1. It looks like bad weather is going to postpone my tuna-fishing trip out in the Gulf for the third time. I haven't been fishing in over a year, since my boat captain was serving in Kuwait. He's back and we're itching to fish, but the weather hasn't complied yet.

2. Today I'm making funeral arrangements for a man who was changing a lightbulb and lost his balance, toppling from the ladder and down a flight of stairs. He was a remarkable educator (and coincidentally, my mom's first boyfriend) and the community will suffer for his loss.

3. On the bright side, people are already committing to the 10th Anniversary MetaFilter Meetup in New Orleans, so I couldn't be more excited about that.

1. I have been working out every day and eating fairly well but I still gained weight recently. I am pretty sure it's the nasal spray I've been using that's causing the weight gain (it's a known side effect), and I'm bummed that I need to decide between weight gain or sinus headaches.

2. I have been feeling generally bummed about a number of things lately.

3. I CANNOT WAIT for Saturday, when it is supposed to be sunny and 72. Tomorrow, however, is going to be torture because the weather will be good but I will be stuck at work.

1. Cat was sick. We thought it was another urethra blockage. But no. It was epic constipation. The new diet has both cats behaving like junkies. Who knew pumpkin was cat-heroin? I'm tired of coming home to things chewed through in search of more yummy yummy pumpkin heroin.

2. I'm talking with people about doing Americorps (Vista) next year. Guy thinks it's very workable, given our current finances; Mom agrees and thinks I'd love it; it's cheaper than another graduate degree.

3. I have been rocking the old fashioneds lately. YUM!

jonathanstrange: that wasn't a depressing update at all. It's a bad situation to be in, but you actually sound like you're taking it in stride. I hope you catch a break soon.

1. I had to redraft my personal pattern (I make patterns on brown shipping paper and keep them on file for everyone who buys for me, since it saves time), since I've lost so much weight. All my current corsets can be laced closed in the back. While that is annoying, I'm thrilled as hell about the weight loss. I've been using the lose it iphone app. I admit, I go over most days, but just the act of monitoring and recording my food keeps the "I'm bored, let me shove a box of cookies in my face" reactions at bay.

2. going to a "happy hour" with some former coworkers who were laid off at the same time as me. Ugh. I think it will be anything but happy, and I don't plan to stick around long.

3. I'll have tons of time to sew this weekend- since my boyfriend will be at a gaming con. I made up some postcards for him to set out on the lit tables while he's there. Gamers like corsets, so maybe I'll get a sale or two. I'm offering 10% off to anyone who mentions the con, so maybe.

1. Woke up today and protested on a call-in show, about all the Tea Party bullshit wackness that invaded downtown Portsmouth last night.

2. I have lost 30 lbs. in under three months and am now at l95 lbs, the lightest I've been since before I was married in 2004.

3. Jeffery is getting great advance ticket sales and now I'm scared because it's a small venue and my on-stage fear will be pheromonically evident.

4. I always talk about myself too much in threads like this.

1. Work project is going much better than I'd ever hoped for. I'm sure there'll be some craziness somewhere along the line between now and July when it's done, but for now, I'm enjoying the stress-less days.

2. Became a member of the local art museum this week, which is something I've wanted to do for years.

3. This will be the first weekend in three weeks that we don't have to go out of town. I'm REALLY looking forward to it.

1. Tomorrow night bus ride, Sofia - Istanbul.

2. Saturday morning aeroplane ride, Istanbul - Ankara.

3. Inshallah, if everything happens as advertised, I will get (really, officially) married to my excellent woman, by the Tajik consul, in the Embassy of Tajikistan, on Wednesday or Thursday next week. He sounds as psyched about it as we do. THEN WE WILL EAT SHASHLIK!

1. My play has its first audiences tonight, and I am sick with nerves. I felt so confident a few days ago, but it seems to have unravelled.

2. I am not losing any weight, and need to get a plan to do so.

3. My company is changing leadership and I don't know if there will be a place for me, or if I want to stay. So, yes, looming unemployment or job uncertainty.

Congrats Meatbomb!

1. I am currently super-duper excited and bouncing off the walls due to some serious yay-ness occuring this weekend. (Settlement for the condo is on Friday and moving will be happening on Saturday!)

2. My projects at work have been moving quite slowly and it's been making me very cranky. I'm not sure if what I'm doing is right or if it's going to make a difference. Plus, having people ignoring my emails isn't helping.

