Random foci

[xifeng]

+ I need to quit eating cheese and crackers all the damn time. I swear, I would eat less crap if crap didn't taste so good.

+ Where are my back issues of Archaeology magazine? I can't live without them.

+ I think the cat has been peeing on the guest room bed, for God knows what reason because she is box-trained and ordinarily very fastidious. As soon as I get all my shit out of there, I'm shutting the door and keeping it off-limits to her.

+ I seem to be swearing less since Lent is over. If only I could say I were eating fewer sweets, too. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

+ When is Mom coming back? And will she have First Holy Communion cake with her? :D

+ Am I a bad person if I eat the leftover potatoes in the fridge?

+ I need to get all my shit out of the guest room.

+ I need to clean up the bathroom.

+ My bedroom is fucking filthy. Srsly.

+ I hope faire_damsel doesn't think badly of me.

+ I wish I didn't hate anybody.

+ I wonder if I will find reasonably priced cute skirts this afternoon.

+ Why am I obsessed with the Salem witch trials, other than that I bought everything I could find at Barnes & NOble and haven't tried Borders yet? This isn't really healthy, and it becomes rather sad when one considers that I will be obsessed with something else next week. On the other hand, it does tie in neatly with my European witch craze obsession of 2-3 years ago which tied in neatly with the fact that I didn't want to write final essays that particular semester and was looking for something else as a side project.

+ My cat is so cute. ♥

+ I hope my larger books will fit on the shelves downstairs that I'm slowly colonizing.

+ Dude, I have DVDs I haven't watched all the way through.

+ My nails are atrocious. I have really got to see about getting them professionally taken care of, except a cheap bastard is me.

+ That's all.

Comments

[momo.livejournal.com]

Check your e-mail. :B

[tara]

If first communion cake is anything like christening cake/wedding cake/Mothering Sunday cake, then I hope she brought some home for you!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Yes, Ashley. :V

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

If we're thinking of white sheet cake with fluffy icing, then yes, it is. :D Alas, there was none to be had, although she did bring me lunch (fried chicken + mashed potatoes + gravy + green beans = omgtheirloveissotasty).

First Communion cake is almost as good as Confirmation cake, but not quite. There is totally not a story that goes with Confirmation cake. Okay, maybe there is.

Also, before I forget: Our calendar lists Anzac Day as a holiday in your neck of the woods, and being an ignorant American, I do not know what Anzac Day is (and I know teh m0mmy will bring it up the next time she looks at the calendar). I am guessing that the "Anz" in Anzac stands for "Australia/New Zealand", but am clueless about the "ac" part. Help me, Augustus Caesar, you're my only hope. ;)

Also, frankly, Anzac sounds like a vacuum cleaner or large piece of industrial machinery (DO NOT PUT HANDS INTO EXTRUSION HOLES ON ANZAC DEVICE).

[tara]

Ah, no, I'm thinking of rich fruit cake with marzipan icing *g* But that still sounds very nice thankyouverymuch.

I'm going to be making an ANZAC Day post tomorrow morning, so you can direct your m0mmy to that. I thought it was about time I did a proper one, especially as I'm asked about it so often by people overseas. But in the meantime, it's Australian and New Zealand Army Corps :)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I could go for a slice of that, too. *g*

Incidentally, the Confirmation cake story: m0mmy, as the Confirmation class teacher, stage-manages the Confirmation ceremony every year, and naturally had to order cake. There's not much you can do, symbolically speaking, with Confirmation (other than doves and flames), so the woman at the bakery added a message: O COME HOLY SPIRT.

At first, everyone thought it was a typo, but one of the girls being confirmed had a party later that day, and her folks had ordered a cake from the bakery which also welcomed the Holy Spirt. Our guess is that she really didn't know how to spell "spirit", but when spoken out loud, the phrase sounded...uh...wrong.

If teh m0mmy knew how to use teh Intarwebz, I would point her to it. However, I shall be sure to read and summarize appropriately. :)

[dethorats]

Random thought number 1: Amen. Damn crap for being so delicious! Damn it!!!!!

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

I've been eating a lot of junk food recently, too. I'm not as attracted to it by taste as I am by convenience. If it were easy and quick to eat chicken or tuna salad every night, I'd be contented.

I notice, Lee, that you seem to be on a girlier/more feminine kick recently - or it may be only me seeing it. I laughed aloud when I saw you say, "My nails are atrocious," and then one sentence later, "A cheap bastard is me." So paradoxical...I mean it, I giggled for no reason other than the odd rightness of those fitting together. I know that you're not always t3h 3p1t0m3 0f m45cul1n1ty, one hundred percent of the time, without fail - even though you are to me, so too bad - but still, those moments hit me hard and I smile when I see them.

On a slightly more serious note, though, I keep feeling like I am causing you annoyance recently. I'm saying this right now rather than playing passive-aggressive to get it out of you. I doubt you are annoyed, but I have a horrible feeling that you are. I was too afraid to reply to your last comment in our thread in one of my entries, the one about feelings (again) and your happiness, for fear of ticking you off.

So that's all for moi.

[tara]

Marzipan is the god of icing *g*

OMG, that's rather worrisome given the occasion. Damn funny, though :)

Hee, coolies. Or you could even print it out and she'll think you've been super-efficient *g*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

CURSE YOU, VILE CRAP. XD

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

You're right about teh_girlness. I'm not sure where it comes from; suspect that it is a hormonal thing and that it will fade. It usually does. Besides, I don't mind being t3h 3p1t0m3 0f m45cul1n1ty one hundred percent of the time. If anything, my lapse PROVES my m4nly p0w4hz. :D

I'm not, really, although it always annoys me when people act like they know what my happiness requires better than I do. I feel like I've been kind of mean to you lately, which makes me sad.

♥ anyway.

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I can't doubt your m4nl1n355 when you're willing to show a softer side; when a man is secure in his masculinity, he can dress in drag and do the hula and nobody will accuse him of being feminine, gay, or a weakling. Well, nobody with any sense of a brain, or with a desire to live a long life.

You haven't been mean to me. I've been particularly preachy with you - with everyone, but you present me with more opportunities to preach due to the whole opposites attract thread we have between us. Anyway, I'm sorry for presuming.

♥♥♥ because.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Today, I am wearing a pink skirt with flowers on it. I was going shopping specifically to look for skirts, but once I got there, it was like you and Rose both took control of my brain at the same time, which would certainly explain the pinkness (srsly, I bought two pink skirts and a couple of pink tops as well) and the gypsy skirt (which fucking ROCKS. I shied away from orange before).

Yeah, and I think that's what gets to me. Like most people, I don't like being preached at, especially if it's something that I've decided is more or less set in stone for me. And, also, pardon the use of strong language: I do not view love and sex and marriage and relationships the way you do (we knew this). This is fine. I am not interested in changing your opinions or viewpoints. What the fuck makes it okay for you (or anyone) to try to change mine? I'm not hurting anyone. (Unless you count the GLBT community, I suppose, but like I care what a bunch of fags think anyway. Yes, I was deliberately being inflammatory.)

Also, I narrowly restrained myself from leaving a snide comment about how I must be OMG TEH 3VOLZ because I've had casual sex and feel not one whit of regret. You're welcome.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ despite the above.