Notes & Asides, again

Gratuitous Photobooth picture 'cause I have a shiny new MacBook.

I am feeling very gloaty over the fact that the save the date cards that I'm making for the wedding only cost $0.40 a piece (including postage!), as if that totally negates the places we are going over budget. (We could help the budget more by eliminating save-the-date cards altogether, but as we are inviting a fair number of out-of-towners, we'd like to give them plenty of warning to find good deals on airfare.)

Still! Forty cents each! And they are very cute. They've got owl stamps on them, and faux woodgrain. I'd love them even if they weren't the product of my labor.

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Threadless has got to stop making space-themed t-shirts. (And sending me coupon codes.) I already have two; my co-workers might be a little weirded out if I buy another. Heck, I might be a little weirded out if I buy another. But seriously: how am I supposed to be fiscally responsible in the face this? It has seven rocket ships! And a flying saucer! And I have a coupon code...

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I'm not sure I've mentioned it here, but I have a crochet blog now. I haven't updated it in about a month, but as I'm just now putting the finishing touch on a pair of small projects, I might soon. Still, you should go check it out. Crochet is really cool, and not at all knitting's frumpier cousin.

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I have some sort of cold or sinus infection or something, but the worst thing about it is the itching, oh sweet fancy Moses, the itching. My face itches from the inside, which I imagine is what an alien infestation feels like. Any moment now, some three-headed purple lizard thing will come bursting out of my skull and take over the world.

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I just got a new computer, a shiny, shiny new MacBook, and so far what I'm enjoying the most is its ability to handle streaming video. My old iBook just couldn't, most of the time, but now I'm able to binge all I want on Netflix Watch Instantly. (Currently on season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) This computer upgrade coincided nicely with the sick day I took yesterday, and is making it all the more tempting to take another one tomorrow.

(Making tomorrow's potential sick day less tempting: the fact that I don't have anything resembling paid leave. No work, no money. Damn it!)

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Oh, right, it's Thanksgiving now. (It wasn't Thanksgiving when I started writing this post.) I'm thankful for a whole heck of a lot of things, but I think that John Scalzi's Thanksgiving Grace, science-fiction style, can sum it up for all of us.