Have done little reading of f-list recently, thanks to a very wobbly Internet connection, but that's not going to change for at least another week because linzeestyle is supposed to land at Heathrow in about half an hour, and my Eight Days of Linzee will begin once she makes her way down here. *g* I am excited! We'll be spending some time in London, obviously, but we're also going to Stonehenge, pluuus an overnight trip to Dublin. Whee! We are going to have fun.

And I'm sticking to the 'joke' of Linzeekuh, because she'll be bringing a little light to me. 2010 has rather sucked so far. Actually, with the exception of the Christmas holidays, which were nice, things have pretty much sucked since after the weekend in London in October with the Green Day show, the tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and high tea at the Swan there (my Red Letter Day choice from an Xmas '08 gift), and the Stolen Space art exhibit based around 21CB. Fabulous weekend. Never posted about it because SAD has been kicking my ass ever since, alongside various work and house issues (like no heat for most of February). Now that we're moving into March, daylight is picking up and so am I, a bit. Posting may as well. :-)

2 week hiatus

I'm leaving in the morning on my 'summer' vacation and shall be totally offline until the 18th. Everyone who might need my cell number has it; feel free to call or text. I have no intention of going back through two weeks' worth of entries for an f-list of my size when I get back, so if anything important happens or there's anything you think I'd like to know about, please comment with a link (or email me). To be specific:

Stuff wot is personally important: You passed all your classes for the year; you gained/lost a job; you gained (hopefully no one loses! O_O) a significant other; you've been knocked up, tossed in jail and abducted by aliens all on the same night. *grins* Basically, anything important that you've posted about, link me. I like to know what's going on with my friends. :)

Stuff wot is fannishly important: There's this cover song...there's supposed to be a video soon...if it shows up on YouTube or on GDA for download, I'd appreciate links. If Lars goes to a basketball game and has his son sitting on his lap the whole time, I'd love to know that. (Thanks cookie2697! Socute. :D) And if, oh, say, Mike and Billie decide to go to a football game at their old high school together...I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT! ;-P If it makes you giggle and squee, chances are it'll do the same for me.


Hopefully I'm still going to see a concert on Sunday, if the boys in MCR and theirs and Muse's crews are over the nasty bout of food poisoning. But if it gets cancelled like everything *this* week has, then we'll just hang out and do other stuff. It's all good at this point, lol. I can't wait to meet/see everybody!!!

I will undoubtedly leave at least one voice post while gone. Oh and if anyone was curious or something, the first couple of hours of driving will be to the accompaniment of the Warfield show, all 3 discs in sequence. Hee. :D


P.S. Happy Birthday to bass_geek and Mike Dirnt. That goes kinda well together!

Reach down your hand in your pocket
Pull out some hope for me
It's been a long day, always
~Long Day, Matchbox Twenty (album; live)

It's been a long *week* actually, and a crappy one, much like the rest of July has pretty much sucked other than my wee vacation to see my friend. I'm going to bed in a minute because I'm so tiiiiiired but wasn't sleepy enough to do more than stare at the ceiling until now.

Speaking of vacations, _somniac_, I got confirmation today that I have the week of Halloween and the preceeding Friday booked off work, and I broached the subject of me taking off (and essentially emptying my bank account - again!) with my co-homeowners, who thankfully are all for it. I did, however, say that we were going to go to a fancy Halloween party, which is going to be my tagline for most people. *giggles* I forget sometimes that my mother's POV is that it's irresponsible to NOT take vacations. It'll be a bit of a tight fit money-wise but it looks like I'll be able to pull it off, so as long as your roomies are cool with me stealing couch space, expect to see me in San Francisco in October. *grins* I'll email you or ping you to talk about details and such after leighrowena leaves and you've got some more time.

cookie2697, I know you'll be in class up at Davis then but I'm hoping you'll be able to make it into the city during that week so we can spend some time together! It's been way too long. I would've loved to go to Minnesota with everyone but I can't get any time off around Thanksgiving, alas. Though I don't think you were able to go then either, were you? Damn schedules.

