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  • 30 March, 2010 08:48

    Lindsie’s Revelation of the week.

    I was just looking at my bank account, to see if I have enough to pay for all the things I have to pay for at the beginning of the upcoming month. I do. This was to see how much of my upcoming paycheque I would need to use to cover the difference, of which there is none. Lesson learned: when I don’t spend my money on junk I don’t need* I can save money.

    *List of junk I don’t need at present:

    Craft supplies/Anything from Staples**—I have a good stock of these things from previous junk-buying sprees.

    Clothes—I brought out my spring and summer clothes and don’t have enough room to put them all.

    Anything from Dollar Giant (anything for $1.25!)

    Shiny things

    **but oh my goodness, clear shipping labels that you can put through the printer are saving my life!

  • MmmmmMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm.  This was the sound I was making at work today.  Not because there were yummy things.  It was just because I was feeling uncomfortable and didn’t want to work.  “How do people do this for 30 years?” I asked myself this morning, getting out of bed.  “Going and doing something everyday that they feel largely indifferent towards?”  I didn’t have an answer and I don’t think I’m going to find out.

    Left-over birthday cake!

    I have to finish my floor rug!  Sometime.  Soonish.  I hope.  I’m knitting it so it’s taking a long time.

    This is all I wish to report at this time.

  • MmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmmMMMMMMM.  This isn’t a sound of yumminess, it’s a sound of frustration and discomfort.  I’m making this noise a lot today as I don’t feel very well, yet if I don’t clean my house today I will have no time to do it until much later.  Somehow I survive.  And somehow now my house is clean and almost tidy, too.

    I was in Duncan yesterday to do taxes.  (I won at taxes.)  I also got birthday cake and presents.  I got rolly suitcases I will use in my travels about.  I received them just in time as I have 1) a trip to Nanaimo to visit Naomi next weekend, 2) a trip to Vancouver to visit Julie the weekend after, and 3) another trip to Vancouver at the end of April to visit Simon and Garfunkel.  I feel I have scheduled too much for myself and am getting worried for my sanity/health.  On the other hand, I like doing things.

    I get to make the poster for The Carlson’s Dance Concert again this year.  Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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  • Laundry

    I finally did my laundry last night! Hooray! It’s been waiting to go since Sunday, and then it was REALLY ready to go on Monday when I added my bedding. (I changed out my winter bedding for my summer sheets and comforter just in time for my birthday sleep). I tried to do it Monday but after work there was a lot of to-do going on in the laundry room—I think the result of this to-do was one of the machines being taken out. But then I couldn’t do my laundry on Tuesday because That Was My Birthday! Then on Wednesday I planned to do it after work if Jordan didn’t want to go for dinner before the play. But he did (surprise)! But that was ok because really I don’t like doing laundry and we went to Applebees and I had an Oriental Chicken Wrap. Mm. So yesterday when I got home from work there were signs all over the building saying that the laundry room would be closed Friday (today)! So I decided that it would be a good idea to get it done before that, since I’m going to Duncan on Saturday, and would therefore be leaving it until Sunday, and even though I would have to do it after dance class, which made it later that I have ever done laundry. I managed to finish, however, before the laundry room closed at 10. And that’s my laundry story.

    Another laundry note. My prize in The Present Game this past Christmas was a pair of laundry balls. They look like spikey rubber balls, only they aren’t squishy and the spikes aren’t very long. They are meant, according to the packaging, to reduce static and ironing and decrease dry time. “Whatever, I’ll use them,” I thought to myself indifferently at the time. But last night I put just one in each dryer (I had two loads going) and indeed, where usually my sheets come out slightly damp after an hour in the dryer, they were instead perfectly dry. They were flannel sheets, too. I love my laundry balls.

  • 24 March, 2010 11:08

    I forgot to buy a Globe and Mail on my birthday yesterday. I could just buy one today, since it will be reporting what is actually happened yesterday. But what I like is getting the paper with the date of March 23 on it. I don’t have time to read a Globe and Mail anyway.

    I still have a birthday lunch to attend today, as well as a free Starbucks to get sometime soonish. I didn’t want the Starbucks yesterday or else I would have had it already.

  • New Envelopes.

    Ok so these new envelopes I have I actually bought for my LAST BIRTHDAY, which is exactly one year ago now and I’m just starting to use them now!  Oh no!  The second thing I will mention is that the adhesive tastes really gross.  I hope they’re not poison envelopes.  Lindsie: dead by poison birthday envelopes!

    Edit:  And now one of them just gave my tongue a paper cut.  These envelopes are out to get me.

  • 22 March, 2010 08:39

    It’s my birthday tomorrow. I have nothing planned except for the regular stuff: work and dance. And dance is my first day back after two weeks off. (One week I was sick, and then the studio was closed last week for spring break). I can’t think of anything special I might want to do, but then it’s Monday morning right now and I wish I was still in bed. Maybe asleep, but maybe reading the last article of last month’s Walrus magazine. It’s not really an article, it’s the short story. But I have to finish it so I can start this month’s edition, which arrived the other day and which reminded be I had several other Walri to read. Catch up!

    Holy crap I just burned my esophagus with hot tea. Welcome to Monday, Lindsie.

  • It’s raining, and it’s a silvery bright springtime rain.  Looking out, I note that this would be a good time to scrub my deck, since it’s pre-soaked now.  Rrr.

    I set up the web-cam yesterday, and spent most of the day looking at myself on the computer screen.

  • The previous post neglects to mention that I am scared of fish and therefore will not go scuba diving.  A woman down the cubicle-row from me at work just got a fish at her desk.  It’s purply-blue and I’m not scared of just one fish in a, well, tubey glass thing as it is.  Just as fish lurking in the darks of the ocean.  So there!

    “So there!” is my new saying.  I used it several times while at lunch on Wednesday with Susan.  I’m pretty sure Susan wanted to kick me I was so clever in the usage of my new saying.  I’m sure there are lots of times that Susan just wants to kick me in rage, but she doesn’t because she’s nice.  So there!

    I’ve eaten far too many vanilla sandwich cookies.  I bought them yesterday at the James Bay Thrify Foods.  I went for a loooong walk last night after work.  I went from work, into James Bay, then along to Dallas Road, past Beacon Hill Park to Cook Street.  And then I live on Cook Street so I ended the walk at my home.  I was masterfully pooped at the end of the walk, but it was a pretty nice commute.

    I need more tomatoes as I’ve finished those I had in the course of eating tomato, hummus and mayonnaise sandwiches.   Mm.

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  • Dream/Non-Dream

    When my alarm went off this morning, I didn’t fully wake up. This was because it was one o’clock in the morning. I had set my alarm because me and Amber and Susan were planning to go scuba diving and we had to get up that early to get ready to catch the bus. Susan and Amber were sleeping over. I felt bad that the alarm was so loud and reached over to turn it down. This is when Amber sat up, trying to get out of bed because we were supposed to get up, anyway.

    This is when I really woke up (sortof) because my alarm radio was actually going off, and realized that I wasn’t going scuba diving today, I’m just going to work.