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Heather

The more we get together, the happier we'll be!

About Me

I put the tomatoes in early, but am usually late for everything else.

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

DOING: Cooking, food science, gardening, board games, crosswords, listening to stories, and putting together jigsaw puzzles.

NEGLECTED INTEREST: If I had to do it over again, I think I'd study embryology.

PETS: I have finches and fish for pets. Both are underrated. Also, I like chickens. Some day I'll have a pet chicken.

I'd like to meet:

The guy who invented hollandaise sauce. Genius!

Music:

Rockabilly, swing/big band, old jazz vocals, electronica, the odd bit of country, classical, and that goth stuff I listened to in high school (back when my parents didn't understand me).

Movies:

Last Temptation of Christ, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Princess Bride, The Iron Giant, Spirited Away, Wit, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Monster House, Spongebob Squarepants

Television:

God, I hate TV. Not that I don't watch.

Books:

NOW READING: The Box: How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger.

Heroes:

My little brother is a hero. It's true. He's also single, ladies.

My Blog

Holidays are a time for giving

Have you ever read a written copy of pop song or rap lyrics?  They're generally totally absurd.  It's a mixture of weird and slightly sad that someone wrote these down, read them over, and s...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:10:00 PST

salad

Why the field greens?  It's a heap of leaves.  Am I a deer?  People go to such lengths to eat these overpriced, flimsy, flaccid, bitter, generally disagreeable piles of greens, often d...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:40:00 PST

Mrs. Keenan's Spicy Nuts

Mrs. Keenan's Spiced NutsNote:  the little t = teaspoon, and the big T = Tablespoon.1/4 c. water3/4 c. white sugar1 1/2 c. walnuts (or pecans if you're that sort)2 t. cinnamon2 t. ginger powder1 ...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:56:00 PST

A sad commentary on the state of affairs in the world of women's shoes

Did you see the American Kennel Club dog show??  What's with the ugly shoes?  Can't these women find some flats that aren't orthopedic looking?  Do they realize their feet are on TV?&nb...
Posted by Heather on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:48:00 PST

math class: my cross to bear

Six units.  Finite math, it's called.  I insisted I'd taken equivalent courses; Skeletoria, my evil advisor, informed me in her creepy, little-girl voice that I would not graduate without it...
Posted by Heather on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:23:00 PST

holy crap, DSL!

I'm back on the MySpace!  I just got DSL finally, after months, nay, years of dial-up oppression.  Sure, when I got a 14.4 modem and threw out the 2400-baud box, I thought I was cutting edge...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

ironing, why I can't remember my phone number

Ironing:  what is it about my shirts that makes it impossible to iron them properly?  If they're not struggling to hurl themselves off of the ironing board altogether, they're secretly bunch...
Posted by Heather on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:57:00 PST

Week one at new job

Week one: Walked one block in heels.  Not recommended. Found that "Paradise Cafe" is not, in fact, a cafe, but the inexplicable euphamism for the IT department.  Disappointing. Met my first ...
Posted by Heather on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:30:00 PST

First Day of Work

Day 1:  Found bathroom.  Learned to use fancy coffee machne with the little individual packets that make one cup at a time (was explained by the Director of HR, my boss, and was the only tim...
Posted by Heather on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:41:00 PST

More wisdom from the media

I just noticed that one of the headlines scrolling across the top of my desktop says, "Fast food eaters underestimate calories." Can someone please define "news" if this is what they've come up with? ...
Posted by Heather on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:43:00 PST