| dear vacation,
I need some motherfucking alone time. 30 minutes alone in the car does not count because i do not find driving relaxing.
love,
becca | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| You know what?
I've been pretty irritated about feeling infantilized by being single, by being at home in my parents' house, etc... but i still feel glad to be here. Good to get tons of hugs from people-- casual touch-- OMG--and more of it this week as i see more friends, especially snuggly friends like daniel. lordy.
my parents weren't supposed to give me any gifts b/c they bought my plane ticket and they're still giving me tires for my birthday (it was in september) but they gave me a bunch of random shit. the best? this print in green. (thanks facebook, my mom saw that i wanted it there!) Mostly i got weird over the counter drugs-- zantac, alavert, etc because she had to spend a bunch of her flexible spending money. hilarious... we're going to ship it to me since i brought a tiny suitcase.
today we go to my uncle's house. it's going to be boring. then we go to my cousin rob's tonight to play games and drink-- awesome!
tomorrow i get to see <3 JMP <3.
my parents got a new tv-- 47 inch LCD HD. it's insane. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| Today I had my 6-hour drive home. The weather was supposed to get bad the later it got, so I was on the road by 9:15 (which is way earlier than normal for days off, let me tell you what). I tricked the cat into thinking I was just going through my normal morning routine, so he didn't think to hide under/behind the desk before it was carrier-time, score. I also ran out of breakfast-smoothie fixings and was sad, but I did a google map search for Jambas and found one not far off the freeway in the suburbs. So I stopped and got one and ate on the road, hurrah.
Anyway the weather stayed clear for my whole drive, which was fantastic. I even had a tailwind so I made great time and didn't have to stop for gas. Puck behaved quite well and didn't even try to get in my lap (although he put his head on my arm for a while, aww). I started thinking about that-guy-I'm-dating and how long it'll be till I see him again, ahem-ahem, and at that exact moment Prince's "When Doves Cry" came on my ipod and I was like, "IPOD, HOW DID YOU KNOW??" Then I put on my Christmas playlist and when that was over I listened to some Glee soundtrack. Honestly it would have been one of the best drives to WI ever if not for the fact that about 1 hour into the 6 hours, my formerly-broken-ankle started killing me and kept it up the entire time. Seriously I was almost crying, it hurt so bad. Advil didn't even touch it. Noooo idea what happened there.
I got home and got excited by the fact that my parents had me put my car in a GARAGE then I laid down to read and when I finished my book I fell asleep, and woke up to the sound of Grandma & Dad getting home and James & Lissa coming in. Waking up to family is kind of awesome. We had Christmas Eve tonight as Lissa's family has two tomorrow, so it worked out well. We had yummy food and Mom and Dad got us each a dessert we wanted - mine was coconut ice cream! And there is enough for me to eat it the whole time I'm here and probably bring some home. We did presents and mainly I got money to go to a new TV (which I haven't found a deal for yet, boo) but I also got an MR James book and a Banangrams puzzle book and Trivial Pursuit and money from my Grandma and a multi-tool from James & Lissa, and a BOOK ABOUT PLATYPII! It was very exciting. And Loki came over and was sweet and she and Puck didn't get quite as angry as each other as in times past, and Mom and Dad gave Puck a little stuffed mouse that Mom had put catnip in which he loved. And now I am tired and kind of headachy and the weather has started turning and I am kind of glad there is nothing we HAVE to go do tomorrow (although if it is not too bad yet Mom and I might go buy me new winter boots) so we can just hang out here and not deal with weather and possibly watch Christmas shows/movies (after all I still haven't watched Elf or all of Nightmare Before Christmas or A Charlie Brown Christmas or Rudolph).
On actual-Christmas we are going over to Lissa's parents house, for what I refer to as "6-dog-Christmas". More accurately it would be 6-Lab-Christmas, as there might be more other dogs. Saturday we are thinking of going to see Sherlock Holmes so I can glare at it, and Saturday night Dad and I are going to the Wild game (James & Lissa are going too, with her parents tickets!). I am hoping to drive back Sunday but I have Monday off work, so if weather is bad or whatever I will just stay an extra day. I kind of want to have a day off in Chicago though. Also I am thinking of stopping at Carr Valley Cheese on the way back because I had some of their Benedictine at a holiday party this year and it was the best cheese I may have ever had.
Puck is adorably lying on the back of the couch, enjoying the lamps.
