Well the year got off to a nerdy start...
Yesterday I worked about ten and a half hours and made near fifty bucks in tips, which was nice, because during my trip home last week I was ambushed by a loan bill last minute; and naturally given the situation I had left my checks in KC, so I used my parents' routing number to pay said bill, and in turn gave them almost all the cash I had; so work was good!
For actual New Year's Eve a friend and I went to a house party cohosted by another friend home from New Orleans for the holidays. Despite me being the driver people kept giving me wine and beer to drink (however, we were situated perhaps a five minutes' walk from my friend's apartment, had I gotten really fucked up), and I wound up counting down the New Year with my mom and brother on the phone, while having the midnight kiss with another partygoer as agreed about a half-hour prior, haha. I don't remember per se when we left, probably around one; in so doing, I helped my friend count coup on the party by stealing their co-host, whom my friend brought to her "bed pit" with her when we got back to her apartment, and I made her brother and his friend flatten the futon for themselves so that I could have the love seat to myself (with the exception of one point this morning when I awoke and the cat was making use of my clavicle for a perch--weird).
I got up for realz this morning between ten and eleven, cleaned up the dishes from two-in-the-morning-spaghetti-making, got some groceries on my way home, and made a brunch of scrambled eggs with zucchini and onion greens, some pumpkin bread, and an orange. I wasn't really hung over but there was a sort of tight feeling in my head that didn't subside till late afternoon; however, that didn't stop me from going out for a walk for about an hour after brunch.
Then I got home, and the nerdiness ensued. My only real goal for today was doing some housecleaning because trash/recycling gets picked up tomorrow. However, I am a procrastinator, and spent the middle chunk of the afternoon doing no cleaning or organizing whatsoever. Instead, I watched a movie, and now I have a confession to make:
I THINK I LIKE HETALIA.
Which might be jumping on the bandwagon pretty tardy, but it's been around and I've been exposed and I guess from there it was just a kind of sloping scale sort of thing, interests wise. I haven't read any of it or anything, but I watched Paint it White courtesy of YouTube, and I laughed. A lot. Especially during the world conference scene, but also throughout. Maybe it's just the history person in me or something, but it was pretty fuckin funny. America reminds me of Lanipator's treatment of Koenma in YYH Abridged (I did warn that this was going to get pretty nerdy), which I think helped a lot in endearing me to the movie.
Speaking of YYH, I think I've hit the halfway point in the next chapter of "Humidity," and thought I'd share a bit:
Unperturbed, Hiei smirked, and said dismissively, “His ‘practical concerns’ are just as unrealistic as Kuwabara’s idealistic ones.” To Kurama: “But if you’re going to toss and turn until we reemerge, wait for me in Gandhara, and I’ll come pay my respects to those newlyweds when we’re done.”
While Kurama returned his smirk, distorted into the form of conditional acquiescence, Kuwabara furrowed his brow in confusion. “Uh, what newlyweds?”
“An old friend and a distant relation,” the other redhead answered. Eyeing Hiei, he added, “And technically speaking, that terminology could be misleading; no actual wedding took place.”
“Neither will ours,” Yukina jumped in, looking at Kuwabara. “Not if someone doesn’t stay to plan it. Unless you want to turn control of everything over to Shizuru…”
At that, Kuwabara made a strained sound in the back of his throat, and his face made a corresponding expression. “She would like that. She’s been treating the whole thing like it’s her getting to give me away to Yukina or something, which doesn’t even make sense because she’s not getting rid of either of us until we find a place to move out of here to!” He sloped his eyebrows into the curve of his palm; and across the table, Hiei, out of consideration for Yukina, fought the curve of a threatening sneer.
That is, until Kuwabara, evidently recovered swiftly, lifted his face from his hand and said to Kurama, “Oh by the way, would it be possible to get your landlord’s number?”
The sneer grew flaccid of its own accord. Yukina’s topic of deferment wound up working so well that even Hiei, who would still be going to seek the isle, thought less on the more daunting prospects of the upcoming expedition, than he did on what to him was the more gut-freezing possibility of his future brother-in-law (gut-freezing in itself, but an inevitability he had to digest) also becoming his neighbor.
I've had an accidental tradition of posting some one-shot or finally completing some work in progress around the time of New Years, which didn't happen this year. I feel a little unaccomplished about it but I am actively working on finishing at least this story, plus there's a tentative oneshot that doesn't need much more work before being postable. In short, fandom, I'll be around.
