sure I would be fine just switching immediately from the old to the new, who was I to question her?
Dummy, dummy, dummy. Monday, my first day on Pristiq (and, more importantly, sans Effexor) wasn't so bad. A little dizzy, but not as bad as when I'd skipped a dose before. I made it through the day without too much of the wobblies.
Yesterday was worse. I felt pretty sick yesterday, lining up to vote, but I was so caught up in election fever that I chalked my insomnia from the previous night to that, and the nausea wasn't crippling or anything. Dummy, dummy, dummy.
Today I woke up like I was in hell. The room was spinning. I couldn't focus. I could walk straight if I kept my eyes and head down. I felt sick if I looked up or looked around too much. I moved slowly, deliberately, and felt ready to cry most of the day. I should've been happy today, I should've been able to enjoy the collective euphoria in the city, all around me, but instead I felt like throwing up or fainting. Since I'm in negative PTO from going to Japan and Disney World, I went to work.
Bad idea. It got worse and worse. The first thing I did at work was snap off an incredibly "tone-ish" email to my boss. Then I went into the ladies room and dry-sobbed for awhile. Then I went back to my desk and called my doctor's office. The secretary told me she would call me right back, but I had to call back twice. I spent most of the time between in the breakroom with my head in my hands, half-listening to CNN. It took almost three hours to get my doctor on the phone. I got almost no work done, and my mood swings got worse and worse. I think I hid it pretty well, but I felt like crawling under my desk or taking a cab over to St. Vincent's. Really bad.
I finally got the doctor on the phone by calling the secretary and telling her I was on my way to the pharmacy and I needed an emergency prescription or else I'd have to call her back from the emergency room. The quack then proceeded to tell me how surprised she was, how I was the first person to ever experience these symptoms, how she's never heard about this happening to anyone else before and blahblahblahblah, and could I make it over to her office? No, I could not get all the way uptown, I was entering the pharmacy right then and would wait there until the pharmacist put the pills into my hand.
Drugs are bad. Don't do drugs.
Anyway. I got the pills, they kicked in, I made it through the day, my doctor is a quack, I need a new doctor, and most importantly: if you ever take Effexor, do not let anyone try to switch you off it without tapering properly. They say Pristiq will let you do that: this is a lie. (YMMV, but this was definitely untrue for me.)
This thread has it about right, particularly post #9.
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I finally let my doctor switch me from Effexor XR to Pristiq, the new patent-extender that's supposed to be so like Effexor that you can allegedly switch straight to it without tapering off Effexor. Effexor has been targetted several class action suits because of its widely-known withdrawal severity hell. I've been on the drug for 11 years - pretty much my whole adult life- and every time I have missed or skipped a dose, symptoms have been almost immediately noticeable: dizziness/lightheadedness, nausea, mood swings, confusion, crying jags.
A couple weeks ago I complained here about my doctor pushing this Pristiq stuff on me, trying to get me to coax my health-insurance company to get it covered. I went back for my appointment with her and, tired of fighting, let her give me two months worth of free samples. Hey, the economy is bad, money is tight, if this medical professional was sure I would be fine just switching immediately from the old to the new, who was I to question her?
Dummy, dummy, dummy. Monday, my first day on Pristiq (and, more importantly, sans Effexor) wasn't so bad. A little dizzy, but not as bad as when I'd skipped a dose before. I made it through the day without too much of the wobblies.
Yesterday was worse. I felt pretty sick yesterday, lining up to vote, but I was so caught up in election fever that I chalked my insomnia from the previous night to that, and the nausea wasn't crippling or anything. Dummy, dummy, dummy.
Today I woke up like I was in hell. The room was spinning. I couldn't focus. I could walk straight if I kept my eyes and head down. I felt sick if I looked up or looked around too much. I moved slowly, deliberately, and felt ready to cry most of the day. I should've been happy today, I should've been able to enjoy the collective euphoria in the city, all around me, but instead I felt like throwing up or fainting. Since I'm in negative PTO from going to Japan and Disney World, I went to work.
Bad idea. It got worse and worse. The first thing I did at work was snap off an incredibly "tone-ish" email to my boss. Then I went into the ladies room and dry-sobbed for awhile. Then I went back to my desk and called my doctor's office. The secretary told me she would call me right back, but I had to call back twice. I spent most of the time between in the breakroom with my head in my hands, half-listening to CNN. It took almost three hours to get my doctor on the phone. I got almost no work done, and my mood swings got worse and worse. I think I hid it pretty well, but I felt like crawling under my desk or taking a cab over to St. Vincent's. Really bad.
I finally got the doctor on the phone by calling the secretary and telling her I was on my way to the pharmacy and I needed an emergency prescription or else I'd have to call her back from the emergency room. The quack then proceeded to tell me how surprised she was, how I was the first person to ever experience these symptoms, how she's never heard about this happening to anyone else before and blahblahblahblah, and could I make it over to her office? No, I could not get all the way uptown, I was entering the pharmacy right then and would wait there until the pharmacist put the pills into my hand.
Drugs are bad. Don't do drugs.
Anyway. I got the pills, they kicked in, I made it through the day, my doctor is a quack, I need a new doctor, and most importantly: if you ever take Effexor, do not let anyone try to switch you off it without tapering properly. They say Pristiq will let you do that: this is a lie. (YMMV, but this was definitely untrue for me.)
This thread has it about right, particularly post #9.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Gina and I and new neighbor Andrew went to a party at Jake-from-DFA's apartment to watch CNN and Comedy Central (and laugh at Droopy Dawg Hume and The Devil trying not to cry as they passed around their Fox News cookies.)
I almost didn't go but I'm so glad I did. It was good to be around people when it happened. It was good to feel part of a joyful collective watching as our country elects our first black president and demanding the return of brains and decency to the White House.
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I almost didn't go but I'm so glad I did. It was good to be around people when it happened. It was good to feel part of a joyful collective watching as our country elects our first black president and demanding the return of brains and decency to the White House.
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Ah, you scoffed when I said I was exercising my legal right to be paid for leaving work 2 hours early to vote! You scoffed, but I emerged victorious - when I got to my polling place, I walked right in and waited about 20 minutes to vote. When I emerged, a mere 20 minutes later, the line was out the door and down the block!
I have done my part, I have drunk my free Starbucks, and I will spend the rest of the evening tense and hopeful.
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I have done my part, I have drunk my free Starbucks, and I will spend the rest of the evening tense and hopeful.
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Monday, November 03, 2008
Halloween pictures are up. Can you guess what tasteless costume Joanna and Andrew came up with this year?
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Holy hypochondria, Batman! I've been finding lately that when I eat some fresh fruits and nuts, I get a mild but annoying allergic reaction in my mouth, nose and throat. I don't normally have trouble with fruits or nuts, so it's a perplexing problem.
The internets says: Oral allergy syndrome or OAS is an allergic reaction to certain (usually fresh) fruits, nuts, and vegetables that develops in hay fever sufferers.[1] OAS is a food allergy: the immune system mistakes the food proteins for pollen proteins and causes an allergic reaction to the food. Another term used for this syndrome is '"Pollen-Food Allergy."'.
I no can haz walnut?
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The internets says: Oral allergy syndrome or OAS is an allergic reaction to certain (usually fresh) fruits, nuts, and vegetables that develops in hay fever sufferers.[1] OAS is a food allergy: the immune system mistakes the food proteins for pollen proteins and causes an allergic reaction to the food. Another term used for this syndrome is '"Pollen-Food Allergy."'.
I no can haz walnut?
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