CURSE YOU, COLUMBUS!!!

: "stormtrooper in drag." st. etienne.

no, not that one. not the one directing the esteemed Ms. Rowling's quasi-epic series-as-films. no...the one who we're supposed to be celebrating today.

and curse my brain even more.

for, y'see, i did something Really Dumb today. no...no...REALLY dumb.

right, so today's Columbus Day. and i knew this, unlike usually...i'm usually pretty bad with holidays, unless they're the REALLY major ones, like...oh, Arbor Day. so it's quite amazing that i knew at all, but since i did, this is even more frustrating.

see, i had packages i needed to send out today. a lot of them. mostly from that stuff i sold off on eBay. and one especially large (and overdue) one going to a particular friend of mine (finally!). and since i catch a train in the morning far too early to go to the post office by my house, i horsed them all downtown with me on the train.

[small note: perhaps that should really be "burro'd"? or maybe "muled". being that i am far more like either of those than like a horse. despite being born in the year of the horse, which is neither here nor there. XD]

which wouldn't have been so bad, had i been able to go through with my (what i thought was) ingenious plan to mail them all off on the way to work. then, amazingly, my backpack would be light as air (or at least, just slightly more than the weight of The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize by David Cavanagh, which i'm reading right now...). and i'd go on about my business happily, without mounds of packages impeding, well...anything.

the thing that really annoys me, though, is that JUST BEFORE LEAVING THE HOUSE, i actually said something about how of course we'd never get today off. Spaz was like, what's today? and so i told him. I TOLD HIM. and still, i scooped up all these packages, so neatly bagged up and ready to go...put them in the boot of the car, and off we went.

grar. i'm such a dipshit sometimes. my own fault, really. but.

at least i made a giant pot of soup yesterday, though. cream of broccoli, potato, and cheddar. quite yummy. and of course, i got to explain How Bay Leaves Work yesterday, too. which is always fun. ^-^

i remember the first time someone explained the mystery of bay leaves in soup to me. of course, it didn't do me much good, being that i'd sat and chewed on the thing for quite some time before i got to the point where i could choke it down...and then, of course, learned that i really, er, wasn't supposed to. thanks, mom. XD

also, in preparation for this weekend (which is SugoiCon, lest you forget...though of course i'm sure i'll see none of you there. but we are indeed playing on Friday night, just in case anyone cares. ^^), we had two rehearsals...and sometime during the second of these, i apparently accidentally erased some of the loops i'd sequenced for a song we're doing. whoops. so i get to reprogram those as well. go me.

and of course, i didn't get to see Sleater-Kinney on Friday as planned. so you don't get any show reviews out of me for that.

but at least i got a voice-changing megaphone. i seriously think it's one of the best toys i've bought in a long time. XD

ah, on a more positive note, here. now you can finally see what the purple hair looks like, although it seems darker in person. and also although it's now faded out quite a bit, and is a kind of neat translucent-y mixture of purple, this purple-fuschia colour, and pink. and about an inch of dark brown roots. but. XD

and also, i took photos last week of one of the COOLEST cars i've ever seen. it's this neat little British fastback called the Princess 1100, produced by Vanden Plas, a BMC tuner. this car was released in the US, although rebadged as the MG Princess (Vanden Plas had done over an MG 1100 to get the Princess 1100 in the first place, so it makes sense...since we'd just get confused over here and all. :p). however, the car in this photo is actually right-hand drive, which is even cooler. and it even had British license plates on it (along with a temporary Illinois plate on the back), which you can sort of see in the photos (although i've mosaiced out the actual numbers on behalf of whomever owns that lovely vehicle).

i REALLY wish i could have taken photos of the interior. it's gorgeous. in the link above, you can read about it, at least...i think THESE are the things i get excited about, with cars. weird old stuff that you can tell someone's really taken care of, really put their heart into. stuff you don't see every day, that isn't very common. and by that, obviously not just exotics...getting all excited seeing random Ferraris or what have you. just random stuff like this...and when i saw that Saab Sonnet awhile ago (which i unfortunately didn't take any pictures of). it's just so cool. stuff i love to see. ^-^

oh well. perhaps more later.

[addendum: hey, Sugoicon added us to their page, finally! ^-^ although i'm a bit worried about them hosing us. the weather's supposed to be pretty cold this weekend...XD]