Random stuff...
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littlelotteAt the coffeeshop because I needed to get out of the apartment. I work at 7am tomorrow, blah. I really don't have much to talk about, but I wanted to post, so here I am.
We're pretty certain the apartment is haunted in some form or another. The mirrors in the bathroom freaked me out when we first moved in (and I felt like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alleykitten ;-)), we've found the back door unlocked more than once when we hardly even use it and it's a deadbolt, one of the lights in the bathroom has a mind of its own, the cat freaks out randomly--her back arches and her tail puffs up like a raccoon and she makes an odd sound and just bolts into another room, and there are very odd noises--like things distinctly crashing to the floor in the spare bedroom when absolutely nothing has moved in there. For once in my life I don't mind it and I don't freak out about it. The first time we stepped foot into that apartment it felt comfortable and right, and so this isn't going to concern me. I've definitely been in places where I knew as soon as I went through the door that I would be terrified and miserable because of what I sensed. Oh! Also, the faucet in the bathroom randomly turned on the other night. Dan freaked out pretty badly...lol I've always been the one to be afraid of this stuff and I've always been very sensitive to feeling wrong about things like this. Since I didn't initially, I'm okay with it.
Also, I read the most terrible book on the face of the planet next to Phantom of Manhattan the other day. *shudders*
Umm...working on the newest Jhumpa Lahiri collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. I finished the first story earlier this week on my vacation. It's nice to have gotten a little bit of reading done for once. I forget how much I miss it until I get the time to read again. I love Jhumpa Lahiri's stories, too. They are very real and very well written. Her details remind me a lot of AS Byatt, whom I also adore.
Vacation was nice. We had a small get together last week Sunday to show off the apartment and kick off Dan's vacation, and then had some people over for a cookout the following Wednesday...during which it poured, so obviously we cooked on our very large front porch and enjoyed the huge thunderstorm. It was nice. Half my bottle of Q seemed to have evaporated during the Sunday party, and everybody was saying how they don't drink gin, so I'm baffled. Ah well.
ummm...We're currently watching a lot of videos. I like the mind-numbingness of it. I think a large part of why it's so hard to read right now is that my mind just doesn't want to handle any more information. I come home and I just don't have the energy to pick up a book. We're currently working our way through the Frasier and Cheers series--we're almost done with Season 2 of Frasier (plus we already watched through Season 8), and we're on the last disc of Cheers Season 1. I also want to get him into Northern Exposure...my mom and I used to watch that when I was younger, and I think he'd like the style of humor. We saw Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream last night--one of his London movies. I like his serious movies because they're so real in the sense that you have absolutely no idea how any of them will end. Have I mentioned that Netflix is amazing? I also enjoy the Instant Queue feature when I don't feel like doing anything else at home and we're waiting on new DVDs.
I turn 26 on Tuesday. My mid-twenties are starting to come to a close. Where did the time go?
I stopped going to the class I was taking. It's a different style than I first took, and not what I'm interested in. Maybe I'll try to pick up a yoga class to keep me active and feeling better. My mess of a schedule makes it so difficult to pick anything I want to do up, and I stop even wanting to make the effort to try.
Not much else to say, really, so I guess I'll head off for now. Hope those of you in the States had a safe and enjoyable 4th. I closed at the restaurant and we were deader than a doornail. The perfect weather and the fact that the long weekend happened to fall on a Friday conspired to make me want to shoot myself--we did less than $6 in sales our final hour that night, and less than $60 the final two hours. Bah.
