progress

1 bathroom mopped; startling number of outdated cosmetics etc thrown away;

"Currants" explained to friend on AIM. (Which was just odd. I apparently know more about currants than I thought I did.)

Bad Cleavage show on in living room - disingenuous. You can't do a sociological study of the history and importance of breasts and keep showing a bunch of cheesecake shots. You're either pandering to the feminist audience or pandering to the Man Show audience. Or you're the makers of this program and you are, as I said, disingenuous, with a generally quasi-feminist narrative soundtrack and onscreen visuals devoted to fans of The Juggies.

plinky

In order to justify this post - I'm posting too much tonight, I recognize that - I'm going to drop a few links that I've nipped from other blogs. They're good. Promise.

I am hating on the bathroom cleaning, but it's 90% done - I just have to do something with all those random organizational supplies. Floor is mopped, counter is clean, things are generally pretty and put-away, bathtub was clean to begin with cos I don't use it, Now it would be nice if a bathroom was all I needed to clean, but (bastard!) it's only about 35% of what I need to finish tonight. (Also need to finish: two front hallways, and as much as I can manage of my living room and bedroom, which won't be much. Also, must turn mattress, make up bed, finish laundry, clean up a bit in here.) Argh don't want strangers traipsing through my SANCTUARY tomorrow but what can I do?

Anyway. Your links.

BAD TOON RISING - sooo, ever tried to draw a famous cartoon character from memory? and do you have any artistic skills whatsoever? this site is all about really questionable drawings of Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, etc.

NONEY - like Monopoly, only prettier & potentially more useful. (Can you bring your own Noney into a Monopoly game? What's the exchange rate between two or three different varieties of illegal tender?)

KLEIN BOTTLE - a fabulously paradoxical onesided vessel: it should not exist, but there it is and you can buy it. If the hats were actually better looking, I'd want one. As it is I want the pattern so that I can make something in a nicer colour scheme. (Please note that they do not actually SELL the pattern.)

ASTROLOGY FOR BACTERIA - ok, this one is just for jeca_pereca, because she spends too much time in intimate intellectual contact with one-celled organisms. But some of the rest of you might find it funny, too.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon

(PS - I just logged out to see what I've been posting lately aside from friends-only and private posts. Boy howdy am I particularly boring this week. Sorry about that. The friends-only and private stuff is pretty boring too - the private post was the text of the Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium," which I've always loved but didn't think anyone else would want to read. Anyway, stick with me and hopefully my twitching avoidance of housework will eventually pass and this logorrhea will be cured....)

I'm scared. Hold me.

BUMPER NUTS

(uh, not for the easily offended.)

I'm posting this link because, a few weeks ago, I was driving along a major local road, minding my own business, when I got stuck neck-in-neck with an Oobertruck (dude doesn't deserve the umlaut). By which I mean a huuuuuuuge pickup, driven by a really big guy with a shaved head and big beard. Look a little more closely, and find that he has pride stickers and a sticker referring to "Bears", and I figure out what's going on, OK, he's into his Male Pride, and I'm thinking, well, you're kind of a rude driver, but still, go on with your out and proud self. And he had a pair of those Bumper Nuts hanging off the back bumper! Even better - they were painted over in FLAME COLORS - red, yellow, orange. I couldn't decide whether to be impressed or, you know, appalled. (Am I a prude? I just don't wanna see scrotum when I'm not expecting it... on the other hand, I think it's cool that someone can be that aggressively out in this conservative area.)

Cleanse that one from your palate with the charming 1000 Blank White Cards, the card game you make up as you go along.

In other news: BATHROOM IS CLEAN! now I only have 800,000 other things to do...

headless pneumatic robot chicken

Dude, I am so tired.

I collapsed into bed around 1PM basically because I couldn't stand up anymore (my back was hurting) and I was so tired that I could barely walk across the room. Then I didn't sleep well.

Then I got woken up within four hours so that the house could be shown! I had about half an hour to throw some things around to make it look better (not everything is as pristine as that damned bathroom), and also to get myself ready. We met the prospectives on the way out, cos they were at the front door. We took arwen_isobel for a ride & got turkey subs from Quizno's. That was two and a half hours ago and I STILL don't feel awake. My eyes hurt, but I don't think insomnia is going to be a problem tonight. I'm crashing around 11PM or so, if I can even make it that late... meanwhile, my sandwich calls.

register to be a donor

Please go HERE.

Lots of people (around 7K) need bone-marrow and stem-cell transplants. This girl is just one. Lots of info on how to register in the UK; I'm sure US info would not be hard to find.