"Baila en la calle de día"
So, Mom's having foot surgery tomorrow, which will be exciting. My sister's going to be angry with me for also having a gym appointment in the afternoon, but there will be 45 minutes MAX between when she leaves for work and when I get back, during which time Mom will probably be asleep (more like 20-30 minutes). I really hope it goes fine, and that this is the last time she needs anything getting adjusted or whatever.
I've finally found a couple of local temp agencies and signed up to one over the interwebs tonight, and applied for 2 jobs at the same time. I mean, I hope one of them goes through, but I'll obviously keep looking. I also get to buy my JSTOR access tomorrow, so I can start reading back issues of JFR, Folklore, and Marvels & Tales (which is theoretically all online? I haven't looked yet). I'm REALLY hoping to make myself somewhat productive, since I haven't managed to do that yet - all the not-hearing about anything I apply for, or from people I need information from has been extremely discouraging and sitting around watching TV has just seemed a lot easier. I need to not do that.
My sister has been making me feel super self-conscious about my paleness lol (she's been a little better recently - thanks for the sympathy! It's a lot better now that the parents are home thus the tension is diffused over all of us, but with Mom being an invalid from tomorrow, I worry.) I've started to think I should take a couple of tanning sessions, since you can still see lines on my back from when I got burnt at the Renaissance Faire in July. Seriously. She brought me a referral card today, which would give me 7 free (consecutive) days, which, in my case, would probably add up to about 6 (MAYBE 9) minutes of tanning - 2 to 3 every other day. I'd be better off using the natural sun, but we haven't had any in 2½ weeks (did I forget to move out of England?), so I might try a little, and see what happens. At worst, it'll make me red and unhappy and I won't do it again. At best, I'll feel a little less corpse-like and maybe it'll lift my mood a little. This weather's really been getting me down. I think I'll go on Wednesday and see what's what.
Nick was home for Easter (and forgot to bring the books he checked out for me, but I'll pick them up from him when I go to start helping him move), which was nice. We all got an Easter basket from someone else, and that was fun. Katrina got me a nice scarf and a bunch of accessories to match it - I think I'll get a lot of use out of most of it, since a lot of my stuff goes with at least some of it :D Mom liked her array of bubble baths, books, and a couple of nice scented candles. Mom got Nick a bunch of camping stuff, which was cool, Katrina got a laptop case and other stuff I can't remember (??), and Nick got Dad a neat hat to replace his aging wool fedora.
So, for a certain value of exciting, it's been an exciting weekend! Which is to say incredibly mundane, but the most negative thing that happened (besides sister-outbursts) was all the stares my tattoo got in church yesterday. I didn't feel that a dark turtleneck sweater and black skirt were very Easter-y, so I wore a pink dress and white cardigan, which had the unfortunate drawback of putting my collarbone tattoo on partial display. I wouldn't have shown it given an option, but I really didn't think black was Easter-appropriate. Oh, well - you win some, you lose some. At least I went? Anyway that's all the news from Lake Wobegon (I REALLY need to learn some new catchphrases or something - Garrison Keillor must hate me by now)
I do feel pretty good about hte last few days, though, because I've started reading Pillars of the Earth again, so I'm going to try to finish it soon, and I sent off my first art-trade installment to gnibbles, which was fun to do :D I'm going to really try to make myself busy. I also need to find a way to practice singing that won't disturb Mom this week, since I haven't practiced since Friday when everyone came home...
I've finally found a couple of local temp agencies and signed up to one over the interwebs tonight, and applied for 2 jobs at the same time. I mean, I hope one of them goes through, but I'll obviously keep looking. I also get to buy my JSTOR access tomorrow, so I can start reading back issues of JFR, Folklore, and Marvels & Tales (which is theoretically all online? I haven't looked yet). I'm REALLY hoping to make myself somewhat productive, since I haven't managed to do that yet - all the not-hearing about anything I apply for, or from people I need information from has been extremely discouraging and sitting around watching TV has just seemed a lot easier. I need to not do that.
My sister has been making me feel super self-conscious about my paleness lol (she's been a little better recently - thanks for the sympathy! It's a lot better now that the parents are home thus the tension is diffused over all of us, but with Mom being an invalid from tomorrow, I worry.) I've started to think I should take a couple of tanning sessions, since you can still see lines on my back from when I got burnt at the Renaissance Faire in July. Seriously. She brought me a referral card today, which would give me 7 free (consecutive) days, which, in my case, would probably add up to about 6 (MAYBE 9) minutes of tanning - 2 to 3 every other day. I'd be better off using the natural sun, but we haven't had any in 2½ weeks (did I forget to move out of England?), so I might try a little, and see what happens. At worst, it'll make me red and unhappy and I won't do it again. At best, I'll feel a little less corpse-like and maybe it'll lift my mood a little. This weather's really been getting me down. I think I'll go on Wednesday and see what's what.
Nick was home for Easter (and forgot to bring the books he checked out for me, but I'll pick them up from him when I go to start helping him move), which was nice. We all got an Easter basket from someone else, and that was fun. Katrina got me a nice scarf and a bunch of accessories to match it - I think I'll get a lot of use out of most of it, since a lot of my stuff goes with at least some of it :D Mom liked her array of bubble baths, books, and a couple of nice scented candles. Mom got Nick a bunch of camping stuff, which was cool, Katrina got a laptop case and other stuff I can't remember (??), and Nick got Dad a neat hat to replace his aging wool fedora.
So, for a certain value of exciting, it's been an exciting weekend! Which is to say incredibly mundane, but the most negative thing that happened (besides sister-outbursts) was all the stares my tattoo got in church yesterday. I didn't feel that a dark turtleneck sweater and black skirt were very Easter-y, so I wore a pink dress and white cardigan, which had the unfortunate drawback of putting my collarbone tattoo on partial display. I wouldn't have shown it given an option, but I really didn't think black was Easter-appropriate. Oh, well - you win some, you lose some. At least I went? Anyway that's all the news from Lake Wobegon (I REALLY need to learn some new catchphrases or something - Garrison Keillor must hate me by now)
I do feel pretty good about hte last few days, though, because I've started reading Pillars of the Earth again, so I'm going to try to finish it soon, and I sent off my first art-trade installment to gnibbles, which was fun to do :D I'm going to really try to make myself busy. I also need to find a way to practice singing that won't disturb Mom this week, since I haven't practiced since Friday when everyone came home...