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last night it took me a really long time to fall asleep, and then when i did i had a short dream that scared the crap out of me and i woke up again. that was lame.mike didn't come home last night till 3:30am because he went to the ice skating rink (the hopkins GSA rented it out again) and one of his coworkers fell and broke her arm, so he had to take her to the hospital. lucky for her he was the only other person in the group who decided not to go out drinking afterwards. work to-day turned out pretty good, even though it started out really slowly. though i was freaked out that every single person who came in in the first three hours was wearing purple. i'm also happy that i got there before the crowd started to gather at the irish pub a few doors down or i wouldn't have had a place to park (not to say that that's necessarily a problem since despite the fact that there's two HUGE parking lots most people will park in places that aren't actually for parking. morons. WALK 15 MORE FEET.mike and i are planning on going to ikea tomorrow (andrea! probably one of the few days you won't be there) :) we're going to see what they have in the way of storage.i want a cinnamon bun.

my bayly...

my bayly came to visit to-day! yay!unfortunately after she left i started to feel like total crap. it sort of felt like i was getting a migraine except i wasn't. i was awakened this morning by a cold wet cat nose being pressed against my forehead. that's the best way to wake up. a minute later i opened my eyes and she was asleep beside my head.cookies are good.

my bayly...

my bayly came to visit to-day! yay!unfortunately after she left i started to feel like total crap. it sort of felt like i was getting a migraine except i wasn't. i was awakened this morning by a cold wet cat nose being pressed against my forehead. that's the best way to wake up. a minute later i opened my eyes and she was asleep beside my head.cookies are good.

cece has...

cece has become a bitchy alarm clock for both mike and i on the days when we actually get to sleep in. 6:15 for mike and 9am for me. then, of course, after being annoying for an hour (where i was still trying to go back to sleep), she decided to go to sleep beside me in bed again, and i was wide awake. bitch.i think the unfortunate reality of living in this city is that i almost get into a car accident every day. at least one, but often more. today i bought one of hallmark's 'from the cat' valentine's day cards for my dad. i'm going to sign it from Socks and print up a little Socks Henricks address label. maybe i have too much free time.i'm really sleepy and i don't know why. but bed is warm so it's ok.

this mornin...

this morning i went to university health to get my prescriptions refilled. i don't know if the new building has made everyone nicer, but it was a much more pleasant experience than normal. anyway, the nurse i met with was nice, though she didn't really ask the normal questions that i'm used to when people are writing me new prescriptions of my old medications. she really didn't ask many questions at all. though she did look up my lab work on the computer and i think that judging from the number of tests they've run on me since the summer (when you see it on one screen it's kind of overwhelming) she didn't feel the need to send me for new blood tests (yay!).oh yeah, everyone needs to STOP SETTING THEIR WEDDING DATES FOR OCTOBER 20TH. i'm of course going to jessica's, but as we found out today mike is going to have to fly home early from his conference to go to his friend's wedding (it's a childhood friend, otherwise he probably wouldn't go to the trouble of leaving the conference early to fly to jersey). we're hoping someone from that wedding will drive him back to baltimore. but for future reference, the conference mike goes to is held on that same weekend every year. which is why he couldn't come to my brother's wedding this past october.it's actually become really comical at this point. assuming kelly doesn't fly in from california, i'm claiming becca as my date for jessica's wedding!! no one else can have her!oh, anyway, back to the story. so the appointment was pretty quick, and i managed to get a good deal of exercise with all the walking i had to do. yay! though it rather sucked that it was 32 degrees and baltimore streets become fucking wind-funnels. i was also puzzled to see that i was the only person on the bus wearing a hat. though i guess they didn't have as far to walk as i did. but still. though i did feel like i was back in college when i saw the guys at the shuttle stop who obviously didn't check the weather report before they left their apartments. one of my favorite UVA wintertime activities was picking out the guys whose brains said "oh it's sunny outside. i'll wear shorts!" and then later in the day it would snow. of course then there was chris who would look at weather reports and wear shorts anyway. i don't think he owned real pants.so i get back home and call carole because she left a message on my phone telling me to check the website because she put our south park pictures up on the front page. she apparently thought it was thursday because she went into work today an hour late, but i did get to hear her reaction when she saw that i moved the furniture, which was hilarious. though she wouldn't let me off the phone for quite a while. but i did get to make suggestions as to things we need to get in stock. it's really nice because she asks me more now what i think we should get. it makes me feel like i have a bigger part in the store than just an employee.mike and i ordered dinner from the egyptian pizza cafe. soooooo good. we got an order of foul (pronounced 'fool') which i've had before, though their version is a lot closer to hummus, whereas the one i had at my islam professor's house looked more like chili. still damn good though (i think cece thought it was cat food because she was going crazy). i'll have to see if our grocery store has the canned version.i love our delivery guy, though. he's the nicest guy ever. he gave us free bread again (he usually brings us something extra).i should go to bed.

