an irish day
Heh, apparently weather pixie has been down for a couple weeks and I just noticed it and blamed LJ. Oh well, they're to blame for so much crap, what's one more thing?
Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm wearing green and avoiding the parade that's about to start one block over. It's a cold, gray, wintery day anyway.
GNO tonight which is great since I've been unable to attend for a while due to church stuff but this is Spring Break here so church stuff is canceled.
I'm making cottage pie for dinner. Our newest grocery store has a British foods section and they had a packet of mix so I don't have to use a recipe or brave the crowds downtown to go to Brits for one. Cottage pie is shepherd's pie but made with beef instead of lamb. I like both but ground beef is cheaper.
I got a card in the mail asking me to be a Nielsen family. I've done it before--it's short term, like two weeks or something. If they get it to me right away it'll be basketball, basketball, criminal minds repeats, basketball, supernatural on the dvr, basketball. *g*
I finally started watching Caprica--watched the first two hour episode. It's interesting but I'm not blown away. I wasn't blown away by the original BSG mini-series either, and then fell in love with the show, so hopefully it'll grow on me. At some point I need to watch the last three eps of BSG. I've been putting that off. In April boss starts going away for ten days each month, so I plan to watch several things I have on my computer--Mad Men season 2, BSG, Veronica Mars season 3 (yes, I know, pretty pathetic), maybe finally the last ep of Torchwood...
I also got my census form in the mail (one week after I got notice they'd be sending me one, and, gee isn't that a waste of money?!). I'm not happy with the questions. My boss and I were just discussing it--he put down the office number as his phone number and, since that was one of my objections, he said I could do the same. I don't like the sex question--no option for "other"--and I've always disliked the racial questions. The government already has my name and address so that's not really a problem but I just don't like this intrusiveness. I asked my dad if I could be arrested for not answering and he said it wasn't likely but he also implied that I was acting like a Republican which annoyed me to no end. So, I'll answer it but I think I'll put on it that I don't appreciate the sex and race and phone number questions.
This is the first time I've had to answer it. Ten years ago I was still living with my parents.
I got my corrected appraisal in the mail--a clusterfuck by the county shifted a number or something and they had to resend them all, another great waste of money--and my house devalued another $1800, which I don't really mind since I don't plan to sell it anytime soon and it's overvalued anyway. With the leaking basement and the huge cracks in the walls and driveway and garage floor, leaking greenhouse windows, and rotting back deck it needs about $40k worth of work to make it sellable. I need to get the deck replaced and a roof put over the top of the greenhouse this summer. Oh, and the front door replaced since it won't close without a lot of hammering and cursing and crying--I haven't opened it since before Christmas.
Why do I own my own home again?
Okay, back to reading fics.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm wearing green and avoiding the parade that's about to start one block over. It's a cold, gray, wintery day anyway.
GNO tonight which is great since I've been unable to attend for a while due to church stuff but this is Spring Break here so church stuff is canceled.
I'm making cottage pie for dinner. Our newest grocery store has a British foods section and they had a packet of mix so I don't have to use a recipe or brave the crowds downtown to go to Brits for one. Cottage pie is shepherd's pie but made with beef instead of lamb. I like both but ground beef is cheaper.
I got a card in the mail asking me to be a Nielsen family. I've done it before--it's short term, like two weeks or something. If they get it to me right away it'll be basketball, basketball, criminal minds repeats, basketball, supernatural on the dvr, basketball. *g*
I finally started watching Caprica--watched the first two hour episode. It's interesting but I'm not blown away. I wasn't blown away by the original BSG mini-series either, and then fell in love with the show, so hopefully it'll grow on me. At some point I need to watch the last three eps of BSG. I've been putting that off. In April boss starts going away for ten days each month, so I plan to watch several things I have on my computer--Mad Men season 2, BSG, Veronica Mars season 3 (yes, I know, pretty pathetic), maybe finally the last ep of Torchwood...
I also got my census form in the mail (one week after I got notice they'd be sending me one, and, gee isn't that a waste of money?!). I'm not happy with the questions. My boss and I were just discussing it--he put down the office number as his phone number and, since that was one of my objections, he said I could do the same. I don't like the sex question--no option for "other"--and I've always disliked the racial questions. The government already has my name and address so that's not really a problem but I just don't like this intrusiveness. I asked my dad if I could be arrested for not answering and he said it wasn't likely but he also implied that I was acting like a Republican which annoyed me to no end. So, I'll answer it but I think I'll put on it that I don't appreciate the sex and race and phone number questions.
This is the first time I've had to answer it. Ten years ago I was still living with my parents.
I got my corrected appraisal in the mail--a clusterfuck by the county shifted a number or something and they had to resend them all, another great waste of money--and my house devalued another $1800, which I don't really mind since I don't plan to sell it anytime soon and it's overvalued anyway. With the leaking basement and the huge cracks in the walls and driveway and garage floor, leaking greenhouse windows, and rotting back deck it needs about $40k worth of work to make it sellable. I need to get the deck replaced and a roof put over the top of the greenhouse this summer. Oh, and the front door replaced since it won't close without a lot of hammering and cursing and crying--I haven't opened it since before Christmas.
Why do I own my own home again?
Okay, back to reading fics.