Time for Excuses!

Why Its Taken Me Over Four Months to Build My Bed:
(1) I decided to do my dresser first. Can sleep on floor, can't keep clothes there. But since I finished the dresser I do keep clothes there...on the floor. And I sleep there. I fear gravity. Minus 1.5 months.
(2) Big fight with parents. Refuse to go over to house, even to work on bed. Minus 1 month.
(3) Crabfest. Lots of prep, food, cleanup. No time for sleep, less time for bed. Minus 3 weeks.
(4) Death Cold for Sniffles. Fear mono. Maybe typhoid. Maybe halatosis. Sitting up becomes Olympic sport. Minus 2 weeks.
(5) Fall Sweeps. I had to watch Lost Gilmore Girls study Grey's Anatomy. No TiVo at DDH. (You judge me for this, but remember, this is why I haven't finished building my bed. You build a bed too, then come judge me. Sinner.) Minus 2 weeks.
(6) This part is unexcusable. I was lazy for this week. I was probably eating whatever was already made and moving as little as possible. I'll call it my "Act like an elephant seal" week.
So that's my excuse, Professor. I worked on it today and can now build the two sides, which is huge. My goal is to refurbish my dresser, build my bed, move two times and write a short novel in a year. So far the only things left are to finish the bed and the book. It could happen.

I no longer have internet at the DDH (it's coming again soon I promise) so I have to travel to write this so I apologize for the lapses in posts. I'm not lazy...well yes, yes in fact I am.

My nephew was born today. My sister and brother-in-law clearly hate the child, for they named him Lucious Orrin. I shall always call him Luke. Luke is cute; he's 8lbs, 6 oz. Mom and baby are fine. In fact, she called me 45 minutes later to find out what I was doing for Thanksgiving and didn't even dwell on the fact that she'd just been in labor for seven hours. Like ya do.

Off to Syracuse this weekend for a Taps Week Reunion--first official one in way too long. Dylan is trying to figure out a way that Armagheddon could happen this weekend. It's a long story.

Tomorrow I'm scouting a new cave with Dave and Shelby. I'm pumped.

That's it from over here. And I went to the National Zoo last week. I love that zoo.

Awkward Baby Years

LISTAS!
-Conclusion by consensus was a bust. All of you are fired.
- Dolly Parton's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" may be the best cover ever recorded, short of Johnny Cash's "Hurt". But still, it's great.
-Saw "Crash" this week and I agree with Em when she said it was one of the best movies she has ever seen. Watch this movie.
-Actually, I watched a lot of movies this week: "Crash", "Phantom of the Opera", "Batman Begins" (w/Hatch and HollaBack) and "Being Julia", and that's just because I have a crush on Annette Bening.
- November is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for those in the know). I started my novel. It's kinda boring so far. Hopefully I figure out how to not make it totally suck.
-I used to think that Angelina Jolie was the key to world peace, because I have yet to meet a person who wouldn't make out with her given the chance, and that common ground is a great place to start on the road to peace. Now I'm thinking the key to world peace may be Jenny Steele, because I have yet to meet a person who has met Jenny Steele who doesn't immediately form a crush on her. If you met her, you'd form a crush too.
-Stopped by my father's house yesterday and he had out boxes of old slides. I saw pictures from my childhood that I've never seen. Two things: (1) I had a huge, abnormally bald head as a baby and ears that stuck out and made me look like a wing-nut. But I was a damn cute toddler. So there, awkward baby years! (2) In those early photos, my dad looks like he loves my mom. That's the first I've ever seen a photo that would even suggest that. It calmed something in me, knowing that it really wasn't always bad.
-We got a box of skinny ties in at work and I thought, "Dear God, the 80s really are coming back..." and I got a bit frightened.
-Got rear-ended on Tuesday by the man who deserves the "Most Enjoyable Person to Rear-End You" award. Like I called him today with the estimate and he just cut me a check and that's that. No dealing with insurance, no premium raises, nuthin'.
-Leaving for Rockbridge Fall Weekend to polish my work crew skills in the kitchen and on ropes. yay!
-I didn't get to dress up for halloween this year. I am old. I even had a costume.