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Dear Lawrence,
Congratulations!!! Please do not die tonight while celebrating.
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Just in time for my Master's Project...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMclbHcO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GkMa040 I'm so excited I just peed a little in my pants.
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For My Un-Abby Friends
Stole this from Callmebabs because it's AWESOME.
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Hey Prince—
If it happens again next year, perhaps you should think of pullin' a Huggins....
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It's true.
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Part of me wonders why NPR doesn't have anything better to talk about...
...and part of me is oh so happy they didn't. Today (yarr) be National 'Talk like a Pirate Day', Matey. Also, apparently, the emoticon's 25th birthday. ;)
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Sweet Monkey Fritters!
I went to the grocery store last nght....and there were already Halloween pumpkins sitting out front! I was shocked. I mean, for Annex pumpkin standards they might as well have been very large apples, but still. Some people would consider them pumpkins. I know Christmas shows up before Thanksgiving, and Easter shows up the day after Valentine's Day, but seriously? We're gonna do this with holiday produce now, too?
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Heeeeere birdy birdy birdy!
This morning when I went outside to water the plants on the balcony I scared a bird from the bird feeder! YAY!!!! MY FIRST BIRD!!!!!!! It sure took them long enough to freaking find the feeder. Now let's just hope it wasn't scared so badly that it never comes back.
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Mmmm....
Baked ham with pineapple & cinnamon on top, and a yummy fresh salad on the side. Cooking dinner isn't nearly as crummy as I always thought it was.
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Zumba Woes
Woot to my dear, darling KS_Pook for discovering a Zumba class in Manhattan for me!!! Unfortunately, it's through UFM and not KSU, which means that instead of being covered by my student fees it would cost me $162 per semester to take it. And DOUBLE unfortunately, this semester's Zumba class ends 5 minutes before my 3-hour Children's Lit in Film class begins.....so it's completely unfeasible for me to take; even assuming I COULD make it across town, park my car, and walk to class on time, I really don't wanna spend 6 hours of my week being the stinky girl in a classroom of my peers.
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One Fell Swoop
Well, today I FINALLY got the notarized copy of our Marriage License from the courthouse, and immediately changed my Driver's License, Social Security Card, Voter Registration and bank accounts. I also bought two very nice sets of sheets for $30 apiece, thanks to happening upon the Annual Downtown Sidewalk Sale on Mass. St. Now all that's left to change are my IRS records, insurance, bills, credit cards, medical records, college info, mail, car registration, organization memberships and my parents' wills & legal documents. Then I think I should be set. For now though, I'm happy knowing that I am legally a Brimer. :)
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Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
What does one do when they find themselves holding an unclaimed wedding present? Sean and I have a gift that either did not come with a card or that had its card dislodged on its journey to the Annex, and now we have no idea who sent it to us! What is proper protocol in this situation? EDIT: Hooray! The mystery is solved, and with minor embarrassment.
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Well slap my ass and call me Brimer...
The wedding has yet to fully sink in on me, I think, but the one thing I do know is that Sean and I have the most amazing friends on the planet. Absolutely EVERYTHING went off without a hitch, and by Saturday evening (as we watched a HUGE thunder and lightning storm roll through that held off 'til after the last dregs of wedding parafanalia had been loaded up) Sean and I were convinced that the day could not have been more perfect even if we'd performed ceremonial sacrifices for the gods. More to come, but for now I's gotta make a trip to the Social Security office and get myself Brimer-fied.
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*Yawn*
Funny; I have the day off work and yet seem to find myself sitting at my office desk 2 hours earlier than usual...
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My Kingdom for $5,000
Steve, one of my coworkers, just came up and told me that his brother is being relocated to Fresno, CA, for work and is looking to sell his welding setup to anyone interested. Said setup includes a MIG welder (or TIG, Steve wasn't sure which), plasma cutter, oxy-acetalene blowtorch, and a trailer that it all sits on. Oh, and all the acoutrements that go along with those things. According to Steve, his brother originally paid a little over $8,000 for it all but is wanting to sell it for only $5,000. After a very long pause in which my mind raced through the estimated worth of every sellable thing I own, I told Steve that it was still too 'spensive for my blood, unfortunately. He said he assumed it was, but that he figured he'd let me know about it anyway. *sigh*
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Triumph!!
As of this morning I've surpassed my pre-wedding weight loss goal. If any of you see me this week, know that you're looking at 51 pounds LESS of me than you were around Christmas time. :)
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SCORE!!!
One of the new guys at work just uploaded a CRAPLOAD of blues, jazz and bluegrass music to our Shared iTunes Music here at work. I's happy. *EDIT: He also just threw some salsa music on there — The Buena Vista Social Club. Oh man, today is awesome. I'm gonna just quietly Zumba myself into 4:00 and then leave early.
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Revenge of the Bitter Old Woman
My grandmother's house looks like it's part of the set for _Evan Almighty_. As of yesterday afternoon, when both my Aunts were National Guarded out of the house, the water was 4' deep IN the house and rising steadily. So now our family is forced to watch $30,000 worth of remodeling on our home slowly sink into the briney deep — minus the brine. All the drywall (that was just taped and mudded in the day before) is ruined, along with the entire frame of the house, and if the lake keeps rising like it's supposed to, we'll even lose the brand new roof. What really added insult to injury: the day before the floodwater reached the house (at that point the lake was still 8-10' over its banks and very obviously creeping up the slope in the yard), delivery men so very efficiently deposited our brand new air conditioner AND all the new doors for the house onto the floor in the car port — which would have been roughly 2-3' away from the floodwater at that point. Asshats. So when the Aunts got down there yesterday to save things, the AC and the doors were underwater in addition to there being an inch or two of water already in the house. It has NEVER flooded this much before in the whole history of the lake. In fact, "The Big Flood" in '93 was the worst flood anyone down there had ever seen, and at its worst the lake water got 2" deep in the house. Now it's entirely feasible the lake will rise over our roof. I told Aunt Weesie that this was Dee's (my grandmother's) revenge on our family for having put her in a nursing home for the last several months of her life AND for having the audacity to renovate her home, but even that didn't get a laugh out of her. She (whose money it is that's currently floating away) has just completely lost it — Aunt Weesie's having a total meltdown.
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cheerful
awake
beaten
contemplative
full
accomplished
tired
wet