Pollution in the Mainstream

bows head

2007-10-10T21:26:51Z

Our Father, who art in pesto
Alfredo be thy name
Thy kingdom come, Al dente done,
on forks as it is on chopsticks
Give us this plate with garlic bread
be sure to give us napkins
As we give napkins to those who impress us
And lead me not to Olive Garden
but delivery from Carraba's.
For thine is the garlic,
the marinara and the oregano
Forever and ever
Ramen

Filler Tuesday

2007-10-09T21:29:48Z

Once you do that, this is what I’ll do for you...

2007-09-26T03:09:11Z

Leave your name in my blog comments. Once you do that, this is what I'll do for you...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me. (if possible!)
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
8. If you do this you MUST post this on yours. You MUST. It is written.Once you do that, this is what I’ll do for you...

Miss you, too.

2007-09-23T05:10:08Z

I dreamed I was in my grandmother's house, observing the refrigerater with interest. It was covered top to bottom in pictures of Charles. It seemed to be years in the future, though I couldn't say how long. I played with the handmade magnets reading "in memory of" and spoke to the empty kitchen saying, "The mourning never stops, does it?"

Charles responded behind me "Nope."
He was in his usual (as my dreams go) etherial greyscale, smiling his silly all the same.
In my best chastising teacher voice, I informed him that he made a lousy angel of peace and protection; he was hardly reassuring in his role.

Giggling, he hugged me from behind and said "yeah, I know."

I woke up feeling rather peaceful this morning.
I guess I don't mean what I say.

Will you live in hope or dark desire?

What can I say?
Fuck love give me fire.
Have you seen what I've made beneath the wreckage?
Just suffer through the dust and there you'll find the color of a night that burned out from us.
Surrounded by it's glow our city lies.
Wait for a love that never dies and you've lost life.
Blaqk Audio - Cities of Night

Keep Off The Dirigible Plums

2007-09-15T00:05:25Z

I should update this more..
So..I update my Myspace blog better.
http://www.myspace.com/calystomouse <~That's a link
But here's a pointless entry anyway! wee!

Uhm.. dragoncon was teh awesome,
and here be pictures to prove it. <~ also a link
I just wasnt too photogenic that day, or that one.. that day neither..shit.
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And now for filler
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Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net.
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Here we pause for life stuff chitchat.
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So i talked to JiB on messenger recently when I accidently messaged the wrong person
I found i no longer loath and dispise him
In fact I don't feel anything at all towards him
Where'd all my hate go? goddamnit i want it back!

p.s. he hasnt changed at all. If i had invested some interest in him i'm sure i'd be disappointed right now.

now for some closing notewhore statement that might get me some sort of note replies..

OMG WTF I WANT NOTES!

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

2007-07-26T20:40:59Z

Dont worry. NO SPOILERS ahead.

How could it have taken me till 2 am last night to finish a book that came out last saturday? Bah.

So anyway.. I'm sure some people online are wondering where the heck i've been hiding for nearly a month now..

Let's give an update to my life starting around July 1

I decided i wanted highlights in my hair and let my cousin and aunt do it for me. I wanted light brown highlight, I got blonde streaks. Fuckity. It's managed to tone down a bit though.

At the same time, at the start of this month I got a roommate! Coworker (Z) needed a place to stay within 24 hours when he asked me for help and he's a friend of mine so I couldn't say no. I had a spare room afterall, and I never used my livingroom. I basically LIVE in my room. I thought I would have a low tolerance for roomies, but he alright. He leaves my shit alone and his friends listen to me when I tell them not to smoke in the house. I never had the chance to choose my roomies, so I guess that was a big factor in tolerating them.

Of course having a roommate has changed me a bit. (Z) has declared it his duty to socialize me and I now spend more time out of my room than in it. That means less internets time, hence my being online nearly not at all..

Oddly, he also feels it his duty to make me an Insane Clown Posse fan. While I liked one or two of their songs before (Z) showed up, they don't strike me as teh awesome. I guess i'll always be a Rock n Roll girl, not a Juggalo

Yay, clearance crap!

Several broken shards of glass later...