And my next concern after the money thing would be, wtf do I wear to an EEB?!? LOL! My friend Jeff - the only one who got the full explanation, btw - who is not at all involved in GD fandom and knows nothing about Fink or my story The Demon's in the Design (though she does know what I write), managed to suggest that I wear a tail that detached and was long enough to use as a whip. I just about DIED laughing and told her if she found one to mail it to me and I'd at least keep it on long enough for a photo. Jesus, no wonder I miss that woman. :D

So I got my living room put back together, except for the art on the walls - I was getting tired and I thought that it might be a good idea to let the paint cure longer before I go making holes in it, lol.  I took a bunch of pix but I won't develop them until Saturday, b/c I'll get Anita to take a couple of me after I get my hair done and then do the film.

There was a tonne of stuff that had been in a box that I'd emptied a while ago and just stuffed in my TV stand, and over the course of this last week while I was cleaning and painting, I was also purging.  Things like old birthday cards, an envelope of wedding-related receipts (my poor dad, LOL), and in fact I also trashed the entirety of the box of A memorabilia that I still had and had forgotten about.  Photo booth strips and other pix, letters, notes, cards, etc. allllll gone. :-D  I did keep the mini Cinderella and Paper Bag Princess because, well, they're books.  lol.  But I trashed a LOT of stuff and I feel really good about it.  I feel even better b/c I tossed a lot of it when I was so thoroughly pissed off at my mother, so in contrast to my usual pokiness with going through stuff like that, I checked the name on it and if it wasn't one of a very few people, out it went unopened.  I need to just let all that shit go, man.

Anyway, I also came across the school yearbooks for grades 6 & 7, and damn are they funny.  The one for gr. 6, almost every single comment has something to do with sex.  One of the guys in my class who I didn't know all that well wrote his comment and then put, P.S. I suppose I should mention sex to make you happy.  LOL!  The funniest part is that there are a couple things that are scribbled out with silver paint marker, and on the inside back cover of the book I wrote with the same silver marker, I HATE SEX!  I'm so amused. :D

And you'd think that it might have gotten better the following year, but no.  Aside from all the commentary, I had artistic male friends.  Matt drew censored comics in my yearbook.  LOL.  Literally: little naked people with black bars that say "censored" over the naughty bits.  Oy vey! And our class list description is by a poem, that *I* wrote. Dear God I had forgotten that.

My last night of vacation, sigh.  Back to work tomorrow, and the 'rents come home on Tuesday.  It's been wonderful to have lots of alone time but I've also realised that I'm not really equipped to live completely alone.  Admittedly, I'd have more people-contact b/c I'd normally be at work, but despite my urgent need for solitude at times I am a lot more social than I usually think of myself as being.  And when I spend a lot of time alone, I start to withdraw in general and get moody and shit.  It's just not good for me.  So while I'd like a lot more total solitude than I normally am able to get, what with my dad being like glued to the damn house, the status quo is good for me overall.  It's a good thing to know. :-)

It was going to be either that - a lyric from Jimmy Eat World's Night Drive that's been stuck in my head - or "Death to all ragweed!"  I went with the cheerier one, lol.

According to my itchy eyeballs, ragweed season has begun a few days early this year, oh joy.  On the bright side, while I am rubbing my eyes a fair bit, I have not needed to resort to allergy medication as of yet so there is hope.

Speaking of JEW, Futures is now on my to-buy list: I'm really enjoying it.  It's funny, because except for a few songs like Work, they are a band whose music I consistently like but it doesn't really inspire a passionate reaction in me.  It's weird how that works, isn't it?  I wonder sometimes what exactly clicked in my brain to send me head over heels for Green Day when I used to feel pretty much the same way about their music - what I knew of it, anyway.  Well, besides the brilliance of American Idiot that is!  Lindsey at the GDA board pretty much summed it up that it just kind of slams into you one day and you never know what hit you, but you're a goner.  LOL.

I'm going to be posting at all weird hours next week - I have it off.  Yay!  My first paid-vacation-from-work in 2 years.  The really freaky part is that the last time I had that type of vacation, I flew out to Halifax.  That was the trip that finally made up my mind to just fucking move here, and marked the beginning of a huge, huge, HUGE change in my life for the better.  Of course, my vacation this time is not going to be quite as much fun, because instead of white water rafting with Mel I will be painting my damn living room, but what the hell, lol.  At least I'll have the house alllllllllll to myself and I can blare music 24/7 yay!