Thinks to do this week: 1. apply for stupid student loans 2. apply for Irish passport 3. fill out Nathan & Cecilia’s paperwork 4. fill out 401k paperwork 5. christmas shop 6. go to the bloody postoffice and send gifts 7. eat too much fudge 8. figure out who to ask for letters of recommendation for grad school applications 9. make a christmas wishlist
Author: mizkit
repainting!
Ooh, the people next door are repainting. I just opened the blinds and can see into the house across from ours’ sliding doors, and the room is all empty except a ladder and a guy with a paint roller. My dog just abandoned her peanutbutter ball in hopes of getting a slice of orange from me. What a weird dog. 13 days. 13 days, and the light will start to come back.
an excellent day
An excellent day today, despite, or perhaps because of, not getting up until 10. I read two books which I hadn’t read since the 80s and to my delight, they were as good as they were back then. (The books in question are The Unicorn Quest and The Unicorn Dilemma, which are part of the Unicorn Saga, by John Lee; I found the 5th book in the series, which I hadn’t known existed, at Title Wave about a year or 18 months ago, gawped, said, “I don’t have this book!”…
snot
So I’m sitting here with clogged up ears and trying to get them to clear, and it reminded me of when we went to California when I was 12. On the plane trip on the way down, my ears popped, and for three weeks they wouldn’t clear, and I couldn’t hear for beans. Drove my mom absolutely insane. She thought I was just being a jerk, because every time somebody would say something, I’d say, “What?” She must’ve cleared about six pounds of earwax out of my ears, because every…
know what
Know what I’d like for Christmas? Ice skates. Ice skates that fit my fat feet. I should tell somebody in my family that. :)