now you drive a volvo
i discovered a norwegian show on netflix called ragnarok, in which two brothers and their mom move back to the little town they're from, and the older brother turns out to be the reincarnation of thor? or something? and the powerful wealthy family is made up of jotuns. (none of this is a spoiler. i promise.) and then shit gets weird. s2 ends on a cliffhanger because of course it does, and now after mainlining s1 and s2 i have to wait for s3. hmph. anyway, the subject heading is a quote from s1.
at least it's not from raiders of the lost ark, which was on last night. i'm gonna blow up the ark, rene! :D
this is what i did today:
went to the grocery store
tried to fix some things in my bigbang
had family zoom
met tamalinn for beer and nachos, except i got cider and the place didn't have nachos so we ended up with curry cheese fries (delish) and a bucket of potstickers (fresh from the fryer)
watched the first episode of we are lady parts, in which three muslim girls (plus their manager, who is also a muslim girl) recruit a fourth muslim girl to be the lead guitarist in their punk band. it is exceptionally cute.
and this is what i did yesterday:
had zoom brunch
went to home despot depot to get a shelf for my closet [1]
went to rei to get graduation presents for my cousin's twins who have now both graduated from college holy shit [2]
put aforesaid shelf in my closet, which necessitated emptying the closet first >.<
unpacked into the big bookcase in my bedroom. i think this took an hour, give or take, and i'm 99.44% sure there's one book - ONE BOOK - that should be there but isn't. i have no idea why i'm missing ONE BOOK from this bookcase, or what box it's in
had chinese takeout for dinner (oily)
and this is what i did this past week:
finally unpacked my pots and pans and cookie sheets and basically the rest of my kitchen stuff
made a lot of burritos for dinner for the week (there are still four in the freezer - i was not expecting to end up with so much burrito)
started editing the bang
unpacked into a tall and narrow bookcase in the dining room (also pretty sure there should be more there than there is)
did not die of heat prostration altho it was STUPID HOT for several days
it still looks like hoarders live here but at least it's not as bad as it was.
i also watched the series finales of pose (which got a little political and then almost everyone got a happy ending, because fairy tale) and queen of the south (which i think cheated the ending - i wasn't surprised but i didn't think it really fit) and mare of easttown (didn't see it coming but i like how it ended). and now i don't know what to watch, besides the rest of we are lady parts.
a lobster diver was swallowed by a whale off cape cod. and no, the diver is not named jonah.
who remembers trapper keepers? i mean, besides me. :D have a little trapper keeper history.
i know this happened last week, but it still cracks me up - cicadas ground a white house press plane. it was on its way to europe for the g7 summit, but... cicadas.
[1] a top shelf, to go over the clothes rail. i finally found someone to help me find an appropriate length of wood and then cut it to size - he recently moved to lumber from the garden department, which is kind of relevant - and then i tried to explain the other thing i need, which is a hook or something to help hold up the clothes rail. see, my closet is like five and a half feet wide, which means the rail is five and a half feet long, which means it dips SIGNIFICANTLY in the middle from all the clothes hanging on it, because there's nothing to brace it. so i need something to help prop it up or hold it up in the middle so it doesn't collapse in the middle of the night and dump all my clothes on the floor and wake me up in a panic because what the hell is that noise?? i finally figured out how to explain this to the guy at home depot, who said "we might have some hooks in the garden department...." they were too small. so he found someone in hardware, who dragged us to brackets, and then more brackets - and in the meantime i'm carrying around this five and half foot plank of pine - and then ultimately nothing that would work. at least i learned what my options are. but then when i tried to actually buy my new shelf, the guy who cut it must have cut off the sticker with the bar code, because the cashier couldn't figure out how to find it in the system and how to charge me for it. so he asked someone else, and this other guy must have said to just let me take it, because... the cashier just let me walk out of home depot with a slab of pine. and then i had to get it in my car, but that's a whole other thing.