3. Still no word from UMD about school in the fall. This is getting out of fucking hand y'all. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND MAKE A DECISION.

1. I really liked that link on the blue that was a video of "what it's like to be a schizophrenic". I wish I could make a similar video for myself--it would be something along the lines of the whole world constantly screaming at me "you're such a loser!", constantly bumping into people at work, and shivering in my underwear on an Antarctic iceberg.

2. I owe tons of money on my taxes. It was my own fault, I did not pay estimated taxes during the year. Luckily I can pay for them gradually, so the viola will hopefully still happen.

3. In a rotten, rotten mood. Is this as good as it gets?

1. In Cape May and it's sunny. Yay! About to head out for a walk as soon as the kidling wakes up from her nap.

2. Husband keeps watching Fox news because he's never really seen it before. It's kind of blowing his mind.

3. Still haven't found a job. Got 10 weeks.

1. My cat started having seizures on Thursday night and has been in intensive care since then. We visited him yesterday and he was just alert enough to give us kisses. So thin and tired though!

2. I had a breast ultrasound on Monday and I could see the screen. I was hoping for cysts. The big sore lumps were not cysts. Waiting for my Monday appt with my GP.

3. I booked myself a massage this afternoon with the best massage therapist I've ever had. My body wants to marry him. Massage time is sorely needed.

1. Bad freelancer is extra bad today- he called a meeting with an author and then didn't show up. I am getting rid of him tomorrow and I know yelling and reprimanding is useless since I am getting rid of him, but it's taking everything I've got to not rip his face off over email or in person.

2. I got some good work done last night, lying in bed and not able to sleep.

3. Feeling lonely recently though I have plans and see people everyday.

1. A week from right now, will be in the car on the way to Seattle to see Leonard Cohen next Thursday night. The downsides are: crappy venue, bad taste in my mouth from dealing with Ticketmaster and watching them scalp the best seats without putting them on sale, the general hubub about this tour (last time I saw Cohen, the hall was half full and the experience was very easy, low-key, and very very good).

2. Starting to feel well for the first time in months. .. winter was horrible, with this and that respiratory malady.

3. New binoculars are supposed to get here friday. . .if they do, we'll go over to the coast and watch whales. There were so many going by a few weeks ago, we could see spouts from the car as we drove up 101. The babys are on the move now, but also there have been a few orcas, and, while it's interesting, I really do not want to witness orcas picking off a grey whale baby as they swim north.

1. I think I got tricked into participating in a 'tea party' last night. I dropped off my taxes at the downtown P.O. last night around 9pm. It's one of those setups where they have the postman out in the street until midnight taking everybody's returns. Right next to the postman were people handing out little plastic cups of iced sweet tea. I took one and said thanks with a smile and thought, "What a nice little random act of kindness. Wonder who they're with." Then, about five minutes later, I realized, I'd been 'tea-party'ed' against my will! Would have slapped myself upside the head if I hadn't been driving at the time. They seemed like such nice, friendly, kind people. It seems weird to me that they didn't say anything or that they didn't pass out some kind of tract. Did anything like that happen to anyone else?

2. Just catching up with y'all.

3. Not much else.

1. Having some post-pellet pause at work. I've gotten to where I want to be, now what? Also, bummed because my favorite co-worker left to start his own business.

2. Not yet officially divorced because ex wants counseling for relationship repair. He finally made us an appt for next week, but it's during my knitting circle time. Hopefully we can get some other time slot.

3. I'm working really really hard not to spend money because I got my three weeks of vacation approved and I've got to buy plane tickets soon. I found a sweet deal that expires tonight, but I can't quite swing it, and I'm paying back other family loans and don't want to ask for help.

3. In a rotten, rotten mood. Is this as good as it gets?
posted by Melismata 16 April | 09:10

oh, man, I know that feeling. Just keep chugging. We're here for you.

And congrats, Meatbomb!

1. I was a good little community gardener yesterday evening: Repaired and tuned up 10 of the community wheelbarrows, which were in varying states of "Damn, it'd just be easier to carry stuff in a bucket." Got a monster splinter in the process and can't remove it. It still hurts really bad this morning, and I'm afraid it might get (or might already be) infected. Can't tell if that ache in the rest of my hand is from the splinter or latent carpal tunnel syndrome. Could be either.

