did you know that my sink is STILL plugged?
bugger.
I blame the roommate. 
In more positive news, I’m sitting around in my puppy bathrobe and I’m feeling quite comfy. I do, however, need to get off my duff and go unpack my laundry and alllllll my presents and crap that I bought.
I did not do this last night. Instead, I cleaned out and rearranged my linen closet. Much better use of my time, don’t you think?
I hate it when my mouth overrides my ass….
My landlord called, to confirm that the maintenance guy was allowed into my apartment to fix my plugged up kitchen sink. “Sure” says I and then I follow that with “so long as he watches out for the cats.” “cats?” she says “oh yeah,” I say, “i’ve got three”
Fuck. Forgetting of course that my landlord only knew about 2 of them. Pixel, the newbie is not technically allowed to be there.
So I sputter she sounds shocked and is all like … “i am just worried it will smell do they spray? blahblahblah” while I was rushing to assure her that no, indeed my pets don’t pee on my carpet and all three are fixed because I don’t let anyone pee on my carpet (that caused her to laugh at me) and then she was kind of okay with it (I hope)
ugh. I think I am like tasting leg up to my knee….and cripey…Let’s hope she doesn’t discover the illegal roommate and her illegal rabbits….
everybody all done with Christmas/Chanukah/Holiday/Solistice Shopping?
heh.
I am. Thank god. Considering I started in October!
Ah well…I kept finding cheap good things…like at Tuesday Morning or at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland (why can’t we have one of those in Columbus? I’ll trade OSU for it).
I am now all wrapped and all my stuff, including 4 HUGE baskets of laundry (which I haven’t done since, I think, the 1st weekend in October) is in the middle of my living room floor. It makes me wish I had a digital camera just to take a kickass picture of it’s own personal HUGENESS.
A great sadness is the lack of Orange Trader Joe Truffles in Ohio. However, we do get the Raspberry ones that Portland did not have…no one seems to have the Cappuchino ones…
When I go home, aside from poopy diapers, laundry, friend/drinking consolation and cleaning a carpet or two…
I’m going to make chocolate shortbread cookies…mmmm…don’t those sound good?
I went to Fudrucker’s for lunch today….mmmm…Greasey. And now I shall go eat my leftovers for dinner…
eries 1-8
[ series 1 ]
Name: Kelly
Birthday: Feb. 21, 1980
Birthplace: Flint, MI
Current Location: Columbus, OH
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: variable
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Font: Times New Roman 12 pt
[ series 2 - your favorite ]
Music: Classical
Cartoon: Clone High
Color: Green
Car: 1957 Chevy Convertible, Cherry red
Slushy Flavor: Cherry
Magazine: Scientific American
TV Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I don’t care if it’s been canceled)
Song at the Moment: None really…
Language: Italian
Spice Girl: Don’t know any…
Food & Beverage: Vanilla coke and warm brownies
Subject in School: MoBio!
Weekend Activity: Books, many books.
Frozen Yogurt: er…chocolate?
Roller Coaster: The Beast, King’s Island
[ series 3 - what is ]
Your most overused phrase: Fuck.
First thing you thought when you woke up: Ugh….bad cats get off of my arms so I can turn off the bedamned alarmclocks
Last image/thought you go to sleep with: the cats
First feature you notice of opposite/same sex: arms/shoulders/hands
Best name for a Butler: Giles
Wussiest Sport: Extreme Chess
Your best feature: uuhhhh…my inability to curb myself from saying exactly how I feel about stuff
Your greatest fear: Fire
Your greatest accomplishment: Getting into grad school and not killing myself or anyone else while doing it
Your most missed memory: College life. Just in general.
[ series 4 - you prefer ]
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
McDonald’s or Burger King: Neither
Single or Group Dates: I don’t date and for that matter, I’ve never actually been on a “date” date
Adidas or Nike: New Balance
Chicken nuggets or Chicken fingers: Chicken nugget night at home, the BEST FUCKING GREASE EVER
Dogs or Cats: Both
Rugrats or Doug: Neither
Single or Taken: Neither
Monica or Brandy: Neither
Tupac or Jay-Z: Neither
Shania Twain or LeAnn Rimes: Neither
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither
One pillow or Two: er…more like 6
Chocolate or Vanilla: oh, so fucking chocolate
Hot chocolate or Hot cocoa: whatever one has irish cream in it
Cappucino or Coffee: whichever one tastes more like chocolate
[ series 5 - do you ]
Shower everyday: Yup
Have a crush: Buffy…mmmmm….Not Sarah Michelle Gellar…Buffy….
