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"And this little Pit Bull—this wiggly little bright-eyed beast ran up, threw her arms around my shoulders, and attacked my face with her tongue. But her arms weren’t just, you know, there. This was a full-on hug."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:38:56 -0800

"And this little Pit Bull—this wiggly little bright-eyed beast ran up, threw her arms around my shoulders, and attacked my face with her tongue. But her arms weren’t just, you know, there. This was a full-on hug."

My mom is taking her role as cat grandma seriously, buying them...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:25:33 -0800

My mom is taking her role as cat grandma seriously, buying them shit that I never would.

Things I’ve painted in the past week: bathroom door ...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:31:33 -0800

Things I’ve painted in the past week:

bathroom door
bathroom vanity
front door
living room (ceiling [the worst], walls, floor [don’t yell at me, the wood was already painted, badly], baseboards, crown molding, window sills, it never fucking ends in this room, does it?)
cat’s paws
my hair

more thoughts

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:45:00 -0800

more thoughts

one more thing to have feelings about

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:50:23 -0800

"I’ll never find them again anyway, never, never, never, this is my home now"

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:49:09 -0800

"I’ll never find them again anyway, never, never, never, this is my home now":

My (totally normal/read the comments/I have found my oversensitive brethren) reaction to the song Somewhere Out There, ages 5 - :

find a hiding spot
curl up
CRY PARTY

On my 13th birthday my parents gave me a musical jewelry box. “I wonder what it plays,” I thought. “Maybe something from Phantom!” (Cool kid. The coolest.) I suppose it was fun, in an evil way that I totally respect, for them to watch their newly teenaged daughter attempt to hold shit together at her birthday party. (And I still have it. Well played, parents.)

With my whopping 10 days off I didn’t finish painting the...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:13:17 -0800

With my whopping 10 days off I didn’t finish painting the living room like I’d planned, mostly because I never started it. I also didn’t finish painting the bathroom (the tiniest room of the place, which was 95% done weeks ago). I didn’t even get around to painting the bathroom door, though I did remove the hardware and sand it down. (And I don’t want to overstate this, but if you are the kind of person who paints over hardware then I’m sorry, you need to burn alive to death in the fiery pits of hell forever and ever, amen.)

I did watch three seasons of Torchwood, two of Walking Dead, and a half season of Breaking Bad (still deciding how I feel about it), though!

More people need to get on board with the Guess Who's Secretly Drunk game, not the Whooooohahahahooooo Look At This Wasted Asshole one

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:36 -0800

Sure there’s an unending list of egg substitutes when it comes to vegan baking, but not for when you really want to throw something at the obnoxiously loud person slooooowly making their ridiculous-ass way down your street at 1am on a weeknight.

Bottom right: an iPod for my father…in seven individually...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:51:44 -0800

Bottom right: an iPod for my father…in seven individually wrapped boxes. The nesting doll present - classic.

When I baked all those fucking cookies to give out, I imagined graciously handing them over while...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:50:30 -0800

When I baked all those fucking cookies to give out, I imagined graciously handing them over while deflecting questions about where I bought such lovely things with assurances that no, they were baked completely from scratch! And then there would be some fawning and basking. Modest basking.

Instead it’s been more me awkwardly pushing cling-wrapped plates at people while laughing nervously and saying “they’re vegan and I hope you don’t totally hate them ha ha ha ha!” and them looking dubiously at the package, possibly checking it for cat hair.

Smooth.

Ask Santa

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:31:00 -0800

Ask Santa:

So silly and sweet and heartfelt and will totally put you in the holiday mood, even if making 8 batches that’s 16 dozen-ish cookies the night before just about beat it out of you!

She’ll drop a cookie sooner or later, I know it. Just...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:04:46 -0800

She’ll drop a cookie sooner or later, I know it. Just gotta wait for my moment. Just a little longer now…any minute…gotta…be ready…to swoop…zzzz

First Christmas gift: two drinks, this.

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:19:38 -0800

First Christmas gift: two drinks, this.

A holiday wish for us all.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:31:36 -0800

A holiday wish for us all.

I have some mandatory time off coming up soon (uh, ok by me) and am hoping to finally make a dent on...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:25:00 -0800

I have some mandatory time off coming up soon (uh, ok by me) and am hoping to finally make a dent on my awwwful sunshine-y walls. I’d been planning to go all cave-like with some dark plums, grays, and straight up black, but my place has a ton of windows and gets a lot of light, so I don’t know how well I could pull that off. Oh, and it’s teeny. Should I go towards the light (another look I’m really liking lately)?

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vs.

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Wishes

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:21:00 -0800

Wishes:

This is lovely.

“I had to show her what it was like to be loved,” Daniel said. “I’d planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us, and having her humanely euthanized in the morning.”

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:23:00 -0800

“I had to show her what it was like to be loved,” Daniel said. “I’d planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us, and having her humanely euthanized in the morning.”:

Is there a happy ending? (OF COURSE THERE IS I WOULD NOT DO THAT TO YOU.)

animalstalkinginallcaps: HE SAW YOUR KEYCHAIN EARLIER. HE’S...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:53:42 -0800

animalstalkinginallcaps:

HE SAW YOUR KEYCHAIN EARLIER. HE’S BEEN LIKE THIS EVER SINCE. YOU SHOULD FEEL HIS HEART RIGHT NOW. IT’S LIKE A JACKHAMMER.

NICE WORK, RICK. I HOPE YOU USE ALL THAT LUCK TO WIN THE LOTTO SO YOU CAN BUY SOME FUCKING COMMON SENSE.

JUST GO BACK IN THE HOUSE. I’LL TRY TO EXPLAIN IT TO HIM ONCE HE CALMS DOWN.

"The world is a small, weird little place. My recent evidence for this involves the “Top Secret” note I mentioned leaving for the new tenants at the original Manhattan Nest apartment a couple weeks ago. Mostly I thought—if these people were anything like me—they’d have fun stumbling upon some covert correspondence from the previous occupant of their new home. Like a midnight visit from a ghost or receiving an email from a wealthy Nigerian prince in desperate need of an overseas bank account, something about it would make them feel special. Chosen."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:21:00 -0800

"The world is a small, weird little place. My recent evidence for this involves the “Top Secret” note I mentioned leaving for the new tenants at the original Manhattan Nest apartment a couple weeks ago. Mostly I thought—if these people were anything like me—they’d have fun stumbling upon some covert correspondence from the previous occupant of their new home. Like a midnight visit from a ghost or receiving an email from a wealthy Nigerian prince in desperate need of an overseas bank account, something about it would make them feel special. Chosen.":

Everything about that post/blog: ♥_♥

Already planning to make this light and these shelves…in my imagination, where those things happen, not in the real world where IN 3 MONTHS I’ve only managed to mess with the bathroom. After all that excitement about finally being able to paint (!!!), my living room walls are still the color of sunshine. The horror.

That’s surprising, coming from him… Whatever. WHO...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:20:19 -0800

That’s surprising, coming from him…

Whatever. WHO WANTS TO TALK ABOUT CATS?!