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And don't forget to watch A Colbert Christmas tonight (Sunday)!

So I started packing for Thanksgiving today, and since I'm taking the cats home with me, I got their stuff out, too.

... Bingley is curled up asleep in the cat carrier.

I mean. I'm glad? But, Bings, sweetie? Four hours ago you were terrified of the thing, and hiding under the dresser. What gives? Will you be so complacent Wednesday afternoon, or will you make me hunt you down and shove you bodily inside amidst many whinings and pointy toes? I think we both know which way it will go down.

Oh, cats. ♥.

I'm mercifully unhungover, despite my Amarula-and-Valium adventure last night. Yay!

Sold the Monsterbait: Underpants on eBay last night. Sad to see it go, but money is money, and right now, if I do get $150 from my mom's side of the family and $100 Amazon gift certificate from my dad (which is my usual holiday loot) I can get an Eee 1000HA outright! Also put the spare bottle of Chanukkiyah on eBay and added Te Po to my sales post, if any of you are interested.

I need to go to the post office to mail the Underpants, but I'm waiting on Maintenance to come fix my heater so I can't leave yet :(

I crawled off to bed around 1 am with 40mg of Valium and a few drinks under my belt and I woke up before 5 am WHAT THE FUCK.

Put my Monsterbait: Underpants up on eBay. Wondering if I should put the Chanukkiyah spare bottle up there as well.

Thankfully nothing from the BPTP update is tempting me. I am still wibbling over Candy Phoenix, though.

I have butterscotch/vanilla shots I got at Spec's... maybe I should have one... I'm in no mood to be clearheaded.

But I'm doing not so bad. Maintenance is supposed to come today to fix my lack of hot water in the kitchen (totally his fault), broken heater, and stiff backdoor lock (get your mind out of the gutter). My wrenched knee still hurts but it's not swollen or anything. I am looking grotesquely forward to getting an Eee. Falernum is tasty and makes me want to mix Tiki drinks. Cream of coconut, falernum, and a little spiced rum, what could go wrong?

Not having a blender, cream of coconut, or rum puts a cramp in that.

God, this entry makes me sound like a lush.

So, got to hang with doombuggie this afternoon. Had an awesome time! We had a yummy meal at Jason's, some iced coffee at Epoch, hit Home Depot so he could get a watering can, went to Spec's (a big liquor/fancy foods store) for some goodies, HEB for some normal groceries, Walgreens for my Valium, and Earthbound for some crabs.

Wonderfully fun time, except in HEB, I saw my ex-husband... we walked right by him in the soda aisle. No words were exchanged, but I could tell he recognized me. Oh god oh god I am so glad I was not alone, or dressed schlumpily (I was rockin' a HolyClothing minidress and black leggings, which is my new favorite look). But oh god oh god oh god. I hadn't seen him since the divorce. I had thought that I would never see him again.

Well, after that we went to Walgreens and I downed two Valium right off. And when we were at Earthbound doombuggie got me a crab to cheer me up. The crab in question is now named Dib.

The Valium is kicking in nicely, I feel comfortably blurred around the edges. If I still feel upset I have Amarula to mix with hot chocolate, or Keke Beach Key Lime Cream to mix with milk. I also have lots of good chocolate.

Yep, took a peace-of-mind piss test to make sure W. hadn't knocked me up, got a nice soothing negative.

More inspection bullshit today. A bit of googling found me a local advocacy group. This may prove necessary.

I want this calendar for 2008 very badly. We'll see how my finances stand at the end of the month. They have a nifty LED menorah too.

The thing about listening to any of the Twilight books in audio...

Every time someone says "Bella", I follow it up with "...Lugosi's dead".

Bug or feature?


I'm debating getting a rename token for i_am_an_hero. When I apped him, I didn't think he'd be more than a fringe cracky character, but now he's my fave of all the ones I play and he's made so much progress that having a mean 4chan joke about suicide for a username seems inappropriate. I dunno.

Ah well. Time for Coast to Coast and, I think, bed.

So -- apparently? Me + exhaustion + movie about whale evolution = fic to go with sailorptah's Doctor Who/Le Petit Prince art.

... also, it's in French.

(I welcome vocab/grammar corrections.)

.... ENJOY?

(I don't know, either.)

(Also, if this were my yuletide fic, I'd be DONE. Sigh!)


