nekosensei

Don't forget that anime night is being held at our house today. I'm making an attempt to de-cat for those who are allergic. In other words, I'm vacuuming the carpet downstairs and the couches. I'm also thinking that I'm going to put the cats in a bedroom. That way, I don't worry about them getting out a door and allergic people don't have to deal with the cats dancing around them and triggering the sniffles. *glares at arwenmonster* She's a little stinker.

So...anybody planning on attending tonight?

Question: How many GPSes does it take to get to pokiri's house?

Answer: Two. (And even then, we still failed spectacularly).



Subdivisions are so confusing...

This year, I got some really cool stuff for Christmas.

I got two good books this year, one titled 30,000 years of art. It's 14 pounds! I also got two copies of Getting Started: Knitting Socks. One came from emygination and the other from my sister. What a coincidence! I think I'm going to get myself a book that I saw in emygination's collection about knitting lace patterns.

I also got Emergency Chocolate. Yum!

The cats also got a bunch of gifts last night. They got some toys and they got to eat Tuna for Cats from Trader Joes. They are very spoiled. Lastly, cosettemonster got some catnip. As you can tell from my last post, she immediately proceeded to get high.

Over the weekend, doomsey and I went to three parties. On Saturday, we went to my sister's birthday party. We gave her and Andrew their Christmas present, a digital camera, a few weeks early. My sister loved it. She still has a film camera and she says that it's a pain in the ass to buy film and have it developed. I do have a birthday present for her, a scarf that I knitted, but it wasn't finished. I did manage to finish it yesterday though. All I have to do is cast off. I still don't know whether I'm going to put tassels on it or not. I think I'm going to take a picture of it and ask my friends list again.

After my sister's birthday party, we went to the pirate party at voidness' place. I dressed up in Ren Faire garb (my family was very amused when I changed into it to go to the party) and brought the little dagger that I had from my Halloween costume. I had a bit too much grog (man that was strong!) but otherwise I had a lot of fun.

Yesterday, doomsey and I went to his parents' house to celebrate Hannukah a few days early since doomsey had to go to Germany during Hannukah. As always, the food was delicious and I got a really cool present from judygs. She replaced the lladro that doomsey had dropped and chipped two years ago when he replaced a shelf. Thanks! That was so awesome! Around six o'clock, doomsey's boss picked him up to take him to the airport. After doomsey left, a bunch of us played Apples to Apples. After the game, I went home because I was exhausted from not getting a lot of sleep the night before.

Today doomsey, emygination, judygs, bmtstandard, and purpurachicago went to almeda's house for a party. We got to eat hot dogs and pet the two beagles. I got a very bad migraine and then got yelled at for not taking migraine meds. This is because, when I get a migraine, I usually go and hide first to see if it goes away. If it doesn't, then I take drugs. By the way, I am completely sick and tired of feeling like shit all of the time. Can I not go out and, you know, do something for once without feeling either sore or migraine-y?

I also managed to start another knitting project. I'm making a scarf out of some yarn I had lying around. I'm still considering adding tassals too it. Mmmm...tassals...

By the way, thanks for the books, almeda. I'm looking forward to reading them!

The Friday the 13th Party last night was fun. Apparently, it's a two day party and it's also going to go on tonight as well. I'm not going since I want to relax this weekend. Yesterday, I spent most of the party knitting with chitownshae. voidness thought that having people sitting in the living room knitting was "kind of wrong" because it really isn't a very domestic place, but it was amusing. For whatever reason, I like to knit when I'm talking to people because it gives me something to do with my hands. When I was a kid, I used to sit around and play with stuff (like salt shakers when I was sitting at the kitchen table) when I talked. Knitting solves that problem. Oh...it certainly kept me from drinking too much alcohol at the party. I'm too afraid to drink too much while knitting because I would be afraid of getting confused and screwing up the blanket.

We really need to get together and organize stich 'n bitch meetings. That would be a lot of fun...and I would probably get more accomplished on my baby blanket if we did that.

On Saturday, doomsey and I went to the Fourth of July barbacue at my sister's house. Since we had to pick up my brother from work, too much gimping was involved.

Yesterday, I didn't have to do anything. I sat on my butt, read my book, and got a lot accomplished on the blanket I'm knitting. I also put a heating pad on the knee and put it up. It feels a lot better because I had a day where I could stay off of it. I also got bored and ended up writing a silly poll on _discussion just for kicks...

I'm still amused by the fact that judygs selected "break shit" on there. She's so clumsy...

So this is what my weekend looked like.

Friday during the day: I had a migraine. I took a lot of drugs so that I could deal with said migraine without ripping my brains out.

Friday night: I picked L. up at the train station. I ended up playing hell finding parking near the station since it was Elm Fest. When we got to my place, I gave her the tour of the new house. She thought it a beautiful house, and she said her mother in particular would have loved a house like this. Then, my sister came over and we went out to dinner at Sushi Nest, which is in downtown Elmhurst. Again, I had a hell of a time finding parking. I think I circled through the parking garage about two times before I found anything. Dinner was awesome and the company was great. We went to my house for awhile where we talked and I showed J. Swedish chef videos on YouTube. I think my personal favorites are the Chocolate Moose sketch followed by the donut one. Heh heh...YouTube is great for wasting time. Since L had to get up early tomorrow, J went home and I gave L a ride back to her apartment.

