Giant bag of sunflower seeds! \o/ Also some grocery shopping. Success.

Sleep now. Tomorrow: dishes, cleaning the kitchen and my desk, fixing up my profile, and if I do good, watching the most recent episode of SGA. I wish that there wasn't nasty winter mix weather for tonight and tomorrow... I'm ready to go out walking, dammit.

I'm so tired, I can't even do my usual KoL routine. Wow. Good night everyone.

(individual notes:
arti_absinthium, I need your address
notwolf, should I email you the BPAL list or just post it here? Also, I'm still not sure on pricing for anything... but if you have the Umbrella Academy comics, that's a srsly heavy bartering tool. xD
p33ner, your mom.)

Dishes suck. This is my final opinion. Let's go back to eating on a bread plate. It's less work. >> Also, let's use sporks.

I'm taking breaks when my hands get too pruney... and when I fill the dish drainer. And between that I'm cleaning my room in bits... making room for the DF books on my shelf of honor, putting away clothes and the like. As soon as there's a nice warm day coming, I'm going to beat up my feather mattress on the porch! It will be fun and stress-relieving. Also needing to do: clean the kitchen and take out the trash, clean the bathroom, clean my desk, do not do laundry because that's making our electric bill ridonkulous.

Butcher keeps making escape attempts, and I can't find his collar. I took it off him when the jingling kept me awake, but now I'm going to try and walk him on a leash. >D He deserves it.

I keep ignoring my phone... it's probably not a good idea, I mean, what do I have it for if not to answer it? I wonder if you can get a text-only plan... the only people I want to talk to are family or close friends anyway. >>

My head hurts. And other parts. As soon as I am done cleaning, I'm going to collapse on the couch and pop in the Dresden Files, I want to rewatch a couple episodes. And the personal shield episode of SGA. \o/

It's so much easier to do things with a running list... crossing things out gives me a deep sense of satisfaction.

Ooh. If I can scrape together 60 cents, I am going to get myself a cheap past-blooming rose down the street. Even dying flowers need love, and they still smell pretty for a couple of days.

eta: Damn, I'm good. All those dishes in only three rounds. \o/

I finished EVERYTHING on my list (and a few other things), and went and got myself a rose. ♥ I might sweep the living room a little later, but right now I am having lunch and SGA! \o/ Today, I am a winnar.

I even have proof! And, victoriansquid, you wanted pictures of my kitchen, and I said not until it's clean? IT'S CLEAN. Therefore, kitchen pics under the cut. Among other things.

( clean machine! )

My lunch is all done now. Chicken sammich, miso soup, and black cherry soda. :d Yum.

I finished White Night today... and now I have to wait until April for a new Dresden Files book. D: I'm going to have to look for the compilations that have DF-verse short stories in them, because oh my god I love everything about this series. Harry and Mouse and Murphy and Thomas and Marcone and Michael and Molly and EVERYONE. So much.

Rachael is telling me how there was a lockdown in her school today because some kid had a gun in his locker... and there was a fistfight near her locker... and how our cousin Kristen had a lockdown at school too, because of someone with a gun... I just want to collect my whole family here, where there are no high school shootings, and no stupid high amounts of violence, and no crack epidemic. :(

I ache so much right now. D: From sternum to knees. This is so not cool. This morning I was thinking "oh, no problem, not a bad one," and then I ran out of midol. -_- I'm considering doing the robo-boogie just to get out of my suffering right now.

Two related links:
Detained at Wal-Mart for not showing a receipt at the door. I noticed that they stopped putting "paid" stickers on things at our 'mart, well, back when I was allowed in there... and I thought it was just to give the old folks at the door something to do. But still, that's screwed up. But what about that store isn't screwed up?

Still, Wal-Mart is too classy for some people. Oh, rednecks. xD

And a teeny quiz that... is surprisingly accurate.


A little later, there will be music and that hey-new-friends introductory post I've been mentioning. Woo!

I love candlelight. I have 12 candles going right now and the other lights off, and it's lovely. I'm turning off my computer monitor as soon as I'm done with this and just enjoying it.

Does anyone want a postcard who's on RIGHT NOW? because I am in an arty mood and I will draw a one-of-a-kind postcard for anyone who responds in the next... three hours or so. That gives you until 2:30 EST. (omgimnaked, I'm sorry I didn't do yours before, but I'm finishing it up now!)

Now, music that's been rocking my world lately:

The Mountain Goats - I Love You. Let's Light Ourselves On Fire.
what's going to be the death of me?
static electricity.
what's making me take it all too far?
you are.
you are.
what's keeping me up at night?
the streetlight.
what's finally gonna let me sleep alright?
you might.

Sia - Academia
You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on?
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
It appears to me the pen is overanalyzed again

And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one
and if you are five words you are afraid to be the one
And if you are a number, you're infinity plus one
and if I'm four words then I am needing of your love.

CATS - The Rum Tum Tugger
Okay. this one I feel the need to justify-- it's the original soundtrack and Terrence Mann is the titular cat, and... I just really like his voice okay? I'm probably going to put up one of his songs from Les Miz later. Because. I really, really like his voice...
The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing
The Rum Tum Tugger doesn't care for a cuddle
But I'll leap in your lap in the middle of your sewing
For there's nothing I enjoy like a horrible muddle!

I feel much better right now than I did before. \o/