Are you heavy enough to make me stay / I feel like I might blow away
Memorial Day weekend I went to my grandma's cabin on Big Fish Lake with my dad and his fiance. It was mostly very nice. There's something profoundly relaxing about having someone else be in charge of your food and shelter for a few days. We made really good spaghetti and barbequed chicken, played games, and worked outside all day. One of my uncles is trying to re-forest a field my grandma owns across the road from the cabin, so he bought 25 sugar maples and planted them. But he placed them all over the field, so when my dad decided to water, mulch, and water the trees again it took a while. The 4 hoses we used only reached about 1/3 of the trees, so there was lots of toting jugs of water around. I got a slight tan, 2 mosquito bites, and a tick (I killed it good, no worries). It was also nice to see my grandma who's 90, but it's really sad how she's gradually slowing down. She still drives, but has trouble going up and down stairs etc. It also took her longer than usual to catch on to a new card game we played after dinner. We offered to play something else, but she wanted to keep playing it. She's one of the sweetest yet most stubborn people ever I've ever known.
I did all my laundry at my grandma's house on Sunday (even though it made me feel like a freeloading college student). When I got home Monday I painted the rest of my room and put up some Xmas lights. I like it, and I can't wait to put stuff on the walls. But I also really really need to go to Ikea and get shelves / places to store my clothes / shades for my lights / nails / cheap poster frames / etc. Living with bare lightbulbs out of suitcases is getting old. Also I want Swedish meatballs! And my phone still sucks... I need to go to the Sprint store too. Looks like this is turning into a Mall of America trip.
Um but I'm kind of missing friends. I'm skating a lot which is good, but I don't have to skate EVERY night I've decided. I can do things like laundry and movie watching and grocery shopping (oh god I have no food).
New skates are OK. I think I just need to loosen the trucks, buy some tight-weave cotton sport socks, and change the gel foot inserts. My feet look gross from all the blisters (and blisters within blisters... fo serious) I've gotten from various skates in the last few months. But I'm getting used to the skinnier wheels and shorter plate on these. Sorry about all the jargon... suffice it to say my skates are PIMPED OUT.
I also need to start making dentist / doctor's appointments. Insurance card should be coming in the mail soon. Agh!
Am currently reading Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. The fairy tales themselves are great, but I just can't bring myself to read the 33 page introduction (with its 3 pages of footnotes) or the feminist literary criticism in the back. Maybe someday.
Question: should I get a car? My roommate Macey wants to do a car-share with her car, but I would want to have my name on the car insurance (and the ownership of the car) and I'm not sure if you can do that. Plus my mom's car is gonig to die soon, so it would be good to have one I can lend/give her (even though she is insisting she is going to get a truck next. WTFAGH!!!) and she can't afford any sort of car payment. Then again, I can take the bus to work in the winter (even though I'd still have to walk 5 blocks outside) and bike the rest of the time. Cars are really expensive. But it is really annoying that if I want to go to the store after work that's the ONLY thing I can do that night since it takes so long to get there by bus etc etc. And I hate begging rides off people. But I hate driving. Bleh.
I did all my laundry at my grandma's house on Sunday (even though it made me feel like a freeloading college student). When I got home Monday I painted the rest of my room and put up some Xmas lights. I like it, and I can't wait to put stuff on the walls. But I also really really need to go to Ikea and get shelves / places to store my clothes / shades for my lights / nails / cheap poster frames / etc. Living with bare lightbulbs out of suitcases is getting old. Also I want Swedish meatballs! And my phone still sucks... I need to go to the Sprint store too. Looks like this is turning into a Mall of America trip.
Um but I'm kind of missing friends. I'm skating a lot which is good, but I don't have to skate EVERY night I've decided. I can do things like laundry and movie watching and grocery shopping (oh god I have no food).
New skates are OK. I think I just need to loosen the trucks, buy some tight-weave cotton sport socks, and change the gel foot inserts. My feet look gross from all the blisters (and blisters within blisters... fo serious) I've gotten from various skates in the last few months. But I'm getting used to the skinnier wheels and shorter plate on these. Sorry about all the jargon... suffice it to say my skates are PIMPED OUT.
I also need to start making dentist / doctor's appointments. Insurance card should be coming in the mail soon. Agh!
Am currently reading Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. The fairy tales themselves are great, but I just can't bring myself to read the 33 page introduction (with its 3 pages of footnotes) or the feminist literary criticism in the back. Maybe someday.
Question: should I get a car? My roommate Macey wants to do a car-share with her car, but I would want to have my name on the car insurance (and the ownership of the car) and I'm not sure if you can do that. Plus my mom's car is gonig to die soon, so it would be good to have one I can lend/give her (even though she is insisting she is going to get a truck next. WTFAGH!!!) and she can't afford any sort of car payment. Then again, I can take the bus to work in the winter (even though I'd still have to walk 5 blocks outside) and bike the rest of the time. Cars are really expensive. But it is really annoying that if I want to go to the store after work that's the ONLY thing I can do that night since it takes so long to get there by bus etc etc. And I hate begging rides off people. But I hate driving. Bleh.