Random Stuff

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• Well, there has definitely been frost on the pumpkins this past week. We had a hard rain and lots of wind and the the temps dropped drastically. The leaves on the trees seemed to fall en masse. Of course, Ethel still hasn't ordered heating oil, so our house is cold as balls. Thank God for electric blankets!
• My car needed to be inspected this month. It needed three tires and a new exhaust. It cost me almost $1,000. No wonder I can't get out of debt! (Never mind that I shop online waaaay too easily....)
• My new plant light and telescoping-arm lamp have finally arrived, and I set them up last night over my aquarium. This weekend I plan to set up the hydroponic strawberry plants in the hole in the lid. Photos will follow. Still acting as Destroyer of Snails.
• Baby blanket and layette set are complete and wrapped in cute bag and tissue, cute frosted cut-out cookies are ordered for the baby shower, and now I just have to decide if I want to stay overnight with one of my sister-in-laws or drive my mom and I home in the dark after the shower in two weeks (it's about a 2 hour drive, and there's lots of suicidal deer along the highways this time of year).
• I have now started work on knitting my bulky sweater.
• Work is ....work. The quilt show has ended (and I only flipped out once on an entitled old lady, but she started it, I swear!) I have bookmarked a bunch of interesting-looking jobs online, but last night when I went to work on applying to some of them, I found myself playing The Sims instead. Funny how that works....
• Yesterday I discovered that my dream home is back on the market. I want it soooo badly, but it's technically too much house for just me (three bedrooms, shitty galley kitchen with no appliances, kooky all-wood finished basement, bonus screened-in porch, defunct pool that doesn't hold water), and the taxes on it are ...outrageous (it's in the town's "hill section.") Plus, I have no savings to even put down on a house.... It definitely needs work, and I kinda want to know what exactly is wrong with it that it doesn't sell... like, is the stone facade going bad, or the roof? Maybe the foundation has a problem, or the septic? Maybe it's haunted? I don't know. I really want to go look at it, but I don't want to waste the realtor's time, because, short of winning the lotto (which I don't play), there is no way on Earth that I can buy this any time soon.