Titre: Après la rose
Auteur: stellar_dust
Ages: Tout le monde (qui comprend le français).
Caractères: Le Petit Prince, le Dixième Docteur, le mouton
Mots: ~1000
Notes: Après ce dessin par sailorptah.


( J'avais une fois une rose.... )

Made a promise to doombuggie that I wouldn't self-injure through to the end of the year.

So I'm listening to the audiobook of New Moon instead.

I require pumpkin pie. This is not negotiable.

And, I don't know. But the pie is necessary.

The stuff they bitch about in the housekeeping inspection is petty and ridiculous. And they blow off "I'm disabled and I'm working with an agency to get assistance".

Would it be bad to apply for a credit card?

I talked, finally, to the woman from the agency that does the visiting cleaning assistance. They'd closed my file! So I have to go throug the intake interview again. And she got snotty to me about my cats. Emptying litterboxes? Not one of the things they do.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

It's all so annoying. I need something to make me smile.

...I called my mom on the quilt thing, and she totally blew it off. I'd sent her a chatty email (because I didn't want it to be all YOU NEVER MADE ME A QUILT RAWR) and I got a two-sentence response about a totally different topic.

This is why I don't try to connect with her on any serious level.

On the plus side, I slept through the LJ downtime.

*wibble*

Candy Phoenix and Beaver'versary are very tempting.

Well, I'll have at least a little while to consider.

Happy Birthdays, some belated, to skipthedemonponders_life,drewsilla, and valerie_z.

I just used LJArchive to update the backup I keep of my journal. I've also changed my profile page around a bit with this Greasemonkey script by ciaran_h. It's easy to use and lets Firefox users change the appearance of the new layout to some extent.

I hope to see you all, safe and sound, after the server move tomorrow. I wonder how many people will go into withdrawal and hang out at IJ or JF?

Oh, right! Guh, I should have posted about this days ago. sailorptah's epic Colbert Report/Doctor Who crossover of awesome comes with its own charity special! So, read it, and watch the actual Children in Need special/preview, and then help out some kids who need it.

(... please? Considering we were prepared for a theoretical avalanche of donations, the response has been slightly underwhelming. *scratches head sheepishly*)

Stephen Colbert - Another Christmas Song GO LISTEN RIGHT NOW. And then you can watch a preview of the special. :D

So, eBay update. eBay thinks I've made $26. But after eBay gets its cut, and PayPal gets its cut, and I account for the fact that eBay cannot accurately estimate shipping cost for crap, it's more like $10. (I've paid about $11 more in shipping than I've charged. I should probably start adding handling fees to cover the difference.) At least I'm coming out ahead, but .. I don't know if it's even worth it to list the Star Wars stuff, considering the time and aggravation. ... maybe I'll make melannen do it since she doesn't have a job. d-:

I loved my laptop's super-bright screen .. until it started giving me headaches and burning out my retinas. I forced myself to crank out a TDR last night with suns exploding inside my eyes. It got better about halfway through, though, but then I've had a headache for most of today. ... and, yes, I HAVE now turned down the brightness, thanks much.

My presentation isn't gone! So that's good! But I still need to review it and add things to it, and I keep procrastinating, and I'm probably going to suck just when I really should be making a good impression. Sigh. (I don't even know who the audience for this will be, actually. Students? Local professionals? How far do people travel to attend GIS Day at a community college, anyway?)

(I've put off any long-term desktop-computer-fixing until at least Wednesday night. I might set aside the drive that I'm pretty sure contains one corrupt partition for now; I don't know if I want to reformat the whole thing and then trust it with data any time soon. Maybe I can pull the 80G one out of the external case and slot it in as a secondary internal ... must see if I have the right size hex key, though .. and this is all assuming the motherboard isn't fried, or anything like that ... yes, I'm working on my presentation, quiet, you.)

.. finally, the obligatory yuletide flail: omg why did I say I would write in this fandom I have forgotten SO MUCH canon and it's so far outside of my comfort zone and I'm not worthy!!! Aughkhhhgh.

Ok, let me have one moment of happy: Christmas socks and mint tea and a holiday Firefox skin and Stephen Colbert singing carols and snuggly kitties! Mmmmmm.

I need more tea, and the last of my apple cranberry pie.

My replacement backpack is here. It smells very new. The red spikes are a decently deep crimson, and show up more than the purple spikes. I'm glad to not be without a spiky backpack, it's just too cute to not have.

And hey, it'll go well with my plaid sneakers, which I am still working on breaking in.