How pathetic is it that I have my first day off since Thanksgiving, and I'm ridiculously happy to be spending it catching up on housework. My goals for the day:

* Unload dishwasher. Started, but then had to run it again. (Note to self/husband: Don't run the mashed-potatoe dish through the dishwasher without throughly scrubbing it beforehand. It ( Read more... )

1. I am so relieved to be free from house guests. Johanna was a joy to be around, but a two-and-a-half day break between her departure and the arrival of my mother and aunt for a five-day visit was not enough ( Read more... )

Man, I have to retweak my LJ icons. I had been paying for the extras, but I let them expire, and LJ just randomly deleted close to 40 icons, and some of them were ones I use for really specific circumstances. Like, you know, the hiyakittehs, who are very cute, often get used to comment on posts about other people's pets. And sometimes you just need ( Read more... )

Ten days until the wedding.

Things that are wigging me out a little bit:* Six of my closest relatives (and one Canadian exchange student) arrive Saturday and become part of the pre-wedding juggling act ( Read more... )

Okay, how annoying is this? Yesterday, for the second time in a week, I left my thingie that holds my get-in passes at work and my CTA pass on my desk. I had $2.10 cash on me (the train costs $2.25), so I had to borrow $0.15 from the station agent, which was annoying. This morning, knowing that I had no cash and no CTA pass, I left the house early ( Read more... )

* That if I put lotion on my hands every single day, they stop cracking open at the knuckles. (To make myself sound like less of a moron, the reason I don't use lotion regularly is that I've developed random, free-floating allergies and at any moment can be reduced to fits of sneezing by lotions or other substances-wool, detergents, soaps, perfumes ( Read more... )

Number of days spent freaking out about weird girly symptoms that led me to various conflicting and freaksome possible conclusions: 5 ( Read more... )

1. Straight A’s continue! I haven’t gotten my paper and projects back yet, but my course grade was posted, and I got an A, so I’m assuming that the paper passed muster ( Read more... )

1. Having a Trader Joe's directly across the street? Really helps with the four years of frustration at living on top of a huge construction site ( Read more... )

1. Had a wonderful weekend with Marc. Between my mother and The French Kid, I hadn’t seen him for more than dinner (and then only twice) in about three weeks. So it was very good to get some time alone for just the two of us ( Read more... )