Overdue. WAY overdue.

[slipjig3]

I can't believe how long I've gone without a meaningful update. No, correct that: I can't believe how long I've felt annoyed with the whole tell-people-about-my-day concept. Sorry, I've just been in a Mood, nothing explainable. So to fling myself back into this, Let's try the numbers thing until I get bored:

1) By Jeezum Crow, it's cold.

2) The Out-of-Print Book Gods have smiled upon me: First, a copy of The Boomer Bible by R. F. Laird in the clearance bins (if you haven't read it, do; it's hysterical). Then, a copy of Dr. Crypton's Treasure, which you can't find for under $75 when you can find it at all, going for $3.50, being sold by a guy who hadn't the foggiest notion of what he had. Happy me!

3) My vacation starts Friday. Any idea of what I should do, with the knowledge that I can't really go anywhere more than two hours from Lake George, NY?

4) Grandma's doing lots better. Woohoo!

5) Kristi lost her stars-and-moons bracelet sometime in the last few days. I don't think I've ever seen her so unhappy over losing jewelry. I don't like it when Kristi's unhappy.

6) New Games is out (plugplugplug); I've got a cryptic crossword and a weird logicky thingy in there. I'm so happy: They kept the majority of my clues on the cryptic. I think I may actually be getting the hang of this thing...

7) Hi, there, rafaela! What brings you here? (And kimberly_a is back online! Grins!)

8) What should I write a short story about?

9) I'm getting my hair done a week from Friday by a stylist that I've never been to before, and I'm going to say, "Here's my hair. I don't care what you do; just FIX IT." I will then take off my glasses, and not put them on until it's done. (It's not quite as foolhardy as it sounds: she does Kristi's hair all the time, including the utterly adorable red streaks she had put in last week. She's very, very, very good.)

10) I envy LJ users who can discuss their sex lives without flinching. Not that there's anything I want to say about my sex life at the moment (nothing I really need/want to report), but I wish that, when I did have something to say, I could say it without fretting needlessly.

11) I know the rest of the world already knows about this, but: Miseryyyyy!

12) Absolutely no kid news right now. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Comments

Highjack!

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes, I've suffered through Chicago/Champaign winters. Days where the car wouldn't start but it didn't matter because even if it did, it wouldn't be able to plow through the driveway, and even if you could get to the street, you'd be sliding around so much you wouldn't get anywhere anyway and your hands froze to the steering wheel so you couldn't defend youself against starving rabid squirrels using coat hangers to get in your car.

But now, it's sunny Californ-i-a for me. Well, cloudy and foggy California (winter is the rainy season), but still, better than snow and sleet.

So, let me take this opportunity to say how thankful I am of good weather here. People actually complain when they talk about the weather here ("oh gosh, it's cold, I needed a jacket just to go outside"). I just look at them and laugh. I've seen cold. They don't know cold.

Re: Highjack!

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

It's not even the heat that's getting to me so much as the humidity.

Re: Highjack!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Heehee... Yup, that's Illinois. And that's sun-people complaining about non-sun-country weather. It reminds me of when I lived in Virginia in 2nd grade, and I didn't have to go to school for the entire month of February because, well, it snowed, and they just couldn't deal.