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Peanut Chews only show up sporadically in Connecticut, at least where I live. I'd do the same.

Ah but a cat will wake you at the crack of dawn or sometimes earlier, climb all over the bed, sit on your head and meow until you give in and feed them. Then the cat goes right back to sleep after eating but you are wide awake and sleep deprived. And by "you" I mean me.

If anyone wants Peanut Chews, I'll brave our crazy Walmart for them.

Playing a waiting game. It is making me very irritated.
So I still don't know what the landlords will do. Turns out they legally have to give 90 days written notice to raise the rent, but they can always so a 30 day no fault evicition. So in the mean time we are trying to determine if we can buy a house.
I just don't have any real answers and can't move forward not knowing which way to go.

Pics or it didn't happen !

I am more and more in l*** every day. The L-word is dangerous and frightening but we are going there like a train with no brakes.

Warning! More roommate complaints ahead.

I'm pretty sure this guy is stomping around upstairs in the morning trying to wake us up on purpose, because he's bitter that we get to sleep later than him. Or just bitter about his life, I don't know. I never hear my husband moving around when he's upstairs, or maybe a very occasional footstep, but roommate makes it sound like an elephant stampede every morning.

Also, dishes are piled up in the kitchen since I've started working part-time, because I'm the only person who does them, sometimes with a little help from my husband. How does roommate help with the mess? He takes leftovers from one container in the fridge, transfers them to a container that he likes better, and tosses the dirty one on the mountain of dishes in the sink. A+ decision-making.

He sounds like a dick.

haha, thank you! That's the general consensus with our other friends. Lease is half over at the end of the month! woowaweewah.

He sounds like an asparagus, and not just based on this post but other things you've said as well. Would having your husband talk to him help since it'd be guy to guy? I hope for your sanity he either changes his attitude and/or moves out soon.

I think my cat is broken. I hear that most people's cats wake them up in the morning, demanding food, and Zuzu did that for the first month or so that I had her, but now when my alarm goes off, she actually smacks at my iPhone, trying to turn it off, and then cuddles closer to me and goes back to sleep.

What the hell. Do cats have a reset button or something? She's clearly malfunctioning.

in my experience, cats wake you up and make demands when you would like to continue sleeping, and they snuggle with you and act adorable and squishy and make you want to stay in bed with them forever when you have to get up and do something.

Ha. My cat wakes me up anywhere between 3:45 and 4:25, when I feed her and reluctantly find myself too awake to drift off again. Eventually I manage it around 6, but I almost always wake up too late to properly get ready for work because she is so tired and cuddly.

My mom just decided to dress up and go out shopping "just because". She ventured into the scary closet-where-everything-is-at-least-two-decades-old and emerged wearing a 30 year old tweed jacket with about 2 inches of dust on it, some kind of weird scarf, and 90s heeled boots. At first I thought she was being all mom-dorky, but now I'm thinking maybe she's just ahead of the curve and is a trendsetter.

I would wear the hell out of this outfit.

It was pretty amazing. She had 90s earrings on too. I did make her brush the dust off of the jacket before she went out, though.

I'm glad to hear that, seems like things changed a lot for the better for you during this year :)

Do I stay in bed and feel lousy, or leave the house and go spend money I shouldn't on some body lotion.

(I'm working three extra days next two weeks, which will be an extra $250 after gas and deductions, so money thing isn't dire; I can splurge a little, but if I do it now, I can't later)

I would buy some Chanel No.5 (iirc you're out of it)

why did i agree to edit two thousand-page books about the biology of ticks? i'm eight pages into the first chapter of the first volume, and i'm already cringing and scrinching up my nose at the ickiness. i'm really looking forward to the chapter on mouthparts OH WAIT NO I AM NOT.

wheeeeeeee!
have fun! :)

I'd need at least $80 for a new bottle of that. Not in the budget right now. I'm rationing my sample vials in the meantime. My aunt said she is sending me some a few months ago, but she hasn't mailed it yet. With the death in the family, and family drama, I'm not about to ask about the package. But, if I use creative accounting and buy a bottle, I bet hers will arrive.

Such awful problems, huh?

Maybe I need to bump up my Lexapro dose; I've been increasingly depressed lately, and it's starting to get into "weepy for no reason" territory. I had to cancel my dr appointment to work the extra days though. I want to be the go to sub around the building, so for now I'm trying to take anything offered, even if inconvenient.

I should go out. Maybe just for a latte before GED. I love my GED students; they always make me laugh.

We have a 60yr old African American man who is a laborer who does everything. Brilliant guy, just no formal education. He reminds me of my dad in a lot of ways, including how he never lets me drive out of the parking lot last at night. He also yelled at me for not parking under one of the street lights. A 30 your old nurses aid, a teen mother who was orignally from Guatemala, and a 19 year old fundie Christian home schooler. Nobody has much of anything in common, but they are all great, hard working, amazing people who get along so well together and help ech other learn. I am constantly amazed at how cohesive this group is. Maybe it's shared hatred of fractions.

Think of all the scintillating cocktail party discussion topics you'll end up with!

Aw yay! I totally feel you on both counts. It's so scary, but exciting, but scary!



That sounds like such fun! I love when you get classes like that. It's that kind of thing that keeps a person going!

I'm really proud of my students. We've been doing some REALLY HARD reading (Kant and Bentham) and I gave them a rather difficult essay topic on it to boot, and the essay was due today. Essays were turned in, no complaining, no wheedling for extensions... They worked so hard. I'm so proud of them!

At the beginning of fifth period, a box containing a file cabinet drawer fell on my head. I've been bleeding a little bit from my scalp under my hair ever since and my head huuuurrrrrttttssss. But I only had to teach two classes, and now everyone has gone because it's a half day and I have meetings for the afternoon, so I can't justify going home. Besides, there's a rally/action to support finally giving the union a contract this afternoon, and I want to be there for that so I don't want to leave.

But I also have students in my classroom right now doing work, so I can't go to the bathroom to wash the blood crusties out of my hair, which is grossing me out and making me sad.

between this and my in-depth knowledge of the mating ritual of the african fig wasp, i'm sure to be the highlight of the evening. chat me up, fellas. lean in close so i can tell you everything i know about telescopic genitalia and barbed hypostomes. what do you mean it's getting late? you have to stay long enough for me to tell you how scabies construct molting pouches.