Wednesday, February 11, 2009

things i have been doing lately.

deciding to buy a house.*

freaking out about buying a house.

mixing white wine and champagne.

getting yelled at.

having trouble sleeping.

moisturizing.

almost falling down the metro escalator.

paying vet bills.

rubbing weird medicated stuff on my cat's face.

trying not to think about how much cat surgery next month will cost.

thanking the baby jesus that we got a tax return to cover it, at least.

pondering a run for the border.

freaking out about buying a house.



*when i say house, you all realize i don't really mean "house," right? i mean condo. 600-700 sq feet of glorious urban living. actual single family houses in the district are either a) in a neighborhood where gunshots are not out of the ordinary or b) prohibitively expensive. hell, most condos are bordering on prohibitive. do you know how much it costs to live in an east cost city these days??

/freaking out. for now.

Sunday, February 01, 2009

48 things meme.

more meme time, as i'm running a little dry on blog fodder lately....

1.WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
my first name is just one my parents liked, though my dad always tried to convince me it was after katharine hepburn. my middle name is the name of the virgin mary’s mother, saint anne. except i don’t get the ‘e’.

2.WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
i came very close on January 20th.

3.DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
oh no, it’s pretty bad. i have to translate for jason all the time.

4.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
i don’t eat lunch meat anymore, but when i did it was ham.

5.DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
noooooooooo.

6.IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
i’d like to think so, but i guess it depends on the type of person i’d be if i were another person. you know? right.

7.DO YOU USE SARCASM?
sparingly.

8.DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
yes.

9.WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
not a chance in hell.

10.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
cinnamon toast crunch.

11.DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
most of my shoes don’t actually tie, they slip on or zip. i don’t tie my gym shoes when i take them off, i untie them to put them on. does that seem backwards? probably. oh well.

12.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
cookie dough.

13.WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
their facial symmetry, on an unconscious level. isn’t that true for everyone? consciously, i notice how loud they are, relatively speaking.
14.RED OR PINK?
red.

15.WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
i have a tendency to be judgmental.

16.WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
the guy who cooked the waffle fries at Our House. alistair cookie.

17.DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?
no, I refuse to be a meme bully!

18.WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
black yoga pants, no shoes.

19.WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
the sound of mythbusters on the tv in the other room.

20.IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
cerulean blue.

21.FAVORITE SMELLS?
lilac. roasting garlic. clean cotton sheets.

22.WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
jason, as we tried to coordinate happy hour meet-up locale.

23.DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
i took it from toast’s blog, and yes i like toast.

24.FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
pro football and march madness.

25.HAIR COLOR?
that’s classified.

26.EYE COLOR?
blue.

27. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
omg don’t get me started. i did. But now i can’t. because my eyeballs went crazy and decided they hated them. wtf, stupid body.

28.FAVORITE FOOD?
this is really hard – but I’d say mexican, as a category.

29.SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
both, but the each have their drawbacks.

30.LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
iron man. it was pretty good.

31.WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
black tank top - it's 50 degrees here today and our heat is still on!

32.SUMMER OR WINTER?
winter, if these are my only options! you can always put on more layers but you can only take so many off, you know? (cue some dirty joke about taking off clothes, yeah yeah i know. but you see my point here people.)

33.HUGS OR KISSES?
hugs.

34.MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
i dunno, anyone looking to kill some time who hasn’t done this already!

35.LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
your mom.

36.WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

37.WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
i don’t have a mousepad.

38.WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
nothing, see #30 above.

39.FAVORITE SOUND(S).
a carillon. the ocean. dottie purring.

40.ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
stones.

41.WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
dublin.

42.DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
no, not really. i mean, nothing i could take on the road or anything.

43.WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
lawrence, massachusetts.

44.WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
oh enough of these other people questions, we’re talking about me here!

45.HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
we were in the same graduate program at boston college.

46.DO YOU BELIEVE IN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENT LIFE?
without question.

47.HOW OFTEN DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS?
fairly regularly. i just had a dream the other night about a person i haven’t seen or thought about in years, and then the next day he friended me on facebook. weeee-oooooo weirdness!

48.HOW MANY MORE YEARS DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE ON THIS EARTH?
according to the mayans, just under four. i'm hoping their calculations are incorrect.