bullshit-filtration system, indeed

Happy new year, druzhki!!

For you, various items, some of them perhaps even interesting.

I. Photographs.

Here are a couple blurry offcolor phone-pictures I love so well: the animals and downtown St Paul the other day with the bizarre weather: mostly overcast with some anemic blue sky peeking through, and this strange smoky haze. Supposedly the air-quality index was at code red.

I did a lot of home-improvin’ this weekend, but was courteous enough to not start drilling into my walls until after 10am on New Year’s day. I put up a shelf and oldschool hotel-style towel rack in my bathroom. In the kitchen, I put up my spice shelves and knife rack. Also, I have already accomplished New Year’s Resolution The First: I got me a little baby plant and put it on one of the tables Scotty got me for my moving-in adventure. It will relocate to the smaller table, as it fits there perfectly, but only after I can be sure the cats are leaving it alone. They usually choose laying-down and eating over knocking shit over, but sometimes they surprise me.

II. Movie.

I saw The Life Aquatic and loved it, except for the overly-trippy animated sea creatures. It’s a movie that will appeal to a very limited audience, I think, but it’s awesome. Bill Murray is one of those actors I can’t stand 99% of the time, but Lost in Translation is one of my favorite movies ever. Same goes for Jim Carrey: I love Eternal Sunshine but mostly I’d rather vomit in my shoe than have to watch one of his other films.

III. Trackin’.

I’ve mentioned before my superfantastico user-tracking system. Homie ported it to PHP this weekend, so now three of us are a little too obsessed with it. If you have ever done this thing in which you spill your guts for complete strangers to view and judge on a regular basis, you will understand the interest we have in this information; if you don’t, you may feel violated, but you shouldn’t. I figure it’s only fair to know a little bit about you, since I tell you almost everything about me. Right? Right.

The most interesting detail I’ve come up with is that out of my top 40 most-regular readers, I only know 15 of you. For certain, at least. I confess I’ve developed a fascination with a few of you I know nothing about except a location and the pattern of your visits. Feel free to introduce yourselves. I promise I won’t stalk you; I don’t have the time. I just like to know.

IV. Stalkers.

Surprisingly, this conversation was unrelated to the previous item. I was thinking about it after this LJ interview the other day, so tonight I was telling Homie that I figured I have pretty good instincts and am unlikely to end up in a situation in which I am murdered or locked in a cage in someone’s basement, but who knows?

V. House-news.

I haven’t had house-news in a while! It’s been off the market for a month since our realtor’s contract expired, and who’s gonna buy a house over the holidays? It will be relisted soon, and my aunt is the realtor. She said the market is expected to get about 700% better, and I do not even exaggerate. Haha. Anyway, fingers crossed as always.

VI. Knittin’.

I’ll keep it short this time, I promise. I gave my sister her scarf today. I don’t think it’s my best work, but she loved it. This weekend I knitted the cutest thing I’ve ever seen, of which I will post photos only after it has been delivered to its new owner. My mom asked me to knit a full layette for my brother’s new baby. I’ve been dying for an opportunity to knit those tiny little clothes. Also also, I’ve been listening to Diary by Palahniuk while working on these items. Holy shit, it’s depressing me. I have to take regular breaks to look at pictures of rainbows and unicorns and teddy bears just to balance that out.

It seems to me that the audiobooks go more directly to my brain than regular reading. I’m not joking! You know how supposedly TV bypasses your usual bullshit-filtration system? Same kinda thing. That’s my very scientific theory, at least.

VII. Sleep.

Like, now. Night!
Jenni