I’m feeling better. Eddie brought me chicken tenders on Friday night because I was able to eat half a can of soup without tossing my cookies, but made me agree that I would not drown them in hot sauce as is my normal procedure for such food, so I ate the most bland tenders ever. Yesterday I ate some popcorn chicken for lunch and then had actual meat for dinner, neither of which gave me much trouble aside from sitting in my stomach like a lump of concrete. I’m still a little low-feeling, probably a bit of leftover dehydration and all the fun that goes with that sort of thing.
Eddie took the truck to get inspected on Friday and it didn’t pass. According to the garage it will be about $1500 worth of work, which is bullshit because I priced out the parts and it’s about $250 worth of parts at most from what I can see. So I’m going to call Dad today and see if he can fix the broken bits if we buy the parts, or if he knows some unscrupulous garage that would be willing to pass the truck for us, because we’re good people and all, and good people drive safe vehicles. Right?
We’ve pretty much finished the living room at the new place, and it looks fantastic in blue and white. The trim needs to get done again because when we did the white walls yesterday it became apparent that “Brilliant White” is not the same as “White”, or as Eddie calls it “not white”. The kitchen is nearly finished as well, with just the cabinet doors to be put up. They all would have been put up last week, except that I underestimated how many screws it takes to put up 21 cabinet doors and had missed about a dozen hinges in my original painting of them (they were hiding under some newspaper on the counter), so they needed to get painted yesterday as well. And I’m going to paint the kitchen bricks white, because they look terrible and it will drive me crazy until I make them match because I’m just that OCD about that sort of thing. Unfortunately we forgot to take the camera over there again this week so there are no updated pictures, but I promise some next week.
In geekier news, our WoW guild is coming back together as strong as ever after the original founding GM left. We’ve got 3 healers (druid, a paladin, and a priestly level 70 bank-alt), so we did a bunch of instance runs over the past few weeks to see how well everyone works together and we’ve got a decent flow with each other which is fantastic. It also helps that during these runs everyone who doesn’t have much experience with the eleventy-billion Outland instances (*cough*me*Eddie*cough*) has gotten some fairly decent new gear out of them.
The cupcakes for the WoW party today look pretty yummy. I can’t wait to eat one. I’m fairly certain that they’ll all be gone when we leave Wil’s house. There’s going to be grilling and much geekery to be had this afternoon. The only completely sucky thing is that Wil, the guild leader, is going to be quitting the game at the end of this month and so there’s supposed to be a vote for who gets to be the new leader. There’s really only 2 or 3 people who I can foresee taking up the reins, and 1 of them will completely drive the guild into the ground if he gets it because while he’s a nice enough guy he’s way more hardcore than what the guild was meant for. We’re a casual bunch of people, and I predict a lot of issues with him wanting the group to be more into raiding than we are. Oh well.
I dyed my hair red this morning. With any luck it will actually stay red and not lose all of its pretty color over the next week. I’m not sure where the animals are hiding today, but there was quite the rumble between them in the living room this morning. Chaucer actually cried and ran away from Pickle because I think she nipped him somewhere.
We got the new yesterday that when our lease is up this summer we’ll be able to move into Nanny’s half of the house, essentially the basement of Mom’s. It’s got a huge bedroom and kitchen and a teeny-tiny bathroom, but rent will be cheaper than here and Mom and Brian can use the help. The bathroom down there is too small for Eddie to stand up in and is actually smaller than most closets so we’ll be using the upstairs shower instead of the one that would be ours, but again, it’s cheaper and we’ll be pretty much guaranteed a hot meal every night, right?
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Listening to: Peter Frampton - Do you feel like I do
After killing many, many ogres, I finally was able to get my spacegoat talbuk.
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Listening to: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
It’s another fun-filled afternoon at Casa McBride. We slept in a little bit, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher, and had a positively orgasmic lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches made with pepper-jack cheese and tomato soup to go with them. We picked up some food for dinner and dealt with the two old ladies working the register at Stop & Shop.
After lunch we logged into WoW for a little while for an instance run, only to discover that the person who had invited us to it was nowhere to be found. However, since we’re no longer the lowbies of the guild we were able to get enough guildies together to make an attempt at it, getting two quests completed and upgrading a couple of pieces of gear in the process. It’s nice being at level 70 because now Eddie and I can do our own things without worrying about one of us getting ahead of the other one. The only thing we’ve got to figure out is a way for us to both be logged into Ventrilo with out headsets and both of us be able to listen to music, since when I’ve got iTunes running with Vent only I can hear the music.
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Listening to: The Vandals - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
bad - no Internet until the end of the week.
good - eddie found an itouch iPod this afternoon so we’ve got some sort of wireless going on for the time being.
