Archive for category miscellaneous & sundry
Moved, dates saved, not unpacked, and pictures
Posted by Tammy in miscellaneous & sundry, personal on March 20, 2010
Moving is complete, thankfully. We’re not unpacked yet and won’t be for awhile. We don’t have enough bookshelves for our books. They’re still in boxes stacked up in the den. The apartment feels absolutely huge, which is a welcome change. We can actually put the boxes out of sight and at least give the illusion of being moved in (until you walk into the den).
Save the Dates are mostly done and mailed. I have 26 addresses that we’re still missing. Before doing them, I’d forgotten how much work calligraphy is. I remember now. Handwriting all of the addresses took rather a long time. It’s why I ended up doing them in bursts. Matt’s going to run the last of them to the post office on Monday. Hopefully, we can get the rest of the addresses this weekend – or at least most of them anyway.
So back to the subject of the new apartment, I did mention it felt huge, yes? We’re on the top floor (the 4th) and the ceilings are extremely tall. In comparison, my last apartment was a hobbit hole. This just feels immense, in a welcome way. My television and entertainment center, however, look rather dwarfish. They were purchased for a teeny apartment. It’s a problem for another day, but I’m on the lookout for ready, cheap solutions furnishings-wise. We’ll figure something out. In the meantime, I’ll cheat by finding an extremely tall fake plant to put on top of it or something (not really). The cat, who is adapting quite nicely, would eat the plant. I’m sure of it.
Last, but not least, we had our engagement pictures taken on our speed trip to Colorado last weekend. She’s already finished with them – all 182. The session was a blast – Tattered Cover bookstore right across from Union Station. We used both locations and the pictures are great. Denver’s LoDo lent itself nicely and Ashley Davis, our photographer, is fabulous. We enjoyed ourselves and you can tell in the photos. I’m laughing in nearly all of them. Now, we have to pick out a handful for our various needs. It was a good experience and I’m quite glad we chose her for our wedding. I can’t wait.
Early Adopters Anonymous
Posted by Tammy in geekery, miscellaneous & sundry on January 27, 2010
I’m an early adopter. I’ve been an early adopter since before I was the only girl in my dorm with a computer. I love technology and gadgets and cool geeky toys. I have my iPhone 3G, my PS3, my Roku, and my Kindle. There’s some functional overlap that’s happened over time. My Roku eliminated my cable TV use entirely and now, my PS3 offers the streaming Netflix functionality that drove my Roku purchase. I’ll keep them both because there’s always going to be more than one room in the house and you never know what kind of cool content Roku might offer next.
So, enter the iPad. It’s shiny, right? It’s a giant shiny gadget calling out to me and my insatiable geekery. But y’know what? Not seeing it. If I were a college/grad student and all my text books could go on the thing complete with graphics, maybe. But even then, the inability to multi-task is really capping my enthusiasm at lukewarm. No multi-tasking, no Flash, no HDMI, no widescreen movies, no webcam, no cam at all, and an additional $30/mo bill for me to have access to the web on the fly? No.
I can get on-the-go multimedia on my iPhone, which is also, shockingly, a phone. I’m already paying for it and adding a dataplan for the added functionality makes sense. My Kindle offers me instant gratification but doesn’t make me pay for it. Granted, it’s black and white at the moment, but that covers 99.9% of the books I read. My Kindle, which isn’t the DX, fits in my purse nicely – a not large purse. It is similar in size to a paperback. I’m not going to start carrying a bigger bag just to fit an iPad, which I can only use periodically whilst out and overlaps the functionality of my iPhone which I purchased from you previously. Carrying and paying for both monthly seems silly. And it certainly isn’t like the iPad can replace my MacBook Pro. I can’t very well play WoW on the iPad, can I?
Unless there are some developments between now and release, I won’t be in line and I won’t be buying one in the near future. I’m an Apple fan, don’t get me wrong, but either I’m not the target audience for this particular product (while I am for the vast majority of their products) or they missed the boat a tad on this one. Bummer, that.
Oh also, my wedding dress came in! This is unrelated, but more exciting for me than the tepid iPad news.
I’m a bad blogger
Posted by Tammy in miscellaneous & sundry, personal on January 17, 2010
My poor neglected blog. It seems between work, planning a wedding, looking for housing, beginning to move, the holidays, and a long list of other To Do’s, blogging has fallen to the bottom of the list.
Let’s see, I’ve…
- Chosen an invitation vendor and finalized the Save the Dates,
- Mostly finalized booking music,
- Still haven’t wrangled the bridesmaid dress issue.
- Bought wedding shoes (and a back-up, more comfortable pair for the reception – <$50 combined cost. Hooray)
- Met the entirety of his family
- Continued my trend of sleep deprivation
Today, I’m going to actually finish the book I stared nearly a month ago. We’ll see how that goes.
Bon appetit!
Posted by Tammy in miscellaneous & sundry on October 10, 2009
The fake-fiancé and I went to see Julie & Julia last night. Julia Childs is one of those larger than life figures from my childhood. We watched her cook fabulous and mouth-watering delicacies and imagined what it would be like to make them ourselves. Once I had my own kitchen, I bought Baking With Julia and attempted to learn how to bake. Unlike Julie Powell, I didn’t bake my way through the book. I did, however, increase my baking confidence to the point where I actually made croissants – more than once. I’m still amazed at how much butter you can work into dough.
So after watching the movie and once again being inspired by Julia, I think I may need to find a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I will not, however, be killing a lobster, making aspics, or deboning a duck.
