erilyn and alasen were awesome houseguests for the last five days, I miss you guys already!!!, erm, and in fact I owe the swear jar a dollar now, because use of the word awesome is now banned in these parts. It was the first thing Lyn mentioned when I met her off the shuttle, namely that she'd been saying it too often and was henceforth going to use fantastic ( Read more... )

Quick emergency post as I take a breather from hauling the crap of the ages up the stairs, aka I have one trip and five boxes to go in the biggest and most annoying move of all time ( Read more... )

I've been working like a mad thing at my new apartment. Stripping wallpaper, shampooing carpets, jiffing down appliances, painting cupboards... I am so incredibly exhausted I fall straight into bed as soon as I get home (mindset change needed here -- I mean the old place), and maybe I can stay awake for an episode of something, but usually I fall ( Read more... )

Today is freakin' Mardi Gras at my house. Literally. Well almost literally. *braces self to bandy semantics with a certain flister ( Read more... )

So. I'm not positive I've adequately conveyed the full horror of the last wee while, and I have to, in order to express the joy I'm feeling right now ( Read more... )