2007-06-30T00:25:11Z

I made these for various people

This one is for Brandon at work, who's birthday i managed to miss by 24 hours.
Inspired by Red vs Blue. I recommend a Google video search for episodes 2 and 39.

Swarovski crystal, 100% silk ribbon, pewter stick cross.
For my aunt's birthday. I finished this one on time but couldn't get it to her in time for her actual birthday ><
I question people's inclination to wear miniature mock ups of torture devices as baubles...
but it doesn't stop me from making requested jewelry

I missed her son's birthday, and made him a necklace too but I neglected to get pictures. Fark.

For me. Mine! you cant have it! I'm not thrilled with it though, and will of course take it apart to make a better one later

Czech glass beads, purple and black tigertail cord and a shell coin pendant.
This one is for the girl who sits next to me in school.
It's also a style I've never successfully done well before. I'm happy with it, but the length she asked for was just ridiculously long. 31 inches geez!

AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaand thats it.

I have it in my head to make a square bead necklace to match my rubic's cube shirt, but it's a bitch to track down square yellow beads.

Why cant i find 7mm black silk ribbon?

2007-06-29T03:47:10Z

Phil: Can you make me a necklace?.. with laser beams and neon lights and something that says "i'll fuckiing kill you"
Mistress caly:sorry, I don't have any beads with apostrophes

Like an AA meeting for retailers, I tells ya

2007-06-22T00:16:50Z

OK
I will keep this simple
You will go to the livejournal community customers_suck
You will read the 'sucks' entries.
You will adore them!
You will join and post your own customer suckery cause it feels good to get it out of your system!

Why do I say this? Because it's free therapy for anyone who's ever worked a job that requires the mingling of staff and customers
we all need therapy now and then, yes?

I swear since I've started reading this one and the walmart_employe I've been able to handle my customers so much better.. cause I know I can blog about them there later.

"If i became physically attracted to things that irked me...

2007-06-19T02:40:15Z

...the world would burst into flame from the friction of my furious humping."
-Questionable Content

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Pet! Name it! ........ Shiny! Not yours!

2007-06-16T01:15:30Z

IT HAS NO NAME!
now is a good time to make suggestions!
She's female, beige and white, and has an interesting marking on her back that kind of looks shaped like south America
She's currently in quarantine in my room for 2 weeks. I don't want to make the same mistake i did when i bought Mayhem years ago. May had made my hairless rat sicky with her own sicky. Cost me 40 to treat if I recall. And before a 7 dollar rat had the sniffles.
This will help me socialize her a little too while she's alone. She doesn't seem interested in doing anything but staring listlessly and sleeping. She won't bite, but she obviously dislikes contact. She freezes up. The nick in her ear and behavior tells me she wasn't handled kindly by the breeders or other rats.

BTW, farkers have suggested the following names:
Inca
Rio
Aislin
Behi
Pia
Yaddle

click here for more pictures of the new dumbo rat
I anticipate better suggestions from my friends :P

baby blue sim catseye rosary with a very snazzy baroque cross, and it took me ten minutes to make.. and like.. a million years to nitpick over
Hope Ryan's baby blue hearse finds it pleasing.

Shinies in there too

Aww Stewie. You just gotta say please darlin'

2007-06-14T00:10:52Z

Can you tell i lack anything better to post just now?

Strands for thought another Shinies entry

2007-06-06T23:56:10Z

I realized I hadn't posted the necklaces I made for Dallas,

I managed to use up all of my white ribbon on those babies too, now I can't make anymore exactly like them, and Hobby Lobby has managed to sell out of the white 7mm silk ribbon.

I've recently felt inspired by the painting starry night though, I plan to make some similar stuff based on it..
We'll see how that turns out.

One day I think I'm kidding myself by thinking I'm some sort of artist, other days I think I'm kidding myself because I'm caring too much about what I make to NOT consider myself an artist. I certainly don't do it for profit. They do distinguish between arts and crafts categories, though I see no real difference between the two.. would I be a craft..er? Craftist?
Craftician..
Oooh I like how that sounds.
Caly, the craftician. Almost like it's a science

Though saying it out loud makes me sound like I'm refering to Kraft dinner.
...mmm mac n cheese..
Watch her make macaroni magic with the skill and dexterity of.. Chef Boyardee!

