Well hello, those of you who are still reading. I kind disappeared there for a while, huh? I apologize, but I can’t guarentee it won’t happen again. In fact, it probably might, because… Read More
Stitch it, stitch it good!
One of the bad things about having a fairly non-anonymous blog is that I can’t share with you guys the projects I’m working on because they are gifts for people who will read the post and go, “She’s giving me THAT??”
OR they won’t read the blog at all, but I think they do and if I post and they don’t see it, it’ll be confirmation that they don’t love me. (Hmmm….who could I POSSIBLY be referring to…MOM. It’s okay. Just more reason for me to dress her up funny when she’s old and can’t fight back.)
OR, if I show you progress on something I don’t finish and then people will be all, “How did such-and-such turn out?!?” and I’ll be all, “Ummm, LOOK! A SQUIRREL!” Because I have a completion problem.
Anyway, since I can’t show you the gifts I’m currently working on, I’ll show you my Etsy Treasury list of things I PLAN on work on.
Next year.
Maybe.
Possibly the year after.
We’ll see how it goes….
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First, from katiekutthroat we have…well, I don’t need to explain my choice to you, WARREN. Read More
Birthday Wishes!!
Well, this week was a giant bag of fail in terms of posting, huh? I should work on that…or watch more Netflix and do some more cross-stitch, which is probably more likely.
However, I had to pop in today to say that Jethro turns 34 on Saturday and I want to publicly wish the happiest of birthday to the most amazing, annoying, incredible, stinky, remarkable, obnoxious and wonderful man in the world.
You are my rock and my strength; I love you, I adore you and you’re still doing the dishes tonight. (WHAT? It’s not his birthday YET.)
Also, this gives me an excuse to post THIS: Read More
DO NOT LIKE, Part duex.
1. Falling
So I did something awesome a little while back. While walking to lunch on campus, I somehow missed bringing my foot all the way up on the a curb and tripped. Now, this would have just been embarrassing if I hadn’t:
A) Been in the middle of the quad at lunch
B) Been unable to catch myself with my hands and landed on my face
C) Had my mouth open as I fell.
I got the unique opportunity to watch the ground rise up and punch me in the DAMNED FACE. I was about a foot to the right of the sidewalk so I landed on the grass, and we’d gotten some rain so that when I went teeth-first into the ground, my incisors chomped up wet grass and not concrete or bone dry dirt.
So, I walked back into my building and picked dirt out of my teeth. (Not kidding. Thank God I carry a toothbrush.) Luckily I’m not an insecure teen anymore, so I walked right back out there, past the same people who saw me fall and got my lunch. Because it was an accident, it’s not a big deal and I probably won’t even see half those people ever again. Also, nothing comes between a thick girl and her Cold Cut Combo. Read More
Sad Bastard Music: Party People!!!
Stepping away a little bit from the Sad Bastard theme, today’s installment is about party songs, those ones that when they play everyone in the party will stop and start singing, even if they are mid-sentence. Even if you don’t want to, you are COMPELLED…by the jamz.
My neck! My back! My neck and my back!!
[This post was intended for earlier today but I scheduled it wrong. Oopsy. Deal with it. I still love you.]
I have been having some hip pain; nothing serious but enough to make me walk funny, groan when I get up and down and not want to start running again. (Running and I took a break. We’re back together, but I might have damaged our relationship permanently…) I kept joking about my sciatica acting up, but the more it went on, the more I thought there actually might be some truth to that. Which pains me because sciatic nerve pain is an old people’s disease; like incontinence and needing to go to the bank three times a week.
Anyway, it was bad enough that I thought about going to the doctor. Which is not a big thing. Jethro HATES doctors, I’ll go in a heartbeat if it means that I can get fixed. However, Jethro knows a chiropractor and suggested that I go see him. Which is also not a big thing, because while he won’t go to the doctor himself, he’ll send me in a heartbeat. Usually because it means that I’ll stop hurting, stop complaining and then he can stop having to listen to me whine during Top Gear. Everybody wins!
So I went and after some x-rays, testing, twisting and pushing on some pressure points…I feel better! Not automatically better, but way better than I did two days ago. Turns out that fascia over my hip muscles was jacked up and pushing on my…yep, you got it, sciatic nerve and making me all hurty.* So he did some magic fingers thingies, ran some thumpy vibrating thing over my hip and BAM! Less whiny Lyssa. A-MAZING.
My pelvis is a little wonky, so on my visit today, he also popped the shit out of it. It felt WEIRD. I also have to go back a few times for him to keep working on it into it gets into place. Also, I’m not sure what the benefit of fixing my pelvis is, (future baby related??) because I forgot to ask, but at least my bones will be nice and tidy. I may look like hell, but my bones will be LOVELY on the inside.
Jethro considers my doctor the smartest guy he knows and my husband is not much with the compliments, so that means something. Also, chiropractic care is good for TMJ-related issues, so hopefully he’ll be able to help with that! (And yes, before the sensible folks chime in, he and my face doctor are aware I’m seeing both of them and they’re okay with it. My TMJ treatment is polyamorous…)
Anyway, the main point of this post was that I want to hear y’all’s thoughts on chiropractic care. Awesome? Bunkum? I’m in the former camp, but I wanna hear everybody’s opinions!
