fin de semana

[chestnutcurls]

Hello all.

My weekend was okay. When my radio alarm went off on Saturday morning, I slowly realized that people were talking in serious voices. I picked out the words "launch," "Camp David," and "President," and immediately thought that we were under attack. Before I was even fully conscious, I leapt out of bed and ran into the living room, scaring Kathy to death with my unintelligible shrieking. We turned on the TV and saw what had happened. I was sad. I called my dad, and he told me that the Columbia was the shuttle I had watched take off when I was little. (We used to drive up to Cape Canaveral for the launches.) I've been praying for the families of the astronauts. I think at least a couple of them were believers, so that is a comfort to everyone.

Around lunchtime aardwolf came to pick me up and we went to the basketball game with yakko7178 and his girlfriend. (Pictures to come in Lawson's journal.) It was fun. Then Lawson and I hung out at the apartment and then went to his house and watched Jurassic Park II, which I mostly spent hiding under my jacket while he laughed at me. Fun times. :)

On Sunday I took a nap that was entirely too long, which whacked me out for the too-little remainder of the day. This is becoming a pattern. I used to be able to nap for an hour on Sundays and then get up, but I've been so tired that I just keep sleeping. More iron in my diet might be a good idea. :P

I'm bored with my icons. I have many nice pictures of myself, the cat, etc. but when I resize them to icon size, most of them look horrible. Bleah.

Comments

[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

You can send the pictures to me... I've got a lot of practice shrinking pictures down while still making them look good. Just e-mail them, I guess...

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Lawson's too quick for me! I was going to say that I think your pictures are fine, but if you want, you can send me the original size and I can have my fun and make some possibles for you if you want. It's kind of a selfish request because I just like to do it. :)

like this...

[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

;)

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[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Wow!

Thanks for the help, guys. :) I sent some to Jessica...we'll see what she can do. :)

I do like this new Bun icon, though. He looks very smooth and almost gangsterish, if a bunny can be gangsterish. :)

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[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Check your email!! :)

[siemova.livejournal.com]

It's funny... remember the Challenger? (Well, if you didn't, you must now.) Well, my mom worked for Honeywell when I was young. She actually helped build the Challenger - if I remember right, she worked on something in the cockpit, and maybe the booster cones as well. But in any case, I met some of the astronauts who died in that explosion. One of them gave me a toy shuttle which I played with so much that it's long since fallen to pieces, but I still have the picture he signed for me...

There's no ultimate point to this post. Just thought I'd share. This has brought back some of my earliest memories.

I never expected to see it happen again.

[nova-wylde.livejournal.com]

When I was listening to the news hours after the space shuttle incident, I heard that people that found debris were actually trying to sell it online. Words can't describe how angry that made me and how disgusted I was when I heard that.

On a lighter note though, I think youre LJ user pics are cool. :)

Uhm, what does "fin de semana" mean?

[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

According to , it is Spanish for "weekend".