Ok no more train-of-thought entries for me

E = M C ^bead
My mind is already trying to think of a way to knot string theory into a necklace..
Craftology...
shut up caly >

My wally world story.

2007-05-31T20:58:31Z

For one I work there. I hate it but it is convenient for my needs (college student needing flexible hours and its just 10 minutes from school)
I find that the only thing stupider than some of my coworkers are the retarded customers we have to smile at all the fucking time. 10 foot rule my pasty white ass.
I have worked there over a year now, and haven't had complaints against me until this last month when no less than 3 separate customers had their own unique issues with me.

1. A blond haired blue eyed fellow with no noticeable accent starts some rant about he as a Bolivian citizen (he apparently married a Bolivian chick) was personally appalled at Bush's threats to south America about cleaning up it's crime problems. Something about him telling them that if they didn't clean up their act, America would do it for them. I'm pretty much hemmed into a corner and just having to put up with his rant (I'm not a Bush fan, but I really don't care about what this guy had to say) At some point I disagreed with the numbers he pulled out of his ass about how my town's crime rate was 3 times what his country's was and he storms away to complain to my manager about how I'm being racist to Bolivians. I don't get paid enough for this kind of B.S.

2. Three days later I'm ringing up a customer who didn't grasp that the money she handed me was 8 dollars short, though I repeatedly told her so. A guy behind her laughs at this and she of course complains to a member of management that I had mocked her. Odd, she didn't seem truly retarded, but that move proved me wrong.

3. I go to the restrooms and enter a stall to find a wallet sitting in it. A woman a few seconds later comes into the restroom and asks if it is in there, I hand it to her and just a little later as I'm washing my hands, she returns to claim that it's missing a hundred dollars. She gets a member of management and I volunteer to be searched because that was the only real way to resolve this issue quickly, in a manager's office. It's a little humiliating not to be trusted on your word, but if I hadn't taken the initiative my managers would have had to fire me just to make that bitch who doesn't know how to hang on to her valuables happy. (btw, if your wondering, no I didn't take anything from the wallet or even touch it until the lady asked for it. However, given enough time I probably would have.)

Moral?
May is a bad month for me when it comes to customer relations, customers themselves don't show any perceptible signs that their family trees do, in fact, fork and always check stalls regularly for lost wallets. Keep any you find, but use a different stall to do your business and throw everything but the cash away later. Never said I was an angel, people.

your wiki trope of the day
Phlebotinum is the magical substance that may be rubbed on almostanything to cause an effect needed by a plot. Some examples: nanotechnology, magic crystal emanations, pixie dust, a sonicscrewdriver. Oh, and Green Rocks.CSI and its spinoffs come with gallons of phlebotinum. Their favorite kind appears to be Luminol, the substance that reveals traces of blood byglowing when traces of iron from the blood catalyzes its breakdown. Luminol is real, though.
According to Joss Whedon, during the DVD commentary for the pilot episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the term "phlebotinum" originates from David Greenwalt's (a writer and director on Buffy and later co-creator of Angel) sudden outburst, "Don't touch the phlebotinum!" a propos of nothing.

random science fiction wiki fact of the day

2007-05-31T01:38:43Z

-Spock's pointed ears on Star Trek The Original Series were almost the victim of panicky NBC executives, who were afraid that supersitious hordes of TV viewers would think he was Satanic. They went so far as to airbrush the points out of a number of promotional photographs (which are now collectors' items). Gene Roddenberry managed to save Spock's ears by promising plastic surgery for thecharacter if audience response was poor; it was anything but, and after Spock's popularity was established, no one at NBC would ever admit to being anything but for pointed ears.

- In a possibly borderline case of Executive Meddling, the Sci Fi channel has apparently implemented a policy that any series that has only middling ratings instead of stellar ratings will be cancelled,despite whatever vocal, devoted following it has. Three examples that jump out include Mystery Science Theater 3000, Farscape (the latter ironically replaced the former), and at the end of its 10th season, after being the longest running hour-long science fiction show ever, Stargate SG-1 (although most fans seem to admit that the last of these is allowing the show to die with dignity). They have generally replaced these series with such things as Giant Animal Films, Professional Wrestling (I dare you to tell me what that has to do with science fiction -steroids don't count) and whatever syndicated series they could get on the cheap. Battlestar Galactica fans, take note.

