Waking up to what sounds like my glasses breaking: serious, serious lose. I wish Butcher would at least wait until 9:30 to give me my daily heart attack.

I've been sleeping so shallow that all of my dreams seem like drunken ramblings of the back parts of my brain. All the ones that have my stupid, not-really-scary fears, and the parts that berate me and remind me of all the things I've done wrong.

It's easy to decide to live better, wiser, to reduce the entropy and suffering and live by a beautiful but fictional code. But when it comes to opening my mouth, nothing comes out. And I've been trying to figure out what to say and none of it is right, anyhow. So. I never knew what to do and it would be stupid of me to rudely interject myself into a place I don't think I belong anymore.

Baaah.

I don't have to do anything today, so my plans involve a lot of writing. I should also make an attempt to clean the kitchen, and I will probably end up doing dishes just to have things to drink out of today. >> I also have to mail a DVD (hooray, swapadvd) and maybe walk down to the candy shop and spend a very little money, because I know I had a dream about going there and my desire for marshmallow chocolates being thwarted.

Kierstin, I still have your Christmas/birthday box, I just don't have the money to ship it right now. x.x As soon as Kelly gets her financial aid she's paying me back and I will mail it by the end of the month, promise.

I should clean the living room, too. Depending on how I feel later, I might even walk that box down to JCEO. On my day off! Whoa. I am feeling early-morning overambitious. xD Oh, I should make a music post, too... that'll probably come around lunchtime. And I have to write to my aunt.

Being busy is better than not being busy.

...whoa, scrap all that walking around. It's eighteen degrees out. I am staying firmly indoors.

I have a bruise on the fleshy part of my right hand just under where my pinky and ring finger meet. What a bizarre place to bruise.

I made a LOLcat, you should vote on it so it'll get onto Can Has Cheezburger and I will be all \o/!

Coheed and Cambria is A+ for headbanging around the kitchen. The cats do not understand. xD They're too busy boxing.

I need a guy to come over here and flip the couch for me so I can see about fixing the sinking cushion in the middle. It would be nice. I'm going to sew up the corner that Butcher has been clawing up, maybe if I put on some Flight of the Conchords to lol at while I'm working on it.

Expect me to be spammy today, fair warning.

I saw this in yumenohogosha's DevArt, and I felt like doing it. So, you get one of those fill-in-the-blanks art memes-- not that stupid yaoi one, "draw your pairing with a woman without throwing up", way to be a heterophobe-- and if you don't look at it for any other reason, look for the pretty awesome sketch of Butcher I did, plz?

( kind of big... no, REALLY big... )

Now back to cleaning. Once I finish the dishes I'm going to shower, I think. I finished one bit of writing, so I'm aiming for finishing the one other I'm working on, and them maybe two more? Yeah! Good luck to me.

This is lunchtime for me (really, I'm going to make a bagel and have some applesauce right after I make this post), so I'm on time with this music! It's not a huge post, but I'm happy with the songs. I've been rocking a lot of Barenaked Ladies and Moxy Fruvous lately, and I want to share. Because Canadians are funny, and they make good music!

Barenaked Ladies - What a Good Boy
I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,
chickened out, grabbed a pen and paper, sat down and I wrote this song.
I couldn't tell you that you were right,
so instead I looked in the mirror, watched TV, laid awake all night.
This is not a happy song, but it's one of my favorites, and it's a good one. So... download it anyway. :P

Barenaked Ladies - Bank Job
It should have been filled with the usual ones
Throwing their cash into mutual funds
We all had our ski masks and sawed-off shotguns
But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?
No, really, it's a song about a bank robbery, and it's HILARIOUS. Go for it.

Moxy Fruvous - The Drinking Song
Between poles, he said "We're like cows in the grass"
Brushing off flies
Chaise lounging around, standing up, falling down
Till we no longer opened our eyes
And we'd drink, ever notice how drinking's like war?
Cup o' troops o'er the gums
To the end of our health, a campaign 'gainst myself
Armed with bourbons and scotches and rums
Another not-happy one, but one that makes me think, and makes me feel a little bit sad but mostly really thoughtful. And this is why we don't get alcohol poisoning, kids.

Moxy Fruvous - Naked Puppets
This is just some banter between songs, and it's a FUCKING RIOT. If you only download one thing, download this one. I promise you will laugh.

Moxy Fruvous - The Present Tense Tureen
So I went for a walk in the ravine
I came upon an unbelievable scene
In a tiny creek there's a tiny boat
With a tiny man in a tiny coat
I said "Hey man, do you think you can help?"
He said "Of course I can - I'm an elf."
This song makes me giggle all the time. I don't really know why. But the chorus is a very good example of the Fruvous style-- they like to layer the vocals, and their harmonies are crazy awesome.

Awww, I just downloaded the sweetest cover of God Only Knows, so I'll upload that too. It's not by a Canadian band, it's by a Christian one, and if there's a Christian band I have always dug (literally always, I had their cassette when I was like six and rocked it out all the time), it's Jars of Clay. And this is just a really, really nice cover, very pretty vocals.
Jars of Clay - God Only Knows

I'm hungry, so I'm going to stop now. xD

Link time!

There are anywhere from 100 to 150 real-life superheroes in the U.S. with around another 50 worldwide. I'd be a superhero, but I look awful in spandex.

Philadelphia Inquirer reports marijuana at $110/gram for a drug bust. Shit, a $110 joint must be rolled in a $100 bill. War on Drugs, you FAIL at math. Even a stoner can figure out that much.

75 words every sci-fi fan should know. I am embarrassed to admit I only know around 15 of them. >>

40 Yiddish words you should know. Now, these I knew 35 of.

Also, something about Dr. Drew Pinsky saying that Britney is going to kill herself Anna Nicole style, but-- okay, Loveline? From like 10 years ago?

I would still hit it. Oh, Dr. Drew, I partially blame you for my thing for older men.


If the doctor isn't in yet, it's not for my lack of trying. *ba-dum-TISH*

America's most toxic places, and a link to find out how close you are to one. There's only one place in Clinton County, and I think it's in the Saranac River... Oh hey, a picture of a fish with a tumor!

Bush: "I'm sure people view me as a warmonger." GEE. I WONDER WHAT GIVES THEM THAT OPINION. *facepalm*

An interview with the RIAA. Yeah, lady, I'm sure people view your organization positively. Have you been stealing Bush's Capri-sun pouches?

Which costs more, your Coke or your gas? Mmm, delicious unleaded...

Top 10 accidental discoveries. Hooray for LSD? I mean, yay penicillin!

Pocky warehouse. oh my god want. I would cut a bitch to get a box of chocolate almond crush Pocky.

Okay, that's enough for now.

I took a nap. >> I got most of what I needed to get done, done, though. And I have a couple of ideas for writing that I didn't have before the nap. I just have to make myself sit and write.

...why don't I have a Michael Cera icon? Or an eating icon? I should have both of those. But I am not going to make icons or ringtones or do anything but write. In fact, I am not getting up from this chair until I have finished something. Take that, me!

I like taking naps when the cats are being sweet. Butcher slept with me the whole time. ♥ He's my lovey kitty boy. I'm glad he stayed still long enough for me to draw him, before.

The inside of my head is disjointed. I need an adjustment!

....two down, seven to go! \o/