Double Fail! (and Christmas shopping)

So, I just posted the entry I wrote while on the plane headed back to Michigan and already it's out of date and wrong besides.  I sorta forgot that I'd already posted ranting about my car getting broken into...  Anywho, Seth and Aaron picked me up from the airport and we went to lunch then they had me hang around the Novi area until Seth got out of work. So, I went to the 12 Oaks Mall and did some Christmas shopping.  I guess we're done with Seth's family (except maybe Owen) and I at least know what to get Dad now, but I feel like I'm far from done.  I still need to get Michael, Mindy, the rest of Mom's, Dad, Seth, Sra, Magz, and then I need to decide who else I can afford... I feel like those are the necessities though, as I haven't really been spending much time with any of my other friends lately :-(.  I wouldn't really know what to get any of them anyway...  <--I feel like this sounds really mean... Sorry!
But, I do have a pretty good idea of what to get for Mom, Dad, Sra, and Mindy.  I have no idea what to get for Michael... Can't decide if I should just send him a gift card via email or something or actually ship something to him.  I may or may not (she might be reading this) be sending a package anyway for Mindy's gift so that might make a difference as well...
Magz will be another difficult one...  She also may be reading this though, so I can't start rambling about possible ideas.

Unfortunately, I think I've passed the time for knitted gifts - at least any that aren't already finished... maybe a couple that are really close.
Definitely putting a hamper on any knitting is my re-addiction to The Sims 3...  I blame Sra. :-P
Haven't read any new fanfictions lately... Did start a couple new knitting projects though:

Corrie Fair Isle Vest in Blue/Green colorway
Mary's Sweater  (no pattern for this one)
Aunt Tina's coral pink hat (Done!)
String of Lights (only slightly modified; mostly finishing work left...)

No pictures of my own projects yet.  Maybe in another less-fail post. ;-)

FAIL!

I fail at blog-writing.  I always forget/put off writing anew post until updating any who may be reading these on the goings-on of my life seems too daunting of a task.  Which is why I'm writing this out on paper then I'll type it up later and post it.
Soooo... quick update:
- We went to ZapZone for Seth's b-day.
- Someone broke the passenger window out of my car and my purse was stolen; I lost all forms of ID.
- I had to fly for work from Detroit to Columbus, OH (silly trip, I know)
- A week of training in Gallipolis, OH on a new software for our company.
- Currently Dec. 16th and still almost no xmas shopping done.
-Seth did just tell me that he bought me somethign online and got expedited shipping so it would get here in time.  A small part of me hopes that it's stuff from my Knitpicks list, but a larger part of me is laughing uproariously at that small naive part.

I'm currently writing this on the plane back to Detroit, where Seth will be picking me up to go shopping. I have no idea what to get most people!  Not to mention, I did no saving up like I'd planned, so I don't even have that much to work on.

Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a ... I've been brainwashed by Ric (co-worker) not to use the D word (d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r) ... I accidentally scheduled makig Christmas cookies with Aunt Tina, Mom, and Aunt Debbie - yes, you read that right - when Seth's family christmas was already scheduled for that same day.  I guess he's going to go to his family christmas and I'm going to go to cookie baking with my family.  This will be the first christmas that I've missed since Seth and I started dating... It'll be weird.  But if I dont' got to Aunt Tina's for the cookies, it will get cancelled and likely not rescheduled... :-(

Oop! Plane just hit turbulence...weird! It's very disconcerting to look out the pane window ans se the wings wobble... and beyond that roads still look like lines on a map.

FanFic Recommendation

Oh! I forgot to recommend fanfics!  How could I forget that?

I recently discovered this video on Youtube:
Harry Potter in 99 Seconds
I am now obsessed with it.  I really want to put it on as a ring tone, but... Seth might kill me... lol
Another thing that I finally watched was the series on YouTube of A Very Potter Musical.  It's awesome, but the sequel, A Very Potter Sequel is even better, though only if you've seen the first one first.  They are quite long, just a head's up.

Also, I am just starting to read a story on fanfiction.net with an OC that could be considered borderline Mary-Sue, but I'm being forgiving because of the explanation at the bottom of the author's bio page.  Also, according to that same bio page this author has actually published books as well, which I'm considering checking out after reading her fanfiction.  The first story in the fanfiction series that I'm starting is called Krait Book 1 Slytherin's Heiress.  So far, Snape is sent to pick up and bring this 15 year old girl to Hogwart's who until now was somehow hidden from the magic sensors while she lived at her nun-run orphanage.  She's a very intelligent and unusual girl who just so happens to be Tom Riddle's daughter.  She could be considered to be Mary-Sue, because in the first few chapters it is apparent that she is going to be very powerful, she's extremely intelligent, has a wit to challenge Snape, has a head for strategy that would put Salizar, himself, to shame, and she's not bad looking either.  It's so well written though so far that I haven't given up on it when usually I would have immediately.

Okay, NOW I'll go to the Sprint store and to visit Aunt Tina...

So, I'm still not sure if I'll get any pictures into this post, but I felt like venting a bit...  Last night, we went to the new ZapZone laser tag place in Ann Arbor.  We had a blast... until we got outside to my car.  Someone smashed in my passenger window and robbed us.  Yeah.  We were even parked right in front of the building.  I was pissed.  In one sense, we were lucky, and in another sense I'm just more annoyed at the stupidity of whoever did it because the only thing stolen was my crappy old purse that was almost broken anyway and Seth's crappy old phone that he just reactivated because he needed a phone that didn't require a data plan.  Sure, my wallet was of course in my purse so I lost my ID and my debit card, but my account balance was only at $55 so I doubt they got much (I have my account set up to deny the transaction if it would go over the amount I have in the bank). Not to mention I reported it stolen immediately, though I was able to look at my online banking before they blocked the account and I found out that they had stopped at gas stations all along Carpenter and charged pre-auth's to my account.  I'm not really sure what that means...  I mean, did they get gas 4 or 5 different times? or did they try to get gas 4 or 5 different times and get denied?

