Friday, November 28, 2008
Bring us some figgy pudding.
We gave our pumpkins to the squirrels for a Thanksgiving meal. The one with the face carved into it (pumpkin not squirrel) is rotting, making its face cave in and look like its lost its dentures. What's more: the squirrels are constantly crawling in and out eating what's left of his brains.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A Propo, whatever that is.
If I had a nice camera this'd be a photoblog, filled with the beautiful people and interesting places I see and frequent daily.
If the United States were France, Webster's Dictionary would be a department of the Federal government, wherein arbiters appointed by our presidents would deliberate on the future of the legality of such words as "snotsickle" and "ginormous." UrbanDictionary.com would be a revolutionary element.
A warming pot of coffee gurgles in the kitchen. [My stomach gurgles.]
A metaphor is like an unblown balloon, potential shape and form waiting for someone's hot air to fill it up and give it meaning. [My butt is a like a balloon, waiting to release hot air.]
Tomorrow I will sleep in a bit, then get up and work around the house. Leaves, recycling, storage, [you know, man stuff *scratches groin*.]*
-Jthulhu
* Bracketed text pirated by my lovely wife, Rachel, while I was putting the youngest child down for the night.
If the United States were France, Webster's Dictionary would be a department of the Federal government, wherein arbiters appointed by our presidents would deliberate on the future of the legality of such words as "snotsickle" and "ginormous." UrbanDictionary.com would be a revolutionary element.
A warming pot of coffee gurgles in the kitchen. [My stomach gurgles.]
A metaphor is like an unblown balloon, potential shape and form waiting for someone's hot air to fill it up and give it meaning. [My butt is a like a balloon, waiting to release hot air.]
Tomorrow I will sleep in a bit, then get up and work around the house. Leaves, recycling, storage, [you know, man stuff *scratches groin*.]*
-Jthulhu
* Bracketed text pirated by my lovely wife, Rachel, while I was putting the youngest child down for the night.
Monday, November 24, 2008
I want to be at home.
List of things to do, in random order, starting the moment I get done with class tomorrow afternoon:
1. Clean off back porch, borrowing my father's truck in order to haul the massive overflow of cardboard, assorted plastics, aluminums, glass bottles and jars, etc. for recycling. b) Finding a new home for the large shipment of "Save Darfur" t-shirts the Save Darfur Coalition sent me after I'd already cancelled the order and since then have done nothing with nor had the money to mail back, and b.1) return the large rubbermaid tub in which the majority of them are stored to its rightful owners.
2. Find a place to store our Nissan for the winter, out of the weather so I can either 1) work on it or 2) not worry about it deteriorating. This will involve a) calling around to places for a cheap deal and b) figuring out exactly how I can afford to do it in the first place. Also, I will then c) clean out the parking space of the assorted junk that has accrued do to long years of disuse, and then d) trim the various and sundry shrubbery and plant life that has worked to reclaim the square footage for nature. Once these things are done, I will then e) beginning parking the car we actually use in the parking space.
* THOUGHT: Maybe if we find a good deal on storage for the car I can also store some of the random crap we've got sitting around the house as well. ANOTHER THOUGHT: I wish we could build a carport type structure over the parking spot to keep the snow off. RELATED THOUGHT: I've often considered some sort of rubber mat for the back porch, for when it is snowy and we've got to wipe off our boots. I've also always wanted to enclose a part of the porch in something akin to those plastic strip dividers you see in large walk - in coolers, to shield anyone shaking the snow off from the cold, and also to add another cold barrier to the house. I've thought of using a tarp but that's tacky, right? These thoughts lead me to number
3. Finish winterizing the remaining windows in the house, using the plastic and tape routine, and maybe locating some decent weatherstrip for the front door.
4. I also need to cut down the new threshold for the bathroom floor we put in forever ago, and find some temporary baseboard for the west wall of the bathroom, as well as maybe some plywood to act as a temporary plug for the hole in the wall.
5. The toilet water hose needs replaced probably, and the bolts that hold the toilet down need cut down and capped with those little white thingys, if I haven't lost them since we put it in.
6. Other winterization ideas involve the sewing of large curtains both for our windows as well as the hallway doors, to the end of keeping the bedroom/ bathroom side of the house warm via space heaters strategically placed in the bedrooms. Another heavy curtain will cut off the foyer from the main room, hopefully keeping more cold and higher gas bills at bay.
7. My ultimate dream is to get into the crawl space and staple heavy duty plastic to the underside of our floor joists, completing the anti-winter-bubble. Not sure how the landlady would handle that.
8. Assorted: Rake the yard. Take E1 and E2 outside for some fall fun. Tidy up. Attend to the gutters. Find a lid for our trashcan. Put up some Christmas lights?
9. Sell some bikes. Anybody want a bike? Just in time for winter.
1. Clean off back porch, borrowing my father's truck in order to haul the massive overflow of cardboard, assorted plastics, aluminums, glass bottles and jars, etc. for recycling. b) Finding a new home for the large shipment of "Save Darfur" t-shirts the Save Darfur Coalition sent me after I'd already cancelled the order and since then have done nothing with nor had the money to mail back, and b.1) return the large rubbermaid tub in which the majority of them are stored to its rightful owners.
2. Find a place to store our Nissan for the winter, out of the weather so I can either 1) work on it or 2) not worry about it deteriorating. This will involve a) calling around to places for a cheap deal and b) figuring out exactly how I can afford to do it in the first place. Also, I will then c) clean out the parking space of the assorted junk that has accrued do to long years of disuse, and then d) trim the various and sundry shrubbery and plant life that has worked to reclaim the square footage for nature. Once these things are done, I will then e) beginning parking the car we actually use in the parking space.
* THOUGHT: Maybe if we find a good deal on storage for the car I can also store some of the random crap we've got sitting around the house as well. ANOTHER THOUGHT: I wish we could build a carport type structure over the parking spot to keep the snow off. RELATED THOUGHT: I've often considered some sort of rubber mat for the back porch, for when it is snowy and we've got to wipe off our boots. I've also always wanted to enclose a part of the porch in something akin to those plastic strip dividers you see in large walk - in coolers, to shield anyone shaking the snow off from the cold, and also to add another cold barrier to the house. I've thought of using a tarp but that's tacky, right? These thoughts lead me to number
3. Finish winterizing the remaining windows in the house, using the plastic and tape routine, and maybe locating some decent weatherstrip for the front door.
4. I also need to cut down the new threshold for the bathroom floor we put in forever ago, and find some temporary baseboard for the west wall of the bathroom, as well as maybe some plywood to act as a temporary plug for the hole in the wall.
5. The toilet water hose needs replaced probably, and the bolts that hold the toilet down need cut down and capped with those little white thingys, if I haven't lost them since we put it in.
6. Other winterization ideas involve the sewing of large curtains both for our windows as well as the hallway doors, to the end of keeping the bedroom/ bathroom side of the house warm via space heaters strategically placed in the bedrooms. Another heavy curtain will cut off the foyer from the main room, hopefully keeping more cold and higher gas bills at bay.
7. My ultimate dream is to get into the crawl space and staple heavy duty plastic to the underside of our floor joists, completing the anti-winter-bubble. Not sure how the landlady would handle that.
8. Assorted: Rake the yard. Take E1 and E2 outside for some fall fun. Tidy up. Attend to the gutters. Find a lid for our trashcan. Put up some Christmas lights?
9. Sell some bikes. Anybody want a bike? Just in time for winter.
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