clearing off the memory card

Four copies of my book sold at the Cormorant Shop downtown. I nearly cried (happy tears!) when I heard.

At work

“You sell bathing suits, right?”

“No, sorry.”

“(looks upset, points to an oil painting of a beach on the wall) But this is the beach."

- a customer and I.

On that note, the customer is not always right.

cloud watching

Finally, finally, finally, my book 'cloud watching' is available for sale. You can purchase it here. It should be up on Amazon.com within the week.

because I need to update this more often

This is from a game at the bowling alley.



Swinging on the rope swing over the winter.



Pleasant Street Tea Company.



I have a habit of getting a croissant and dark hot chocolate there (no matter the season).

Free: PC + monitor, television, printer, flatbed scanner, CD player w/ 5-disc changer (for pickup)

Just head on down to Dogtown Common. First come, first serve.

Jell-O

To whomever placed the Jell-O in my mailbox:

Thank you for making my day.

I love you.

<3

Important questions

(from Wiki.Answers.com)

"Where can you cheat on algebra 2 Chicago math?"

"What is different about nepal?"

"Should women play hard to get?"

"Can you give me three sentences with abstract noun?"

"Who is the current batman?"

"That is so unfair my sis has the iphone so unfair lol?"

Finally: Part Two

Here's a few photos from my January 11th trip to New York.



As soon as I sat down on my hospital bed, I heard talking. No, yelling. No...chanting. I went to the window and was quite surprised to see there was a protest going on. It explained the many groups of police my friend and I passed on the way to the hotel.



The building across from the hotel (with my reflection in the window, which was unfortunately unavoidable).

Sam and I went to the giant Toys'R'Us, where there were Lego sculptures and superheroes hanging from the ceiling and a giant Ferris wheel.



Oh, and GIANT animatronic dinosaurs.



Sam and I went to Juniors before the show (Spamalot) and I tried cheesecake from the first time. I know...I know. It was good, but way too rich for me to finish (and we only had one piece for the two of us).



One of the last photos I took outside Spamalot. My friend and I attended the closing show, where we saw (among others) Clay Aiken, Eric Idle, and David Hyde Pierce. I shook hands with David Hyde Pierce! It was awesome.

On another note, I've been in a funk about posting to my blog and I promise I'll post more, starting tomorrow! I've got plenty of photos to post.

Finally!

My apologies for the massively long absence - I've been so busy traveling and loving 2009 that I haven't had time to update. On January 7th, myself and a Broadway-enthusiast friend of mine went to see one of the last performances of Gypsy on Broadway starring Patty LuPone. I took plenty of pictures.



Leaving Gloucester at 5:00 AM. The show was at 2:00 PM and we were getting tickets at the box office, so we had to get there early.



Astonishingly, a lot of people take the 5:00 AM train to Boston on a Wednesday. I did not know this.



Here's a sneaky shot from our seats. Didn't want the ushers to take my camera away.



After the show (since we had a few hours 'til our bus back to Boston), my friend and I went to Juniors, a restaurant steps away from Gypsy that apparently has the best cheesecake in New York, or possibly the world. I would not know, having - wait for it - never tried cheesecake in my life. As seen above, instead of bread for an appetizer, we got...I'm not even sure what it is, and I didn't feel like finding out.



We split a grilled cheese (since it was $9!) and a side of fries. It was a very filling and delicious grilled cheese. As you can see, the bread was very thick.

I hesitate to post the rest of the pictures (I really did take a lot) because most of them include my friend and I should probably get permission before I put her face on the internets for everyone to see.

Oh, one last picture from the day (er, night):



My friend slept over when we got back and the power went out (and came on) maybe three or four times. I kept lighting and blowing out candles. I got this little lantern at IKEA and was dying to use it.

Coming soon: my other trip to New York and...various assorted other things!

Trojan again

My apologies...again...about the lack of updating. That trojan we had and thought we got rid of, well, turns out it just went into hiding and now it's back. Dad's working to get rid of it and in the meantime, I'm stuck with a laptop without a card reader.

Expect photos of my Wednesday trip to New York, once the PC starts working.

New Year's Eve and the sunrise

For New Year's Eve:



My mother re-decorated the tree for the new year.



We ate Chinese food.



I played with the cat and got some horrifying action shots.



Yeah, you get that thing, Mistoffelees!

My oldest brother suggested I try to take a neat photo of the fire. After about 500 tries and him messing with the controls (I really should read the manual) I managed to snap this:



Much thanks to my Gorillapod for holding the camera still and all that.