Think you’ve been in love: Yup
Want to go to college: Still there…probably for like 10 more years so I sure as hell hope I want to go
Like high school: No
Want to get married: No
Type correctly: Unless the cats are sleeping on my hands
Believe in yourself: About 56% of the time
Have any tattoos? Where: I’m working on it, I know what I want and I know where I want to put it, now I just gotta get the balls to get it
Have any piercings? Where: Ears
Get motion sickness: Not really
Think you’re a health freak: No.
Get along with your parents: Yes, for the most part. As long as we avoid talking about any serious issues.
Like thunderstorms: Always
[ series 6 - the future ]
Age your plan to be married: Don’t plant to
Number and names of children: No human kids, just the cats: Possum and her sister Boots and their stepsib, Pixel
Where will you be at age 20: I was at college in BG
Dream wedding: er…assuming that I gotta get married? Vegas in jeans and a tanktop married in the Bob Segar Chapel
How do you want to die: Happily
Dream job: A job in which I have the influence, ability and skill to write hard science so that the masses can read it and to force other scientists to learn to write in normal, everyday words so that people understand and care what we in the scientific community do.
Country you’d like to visit: Italy. Greece. And also some of them there Caribbean places…
[ series 7 - opposite/same sex ]
Best eye color: Brown
Best hair color: Not blonde
Short or long hair: Short.
Best height: Tall.
Best weight: I like’em scrawny
Best clothes: Jeans. And that’s it.
Best first date location: ummmm…I dunno, gotta really have one or more before I can pick
Best first kiss location: Anywhere in nature.
[ series 8 - other ]
Last time you slept with a stuffed animal: about 4 hours ago
Rings before you answer the phone: I don’t. If the roomie doesn’t answer it, the machine does.
What’s on your mousepad: Don’t have one.
How many houses you’ve lived in: 5
How many schools you’ve gone to: Including college, 7.
Bedroom carpet color: Light brown.
Shave your head for $5,000?: Drop it on the table baby
Stranded on a desert island. Take three things. No people: lighter, large metal pot and a knife
Best time of your life so far: ummmm…well, I like to think that’s not happened yet…but probably Junior year of college…2001
honeys, I’m home!
I heart Portland and mass transit systems! As well, the weather, the addictive bookstores (mmmm…Powell’s!) and the people! Goodness, lots and lots of friendly ones. I only wish that I’d had time to do MORE. Like hiking and playing in the moutains that I only had time to see from afar.
And I want to go play in the Pacific.
Guess this means I gotta go back…
holy shit, my roommate washed the kitchen cupboards
*falls over*
Of course, since I hadn’t cleaned since last Tuesday, I guess even she couldn’t fail to notice the amount of food she’d left stuck to the cupboard.
gods, I’m passive aggressive…someone needs to kick both of us I think.
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Hey, any of you cat people know/use ground corn + baking powder (soda?) as a substitute for commercial cat litter?
I’m tempted…what with three cats, I’m going through litter like crazy (on top of nearly 1lb of cat food a day) and I need to find something cheaper.
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My goal, for tonight, aside from finishing up with the watching of Buffy Season 5, is to begin my packing for my trip to Oregon on Saturday. I’m bringing layers…but I also want to fit all my clothes for 4 days in a carry on, because I HATE checking luggage!
Anyone fly SouthWest? What’s their policy on needles? I want to bring my cross-stitch but I don’t know if that’s legal or not?
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While in Oregon (Portland), I so far, plan to go to Powell’s Bookstore…but I dunno where else…I’m thinking of regional food products? How about ice cream? or pizza? What would you eat if you were there?
congratulations to me
I made it through my first quarter as a TA. Everything is done except for the final grade meeting tomorrow afternoon where they will bribe us with pizza and/or chinese food and then I can just kiss my students good bye.
Of course, I start teaching BIO101 to a whole new crop of students on Jan. 5th. But let’s not think about that.
