the BRUTAL, UGLY truth of my FABULOUS, BEAUTIFUL life.
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10:04 p.m. + 2005-12-03 = how to make a saturday worthwhile (in 40 easy steps).
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1. wake up
2. finish watching an episode of x-files, season 2 disc 1.
3. knit 2 rows, pearl 2 rows of slowly-being-made-scarf.
4. make cardamom waffle batter, egg coffee, cranberry-blueberry fruit sauce for roommate and houseguest.
5. leave post-it notes as to a) what the food items are and b) any of the how-to's/do's and don't's of re-heat/waffle-fry.
6. drive to work in sloppy, but fluffy, light snowfall.
7. work for four and one-half hours.
8. shop for food items needed to make marbelized root vegetable mash and greek orzo ["salad"].
9. drive to electric fetus in sloppy, but fluffly, light snowfall.
10. purchase new releases from Rogue Wave; Halloween, Alaska; the Darkness [guilty! as charged]; Wolf Parade; and, two packs of american spirit cigarettes.
11. drive home in sloppy, but fluffy, light snowfall.
12. watch an episode of x-files, season 2, disc 1 whilst knitting 4 rows and pearling 4 rows.
13. go to best buy with roommate to search for new receiver.
14. leave best buy with nothing except low-key form of anxiety whilst roommate leaves with new Devendra Banhart cd and a tape that is supposed to magickally make it possible for you and her to watch the 2003 New Year's Party camcorder tape.
15. drive to the Quarry Centre Target in sloppy, but fluffy, light snowfall.
16. make several loops around the store begining and ending in health/beauty care each time.
17. end up purchasing a cd/tuner stereo, red-handled kitchen aid knife, waterpitcher filters, a caffeine-free diet coke [for mixing with the remaining 1/3 of rebel yell], 2pack of steelwool, condoms [[cos a) you wish and b) you need to spend the remaining 11dollars in your Flex Account plan]].
18. drive home in sloopy, but fluffy, light snow.
19. hook up new stereo; insert new cds.
20. make marbelized root vegetable mash and greek orzo ["salad"] whilst roommate makes a coffeecake and some cookies [the ones with the chocolate stars in the middle of them] for the potluck-ish event being held at your house tomorrow afternoon, though you'll be missing most of it.
21. accidently leave a burner on with an empty pan and a plastic colander on top.
22. unplug the fire alarm.
23. wonder what that smell is.
24. go about kitchen business.
25. realize what that smell is. turn off the burner, set pot of molten plastic outside.
26. laugh and cry and beat yourself up about it.
27. open the windows, turn on the fans.
28. wash dishes as roommate leaves for fun at the kitty kat club.
29. re-heat indian food from last night.
30. smoke a cigarette on upstairs balcony.
31. re-re-heat indian food, then eat whilst checking email.
32. reply to a myspace message and passive-aggressively ask the recipient out/give him your number.
33. pour that caffeine-free diet whiskey coke.
34. type diaryland entry in form of a list.
(35. bundle up)
(36. shovel the drive and walk -ways)
(37. wonder obsessively why myspace message hasn't been replied to)
(38. remind yourself that you really have to give it more than a few hours' time.)
(39. fall asleep whilst watching home movies season 3, disc 3 with the dvdplayer's and tv's timer-off set.)
((40. dream good things.))
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