the banorah has arrived! along with the slightly more traditional and slightly less goofy menorah i got because the banorah was only $20 and i was apparently in the mood to spend money on jewish ritual objects. i even remembered to get candles so i am Prepared.

the first night of hanukah is christmas. >.< which as someone pointed out on tumblr ( Read more... )

(i'm watching gladiator. i love this movie. "my history is a little hazy, cassius. but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of carthage?" and "how do they look?" "fat and bored ( Read more... )

today was presidents' day and i celebrated having the day off by spending some quality time sitting in the diesel writing about space truckers at a space truckstop, and then seeing magic mike's last dance (cute, sexy, occasionally dumb, very charming) (channing tatum really is a most charming potato), and then driving across the river *gasp* to get ( Read more... )

happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. :D i celebrated with a bingo lunch for the admins at work (we ate pizza and talked smack, as you do, and one of the admins brought her very fluffy and very cute pomeranian, who i swear is like 90% hair and just looked so happy to be there) (do poms have resting happy face or was he a particularly delighted ( Read more... )

so far on my week off i have:

been to the grocery store
worked on my holiday project for writing group
watched the entirety of lotr on tv
gone to cousins j&m's house to watch die hard (the best christmas movie that isn't about christmas) and eat food ( Read more... )

there's been a party going on next door for a couple of hours and on the one hand i don't begrudge anyone a good time now that the weather's nice, and they were playing songs i like before, and at least it's not the neighbors doing home improvement with loud power tools like they were this morning (they woke me up >.< ), but at the same time, i ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the song of achilles which was tragic and romantic as expected and which i really liked.

What I am reading now:
the lost girls of paris, which i just started yesterday. i think i've met all three main characters and i'm wondering why we need the framing device. (a woman in 1946 finds an abandoned suitcase in grand ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

my sister came over yesterday to help me pack my shit, so my dining room is almost all in boxes! today i took some stuff to goodwill and went to the grocery store and packed up most of the dining room that we didn't get to yesterday, and while there's still some random stuff to pack (including a big bowl i took from my parents' house and a mask i ( Read more... )

no word yet on the apartment. the rental agent is still waiting to hear from the owner/landlord. >.< farwing and i saw another place tonight, just to be safe, and i liked it altho i liked the neighborhood yesterday better. the place we saw today had a weak kitchen (shocker) and not a lot of wall space in the living and dining rooms, which i know sounds ( Read more... )