I did finally get a bit more productive, and sifted through a lot of stuff that's spent the past couple of weeks just kind of sitting around our downstairs--separated trash from recyclables, swept things up, condensed some cardboard boxes, that sort of thing. The place is a mess right now by nature of having the carpet ripped up and still awaiting sanding, so there's only so much order I can bring before hitting a superfluous mark because it'll be undone by the anticipated sanding; but in the meantime we can at least be psuedoclean *nod*nod*
For actual New Year's Eve a friend and I went to a house party cohosted by another friend home from New Orleans for the holidays. Despite me being the driver people kept giving me wine and beer to drink (however, we were situated perhaps a five minutes' walk from my friend's apartment, had I gotten really fucked up), and I wound up counting down the New Year with my mom and brother on the phone, while having the midnight kiss with another partygoer as agreed about a half-hour prior, haha. I don't remember per se when we left, probably around one; in so doing, I helped my friend count coup on the party by stealing their co-host, whom my friend brought to her "bed pit" with her when we got back to her apartment, and I made her brother and his friend flatten the futon for themselves so that I could have the love seat to myself (with the exception of one point this morning when I awoke and the cat was making use of my clavicle for a perch--weird).
I got up for realz this morning between ten and eleven, cleaned up the dishes from two-in-the-morning-spaghetti-making, got some groceries on my way home, and made a brunch of scrambled eggs with zucchini and onion greens, some pumpkin bread, and an orange. I wasn't really hung over but there was a sort of tight feeling in my head that didn't subside till late afternoon; however, that didn't stop me from going out for a walk for about an hour after brunch.
Then I got home, and the nerdiness ensued. My only real goal for today was doing some housecleaning because trash/recycling gets picked up tomorrow. However, I am a procrastinator, and spent the middle chunk of the afternoon doing no cleaning or organizing whatsoever. Instead, I watched a movie, and now I have a confession to make:
I THINK I LIKE HETALIA.
Which might be jumping on the bandwagon pretty tardy, but it's been around and I've been exposed and I guess from there it was just a kind of sloping scale sort of thing, interests wise. I haven't read any of it or anything, but I watched Paint it White courtesy of YouTube, and I laughed. A lot. Especially during the world conference scene, but also throughout. Maybe it's just the history person in me or something, but it was pretty fuckin funny. America reminds me of Lanipator's treatment of Koenma in YYH Abridged (I did warn that this was going to get pretty nerdy), which I think helped a lot in endearing me to the movie.
Speaking of YYH, I think I've hit the halfway point in the next chapter of "Humidity," and thought I'd share a bit:
Unperturbed, Hiei smirked, and said dismissively, “His ‘practical concerns’ are just as unrealistic as Kuwabara’s idealistic ones.” To Kurama: “But if you’re going to toss and turn until we reemerge, wait for me in Gandhara, and I’ll come pay my respects to those newlyweds when we’re done.”
While Kurama returned his smirk, distorted into the form of conditional acquiescence, Kuwabara furrowed his brow in confusion. “Uh, what newlyweds?”
“An old friend and a distant relation,” the other redhead answered. Eyeing Hiei, he added, “And technically speaking, that terminology could be misleading; no actual wedding took place.”
“Neither will ours,” Yukina jumped in, looking at Kuwabara. “Not if someone doesn’t stay to plan it. Unless you want to turn control of everything over to Shizuru…”
At that, Kuwabara made a strained sound in the back of his throat, and his face made a corresponding expression. “She would like that. She’s been treating the whole thing like it’s her getting to give me away to Yukina or something, which doesn’t even make sense because she’s not getting rid of either of us until we find a place to move out of here to!” He sloped his eyebrows into the curve of his palm; and across the table, Hiei, out of consideration for Yukina, fought the curve of a threatening sneer.
That is, until Kuwabara, evidently recovered swiftly, lifted his face from his hand and said to Kurama, “Oh by the way, would it be possible to get your landlord’s number?”
The sneer grew flaccid of its own accord. Yukina’s topic of deferment wound up working so well that even Hiei, who would still be going to seek the isle, thought less on the more daunting prospects of the upcoming expedition, than he did on what to him was the more gut-freezing possibility of his future brother-in-law (gut-freezing in itself, but an inevitability he had to digest) also becoming his neighbor.
I've had an accidental tradition of posting some one-shot or finally completing some work in progress around the time of New Years, which didn't happen this year. I feel a little unaccomplished about it but I am actively working on finishing at least this story, plus there's a tentative oneshot that doesn't need much more work before being postable. In short, fandom, I'll be around.
I did finally get a bit more productive, and sifted through a lot of stuff that's spent the past couple of weeks just kind of sitting around our downstairs--separated trash from recyclables, swept things up, condensed some cardboard boxes, that sort of thing. The place is a mess right now by nature of having the carpet ripped up and still awaiting sanding, so there's only so much order I can bring before hitting a superfluous mark because it'll be undone by the anticipated sanding; but in the meantime we can at least be psuedoclean *nod*nod*