Good things that have happened since 7 November, which appears to have been the last happy Friday post. I haven't done these in a while. Anyway, this list doesn't attempt to be comprehensive ( Read more... )

"Oh what a lovely day," Lee said to herself as she nursed the second of two rather unpleasant cuts in her left thumb. Fortunately, Lee was not left-handed, but nevertheless, banging your knuckle against several tons of fine German steel (as she had done that morning getting out of her car) hurts like a bastard, and so does getting the tender space ( Read more... )

We read Homer today in G100. ( Here is a brief rundown of what happened. )

True, "meh" and its derivatives are more and more frequently used by me.

It snowed here, sort of (flurries), but the car started okay except the lock seems to be shot. True, the lock on the driver's side door has always been shot; I have to lock and unlock from the passenger's side. Still, this morning the damn thing wanted to be locked on the ( Read more... )

...I would like to put my head down and sleep now plz kthx ( Read more... )

I have to buy wine and shrimp and French bread, for my m0mmy will be here on Friday on account of her birthday is Thursday, and I said "come up for the weekend". And she wants the thing I make with shrimp, popularly known as Shrimp Thing. I like the stuff, but I'm not as crazy about it as she is. (Recipe forthcoming ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to buy a 12-gauge and use it to blast the cacophonous, snot-nosed urchins who play on the cement stoop outside my apartment. Particularly if they persist in doing it where I should under no circumstances be able to hear them. True, I suppose it might be less arduous (and keep me out of jail) if I were to simply find out who their ( Read more... )

Viz., that she never wants to paint furniture again as long as she lives. Also, paint thinner stinks to high heaven. Also also, with all the gadgets that my father was so fond of, you'd think he'd have purchased a paint sprayer at some point in his career, thus making it easier for me to paint furniture ( Read more... )

So I signed my lease and sent it off today; God alone knows when it will get there, hopefully on Monday or so, as that is 25 August and the electric company needs 3 days' notice before they turn on the electricity. I hope they accept my application. I mean, technically, it wasn't a lie--when I signed it, I was employed. That all changes at 5:00 p.m ( Read more... )

Left to my own devices, I would like to spend the rest of the evening staring at my pretty pretty baby and not do anything I'm supposed to do.

The Prima Porta makes me ovulate. Those arms! That face! That body! The way the breastplate fits! NIPPLES, for the love of God ( Read more... )