2. Going hiking here on Saturday. It's Picnic Day at the university. Picnic Day is one part really cool community event and one part Biggest Party Day of the Year. I generally enjoy going, but not this year, since I'm working on campus now. Plus, the bars open at 6 a.m. I heard two girls on the bus this morning planning out their Saturday: "I figure, like, we don't have to get, like, drunk at 6 a.m. I mean, we could just, like, get up and have a beer and then, like, chill. It's just, you know, one beer."

So yeah, it'll be good to get out of town. I wish we had the money to stay overnight, 'cause I'd like to skip the weekend around here entirely.

3. There is no 3.

4. Congrats, meatbomb!

1. Hanging on by fingernails lately, full of anxiety. I haven't felt so down in a long time. I'll get through it, but it's a drag.

2. At least there's a weekend approaching where I don't have to show up to work acting chipper in the face of constant uncertainty and shifting sands.

3. Fortunately though my first web writing gig is done, and the client is happy. It's nice that I made a few hundred bucks, a bummer that it goes right to bills, but nice that I can pay down those bills. That's about the brightest spot I can identify lately.

1. I have an enormous and unrequited crush on a longtime close friend who, as luck would have it, has an unrequited crush on some other guy. I strangely do not feel as crappy about this situation as I think I should feel. We spent many hours talking about it last night. If it were anyone else I would have given up a while ago, but I don't know, for some reason I don't feel the situation is hopeless or permanent? I'm willing to keep things as they are now, and see where things go? I'm a moron? Too much mercury from all the tuna I eat? We'll see.

2. Worried about what I'm doing this summer. Not sure if I'm going to get the newspaper internship or not, and even less sure if I even want it. I've never wanted to do newspapers, and my fellow journo friends are telling me I should wait and find an internship I actually want to do. My interview at the zoo was ok, but I found the job was more full-timey and extended (it goes until November!) than I had been lead to believe. Regardless, I want that summer (and fall?) job!

3. I turn 21 in a week! Dunno what I'm doing to do that night, but I have plans to spend that following Saturday on Block Island with the girl from #1. Because I'm a huge dope but I don't care.

I. I feel bad, really terrible today. Last night I watched "Gran Torino" and when I got up this morning it just hit me how absolutely awful and hopeless my dad must be feeling. I've wanted to cry all morning, or stamp my feet, or punch life in the fucking face for including death in the plan. Well, grow up, Hugh, it's part of it all. I just now started crying like a fucking baby, my mom's gone forever. I don't know why today, either, I mean it's been awhile, I just feel terrible.

II. I took a walk earlier and was thinking about how when I was a kid, and through high school, my mom made a lot of my clothes, especially shorts. She used to take us to the fabric store and my brother and I would pick out these crazy fabrics, whatever we wanted, and she'd make us shorts from them that fit perfectly. I think my brother can still fit in his (I'm the husky one, no such luck). She was a great mom.

III. Listening to Sam & Dave didn't even help. I just put on some Mary Wells. "Laughing Boy" is playing. It includes one of my favorite piano figures in all of pop music.

I think sometimes or maybe most of the time I come across like I'm trying to knock people over. Maybe at one time I was trying to knock people over. If it still seems that way to any of you, I'm sorry. I'm always trying to change myself for the better. If I've irrevocably ruined anyone's opinion of me, or insulted anyone to a point where I've used up any chances I had, I regret it. I know I can be an asshole, but I don't want to remain that way forever.

I don't know exactly why I want to put that out there today. Things are hanging especially heavily on me and I'm particularly tender right now; I think I've been reading a lot of unnecessary online aggro of late. I feel like I have to recalibrate my standards -- I used to talk to my mom all the time and though she usually wouldn't come out and tell me I was being an asshole or that I was shooting my mouth off without thinking, she made it clear when she disapproved -- it's like I need to learn how to include her subtle little signs in my own thinking now that I can't talk to her ever again.

Talk about spilling over three points. Please believe me when I say I love you folks, even and especially those of you with whom I've had friction, and, well, thanks for being Metachat. I think this place helps everybody more than it hurts anybody.

1. designing kitchen #3 this week. really wish these projects would go beyond the "we're just looking" stage. Need magic formula.
2. listening to Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar masters cd.
3. wondering where our infamous jonmc is.

congrats meatbomb!

1. I gave my first lecture ever yesterday to a bunch of undergrads. My supervisor went on vacation and asked me to replace her for one of her classes. I was very fucking nervous, as this is one of the situations that I've always dreaded. Even though I prepared an outline of what I was going to tell them and lots of examples, I was still afraid I would mess it up and end up talking only for maybe twenty minutes instead of an hour and a half, leaving everyone totally confused. But I didn't. The first fifteen minutes or so were pretty rough, but then I sort of found my rhythm and after that, it was a piece of cake. And I learned a lot from what I told them, found several details I had missed and connections I had overlooked. It was a fun experience. I used to think I was completely unfit for teaching others, but now I'm starting to think it's not so bad at all.

