And in Other News ...
Oct. 24th, 2010 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texchanHad friends over for dinner tonight. I tried out a new recipe for potato soup. It was potato-cheese, with two kinds of cheese, carrots, and beer. I used Gruyere cheese and a Mexican cheddar blend I happened to have in the fridge. And added Shiner Bock beer to it. Topped it off with more shredded cheese and some chives. It was surprisingly easy to make, and it ended up tasting pretty darn good. I was quite pleased, overall. And I basked in the domestic goddess vibez. =D
I was in a fairly good mood today because I won an auction last night. I think, after you've collected anime art for a while, it's easy to become sort of jaded, in a way. I'm not sure how else to explain it. You still love the things you collect -- otherwise, why spend the money on them? But you don't always (or often, even) get those happy-sqweely-butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling with regard to art. But this particular auction, which was for a small lot of sketches, had a piece in it that I wanted in the worst way. I mean ... WANTED. In that happy-sqweely-butterflies-in-the-stomach way. I can't believe I won it for the opening bid, but I'm so, so happy about it. It was enough to put me in a pretty decent mood all day. Even with the currently cruddy exchange rate. >.O
I got additional supplies last week, so I should be able to finish up the rest of my Christmas cards sometime in the coming week. This would be good, because it would mean I'm actually ahead of the game on one thing. Heh. At this point, I'll take whatever I can get.
Hubby is coming home tomorrow. He's been gone for a week, visiting with his family in Vietnam. He emailed today to say he had landed in Seoul. He had a two-hour layover there, and then he heads off for the biggest leg of the trip. Fourteen hours from Seoul to our airport. Yikes! I'll be glad to see him, though.
And I finished up the first course of my meds today. They still make me feel ucky, overall, but at least I'm (hopefully) a third of the way through. I do think things are improving, overall ... so this is a good thing. And something to feel positive about.
I was in a fairly good mood today because I won an auction last night. I think, after you've collected anime art for a while, it's easy to become sort of jaded, in a way. I'm not sure how else to explain it. You still love the things you collect -- otherwise, why spend the money on them? But you don't always (or often, even) get those happy-sqweely-butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling with regard to art. But this particular auction, which was for a small lot of sketches, had a piece in it that I wanted in the worst way. I mean ... WANTED. In that happy-sqweely-butterflies-in-the-stomach way. I can't believe I won it for the opening bid, but I'm so, so happy about it. It was enough to put me in a pretty decent mood all day. Even with the currently cruddy exchange rate. >.O
I got additional supplies last week, so I should be able to finish up the rest of my Christmas cards sometime in the coming week. This would be good, because it would mean I'm actually ahead of the game on one thing. Heh. At this point, I'll take whatever I can get.
Hubby is coming home tomorrow. He's been gone for a week, visiting with his family in Vietnam. He emailed today to say he had landed in Seoul. He had a two-hour layover there, and then he heads off for the biggest leg of the trip. Fourteen hours from Seoul to our airport. Yikes! I'll be glad to see him, though.
And I finished up the first course of my meds today. They still make me feel ucky, overall, but at least I'm (hopefully) a third of the way through. I do think things are improving, overall ... so this is a good thing. And something to feel positive about.
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Date: 2010-10-25 07:46 pm (UTC)*droolies*
Hooray for won auctions that make us squeal!!! ^O^
Congrats on winning them for opening price too!
Those are always the best kinds of wins!
Lately I've been having the squeal-then-bawl moments
w/ yhj thanks to the exchange rate. =_=
I get charged everything (including commission) in yen,
so it adds up to more than if I went w/ celga or rinkya. >,<;;;;
Hope your hubby doesn't experience too much jet lag!
Midnight munchie attacks and zonking out in the
afternoon is no fun at all.
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Date: 2010-10-25 10:05 pm (UTC)Yay for surprise and happy-sqweely auction wins. I totally hear 'ya on the whole crappy exchange rate thing. It's so freaking painful. I really have to make sure it's something that will be worth it to me. At this point, there are a lot of things I just don't bid on because I can't mentally justify it. But this auction ... I actually bid a LOT higher than the OP bid. I still can't believe I got it for such a relatively low price. I guess it means no one but me would think it's beautiful -- but, hey -- more artwork for me! Woot!! =D
Hubby seems to be doing OK, overall. He went to work for most of the day today. Came home and is taking a short nap. So I hope he'll snap back to "regular" time pretty soon. I hate even changing an hour when we fall back and spring forward. So I know I would HATE such a huge time change. >.O