In which I am happy about a number of things, and use lots of parentheses:
I get to visit Dad and Grandma later this week, and THEN I get to visit a Christopher! I am so very, very much looking forward to both parts of the trip.
One of our cats, who had a lump on his leg that the vet said would either go away on its own by the end of the year or else would probably turn out to be cancer (this is the extremely short version of what she actually said), no longer has a lump on his leg. I'm so glad it did go away on its own!
I took my Scheme final yesterday (with a little bit of Python in it too) and I feel very confident about most of it (and even more confident after hearing from some of my classmates what their answers had been, though I was polite and didn't say so. And their answers worked, but mine were, IMHO, better code. Which is an awesome feeling, especially given how scared I was at the beginning of the semester).
Though my family doesn't usually go in for expensive presents, this year I have been (or will soon be) helping to give *four* e-book readers, which are from four different brands because we've picked out the best one we could find for each person we were giving one to, rather than pretending that there's A Single Best E-book Reader that fits everybody. (The four gifts: from Katie and her husband Aaron and me, to Mom; from Katie and Aaron and me, to Dad; from Nate and me, to Nate's mom; from Mom and Aaron and me, to Katie. That last one came about because while we were in the store Katie kept eyeing one of the e-book readers in an ooh-shiny kind of way, so I oh-so-sneakily asked her if she'd like it for a present, then barely-more-sneakily went a couple aisles away to call Mom and Aaron and see if either or both of them would like to go in with me on it. Katie pretended not to know what was going on. :-)
(And as a side note, we didn't even decide this would be the year of e-book readers! Each gift was a different person's idea, and they were thought of independently. And writing that sentence, I felt like I must be writing the intro to a logic puzzle: "Alice, Bob, Cathy, Dave, and Emily each have a plant entered in the local flower show. The one who entered the forsythia does not live in a red house. The one who entered the gardenia lives next door to Dave." etc.)
It's a very nice feeling to think I have found good presents for people I love! And while I haven't for everybody yet, I have for most of them.
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Several good things, although I hope you don't need them today
Date: 2011-12-20 04:26 pm (UTC)I get to visit Dad and Grandma later this week, and THEN I get to visit a Christopher! I am so very, very much looking forward to both parts of the trip.
One of our cats, who had a lump on his leg that the vet said would either go away on its own by the end of the year or else would probably turn out to be cancer (this is the extremely short version of what she actually said), no longer has a lump on his leg. I'm so glad it did go away on its own!
I took my Scheme final yesterday (with a little bit of Python in it too) and I feel very confident about most of it (and even more confident after hearing from some of my classmates what their answers had been, though I was polite and didn't say so. And their answers worked, but mine were, IMHO, better code. Which is an awesome feeling, especially given how scared I was at the beginning of the semester).
Though my family doesn't usually go in for expensive presents, this year I have been (or will soon be) helping to give *four* e-book readers, which are from four different brands because we've picked out the best one we could find for each person we were giving one to, rather than pretending that there's A Single Best E-book Reader that fits everybody. (The four gifts: from Katie and her husband Aaron and me, to Mom; from Katie and Aaron and me, to Dad; from Nate and me, to Nate's mom; from Mom and Aaron and me, to Katie. That last one came about because while we were in the store Katie kept eyeing one of the e-book readers in an ooh-shiny kind of way, so I oh-so-sneakily asked her if she'd like it for a present, then barely-more-sneakily went a couple aisles away to call Mom and Aaron and see if either or both of them would like to go in with me on it. Katie pretended not to know what was going on. :-)
(And as a side note, we didn't even decide this would be the year of e-book readers! Each gift was a different person's idea, and they were thought of independently. And writing that sentence, I felt like I must be writing the intro to a logic puzzle: "Alice, Bob, Cathy, Dave, and Emily each have a plant entered in the local flower show. The one who entered the forsythia does not live in a red house. The one who entered the gardenia lives next door to Dave." etc.)
It's a very nice feeling to think I have found good presents for people I love! And while I haven't for everybody yet, I have for most of them.