Saturday: I had another migraine. I had work to do so I worked anyway. It sucked because I felt like I was going to throw up. doomsey wasn't at home since he took emygination car shopping. He threatened to kick my butt when he got home if I hadn't taken anything for the migraine by then. Since I had to take drugs on Friday and another day this past week, I was reticent to take more. I decided to take some more Excedrin so doomsey wouldn't kick my ass.

Saturday night: When doomsey got home, I had a Trader Joe's satay for dinner. Then, doomsey and I watched an anime movie called Paprika. It was a very bizarre movie. I would have to say that I would have to rank it right up there with the anime, Lain, as a complete and utter mindfuck.

Sunday: I didn't get a migraine. Yay for me! I went over to the cemetary about two blocks away from my house to trim the grass and weeds away from my grandparents' and other relatives' headstones. I looked at the dates again and realized that both my grandparents and my aunt were relatively young when they died. I think my grandfather was in his sixties (I didn't pay too much attention to that one), my grandmother was seventy-three, and my aunt was sixty-nine. I tell you...I have some really sucky genes in my family compared with doomsey's. Most of his grandparents lived to be more than eighty years old.

When we were kids, this cemetary used to allow people to bring live plants and put them out. They used to have water hoses where you could draw water for them. They have since taken them out, and it looks like people set out artificial flowers now. That is so hokey.

When I got home, I did some more weeding outside. It looks like I'm going to have to attack the way back again in the next week or so.

For dinner, doomsey and I went to Elmfest. I got a pulled pork sandwich from Sweet Baby Ray's as well as a strawberry-bannana smoothie (very delicious!) and doomsey got some random Thai food and a lime-bannana smoothie. Personally, I liked my smoothie better. While we ate, we listened to a group that was impersonating the Beatles. The music was quite good actually. Then, we walked back home. I must say that, as you get closer to the downtown area, the cicadas get loud. I was tempted to cover my ears when we passed by a couple of trees because they literally sounded like they were screaming. That...and I swear to God that the sound cycles. They get loud. Then they get soft. Then they crescendo again. Bizarre.

I've noticed that the cicada noises have been moving steadily northward. I've also been hearing a few more cicadas in my neighborhood, but so far we're not completely inundated with them. I hope it stays that way because the areas that are completely infested with them smell very bad. Somebody told me that it's because they release a pheromone. I'm not going to be amused if I have to spend this entire summer feeling like I'm going to narf because of some stinky bugs. I also told doomsey that, if it gets as loud as some of the places we walked through, I'm going to close up the house and turn on the air conditioner. Gah!

Tonight, I think I might go grocery shopping. I'm kind of tired from the walk that we had, so I might sit on my butt for a few more minutes...

I've been doing a lot of work in my backyard and garden the past two days. Yesterday, I weeded the area in the way back of the backyard. I discovered one section that was completely overgrown with thistle. Man, that's really a bitch to pull. I had to use not one, but two pairs of gardening gloves. And if I touched the wrong part of the plant, it *still* pricked me. I eventually got to the point though where I was able to grab the bottom of the plant and pull it out with a flick of the wrist without hurting myself. Did I mention that there was a lot of it? I'm going to have to keep an eye on the area so I don't have to spend several hours doing it again. I also pulled a shitload of creeping charlie, but that's easier to pull because it doesn't prick you. That, and all you really have to do is grab a handful and pull since it's a vine.

I've discovered that yard work is a pain in the ass, but you do get a lot of exercise doing it. Sometimes, it's also rewarding. Yesterday, I saw a pretty butterfly land on our lilac bushes. Speaking of critters, on Monday I bought a feeder for hummingbirds from Home Despot, but doomsey complained about me spending money on it. That, and he doesn't want birdfeeders because birds crap all over the place. Seriously, how much crap does a *hummingbird* produce? That, and the birdfeeder was cheap...less than ten dollars.

Today, I finished weeding out by the way back. I also pulled weeds in the other two gardens (one along the garage and the other on the edge of our property). Then, I watered. The Black-Eyed Susans by the garage really needed it since the ground there was dry. I also attacked our lawn with the sprinkler. Since I was dirty from weeding, I washed myself up a bit in the sprinkler until I could take a proper shower. I wore a bathing suit and a light pair of sweats while weeding since I knew that it was going to be somewhat hot out and that I could always take a nice little run through the sprinkler. Speaking of hoses, I think I need to buy a longer one. The one that came with the house doesn't reach the back part of our yard. That and the one end leaks like you wouldn't believe.

Man...I am dead tired. I want to sleep, but we have anime night tonight.

Yesterday, doomsey and I met up with ghostandfriends, 2515049, tambreet and M. for Indian food. The place we went too had recently re-opened after burning down a while ago. As always, the food was excellent. Before going to the restaurant, doomsey, ghostandfriends, and I went to an Indian grocery store and ended up doing a bit of shopping. We now have nan and other goodies. We also looked at saris in a store that was still open. After dinner, tambreet, 2515049, and M. went to get beer. Since I was dead tired from gardening, doomsey had to wake up early for work, and ghostandfriends didn't want to go out drinking, we went back to ghostandfriends' place, had Scotch, and talked. Mmm...Scotch. Correction: doomsey didn't have Scotch since he doesn't drink.

That's what's up with me. Even though the spring semester has ended, I'm still keeping myself busy!