Six more weeks, eh? My bad, I thought winter was over like two weeks ago. WTF, WEATHER? YOU ARE REALLY MESSING WITH MY SENSE OF TIME!

I woke up at around 4 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I laid in bed for what must have been an hour or more, finally decided to read some, realized the batteries in my booklight were dead, tried to sleep again, got up to get new batteries, read for probably another hour and a half, and finally fell back into a light sleep. I woke up ( Read more... )

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I also knitted so many things I lost track.

Plenty of bad things happened. Oh well. I feel pretty optimistic about the future.

The central valley is such a paradox in my life... on the one hand, i can't stand the place, and being there makes me want to die, but on the other hand, I have so many amazing friends there who I want to be in my life forever. And that was a terrible sentence but fuck it. Friday we drove down to turlock, stopping in Petaluma for a case of Ruben ( Read more... )

You know all that stuff I've been saying about finally being financially secure, and how good it felt to have a reliable income, and how lucky I was to be working despite the shitty economic climate? Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before I became a victim of said shitty economic climate. Somehow I'm not nearly as worried as one would ( Read more... )

I love English people.
I love winter.
I love fire.
i love having a fireplace in which to burn things.

And, above all, I suppose, I love the Captain's Chair.
(but not as much as I love my Markface... ack vomit cuteness attack)

I got another raise at work. It occurs to me that the curve of my personal economic progress is inversely proportional to that of the rest of the world (or at least the rest of the world's perception thereof). I'm watching friends get laid off and yet I continue to earn more money than I ever have in my life. Now, that isn't saying much, but I've ( Read more... )

I would now like to offer my review of Budweiser American Ale:

IT TASTES LIKE ASS!!!!