Aww, Steph, it's super late for you!

Chopsticks are totally also an issue for me. I have a compartment for butter knives, big spoons, little spoons, big forks, and little forks. But where do I put the chopsticks? I ask you.

I could use chopsticks to stir my coffee, but I need to get a spoon for the sugar. I need one of those measuring thingies...no wait...I have this awesome spice carousel that lets you take off the spice jar and click it and it dispenses a quarter teaspoon of whatever. Or you can shake it or open it and scoop, however you want to do it. But a quick click does the job for most things. Only, I put stuff like cilantro in it and not, say, salt. OR and here the late night brilliance kicks in, sugar. That would be awesome. I need to do that when I get home. Y'all will remind me in nine weeks, right?

ALL ME ALL THE TIME.

Okay, the laundry finished. Shower and bed.

But where do I put the chopsticks? I ask you.

In your hair?

... what? I have many lovely sets of chopsticks. I use them as hair sticks, because I never have anything at home that I would eat with chopsticks.

Heh. I'm glad someone else linked the spoons conversation to the metaphorical ones. I'm always running out of them. It's code between me and The Girl. "No spoons!" I should totally be able to buy them at IKEA.

Pix, I hope the insurance situation gets sorted out. It sounds really frustrating.

I'm out of spoons AND forks. And yet, I still have plenty of butter knives.

I think I need to purchase more cutlery.

I've somehow lost three spoons out of my drawer. I can only think that I must have tossed them out with the garbage several months ago. Damnit.

I've had Progressive insurance since 2005, and they just dropped my bill by a lot for my renewal this month. As in, my monthly payment went from $135 to $105, and if I can come up with the full six months in a lump sum payment, I'll only be paying $520.

I still don't know if you guys are using the term "spoon" metaphorically or not.

Hmm, I wonder if Progressive would give me a better rate than Geico. My insurance is doubling with the move to NOLA.

Nora, I hope so. Just feeling sentimental because I had no idea when I started on the carpentry thing that it would end up being so rewarding. And Marshall is just a super sweet guy.

Pronouns gone.

Did you get rid of them on Craigslist?

Ha! No, I just misplaced them in the chaos. Found them this morning under a stack of papers to be filed.

So, the socializing was good. I got to say goodbye to my dance community as a whole, and some other friends came by, and I did get kind of teary at one point. My friend's mom, who's also a dancer, and who I kind of helped start her own studio, told me she loved me. They are just such a great family.

I slept well last night, but now I'm super gronkified, and can't figure out how to get my modem working again, so I'm typing all this on my iPhone.

Hmm, I wonder if Progressive would give me a better rate than Geico. My insurance is doubling with the move to NOLA.

It never hurts to call and dicker. Make sure you have your exact current coverage available to look at when you call, so they can give you an accurate quote. And definitely tell them you're calling specifically to compare because your rates are about to double due to a move.

smonster, I'm so excited for you! This snowball is rolling!

I didn't have any classes today -- finals week, 2 days of school left and all finals today were my graduated senior class or my plans, so I took the day off to work on some car stuff I got hit with yesterday.

It's all being taken care off (I forgot to pay a ticket, and my registration was suspended when I went in to renew my tags yesterday.) The kicker is that while the paperwork in process of getting to me and the DMV, I'll be skulking about with a quasi-suspended license and just-expired tags. Looks like I'll be driving D's car everywhere but work for the next 5 days.

Bleargh.

On the upside, I feel a lot better than yesterday.

I'm glad I park off-street and work is only 5 minutes away.