We had a really bad production issue with our April project. Like it wasn’t working at all. Pretty much everyone involved, from both systems, screwed up. I guess everyone thought it was so simple, they didn’t take the time to think some things through. Our code needs to be fixed, but even if we didn’t screw up it would still need to be fixed. Oh well. The NDR HLD keeps changing which sucks because I put a lot of effort into analyzing the first ten drafts and now it’s completely different again. Then I had to fill out this annoyingly log form that made me feel bad about myself.

Yeah, so it was a long week. Thankfully I got to spend yesterday with my friendes at Darian’s party. Cards Against Humanity never fails to amuse. It’s like the adult version of Apples to Apples. I highly suggest purchasing it. I made mint chocolate chip ice cream and Emily made an amazing cookies and cream cake.

I wore the crazy shoes I blogged about a few posts back. Everyone agreed they were pretty awesome. A little impossible to walk in and damn uncomfortable after 8 hours or so, but awesome.

Last weekend we went hiking for Brian’s birthday and then hung out at his place in the Poconos.

Sunday we went to my cousin’s first communion celebration.

Needless to say I’ve been eating a lot. Will probably stuff my face again today because food is good.

I wrote this Monday, but didn’t post.

Friday night we had Korean bbq with Julia and peoples. That was pretty much the most meat I’ve had at one meal ever. I’m surprised I didn’t get sick. My tummy hurt, but I didn’t get sick :P

Saturday we hung out at Brian’s with his daughter. She put on his shoes and started walking around in them. Just as I was ready to take the picture, she stepped out of them. It was adorable while it lasted.

Sunday was our fabulous tea party. A lot of people RSVPd and didn’t show. That’s OK though, I was running around enough. Plus we wouldn’t have had enough chairs if there were more people. Pictures coming as soon as Julia posts them :) I made yummy ice cream.

Our Matrex class’ five year service anniversary is coming up at work. We were told to order our awards. I picked silverware because the garbage disposal tried to eat a couple of our spoons. We also get award money that I now how to convince everyone to use towards our picnic summer recognition event :)

I spent a good part of the week reading, making comments on and rereading the same document. Also, we had two One Team events this week, so it’s been pretty crazy. Lots of kids in the office today for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. I spent an hour scooping ice cream. Yup. ‘Least I got to have a little.

About 9 years ago, I made the switch from IE to Firefox. Today, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. I’ve already been using Chrome at work since my Firefox completely crapped out on me, but I finally made the switch on Lappy II.

I also finally got my cam archive back in order. That was actually last weekend, I just didn’t blog about it.

Took off work and went shopping with Rachi at the Palisades on Friday. I bought some pretty epic shoes that I shall be wearing to the weddings. Aaaaand Batgirl pajamas. We saw American Reunion while we were there. It was pretty cute.

Yesterday I finally emailed the gown preservation company to ask for an estimate. My mom and I went upstairs to take a picture of my dress. Happy to report it hasn’t turned yellow or anything. Actually, it looks exactly the same as when I first brought it home from the bridal shop. Guess I didn’t get very dirty that day. Still, it should be cleaned and put away properly.

I also emailed limo companies for estimates for the bachelorette party and one bathroom company for remodeling. Probably could have called these people, but that would take more effort.

My parents and I washed our cars today since they were covered with pollen. Much shinier now :)

Not yet anyway. Here’s hoping there’s no strike and I don’t have to climb watch other people climb telephone poles.

Otherwise work has been pretty quiet. We’re getting ready for October stuff and working on some native app stuff in the meantime. We started a Javascript study group. I’m mostly enjoying the Javascript book because I’m reading it on my iPad and it gives me an excuse to use my iPad at work. Of course the better excuse would be to run the native app on an iPad, but I don’t think I’m allowed to put it on my personal one and the other three in our group have the work iPads.

I also bought a cheap case for my iPad while I wait for one I like better. Still loving my iPad. Netflix is kinda creeping me out though. It literally has ALL of my favorite shows listed in suggestions for you. How does it know???? OK, it’s missing Sliders, but I don’t even know if Sliders is on Netflix.

Everyone came over today for Easter. I always think there won’t be enough food and there’s always too much. No one touched my broccoli, though I tried some right out of the oven and some when I served it… it was a good 50 times better right out of the oven. My aunt and uncle brought their dog and Melanie’s dogs over. I think they had a good time, especially since Buffy wasn’t here to be freaked out by them. Oh Buffy.

