Monthly Archives: March 2004

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ice cream making joy

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so my [url=http://www.villaware.com/product_view.asp?itemid=97]ice cream maker[/url] came in the mail today. it wasn’t exactly what i expected, but maybe i was expecting too much. i thought that the ice cream maker would also refrigerate the contents of the mixer, but such is not the case. you still have to pre-refrigerate the main canister. so basically, all this does is replace the hand crank with an electric motor. still, not bad, though.

i have the waffle maker of this brand and it is VERY cool. it has a timer and buzzer to tell you when the waffle is ready. i’m hoping that the results from this ice cream maker will be just as good.

i put the main canister in the freezer and tomorrow i’m going to go and buy the ingredients for my first batch of ice cream. i wonder what i shall make. hmmmm. i don’t think that i’ll play it safe and start with vanilla. it’ll have to be something a little more spicy.

cookies and cream?

chocolate?

mint chip?

it’s too hard to decide!

general ramblings

monday volleyball

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my monday team won the championships last night. i went to cheer them on for a little bit and they looked like they were doing well. i’ve been sort of avoiding the volleyball courts lately on account of my injury. just watching other people play makes me sad because i can’t play.

i’m happy for the team who finally won the championships, but i’m sad that i wasn’t there during playoffs to be a part of it. it seems that i’m going to get a shirt, but it just doesn’t mean as much to me. it just makes me all sorts of sad.

well, hopefully i’ll get better by next season and we’ll be able to win the season over.

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today's new thing

sad

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Mad World

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces

Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression

Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow

And I find I kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very, very
Mad world
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday

And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me

Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very, very
Mad world
Mad world

Enlarging your world
Mad world


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photographic

strike a pose

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i do not enjoy being in pictures. well, it isn’t that i don’t enjoy being in pictures, but i get rather self-conscious if i’m asked to pose for pictures. which is sort of odd because i ask other people to pose for me ALL THE TIME. not that anyone does pose for me, but still, i do ask all the time without thinking twice about the hypocrisy of it all.

i do enjoy taking pictures, being in them…well, not so much. odd, isn’t it?

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insecurity bourne out of love

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it’s a touchy subject, but it’s also something that i feel strongly about. when it comes to relationships, i don’t think that there is room for insecurity anywhere. i’ve been the victim of insecurity’s fierce grasp and it only made a bad situation worse.

what i did hear recently was that the only reason someone reacts with such insecurity is because they really have deep-rooted feelings for them. now, i can see how the depth of your insecurity can be fueled by how much you care for someone and you are afraid of losing that person, but i do not think that it justifies acting on your insecurities.

one of the problems with jealousy, for example, is that you may have these feelings of jealousy for no good reason. there may not be a valid reason at all why you may have these feelings, yet they are there. this does not excuse you from acting out on these feelings and lashing out on others. even if you feel that they are bourne out of love, it doesn’t mean that there will be an equal, understanding reaction to them.

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dreaming of an ice cream treat

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in the past, my family had an ice cream maker and we tried to make ice cream with it. it wasn’t a very pretty experience, the ice cream was mostly slushy and it never really hardened. i’ve always wanted to make ice cream, but never knew what the secret was. i’m hoping that when my ice cream maker comes, it will be easy to use and it will make the kind of ice cream that i want.

i’ve already dreamed up of a bunch of flavors i’d like to try. cookies and cream, green tea, fanta orange, chocolate chip….mmmmm. the maker i ordered makes 1 quart worth of ice cream. not enough for big parties, but enough for a few servings.

i just hope that this ice cream maker doesn’t become one of those kitchen appliances that i use once and never use again. that would be rather sad.

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general ramblings

can’t let it go to waste

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i’m not sure where it is that i picked it up from, but somewhere, somehow, sometime ago, this spirit of not wasting food was instilled in me. i don’t know why that was the case. growing up, i was never really faced with the problem of wasting food because we never really had food leftover. we always had enough food to eat, but never really too much to waste. we just happened to eat it all up.

latetly, though, i feel compelled to finish whatever food i make or whatever food i have in front of me because otherwise it would be a waste. and i don’t know why i’m so adverse to having leftovers. i think a large part of it comes from the fact that i’m lazy and i don’t want to carry the leftovers with me…plus, leftovers never really taste better than the first serving.

i wonder why it is that i just can’t let it go to waste.

the other day, we were having ice cream cake and ann was about to throw away some ice cream cake because she couldn’t finish it. i yelped for the cake and quickly took it up before it could be thrown away and finished the last bit of it. i mean, come on, it’s ICE CREAM CAKE. you can’t throw that away!

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squabble, squabble

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i’ve heard before that it is the tendency of women to squabble about petty things and get bitchy more easily than men do. i’ve heard before that a group of women have a higher tendency to get catty, whereas a group of guys wouldn’t.

i think it was [url=http://www.track15.com/]dardy[/url] who said that girls in groups will get catty and start fighting amongst themselves. i guess it really depends on what kind of girls are involved. but today i witnessed such a squabble and it was pretty frightening.

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today's new thing

amazon nickels

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i haven’t seen them in a while, so i’m guessing that amazon has stopped their amazon nickels promotion, but it was good while it lasted. i only had $2.50 worth of nickels saved up, but i finally got around to using it today. what did i get?

i finally broke down and ordered the [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001BXCFS/qid=1078505803//ref=pd_ka_2/102-1653407-0976909?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846]creative labs muvo 4GB player[/url]. though amazon says that you can preorder it, it looks like they are actually shipping them out. I told myself that if i find it again for $200, i’d grab one and rip it apart for the hitachi microdrive. what i can’t figure out is how hitachi wants to sell this drive for $500 retail, yet devices that use this drive are much, much less. this must mean that hitachi is giving these manufacturers a huge price discount. i just don’t see why.

from what i hear, the apple ipod mini also uses the 4GB microdrive, but i haven’t heard too much about people hacking the ipod mini yet. there are rumors that hitachi turned off CF support or something which makes it useless for digital camera users.

i also ordered an ice cream maker. why? i don’t really know. it was cheap! it looks neat! i’ve always wanted to make ice cream. we’ll see if this will live up to all of the hype.

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big bug, minor fix

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man…i just spent what felt like an hour, but was really closer to 10 minutes trying to figure out why my application was behaving in a certain way. the answer seemed obvious. i thought it should be an easy fix. but then it got more complicated. i couldn’t figure it out and i was getting increasingly frustrated. i nearly lost it and admitted defeat, but finally i figured it out and it all made sense.

no more mystery about why my program was behaving oddly. no, there weren’t gremlins sneaking around in my computer making it act funny. no, there wasn’t some kind of mystical magic that took over my code and made it do things i didn’t ask it to do. no, there was an answer and it feels really good to have figured it out, yo.

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