song+ Dizzy- Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy Up the Girl
book+ the Throne of Fire- Rick Riordan (Kane Chronicles)
quest+ finding my missing socks
upper+ my huge 3day project is complete!
downer+ paint is expensive!
attire+ pajama shorts and a tank
drink+ Arizona strawberry-kiwi juice.. so good
a long time ago (late 2009 i think? possibly early 2010..) our air conditioner wasn't working, a common enough occurrence since we've lived here. to get around the complex's inability/unwillingness to DO anything to fix it, Kyu and i went to Target and bought ourselves a window A/C unit for 90 bucks. i named it Gus, like a gust of wind, it seemed a friendlier name than my other instinct: Aeolus. Gus is a good window unit, efficient, powerful, quieter than the box fan we'd been relying on. in the time we've had Gus he's been perfect, but at the directive of the complex management he's been removed from our window. the main cooling unit for the complex is working again, so they're enforcing the no window unit policy now. in spite of our A/C running pretty much all the time, our apartment has remained unpleasantly warm. i miss Gus, i miss being able to use a blanket at night without feeling like i was smothering. i miss being able to turn off the fan and be fine, it's been running pretty much nonstop all week to direct what measly current is being cooled toward us. moving can't possibly happen soon enough. *sigh*
late last night i did finish my contribution to the Harry Potter party with Kyu's help. i took pictures at the end of each night i worked on it (with my phone's camera- don't expect anything awesome), and after everyone's seen it i'll share them to show the progression, no spoilers here. xD since the party is today (Happy Birthday Jenni!) the wait shouldn't be too bad. the two things i'm taking away from the experience of working on it are 1) paint is freakin EXPENSIVE, and 2) i hate working at super-large-scale. xD i'm okay with reasonably large, but i don't think any single dimension on any project i undertake in the next several months will exceed 3 or 4 feet in length. unless for some reason i end up in a class where i have to do an insanely HUGE project. i am excited about the party though, it sounds awesome and i've found most of my Hogwarts costume already. my black knee-high socks are missing, but i know where pretty much everything else is: white blouse (though i may go with grey- the white's snug lately), black pleated skirt, Ravenclaw (represent!) house tie, and not-strippertastic-or-stilletto-heeled single-strap mary jane shoes. the shoes took me forever to find, too. it turns out if you're not a little girl or the kind of "dancer" that needs a 'work name' to protect her identity, it's generally assumed you don't need schoolgirl shoes- go figure.
i'll probably look for my socks again when Kyu isn't sleeping, i'm kinda incapable of searching for anything quietly, so my initial pass was little more than cursory. i think the last time i saw them was a little after Halloween (when i last wore the costume) but they're not in my sock drawer, so i'll have to see if they got lost behind something. i know Kyu didn't wear them. sock theft was a frequent issue living with dad, and a behavior inherited by Kyu, but half the reason i buy knee-highs (including my toe socks) is that he hates for anything to rise past his ankles. he'll wear my socks of any style- normal, dress, toe- it's all the same unless they're knee-high. so i now buy almost entirely knee-high socks in cute girly patterns. the girly designs don't stop him, but having to pull them so high does. good. actually pretty much any hole in any given pair of my socks (but especially my beloved toe socks) can generally be tracked back to his abnormally long (finger-like_ toes and his perpetual forgetting to trim his toenails. it's annoying.
you know what completely blew my mind when i had to buy more paint to finish my contribution to the party? i was aware that good paint isn't exactly cheap, but i discovered at the art store that is REALLY IS cheaper to buy in bulk. the 4oz tube of the decent brand of acrylic paint that i favor was listed at 6.69, the 2oz tube of the same exact color from the same exact product line was 7.69. how is half as much a DOLLAR MORE? granted i hit a sale so they were reduced to 5.01 and 5.76 but the smaller tube still cost me more! i was appalled! it's the next day and my mind is still blown.
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