I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week! I have Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday off for my birthday. No special plans. Dan just mentioned maybe spending a night at a hotel...that's always a nice, simple vacation away :-) I was hoping to get home to visit relatives visiting from Florida, but I don't think it's going to work out. Dan's taking two days off to spend with me, and then I have to spend a few hours on Monday at work helping Tiffany learn how to do invoices and put together the corporate package. I don't feel like driving five hours mixed in there :-P
We're pretty certain the apartment is haunted in some form or another. The mirrors in the bathroom freaked me out when we first moved in (and I felt like
alleykitten ;-)), we've found the back door unlocked more than once when we hardly even use it and it's a deadbolt, one of the lights in the bathroom has a mind of its own, the cat freaks out randomly--her back arches and her tail puffs up like a raccoon and she makes an odd sound and just bolts into another room, and there are very odd noises--like things distinctly crashing to the floor in the spare bedroom when absolutely nothing has moved in there. For once in my life I don't mind it and I don't freak out about it. The first time we stepped foot into that apartment it felt comfortable and right, and so this isn't going to concern me. I've definitely been in places where I knew as soon as I went through the door that I would be terrified and miserable because of what I sensed. Oh! Also, the faucet in the bathroom randomly turned on the other night. Dan freaked out pretty badly...lol I've always been the one to be afraid of this stuff and I've always been very sensitive to feeling wrong about things like this. Since I didn't initially, I'm okay with it.Also, I read the most terrible book on the face of the planet next to Phantom of Manhattan the other day. *shudders*
Umm...working on the newest Jhumpa Lahiri collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. I finished the first story earlier this week on my vacation. It's nice to have gotten a little bit of reading done for once. I forget how much I miss it until I get the time to read again. I love Jhumpa Lahiri's stories, too. They are very real and very well written. Her details remind me a lot of AS Byatt, whom I also adore.
Vacation was nice. We had a small get together last week Sunday to show off the apartment and kick off Dan's vacation, and then had some people over for a cookout the following Wednesday...during which it poured, so obviously we cooked on our very large front porch and enjoyed the huge thunderstorm. It was nice. Half my bottle of Q seemed to have evaporated during the Sunday party, and everybody was saying how they don't drink gin, so I'm baffled. Ah well.
ummm...We're currently watching a lot of videos. I like the mind-numbingness of it. I think a large part of why it's so hard to read right now is that my mind just doesn't want to handle any more information. I come home and I just don't have the energy to pick up a book. We're currently working our way through the Frasier and Cheers series--we're almost done with Season 2 of Frasier (plus we already watched through Season 8), and we're on the last disc of Cheers Season 1. I also want to get him into Northern Exposure...my mom and I used to watch that when I was younger, and I think he'd like the style of humor. We saw Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream last night--one of his London movies. I like his serious movies because they're so real in the sense that you have absolutely no idea how any of them will end. Have I mentioned that Netflix is amazing? I also enjoy the Instant Queue feature when I don't feel like doing anything else at home and we're waiting on new DVDs.
I turn 26 on Tuesday. My mid-twenties are starting to come to a close. Where did the time go?
I stopped going to the class I was taking. It's a different style than I first took, and not what I'm interested in. Maybe I'll try to pick up a yoga class to keep me active and feeling better. My mess of a schedule makes it so difficult to pick anything I want to do up, and I stop even wanting to make the effort to try.
Not much else to say, really, so I guess I'll head off for now. Hope those of you in the States had a safe and enjoyable 4th. I closed at the restaurant and we were deader than a doornail. The perfect weather and the fact that the long weekend happened to fall on a Friday conspired to make me want to shoot myself--we did less than $6 in sales our final hour that night, and less than $60 the final two hours. Bah.
I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week! I have Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday off for my birthday. No special plans. Dan just mentioned maybe spending a night at a hotel...that's always a nice, simple vacation away :-) I was hoping to get home to visit relatives visiting from Florida, but I don't think it's going to work out. Dan's taking two days off to spend with me, and then I have to spend a few hours on Monday at work helping Tiffany learn how to do invoices and put together the corporate package. I don't feel like driving five hours mixed in there :-P
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:50 am (UTC)Just make sure the ghost is a friendly one. One of the shows that gets translated here is a Discovery series about evil hauntings. It gets hard to sleep at night sometimes...
Have you ever read David Sedaris' stuff? I'm reading a lot of his short stories right now because my mind can't seem to handle a whole lot of English in one go.