continued ~ma for Hec, JZ, and the whole family.

I just spent an hour duck taping plastic storage bins that had cracks in them, then sorting through boxes of christmas-y items that Daniel's aunt handed down to us which we did not use during christmas. Also sorted through a box of his unused christmas-y stuff that Daniel brought down from the not-attic. Now we are not only de-christmassed but also all organized.

Except for the part about there being boxes of christmas stuff sitting around.

And the bags of silk poinsettias that have been sitting in the back of the minivan since they were purchased at post-christmas sales.

it's as if our parents' generation find extended singledom even more confusing or unlikely than homosexuality....

This is an excellent point. It's very "I mightn't like it, but at least you might find a partner, right?"

My mother, bless her heart, is so very pro-relationship. She's accepted, I think, that there will be no grandchildren (I'm probably more upset about that than she is, oddly). But she thinks that I'm not safe left to my own devices, and if there's someone to make sure I eat and to nag me to see a doctor, and to bring stuff over when I'm too sickly to get it myself...just one person who's looking after me, then she needn't worry so much from so far away.

ita, your mother and my mother are as one on this matter. Which isn't surprising, given that they share a birthday.

It's sort of 2-pronged with my mom: she wants to know that someone is there to take care of me should I need it; but she also thinks that The Way To Happiness is by being encoupled. I don't (obviously), and so we've really butted heads on this for, oh, 35 years.

Or, okay, more like 20 years, since being encoupled wasn't allowed until I was 15-16. Ish.

I Never" would be nifty fun with Buffistas.

Shit, half the things I'd have to drink to are things that I've done *with* Buffistas!

Great, now the itching has started. Swiped some Eucerin on it but eeeet eeeetches. And there was a speck of black on my back so the ... um ... healing is evolving. Must. Not. Touch.

Cass, when it gets itchy and flaky and peel-y, you shouldn't actually pick at it, but it's totally normal for there to be pigment in the bits that flake off -- that doesn't mean your tat will have un-colored spots, or will be faded in areas. That's just the top layer of skin. Totally normal.

One thing that helps with itching -- I know this is weird -- is to smack the area that's itching. It gives the itchy nerve endings something to deal with, but you don't end up accidentally gouging yourself.

Well, I only slept until 10:30. Which is better than yesterday, when I slept until 1, or the day before, when I slept until 4. Just need to get up at 8:30 tomorrow to get back on track.

I need to grade papers. I also need to eat lunch. I think I'm going to get a burrito. Or maybe I'll be healthy and get soup. Except I'm sick of soup.

Also, I got a new contact lens case. It's green, and it has a picture of a chimp wearing glasses on it. I am inordinately pleased about this. (It also comes with a matching set of tweezers, and I can't quite figure out what those are for -- they're too bendy to do much good in tweezing anything.)

All this tat talk has me jonesing for my third. I know what I want, and where I want it, I just need to give birth first..stoopid gestation.

I just realised I had picture of Michelle Trachtenberg open in my browser. Now that I've passed the link on, I can close it.

Isn't that Alyssa Milano?

ETA: I just went to that link again and a different photo came up. A refresh of the page returned yet another photo. In conclusion, ita is not craxy, but her links are!

Isn't that Alyssa Milano?

I went back to check, not expecting to see anything other than Dawn, especially since MT's name is in the URL. But every time I load the URL, I get a different picture. I stopped when I got one of AH.

So...not necessarily MT, but so far, lots of pretty women. No idea how that works.

morning, bitches.

i'm hungry. trying to decide if i want breakfast or if i just want to heat up my leftovers from dinner last night.

I think whedonesque has killed youtube. meh.

So...not necessarily MT, but so far, lots of pretty women. No idea how that works.

I guess I should've reloaded, I opened it once, got Sharon Stone, and fled.

Emily, you're NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL.

Oops. Wait, wait, was that a metaphor?

a train metaphor, even.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Ahem. I Never is HI-larious with other Buffistae.

I have henna'd a strand test's worth of hair! Exciting. I have also gone for a swim, walked to the bakery, done a bunch of review for a paper for school, and made vegetable stock. Well, started it, anyway. It's simmering now. Will use the stock to make lentil stew for dinner.

Still to do: actually henna hair (after washing and drying test strand), cook lentil stew, and probably more school stuff.