New friend!

So, I've officially added Karl's friend Justin to the rank of my own friends. Cheers for half dozen! I need two more, to be at eight, and I'm set for life.

What else is new. Hm. I finally bought a new pair of pants. At Walmart. For 20 bucks. They're like..imitation brown corderouy. How do you spell corderouy?

I got an $100 raise from the parents, so now I get $200 a mo, instead of $100, so I'm only going to be an average of $100 down the hole each month from housebills and gas prices and whatnot. And the peasants cheered.

Did some door painting yesterday. I quite like the blue flower with yellow patterning on the petals.

Trav's in touch via sporadic text messages, Tefftery is trying to be in touch but he's technologically impaired...I sent an anonymous beGreen card to Dori with flower pressed 'forget me nots', which I thought was a cliched touch, but she'll love it. Aaaand, Trauma hasn't been traumatizing herself, and I've left the cat door open for two-three days in a row now, and she never strays very far regardless.

And I don't really have anything else to say.

School starts August 25th.

Summary!

's been a while. Trying to think what's been new since I last posted...

Karl's Birthday. My epic gift of a good replica of Mal's coat from Firefly failed, (they stopped manufacturing it after they took me money and it was a hassle to get back, etc. etc.) so I ended up getting him a Companion Cube from Portal and a mug with Waffles and my fan art of his cartoon character, Idea Gonk.

I got a cat. Her name is Trauma, she's a grey/brown tabby with emo tendencies.

I started playing Lord of the Rings Online, and ended up with a Lifetime subscription which I don't regret yet- and I'm having a lot of fun. Karl and his friends play, too, so LoTRO nights are amusing, too. They involve everyone dropping and doing pushups at the same time for a screen shot, everyone using the pipe smoking emote as we discuss battle plans, and Spock getting chased by giant death trees because he didn't know the Old Forest had aggro-ey trees.

Uncle Kris did a bunch of repairs on the house, which is nice. I hit my hand twice today with a hammer while chisel & hammering off some of the weeping cement joints on the house that are absolutely disgusting. It's hard to do- you can't just hit the chisel, you have to swing the hammer up and just sort of let it fall on the chisel for shock factor. I miss...a lot. My hand has a bloodclot spot as proof. Doing the whole house will take a long while.

I might/probably have a renter soon, probably December. She's Karl's friend Cameron's girlfriend, who's an extremely talented artist.

Still no stuff from the Binghamton house.

I got hired to work for Dr. T this coming semester grading video games that the kids in his CS 110 class make.


I want to ask for a Rice cooker for my birthday and the LOTR dramatized tapes I used to listen to as a kid.

And I've been remembering a lot of childhood songs lately. It started with the looping song that goes:
"By the waters of Babylon,
We lay down and wept, and wept, for the I Am.
We remember, we remember, we remember, Israel."
I know it's a silly Christian song thinger, but I really like the intonation of it, and the 'we lay down and wept' stanza is pretty moving.

Then I was remembering bits of a Redwall song I put to a melody of my own, but I don't recall it all...then finally, a quest in LOTRO reminded me that I had learned a song from those dramatized tapes on Gil Galad, which, when I decided to sing it once remembering it, I got entirely right the first time through. Memory is astounding.


What else...oh, Karl and I went to the Ren Faire with Cameron and his girlfriend, Ellen. Karl wanted to get me something as a momento, so I picked out a little silver pendant with a dragonfly stamped on it. <3

Aand..hmm..

I'm still playing with the De Sol writings of mine. I know they're not very good, and I keep intending to put it down entirely, but every once in a while, I get a resurgence of interest. Dora would have killed me for being wishy washy about it. XD Wonder if she ever got her writing done...

I..don't remember anything else. So. End.