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30 December 2009
What did you just do? →[More:]I just ate a cherry-chocolate chip granola bar and edited a short bio of a scholar of the ancient Maya.
Just told the mechanic to go on and do the work that will wipe out my cash reserves. If the car ends up running right, and I avoid using a credit card, it's worth it. I feel oogie, though.
I just watched an episode of Bridezillas. The bride wanted her wedding cake to be decorated not with flowers, but with a pink fondant icing vagina, so that her husband would know that it was the last time he would ever eat one.
Just hugged my niece goodbye; she goes back to college in three days and is booked up with friends until then. We made plans for me to come visit next month.
His profile is still up, and his wall is written on by friends and family all the time.
How weird...I was just checking the profile of a friend who had passed away, too. I never write anything, but find the messages left by others oddly comforting. (Except now--when they remind me that his two sons are facing their first Christmas without Daddy.)
Drove to my favorite hiking spot but wimped out because it was rainy and misty so I went for a drive instead. I drove down lots of tiny dead-end roads just to see where they led. Wow - there's a lot of people with money around here and they live on isolated roads with beautiful views! Sadly, this does not include me.
I have just met my deadline and am now watching TV (it's weird in UK English, at least for me, to say "I just + simple past" - we need the perfect tense, for some unknown reason).
Specklet - did it work? Having the damn thing removed was the only thing that worked for me, though cutting fat out of my diet was a temporary but unpleasant solution.
I just heard the "uh-oh" chime from my washer that means the lid needs to be popped off and the tiny valve inside fiddled with. I am not the usual person who fiddles with it, so I'm just going to leave it.
Just spent 90 minutes in a department store in what turned out to be a partial resolution to the seemingly never-ending quest for a new pair of jeans that suit my apparently ridiculous standards. (I just want a pair of plain, not-too-dark Levis, but they don't make women's jeans in that nice, heavy denim anymore. So I've been looking for a pair of men's jeans, but any three pairs of 30/32 jeans are going to fit three different ways. It's completely exhausting and maddening.)
Found a pair that fit and that I like, but they're not Levi's. And I had to wait in line for 25 minutes because the two stupid teenage girls at the checkouts were goofing off instead of working. So after leaving the store, I got the store phone number off the receipt and called the manager and tattled. That made me feel better.
I just got done with a bike fit for a mutual friend / x roommate of mine + mr lfr. He brought me a sixpack of excellent beer in payment (Storm King Imperial Stout, if you must know).
before that I spent All. Day. at retail therapy with another friend who's going thru a rough patch with a relationship that will soon become either a long distance ordeal or a thing of the past. Gory details aside, I found an *adorable* skirt+bustier combo with another cute green/peacock pattern top and Jeans that Really ZOMG Actually Fit for $9 on clearance! and bonus! they aren't even hideous! Friend found the World's Cutest polka-dot apron that simultaneously makes me seethe with jealousy that I'm no longer 25 and cute enough to pull it off, and makes me so happy for her that at least she'll give her man a reason to pine and reflect on his loss when he moves 3,000 miles away in June.
I'm thinking Adorable Polka-Dot Apron plus some frilly lacy nothings of underthings, racy pumps and a pinup girl hairdo, and that man of hers may just reconsider the whole Switzerland ordeal altogether....
Ruined my manicure (Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow) and tried to fix it.
Played with the bunny- he likes throwing his new toys off the couch and watching me fetch.
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