so a couple weeks ago i turned on the heat in my house and put the flannel duvet cover on my duvet and then it was like 70º for a week and a half. >.< and then it felt like fall for approximately two days and today it was spring again and tomorrow it's supposed to be almost 80º and seriously, what is this bullshit. it's october, almost novemberon ( Read more... )

this morning i met tamalinn and her friend rachel (who i guess is now also my friend rachel) for brunch at 10:30, so of course i woke up at... 10:15. >.< good thing i can be dressed and out of the house in ten minutes. i passed an open house on my way home so i went in, and it was a nice place! the kitchen was deficient in cabinets and counter space, ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
hopeless savages: break, which was just as cute as i was expecting. i even got used to the art. one of the things i like about the hopeless savages series is that the books all have happy endings, but they're very sweet, very appropriate happy endings rather than feeling pat and easy and trite.

What I am reading now ( Read more... )

my parents' surprise anniversary party is tomorrow and one of my jobs - because i volunteered for it - is to make a red velvet cake. piece of, uh, cake, right? first i ran out of flour (by, like, thismuch). >.< so i run to the store, pick up flour, run home, make cake. pop it in the oven. take it out after half an hour. let it cool in the ( Read more... )

my boss was out all day today and i actually got something done. go me. *\o/* he needs to look at it to make sure i did it right - "updating floor plans" isn't exactly part of my job description - but i had no one looking over my shoulder and i resisted the urge to faff about. so, you know, yay ( Read more... )

ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved cake. *\o/* it's a gorgeous dark red and i'm really not kidding about that - i got crumbs on the cream cheese frosting and it looks like it's bleeding. i took some pictures. :D also i didn't grease the pan or anything because it's a non-stick pan, and the outside pieces of cake are kind of, uh, chewy ( Read more... )

my boss was at a site today, then popped in the office for like ten minutes, then popped back out for lunch. woot! i have stuff to do, i mean i can't totally slack off, but i'm in a "please leave me alone so i can do stuff" kinda mood. except i need him to be here so i can ask for next wednesday off. (i have an interview at the north bennet ( Read more... )