Now the cats can't complain...

Now the cats can't complain...

...that I don't ever do anything for them. I put up a nice shelf along the top of the ceiling so they can jump up there from their tower. Yay!

aural fixation

Seriously....I know it's my brother and all, but his demo is from the land of ROCK!!

ghosbusters!

I'm doing work but listening to online TV and movies in the background. I eventually realized I should only watch movies and TV I've already seen because I can't quite put all my attention to it. I could list the ENORMOUS amount of stuff I've watched since starting this project, but right now I'm watching Ghostbusters, which I hadn't seen in a while.

The main bad guy (besides the ghosts) is the EPA who's trying to shut down their containment unit. Granted, the EPA does a lot of dumbass stuff. But really, it WOULD be a criminal violation of a lot of things to have an unregulated nuclear reactor in the middle of Manhattan. It's one thing when they crossed the beams to defeat the Stay-Puf marshmallow man, but they had the nuclear stuff just for their status quo business operations, and that's irresponsible.

Also, speaking of the marshmallow man, when Xuul said that they themselves would choose the vehicle of their destruction, and (Egon I think?) said to keep their minds completely blank to avoid causing the apocolypse, but then Ray thought of the marshmallow man and they got mad at him...well, that was a poorly conceived plan. It takes monks their whole lifetime to truly empty their mind of thoughts--how long did they think four random dudes would be able to accomplish that? Also, thinking of absolute nothingness would be a pretty efficient way to destroy everything in existence. That's kind of what absolute nothingness is. This part never sat well with me, so I thought I'd get it off my chest.

dating issues

a friend kind of set me up with someone. during the debriefing afterwards, she and i had this conversation:

me: yeah, he was really cute! but he seems so.... [darkly] nice.
friend: well.... [hopefully] you never know! maybe he's a real jerk!

got. to. get. over. issues. with. men.

Top 10 weird things about Super Mario

This is probably only hilarious if you, like me, played Mario Brothers 43 times in a row hoping each time that THIS quest the princess sent you on would somehow be different--not just beetles replacing turtles (and from then on, beetles replacing beetles). Hoping that this time Princess would let you settle down and have babies with her. Maybe the 44th quest would have done it. But after leaving my Nintendo on for a full week, I lost willpower. Until I decided to get the maximum number of points possible (broke every single brick for 50 points, left no enemy unvanquished) to see if the points counter would reset, or if it would add on an extra 1 when you reached a million (it adds the extra 1).

OMG yall!

Indian clothes are totally comfortable! It's like wearing pajamas, all the time!

This is going to be fantastic!

that exam went totally well.

yes, yes, yes! one thing down. 1,115 to go. This is actually a precise number. All due Monday.

I am currently downloading The Watcher in the Woods in order to have screenshots to show Angela, who cuts my hair next week. But I'm kind of chickening out. Because it's a really stupid haircut. As I describe what I want (Karen from W in the W meets Sarah Connor from TV) ends up souning like Worst of the 70's meets Mullets Galore.

But for now, I'm taking a break, and a bath, listening to tunes, and updating my blog. The exam got out early, and I have a whole 3 hours I wasn't really expecting.

UPDATED new rug

I got a new rug! It is so pretty, and the cats love it. Xander is sleeping on it right now. I got this rug because after I cleaned my apartment and got rid of a lot of stuff, I realized it echoed. So I found this Iranian rug. And I took pictures. Here are several pictures, of the rug and my cats (of course):


NEW: I wanted to take pictures with the couch uncovered, to make sure all the reds don't clash. They might a little bit, but it's ok.
NEW: It looks so homey with the rug!

This is the rug.
This is the tape I'm using to train Ladybird to stay off the counters.
This is Ladybird, studying statistics for me.

This is Xander and Ladybird hugging.

Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess… there was a silverfish in the percolator.

I'm searching for a bike tire patch to fix my balance ball. I searched "bike patch" first, and now I can't stop thinking of it like a pumpkin patch, but with bikes.

I discovered that I can brew my yerba mate in my single-serving coffee brewer. This discovery went hand in hand with discovering a nest of silverfish in my single-serving coffee brewer. I'm not sure I can get over this fact, psychologically, however much I disinfect.

maybe 90%

Woah, I'm turning into a regular, moment by moment account of my life blogger.

I'd have to guess that 75% of my calories today came from Easter candy