2. Followed it up by talking about Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences (mostly basing on Lakoff & Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh) in a seminar today. After talking nearly for an hour and a half straight, my throat was so dry I could hardly speak. Gah.

3. Fish soup for dinner, and hopefully, some white wine, too (I think I've earned it).

1. Work has been busy but not stressful. My trainee is delightful, and bright too, which helps. My loud and sometimes very annoying team-mate has been away this week. Far more work is done by everyone when he's not in.

2. Tomorrow evening I'm headed up to Derbyshire for a wedding. I'll be staying with my sister (she's going to the wedding too). I haven't seen her in 18 months and am not looking forward to it. As many of you know, there is some history, and I had to distance myself from her after some really unacceptably bad behaviour towards me. But I have a pretty dress to wear (an old one that I've only worn a couple of times) and some fab new shoes, and the wedding is at a really lovely old church, with the reception here.

3. For dinner tonight - pork tenderloin, which is marinating in olive oil, lemon zest and juice, thyme, garlic, rosemary and parsley, a little salt and pepper. I'll roast it, and have it with salad.

1) I've been completely obsessed lately with redoing the main floor bathroom. To the point where it's interfered with work. A couple more coats of paint and some art projects is all that's left. Oh, and finishing this cool shelf thing using some 50's glass from the old medicine cabinet. I so over-excited!

2) Company bowling thing tonight means I'm missing my son's choir concert. Truth is the bowling will be much more fun, but still kinda bummed.

3) The Capitals goalie lived down to low expectations last night in first game of NHL playoffs, but I still got a good feeling for a couple of series wins for them this year. Finally.

Congratulations Meatbomb!

1. Trying to get rid of things I don't need before I move in June (I'm not moving far... I'm staying in the same neighborhood).

2. Went wild with PowerPoint 2007 last night. Now my presentation has a lot of bling.

3. Shoved a whole bunch of peanut butter in my face last night. Because I was bored. :( Bad me.

Congrats Meatbomb!

1) Very rough job hunting for Mr. LP and me. We're trying to remain hopeful, but it's damn hard. He is finding precious little and so am I. We can move into my parents house if all things fail, but I think that would be very, very hard on Mr. LP. Also, we have no idea where Little LP will be going to school in the fall. He's registered where I go to school now, but Mr. LP and I have no idea where we will be living, come the fall. SO MUCH ANXIETY!

2) Graduation: May 21. Exciting, but what a horrible time to graduate.

3) Still contemplating graduate school, but unsure how I can convince Mr. LP of it... I am pretty sure divinity school does not grant stipends for research. :s

Aw Hugh. No you don't come off like you're trying to knock people over. You have a few hot buttons, what a ridiculous expression. So do we all.

JS, I'm so glad you told your favorite author how much you like her books. I will never stop wishing I'd written to a few people whose books have enriched my life and who are no longer around.

Congratulations to Meatbomb. Yay for typewriter's play and DC's lecture. Big hugs to everyone who needs a job and to heatherann for the sore lumps.

As for me:

1. A friend who's out here for a conference will be staying with me for the weekend. That should be fun.
2. I'm sure it's bad luck to say this but I am bizarrely ahead of schedule at work.
3. Going to Athens, Georgia in a few weeks. (My cousin, who is more like a sister, is done with grad school.) I've never been there. I've never been to Georgia at all!

Lots of good news and bad news here. Appropriate responses to all (esp. congrats meatbomb!).

1. I try to cook, I'm on the go, and I end up with daily grocery lists like todays - "Toilet Paper, Diet Doctor Pepper, Food."

2. I am kinda sad that John Madden is retiring.

3. I cleared up time at work for project from hell by delegating! It took all morning to delegate and explain, so no real progress has been made.

1. Trying hard to rise above anxiety, which comes from a variety of sources. Though I'm sorry to see so many of you in similar straits, it really helps to know I'm not alone in this. To echo Hugh Janus:

I think this place helps everybody more than it hurts anybody.

Agreed, heartily. Y'all are helping me put on a smile and keep my chin up.

2. I'm going to spend part of the afternoon walking (doing errands) in the sun. After spending yesterday mostly cooped up inside with an icepack and a bottle of muscle relaxants, this is the finest thing I can think of. Outside!

