time to start writing the wrong year on checks!

New Years Resolution Maker by Corpgirl
I
Resolve To	Give Up Smoking
Before	March 28, 2026
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Wow. However shall I manage that? I've never smoked in my life. I've also never dated a non-smoker, which is really very weird.

I've really done a stellar job of starting out this year. New Year's Eve, I got very festive, so I spent most of New Year's Day trying to talk my digestive tract down from a ledge, sleep, and avoid food smells. I get worse for wear after drinking like Vash the Stampede. No hangovers, at least, but still a waste of a day off. Then on the second... I'm supposed to be at my desk at nine a.m. I woke at 8:40. Sheer panic got me dressed and out the door without my eyes actually opening. I had no coffee and did not eat until two p.m. I had a Pepsi. There was no time to really care about this because I took 101 calls, a personal record. Then, unsurprisingly given the day I'd had, I came home and fell unconscious by about ten p.m. I finally felt human by Saturday, anyway.

I don't do actual resolutions, but my vague goal is to cook more often instead of doing frozen food and restaurants. And get at least one website up and running. I'd include the bit about getting out of the country, but I'm giving myself till next spring for that.

Actually reread the first volume of Sandman - it'd always been my least favorite, though it's interesting to look at it now, having read the whole series and seeing everything it sets up. Judy even calls Rose at the beginning of the diner story. And there are cameos by J'onn (whee!) and by Merv, as a bus driver in a dream. Which he mentioned later, but it amuses me to see him in action before he'd ever been named.

I also polished off Nadesico, which will get its own entry, and a Dave Duncan book - I liked the King's Blades books better during the reign of Ambrose, because I could actually recognize the Henry VIII parallels. I know far less about the reign of James I, and the king in this latest book would have been the substitute for him. Not that it mattered much, since this was more a straightforward, divorced from English history adventure, but that'd be why this was a bit of a letdown. Still a good read, though. The earlier books were fun precisely because of that historical-novel thing.

( nattering about Dave Duncan books )

I have to buy a wedding gift, and I just realized I don't actually know where the couple's registered and I can't get to the invitation, which had that info, until Monday, at which point it'll be a bit late, since the ceremony's at seven on Monday and I get off at six. Also, I'll either have to wear a dress to work (ARGH NO) or change into it at work. ::whine!:: I can handle the gift with a card and money - feel a bit tacky about doing that, but it may be the only solution unless somebody else at work wants to do a big group gift at the last minute - but the dress thing is a problem.

On the final two volumes of Nadesico.

I mentioned that I finished watching Nadesico. I.... well. Huh. I guess now I understand how people could watch Fushigi Yuugi all the way through and still say they disliked Miaka and Tamahome. Good old AEDS...

( Nadesico ending spoilers. )

destiny

What is Your Destiny? by Valcion
Name
Color
Birthday
Destiny	Savior of the human race
Date when you fufill your destiny	March 4, 2011
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Only seven more years! I better start working out.

I am closing my journal client now. I am. No more posting.

tantrum time!

Blargh. Somebody from the leasing office just dropped by, apparently questioning everybody on whether or not they've been playing bass-heavy music. I haven't, but I do play music, constantly, so it's probably me, so this is probably just another chapter in my ongoing battle with the downstairs neighbor, an evil man who complained at me, within weeks of my moving in to this apartment, because I put up a bird feeder. DAMMIT! It's three in the afternnoon! If you can't play your music out loud in the middle of the day ON A WEEKEND, when the fuck can you play any music at all?

<hissyfit mode> In the college dorms I endured mad arsonists, neighbors who ran down the hall shrieking "WHO'S MY BUTT-MONKEY?!" at THREE IN THE GODDAMN MORNING, and sharing a bathroom with a woman who apparently believed the drain in the middle of the floor was license to shower without a curtain. In my first apartment, the one I shared with my roommate, we listened to the upstairs neighbor get in daily screaming fights with her boyfriend. In my first solo apartment I put up with a blind neighbor who believed I was placed on this earth to read her mail to her, who once pushed me out of the way and walked into my apartment while I did so, and who would hammer on the door until I answered if I tried to ignore her. Which I was known to do, because she liked to go get her mail while I was showering. And who played the organ... well, logically, it couldn't have been a full-fledged church-style organ, those apartments were not that large, but something that sure sounded like an organ. In my second solo apartment, I had neighbors who sometimes climbed on the pseudo-fence around my porch. And I complained about it to my friends and family, but you know what? I never got management involved because I'm not that much of a whiny little bitch. UNLIKE SOME NEIGHBORS I COULD NAME.</hissyfit mode>

Er. Actually, I couldn't name him, because except for those occasions when he is bitching like a sorority girl about my living habits I am completely unaware of the man's existence, and it could in fact be some other neighbor, though the point about not whining to management about every little thing still stands, but... yeah.

ARGH. He can suck it up; I can't afford headphones.

skin update

After this I'm leaving the apartment. Really, you'll be rid of me, I promise.

Just wanted to announce new Winamp skins - one of Morpheus, one of Yuna from her white mage transformation sequence.