In other news, it's 2009.

What? Huh? It didn't even occur to me on New Year's Eve. I was too busy thinking about celebrating New Year's Eve that I didn't even think "oh, right, we're counting down to 2009, not just because counting down is fun".



The second sunrise of 2009.



I could've gone up to the roof deck to get a better angle but it's probably ten degrees out so I'm thinking maybe not.

Answering questions

Since I have found myself with time to spare over the holidays, I needed to find something to occupy myself with, and I appear to have found it in Wiki.Answers.com.

On this site, you can submit questions to be answered or answers questions that have been submitted. I have chosen to answer questions. I update the main page and find a question that I can answer...and then answer it.

Not only does it keep my occupied, but it provides me with hours of hilarity. Some of the questions that people ask are unbelievable. Here is a sampling:

"Who made cows?"

"What do people make horse poop out of?"

"I am in love with a girl I am level headed and thirty yo but this girl is so cute its killing me problem a she works on my floor b she has a boyfriend that works in the building who she rents with?"

"Does Jon understand Garfield?"

"Why are you geeks?"

Like I said, endless hours of fun.

Eagle II

I posted a similar photo a while back but it was a photo from my camera. Here's one from the same time that my dad took with an actual camera.



Isn't that amazing? You can see it bigger on Flickr by clicking on the photo, clicking on "All sizes" above the photo, and then selecting "Original" above the photo. This is true of all of my photos.

Also, I am now updating from a brand new monitor from Dell. It's huge, widescreen, and has a television-worthy resolution.

Speaking of resolutions (though an entirely different kind), except a post in the near future about resolutions (not mine) for the new year.

Feedburner, Twitter and snow

You can now subscribe by email to my blog by using that little "subscribe to miz lia by email" link down on your right in the sidebar. I have also added a Twitter gadget in the sidebar to show my latest tweets, and I totally plan on updating Twitter more often. In fact, I'm putting it in my favorites right now so I'll do it every day. I swear.

By the way, have you noticed it's snowing?



The snow makes really interesting patterns on the windows.





I really should bring my scooter in. Oops.



My mom put this together instead of purchasing a wreath this year. It looks nice with snow on it.

As always, more over at my Flickr photostream.

New header

I am testing out a new header. You can vote on whether or not you like it to your right in the sidebar.

I'm also messing with the layout of my blog. I accidentally deleted all my formatting and had to do it all over again, which was super fun, and I'm sure most of you have no idea what I'm talking about. I just wanted to remove that gaping space at the top, which apparently I can't do unless I remove the space to the left and right of the blog as well.

So don't forget to vote for the header on your right.

The sky and Walgreens

Also, I found this gum at Walgreens:



and



Bizarre. At least it's not similarly flavored.

Rain

Rain on the window. At least most of the snow is gone now.

Snowman update

As of yesterday:



:(

Christmas II

My Christmas in photos. All of these pictures were taken with my new Canon Digital Rebel XS. Ahhhhh, I love it so.



The tree! A Fraser Fir.



Dad got Guitar Hero. We all failed at it until my older brother calibrated the game so the music and graphics were properly aligned.



We traditionally ate my mom's baked french toast as well as bacon and eggs for breakfast.



My oldest brother (cutting up fruit to eat in this photo) bought the family some "Miracle Fruit" tablets and a bunch of fruit to try. You may have heard of this stuff - the proteins from this "miracle fruit" bind to your sour taste buds and make sour things taste sweet. I, being daring, was the first to try one.

I sucked on a lemon, drank orange juice, ATE VINEGAR...and it was all different. The lemon like sweet lemonade, the orange juice tasted disgusting and not at all like oranges, and the vinegar...wait for it...was delicious. Seriously. It was really good. A day later I appear to be suffering no side effects so I would say this stuff is harmless and extremely fun.



Our cat Mistoffelees loooved curling up on the tree.



Though he also liked stretching out on the couch.



My grandmother and I took a picture of each other taking a picture.



Finally, I discovered that unfocusing my camera as much as possible and taking photos of the lights on the tree looked pretty cool. This effect has a name that I can't remember, but I think it's a Japanese word that begins with a b.

I also got a stocking, opened my presents, and ate food between all this but you all know what that's like so I didn't really take photos of it.

More over at my Flickr photostream.

Cat

A photo taken of my cat with my brand-spanking-new camera. I'll update more tonight (or maybe tomorrow) with more photos from today.