elanya

I hope everyone had a good day! I realize that not everyone is super into this holiday, for various reasons. But I long agi decided to eschew the idea that it have to be about couples and romantic love and commercialism and as such I appreciate it more, I think. I am happy to be your valentine if you didn't have one othewrise, and were missing one! <3

I also believe strongly in being your own valentine, and using it as an excuse to treat yourself to something nice, take extra care of yourself and generally in... I was going to say a little more explicit self-love, which is uh, maybe not what i meant to imply, but sure, do that too! But take some time to love yourself, and spend some love on people you care about, no matter whetehr the relationship is romantic or not.

In that generalist spirit, I made valentines for everyone in the immediate family, biught some Paw Patrol chocolates for the nephews, and baked a lovely Valentine's Day black forest cake - three layers of dark chocolae with cherry pie filling in between, covered in stablilized whipped cream. I put a heart on top with the left over cherry goo, because hell yeah! And such was our family Valentine's Day cakewalk completed. It was relaly friggin good too, the cakes turned out super moist. It's a classic combination from my childhood, but even though I have made it with real cherries before, I actually think it is better with the pie filling. It bears a passing resenblance to an authentic black forest cake, if your idea of authenticity has never encountered the sorts of things that Germans to do their cakes (soak them in liquor).

I also did do some of the more couply bits of the holiday as well, though I don't think the gift I sent arrived in time. But I got some fox slippers (to go wth my fox onsie, of course), and some little Clone Wars figurines :3 Obi-Wan and Kit Fisto! Kit Fisto has the worst name, but he is actually super rad.

I think that's all I've got folks - back to the museum tomorrow, and I need to remember to 3d print that tooth... and hopefully do some scanning! ....which reminds me to charge my mp3 player. I might need it.

Pack for SHA!
-clothes
-toiletries - mostly together, will pack in AM
-gym stuff
-book to read
-book to write in
-'sanitized' flash drive
-notepad
-printed copy of presentation
-laptop stuff- last to go!
-headset
-ipod
-camera
Make sure I have all the files I need!
-presentation
-powerpoint
-thesis files
Charge the Ipod and load new music - charging now
Diner!
Dishes!
Get new turtleneck or equivalent? (wooh Target run!)
Polish docs
Make sure I know where all Samson's stuff is for tomorrow AM
I'm sure there's more...

Ahh, VD. I am going to dress medium tarty today, and anticipate cookies from gats coming today or tomorrow. Woot!

Speaking of VD... I gave my dead had drive to Sam, who is the local computer whizz, to see if he could recover any data for me. And he said he did manage to get it off. Also, he wasn't using protection, and I didn't know that hard drive had a virus, so of course I couldn'r warn him about it -_- Now I feel like a dick. He got the stuff onto his applications machine, which is not connected to the net, but I think he uses to run his server. I hope that it doens't cause him too many problems D: But hey, at least he did recover my data! That means all kinds of great stuff - papers from last year, piles and piles of pictures, Exia logs we'd thought missing forever... Good/bad, for sure.

In other news, I am really grooving on this song of late :o