3. Weddings make people crazy, even modest little nontraditional weddings, and predictably I've been facing some odd and offkey queries from family and close friends. But I know that, whatever bugnuts-insane thing they say, it's mostly because they love us and they want us to be happy, and they're projecting their own models for happiness on us.

I'm incredibly lucky to have so much love in my life, even if it comes out in misguided advice. Advice is easy to ignore; love is invaluable. At the end, my best friend and I will be married, and our family and friends will be happy for us, even if there is much eyerolling along the way. AND THEN WE WILL EAT SHASHLIK MEZZE!

Congrats to meatbomb and hugs to Hugh!

1. Long, hideous cold is pretty much over except for the aggravating lingering cough at night.

2. Flying to San Francisco tonight to see Paul Weller play tomorrow. His only SoCal date on this tour is at Coachella, and scody + music festivals x three days of burning desert sun = EPIC UNHAPPY

3. The dog-pee radiator seems to have finally burned off about 98% of the pee scent, which is a relief.

1. A spectacular day here: sunny, cool/comfortable temperature, breeze. One of the dozen or so really nice days I can expect in a year here (we have cold winters and hot, humid, buggy summers).
2. Inspired to do some outside work, clearing away fallen fence, pruning, picking up fallen branches for kindling, etc.
3. Recently redeveloped the soda habit after years away from it. Presently drinking an Orange Crush.

Oh, forgot my favorite of all:

4. Hanging laundry out to dry. After several years without I put up a new clothesline and am enjoying seeing my colorful clothes and nasty undies blowing in the breeze.

1. Off to Florence via night-bus, low-cost flight (FYI, Norwegian Air Shuttle links Warsaw and Rome non-stop!), and a mistakenly-booked first-class seat on Italy's fastest train! Whoo accidental first class!

2. Probably moving again this summer - but not home; perhaps to Bristol, England for a summer job, then to our sister school 40 km away in a larger city but with more responsibility, a better apartment, and higher pay.

3. Making sandwiches for long trips and wrapping them in tin foil is like a time machine. Haven't done this in ages... :)

1. Congrats Meatbomb!

2. It's spring, the time for new beginnings. And so I've left my partner of six years and am venturing out on my own.

3. Ovarian cyst surgery soon. I'm glad, as I'm sick of having large man hands (as nice and as medically qualified as the men are) up my vag.

Briefly:

1. Got my parents taxes done and mailed, but they were 2005's. Still have three more to file before bankruptcy can be legally opened.

2. One of the rental props just went into foreclosure. Big national company, moratorium expired, etc. We hope for a loan modification but as investors we are outside the Obama/HUD/FHA etc. plans and have to depend on the lender's self-interest.

3. Property across the street has been dealing drugs since it was bought out of its own foreclosure by the Mexican family that rented it before. Not sure whether the drug dealers actually paid for the place or not. But the other shoe fell, which is that the TWO OTHER buildings on our block that have been for sale (at 50% or more off their last assessment value) were purchased by the same family. Which means we may end up with three drug houses within 100 yards.

4. Dad's dementia continues to be a problem. He is unable to understand that he's sick, and he blames us for stupid, pointless things, like the bank account that we will have to throw into the bankruptcy. He's all desperate to save it for some reason. No idea of priorities.

1. Sinus headache
1b. Just got up from a 3 1/2 hour nap, but headache persists
2. Looking forward to dinner (A&W Chicken strips and onion rings)
3. Not looking forward to getting poked in the eye on Monday
3b. Eyes have been bugging me, not sure if it's related

Happiness and congrats to all, hugs to those who need it, and an extra fist bump to Hugh Janus, because I know exactly how you feel.

1. Anxiety over the "Awesome Thing" I keep talking about in my Twitter feed is driving me back to smoking. It's not misplaced anxiety either because in talking to my parents about it, my mom confirmed almost every fear I've expressed to my therapist since I started going to therapy about two years ago. She even threw in the "You'll miss us when we're really gone" thing, which is causing me even more stress because, OF COURSE, I'll miss them if/when they die, and I'm reminded every day (and especially here) of people missing their moms/dads and I am TRYING to repair my relationship with them NOW so that I won't be filled with the regrets of not having done my best to try when they're gone.

2. I am also filled with a possibly misplaced sense of guilt for remaining employed when so many people I know who are just as awesome if not more so than me are not employed.