A stik. I has one.

2007-05-29T18:38:27Z

What object have you broken most recently:
my hairdryer

Name one of the Spice Girls:
*renames Baby Spice* You are now Abort-me Spice... what ever happened to her anyway?

What was the last thing to make you cry:
Not being able to find my knife that Charles gave me

I would like to be in an advertisement for:
Home vasectomy kits for her.

My favorite shoes are:
rarely worn

My mothers' greatest fear is:
enclosed spaces

Can you use chopsticks:
In my hair

Do you prefer beaches or forests?
forests

I'm gonna make a necklace with a snail charm that says this. just for the fuck of it

Shinies shinies shinies. The caly should get a life and spend less time at Hobby Lobby

2007-05-12T00:43:00Z

An old friend from work who apparently has decided to go into the ministry or some crud offered to sell me some of my shwag on his site. Expect a cross-y theme.

whatcha think?

I can do this one with different beads, crosses or on forest green, deep blue, lavender or red 100% silk cord

100% Silk cord, green centered clear bicone glass beads, pewter cross-in-heart

Wholesale? I can do up to 3 more like this exact model with current materials, many more with different beads.

red/black beads with silver/black cross and silver plated beads

This one took longer than the other to finish due to the complexity of materials.
Doesnt look as good as the one on top but the beads can be changed to improve that

Some of the other crosses in my collection which could use new homes, some pewter, some silver plated

Mexican is the new Irish. (and shinies)

2007-05-10T00:44:23Z

I was asked to put together a wishlist for the stuff I would buy if I had the cash
http://www.jbox.com/WISHLIST/18766
I must say jlist/jbox has some awesome goodies. Some people will remember me buying candies from them once and mailing off mini care packages to my online friends with delightful treats such as sake flavored hard candy and traditional hard candies from Japan.

Yeah..now that I recall... avoid the sake hard candy. it tastes like Lucifer's own rectum.

Shiny 3 gauge red and black thread / clear red beads with black dots on the beads
It's taken me forever to do this one. I'm not working on a pattern I found, but just wondered if I could mix red and black differently.
It's still not finished cause it takes forever to do it this way. Man I thought a basic square knot took a long time, this is much worse.
Pretty though.

In my head I have a thousand different necklaces or bracelets I want to make, but when I sit down I can't seem to bring myself to bother with them..
*sigh*

Let me have a melodramatic moment

2007-05-05T23:23:51Z

Took a side trip to see Charles

It is tucked discreetly away in 4 inch deep crack in the dry earth. The grass seems hesitant to grow over his grave.
I felt a little better leaving him today.
Maybe I should make him more gifts; small sacrifices on the altar of earth and reluctant greenery that has become his home.
There still isn't a headstone. Just that same goddamned laminated placard with his image, name, and birth-death dates.
Does he even have a middle name? It just has 'Charles "Charlie" Cook' listed. Maybe these visits are getting to me; in my dreams when I dream of him, I call him Charlie, I never called him that.
I would put my gargoyle in the place of a marker if I weren’t afraid that someone would take it away because it was "tacky"
The knife someone stabbed into the grave with the lovely white dragon handle is gone.
I wonder what happened to it.
I don't want my gifts to disappear, so I suppose I'll continue to bury them.

calystomouse @ 2007-05-02T18:11:00

2007-05-02T22:16:05Z

http://www.neurodisc.com/showItem.php?id=168
I found a cd that mixes my love of classical violin music AND electronica.
so yeah.. somebody buy me this and i'll make you something purdy

The Limewire it does nothing

R.I.P.

2007-04-26T22:45:10Z

We'll miss you, original Fark layout.
*sniffle*

Gotta test in the morning

2007-04-23T01:55:26Z

Test over microbiology material I'm not 100% sure I know well..
and I bartered with someone at work.
For two necklaces, he'd buy me a 12 inch subway sub.
So I made him two necklaces

I've done better.

