well, the bad news is that my computer seems to have died. the screen appears to be dead. and just in time for finals week, what joy and fun for me. i am hoping that with a little rest my computer will decide to work in the morning and just maybe last through the next week. otherwise its working on a borrowed comupter for the next week and i am ( Read more... )

well, a little of both actually. my mom picked up my car from the repair shop today. bad news = it ended up costing more than expected (which was already WAY too much) good news = ITS NOT MY FAULT MY CAR IS BROKEN! i thought it was my fault but i discovered that it is totally and compleatly not my fault, YAY!!!

well it looks like i made it out of bellingham just in time. it was snowing today and i drove down to seattle in the afternoon in the middle of that, but now it looks like its iced up and not done snowing yet. plus they say its supposed to keep snowing all weekend and then later on drop down to 0 F. so i guess i'd better keep my fingers crossed ( Read more... )

today i successfully cooked my first meatloaf. perhaps not the most glamorous thing in the world, but kind of fun, and always interesting to see how something comes out the first time you cook it ( Read more... )

well day one is over. not too bad really. got into both the classes i was on the waiting list for, so i am taking A/HI 448 (encounters with the other), A/HI 375 (methods in art history), ART 130 (form and content III: 3-D), and ART 362 (papermaking). sadly weaving just didnt work out with my schedule after all the changes ( Read more... )

this is the second month in a row that the lady at my rental agency has freaked me out when i went in to pay rent. last month i got, "now are you the lady whose husband is over there fighting for us in Iraq?" other than "no" there is really no way to respond to that, its just so odd. and then today she did it again, except this time she said, "now ( Read more... )

so i bought fantastic shoes on massive sale at nine west on monday. i wore them to work yesterday and my toes were in sooo much pain for most of the day. but of course i couldnt take them off (i had extra shoes cause i knew this was bound to happen) because they were too cute and i just couldnt bring myself to take them off. i know, silly, but ( Read more... )

margaret's surprise party last night was a success!!! was kinda worried for a while that she would figure out that something was up, but sarah s and i managed to keep her busy until it was time to meet people for dinner. thanks to everyone who showed up, was lots and lots of fun. esp since the waiter didnt card anyone so we all split 2 bottles of ( Read more... )

well christmas is over and its back to work for me. hopefully it wont be too crazy with the sale and all, but at least i'm not sitting around the house going crazy with boredom any more.

hope everyone had a good holiday and please do give me a call, i have a few days off this week and would like to keep from going crazy as i did last week. :-P

well christmass is almost over. we are a christmas eve family (as far as presents go) so after the opening of stockings on christmas morning all thats left is the gluttony of christmas dinner tonight. so lots of cooking still to do, but otherwise a pretty boring day as far as i'm concerned. and so much for our snow. the tv weathermen kept talking ( Read more... )