every third monday the city cleans my street. that means i have to park on the other side of the street from where i normally park. i never ever remember to do this. as jozelle said when i pulled the ticket off my windshield: “it’s that time of the month again?” sheesh. one day i’ll [...]
i’m counting down days now, until my time at the hedge fund is over. it seems so strange to think that this time next month, i won’t be working for them any more. eighteen months! that doesn’t seem like a very long time to be doing something, especially compared to editing novels (which i’ve been [...]
Saturday, October 18, 2008
i met jozelle a couple of years ago when she was hired to work as an assistant at tor. one of the first things i tried to get her to watch on the television when she finally started watching television is firefly. but she refused, over and over again. yesterday ian requested that firefly be [...]
i spent the day looking after my friend elizabeth’s kid ian. he’s nine years old, and extremely charming. i don’t know whether he’s been on his best behavior, or if he’s just a really easy-going kid, but i find him really easy to hang out with. right now he’s playing spyro and eating leftover pizza [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
this is a pretzel that has pepperjack cheese inside it. it was incredibly gross — jozelle ate 4-1/2! once i was finished with work for the day, i slept and slept and slept. i am still tired, but i think tonight jozelle and i are going over to rivendell. she wants to watch tammie and [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
2008 10 15, originally uploaded by octette_stars. for my birthday, in addition to the singing elvis, jonathon and jozelle sent me a plant full of flowers. i tried keeping them inside, but they were dying both from my black thumb and the cats eating them. so i stuck the pot outside on the front deck [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
it seems like every day i wake up and want to watch a different television show. a couple of years ago i started watching farscape, but i never made it past the third season, because i didn’t want it to end. i didn’t want it to end so i just didn’t watch the last season. [...]
these cupcakes are hershey’s “perfectly chocolate” chocolate cake recipe. they are fantastic, even though i left out the vanilla. the cupcakes have cinnamon in them; i made a cake with the other half of the batter that has coffee in it. they are delightful with beer but not as chocolatey as i’d’ve wished for. jozelle [...]
here’s what i am thinking about right at this moment: i want to make another clapotis scarf. this morning i found a really good deal on a spinning wheel, so i bought it. i’m not sure how that has anything to do with saving money, but i wanted it and i have the money in [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
yesterday i lost one of my earrings, so today i bought another pair while at the mall trying to find a pair of jeans (unsuccessful, although i did not actually try any on in the store where jeans cost $70/pair). there was a hot topic, where i acquired 12g captive bead ring hoops, and 10g [...]