*Although I come across as highly intelligent, this is obviously not exactly the diagnosis that he gave me. Y’all are lucky I remembered what fascia was…
2012 Book List
I have admitted defeat. Between writing for A Practical Wedding, We Heart This, my grad school class and here (when I actually do…sorry guys…), making Christmas presents and cards and being married to the most wonderful and annoying man on the planet, I am all tapped out. Fun stuff like reading has fallen to the wayside and, oh, it breaks my heart. I DON’T WANNA DO LAUNDRY, I WANNA READ!!!!
[Note: My husband might interject here and say I don’t do laundry. Ignore him. He’s lying. And possibly drunk.]
BUT pouting is never productive, no matter how good it feels, so I’m making a plan. Of sorts. My plans tend to fall apart, but that’s okay. At least I’m making one, right? RIGHT??
Anyway, I’m making a list of books for me to read in 2012. My goal is to read 100 books next year, which given my normal reading habits is not a lot. (Seriously. It’s a problem.) I’m listing them here and I’d love to hear some suggestions on ones you think I need to add to my list, or list your own! Plus I’m using pretty pretty pictures, because I love you and want you to have something to look at. (It’s also why this post is going up on Thursday and not Wednesday like it was intended. It’s a LOT of effing formatting…see what I do for you???)
I’m also starting a discussion list on our Goodreads group, Messy Reads. Go there and add your own list; I plan on using mine to keep track and update and such. It’ll be nice to go in and strike-through the read books! (Plus, I just learned how to do that to text like two days ago. I’m an HTML idiot…)
And if you’re not a Goodreads member yet, why not? All the cool kids are…
Also, you can help me find this stupid dolphin book that has been stressing me out for months now. CHANTAL! Are you still reading? Maybe you’ll know… (Chantal was my reading buddy. We’d go to each other’s houses, sit there and read together and barely say a word. She’s awesome. Even if she did like New Kids on the Block.)
Alyssa’s 2012 To-Read List
(books marked ** are sitting on my table, staring at me and begging me to read them.) Read More
Greatest movie ever? Monster Squad.
Partially in honor of Halloween, partially because I just felt like it, Jethro and I decided to watch Monster Squad last night.
Well, I decided to watch it but since I can’t work the DVD player, I just yelled “MONSTER SQUAD!” at regular intervals until Jethro put it in. Because I’m super mature.
Monster Squad has always been one of my favorites, as it was on regular rotation on HBO when I was growing up. Sure, Goonies was cooler, but Monster Squad had MONSTERS. Monsters beat pirates any day. It’s campy, it’s cheesy, it’s full of plot holes and it’s so much damn fun.
Don’t believe me? I present my evidence. [EDITED: Spoilers abound.] Read More
Sad Bastard Music: Guilty Secrets
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m lame. Hell, I’ve built my blog around that fact. However, I do still have SOME pride…and I’m about to chip away at that useless emotion by revealing to you some of my guilty pleasure songs.
I’ll share these with you, but we must never speak of it again, okay?
All By Myself – cover by Jamie O’Neal
Dude, I just…..I don’t wanna talk about it. Moving on…
Water from the Moon – Celine Dion
I maybe might have owned all of Celine Dion’s albums (on tape) up until 1998. It’s…it is what it is, OKAY?
Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
Some people HATE this song. Kate’s soprano is a bit jarring and sharp, the song is about people who were actually kind of douchey and if you haven’t read Wuthering Heights it can make you feel stupid because the song is smarter than you.
But to a overly romantic 14 year old, this might be the most beautiful song ever. Even hearing it brings me back to sitting on my daybed, hugging my worn teddy bear and sighing about darkly handsome orphan Gypsies…
I’ll Be Over You – Toto (featuring the immutable Michael McDonald)
Everyone has a Toto song they secretly love. If you don’t you just haven’t heard it yet.
Bed of Roses – Bon Jovi
I’m not ashamed of my Bon Jovi love. I’m not. I Jumped Rope for Heart to Livin’ on a Prayer, I’ve banged on steering wheels to Shot Through the Heart and I’ve drunkenly sang Blaze of Glory in bars and shed a tear for poor Billy. But 90’s Bon Jovi…as cute as he was when he cut his hair, it’s just not cool.
But I do love this song, only because when was the last time that you woke up and french kissed the morning?
HUH?
Deep, Jon, deep.
Shadows of the Night – Pat Benatar
You can pretend like you’re not going to go home later today and play this full blast while singing into a hairbrush, but I know the truth. No, no, it’s cool. It’ll be our little secret….
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Alright, moppets. Gimme your guilty pleasure songs. Don’t leave me the only one with my slip showin’…
Share the mess…
Kind of a Mess 
Hilarity of Spam
However, I get some GREAT spam comments on occasion and if they sneak past my filter, I’ll sometimes take out the spammy links and let them stand. Which I’m sure jacks up my spam filter, throws off the algorithms and makes the world wobble on its axis, so I don’t do this all the time. But there is a treasure trove on wonderfulness in that spam filter and while I can’t let them all stand, I certainly wish I could.
I also like to imagine them as if they are regular people.
Like Tamber, who said:
November 3, 2011 at 10:34 pm
You have more useful info than the British had cloioens pre-WWII.
Honey, it’s sweet that you took time out of studying for your art history final, but based on comments like that, you’re gonna fail. Read More
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