linden_jay

Okay. I have Things, and I've decided to separate them into two different posts, because they're whoa nelly different, and combining them would feel wrong. This post is all made up of good things. Thinky things and bad things will come later.

( Today, I had a low-key and totally awesome birthday, which is just the way I like them. )

Oh, also randomly, I have a Wonder. Is there an icon that you particularly associate with being 'me'? I ask this because there are people who are much more locked into a default than I have always been, and I don't know that I've got an icon that I super regularly use as 'me', and yet there are lots of people who I totally associate with a particular icon.

This came up tonight a few times, once when I linked to an icon which was totally blank and unfancy, with no name attached, but just from the specific picture, the person I was talking to said 'oh that's [so and so's] icon!'. So now I'm curious. What icon do you think of when you think of me? What says 'Jay'? (And if this is over on dreamwidth, I really need to get on that whole paid account thing so I can actually have my 'me' icons uploaded, and not just a few!)

Getting so frustrated whilst trying to get your uncooperative boycreature to sleep that you end up winding yourself up, so that by the time he falls asleep... you can't.

Hey, you know what's not fun?

That, because I just lied.

I will now celebrate my newfound sleeplessness by cleaning my house... after taking two muscle relaxants to make my back stop hurting.

Actually, this could be fun after all....

ETA: Why does it make me giggle that this is the 600th entry in my lj? SIGH.

My boy comes back today, my boy comes back today, MY BOY COMES BACK TODAY!!!!!

(Yes. I'm a little excited. I'm sure it doesn't show).

If anyone doesn't know, the boy/my boy = The Academic Husband. We've called each other 'boy' and 'girl' since... hell, I want to say back when we were still dating, it seems like that long. It got me into some really interesting confusion when I started writing in games that were involving D/s, BDSM, and kink, since there, 'boy' and 'girl' have a whoooooole different meaning, but when I started it, it was a Peter Pan thing. When Wendy sees Peter in 'Hook', she always says 'Hello, boy', and I liked it and I stole it, and it took off from there.

( God, I love that boy. )

Sleeping in has never felt so good as it did this morning, I swear. I had a run of a good luck, sleeping/insomnia wise, for awhile there, and then this week just decided to kick my ASS. Poor, poor AH had to drag my sorry butt out of bed every day this week, and most nights I just couldn't get to sleep at all until two or three, which sucks when I'd been averaging somewhere about midnight.

In other stuff, I finished the blanket I was making for my mom for Christmas--yay! I started it during Canadian Thanksgiving (first weekend in October, not mid-July, for those who don't know), and I finished it before American Thanksgiving, which is pretty damned shiny. Once the camera gets charged up, I'll take a picture of it. My list of shit-to-make-for-Christmas is shorter this year, but I've still got a few things to get done, but for once, I've got plenty of time to do them in. Me--getting shit done early and not the night before it's due... that's a little scary.

I also went to the SPCA to fill out an application to volunteer. No, this is not a secret plan to get the AH to let me get another seventeen cats! Okay, it totally is, but it's not like he doesn't KNOW that's what I'm plotting. If it wasn't for him, I really would be a crazy old cat lady, for serious. But since I can't have a dog right now, and I had to surrender my last shelter dog when he got too aggressive with my cats, I feel like I need to balance out my karma a little, so volunteering it is. Hopefully they'll call me about it some time next week.

Okay--so laundry, baking (I hope), dishes, and knitting. I'm so domestic I could barf.