Returned hangers to dry cleaner

K is here!

Re-arranged dishes & bakeware

Now the the stuff I'm actually using is in front. Seems obvious, yes?


Today's earrings: monkeys, spaceships

Bedtime reading: Blackout, Connie Willis

Dropped off dry cleaning

Today's earrings: monkeys, wrenches

Bedtime reading: The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

Shiny monkeys

Today's earrings: monkeys, suns

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R. A. Lafferty

Good things

K/S/D arrived this afternoon. We hung about, got dinner, read bedtime books, and then I went to my very first HOA meeting. Some of my fellow owners really like the sound of their own voices; others seem quite pleasant. K/S/D are now asleep in my living room. :)

In other news, it was Newbie's last day. Yippee!


Today's earrings: monkeys, wishbones

Bedtime reading: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

Banana boats

Today's earrings: monkeys, teaspoons

Bedtime reading: Freeze My Margarita, Lauren Henderson

Ikea is coming! Ikea is coming!

Bookcases tbd Saturday.

Anybody feel like a brunch & assembly party Sunday?


Today's earrings: monkeys, typewriter keys

Bedtime reading: Under the Dome, Steven King

Commuting

This morning I rode an orange trolley to work.

After work, I took a cable car to the market. It was decorated with blue lights on the outside and snowbirds, snowflakes, and white tinsel streamers on the inside.

I caught a just-plain-bus home from the market.


Today's earrings: monkeys, chickens

Bedtime reading: Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron

In translation

The moon, like a flower
In heaven’s high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.

- - William Blake

“Okay, let’s see… In mellow-speak, that would be… ‘Oh, wow, look at the moon.’”

- - Garry Trudeau


Today's earrings: monkeys, mice

Bedtime reading: Night of the Morningstar, Peter O'Donnell

If wishes were monkeys...

Sharon would be a very happy woman.


Today's earrings: monkeys, wishbones

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

Today's big excitement

The network went down for about an hour this afternoon.


Today's earrings: monkeys, keys

Bedtime reading: Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff

Sad news

The Bad Man was not voted out. Instead, a pawn was medevacced. I hope they don't have to amputate his leg or anything.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones

LA

Project Runway airing on Lifetime this summer.

Also, that photographer whose work I like so much feels there should be more comments here.


Today's earrings: monkeys, suns

Bedtime reading: The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies

Early

I woke up around 4:30, I guess. About 5:30 I gave up, got up, and made myself some breakfast. Then I figured, why not? and went in to work early. Confused the heck out of my coworkers. Had a tolerably productive day bullying the minions. (I had four minions this week. Four! I must release them tomorrow.) Stopped off at Rite-Aid and yelled at the manager for holding up the line. Stayed up to watch Supernatural, which lacked angels and apocalyptic omens but did closely resemble some recent horror movies that I've seen commercials for. Disappointing.

I'm pretty tired now.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite," R.A. Lafferty

The Shield

Series finale was tonight. They tied up the loose ends nice and neat, except, y'know, rife with violence and corruption and horrific betrayal. But tidy.
Fun cameo: Clark Johnson talking up the amenities of the greater Baltimore area.


Today's earrings: monkeys, anchors

Bedtime reading: Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

My boss shared this with me

A sign of the End of Days


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: A Taste for Death, Peter O'Donnell

wanna know what I didn't do today?

Talk like a pirate.


Today's earrings: monkeys, estrogen molecules

Bedtime reading: The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark

Harrumph

Bravo is pissing me off. They keep editing PR contestants into hateworthy characters, and then sending home someone relatively pleasant. Stupid jerks are doing it as part of the petulant fit they're throwing over losing the show to Lifetime... but the antics aren't making me hate PR. They're making me hate Bravo.


Today's earrings: monkeys, fish

Bedtime reading: Death's Half Acre, Margaret Maron

The coats came today

It was too hot to wear them home, so I stopped off at the no-really-we-mean-it-this-time-we're-really-going-out-of-business rug store next door and picked up a telephone table. (The logic was inescapable, but would take too long to spell out.) The new table fits neatly in the niche in my kitchen, and, since it doesn't go with anything else in the place, fits right in.


Today's acquisitions:
- 2 coats
- 1 whatnot

Today's earrings: monkeys, fish

Bedtime reading: Cockatiels at Seven, Donna Andrews

Have a nice day

I don't have a nice day any more. I don't bother much with that. I think I'm beyond that now. I think I've outgrown the nice day. I think I've had my share. Why should I be hogging all the really nice ones? Let somebody else have a few. Course, everybody still wants me to have one. Everybody wants me to have a nice day. 'Have a nice day!' Yeah, yeah, yeah. You wanna give me my fucking change, please? I'm triple parked...

- - George Carlin

Today's earrings: monkeys, men

Bedtime reading: The Danger, Dick Francis