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General ramblings connected to my personal life and activities.

Woozles Sound Chewy

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“Ooohhh…too. Much. Pizza,” Prairie mock-whined as she cuddled up next to me in bed.

“Oh?”

“I’m stuffed. Big lump of pizza in my tummy.”

“Ah. Yes.” I nodded. “Pizzalump. Kind of like a Heffalump, only more edible.”

Prairie giggled. “Heffalumps aren’t edible?”

“Nope.”

“Who says?”

“The Heffalumps, of course!”

“Of course!”

“Woozles might not agree, but then, you can’t take a Woozle’s word for it, now can you?”

By this point, we both had a serious case of the giggles, and conversation stopped for a few moments. Then Prairie mumbled something.

“What?”

“Woozles sound chewy.”

“Chewy?” I started laughing again.

“Well, they do. Say it: ‘_Wooooo_zles…'” And then she was giggling too hard to go on.

“I should make that the tagline for my site,” I laughed. “‘Woozles Sound Chewy.'” I mimed a baffled shrug. “See how long it takes for someone to e-mail me asking what that means. Then I’ll just e-mail back, ‘Well, they do. Say it!'”

And again with the laughing too hard to talk.

So — Woozles sound chewy, and now Prairie wants a Heffalump (rather than a Pizzalump) for dinner sometime next week.

Anyone have any recipes?

iTunes “Sad Cowboy Song (Live)” by Red Elvises from the album Your Favorite Band (1999, 6:24).

On trying tapioca

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That was seriously one of the strangest things I’ve ever had in my mouth.

— Prairie, after I convinced her to try tapioca pudding.

She wasn’t impressed. Actually, she didn’t even get through more than two tiny little bites (she says they were spoonfulls, but she barely dented the top of the pudding cup).

Admittedly, it probably didn’t help that part of why she’d never had tapioca before was because her mom detests it, and would involuntarily shudder every time it was mentioned. And, my comparing it to frogs eggs, or holding up a spoon full, looking at it, and commenting that, “It’s like it’s looking at you, with lots of tiny little eyes,” likely wasn’t much in the way of constructive encouragement.

So no more tapioca for Prairie. That’s alright — it’s all the more for me (which in itself is more than a little odd, as I’m pretty picky about what I eat, and texture is an important part of why I like or dislike something, and as Prairie pointed out, from everything she’s seen me enjoy or turn my nose up at, I should be entirely squicked out by tapioca, and yet, I’m rather fond of it…we figure it’s because I’m a boy, and it’s a good “gross out food”).

iTunes “Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)” by Renegade Soundwave from the album In to the Mix (1994, 7:51).

Meez

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Check out this user's profile at Meez.com

Cute, huh? It’s from Meez, yet another in the “create a cute little avatar” series of sites that pop up from time to time. There’s a longer animation loop (see under the jump) where I actually take pictures, which gave Prairie some good giggles because she can peek up the kilt. Heh. Oops. :)

In other news:

  • Xebeth‘s visit was a blast. Much fun watching the Pride Parade (and many pictures taken…I’ve finally gotten through them all and have a huge photoset up on Flickr) on Sunday, and being touristy at the Underground Tour on Monday.

  • Work’s been rather insane lately — lots of drama, much of which I shouldn’t really get into publicly (and, truth to tell, much of which I just plain don’t really know), but which resulted in our store being temporarily manager-less. Everyone’s getting a few more hours, since we’re one person short, and we’re taking turns being “manager” for the day (taking seniority to the extreme — whoever on shift has been working the most consecutive days is “manager”). It’s been…interesting.

  • Prairie and I went out to see the fireworks at Gas Works Park on Tuesday. Nice day relaxing in the sun, then things went all esplodey in the evening. Not a bad day.

  • We’re planning a trip down to meet Xebeth in Vegas in early August. This’ll be my first time in Vegas. Should be fun — we’ll be staying at the Stratosphere, seeing a show, and whatever else Xebeth (who has spent far more time in Vegas than either Prairie or I) has planned for us.

And…that’s the basics so far. Busy busy days for me!

Update: I snagged the full Meez avatar animation loop, complete with under-the-kilt views. Woo!

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In brief…

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Another quick update:

  • Prairie’s back — yay! She came back Friday afternoon. Had a very good trip, took a bunch of pictures, and had a lot of fun.

  • Kevin stopped by on Friday as well, hanging out for a few hours before heading over to visit a friend.

  • Prairie and I are about to head out to the airport to pick Xebeth up, then drive downtown, see what we can find for parking, and enjoy the Pride parade.

Busy busy busy. Fun…but pretty non-stop. More eventually!