3. Paycheck has still not been deposited into my account. I am starting to run low on my pantry goods and I've got bills coming up too.

But still! AWESOME THING IS TOTALLY AWESOME.

My boss went to the wrong airport and missed her flight! Dammit.

HOLY SHIT I HAVE TO GIVE A BIG FUCKING SPEECH TOMORROW FOR FUCKS SAKE i have a very expensive suit and cute flippy hair and newly threaded eyebrows though!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCK speech! I have practiced it about a thousand times. no notes, baby. THERE ARE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE THERE i want to show them i can be one of them.

Ok i am a little bit excited.

1. I'm still on vacation!! The kids and I went to the beach today, brought the metal detector, and enjoyed the sunshine!

2. Have to get the lawn mower out and figure out how to use it..

3. My son accidentally hit me in the head with the metal detector - I have a bruise on my forehead! For what it's worth, he wanted to see if my glasses would register on the detector.

On preview: Gaspode, we were in Cape May, at the zoo, on Monday!! Try the zoo, it's great. Clean, nice, some animals weren't out yet but it's still a really nice zoo. They only ask for donations, so pay what you can.

Aw. We're heading out in the morning. Maybe we'll have time to call in.

IV. If I'd known what The Wrestler was like, I wouldn't have just watched it. It's a really good movie, but I don't know how much heartbreak and loneliness I need to see right now. Fuck.

I also picked up Wall-E. That's not gonna make me cry too, is it?


PS Cape May is wonderful, you can add a few birds to your life list there. I once took a trip down the Garden State Parkway to Cape May, then ferried to Lewes, Delaware, before heading down to my parents' house in Maryland. Wonderful way to make the trip if you've got the time. Beats 95, anyway.

Wall-E has some sweet poignancy but no, it's not gonna be one of those weepers.

And, Cape May rocks. First place I saw dolphins from the beach.

aside: I really want to see The Wrestler

It's very good, BP; Rourke at his best, very naturalistic and soul-crushing.

1. I'm in Boston and don't want to leave on Saturday.

2. Went to a reading by someone who had a crush on me in college. I just liked him as a friend and he is now married (with a kid) to someone else.

3. Trying to figure out birthday issues: my father has come to see me for the past several years but he no longer wants to travel by himself, which means my mother is coming with him. When my grandmother died, arrangements had been made with the Neptune Society to have her cremated and scattered in the ocean. My cousin had my great-aunt's ashes in her possession and sent them to my mother to be scattered along with her sister's. I did not participate in this because I did not want to be on a boat with my mother, my brother and my cokehead uncle. Apparently my mother saved a portion of ashes to bring back to NYC and is trying to set something up with my cousin to scatter them near the statue of Liberty. I refuse to be around my mother, who is in denial that I no longer want anything to do with her. My father's attitude is that I should just smile and pretend nothing's the matter. I know that he loves me---and that not all women have fathers who do--but he failed me. I tried to make a reservation at Per Se, but was put on the waiting list...so I'm going to cancel; I'd rather have something definite for my birthday, but I haven't made any other arrangements ( I also have the strong feeling that I will be shut out of a "private gathering" scheduled for this time).


BP, I liked Requiem for a Dream much better.

Just watched Wall-E, enjoyed it, definitely sweet and poignant (it reminded me a little of Idiocracy), now I feel like sleeping. I like dreaming of robots in space almost as much as I like dreaming of bluefin furries in the deep blue sea.

Tomorrow: Gomorra.

Late to the party as usual. Hi everyone.... Missed you all!!!

1. I've had a rough couple of weeks. Cranky baby plus stubborn husband plus bum wrist equals not happy ramix.
2. I love my little munchkin so much it hurts! I'm convinced I love her more than any mom ever loved their babby!!! :)
3. Called the travel agent today. I'm going away for a loooooong while. I've shipped my car and stuff ahead of time so I don't have a car, and I don't drive a stick so mr ramix's car is useless to me! I miss not having a car! Especially with a baby. I'll get a new one when I return so till I leave, I'm pretty much housebound!

I miss you bunnies. Motherhood is kicking my ass which is why I'm hardly ever on mechs these days.

I'm late, too!

Hugs and whuffles for those who could use some, and yay for Meatbomb!

1) I have tennis elbow, which is highly annoying. I suspect it's from gardening.
2) The house hunt continues. I can't find what I want. I feel pressure.
3) I'm really happy it's spring.

I'm sure there are more things going on, but I can't think of any. Boo.