The Dangerous Existence of Madame Lee

1.) I'm behind, but a very happy (if belated) birthday to song_of_copper!

2.) I was actually productive today. Worked on cleaning my room like an adult, made dinner (kale pesto, and it is tasty), walked a mile, did laundry, prepared resumés. Am now desperately attempting to catch up on e-mail and so forth, and also to do a little writing before I crash, which is going to have to be in an hour and a half if I want to get up and go to work on time. Oh, and I cleaned out my car, but unfortunately the smell remains. (I went to pick up our vegetables from the CSA on Friday--pickups are usually on Saturday mornings, but due to the holiday they were doing it Friday evening, and I had the day off and the lolmom had to work--and lugged three buckets of foul organic slurry for their compost bin. I then promptly forgot about the buckets once I had emptied them and left them in the car for another 24 hours. On a hot July day. AWESOME JOB l33.)

3.) The casing over my driver's side rear taillight has been bashed out, and we're not sure how this happened. The lolmom noticed a bruise on one of the trees, as if someone had backed up and maybe hit me that way, but I know I did not hit the tree, and the car shows no other signs of having been hit. We also found branches down by the accident (crime?) scene, and it's storm season, so maybe one of the branches knocked it out. At least the bulb is still intact; it's just the casing that needs to be fixed. I guess I'll ask the dealership for an estimate when I go to get the oil changed and/or the battery replaced.

4.) Adulthood is overrated and may possibly fucking blow. On the other hand, I like it a whole hell of a lot better than I did childhood (I was not a happy child, to put it mildly).

5.) OMG YOU GUYS WE HAVE EGGPLANTS. I WILL NOT FAIL AT EGGPLANT THIS YEAR. And they actually look like eggplants are supposed to. I am excited.

The dishwasher installation guy came today! And he installed our dishwasher! And it's shiny and white and pretty and clean! And now we don't have to wallow in our own filth! Seriously, we just gazed upon it for ages with our shining, myopic eyes. Also, the element is black (the one in the old dishwasher was white with lime), and it has all these neato-keen features, and--

Holy God, I bought an appliance.

I'm, like, a real adult now, or something. Mostly "something", though.

[EDIT: Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but I'm re-reading Helliconia Summer by Brian W. Aldiss and feel vague disappointment because it's fun and a good read, but not as good as Helliconia Spring. Probably this is because I fell hard for Aoz Roon and haven't found anyone to measure up to him in the second book.]

The first major purchase I make this year, rather than the long-coveted laptop or the now-rapidly-becoming-necessary car, will be a dishwasher for m0mmy. This purchase is motivated largely by selfishness, as ours broke before Thanksgiving and we can't afford to fix it and so the dishes just pile up until one of us grows sick of living in our own filth. (All right, it's not really that bad, but doing cooking-and-eating dishes BY HAND is NOT FUN.) Also, it gives me an opportunity to build credit, which is rapidly becoming necessary.

Oh, and, like, we need one in case Mom decides to put the house on the market, because I totally would not want to buy a house without a dishwasher and I don't suppose anyone who would want to buy our house would either.

Perversely, I'm actually looking forward to picking out the dishwasher and having it installed, possibly because making major appliance purchases reinforces my status as Man Of The House and Bringer Of Appliances. This scares the dickens out of me, as there was a time, and not very far in the past either, when I would promptly have written it off as a pipe dream because dishwashers are BO-RING.

(Which, I mean, they are and I can think of several things I'd rather do for the cost of a dishwasher, but sometimes a man has to bite the bullet.)