my pants don’t fit!

Yes, that’s right. I only have one pair of pants suitable for wear during the colder months. One pair of jeans, that’s it. The other pants I had hoped to wear again this year, are too small. Somehow, I’ve gained 15 pounds. FIFTEEN freaking pounds! In six months. This is a bit much. And it’s not in the normal places that I gain weight, but instead right around the middle. All of a sudden when I sit down I have to adjust my pants to accomodate for this entity that was never there before. I wouldn’t mind putting on the pounds if I didn’t have to go buy a whole new wardrobe!!! I haven’t any money!

Apparently, when you sit on your bum and knit all day, and do the occasional sewing or maybe even sweeping the floor or doing the washing up, and all you do for activity outside is go out to feed the cats, you gain weight. This comes as a complete shock to me. I haven’t grown accustomed to this new routine of not having a routine. You mean I have to motivate myself??? What is this nonsense?

So, yeah, I’m freaking out because I can’t fit into my baggy pants from last winter, and there’s no way (if I stay like this) I’ll be able to fit into the dress I have to wear for Heather’s wedding. It’s time to bust out the tough girl, and kick my butt into shape. I was doing so well last spring and then school got tough, and then there was the move… and now I’m just lazy. Ok, I’ve said it. I’m lazy… but I’m trying to give myself a pep talk and get moving again.

rant over.

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joelle you r sooo not lazy
you r the biggest ball of energy i know.
plus you are skinny
let the actual fat people complain about our weight
you just go have some more tofu and shush

Posted by chad @ 11/19/2003 12:35 PM EST

you’re so green with envy

Because we met Eddie Izzard.

And he’s wonderful.

And beautiful.

Go here to see photos,
and go here to learn more about Eddie,
and go here to see someone jealous.

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“But I met Eddie Izzard, and you didn’t”

No, but my bear did, which is kind of the same.

I’m not fooling anyone am I?

GRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEN with envy.

Posted by Babs @ 10/23/2003 10:29 AM EST

creak, creak, creak

Sometimes I forget where I am.

I hear noises above me and I assume that it’s the people living in the flat on the third floor walking around or scooting chairs out from the table. Then I remember that I live in a house where no one lives upstairs, and the noises are just the trees or the cats outside.

But sometimes at night, the scraping of the trees on the siding or the scratching at the door of the cats sounds really damn creepy and I remember that I don’t like being alone in the woods in the dark.

In other woods related news, we explored the grounds yesterday. Pretty fecking cool, if you ask me… and you did… I heard you. I have no idea how far back they go, but we walked far enough that the house was out of sight. It’s amazing how isolated it feels in the woods — it’s really wonderful that even just a small patch of trees can sheild one from the smells and nastiness of living next to a car dealership and gas station.

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Speaking of woods, you wanna hit the Chasm this weekend? It is supposed to be a really nice weekend, Sunday being the better of the two days. Doesn’t matter which day to me though, yer call.

Perhaps we can also trek to Mt Wachusett, pretty nice this time of year.

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 10/21/2003 04:37 PM EST

so, I’m a football, er, soccer fan now

Following the path of my newest whim, I’ve decided to learn all about soccer and find a couple of teams to support. Yes, that’s right. I’m going to be a sports fan now.

It’s all following this hullaballoo about the Red Sox. I don’t like baseball. I’ve tried. I don’t like football. Goodness knows I grew up with enough of it, what with the family football pool and being in the marching band (we were expected at all the home games)… but I never really liked football. So, after feeling thoroughly left out of all the sports stuff, genuinely wanting to care about it, but not really being able to, I’ve decided that I’ll learn about soccer… and maybe find that I become a real fan.

I actually like soccer, or football, or whatever you may call it in whichever country you’re from. A couple of years ago, when Brazil was in the World Cup, the whole city went mad. (Moslty everyone in my city was Portuguese) It was great! But I had no idea what was going on, really. I understand the game, in a rudimentary sense, having watched my friends play it (some of my more sporty friends were on the teams back in High School) but I don’t really follow along, and I’m certainly not a fan.

Yeah, so I guess that sums it up. Now I’m off into the wild blue yonder of the internet to see what’s up in the world of soccer, er, football…. whatever.

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GOOOOAAAAAALLLL!

Posted by Goblin King @ 10/19/2003 11:15 PM EST

whew! what a night!

A storm raged through last night… my goodness, the wind was something else! Our home is quite melodious when the wind blows through the cracks just right. Spoooooooooooky.

The sun was shining this morning, though, but the tumultuous clouds today hint at last night’s storm. I swept off the leaves from the porch so that when it did rain, there wouldn’t be a pile of slick, gooey leaves for me to deal with. The wind was so fierce, that it’s absolutely covered again. And slick and gooey. Oh, well. So much for trying to get ahead of nature!

I thought today might be a good day for laundry since I’m out of underpants. I think I’m on my third load of laundry now, and I’ve got at least two left to do. Yikes. Kinda makes me long for the days of the Laundromat when we’d just do it all at once, in six machines!

Worked on my scrapbook stuff yesterday, and got my page finished that I’m going to teach on Friday. It looks really neat, even though I only used the simplest of materials to complete it. woo hoo! I don’t have any of my customers to come with me, though. None of them can get out of work early enough to come up with me, and they don’t want to make the trip by themselves. Oh well. I’m doing this for the practice and for the fun, anyway, so missing out on the sales is no big deal. I’m hoping to make November a big month for sales, so I’m trying to gear up for it by planning ahead. I’ve got one class scheduled, and I’m going to be hosting my own workshop, too, so that might help. Also, I think Amanda still wants to do a class, so I’ll see if she wants to do hers in November. I’m hoping I don’t have to push my goal month to December because everyone is strapped for funds then… this whole business thing is exhausting!

