i had bad ideas and ballast on my mind

had a weekend rather crammed full of stuff; so much that it went by so quickly that it almost feels like we didn't have one at all. and now it's Tuesday, which is rather amazing---i don't think i was fully aware that Monday ever happened. well, except for the whole 'stuff-got-done' thing cluing me in. XD

didn't do much that was fun this weekend, although some was rather entertaining. Spaz' parents had decided awhile ago that they were going to give us their old bedroom set since they had decided to get a new one (along with new carpet). so Sunday was spent moving that around---all with help from the family (and a friend of one of his brothers). it actually got done quite quickly---we left the house around 8am to go to his parents' and were DONE with moving and assembly before noon. it was really nice of them to help out so much; we definitely couldn't have moved all that on our own. O.O;;;

so it's weird, this having furniture thing. a bit like when i wrote about the table, only moreso. Rob just pointed and laughed and said "haha, you're an adult now!" nah...this just means it'll be even more torture fun whenever we decide to move elsewhere. XD

two amusing things, however: to move all the stuff, of course we had to go rent a big truck. so we went and picked up the truck, and while i wasn' t the one driving it, i still felt like it was a video game. being up in this huge truck and feeling absolutely no responsiveness from it and having the super-mushy turning radius that it did felt a lot like certain older racing games, because you can't feel anything in them. it was v. surreal.

since we had the truck all day, we went and picked up the 22 gallon air compressor Spaz had bought the day before, since it wouldn't really fit in the GTI. but before that, since Spaz' family had been so helpful, i had decided i ought to make pizza for them. and while we had most of what was needed for the pizza in the house, we were missing a few crucial ingredients (such as cheese). so of course, we took the giant truck to the grocery store, as one does*. XD

the other amusingly lame thing was that we both came to the conclusion (completely independently of one another, i might add) that having nightstands was obviously a Very Good excuse Reason to go to Ikea and get lamps. XD

in other news, got one of the other books i'd been anxiously awaiting yesterday: David Thompson's Thai Food. i think i mentioned fairly drooling over this book awhile ago, and the thing that i was really looking forward to with this book (apart from the recipes and quality thereof, of course) was the fact that Thompson devotes a large chunk of the book (nearly 200 pages, in fact) to the history of Thai food and cooking. being nearly 700 pages in length and hardcover, this book makes a nice, hefty weight to carry around---but i have the feeling it's worth it. although i may still have to ask my mom for some of the recipes my dad taught her before they split up. ^^ and am as always interested in reading more---but something of this magnitude in English hasn't really been attempted before, so am especially excited to read. (i unfortunately don't know Thai. although i really should just teach myself the alphabet, at least. would be useful. and perhaps then i could amuse impress my aunt by writing her a letter in really bad Thai. ^^)

* = this is a phrase that usually annoys me, and so i seek to purposely use it in really ridiculous situations, because then it just amuses me. although (Sir) Michael Caine got away with it in that fairly recent Parkinson interview when he was relating a story about dancing with Sean Connery in a nightclub in the Sahara while the filming of The Man Who Would Be King was taking place---as one does. XD Fi really needs to see this interview; i wish i'd taped it...