Anyway, the reason why I'm so frustrated is that they had to break my window just to steal a crappy old Rant phone that might sell for $20 now and a purse that had no money in it and nothing valuable at all in it when -  get this - there was a $600 brand new phone sitting right next to the Rant and there was another purse (Sra's) that the idiot completely ignored!  Not to mention the fact that I had (uncharacteristically) left the keys under the seat and only took in the electronic lock/unlock part.  I'm glad he didn't, but he could have stolen the entire car with no problem!

To me, the moral of this story is that I need to carry purses that don't look like they're worth shit!  That's the only thing I can think of for why he broke into a car just to steal a crappy phone, which was actually in Seth's coat pocket sitting on the passenger seat and my purse, which was sitting either on the passenger seat or on top of the center console.  The purse was one of those knock-off ones that is supposed to look like some name brand.  I think I bought it at Kohl's at least 5 years ago.  I mean, what else could have possibly caused this guy to break into my car?!  It's completely ridiculous!  

All this guy did was get cops looking for him (not very hard, mind you) and cause more annoying work for me without actually succeeding in stealing anything!  The worst parts of this whole problem is that I'm going to have to pay for my window to be fixed, Seth lost all of his computer repair customers numbers, and I didn't get to go to the hospital to see Aunt Tina last night like I had been planning.  Oh, and I'm going to be finding shards of glass in my car and the coat that was in the car for months probably...  Oh, and I had to come back up here and add that my phone got wet while we were out sitting in the rain waiting for the cop to show up so now I have to go to the Sprint store and see if I can get it replaced or if I'm going to have to leave it in a bowl of rice for a night...

If you managed to read through all of that ranting, I'm surprised...  *sigh*

On to happier things that I was trying to post previously and got fed up with pictures:

This is my first completed and photographed spun yarn!  It's not perfect but that's some of its appeal. I'm attempted to knit socks out of it, but I'm not sure how that's going to turn out...  The sock pattern is this one:  Hermione's Everyday Socks

I only have about and inch of the cuff done so far and no pictures because my phone is currently broken...

This is the horrible picture I took of the kittens we got a few weeks ago.  They don't constantly hide anymore, though the black one in front - Narcissa, or Cissa or Sissy for short - still won't willingly be touched. The one in the back is Little Miss and she is super playful and will come to anyone.  Complete opposites these two sisters...  Little Miss also eats constantly and is fattening up quickly while Cissa waits for  Missy to be done eating usually leaving her with almost nothing to eat.  They play together no problem and Cissa will even play right next to us but at the first sign of us trying to touch her she sprints.  The only time we have pet her was the few times that Seth has endured the scratching to grab her from her hiding place.  And even then she'll cower for a bit and let us pet her but as soon as she finds an opening she sprints.  I really feel like when Seth catches her it's just making her not trust us that much more... *shrug*  I'm not really sure though.  She's so pretty and elegant though.  This picture does NOT do her justice.  Missy is just cute and playful, not pretty and elegant...  Obviously this picture doesn't do her justice as you can barely even see her with her head stuck in the corner like that...

Well, I'm off to the Sprint store and to see Aunt Tina.  I can't do the Secretary of State thing or call the insurance company until tomorrow morning, so after that I'm headed back home to watch some Glee with Magz and Sra. :-)

Buh Bye!!

Useless Post (Unless you're looking for a good fanfic)

Hello...

So, I was just sent a link to my new sister-in-law's blog (which is much cooler and waaay more organized than mine) and it reminded me that I have a blog too that I've been neglecting... Whoops.

I haven't posted in over a year so we can assume that a lot has changed since then. I finally finished that sweater that I was making for Sra, but it ended up being a sleeveless sweater because I realized that I wasn't following the pattern very well while making the first sleeve. Because I hadn't been following the pattern, I had no idea how I was planning on making the second sleeve the same as the first, as I couldn't remember how I made the first! Frustrating. Then to make matters worse, I lost the first sleeve and most of the yarn for the sleeves somewhere in my massive yarn stash. I just found it yesterday. ... Actually, now that I think about it. I took pictures of the finished sweater to post on here awhile ago. Where did those pictures get stored?

So, I just took about 15 minutes to try to find the pictures and fought with two different computers and my phone trying to get all my pictures transferred to the desktop computer that I'm typing on. ... Make that another 45 minutes. Waaay too much work. I'll have tons of pictures for this post though!

While I wait for the pictures to transfer, I'll drone on and on about recent fanfics. "Oh God Not Again" by Sarah1281 was the best fanfic I've read in awhile. And I found it right when I was starting to decide that there were no more decent fanfics out there. It's a parody, but it's better than almost all of the serious stories on that site. I love sarcasm. It makes me want to start reading "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Less Wrong again. That story is great too but for some reason I stopped reading it. It's not finished yet, so that may be why, but I didn't even read to the end of what has been written so far.

So much for droning on and on... The files are finally done transferring from my phone to my laptop to my desktop. Seth couldn't find the right electronic stuffs to just go straight from my phone to the desktop. Here are the pictures that will prompt my various updates:

... So after all that work to get the pictures, it's not cooperating. I'll post another day. It's already 10:30 and I have to work in the morning. Grrr...

Sorry for the complete and utter uselessness of this post...