I had something else I was going to say but I can't remember what, and now my head hurts and I can't think. So I am ending this instead.
PS Seriously, anyone have any nice wallets they can recommend? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I lost my wallet sometime after dinner last night. I am trying to figure out who I need to call/what needs to be replaced. So far:
- Banks (done)
- DMV (Monday)
- Health insurance (Monday)
- Car, dental, eye insurance (possibly Monday)
- Library (probably not as urgent)
- Voter ID card (I have no idea who to call)
- School ID card
- AAA (should call on Monday as well)
What the hell? I know my wallet was super-full, what else do I need? I lost at least $70 cash, a few Shedd parking permits, the business card with my landlord's contact info for emergencies, I don't remember what else! My CBLDF card was in there. My SPAM records (I think it was from SPAM?) official Petty Bourgeoisie card, and that hurts to lose. A whole book of stamps, dammit, and my thing with the Bill of Rights printed on it from the ACLU (which, yes, I always want with me). Some receipts I guess, those don't matter. I don't know what else. Let me know if there's anything obvious I'm missing you think of I need to call. (Thank goodness my CTA card was in my pocket, separate from the wallet. At least I can still get to work.)
I am going to have to be that person everyone hates, writing checks in line at Target and Trader Joe's tomorrow. I might be able to get by without a TJ's trip because M. gave me a carton of milk (my hero!) but I don't have any pasta sauce, so Target is a must. But I am thinking maybe I will buy just that and pay with cash so I don't have to write a check? But that would also mean all holiday cards will be even MORE late, because I ran out of cards. And stamps. Also I am now not shipping anything until after the holidays. Sorry everyone. This was poor timing.
The nice thing about banking at my brother's credit union is I called him at 10AM, and by 12:30 he said a new card was on its way via UPS and would be at my work Tuesday before noon. This is key because Wednesday morning, I have to drive to WI. I should have enough emergency cash in the house (because that is exactly the kind of person I am!) to get me through the drive with gas and all, but if there is an emergency and I need to get my car fixed or pay for a hotel overnight or something? I want a credit card (/debit card, whatever). And I will have it! Because my brother is my hero, as he always has been.
Apparently the lesson from this is that girls shouldn't pay for dinner. If I hadn't brought out my wallet for that, I would never have lost it!
I am still kind of hoping it will turn up sans cash and possibly cards, but I am losing hope. *sigh*
Also I need to buy an actual new wallet. I'm thinking etsy? Someone point me at something cool.
So I realized my wallet was missing this morning when I went to get my stuff ready to volunteer at the aquarium - specifically, making sure the wallet was on the top of my purse so the parking permits were at hand. NO WALLET. So I emailed to say I'd be late and retraced the walk from my apartment to dinner, but no luck. RATHER CONVENIENTLY M. lives close the the aquarium, so I drove there and he dropped me off to volunteer and picked me up afterwards. We went to lunch and hung out for a while until I acquired an absolute bitch of a migraine, at which point I drove home and texted him things like "now my skull, nose, and cheeks feel like they are being stuck with 1000s of needles" and "now walking is hard". I love migraines! Oh wait. No I don't. I got a text back at one point that said "Your migraine sounds horrid." So at least expectations are set for how much those suck in the future. This one was particularly bad, though, I'll say. Not the worst I've ever had, but it's about 4.5 hours later AND after my migraine meds, and I still feel weird when I stand up.
I'm going to admit, I kind of want to see Avatar. Not this weekend, obviously. But in general. Sigourney Weaver on The Daily Show talked me into it. Also, then I had to watch Ghostbusters.
Oh, on Friday I ran errands on my break - I used a $25 Macy's gift card I'd gotten for listening to some guy at the bus stop and bought Lush, and I got my new migraine prescription meds for free due to a manufacturer's coupon. THAT was a good day. I am glad I got both of those used before losing my wallet. Also dinner that night with M was good, at least except for the wallet-losing. And I have leftovers to eat. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| A sheet of water
And boiling water
Sound almost the same
From inside.
Wrapped around me through
Racks and girders
The wash and rinse
Cleans the outside.
Almost as soon as I
Feel consumed
By the torrential
And continuous stream
I hear it cease and hesitate
As though its confused
And has lost its meaning.
Then it switches
To small splatters
And winding down with empty, hollow drifts.
Just as quickly as the
Kettle boils
The rinse of the world lifts. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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