big whining and more bloo-ness

Not the greatest evening. Got stuck watching Survivor. Never made my planned dinner, and instead ate it in parts over hours, and never made chicken (went for grilled cheese sandwiches instead). Mom snapped at the drop of a hat tonight. I cheerily and proudly commented that I'd been doing most of the cooking lately and she jumped down my throat and went into a martyr routine. Duh, it had nothing to do with her.

Our big lump sum of insurance money is running low, mainly because we've paid off almost everything we owed. This is kind of depressing. There is possibility in a large sum of money (say, $75K) which does not exist in a more finite sum. But at least so much money won't be going out every month, or being swallowed up in credit card interest payments.

Aside from that, I have a headache, my knees hurt for some reason, and I'm all sinussy. I'm going to crawl into bed and sleep for a week. Maybe two weeks.

For interested parties, I nabbed a few more Blue Monday mini-strips... I especially like the Valentine's Day Part II strip! These are all by Chynna Clugston-Major and came from the Oni Press site's "Web Exclusives" area. Enjoy!

Blue Monday: "Snatch Baggin'" (Halloween!)

Blue Monday: "My Bloody Fokin' Valentine" Part I

Blue Monday: "My Bloody Fokin' Valentine" Part II

vitals (for banshee)

Female
Taurus
24 years old
140(?) lbs
5'7"ish tall
Naturally honey-ash blonde, dyed red (and various other colors) for six years
Blue eyes
no tattoos, piercings in ears (1 each) and lip (labret stud)

hapennystance (happy? ha'penny? happenstance?)

I have a request - I need some help. Those of you who live in NYC (or even Boston or Philly or something similarly close)... I need to decide what to take with me when I go up there in a week. I've already talked to Ragdoll and Autumn but I need more opinions.

What is the weather like in late March and early April? Autumn says I should bring a winter coat and a spring coat... should I bring a HEAVY winter coat (IE wool) or just plan to get by with long sleeves and sweaters under a leather carcoat?

I want to bring stuff so that I can walk around Manhattan without looking like an idiot. Most of what I wear is t-shirts of the variety you can find at Cosmic Girls and Hot Topic and even sometimes places like Pacific Sunwear. I wear pants a lot, usually somewhat dressy (black stretch microfiber or charcoal chinos, sometimes regular chinos) or just jeans (dark blue). I wear skirts occasionally - either black broomstick skirts with my black babytees, or more recently denim skirts and/or pleated schoolgirl skirts in black or red/black/white plaid. I also have longsleeve boring tees, and sweaters from places like Express, Jcrew, etc - pretty generic.

Any ideas? I don't want to be sneered-at if I go into Trash & Vaudeville or Pat Fields but I also don't want to look like a teen subculture victim.

Today has not been the most interesting or productive day. I woke up late, around 1PM, after a lot of very weird and uncomfortable dreams that I don't even want to write about. I don't even have much memory of what I've been doing since I woke up, except that I took a shower, put on clothes, drank tea, and read my friends' entries from the last few days (150 entries - gah). Now it's time to Make A Plan for the evening.