so last night on the way home from the movies I noticed that my ponytail was really bugging the shit out of me. (more than usual.) so, just before I hit the exit for my village, I thought, "hey, I should go get all my hair chopped off tomorrow ( Read more... )

that if you have a mortgage with a company, and you pay all of your payments on time and don't miss one, and then it comes up for renewal and you call them because you haven't gotten any papers from them, and they say to you on the phone "oh don't worry, just keep paying it [I have automatic withdrawls] and we'll send you the paperwork when it's ( Read more... )

I love that Hollywood keeps making movies for me. today's was "Angels and Demons." ( thoughts. )

so I was kind of depressed when I got to work this morning, logged into my online banking info, paid the bills that were due, and ended up with $60 left in my account by 8.45am. and then I realized that this week I ( Read more... )

a week and three brothers later, and it no longer rains in my living room. half of my roof has been ripped off and the shingles fully replaced, and it cost me $1600. plus the $160+tax to pick up the bin with my old shingles in it, but I have to call for that next week (after I get paid. . .). it took _waaaay_ too long and the brother is just ( Read more... )

in case you were ever wondering to yourself at some future juncture, "self" - because hai there third person! - "self, I bet it would be totally fun to be stranded in a grocery store when the power goes out!" let me just disavow you right now of that thought. the skies opened, the rains came, the thunders thundered, the lightnings lightninged, and ( Read more... )

well, the tube just went on my big tv in the living room. that's _my_ tv, the first big tv (ie, over 19") that I ever bought, about, ummmm. I think it was one of my first purchases when I got my first "real job" at the shelter, so around 12 years ago, give or take ( Read more... )

last night I was horrified to find a trail of tiny ants leading to a swarm on my carpet (obvs an invisible spill of something there). sucked the buggers up in the vacuum, but they were still coming in my front door, and an hour later, another swarm. so gross! I found some ant traps and set them out, but that wasn't immediately stopping them from ( Read more... )

my roof is leaking, and peeling the paint off the walls in my living room.

. . .

yeah, I don't even. dammit, I loved my pink living room.

nine cm of snow last night, I had to shovel my car out to get to work, and my back _still_ hurts. I am such a wuss ( Read more... )