Not much is going on. I'm tired as all get out. My aunt is visiting, which is adding to everyone's stress levels. She seems to have been having a hard time at this post (understandable - they're working her 12 hours a day, 6 days a week) and has been vegging out to recover. She's already gone through all the Glees we had on our DVR ( Read more... )

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It is nearly 9am. I have been up for an hour and a half. I made an appointment yesterday for the heating people to come look at the weird moldy insulation in our house and give an estimate for replacing the furnace. The lady said 'mid-morning Saturday.' She called at 7am to say he was half an hour out. Threw on some PJ pants and let him in. He took ( Read more... )

So, Friday a guy came over to look at our utility closet - turns out something had been leaking into the closet of the people below us. Oops. He goes in, pokes around, manages to unscrew the big filter cover that's been painted shut. Well, he gets it off and there's a dust bunny in there that's literally 3 feet tall. The insulation is also black ( ( Read more... )

So, I had an 8:30 am meeting today. Ugh. So, I left work at 4:30 and Girlyfriend drove us to Ikea where we picked up some shelving and a Pax for the bedroom. We get the drawers, the door and the hooks, we check out, we strap it to the car and drive back to DC, lug it inside, lug it up the 3 flights of stairs (did I mention this ways 107 pounds?), ( Read more... )

3 boxes filled, bookcase mostly empty, books all packed upstairs. My head aches, as does my throat, a lymph node and my eustachian tubes. I'm going to pray this is just my sinuses drying out due to neti pot & allergy meds and not a new cold that I don't have time to have ( Read more... )

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Really bizarre dreams last night: First was a bizarre sort of movie thing where I didn't watch the plot because an extra in the background looked like stentoriansista if she was wearing robes and a commedia del arte mask. Then I went to a yarn store where they were trying to raise $5,000 to match contributions that helped fund fellowships. I asked them how much ( Read more... )

Yesterday, as I was taking the stairs to get to my street, a guy across the street on a bike started hey babying me. Like, he whistled and I looked up so he started yelling and calling me 'mamacita.' At this point, I was already up and out of sight, had been at work for a very long time and was generally cranky, so I yelled back for him to fuck off ( Read more... )

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