hi! why, here we are, nearly a week after my last post. my, my, where does the time go!
oh! that's right! it goes to that sucking vortex called "the holidays with family"!
sorry, i forgot for a moment. i've been away.
i'm at work again, of course. sicklabgirl. yeah, i have contracted a cold! i informed my mother of this the other day, and she asked me, "why?" WHY do i have a cold? why?! ummm, because i have been stressed and hanging around people who are getting over colds? because i've gotten over the protective stress/adrenaline hump that allows me to put off illness and now my time has come? i don't know! but anyway, i had a sore throat for awhile, which seems to have subsided in favor of general stuffiness and a bit of a cough. fun.
i am going to be pissed if i am not significantly improved by monday night, when kevin comes home. for obvious reasons, i don't want to be sick and spending time with my boyfriend whom i've been missing for a week and a half now. i know, i'm an addict. a people addict! UM-NUM-NUM-NUM! *cookie monster face shoveling movements*
uh. yeah.
so. let's see. what's new. i've got the car for awhile, hurrah. don't know what i'm doing with a damn car, but hey. mom didn't have to drive me home, so that's good for her. i waved at some war protesters camped out on an overpass on my way into town.
christmas at the beach was pretty ok. we didn't drive each other completely insane and no one killed each other, so that was pretty good. i have probably destroyed my mom and aunts' opinions of my taste in movies (having watched "xiu xiu: the sent down girl" and "safe" and "the seven-year itch" all in the same weekend and apparently boring my mom with "l.a. story" and "you can count on me") and music (they wanted me to turn off the beth orton and the unwound--ok, so the latter doesn't surprise me at all--and made fun of bjork) and my ability to withstand playing over-long trivia games with paul. my sister is off with some navy dude and mom is pissed about that, but the guy seems pretty decent.
oh, and christmas presents went over well. mine weren't the best, of course, but they were well-received, i think. margot and paul got music cds, my aunt got gift certificates to movie theaters in my neighborhood that play good movies more often than the ones in her eastside 'burb, and my mom got a bag full of assorted yankee candles and a pair of earrings i made (same as the ones i made myself and wear all the time, but a different colored pendant). margot got me a pile of "weird" lps from goodwill (including a chicago record, which i JUST CAN'T OWN), paul got me a couple of jazz cds (mingus and thelonious monk, yummy) because he can't bear to buy me music he hates like indie rock, and my aunt got me a box of feng shui candles.
oh, and mom got me another turntable and a crazy mixer. the mixer is fabulous, but wayyy more than i need! she said she couldn't find anything smaller, but that doesn't make sense to me. i need to get another slipmat for the turntable (which is decidedly not another technics considering the quality of the mixer :) and a big folding table to put stuff on. and another power strip. i'm fresh out of places to plug shit in the living room. so anyway, i am not sure if i should try to do something to downgrade the mixer, because i seriously doubt i will ever need this much of a mixer, or just keep it, or what. i have never returned a gift before; it seems wrong! it's not like i'm ungrateful, just... i dunno. so i have two turntables now. and i will get a microphone to appease everyone who sings the damn song at me. and then someone needs to buy me that fucking song on vinyl. and i am gonna learn to mix and play. yay! expensive stereo toy for me!
now i am looking at important information. i have very little to actually say. i'm tired and bored at work.
also, i got to hang out with becky and her mom yesterday. they are good! becky has her driver's license now. everyone but her is elated. hehe.
i still need to see "two towers" and a bunch of other movies coming out soon. yay for movies.
