We made onesies with iron ons (mostly Ramones and funny song lyrics) and hung out. It was fantastic.

Raq made an iron-on onesie for Matilda from Invader Zim: Perfectly Normal Human Worm Baby.

What villains do you feel sympathy or maybe even empathy for, without moving all the way to their side?

Dr. Doom. No one is going to hurt his people, ever.

What villains do you feel sympathy or maybe even empathy for, without moving all the way to their side? Comics, plays books, animated cartoons only - anything without live actors, because actors can overwhelm the writing to make someone sympathetic.

Hmm.... will ponder.

Was up past 11 last night, reading and stretching. I'm so tired my eyes keep rolling back in my head involuntarily. And my hip still hurts, always and forever, amen.

Was up late last night, drank a little too much, stomach was feeling funny (shakes fist at taco table), Tom was up every couple hours with tooth pain, and I was super stressed out because I got an email from my direct report late last night saying that we needed to talk first thing in the morning.

So, first day beck from vacation, my awesome employee tells me she's resigning, I have a zillion emails to go through, and I am so tired I could cry. I also have a work meeting after work so I'll be here late.

I may very well cry at least once today.

Skippy past shower stuff.

For those keeping score at home, the new condo has taken a huge step backwards. When we pulled up the carpet on Saturday, we noticed a depression in the floor in the bedroom by the sliding glass door. The installers said the flooring can't work with that type of dip, and asked me to go get some quickcrete from Home Depot, and they would level out that area. By the time I got back, they had removed the loose bits of the depression (since fresh concrete won't adhear to loose crap), and what was revealed was a bit of a cavern going into the garage below. And when you step back and looking at it, you can see, it's some serious damage. We are guessing either earthquake damage or hill is sliding a little, and that edge of the building has settled a bit, or some combination. Dunno. All i know is, big hole in floor going to a garage, where vapors could seep up and kill me. Bad. No cookie. We stopped flooring installation. Called HOA. VP of HOA said she will push this through ASAP. Sent email to management company with some pictures. Now, waiting. No clue how long it will take. If I can move into the other rooms. Dunno. I do know I have 15 days left in current apartment. And I can't afford rent and mortgage. We shall see what transpires.

Also, we discovered the garbage disposal was completely rusted. Swapped that out, and rearranged the pipes under the sink to try and fit garbage and recylce bins. But we are still having problems with the dishwahser discharge pipe. Will investigate tonight. Also, the kitchen sink faucet leaks a little bit. Hopefully just a washer thing.

Ah, the joys of home ownership.

Sorry if I skipped past other woes. ((( ))) for those who need it.

Oh, omnis, that's a rotten turn of luck! I hope it can be repaired with minimal fuss and no cost to you.

Yeah, wow, omnis! Rusty garbage disposal is par for the course, but hole in the floor?!? NSM.

omnis I hope they can get the hole fixed before you move in! Glad you decided to get the floors redone!

So I had my appointment at CCV with an adviser. She was really nice, I really should have had my transcripts but I still got a lot of info.

The adviser said that in some situations they'll work with financial aid so a class (like my English credit) can be retaken and covered. Also besides the FASFA info there's the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation form to fill out for financial aid. I didn't realize the Pell Grant will cover part time school, and I may qualify for that. Her advice was to take 2 classes the first semester.

Also they offer 4 class times during the day and each class meets 1 day. The class size is between 7-18 students, withe average about 12.

So I'm going to start filling out applications and transcript requests and write out pros and cons of taking 2 classes in the fall vs the spring.

I should add that I actually think it would be very different going to a shower for someone I’m really close to -- most of the ones I’ve struggled with have been family and people I’m not as close to, which makes the forced frivolity harder to deal with for me.

This. I was actually very excited to go to the baby shower yesterday, but I was having trouble dealing with it for my own reasons. I was very excited to find out my cousin was pregnant. She has wanted a baby for a very long time, and she was starting to believe it was never going to happen for her. I started buying things for her shower gift from the moment she told me she was pregnant; she's going to be a great mom. None of which is going to keep me from mocking shower games here where she will never see the mocking. I insisted on not having games at my wedding shower. That being said; making onesies for the baby sounds like it would be great fun!

Yikes, omnis. Good luck getting that take care of asap.

askye, best of luck figuring out all of the school stuff.

TCG cleaned all the things while I was at the shower yesterday. He rocks!