Day 274- The squeels of teenage girls sound exactly like squabling seagulls

Met up with Paul at The Stop. Had dinner at Applebee's (just checking, still hate it). Did some shopping at Target and Cost Plus. Got some neat Halloween stuff. I love Halloween!

Dropped back by The Stop and convinced George to come over and watch Wipeout. Went home and watched Wipeout and finished off the season of Weeds.

Read more Story of Forgetting. (While listening to the game in the field next door.)

Aside from work, life is improving. (That sounded less positive than I had intended.)

Day 267 - So tired.

Blew off water aerobics. Dropped by the comic book store, then Best Buy (to buy presents for Jess and Mariah) and picked up two new CDs (The Gossip & Cold War Kids).

Wrapped presents and got out cards and signed them while watching Mystery!. Worked on some affidavits for work while watching Primeval.

Watched episode 3 of John Adams with Jim and started to snooze towards the end.

Attempted a few more pages of The Story of Forgetting.

Day 260

Very busy day at work. Of course there is a crisis right before I'm taking some time off. This is how this works.

Came home and packed. Painted a lot more of the bathroom.

Read more Gang Leader for a Day.

Day 252

Dropped by The Stop. Had dinner with Paul and Jim at Billy McHales. Had a nice conversation after with Paul.

Watched some TV. Read more Pillars of the Earth.

Day 245

Returned bin to Freddy's and got new bins. Ran by Target to buy Mon's wedding presents. Stopped in at The Stop to say hey and ended having dinner with Jim and Paul.

Came home and destroyed the damn house by trying to go through my stuff and get rid of things/put them in plastic bins for storage. Watched Primeval and Dexter with Jim.

Read more Pillars of the Earth.

Day 238

Ran to Walgreens (didn't have what I wanted), then Safeway (made a huge mess), Joann's (alienated an elderly lady). Then blew off going to the comic book store as I was too scared to put my friends in danger by lurking about with my bad ju ju.

Watched Daily Show/Colbert Report (Mostly. Getting tired of the campaign that will not die.) then sewed up the Plush bean bag chair liner while watching Californication (which took a while to get interesting. It was all Mulder banging chicks for like 4 episodes before something happened of interest.)

Forgot to mention that I started reading One Red Paperclip yesterday and read some more today. It is fine. I hope to finish it tomorrow and return it to my aunt so I can complete the numerous books in my to read pile.

Spoke with Mother and it looks like Canada says she's eh O.K. to become a citizen next month. Very exciting. (That pun would be more awesome if more than 3 people read this blog. Three readers: that joke was for you. My gift. Free of charge.)

Day 231

Left work a tad early and picked Czar up for a comic book adventure. Met up with a bunch of folks at The Stop. Had dinner with Ferretnick, Hotness, Jim, Czar and George at Red Robin. Ron and Czabrina met us there and everyone came back to our place to chat and whatnot.

Read some comics.

Day 224

Melanie's Birthday

Spent most of the day traveling. Traveled to Hells Gate State Park in Lewiston. Very pretty ride along side the river, tracing the Lewis and Clark Expedition's trail. Auntie set up us with a nice audio guide to central Idaho. Mostly I slept though it.

Read some I Capture the Castle and played boardgames.

Day 217

Went to work. It sucked and my face hurt.

Ran errands, including comic shopping and completion of packing.

Watched some TV.

Day 210

After work, fed and walked the dog.

Had my first water aerobics class with Sheena. She brought her friend Jill who was really cool. I really enjoyed the class and our instructors were adorable high school students. Could not stop laughing.

Went home and showered and watched TV with the roommate.

Today was a very satisfying day.

Day 203

Ran to my place to do some tidying. Visited with the roomy.

Walked the dog and watered then headed over to my uncles house for pasta and weird autobiographical art house films about crazy people.

Read some more random comics.

Day 196

Left work early on account of my face hurting. Jim and I loitered at The Stop then had dinner with 2.0 at Red Robbin.

Finished The Nocturnals. Beautiful art, but it was very hard to follow. Read a few more comics.

Day 189

Brought cake to the stop and a bunch of folks including Hotness & Ferritnick were around to eat some Happy Wednesday Cake. It was good times.

Had dinner at a new Mexican place with Paul. Worked on picking paints to match Paul’s art and furnishings. Then watched SNL featuring Big Beef.

Read more Th1rte3n.

Spoke with Steve and Grandma.

Today was a good day.

Day 182

Went (meaning: was stupidly tricked into going) to the end of the year celebration/annual turnover "going away" party at the boss's boss's house. Was there forever!

Came home and organized my pile of recipes. Got Chinese take-out and watched National Treasure 2 (which was very funny and while absolutely not believable at all ever in any way, I enjoyed to an embarrassing extent.)

Read some Th1rte3n and crashed.

Day 175

Met a new neighbor, Krissy, when she asked us to help her put together her son's big wheel. Took a long time. She seemed nice (by which I mean she also despises the awful neighborhood brats).

Got take out teriyaki. Watched some TV.

Day 168

Sarah scored our New Kids tickets and I am as giddy as a school girl (literally).

Worked late and went straight to Meagan & Jay's for Grandpa's birthday party. We all got him candy. I think everyone had a good time discussing this summer's major excursion: the international rock hunt.

Came home and had a nice chat with the roomy.

Read some blogs.

Spoke with Steve and Jeannine.

Day 161

Picked up Auntie and drove her to work (van was getting an oil change).

Ran to the bank. Didn't get to the auto supply store, bank or library. (Because the former two were closed and I was too irritated to bother with the latter.)

Had dinner (and pie! courtesy of Steve's mom) with Steve and Jim. Must procure additional chairs. Very Important.

Unpacked and organized more.

Started Th1rte3n by Richard Morgan. Not sure why I unabashedly love Richard Morgan's work.

Day 154

Came in to work stupid early to meet with someone and they totally didn’t bother to show.

Tore apart my entire kitchen to wash it down. Started packing the most awkward stuff and started cleaning

Watched an episode of Bones and fell asleep.

Spoke with Megan, Brad, and Paul.

Day 147

Worked a short day.

Had dinner with Steve and Addy. Then watched TV and had ice cream with Steve.

Then I passed out to feverish snorfly sleep with the kitty and dogs.

Feeling a little better.

Day 140

Dropped by Half Price Books to get rid of the ones 3rd Place would not take. (Another $30!)

Paul came over to assist with the packing. He also brought a whole bunch of boxes. Courtney dropped by to pick up the TV.

We packed a whole ton of stuff and got my place partly ready for tomorrow's viewing. (This move may not kill me after all.)

I watched an episode of Bones while finishing tidying.

Spoke with Megan and Grandma.