What are you up to?
Ah, it’s Memorial Day weekend here in the ol’ U.S. of A. For me, that means my annual trip to Vegas for the Punk Rock Bowling festival. And since that’s only in the afternoon and evening, it also means I get to spend a lot of hours by the pool at the Golden Nugget.
American Persephoneers, what are you doing this long weekend?
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I am now addicted to Renaissance Fairs. Just sayin. =)
Guess what I did today? (Besides unlurking for the first time in awhile) I BOUGHT MY FIRST NEW CAR! I’m so exhausted and excited and I don’t even know. I have power windows and locks for the first time EVER. It’s so shiny. I’m going to go pass out now! But I just had to share! Things have been such a shitshow for awhile and I don’t think they’re going to improve, to be honest, so this expensive little distraction is just what I needed right now. Did I mention it’s shiny?
Awesome! Power windows and locks? Not even gonna lie, that is a dream for me. Sounds wonderful- congrats! =)
I know right? I had my old car for 14 years. It’s been a dream that has been a very long time coming. And I have three windshield wipers! THREE! My mom is super jealous of that. My dad is under the impression that you don’t need a wiper on the passenger side so he doesn’t replace them. I didn’t realize that when I let him replace mine a year or so ago and ever since I’ve only had one functioning wiper. It’s an embarrassment of riches, no lie.
Welcome back!
And yay, new car. That’s exciting! I went from my POS car to my new car about a year and a half ago and I’m still loving it. It’s so nice to have a fully functioning car. :)
Well, I killed two of my bed pillows ded with the washing machine. They were not salvageable. They were, however, the extra-firm and almost-as-firm pillows, which is disappointing. I have more (I like to cocoon), so I can deal until I have money for a Target trip, but meh.
BUT, I un-stained my tea mug with baking soda! It looks new!!! AND I got to pet two of three puppies that passed my apartment door this morning (the third is a very skittish boxer who is afraid of strangers, and ducked his head as he ran past me, and I told him it was okay and we could be friends next time; his sister, a white bulldog, approached me for pets).
Aw! Fun! I wanna play with puppies, even the skittish ones. I haven’t had a puppy fix in months, and I miss my monster.
Well, said puppy smelled my hand this morning (I was heading to work as she was coming in from a bathroom break), and while she ran away before I could pet her, it’s progress. And the humans responsible for her and the bulldog seem to appreciate that I understand how strangers can be scary.
Hey that’s definitely progress. And I’m sure the pup really appreciates the respect for her skittishness. Hopefully she’ll let you pet her soon.
Have a kitten, everybody.
IT’S SO FLUFFY AND ITS TAIL! ITS TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!!!
LITTLE FLUFFY TAIIILL!!
Have another kitten, on me.
I love how s/he pulls the claws on the grownup for a second and then thinks better of it :)
Now have an evil kitteh- just to even things out. :)
And have a grumpy cat:
I’m about to start messing around with the theme, so don’t panic. It’s a low traffic time, so hopefully I won’t be shocking many people.
Bring it on!
Today I went paddleboarding for the first time in about 6 months, and I could still do it :)
(also the wetsuit was *the* most comfortable I have ever worn and I may have to steal it).
And tomorrow, jazz with breakfast!
I love jazz with breakfast. It makes the day that much better.
‘Breakfast’ was tea and a croissant, which was a bit of a stretch. but the jazz was good :)
I like the idea of jazz with breakfast!
I wish I could say it was my own personal jazz band serading me over Eggs Florentine. Alas no, but it did introduce me to this, : http://www.last.fm/music/Vivien+Garry+Quintet/_/A+Woman's+Place+Is+In+The+Groove
(the violinist is the amazingly-named Ginger Smock).
Eating baked Oreo cheesecake.
I just ordered a swimsuit. It’s the first suit I’ve bought in several years and I really hope it works out. And by works out, I mean covers my ass.
As for this weekend, I hope to accomplish a lot of house stuff. Yard work. Pick out some paint. Do a little furniture shopping (because we still don’t own a couch). That sort of thing. It should be fun.
