Auuuuuugh maggots in my trash can ( Read more... )

...the house keeps getting furnished!! Now I need to buy more throw pillows.

( Front room! )

Here, have another picture of my cat:


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You guuuuuys. I still love my job, even though sometimes it gets way boring, and entering data on a 1980s black screen with aquamarine and neon green text gets old way fast. This week I got to interact face-to-face with a PhD student! (This is way more impressive when you realize that 1) I was probably at least 4 years younger than said student, ( Read more... )

jfc, I have no idea why I am awake right now. Well, actually, I do, and that reason is "because I couldn't fall asleep," which, is not actually a reason in and of itself. Had intended to wake up at 9am (enjoying my last few days of unemployment), so went to bed at 3:30am because that's when I started getting tired, and then lay awake for two hours ( Read more... )

I survived Christmas with the in-laws! It was actually a pretty good time. :)

Wine count: 4ish glasses over two nights (I was using the hotel cups; it was hard to measure exactly)
Xanax count: 0.5mg on Christmas morning
Present count: SO MANY. TOO MANY? (Is there such a thing?)

Favorite present from my parents: The Phantom Tollbooth (Annotated Edition ( Read more... )

So I have anxiety - this is probably not news to most of you (if it is, and you want to know more, you can check out the anxiety/depression tag). Anyway. Things have been relatively stable lately anxiety- and depression-wise; I had a series of incredibly bad days that happened to coincide with everything in the house going wrong, small wonder. It's ( Read more... )

Let me tell you something about my in-laws. They think that anything worth getting to is worth getting to early - like, insanely early. Which is why my brother-in-law Mike showed up at our house at 6 o’clock on Saturday morning.

And he was late, by the way. He was originally supposed to get there around five. Keep in mind that we aren’t allowed to ( Read more... )

So I am taking a break from the great ordeal that is packing, because my feet hurt and my back hurt and I've been packing since 5:30 except for about 45 minutes in the middle when I got to eat pizza and read a book, Guy Gavriel Kay's The Summer Tree. I bought it at a used bookstore for like $3, because I needed something to read and because I ( Read more... )

 In the last 72 hours, I have spent $4000 on furniture, $1000 on appliances, and closed on our house. I feel the sudden urge to buy stock in ramen noodles.