blah blah I love bubble tea blah blah cheap panties blah hooray for the internets
Today has been a good day, except for one of my kitchen cabinet doors falling off its hinges and landing in the sink. But on the positive side, it didn't land on my head. Really, I've been thinking that it was only a matter of time before this happened, because I could TELL that one of the hinges was loose, and it kept getting loose again even when I tightened the screw.
Anyway, I called the landlady about it, who basically burst into hysterical laughter. She was just here this afternoon to pour sulfuric acid down the drain in my bathtub. Hopefully I will no longer end up with six inches of standing water every time I take a shower. She says she'll come look at it tomorrow or Monday.
Other than that, I had a productive day--I went to Cheap Chic, the used furniture store in lower Allston, and bought that night table so that now I have drawers next to my bed and a surface that doesn't sway back and forth when I set a glass of wine down on it, which is important. Then I walked to the Trader Joe's in Brookline, with a stopover at the TJ Maxx that's on the way--I tried on a super cute zebra striped clingy top, but I already have SO MANY ho clothes and it was $30. I don't know. Maybe if I think about it longingly for long enough I'll go back for it, but it wasn't crying out to me that much. I did get three pairs of cheap panties, because where cheap panties are concerned, I have no self-control at all.
At Trader Joe's, I couldn't find the cheese foccacino rolls that I love (tragedy!), but I did find some very tasty scones--I had a lemon ginger one when I got home and it was delish. I also found frozen salmon patties--I don't think they're quite the same kind I had when I was visiting my cousin Jade (who has a blog now), but they're only 80 calories and 1 gram of fat apiece! Not that I am so worried about fat now that I get to eat three times as much of it, but it's nice to have the lowfat options.
I did decide against a party tonight with cos because I am feeling a little burned out on human contact after a week of the IAP video game design workshop, which ran every day from 10 to 6--but did I mention that our team won?
The judges loved our pitch for a Beatles sandbox-style game for the Wii. We each got a Sony USB storage device/mp3 player/voice recorder as a prize--they list for $80 on Amazon. Also, the photographer covering the final presentations and contest loved my laptop so much that he took like 20 photos of me with it after photographing our official presentation (which also mainly featured me).
And speaking of the Beatles, today a Beatles mix arrived in the mail for me from sophonisba! I had actually been listening to my own Beatles collection a bunch in the past couple of days, and now I am listening to her mix over and over, because it is very good, and I think "Fixing a Hole" might be my favorite Beatles song ever, at least at the moment. It's been stuck in my head for the past three days.
sophonisba's handwriting is very spindly. She is the only person in the world who is regularly judged to have worse handwriting than me, which I appreciate, although Hannah says we are equally bad, just in different ways. Hannah bailed on me for hot chocolate today, so we're meeting tomorrow instead, at which point, by god, I will visit the Lush store on Harvard Square. I want bath bombs and another massage bar for moisturizing at the gym.
I am feeling very, very talky at the moment, which is odd given my previous assertion of being burned out on human contact, which I AM; I just feel like typing, I guess. I love the internets. I would be a mad shell of a woman in the post-apocalypse, if there were no internets.
I also had bubble tea on my walk to Trader Joe's, because it took me past Infusions Tea Spa. I had the lemon honey green tea with boba and it was LOVELY. Towards the bottom it got a little too sweet, so next time I might ask them to just go easy on the honey--they make every drink to order. But yum. I love bubble tea. I am a total convert. I never would have imagined.
Anyway, I called the landlady about it, who basically burst into hysterical laughter. She was just here this afternoon to pour sulfuric acid down the drain in my bathtub. Hopefully I will no longer end up with six inches of standing water every time I take a shower. She says she'll come look at it tomorrow or Monday.
Other than that, I had a productive day--I went to Cheap Chic, the used furniture store in lower Allston, and bought that night table so that now I have drawers next to my bed and a surface that doesn't sway back and forth when I set a glass of wine down on it, which is important. Then I walked to the Trader Joe's in Brookline, with a stopover at the TJ Maxx that's on the way--I tried on a super cute zebra striped clingy top, but I already have SO MANY ho clothes and it was $30. I don't know. Maybe if I think about it longingly for long enough I'll go back for it, but it wasn't crying out to me that much. I did get three pairs of cheap panties, because where cheap panties are concerned, I have no self-control at all.
At Trader Joe's, I couldn't find the cheese foccacino rolls that I love (tragedy!), but I did find some very tasty scones--I had a lemon ginger one when I got home and it was delish. I also found frozen salmon patties--I don't think they're quite the same kind I had when I was visiting my cousin Jade (who has a blog now), but they're only 80 calories and 1 gram of fat apiece! Not that I am so worried about fat now that I get to eat three times as much of it, but it's nice to have the lowfat options.
I did decide against a party tonight with cos because I am feeling a little burned out on human contact after a week of the IAP video game design workshop, which ran every day from 10 to 6--but did I mention that our team won?
The judges loved our pitch for a Beatles sandbox-style game for the Wii. We each got a Sony USB storage device/mp3 player/voice recorder as a prize--they list for $80 on Amazon. Also, the photographer covering the final presentations and contest loved my laptop so much that he took like 20 photos of me with it after photographing our official presentation (which also mainly featured me).
And speaking of the Beatles, today a Beatles mix arrived in the mail for me from sophonisba! I had actually been listening to my own Beatles collection a bunch in the past couple of days, and now I am listening to her mix over and over, because it is very good, and I think "Fixing a Hole" might be my favorite Beatles song ever, at least at the moment. It's been stuck in my head for the past three days.
sophonisba's handwriting is very spindly. She is the only person in the world who is regularly judged to have worse handwriting than me, which I appreciate, although Hannah says we are equally bad, just in different ways. Hannah bailed on me for hot chocolate today, so we're meeting tomorrow instead, at which point, by god, I will visit the Lush store on Harvard Square. I want bath bombs and another massage bar for moisturizing at the gym.
I am feeling very, very talky at the moment, which is odd given my previous assertion of being burned out on human contact, which I AM; I just feel like typing, I guess. I love the internets. I would be a mad shell of a woman in the post-apocalypse, if there were no internets.
I also had bubble tea on my walk to Trader Joe's, because it took me past Infusions Tea Spa. I had the lemon honey green tea with boba and it was LOVELY. Towards the bottom it got a little too sweet, so next time I might ask them to just go easy on the honey--they make every drink to order. But yum. I love bubble tea. I am a total convert. I never would have imagined.