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I did indeed make my 6:20 am megabus. Boy I tell you, New York is a surreal place early in the morning and very late at night, or in that zone where the two are identical, especially in the winter when it's too damn cold to be up to shenanigans. First of all I constantly have this idea of the subway being deserted and dangerous and fucked up in the middle of the night and I'm gonna get chased down by skeevy peddlers and their scary orange bouncy puppets*, but this never happens; having taken the train at all hours now (much to the discomfiture of the older members of my family), I'm always surprised by how damn crowded it remains even at ass o'clock in the morning. I caught the train at 5:20am and I couldn't find a seat with all my damn luggage. X_x The Megabus wasn't much better, lol. Apparently folk are willing to get up mad early for a $3 ticket to wherever they're going. Me... not sure if I want to do that again, so I'm gonna have to plan my trips a wee bit further an advance next year.
Christmas being Christmas, and having the week between off due to Smith being officially closed, I'm a little annoyed/concerned by my bank account. Mostly annoyed due to after-christmas sales being terribly lovely things and not being able to take advantage of them. I caved in and got a new bra that my boobs aren't swimming in at Target**, since they were about 8 bucks, but I did want to get some christmassy things for next year. Oh well. One of my nebulous goals for 2012 is to be in far better financial shape, so we'll see where we are 366 days from now.
I spent all of yesterday evening being charmed by the cat's addict-like behavior over her new toy (it's a laser pointer in the shape of a mouse, I can't), taking turns with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Alas, much as I expected both Goo and the coleus cutting I was feeling encouraged about gave up the ghost while I was away. Not enough light since having to take them out of the windowsills to put up plastic. Thank goodness for Spidey and the impossible to kill-ness of spider plants. I'm a little sad, but this is how it goes sometimes. Definitely have to look into some hanging or wire shelving to put plants on in the kitchen so they get light and it'll be high enough so that the cat won't nibble on them. Also have to find a good day to dump/scrub out the pots I do have for next summer's gardening experiments.
In contrast, today I don't even know what's going on, I must have just woken up on the wrong side of the bed or something*** because nothing is going right/coming together. I've been sluggish on getting productive shit done, the dryer sheets have disappeared and I didn't discover this until after I'd started the laundry, and EPEEN's repair/upgrade is, quite naturally, being a pain in the ass, plus generally trying to get clean-type shit done and failing and freaking out about it and UGH. These are the bad old days of being cooped up all day with my own chaos with nothing but the cat for actual company (and I remember when I didn't even have that); no wonder my anxiety is off the chain today. Hoping going to the movies withgrinninfoole later will alleviate it a little... and then I'm going to have to figure out some kind of plan for the rest of the week so I don't turn into a total twitchmonkey. *sigh* I'm looking forward to getting back to the computer store, and it's for more reasons than just making money - it's kinda bad for me, being in the house all day by myself. 'Course when I'm out of the house, I'm worrying about all the stuff IN the house that's not getting done/scrubbed/paid attention to. Can't win. *le sigh*
I should stomp off and check how the Win 7 install is going on EPEEN.
* if you don't know what I'm referencing here, go watch The Wiz. If you do know what I'm talking about... well. I wonder how many blackfolk I could balls-out terrify by playing DEE DEE DOOO DAH DOOO DAH on a tenor recorder...
** I've lost an entire cup size. This is utterly tragic to me.
*** this would be something of a feat, considering I sleep on and get up from the same side of the bed.
Christmas being Christmas, and having the week between off due to Smith being officially closed, I'm a little annoyed/concerned by my bank account. Mostly annoyed due to after-christmas sales being terribly lovely things and not being able to take advantage of them. I caved in and got a new bra that my boobs aren't swimming in at Target**, since they were about 8 bucks, but I did want to get some christmassy things for next year. Oh well. One of my nebulous goals for 2012 is to be in far better financial shape, so we'll see where we are 366 days from now.
I spent all of yesterday evening being charmed by the cat's addict-like behavior over her new toy (it's a laser pointer in the shape of a mouse, I can't), taking turns with
cell23 playing with Sikudhani (and being amused as a fell asleep to catch him reading comics and stuff on it before falling asleep himself), and recuperating from the chaos of New York and family.Alas, much as I expected both Goo and the coleus cutting I was feeling encouraged about gave up the ghost while I was away. Not enough light since having to take them out of the windowsills to put up plastic. Thank goodness for Spidey and the impossible to kill-ness of spider plants. I'm a little sad, but this is how it goes sometimes. Definitely have to look into some hanging or wire shelving to put plants on in the kitchen so they get light and it'll be high enough so that the cat won't nibble on them. Also have to find a good day to dump/scrub out the pots I do have for next summer's gardening experiments.
In contrast, today I don't even know what's going on, I must have just woken up on the wrong side of the bed or something*** because nothing is going right/coming together. I've been sluggish on getting productive shit done, the dryer sheets have disappeared and I didn't discover this until after I'd started the laundry, and EPEEN's repair/upgrade is, quite naturally, being a pain in the ass, plus generally trying to get clean-type shit done and failing and freaking out about it and UGH. These are the bad old days of being cooped up all day with my own chaos with nothing but the cat for actual company (and I remember when I didn't even have that); no wonder my anxiety is off the chain today. Hoping going to the movies with
grinninfoole later will alleviate it a little... and then I'm going to have to figure out some kind of plan for the rest of the week so I don't turn into a total twitchmonkey. *sigh* I'm looking forward to getting back to the computer store, and it's for more reasons than just making money - it's kinda bad for me, being in the house all day by myself. 'Course when I'm out of the house, I'm worrying about all the stuff IN the house that's not getting done/scrubbed/paid attention to. Can't win. *le sigh*I should stomp off and check how the Win 7 install is going on EPEEN.
* if you don't know what I'm referencing here, go watch The Wiz. If you do know what I'm talking about... well. I wonder how many blackfolk I could balls-out terrify by playing DEE DEE DOOO DAH DOOO DAH on a tenor recorder...
** I've lost an entire cup size. This is utterly tragic to me.
*** this would be something of a feat, considering I sleep on and get up from the same side of the bed.
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Date: 2011-12-28 11:47 pm (UTC)From:B) Make an actual list of what Xmassy stuffs on sale you like, put a lil' $$ away and find 'em on Amazon and/or especially Ebay May-early August for even better sales than you see at the stores now :)
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