oh, late january. you are a bastard.

my feet are freezing, i ate junk food for dinner, and i'm watching an ancient disney cartoon. it's the rough quarter at work. and i need to have my yearly panic over not knowing enough math to do my taxes.

in other exciting news, i got a delinquent payment notice from the water dept.! mysteriously, i never received first notice. however, i COMPLETELY trust in the cleveland bureaucracy and their ability to understand the logic of "i never got the first bill!"

so instead i'm finally going to teach myself how to do something other than stripes and start knitting a ton of scarves and then i'm giong to go to one craft fair a year and sell all of them. want a scarf? custom orders being taken now!

i am a very hard worker.

when i left work today i:

• bought two more sets of blinds! i'm going to cover the windows in this house eventually!
• ate homemade salsa for dinner. nothing else.
• watched two really freaking hysterical episodes of 30 rock, 1 pretty damn funny episode of archer, and some really old episodes of so you think you can dance. turns out that this one chick on so you think you can dance got divorced by her husband when she made it on the show and he didn't. that's not something that i'd ever admit to a camera. evvvvvvvvver.
• jumped rope for 30 minutes and did crunches.
• knitted a lot more of my scarf.
• found a pair of my boyfriend's sneakers. he doesn't live here, so i'm not entirely sure why there are now two pairs of his shoes in my house... unless he's hiding somewhere in here. which may well be! except i've been home for 3 hours and haven't seen him. but i haven't been in the basement, so who knows? it's cold down there, i hope he's bundled up.

heating bills make me very very sad.

my gosh, like heartbreakingly sad. i have to remind myself that i have a four story house, which was built in 1900, and it's already january, and therefore we've only got two months of winter to go! please god - please let the heating bill go down from here or else i'll have to sell something. like a kidney. or eggs.

i'm starting to try to make some more resolution-y type of things. thus far we've got:

• stick to the monthly budget even more tightly!
• make scarves and give them away - if you didn't know, it's cold in Cleveland in the winter! people need scarves and i like to make them.
• learn how to make hats and shawls.
• work out everrrrrrrrry day
• learn how to write a screenplay, because i think that'd be fun!
• campaign for more recycling in cleveland - i will be writing frank jackson a letter every week until i get recycling, darn it!
• help make church and young people more compatible with each other - first step may be Catholics for Choice, but we'll see.

and a piece of advice for everyone: in bed, pile on more blankets. and just stay there - it's warm!

happy new year!

welcome to 2010! woo! i am not hungover, but i am still stuffed up, and i couldn't sleep past 8 am, so now i am very sleepy. i will now stay on the couch and watch the looney tunes marathon until necessary to go to my momma's for new year's day dinner.

sorry i am the slack when it comes to posting - i'm just awfully tired! i don't really know if 2010 will bring more interest in blogging, but it seems unlikely. i'm going to use 2010 to continue my slow decrease in poundage, and to follow my budget as strictly as possible, and to hopefully get my promotion at work. also: i predict that bison bison bison will be the ultimate winner at the Parma Tavern trivia contest!

almost ready for saturday!

the contractors promise to be done today! that only leaves me with needing to clean the whole house, replace a toilet, hang blinds, decorate the whole house, replace a porch light and a living room ceiling light, rake the back yard, and put crap in the attic. OBVIOUSLY i will get all this done before Saturday at 8:30 pm.

on the plus side, when i wake up early, there's west wing on tv! west wing! i do love it. today was the episode where they hire ainsley hayes. this is mom's favorite episode, because there's just a ton of witty dialogue. she especially likes the line where leo points out that she has an interesting conversational style, she says it's a nervous condition, and they have the following exchange:

ainsley: it's a nervous condition.
leo: i used to have one of those.
ainsley: how did yours manifest itself?
leo: i drank a lot of scotch.
ainsley: i get sick when i drink too much!
leo: i get drunk when i drink too much.

honestly, i know typed out it looks very flat, but spoken, it is HYSTERICAL. honestly, if we talked about getting drunk more often, mom and i would quote that all the time.

ok! time for me to be late to work! but get ready. saturday is waffle christmas.

my house is SO COLD.

the myriad "costs" of having a bathroom remodeled include:

• three different tubes of caulk, none of which will work.
• the band new shower and tub, which are pretty great!
• realizing that telling your contractor that you don't want sliding doors on your shower, means that you have to EXPLICITLY tell them that they should provide and install a shower rod. if you do not do so, you better thank your lucky stars that you had a super long tension rod and a shower curtain from your grandma's apartment.
• your house will smell odd for two days becasue they will have to solder copper pipes.
• your contractors will alert you to the fact that your toilet is leaking, so guess what you have to replace now! a toilet!
• a toilet costs about a hundred bucks, and i watched a great video on bobvila.com which very clearly outlines how to install a toilet. i think i can do it! as long as i borrow my mother's wet/dry vacuum and a hacksaw and a level.
• the betting pool on how badly i will fuck up installing a toilet starts at $5.
• your house will be super messy, because contractors don't care about the new carpet that they, you know, installed, so you'd think they'd remember but they don't.
• tiles.
• grout.
• don't forget that it's SANDED grout.
• a linen cabinet for the bathroom, becasue it turns out that unless you install your sink/vanity from the start, you'll never get a super long vanity that will stretch across your whole bathroom wall. which is ok, i guess, because a linen cabinet is only somewhere between $150 and $200, whereas a new long sink is really expensive!
• and don't forget that hole in the ceiling of the room below the bathroom, where the leak is, which is how we found out that the stupid bathroom was leaking in teh first place! we're going to have to replace that patch!
• also, the heat's not on, becasue the contractor keeps having to open windows and doors when he sets off the smoke alarms. so it's FREEZING.

however, i finally have gotten to start taking showers again. and that is pretty amazing.

would anyone care if i just never posted again?

since obviously i have no energy for posting.