[2] titanium sporks! i got the idea from someone on the libraries slack channel, who said that when she and her sibs all graduated from high school, her mom gave each of them a titanium spork (and also money) so they'd be prepared for whatever life might throw at them. you know, because they now had this indestructible eating utensil. so i want my cousin's kids to go into the next stage of their lives feeling (at least metaphorically) prepared. with a spork. :D
at least it's not from raiders of the lost ark, which was on last night. i'm gonna blow up the ark, rene! :D
this is what i did today:
went to the grocery store
tried to fix some things in my bigbang
had family zoom
met tamalinn for beer and nachos, except i got cider and the place didn't have nachos so we ended up with curry cheese fries (delish) and a bucket of potstickers (fresh from the fryer)
watched the first episode of we are lady parts, in which three muslim girls (plus their manager, who is also a muslim girl) recruit a fourth muslim girl to be the lead guitarist in their punk band. it is exceptionally cute.
and this is what i did yesterday:
had zoom brunch
went to home despot depot to get a shelf for my closet [1]
went to rei to get graduation presents for my cousin's twins who have now both graduated from college holy shit [2]
put aforesaid shelf in my closet, which necessitated emptying the closet first >.<
unpacked into the big bookcase in my bedroom. i think this took an hour, give or take, and i'm 99.44% sure there's one book - ONE BOOK - that should be there but isn't. i have no idea why i'm missing ONE BOOK from this bookcase, or what box it's in
had chinese takeout for dinner (oily)
and this is what i did this past week:
finally unpacked my pots and pans and cookie sheets and basically the rest of my kitchen stuff
made a lot of burritos for dinner for the week (there are still four in the freezer - i was not expecting to end up with so much burrito)
started editing the bang
unpacked into a tall and narrow bookcase in the dining room (also pretty sure there should be more there than there is)
did not die of heat prostration altho it was STUPID HOT for several days
it still looks like hoarders live here but at least it's not as bad as it was.
i also watched the series finales of pose (which got a little political and then almost everyone got a happy ending, because fairy tale) and queen of the south (which i think cheated the ending - i wasn't surprised but i didn't think it really fit) and mare of easttown (didn't see it coming but i like how it ended). and now i don't know what to watch, besides the rest of we are lady parts.
a lobster diver was swallowed by a whale off cape cod. and no, the diver is not named jonah.
who remembers trapper keepers? i mean, besides me. :D have a little trapper keeper history.
i know this happened last week, but it still cracks me up - cicadas ground a white house press plane. it was on its way to europe for the g7 summit, but... cicadas.
[1] a top shelf, to go over the clothes rail. i finally found someone to help me find an appropriate length of wood and then cut it to size - he recently moved to lumber from the garden department, which is kind of relevant - and then i tried to explain the other thing i need, which is a hook or something to help hold up the clothes rail. see, my closet is like five and a half feet wide, which means the rail is five and a half feet long, which means it dips SIGNIFICANTLY in the middle from all the clothes hanging on it, because there's nothing to brace it. so i need something to help prop it up or hold it up in the middle so it doesn't collapse in the middle of the night and dump all my clothes on the floor and wake me up in a panic because what the hell is that noise?? i finally figured out how to explain this to the guy at home depot, who said "we might have some hooks in the garden department...." they were too small. so he found someone in hardware, who dragged us to brackets, and then more brackets - and in the meantime i'm carrying around this five and half foot plank of pine - and then ultimately nothing that would work. at least i learned what my options are. but then when i tried to actually buy my new shelf, the guy who cut it must have cut off the sticker with the bar code, because the cashier couldn't figure out how to find it in the system and how to charge me for it. so he asked someone else, and this other guy must have said to just let me take it, because... the cashier just let me walk out of home depot with a slab of pine. and then i had to get it in my car, but that's a whole other thing.
[2] titanium sporks! i got the idea from someone on the libraries slack channel, who said that when she and her sibs all graduated from high school, her mom gave each of them a titanium spork (and also money) so they'd be prepared for whatever life might throw at them. you know, because they now had this indestructible eating utensil. so i want my cousin's kids to go into the next stage of their lives feeling (at least metaphorically) prepared. with a spork. :D