omg
we just spent the last 2.5 hours cleaning 19 mini blinds.
now we're taking a break before we clean 19 windows.
omg.
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June 30, 2007
June 29, 2007
thank goodness
a huge weight has been lifted. the lady at the vet is more than willing to take rinky and tinker. she's a ferret owner, and understands their health problems, and she will take care of them. i was so relieved to hear her voice message saying she'd take them.
*phew*
June 28, 2007
whoah
everyone is nutty at work this week. we have several days off next week for the holiday, and a handful of people will be supplementing the vacation with extra days so all is crazy around here.
June 25, 2007
so
i managed to pack 16 or 17 boxes yesterday. i also am giving 5 plastic grocery bags of knitted items, coats, and miscellaneous objects to st vinnies.
clothes don't sell at a yard sale, so please don't ask me to have one. the neighbors (upstairs and next door) both have a modicum of stuff, and it would seem the three of us could have a regular-sized sale, but i just don't think i'll have the energy.
June 24, 2007
packing
i hate it.
i hate "stuff", so whytf do i have so much of it? i just filled eight beer boxes with our books and now i'm out of boxes with handles; and i haven't even put a dent in our belongings. it's more like a small wound.
i also just sold two plastic grocery bags of books to half price books and got a whopping $17.50. that covered the packing tape that i subsequently purchased at walgreen's.
here's the best part: kurt's away, playing pool.
June 23, 2007
:(
so, we went to prairie du chien today for gramma's 80th. it was a swell time. we haven't hung out with the extended family since christmas. i got to see beth in her 6th month of preggerness, and all the cousin's kids are getting bigger and cuter.
but! i killed three animals on the way home :(. first, a bird flew at my car, and then a groundhog was crossing hwy 18 unsafely and THEN, as we're driving around verona, some bird decides to do a header off my windshield! the car behind me had to swerve to avoid the bounce effect. omg i hate when that happens. all of those buggers had family to feed and they're not coming home tonight :(
June 20, 2007
:?
so, i guess some "kids" were causing a ruckus last night on our street. complete with a pellet gun resulting in joe's new car's window getting busted.
but for some reason, there's nothing on the press release site.
June 18, 2007
eff it.
i need to start keeping track of everything we're gunna need:
dehumidifier, shop-vac, shovel, rake, garbage bins
these are things i want:
composter, rain barrel, gardening supplies, wood burning apparatus
huh
who knew... 6 years ago, i was a couple weeks out of college, waiting to have my first day at my current employer. i held both the relay job and this one for about a week and a half while i worked out my two-week's notice. i was awfully tired.
i can't believe i'm still here.
June 16, 2007
world's fastest speaking woman
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not packing
i refuse to start packing.
i don't know why, though. i think it's cuz when i scan the livingroom, i see a shitload of stuff and it's daunting.
so i've spent the last two hours cleaning the bathroom and kitchen. i haven't even put a dent in the kitchen... i just did the stove. it was gross under the stovetop. i even vacuumed under there.
ugh.
June 14, 2007
madison.craigslist
apparently there are a bunch of people who are ranting about mickey's and the quality of patrons.
p.s., it would appear i'm not the only one who opted to stay home today.
grr
i woke up feeling crusty and sour for the second day in a row. i hope this isn't a trend. anyway, i called in sick. i don't think it has anything to do with work, but it seemed like a good idea. i think it's stress. probably related to the house. and moving, and packing, and fixing and changing habits and having to be frugal. all good things, for sure; it's just a big huge change that i'm probably making too big of a deal over.
i woke up at 2 this morning, thinking of all the things we own that we don't use that we could get rid of. and then i was like, "but, what if i need a mortar and pestle even though i haven't used it in 3 years? at least i have one." i'm not a packrat. so it's weird for me to think this way.
so, a collective apology if my mood affects you in the near future.
June 13, 2007
silliness
i can't even type this without feeling silly.
so, i've been getting sushi delivered, pretty regularly, since january. all the while, helping the delivery driver learn english (he's chinese). i let him know, when we put the offer in on the house, that we might be moving out of their delivery area... in the hopes that it would squelsh my habit. well, the cute little lady that takes my order told me tonight that as long as we still live in madison, they'll deliver to me.
when i order, i don't even have to recite my address or phone number. how effed up is that?
rip, don herbert
i used to get up at 6 on saturday mornings to watch him power clocks with potatoes and hammer apples after they were frozen by dry ice. one morning, i woke mom with an innocent question and two unknown bottles of liquid in my 7-year-old hands, "which one of these is bleach?"
one of my fondest memories.
June 11, 2007
try it!
BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot The Fake Smile
i got 20/20 correct.
:/
i had to dig into my closet for my fat shirt(s) this morning. i've gained about 10lbs in the last year. luckily, i have clothes of all sizes from the norplant incident (i went from 140 to 190 back to 130 in less than a year—needless to say, you'd appreciate my opinion of hormonal birth control).
anywho, i need to come up with a plan, especially since i ain't no spring chicken anymore.
yummers
the cute barista gave me a blueberry cookie last night. they don't sell blueberry cookies at mother fool's, so i guess they can just give 'em away. i am a favorite, i suppose. jones and i still shared the orange-cranberry cookie on the way home. those taste so good with a latte.
June 10, 2007
testing
June 9, 2007
no news is good news?
we presented our "notice" to the sellers on monday. we asked that they get someone out to look at the chimney; according to the inspector, the flashing could have some attention paid to it, as well as getting a cap on the chimney.
we haven't heard from our realtor since wednesday.
meanwhile, i have started compiling a mental list of things we need, things we need to do, things we want to do... and then i start getting overwhelmed so i have to stop.
saturday visitors
i guess no soliciting! only applies to people looking for money... this morning, our doorbell rang at 10:15... i can usually tell who's there by peeking my head around the corner, down the stairs. i was looking at a couple of believers... either the mormon or jehovah's variety.
lemme segue by telling you a couple stories of these visitors from my childhood. once, i was out in the back yard helping mom do something, and i went around to the front of the house to see someone standing at our door. and i did something silly, i invited them (or was it just one person?) to the back to talk with mom. boy was she pissed.
later on, i learned a trick. i could see them coming down the five-house cul de sac, ringing each doorbell and waiting an uncomfortable amount of time before moving on to the next house... so i took the opportunity of the twenty minutes that it took for them to reach our house to don heavy eye makeup and find mom's iron butterfly album to play as loud as her ancient speakers would endure. i don't think they rang our bell. i'm not sure i could have heard it if they had.
anyway, fast forward to this morning. she wanted to read a scripture to me to see what i thought of it. i said, "no thank you... i don't think so." she wanted to know if i was a bible reader. no? do i just not have time? i said that i didn't believe in a higher power and i found my sanctity elsewhere, but i appreciate their beliefs and am happy they find peace where they do. she said thanks and i closed the door.
she was too sweet to argue with, so i let her go at that.
June 8, 2007
sorry
i'm not trying to ignore you, dear reader, i just have a lot of nothing to say... especially since most of it has to do with house stuff, and it's pointless for me to describe rooms and walls that i want to rip down without supplying pictures.
June 4, 2007
don't think me a monster
kurt and i have decided not to move rinky and tinker to the new house, so... i left a message for at the vet asking if they know of anyone willing to adopt two oldish, kinda sickly ferrets.
... i feel kinda bad, irresponsible...
UPDATE!: sue, at the vet, said she'd take the ferrets. i can't wait to tell kurty.
June 2, 2007
awww
it's so cute!
the inspection had no big surprises... just one little one. we'll be meeting with ben to write our counter based on the inspection contingency. if that's even what it's called. and then we start packing!