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To those of you who live with your significant others, especially if you are not married: How combined are your lifestyles? I ask because I have recently noticed that Daniel and I keep an awful lot of things separated when it comes to cohabitating. For instance: Grocery Shopping We more or less take turns buying. [...]

Moving is rarely a pleasant experience. I have bruises all over my legs from hefting boxes around, and a couple on my forearms to match. I’ve been eating horrible food because we hadn’t been grocery shopping in weeks. We haven’t unpacked yet, so we’re still rummaging around various boxes to find the things we need [...]

This moving stuff is rough. (We got the apartment, in case you missed that in the last entry. I hid it.) I am living in a sea of cardboard boxes and packing tape. Compounding the moving issue is that we are leaving for Idaho on Saturday. That means that I have three days left to [...]

I heard rumors yesterday about our local Hollywood Video selling all of their VHS tapes for a dollar each. Turns out those rumors were true. I managed to find a ton of movies and then Daniel came by after work and found more. We narrowed it down to (I am ashamed) twenty-six. Seriously? If you [...]

Finally – some good news on the apartment front: We went to look at a place last Wednesday. It was 875 square feet (our current place is 525) and was a top-floor apartment in a four-plex. Rent is just under $800 (very reasonably priced for a huge 1-bed in this neighborhood), and the apartment had [...]

Our apartment hunting isn’t going as well as planned. We’ve looked at several places so far and none of them have seemed “right.” A few of them were okay or even good, but my position is that since we’re in no rush to move out, we can afford to be pickier with regards to the [...]

In order to understand my book collection, you have to understand how I purchase books; rarely do I buy anything I haven’t already read. This may seem strange to some, because why get it once you’ve already read it? With me, I buy books generally because I read it and loved it so much I [...]

Otyg – “Trollslottet” I’ve been reading a lot lately on organization, clutter, and hoarding. I stumbled across a site called Squalor Survivors a while ago, and while my problem is not nearly as bad as some, I realized I have tremendous difficulty throwing certain things away. The difficulty usually involves some emotional attachment to an [...]

Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil” A few things of interest: I wrote a little page on Animal Crossing Tips if anyone is interested. Animal Crossing is my favorite game, so I put up a few tips for gameplay. It’s just for the Gamecube version, not AC: Wild World. The property management company for [...]

old Symphonic Band stuff from high school This morning was eventful, to say the least. Daniel had an interview at noon, so he left a bit before then and I was just on my computer doing nothing. A while later, I get a call from him saying “A refrigerator guy is going to come by [...]

nothing The refrigerator repair man just left our apartment, declaring our refrigerator “toast.” It’s dead. It’ll still keep things colder than room temperature, but not by much. It’s old, it’s rusty, and he said with about two hours he could probably fix it, but he’d still recommend that the management replace it and then they’d [...]

Moulin Rouge – “Your Song” Aggg. Aghgh ghahg hghag. Grossest thing ever. I just went to the kitchen to pour a bowl of cereal for breakfast and I got out the cereal, put some in a bowl, and got out the milk. I tipped the milk carton to pour some into the bowl, and it [...]

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – “Irish Whiskey” No knitting today. I think I am scarred from The Hat Incident. My next project is a pair of plain gray mittens, and I have the ribbing for the cuff of one mitten done – decided to try to do homework yesterday instead of “wasting” my time knitting so [...]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes This morning has been rather uneventful for the most part. Daniel got up early, went to work. I had a weird dream involving an orange cat, a white horse, and a skunk. I got up around 11:30 and played on Teh Intarweb for a few hours, and then worked [...]

Opeth’s Blackwater Park I taught myself to knit about 15 minutes ago. Well, more accurately, I re-learned to knit. I first learned when I was 10 and in 4-H, and I absolutely despised i— Um, this post has been interrupted because THERE IS A MOUSE IN OUR APARTMENT. YES, I SAID IT, A MOUSE. I [...]