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April 19, 2006

So much to say, so little interest in paragraphs...

  • I spent Sunday afternoon pulling up the strips of carpet tacks in my mom's office. I did the whole, big room by myself. I scraped up my hands, but otherwise enjoyed myself.
  • A friend recently told me that the only time she can turn off her brain is when she dances. The only time I can is when I'm doing simple, monotonous, but not-too-taxing manual labor. I enjoyed Sunday afternoon.
  • I spent Monday painting my mom's office (walls and ceiling) with my mom and then moronically decided to roll up the aforementioned carpet it and take it down to the basement. That wasn't as much fun.
  • I'm still missing quite a few books, but I've begun my quest to read every BSC book in order. I am happy.
  • I always thought that Claudia looked a lot like Winnie from The Wonder Years on the first few book covers. Now, as an adult, I still think that.
  • I've gotten a lot of spam on this site in the last few months. Most of it was on one particular entry, so I closed comments on it. Then today I woke up to 22 spam comments. So from now on, comments on each new entry are open for a week, and then I'll close them.
  • It's taking a very long time to go through over 130 entries and close comments on each one. I'm probably too stupid to figure out how to do it all at once.
  • Last night's Gilmore Girls was the WORST episode of that show ever. I mean, the show has had some good periods and bad periods, but last night's show was TERRIBLE. There were a couple funny moments ("I can't pick a side. Either way I look at it, I'm right.") but overall, as a whole, it sucked.
  • Even with all the complaining I do about the noise here, I had totally forgotten how loud it is here while I was gone for 11 days. Last night was horrible. Can I please go back to Minnesota now?
  • It's over 70 degrees outside, and the heat is on in this building. And our living room window is nailed shut by facilities.
  • Oh, yeah, one more thing -- my little brother's girlfriend's mom has cursed my future children. Gotta love that.

    Posted to Miscellaneous at April 19, 2006 11:13 AM

    Comments

    Cut and pasted from LJ comments:

    I said:

    I always thought that Claudia looked a lot like Winnie from The Wonder Years on the first few book covers. Now, as an adult, I still think that.

    Totally!

    Oh, yeah, one more thing -- my little brother's girlfriend's mom has cursed my future children.

    ???

    Rebecca replied:

    Ack, I left LJ comments open! Oops...

    As for the brother's girlfriend's mom thing... Susan's parents are the embodiment of the stereotype of controlling parents who use Christianity as an excuse for everything. And her mom often has "prophetic dreams" in which Jesus tells her about the future. A little over a week ago, they kicked Susan out, so she's staying with my parents. In order to try to get her to move home (or, I suppose, it's *possible* that it was the truth...) her mom told her that Jesus revealed to her that because Susan is living with Josh before they're married, one of Josh's future neices or nephews will die.


    I say:

    Wow. Classy. You know, I'm pretty sure Jesus isn't in the killing business, particularly the killing innocent children business. That's pretty much a "forces of evil" type thing.

    Posted by: lovessong at April 19, 2006 12:51 PM

    "Jesus revealed to her that because Susan is living with Josh before they're married, one of Josh's future neices or nephews will die."

    Hopefully only after living long, healthy lives!

    But my lord, that woman sounds horrible. Who SAYS that?

    Posted by: Leah at April 19, 2006 01:23 PM

    Yeah, pretty special, huh? This isn't the first time that Jesus has revealed things to her about my brother that, "coincidentally," support the idea that they shouldn't date.

    Susan is a total sweetheart, but her parents (who I've never met) seem like real... Well, honestly, who condemns a stranger to death in order to control their daughter?

    Posted by: Rebecca at April 19, 2006 01:28 PM

    Yeah, I was very disappointed with Gilmore Girls. After watching it, the only thing from the whole episode that stuck out to me is "why does she still have a cell phone if she has a sidekick now, which is a cell phone and more?"

    And hey, it could always be one of my kids who dies, or it could be that they die at the age of 92. Jesus has been extremely vague ever since he stopped existing on the mortal plain.

    Posted by: Koby at April 20, 2006 01:13 PM

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