I had a lovely, lovely day yesterday. I had the house all to myself in the morning after I picked up my car, so I could turn up the stereo and dance around, and then I went out to run some errands and stuff. The optometrist's office will call me on Monday to let me know if they can get a replacement part for my glasses - the manufacturer was closed, of course - and she shrinkwrapped the arm to the frames. It's pretty cool actually; you totally can't see it, unlike the original emergency fix of Scotch tape lol. And it was so cute: there's a dance academy right next door and there was a ballet class of maybe 7-9 year old girls, all in bright pink leotards and pale pink tights. Sooooo sweet and nostalgic for me. I couldn't remember where it was that my dad mentioned seeing that before and having flashbacks to picking me up at Rita's after class, lol. And then, b/c I'm rarely in that mall and I forgot they even had a Music World, I checked for the CD I've been looking for since freaking May b/c it's a habit to check all stores I come across now, and they had it! O_o Okay, so it IS another example of non-existant impulse control but I can't quite bring myself to feel guilty about it, lol. It was too exciting. So I'm the proud owner of Green Day's 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours now. :D

It was a gorgeous day, warm sun and decent temperature. I haven't been out to Peggy's Cove since before gas prices skyrocketed but they just dropped below a dollar so I felt relatively justified in driving out there yesterday, especially since as anticipated it began raining like a mofo today and that's supposed to continue all week. Damn Wilma. So I went for a lovely long drive with my new CD turned way up and the window open. <--This is where the artfully dishevelled part comes in, lol. I'd left the house with my hair still wet and it wind-dried to what was actually a good just-fucked look. No way anyone's fingers would be getting through it - it took me a while to comb it out later lol - but good hair days are always nice! So I sat on the rocks for a while at the Cove, just breathing it in and settling, and then drove back.

Didn't feel like going home yet so I went to Chapters, got a latté at Starbucks, found a chair and sat down to read the writing magazine that I'd wanted the other day but did not buy. It had some really good stuff in it. I had to laugh at the main article that had caught my eye, though, about sentence diagramming. The writer was laying out a technique to diagram sentences so that you could look at where the extra verbiage was and streamline your writing. Excellent thought, but she was talking about it being a way for non-linguists to figure it out and I literally giggled sitting there, b/c of course I know perfectly well how to do a proper fullblown sentence tree. I haven't done one in a while, but when you're in a linguistics programme it's kind of the equivalent of your times tables - it gets hammered into your head hard and early.

Anyway, it's always wonderful to just lose yourself in reading something, and it really was a good issue - wish I could recall the title, b/c it was NOT Writer's Digest lol. So I finished my coffee and went home, and later on settled in to catch up online, check over homework, read fanfic and all that good stuff. And a wonderful guy on the Idiot Club forum had allowed me to use some of his monthly downloads on eMusic.com so I was puttering around on there and choosing what I wanted. They have soooooooo much that I would LOVE to get and it seems to be a really awesome set-up. It's totally legit, affiliated with allmusic.com, and it has a database of over 600,000 independent label songs in high-quality MP3 format, of all genres. (cookie2697, there are a bazillion indie rock tunes. ;-)) The Basic subscription is US$9.99/month, for 40 downloads a month. I can't think of a better deal than that for legal downloads! Once I get some money behind me again I will definitely be signing up. There's a free trial as well, if anyone else is interested. :-)

So that was my very long day, lol. About the only thing I didn't really do that I consider soul-soothing (usually) is write, but I'm sort of getting somewhere in that direction. It's just not something that anyone here is probably going to want to see, lol. And it will be surreal in the extreme to post in a different fandom, I expect. Oh, and as for today, yuck. I woke up to grey pre-dawn light at NOON and it hasn't improved. But homemade spaghetti sauce is a day-brighterner. :-)