i got worms in me books

Today: domesticity. What did I do? It involved power tools....

(curtain rod installation.)

Now my birdie curtains are hanging on a rod that looks like a branch. I am chuffed with my own decorative cleverness.

I also completely redid the area that my TV is in, which involved moving the TV from the (industrial wire) shelving unit, taking the unit apart to change shelf levels, putting it back together correctly, getting the tv, which is too heavy for me to lift on my own, back onto a higher shelf, hooking up dvd/vcr/playstation1/cablebox to tv, each other, and power sources, and hooking up my stereo. Took about an hour. Now everything is the way I've wanted it for a while. I'd put it off for too long: nothing was hooked up and the TV was too low to the ground. The stereo, however, is another problem, with blinky lights all over it that just won't quit. I'm going to have to either keep it unplugged when I'm not using it, or throw a thick towel over it.

What else did I do? Um... played out the hour of my Bookworm trial (the downloadable game), didn't have enough to make it to Grand Archivist again. Can't decide whether I will just play for free online, get the GameBoy version coming out in a month, or pay for the downloaded version. I do really love the game, but it doesn't seem to me like I need to give people money so that I can acquire even MORE ways to waste my time. At least when I do logic puzzles, or pencil puzzles from Games, I feel like my brain is getting a good workout and like I'm keeping certain faculties sharp. With Bookworm I just feel like I've gotten really good at knowing and clicking three-to-six-letter words.

blatant mefi ripoffs.

William Hung - my favorite American Idol loser so far, a terribly endearing and dignified nerd. Guts an' determination, that's wot I say! Seriously, Will can't dance, but I think he has a nice voice & could do well with singing and diction lessons. Go Will!

cryptographever - discovers secret messages in any text. even, you know, the ones nobody actually put there on purpose.

Diary of Indignities Special Edition - from the BadNewsHughes blog. You can go to the site to read it, or just click on the LJ cut; i've copied it under there, with one small omission near the end.

( entertaining life lessons, especially when it's somebody else's life. )

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I wish I had a jungle gym so that I could hang upside down for an hour or two. Instead it looks like I'm being packed off to a chiropractor early next week. Stupid neck, stupid back; it's just one damned thing after another. Solution? probably to do more yoga and play more DDR.

I could be at a really cool art opening reception thing tonight, but I'm not, because chronology is all screwed up. (Basically, I didn't find out I could get in until almost the last minute, and I was nowhere near ready to go, and didn't want other ppl to miss it because of me, so just said to go without me.) At the moment i feel nappish, but might go out to see some bands or something later, assuming I don't fall asleep.

It has occurred to me that I have developed serious fashion anxiety since moving to Ohio. I worry about both looking "right" for whatever thing I'm attending, AND not freezing my ass off.