Still no word from the book shop. I know I should just go in and ask for the manager for an interview since I didn’t get a call last week, but I’m nervous for some reason. I’ve done this before, but somehow, this is feeling really weird. Perhaps it’s because it’s a mall job, and I think people will make fun of me for working in a mall even though I have two BAs…. hmmmm. I don’t know. We’ll see.

Happy Anniversary to us! Whee!

One year on the books. woo!

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Happy Anniversary. Yay.

Posted by Goblin King @ 10/13/2003 09:33 PM ES

How Mt. Monadnock Kicked My Ass

On Saturday, some friends came over for an impromptu gathering. When Louisa was on her way out, she mentioned that she and Jeremy were going hiking the next day… I asked her if we could come along since JeT and I were planning on going to Purgatory Chasm for a bit anyway, and it would be much more fun to go with other people. She said they were going to Mt. Monadnock, a place that I have heard of quite a bit, but had never actually gone. Back in the Outing Club days there had been several trips, none of which I had attended. So the plans were set.

The next day, Louisa and Jeremy arrive with Frank, Jeremy’s brother, and his girlfriend, Christy (or is is Chrissy… darn, I’ve forgotten… oops). Travelling in two cars we get to Monadnock State Park on a very drizzly, foggy mid morning. What began with a desire to get my butt off the couch (or away from the computer) resulted in much panting, huffing, puffing, and alternately sweating and freezing and soaking wet. And that was just the trip up. My legs were doing great, woo hoo for strong legs… my heart and lungs however were appaled that I ever had that urge to get off the couch. But dammit it was for their own good.

We reach the top. In ideal conditions, this would have been the point at which we all stood at the summit in awe at the beautiful view and marvelled at our strength to huff and puff our way all the way up. Instead, I crawled to the place where the little commemorative “coin” thingie is imbedded in the rock signifying the highest bit (crawling for the wind was quite fierce, and the rocks quite slippery from the drizzle) and proceeded to crawl my way to where my friends were hiding– behind a little boulder area, a shelter from the wind. There we ate lunch. yum. The only view was of the rocks we were standing on and the grey surrounding everything.

By the time the meal was finished, the cloudy foggy stuff had completely surrounded us. It was pretty neat, actually, if bone chilling and soggy. We began our slow decent. Most of the time was spent sliding down on my butt,sometimes voluntarily, most not, since everything was quite slick. . We were all quite thankful to be back under the shelter of the trees. If my heart and lungs were put to the test on the way up, my legs got the most of the burden on the way down. By the time we reached the area where we parked the cars, if I even stood still for five seconds, my legs turned to jelly and began wriggling uncontrollably. Rather amusing, I’d say.

Feeling exhausted, but whole heartedly fulfilled, we climbed into the cars and headed home. I had apple pie for dinner, and an early bedtime for dessert.

the end.

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Joelle and me have a psychic connection…we’re just a lil slow sometimes. Joelle! I’ve been thinking about heading to Purgatory or Mt. Wachusett sometime this weekend or next week.

We should plan a gathering!

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 10/14/2003 04:32 PM EST

photo editing, anyone?

I need cheap/free photo editing software. Mine was shareware, but I have to register it and I’m not paying 80 smackers for it, and anyway it was way to fancy to run on my crap computer. Advice? We used to have photoshop, but when the old computer died and we created frankencomputer from the random computer parts around the house, we couldn’t find the old disc. So, who wants to help us out? I’ll make you cookies!

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Werd: Gimp…it’s just like Photoshop, except free. Well not exactly like Photoshop, but very close.

http://www.gimp.org/

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 10/10/2003 08:01 AM EST

I used to read

It has recently come to my attention that I don’t read enough. For someone who worked in a bookstore for a year, and a library for two, one would think I would be a regular bookworm. Well, I’m not. This summer, I spent most of my time reading books that I’ve read a million times already, oh, and the new Harry Potter, twice. You see, I’m in a bit of a children’s lit rut these days. I think my problem is that I don’t have many bibliophilous (yes, I’ve just made that up) friends who are up to date with the latest publications. When I worked at the aforementioned book store, I knew all of the soon-to-be-published specimens and would read the ones that piqued my interest. I began this endeavor when the manager set up the “employees picks” list on which my “choice” was some Mary Higgins Clark book that I had never even read. Since those days my curiosity for the newly published has waned considerably.

Hence the point of this rather longwinded, and slightly irritating post: My new quest is to once again be the well informed bibliophile of my imagination. (for even in my more motivated past, I wasn’t really that hip to the book scene)

Starting with Book Slut Dot Com I’ll be re-kindling my long lost book lovin’ self. And there will be more links a comin’ soon.

woo hoo, indeed.

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Werd, if yer gonna be a book slut then you should write up some reviews for my site 🙂

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 10/09/2003 09:16 AM EST

pink sparkly nail pollish (or is it polish?)

I had on black nail polish for the goth party last Friday, and then put on pink sparkly nail polish for the rest of the weekend. I just took it off a few minutes ago. It’s strange how long my nails grow when they’re polished. I usually nibble at them constantly so that they never grow past the end of my fingers. It’s kinda neat, but weird feeling just the same. I’m not usually a nail polish kinda girl, but I have been of late. I never said this was going to be a post with substance. But hey, at least I left out any philosophical ramblings about sqiggle tentacles, tee hee.