Yup, attacked by spammers again, so closing the site and quitting my job to fully give 100% to my castleville castle.
Today, April 1st… yup…

–edit– I realize this was a lame April Fool’s joke, but I didn’t have a whole lot of time this weekend to throw something better together. Sorry.

Things I need to do today: clean, reduce my cable bill, find bathroom remodeling people, buy an iPad case, buy shoes for the weddings, buy stuff for Easter, work on my site, study JavaScript and backbone js, find a place for dress alterations, get a haircut, record a song, get my picture taken for my ID, do my nails, eat healthy since I pigged out on sushi yesterday.

Things I will do instead: write this blog, play castleville, watch The Muppets, Facebook, yes Facebook is a verb, watch Doctor Who, nap, read some blogs, shop and not buy shoes, order the peanut butter cake at Uno’s.

I put in a redirect from /blog to here. Hopefully that will update the RSS too… maybe. We’ll soon see. I highly suggest reading at least some of my day in the life post if you haven’t already because it was a lot of work and it’s always fun to laugh at me.

I hung out with my parents this past weekend. Both Saturday and Sunday when we were leaving the house to go do stuff, Buffy thought we were putting on our shoes and stuff to take her for a walk. She was so happy, we had to take her for a walk.

My dad’s new car is enormous. My car looks like a spec of dirt in comparison. It also costs three times as much to fill the gas tank. My mom’s new car was in an accident already. Someone rear ended her when she was turning into their driveway. That is the fourth accident that’s happened in that driveway. Fifth if you count the time I hit my grandpa’s car.

We watched Final Destination 5 Saturday night. The movie was mediocre, but the ending made it worth sitting through. I thought it was very clever and for a movie with such a poor script, they really put some effort into it.

Sunday my dad and I went to see The Hunger Games. It was pretty awesome. Not as good as the book of course, but I felt they couldn’t have done a better job. It seemed a little too fast paced, but they had so much they had to squeeze in in so little time and if it didn’t move fast, it would have dragged. The second book is probably going to be crazy. So much happens. I can’t imagine it being less than three hours, but I guess it’ll have to be.

It’s the 12th annual A Day in the Life of Lissy! Read the boring description of my day, Thursday, 3/15/2012

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If you haven’t noticed, things have changed a bit here. I switched hosts from godaddy to dreamhost, deleted all my files (from the server) and started from scratch. Like to see the hackers get in now! The vulnerability could have been in my theme which is why the theme is different. You must have noticed the URL changed since you made it here OK. Be sure to update your RSS feed, bookmarks, links, etc. That was mostly an accident that I was too lazy to fix.

Besides giving my site a makeover, I went karaoke-ing this past weekend with Julia and friends. I made some poor diet decisions that day. I don’t think I had one solid serving of vegetables or fruit. A lot more meat than I usually eat. My stomach wasn’t too happy about that, but it sure was yummy. Everything turns into a discussion on food with me… I sang mostly Broadway show tunes. Did a great renditions of “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “Defying Gravity.” “Popular” was also popular. *giggle*

Work has been quiet this week, so I decided it’s probably a good time for another Day in the Life post. Nothing too exciting is happening tomorrow, actually Friday is the day we’re having our after-work St Patrick’s event, but I feel like I won’t have the energy Friday to go if I’m blogging all day or something. So, yes, tomorrow. Happy Pi Day.

Really, they’re not innovative. My HP Jornada I got for Christmasin 2000 was an innovative product. That thing was awesome. I could type papers on it during study hall, write notes during class that I could actually read later. Of course I couldn’t surf the internet or watch movies on it.

When the iPad first came out, I thought, really, I’m going to spend $500 on that? But then I somehow fell into the role of iPad developer and I grew to like it quite a bit. We just got a second android tablet that I’d like to play with, but I went for the iPad for a very specific reason: The cablevision app only works on iOS. Using the iPad as a portable TV in the house will be pretty great. We only have TVs in the basement. I tried using my phone to watch netflix while I was cooking, it didn’t work out so well. I just ended up with onions on my phone and a dead battery.

I picked white because I’m sick of looking at the black iPods and I won’t get it confused with the ones at work.

Now to pick out the accessories :) <– best part. Trying hard not to spend all of my bonus. We still need furniture and the bathroom upstairs needs some work. Designer shoes, purse, tablet, I think I’m done for now.