Bachelor Week So Far…

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  • Saturday:

    Got up at 3am to take Prairie to the airport. Came home, crashed, slept for a couple hours, then went to work. Insanely busy work day as all the procrastinators came through to find a suitably techy toy for the men in their life for Father’s Day. Came home, called Prairie and chatted, changed, went off to The Vogue for bouncing. Much fun bouncing around and flirting outrageously with friends. Closed out the club, came home, crashed.

  • Sunday:

    Work. Insanely busy again, as people brought the men in their life in to choose their own suitably techy toy. Came home, called Prairie and chatted, changed, went off to The Vogue for bouncing. Again. More fun bouncing around and flirting outrageously with friends. Closed out the club, came home, crashed (I haven’t closed out the club two nights in a row in a really long time…and wow, was I feeling it…).

  • Monday:

    No work! Puttered around the house in the morning. Postponed a photoshoot with Danielle (xementio) due to outfits still being in the laundry. Instead, we went wandering around Carkeek Park. Came home, called Prairie and chatted. Watched The Chronicles of Riddick. Not bad, though somewhat odd. While Pitch Black was a fun sci-fi/horror romp (essentially an Alien clone with Vin Diesel instead of Sigourney Weaver, TCoR — technically a sequel — feels very much like it was originally written as a 80’s-style fantasy flick (I found parts of it reminiscent of Krull) and retrofitted to include the character of Riddick. Entertaining enough, though, and while I’m not sure why Dame Judi Dench was slumming it in this film, it was fun to see her.

  • Tuesday:

    Work. Slower day, not terribly notable. Came home, dinked around on the ‘puter ’til Prairie called (as she and her dad are now working their way from Palm Springs, CA back to Seattle, I don’t have a number to call them at), then dinked around on the ‘puter more until…well, until now. Will be crashing soon.

Coming up over the next few days (in theory, at least)…

  • Wednesday:

    Work.

  • Thursday:

    No work! House cleaning and puttering in the morning. I need to see if I can find a way to rig up some form of backdrop to use for the photoshoot with Danielle, which should be happening Thursday afternoon. This will be an interesting experiment, as I’ve never done any sort of posed, modeling style work, and she’s never done any posing. We’ll both be improvising as we go. First improvisation is the aforementioned backdrop — since I’ve never done anything like this, I don’t have any sort of pseudo-studio, and the only backdrops are whatever happens to be in my apartment. We’ll see how this goes.

  • Friday:

    No work! Probably more housecleaning and puttering in the morning, since I’m a procrastinator. My brother will be in town in the afternoon on his way up to a party with a friend, as he’s in bachelor mode for a few days while Emily heads back East to visit family. Loose plans to hang out for the afternoon/evening. Possibly head out to The Vogue after hanging out with Kevin, as this will be my last day of bachelorhood.

  • Saturday:

    Work. Prairie and her father should appear at some point during the day. Evening will be spent here at home, doing cute couple-y things like cuddling.

  • Sunday:

    No work! Xebeth arrives in the morning to visit for a few days. Current tentative plans include the Pride Parade in the late morning/afternoon…all else is pretty much up in the air, to be improvised as we go.

  • Monday:

    No work! Entertaining Xebeth.

  • Tuesday:

    Xebeth leaves early in the morning, then I go to work. From here on out, life should be returning to some semblance of normality.

Whew! Thank goodness summer is here so we can spend some time kicking back and relaxing! ;)

Bachelor Week

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I’m a bachelor for the next week! I just dropped Prairie off at the airport, sending her down to Palm Springs, CA to visit her dad. They’ll be spending a few days there closing up her grandparents’ winter home, then driving back up the coast, and she should be back next Saturday at some point.

I’ve got a few days of work, and a few days off. Rumor has it that my brother may be stopping by on Friday at some point, other than that, things are pretty much unscheduled. Knowing me, that means I’ll probably be spending a lot of free time at the keyboard here catching up on some projects. I do have a few ‘boy movies’ lined up from Netflix that Prairie had no interest in seeing (or even being around for) — Catwoman (“Worst. Movie. EVAR.”, according to Prairie), The School of Rock, and The Chronicles of Riddick.

And now, back to bed for a few hours sleep before I have to drag myself into work.

iTunes “Embraceable You (From the musical “Girl Crazy”)” by Finck, David/Previn, André from the album Panorama: George Gershwin (1998, 4:57).

2nd Quarter done!

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The last quiz in my music class was last week; the last test in my math class was this morning. As of now, I’m done with my second quarter of college, and it’s officially summertime! :)

Official grades won’t be posted for a bit, but I’m quite sure of an A in my music class, and either a high B or (possibly) low A in math. Go me!

Two quarters of good grades in a row. Quite the change from my high school career.

iTunes “Eclecticism” by DJ Wüdi from the album Difficult Listening Hour (2002, 1:17:32).