Expanding the list of things I'll never get around to, one shiny at a time

2007-04-21T02:19:13Z

My attempt earlier today to read my own fortune says I'll find a profitable business venture.
It also hinted that someone was going to stand me up for an appointment... i have no idea what to make of that one

It would be kind of nice to earn some extra money to, at the very least, pay for my dog's vet bills. I don't think the pills are going to help his shoulder. Though giving them to him twice a day seemed to make him think he was invincible, since i've knocked the dose back as per vet's instructions to one a day, he's starting to noticably limp again.

I was wondering just how much trouble it would be to make a small website selling jewelry, but a quick google search shows me that a thousand other people are already doing the same thing. bah.

Maybe I can construct kits with guides on how to make some of the stuff I've made.
Marketing it would be a bitch and more bother than it's worth though.
If I had to sell my own necklaces and bracelets to make a profits i'd have to let them all go at 10 bucks a piece, minimum
It takes roughly 5 dollars of material to make some of my necklaces, lets not get into how long it takes me to make one.
But i'm just rambling.

Today I decided to tell symmetry where it could stick it.

It wound up being too small for my wrist, and i have one tiny wrist, so I will have to find a kid to give it to. Like maybe an 8 year old.
"Hello little girl would you like some shiny wrist candy?"
"MOMMYYYYYYYY!"
"uh oh"

So.. not the best day i've had

2007-04-13T01:28:46Z

Nor was it too terribly good for my dog

To start..
I made an appointment at the vet's office for 3 today but found myself unable to get there in time due to a dead car battery.
Had neighbor i've never met before *but who have lived there like a year now* jump my car off and took the dog to the vet
My battery didnt get enough juice in it though, and promptly died again when i left the vet's office.. jumped again by someone else, got home and it still wont hold a charge. Guess i'll need another battery but i cant do that until tomorrow

Now about the visit!
What i came in for "find out why Kiba is limping"
They nagged me for using hotdogs as treats because of their high salt content...

Kiba has heartworms, yay potentially deadly squirmies. Since I can't afford the recommended 800 dollar treatment, they offered a cheaper alternative that may or may not be 100 percent successful involving twice daily doses of Doxycycline. In tablet form.
I will of course be giving him those hidden in a piece of hot dog because he's not allowed dairy products on his meds (so no cheese for him), and he ignore peanut butter. Oh aand the meds will also help his skin problem which i dont think they properly named.

As for the limping, I could opt for the really expensive surgery, but once again i'm poor.
His limping is due to some painful thing dealing with his shoulder. The vet refered to it as an OCD. Osteochondrosis dissecans. A defect in the smooth cartilage surface within one or more joints. May heal with strict rest and restriction of activity for several weeks.
They gave me prednisone (I believe it is a type of morphine) to relieve inflamation and told me not to let him run. or even walk very fast. i may need to shorten his tie down ....and kill off all the cats in the neighborhood to ensure he has no reason to run

They also supplied me with a year's worth of the high end heartworm medication.
And updated his shots
I guess i got off lucky with only paying 200 for the vet bill

It just sucks that I'm freakin poor and in the end he'll have to suffer for it.
It makes me cry to think I can't be a better owner than this.
goddamnit >

Rediscovered my emotions.dat file

2007-04-05T02:26:15Z

Oh so many gems of wisdom in that little document. like this one!

palerider1970: I like mah chilli hot dang hot.I like mah chilli so dang hot you can cook a hogs ass in a spoonfull. Thats why I reach for a bottle of tonis hot sauce. With texas tuff onions and bacon bits.

April --> TisAPrettyPieceOfFlesh_i_Am: "Mom, Toni wants nuggets, Trusty wants fries and a chocate shake and Davey wants Dave Thomas for his personal sex slave." "Who are those people?" "Numbers 45, 78 and 107 of the voices in my head"

I also found a picture of me and jib laying on his livingroom floor. Thats in the pics section on my mySpace right now. His mom was repainting the walls.. like a different color every day till she was happy with the results and took the picture of us from the top of a ladder. JiB was a dick, but I loved his mom. Dayum i forgot how white he was

Hey look, another shiny!
Yellow overkill

When I got the mix of yellow beads ages ago I couldn't help thinking to myself *in response to that bead under the butterfly*
"Well thats lovely and all but how do I use these yellow drop shaped ones in a way that doesn't make people think of pee?"