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I was all kinds of productive tonight. I shredded two complete magazines, filled and taped a box I had already packed, and rearranged a whole bunch of boxes. You still can't see any floorboards, but now my box stacks are a little less scattered and somewhat more impressive. I still have something like 4 or 5 boxes to add filler to - shredded mags or styrofoam peanuts or whatever - I just haven't gotten around to creating the amount of filler that I need to create. (that's - wait for it - two to three boxes in the study, one box in my bedroom, two boxes in the living room - and they're almost all books. two of the boxes in the study, or one big one, is action figures and dolls and other collectible crap.)

then i bought family dinner: mandarin chicken salads from wendy's. also, we watched Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - one week and it's officially an addiction. The guy they were making over this week was really cute and would have been cuter if they had cut off ALL his hair and left it sort of... a couple of inches long and spikey. (that's the heavy metal haircut these days anyway, isn't it?) his girlfriend, though... i suspect she seemed kind of dumb and bitchy because she was nervous about the cameras. if not, then the guy's pretty vapid himself.

my ears are popping again.
i just did a puzzle in Games magazine that consisted of filling in the blanks with a list of provided words, the object being to reconstruct actual country song titles. Some real winners there - "I've Got Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat," for example. "I Bought the Shoes that Just Walked Out on Me," "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops," "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?" etc. They did not, however, use my favorite: "You Were Flushed From The Bathroom Of My Heart."

clothing fun!

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(If you have problems with this text entry box - I was having problems - click on the poll number and it'll take you to a page with a text entry box that works.)

don't poke the minx.

Wow, you guys are something else. Half of us, still in our pajamas after 2PM! (or similarly relaxation-oriented clothing.) Special honorable mention to the person who said they were wearing "clothes" (you know who you are). For the record, I changed out of my poll-inspiring outfit - a sky blue muscle tank with the Paul Frank Julius Monkey logo head on the front, and a pair of lime/grass green yoga pants with a purple screenprint on the back of one of the legs (from Swirlspace). I thought it was an odd outfit but I liked the way it looked, that's why I made that poll. Now I am wearing a bright green Fornarina muscle tank, very close-fitting, with a print of a smiling snail saying, "HI!", and a pair of jeans that I had to roll up because the legs are too long, and I just took off a woolly pale blue sweater hoodie.

Went out to look for something with the momster, and yes, she annoyed me again. I'm in heavy PMS mode, so probably that's why I feel extra-irritated. That, and I pulled my shoulder muscles a little when I moved boxes around yesterday, because I lifted a box incorrectly. It's not really enough to be awful or painful, just enough to make it so that I can't find a comfortable position to sit in. While I was out, I got the new NYLON (disturbing cover trend: L'il Kim followed by Christina Aguilera) and Games Magazine's World of Puzzles! (which is just like a double helping of the puzzle section of the normal mag, with none of the glossy game strategy pages).

We've had severe thunderstorms all day and night.