Ugh, I’ve been looking for a swimsuit recently that’s not just stupid expensive. After enough badness with internet-ordered suits not fitting I always want to try them on. But now I can’t even find a place that carries decent bikinis!
Cute. Provides coverage. Affordable. These shouldn’t be hard requirements to meet for a swimsuit, but they always are.
Good luck trying to find one! I couldn’t find any cute ones out in the stores, but hopefully you will. :)
Uggh what I hate the most is, the one-piece suits in my size always try to put “slimming fabric” on the inside. Which functions more or less by squishing my body. Even though when I’m trying to swim, I want full breathing capabilities.
Maintains a person’s ability to breathe. Yup, I’d say that’s another definite requirement for a swimsuit. Sheesh.
My life at the moment summed up in one gif:
Okay, so what is with the pop up ads? The revamp making the ads column wider and putting an ad between title and content works fine, but what is with the pop ups?
Ditto. Also, they’re huge.
Also, the suggested search thingies are REALLY ridonkulous. Sometimes they’re funny, but usually more along the line of “who the heck wrote the code that picks out search terms?” Like, an 11 year old feral child that has no understanding of language.
This weekend I’m going contradancing at Folklife, and going to an awesome dinner theater for my anniversary. On an unrelated note, Bettie Page Clothing has opened a brick and mortar store in Seattle, so all my future dressy-dress needs are taken care of!
The suggested search is gone, but those were targeted to search engine traffic. If you’d come here from a link in the Googles, you’d have seen links relative to the search you made.
That was a test. That ad network pays very well, but they don’t work like advertised.
I’ll be studying all weekend again, but at least it’s a good rainy weekend for it and not super sunshiny beckoning me to abandon my work.
We’ve got a long weekend too, AND the sun is out. Whoop.
I will spend time outside with my 20 unread books, marvel at Steve, the mysterious Lithuanian neighbour, cook some meat and ignore the children as much as possible.
I’m at Up in the Aether Con all weekend. I haven’t done much steampunk since last year, and it feels good to get back into it.
Saturday will be spent cleaning the apartment. Sunday my boyfriend and I will check out the local Unitarian church. Monday he and I will travel to my grandparents for a big Memorial Day meal and so he can finally meet my family.
There is a substantial part of me that wants to go shopping tomorrow because Sales. But then I remember that I neither need to buy anything nor do I really have the funds necessary, regardless of Sales.
Otherwise, there is rain. Which generally translates to tea and books for me. But hopefully it will stop by Monday for my friend’s cookout.
I get a three-day weekend, which I will spend being as lazy as possible. Bed parties, netflix, and nutella pretzels will happen.
And I am $20 away from having cell phone service again. $20!!!
Nutella pretzels, you say? I want to hear more about this.
I also will be in bed/watching Netflix and I have eaten the last of the chips, with all three days to go, so mistakes have been made early, this year.
Nutella pretzels:
Get a jar of Nutella and a bag of pretzels.
Dip pretzels into Nutella.
Shove into face.
I made a Nutella milkshake last night. I regret nothing.
I now want nothing more than a nutella milkshake.
It was pretty amazing. I might have another.
I’m seconding this. What went into this amazing-sounding Nutella milkshake?
Vanilla ice cream, milk, a couple of tablespoons of Nutella. Immersion blender. Straw. Face.
Want. Now.
…must procure blender.
@_@
I need to know what this involves.
As do I, because I want one NOW.
Our plans for tomorrow (an artisan fair and ice cream!) look like they’re going to get rained out, so we’re hanging out with the kiddo’s bff. Either bowling, Chuck-E-Cheese, or going to see Epic. Sunday we’re going to a craft fair, weather permitting, and maybe stopping by the fancy yarn store/farm (they have lambs!). Then on Monday and Tuesday we’re going to Great Wolf Lodge with some friends, and I get to meet queSarahSarah!!
Going to my first renaissance fair since middle school! And catching up on work, lol. The second part is not quite as fun as the first =)