help me!

ok, i need some catchy name suggestions for the argyle scarves. becca, i'm looking at you. and i keep hearing your voice in my head going "malt beeeeer" but i don't think i can work that reasonably into the name.something vaguely scottish would be good. the only idea i have is "campbell scarf" but i think people would assume i'm talking about the soup rather than the clan.p.s. debbie stoller reserves the right to change the name.

no snow :( ...

no snow :( damnit.pretty good day at work though. lots of very talkative people. i got bored so i decided to rearrange some of the furniture. carole doesn't know. she'll be really surprised tomorrow. but, then again, i think she's getting used to me getting bored and rearranging stuff.tomorrow i venture over to the medical campus to get new prescriptions written. i really hope she doesn't want to send me for blood tests, since i had them not that long ago (september?). but i'm betting she will. at least it's not that far of a walk to the outpatient center (technically it's on the way back to the bus stop.i think i'm going to start writing up the s'n'b pattern tonight. i have to write a blurb on how to do double knitting as well, which is kind of tough without pictures. apparently there's going to be another DK pattern in the book, though i don't know if she's having that person write a blurb as well. it came up because i asked her if there was going to be any part about DK in the instructions section of the book, and there isn't. hopefully i'll write something that makes sense. :)

i had a dream...

i had a dream last night that it was snowing and when i woke up i was sad. i really want snow.in another dream mike and i moved into a huge and super nice apartment, and i was exploring and went into a walk-in closet and it had a fridge and a stove in it, and i went "this one's mine!" i also remember thinking that if something catastrophic happened (zombiepocalypse, etc) i could just live in the closet. or if i got tired of being around mike i could just stay in the closet. options are good.apparently bayly almost called me today to tell me that her mom said 'twat.' heeh.i want a cookie.

today i bak...

today i baked cookies and knit. it was estrogenfest.we watched 1 vs. 100 tonight, and the contestant chick reminded me so much of mike's ex-girlfriend that i was willing her to lose. and lose she did. and i rejoiced. (even if she didn't remind me of her i would've wanted her to lose anyway because good goddamn was that woman annoying)it wasn't just me. mike was reminded of her too (of course this was after i pointed it out to him because he was playing a video game).

the citr...

the citrus battle on iron chef america tonight made me angry because i couldn't eat the mango lime ice cream. bitches.carole called me into work early today, so i ended up working all day instead of just closing shift. and i did a lot of counting. i hate inventory. but i got a lot of it done.the moon had quite the halo around it tonight. i shouldn't be allowed to drive when the moon is out because inevitably i end up staring at it. especially when it's really low in the sky and huge and orange/red.i hope tomorrow is good and rainy (thunderstorms? yes? please?).carole said some very nice things about me today which made me really happy.note: cece will eat onion rings. i...i'm just amazed. i only gave her two tiny pieces because i don't want to risk the resulting mustard gas that would come out at 3am when she's sleeping with her butt against me.

th...

the citrus battle on iron chef america tonight made me angry because i couldn't eat the mango lime ice cream. bitches.carole called me into work early today, so i ended up working all day instead of just closing shift. and i did a lot of counting. i hate inventory. but i got a lot of it done.the moon had quite the halo around it tonight. i shouldn't be allowed to drive when the moon is out because inevitably i end up staring at it. especially when it's really low in the sky and huge and orange/red.i hope tomorrow is good and rainy (thunderstorms? yes? please?).carole said some very nice things about me today which made me really happy.

i cl...

i cleaned to-day. as we all know, it's one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse. next will come the locusts.somehow i just managed to cut my lip with my fingernail. so now i have a cut going across the middle of my top lip. go me.not much to report from cranky land.i discovered to-day that in her (apparently failed) attempts to wake me up at 5:30am, the cat has ripped up the binding on the bottom 4 inches of each of my high school yearbooks. since i hated high school, this isn't a big loss. they'll be fixed with tape.i decided to work on a sewing project to-night. not only are my fingers polka-dotted with blood, but i managed to stab myself in the chest with a straight pin. this is why i knit.