Crawling out from under my rock.

I moved, and now I live with someone who has made me spaghetti at 3AM for no reason other than that I felt crappy and was kind of cranky after work.

Thanks, physically demanding menial labor!

The other day, while I was in the shower, I bent over to pick up the soap I dropped readjust the non-slip mat thingy when I got assraped by a fellow prisoner noticed some rolliness in the stomach area and was like, "Huh, I must have put on more weight than I thought recently."

But then I looked closer.

It wasn't hanging like fat.

IT WAS ABS. My crappy, physically-demanding job is giving me ABS!

That, in addition to the fact that my best friend was recently admiring my slightly increased boob size that came with my new above-100lbs weight (sorry you had to read that, Mom), makes me feel pretty happy about where I am physically right now.

Yes, you may commence with beating me to death now.

My Awesome Idea of the Day

Lollipops dipped in vodka or rum.

Personally, at the moment I'm going with a watermelon lollipop in vodka with a pear-flavored drink mix thing.

Hyperventilation!

Neil Gaiman is in Portland right now! The Oregon one! SQUEE! What's sad is that I was up there just a few days ago and now I am not, although theoretically I could go back for a while and still be home in time to get some sleep before work tonight (but I will not do that because I have no hope of getting into any of the events he's there for... *sigh* ).

By the way, the book he just won the Newbery for, The Graveyard Book, is so awesome that I'm almost thinking of getting a second copy just so I'll have one with the shiny new medal on it too. The "children's book" label is misleading; it's really more just a kickass book that happens to be as acceptable for children as it is for everyone else.

Also, I hear that Stephen Colbert talked about him on his show last night. I think this means that Neil Gaiman may now be Famous, as opposed to just being well-known among the kinds of people who like to read the kinds of things he writes.

It was wrong of me.

Sometimes I cannot resist the siren song of awesome material possessions, even when I really should. I will have one of these soon:

This is, of course, merchandise from one of the coolest blogs on the whole internets. It's like someone took Cute Overload and filled it with rage.

LAYOFF PARTY! W00000!

The previous post was written earlier in the week and set to post automatically when the new year hit.

What I was actually doing at 12:00AM of January 1st, 2009, was hanging out at a small party at my supervisor's place that was originally meant to be a New Year's party. However, the supervisor was very abruptly fired yesterday with no official reason given, and we've figured out from various sources that the rest of us will likely be laid off once the company can sort out getting all of our clients' contracts with us canceled. So it was more of a "Happy New Year, we'll all be just as jobless as you soon!" party.

Hope everyone else had a way better New Year than this!

New Year's Resolutions.

I will...

1) Work harder at finding another job.
2) Eat more fruits and veggies - ramen and meat do not a balanced diet make.
3) Try to sort out a new place to live so that I will feel okay with starting college again (I did reasonably well when I lived alone in a house borrowed from my then-boyfriend's family, but started failing everything once I moved back home).
4) At least try out that Unitarian Universalist church in the next city over. I need to get out more, and the sermons they have posted on their site make it seem like a giant World Religions class, which might be fun. If not, the only thing I'll have lost is a few hours of my weekend.
5) Start learning Japanese again.