a few nights ago
I went to a friends place
and we made cookies
and on my walk home
a guy whispered at my in the darkness
I couldn’t understand him
so I ignored him
and he whispered at me again
and I turned on him and I proclaimed, “do you want cookies?!”
and he looked a bit taken back
“I have cookies”
he said, “weed, I’m selling weed”
and I said, “ ( Read more... )

I had a house warming
my house got warmed
and messy
the leg of one of the sofa pieces broke, and I noticed before the party
I didn’t cry
I did consider it

it was a fun mix of people
it was my roommate Deuce’s party, he bought most of the taco ingredients, and he wrote the invite
it was awesome
I forgot to break out the avocados
so now I have some of ( Read more... )

it is blessed spring

I’ve been busy
going on adventures
alternating between working on my school work and procrastinating

I still have a lot of nesting projects at home
building a spice rack
putting up a shelf and getting some good curtains for the living room
finding better table and chairs for the living room

planning get-together-s to occur in ( Read more... )

Greetings world!

The inner workings of my toilet are less of a mystery to me. I thought the ballcock was broken, so I bought a kit. The only thing that wasn’t in the kit was the overflow tube. The overflow tube was in fact what was broken. Here’s a picture of the kit, and the diagram which taught me the names of my toilet innards


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most of my brain space has been devote to moving and my apartment stuff
I’ve done such exciting things as buy containers at the container store

my brain space is also taken up by work stuff and school stuff
so I thought I’ll give a better update as to what is going on with work stuff and school stuff

school stuff
- I’ve crafted one annotated ( Read more... )

I move out of my old place and into my new place fully last Thursday night
I got everything out of the old place
I said good bye

and I love my new place
it’s very comfortable
it has many amenities that my former apartment didn’t have

I’m nesting
it’s very pleasant
my room is getting more comfortable
it is small, but the loft with its hammock make it ( Read more... )

some basic Lena equations

rent increase + mice + rail road layout = sad Lena
that’s the old apartment situation

the new apartment situation is
living room big enough for xbox kinect + new sofa sectional + ( less rent - smaller room) = happy Lena

having to transition from sad Lena to happy Lena isn’t simple
there’s facing all this stuff and packing ( Read more... )

I have been moving stuff from the old apartment to the new one
I had a strange impromptu party with three friends from work
we were playing dominion at the office and I realized, hey! we could do this at my apartment
and so we did, and my friend Zachary joined us
and it was awesome
and I bought everyone dinner and made them move a bunch of my stuff ( Read more... )

I didn’t mention it in my last post
but the prospect of moving is rather terrifying to me
I woke from nightmares the last several mornings
but on Sunday
Rob came over
and helped me face my fear
as the biggest part of my fear, is that of packing my stuff
facing all this stuff
I’ve accumulated for the last 5 years
and deeming it worthy of moving
or ( Read more... )

I am going to move
I am going to live on Broadway
the move will require crossing two whole streets (I currently live off broadway)
I’m excited and nervous
but I am no longer scared
I’ve given my landlord notice
next I start packing

I have moved only a handful to times

when I was a child
from the old house to the new house
in highschool
from the new ( Read more... )