Been a nice day. We went to see Fantastic Four, which made me laugh out loud any number of times, so hey, I was happy with it. Picked up the Audi, which seems to be running beautifully now, a mere one year after we bought it. Ted ordered contacts and I got my new glasses, and everybody in the house was obliged to take a nap during the hot afternoon, and then we gamed. Gaming was good; we actually completed this story arc and killed the major bad guy (woo!…
SASSY
SASSY. Or maybe SAUCY!
very weary
I’ve been extremely on-edge all day for some reason. It is wearing. Paint stripping has had an unintended consequence. My back is more screwed up than it’s been in a long time. I’m not really doing all that badly, but I’m the worst my current chiro has ever seen me, and he got a bit wild-eyed about it and started talking physical therapy and doing another x-ray to see what kind of shape the bones are in (which is acceptable to me because 1. I’d been thinking it a few…
hard work
My, stripping paint is hard work. I don’t know if it would be easier if the paint wasn’t latex and inclined to ball up nastily, or if non-latex paint would be equally difficult in a different way. So I’m gonna get one small section done and see how it looks and decide if it’s worth the effort of doing it everywhere. I also determined that it is a *morning* job, not an afternoon job, because it’s hot work anyway and by afternoon the sun has come ’round and is boiling…
ha cha cha
I got PAID! Having been paid, it strikes me that I have 3 more payments due before I have no more payments due, and one of those isn’t due til sometime after March. This is an absurd way to try to make a living, just in case anybody was wondering. It’s the best job I’ve ever had, but as a money-making venture, .not. practical. Yesterday in a jolt of unpleasantness I realized there was a character whose name got changed in “Banshee Cries”, and that I was pretty sure there…